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CAPAC recognize Korean American Day
in CAPAC · Korean
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 11, 2013) — Members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) released the following statements recognizing January 13th as Korean American Day and celebrating the 110th anniversary of the arrival of the first Korean immigrants to the United States:
Congresswoman Judy Chu (CA-27), CAPAC Chair: “This Sunday, as we recognize Korean American Day, we will be marking the 110th Anniversary of the first Korean immigrants’ arrival to the United States. Since then, Korean Americans have contributed significantly to every facet of our society—they are our neighbors, our colleagues, our servicemen and women, and leaders in business, faith, and civic life. The success of the Korean American community reflects the hard work, opportunity, and multiculturalism that have long defined the driving spirit of our nation.”
Senator Mazie K. Hirono (HI): “On January 13, 1903, more than 100 Korean men, women and children arrived in Honolulu aboard the S.S. Gaelic, marking the first wave of Korean immigration to the United States and its territories. Today, we celebrate Korean American Day on January 13 to recognize the tremendous contributions Korean Americans have made to our country – from business to entertainment, medicine to elected office – since those first families took the risk in search of greater opportunities. Hawaii, and our country as a whole, is a better place because of the contributions our Korean American brothers and sisters have made.”
Congressman Xavier Becerra (CA-34), Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus: “On Korean American Day we celebrate a community whose heritage, talent and spirit have helped America grow and prosper. For more than a century after the arrival of the first Korean immigrants, Korean Americans have made significant economic, cultural, and civic contributions all across the nation, in all walks of life. I am proud to represent such a strong and vibrant Korean American community here in Los Angeles – one that will continue to enrich our diversity and play an important role in America’s success.”
Congressman Mike Honda (CA-17), CAPAC Chair Emeritus: “As we commemorate Korean American Day, I am proud to celebrate and acknowledge the indelible contributions and accomplishments of the Korean American community to the fabric and story of America. One hundred and ten years ago, on January 13, 102 men, women and children traveled from the Korean Peninsula, aboard the S.S. Gaelic, and landed in Hawaii – marking the first entry of Korean immigrants on U.S. shores. Since their arrival, the Korean American community has enriched our nation’s society, culture, economy and arts – becoming the first Asian American to win an Olympic gold medal for the U.S. and male diver to win back-to-back diving gold medals; to serving with distinction in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War I, II and the Korean Conflict, as well in high level posts in our current Administration and judicial seats; while making invaluable strides in entrepreneurship and medicine; and bridging the ties between U.S. and South Korea. I feel a particular sense of family and affection to Korean Americans, and to Korea, where I recently traveled in the past week. And I am especially honored to represent California’s 17th District, where I know Korean Americans have played a critical role in our community and diversity. Today, alongside the nearly two million Korean Americans across our nation, I am honored to celebrate their continued journey.”
Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo: “I am proud to represent a strong Korean American community on Guam that has made many contributions to our local businesses and government. Korean Americans remain integral to our economy and enrich cultural exchanges throughout our country. On this day, we celebrate the invaluable contributions they have made since the arrivals of the first Korean immigrants in 1903.”
Congressman Eni Faleomavaega (AS): “Together with the Korean American community, we celebrate Korean American Day and the 110th anniversary of the first Korean immigrants to the United States. From the first wave of Korean immigrants who arrived in 1903 in Hawai’i, then a U.S. territory, the Korean American community has grown to over 1.7 million people.
“Despite the obstacles faced at a time when Korean immigration was impeded by the Oriental Exclusion Act of 1924, Korean Americans have contributed immeasurably to American society and culture, establishing productive communities throughout our nation. Korean Americans also serve in our armed forces, in public office, and in various positions of authority in our government. Today I especially honor their sacrifice and patriotism as they have made America their home.”
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13): “As the Representative of California’s 13th District, one of the most culturally rich and diverse in the nation, I am pleased to observe Korean American Day. Korean Americans have long contributed to our nation in every field of endeavor and walk of life and I am pleased to recognize the many invaluable contributions that enrich our culture, boost our economy and strengthen our district, the State of California and our nation.”
Congresswoman Grace Meng (NY-6): “I am proud to join with the Korean American community in celebrating Korean American Day. 110 years ago, the first Korean immigrants to the United States arrived in Hawaii seeking the American dream. Today, Korean Americans represent a vibrant community that has enriched our country’s values, traditions, culture and history. I am honored to represent a strong and vibrant Korean American community in New York, and I salute all of the tremendous contributions that Korean Americans have made to our nation.”
Congressman Joseph Crowley (NY-14): “Korean Americans are an essential part of our neighborhoods, communities, businesses and houses of worship in New York and across America. The Korean American community has made so many positive contributions to our nation, and our society and culture are richer because of it. I’m proud to join my fellow Americans in celebrating this important day.”
Congressman Charles B. Rangel (NY-13): “Since the pioneers have arrived in Honolulu, Hawaii, on January 13, 1903, Koreans have played and continue to serve a vital role in shaping communities throughout our great Nation. Whether in military, education, science, business, sports or the arts, Korean Americans have excelled and shown that the American Dream is alive. I am truly proud of the Korean American community with their strong families and successful businesses, active civic associations, churches, and charities that add to the greatness of our country. Congratulations on your remarkable achievements. I look forward to continuing the friendship I hold so dear. As a Korean War Veteran, Korea and the Korean people will always have a place in my heart.”
Congresswoman Linda T. Sanchez (CA-38): “Korean Americans have played an integral role in enriching our cultural fabric by the contributions they have made to our country. Their values and entrepreneurial spirit have helped grow our country and strengthened our communities. I am proud to represent a large and vibrant Korean American population in my district. I encourage all Americans to join me in recognizing the accomplishments and history of Korean Americans.”
Congressman Adam Schiff (CA-28): “This Sunday is Korean American Day. It is the diversity of our nation that makes us great, fascinating, vibrant and always rejuvenating, and I am pleased to join my constituents and many throughout the nation as we celebrate the culture and recognize the contributions of the Korean American community.”
Congressman Adam Smith (WA-09): “Today, on Korean American Day, I join all Americans in celebrating the culture and achievements of the Korean American community. Korean Americans are an important and inspirational group in our nation. With awe-inspiring art, delicious cuisine, and advancements in philosophy, science, and technology, Korean Americans have enriched the country with a unique perspective and much needed cultural diversity. Korean Americans are leaders in the community as business owners, members of our Armed Services, community organizers, and life saving professionals proving that they are essential to the success and well being of our nation.”
Congressman Chris Van Hollen (MD-08): “Korean American Day is a time to celebrate the shared sacrifices and contributions of not just Americans of Korean descent, but all Americans. We are one nation comprised of many, and we are made stronger because of our diversity in support of common values. On this day, we come together to recognize the important role the Korean American community has played in the rich cultural heritage of our country.”
The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) is comprised of Members of Congress of Asian and Pacific Islander descent and Members who have a strong dedication to promoting the well-being of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. Currently chaired by Congresswoman Judy Chu, CAPAC has been addressing the needs of the AAPI community in all areas of American life since it was founded in 1994.
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Dating is a fairly recent phenomenon. What most people in Western societies would call dating did not come into existence until the middle of the 20th Century. In the United States, there are generally no laws which specifically set age limits on dating. Rather, pertinent laws mainly focus on two issues indirectly related to dating: curfew and unlawful sexual contact. In the latter instance, an individual can get into trouble with the law even if both parties consent.
Age Limit Laws on Dating
All states which place the age of consent younger than 16 years of age have provisions that differentiate between an adult sexual partner and a minor sexual partner. It is not legal anywhere in the U.
Some states consider the age difference between a teen and her sexual partner, both in determining whether a law has been broken and in determining how severe the charges should be. Limits governing sexual contact between two minors vary from allowing two to four years' difference.
Some states, including Michigan and Georgia, set a definite age of consent.
In these states, it is a crime for anyone to have sexual contact with someone under the age of consent. Although it rarely happens, two teens who are both under the age of consent could technically both be charged for having consensual sex in these states, even if they are the same age.
Even if the dating or intimate relationship your teen wants to get involved with is legal, you should consider the risks inherent in allowing your teen to date someone who is more than a year or two older or younger that he or she is.
The mental, emotional and physical differences between a year-old and a year-old are much more significant than they are between two adults of similar age differences.
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Bill Albert of the Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy claims that research has repeatedly shown that teens who date someone older are more likely to engage in sexual behavior and to become pregnant. Studies have also shown that teens who date older people are more likely to be the victims of violence within their dating relationships 1.
The law may also intervene when young people become romantically involved, even if no explicit sexual activity takes place. Marco Weiss, a 17 year old German boy, became romantically involved with a 13 year old British girl while they were both on vacation in Turkey.
The young couple engaged in kissing and similar activity, but not actual intercourse. When the girl's parents learned about the incident, they filed a complaint with Turkish police, who arrested the boy. According to Marco Weiss, the girl told him that she was 15, which was the age of consent in Turkey.
However, each state has its own laws that define the age of consent, or the time when a person is old enough "to willingly engage in a sexual act." Be aware of the legal age of consent in your state. All states set the age of consent from 14 to 18; in more than half of the states, the age is When your teen wants to date someone significantly older or younger, dating becomes especially complicated. You and your teen need to be aware of your state's laws and consider the risks inherent in teens dating outside of their age group accessory-source.com importantly, you need to be able to come up with enforceable rules and limits that work for your family. Colorado has dating laws and rules for minors about sexual accessory-source.com laws deal with the age of consent in accessory-source.coming them can lead to a criminal charge for statutory accessory-source.coming on the circumstances, this can be a Class 4 accessory-source.com these cases, consent is Author: Jordan T.
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North Carolina recognizes 18 as the "age of majority," or the age at which state residents are legally considered adults, as do most other states. But state laws also govern a minor's eligibility to become emancipated, give consent to medical treatment, and other legal matters. Nov 18, � If underage dating involves sexual intercourse, state statutory rape laws apply. If you are charged with having sex with a person who is younger than the statutory age of consent and are found guilty, you may face legal consequences such as jail time. Statutory Rape Laws. Statutory rape is sexual intercourse with a person who is younger than. It is illegal for anyone to have sex with someone under the age of Texas-The age of consent is The minimum age is 14 with an age differential of 3 years; thus, those who are at least 14 years of age can legally have sex with those less than 3 years older. If you need a quick guide for each state, a chart is provided below.
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Try Match. Curfew Laws Curfew laws are intended to prevent young people from being outside the home without parental or other adult supervision under most circumstances during the late evening and early morning hours. Most statutory rape laws exist to punish an adult who takes sexual advantage of a minor, not to punish two people close in age who have consensual sex.
This means an adult who is only a couple of years older than the minor may not be charged with statutory rape or be punished as harshly as a much older adult. These close-in-age exemption laws, sometimes known as Romeo and Juliet laws, may reduce the severity of the offense from a felony to a misdemeanor; reduce the penalty to a fine, probation or community service ; and eliminate the requirement that the convicted adult register as a sex offender.
Punishment depends on state law. For example, in New Jersey, the age of consent is 16, but individuals who are 13 or older may legally engage in sexual activity if their partner is less than four years older than they are.
Dating laws and age
In California, it's a misdemeanor to have sex with someone younger than 18 if the offender is less than three years older, while someone more than three years older could be charged with a felony.
Even for states with a single age of consent, there may be exceptions.
Dating is a fairly recent phenomenon. What most people in Western societies would call dating did not come into existence until the middle of the 20th Century. In the United States, there are generally no laws which specifically set age limits on dating. Rather, pertinent laws mainly focus on two issues indirectly. A person's age can be a major dating issue. If both people are 18 or older, then there is nothing to be concerned about because 18 generally is considered to be the age of an adult, legally speaking. Several laws can affect relationships when age is a factor, and these laws often are established by states or. Laws & Policy; Age of Consent. Age and experience create a power imbalance that makes it impossible for the younger person to freely give consent. In Pennsylvania: Children less than 13 years old cannot grant consent to sexual activity.
In New Jersey, for example, the general age of consent is However, a young adult between the age of 16 and 18 cannot give consent to engaging in sexual intercourse with someone who has supervisory or disciplinary power over the young person.
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Original source: Kaiser Family Foundation
The name of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and is short for “Coronavirus Disease 2019.” (Source: WHO)
An estimate of the risk of mortality from a contagious disease. The CFR is calculated by dividing the number of deaths caused by a disease by the number of cases of that disease in a given time period. The CFR is time and location-dependent, and many different factors can influence the CFR, such as speed of diagnosis of cases, health system capacity, age and other demographic characteristics, among others. For COVID-19, estimates of the CFR have varied; in China, CFR estimates by province have ranged from <1% to 5.8%. Sources: CDC/Lipsitch et. al./WHO
A person who may be at risk of a contagious disease because of their proximity or exposure to a known case. Exact definition of close contact differs by disease; for COVID-19, the CDC defines a close contact as anyone who has been within 6 feet of a person infected with the virus for a prolonged period of time, or has had direct contact with the infected person’s secretions. (Source: CDC)
Community transmission/spread
Infections identified in a given geographic area without a history of travel elsewhere and no connection to a known case.
The process of identifying, assessing, and managing people who have been exposed to a contagious disease to prevent onward transmission. (Source: WHO)
A measure preventing anyone from leaving a defined geographic area, such as a community, region, or country infected by a disease to stop the spread of the disease.
A family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases, such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV). The novel coronavirus recently discovered has been named SARS-CoV-2 and it causes COVID-19. (Source: WHO)
Individuals remain in their vehicles, and medical staff in protective gear come to administer the swab test and the swabs are sent to a laboratory for testing.
Droplet transmission/spread
A mode of transmission for a contagious disease that involves relatively large, short-range (less than 6 feet) respiratory droplets produced by sneezing, coughing, or talking. (Source: CDC)
Elective surgeries
Procedures that are considered non-urgent and non-essential. During periods of community transmission, CDC is recommending postponing elective procedures, surgeries, and non-urgent outpatient visits. (Source: CDC)
An increase, often sudden, in the number of cases of a disease above what is normally expected in that population in that area. (Source: CDC)
Essential activities
Tasks essential to main health and safety, such as obtaining medicine or seeing a doctor;
Getting necessary services or supplies for themselves or their family or household members, such as getting food and supplies, pet food, and getting supplies necessary for staying at home;
Engaging in outdoor activity, such as walking, hiking or running provided that you maintain at least six feet of social distancing;
Performing work providing essential services at an Essential Business or Essential Government function;
Caring for a family member in another household;
Caring for elderly, minors, dependents, person with disabilities, or other vulnerable persons
Essential businesses: (Source: https://sfmayor.org/article/san-francisco-issues-new-public-health-order-requiring-residents-stay-home-except-essential):
Healthcare operations, including home health workers;
Essential Infrastructure, including construction of housing and operation of public transportation and utilities;
Grocery stores, farmers’ markets, food banks, convenience stores;
Businesses that provide necessities of life for economically disadvantaged individuals and shelter facilities;
Pharmacies, health care supply stores, and health care facilities;
Gas stations and auto repair facilities;
Garbage collection;
Hardware stores, lumbers, electricians, and other service providers necessary to maintain the safety, sanitation, and essential operation of residences and other essential businesses;
Educational institutions, for the purposes of facilitating distance learning;
Laundromats, dry cleaners, and laundry service providers;
Businesses that ship or deliver groceries, food, and good directly to residences;
Childcare facilities providing services that enable essential employees to go to work;
Roles required for any Essential Business to “maintain basic operations,” which include security, payroll, and similar activities
(Source: https://sfmayor.org/article/san-francisco-issues-new-public-health-order-requiring-residents-stay-home-except-essential)
Essential government functions
All services needed to ensure the continuing operation of the government agencies and provide for the health, safety and welfare of the public. (Source: https://sfmayor.org/article/san-francisco-issues-new-public-health-order-requiring-residents-stay-home-except-essential)
Slowing a virus’ spread to reduce the peak number of cases and related demands on hospitals and infrastructure (Source: CDC)
An inanimate object that can be the vehicle for transmission of an infectious agent (e.g., bedding, towels, or surgical instruments). There is evidence that coronavirus spreads via fomites although, this is a less common route of transmission. (Sources: CDC)
Persons with COVID-19 who have symptoms or laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 who have been directed to stay at home until they are recovered. (Source: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/disposition-in-home-patients.html)
Separating sick people with a contagious disease from those who are not sick. (Source: CDC)
N95 respirator (face mask)
Personal protective equipment that is used to protect the wearer from airborne particles and from liquid contaminating the face (Source: https://www.thoracic.org/patients/patient-resources/resources/disposable-respirators.pdf)
Negative-pressure rooms
Rooms specifically designed for patients with contagious diseases that contain any circulating air in the room and prevent it from being released into any other part of the hospital.
An epidemic that has spread over several countries/continents, usually affecting a large number of people. (Source: CDC)
Separating and restricting the movement of people exposed (or potentially exposed) to a contagious disease. (Source: CDC)
R0 / reproductive rate
An epidemiologic metric used to describe the contagiousness or transmissibility of infectious agents, which is usually estimated with complex mathematical models developed using various sets of assumptions. It is an estimate of the average number of new cases of a disease that each case generates, at a given point in time. R0 estimates for the virus that causes COVID-19 are around 2 to 3, which is slightly higher than that for seasonal influenza (R0 ~1.2-1.3), but far lower than more contagious diseases such as measles (R0 ~12 - 18). (Source: Delamater et. al./Guerra et. al./Biggerstaff et. al.)
The name of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 disease. (Source: WHO)
Staying home and away from other people as much as possible after exposure.
All residents must remain at their place of residence, except to conduct essential activities, essential businesses, and essential government functions. (Source: https://sfmayor.org/article/san-francisco-issues-new-public-health-order-requiring-residents-stay-home-except-essential)
Measures taken to reduce person-to-person contact in a given community, with a goal to stop or slow down the spread of a contagious disease. Measures can include working from home, closing offices and schools, canceling events, and avoiding public transportation. (Source: CIDRAP)
A device that delivers air into the lungs through a tube that is placed into the mouth or nose and down into the windpipe. (Source: https://www.thoracic.org/patients/patient-resources/resources/mechanical-ventilation.pdf)
Viral shedding
The period of time after the virus has replicated in the host and is being emitted.
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AAISS
AL-HUDA ARABIC AND ISLAMIC SECONDARY SCHOOL, ZING
Education is the key to unlock the Golden door of Freedom.
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Al-Huda Arabic and Islamic Secondary School Zing is an Islamic Community owned Institution that can trace its roots since 1998 from an Islamiyya School called, Nurul Islam that operated in the evening under the care of Alh. Isa Jibrin (Isa Rahama) at Alh. Kasimu Ibrahim Bakoshi’s Residence at Unguwar Yelwa Zing. Following the increase in the number of students and the brilliant performance of the management and staff of the school, the Taraba State Primary Education Board took over the school after certain conditions were spelt out clearly to the understanding of parties’ involved such as teaching Arabic and Islamic Studies subjects alongside with the conventional western education subjects. The pioneering Head Master of the School was Mal. Adamu Abdullahi.
In the year 2004, under the leadership of Mal. Yakubu D.B Adams as the Headmaster, the school moved to its permanent site at Unguwan Lafiya behind NEPA Office Zing. The site of the school is owned by the Muslim community of Zing. The Muslim Community constructed two blocks of three classes and an office under the P.T.A Chairmanship of Mal. Mijinyawa Isma’ilu.
In 2009 Al-Huda Arabic and Islamic Secondary School Zing came into existence as a result of series of consultations by the Muslims Community and the Kpanti of Zing in person of Late Engr. Abbas Ibrahim Sambo, the grand patron of the school, over the educational pursuits of our teeming youth who completed their primary and islamiyya schools with pure Arabic and Islamic Studies background. The difficulty faced by such persons prompted the establishment of the Secondary School so as to ease the hardship of having travel distance in order to further their education. The school was established with two different sections; The Higher Islamic and the Secondary School (Conventional) Sections. The Pioneering administrators of the school were as follows: Bello Abubakar (Principal), Dr. Tahir Harun (Vice Principal Admin), Mahmud Bello (Vice Principal Academy) and Ladan Hassan (Examination Officer). The School started with fifteen dynamic, sincere and passionate individuals as members of staff who agreed to voluntarily assist their community in terms of the Education of their youth. Lessons commenced on the 1st February, 2009. The School operates in the afternoon because the Primary Section operates in the morning. The total number of students was Thirty One (31) for higher Islamic Section and Twelve (12) for the secondary school (Conventional) section. The students came with zeal to learn more about Islam, Arabic language and western education.
On 5th May, 2011 the school became registered with the State Ministry of Education and was given a center authorizing its JSS3 Students to register and write their Junior Secondary Certificate Examination (JSCE). Al-Huda Arabic and Islamic Secondary School has grown into a well-recognized educational system within a short span of time and have reputable, experienced and Professional Teachers in all subjects who are holders of various educational qualifications ranging from Phd, Masters degree, First degree and NCE.
On the 21st September, 2014 an idea of having Diploma Programme from the Institute of Education, ABU Zaria came to the good people of the Muslim Ummah in Zing from the Management of Institute of Arabic and Islamic Education Jalingo campus, particularly Mal. Sani Usman Chindo. The idea was accepted and with immediate effect a committee was set up to look into the possibility of the smooth take up of the programme. Bello Abubakar, Mahmud Bello, Muhammad Ya’u, Ladan Hassan were selected as the Coordinator, Assistant Coordinator, Academic Secretary, and Director Finance of the Programme and it was agreed that could start with one course, which is Diploma in Islamic Studies Education.
The programme came at a time that many of our graduates from Al-Huda Arabic and Islamic Secondary School were roaming the street and religious instructors in the public primary schools that could not afford to further their education now can do it with ease. Al-Huda Institute had its first Facilitators (Lecturers) who are committed and dedicated to providing students with the highest possible quality education thus; Dr. Tahir Harun, Mahmud Bello, Mustapha Abubakar, Adamu Musa, Umar Muhammad Kwalle, Yusha’u Abubakar and Abubakar Audu Usman, They rigorously made personal sacrifices for the sake of their religion and students.
On the 11th August, 2015, a circular from ABU Zaria came banning the operation of satellite campuses thereby encouraging the affiliation of such campuses to become fully independent and full time operating campuses. With this development, the management of the Institute sat up consulting all members of stakeholders involved on the possibilities of securing the consent of Institute of Education, ABU Zaria to accreditate and include AL-HUDA INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION among the list of her affiliated Institutions into a full time Diploma awarding institution so as to enable our youths acquire Diploma Certificate at home.
Part of our request was the affiliation of two additional courses making three courses to be offered in the institute. The courses are:
i. Diploma in English Language Education
ii. Diploma in Integrated Science Education
iii. Diploma in Islamic Education
On the 08th August, 2018, a circular came in response to our request indicating the coming of the committee of inspectors into the Al-Huda Institute for the inspection and assessment (Pre-affiliation visit). Now the institute is proud to have the following members of Academy and Non-Academic Staff:
i. Four Admin Staff
ii. Fifteen Facilitators (Lecturers)
iii. Three Non-Academic Staff
The mission of the Al-Huda Arabic and Islamic Secondary School, Zing is “to serve as a world renowned centre of learning through excellence in teaching, research and scholarly artistic activities and service to the community, state, nation and the world”.
Al-Huda Arabic and Islamic Secondary School, Zing seeks to become a world-renowned centre of learning where students are prepared with the knowledge, skills and disposition they need in order to serve their community, state nation and the world through excellence in teaching, research and service.
Mal. Bello Abubakar
(Field of Study)
Dr. Tahir Harun
V.P Admin
Mal. Mahmud Bello
V.P Academy
Unguwan Lafiya, Zing
info@al-huda.sch.ng
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For Equality, Education and Excellence in Journalism
The Washington Press Club Foundation is an organization of journalists from the nation's print and broadcast media working as a group to promote the ideals of equality and excellence that inspired that small band of its founders, the Women's National Press Club.
Established in 1919, when female reporters weren't allowed to become members of the National Press Club or the Gridiron Club, the Women�s National Press Club formed an organization to ensure that women established an equal place in the newsroom .
Today, the Foundation continues the work of these pioneers by sponsoring programs and events to educate both students and the general public on the role of a free press, awarding scholarships and internships to support equality and diversity in the newsroom and continuing to develop historical materials on American journalism, primarily through our award winning oral history project, Women in Journalism. Other projects have made important contributions to the profession of journalism.
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Will Brexit be stopped?
Bible prophecy gives us the answer
Here in the UK the terms of Brexit dominates the headlines on a daily basis. Still bitter from the marginal vote to leave the EU some who voted to 'remain' appear to be seeking to put as many roadblocks in the way as possible. Petitions are being signed, demonstrations attended and books are being written as Pro-EU activists desperately seek to stop the juggernaut which is Brexit. In this week's Bible in the News we consider the likelihood of Brexit being scuppered in the light of Bible prophecy.
Currently, the British government and the EU are in negotiations to untangle Britain from the EU. Much work has to be done to detach the UK from laws and obligations that have been entered into as part of the close relationship between the two parties.
This is how the BBC reported the situation this week:
“As it stands, the UK will leave the EU in March 2019 whether it agrees a deal on the terms of withdrawal or not. Prime Minister Theresa May has said she believes the two sides will reach a deal but the UK must prepare for all eventualities. The so-called divorce bill, the amount the UK will pay to settle its liabilities when it leaves the EU, remains a major sticking point in negotiations.
Hopes that negotiations would move on to Britain's future relationship with the EU this month were dashed after EU chiefs said more work was needed first on the divorce talks. Mr De Rynck [an adviser to EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier] said "sufficient progress is not far away" but the UK must set out how it believes the divorce bill should be calculated to end the deadlock over money.
"In terms of the guidelines for the future relationship as well as the possible transition, all of that can come very quickly," he said.”
Also this week the UK Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, was again in the headlines telling the EU to “get on with Brexit”. Also on the BBC this week the BBC ran a headline “Brexit: Theresa May says 'important progress' made at EU summit.” So the politicians are forging ahead with the Brexit paperwork but many are also at work attempting to put a stop to it.
Democracy and the EU
Former deputy Prime minister
Nick Clegg's new book
The notion that the people have spoken in the EU referendum - and that therefore, under the rules of democracy, Brexit should continue with all the authority of democracy - is one which is constantly under challenge in some parts of British politics. The main sticking point is the question of what Brexit looks like and what deal Britain might do in regards to the terms of Brexit. A few “remainers” want to sink the Brexit ship and stay moored to the EU.
Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is one such “Remainer”. He has written a book entitled “How To Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again)” published on the 12th of October. The leader of the Green Party, Caroline Lucas, published an article in the Guardian this week entitled “We must stop this tragic farce – Brexit can be reversed”. The Liberal Democrats are pushing for another final vote by the British public to agree, or not, the terms of the Brexit negotiations in an attempt to reverse the leave outcome from the last one.
There is a track record in relation to the EU of democratic decisions being overturned by sheer persistence.
For example, in 1992 Denmark voted against adopting the EU’s 'Maastricht Treaty'. With a few tweaks though the treaty was amended and another vote was held in 1993 and was carried. In 2001, in a referendum to approve the EU ‘Treaty of Nice’ the Irish voted 53% against. A few tweaks to the wording of the treaty took place and the vote was again put to the Irish people in 2002 along with a major educational campaign around the vote. Ireland then voted 62.9% in favour. Again in 2008 Ireland voted against adopting the 'Lisbon Treaty'. A few tweaks and another education campaign and in 2009 the EU got the vote it was after and the Irish voted in favour.
This tactic of making a few tweaks and then having another vote until the answer comes out in favour of the EU then, in human terms, is a very real possibility to Brexit.
As a side point, it might be worth observing that any vote in a sovereign nation which has gone in favour of the EU has ever been rerun!
A recent headline in the Gainsborough
Standard. Link
Earlier this month, one MP, Sir Edward Leigh, had written the following in a local paper in Gainsborough to ease the worries of his constituency and make things clear on Brexit:
“I cannot emphasise enough that there is no going back on Brexit. We will be leaving the European Union completely and there is no question about that. I have been one of the heartiest advocates of properly getting out of the EU and holding the Government to account while this process is ongoing. A number of constituents have written to me under the misapprehension that transitional agreements somehow mean we won’t be leaving the European Union or that somehow they will be used to sneakily create a situation whereby we leave in name only. I can reassure voters that this is not the case… I must emphasise to constituents that there is zero chance of our staying in the European Union. Transitional agreements will exist to help us to leave the EU – not to frustrate our leaving. No-one has been clearer on this matter than the Prime Minister – leave means leave."
There is then this division in UK politics at the moment. On the one hand, the people have spoken to leave and politecians are working to fulfil that desire. On the other, some politicians do not want this to happen and are seeking to reverse the vote causing, in turn, other politicians to defend democracy and the will of the people.
"Will Brexit be reversed?" is a question on the minds of those engaged in politics. By looking at the implications of Bible prophecy we can confidently say that this is very unlikely and that Brexit will happen.
Protestant Spirit
The majority of those currently in power seems to be reluctantly accepting the vote of the people - even if they voted to remain. The basis on which the system works is democracy - and the people voted out. To remain in power the politicians, therefore, are, on the whole, following this route set out by the people they are supposed to represent.
Brexit can be traced back to
Henry 8th and the Protestant split
from the Roman Catholic Church
Unlike Ireland with it’s Catholic Heritage and leanings to Europe, Britain's heritage is Protestant. In the backbone of the country is a spirit of independence from the continent and a reliance of Britain as a separate entity. This spirit stems back to the days of Henry the 8th and the Reformation when England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church to forge its own way in the world.
These ancient political and religious undertones, are not obviously in the public's consciousness - but certainly they seem to be there in an almost unconscious way - and, no doubt will contribute to Brexit continuing to the conclusion which will see the British power outside of the EU.
It is interesting to read an article published by the Guardian on the 27th of October entitled “How the Reformation sowed the seeds of Brexit”. In it, the author, Martin Kettle, states:
"the deeper legacy of the English Reformation was the tradition of English exceptionalism, which dressed itself afresh in Britishness after the acts of union. In this tradition, England (or Britain) was different, separate, better, blessed and free from the rules that constrained others. It defined itself against Rome and ultramontane ideas of every kind. And that legacy has certainly not disappeared. Indeed, just when so many of the habits and manifestations of English Protestantism have continued to slip gently towards an ecumenical multicultural oblivion, Henry VIII’s legacy has summoned itself for one final and contrarian outburst of the exceptionalist tradition. It has dumped us with Brexit.”
Recent Guardian article on how the
Reformation has influenced Brexit
In this God’s hand can be seen. He has been at work, unbeknown to the people involved down through time to use the British power for His requirements. Britain and it’s protestant spirit was heavily involved in spreading God’s word in English across the globe through the British Empire. This, in turn, led to Britain aiding the establishment of the nation of Israel, supported by Protestants who had grown up with Bible in hand and an understanding and sympathy of God’s people, the Jews. It also led to the true gospel being rediscovered in the 1800’s and defined in the book “Elpis Israel” in 1848 by John Thomas who began the radical Christadelphian movement. None of these things would have happened without the Protestant spirit of Britain.
But there is more in relation to God’s purpose with Britain.
Britain the Tarshish of the Bible
Christadelphian booklet on the
'Destiny of Britain Foretold in the Bible'
Written before the EU referendum.
Purchase from Amazon.
The connection with Britain and the Biblical nation of Tarshish has been well documented in recent years (for information on this see this Bible Talk, given just after the Brexit vote and a booklet on the subject can be purchased on Amazon.
5. At the time of Ezekiel (600BC) it was a source of silver, iron, tin and lead & traded with the ancient Phoenicians of Tyre.Ezekiel 27:12
We would suggest that the only power to fit these characteristics is the British power. No other power fits these ‘Tarshish clues’.
It is reasonable therefore to identify Britain as the Biblical nation called “Tarshish”. This being the case the prophecies of the “Latter days” are interesting to note.
The nations of the EU in Ezekiel 38
In Ezekiel 38 we read of the state of the nations just before Jesus Christ returns to the earth. This gives us clues as to how we might expect the nations will be behaving. As we’ve already mentioned, Tarshish is there in verse 13 and is trading in the area of the Gulf with those Southern Arab states called by their ancient family names of “Sheba and Dedan”. Set apart from these trading powers, is described between verses 1-6, another block of nations who unite to invade Israel. Within this set of nations are grouped peoples who make up the EU, namely Magog and Gomer.
The Jewish historian Josephus, writing around 93AD, records that “Magog founded those that from him were named Magogites, but who are by the Greeks called Scythians.” (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book 1:6:1, c. 94 AD). The Greek historian Herodotus gives a detailed outline of the land of Scythia (Herodotus, Histories, Book 4:46-47, c. 400 BC). He lists eight rivers which went through it, all of which are in Eastern Europe stretching from the river “Ister” (the modern-day river ‘Danube’ which originates in Germany) to the river “Tanais” (the modern-day river ‘Don’ in Russia).
From these historical accounts, we learn that the “Magog” of Ezekiel 38 is the territory of most of Eastern Europe inclusive of modern day Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine and even parts of Western Russia.
Another name we come across in relation to the northern alliance in the prophecy of
Ezekiel 38, is “Gomer” in verse 6. It is Josephus who again states: “Gomer founded those whom the Greeks now call Galatians, but were then called Gomerites.” (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book 1:6:1, c. 94 AD). Interestingly “Gallia” remains a name of France in modern Greek.
The Greek historian Diodorus Siculus tells us that another name for “Galatia” was “Gaul” (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Book 5:24, c. 50 BC). The area of Gaul was eventually conquered by the Romans and then, in turn fell to the “Franks” in AD486.
The area of Gaul then became known as “France”. From this we can understand
the “Gomer” in Ezekiel 38 to be describing Western Europe and in particular France.
According to the Bible then, we would expect these territories of the EU to unite at the time just before the return of Christ. We would not expect the British “Tarshish” power to be amongst them but instead forging its own global relationships based on trade in the Gulf.
For the Bible student then it is significant that since the Brexit vote EU leaders have called for even further integration of Europe. This is what we’d expect. The EU powers getting to the point where they have an army and can collectively invade Israel with other allies as described in the prophecies.
Back in June this year, Reuters ran an article entitled “Germany and France to lead post-Brexit EU in further integration”. The report stated: “More EU integration is a “foregone conclusion”, and France and Germany will take the lead on post-Brexit reforms starting this year, the European Union’s second-in-command said, adding that he hoped the east-west split in the bloc would heal.”
In August 2017 the Express newspaper, famed for its Euroskeptisim, ran an article entitled “Revealed: Plans for EU army, navy and air force deployable without national MPs' approval”. The article stated: “EURO MPs have drawn up terrifying plans for a complete EU army, navy and air force which could be deployed by Brussels without consulting member state parliaments. In a dossier compiled by the liberal ALDE grouping, which is headed by Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt, MEPs call for “EU integrated military forces” to intervene on behalf of the bloc across the globe. They say Brussels needs “autonomous” military capabilities which would have their own budget, be under the direct command of eurocrats and wear the EU ensign into battle. The document, which has no official weight and is likely to be rejected by member states, will nonetheless unnerve some politicians who fear the bloc is creeping towards ever greater militarisation.”
Last month, The French president, Emmanuel Macron, set out his vision for Europe. The Guardian news story was entitled “Macron lays out vision for 'profound' changes in post-Brexit EU”. It went on to say: “French president proposes deeper political integration… The speech was received warmly by the European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker. “A very European speech from my friend Emmanuel Macron,” he tweeted. “What we need now is a roadmap to advance the union at 27. We have to openly discuss all ideas and decide before May 2019,” Juncker said, referring to a summit he wants Romania to host on 30 March 2019, the day after Britain leaves the EU. In early December, the commission will publish proposals for a eurozone finance minister and other reforms. EU leaders will discuss the ideas at a summit later that month.”
Christ is coming
So we watch and wait as we see the great powers of the day falling into place as God has determined they would and revealed according to His holy word. With the prophecies set out and the destiny of the nations foretold we have a good idea as to the direction they will move in and it would certainly appear “Brexit means Brexit”. From this understanding of Bible prophecy we conclude that ultimately the eurosceptics will not have their way and Britain’s destiny lies outside of the EU.
Indeed, despite what man thinks the “most high God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.” Daniel 5:21 and “there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.” Romans 13:1.
Soon the Lord Jesus Christ will return to raise the dead, conduct the judgement, gather his saints to himself, and then manifest the glory of God on the earth. He will save his people, the Jews and establish and restore again the Kingdom to Israel and sit on the throne of his father David. He will fulfil his promise to his disciples that they will “sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel” (Luke 22:30) and in that day the prophecy of Isaiah 2 will be fulfilled:
“that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” Isaiah 2:2-4
Let us be encouraged then by the signs of the times. Watch with us here in the Bible in the News as God’s purpose unfolds until our Lord returns. This has been Matt Davies. Join us again next week God willing. .
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From my interview archive: the biographers of Nick Drake
I came to the Nick Drake party earlier than some, but later than many: much later, certainly, than Patrick Humphries, Trevor Dann, and Peter Hogan, all of whom I invited on The Marketplace of Ideas to talk about Drake and his music for the 40th anniversary of his debut album Five Leaves Left. All three interviewees had written books about Drake’s three albums, once almost forgotten but now long since rediscovered, and the short life during which he recorded them.
Five Leaves Left‘s 50th anniversary passed last July (somehow I’d previously been under the impression that the album had come out in September), and in the past ten years the body of Nick Drake-related literature — along the Byronic legend of the man himself — has expanded further still. More books have come out, of course, but so have more radio and television documentaries, as many of which as possible I rounded up for my Open Culture post on the semicentennial of Drake’s debut. Drake’s fans exhibit a stronger fascination than ever, and his music also somehow sounds less dated than ever.
The startling timelessness of Drake’s records, especially Five Leaves Left, has fomented a great deal of speculation among musicians and recording engineers alike. “I’ve never been attracted to hypersensitives or depressives,” Robert Christgau wrote recently about the lack of attention he’s paid to Drake over the past 50 years, and when I first heard Five Leaves Left back in high school — a time when nothing could have exceeded my contempt for acoustic guitar-strumming melancholy — I might have been expected to dislike it too, but the crispness of his sound, as well as the complexity of his idiosyncratic guitar tunings, appealed to the audiophile and obscurantist within me. (My favorite band, then as now: Steely Dan.)
“What ‘timeless’ means to me is that is sounds like it was made yesterday,” Dann said to me in our interview, especially when compared to other records from 1969. “You’re talking about the era of records like ‘Get Back’ by the Beatles, you’re talking about Led Zeppelin I. Those records, when you hear then now, they’re great records, great performances, but the recording of them is somehow mushy and old.” The same might even be said of a more directly comparable if slightly newer album like Colin Blunstone’s One Year, which I also keep on high rotation. But “you put Five Leaves Left on now — bang. It sounds like he’s in the room with you. I think that is one of the great attributes those records have, this sound so shiny and new and modern whilst at the same time touching some very deep and subconscious themes.”
The great thing now about Drake’s music now is, of course, that “he died all those years ago, so we’ll never know him. So (a), he never gets old — he’ll always be that beautiful man making that beautiful music — and (b), he never says the wrong thing in an interview. He is exactly who he is, and he always is able to be discovered by a new generation and owned by them.” And so the party continues.
Download Patrick Humphries, Trevor Dann, and Peter Hogan on The Marketplace of Ideas [iTunes link] (9/3/09)
Read the transcript at 3 Quarks Daily
This was written by Colin Marshall. Posted on Tuesday, September 3, 2019, at 8:54 pm. Filed under From My Interview Archive. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Comments are closed, but you can leave a trackback.
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AWOL: U.S. Policy in Central Asia
By Stephen Blank (the 30/10/2013 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The U.S. has decided to give up the base at Manas, presumably because that base is not worth retaining once it leaves Afghanistan next year, and will relocate the base to Romania. Washington is instead moving most of its logistics through Pakistan, with a corresponding decline in the use of the Northern Distribution Network. Once U.S. forces leave Afghanistan there will be no military presence in Central Asia to speak of. Second, the TAPI gas pipeline from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan and Pakistan, nominally the centerpiece of America’s New Silk Road initiative, languishes for lack of any financing.
BACKGROUND: The concurrence of these trends is not a coincidence; they reflect the fact that the U.S. has essentially abandoned the task of formulating, let alone executing, a coherent Central Asian policy. The U.S. New Silk Road initiative remains merely a bureaucratic contrivance that the State Department, which strongly opposed the concept of the Northern Distribution Network, put together when it lost that battle. It took 40 existing projects and repackaged them in a standard bureaucratic maneuver. But funding and vision that could use America’s convening power to help form various consortia of investors for these or projects remain absent. When the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under then Senator Kerry published a study of the Silk Road, no comment was heard from the State Department or the Administration.
In contrast to both Russia and China, no senior U.S. policymaker has during President Obama's second term even mentioned Central Asia, let alone traveled there to engage local governments on issues of mutual concern. This absence of high-level activity speaks volumes about the importance assigned to Central Asia and the Caucasus. Indeed, according to U.S. analysts, Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov, who had steadily sought to collaborate with the U.S., reportedly laughs whenever somebody brings up the topic of the U.S. New Silk Road. But we can be sure he is not laughing about China’s “Silk Road Economic Belt”, in which he eagerly seeks participation and, perhaps more importantly, he signed a strategic partnership agreement with China. Similarly nobody in the U.S. government, apart from Secretary of State Clinton in 2011-12, has said a word about Putin’s Eurasian Union that will diminish the economic independence and/or growth potential of Central Asian states.
While we do, from time to time, proclaim that these governments are anti-democratic or engage in such behavior, we have otherwise made it clear that we are not very interested in their affairs. Since we will not engage them on issues of consequence to them, they will return the favor. It must be emphasized in this context that the problem is not merely a lack of funding though that certainly will constrain policy towards Central Asia, as it already has in Afghanistan.
Rather, the real problem is that there is no vision, no concept, nor any leadership coming out of the executive branch to imply that U.S. involvement in Central Asia or the Caucasus are important U.S. interests. Such involvement should not primarily constitute a military presence or policy, quite the opposite. However, if nobody will make the case for a U.S. presence or the region’s importance, Congress in its present composition will hardly rush to fill that breach.
IMPLICATIONS: There is little doubt that governments in the Caucasus and Central Asia would welcome a sustained U.S. engagement even if there are serious issues where we disagree, not least over democracy. But we could at least take their concerns seriously. Given the lack of any evidence of such concern it is hardly surprising that other actors with objectives inimical to our interests are filling that vacuum while partners like India are losing in this competition. Indeed, it is not commonly realized that it was the sustained U.S. involvement here plus our effort to tie Central Asia more closely to India that made it possible and desirable for India to expand its presence in Afghanistan and Central Asia. As the U.S. leaves, that presence becomes vulnerable to terrorists, Pakistani obstruction (both of which are often part of Pakistani policy), or to the superior economic and other forms of Chinese power. Thus, as one recent account puts it, China is implementing its version of a Marshall Plan for Central Asia and genuinely building the Silk Road but tying it to Chinese dominance and the creation of a Renminbi bloc and what could well be considered as an overall China “co-Prosperity Sphere” (see the 10/16/2013 issue of the CACI Analyst).
For its part, Russia is stepping up its political and military involvement in the area, building more military bases in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and seeking to expand the missions of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and its capacity to perform those missions. At the same time it is bringing enormous pressure to bear upon Central Asian states to join the Eurasian Union despite Kazakhstan’s growing misgivings and the fact that it may actually have a negative impact upon Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, let alone Ukraine. Russia also continues to expand its political operations in these countries, e.g. making Tajikistan give it a base in return for supporting President Rahmonov in his re-election campaign.
These manifestations of Russian and Chinese policy, along with China’s visible ability to freeze India out of competition for major investment and energy opportunities in Central Asia, represent the fulfillment of the old axiom that nature abhors a vacuum. These states, pursuing objectives that are not only anti-American but in many cases also aim at the diminution of Central Asian states’ independence, sovereignty, and in China’s case, even territorial integrity, are filling the vacuum we are leaving behind.
Yet nobody in policymaking positions in Washington seems to notice or care. This neglect can only have malign consequences. Indeed, in Central Asia as in many other venues, there can be no such thing as benign neglect given the real threats to security that abound in Central Asia and other regions. The U.S. withdrawal, retreat, or simply renunciation of interest in Central Asia and other areas will almost certainly lead to heightened international rivalries among U.S. competitors like Russia and China for influence and the creation of regional spheres of influence and will also probably lead to more conflicts within or even between or among these states.
We are already seeing the consequences of this U.S. renunciation of interest throughout Central Asia. For example, in the recent Indo-Russian summit, India agreed to discuss with Russia the creation of a pipeline route from Russia to India. The scale of such an endeavor is mind-boggling and the fact that India even agreed to consider it reflects its growing anxiety about its energy supply and increasingly clear apprehension concerning the TAPI pipeline.
A similar perception emerged out of this summit with regard to both sides’ shared views about Afghanistan. As the U.S. and NATO leave, India inevitably becomes more exposed to threats in Afghanistan. Therefore it must look to Russia for cooperation against Pakistan and terrorists like the Taliban. Formally touched off in September, China’s Silk Road initiative represents another such reaction to the U.S. withdrawal, which Beijing sees as an opportunity as well as a threat from Islamic insurgencies. Moscow’s recent initiatives can be similarly categorized.
CONCLUSIONS: Unfortunately these initiatives return Central Asia to the era when the great powers saw it as an object of their designs rather than as an area of fully sovereign states able and willing to be subjects of world politics in their own right. Clearly neither China, which has abridged the territorial sovereignty and integrity of many of these states, nor Russia whose contempt for their sovereignty is a matter of record, can be counted on to preserve the real gains of 1991 and after. Moreover, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are already highly vulnerable states while the prospects for internal stability in the other three states are doubtful as they will inevitably experience succession struggles.
These vulnerabilities are amplified by the potential threat from Afghanistan either though direct support for Islamic insurgency and terror or by the example of such forces “liberating” Afghanistan and thus threatening their neighbors. In addition, Indo-Pakistani enmity has spilled over to Afghanistan and into the diplomacy of Central Asia. Therefore it is worth asking exactly what U.S. interest is served by this precipitous disregard for Central Asia, especially as it is clear that events and trends in the region have potentially serious repercussions for the U.S. itself.
AUTHOR’S BIO: Stephen Blank is a Senior Fellow with the American Foreign Policy Council.
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Baker — A Real Defense of Marriage
by C-K Editor • November 30, 2012 • Faculty Commentary, Faculty Workshops/ Conferences, Featured Posts, Scholarship • 0 Comments
This past October, Professor Katharine Baker participated in an online symposium that discussed Georgetown scholar Robin West’s book Normative Jurisprudence: An Introduction. In the book, West argues that current “normative legal scholarship – scholarship that is aimed at criticism and reform – is now lacking a foundation in jurisprudential thought,” and she suggests a return to “the traditional understanding of the purpose of legal scholarship.”
In the entry below, originally posted for the symposium on the Concurring Opinions blog, Professor Baker looks at the same-sex marriage case Perry v. Schwarzenegger (argued in the Supreme Court of the United States as Hollingsworth v. Perry) in light of West’s discussion of natural law. Click here to access the full archive for the symposium.
By Katharine Baker
Turning first to the “what’s so great about relationship” question, Judge Vaughn Walker, in his opinion striking down Proposition 8 in Perry v. Schwarzenegger—the federal case challenging California’s Proposition 8 (which dismantled the California Supreme Court’s determination that same-sex couples had the right to marry in California)—laboriously analyzed the subject of marriage. One might think this a positive development, but the opinion reads strangely like an antitrust epistle. Judge Walker develops 80 findings of fact, including, most oddly, a finding of fact about what marriage is.
Judicial findings of fact on what marriage is strike me as akin to findings of fact on what race is or what love is. Ask yourself, if you were a judge, would you feel comfortable defining race or love as a matter of fact? Race and love are not legal statuses, so perhaps they are in a different category than marriage. But Walker did not and could not rely on marriage’s legal meaning, because the legal definition of marriage was precisely what was contested. He needed to articulate what marriage was apart from law.
Walker found, as fact, that “Marriage is the state recognition and approval of a couples’ choice to live with each other, to remain committed to one another and to form a household based on their own feelings about one another and to join in an economic partnership and support one another and any dependents.” (Finding of Fact #34). As a legal matter, none of that is true. There is no legal requirement that spouses live with each other or stay committed (whatever that means) or share their property (unless they divorce).
What Walker is finding, as fact, is the collective social understanding, the non-legal meaning of what marriage is. He is doing what the natural law scholars do when they write about marriage—explaining its existence and its virtues outside of, and at times in spite of, its legal definition. Judge Walker needed to do what West says we law professors should be doing much more of, but he had to do it mostly without us.
Walker’s one cite for Finding of Fact #34 (quoted in total above) is to historian Nancy Cott’s affidavit, filed on behalf of the plaintiffs. Taking nothing away from Nancy Cott, for whom I have tremendous respect and with whom I am quite sure I agree, one can see why the other side in this case could feel a bit outraged. Why does Nancy Cott get to define the meaning of marriage? The defendant’s witness, David Blankenhorn, who suggested that the meaning of marriage necessarily included a man/woman relationship, was dismissed as less credible than Cott because his work was not peer reviewed or as intellectually rigorous. (Opinion at 948-49).
The Harvard historian gets to define the non-legal aspects of marriage because she is more equipped to do so than the person without the academic pedigree, despite the fact that his understanding of marriage as gendered was shared not only by the majority of people in the country, but by the 52% of the people who voted for Proposition 8. Don’t we need a few more opinions, a bit more theory, some moral discourse on this subject before we say anything at all? Should the meaning of marriage really be reduced to a showdown between Nancy Cott and David Blankenhorn?
The 9th Circuit decided the appeal in Perry on grounds completely different than those that formed the basis of Walker’s opinion. They found that Proposition 8 violated the anti-animus principle found inRomer v. Evans. What if Perry had not been a case challenging Proposition 8, but had been what plaintiffs’ counsel apparently wanted it to be, a straight claim that there is a federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage? Then the 9th Circuit would not have been free to do its neat, limited, highly-unlikely-to-be-precedential Romer analysis. It would have had to accept Walker’s odd articulation of facts or what . . . find them clearly erroneous? I don’t know many people who disagree with Finding of Fact #34. Indeed, I doubt David Blankenhorn disagrees with Finding of Fact #34. It is just laughably incomplete.
To be fair, Judge Walker had a very hard job. It is extremely difficult to talk about a right to marriage without a definition of marriage and the legal definition won’t do. Equality doctrine does not necessarily help avoid the definitional problem, because if marriage is an inherently gendered institution, as Blankenhorn, the law, much history and a good deal of contemporary reality suggest, then it is not clear that same sex couples would have an equality right to it.
As I have argued elsewhere (The Stories of Marriage, 12 Journal of Law & Family Studies 1 (2010)), while legally mandated marital gender roles died decades ago, marriage is still a deeply gendered institution—it facilitates, produces and reinforces gender roles. Many peer-reviewed academics have documented that fact. Marriage is, in sociologist Sarah Berk’s phrase, “a gender factory.” Most heterosexual couples’ daily lives conform much more closely to traditional gender roles once they get married (and especially once they have children). Walker needed an understanding of marriage as not what the law said it was (male/female) and not as it appears to operate in most heterosexual people’s lives—as an institution that fosters gender performance—but as an ideal apart from law and fact.
The plaintiffs provided some sense of that ideal with Nancy Cott’s affidavit, but they provided little else. In part, that may have been bad lawyering, but it also may reflect the paucity of contemporary scholarship on why and how the law should support marriage as an institution. How can there be (or why should there be) such a thing as genderless marriage when marriage always has been and still is usually so gendered?
Some of us have tried to provide an explication and defense of legal marriage, including an explanation of why it should include same-sex couples, but it is far easier to find the blistering critiques of the institution. If Judge Walker, or the plaintiffs’ counsel, could have easily accessed a rich normative defense of what marriage is and why it is good and why the state should support it for couples of any gender—if we, as legal scholars, had done what West implores us to do in Part I of her book—then the 9th Circuit might not have had to do its neat little Romer move. And maybe there would be a federal Circuit Court of Appeals endorsing same-sex marriage.
Tags: Katharine K. Baker
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Evergreens will grow in place of thorn bushes, firs will grow in place of nettles; they will be a monument to the Lord, 1 a permanent reminder that will remain. 2
Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the LORD’s renown, for an everlasting sign, which will not be destroyed."
"Instead of the thorn bush the cypress will come up, And instead of the nettle the myrtle will come up, And it will be a memorial to the LORD, For an everlasting sign which will not be cut off."
Where once there were thorns, cypress trees will grow. Where briers grew, myrtles will sprout up. This miracle will bring great honor to the LORD’s name; it will be an everlasting sign of his power and love.
No more thistles, but giant sequoias, no more thornbushes, but stately pines--Monuments to me, to GOD, living and lasting evidence of GOD."
In place of the thorn will come up the fir-tree, and in place of the blackberry the myrtle: and it will be to the Lord for a name, for an eternal sign which will not be cut off.
Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall be to the LORD for a memorial, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree; And it shall be to the LORD for a name, For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off."
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1 tn Heb “to the Lord for a name.” For שֵׁם (shem) used in the sense of “monument,” see also 56:5, where it stands parallel to יָד (yad).
2 tn Or, more literally, “a permanent sign that will not be cut off.”
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who invented bacon and eggs
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326. ( Log Out / It was described as a "Roman dish" at a time when many Italians were eating eggs and bacon supplied by troops from the United States. Bacon in the New World. Benedict had a wild night of partying and decided on breakfast at the Waldorf Hotel. A cafe has invented/perfected vegan bacon and eggs. Close. Lower the oven temp to 200 degrees celsius and place the buns in the oven for 20 minutes. In Canada, the back bacon is not smoked or pre-cooked. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. I guess I should tell NPR, but who is going to care? Bacon and eggs may refer to: A full breakfast; Eggs-and-bacon, also known as "Bird's foot trefoil", a variety of Lotus flower; Egg and bacon, a nickname for the colours (gold and scarlet) of the Marylebone Cricket Club This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bacon and eggs. He created his own breakfast by requesting poached eggs, bacon, buttered toast, and a pitcher (!) /ɛgz ən ˈbeɪkən/ (say egz uhn baykuhn) noun → bacon and eggs Which came first, the pig or the egg? the inventor of bacon and eggs Martin informs me that Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! The combination of a poached egg, ham or bacon, and a toasted English muffin that is covered in Hollandaise sauce is like heaven on a plate. Re: Edward Bernays-The man who invented Bacon&Eggs Post by Adama » July 22nd, 2015, 9:31 pm They aren't entirely wrong when they say humans are a blank slate at birth. Share on Facebook. A: According to a story on NPR, bacon and eggs were introduced to Edward Bernays by none other than Sigmund Freud. It can be found here, under Panel Round Two. Pork curing methods spread throughout the Roman Empire, and Anglo-Saxon peasants cooked with bacon fat.Until well into the 16th century, the Middle English term bacon or bacoun referred to all pork in general. ... Californians invented the fruit smoothie. The term bacon comes from various Germanic and French dialects. Roxanne was asked which intellectual came up with bacon and eggs. Posted by 2 years ago. By. If creativity has struck you and you want to prepare your own version of eggs Benedict, don’t stray too far from the essential components of a bread base, meat, eggs, and hollandaise sauce. Egg rolls were an element of Cantonese cuisine from ancient times. Roger Bacon was an English philosopher, scientist and Franciscan friar. Then key here is that, after turning off the flame and seasoned your bacon, throw in the spaghetti pasta, mix quickly the eggs and serve immediately to make sure the dough stays warm, while the eggs dont scramble. Bacon and eggs as American apple pie? Other Makers are out there who are eager to help you through the process. and were also being raised in Europe by 1500 B.C. Are apple’s, pigs and chickens native to the USA? published in 1843, it was documented that during this time in the Arab world, Bedouins often utilized locusts mixed with butter for breakfast, spreading the mixture on unleavened bread. Hey there! The loin is the part that they make pork chops out of, so they just remove the bones. Later on, the 14th century Italian book "Libro della cucina" references scrambled eggs: "There is so much known about fried, roasted, and scrambled eggs that it is not necessary to speak about them." Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. A New York delicacy consisting of a roll, semi-scrambled egg, american cheese, and bacon. Spending some time and actual effort to create a Q: In America, bacon and eggs is a part of the hearty breakfast of champions, as American as apple pie right? Share on Facebook. https://www.englishbreakfastsociety.com/full-english-breakfast.html sorry us brits were eating it b4 us was discovered. It was invented by the Chinese around 500 B.C. I won't ruin it for you - you have to find out for yourself. In 1954, it was included in Elizabeth David's Italian Food, an English-language cookbook published in Great Britain. After some prototyping and research at her local library, she cracked a solution and her product was born. He brought 13 pigs to the shores of the New World in … Debate rears its head again … After some prototyping and research at her local library, she cracked a solution and her product was born. Marc Zorn - October 12, 2014. Bacon in Ancient and Medieval Times . I’m sorry, but the Freudian invention of bacon and eggs isn’t correct. Some substitute the Canadian bacon for ham, bacon, or steak while others use alternatives to the English muffins. The cream is recommended in many recipes because, when added in small amounts, it helps to prevent the egg from scrambling and adds a creamy texture to the sauce. The magnifying glass was invented in 1250 by Roger Bacon. did people eat bacon and eggs during world war 2 and why are they so good together how often do you eat bacon and eggs? When Bernays reached America many years later, he landed a PR job, one of the first of its kind, for a bacon company. William Ellis wrote in 1750 that bacon was very popular among the French and English. Because of their high fat and calorie content, they carried people through the rough winters by acting as insulating agents in the body. By. Or maybe Eggs Benedict had a more virtuous creator. The restaurant’s staff refined the dish and a classic was born. With best bacon and eggs melbourne CBD a Attempt to car - if You from the sizeable Offered of The company use to pull - seems a very much great Idea to be. In Scotland, the full breakfast, as with others, contains eggs, back bacon, link sausage, buttered toast, baked beans, and tea or coffee. Look up bacon and eggs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. History is sexy. Posted by culture_vulture at 7:24 AM. Marc Zorn - October 12, 2014. A type of porridge is most commonly eaten. of hollandaise sauce. Does the UK have these? He has a recipe called Eggs a' la Benedick (Eufa a' la Benedick) in his cookbook called The Epicurean published in 1894.:Eggs à la Benedick - Cut some muffins in halves crosswise, toast them without allowing to brown, then place a round of cooked ham an eighth of an inch thick and of the same diameter as the muffins one each half. An eagle on a par 5. Thank you! Later on, the 14th century Italian book "Libro della cucina" references scrambled eggs: "There is so much known about fried, roasted, and scrambled eggs that it is not necessary to speak about them." Ranhofer came up with Eggs Benedict. Bede argued that even the word Easter derived from a pagan fertility goddess named “Eostre” in English and Germanic cultures. An eagle on a par 5. Well, thanks to science, you’ll never need to ponder this philosophical question again, as a Melbourne cafe Matcha Mylkbar have invented vegan bacon and eggs that act, look, and taste so much like the real thing, it feels like an … Either that or they were were devised in New York City, circa 1930. Archived. It’s said that chef Charles Ranhofer came up with the combination in the 1860s when Mrs. LeGrand Benedict, one of his regular diners, grew tired of the menu and wanted something new. I've been to Canada alot, and holidayed in NZ, I don't remember seeing them. It is primarily served with an Arizona Ice Tea. who invented hard boiled eggs. You learn something new every day; what did you learn today? The deviled egg became popular at picnics and parties in the United States after WWII. He based this approach on the actual opinion of some physicians, but, of course, he was also working for Beech-Nut, a company whose main product at the time was bacon. There are so many delicious, fun ways to combine these key ingredients: Stovetop classics like Spinach- Bacon’s history dates back thousands of years to 1500 B.C. By running experiments on mice, of […]. And here’s me thinking they are from England and long before the USA was born. He ordered two poached eggs, bacon, buttered toast and a pitcher of hollandaise sauce, a rich, egg-based sauce flavored with butter, lemon and vinegar. The combination of a poached egg, ham or bacon, and a toasted English muffin that is covered in Hollandaise sauce is like heaven on a plate. Bede argued that even the word Easter derived from a pagan fertility goddess named “Eostre” in English and Germanic cultures. For many people, the combination of bacon and eggs forms the basis for the archetypal hot breakfast. The ad man and McDonald's franchisee's love of eggs … no politics . It was invented by the Chinese around 500 B.C. Traditionally, the various cuisines of Africa use a combination of locally available fruits, cereal grains and vegetables, as well as milk and meat products. All bacon was thick and it couldn't be fried like todays. Will be used in accordance with our user agreement and privacy policy. Roxanne was asked which intellectual came up with bacon and eggs. The first one's on me. In particular the meat was well liked in northern England. A lot of the recipes spiced it up with salt, … Before the bacon press there virtually was no flat bacon like we have today. The guanciale is briefly fried in a pan in its own fat. Finally, the dish is topped with Hollandaise sauce. Combine the grated cheese and bacon and cover the tops of the buns. Most were dried and salted. It starts at about 2:15. Are cheese and bacon rolls an underrated Australian "thing"? Posted by culture_vulture at 7:24 AM. The warm, gooey goodness of eggs Benedict is fantastic at any time of day. It consists of two poached eggs atop slices of ham or Canadian bacon, each served on one half of a sliced, toasted English muffin. The pasta is cooked in moderately salted boiling water. As well as the Scotch egg, we have pies a-plenty, made with rich, crumbly pastry and freshly cooked fillings. ( Log Out / Bernays got a doctor to agree that a protein-rich, heavy breakfast of bacon and eggs was healthier than a light breakfast, and then sent that statement to around 5,000 doctors for their signatures. This bacon is from the loin of the pig as opposed to most bacon which is from the belly. Or…it was created at the Waldorf Hotel 2676. really enjoy reading your blog posts. In this video, though, Edward L. Bernays (known as the "Father of Public Relations") explains how he orchestrated a massive change in American public opinion to make bacon and eggs the All-American Breakfast. Don't Tell Me! Eggs have long been a popular breakfast food, perhaps because fresh eggs were often available early in the day, but their partnership with bacon is a 20th century invention.In the 1920s, Americans ate very light breakfasts, so public relations pioneer Edward Bernays persuaded doctors to … Which one Progress are at the Taking of best bacon and eggs melbourne CBD Usual? Eggs Benedict is a common American breakfast or brunch dish, consisting of two halves of an English muffin, each topped with Canadian bacon, a poached egg, and hollandaise sauce.It was popularized in … Egg McMuffin Creator Invented Breakfast-on-the-Go The creator of the Egg McMuffin, Herb Peterson, died Tuesday. Aw, this was a very nice post. Supposedly during thier hikes together, Freud told his nephew the value of a hearty meal. who invented hard boiled eggs. called Peameal bacon. The URI to TrackBack this entry is: https://historyissexy.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/bacon-and-eggs/trackback/, […] on Earth did scientists scrounge up some kind of proof that we’re born to eat stuff like this when we wake up? No comments: Post a Comment. Pies & Scotch Eggs. All rights reserved.Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 1/1/20) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated 1/1/20).Bon Appétit may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our affiliate partnerships with retailers.Your California Privacy RightsThe material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. MJ's "history" + historical footage = haunting/interesting. 1924 Oscar Mayer introduces pre-packaged, pre-sliced bacon to America. Whisk the egg and milk together and brush the tops of the buns. manage to get anything done. He created his own breakfast by requesting poached eggs, bacon, buttered toast, and a pitcher (!) It all began when the Daily Telegraph proudly highlighted the ‘patriotic breakfast’ enjoyed by the UK’s crack team of negotiators before going in to try to secure a half-decent future trading relationship with the EU. "It was invented during the years of the Carboneria," some say; "no, it was the American GIs who inspired it." Who Invented Eggs Benedict. Others mixed the meat with bean pottage. Especially in the United States. Theories about who invented carbonara, and when, abounded, but nothing appeared certain. mentioned bacon this week. Are cheese and bacon rolls an underrated Australian "thing"? It was invented at Delmonico’s Restaurant. It starts at about 2:15. There are actually some different stories that exist about … There is rather much detail about the meal, so it is definitely bacon and eggs they are talking about. In general, eggs Benedict features an English muffin, split open, with each side topped with a slice of Canadian bacon, a poached egg, and hollandaise sauce. It is not a "bacon, egg, and cheese" it is one word. Newer Post Older Post Home. Juices vary with orange juice being the most popular, but also can be apple, cranberry, or pineapple. Throw we our view of it, what other People to the Product to say have. Either with a hankering, or some arcane knowledge of egg-based hangover cures, he ordered, more or less, the components of Eggs Benedict: two poached eggs, buttered toast, bacon, and some hollandaise sauce on the side. In the 1920s and '30s, Sigmund Freud's nephew Edward Bernays used his uncle's ideas -- sometimes to Freud's consternation -- to help create the new field of public relations. Submit interesting and specific facts … It can be found here, under Panel Round Two. Everyone buys a sixer of white rolls topped with melted cheese and ham bits for Sunday morning brekky right? Other Makers are out there who are eager to help you through the process. https://www.marthastewart.com/1120983/16-perfect-bacon-and-egg-pairings
The first known printed mention of ‘devil’ as a culinary term appeared in Great Britain in 1786, in reference to dishes including hot ingredients or those that were highly seasoned and broiled or fried. an American tradition was born. Hong Kong. The warm, gooey goodness of eggs Benedict is fantastic at any time of day. Blog at WordPress.com.RSS 2.0Comments RSS 2.0, Fat-laden breakfasts are good for you « Later On, https://www.englishbreakfastsociety.com/full-english-breakfast.html, Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mocking Bird” turns 50, Joan of Arc: One Very Rebellious Teenager…. top notch article… but what can I say… I put things off a whole lot and never A: According to a story on NPR, bacon and eggs were introduced to Edward Bernays by none other than Sigmund Freud. The Ancient Romans are documented as the earliest people to scramble eggs. When, how and whom was responsible for our fried-filled breakfast? Or maybe Eggs Benedict had a more virtuous creator. .’ , not whom! Well has anyone stopped to think of their origin? Both countries argue they invented the dish – a crisp meringue with whipped cream and berries piled on top – in honor of Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, who toured the places in the 1920s. The ancient Romans actually began the deviled egg tradition, though it has changed much over the centuries. Benedict had a wild night of partying and decided on breakfast at the Waldorf Hotel. in which the Chinese were curing pork bellies with salt, creating an early form of bacon, although pigs were domesticated in China in 4900 B.C. . A full breakfast is a substantial cooked breakfast meal, often served in the United Kingdom and Ireland, that typically includes bacon, sausages, eggs, black pudding, baked beans, tomatoes and mushrooms, toast, and a beverage such as coffee or tea.It appears in different regional variants and is referred to by different names depending on the area. All bacon was thick and it couldn't be fried like todays. no politics. Or maybe it was 1917. Today is National Voter Registration Day! And yes: apparently he invented carbonara, guys. 24.3m members in the todayilearned community. These directions create almost the same as the modern dish, which often substitutes Canadian bacon for ham. Bernays's influence on the modern food world doesn't stop at breakfast, though: one of his most successful PR campaigns helped the United Fruit Company (better known today as Chiquita Brands International) organize a coup to overthrow the government of Guatemala, creating a better business environment for their banana fields. My proof: In book 2 of Don Quixote, written in the early 1600s, a meal of bacon and eggs is prepared as a special treat for someone. no politics.
The first known printed mention of ‘devil’ as a culinary term appeared in Great Britain in 1786, in reference to dishes including hot ingredients or those that were highly seasoned and broiled or fried. Speculation exists that the Romans and Greeks learned bacon production and curing through conquests in the Middle East. While Ranhofer published the recipe in 1894, the food could easily have come into being much earlier than that. ( Log Out / However, there are references to eggs prepared in similar ways going all the way back to ancient Rome. Who lays claim to this culinary delight? The origins of carbonara are debated (Su-Lin/flickr) Change ). Beech-Nut’s profits rose sharply thanks to Bernays and his team of medical professionals. Or so the majority of we Italians thought. His recipe, which he dubbed Eggs a la Benedict, was published in his cookbook in 1894. In some parts of the continent, the traditional diet features milk, curd and whey products. It’s said that chef Charles Ranhofer came up with the combination in the 1860s when Mrs. LeGrand Benedict, one of his regular diners, grew tired of the menu and wanted something new. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Beer summits started long, long ago... in far away lands. The earliest record traces back to the popular Delmonico’s Restaurant in Lower Manhattan. For many people, the combination of bacon and eggs forms the basis for the archetypal hot breakfast. Supposedly during thier hikes together, Freud told his nephew the value of a hearty meal. He opened his company in Wiltshire, still considered the bacon capital of the world. There are breeds of pigs particularly raised for bacon, notably the Yorkshire and Tamworth. He's a fascinating guy to read up on, if you haven't recently. Eggs Benedict is one of the most popular breakfast meals. He then polled physicians about the benefits of a hearty breakfast and … Today is National Voter Registration Day! In the 1770's an an Englishman called John Harris (the forefather of large scale industrial bacon manufacturing) opened his company in the English town of Caine in Wiltshire, at that time many pigs were imported from Ireland and driven in droves from Bristol on the west coast of England. Bacon was referred to as pickled pork. So sit down, relax. Well has anyone stopped to think of their origin? Another fun fact: Bernays was Sigmund Freud's nephew, so that should give you some idea of how he got so good at manipulating minds on a mass scale. Are cheese and bacon rolls an underrated Australian "thing"? In this video, though, Edward L. Bernays (known as the "Father of Public Relations") explains how he orchestrated a massive change in American public … Apple’s were introduced into England by the Normans. This is my first comment here so I just wanted to give a quick shout out and say I It has been a staple of breakfast diners for more than 100 years, but its origins are murky. No. mentioned bacon this week. Before the bacon press there virtually was no flat bacon like we have today. Lemuel's innovation attracted the attention of Oscar of the Waldorf, as the maitre d'hotel there was widely known. Since Fortnum’s invented the Scotch egg in the days of horse-drawn travel, we have been thinking up new ready-to-eat foods for every meal, movable or otherwise. The Ancient Romans were also the first group to make omelettes. Preparation. You can get this from the corner store or bodega. who invented eating thiese together? Tweet on Twitter. Can you recommend any other blogs/websites/forums that deal 2676. Peter also explains how they were "invented". Then he built the dish that bears his name. Good grief, ‘who was responsible. John Harris, an Englishman, is credited as the forefather of large scale industrial bacon manufacturing. Salted pork belly first appeared on dining tables thousands of years ago in China. I probably put you to sleep with that bit of extreme trivia, but maybe you’d want to know. of hollandaise sauce. Apparently it was Renato Gualandi, a chef from Bologna who, history teaches us now, invented carbonara. Food Innovation Group: Bon Appétit and Epicurious© 2020 Condé Nast. It is fascinating and we know far too little about it. It is almost always the lean, boneless pork loin of the animal. ( Log Out / Ranhofer came up with Eggs Benedict. Who Invented Eggs Benedict. He then polled physicians about the benefits of a hearty breakfast and voila! Before the 1920s, the typical American breakfast was pretty bare-bones: some orange juice, maybe a roll, and a cup of coffee. Unfortunately, there is no way of ever knowing who was the actual inventor of scrambled eggs. Bacon and Eggs were invented to meet the food shortage needs of the depression era. Everyone buys a sixer of white rolls topped with melted cheese and ham bits for Sunday morning brekky right? Others were set in the chimney breast to give it a smoked flavor. When I heard this story I was astonished, as I had never heard of him, even though he was – I have now learnt – one of the most influential chefs and restaurant owners of post-war Italy. When Bernays reached America many years later, he landed a PR job, one of the first of its kind, for a bacon company. Tweet on Twitter. Having the recipe published in a verifiable source gives the most persuasive evidence for the dish arriving on the American dining scene in 1894. He has a recipe called Eggs a' la Benedick (Eufa a' la Benedick) in his cookbook called The Epicurean published in 1894.:Eggs à la Benedick - Cut some muffins in halves crosswise, toast them without allowing to brown, then place a round of cooked ham an eighth of an inch thick and of the same diameter as the muffins one each half. Queen Isabella sent eight pigs to Cuba with Christopher Columbus, but the National Pork Board credits Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto as the "father of the American Pork Industry." The restaurant’s staff refined the dish and a classic was born. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. 0. 0. Sydney. This ‘study’ of doctors encouraging the American public to eat a heavier breakfast – namely ‘Bacon and Eggs’ – was published in major newspapers and magazines of the time to great success. In the book The Bible cyclopædia (et al.) It derives from the French bako, Old High German bakko, and Old Teutonic backe, all of which refer to the back. Posted on 3 noviembre, 2020 at 22:45 by / 0. The most important thing to know about eggs Benedict is that they have nothing to do with the famed traitor Benedict Arnold. Watch the Inventor of PR Explain How Bacon and Eggs Became an All-American Breakfast Edward L. Bernays changed the way we eat back in the first half of … Which came first, the pig or the egg? Since people could neither afford to eat big meals or buy coats, high fat meals like these were very essential to the diet. David Frost enjoyed a delicious patriotic breakfast of sausages, baked beans, bacon and eggs before leading a team of 100 […] The 10 Most Popular Recipes of November 2020, Turmeric and Coconut-Braised Cabbage With Chickpeas, Watch the Inventor of PR Explain How Bacon and Eggs Became an All-American Breakfast, orchestrated a massive change in American public opinion to make bacon and eggs the All-American Breakfast. with the same subjects? Peter also explains how they were "invented". Both countries argue they invented the dish – a crisp meringue with whipped cream and berries piled on top – in honor of Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, who toured the places in the 1920s. I won't ruin it for you - you have to find out for yourself. Egg McMuffin Creator Invented Breakfast-on-the-Go The creator of the Egg McMuffin, Herb Peterson, died Tuesday. Bacon or "bacoun" was a Middle English term used to refer to all pork in general. The English also ate bacon scallops with eggs. Below are some of the contending theories of its creation. Eggs Benedict is said to have been first prepared for a hungry and hungover Wall Street broker. Posted on 3 noviembre, 2020 at 22:45 by / 0. By Nathan Jolly Jun 06, 2018.
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Keynote Address: Rhiannon Giddens
Award Winning Musician, Singer-songwriter,
Historian, Playwright, and Podcaster
Rhiannon Giddens is a GRAMMY winning founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, GRAMMY nominated Songs of Our Native Daughters, and a class of 2017 MacArthur Fellowship Genius Grant recipient. Recently Rhiannon has composed the music for the Nashville Ballet’s Lucy Negro Redux and has been commissioned by the Spoleto Festival to create a new opera based on the autobiography of Omar Ibn Said, a Muslim-African man who was enslaved in 1807.
Rhiannon’s most recent solo album there is no Other is a collaboration with Francesco Turrisi on Nonesuch Records, blending Arabic, European, and African American musical influences. Songs of Our Native Daughters is a collaboration on Smithsonian Records featuring Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell, that addresses issues of slavery, misogyny, and racism.
“Rhiannon’s album Freedom Highway, included songs she wrote based on slave narratives. That album from 2017 also included a song called “Better Get It Right The First Time,” which sadly couldn’t be more timely, (written) in response to police shootings of young black men who weren’t committing crimes.”—NPR interview with Terry Gross
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Risk for storage
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Client is an owner/operator of a vehicle recovery and tow business. He never tows on a hook. All carriages are on a flat deck truck or trailer. The vehicle is winched on to the flat-deck or trailer for the purpose of loading and unloading.
His carriers' liability policy will cover goods for carriage including loading and unloading subject to the limitations in the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017.
Example: The insured recovers a vehicle from the roadside at 22:00 on a Saturday. The insured stores the recovered vehicle in a secure yard before continuing the carriage on to the agreed consignee's requested destination at the next available opportunity.
Is the stored vehicle still under a contract of carriage whilst stored and therefore subject to the contracts and commercial law act limitations or is the stored vehicle a bailee©s liability risk?
Reply: Crossley Gates
If the contract of carriage requires the client to deliver the car to a named consignee, the limitations in the act continue to apply until delivery to that consignee. If, during the carriage, the car is stored for a period of time, this doesn't alter the position.
Technically, the carrier is still a bailee and faces potential bailee's liability, it’s just when this involves the carriage of goods and the act applies, the limitations in that act override the common-law of bailment.
Pauline Davies, of Fee Langstone, adds: According to the only couple of cases on the point, it is fact-specific in every case as to whether time in storage will cause the contract of carriage to be suspended (in which case the ordinary rules of bailment or contract terms governing storage will apply), or whether the storage should be treated as an incidental part of the transit (in which case the act will continue to apply).
The answer is not dependent on whether or not there is a named consignee - in fact, in both the cases mentioned above there was a named consignee but the carrier, on the facts, was still held to be a bailee.
On the facts provided, the time delay was very short and apparently occurred because the pick-up was late at night, presumably making it impractical or impossible to complete the transit straight away. That being so, it seems clear that storage was merely incidental to the transit and therefore the act will apply.
It would be different if the car was collected by your client, and the consignee requested that it be held indefinitely or for some lengthy period of time. In those circumstances the contract of carriage would be considered as having been suspended and your client would be treated as holding the vehicle as a bailee only. The contract of carriage would then re-commence when the vehicle eventually started on its way again.
There is no hard and fast rule that can be applied to situations like this. The test is that "it is an assessment of the totality of the factual position. It involves asking the simple question, on a fair reading of the facts, was what occurred part of the transit".
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Electric Artists Do Good Before Evil (EP)
A couple of songs from what will be at least a four-song EP. These two were the simplest to complete, hence up first. Distributed on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, etc., but also downloadable from here.
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In the beginning, and so on…
This site has been home to art, then voice acting, and now music, apocrypha and whatever else.
A few words about the music. I think it fair to judge that songwriting no longer truly exists, rather we at best just find fresh ways to arrange musical sound that was previously discovered or conceived. As much as I admire even the most innovative of compositions, when I listen there is virtually nothing that I haven’t heard before.
This is in no way dismissive, just a recognition of reality, as true for my efforts as those of anyone else.
The concept with the new songs was to approach their inception with as little premeditation as possible and to try to carry that freedom through to the end result. It’s difficult when the language of songwriting and how music is commonly consumed and appreciated is so firmly entrenched – a pre-chorus harmonic lift is there for a reason, as is a percussion roll announcing “and now this”, etc., etc….
So, I improvised with my guitars and synths for hundreds of hours searching for those moments when I would stumble open something interesting, something that I would not have thought of normally and found compelling – a few seconds of a very fleeting magic. Those ephemeral passages became the base and building blocks of the music, analogous to creating a sculpture with found objects.
I could go on, and sometimes do until my victim’s eyes glaze over, but hopefully I’ve conveyed the general idea.
These pieces date from around 2005. There are plenty more, but I consider this small selection the most successful or intriguing out of a random-to-resolved process, that – like the music here – initially relied on happy accidents while playing with technology. The images are entirely computer-generated.
Please click to view in relative high-res.
All-Seeing
Hanging on a few walls. I initially encountered great difficulty in printing these artworks, but ultimately connected to the right process and a specific plastic paper.
Element Field
The illusion of depth on a macro level.
Totemic and a little disturbing.
To The Power Of Three
This one was early days and never printed well despite every effort. So in the ether it remains. I like to think something numinous is happening.
The pop instrumental Monkeyhowl anthem, released 2010. A video for the chorus can be found at monkeyhowl.com. Mp3 downloadable.
Taken from the novelty song “Barbarian” at monkeyhowl.com. You never know when they might come in handy. Mp3s downloadable.
Barbarian One
Barbarian Two
Barbarian Three
Barbarian Four
Please click to view.
In The Burrow
From my second show.
My 80s illustration style.
Voiceovers are usually straight up – explain this, sell that. But here are a couple of more exotic examples.
I played the 500-year-old villain Rughal in “The 99”, the original comic of which was praised by Obama for providing positive role models for Islamic teens around the world. Well, certainly not my character.
The 99 Rughal
“Science Of The Soul” won a Wilbur Award in the U.S. The feature’s premise is that there is scientific evidence proving the existence of the human soul.
I’ll keep it short. I’m Canadian and British, born in Canada.
I graduated from the Ontario College Of Art in 1984. I went on to be a professional (i.e. starving) musician in the alt-rock band K. High points included the single “Sliding In / A Thousand Years”, which charted top 10 on college radio stations in Canada and the U.S., and the music TV video hit “Voice In The Bush.” I also had a couple of art shows and a few magazine illustrations published during this period.
After travelling in 1991, I ended up in Hong Kong and fell into journalism, chiefly music and TV criticism for the South China Sunday Morning Post. In 1993, I moved to London, freelancing for The Independent on Sunday, The Wire, Q, Time Out, The Sunday Telegraph and other publications. A lot of ground was covered, of note spending time with and writing about Stockhausen and his sons.
All of which led to seven years as the London correspondent of Variety. I could unpack many things from that very full-on era, but a highlight was being the paper’s point man for James Bond. In addition, I had a side career in voiceovers in Britain.
I chose not to pursue journalism further when I returned to Canada by 2003, instead favouring creative endeavours and whatever presented itself. I’m still a voice actor, represented by Ta-Da! Voiceworks. I can be reached at xyz@erichboehm.com.
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Australia: Guy Sebastian will fly to Vienna!
by Sanjay (Sergio) Jiandani March 4, 2015 11:55 pm 3,168 views
SBS, the Australian national broadcaster has announced today that Guy Sebastian will represent Australia at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna.
Guy Sebastian has been selected by SBS via an internal selection to represent Australia at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest 2015. The Australian Eurovision entry will be revealed in the coming days.
Australia in Eurovision 2015- Internal Selection for Wien.
In the wake of the anticipation on what mechanisn will the Aussies down under will select their Eurovision entry for Vienna, ESCToday decided to shed more light on the matter and contacted the Australian broadcaster.
SBS has confirmed to ESCToday that it will be selecting its Eurovision entry and act via an internal selection. The announcement is expected to be made in the coming weeks. Competing countries have a deadline until 16 March to select their Eurovision acts and songs for Vienna.
SBS will be collaborating once again with its production partner Blink TV Australia, both of them will be resposible to deliberate the 2015 Australian Eurovision entry. Australia has been broadcasting Eurovision since 30 years.
Blink TV Australia, led by award winning writer and director Paul Clarke, have been producing Eurovision with Julia Zemiro and Sam Pang for SBS since 2009 and their strong partnership with SBS has successfully made Eurovision a must watch television event for Australian audiences.
Australia will air and vote in all 3 Eurovision Song Contest shows. SBS One will air the grand final live on 24 May Sunday morning and will rebroadcast the show on Sunday evening. The Aussies will be able to vote in the event for the very first time along with a pre-elected jury. Julia Zamiro and Sam Pang will once again be responsible to introduce the Aussie audience to the contest and commentate during the shows.
Eurovision is an opportunity for SBS to continue to lead the way in multi-platform event viewing, with extensive coverage across television, online and radio as well as live social media integration into the broadcast. Last year the #SBSEurovision hashtag averaged over 1000 tweets per minute.
SBS Chief Content Officer Helen Kellie says:
Eurovision is a pillar of our annual content strategy. It epitomises SBS’s celebration of diversity and point of difference in our content offering, creating inspired, compelling and engaging event television that unites the nation and gets people talking. This next step in the evolution of Eurovision in Australia allows SBS to build on its world class reputation as an industry leader in delivering multi-platform broadcasting led by our eurovisionaries Julia Zemiro and Sam Pang.
Our production partners Blink TV Australia will once again work with us in delivering an exceptional entertainment experience for Australian audiences, who will no doubt follow the competition even more closely now that we are competing. This exciting news is the first in a series of announcements which SBS will unveil in the coming months, including the big question everyone will be asking: which Australian artist will be representing us on stage in Vienna?
The Story so far….
Yesterday the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) has revealed that Australia will compete at the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, hence will be the 40th country in the competition.
Yes! a total of 40 countries will join the Eurovision party in Vienna next May. In an unprecedented move the EBU and host broadcaster ORF have invited Australia to compete in the 60th Eurovision Song Contest and thus will be #BuildingBridges from Europe to Oceania!
27 countries in the Final
The 60th Eurovision Song Contest taking place this year in Vienna, will be historical since one more country will join the contest. After the successful performance during the interval act in Copenhagen, Australia gained their ticket to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna. The Oceanian country will qualify directly to the Grand Final in 23 May, making the total number of participating countries 27!
It’s a daring and at the same time incredibly exciting move. It is our way of saying; let’s celebrate this party together! states Jon Ola Sand, the Executive Supervisor of the Contest.
While Michael Ebeid, Managing Director says: We are very excited to have secured this historic opportunity for Australia to be represented on the world’s biggest stage at the 60th anniversary of the Eurovision Song Contest and are honoured that the European Broadcasting Union has supported us to achieve this ambition. SBS has been broadcasting Eurovision for over 30 years and we have seen how Australians’ love of the song contest has grown during those years.
Director General Dr. Alexander Wrabetz from the host broadcaster ORF states- The song contest has developed in its history to become the biggest TV entertainment event in the world. With the participation of Australia, together with our partners at the EBU and SBS, we have succeeded to lift it to a new global level and to build another bridge for the 60th anniversary. A bridge that spans the globe, starting from the heart of Europe.
Following the long tradition of attending the Eurovision Song Contest in Australia, the EBU decided to grant access to this major event to the public broadcaster despite last year’s teasing by the organizing committee.
According to the rules, SBS, the broadcaster will have to submit their entry by 16 March. The song can be selected by any format the broadcaster decides. The reason Australia participates directly to the Final is mainly because the organizers wanted to avoid reducing the chances of semi-finalists to participate in the Final, as Australia’s participation is honorably given. In case the country wins the contest, then SBS will co-host the show in European capital along with an EBU Member Broadcaster.
How will Australia vote? Can we vote for Australia?
The EBU, SBS and Digame are working on a way to allow the Australian audience to cast their votes during the three shows. More news will follow up soon! Despite the time difference – it’s early Sunday morning in Australia while Europe watches the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday evening – the EBU’s international voting partner Digame is exploring possibilities to allow the Australian public to vote in both Semi-Finals and in the Grand Final. Viewers in all other 39 participating countries also have the possibility to vote for the Australian contestant. As usual, no one can vote for his or her own country.
Can Australia and countries from other continents compete in Eurovision?
Australia’s Eurovision Song Contest participation is a one-off initiative. But throughout its 60 years of development, new elements have been introduced to keep the Eurovision Song Contest exciting, surprising and relevant to the spirit of time. Who knows what the future will bring, as excitement about this European tradition spreads to other countries around the world?
Australia in Eurovision
Last year, Australia was given the chance to perform for the first time on the Eurovision stage, when Jessica Mauboy sang during the inteval act of the second semi-final.
Stay tuned to ESCToday.com for the latest news on Australia and the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest.
Ausria 2015
Blink TV
Blink TV Australia
Watch now: Artist announcement and press conference in Australia!
Australia: Who is Guy Sebastian?
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Wildlife Habitats | Friends of Clark County in SW Washington
“I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.”
– Edward O. Wilson, Biologist
Cherishing and Protecting our Wildlife Habitats
Understanding the range of habitats that species depend on for their survival, Friends of Clark County believes we need to protect and restore those areas to ensure biological diversity in SW Washington.
The bounty of the Pacific Northwest seemed endless to early European explorers and settlers and tragically they treated it that way – wetlands were drained, spawning streams were blocked, forests denuded, waterways carried away noxious waste and wildlife was harvested in some cases to extinction. Not a pretty picture.
Early intervention came initially with the Federal Migratory Bird Act of 1918 to curb the killing of birds for feathers used in women’s hats in that era. Awakening to the reality that disregard of the environment was taking a heavy toll, land mark laws were adopted – Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act along with state laws and the work of many non-profit organizations have done a lot to shore up protection of species and their habitat.
Wildlife habitat conservation and restoration is very important to the work of Friends of Clark County. We understand the range of habitats that species depend on for their survival. Removal of invasive species is an important part of habitat protection and assuring there is connectivity and corridors so that populations are not isolated. Fragmentation of habitat due to development is a major threat to successfully protecting our environment. To ensure biological diversity in SW Washington, we believe wildlife habitats must be preserved and restored for future generations.
In Clark County we are fortunate to have large tracts of forest, major streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands and efforts underway to restore oak woodlands. We also have two significant wildlife refuges. These are resources to enjoy, cherish and protect:
Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge https://www.fws.gov/refuge/ridgefield/
Steigerwald National Wildlife Refuge https://www.fws.gov/refuge/steigerwald_lake/.
GMA Goal (9) Open Space and Recreation. Retain open space, enhance recreational opportunities, conserve fish and wildlife habitat, increase access to natural resource lands and water, and develop parks and recreation facilities.
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Bespoke Luxury
A Community Hub
Restored Elegance
SW6 1EX
Located in the heart of Fulham, Lamington Group are leading the reinvigoration of the former Town Hall which will feature 90 bespoke hotel rooms and form the centre of a luxury leisure and co-working destination.
The hotel is designed to push the boundaries of artistic rebellion and juxtapose with the Grade II listed building’s historic façade, with each room individually curated to appeal to the diverse range of guests.
The restored former civic centre will include events and co-working spaces, as well as restaurants & bars for all the neighbourhood to enjoy, recreating the buzz, activity and vibrancy of the Town Hall as it was during its heyday
The restored former civic centre will include events and co-working spaces, as well as restaurants & bars for all the neighbourhood to enjoy, recreating the buzz, activity and vibrancy of the Town Hall as it was during its heyday.
The careful restoration and layered interior design will bring visitors on a journey of discovery, celebrating the building’s history and stories as it looks to the future. The building will breathe new life and have a new soul, as it returns to its former glory.
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Home / International / Iran and Syria Sign MOU on Electricity Infrastructure Development
Iran and Syria Sign MOU on Electricity Infrastructure Development
TEHERAN - Based on the latest data from the International Energy Agency's monitoring group OECD, for more than six years of war, Syria's infrastructure suffered severe damage. Hence the Iranian government and the Syrian government have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to repair the damaged electricity infrastructure of Syria due to war.
The memorandum of understanding is aimed at building a power plant in the coastal province of Latakia with a capacity of 540 Megawatts and the restoration of the main control center of Syria's power grid in the capital city of Damascus. Due to war, power plants in Syria fell by more than half from 2010 to 2014.
"The Syrian government is working non-stop to restore the power system," said Syrian Electricity Minister Mohammad Zuhair Kharboutli as reported Republika.co.id from Aljazirah today (13/9).
The agreement also includes the rehabilitation of a 90 Megawatt power plant in Dier Az Zor province. A contract was also signed to supply power to the city of Aleppo where the eastern part of the opposition was seized by the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December last year.
"We will stand next to the Syrian people to rebuild this country. We will bring light to the homes of the Syrian people," said Iranian Energy Minister Sattar Mahmoudi.
Mahmoudi explains the cooperation is worth hundreds of millions of dollars if it is completed, and Tehran also wants to expand cooperation to build water and sewage facilities in Syria.
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Fearless Sex
Newly revised and substantially rewritten as an ebook for 2019, Fearless Sex reveals why desire is more than what you feel on the way to the bedroom — it’s the very spark that ignites your life. Fearless Sex is every woman’s guide to inspired erotic fulfillment and creative self-expression!
Here’s what people have said about Fearless Sex:
“Clearly one of the wisest, most responsible and intelligent self-help books I’ve ever read.”
“A breath of fresh air . . . Reading the book was an eye-opener.”
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“An excellent no nonsense book filled with candid information that is empowering to all women.”
Now at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
The Psychology of Joss Whedon
Joss Whedon—creator of the wildly popular Buffy the Vampire Slayer, its spin-off Angel, the short-lived series Firefly, and the feature film it inspired, Serenity—takes a seat on the couch in this in-depth examination of the psychological gravity that has captivated his deeply devoted fan base. Whedon fans will enjoy a discussion of issues that are both funny and profound, from the significance of Angel’s mommy issues and the best way to conduct government experiments on vampires to what could drive a man to become a cannibalistic Reaver and the psychological impact of being one girl in all the world chosen to fight the forces of darkness. Click here to read the introduction.
BUY THE PSYCHOLOGY OF JOSS WHEDON
Finding Serenity
“Goddesses and Whores: The Archetypal Domain of Inara Serra”
In this eclectic anthology of essays, former cast member Jewel Staite, “Kaylee,” philosopher Lyle Zynda, sex therapist Joy Davidson, and noted science fiction and fantasy authors Mercedes Lackey, David Gerrold, and Lawrence Watt-Evans contribute to a clever and insightful analysis of the short-lived cult hit Firefly. From What went wrong with the pilot? to What’s right about Reavers? and how the correspondence between the show’s creator Joss Whedon and the network executives might have actually played out, the writers interrogate the show’s complexity and speculate about what might have been if the show Firefly had not been cancelled.
Five Seasons of Angel
“There’s My Boy”
Vampire Lust, Heroism,
and Redemption
The constellation of characters and themes created in Angel, the popular Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off, are explored in this collection of essays. A vampire author, a sex expert, a TV critic, a science fiction novelist, and Buffy writer Nancy Holder provide essays examining the different issues relating to the series, including Angelus as the prototypical high school bully, Angel as victim, Wesley’s many transformations, how Spike fits into Angel, the takeover of Wolfram & Hart, and Lindsey’s moral center.
What Would Sipowicz Do?
“Fearless Femmes
or Wanton Women?:
The Trouble with Mainstream
Moralism in NYPD Blue”
Taking an entertaining, intelligent look at the culturally influential 11-year television run of NYPD Blue, this examination includes a collection of essays on topics ranging from the series’ portrayal of race relations in New York City to Sipowicz’s famously thorny demeanor. A media critic, two police psychologists, and addiction, interrogation, and sex experts contribute essays that take an accessible, intelligent look at a show that has redefined the police drama genre. From insightful analysis of the show’s evolution to lighthearted jabs at its quirks, this is a work that will deepen any fan’s Blue experience.
Desire is more than what you feel on the way to the bedroom — it’s the very spark that ignites your life. Fearless Sex is your guide to excelling in the art of pleasure and the skill of making important relationships work.
“An excellent no nonsense book filled with candid information that is empowering to women.”
Dr. Joy is working on a revised, updated edition for Kindle and iBooks. Stay tuned…
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The domain name LFBS.COM is for sale
Price US$26000
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Compilation of the Communications Act of 1934 and related provisions of law : including Communications Act of 1934, Communications Satellite Act of 1962, selected provisions from the United States Code
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America’s Had Its Fun – Now It Suffers – NH Results
February 10, 2016 Uncategorizedmtc9393
I’m told the nuns at St. Elizabeth hospitals with a malicious smile used to tell the young women who came into the maternity section of that hospital “you’ve had your fun – now suffer.” I cannot vouch for them saying that because I was never in that position or condition. What verified that it may have happened was the discovery of the way the nuns in Ireland treated the young unmarried pregnant women who fell into their clutches.
New Hampshire, and to a lesser extent Iowa, has provided America with its fun. We are supposed to believe that the competition for the nomination for president of our two major parties is up for grabs. That the people are crying for change, which they are, and that something new will come about, which it won’t.
I have predicted since early on that the field has been set and that the nominees of the two parties – it is a strange type democracy when only two parties decide who will be president – a far cry from the days of Lincoln when the people had a chance to choose among four parties. History has taught us that those two parties are controlled by insiders who are numbered in the hundreds, if that many, and decide who the American people can choose. The exceptions to this were Barack Obama who was an outsider but he had great support – was it in the 90% — among the black voters which greatly pushed back against those in the back offices who pull the strings and vice-Presidents who took over after the president fell..
Am I calling out for Michael Bloomberg to join the race so that we will have a third choice? That would be nice for the people, especially those of Massachusetts. He did after all grow up in Medford. He’d make a great president – perhaps it is time we had a president whose parents were Jewish and we can wait a little longer for a woman president who is honest and trustworthy and whose career has not been anything but playing with the insiders. Bloomberg would have a hard row to hoe because the country does not like independent candidates – look at what happened to the Rough Rider – but then again Teddy was running against an incumbent. Better the devil you know than the Devil himself.
Now that Iowa and New Hampshire are behind us we can settle back and watch the magic of the insiders push their candidates to the fore. It is more clear than ever that the two nominees will be Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush – the people with the money behind them who during their campaigns will promise us with their fingers crossed behind their backs campaign reform, changes in the tax code, and to fight for the middle class.
You know the ultimate winner of the campaign will be the Clintons since Bush is so uninspiring even though 12 Medal of Honor winners and 37 former generals support him. Hillary is going to have Bill step up his act; Jeb is calling on support from his own former president supporter, his brother who is coming back to help him. God save us.
By the way the Clintons are at least consistent – they pass their traits on to their offspring. I guess it proves the apple does not fall far from the tree. I don’t suppose you heard what daughter Chelsea recently told an audience. Now I’m sure you are not going to have any trouble believing this especially if you know any six year olders and how much they know about life and religion. She told a New Hampshire audience as she ginned up support for her parents: ‘I was raised in a Methodist church and I left the Baptist church before my dad did, because I didn’t know why they were talking to me about abortion when I was 6 in Sunday school — that’s a true story.’
That’s what I mean when I say we had our fun. Now we’re facing a country that will be again led by a person who the George Will remarked was “not the worst president we ever had, just the worst person who was ever president” and the Washington Post said was “It’s the Clinton administration in miniature. They do something wrong and force the country to stoop to their level to make them get it right.”
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sean higgins says:
Matt- I’m with your analysis with one but- if the economy takes a beating so won’t Hillary.
Hillary will be Democratic nominee – she has too many super delegates to be defeated. Who is it that can defeat her? The present crop of Republicans leave me without hope. As for the economy, the stock market is being hurt a bit but other aspects seem to be running well – I don’t see it having a great effect on the race. When Scalia died I wondered how many Americans had heard of him as compared to Peyton Manning.
Bush got 2% of the vote in Iowa. He got 11% in N H. He is polling at 10% in S. Carolina. It is difficult to see him amassing enough delegates to be a factor. It may be Trump vs Cruz. If Iowa is reflective of the GOP nationally Cruz will get it. If NH is it will be Trump. Super Tuesday March 1 will probably tell the story. Alabama, Arkansas Georgia, Oklahoma,Tennessee and Texas vote among others. That map may give Cruz what he needs. Time will tell. A multi ballot convention may be in store. If Bernie or Hillary are the nominee the Dems are in trouble. But both could beat Trump. He appears to be a coarse vulgar person of little substance just mouthing slogans. Clinton is the Holy Ghost of Wall Street. She is completely beholden to Goldman Sacks and it’s interests. She didn’t get $600 G for nothing. What happens if Bernie gets more votes than Clinton? Can the Dems steal it from him as they did in Iowa?
Bush will come on strong and end up with the nomination. Have I ever been wrong? I don’t understand why you don’t see this – Trump, Cruz, Rubio, and the others will all crash and burn. They may all survive until the convention with no one having more than 25% of the delegates but as a history major you must know what will happen when the insiders get a chance to control things.
Bernie has no chance. The delegate count for the Democrat convention at the present time favors Hillary 394 to 42. Clinton has commitments from 355 superdelegates to Sanders’s 14. All Hillary has to do is win a few here and there and it is hers – since the Democrats have no winner take all primaries it is just about impossible mathematically for Bernie to overcome his lack of votes. https://newrepublic.com/article/129707/superdelegates-really-stop-bernie-sanders You don’t think for one instance the Clintons didn’t wrap up the nomination before the voting even began, do you.
Sure the Clintons are crooks and totally beholden to Goldmen Sacks but they also as Bernie says are the “most powerful political machine in America.” Bernie, like all past socialists, lives in a dream world.
After studying Organized Crime in an urban setting, I have come to realize that city politicians and State/Federal are no different than the individuals who operate in the streets. I have no respect for any politician. It may sound unfair, but the white collar crime and elimination of the middle class has left me disgusted. Hillary Clinton doesn’t give a shit about anything but her own self interests and her bank account. I would vote for Trump strictly to spite the GOP and DEMS. Billy Clinton back in the White House??? doing god knows what with god knows who?? No Thanks.
When Bill gets back in the White House which he will the first call he will make will be to his buddy Jeffrey Epstein and ask him to send over some of the girls. You are right about politicians — if not corrupt when they start they quickly fall to the lure of money.
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Fighting for Election Transparency — With Science
Portrait of an E-Voting Skeptic
Most of us are convinced that we, as individuals, cannot make a dent in the scheme of things. Given all of the injustices in the world, it can seem near impossible to create any sort of meaningful change. It’s hardly surprising that we become hopeless or indifferent, or, at best, resign ourselves to the push-button comfort of online “slacktivism.”
But there are people who are different. People who not only believe they can make the world a better place, but also have the resolve to turn their convictions into actions. WhoWhatWhy will try to find these individuals and bring their stories to our readers.
Here is one such story:
For most of the week, Beth Clarkson is a professional statistician. She tweaks statistical models and delves into the mysteries of composite materials. But at home on the weekend, she puts on her second hat — trying to keep American elections honest.
Clarkson is fond of saying, “Data has a story to tell,” and she likes nothing better than digging out that story. But she had never applied her skills to politics — until a few years ago..
She avoided anything to do with politics, she wrote on her blog, “because I am so bad at storing and accessing that sort of information in my head.” But that hands-off attitude changed when she began to suspect a threat to our electoral system.
Her conversion to vote fraud activism began more or less by accident.
An Amazing Discovery
To enliven the statistics classes she used to teach at Wichita State University, Clarkson started discussing real-life data from the 2000 election. You remember that one: it was a cliffhanger, and ended with the Supreme Court anointing George W. Bush as president.
Over the next decade, Clarkson’s expert eye meticulously analyzed election after election, and to her surprise, found some interesting voting patterns. Clarkson found statistical anomalies that kept appearing here and there, but she thought that they could have simply been just that: anomalies or outliers.
This Chart illustrates the breakdown of the Republican vote by voting machine type in a cumulative sum model for 2014 Wisconsin Governor’s race. Photo credit: Beth Clarkson / Stats Life
At the time, she was an instructor in WSU’s math department while also working on her Ph.D. in statistics. In 2006, she became chief statistician of WSU’s National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) where she completed her degree and now produces reports for regulatory agencies such as the Federal Aviation Administration and other businesses.
Then something happened in 2012 that shook her world. One day, Clarkson came across a statistics paper on the internet titled “Republican Primary Election 2012 Results: Amazing Statistical Anomalies.”
The authors of the paper found that in elections all over the country where electronic voting machines were used, a strange pattern kept appearing: the larger the number of registered voters in the voting precinct, the larger the Republican vote. Since precinct size should have no effect on the vote distribution, the authors concluded that the data “indicates overwhelming evidence of election manipulation.”
Clarkson said she was astonished. She proceeded to reproduce the results of the study — she called it essentially a peer-review — and began to seriously question the trustworthiness of our electoral system.
Doing Something About It
The paper galvanized her to take action. First, she went to the local elections office to inquire about the voting machines in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
“While [the election officials] were very nice and very open about what they were doing, I was pretty much appalled at their lack of quality assurance, in terms of how the machines were accurately recording people’s votes and reporting the summaries of those votes,” she said. (Clarkson is a certified quality engineer.)
This motivated Clarkson in 2013 to sue for access to election records in her precinct so she could verify the accuracy of the vote.
“I was pro se, meaning I was representing myself, and it was pretty easily defeated,” she said. The judge claimed that if people were allowed access to the vote, they could tie a particular voter to a particular ballot. Clarkson responded: “not really very reasonable, but it is plausible, I guess.”
Far from being discouraged, she stepped up her efforts. Clarkson started a blog, wrote an article spelling out her voting analysis, and, most recently, sued election officials again. This time she amended her proposal to include safeguards for voter privacy, but unsurprisingly she has faced more pushback. Officials remain steadfast in their opposition.
The Elections Commissioner of Sedgwick County, Tabitha Lehman, claims that Clarkson doesn’t need the documents in question — paper records created by the electronic voting machines and known as Real Time Audit Logs (or RTALs) — to check the election results, and besides, the audit process would be too burdensome.
Clarkson contends RTALs are in fact the only way to conduct a reliable recount and that the burden of the request should fall on her, not Lehman or her staff. Lehman did not respond to requests for comment.
Lehman, as well as Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, have also argued that they cannot honor Clarkson’s request because the law forbids it. Clarkson thinks this argument amounts to a Catch-22: “Basically they’re saying they can’t open the records because it’s forbidden by law without a judge’s order. It’s true, but that’s why I’m suing. It’s not a reason for them to say no,” she said.
Who Gets to Look at the Records and When? If Ever
Clarkson said it makes little sense that the records, which are there to ensure election integrity, are safeguarded so tightly.
“If I’m not allowed to, as an academic researcher, look at this and publish the results, who is ever going to look at this?” she said. “You’re not allowed to look at them during a recount. When can you look at them? What are they there for?”
Despite her growing frustration, Clarkson says there is no reason to assume the stonewalling officials are “in the know” — that is, parties to some kind of fraud. They may be simply bureaucrats defending their turf.
Clarkson is encouraged by the outpouring of support on the Internet prompted by her blog, She says some correspondents have taken it upon themselves to contribute to and advance her election analysis.
Media coverage has also been positive (though she admits that she sometimes feels uncomfortable in the spotlight). She has been interviewed multiple times on the radio, there have been editorials supporting her efforts, and she even scored a television spot on Thom Hartmann’s cable TV program,The Big Picture.
Eventually, the attention drew the interest of an attorney, who offered his services to Clarkson pro bono. To help defray some of her legal expenses in preparation for her March trial date, she founded the Show Me The Votes Foundation and set up a gofundme site.
The Fight Yields Results
Whatever the outcome of the current lawsuit, Clarkson has already had an impact on the national conversation about voting integrity. Secretary of State Kobach, who has faced criticism for his opposition to opening up Sedgwick County voting records, has proposed legislation that would mandate post-election audits starting in 2017 — a move directly in response to the lawsuit.
Clarkson is optimistic that her case will prevail in court. But even if that happens, she expects that the county will appeal, in order to delay handing over the data for as long as possible. If so, she intends to keep up the pressure for full disclosure.
“I feel like it’s just too important to drop. When we don’t have everybody represented in our voting process then the people who win those elections are not necessarily representative of the average of what the country wants,” she said.
Clarkson sees her crusade as a simple matter of good citizenship.
“We all want to make the world a better place, right? That’s kind of a universal desire,” she said. “It’s not necessarily that people want to spend all of the time, effort, and energy in activism of whatever nature, but we all like to think that our presence makes a difference and that the world is better for us having been here.”
tadzio says:
The 1860 four-way presidential contest was a one off. It ended in disaster, a horrendous bloodletting. The United States is the only country so badly governed that it took massive carnage to end slavery. Everyone else did it more sanely.
The other 40% president came out of the 1912 GOP split. Wilson gave us WWI which he so settled that an even bloodier WWII was assured to happen. So much for multiparty elections that lead to minority presidents both of whom copiously spilt blood.
The inadvertent result of a two party system is that the winner represents c. 50% or more of the general opinion of the nation. A multiparty general election for the executive does not produce stability. Foreign and civil wars grow out of >30 % executives such as the red Allende in Chile.
Parliamentary governments can easily withstand the divisiveness of many political parties. The coalitions required in most cases produce the needed consensus to govern without recourse to violence. This is not true of independently elected executives.
Tadzio:
How could you forget Bill Clinton who barely got 43% of the vote in 1992. Or Richard Nixon who in 1968 received a little over 43%.
There were others under the 50% mark. I can’t buy your thesis that the president with only a plurality of votes will lead us to war. If it wasn’t Lincoln’s fault for the Civil War. There was no way to avoid that if we wanted one nation. In 1940 FDR got 54% of the votes; Truman just about 50%; LBJ 61% — all led us into wars which seems to contradict your position.
Wa-llahi! What about Bernie?
All those bright kids you watched fronting for OWS are out there, organizing for Sanders. Bernie can beat Clinton. He can also beat Trump. He can’t beat Kasich. Go Trump. Keep up the good work, trumpeters.
Jeb doesn’t have the look of a guy who wants to be president, and, Cruz’s appeal doesn’t extend any further than the Bible-belt. Kasich, an urban republican moderate, can attract independent and conservative Democratic voters. Trump can’t get the cross-overs, Kasich can.
Kasich has no following in the party. Look for a brokered convention with an insider grabbing the flag. A long shot would be Romney. Jeb’s look is that of a person who does not want to campaign for president — he feel entitled to the job. But the fix is in, it has been for a long time, the next president if Hillary Clinton and Bill.
Trump is dominant.
Every Republican candidate who finished first and second in Iowa and New Hampshire has won the presidential nomination. Having done so, Trump is now in a class with Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, and Mitt Romney. John McCain was a partial exception in 2000, having basically skipped Iowa and then won in New Hampshire. And it doesn’t matter where the first and second place finishes occurred. Reagan was second in Iowa in 1980, then won New Hampshire. Dole won Iowa in 1996 and settled for second to Pat Buchanan in New Hampshire.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/article/2001015/
Good background information but there has never been a guy like Trump running before – he will come into the convention with about 30 to 35% of the delegates. The insiders will decide who will get the nod and it won’t be the duck.
Bloomberg or Trump will run without party. Ensuring a Clinton win. The nuns were prescient.
Maybe, maybe not. But it doesn’t matter – there is no way short of indictment the job doesn’t go to Hillary and there will be no indictment as along as a Democrat is AG.
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During the 1940s, electricity had yet to arrive in much of the rural areas of our country, despite the fact that several years earlier, Franklin D. Roosevelt had persuaded Congress to create the Rural Electrification Administration (REA). The REA provided loan money to public utilities, electric cooperatives and government-owned agencies to run lines and take electricity to rural areas.
Responding to this need, South Carolina Governor Olin D. Johnston and the SC General Assembly created the State Rural Electrification Authority which built lines in selected rural areas of South Carolina and provided power to people in other parts of the state who wanted to form electric cooperatives.
On June 20, 1940, at a meeting in Batesburg, SC, eleven men incorporated Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative. Then, on October 14 of that same year, the REA granted Mid-Carolina its first loan to furnish electricity to 945 members and finance the construction of power lines.
The co-op's main objective in its early days was to provide electricity where there was none. Lack of supplies and manual labor made progress slow during the war years, but work moved ahead nevertheless.
In the early 1950's, Mid-Carolina joined with other cooperatives in the state to form Central Electric Power Cooperative (CEPC). Today, all of South Carolina's 20 cooperatives are served wholesale power by CEPC through a joint agreement with Santee-Cooper. (For a detailed history of Santee Cooper, click here.)
By 1958, MCEC was serving 4,500 members over 1,000 miles of line and, by 1980, that number had grown to 22,173 members on 2,283 miles of line.
During 2014, our membership reached nearly 45,000 on over 4,000 miles of line. Electric cooperatives now provide power to over 1.4 million members across South Carolina, constituting the largest distribution system in the state.
Today, we're leveraging the power of human connections to improve the total quality of life enjoyed by every member we serve. We're involved in economic development, education, community outreach and so much more ... all of which are our ways of keeping the power flowing. Click here to download a brochure with more details about your cooperative.
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Top 10 highest paid sports persons
Posted by admin on August 12th, 2011 | Comments off
These are the personalities that have entertained us with their skills and performance. We enjoy their best performances and at times criticized their bad performances. But nevertheless these people have earned a special place in our hearts and so are the advertisers who are ready to spend a moon on them.
Today we have compiled the list of top 10 highly paid sportsmen in the world. We will be moving in the ascending order i.e. from the lowest to the highest one.
10. Lionel Messi: This heartthrob player from Argentina is believed as the best footballer in the world. He is the third highest paid person in the field of soccer. Messi earns about $32.3 million annually. Half of his earnings come from Barcelona football club and rest comes from his endorsement deals with giants like Pepsi, Konami, Adidas, etc. Messi had a disastrous World Cup last year but he came back strong and scored 53 goals, won his fifth La Liga title and third Champions League.
9. Michael Schumacher: This F1 legend came back from the retirement to revive the fortunes of the motor sporting world. He earlier used to drive with Ferrari but now he races for Mercedes and his annual earnings are reported to be around $34 million annually. So far he hasn’t been able to revive his position back in the motorsports world but we can expect a glorious comeback from him.
8. Alex Rodriguez: Unlike the most personalities in the basketball world. Rodriguez remains the most paid personality in the history of NBA. He is not an MVP calibre player anymore but he is a great agent that can crack the deals for endorsements and sponsorship for you. He makes $35 million from his dealings annually.
7. Cristiano Ronaldo: This high profile soccer player lives in Portugal and plays for Real Madrid football club. He has been finishing second behind the Lionel Messi for the past two years but this is something he can boast. A major chunk of his earnings come from deal with Nike. By judging the popularity of him in the social media arena, he is the most popular athlete in the world. Ronaldo earns about $38 million annually.
6. David Beckham: Despite being away from his soccer fans and away from the global fans, David Beckham manages to make around $40 million annually. A large chunk comes from his appearance in the LA Galaxy Club and rest comes from his endorsement deals.
5. Phil Mickelson: He is the number two highly paid golf person after Tiger Woods. The four time major winner manages to earn $46 million annually.
4. Roger Federer: He’s no longer the best in the world of tennis but this doesn’t stop him from being the highest paid person in the world of tennis. This 16 time grand slam winner earns around $47 million annually. Most of his earnings come from deals with Rolex, Nike, Wilson and others. He also owns other businesses in Switzerland.
3. LeBron James: He is the America’s most hated basketball player. He plays for Miami Heat basketball team and boasts of most popular jersey in the world. He earns about $15 million from the basketball court and rest he earns from his stake in Liverpool FC and bestselling shoe in the world. His total earnings are about $48 million.
2. Kobe Bryant: It was rough year for him, getting swept by Dallas Mavericks in NBA playoffs. He earns about $53 million annually but he is has the highest salaried person in NBA (24 million).
1. Tiger Woods: He has not won a single tournament since the last two years and he has been involved a number of sex scandals, but all these factors doesn’t had any effect on his earnings. He remains to be the highest paid sportsperson in the world. His earnings stand at $75 million. Although he has lost about $22 million his cancelled deals with Accenture, Gatorade and AT&T.
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City News In 250 words: 30 June 2011
The Festival begins, Smoking Cabbie, Thai deal and Old new houses
MANCHESTER International Festival has begun. Eighteen days of culture, fun and celebration happening throughout the city. From Damen Albarn's Dr Dee, to Snoop Dogg, the MIF has got some eye-popping extravaganzas. Events are taking place in Manchester Art Gallery, Albert Square and even the tunnel on Great Bridgewater Street. Confidential will be covering the event with articles and with reviews.
MOHAMMED Yousaf has been fined after being caught smoking in a public place. He was spotted by City Council officers on the 8 January smoking in his taxi. He was fined at the scene, £50, which would have been reduced to £30 if he paid within 15 days but the fine remained unpaid until he was taken to court to be charged a total of £546.88.
THE CITY is to get a Thailand partnership. The Thai Sport Authority and Manchester City Council have announced a partnership which will result in 50 Thai Olympians and Paralympians coming to Manchester to prepare for the 2012 Olympics. The Sport Authority selected Manchester because of the city’s top-class sporting facilities including the Athletics Arena at Eastlands.
NEW research on homes built across Salford over 30 years ago has revealed that an innovative construction design, developed by the University of Salford in the mid-1970s, could provide a blueprint for the 2016 carbon zero standard. Today the ordinary-looking terraced dwellings remain 40% more energy-efficient than those compliant with the 2010 building regulations, and will still be 25% more efficient when the proposed 2013 regulations take effect.
Fact of the day: In this week in 1882 Joseph Aloysius Hansom died. Architect of the Church of the Holy Name, Manchester, he also designed the Hansom cab.
For more Manchester daily facts check out @revealmcr
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Sammy Blue
In the tradition of the true southern Blues masters, we proudly present SAMMY BLUE, “The Crown Prince of the Blues” (a title given to him by the late great Muddy Waters).
A native of Decatur, Georgia, Sammy’s search for the music in his heart has led him through clubs, concert halls, festivals across the United States and abroad. While jamming with most of the great touring Blues bands and as an opening act for legendary artists Taj Mahal, Muddy Waters, Jerry Garcia, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Lightin’ Hopkins, The Wailers, Robert Cray, Koko Taylor, Delbert McClinton and many others – he found his music. The direct influence of these legendary artists, along with his natural interest in traditional black music, accounts for his mastery of East Coast-, Delta-, Texas- and Chicago-style Blues – and the blending of these into his own musical style. He effortlessly transitions from authentic solo Blues performances to legendary high energy dynamic band presentations throughout his career.
Sammy Blue also acted as musical technical advisor and appeared in NBC’s critically acclaimed TV series “I’ll Fly Away”, for which we wrote and performed the song ‘Delta Shuffle’ for the pilot. Mr. Blue also appeared in Larimar/Paramount’s TV production of “Mama’s Flora’s Family”. His original compositions can be found in the documentary “Blues Stories” and the movie “Mending Hearts”. He also co-starred in the stage play “Spunk” as Blues guitar man. He was in the Clint Eastwood/Warner Brothers movie “Trouble With The Curve” with Justin Timberlake. In the movie, Sammy performed his original song ‘Everything’ & Mo” from his latest Hottrax Records release “A Blues Odyssey” (2012). His latest activity is the lead role of Bluesman I.B. King in the producer/director’s Toby Huber’s independent Blues film “We Are Kings”, starring Sammy Blue, Rita Graham, Bianca Ryan, Boogie Long and Pryce Watkins.
Taj Mahal said: Sammy Blue of Atlanta is one of the best kept secrets in roots music. And for good reasons! Sammy Blue is a truly unique talent and exceptional live entertainer. He has molded his craft into a virtual performance that exemplifies the very heart and soul of African American Blues, Soul and Funk music. This blesses him with a versatility, humor, style and authenticity that amaze audiences worldwide.
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I watched 41 films for the first time in 2020, but only seven of them were actually new releases. I saw three in cinemas before they closed under lockdown rules in March, and I saw another five new releases on Netflix and Disney Plus. So this isn't going to be a long post at all.
Even though we only went to the cinema three times, Cathy and I did get to meet a film star.
The eight films were (in order):
1917 was a very well-made first world war film where the central conceit was that it was filmed as if it was a continuous shot. Although there were a few 'fade to black' moments. I thought it started really well, with the panning shots down trenches, but a bit like the central protagonists who got sent to deliver a message, it got lost a little bit along the way. It captured that sense of danger, especially in the quiet bits not knowing when or if a shot or bomb would come out of nowhere. I would say it was worth watching, but I wouldn't want to watch it again.
JoJo Rabbit was a second world war film that tried to be three films in one - a film about the Nazification of children by the Hitler Youth, a film about Germans resisting the Nazi regime, and a film about Jews in hiding from the Gestapo. The second theme was the one least served by the script. There were some very clever touches throughout the film, which focused mainly on the little boy, JoJo, and his imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler.
I was uncomfortable seeing the Hitler Youth sections played for laughs, but that's probably just as well. It was very black humour, particularly the lines delivered by the ever-excellent Sam Rockwell. As it became apparent that the regime was willing to use children dressed in paper uniforms as cannon fodder to slow down the advancing Allied armies, the real dark heart of Nazism was exposed, and if it had been played entirely straight, then it would have been unrelentingly grim.
Changing the tone slightly, the film I saw most recently in a cinema was A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood. This starred Tom Hanks, as the real-life Mister Rogers whose show 'Mister Rogers' Neighbourhood' was a hugely popular children's TV show for decades in America. I have never watched that show so can't really compare Hanks' portrayal to the real person. During the film, Rogers is interviewed by a hatchet-job reporter who sets out to find the real Fred Rogers behind the TV persona, only to find that Fred is the genuinely nice guy he portrays on TV.
It's a schmaltzy film. Probably the schmaltziest film I've seen in a long time, with a family reconciliation theme in the life of the hardbitten reporter that was saccharine. There was a bit of the 'uncanny valley' about Hanks' portrayal as well. So overall it wasn't a film I'd bother watching again.
Onward was Pixar's film most affected by the pandemic, with it's release date bumped and then pulled completely in favour of release on Disney Plus. It's set in a fairy-tale style world that has modernised and magic has died out, although there are still creatures like unicorns (which knock over garbage bins to root through the trash) and fairies (who are a biker gang). The main story is about a young troll who discovers his late father was a magician and has created a spell that could bring his dad back from the dead for a short period of time. The spell goes wrong and only half his dad appears, so he and his brother go on a quest to finish the spell.
It had its moments, and lots of funny gags. The scene at the Manticore's Tavern was probably my favourite. But I felt it was trying too hard to make an emotional impact and unfortunately it couldn't land its punches.
Enola Holmes was released on Netflix. It stars Millie Bobby Brown, who played Seven in Stranger Things, as Enola, the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes. She has the same sleuthing mind and puts it to use when her mother disappears. There is a sub-plot involving the suffragette movement but the main story involved Enola getting mixed up with a young aristocrat who is on the run because his life is in danger.
I liked the film. Millie Bobby Brown carried it well, with lots of breaking the fourth wall. There was a scene filmed at the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, and having been there and seen the sheds full of train carriages that are used in various period dramas, I found it quite amusing to try and see how many different coaches they used. This was based on the first book in a young adult fiction series, and I would be very keen to watch sequels.
Mulan was a live-action remake of the classic Disney cartoon, released on Disney Plus in lieu of a cinema release. I have two main issues with the film. Firstly, if you are going to remove the best character from a film, in this case Mushu the dragon, for the sake of 'realism' why replace that character with another supernatural character who was a bit crap? Secondly, if you are going to recreate an iconic scene, like Mulan triggering an avalanche with a fire rocket, why change the mechanism of that scene, and make it crap?
Disney keep remaking their classic cartoons as live action movies, and I've been disappointed with them. (Cinderella is perhaps the exceptions because the original cartoon is a really boring film anyway.) If Disney are going to keep doing remakes, they could at least be making Muppet versions of these films, which would be a lot more entertaining.
On Christmas Day I watched Soul, which was released on Disney Plus. Ostensibly it's a film about death and making sure you actually live your life before you die. The main protagonist, voiced by Jamie Foxx, is a music teacher with dreams of playing in a real band, who gets his shot only to die in an accident. As a disembodied soul he tries to make his way back to Earth, only to wind up in a therapy cat that has been brought in to comfort his comatose body in the hospital.
There are other stories around that, with some telling points about people losing sight of their lives by focusing too much on one thing, or being afraid to actually live at all. The animation is absolutely gorgeous at times. There are several jokes with the usual selection of clever gags that will probably go over the heads of kids who watch it. And overall there is that bold theme of actually experiencing life while it is being lived and finding joy in that. Pixar often take these deep themes and present them in a new way, and they are probably the film studio making the most philosophically challenging mainstream movies at the moment.
The final film I watched this year was The Midnight Sky, which starred and was directed by George Clooney, and released on Netflix. George was the sole survivor of a catastrophe on Earth, and spent the film trying to warn a returning spaceship crew that the planet was a radioactive mess. It was two hours long, but felt longer, was pretty bleak throughout and didn't have much of a resolution. The few action sequences had predictable conclusions. By now, if there's a spacewalk and everyone is really happy at how successful its been, there is bound to be a disaster. And there was.
So, of those eight films, I think three were worth recommending. They would be JoJo Rabbit, Enola Holmes and Soul. Whereas Mulan and The Midnight Sky are ones to avoid.
Labels: 2020, cartoon, Disney Plus, Enola Holmes, films, Hitler, JoJo Rabbit, Netflix, Pixar, railway, schmaltz, Soul (film), war film
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Tagged BD Wong, Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Colin Trevorrow, Irrfan Khan, Jake Johnson, Judy Greer, Jurassic World, Nick Robinson, Ty Simpkins, Vincent D'Onofrio
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Vincent D’Onofrio, BD Wong, Jake Johnson, Irrfan Khan, Judy Greer
The original 1993 Steven Spielberg film, Jurassic Park, is a classic that has scared audiences for two decades. No sequel could ever top that film, but holy moly, the fourth film in the franchise comes closer to replicating that mix of awe, wonder, and fright that neither The Lost World nor Jurassic Park III could accomplish before. Twenty-two years have passed and John Hammond’s idea of having a dinosaur amusement park has become a fully realized attraction. Isla Nublar is thriving with hordes of tourists hoping to get their hands on a dinosaur. The park is full of a variety of dinosaur species, attractions, and even a petting zoo. Brothers Gray (Simpkins) and Zach (Robinson) go to Jurassic World as part of their Christmas break to visit their Aunt Claire (Howard) who is the operations manager of the park.
Claire has become a workaholic due to the pressures she faces from her superiors who are always looking at finding new ways of drawing a bigger crowd and bringing more people into the park. According to them, the people want bigger, louder, and scarier dinosaurs. Claire and her team, including chief geneticist Dr. Wu (Wong), have enhanced their work with gene splicing and have created a hybrid dinosaur that is one part T-Rex and one part mystery. Its classified information as to where those genes have come from. A busy day at the park turns to hell when the hybrid gets loose. Claire turns to velociraptor trainer Owen Grady (Pratt) to help stop the monster from destroying the park and eating too many visitors.
There is a natural tendency to go into Jurassic World with some hesitation, as most people will think of it as a reboot that will naturally pale in comparison to the first film. At the same time, we go in with huge expectations because we want it to be great. We want a welcome return to that scary dino park that scared the living daylights out of us when we were kids. I may be dating myself with that comment. How often do we see franchises attempt a big comeback but end up like a cheap copycat that has somehow negated everything that came before it? Good thing that doesn’t happen here.
Steven Spielberg returns as one of the film’s producers, but has passed along the directing duties to Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed). Like I mentioned previously, Trevorrow and his team of screenwriters have returned to Isla Nublar to see what has happened on that island since that tragic day. This idea of going back there allows an opportunity to reference the first film and adhere to what was originally brought to the table, but continue to push it forward. I don’t personally consider it a reboot, as it’s not trying to retell that same story. It’s a brand new story, while still feeling cohesive to that original vision. It doesn’t have that awkward feeling as if Trevorrow is trying too hard to be the next Spielberg or that he’s trying to outperform him. There were many moments and specific choices that felt very reminiscent of the first film. Jake Johnson (“New Girl”) plays a computer tech that feels like a cross between the Samuel L. Jackson and Wayne Knight characters from the first film right down to the messy desk. Instead of being locked into jeeps, Gray and Zach are locked into mobile gyrospheres that provide for one of the best action sequences of the movie and reminds us of that scene in the first film when the T-Rex attacks the kids who are stuck in the jeep. Composer Michael Giacchino (Up, Tomorrowland) creates a new score while adding in those classic John Williams themes from before. He and Trevorrow knew they had to incorporate them into this film. There’s a beautiful moment where we hear one of Williams’ themes and the new amusement park is unveiled for the first time for the audience. It’s a wondrous feast that opens your eyes wide and puts a big grin on your face. There are other gems along the way that will also win you over, but I’m not going to spoil them here.
Little time is spent diving into exposition as it assumes we’ve all watched Jurassic Park hundreds of times. We get introduced to our characters’ roles in the park, and that’s about it. This doesn’t give a lot for the actors to work with in terms of shaping them outside of standard archetypes. Considering the fact that the second film didn’t have a plot, I was not as bothered here by the lack of character depth. Chris Pratt’s character is the tough macho guy who is tasked with saving the day. We’re used to Pratt’s comedic side on “Parks and Recreation”, and he even injected that humor and charm into Guardians of the Galaxy. You won’t find any of that here as he plays it straight-faced the entire movie. Howard is the hard-working business type who is married to her cell phone, which doesn’t bode well for someone who is supposed to be taking care of her nephews. She has an assistant that can take care of that. In a movie like this, you can assume that there will be some sexual tension between the two of them. At times the dialogue between them constitutes some serious eye rolls. The lack of a strong plot and deep characters will divide moviegoers depending on what they want out of the movie.
Let’s face it; most people want to see the action. We want to see the humans realize that they are outnumbered and outsmarted by the dinosaurs, which all happens with the escape of the hybrid. Spielberg taught us that you can’t rush into it and show all of your cards at the beginning. We are treated to some other dinosaurs early on with some tense moments, but Trevorrow builds suspense when it comes to unveiling the hybrid. When that moment comes when we see the beast and hear that giant roar, it is absolutely thrilling. If you can see it in a theater with a trusty sound system, the theater will shake your insides. The rest of the film is a terrifying ride and your heart may skip a beat here or there. Trevorrow puts his audience right in the middle of the chase. The camera dutifully keeps up with the pace of the action without it feeling too rushed or chaotic. I do miss the use of animatronics and models when it comes to the dinosaur effects, but I was massively impressed with the way the CGI was used. There’s a scene with flying pterodactyls that makes the monkeys in The Wizard of Oz seem tame. I would caution parents to think twice about taking little kids to the movie. Jurassic World is far scarier than its predecessor. It’s far different watching it in a huge movie theater with surround sound versus watching it on a television at home.
Jurassic World is by far the best of the sequels. It feels modern yet in tune with the past. Yes, I would have liked to have seen a cameo by Laura Dern or Jeff Goldblum but I understand the choice of wanting it keep it in the present. BD Wong is the only returning actor from the first film. Pratt and Howard are also joined by Vincent D’Onofrio (“Law & Order”) playing another scuzzbucket role, and Judy Greer who is her usual delightful self even with her limited screen time as the boys’ mom. I walked out of the theater wanting to go back in and watch it all over again, and I’ve had that new simple piano version of the Jurassic Park theme stuck in my head since then.
Is It Worth Your Trip to the Movies? A true summer blockbuster that should be taken in on the biggest screen with Dolby ATMOS sound.
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George Bernard Show serves as an inspiration for several musicals. The current paper examines the synopsis of the musical My Fair Lady that is based on Shaw’s Pygmalion. The play deals with Elisa Doolittle who takes lessons from a famous professor Henry Higgins in order to learn to behave like a lady. Frederick Loewe is the one who created music for this musical, and lyrics were developed by Alan J. Lerner.
The play begins with the presentation of a rainy British night. Eliza runs into Freddy. In the beginning, she is very angry as her bunches of violets are spilled in the mud. However, later, she is able to sell it to one old gentleman. She feels very nervous when a man replies to her in her impolite style with a specific accent. He tells her that he studies phonetics and can teach her to speak as a lady within the next six months. Next day, Eliza comes to Higgins’ home and tells him that she wants to take lessons in order to get the desired job. Eliza’s father is satisfied that his daughter will have the opportunity to take lessons from Higgins and tries to use this situation to generate additional income.
Higgins proposes Eliza to visit his mother’s box as her first public tryout. Her task was to concentrate on two subjects: the weather and other people’s health. The first impression is positive, but later, Eliza shocks others with her inappropriate manners and corresponding slang. Her final test refers to her appearance as a lady at the Embassy Ball. All people at this event admire Eliza’s manners and style. A phonetician Zoltan Karpathy tries to understand her origin through her speech. Higgins approves Zoltan’s desire to dance with Eliza in order to specify this issue.
After the event, Zoltan concludes that Eliza is of a royal blood due to her well-developed manners, style, and speech. Higgins expresses his pleasure as the experiment has completed successfully, but Eliza feels abandoned. Later, Higgins insults her, and she leaves him. Freddy waits outside and tells her that he loves her. However, Eliza unfavorably replies to him that he should show his love rather than merely telling about his feelings. She does not want to spend her time with him at the moment.
Eliza’s father is very happy as he has received a large bequest and has become a middle-class man. Moreover, he is going to marry the woman he has been living for a long time. Eliza sees no support in this environment and decides to leave with Freddy. Higgins experiences several small problems the next morning. He cannot find his files and receives tea instead of coffee. Higgins wonders the reasons of her behavior and suggests that men are much more intelligent than women. In particular, he believes that he is superior to almost all other people, especially women. Then, he sees that Eliza is having tea with her mother.
Eliza tells Higgins that he has treated her inadequately. She has become a lady only because Pickering treated her in this way. She says that she does not need Higgins anymore and wants to marry Freddy. Higgins proposes Eliza to stay with him, but she refuses and leaves him. Higgins realizes that he experiences strong feelings towards her. He does not call it love and claims that he will not accept her if she comes back to him. He takes the recording he made during the first morning Eliza came to him. When the phonograph turns off, he hears Eliza’s real voice. It means that Eliza has returned to him. The situation moves towards the potential reconciliation, and Higgins asks her about his slippers. This is the final episode of the play. Thus, there is no explicit ending in the play, but the fact of reconciliation is implicitly assumed.
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Cutting Glass For Stained Glass Leadlights The Right Way
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Tungsten rings are both ornamental and functional.carbide rings Contrary to the agreement, Soviet troops remained in Iran following the January 1946 expiration of the wartime treaty providing for the presence of Soviet, American, and British troops in Iran during the war. When Adolf Hitler's forces attacked Poland on 1st September 1939, Britain declared war on Germany two days later.
If you're seriously into stained glass, I'd suggest you buy a couple of blocks which will keep you going for some time cutting it up the way I've suggested. mens tungsten bands Despite its assistance to the Allies, Liberia was reluctant to end its official neutrality and declare war on Germany.
While Prince Louis II's sympathies were strongly pro-French, he tried to keep Monaco neutral during World War II, and in doing so supported the Vichy France government of his old army colleague, Philippe Pétain. You may be fascinated to own a pair of tungsten rings for your wedding.
Tungsten rings also come in various shades,womens tungsten carbide rings from a more reflective glossy metal, to brushed smoky gray, to even a gleaming black. As the Soviet Union withdrew troops from the east to focus on the German Operation Barbarossa, Mongolian forces became more strategically important.
The Admiralty had drafted four options for the French admiral: (1) to put to sea and join forces with the Royal Navy; (2) to sail with reduced crews to British ports, where the vessels would be impounded and their complements repatriated; (3) to sail with reduced crews to the base at Dakar, where the ships would be immobilized; or (4) to scuttle his ships within six hours.
It was not until 23rd February 1945 that Turkey declared war on Germany and Japan in order to secure a seat in the United Nations. Black and gold plated rings can fade and slightly scratch over time, happening even quicker with those that work with their hands.
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Sandpiper Increases Investment in Artis REIT to 10%
December 2, 2020 By NewsWire Tagged With: TSX:AX.UN
VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 2, 2020 /CNW/ – Sandpiper Group (“Sandpiper”) announced today that on December 2, 2020, it acquired, through Sandpiper Real Estate Fund 4 Limited Partnership (the “Fund“), an aggregate of 100,000 units (“Units”) of Artis Real Estate Investment Trust (“Artis” or the “REIT”) (TSX: AX.UN) in the open market through the facilities of the Toronto Stock Exchange at an average price of $11.10 per Unit or $1,110,000 in the aggregate (the “Acquisition”).
As a result of the Acquisition, Sandpiper owns and exercises control and direction over an aggregate of 13,612,584 Units, representing approximately 10.07% of the 135,221,252 Units issued and outstanding as reported in Artis’ Monthly Cash Distribution Announcement dated November 16, 2020. Prior to the Acquisition, Sandpiper owned and exercised control and direction over 13,512,584 Units, representing approximately 9.99% of the issued and outstanding Units.
The Units were acquired for investment purposes. Sandpiper believes that the Units of Artis are undervalued and represent an attractive investment opportunity.
“Our increase in our ownership in Artis further confirms our long term commitment in this investment,” said Samir Manji, CEO of Sandpiper. “We believe Artis has significant near term and longer term potential with an attractive, undervalued asset base. We look forward to working with the trustees and management at Artis to identify avenues and opportunities that will maximize value for all unitholders.”
Sandpiper and its affiliates may, from time to time, depending on market and other conditions, increase or decrease its beneficial ownership, control or direction over the securities of Artis through market transactions, private agreements, or otherwise.
Artis’s head office is located at Suite 600 â 220 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 0A5
Sandpiper’s head office is located at Suite 1670, 200 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6C 3L6.
An early warning report will be filed by Sandpiper in accordance with applicable securities laws. For further information and to obtain a copy of the early warning report filed by Sandpiper, please contact Alyssa Barry, Vice President, Capital Markets and Communications, Sandpiper at (604) 558-4885.
ABOUT SANDPIPER GROUP
Sandpiper is a Vancouver-based private equity firm focused on investing in real estate through direct property investments and public securities. For more information about Sandpiper, visit www.sandpipergroup.ca.
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Diversions Renewed
Natural High: The new (sober) concert culture
A movement is under way to make live music events safe places to rock.
By Dylan Barmmerer
Sex. Drugs. Rock ‘n’ roll.
Anyone who has ever loved music knows all too well that alcohol and drugs are as much a part of the music culture as road trips, guitar solos and groupies.
Of course, serious struggles with alcohol and drug abuse aren’t limited to the musicians themselves. The spirit of music, especially rock music, is rooted ferociously in rebellion. And, almost inevitably, rebellion in America means either experimental or excessive drug and alcohol use.
Although different genres, bands and venues all attract different kinds of crowds, it’s pretty much a given that if you attend a concert, especially a rock, hard rock or heavy metal show, a good number of people will be dancing, singing, screaming, stumbling and shaking in some form of a chemically altered state.
But living and loving music doesn’t have to mean abuse or addiction. In fact, if you’re playing or listening to music in an entirely sober state, you’re creating, experiencing and appreciating a complex, multilayered and beautiful art form at a much more meaningful level.
Guitarist and singer-songwriter Eric Clapton has beaten back heroin and alcohol addictions over the course of his legendary career and even owns and operates an exclusive rehab clinic on the island of Antiqua called Crossroads.
In a 1998 interview with 60 Minutes, Clapton said the belief that musicians write, record and play better when in an altered state is “an absolute farce,” calling it “a fantastic defense mechanism, which I think artists use to cover the fact that they’re not too sure of how good they are.”
Those who are overindulging as concert spectators may be doing so for a variety of other reasons. But logic alone would dictate that if you have more of your senses about you, you can better enjoy the atmosphere, music and spectacle inherent at a live show. And if you decide to attend a concert in an entirely sober state, rest assured, you won’t be alone.
On a larger and more organized level, groups such as the Wharf Rats have proved that there is in fact strength in sober concert-going numbers—even at places such as Grateful Dead and Phish shows.
According to their website, the Wharf Rats “are a group of concert-goers who have chosen to live drug and alcohol free. Our primary purpose at the shows is to make ourselves available to anyone who feels we may have something they want. We offer support, strength, fellowship and hope. … We are a group of friends sharing a common bond, providing support, information and some traction in an otherwise slippery environment.”
The Wharf Rats’ Southern California area coordinator, a gracious man who answers to the name of Chef Larry, says that the Wharf Rats “were the first group of sober concertgoers.” Larry, who attends more than 100 live music shows a year, says the group started when singer-song-writer
Don Bryant and some others decided to use a yellow balloon to mark a “sober gathering place” at Grateful Dead shows in the 1980s.
According to Larry, the group took its name from a Grateful Dead song by the same name, in which a character named August West chooses alcohol over many other things in his life and watches his problems mount as a result. Eventually, the Wharf Rats made contact with the Grateful Dead and were formally welcomed to the shows.
Larry made it clear that the Wharf Rats are “not affiliated with AA, NA, the Grateful Dead or any other Twelve Step groups.” But he said they do “follow Twelve Step traditions” including “holding Twelve Step-style meetings at set breaks.”
In the more than 20 years since the Wharf Rats first launched their sober ship, they have branched out to include an array of other groups dedicated to providing a safe space at other shows. According to Larry, that list includes the Phellowship (Phish), the Gateway (Widespread Panic), the Happy Hour Heroes (Moe) and the Digital Buddhas (Disco Biscuits), among others.
“We’re there to provide a drug- and alcohol-free space so people don’t feel like they have to partake in drugs or alcohol at a show,” says Larry, who has been sober for nearly 17 years. “We’re there to give one another support and to be a larger source of support for the sober community.”
Dylan Barmmer is the founder of the creative copywriting consortium Word Is Born.
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CS1 June 7-10, 2021 Moscow, Russia
Taught in English and translated into Russian.
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March 16, 2006 :: Roy Davidson
Moderated by Sylvia Campbell
Back when colonization was in vogue, European explorers, looking for the sea route to China, stumbled upon the “New World,” which was new to them but whose citizens (why not call them Americans?) had lived there for centuries. In the name of and with the approval and support of the governments that had sent them out, these explorers systematically imposed their will and their rule on these first Americans.
The societies and cultures they encountered were swept aside in favour of the culture and agenda of the colonizers. Through a very deliberate campaign of domination and exploitation, in which the lives of the Americans did not matter, the newcomers killed them by the millions. Some scholars estimate that over one hundred million Americans died in the colonization of the “New World.”
The Americans who inhabited our part of the world, prior to the arrival of the Europeans, were the plains Indians, more specifically, the Blackfoot, or by their own name, the Niitsitapi. Their population was subsequently decimated during less than one hundred years of European influence and today they struggle for survival in the sub-standard living conditions historically allotted to them by the colonizers.
Who dares to admit that these Americans were the victims of genocide? What does their future hold?
Speaker: Roy Davidson
Roy Davidson is a lawyer, born and raised in Lethbridge, who now lives in Pincher Creek. He has recently completed a novel on Blackfoot history, the first in a series. His interest in human rights has taken him to the Guatemala City dump, to the streets of Bolivia and to Brocket. He has been a director of the Napi Friendship Society and the Horse Spirit Youth Society.
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Title: William Hurrell Mallock
Subject: Paul et Virginie, Conservatism, Fiscal conservatism, Libertarian conservatism, Conservatism in Australia
Collection: 1849 Births, 1923 Deaths, Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford, English Economists, English Male Novelists, English Novelists, English Religious Writers, People from Devon
Cabinet Card of William Hurrell Mallock, by Elliot & Fry, circa 1880's.
(1849-02-07)7 February 1849
Cheriton Bishop, Devon
2 April 1923(1923-04-02)
Wincanton, Somerset
Novelist, sociologist, lecturer and economist
Rev. William Mallock and Margaret Froude
William Froude, Richard Hurrell Froude, James Anthony Froude, Mary Margaret Mallock (sister)
William Hurrell Mallock (7 February 1849 – 2 April 1923) was an English novelist and economics writer.
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A nephew of the historian Froude,[1] he was educated privately and then at Balliol College, Oxford. He won the Newdigate prize in 1872 for his poem The Isthmus of Suez[2] and took a second class in the final classical schools in 1874, securing his Bachelor of Arts degree from Oxford University. Mallock never entered a profession, though at one time he considered the diplomatic service. He attracted considerable attention by his satirical novel The New Republic (1877),[3][4][5] conceived while he was a student at Oxford, in which he introduced characters easily recognized as such prominent individuals as Benjamin Jowett, Matthew Arnold, Violet Fane, Thomas Carlyle,[6] and Thomas Henry Huxley.[7] Although the book was not well received by critics at first,[8] it did cause instant scandal, particularly concerning the portrait of literary scholar Walter Pater:[9]
His [Pater's] first main work, Studies in the History of the Renaissance was published in 1873. Over the next three or four years it became the focus of considerable hostility towards Pater, principally reviewers objected to its amoral hedonism. Moreover, Pater was the subject of a cruel satire in W. H. Mallock's The New Republic which was published in Belgravia in 1876-7 and in book form in 1877. He appeared there as 'Mr. Rose'– an effete, impotent, sensualist with a perchant for erotic literature and beautiful young men. In the second edition of the Renaissance the 'Conclusion' was removed, partly in response to the public ridicule, but mainly because of pressure brought to bear on Pater within Oxford by figures such as Benjamin Jowett. In particular, the discovery of his 'relationship' with William Money Hardinge, a Balliol undergraduate, threatened Pater with a sexual scandal.[10]
Mallock's book appeared during the competition for the Oxford Professorship of Poetry and played a role in convincing Pater to remove himself from consideration.[11][12][13] A few months later Pater published what may have been a subtle riposte: "A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew."[14]
His keen logic and gift for acute exposition and criticism were displayed in later years both in fiction and in controversial works. In a series of books dealing with religious questions he insisted on dogma as the basis of religion and on the impossibility of founding religion on purely scientific data. In Is Life Worth Living?[15] (1879) and the satirical novel The New Paul and Virginia (1878) he attacked positivist theories[16][17] and defended the Roman Catholic Church.[18][19][20][21] In a volume on the intellectual position of the Church of England, Doctrine and Doctrinal Disruption (1900), he advocated the necessity of a strictly defined creed. Later volumes on similar topics were Religion as a Credible Doctrine (1903) and The Reconstruction of Belief (1905). He also authored articles, being a frequent contributor to many newspapers and magazines, including The Forum, National Review, Public Opinion, Contemporary Review, and Harper’s Weekly. One in particular, directed against Thomas Huxley's agnosticism, appeared in the April 1889 issue of The Fortnightly Review,[22] being Mallock's response to a controversy between, among others, Huxley and the Bishop of Peterborough.[23]
He published several works on economics,[24] directed against radical and socialist[25] theories: Social Equality (1882), Property and Progress (1884), Labor and the Popular Welfare (1893), Classes and Masses (1896), Aristocracy and Evolution (1898), and A Critical Examination of Socialism (1908) – and later visited the United States in order to deliver a series of lectures[26][27][28][29][30][31][32] on the subject:
The Civic Federation of New York, an influential body which aims, in various ways, at harmonising apparently divergent industrial interests in America, having decided on supplementing its other activities by a campaign of political and economic education, invited me, at the beginning of the year 1907, to initiate a scientific discussion of socialism in a series of lectures or speeches, to be delivered under the auspices of certain of the great Universities in the United States. This invitation I accepted, but, the project being a new one, some difficulty arose as to the manner in which it might best be carried out – whether the speeches or lectures should in each case be new, dealing with some fresh aspect of the subject, or whether they should be arranged in a single series to be repeated without substantial alteration in each of the cities visited by me. The latter plan was ultimately adopted, as tending to render the discussion of the subject more generally comprehensible to each local audience. A series of five lectures,[33][34] substantially the same, was accordingly delivered by me in New York, Cambridge, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.[35]
Among his anti-socialist works should be classed his novel, The Old Order Changes (1886). His other novels are A Romance of the Nineteenth Century (1881), A Human Document (1892), The Heart of Life (1895), Tristram Lacy (1899), The Veil of the Temple (1904), and An Immortal Soul (1908).
Mallock is given prominent space in Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind:[36]
How is one to sum up the work of W. H. Mallock, which fills twenty-seven volumes, exclusive of ephemerae? Mallock is remembered chiefly for one book, Bernard Shaw, came off well from a bout with Mallock. In boyhood, Mallock "unconsciously assumed in effect, if not in so many words, that any revolt or protest against the established order was indeed an impertinence, but was otherwise of no great importance." His first aspiration as a conservative was the restoration of classical taste in poetry. But as he grew, he came to realize "that the whole order of things—literary, religious, and social – which the classical poetry assumed, and which I had previously taken as impregnable, was being assailed by forces which it was impossible any longer to ignore." He turned to the defense of orthodox religion against the positivists and other worshippers of skeptical science.[40]
He published a volume of Poems in 1880. His 1878 book Lucretius included some verse translations from the Roman poet, which he followed with Lucretius on Life and Death in 1900, a book of verse paraphrases in a style modeled after the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward FitzGerald. (A second edition was issued in 1910.)
Ironically, this last work came to be highly regarded by freethinkers and other religious skeptics. Corliss Lamont includes portions of the third canto in his A Humanist Funeral Service. Mallock himself, in his introduction, seems to be offering it, somewhat condescendingly, for the use of such non-Christians when he writes:
Those, however, who... are adherents of the principles which [Lucretius] shares with the latest scientists of to-day, can hardly find the only hope which is open to them expressed by any writer with a loftier and more poignant dignity than that with which they will find it expressed by the Roman disciple of Epicurus.[41]
Artist Tom Phillips used Mallock's A Human Document as the basis for his project A Humument,[42] in which he took a copy of the novel and constructed a work of art using its pages.[43]
The popular English novelist Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé) dedicated her book of essays Views and Opinions (1895) to Mallock — "To W. H. Mallock. As a slight token of personal regard and intellectual admiration."[44]
Every Man his Own Poet. Oxford: T. Shrimpton & Son, 1872.[45]
The New Republic; or, Culture, Faith, and Philosophy in an English Country House, Vol. 2. London: Chatto and Windus, 1877 (Rep. Leicester University Press, 1975).
The New Paul and Virginia, or Positivism on an Island. London: Chatto & Windus, 1878.[46]
Is Life Worth Living? London: Chatto & Windus, 1879.[47][48]
Poems. London: Chatto & Windus, 1880.
A Romance of the Nineteenth Century, 2 Vol. London: Chatto & Windus, 1881.[49][50]
Social Equality, a Short Study in a Missing Science. London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1882.[51][52][53][54]
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Pakistan was carved out of those parts of the Indian Subcontinent, which had no industrial base, and no indigenous commercial or professional talent. Therefore, the Quaid-i-Azam invited Indian Muslim businessmen to set up a bank, an insurance company, a shipping company and an airline. He also asked Indian Muslim officers working in departments of the Indian government to opt for Pakistan.
In August 1943, the Quaid-i-Azam sent M. A. H. Ispahani to Sir Adamjee, to form a Federation of Muslim Chambers of Comerce & Industry, which held its first meeting at Delhi on 18 April 1945 with Adamjee as its chairman. In June 1946, he asked Ispahani to discuss the establishment of an airline with Adamjee, and thus the Orient Airways came into existence, which was later converted into Pakistan Internantional Airlines with my uncle Zafarul Ahsan, ICS, as its first chief. The Quaid-i-Azam insisted that it was not enough that there was only one Muslim bank (Habib Bank), therefore he talked Adamjee and Ispahani into incorporating the Muslim Commercial Bank on 9 July 1947.
When the Indo-Pakistan trade war created an economic vacuum immediately after independence, they were there to fill it. When the Government of India withheld 55 crores from Pakistan’s share of cash balances, and the Government of Pakistan needed funds to pay its employees’ salaries, Adamjee presented a blank cheque. Hyderabad State announced the transfer of 20 crores worth of securities to Pakistan on 10 January 1948, and sent currency and gold to assist the new state. At the time of independence Pakistan did not have a single Ordinance Factory. All the sixteen factories of British India were located in India. A new ordinance factory was set up in Wah, with the Prime Minister of Hyderabad, Mir Laik Ali as Advisor.
The blueprint for the post-war development of Sindh issued by the Government of Sindh stated, ‘… conditions in Sind do not favour heavy industrialisation or any large scale development of cottage industries … Therefore the schemes for the industries department do not contain any scheme for development of a major industry’. However, under pressure from newcomers the Sind Industrial Trading Estate was planned in Karachi, and the Quaid-i Azam laid the foundation stone of the Valika Textile Mills on 26 September 1947, and performed the opening ceremony of the Bengal Oil Mills on 2 February 1948. Thus manufacturing became the fastest growing economic sector.
The migration of millions of educated Indian Muslims to Pakistan made available the talent necessary for economic development. ‘The great in-migration of talent and skills formed the critical mass for Pakistan’s first ‘great leap forward’ (Burki, 1984; 5). In this they had the full support of the political leadership, which wanted to disprove those who had agreed to the creation of Pakistan in the belief that it would not be viable without an industrial base, and would soon return to the Indian fold, and that the division of India would be a temporary affair.
Muhajirs continued to meet resistance in rural areas, but the same was not the case in urban areas where the Hindus had left a vaccum in the administration, professional and business sectors, which could only be filled by the Muhajirs. By gaining control over sectors previously occupied by the Hindus in the urban areas including the administration, the Muhajirs felt sufficiently secure to continue to settle in Sindh. Consequently, there was a net gain in the number of Muhajirs who settled in two southern divisions of Sindh.
In no time the Urdu, Gujrati and Punjabi speaking businessmen from Bombay, Burma, Calcutta, Delhi, Kanpur, Kathiawar and Madras brought about an industrial revolution. A list of the largest 22 business houses that controlled 66 percent of industrial assets, 70 percent of insurance funds, and 80 percent of bank assets, was published and publicised:
Name Net Assets Family Business
(in millions) Origin Origin
Saigol 529.8 Chakwal Calcutta
Habib 228.0 Bombay Bombay
Dawood 210.8 Kathiawar Bombay
Crescent 201.7 Chiniot Delhi
Adamjee 201.3 Kathiawar Calcutta
Colony 189.7 Chiniot Multan
Valika 183.5 Gujarat Bombay
Hoti 148.6 Charsada Charsada
Amin 137.9 Bhera Calcutta
Wazir Ali 102.6 Firozepur Lahore
Fancy 102.4 Kathiawar East Africa
Beco 101.4 Lahore Batala
Hussain 81.7 Kathiawar Bombay
Gandhara 79.9 Kohat Kohat
Hyesons 79.4 Madras Madras
ZA Lari 77.2 U.P. Abottabad
Bawany 69.3 Kathiawar Rangoon
Premier 56.1 NWFP NWFP
Nishat 54.3 Chiniot Lyallpur
Gul Ahmad 52.3 Kathiawar Bombay
Arag 50.1 Kathiawar Bombay
Rahimtoola 49.9 Bombay Bombay
Mr. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto took over as President and Chief Martial Law Administrator (1971–74) on December 20, 1971. He promulgated the “Nationalization and Economic Reforms Order (NERO)” on 1st January 1972, and announced the takeover of twenty industrial units on 2nd January 1972 from radio and television. His Finance Minister, Dr. Mubashir Hasan announced takeover of eleven more units on 31 January 1972 and came over directly from the TV station to our house to say how sorry he was to take over one of our units. But he said that Bhutto sahib wanted it. It was typical of Bhutto not to forget that we had taken his rivals the Khuhros as directors in our Larkana industry. Thus the government took over 31 major industrial mega-corporations, industrial units and enterprises belonging to 22 families. In the second stage he took over 13 major banks, over a dozen insurance companies, two petroleum companies and 10 shipping companies. In the third stage, he took over 2,000 cotton, ginning and rice husking units.
The nationalization policies had a disastrous effect on the economy and damaged the confidence of investors in the country. The result was large-scale export of manpower to the Middle East and Europe. The annual number of Pakistanis employed abroad through the Bureau of Emigration and registered employment agencies increased from “2,262 in 1970 to 16,328 in 1974”.
Nationalisation by Bhutto destroyed some of the major Muhajir industrial houses, which had already suffered heavily because of the separation of East
Pakistan. A number of industrial families and many young professionals left the country. Our friends Shaukat Fancy and his wife, Shahnaz, left for gulf where they met Salman Taseer. Salman like many foreign educated young men, had initially hobnobbed with Bhutto but later parted company with him because of his old fashioned pre-Keynsian ideas on economics and politics. One day Shahnaz arrived with a request from Salman for my notes on the dismemberment of the country, as Salman was proposing to write a biography of Bhutto and did not think that living in Bhutto’s Pakistan I would be able to write the true story of the events that led to breakup therefore I gave my file of notes, and Salman Taseer wrote his book on Bhutto sitting in the gulf, changing its orientation several times.
And many private entrepreneurs, both from agriculture and the industrial sector moved their resources to commerce and construction. Government service and construction then became the leading sectors. For the first time in the country’s history, the growth rates of both agriculture and industrial output fell to well below that of the economy’s average.
Bhutto also destroyed the established civil service structure, and instituted lateral entry to induct and employ his supporters directly into government service. An opposition periodical identified more than 100 senior-level appointees as close relatives and associates of the members of Bhutto’s cabinet (Burki, 1980; 102). According to the NAP, the Bhutto government’s plan was to ‘raise an army of stooges, with all civil servants becoming the humble servants of the ruling waderas’. Further Mr. Bhutto added a proviso in the 1973 constitution which allowed a quota system, in place of employment on the basis of merit guaranteed by the constitution.
My uncle, Zafarul Ahsan, was one of the ICS officers who was thrown out by the first martial law regime of Ayub Khan. He went to the court but the Chief Justice laughed out his petition, saying that here was someone who had come for his rights at a time when the rights of the whole nation had been taken away. My uncle had a lot of experience and a lot of friends and admirers who were prepared to invest in him. However, Pakistan at that time was under the state licensed capitalism, which meant that you could not get a loan from PICIC or IDBP or foreign exchange from State Bank to set up an industry without a licence from the government. And the government, having thrown him out, was not likely to give him permission to do any work in his own name. Therefore he got hold of a friend who happened to be Ayub’s brother, Sardar Bahadur Khan, who was leader of the opposition in the Parliament and critical of his brother for the imposition of martial law. My uncle applied with Sardar Bahadur Khan as chairman to set up Khyber Insurance Company Ltd., and Khyber Textiles Mills Ltd. in Abbotabad, hometown of the Ayub Khan, which the government could not refuse. To cover his lack of funds he created Lahore Investment Ltd., with seed money provided by my father to acquire holding shares in Khyber Insurance and Khyber Textiles, so as not to let them slip out of his hands. To gather foreign exchange to buy machinery from abroad he got Lahore Investment to start selling shares of his companies among Pakistani workers in the UK, and buying them off their relatives at bonus voucher prices in Pakistan; thus giving them more than the official rate at which the rupee was available to their families, if they were to transfer their money through the official channels. This was sufficient for him to import the textile machinery from abroad but not to run it. Therefore he applied to set up a new factory, and used the funds thus raised through sale of shares, advances and loans to run the earlier concern. This way a chain was built comprising Khyber Insurance, Khyber Textiles, Satrang Textiles, Allied Textiles, Indus Chemical and Alkalis Ltd. and Sun Publications. However, it all came tumbling down with the fall of Dacca, and Bhutto’s jiyalas occupation of Allied Textiles in Larkana, and his takeover of the Life Insurance part of Khyber Insurance, also of Indus Chemical and Alkalis Ltd., which was the biggest chemical concern to be established in Pakistan till that time.
On my return from Oxford I had started work as secretary of Lahore Investments Ltd., in which my father had invested money in my name. I also acted as legal and administrative overseer of all the concerns, and later took over as Managing Director of Khyber Insurance Company Ltd. However after the loss and fall of sister concerns it was not possible to keep it afloat; therefore I looked towards directors for help and tried to induct new directors; but I found them involved in their own problems, as Bhutto nationalisation had affected almost all of them. One day one of my directors, Mir Khalilur Rehman of Jang Newspaper, came to me in a distressed state, and said that his son had knocked down and killed a man on Bunder Road with his car. He calmed down when I told him that a car accident, although reprehensible is not a deliberate act of murder, and that what he should do was to call his crime reporter Saghir, who would sort out the problem with the concerned SHO and the heirs of deceased.
I made Ardeshir Cowasjee the chairman of the board in the hope of getting Parsi business, but as Afzal Khan of Pakistan Refinery had warned me that he would only create problems for me, which he did by coming late to the board meetings and insisting that everyone should wait for him, and so on. After the first meeting I started having meetings on time by electing a chair for that meeting, which annoyed him and made him rant and rave till he gave up and resigned. I only got a requests from my other director, S. S. Jafri, for transport for the election campaign of his son-in-law who was contesting the election on a PPP ticket from Karachi, which he lost. Karachi had voted for Fatima Jinnah against Ayub Khan, and had not forgotten that Bhutto at that time was Secretary General of Ayub’s Convention League and one of his blue-eyed boys. One of my directors was the former Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, Raschid, but as a Bengali he had lost all influence after the fall of Dacca. He was a nice man, who remained with me till Agha Hasan Abidi called him to London, to place him in a BCCI organ, which he had created for the pleasure of seeing celebrities on his pay roll. I wrote to him to take over my company also but I did not get any response from him. It was obvious that without life insurance and sister concerns it was difficult to run a general insurance business in Pakistan.
When General Zia seized power he handed back Ittefaq foundry to the family of his finance minister in Punjab. Therefore hopes were raised that other concerns nationalized by Bhutto would be similarly returned to their previous owners. Instead the General announced elections in nationalized industries for one elected director from previous owners on their board as against six directors who were appointed by the government. I was elected as director of Sindh Alkalis Ltd. I found that it was run callously by the government nominees. Therefore after every board meeting I wrote a letter to the production minister who was a general, criticizing the state of affairs in the company, and sent copies to the President, General Zia. Constant criticism of the way the nationalized industry was being run finally made General Zia pass a law to denationalize some of the industries, whereby the previous owners were given preference but were required to compete with other bidders. I made a bid along with court orders that I was the previous owner of the company but despite the law, the generals who had been unhappy with my constant criticism of their management did not give back the company to me. The result was that within a year the biggest chemical company set up by my uncle was soon in ruins, as in their anger with me they cared neither for the law nor the national interest.
There was another reason. Although whenever General Zia met me he said you must get your industry back but there was a price tag attached to it. He wanted to know if I would be of any help to him in Sindh. It was made abundantly clear to me in the last appointment I had with the President because when I arrived at the Presidency I was asked to see his deputy General Khalid Mahmood Arif, who sat in a very small room with a small desk clear of all papers and two chairs, and listened to me for over thirty minutes without uttering a word, except asking as to what advantage it would be for the government. Seth Ahmed Dawood, who was very close to General Zia who used to see him whenever he was in Karachi, used to drive himself alone to my house to persuade me to organise a Muhajir party. Seth Sahib was an interesting person. Although he was one of the richest men of Pakistan, he was very careful with his money. Once he took us for coffee to the Intercontinental Hotel, but when a family having coffee there waved to him, he promptly took us to join them, and later gleefully told us, how he had saved money on coffee.
When Akhtar Rizvi, the original ideologue of MQM, came with my friend and one of my directors, Ahsan Rizvi, both old Awami Leaguers and close to G M Sayed, to ask me to join him in organizing MQM I also disappointed them. I was soon proved right because a new breed of politician emerged who were interested in money and power rather than serving the country.
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MATTHEW ALMEIDA
I would like to share with you about my life on the solar planet earth. I was born on 29th September 1935 at Kundapur of present Udupi district of Karnataka. I had three brothers and three sisters. I was the sixth among my siblings. All of them died before me. I was the last one to join them.
I lost my dad when I was young. My mother brought us up at our maternal grandfather's home at Kundapur. I did my primary studies at Kundapur and High School studies at Milagres High school, Kallianpur. I joined the Society of Jesus (Belgaum Mission) on 12 July 1952. I did my two year of novitiate and three years of Juniorate training at Vinayalaya in Mumbai. Later I was sent for 3 years of Philosophy to De Nobili College, Pune. I did 3 years of Regency as a teacher at St. Vincent High school, Pune. Four years of Theology studies were done at De Nobili. During summer holidays I learnt Indian music and tabla in Madhya Pradesh. I was ordained as a priest on 24th March 1965 at De Nobili. It was only after my ordination I had the opportunity to see my mother and relatives. Immediately after my ordination I was asked to go for tertianship at Sitagarha. I did M.A in English literature from Karnataka University, Dharwad and B.Ed. and M.Ed at Bombay University with first class first. I served as a rector and principal/vice-principal of St. Britto High School, Mapuça (twice), St. Paul High School, Belgaum. And Loyola High School, Margão. In late 1970's Goa Pune Province was seriously thinking to set up an institute to promote Konknni and Pratap was chosen for this new venture. Since no other Jesuit showed interest in this ministry I volunteered for this new mission. To prepare for this mission I did M.S. in linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and completed Ph.D in Linguistics from the same University. I returned to India in August 1985. Since September 1985 to May 2002 I was the director and treasurer of Thomas Stephens Konknni Kendr (TSKK). TSKK was functioning from Loyola Hall, Miramar. I was the superior of the house from 1993 to 1998. Besides this I was the Province consultor and the acting provincial in the absence of the Provincial. In May 1998 TSKK was shifted to its new premises at Alto Porvorim and I was appointed as the superior. In 2000 I started to edit TSKK Research Bulletin Sod and from 2006 Dor Mhoineachi Rotti, a religious Konknni monthly. I have written a number of research articles in Konknni and about Konknni in English and they are published in various journals and periodicals. I have written/edited/transliterated 14 books. According to many scholars and others I will be remembered for my three books, namely, A Description of Konkani, Konknni Basic course (Konknni Mullavo Kors in Devanagari script) and Romi Lipient Konknni Kors. I have served as a Konknni expert in various bodies of Goa State government, Central government, Goa University and non-government organizations. Besides, administration, research and teaching were my main works at TSKK. Listening to both Western and Indian classical music, designing book covers and logos for our institutions, cooking and preparing cakes were my main hobbies.
My service to Konknni research was recognized by Institute Menzes Bragança on 16 April 1993 by giving me the title "corresponding member" of it. On 24 April 2008 I received the prestigious Goa Konkani Academy's first Sahitya Projnya Puroskar.
On Wednesday, 18 February at 12.57 I died due to cardiac arrest at J.M.J. Hospital at Alto Porvorim. Prior to this for nine days I was hospitalized for severe arthritis attack. On 19th the funeral was held at Holy family Church, Alto Porvorim. Archbishop of Goa, Filipe Neri Ferrão was the main celebrant. Many priests, religious and lay people were present to pay their last tribute. I am grateful for their prayers and loving presence. My special thanks to TSKK family for their love, care and active support. My creativity and talents bloomed in their company. They have a lion's share in my contributions to Konknni. My close friends always remark "Matthew is a silent worker. He speaks less and works more." or "Matthew looks like an ordinary Jesuit but he is really an extra ordinary person". When I hear these remarks I just smile, because I always believed actions speak louder than words.
I was glad to see that both GC 34 and GC 35 have stressed the importance of intellectual apostolate. However, at times I was discouraged to see that our young Jesuits do not volunteer for research and Konknni apostolate in our Province. I lived with my colleague Pratap Naik for 25 years out of which both of us served 23 years at TSKK! Both of us worked together, laughed, cried, cracked jokes, shared spiritual and other matters and discussed every subject under the sun. We were in two bodies but one mind and spirit. After my death some of you have said and written that Konknni world has lost a competent and dedicated researcher. I contributed my mite to the Province and specially by promoting the spirit of collaboration among the TSKK family. Now it is the turn of the younger generation of Goa Province to foster, nurture and strengthen what I planted. My prayers and blessings are always with you. Adeus.
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Lakshmi Ramachandran
Executive Committee Chair (chair@singaporeusagirlscouts.org)
Lakshmi was born and brought up in Canada but has lived the last 22 years in Singapore. She was a girl guide in Canada, for USAGSO-Singapore she has been a leader for Troop 57 for the last 4 years and was overnight camp director for the last 2 years. She worked for 15 years at Hewlett Packard and now is part of a startup marketing and branding company. She has found a passion in mentoring girls and women and volunteers in a professional mentoring organization.
Melinda Murphy Hiemstra
Secretary (secretary@singaporeusagirlscouts.org)
Melinda is the Secretary of USAGSO Singapore, the immediate past Chair and the leader of Junior Troop 82. Melinda also serves as a Global Facilitator for USA Girl Scouts Overseas, training leaders across Asia. She has a lifelong passion for Girl Scouts and was a First Class Scout as a girl (equivalent of today's Gold Star). Her father was a Scout Master and her brother an Eagle Scout. Currently, she works as the Executive Producer over video content for Expat Living magazine. In the United States, she had a storied career in television working as a producer and on-camera reporter including a stint as a network correspondent at CBS News. Her most important roles are as a wife and mother of two: her Junior Girl Scout and a second year Cub Scout.
Zenaida Bharucha
Treasurer (treasurer@singaporeusagirlscouts.org)
Zenaida is the Treasure of USAGSO-Singapore and joined Girl Scouts one year ago as the leader for Troop 51. She is a Chartered Accountant by profession and has over 20 years experience as a Financial Controller in listed and private limited companies in Australia. She moved to Singapore 3 years ago and since then has been a full time mum to her 13 and 9 year old - one of whom is a second year Brownie. She is passionate about giving back to the community by being involved in Girl Scouts and making new friends.
Ann Chow
Registration Committee Chair (registrar@singaporeusagirlscouts.org)
Ann grew up in St. Louis, Missouri but has lived outside of the USA for the past 16 years. She was a teacher in Hong Kong and Japan before committing full-time to the inappropriately named role of stay at home mom. She has been the leader of Daisy Troop 69 and now Brownie Troop 16. In her free time, Ann enjoys eating her way through South East Asia and running.
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Cannon (TV series)
Find sources: "Cannon" TV series – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
Edward Hume
QM Productions
Viacom Enterprises
March 3, 1976 (1976-03-03)
Cannon is an American detective television series produced by Quinn Martin that aired from 1971 to 1976 on CBS. William Conrad played the title character, private detective Frank Cannon. The series was the first Quinn Martin production to run on a network other than ABC.
In total, there were 122 episodes, plus the series' two-hour pilot and a 1980 "revival" television film, The Return of Frank Cannon.
3.1 Props
4.1 Series overview
4.2 Connections to Barnaby Jones
8 Parodies
Cannon was portrayed in the series as a veteran of the Korean War and a former member of the Los Angeles Police Department. He was street smart but also appeared to have an unusually high level of education outside the law enforcement field. Besides his familiarity with several languages, he showed extensive knowledge of such diverse subjects as science, art and history. Cannon was a widower, having lost his wife and son in a bomb attack while he was on the police force, as revealed in the two-hour pilot.
Conrad was an overweight actor, and the series, especially in its early episodes, made frequent mention of Cannon's size and weight. Other characters would often remark critically about it, while he himself would joke self-deprecatingly about his girth and great love of food. In fact, Cannon was a gourmet cook who enjoyed preparing food for his friends. Despite his large size, he was a man of action. While he preferred to use his wits to escape a difficult situation, he could engage successfully in fistfights and shoot-outs with bad guys.
The plots, as in other detective series, revolved around Cannon solving crimes for a variety of clients. In a number of early episodes, he was hired by insurance companies to investigate losses. Other episodes involved him working for former police colleagues or other people from his past. In some cases, he was forced into action to clear himself of falsified charges.
Conrad as Frank Cannon.
Series star William Conrad was the only main cast member. Conrad was nominated for an Emmy Award in both 1973 and 1974 (Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series), but Richard Thomas won for The Waltons in 1973 and Telly Savalas won for Kojak in 1974.
There were very few recurring characters. In the first season, Martin Sheen appeared twice as ex-policeman Jerry Warton, but the character did not extend beyond the first year. In fact, Sheen guest-starred in the third season as a completely different character: a lawyer who murdered Cannon's client. The only other actors to appear in multiple episodes as the same character were Charles Bateman (five episodes as Lieutenant Paul Tarcher) and Arthur Adams (three episodes as Officer Bill Murray).
Notable guest stars included Willie Aames, Sharon Acker, Claude Akins, Frank Aletter, Lou Antonio, Anne Baxter, Whitney Blake, Whit Bissell, Lloyd Bochner, Sorrell Booke, Antoinette Bower, Brooke Bundy, Ahna Capri, Johnny Cash, Dabney Coleman, Jackie Cooper, Cathy Lee Crosby, William Daniels, Burr DeBenning, Severn Darden, Micky Dolenz, Dennis Dugan, Andrew Duggan, Shelley Duvall, Dana Elcar, Jason Evers, Mike Farrell, Joan Fontaine, Bert Freed, Leif Garrett, Paul Michael Glaser, David Soul, Dabbs Greer Clu Gulager, Peter Haskell, Mark Hamill, Robert Hays, David Hedison, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Kim Hunter, Scott Hylands, David Janssen, Claudia Jennings, L. Q. Jones, Kate Keenan, Dan Kemp, Tom Kennedy, Sondra Locke, Robert Loggia, Tina Louise, Barbara Luna, George Maharis, Robert Mandan, Nora Marlowe, Ralph Meeker, Vera Miles, Donna Mills, Leslie Nielsen, Nick Nolte, Sheree North, Lee Paul, Steve Pendleton, Nehemiah Persoff, John M. Pickard, Stefanie Powers, Judson Pratt, Denver Pyle, Eldon Quick, Dack Rambo, Wayne Rogers, John Rubinstein, Roy Scheider, Martin Sheen, Tom Skerritt, Charlotte Stewart, Peter Strauss, Vic Tayback, Malachi Throne, Ronne Troup, Joan Van Ark, Vincent Van Patten, John Vernon, Jessica Walter, Jess Walton, Cindy Williams, William Windom, Dana Wynter, and Anthony Zerbe.
Cannon debuted in a two-hour movie on March 26, 1971 that served as the pilot. In the movie, Cannon's wife and child are killed in a car bomb meant for him, prompting him to resign from the Los Angeles police force and become a private detective.[1] The pilot was picked up to series for the 1971–72 television season, and the first one-hour episode aired September 14, 1971. The first season aired on Tuesday nights at 9:30 PM Eastern, following the popular Hawaii Five-0.[2] It moved to 10:00 PM Wednesday nights in season 2, then moved up to 9:00 PM Wednesdays for season 3 where it remained for the rest of the series run. Following three consecutive seasons in the Top 20 Nielsen ratings, Cannon fell to 39th in season 5 and was cancelled.[3]
In an era long before cell phone use, Cannon was frequently shown using a "mobile phone" in his signature Lincoln Continental, which was very rare at the time. Cannon would first ask the mobile operator to dial a call for him. Phones of this type were precursors to modern cell phones. The phone prop itself was a Motorola brand MTS mobile phone.
Main article: List of Cannon episodes
Tied with
1 March 26, 1971 (1971-03-26) N/A N/A N/A
24 September 14, 1971 (1971-09-14) March 14, 1972 (1972-03-14) 28 19.8 Room 222
24 September 13, 1972 (1972-09-13) March 21, 1973 (1973-03-21) 14 22.4 N/A
25 September 12, 1973 (1973-09-12) March 20, 1974 (1974-03-20) 9 23.1 The Mary Tyler Moore Show
24 September 11, 1974 (1974-09-11) April 2, 1975 (1975-04-02) 20 21.6 Mannix
25 September 10, 1975 (1975-09-10) March 3, 1976 (1976-03-03) 39[4] N/A Hawaii Five-0
1 November 1, 1980 (1980-11-01) N/A N/A N/A
Connections to Barnaby Jones
Frank Cannon met Barnaby Jones (Buddy Ebsen), an aging veteran private investigator who had retired and turned over his agency to his son, Hal, when Hal is killed. With the aid of Cannon and Hal's widow, Betty Jones (Lee Meriwether), he hunts down Hal's killer. Afterwards, Jones decides to come out of retirement. The premiere episode of Barnaby Jones, "Requiem for a Son" was planned as a second-season Cannon episode, but when Barnaby Jones was sold as a separate series the script was reworked into the premiere of that series. William Conrad appeared as a special guest star.
There was a second "crossover" between the series. The first part of the two-part episode, "The Deadly Conspiracy", was aired as the second episode of the fifth season of Cannon on September 17, 1975; the second part aired two nights later as the fourth-season premiere of Barnaby Jones.
CBS DVD (distributed by Paramount) has released the first two seasons of Cannon on DVD in Region 1. Season 3 was released on January 10, 2013, via Amazon.com's CreateSpace program. This is a manufacture-on-demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Amazon.com.[5]
On May 4, 2015, it was announced that Visual Entertainment had acquired the rights to the series in Region 1.[6] They subsequently released Cannon - The Complete Collection on September 2, 2015.
On March 18, 2016, VEI re-released the first season on DVD and on April 1, 2016, they re-released the second season.[7]
In Region 4, Shock Entertainment has released the first two seasons on DVD in Australia.
Ep no.
Season 1, Volume 1 13 July 8, 2008
Season 1, Volume 2 13 December 2, 2008
Season 1 24 March 18, 2016
Season 2, Volume 1 12 June 2, 2009
Season 2, Volume 2 12 February 16, 2010
Season 2 24 April 1, 2016
Season 3 24 January 10, 2013
Season 4 24 N/A
The Complete Series 122 September 2, 2015
Cannon received three Emmy Award nominations, for Outstanding Drama Series in 1973 and for William Conrad as Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1973 and 1974.[8]
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association nominated Cannon for three Golden Globe Awards, for Best Television Series - Drama in 1974 and for William Conrad in 1972 and 1973 as Best Actor in a Drama Television Series.[9]
A series of nine tie-in novels were published in the 1970s by Lancer/Magnum in the United States and Triphammer/Corgi in the United Kingdom.[10]
Murder by Gemini by Richard Gallagher
The Stewardess Strangler by Richard Gallagher
The Golden Bullet by Paul Denver (pseudonym of Douglas Enefer)
The Deadly Chance by Paul Denver
I've Got You Covered by Paul Denver
The Falling Blonde by Paul Denver
It's Lonely on the Sidewalk by Paul Denver
Farewell, Little Sister by Douglas Enefer
Shoot-Out! by Douglas Enefer
In an episode of his Thames Television series, British comedian Benny Hill parodied 1970s American detective series. In the skit, Hill played several staple characters of the genre: Frank Cannon, Robert Ironside, Theo Kojak, Sam McCloud (ironically, all b the latter were airing on BBC1 at the time rather than on Hill's home of ITV) and, although he was not a part of the genre, Agatha Christie's Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. Cast member Jenny Lee-Wright played the role of Pepper Anderson.
^ "MeTV Shows - Cannon". metv.com. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
^ "Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday December 21, 1971". ultimate70s.com. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
^ "1975-76 Ratings History". thetvratingsguide.com. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
^ "Cannon DVD news: Street Date for Cannon - Season 3 - TVShowsOnDVD.com". Archived from the original on March 31, 2016. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
^ "Cannon DVD news: DVD Plans for Cannon - TVShowsOnDVD.com". Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
^ "Cannon DVD news: Re-Release for Season 1 and Season 2 - TVShowsOnDVD.com". Archived from the original on April 19, 2016. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
^ "Nominations Search". Television Academy. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
^ "Cannon". Retrieved 2 May 2016.
^ "Cannon Novel Covers". Not The Baseball Pitcher. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
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This article is about the sword. For the founder of public deaf education, see Charles-Michel de l'Épée.
Shown is an épée fencer, with the valid target area (the entire body) in red.
The épée (English: /ˈɛpeɪ/ or /ˈeɪpeɪ/, French pronunciation: [epe]) is the largest and heaviest of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing. The modern épée derives from the 19th-century Épée de Combat,[1] a weapon which itself derives from the French small sword.[2]
As a thrusting weapon, the épée is similar to a foil (compared to a sabre, which is also designed for slashing) but has a stiffer blade, which is triangular in cross-section with a V-shaped groove called a fuller. It also has a larger bell guard and weighs more. The technique is somewhat different, as there are no rules regarding priority and right of way. In addition, the entire body is a valid target area.
3.1 Dueling sword
Electric épée fencing: Diego Confalonieri (left) and Fabian Kauter in the final of the Trophée Monal
While modern sport fencing has three weapons—foil, épée, and sabre, each a separate event—épée is the only one in which the entire body is the valid target area (the others restricted to varying areas above the waist). Épée is the heaviest of the three modern fencing weapons. As with all fencing disciplines, fencing matches with the épée require a large amount of concentration, accuracy and speed. Since the entire body is a target, a successful épée fencer must be able to anticipate their opponent's moves and strike their opponent at the correct time.
In most higher-level competitions, a grounded metal piste is used to prevent floor hits from registering as touches. Unlike sabre and foil, in épée there are no right-of-way rules regarding attacks, other than the aforementioned rule regarding touches with only the point of the weapon. Touches are awarded solely on the basis of which fencer makes a touch first, according to the electronic scoring machines. Also, double-touches are allowed in épée, although the touches must occur within 40 milliseconds (1/25 of a second) of each other.
There is a special aspect to the épée that separates it from the other fencing weapons. This special aspect known to the majority of the épée community is the counterattack. Some specifications include the stop-thrust and the time thrust. These actions are a simple counterattack and a counterattack on the opposition, respectively. Said in plain words, it is a tactic employed in response to an attack. With the absence of right-of-way, following an attack and landing it correctly can be a highly efficient way to score a touch, thus the counterattack's ubiquity.
An electric épée with a pistol grip
A modern épée for use by adult fencers (size 5) has a blade that measures 90 cm from the guard to the tip. The total weight of the weapon ready for use is less than 770 g,[3] with most competition weapons being much lighter, weighing 300 to 450 g. Épées for use by children under 13 are shorter and lighter (size 2), making it easier for them to use.
The blade of an épée is triangular in section, whereas that of a foil is rectangular, and neither blade has a cutting edge. Wires may run down a groove in épée blades fitted for electric scoring, with a depressible button capping the point. In competitive fencing, the width of any of the three sides of an épée's blade is limited to 24 mm.[3]
The guard has numerous forms, but all are boiled down to a spherical shield, the section of which fits in a 10–13.5 cm cylinder.[4] This is frequently called a bell guard. As the hand is a valid target in competitive fencing, the guard is much larger and more protective than that of a foil, having a depth of 3–5.5 cm and a diameter of up to 13.5 cm.[3]
As with foils, the grip of an épée can be exchanged for another if it has a screw-on pommel. Grip options primarily include either the French grip and the pistol grip.
In competitions, a valid touch is scored if a fencer's weapon touches the opponent with enough force to depress the tip; by rule, this is a minimum force of 750 grams-force (7.4 N). The tip is wired to a connector in the guard, then to an electronic scoring device or "box". The guard, blade, and handle of the épée are all grounded to the scoring box to prevent hits to the weapon from registering as touches.
The referee checks Kristina Kuusk's weapon in the Challenge International de Saint-Maur
In the groove formed by the V-shaped blade, there are two thin wires leading from the far end of the blade to a connector in the guard. These wires are held in place with a strong glue. The amount of glue is kept to a minimum as in the unlikely (but possible) case that a fencer manages a touch in that glue, the touch would be registered on the electrical equipment, as the glue is not conductive (the blade is grounded). In the event of tip to tip hits, a point should not be awarded. A "body cord" with a three-pronged plug at each end is placed underneath the fencer's clothing and attached to the connector in the guard, then to a wire leading to the scoring box. The scoring box signals with lights (one for each fencer) and a tone each time the tip is depressed.
The tip of an electric épée, or the button, comprises several parts: the mushroom-shaped, movable pointe d'arrêt at the end; its housing or "barrel" which is threaded onto the blade; a contact spring; and a return spring. The tips are generally held in place by two small grub screws, which thread into the sides of the tip through elongated openings on either side of the barrel. The screws hold the tip within the barrel but are allowed to travel freely in the openings. While this is the most common system, screwless variations do exist. The return spring must allow the tip to support a force of 750 gf (7.4 N) without registering a touch. Finally, an épée tip must allow a shim of 1.5 mm to be inserted between the pointe d'arrêt and the barrel, and when a 0.5 mm shim is inserted and the tip depressed, it should not register a touch.[5] The contact spring is threaded in or out of the tip to adjust for this distance. These specifications are tested at the start of each bout during competitions. During competitions, fencers are required to have a minimum of two weapons and two body wires in case of failure or breakage.
Bouts with the different fencing weapons have a different tempo; like the foil, the tempo for an épée bout is rather slow with sudden bursts of speed.
Dueling sword
A Swordfight, etching by Jacques Callot (1617)
The French word épée ultimately derives from Latin spatha. The term épée was introduced into English in the 1880s for the sportive fencing weapon.
Like the foil (fleuret), the épée evolved from light civilian weapons such as the smallsword, which, since the late 17th century, had been the most commonly used dueling sword, replacing the rapier.
The dueling sword developed in the 19th century when, under pressure from the authorities, duels were more frequently fought until "first blood" (as indicated by the French to English translation) only, instead of to the death[citation needed]. Under this provision, it became sufficient to inflict a minor nick on the wrist or other exposed area on the opponent in order to win the duel. This resulted in emphasis on light touches to the arm and hand, while downplaying hits to the torso (chest, back, groin). Rapiers with full cup-guards had been made since the mid 17th century, but were not widespread before the 19th century.
Today, épée fencing somewhat resembles 19th century dueling. An épée fencer must hit the target with the tip of the weapon. A difference between épée and foil versus sabre is that a corps-à-corps or "body-to-body" contact between fencers is not necessarily an offense, unless it is done with "brutality or violence".
In the pre-electric era, épéeists used a point d'arrêt ("stopping point"), a three-pronged point with small protruding spikes, which would snag on the opponent's clothing or mask, helping the referee to see the hits. The spikes caused épée fencing to be a notoriously painful affair, and épéeists could be easily recognized by the tears in their jacket sleeves. A later evolution of the sport used a point that was dipped in a dye, which showed the location of touches on a white uniform; the dye was soluble in weak acid (e.g., acetic acid) to remove old marks.[6] Today, competition is done with electric weapons, where a circuit is closed when the touch is made. Non-electric weapons are now typically used only for practice, generally fitted with plastic buttons.
Modern épée fencing underwent a paradigm shift from classical fencing in the 1970s and 1980s. The shift was pioneered by Eric Sollee, fencing coach at MIT, and his student, Johan Harmenberg, who subsequently won the World Fencing Championships and the Olympic gold medal. This new paradigm is based on the three Sollee Conjectures:
Is it possible for the fencer with the lower technical ability to decide the technical level of a bout?
Can the fencer with the shorter fencing distance control the distance in a bout?
Is it possible to force your opponent into your own area of greatest strength? [7]
This new paradigm resulted in Johan Harmenberg closing the fencing distance, using absence of blade with destructive parries in order to not allow opponents to use their strongest moves, and pushing them into attacking high which was a prerequisite for Johan using his own strongest move. Harmenberg used this approach to win eight individual and/or team épée gold medals at Olympic, World Fencing Championships, and Fencing World Cup competitions. As a result, many if not most of the top fencers have used the new paradigm or at least adjusted to fence those who do.[8][9]
Sabre (fencing)
Foil (fencing)
Small sword
Colichemarde
^ Evangelista, Nick. The Encyclopedia of the Sword. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995. p 208
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Épée-de-Combat" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 667–669. This contains a detailed contempraneous description of the history and form of the sport.
^ a b c Book 3: Material Rules (PDF). Rules for Competitions. FIE International Fencing Federation. Dec 2018. pp. 15–21.
Les formes en sont assez nombreuses, mais toutes se ramenent a un segment de sphere dont la section couvrirait une surface arrondie de 10 a 14 centimetres de diametre; la profondeur est generalement de 3 a 5 centimetres.
— Claude dea Marche, 1989. Original source unknown, but accessible thus: https://www.benjaminarms.com/research/fencing-sword-specifications/french-epee-specifications/
^ Garret, Maxwell R.; Kaidanov, Emmanuil G.; Pezza, Gil A. (1994). Foil, Saber, and Épée Fencing: Skills, Safety, Operations, and Responsibilities. Penn State University Press. p. 178. ISBN 0271010193. Retrieved 2012-11-26.
^ Richard Cohen, By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions, 2002, Random House, ISBN 978-0-375-50417-4; re-issued from Modern Library Paperbacks
^ Épée 2.5: The New Paradigm Revised and Augmented, SKA SwordPlay Books, October 2014, ISBN 978-0985444181
^ Epee 2.0: The New Fencing Paradigm, by Johan Harmenberg, SKA SwordPlay Books, October 2007, ISBN 978-0978902216
^ Epee 2.5: The New Paradigm Revised and Augmented, SKA SwordPlay Books, October 2014, ISBN 978-0985444181
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Tomgram: Michael Klare, Acclimatizing the U.S. Military
In case you hadn’t noticed, the climate change news is anything but good. There was that dismal recent United Nations Emissions Gap Report on how far so many countries are from meeting their Paris climate accord commitments on staunching greenhouse gas emissions. Then there was the World Meteorological Organization’s latest global climate report predicting that this decade will “almost certainly be the warmest” on record, with its second half proving significantly warmer than its first. Finally, the Global Carbon Project just reported new carbon-dioxide emissions figures for 2019 and, for the third year in a row, they’re on track to cumulatively hit a record high. Yes, the actual gain, 0.6% this year, was lower than the 2.1% increase of 2018. Still, at a moment when any climate scientist will tell you that greenhouse gas emissions should be significantly on the decline if our children and grandchildren are to inherit a truly habitable planet, they’re still going up (and up). And with the TV “news” yakking nonstop about impeachment and related Trumpian matters, this isn’t even considered a major story in much of the media. In my daily New York Times (which this old guy still reads in a paper format), the Global Carbon Project story was relegated to page 12, while the front page that day highlighted the report by the House Intelligence Committee on presidential behavior re: Ukraine (“a sweeping indictment”) and how, at the recent NATO meeting, Europe’s leaders turned “the tables on the Great Disrupter.”
And so it goes on planet Earth in 2019. In the context of the grim heating of this planet, TomDispatch regular Michael Klare, author of the just published book All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change, focuses today on an organization that, according to the Costs of War Project at Brown University, has historically been the largest institutional user of petroleum and “the single largest producer of greenhouse gases.” It has also, as Klare indicates in his new book, been one of the earliest government institutions to focus on the devastation climate change could bring our way. The question he considers today: How will that very institution, the Pentagon, adapt to this new future at a time when the American people chose (or at least the Electoral College chose for them) to put an arsonist in the White House as commander-in-chief? In this century, it seems that the phrase “firing squad” is gaining a new meaning as the almost perfect definition of the actions of the Trump administration and what the rest of us face. Tom
Insignia, Badges, and Medals for a Climate-Wracked Era
The U.S. Military on a Planet From Hell
It was Monday, March 1, 2032, and the top uniformed officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps were poised, as they are every year around this time, to deliver their annual “posture statement” on military readiness before the Senate Armed Services Committee. As the officers waited for the committee members to take their seats, journalists covering the event conferred among themselves on the meaning of all the badges and insignia worn by the top brass. Each of the officers testifying that day — Generals Richard Sheldon of the Army, Roberto Gonzalez of the Marine Corps, and Shalaya Wright of the Air Force, along with Admiral Daniel Brixton of the Navy — sported chestfuls of multicolored ribbons and medals. What did all those emblems signify?
Easy to spot were the Defense Distinguished Service and Legion of Merit medals worn by all four officers. No less obvious was the parachutist badge worn by General Sheldon and the submarine warfare insignia sported by Admiral Brixton. As young officers, all four had, of course, served in the “Forever Wars” of the earlier years of this century and so each displayed the Global War on Terror Service Medal. But all four also bore service ribbons — those small horizontal bars worn over the left pocket — for campaigns of more recent vintage, and these required closer examination.
Although similar in appearance to the service ribbons of previous decades, the more recent ones worn by these commanders were for an entirely new set of military operations, reflecting a changing global environment: disaster-relief missions occasioned by extreme climate events, critical infrastructure protection and repair, domestic firefighting activities, and police operations in foreign countries ruptured by fighting over increasingly scarce food and water supplies. All four of the officers testifying that day displayed emblems signifying their engagement in multiple operations of those types at home and abroad.
Several, for example, wore the red-black-yellow-and-blue ribbon signifying their participation in relief operations following the staggering one-two punch of Hurricanes Geraldo and Helene in August 2027. Those back-to-back storms, as few present in 2032 could forget, had inundated the coasts of Virginia and Maryland (from whose state flags the colors were derived), causing catastrophic damage and killing hundreds of people. Transportation and communication infrastructure throughout the mid-Atlantic region had been shattered by the two hurricanes, which also caused widespread flooding in Washington, D.C. itself. In response, more than 100,000 active-duty troops had been committed to relief operations across the region, often performing heroic measures to clear roads and restore power.
Also displayed on their heavily decorated uniforms were patches attesting to their membership in elite units and squadrons. General Sheldon, for example, had spent part of his military career as a member of the Army’s Rangers and so wore that unit’s distinctive insignia. But Sheldon, along with General Wright of the Air Force, also sported the bright red patch signifying membership in the military’s elite Firefighting Brigade, established in 2026 to counter the annual conflagrations erupting across California and the Pacific Northwest. Similarly, both General Gonzalez and Admiral Brixton sported the dark-blue patch of the Coastal Relief and Rescue Command, created in 2028 for military support of disaster-relief operations along America’s increasingly storm-ravaged coastlines.
Medal Mania
The media, politicians, and the general public have always been fascinated by the medals and badges worn by the nation’s military leaders. This obsession intensified in November 2019 when two events received national attention.
The first was the testimony on President Donald Trump’s possible impeachable offenses before the House Intelligence Committee by Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, the top expert on Ukraine at the National Security Council. During that testimony — which confirmed some of the claims made by an unnamed whistle-blower that the president had conditioned the release of U.S. military aid to Ukraine on an investigation of the alleged financial wrongdoing of his presumed electoral rival, Joe Biden (and his son) — Vindman wore a full-dress uniform. It bore a purple heart (awarded for a combat wound received in Iraq) and other ribbons signifying his participation in the war on terror and the defense of South Korea. Following his appearance, Trump supporters promptly challenged his patriotism, while many other observers affirmed that his calm assertions of loyalty in response to such charges and all those medals on his uniform accorded him unusual credibility.
The second episode occurred just a few weeks later when President Trump intervened in a formal Navy proceeding to allow Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher — once on trial for serious war crimes — to retain his “Trident” pin, the symbol of his membership in the Navy’s elite SEAL commando unit. Gallagher had served multiple tours of duty in the country’s twenty-first-century “forever wars.” He had also been accused by fellow SEALs of murdering a wounded and unconscious enemy combatant and then having himself photographed while proudly holding the dead body up by the hair.
When tried by fellow officers last June, Gallagher was acquitted of the murder charge after a key witness changed his story. He was, however, found guilty of taking a “trophy” photo of a dead enemy, a violation of military rules. When, on this basis, the Navy sought to eject Gallagher from the SEALs and strip him of his Trident pin, President Trump, egged on by conservative pundits, overruled the top brass and allowed him to keep that insignia. “The Navy will NOT be taking away Warfighter and Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher’s Trident Pin,” Trump tweeted on November 21st.
Like Lt. Col. Vindman, Chief Petty Officer Gallagher wore numerous service ribbons in his courtroom and public appearances and, in his case, too, they signified participation in the forever wars of the twenty-teens. A quick look at the badges borne by most other senior officers today would similarly reveal participation in those conflicts, as almost every senior commander has been obliged to serve several tours of duty in Iraq and/or Afghanistan.
By 2019, however, public support for engagement in those conflicts had largely evaporated and — to again peer into the future — during the 2020s, U.S. military involvement in such seemingly endless and futile contests would diminish sharply. Defense against China and Russia would remain a major military concern, but it would generate relatively little actual military activity, other than an ever-growing investment in high-tech weaponry. Instead, in those years, on a distinctly changing planet, the military mission would begin to change radically as well. Protecting the homeland from climate disasters and providing support to climate-ravaged allies abroad would become the main focus of American military operations and so the medals and ribbons awarded to those who displayed meritorious service in performing such duties would only multiply.
Medals for a Climate-Wracked Century
I can only speculate, of course, about the particular contingencies that will lead to the designation of special military insignia for participation in the climate battles of the decades ahead. Nevertheless, it’s possible, by extrapolating from recent events, to imagine what these might look like, even though the Department of Defense (DoD) does not yet award such ribbons.
Consider, for example, the Pentagon’s response to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, all of which hit parts of the United States between August and September 2017. In reaction to those mega-storms, which battered eastern Texas, southern Florida, and virtually all of Puerto Rico, the DoD deployed tens of thousands of active-duty troops to assist relief operations, along with a flotilla of naval vessels and a slew of helicopters and cargo aircraft. In addition, to help restore power and water supplies in Puerto Rico, it mobilized 11,400 active-duty and National Guard troops — many of whom were still engaged in such activities six months after Maria’s disastrous passage across that island. Given the extent of the military’s involvement in such rescue-and-relief operations — often conducted under hazardous conditions — it would certainly have been fitting had the Pentagon awarded a special service ribbon for participation in those triple-hurricane responses, using colors drawn from the Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rican flags.
Another example would have been Super Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013, which pulverized parts of the Philippines, a long-time ally, killing more than 6,000 people and destroying a million homes. With the Filipino government essentially immobilized by the scale of the disaster, President Barack Obama ordered the U.S. military to mount a massive relief operation, which it called Damayan. At its peak, it involved some 14,000 U.S. military personnel, a dozen major warships — including the carrier USS George Washington — and 66 aircraft. This effort, too, deserved recognition in the form of a distinctive service ribbon.
Now, let’s jump a decade or more into the future. By the early 2030s, with global temperatures significantly higher than they are today, extreme storms like Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Haiyan are likely to be occurring more frequently and to be even more powerful. With sea levels rising worldwide and ever more people living in low-lying coastal areas around the globe, the damage caused by such extreme weather is bound to increase exponentially, regularly overwhelming the response capabilities of civilian authorities. The result: ever increasing calls on the armed forces to provide relief-and-rescue services. “More frequent and/or more severe extreme weather events… may require substantial involvement of DoD units, personnel, and assets in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HA/DR) abroad and in Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA) at home,” the Pentagon was already informing Congress back in 2015.
Historically, it has viewed such activities as a “lesser included case”; that is, the military has not allocated specific troops or equipment for HA/DR and DSCA operations ahead of time, but used whatever combat forces it had on hand for such missions. Typical, for instance, was the use of an aircraft carrier already in the region to deal with the results of Super Typhoon Haiyan. As such events only grow in intensity and frequency, however, the Pentagon will find it increasingly necessary to establish dedicated units like the hypothetical “Coastal Relief and Rescue Command” (whose insignia General Gonzalez and Admiral Brixton were wearing in “2032”).
This will become essential as multiple coastal storms coincide with other extreme events, including massive wildfires or severe inland flooding, creating a “complex catastrophe” that could someday threaten the economy and political cohesion of the United States itself.
“Complex Catastrophes”
The DoD first envisioned the possibility of a “complex catastrophe” in 2012, after Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast that October. Sandy, as many readers will recall, knocked out power in lower Manhattan and disrupted commerce and transportation throughout the New York Metropolitan Area. On that occasion, the DoD mobilized more than 14,000 military personnel for relief-and-rescue operations and provided a variety of critical support services. In the wake of that storm, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta commanded his staff to consider the possibility of even more damaging versions of the same and how these might affect the military’s future roles and mission.
The Pentagon’s response came in a 2013 handbook, Strategy for Homeland Defense and Defense Support of Civil Authorities, warning the military to start anticipating and preparing for “complex catastrophes,” which, in an ominous breathful, it defined as “cascading failures of multiple, interdependent, critical, life-sustaining infrastructure sectors [causing] extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the population, environment, economy, public health, national morale, response efforts, and/or government functions.” While recognizing that civil authorities must remain the first line of defense in such calamities, the handbook indicated that, if civil institutions are overwhelmed — an increasingly likely reality — the armed forces must be prepared to assume many key governmental functions, possibly for an extended period of time.
In the future, in other words, all senior commanders and other officers can expect to participate in major HA/DR and DSCA operations during their careers, possibly involving extended deployments and hazardous missions. In 2017, for instance, many soldiers were deployed in Houston for rescue operations after Hurricane Harvey had drenched the region and, in the process, were exposed to toxic chemicals in the knee-deep floodwaters because some of the area’s petrochemical plants had been inundated. Looting has also been a recurring feature of major weather disasters, sometimes involving gunfire or other threats to life.
Increasingly frequent and savage wildfires in the American West are another climate-related peril likely to impinge on the military’s future operational posture. As temperatures rise and forests dry out, fires, once started, often spread with a daunting rapidity, overpowering firefighters and other local defenses. California and the Pacific Northwest are at particular risk, as severe drought has been a persistent problem in the region, while people have moved their homes ever deeper into the forests. In recent years, the National Guard in those states has been called up on numerous occasions to help battle such fires and active-duty troops have increasingly been deployed on the fire lines as well.
The proliferation of ever more severe wildfires in the American West — combined with similar devastating outbreaks in Australia and the rainforests of Indonesia and the Amazon — have led to a global shortage of the giant air tankers used to fight them. In November 2019, for example, Australia was pleading for the loan of water tankers still needed in California to cope with a deadly fire season that had lasted far longer than usual. It’s easy to imagine, then, that the U.S. Air Force will one day be compelled by Congress to establish a dedicated fleet of water tankers to fight fires around the country — what I chose to call the U.S. Firefighting Brigade in my own futuristic imaginings.
Foreign Climate Wars
Yet another climate-related mission likely to be undertaken by U.S. forces in the years ahead will be armed intervention in foreign civil conflicts triggered by severe drought, food shortages, or other resource scarcities. American military and intelligence analysts believe that rising world temperatures will result in widespread shortages of food and water in crucial areas of the planet like the Middle East, only exacerbating preexisting hostilities to the breaking point. When governments fail to respond in an efficient and equitable manner, conflict is likely to erupt, possibly resulting in state collapse, warlordism, and mass migrations — outcomes that could pose a significant threat to global stability. (Keep in mind, for instance, that the horrific Syrian civil war, still ongoing, was preceded by an “extreme drought,” the worst in modern times and believed to be climate-change induced.)
“Climate change is an urgent and growing threat to our national security,” the DoD stated in its 2015 report to Congress, “contributing to increased natural disasters, refugee flows, and conflicts over basic resources such as food and water.”
One area where these forces can be witnessed today is the Lake Chad region of northern Nigeria, where severe drought conditions have produced widespread hardship and discontent that a variety of insurgent groups have sought to exploit. Once a thriving locale for fishing and irrigated agriculture, Lake Chad has shrunk to less than a fifth of its original size due to global warming and water mismanagement. With people’s livelihoods in jeopardy and the central government providing little reliable assistance, the terror group Boko Haram has been able to attract significant local support.
“Economic conditions in the region have become increasingly dire, creating resentment, grievances, and tensions within and among populations,” the CNA Corporation, a Pentagon-funded think tank, noted as early as 2017. “Boko Haram exploits this situation to recruit followers, offering them economic opportunity and secured livelihoods.”
Given Nigeria’s strategic importance as a major oil producer and bulwark of African Union peacekeeping forces, the United States has long assisted the Nigerian military with arms and training support. Were Boko Haram to begin to attack Abuja, the capital, or pose a threat to the survival of the Nigerian government, it’s entirely plausible that the Pentagon would be called upon to deploy forces there.
Were such a thing to happen, a service ribbon for participation in “Operation Yanci” (Hausa for “freedom”), the 2024 mission to crush Boko Haram and save the Nigerian state, might have the green and white bands of the Nigerian flag and be worn — at least in my imaginings — by two of the generals present at that hearing in 2032.
Another plausible future mission for the U.S. military: to help the government of the Philippines reassert control over its southern island of Mindanao after a typhoon even more destructive than 2013’s Haiyan struck the region in 2026. With the government in nearly complete disarray, as after Haiyan’s landfall, militant separatists that year seized control of the country’s second largest island. Unable to overcome the rebels on its own, Manila called on Washington to bolster its forces. Mindanao has long experienced revolts focused on a central government widely viewed as prejudiced against the island’s 20 million people, a significant number of them Muslim. In May 2017, for instance, radical Islamist groups seized control of Marawi, a Muslim-majority city of about 200,000 in western Mindanao. Only after five months of fighting in which 168 government soldiers died and 1,400 were wounded was the city completely retaken. The United States aided Filipino forces with arms and intelligence during that struggle and has continued to provide them with counterinsurgency training ever since.
As global warming advances and Pacific typhoons grow more intense, the Philippines will be hit again and again by catastrophic, Haiyan-level storms like Kammuri this December. So it’s not hard to envision a future storm severe enough to completely paralyze government services and provide an opening for another Marawi-style event on an even larger scale. For those American soldiers who will participate in Operation Kalayaan (Tagalog for “Liberty”), the 2026 campaign to liberate Mindinao from rebel forces, there will undoubtedly be a ribbon of red, blue, white, and gold, the colors of the Filipino flag.
The Military on a New Planet
All this, of course, is speculation, but given how rapidly the planetary environment is being altered by global warming and its disruptive effects, climate change will become a major factor in U.S. strategic planning. That, in turn, will mean the setting up of specialized commands to deal with such contingencies and the earmarking of specific resources — troops and equipment — for domestic and foreign disaster-relief missions.
The Department of Defense will similarly have to step up its efforts to harden its own domestic and foreign bases against severe storms and flooding, while beginning to develop plans to relocate those that will be inundated as sea levels rise. In a similar fashion, count on fire protection becoming a major concern for base commanders across the American West. Efforts now under way at significant installations to reduce the U.S. military’s prodigious consumption of fossil fuels and to increase reliance on renewables will undoubtedly be part of the package as well. And with all of this will surely go plans to devise new medals and honors for military personnel who exhibit meritorious service in protecting the nation against the extreme climate perils to come. In a world in which all hell is going to break loose, everything will change and the military will be no exception.
Michael T. Klare, a TomDispatch regular, is the five-college professor emeritus of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and a senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association. He is the author of 15 books, including the just-published All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change (Metropolitan Books), on which this article is based.
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Tomgram: Bob Dreyfuss, Iraq Redux?
Let me quote a rare good guy and once-upon-a-time leader on this increasingly godforsaken planet of ours, former Soviet president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mikhail Gorbachev. He recently wrote: “What we urgently need now is a rethinking of the entire concept of security… The overriding goal must be human security: providing food, water, and a clean environment and caring for people’s health… I’ll never tire of repeating: we need to demilitarize world affairs, international politics, and political thinking.”
How true, and here’s the sad truth: we are getting a rethinking of sorts in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. As TomDispatch regular Bob Dreyfuss suggests today, that rethinking — by the president of the United States, no less — involves security, but only the future security of one man (and you know just who he is) in a world where he could be blamed for so much harm. At a moment when the United States and China, the two great powers on what looks to be an economically broken planet, should be working together to restore global health and well-being, Donald Trump has decided that he no longer even wants to talk to his former “friend,” that “incredible guy,” Chinese President Xi Jinping. (“Right now, I don’t want to speak to him.”) As Reuters reports, he’s even threatening to cut all ties with China, which, if done, could make the protectionism of the Great Depression era look like the good old days. Meanwhile, he’s begun bragging that his administration, which has been spending money “modernizing” the U.S. nuclear arsenal that goes with it at a pace equal to that of the other eight nuclear powers combined, is developing a new “super duper missile” that will leave China (and Russia) in the dust.
Honestly, for the president of a nation that’s become the global epicenter of the Covid-19 crisis, the urge to dump full responsibility for whatever’s happening, pandemic-related or otherwise, on the Chinese seems to have become overwhelming. (Mind you, the Chinese leadership hasn’t exactly been a model of moderation when it comes to ludicrous charges and vitriolic claims aimed at the U.S. on the subject of the coronavirus.) As Dreyfuss explains today, the idea that everything happening to The Donald can be blamed on a lab in Wuhan, China, should bring to mind one of the lesser moments in our recent past, the Bush administration’s march to war in Iraq based on the fakest of “intelligence.” And count on this: when it comes to Donald Trump & Co., everything that’s happened so far is only the beginning. Tom
The Wuhan Hoax
Covid-19 and Trump’s War on the U.S. Intelligence Community
By Bob Dreyfuss
There’s a meme that appears now and then on Facebook and other social media: “Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it.”
That’s funny. What’s not is that the Trump administration and its coterie of China-bashers, led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and aided by Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton, have recently been dusting off the fake-intelligence playbook Vice President Dick Cheney used in 2002 and 2003 to justify war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. At that time, the administration of President George W. Bush put enormous pressure on the U.S. intelligence community to ratify spurious allegations that Saddam Hussein was in league with al-Qaeda and that his regime had assembled an arsenal of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. Fantasy claims they may have been, but they did help to convince many skeptical conservatives and spooked liberals that a unilateral, illegal invasion of Iraq was urgently needed.
This time around, it’s the Trump administration’s reckless charge that Covid-19 — maybe manmade, maybe not, advocates of this conspiracy theory argue — was released perhaps deliberately, perhaps by accident from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, the city that was the epicenter of the outbreak late last year. It’s a story that has ricocheted around the echo chambers of the far right, from conspiracy-oriented Internet kooks like Infowars’ Alex Jones to semi-respectable media tribunes and radio talk-show hosts to the very highest reaches of the administration itself, including President Trump.
Unlike with Iraq in 2003, the U.S. isn’t planning on going to war with China, at least not yet. But the Trump administration’s zeal in shifting attention from its own bungling of the Covid-19 crisis to China’s alleged culpability in creating a global pandemic only raises tensions precipitously between the planet’s two great powers at a terrible moment. In the process, it essentially ensures that the two countries will be far less likely to cooperate in managing the long-term pandemic or collaboratively working on vaccines and cures. That makes it, as in 2002-2003, a matter of life and death.
Iraq Redux?
Back in 2002, the Bush administration launched an unending campaign of pressure on the CIA and other intelligence agencies to falsify, distort, and cherry-pick intelligence factoids that could be collated into a package linking al-Qaeda and weapons of mass destruction to Saddam Hussein’s Baghdad. At the Pentagon, neoconservatives like Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith set up an ad hoc team that eventually took on the name of Office of Special Plans. It was dedicated to fabricating intelligence on Iraq.
Just in case the message didn’t get across, Vice President Cheney made repeated visits to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, to badger analysts to come up with something useful. In 2003, in “The Lie Factory,” which I co-authored with Jason Vest for Mother Jones, we reported on how Wolfowitz, Feith, allied Defense Department officials like Harold Rhode, and neoconservative apparatchiks like David Wurmser, then a senior adviser to Iraq-war-touting State Department Undersecretary John Bolton (and now an unofficial advisor to Donald Trump on Iran), actively worked to purge Pentagon and CIA officials who resisted the push to shape or exaggerate intelligence. A year later, veteran spy-watcher James Bamford described the whole episode in excruciating detail in his 2004 book, A Pretext for War.
In 2020, however, President Trump is not just pressuring the intelligence community, or IC. He’s at war with it and has been busy installing unprofessional know-nothings and sycophants in top positions there. His bitter antipathy began even before he was sworn into office, when he repeatedly refused to believe a sober analysis from the IC, including the CIA and FBI, that President Vladimir Putin of Russia had aided and abetted his election. Since then, he’s continually railed and tweeted against what he calls “the deep state.” And he’s assigned his authoritarian attorney general, Bill Barr, to conduct a scorched-earth offensive against the work of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the FBI, and the Justice Department itself, most recently by dropping charges against admitted liar Michael Flynn, briefly Trump’s first national security advisor.
To make sure that the IC doesn’t challenge his wishes and does his bidding, Trump has moved to put his own political operatives in charge at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI, created as part of an intelligence reorganization scheme after 9/11. The effort began in February when Trump named U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell as acting DNI. A highly partisan, sharp-elbowed politico and spokesman for former National Security Advisor John Bolton, he harbors far-right views and is a Trump loyalist, as well as an acolyte of former Trump aide Steve Bannon. On arriving in Bonn as ambassador, Grenell soon endorsed the rise of Europe’s anti-establishment ultra-right in an interview with Bannon’s Breitbart News.
To bolster Grenell, the administration has called on another ultra-right crusader, Kash Patel. He has served as Republican Congressman Devin Nunes’s aide in the campaign to discredit the Russia investigation and reportedly acted as a White House backchannel to Ukraine during the effort to stir up an inquiry in Kiev aimed at tarring former Vice President Joe Biden.
Following that, the president re-named Congressman John Ratcliffe of Texas, one of the president’s most enthusiastic defenders during the debate over impeachment, to serve as Grenell’s permanent replacement at ODNI. In 2019, Trump first floated Ratcliffe’s name for the post, but it was shot down days later, thanks to opposition from even Republican members of Congress, not to speak of intelligence professionals and various pundits. Now, he’s back, awaiting likely confirmation.
It remains to be seen whether the Grenell-Ratcliffe tag-team, combined with Trump’s three-year campaign to disparage the intelligence community and intimidate its functionaries, has softened them up enough for the administration’s push to finger China and its labs for creating and spreading Covid-19.
The Wuhan Lab Lies
As is often the case, that campaign began rather quietly and unobtrusively in conservative and right-wing media outlets.
On January 24th, the right-wing Washington Times ran a story entitled “Coronavirus may have originated in a lab linked to China’s biowarfare program.” It, in turn, was playing off of a piece that had appeared in London’s Daily Mail the previous day. Written like a science-fiction thriller, that story drew nearly all its (unverified) information from a single source, an Israeli military intelligence China specialist. Soon, it moved from the Washington Times to other American right-wing outlets. Steve Bannon picked it up the next day on his podcast, “War Room: Pandemic,” calling the piece “amazing.” A few days later, the unreliable, gossipy website ZeroHedge ran a (later much-debunked) piece saying that a Chinese scientist bioengineered the virus, purporting even to name the scientist.
A couple of weeks later, Fox News weighed in, laughably citing a Dean Koontz novel, The Eyes of Darkness, about “a Chinese military lab that creates a new virus to potentially use as a biological weapon during wartime.” The day after that, Senator Tom Cotton — appearing on Fox, of course — agreed that China might indeed have created the virus. Then the idea began to go… well, viral. (Soon Cotton was even tweeting that Beijing might possibly have deliberately released the virus.) By late February, the right’s loudest voice, Rush Limbaugh, was on the case, claiming that the virus “is probably a ChiCom laboratory experiment that is in the process of being weaponized.” (A vivid account of how this conspiracy theory spread can be found at the Global Disinformation Index.)
Starting in March, even as they were dismissing the seriousness of Covid-19, both Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo repeatedly insisted on referring to it as the “China virus” or the “Wuhan virus,” ignoring criticism that terminology like that was both racist and inflammatory. In late March, Pompeo even managed to scuttle a communiqué from America’s allies in the Group of Seven, or G7, by demanding that they agree to use the term “Wuhan virus.” It didn’t take the president long to start threatening retaliatory action against China for its alleged role in spreading Covid-19, while he began comparing the pandemic to the 1941 Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
And all of that was but a prelude to the White House ramping up of pressure on the CIA and the rest of the intelligence community to prove that the virus had indeed emerged, whether by design or accident, from either the Wuhan Institute of Virology or the Wuhan Center for Disease Control, a branch of the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An April 30th article in the New York Times broke the story that administration officials “have pushed American spy agencies to hunt for evidence to support an unsubstantiated theory that a government laboratory in Wuhan, China, was the origin of the coronavirus outbreak,” and that Grenell had made it a “priority.”
Both Trump and Pompeo would, in the meantime, repeatedly assert that they had seen actual “evidence” that the virus had indeed come from a Chinese lab, though Trump pretended that the information was so secret he couldn’t say anything more about it. “I can’t tell you that,” he said. “I’m not allowed to tell you that.” Asked during an appearance on ABC’s This Week if the virus had popped out of a lab in Wuhan, Pompeo answered: “There is enormous evidence that that’s where this began.”
On April 30th, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a terse statement, saying that so far it had concluded Covid-19 is “not manmade or genetically modified,” but that they were looking into whether or not it was “the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan.” There is, however, no evidence of such an accident, nor did the ODNI cite any.
A Finger on the Scale
The run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2002-2003 should be on all our minds today. Then, top officials simply repeated again and again that they believed both Saddam Hussein’s nonexistent ties to al-Qaeda and his nonexistent active nuclear, chemical, and bioweapon programs were realities and assigned intelligence community collectors and analysts to look into them (while paying no attention to their conclusions). Now, Trump and his people are similarly putting their fat fingers on the scale of reality, while making it clear to hopefully intimidated intelligence professionals just what conclusions they want to hear.
Because those professionals know that their careers, salaries, and pensions depend on the continued favor of the politicians who pay them, there is, of course, a tremendous incentive to go along with such demands, shade what IC officials call the “estimate” in the direction the White House wants, or at least keep their mouths shut. That is exactly what happened in 2002 and, given that Grenell, Patel, and Ratcliffe are essentially Trump toadies, the IC officials lower on the totem pole have to be grimly aware of what their latest bosses expect from them.
There was near-instant pushback from scientists, intelligence officials, and China experts about the Trump-Pompeo campaign to finger the Wuhan lab. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the preeminent American scientist and Covid-19 expert, promptly shot it down, saying that the virus had “evolved in nature and then jumped species.” That’s because actual scientists, who study the genome of the virus and its mutations, unanimously agree that it was not generated in a lab.
Among America’s allies — Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand — in what’s called the Five Eyes group, there was an unambiguous conclusion that the virus had been a “naturally occurring” one and had mutated in the course of “human and animal interaction.” Australia, in particular, rejected what appeared to be a fake-intelligence dossier about the Wuhan lab, while German officials in an internal document ridiculed the lab rumors as “a calculated attempt to distract” attention from the Trump administration’s own inept handling of the virus.
Finally, according to Bloomberg News, those studying the issue inside the intelligence community now say that suspicions it emerged from a lab are “largely circumstantial since the U.S. has very little information from the ground to back up the lab-escape theory or any other.” In the end, however, that doesn’t mean top IC officials beholden to the White House won’t tailor their conclusions to fit the Trump-Pompeo narrative.
John McLaughlin, who served as deputy director and then acting director of the CIA during the Bush administration, believes that we are indeed seeing a replay of what happened in Iraq nearly two decades ago. “What it reminds me of is the dispute between the CIA and parts of the Bush administration over whether there was an operational relationship between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda,” he said. “They kept asking the CIA, and we kept coming back and saying, ‘You know, it’s just not there.’”
Whether the tug-of-war between Trump, Pompeo, and the IC is just another passing battle in a more than three-year-old war between the president and the “Deep State” or whether it’s something that could lead to a serious crisis between Washington and Beijing remains to be seen. Ironically enough, in January and February of this year, the IC provided President Trump with more than a dozen clear warnings about the dangers to the United States and national security posed by the coronavirus, following clarion calls from China and the World Health Organization that what was happening in Wuhan could spread worldwide — warnings that Trump either failed to notice, disregarded, or downplayed through March.
Were Donald Trump not so predisposed to see the intelligence community as his enemy, he might have paid more attention back then. Had he done so, there would undoubtedly be many less dead Americans right now and he wouldn’t have had to spend his time in his own lab concocting what might be thought of as batshit excuses for his dereliction of duty.
By the time this affair is over, the invasion of Iraq could look like the good old days.
Bob Dreyfuss, an investigative journalist and TomDispatch regular, is a contributing editor at the Nation and has written for Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, the American Prospect, the New Republic, and many other magazines. He is the author of Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam.
Copyright 2020 Bob Dreyfuss
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:54 pm Post subject: ARBROATH
Photos by Tom,
I struggled to do the tablets any justice, will forward them to D.R.
The memorial is situated on the west end of the town on the A92;
approaching from the West into Arbroath,
Pass the Red Lion caravan park which is on the left,
continue on to the mini roundabout at the bridge,
turn left go up the hill to a second mini roundabout
go right and follow the road round the bend.
There you will find Arbroath Infirmary, park on the street,
cross the street to the right and enter the park
there you will find the memorial. Approaching from the
East on the A92 as you pass Arbroath FC ground
on the left the monument is on the high ground to the right.
From the memorial there is an uninterupted view of the
North Sea and the approaches to the Firth of Tay
Great War names:
Second World War names
UKNIWM Ref: 5662
A Roll of Honour for Arbroath was published after The Second World War. It is a small book but there are photographs of most of those named on this memorial.
...and a very good book it is too. Follows the same format as the First World War Roll for Arbroath.
HELENA STEWART BENNET
Staff Nurse, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Medical Nursing Service, yst. dau. of the late Andrew Bennet, of Arbroath, solicitor, by his wife, Grace McCracken (13 Gillespie Crescent, Edinburgh): b. Arbroath, Co. Forfar, 1890; educ. High School there, was trained as a nurse at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, and had just finished her four years course, joined the Queen Alexandra's Nursing Service 30 Sept., 1918, and died at the Prisoner of War Camp Hospital, Oswestry, 19 Oct. following, of influenza and pneumonia, contracted whilst on service. Buried in Western Cemetery, Arbroath; unm.
Name: BENNET, HELENA STEWART
Initials: H S
Rank: Staff Nurse
Regiment/Service: Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
Grave/Memorial Reference: H. 583.
Cemetery: ARBROATH WESTERN CEMETERY
The photo and information for Helena Bennet were taken from de Ruvigny's.
I see there were Roll of Honour books done for Arbroath. What sort of format did the entries take?
A photograph and a short bigraphy.
Excellent books the pair of them. Well worth tracking down if you have an interest in the area.
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:30 am Post subject: Name to be Added to Memorial
A new name will be added to the war memorial in Arbroath early in the new year.
Guardsman George Lockhart who was shot in the back in Ireland in 1972.
http://www.arbroathherald.co.uk/news/GUARDSMANS-BRAVERY-TO-BE-RECOGNISED.3610481.jp
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:14 am Post subject: other pictures
Here's a postcard of the memorial before its WWII additions.
And the view from the top of the common facing the back of the memorial with the view it gives to visitors.
A new plaque with the name of a soldier killed in Northern Ireland in 1972 is to be unveiled today in Arbroath. Here are the details from the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7519876.stm
Soldier remembered 36 years later
An Arbroath solider who was shot and killed in Northern Ireland is being remembered in his home town - almost 36 years after his death.
About 100 people are expected to march to the war memorial for the official dedication of a plaque to Scots Guardsman George Lockhart. The 24-year-old was hit in the back by a sniper in Londonderry in 1972.
The Scots Guards Association has been campaigning for about three years to have his name added to the memorial.
'Never forgotten'
Chairman of the Dundee and Angus branch David Cuthill told the BBC Scotland news website he was "over the moon" and "fair-chuffed" that this day had finally arrived.
He said: "We've been campaigning for years to get this chap's name on the war memorial at Arbroath - George Lockhart.
"He was wounded by a sniper while on patrol in Londonderry in Northern Ireland on September 23rd 1972 and he died from his wounds on the 26th of September.
"All veterans that have been killed, it doesn't matter what campaign they've been in, it should be recognised.
"It doesn't matter how far back you go, anybody who's been killed in action should be remembered - never forgotten."
Good to see that Arbroath is remembering their Post-1945 dead even though it has taken three years.
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Representatives Coffman and Kirkpatrick Introduce Bipartisan Bill on Gulf War Health Research
CONTACT: Clay Sutton
Bipartisan Bill on Gulf War Health Research
(Washington, D.C.) Today, U.S. Representative Mike Coffman (R-CO), along with U.S. Representative Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ), introduced the Gulf War Health Research Reform Act of 2014. The legislation is the product of an extensive investigation by Coffman’s House Veteran’s Affairs Subcommittee for Oversight and Investigation (O& I) that found the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) exercising too much control over the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illnesses (RAC) that was denying their ability to effectively and independently carry out its Congressionally mandated role to improve the lives of Gulf War Veterans.
“As a Gulf War veteran, I’ve been extremely disappointed at the actions of VA staff to misdirect Gulf War illnesses research by reviving the scientifically discredited concept that “the same thing happens after every war”, and to eliminate oversight, just as science is finally making some progress,” said Coffman, a Marine Corps combat veteran.
The O&I Subcommittee’s investigation into the VA’s research efforts regarding the causes of Gulf War illness uncovered the misuse of funds appropriated for researching Gulf War Illness that was diverted for other purposes. The Subcommittee also found that the RAC had been marginalized by VA’s efforts to embargo their reports and pack the RAC with members who had a bias toward seeing Gulf War as having a psychosomatic rather than biological basis.
“We owe it to those who have served our country to provide them with the best medical care and resources available,” said Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick. “This includes ensuring the VA conducts objective research on chronic illnesses experienced by Gulf War veterans, in an effort to find treatments that can make a difference in their quality of life.”
The legislation makes the RAC an independent committee within the VA and requires that a majority of its members be appointed by the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs Committees and gives the RAC oversight responsibilities over Gulf War Illness research. It also requires the VA ensure that research conducted on this disease be referred to as “Gulf War Illness” and that Institute of Medicine reports on the health effects of toxic exposures veterans were subjected to, consider animal as well as human studies, as Congress has previously ordered, to better understand the causes and how best to treat the afflicted veterans.
“We have learned a lot in the last twenty years about the debilitating physical effects of Gulf War Illness on our veterans, and we need to make sure that we make every effort to accurately identify, diagnose, and treat them. To be sure, it should not take another 20 years for us all to get this right,” emphasized Coffman.
Coffman serves as the chairman and Kirkpatrick is the ranking Democrat on the House Veterans O&I Subcommittee. This legislation will be part of a hearing in the Oversight and Investigation Subcommittee on March 26th.
Connect with Congressman Coffman:
**FULL BILL TEXT: Gulf War Health Research Reform Act of 2014
Bravo!!!! All Gulf War Veterans, sick or not need to get behind this legislation by contacting their elected reps immediately to urge their support for this much needed change in the way Persian Gulf War Veterans are treated by the VA.
David K Winnett, Jr.
CAPTAIN, USMC (Ret.)
Very well done Anthony Hardie and Paul Sullivan for making this happen. Our needs have been pushed aside in the past twenty years and now I think we can level the research field with correct information and research.
I really hope the legislation to give the Research Advisory Committee back its autonomy passes. I am not a veteran, but as an American I am sickened by all of VA and DoD's lying about GWI. Give these heroes the medical care they need and stop warping the science. Have they no conscience whatsoever?
Justin Reilly, esq.
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The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) announced today that Scott Richland will become Caltech's new chief investment officer, effective September 13, 2010. In this role, he will work closely with the Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees and the team in the Institute's Investment Office to manage Caltech's increasingly diverse array of security holdings and investment properties. Richland's financial acumen and personal integrity will be tremendous assets as he provides leadership for the Institute's investment team and enhances the performance of Caltech's endowment, which provides vital support for Caltech's research and teaching activities.
"Caltech was fortunate to find an individual with Scott's skills and experience to fill the valuable role of chief investment officer," says Caltech's president, Jean-Lou Chameau. "It takes a tremendous amount of resources to conduct cutting-edge research and provide students with a world-class education. While financial markets may fluctuate, Caltech's commitment to these goals remains constant. Scott and his team will help ensure Caltech faculty and students have the resources they need to continue to confront our greatest scientific challenges."
Richland has a track record of sound investing and providing valuable financial counsel. Most recently, he served as president of Lunada Bay Investors, LLC, a private investment firm with interests in equities, fixed income, hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, and real estate. In addition, he serves on the board of directors of several companies, including First SunAmerica Life Insurance Company and the United States Life Insurance Company in New York City. He is also an advisor to Evolved Alpha, a multi-strategy hedge fund. From 2003 to 2009, Richland served as president of private investment manager and family office Andell Holdings, LLC, and served as vice chairman of Major League Soccer's Chicago Fire, which Andell owns. Prior to his time at Andell, he spent 12 years in senior management roles at SunAmerica Inc. and AIG (which acquired SunAmerica in 1999).
Richland received his MBA from Stanford University and BA in political science from UCLA. He recently completed a six-year term on the board of trustees of the Stanford Business School Trust, which manages approximately 20 percent of the graduate school's endowment in an alumni-led, independent investment fund.
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TPP would reduce dairy volatility
Dairy, Featured, TPP August 24, 2015 Jeff Smith
TPP deal to free up world dairy trade would reduce volatility
DairyNZ chairman John Luxton writes that major TPP players are holding their dairy consumers to ransom
The news that the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal has not been agreed because of differences over autos, dairy and intellectual property is no surprise to anyone.
Some of the major players have sought to maintain trade protection rather than to reduce it.
It seems incredible that the US dairy industry has so far convinced the US negotiators that they need to be protected from any increase in New Zealand dairy imports into the US.
The New Zealand dairy industry is the only dairy sector in the TPP which is predominantly export focussed. Around 95% of our production is exported which represents around 25 to 30 percent of New Zealand’s exports by value. The next closest is Australia which exports around 40 percent of their dairy production, but this represents only around 2 percent of Australia’s export earnings. The US dairy sector currently provides much less than 1 percent of the US’s total exports, but by volume the US is still the largest exporter of milk powder, cheese, and dairy proteins in the TPP region. The US dairy industry is four times larger than the New Zealand industry, and exports over 15 percent of its production. The US share of global dairy exports has more than tripled since 2003.
The US dairy sector has stated that access should only be given equivalent to the amount of additional access that they gain from the Japanese and Canadian dairy markets. But this makes no sense given that the US dairy market is significantly larger than the dairy markets of either Japan or Canada, having over 322 million consumers compared to Canada’s 36 million, and Japan’s 126 million. It also consumes nearly 800,000 tonnes of butter and butter related products annually. The Canadian, Japanese and New Zealand dairy sectors each comprise around 11,500 farms each; however the Canadian and Japanese dairy sectors are heavily protected from imported product with tariffs of up to 300 percent on imports. Being sheltered from any competition they produce around one third of the milk that New Zealand farms produce and at two to three times the cost. Dairy consumption is also much lower in these countries because of their high production cost, passed on to their consumers.
There is a parallel in New Zealand. New Zealand used to make cars like Japan does – but at a cost of nearly twice that of Japan. The removal of tariffs on motor vehicles in the 1990s reduced transport costs for all New Zealanders markedly. Free access to our market was given to the Japanese, Canadian and US motor vehicle motor vehicle manufacturers.
To date in TPP Japan has been reported as offering an annual increase in dairy access to New Zealand, equivalent to the production of about three larger New Zealand dairy farms, or .0016 percent of our total production.
Meanwhile in Japan, butter has been rationed and additional emergency imports are regularly being sought. Effectively 11,000 dairy producers are holding 126 million Japanese citizens to ransom in terms of their dairy consumption options. Canada also appears not to have made a decent offer on dairy. Whilst most sectors of the Canadian agricultural sector want TPP to be successful in order to allow an expansion of cereal, canola and pork exports, the Canadian government still seems to be focussed upon protecting inefficient parts of their farming sector. In this way Canada’s 11,000 dairy farmers are holding 36 million Canadians citizens to ransom both in terms of the dairy products they can access and reducing the export prospects of their more efficient producers.
The US, Canadian, and Japanese trade negotiators need to deliver on the original intent of a comprehensive removal of restrictions on all goods traded amongst the TPP signatories – not just on the exports that matter to them.
The best outcome for dairy would be to enter into a comprehensive approach to opening up these currently closed markets by opening up progressively over 5 to10 years to allow total access. Then local dairy sectors could then adjust to the changing market.
A comprehensive freeing up of dairy trade in the TPP agreement would also markedly increase the amount of international dairy market open to trade, from currently about 8 percent of all international milk production to around 20 percent. This would markedly reduce the current volatility in world dairy prices resulting from the current thinly traded market buffeted by small surpluses or deficits in global dairy demand.
If Japan and Canada cannot agree with the need for a comprehensive TPP agreement providing duty-free access on all goods then they should leave the talks and come back when they are prepared to honour the promises they made on entering the talks in 2013 and 2012.
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History of Aikido
Aikido in its presents form is comparitively modern and can trace back to its origin starting from Prince Teijun, the sixth son of the Emperor Seiwa (850-880) and was passed on to subsequent generations of the Minamoto clan. The esoteric art of Aikijutsu is attributed to shinra Sabura Yoshimitsu of Minamoto clan and was kept an exlusive secret for hundred years and became known as Daito Ryu Aikijutsu.
Morihei Ueshiba(1882-1969), the founder of Aikido, met Sokaku Takeda, the well-known master of Daito Ryu Aikijutsu, in 1915 in Hokkaido and was impressed by Takeda's techniques. He subsequently trained intensely under Takeda and gained a certificate in Daito Ryu Aikijutsu. Morihei Ueshiba also studied Yagyu Shinkage Ryu, Kito Ryu Jujistu and other empty hand and weapon arts.
Morihei Ueshiba's practice of martial arts gradually began to take more on a spiritual character by the study of kotodama (word spirit). He developed his own approach using applied principles and techniques, to break down the barrier between mind, spirit and body. In 1922 it was formally known as "Aiki-bujutsu".
In April 1931, Morihei Ueshiba opened a scale of eighty mat Aiki-budo dojo inaugurated as Kobukan or "hell" Dojo. At this time, gozo Shioda was one of the students in Kobukan Dojo. Around this time, the police adopted Aiki-budo as an official curriculum subject. Morihei Ueshiba later feel that Kobukan Aiki-budo was not only a branch or style of some broader art. He proclaimed the new name Aikido to identify his art as unique and a distinctive form of Budo.Then he entered the associations under a new name. Aikido was officially recognized as the name of Morihei Ueshiba school in February 1942.
Morihei Ueshiba passed away peacefully on 26th April 1969 at the age of 86, leaving his students his dream of the world as one peaceful family through the practice of Aikido.
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Works by Alex Mixon
April 2019 | Hodges Regional Gallery
Artwork by Albany artist Alex Mixon, who passed away last November, is on display throughout the month of April at the Albany Museum of Art. Alex Mixon: A Life Well lived in on exhibition in the Hodges Regional Gallery.
“From a very early age, Alex was enamored with creativity,” his wife, Taylor Paige Mixon, said. “He spent much of his time lying on his stomach in the middle of his grandparents' living room floor, drawing and coloring. He enjoyed drawing original characters, comics, and cartoons from his favorite TV shows. That love for creating followed him throughout his lifetime.”
That life was tragically cut short. Mixon, 27, was fatally shot during on Nov. 24, 2018 while working on his job as a delivery driver for Locos Grill & Pub. News reports said he was lured to a bogus address by the assailants. Six individuals—the youngest 15 years old—have been arrested in connection with the homicide. Five were indicted on murder charges and all six were indicted on street gang violations in connection with the crime.
“I feel like he was stolen from us,” Taylor Mixon said in a statement provided to the AMA for the exhibition. “But no one can ever take the enormous love and compassion that Alex embodied while he was here and continues to inspire today.”
Alex Mixon worked in a number of mediums, including graphic design, woodwork, charcoal drawings, screen printing, ceramics and acrylic painting. His artwork usually incorporates bright, vivid colors.
“He developed a unique and distinctive style that is immediately recognizable to those who know his work,” his wife said.
When she has been asked about the meaning behind her late husband’s artwork, Mixon said that while she thinks it has a spiritual and thought-provoking attitude, the rest should be up to the interpretation of the observer.
“Alex did influence others, and I have heard many people call him a teacher of sorts,” she said. “But he never was forceful in his teaching and he encouraged others to learn through direct experience. I don't think it was his aim to sway people in any particular direction with his artwork.
“I want to allow it to speak for itself. I can say, though, that Alex's work is largely an exploration in consciousness. When I look at his art, I see happiness, love, humor and, most obviously, color. Alex's artwork is just as vibrant as him.”
Mixon said she feels it is her mission to carry on her husband’s legacy.
“In allowing me to have this platform through his beautiful art, I hope that I can spread that message to everyone I come into contact with,” she said. “I know that it's what he would have wanted.”
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Beijing imposes harsh sentences on Tibetan monks and lama
A demonstration takes place in Delhi for the release of Tenzin Delek, the Panchen Lama and all of Tibet's religious and political leaders. Beijing's response has been the deployment of troops in Nyagchuka County and the sentencing of a Tibetan abbot to eight years in prison. For China, the Dalai Lama is a "political monk".
Lhasa (AsiaNews) – A large contingent from the People's Liberation Army has been deployed to Thang Karma, a town in the Tibetan County of Nyagchuka, to intimidate the local population that has been loud in its demand for the release of Lama Tenzin Delek (sentenced to 20 years in prison for his fidelity to the Dalai Lama), the Panchen Lama and all other political dissidents in detention. In the past year, Chinese authorities have jailed about 60 Tibetan (political and religious) leaders.
The central government sentenced Tibetan abbot Phurbu Tsering Rinpoche to eight years and six months in prison on charges of seizing public land and illegal possession of ammunitions. However, his conviction (on 23 December) is in fact related to anti-Chinese riots that occurred in Tibet in the summer of 2008.
The Buddhist leader, who is well respected by the population, was arrested on 18 may 2008. A few days earlier, about 80 nuns had protested against China's imposition of "patriotic re-education" (brain-washing) in Tibetan places of worship.
Rinpoche, 53, allegedly confessed, but his attorneys say that the confession was extracted under torture. The lama has already spent 15 years in prison.
To protest these arrests, the Tibetan Youth Congress, a non-governmental organisation that represents Tibetans in exile, organised a protest march on 31 December against Chinese repression in Nyagchuka County.
Waving Tibetan flags, demonstrators gathered in front of the United Nations Offices where they handed over a memorandum on the situation in that region to be given to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese President Hu Jintao.
During the protest, participants slammed the violent crackdown of a peaceful gathering held on 5 December in the Tibetan county that brought together hundreds of people to demand the monks' release. The army responded by arresting 60 demonstrators.
Tibetan Youth Congress Information Secretary Tsultrim Dorjee said, "China must [. . .] immediately stop using force against peaceful Tibetan demonstrators and release all the arrested Tibetans without any condition." [. . . ] China must immediately release Tulku Tenzin Delek without any condition and must allow Tibetan people to exercise freedom of expression, freedom of movement and freedom of assembly. Moreover, China must allow free access for humanitarian organizations to provide emergency medical assistance for all injured Tibetans.”
China's position is not likely to change however. Yesterday, the Consul general of People's Republic of China to Mumbai, Wang Donghua, described the Dalai Lama as "a political monk", adding that people "will know his unviewed [sic] face" soon. He also called for his expulsion from the country.
Samdhong Rinpoche, prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, told AsiaNews that such remarks "do not deserve a reply".
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The past and future of online networks
People usually think that the first online entertainment, Inter Casino, is followed by 888, but both of them are in a state of soaring after the introduction of the rules and regulations of such websites. We cannot confirm whether these views are correct.
Online entertainment is everywhere, and it can be said that there are thousands of platforms available around the world. But how many people know the historical source of this emerging form of entertainment? The first countries that recognized the power of online entertainment and started online entertainment management were Antigua and Barbuda in the Caribbean, which passed the Free Trade and Processing Act in 1994. Approved local establishment of entertainment venues and supply of entertainment game services to other countries.
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Food Farmacy to Support Patients Facing Food Insecurity
A new partnership between Better Health for Northeast New York (BHNNY) and Catholic Charities Tri-County Services to address food insecurity and reduce hospital readmissions.
ALBANY, NY – When it comes to nutrition and health, the equation is simple: better nutrition leads to better health. A healthy diet results in fewer complications and a decreased chance of readmission for recently discharged individuals. But for patients facing food insecurity, that “simple equation” can be fairly complex.
Today, ALbany Med affiliate Better Health for Northeast New York (BHNNY), in partnership with Catholic Charities Tri-County Services, announced the launch of an innovative Food Farmacy program to support food insecure patients after hospital or emergency department discharge(s).
The Food Farmacy will allow for recently discharged, food insecure individuals to receive healthy food supplies, nutritional counseling, and assistance with food benefit navigation at no cost. Patients identified as food insecure will be referred to the Food Farmacy for an appointment. The patient will work with a Food Navigator to arrange for three days’ worth of healthy food for themselves as well as others in the home who are dependent on them for nutritional support.
"Through the Food Farmacy and our partnership with Better Health for Northeast New York, we are able to address the need for nutritional support in the Albany area," said Vincent W. Colonno, CEO of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany. "A healthy community begins with its people, and I am very pleased that Catholic Charities is a part of such an innovative solution. I look forward to seeing the positive results that this program will yield.”
The program also allows referred individuals to work with Registered Dietitian for further nutritional care planning and benefit navigation. It will provide up to four visits to the Food Farmacy. Upon completion, patients will be provided with materials to support their on-going nutritional health and referrals to other community food programs as needed.
Through proper follow-up nutrition support and planning, the Food Farmacy seeks to enhance a patient’s long-term health status and reduce avoidable readmissions.
It is conveniently located at 553 Clinton Ave., Albany, NY. Appointments are available by referral. The program and temporary food supplies are provided at no cost to the patients, and Food Farmacy staff may coordinate transportation to and from each scheduled visit as needed.
Patients or providers interested in learning more may call the program at (518) 818-0019.
About Better Health for Northeastern New York
Better Health for Northeastern New York (BHNNY) is a not-for-profit corporation established in March 2017 to become the lead entity for the DSRIP performing provider system incorporated by Albany Medical Center. In affiliation with Albany Med, BHNNY leads the collaborative of healthcare providers and community based organizations, to promote population health across Albany, Columbia, Greene, Saratoga and Warren Counties.
About Catholic Charities Tri-County Services
Catholic Charities Tri-County Services is an agency of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany, providing services in across Albany, Rensselaer, and Schenectady Counties.
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany is one of the largest, private social services organizations in the region. Serving 14 counties around the Capital District across some 10,000 square miles, Catholic Charities serves and empowers all persons in need, regardless of race, creed, religion, or lifestyle, as well as advocates for a just society and collaborates with women and men of good will. Last year, more than 89,000 people turned to Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany for assistance. Through the generous support of donors and the community, we are able to assist the poor and vulnerable with housing, food, emergency assistance, disabilities services, senior services, and much more.
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In the early fall of 2002 forty diverse individuals; African American farmers, land advocates, community development practitioners, land conservationists and academics gathered for two days in Salter Path, North Carolina to explore creating a new entity. This was not just any retreat, but one that openly and honestly discussed the feasibility of creating a land trust to protect black-owned farms and family lands, and to identify the concrete steps required to test and launch a black land trust. All agreed that a Black Family Land Trust would be the precise vehicle, and it mission would be ensuring, protecting and preserving African American owned lands. The seeds were planted.
"Honoring the legacy of those stewards of the land that came before us and having faith in those stewards of the land that will come after us."
The Salter Path retreat, once again brought the painful issues of land loss in rural and urban African American communities back to the forefront of the discussion about equity, fairness and community self-determination. Those two days were filled with personal testimonies about loss of family land, about the struggles to hold onto the land, and most importantly about the overwhelming need to protect black-owned farmlands family land and all their assets. Land...landownership, land rights, and land use for and in African American communities gained a new voice during those two days in Salter Path, North Carolina!
Seventeen months later in February 2004, the Black Family Land Trust incorporated, emerging as one of the country's leading land trust, dedicated to the preservation and protection of African American and other historically underserved population's land assets utilizing the core principles of community based economic development. Those seeds planted in Salter Path have taken root and grown, the Black Family Land Trust honors the legacy of those stewards of the land that came before us and has faith in those stewards of the land that will come after us. Not one more acre, or blade of grass, or grain of sand can be lost... not one more!
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A hard landing: Musk’s Starship fails to slow down, explodes on way back
Days after SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that his company is working towards the launch of an uncrewed Mars flight in about two years, the technological giant has hit a drag as the ambitious Starship exploded upon landing during its eighth test flight on Thursday. Musk termed it “successful.”
The prototype experienced a “hard landing” after its successful ascent, a perfect flip maneuver to position itself for a landing before it exploded, seconds after touching the ground. The company in a statement said, “Low pressure in the fuel header tank during the landing burn led to high touchdown velocity resulting in a hard landing.”
During the latest hop on Thursday, the steel frame that embodies the outer shell of the spacecraft lifted off from the ground and hit its apogee (highest elevation) before beginning a controlled descent. The spacecraft in a near-perfect execution performed a first-of-its-kind flip maneuver tipping over in a glide towards Earth. The three engines were fired with precision to slow down the craft hurling towards the ground. However, six minutes and forty seconds into the flight, it disintegrated upon hitting the surface.
This was, however, not the first such catastrophic loss for the company.(Shutterstock)
Musk maintained that they received data from the test critical for further testing and improving the system as the company takes on the mission to Mars.
The flight was planned to check the integrity of the gargantuan metal body of SN8 (Starship number 8) and its three engines for their aerodynamics, during launch and landing which happens vertically on the same principle as that of the pioneering Falcon 9 rocket.
ALSO READ: In pictures: SpaceX Crew-1 mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
“With a test such as this, success is not measured by completion of specific objectives but rather how much we can learn, which will inform and improve the probability of success in the future as SpaceX rapidly advances the development of Starship,” a statement on the company’s website said.
The Starship will enter Mars’ atmosphere at 7.5 kilometers per second and decelerate aerodynamically making it crucial for SpaceX to find ways to lower the speed during the approach, and in time.
This was, however, not the first such catastrophic loss for the company which has been developing reusable rockets for cheaper space flights. Smaller prototypes have already blasted off several hundred meters into the air for less than a minute as part of a series of tests over the years.
Known for developing cost-effective outer space delivery systems, SpaceX hopes to carry humans to Mars in the Starship. The company plans to develop a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth’s orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
ALSO READ: Potential life on Mars likely lived miles below the planet’s surface: Study
“Starship will be the world’s most powerful launch vehicle ever developed, with the ability to carry in excess of 100 metric tonnes to Earth orbit,” the company has maintained. Upon completion, the massive spacecraft will be equipped with 37 engines at 120 meters height
Musk maintained that they received data from the test critical for further testing. (Bloomberg)
Musk, who has been a proponent that humans are meant to be an interplanetary species said that he feels fairly “confident” that human beings should land on Mars in about six years, and if “lucky” in four years. He had pointed out that Earth and Mars synchronisation of orbits around the Sun happens approximately every 26 months and the next synchronisation is due in two years.
“We want to send an uncrewed vehicle there (Mars) in two years,” he said.
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Pit-vertising: Deodorant brand feature on Big Bash League umpires’ armpits
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9, December 2020
US: Biden promises 100m vaccines for US in first 100 days and vows to reopen schools 0
President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday called for urgent action on the coronavirus pandemic as he introduced a health care team that will be tested at every turn while striving to restore the nation to normalcy.
Biden laid out three Covid-19 priorities for his first 100 days in office: a call for all Americans to voluntarily mask up during those 100 days, a commitment to administer 100 million vaccines and a pledge to try to reopen a majority of the nation’s schools.
“I know that out of our collective pain, we will find our collective purpose: to control the pandemic, to save lives, and to heal as a nation,” Biden said.
Topping the roster of picks was health secretary nominee Xavier Becerra, a Latino politician who rose from humble beginnings to serve in Congress and as California’s attorney general. Others include a businessman renowned for his crisis management skills and a quartet of medical doctors, among them Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious-disease specialist.
The usual feel-good affirmations that accompany such unveilings were overshadowed by urgency, with new cases of Covid-19 averaging more than 200,000 a day and deaths averaging above 2,200 daily as the nation struggles with uncontrolled spread.
Vaccines are expected soon. Scientific advisers to the government meet Thursday to make a recommendation on the first one, a Pfizer shot already being administered in the United Kingdom.
Indeed, President Donald Trump held his own event Tuesday, to take credit for his administration’s work to speed vaccine development.
But having an approved vaccine is one thing, and getting it into the arms of 330 million Americans something else altogether. Biden will be judged on how well his administration carries out the gargantuan task.
On Tuesday, the president-elect warned that his team’s preliminary review of Trump administration plans for vaccinations has found shortcomings. And he called on Congress to pass legislation to finance administration of vaccines as they become more widely available next year. That would effectively close the loop, from lab to patient.
The rest of Biden’s extensive health care agenda, from expanding insurance coverage to negotiating prices for prescription drugs, will likely hinge on how his administration performs in this first test of competence and credibility.
Becerra, Biden’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, will be backed in the White House by businessman Jeff Zients, who will assume the role of coronavirus response coordinator. Running complex, high-risk operations is his specialty.
Alongside Fauci, the other medical doctors selected include infectious-disease specialist Rochelle Walensky to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vivek Murthy as surgeon general and Yale epidemiologist Marcella Nunez-Smith to head a working group to ensure fair and equitable distribution of vaccines and treatments.
Participating by video, Fauci called Biden’s 100-day plan “bold but doable, and essential to help the public avoid unnecessary risks and help us save lives.”
Ever the straight talker, he admonished: “The road ahead will not be easy. We have got a lot of hard and demanding work ahead.”
HHS is a $1 trillion-plus agency with 80,000 employees and a portfolio that includes drugs and vaccines, leading-edge medical research and health insurance programs covering more than 130 million Americans.
In choosing Becerra to be his health secretary, Biden tapped a prominent defender of the Affordable Care Act. But Becerra, 62, will face questions in his Senate confirmation about whether he possesses sufficient health care and management experience.
Becerra as a congressman played an insider role helping steer “Obamacare” to passage, and as California attorney general he leads a coalition of Democratic states trying to block the Trump administration’s latest attempt to overturn it. He has been less involved in the day-to-day work of combating the coronavirus.
Becerra would be the first Latino to serve as U.S. health secretary. In announcing his pick Tuesday, Biden initially stumbled on the Spanish pronunciation of Becerra’s name.
But Biden was drawn to Becerra’s working-class roots, his longtime effort to increase access to health care and his willingness to work with Republicans to solve problems like getting patients access to COVID-19 treatments.
Accepting his nomination via video link, Becerra called it a “breathtaking opportunity” to help shape the future of health care.
“I share the president-elect and vice-president-elect’s determination to rebuild unity and civility in America,” he added.
Biden is under pressure from fellow Democrats to ensure that his Cabinet is diverse. Black and Asian American groups are pressing for more representation.
Biden’s choice of Becerra smooths, but does not end, the concerns of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus about Latino representation. Becerra’s mother emigrated from Mexico, and his U.S.-born father spent his formative years in that country.
Then-California Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Becerra as California’s top prosecutor in late 2016. Becerra instantly struck a combative tone toward the incoming Trump administration.
As HHS secretary, Becerra would be responsible for overseeing the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which cares for unaccompanied minors who enter the U.S. illegally. Becerra has helped lead a coalition of fellow state attorneys general who sued over the Trump administration’s child separation policies.
Republicans immediately made clear their attack lines. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas argued that Becerra was unqualified because he lacked ties to the health care or pharmaceutical industries. Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana blasted his support for “Medicare for All,” which is not Biden’s policy. Abortion opponents have called Becerra “unacceptable.”
The HHS secretary’s job requires political connections, communications skills, managerial savvy, a willingness to learn about complex medical issues and a creative legal mind to use vast regulatory powers without winding up on the losing end of lawsuits.
Becerra will need to establish ties with governors who will play outsize roles in distributing the coronavirus vaccine.
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Admissibility of Expert Opinions in Insurance Bad Faith Trials
In 2010, Hansen Construction was sued for construction defects and was defended by three separate insurance carriers pursuant to various primary CGL insurance policies.[i] One of Hansen’s primary carriers, Maxum Indemnity Company, issued two primary policies, one from 2006-2007 and one from 2007-2008. Everest National Insurance Company issued a single excess liability policy for the 2007-2008 policy year, and which was to drop down and provide additional coverage should the 2007-2008 Maxum policy become exhausted. In November 2010, Maxum denied coverage under its 2007-2008 primarily policy but agreed to defend under the 2006-2007 primarily policy. When Maxum denied coverage under its 2007-2008 primary policy, Everest National Insurance denied under its excess liability policy.
In 2016, pursuant to a settlement agreement between Hansen Construction and Maxum, Maxum retroactively reallocated funds it owed to Hansen Construction from the 2006-2007 Maxum primary policy to the 2007-2008 Maxum primary policy, which became exhausted by the payment. Thereafter, Hansen Construction demanded coverage from Everest National, which continued to deny the claim. Hansen Construction then sued Everest National for, among other things, bad faith breach of contract.
In the bad faith action, both parties retained experts to testify at trial regarding insurance industry standards of care and whether Everest National’s conduct in handling Hansen Construction’s claim was reasonable. Both parties sought to strike the other’s expert testimony as improper and inadmissible under Federal Rule of Evidence 702.
In striking both sides’ expert opinions, the U.S. District Court Judge Christine Arguello set forth the standards for the admissibility of expert opinions in Federal Court:
Under Daubert, the trial court acts as a “gatekeeper” by reviewing a proffered expert opinion for relevance pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 401, and reliability pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 702.[ii] The proponent of the expert must demonstrate by a preponderance of the evidence that the expert’s testimony and opinion are admissible.[iii] This Court has discretion to evaluate whether an expert is helpful, qualified, and reliable under Rule 702.[iv]
Federal Rule of Evidence 702 governs the admissibility of expert testimony. Rule 702 provides that a witness who is qualified as an expert by “knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education” may testify if:
(a) the expert’s scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will help the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue;
(b) the testimony is based on sufficient facts or data;
(c) the testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods; and
(d) the expert has reliably applied the principles and methods to the facts of the case.
Fed. R. Evid. 702.
In deciding whether expert testimony is admissible, the Court must make multiple determinations. First, it must first determine whether the expert is qualified “by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education” to render an opinion.[v] Second, if the expert is sufficiently qualified, the Court must determine whether the proposed testimony is sufficiently “relevant to the task at hand,” such that it “logically advances a material aspect of the case.”[vi] “Doubts about whether an expert’s testimony will be useful should generally be resolved in favor of admissibility unless there are strong factors such as time or surprise favoring exclusions.”[vii]
Third, the Court examines whether the expert’s opinion “has ‘a reliable basis in the knowledge and experience of his [or her] discipline.’”[viii] In determining reliability, a district court must decide “whether the reasoning or methodology underlying the testimony is scientifically valid.”[ix] In making this determination, a court may consider: “(1) whether a theory has been or can be tested or falsified, (2) whether the theory or technique has been subject to peer review and publication, (3) whether there are known or potential rates of error with regard to specific techniques, and (4) whether the theory or approach has general acceptance.”[x]
The Supreme Court has made clear that this list is neither definitive nor exhaustive.[xi] In short, “[p]roposed testimony must be supported by appropriate validation—i.e., ‘good grounds,’ based on what is known.”[xii]
The requirement that testimony must be reliable does not mean that the party offering such testimony must prove “that the expert is indisputably correct.”[xiii] Rather, the party need only prove that “the method employed by the expert in reaching the conclusion is scientifically sound and that the opinion is based on facts which sufficiently satisfy Rule 702’s reliability requirements.”[xiv] Guided by these principles, this Court has “broad discretion” to evaluate whether an expert is helpful, qualified, and reliable under the “flexible” standard of Fed. R. Evid. 702.[xv]
With respect to helpfulness of expert opinions, Judge Arguello explained:
Federal Rule of Evidence 704 allows an expert witness to testify about an ultimate question of fact.[xvi] To be admissible, however, an expert’s testimony must be helpful to the trier of fact.[xvii] To ensure testimony is helpful, “[a]n expert may not state legal conclusions drawn by applying the law to the facts, but an expert may refer to the law in expressing his or her opinion.”[xviii]
“The line between a permissible opinion on an ultimate issue and an impermissible legal conclusion is not always easy to discern.”[xix] Permissible testimony provides the jury with the “tools to evaluate an expert’s ultimate conclusion and focuses on questions of fact that are amenable to the scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge within the expert’s field.”[xx]
However, “an expert may not simply tell the jury what result it should reach....”[xxi] Further, “expert testimony is not admissible to inform the trier of fact as to the law that it will be instructed to apply to the facts in deciding the case.”[xxii] Similarly, contract interpretation is not a proper subject for expert testimony.[xxiii]
Finding that all three of the experts intended to offer opinions that were objectionable on the basis of helpfulness, Judge Arguello granted both parties’ motions to exclude the expert testimony of the opposing experts.
For additional information about the Hansen Construction v. Everest National Insurance Company matter, or construction litigation in Colorado, you can reach Dave McLain at (303) 987-9813 or by e-mail at mclain@hhmrlaw.com.
[i] Hansen Construction, Inc. v. Everest National Insurance Company, 2019 WL 2602510 (D. Colo. June 25, 2019).
[ii] See Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharm., Inc., 509 U.S. 579, 589–95 (1993); see also Goebel v. Denver & Rio Grande W. R.R. Co., 215 F.3d 1083, 1087 (10th Cir. 2000).
[iii] United States v. Nacchio, 555 F.3d 1234, 1241 (10th Cir. 2009); United States v. Crabbe, F. Supp. 2d 1217, 1220–21 (D. Colo. 2008); Fed. R. Evid. 702 advisory comm. notes.
[iv] See Goebel, 214 F.3d at 1087; United States v. Velarde, 214 F.3d 1204, 1208–09 (10th Cir. 2000).
[v] Nacchio, 555 F.3d at 1241.
[vi] Norris v. Baxter Healthcare Corp., 397 F.3d 878, 884, 884 n.2 (10th Cir. 2005).
[vii] Robinson v. Mo. Pac. R.R. Co., 16 F.3d 1083, 1090 (10th Cir. 1994) (quotation omitted).
[viii] Norris, 397 F.3d at 884, 884 n.2 (quoting Daubert, 509 U.S. at 592).
[ix] Id. (quoting Daubert, 509 U.S. at 592–93).
[x] Norris, 397 F.3d at 884 (citing Daubert, 509 U.S. at 593–94).
[xi] Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael, 526 U.S. 137, 150 (1999).
[xii] Daubert, 509 U.S. at 590.
[xiii] Bitler v. A.O. Smith Corp., 400 F.3d 1227, 1233 (10th Cir. 2004) (quoting Mitchell v. Gencorp Inc., 165 F.3d 778, 781 (10th Cir. 1999)).
[xiv] Id.
[xv] Velarde, 214 F.3d at 1208–09; Daubert, 509 U.S. at 594.
[xvi] United States v. Richter, 796 F.3d 1173, 1195 (10th Cir. 2015).
[xvii] Fed. R. Evid. 702.
[xviii] Richter, 796 F.3d at 1195 (quoting United States v. Bedford, 536 F.3d 1148, 1158 (10th Cir. 2008)); see, e.g., Killion v. KeHE Distribs., LLC, 761 F.3d 574, 592 (6th Cir. 2014) (report by proffered “liability expert,” which read “as a legal brief” exceeded scope of an expert’s permission to “opine on and embrace factual issues, not legal ones.”).
[xix] Richter, 796 F.3d at 1195 (quoting United States v. McIver, 470 F.3d 550, 562 (4th Cir. 2006)).
[xx] Id. (citing United States v. Dazey, 403 F.3d 1147, 1171–72 (10th Cir. 2005) (“Even if [an expert’s] testimony arguably embraced the ultimate issue, such testimony is permissible as long as the expert’s testimony assists, rather than supplants, the jury’s judgment.”)).
[xxi] Id. at 1195–96 (quoting Dazey, 403 F.3d at 1171).
[xxii] 4 Jack B. Weinstein et al., Weinstein’s Federal Evidence § 702.03[3] (supp. 2019) (citing, e.g., Hygh v. Jacobs, 961 F.2d 359, 361–62 (2d Cir. 1992) (expert witnesses may not compete with the court in instructing the jury)).
[xxiii] Id. (citing, e.g., Breezy Point Coop. v. Cigna Prop. & Cas. Co., 868 F. Supp. 33, 35–36 (E.D.N.Y. 1994) (expert witness’s proposed testimony that failure to give timely notice of loss violated terms of insurance policy was inadmissible because it would improperly interpret terms of a contract)).
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Colau Closes 256 Tourist Apartments In 1 Month
11 August 2016 – Expansión
One month ago, the mayoress of Barcelona, Ada Colau, announced the launch of an emergency plan against unlicensed tourist apartments in operation in the city. Since then, the Town Hall has ordered the closure of 256 flats in total; in 2015, 400 orders were issued during the whole of the year. Nevertheless, for the trade association Apartur, which represents legal suppliers (of tourist accommodation), that figure is insufficient, and so it has called for the municipal government to make more effort.
A month ago, the town hall reinforced the number of agents making on-site inspections or verifying offers advertised on the internet. The sanctioned owners will receive a court order requiring them to cease their activity and they must pay a fine of €30,000. If they reoffend, the amount of the fine will increase.
One of the initiatives that Colau had announced a year ago was that unlicensed homes that joined the program for homes to be used as social housing would not be sanctioned, but for the time being, no property has joined that plan.
The town hall has also continued to process the files that it opened against the platforms Airbnb and Homeaway one year ago for reporting unlicensed flats.
Over the next few weeks, both operators will receive notifications and must pay a fine of €60,000 each. If they reoffend, the sanctions may reach €600,000.
The trade association Apartur celebrated the municipal initiative, but stressed that it is still a long way from eradicating the illegal offer that exists in the city. It also questioned the moratorium underway, which is affecting both the opening of hotels and the granting of new licences for tourist apartments, given that it is making the eradication of this activity more difficult. Its commitment, it said, is to a “responsible”, “sustainable” and civic tourist model.
Web site and letters
The municipal government defended itself against the critics and said that proof that it is giving priority to this issue is the creation of a website that allows neighbours to report illegal tourist apartments. During the course of one month, it has received 375 notifications. It has also started to send 800,000 letters this week, in which it calls on citizens to “collaborate”.
Nevertheless, the discomfort of several neighbourhood organisations against illegal tourist apartments is continuing to grow, and this summer it has extended further beyond the centre to reach neighbourhoods such as Poblenou.
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Bruce Jackson
/ Dec. 16, 2014 10pm EST
Just about everybody in the print press, broadcast press, and political blogosphere has sounded off in the past week about the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence executive summary report on the CIA torture program.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney told Fox News on December 11 that the report was “full of crap,” and current CIA director John O. Brennan said at a December 11 press conference that the people who worked in the torture program were “patriots.” Those two utterances, if nothing else, should tell you the report is worth a look.
The story isn’t in so much in what the report says, but rather in what it carefully avoids saying. Since so much is redacted or blacked out it is not an easy read. It’s like a word-for-word transcript of a stutterer with Alzheimer’s. But knowing what people want to keep secret is factual and informative too.
The full title is Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program, Findings and Conclusions, Executive Summary. Work on the report began in March 2009 after an investigation (that began in December 2007 and led to nothing) into the CIA’s destruction of torture interrogation videotapes. The summary report was approved on December 13, 2012; it was updated for release on April 3, 2014; declassified on December 3, 2014; we got to see it on December 9, 2014. The full report (that we will never get to see) runs 6,800 pages and cost $40 million.
There was a lot of infighting, involving CIA, the White House, and the Senate, before we got to see this summary of governmental dysfunction and criminal behavior. Almost everyone involved wanted to keep it in the closet, both officials in the Bush administration, who initiated the torture program, and officials in the Obama administration, who inherited it.
What the report says
Most of the report’s major points are known to anyone who, in the past decade, was a regular reader of New York Review of Books, New York Times, the Washington Post, or the better online political sites. It’s hard not to think of Claude Rains as Captain Louis Renault in Casablanca “discovering” gambling in Rick’s café: “I am shocked—shocked—to find that gambling is going on here.”
The Senate Select Committee reported 20 “Findings and Conclusions,” most of which had to do with CIA lying to oversight agencies and its own Inspector General about the nature and brutality of what it was doing to prisoners. The committee noted that the CIA farmed out 85 percent of the coercive work to contractors who billed $81 million for the service, and that it misrepresented the number of prisoners held and tortured.
The last of the 20 findings is this: “The CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program damaged the United States’ standing in the world, and resulted in other significant monetary and non-monetary costs.” There’s a surprise.
The program “cost well over $300 million in non-personnel costs.” It produced just about nothing. If the guys in charge of this worked in industry, they’d all be out on the streets. But the CIA “rarely reprimanded or held personnel accountable for serious and significant violations, inappropriate activities, and systemic and individual management failures.”
Basically, it’s like presenting the kind of evidence you would hear in a war crimes courtroom, only you’re not getting the 6,800 pages of evidence, but a summary of those pages, and the summary itself is so full of thick black felt-tip lines that some pages are hardly readable. And, more important, neither the redacted 525 pages we do get to see nor the 6,800 pages we don’t get to see are about the right guys anyway.
It’s as if, after World War II, we looked into evidence about the people who ran the camps, not the people who ordered that the camps be built and run that way.
The Senate Select Committee decided at the very beginning not to examine the behavior, the choices, and the orders of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and the rest of that crew that lied us into war. How could it not tear apart the convoluted legal memos of John Yoo (now a law professor at Berkeley) setting forth the rationale that Bush needed to put the torture apparatus into motion?
They say the devil is in the details, and that is what makes this interesting: the details of the behavior of, incompetence in, and mendacity by the CIA, and the details of the report itself, which obscures as much as it reveals.
We knew that the CIA waterboarded, sleep-deprived, beat, and did all sorts of horrible things to prisoners. We didn’t know how many and how much. It’s like suspecting that your lover is having an affair and then finding out it is indeed true, but the affair is not with one person but a platoon of them.
CIA claimed that the torture program prevented attacks in the US and on US stations abroad. It didn’t. They learned nothing from the torture program they or the FBI or foreign intelligence agencies hadn’t learned already through conventional, legal routes. In their process, they seem to have done as much as they could to prevent other US government agencies from latching on to real villains.
The Senate report consistently refers to the monumental deception at all levels connected with this program as “this representation was inaccurate.” No, it wasn’t inaccurate; it was lies, often in testimony or official reports, which means some of it was perjury. Some people in CIA lied to other people in CIA. They lied to Congress. They lied to the White House. Those blacked-out lines hide the names of a huge number of felons.
There are other euphemisms here: prisoners are referred to as “detainees” and torture is consistently called some variation of “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
President George W. Bush gave a speech on September 6, 2006, lauding the results of the CIA’s torture program. Both Time and The New York Times poked holes in that speech immediately, saying the torture program had produced no useful intelligence. This report says that the key points of Bush’s speech “are not supported by CIA records.” Abu Zubaydah, for example, provided the same information before he was tortured as he did while he was being tortured and after it. The CIA and Bush claimed otherwise and Dick Cheney still does.
A February 2007 report by the International Red Cross on the treatment of prisoners held by the CIA said that what they’d found “amounted to torture and/or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.” The CIA disagreed. The report was posted on the New York Review of Books website in April 2009.
Rendering, waterboarding, sleep deprivation, deaths: None of this is news. Remember the Abu Ghraib photographs? Former detainees have given interviews about them for years. So far as I know, the only persons who got punished for the Iraq war, other than the countless people on all sides who were killed, mutilated, widowed, orphaned, and otherwise damaged by it, are a CIA covert operative whose career was wrecked by the White House because her husband wrote an official report saying that one of the foundational justifications for the Iraq war—Saddam’s pursuit of yellow cake uranium—was untrue, and another CIA employee who blew the whistle on the torture program: John Kiriakou, who was imprisoned by the Obama administration.
The extent of the CIA’s illegal behavior, lying, and incompetence is dazzling. One fact in this report seemed to illustrate it all: The torture program seems to have been grounded in advice given by two psychologist consultants—it was their firm that got the $81 million—who themselves had no experience interrogating anybody. Long-time professionals in CIA objected to this foolishness, and they were ignored.
There is a strange disjunction here. It is as if there are two CIAs, a good one and a criminal one, and the Senate report never distinguishes which one is which. The report tells us that the CIA deceived the CIA. After the fourth or fifth time that line came up I began to feel they’d been overdosing on Alice in Wonderland. That happens because the report doesn’t name anybody responsible for any of this: Who, or what directorate, hid information, lied to everybody, and overpaid hired hands, and who, or what branch, was trying to make the CIA the sort of agency you see on Homeland?
Most people I know, when they use the phrase “shove it up your ass,” are speaking metaphorically. Not the CIA. The CIA does it literally.
The CIA wouldn’t use so vulgar a term, of course. They call it “rectal infusion.” They used that term in their reports on what they did to Majid Khan, who was “subjected to involuntary rectal feeding and rectal hydration, which included two bottles of Ensure. Later that same day, Majid Khan’s ‘lunch tray,’ consisting of hunmius[sic], pasta with sauce, nuts, and raisins, was ‘pureed’ and rectally infused.” After several years of this kind of treatment they decided he didn’t know anything and hadn’t done anything so they transported him to another country and cut him loose.
Did the CIA know what raping the ass of a Muslim man meant? Of course they did. But they didn’t call it that; they called it “rectal infusion,” so it was okay. It’s like Nazi documents referring to the killing program: They’re full of euphemisms that name everything but what they were really doing to people.
The six Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee took no part in this, but they did join to write a 100-page rebuttal. So far, the only Republican in the Senate to endorse the report is John McCain, himself a victim of torture while a prisoner in North Vietnam. For the others, torture is just a theoretical matter and doesn’t hurt.
John McCain has also pointed out that after World War II, the US hanged Japanese soldiers who had waterboarded American prisoners-of-war.
The CIA is fighting back: The website ciasavedlives.com, which the New York Times says was created by a dozen former top officials in the CIA, attacks the report in all sorts of unsubstantiated, innuendo-fueled ways.
Not only does the report fail to examine in detail the choices made by the White House, but it fails to examine in detail the failure of the US Senate, which oversees the CIA, to do its job. Just as the CIA allowed the two psychologist consultants who urged torture to evaluate their own success, Congress allowed the CIA to evaluate itself. It never dug deep, until now, long after the program was terminated.
And it didn’t dig that deep: The Committee’s staff went though millions of documents, but they didn’t interview anybody. A Senate committee has subpoena power. They could have hauled anyone they wanted into a closed-door session and asked the villains some hard questions. They didn’t do that. They didn’t want to embarrass anyone. They didn’t, for example, call in Dick Cheney and ask him, “What did you know and when did you know it?” They could have. They chose not to.
George W. Bush fought to keep the torture program alive. The report suggests that was because he was misled by fraudulent reports from people in the CIA several layers below the director. CIA, the report says, lied in memos to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, CIA Director Leon Panetta, and others. Is that true? So who is responsible? We can’t tell, because all information leading to such things is redacted or blacked out or printed in capital letter pseudonyms. The only names that appear are those of some of the victims of the CIA’s torture program and high-level government officials, none of whom are faulted for anything.
And, most importantly, we don’t know if the lying took place because some low-level thugs in the agency were trying to cover their collective asses or because the whole thing was really taking place at the direction of the president and vice president. We don’t know that because the Select Committee never asked such questions and none of the paper trails they turned up answered such questions. The absence of a paper trail proves nothing except no paper trail exists or has been found. That is the case with a lot of villainy.
As I said earlier, this report is important for what it says and for what it does not say. One line struck me more than any other. It was a CIA memo from 2003: “…the WH [White House] is extremely concerned that Secretary Powell would blow his stack if he were to be briefed on what’s been going on.”
That suggests that some people in the White House were fully aware of all of this this. So aware that they wanted to hide it from their own secretary of state.
Colonel John Wilkerson, who was Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff, told an MSNBC reporter, “I’ll go out on a limb and I’ll say the only person who was completely read in, and no one knows all the details, but the one who was read in on both the need to cover their rear ends and the need to continue the program because it was effective was Richard Bruce Cheney. He was the man in the shadows orchestrating all of this from the White House.” (You can see the interview at crooksandliars.com.)
People are still dying in Iraq, where we started a war grounded on false premises. No one has been or ever will be held accountable for the countless deaths, mutilations and forever traumatized minds caused by that war. This was a chance to do it. Everyone bailed out. The Republicans took no part in it whatsoever, and the Democrats, who wrote the report, kept themselves on a very narrow trail: The only villains they point to are all lower level functionaries who are never named.
What will happen now is nothing. Obama’s comment on the report was that it showed he was right to stop the torture program and close the secret prisons (no argument there) and that we should let bygones be bygones and move on. In a few weeks, the Republicans own Congress: They’re not going to do anything. This is where it ends. Nobody gets to see the full 6,800-page report except a few senators and staffers, all sworn to secrecy.
The last words on this report on nothing new are not mine; they are Macbeth’s:
…it is a tale
Bruce Jackson is SUNY Distinguished Professor and James Agee Professor of American Culture at the University at Buffalo.
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Top 9 for 2019: What’s New in Minneapolis
February 4, 2019 by Dave1 Comment
Leisure travel and tourism news from the City by Nature
Minneapolis – Not content to sit back and chill after one, big, football game, Minneapolis keeps building momentum and enticing more visitors with new hotels, restaurants and major sports news in 2019. In this Meet Minneapolis leisure travel round-up, here’s more of what to look for in the coming year with our Top 9 for 2019.
Minneapolis hosts the 2019 NCAA Men’s Final Four: U.S. Bank Stadium will be featured in the follow up to March Madness as the top men’s college hoopsters take over April 6 – 8. Starting April 5, all fans – with or without game tickets – can check out the Final Four Fan Fest at the Minneapolis Convention Center and watch each team practice for free on Final Four Friday, plus the kids can show off their ball-handling skills in the Final Four Dribble. The featured act comes when the top four teams compete in the semifinal and championship games. www.finalfourminneapolis.com
Allianz Field opens this spring: The new, soccer-specific home of the Minnesota United FC will welcome Major League Soccer fans as the United take the pitch for the first time on April 13. Located on the METRO Green Line, it is an easy and fun trip from Minneapolis and just a few stops away from the University of Minnesota campus where the team played the past two seasons. This stadium will also host an important international double-header featuring Team USA in the Concacaf Gold Cup. The two matches will showcase some of the best players and teams from North America, Central America and the Caribbean on June 18. www.mnufc.com/stadium
Peavey Plaza revitalization complete by July: Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012, this plaza on Nicollet will include updated fountains and water features, as well as environmentally friendly pavers, updated lighting and be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Designed by landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg in 1974, Peavey Plaza is a notable example of modernist architecture.
The Dayton’s Project food hall expected this fall: The historic building was the longtime home to Minneapolis retailer Dayton’s department stores (also the home to the beginnings of Target Corporation). It’s in the midst of a $190 million renovation with over 200,000 square feet of retail space across three levels. Chef, TV host and entrepreneur Andrew Zimmern and partners are the only announced tenants of a new food hall, which is expected to have 40 to 50 total vendors on the street and basement levels of the landmark building when it opens for business in the fall. www.thedaytonsproject.com/
The Sioux Chef to open Indigenous Food Lab: One of the most highly anticipated restaurant openings in 2019 is this nonprofit with a classroom kitchen and restaurant by Chef Sean Sherman (aka, The Sioux Chef). Sherman and partner Dana Thompson are also developing a new Mississippi riverfront yet-to-be-named restaurant that will be a part of the Water Works park on the West Bank of the Mississippi in 2020. Last year, Sherman (and Beth Dooley) won a 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award for The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen.
Hot kitchens: Despite numerous James Beard Foundation awards and accolades for the city’s culinary talents, Minneapolis’ dining scene is as-yet undiscovered by many; but 2019 may change that.
This month, Gavin Kaysen (James Beard Best Chef – Midwest 2018) will open his newest hot spot, Demi, in an adjacent North Loop location to his well-loved Spoon and Stable restaurant.
Two-time James Beard semifinalist Chef Ann Kim is perfecting her tortillas as she expands her empire beyond pizza to Mexican food in the youthful Uptown neighborhood.
P.S. Steak recently opened in the former La Belle Vie space, where Chef Mike DeCamp promises homage to the famed French restaurant.
Chef Justin Sutherland, current Bravo Top Chef contestant, will move his Pearl & the Thief from Stillwater to downtown Minneapolis in July.
Throughout the year, expect Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport’s growing foodie rep to expand as it adds 30 new restaurants.
More bites of Minneapolis food and drink are here.
More heads in beds: Minneapolis welcomes the Canopy by Hilton Minneapolis Mill District with reservations starting April 4 for its 183-room hotel in the renovated former Thresher Square building and Moxy Minneapolis Downtown will open, with 153 rooms, this year in the Ironclad building. Both hotels are situated near U.S. Bank Stadium and the historic Mill District.
There’s no stopping us now: Nonstop flights to and from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport become more plentiful as Delta Air Lines adds Seoul, South Korea, in April and Mexico City, Mexico, on June 8 to the lengthy list of destinations from its second-largest hub. But that’s not all: Aer Lingus begins flying between Minneapolis and Dublin, Ireland, on July 1 for MSP’s sixth European nonstop. Plus, local carrier Sun Country Airlines expands its routes with eight new nonstops this spring, including one to Chicago O’Hare with a starting one-way price of $49. More on the nation’s 14th busiest airport.
Summer X Games returns for year three: The skateboards, BMX bikes and motocross cycles will again fly through the cavernous indoor space at U.S. Bank Stadium as the X Games return Aug. 1 – 4. Tickets are already on sale and the music line up for The Armory is set, including: The Blind Shake, Chevy Metal, Diplo, Incubus, P.O.S, SWMRS and Wu-Tang Clan. http://www.xgames.com/minneapolis/
For more information about what to see, do and eat in Minneapolis, visit www.minneapolis.org.
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Every now and then I like to try something a little different from what I normally read. Before I started using the Kindle app on my tablet, I was rather narrow in my choice of literature. If something wasn't required for a class or didn't fit my interests exactly, then I just did not give it a chance. Now that I am into using Kindle, I've found it a lot easier to get into things I might not have before since books are so much cheaper, and there are a bunch that are even free either from time to time or are the start of a series and always free. FADE TO BLACK by L.T. Vargus and Tim McBain is both the start of a series and was free for a couple of days so I gave it a try.
Right around the time that I started promoting DIGITARUM, I started getting a whole bunch of new Twitter followers from people within the indie scene. One of the authors of this book was/is among them and sent me a private message on Twitter saying something to the effect of: "I'd drink drano to get you to read a sample of my book [book link]." It definitely got my attention and I did give the free sample of the book. I found it intriguing, but not compelling enough for me to jump for a purchase right away, especailly since I was already reading a couple of other things and the book was priced at a little under $5 which seemed a bit steep for an eBook of this length. So I just shelved it on Goodreads with the full intention of reexamining how I felt about it after I had completed my current reads. Later on I saw it announced on Twitter that this would be free for a bit, so I snagged myself a copy. That probably sounds pretty cheap of me, but I knew this was just the start of a series and figured a free download would increase my chances of getting into this story-line (and therefore make me more likely to support the authors through buying their other work). So with out further delay, I will get to how that plan worked out for me.
3/5 I can safely say I was a little torn when trying to figure out how to rate this. On one hand, I felt a desire to like this because it was written by fellow indies and I truly did think that they had an interesting concept going on with this. There are even aspects of this story that are really good: 4/5 good. But then there are other components that just feel extremely weak: 2/5. I think a 3/5 is appropriate then in this case because while there were certainly aspects of the story that I really enjoyed, the overall package just did not come together for me in the way that I felt it should. Now, 3/5 is not a horrible rating, in fact its very respectable, but it does also reflect that there were more than a couple of things that detracted from my ability to enjoy this piece in full.
The characters are easily where this work shines through the most AND where it also falls flat on its face. Let me explain:
The main protagonist of the story is 27 year-old Jeff Grobnagger. At first I immediately disliked him because he literally feels like a modern rendition of CATCHER IN THE RYE's Holden Caulfield, a character that I find to be utterly insufferable and irredeemable as both a character and general human being. Normally, I don't like to compare books to other books, but the resemblance between Jeff's moody, sarcastic, hypocritical, phony tough guy routine is uncannily similar to Holden's own obnoxious personality. Jeff is a loner and it didn't take me very long to figure out why since this guy has one of the worst attitudes about everything and is selfish beyond compare. Ironically, he's also my favorite part of the novel.
Unlike Holden, Jeff is funny. His snarky demeanor and twisted internal thoughts actually have a bit of charm to them. He's still a selfish, immature, prick, but also an entertaining one. It gets better though. Whereas Holden had really no feasible reason for being the way he was, Jeff has actual reasons for being this way. I don't mean reasons that have to do with alleged metaphors and symbolism, I mean real-life actual reasons, This is hinted at fairly early on and as the novel progresses, I learned more and more about Jeff's past and how it has shaped him. Near the end of the novel, I felt very close to this character and identified with a lot of the hurt that he felt. He has this sort of coming-of-age arch despite his being 27 and well of age. While that might sound weird, it actually works in a way because we are all always growing and big life changes shouldn't be reserved for the very young because if you're not improving upon yourself and overcoming hardship, then you're probably doing something wrong. These authors seem to get that and I found it really endearing to read this type of story with someone who is suffering from adult angst which can be a lot more painful than teenage hurt simply because the stakes feel so much higher.
Now while I genuinely fell in love with Jeff as a character and really appreciated what the writers did with an adult coming-of-age theme, the problem with the rest of the cast is they just didn't feel like they belonged in an adult novel. There are a number of side characters with varying levels of degrees in the story's events, but none of them really have fully dimensional personalities. Most people I met pop up once or every now and then and even Glenn, who is Jeff's primary companion throughout the novel, just fell so flat for me. It's blatantly telegraphed that several of these characters (like Glenn, Ms. Babinaux - a mysterious informant - and Louise - a really vague love interest) all have something more to offer the story, that potential is never really fulfilled. They're all just kind of there for the ride and contribute very little aside from supplying tidbits of plot to help things roll along. They have distinct characteristics, but aren't vibrant in the way that characters should be in an adult novel. That's not to say that every adult novel needs a strong supporting cast, but this one certainly felt like it should. Now Glenn and Babinaux do START to become characters during the back 15% of the novel, but it feels like its too little, too late. It's also unclear if this is actually the start of them having real characterization or if this was just something to create more hype for the next novel in this series.
From reading the description of the novel, I figured this for some kind of world where a seedy occult underground ran rampant and uncontrolled. To an extent, that is exactly what this world is, but the problem is that we rarely ever get a peek at it. For the most part, we are kept confined to the normal world except when Jeff gets dragged into one of his mysterious dreams/visions/spirit quests. There are hints that things a bit paranormal exist by I as a reader rarely ever got exposure to any of it until right at the end. There just isn't anything particularly noteworthy about this world. It's pretty average, and kind of grubby - plus most of the events are confined to a select few locations. The imagery is (mostly) well described, its just that the actual locations the novel took me too were not as interesting as the synopsis led me to believe.
By now, you have probably gathered what I think of the plot. It becomes a real problem when the synopsis kind of oversells the story that I as a reader am actually going to get. It's really not super action packed and I felt next to no suspense whatsoever at any point. This mainly because (1) most of the action takes place in Jeff's dreamworld and after the first couple of times his tormentor kills him in the dream, the other encounters lost all sense of consequence because I knew Jeff would be fine when the chapter closed and a new one began and (2) because I had no real attachment to any of the characters except for Jeff who I didn't really establish a connection with until a little more than halfway through. The plot also just sort of rolls along at its own pace most of the time and moments that I think were supposed to be shocking in some way just kind of felt inconsequential. It's not that this is a predicable novel, it's just that the information that Jeff and Glenn uncover is neither refreshingly different in the way of paranormal mysteries, nor does it go very far toward helping Jeff uncover the truth about what is happening to him and around him. What makes this effect worse is that at the end, NONE of these answers are fully delivered. The only piece that felt at all completed was the developmental arc for Jeff. Aside from that, nothing is answered - only more questions are asked. If that sounds like the story ends in a bit of a cliffhanger, that's because it does.
I take great issue with the way a lot of writers use cliffhangers a lot of the time. Can they be used in a positive way? Absolutely! Some stories are just to jam packed to end any other way and others come about AFTER some of the main plot points are tied up - effectively introducing new sources of conflict as a teaser for the next installment. Neither situation is great for me, mind you. I like to feel a sense of closure after reading a book since it generally takes me a little while to get through and even if its a free book, I still spent time reading it. I don't want to feel ripped off that I wasn't given a complete story whether the book is a freebie, cheap, or standard retail price. And a complete story this is not! Without wrapping up any of the main plot-related ideas and really not even truly answering the mystery behind Jeff's out-of-body experiences, I was really just left with a really sour taste and I'm not really sure if this is a series I want to continue since I'm not sure that any of the next installments will have endings that satisfy me.
Tonally, I also had a lot of issue with this. The dialogue and general intelligence level of Jeff and Glenn seems very inconsistent. It ranges from formal and informed to ignorant and obnoxious. There are also WAY too many pop-culture references. While a few here and there can be fun, the authors go so far as to replace actual descriptions with cheap references. One such case is a pair of boots a character is wearing. The brand or maybe the style is named and since I was not familiar with what that was, I merely envisioned a generic pair of work-boots. This sort of cop-out is also used in place of explaining how Jeff is actually feeling in particular circumstances. I also found some of the immaturity to be a bit distracting. While this is largely what defines the characters as well as the overall tone of the novel and is mostly a funny quality, there were points where it just felt like too much. It wasn't a total miss for me in this area, but it also was not something that I would count among the novel's strong points.
This is a novel that definitely has a couple of pretty good things going for it. Jeff is an absolutely fantastic character. He's honestly the Holden that I deserved, but never got so I have to really credit these authors for managing to pull off this type of character when one of our "great American classics" didn't even manage to pull it off (in my opinion of course - there are many who would disagree with me on this point). Despite failing to be fully realized by this installment's conclusion, the overall idea of the plot-line is really quite intriguing. It's just a shame that I don't feel confident that this piece will get better because of how much is withheld from readers. I also tend to be rather hesitant to continue series when the first book leaves off with an unsatisfying cliffhanger because it feels like a manipulative ploy to get me to buy the next book in the series right away. I don't know that this plot earned its cliffhanger and I'm not sure that I'm too keen to continue onward without knowing that things get better.
Like I mentioned before, these are decently expensive for eBooks of this size (in my opinion) and I don't really care to spend time and money on future entries if I'm not going to feel satisfied by the end. The authors can certainly invent a genuinely compelling idea, but whether or not they can execute and complete it really still remains to be seen. If anyone has read the second book and believes that things improve a bit, then I'd certainly be open to giving the series a second go, I just don't think I'll be continuing onward otherwise. The first novel in a series that tells a longer story is sort of a courtship to readers, and while I didn't flee from the first date, I'm also not too inclined to pursue things any further.
This probably sounds like a lot of really harsh criticism, but I don't necessarily mean for it to be. Indie authorship isn't easy and mysteries are a tough thing to pull off, nevermind ones that dip into the paranormal. There were a lot of things this novel had to balance and I just didn't feel like this work managed to pull it all off. While it is possible that they have created a more satisfying experience in their later work, there is nothing in this particular book to indicate that I should really want to go out and get the next installment. I also think that there IS an audience that this would be 5/5 for. It's a nice, easygoing read that doesn't require too much focus in order to follow, nor does it take all that long to read. I plodded through this on lunch breaks and could very easily recommend it to anyone who is looking for a light read that they can either dive into over a weekend or just chip away at here and there. It wasn't a huge hit for me, but I can also understand why there is a lot of praise for this. I'm a little puzzled by much of the hate coming from the opposite end of the reader spectrum, because I don't think this really deserves to be completely torn apart the way that some readers have. This definitely did not have everything I look for in a novel, but I also don't regret reading it - I simply don't find myself wanting more.
FADE TO BLACK is available in eBook and Paperpack editions on Amazon.
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Unit 16 Kempton Gate, Oldfield Road, Hampton
Unit 16 Kempton Gate, Oldfield Road, Hampton, TW2 2AF
Kempton Gate is located in Oldfield Road, off the A308 which runs between Junction 1 of the M3 at Sunbury in the West, and Kingston and the A3 to the East. The site is immediately adjacent to Kempton Park Racecourse. Junction 1 of the M3 is 2 miles, Hampton mainline station 0.5 miles, Heathrow Airport 5 miles, M25 Junction 12, 8 miles and Central London is 12 miles from Kempton Gate, via the A316. A local Waitrose store is a short walk from the site.
Kempton Gate was constructed in 2008 and is a very successful and popular development. The site provides a total of 17 business units ranging in size from 2,620 sq ft (244 sq m) up to 9,205 sq ft (855 sq m). Unit 16 (2,725 sq ft) is currently available and is constructed from a steel portal frame and incorporates a first floor level which can be utilised as additional storage space, or provide integral office accommodation.
30 kn/sq m floor loading
Electrically operated loading doors
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FWP Network > Forexhound.com > Education > Central Banks > Fed Background > System Open Market Account
System Open Market Account
By fwpnetwork () · January 11, 2008 · No comments
Fed Background ·
The System Open Market Account consists of the Federal Reserve’s domestic and foreign portfolios. The SOMA domestic portfolio consists of U.S. Treasury securities held on both an outright and a temporary basis. The SOMA foreign currency portfolio consists of investments denominated in euros and yen.
The Federal Reserve System Open Market Account (SOMA) is a portfolio of U.S. Treasury securities and other investments denominated in foreign currencies.
From 1996 to 2006, the domestic portfolio—including securities held under repurchase agreements—increased from $414.7 billion to $815.7 billion
At the end of 2006, the Federal Reserve held $20.5 billion in non-dollar assets denominated in euros and yen.
Interest on the portfolio provides virtually all of the Fed’s income; nevertheless, the central bank buys and sells securities purely to implement monetary policy and not for profit.
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) has designated the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to execute open market transactions on behalf of the entire Federal Reserve System. The resulting investments are held in the SOMA portfolio.
In addition, while the Treasury, in consultation with the Federal Reserve System, has responsibility for setting U.S. exchange rate policy, the New York Fed is responsible for executing foreign exchange intervention. The U.S. monetary authorities—the Treasury and the Fed—may intervene in the foreign exchange market to counter disorderly market conditions, using funds that belong to the Federal Reserve and to the Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) of the Treasury Department.
Open market operations, the buying and selling of securities in the marketplace, are one of three basic tools the Federal Reserve uses to conduct monetary policy—that is, influencing the cost and availability of money and credit in the U.S. economy. The other tools are reserve requirements and the discount rate.
To add reserves to the banking system and accommodate the trend growth in currency in circulation, the Federal Reserve purchases government securities. To drain reserves from the banking system and limit the ability of banks to make loans and investments, the Federal Reserve sells securities. The Federal Reserve Act and the Monetary Control Act of 1980 provide the Fed with the authority to exchange maturing securities and to buy and sell obligations of the U.S. government in the open market.
A specified portion of the System’s outright holdings—excluding the effects of temporary transactions—is allocated to each of the 12 Reserve Banks. The percentage allotments of the portfolio are adjusted annually to reflect movements of deposits among Reserve Banks.
Portfolio Design and Management Division
The Portfolio Design and Management Division of the Markets Group at the New York Fed develops and maintains guidelines and portfolio structures for the SOMA domestic and foreign currency portfolios and the ESF foreign currency portfolio. The group also develops and maintains techniques for measuring the performance, behavior, and characteristics of the portfolios and produces management reports on the portfolios.
Portfolio Purpose and Objective
Portfolio management is a dynamic and evolving process. The challenges are to satisfy portfolio objectives and the Fed’s investment principles. The objective of the portfolio is to limit credit risk, maintain a conservative store of liquidity, and minimize any potential impact on normal market dynamics that might arise from portfolio activities. Portfolio benchmarks are used to develop and implement strategy through the choice of optimal assets. The investment policies include consultation with the FOMC and promote safety and competitive pricing to ensure that the portfolios are able to effectively support policy implementation.
Portfolio Value and Composition
Most of the assets in the domestic portfolio are Treasury securities that are held outright. The Federal Reserve also holds government securities on a temporary basis under repurchase agreements and occasionally issues temporary liabilities delivering Treasury securities under reverse repurchase agreements.
The composition and value of the portfolio change as a result of the Fed’s open market operations. Expansion is achieved by outright purchases, mostly in the secondary market from primary dealers, supplemented by some purchases for the SOMA of Treasury bills from foreign central banks and other international institutions that hold accounts with the Federal Reserve. At the end of 2006, the par value of domestic portfolio holdings was $815.7 billion.
The U.S. monetary authorities invest their foreign currency balances in a variety of instruments that yield market-related rates of return and have a high degree of liquidity and credit quality. To the greatest extent practical, the investments are split evenly between the System Open Market Account and the Exchange Stabilization Fund. A significant portion of the U.S. monetary authorities’ foreign exchange reserves is invested in European and Japanese government securities. On an outright basis, the U.S. monetary authorities hold German, French, and Japanese government securities.
At the end of 2006, the SOMA foreign portfolio was $20.5 billion, valued at the current exchange rate, in euros and yen. The SOMA is not marked-to-market, so the value is measured at par each day. However, the foreign exchange component of the foreign exchange reserves is marked-to-market.
The interest received by the Federal Reserve on its portfolio holdings constitutes virtually all of the System’s income. Unlike individuals or private institutions, however, the Fed acquires and sells securities purely to implement monetary policy and not for profit. The interest earned on those holdings is apportioned to the individual Federal Reserve Banks according to the percentage of the portfolio each owns. A portion of the earnings is used for salaries and other operation expenses of the Banks, with a small amount set aside in a surplus account. The remaining income is paid to the U.S. Treasury.
SOMA Manager
The SOMA portfolio is managed on a daily basis. The manager is appointed by the FOMC and customarily is a senior officer of the New York Fed. The account manager attends the FOMC meetings to report on domestic operations, as well as to be fully informed of the discussions leading to the adoption of the committee’s monetary policy directive to the New York Fed.
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Venezuela says at least 20 dead in shipwreck, one person detained
At least 20 people died when a boat sank off the eastern Venezuelan coast over the weekend and the vessel’s owner has been arrested. The Venezuelan government said Sunday, 13 December 2020, it had found 14 bodies after a ship carrying migrants bound for Trinidad and Tobago was wrecked en route. 11 bodies were found by a Coast Guard patrol on Saturday afternoon and “today, following up on the events that occurred, we found three dead, two adult males and one female on the beach.” The Trinidadian Coast Guard had said Saturday that Venezuelan authorities informed them that “11 bodies had been recovered that day in waters near the Venezuelan coastal town of Guiria,” in the northeastern state of Sucre. Preliminary information suggested that the boat left on 6 December 2020 with more than 20 people on board. The Government of President Nicolas Maduro initially said it had found 14 bodies floating off shore from Guiria in the state of Sucre, a frequent departure point for migrants fleeing their Venezuela’s economic crisis to the neighbouring island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. Venezuelan opposition deputy Robert Alcala, who represents Sucre state, said that migrant departures to Trinidad often used precarious boats loaded with too much weight. The deputy said the boat was “allegedly detained in Trinidad and was returned to Venezuela,” as part of the island nation’s response to the arrival of Venezuelans fleeing their country’s economic crisis. Citing a police report, he said that the bodies were tied together supposedly to protect themselves from heavy waves and were in an advanced state of decomposition.
The Trinidadian Coast Guard, however, said that it had not intercepted any boats from Guiria.
Venezuela has been crippled by a political and economic crisis causing runaway inflation, long queues for petrol, shortages of water and gas and power cuts.
The UN estimates that more than five million Venezuelans have left their country since 2015 due to the crisis, some 25,000 of whom fled to Trinidad and Tobago.
About 100 people have disappeared during the dangerous journey from Guiria to Trinidad between 2018 and 2019 alone.
The island nation, with a population of 1.3 million, says it has facilitated the registration of 16,000 Venezuelans.
Prosecutor Tarek Saab wrote on Twitter that 56-year-old Luis Martinez had been arrested and that the case had been assigned to prosecutors specialising in human trafficking. “The prosecutor’s office reiterates its commitment to sanction (the people) responsible for these crimes, who have organised mafias that operate between Sucre and the island of Trinidad to promote...human trafficking,” Saab wrote. At least 40 000 Venezuelans live in Trinidad and Tobago, many of whom arrived in small rickety boats overloaded beyond capacity, with limited supplies of fuel and food.
Last year, at least two ships that set off from Venezuela en route to the Caribbean nation disappeared at sea.
Venezuela’s economic meltdown has spurred a mass migration of some five million people seeking to escape the South American country’s hyper-inflationary collapse.
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Tributes paid to police officer who died on duty in Frome
Tributes have been paid by family, friends and colleagues of PC Kevin Stoodley, who died suddenly after being taken ill whilst on duty in Frome.
PC Stoodley fell ill whilst on duty in Frome earlier this month and he was rushed to hospital where he later died.
His wife Emma said, “We are devastated that Kevin has been taken from us at such a young age. He would have been 41 next week. He was a wonderful husband and father to our children Tyler, 17, Kai, 11 and six-year-old Sapphira and a man who loved his work as a police officer. He had such a lot more to offer and it is so sad for us all that he is no longer with us.”
Somerset police Commander Chief Superintendent Daimon Tilley said that PC Stoodley was “ a very well-liked and highly respected officer.”
Mendip Inspector Mark Nicholson also paid tribute. He said, “Kevin was very popular both with his colleagues and with members of the public. He was a passionate family man and was devoted to his work in the community. He was a neighbourhood officer who was very heavily involved with our Police Cadets, and he had also worked as a front-line response officer.
“He had the respect of all who met him. All his colleagues are deeply saddened by his death and our thoughts are with his family.”
PC Stoodley’s funeral will be held at Wells Cathedral at 10.30am on Monday 30th March.
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Important Cases and Political Actors
Plan de Sanchez Case
Bámaca Case
Las Dos Erres
Forced Disappearance of Fernando Garcia
Myrna Mack Assassination/Helen Mack
Operation Sophia
Panzós
Ex-President Portillo
Spanish Embassy Attack
The Plan de Sanchez Case
The majority of the following is a summary of the report published by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights regarding the Plan de Sanchez case against the Guatemalan government. Read the full report here .
On July 18 th, 1982 armed forces, paramilitaries, and civil self-defense patrols ((‘Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil’, or PACs) brutally massacred over 250 people in Plan de Sanchez, a remote Maya Achi community in northern Guatemala, outside of Rabinal, Baja Verapaz. The year of the massacre is considered one of the bloodiest of the internal armed conflict. Military officials frequently visited Plan de Sanchez to intimidate the local population and question about the whereabouts of mens not involved with the PACs. Such presence created an environment of fear in which community members would sometimes hide in the hills nearby to avoid interaction with the military.
The PACs were one of the primary groups responsible for killings and disappearances throughout the armed conflict. The PAC program was initiated in 1982 by General Rios Montt’s government with the intention of maintaining control over rural areas. The PACs were recruited and organized at the village levels, where male community members were forced under threat of death or disappearance to serve without pay or remunerations of any kind. PACs were then forced to patrol their own neighbors and sometimes participate in kidnappings or murders within their communities. The PAC program was seen as a very important aspect of the military’s counterinsurgency and intelligence strategies.
After threats and intimidation from local military officers, survivors from the community fled for several years. It wasn’t until 1993 that a group of community members was able to begin the process of seeking justice when they called upon the Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office to denounce the massacre and have the bodies exhumed. In 1994, the Guatemalan Team of Forensic Anthropology (EAFG) dug up 19 sites in Plan de Sanchez, discovering the remains of at least 84 victims. The findings of their exhumation were not released until March 1995. In 1996, the Ombudsman’s office published a report on the massacres of Plan de Sanchez, Chichupac and Rio Negro, placing responsibility on state agents (mostly PACs), military commissioners, members of the army and high ranking officials for not protecting the community and trying to cover up the massacre. The report concluded that the massacres were part of a premeditated state policy—the ‘scorched earth’ campaign—‘designed to defeat the insurgent movement through the strategic eradication of its civilian support base.’ Despite community and survivor efforts to initiate a government investigation into the case, little was done to respond to their requests and the Law of Reconciliation impeded those responsible from being charged.
In the report put forward by the Inter-American Court on Human Rights, the Guatemalan State acknowledged that the massacre occurred and condemned the tragic loss of lives. The State also asserted that the massacre occurred in the context of the armed conflict and both sides experienced devastating losses. While the State recognized the gravity of the events, it also argued that it cannot be held responsible for examining the evidence or establishing a position, because such actions are delegated to the judiciary.
These counterinsurgency actions took place during the regime of General Efrain Rios Montt
Furthermore, the Inter-American Court demanded that the Guatemalan government pay a reparations fee to the families of Plan de Sanchez of $25,000, which they paid in three installments. The government was also required to provide health care, mental health services, multicultural education, water systems, roads, and dignified housing. Finally, under the ruling, the government was to support and implement an investigation into the intellectual and material authors of the massacre, including former dictators Lucas Garcia and Rios Montt.
As of August of 2011, five people have been arrested and charged for their role in the Plan de Sanchez Massacre: Julian Acoj Morales, Lucas Tecu, Mario Acoj, Eusebio Grave, and Santos Rosales. The first four were arrested in early August, all of whom denied any involvement in the massacre. The suspects are still waiting to be brought to trial.
The Bámaca Case
**Case updates:
Jennifer Harbury has published a website with case updates, background information and her testimony. Visit www.casobamaca.org to read more [Spanish only].
The Bámaca case, along with nine other paradigmatic cases, is advancing in Guatemalan courts, after an important ruling by the Inter-American Court, and a willingness on the part of Guatemala’s judiciary to prioritize them. Visit our Action Center to support Jennifer and put an end to impunity for Everardo's torturers.
Background on the Bámaca Case
When information surfaced that the U.S. government had information on the fate of Bámaca, and the perpetrators responsible for his detention, torture, and eventual murder, Jennifer took her hunger strike to the streets of DC. She began to fight civil rights cases against the CIA, the State Department, and the National Security Council. In 1995 Congress finally released documents proving that the United States, which previously denied knowledge of his disappearance, knew that he had been captured alive by the Guatemalan military.
Her case caused a scandal at the highest levels of government, as it was revealed that Bámaca’s torturers were paid CIA assets. As a result, then-President Clinton ordered declassification of secret archives on the Bámaca murder and other human rights crimes committed by the Guatemalan military. The Guatemala Declassification Campaign led to the disclosure of thousands of records on U.S. support and collaboration with Guatemalan government atrocities. The records are now being used as evidence in dozens of Guatemalan human rights cases. Jennifer’s case demonstrates that the right to truth is an essential element to the right to justice.
With no just resolution to the case in Guatemala, Jennifer took it to the Inter-American Court on Human Rights (IACHR) in Costa Rica. In December 2000, the IACHR found the Guatemalan military guilty of the disappearance, torture, and execution of Efrain Bámaca Velazquez and in 2006 the Guatemalan government apologized for his murder. The Guatemalan government still took no action, and it wasn’t until 2009, when the IACHR ruled that Guatemala had not complied with the sentences, that the criminal process resumed in earnest in Guatemala.
A series of remarkable recent rulings by the Guatemalan Supreme Court has permitted the Bámaca case and others to move forward in the penal system once again. The rulings required Guatemalan courts to comply with international law, including the Inter-American legal principles and decisions. The case sets a crucial legal precedent prohibiting the forced disappearance and torture of any human being, no matter what their political, religious or racial backgrounds, and no matter which side of the internal conflict they supported. There is no exception to the ban on torture, and hence no justification, legal or moral, for the 200,000 dead and disappeared in Guatemala.
Massacre at Las Dos Erres
July 13 , 2011: Kaibil associated with the Dos Erres case deported from the United States and arrested in Guatemala
Background on the massacre
In December 1982, during the de facto administration of Ríos Montt, approximately 300 residents of Dos Erres, Libertad, Petén were murdered by the Guatemalan military’s special Kaibil Unit. Of those killed 113 were children under the age of 14. The soldiers began with babies, throwing them down wells in the town. Next, the women and children were gathered in the town’s churches, where the women were raped and the children were beaten. The children were eventually thrown, some still alive, into wells. After the women and children, the men were beaten to death and their bodies were thrown into a well.
After having children of their own, two Kaibiles confessed to the massacre and named the other officers involved. The case was first filed by the Association of Families of the Detained and 'Disappeared' of Guatemala (FAMDEGUA) in 1994 and the site of the massacre was exhumed and the remains of 171 people were recovered. The case was highlighted in the Historical Clarification Commission report and was introduced to the Inter-American Court by FAMDEGUA in 1996. In 2001, an agreement was reached in which the state, under President Portillo, recognized the massacre; money and psychiatric help were given to the survivors and a monument was constructed in the town. In December 2001, Q14 million (around $1.7 million) was paid to the families of the victims.
In 2005, the Guatemala Supreme Court ruled to drop the charges against the officers, claiming that it could not act under the National Reconciliation Law that exempts members of the armed forces and those under their command from prosecution to for unspecified crimes carried during the conflict. The court stated that the law annulled actions taken after its passage in 1996. In January 2010, the Inter American Court ruled that the state had obstructed the case and ordered the case and arrest warrants reactivated. In February two Kaibiles were arrested in connection with the massacre. Nearly 30 years since the massacre no military officers have been convicted for the murders committed.
A small victory
On Wednesday, September 15 th, the sentencing hearing of former Guatemalan soldier Gilberto Jordan occured in the U.S. District Court of Southern Florida. He was given the maximum sentence of 10 years in U.S. prison for making false statements on citizenship forms. He will most likely be extradited to Guatemala after serving his sentence.
Jordan was participant in the massacre of over 250 civilians in Dos Erres, in the Peten region of Guatemala in November, 1982. He has confessed to the murder, rape, and torture of numerous men, women, and children, as well as throwing bodies, including live babies, down the village well. In September of 1996 Jordan applied for U.S. citizenship, falsely denying that he had ever been involved in the military or committed a crime. He was sworn in as a citizen in August of 1999. In May of this year, Jordan was arrested in Florida for making false statements on his immigration forms and pled guilty two months later.
During the initial hearing, U.S. Attorney Wilfredo Ferrer publicly recognized the importance of the case: “The massacre at Dos Erres was a dark moment for the Guatemalan people, and we will not allow suspected perpetrators to escape justice by taking refuge in our cities and towns.”
The implications of this case are profound for Guatemala and the other cases of massacres and crimes against humanity from the internal armed conflict. Although the Peace Accords were signed 15 years ago, perpetrators of the genocide and forced disappearance of 200,000 Guatemalans remain in impunity. Survivors still live in fear. The trial of Jordan and a guilty verdict in U.S. courts will set an important precedent for other human rights abusers who reside in the U.S., as well as provide momentum for this and other paradigmatic cases in Guatemalan courts. Another soldier, Pedro Pimentel Rios, is under investigation in the United States, and 17 arrest warrants have been issued in Guatemala. He was deported from the United States on July 12, 2011 and arrested upon his arrival in Guatemala. Jorge Sosa, another ex-kaibil linked to the case, was arrested in Canada on January 21, 2011 for charges in the U.S. of immigration fraud, and may face also war crimes charges in Canada.
January 21, 2011: Guatemalan kaibil officer arrested in Alberta, Canada
September 16, 2010: Ex-Guatemalan soldier gets 10 years in US prison
May 5, 2010: U.S. rounds up Guatemalans accused of war crimes
April 29, 2010: Guatemala: Unearthing a massacre
June 1, 2009: Another appeal paralyzes the trial against soldiers in the Dos Erres massacre
Read more on the trial on the NSA's blog.
Read declassified U.S. documents on the case collected by the National Security Archives.
See also Ramiro Remembers: key witness in Guatemalan massacre
Forced Disappearances
October 29, 2010: Two ex-members of the National Police get 40-year sentence in Fernando Garcia case. A judge of the Eight District Court sentenced Hector Roderico Ramirez Ríos and Abraham Lancerio Gómez, holding them responsible for the forced disappearance of Fernando Garcia 26 years ago. A key component of the trial and outcome was the recording that Daniel Chinchilla, Garcia's comrade, made the day they were both captured, as well the historical archives of the National Police. Two other men involved in Garcia's disappearance Hugo Rolando Gómez Osorio and Alfonso Guillermo De León, are still fugitives. [Prensa Libre]
October 20, 2010: Fernando Garcia trial continues. Six expert opinions and seven witnesses were brought to court on Oct. 19, including Danilo Chinchilla, Garcia's companion who was also kidnapped, and Rember Larios, former director of the National Civil Police. Lagos confirmed the existence of patrols and social cleansing operations coordinated by the central office of the National Police. The accused include former police officers Héctor Ramírez Ríos and Abraham Lancerio Gómez, charged with illegal detention and forced disappearance. The Human Rights Division of the Public Prosecutor's Office will present its decision next week; the maximum sentence for each defendant is 62 years. [Prensa Libre]
October 19, 2010: Fernando Garcia case begins. Deputy Nineth Montenegro, wife of Fernando Garcia, gave her statement yesterday in which she entailed the suffering she and her daughter have undergone, and her demand for justice. Hector Ramirez Rios and Abraham Lancerio Gomez allegedly captured and killed Garcia on February 2, 1984. Plaintiff Alejandra Garcia, daugher of Fernando, as well as the MP has affirmed that they have over 550 documents from the archives of the National Police. Kate Doyle has also stated that there are documents in the CIA archives that record the capture of a union leader on the day of Fernando's disappearance. U.S. Ambassador McFarland attended the hearing and expressed his support that the case be brought to light. [Prensa Libre]
Background on the forced disappearance of Fernando García
Edgar Fernando García was only one of over 40,000 civilians abducted by the state during the internal conflict, however his case is particularly crucial to Guatemala’s historical transparency and the eradication of impunity. Recently declassified archives have brought to light important details that have resulted in an attempt to bring García’s perpetrators to justice. As a student and trade union activist, Fernando García was specifically targeted by Guatemalan military forces who worked in conjunction with the CIA. He was an advisor to the Labor Orientation School at the University of San Carlos, the secretary of the glass worker’s union, and a member of the Association of University Students, a group that actively protested oppressive governmental acts. On February 18, 1984, he was kidnapped near his home in Guatemala City and never seen again. The government denied any involvement in his disappearance. García’s wife, Nineth Montenegro, in response to the indifference of the government and their refusal to provide facts, founded the Mutual Support Group (GAM). The relatives of missing Guatemalans continued to press for information and truth regarding their loved ones.
Twenty five years later, the bilateral collaboration of the National Security Archives in the U.S. and the National Police Archives in Guatemala resulted in the obtainment and release of key documents from both countries regarding the cases of numerous victims, including Fernando García. It was revealed that García’s abduction was a political act organized by top government officials, who saw him as a communist threat. It also became apparent that the U.S. was well informed of these actions. The names of those involved were found in these documents as well.
On Monday, October 18, the trial of Hector Ramirez Rios and Abrahan Lancero Gomez, two former officers of the National Police, began. They both face charges of kidnapping and murder with a maximum sentence of 62 years.
More on forced disappearances...
August, 2010: GAM Report, released on the International Day of the Disappeared: La Desaparición forzada en Guatemala (Necesided de esclarecimiento e investigación). The report details the long history of forced disappearance in Guatemala, the lack of justice, and recommended steps for the government to take. There were over 45,000 people disappeared during Guatemala's internal armed conflict and almost no investigation by the government. GAM and a coalition of organizations are calling for the government to pass a law to find the disappeared. (GHRC has supported this proposal, Law 3590.) See also: Albedrio.
December 11, 2009: Exhumation underway to search for victims named in the Death Squad Dossier. Ten years after the document was made public, families of those whose disappearances were recorded in the Death Squad Dossier, or "Diario Militar" will finally be able to find the remains of their loved ones. It will be the first proceeding in the department of Guatemala. [elPeriodico]
- El Jute -
December 4, 2009: First military officer sentenced for forced disappearance. Marco Antonio Sanchez became the first army officer to be convicted for the crime of forced disappearance in the Guatemalan armed conflict. He was sentenced to 53 years in prison yesterday for ordering the forced disappearance of 8 peasants in El Jute, Chiquimula in October 1981. He was convicted along with three paramilitaries. [elPeriodico][New York Times] [La Hora]
**Family members of the disappeared, though satisfied with the outcome of the case, fear reprisals. Some have already received threats from retired military personel present at the trial. Though they have been given segurity guards, the measures are only temporary. [Prensa Libre]
**Vea un video sobre la audiencia.
November 26, 2009: Seeking Justice in the El Jute Case. U.S. Ambassador Stephen McFarland attended the hearing in Chiquimula on the disappearance of eight people in 1981, hoping his presence would support the families of the victims. He stated that the Guatemalan state needed to respond to the abuses from the war. The prosecutor in the case is asking for a sentence of 570 years for the accused. [Prensa Libre]
- Cusanero Coj -
September 1, 2009: Ex-military Commissioner Condemned to 150 Years in Prison. The first trial for forzed disappearance in Guatemala, that of ex-commissioned soldier Felipe Cusanero Coj, concluded yesterday. He was found guilty of disappearing six people, and sentenced to 150 years in prison. According to the penal code, however, he will only serve 50 years. [Prensa Libre]
Guatemala Sees Landmark Sentence [BBC]
Guatemala convicts paramilitary in disappearances [Washington Post]
Myna Mack Assassination / Helen Mack
Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 marked the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Myrna Mack. In an interview with La Hora, Helen Mack - Myrna's sister and the director of the Myrna Mack Foundation - stressed the importance of historical memory and justice: "Twenty years later we continue the fight against impunity...because the impunity of the past is what has generated the impunity of the present."
Myrna Mack Chang was a Maya/Chinese anthropologist who researched human rights violations of internally displaced populations during the Guatemala’s armed conflict. As a result of her outspoken criticism of the government, she was stabbed to death as she left her office in Guatemala City on September 11, 1990.
In 1991, Helen Mack, pursued prosecution in Guatemala of those responsible for the assassination, including multiple graduates of the U.S. School of the Americas. The case was taken to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, DC, and later to the Inter-American Court in Costa Rica. Two years later, one of Myrna's attackers, a low ranking security official, was convicted in a groundbreaking decision. The case also led to the trial of two colonels and a general, as the intellectual authors of the murder; the highest ranking officials in Guatemala ever to be tired for human rights violations. In 2002, Colonel Juan Valencia Osorio was convicted for his role in ordering her murder. The decision, however, was overturned in an appeals court in 2003, and the case has been taken to Guatemalan Supreme Court. This case was the first of its kind in Guatemala and paved the way for similar human rights cases.
Helen Mack went beyond the prosecution of her sister’s killers and in 1993 founded the Myrna Mack Foundation to “drive the fight against impunity, the formation of the Rule of Law in Guatemala, and the consolidation of peace and democracy.”
Mack has continued to fight against impunity and human rights violations in Guatemala. In 2010, Helen was appointed by President Colom to lead investigations into police corruption. If one of her first statements after her appointment, she asserted that the low pay and poor work conditions of Guatemala’s police were key catalysts in corruption and must be addressed. On April 28, 2010, Helen won the Judith Lee Stronach Human Rights Award from the Center for Justice and Accountability.
December 3, 2009: Operation Sofia: Documenting Genocide in Guatemala. The deliberate massacre of thousands of indigenous Mayans by the Guatemalan army during the summer of 1982 has been verified with internal records and was presented to the Spanish National Court yesterday. The records on "Operation Sofia," which had previously been “missing” according to the Defense Minister, implicate responsibility for what the UN-sponsored Historical Clarification Commission determined "acts of genocide" in 1999. Kate Doyle of the National Security Archive obtained the records from military intelligence sources in Guatemala and was able to verify their authenticity. [National Security Archives][New York Times]
Panzós Massacre
The massacre of 35 residents of Panzós in the department of Alta Verapaz is considered the first of many that occurred during the armed conflict that gripped Guatemala from 1960 to 1996. On May 29 1978, 179 eight hundred residents met in the town square to protest the Canadian mining company Inco, Ltd, which had taken over private lands to open a new nickel mine. While the mayor of Panzós addressed the crowd, the Guatemalan army surrounded the plaza and opened fire, killing 35. Eighteen more died attempting to flee across the Polochic River. The leader of the movement against the mine, Mama Maquín, and her grandson were killed by the gunfire.
In 1997, exhumations of the victims and an investigation into the massacre began, led by Association of Families of the Detained and Disappeared of Guatemala (FAMDEGUA). The State has taken responsibility for the massacre but the investigation has yielded few insights into who exactly was responsible for the murders.
Alfonso Antonio Portillo Cabrera was president of Guatemala from 2000 to 2004, as a member of the Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG). During his presidential campaign, it was revealed that in 1982 he had killed two Mexican students when he was a professor of political science at the university in Chilpancingo, Mexico. He claimed that he had shot the students in self defense and fled the country because he was not a Mexican citizen. Despite this admission, he was elected in the second round of elections with 68.3% of the vote. Portillo’s administration was marked by high levels of corruption and impunity and when his political impunity ended in 2004, he quickly fled to Mexico.
His extradition from Mexico to Guatemala was approved in 2006 and he returned to the country in 2008. He then sued Guatemala to be reinstated as a member of congress in order to qualify again for political immunity, however it was not granted. In 2010, the District Attorney of Southern New York requested his extradition to the United States to face charges of laundering $70 million through American and European banks. Portillo was arrested soon thereafter by the National Police, CICIG and the Public Prosecutor’s Office. Portillo has appealed the charges and experts believe it may take five years before the ex-President is sent to the US because, if found guilty, he must first serve his sentence in Guatemala before going to trial in the U.S.
**Case updates: Representatives from Rio Negro and the community organization ADIVIMA met with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in March 2010 to request that their case of the five massacres at Rio Negro be moved to the Inter-American Court in Costa Rica. The 33 communities affected by the Chixoy dam have successfully negotiated an integral reparations package with President Colom.
Background on the case
Five massacres occurred in the Rio Negro (“Black River”) communities between 1980 and 1982. The people of Rio Negro (named after the nearby river) had occupied the region since the classic Mayan age and owned 1,440 hectares of land. During the energy crisis of the 1970’s the Guatemalan government looked for local energy alternatives, creating the state-owned National Institute of Electrification (INDE). In 1975 INDE unveiled plans to dam the Rio Negro, also called the Chixoy River, to provide the country’s electricity, which would flood 31 miles of the river valley. Funds from the Inter-American Development Bank, Italian company Cogefar-Impressit, and the World Bank were used in the construction of local roads and the dam itself. The Rio Negro communities were notified that it would be relocated and the 150 families would receive two to three hectares of land. A local committee negotiated with INDE officials for a permanent settlement in Pacux, near Rabinal. After a violation of the agreement, 20 families moved back to their community, while dam construction began. During early construction a French firm was hired to excavate Ancient Mayan objects, desecrating the sacred land in the eyes of the local communities.
Five years after the plan was proposed, in March 1980, violence broke out between the local community and the developers when two men were accused of stealing coffee beans from Cogefar-Impressit and arrested. A confrontation broke out between the village and three security officers chased the men back to their village. The officers were then rounded up by the villagers and brought to the Church where one officer was hit by a community leader. The officer then opened fire, killing seven villagers. The officers fled and one was injured and drowned crossing the river. That July two villagers asked to bring a written agreement to the dam site were found murdered a few days later and the written documents were lost.
In 1981, the Guatemalan government began destroying villages as part of the scortched earth campaign, and relocating communities in ‘model villages’ that could be easily controlled and monitored by the army and also provide cheap labor to neighboring towns. The government also created Civil Defense Patrols, made up of armed locals, often forcefully recruited. One such patrol was created in the village of Xococ, near Rio Negro, and would eventually be responsible for much of the violence in the region.
In February 1982, villagers in Rio Negro were instructed to bring their identification cards to Xococ. When the villagers reached the town they were murdered by the Xococ Patrol. One woman escaped and returned to Rio Negro to warn the other villagers. The men of the village decided to flee and hide in the hills leaving the women and children in the village, under the assumption they would not be harmed. The next month Civil Patrols from Xococ arrived in Rio Negro, under the pretense of guerilla activity in the area, and massacred the women and children, killing 177. Two months later, 84 more people were killed in ‘Los Encuentros’, Rio Negro, and fifteen women were abducted. Then, in September, 92 villagers were burned alive, including survivors of previous massacres. Of Rio Negro’s almost 800 Maya-Achí inhabitants, 444 were killed in the massacres between 1980 and 1982.
Today the Rio Negro community is in negotiations with the Guatemalan government for reparations for the construction of the dam. A case is also being heard in the Inter-American Commission for integral reparations for the massacres that took place. The UN Historical Clarification Commission concluded that the killings were carried out by patrols created by the Guatemalan military, but the government has yet to take responsibility.
March 30, 2010: First jail sentence emitted in Rosenberg Case
On May 10, 2009 Guatemalan lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg was shot and killed while riding his bike in Zone 14 of Guatemala City. Two days later a video recorded before his murder was released in which the Rosenberg stated, “If you are watching this message, it is because I was assassinated by President Álvaro Colom, with help from Gustavo Alejos" (Colom's private secretary). He went on to claim that the President planned his assassination because he was in possession of documents linking the President to the murders of prominent businessman Khalil Musa and his daughter Marjorie a month earlier. The next day the capital erupted in protest calling for Colom’s impeachment, while the president denied any involvement. Many of the demonstrations were led by Guatemalan youths protesting impunity in Guatemala, rather than taking a specific political stance.
The murder and allegations against the President rocked the nation and threatened to destabilize the Colom Administration. However, the CICIG’s (International Anti-Impunity Commission) Special Prosecutors Office 9 (UEFAC) began its investigation on May 14, 2009. By November 13, 2009, CICIG's director Carlos Castresana expressed confidence the case would be resolved by the end of 2009.
In January, 2010, the CICIG concluded that Rosenberg had in fact planned his own death, distraught over the death of his mistress Marjorie Musa. The CICIG revealed that Rosenberg had faked his own extortion, hired hit men to kill the supposed extortionist and then posed as the extortionist with the help of two family members and multiple cell phones. Additionally, the CICIG found no connection to President Colom or his secretary. In February 2010, President Colom visited the United States to thank the Organization of American States for withholding judgment in the case which he believes helped prevent a coup in the country.
As of March 31, 2010 one person was charged in the crime, but the material and intellectual authors have not been brought to trial.
Past updates on the case of lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg.
On January 31, 1980 a group of students and farmers from the department of Quiché occupied the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala City to demand an end to military repression in their communities. In response to the occupation, security forces encircled the building and occupied the first and third floors - despite the ambassador’s warnings that to do so violated international law. Security forces then bombed the embassy, setting the building on fire. The fire killed 39 people, including farmers, diplomats and officials. Among the victims was Vincente Menchú, father of now Nobel Prize recipient, Rigoberta Menchú Tum. The Spanish Ambassador Máximo Cajal survived along with demonstrator Gregorio Xujá. The latter was taken by a group of armed men from his hospital room where he was being treated for third degree burns. He was tortured and then shot and killed; his body was found dumped on the campus of the University of San Carlos. Thirty years later, no one has been convicted for the fire or deaths of the demonstrators and embassy workers. The case is currently being heard in Spanish Courts, along with charges of genocide, brought by the Menchú Foundation.
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Lindsay & Phelps Co. v. Mullen , 176 U.S. 126 ( 1900 )
LINDSAY AND PHELPS COMPANY
MULLEN.
Supreme Court of United States.
Argued April 6, 7, 1899. Decided January 15, 1900. ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA.
*136 Mr. Newell H. Clapp for plaintiff in error. Mr. Moses E. Clapp filed a brief for same.
Mr. Wallace B. Douglas for defendants in error. Mr. H.W. Childs was on his brief.
Mr. JUSTICE BREWER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
Upon the foregoing facts the plaintiff contends: First. That the boom at the West Newton Slough, through which the logs scaled by the defendant Mullen passed was not "any boom . . . chartered by law" within the scope of section 2400 of the Statutes of 1894. This contention cannot be sustained. The words "chartered by law" are not to be understood as referring simply to corporations incorporated under special acts. A corporation which is organized under a general law is as much "chartered by law" as one whose organization is provided for by special act. So that on the face of this *137 statute, and giving to its words their natural meaning, it includes every corporation, whether incorporated under general or special law, with authority to maintain a boom. The mere fact that in early times four special charters were granted to boom companies cannot work any limitation upon the meaning of the words used in this statute. If the legislature of Minnesota had purposed any such distinction, its language would have been more apt. It would not have used words broad enough to have included any corporation of the kind described.
As a matter of fact, this corporation was organized some eighteen days before chapter 221 of the Laws of 1889 was passed. Prior to that time there was an act (General Statute Minnesota, 1866, chap. 34, sec. 1, as amended by chap. 13, Laws Minnesota, 1873) which authorized the formation of corporations for various purposes named, and also "other lawful business." Under that statute this corporation was formed. That the business of booming logs on the waters of streams running through the forests of the West is a lawful business cannot be doubted.
In City of Erie v. Canfield, 27 Michigan, 479, 482, the Supreme Court of Michigan said:
"It is clear that on a river like the Manistee, which is navigable by steamers for a long distance, but down which logs by the million are floated and gathered in booms every season where in fact the principal industry consists in cutting, floating and manufacturing into lumber the forests in its vicinity, and where the river is more valuable for this floatage than for any other navigation; the necessity and convenience of this floatage must be considered in any rules laid down for the public use of the stream, and the need of booming facilities to render the floatage of value. Indeed, to take away the privilege of booming would be to strike a fatal blow at the principal commerce on the stream; for the vessels which ply between Manistee and other ports are loaded principally with the lumber which the mills along the shores of Manistee lake and river are enabled, by means of the privilege of floating and booming logs upon these waters, to manufacture and place *138 upon the market. It is just and reasonable, therefore, and conducive to the best interests of commerce, that the right of navigating the river should be exercised with due regard to the necessity for booming facilities, and the former is not so far paramount as to render the latter a nuisance whenever and wherever it encroaches upon waters navigable by the large vessels which enter this stream."
And in Pound v. Turck, 95 U.S. 459, 464, is a clear recognition of the lawfulness of this booming industry, as appears from the following quotation:
"There are within the State of Wisconsin, and perhaps other States, many small streams navigable for a short distance from their mouths in one of the great rivers of the country, by steamboats, but whose greatest value in water carriage is as outlets to sawed logs, sawed lumber, coal, salt, etc. In order to develop their greatest utility in that regard, it is often essential that such structures as dams, booms, piers, etc., should be used, which are substantial obstructions to general navigation, and more or less so to rafts and barges. But to the legislature of the State may be most appropriately confided the authority to authorize these structures where their use will do more good than harm, and to impose such regulations and limitations in their construction and use as will best reconcile and accommodate the interest of all concerned in the matter."
Indeed, it would strike a serious blow at the legislation of many of the Northwestern States and an immense volume of business that has been carried on under the authority of that legislation, to hold that the booming of logs was not a lawful business.
That those words, "other lawful business," as found in the statute are not to be narrowly construed, but are broad enough to include an incorporation for this purpose, is made clear by the decision of the Supreme Court of Minnesota in Brown v. Corbin, 40 Minnesota, 508, 509, in which the court said:
"Defendants invoke the rule that when particular words are followed by general ones, the general words are restricted in meaning to objects of the kind particularly enumerated, *139 and therefore that the phrase `or other lawful business' must be limited to a business of the same kind as those previously enumerated. We think the rule invoked is not applicable, at least in the narrow and restricted sense, in which defendants seek to apply it. The kinds of business specifically enumerated bear no common analogy to each other except that they are all for pecuniary profit, and of a strictly private character as distinguished from those to be carried on by quasi public corporations authorized to exercise the right of eminent domain. Evidently the expression `or other lawful business' was added as a sort of catch-all, for the purpose of including any kind of business for pecuniary profit not elsewhere provided for, and which might have been omitted from the previous particular enumeration."
The corporation then having a legal existence at the time the act of 1889 was passed, section 3 of the act expressly provided that it should apply to corporations previously organized for the purposes specified in section 2. In other words, all the rights, privileges and powers conferred by the act of 1889 were by this section given to existing corporations. So that we have the case of a corporation, organized under the general law of the State, given by subsequent statute full powers in reference to the maintenance of a boom, and in fact maintaining a boom; and the case therefore comes within the specific description in section 2400 of a boom chartered by law.
Further than that, the legislature of Minnesota accepted the claim of the surveyor Mullen as valid under its laws, and thus impliedly recognized the boom company, involved in this controversy, as one chartered by law within the scope of the statutes providing for inspection, scaling and charges therefor.
The second contention is that the statutes of Minnesota were not intended to and do not in fact give the surveyor general any lien upon the logs of private parties for inspecting and scaling logs run through chartered booms. Reference is made by counsel to several statutes in which there is provision for the action of the surveyor general in surveying and scaling lumber at the instance of parties interested. We deem it *140 unnecessary to investigate those statutes, for the sections quoted plainly indicate that the survey and scaling in case of a chartered boom is not solely at the instance of the owner or owners of the logs, but is compulsory. Section 2400 declares that "the surveyor general, by himself or deputy, shall survey all logs and timber running out of any boom now chartered or which may hereafter be chartered by law in his district." To those unfamiliar with the logging business as carried on in the timber regions of the North and Northwest this compulsory surveying and scaling may seem unnecessary, but all legislation may rightfully be adjusted to the actual operations of business, being intended to facilitate those operations and protect all who are engaged therein. Many are engaged in the cutting of logs in these lumber districts. That business is facilitated by any system which permits those parties to turn their logs into an adjacent stream and let them float down to some place where they can be collected and brailed. In that way each individual cutter is saved the necessity of brailing his logs at every place where he may bring them to the water. The several States in which these lumber districts are situated have assumed the power of taking charge of these logs thus put singly into a stream, collecting them at one place, separating them to their respective owners, and thus facilitating the forwarding in raft to market. Of course, such work entails expense, and the expense is rightfully charged upon the property thus separated and marked. The thought in this respect is well expressed by the Supreme Court of Minnesota in Osborne v. Knife Falls Boom Corp., 32 Minnesota, 412, 419:
"Now it appears that there is a large number of persons . . . owning standing timber upon the upper waters of the St. Louis and upon its tributaries, who must float their logs to market down the St. Louis, some to Fond du Lac, Duluth or Superior, and some to Cloquet, or other points above and near Knife River Falls. The interest of the latter requires that their logs should be stopped before passing Knife River Falls; the interest of the former that their logs should be allowed to run over them without interruption. In *141 this conflict who is to determine how the right of floatage upon this common highway shall be enjoyed? Who is to fix upon the just and proper compromise of these conflicting interests? Obviously, the legislature that department of government which, in the exercise of a lawmaking and a police power, prescribes the rules by which the use of public highways in general is regulated, Pound v. Truck, 95 U.S. 459; Watts v. Tittabawassee Boom Co., 52 Michigan, 203, and save as controlled by paramount law that is to say, in this instance, by our state constitution or enabling act the discretion of the legislature in the premises is premises is practically unlimited. It may enact laws prescribing the manner in which the common right of floatage shall be enjoyed. It may determine what means shall be adopted, and by what agency, to secure results which, in its judgment, are the best and fairest practical compromise of conflicting interests the best attainable good of all concerned. Pound v. Turck, supra; Duluth Lumber Co. v. St. Louis Boom Co., 17 Fed. Rep. 419. In the exercise of its legislative discretion it may authorize suitable means and instrumentalities to secure this end to be provided and employed by a private person or by a corporation, and it may prescribe what these means and instrumentalities may be, as booms, dams, piers, sluiceways, and what use may be made of them, and, in general, in what manner the business shall be conducted. . . . On the whole, this is an improvement of the river for the benefit of all concerned in its use, and one for which it is therefore competent for the legislature to require those using the river to make compensation."
In furtherance of the thought thus expressed the legislature of Minnesota has given the right to boom companies duly incorporated to take possession of the great mass of floating logs coming down a stream, and requires that those logs thus taken possession of shall be inspected and scaled under the supervision of some state official. In that way each individual owner and cutter has a guarantee of safety in respect to his logs, and the general interests are so manifestly subserved that there can be no reasonable doubt of the legislative power *142 of supervision, inspection and scaling. And the language of the statute being mandatory, we are of the opinion that such was the intent of the legislature, and that such legislation is within its power.
A third proposition is, that it is not shown that the defendant, Mullen, complied with the statutes of the State of Minnesota which give a lien on logs so as to be entitled to any lien on these logs, or any right of possession thereof, and it is with reference to this matter that the second declaration of law was asked by the plaintiff. The contentions of the plaintiff in this respect seem to be, first, that the scale bills were not of themselves competent evidence, and that without them there was no clear and satisfactory evidence of the number of feet surveyed and scaled; second, that because they were not recorded in the books of the surveyor general the right to a lien had not arisen; and, third, that the testimony shows that the logs in fact surveyed and scaled and for which these fees and lien were claimed were not all the property of this plaintiff.
With reference to the general proposition that the defendant, Mullen, by himself and deputies, was busy in scaling logs in that boom during the months named, there is abundant testimony, and when the question is only as to the sufficiency of testimony to establish a given fact, it is enough to say that this court does not inquire into the mere matter of sufficiency. Matters of fact are settled by a verdict of a jury or the general finding of a court, and if there be testimony fairly tending to support the finding, it is conclusive in this court.
But we are not disposed to question the competency of the scale bills as evidence. Section 2403 provides that the books of the surveyor general's office "are hereby declared to be public records, and of as high degree of evidence as the original instrument therein recorded, and shall, in all courts and places in this State, be taken and held to be prima facie evidence of the matters therein stated." In other words, the records, like the original instrument, are prima facie evidence of the matters stated in them. Clark v. C.N. Nelson Lumber Company, 34 Minnesota, 289; Glaspie v. Keator, 12 U.S. App. 281, 290. In both of those cases scale bills somewhat *143 defective in form were declared under the statute competent evidence. Attached to the scale bills herein was a certificate of the surveyor general stating, as required by section 2402, the amount due him thereon, and that he scaled the logs, timber or lumber relying upon the lien, and that he claimed a lien thereon for the amount thereof and costs of collection. The scale bills, thus certified, were delivered to the managing agent of the boom company. Now, whatever suggestions may be made as to the incompleteness of these scale bills, they were, as thus certified, competent evidence, and, when taken in connection with the other evidence of work actually done by the surveyor general and his deputies, was testimony fairly tending to support the general finding of the court, and we are not at liberty to ignore the effect of that finding.
With regard to the second contention, we do not understand that a record in the books of the surveyor general is preliminary to a right to any lien. By section 2402 he is given a lien for certain services; and while it is true that by section 2400 he is required to record the scale bills in the books of his office, and upon being paid his fees therefor to deliver the original bill to the owner or managing agent of the boom, yet for any services other than the mere making of the record we are of the opinion that under the two sections referred to he establishes his lien by the rendering of the services and affixing to the scale bill the prescribed certificate.
With respect to the final contention under this head, that the logs of the plaintiff, seized by the surveyor general, were so seized under a claim of lien for services rendered in inspecting and scaling logs other than those of the plaintiff as well as its own, the fact is as claimed. An important question is thus presented whether the logs of one party can be subjected to a lien for surveying and scaling, not only his own logs, but also for surveying and scaling logs belonging to other parties. The statement naturally suggests a negative answer, and ordinarily it may be affirmed that no man's property can be subject to a lien for services rendered upon some other man's property. And yet, under the circumstances of the case, we *144 are constrained to hold that the lien was good, and must be enforced for the entire amount claimed. And this upon the proposition that for the purposes of a lien the boom company must be considered in a qualified sense the owner of all logs that it takes into its possession. The legislature in providing for a lien recognizes only the boom company. By section 2 of chapter 221 it gives the company authority to establish a boom, construct all the works necessary for its successful operation; then empowers it to take possession of all logs floating down the stream (with certain exceptions not necessary to be noted in this connection), and in and by the conveniences of said boom to sort and brail all logs which it takes possession of; to "charge and collect reasonable and uniform tolls," and have a lien for the tolls, and all costs and expenses; hold a sufficient amount of the logs received to pay the same, and to make sale thereof in default of payment upon ten days' notice. Involved in the costs and expenses is the fee for inspection and scaling, as provided by the laws of the State, and the inspector is required to give at the end of each month to the owner or managing agent of the boom a true and correct scale bill for all the services he has rendered. So, while the owner of the logs may obtain from the surveyor general a certified copy of the inspection and scaling, yet the inspector deals in the first instance with the boom company. To it he gives his scale bill, properly certified, and by virtue thereof he is given a lien upon the logs in the custody of the boom company. The boom company, for its protection, is given a lien on the logs of each owner. Obviously there was seen to be a practical difficulty in limiting the lien of the survey or general for his services in inspecting and scaling to the logs separately upon which the services were rendered. The logs are turned into the custody of the boom company. It arranges for their separation and brailing, and delivers them, when thus brailed, to the owner as demanded. The fees for the surveyor general's services were therefore made chargeable to the boom company, and under its charter it had authority to collect from each log owner all charges and expenses, including therein the fees due the surveyor *145 general. The log owner dealt with the boom company, and had a right to call from that company for a delivery of his logs duly brailed or rafted whenever he saw fit. To require the surveyor general to stand watch at the exit of the boom to demand of each log owner his fees, or in default of payment to seize the logs thus ready for their future transit down the river, would cast upon the surveyor general not merely the duty of inspecting and scaling, but also, for his own protection, the duty of keeping an additional watch to secure the payment of his fees. It was not unreasonable on the part of the legislature, when it gave the boom company a lien upon all logs turned into the boom, to require that it should be responsible to the surveyor general for his fees, and that he, looking to the boom company for payment thereof, should have a right to enforce a lien upon any logs turned into the boom. It cannot be said that there is, in the nature of things, such an inseparable connection between services rendered and the thing upon which the services are rendered that a lien for the former can only be enforced upon the latter, or even that such lien must be limited to the owner of the latter, for it is within the discretion of the legislature to determine whether, considering all the circumstances, the use of a given instrumentality shall not subject the party seeking that use to a lien upon his property for all the services rendered by the State to the instrumentality. Take the ordinary case of a warehouse for the receipt and discharge of grain. Can it be that the lien for the services of a state inspector must necessarily attach separately, and only separately, to each bushel of grain delivered to and received therefrom? Is it not within the competency of the legislative power to declare that the owner of the elevator, like the owner of a boom, stands, as to all property received into it, as pro tanto an owner, and to give to any official charged with the duty of inspection a lien upon any and all of the property thus received for his services in the matter of inspection, especially when it gives to the owner of the elevator or the boom a lien upon the property placed in his possession for all services, charges and expenses?
*146 We are of opinion that it was within the power of the legislature to so provide. It is not for the courts to inquire whether any other provision would have been wiser. The only question for us to consider is whether that which has been made was within the power of the legislature. It must be borne in mind that while the lien is given for the services rendered, the use of the facilities of the boom is not compulsory. We do not mean to say that a log cutter may throw his logs loosely and separately into the river and let them float down, trusting to luck that they will do no injury. Doubtless any one may make his own raft and send it down the stream, provided he places in charge of it a sufficient number of men to suitably protect it from doing injury or interfering with others in their use of the stream. A main purpose of the boom is to stop and collect the floating logs, and the State having control over the river as a highway of navigation may make such provisions for the use of that highway by the different parties seeking to use it as will prevent any injury by one upon the other. Just as the ordinary land highways are free to the use of the public, yet it is within the competency of the legislature to make such provisions as will prevent the use by one working injury to others; and if a party wishes to use a highway in a manner which may tend to work injury to others he cannot complain if the legislature interferes and provides some means for preventing such injury. In that way it may be said that any log owner may send his logs down the river without the use of the boom, and when he decides to avail himself of the boom it cannot be said that he is deprived of his property without due process of law if he is compelled to subject it to the conditions which the legislature prescribes for the use of such boom.
A final objection is that even this boom was one chartered by law, within the meaning of section 2400, and although the defendant, Mullen, had performed all that was required of him by the statute to secure a lien, still the law as applied to this boom, and in so far as the logs in question are concerned, is a regulation of interstate commerce which the State of Minnesota has no authority to make. It appears that these *147 logs, and indeed the bulk of the logs passing into this boom, came out of the Chippewa River, a stream wholly within the limits of the State of Wisconsin. The boom company was chartered by the State of Minnesota, and its principal works were within the limits of that State. Counsel for plaintiff refer to many decisions of this court in which the general power of Congress over interstate commerce and the inability of the State to burden in any direct way such commerce have been affirmed. Passing by most we may notice these quotations, as illustrating the scope of our decisions. Thus in County of Mobile v. Kimball, 102 U.S. 691, it is held that "commerce with foreign countries and among the States, strictly considered, consists in intercourse and traffic, including in these terms navigation, and the transportation and transit of persons and property;" and in Gloucester Ferry Co. v. Pennsylvania, 114 U.S. 196, 203: "Commerce among the States consists of intercourse and traffic between their citizens, and includes the transportation of persons and property, and the navigation of public waters for that purpose;" and from Wabash &c. Railway Co. v. Illinois, 118 U.S. 557, 571, this paragraph is quoted: "But we think it may safely be said, that state legislation which seeks to impose a direct burden upon interstate commerce, or to interfere directly with its freedom, does encroach upon the exclusive power of Congress. The statute now under consideration, in our opinion, occupies that position; it does not act upon the business through the local instruments to be employed after coming within the State, but directly upon the business as it comes into the State from without, or goes out from within. While it purports only to control the carrier when engaged within the State, it must necessarily influence his conduct to some extent, in the management of his business throughout his entire voyage. It was to meet just such a case that the commercial clause in the Constitution was adopted. The river Mississippi passes through or along the borders of ten different States, and its tributaries reach many more. The commerce upon these waters is immense, and its regulation clearly a matter of national concern. If each State was at liberty to *148 regulate the conduct of carriers while within its jurisdiction, the confusion likely to follow could not but be productive of great inconvenience and unnecessary hardship."
Upon these authorities it is contended that the navigation of these logs from the place of cutting in Wisconsin along the navigable waters of Minnesota, to their market, wherever it may be in the lower waters of the Mississippi, must be free. If Minnesota can burden the transit with the expense of booming, inspection or scaling, why may not Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and any other State along whose borders the logs may pass before reaching their destination? Even if a State may (as would seem to be indicated by the decisions heretofore referred to), for logs cut within its borders, provide booms, compel their use and enforce payment for the expenses thereof, because for those logs no interstate commerce has commenced, yet here Minnesota is directly regulating the transit of logs cut in another State and passing through its borders on their way to market. This is undoubtedly the most significant if not perhaps the only distinctive Federal question presented in this record.
We are not disposed to limit in the slightest degree the scope and effect of the decisions referred to. But we are of opinion that these authorities are not pertinent, and that the matter is governed by another line of decisions equally clear and as frequently recognized. The State has a right to improve the waterways within its limits and to make reasonable charges for the use of such improvements, at least until Congress interferes, and either itself assumes control of the improvements or compels their removal. This parallel line of decisions runs back to the early history of this court. In Willson v. Blackbird Creek Marsh Company, 2 Pet. 245, it was held that, inasmuch as Congress had passed no act bearing upon the case, the State of Delaware might authorize the building of a dam across the Blackbird Marsh Creek, although thereby a navigable waterway was obstructed. In Pound v. Turck, 95 U.S. 459, the right of a State to make dams, booms and other instrumentalities to be used in the navigation of logs and lumber was adjudged. Other decisions affirmed the power *149 of the State to build bridges, even toll bridges, over navigable streams, to construct wharves and charge wharfage. In Huse v. Glover, 119 U.S. 543, 548, the right of the State of Illinois to collect tolls for the passage of vessels through locks in the Illinois River was sustained, the court saying:
"The exaction of tolls for passage through the locks is as compensation for the use of artificial facilities constructed, not as an impost upon the navigation of the stream. The provision of the clause that the navigable streams should be highways without any tax, impost or duty, has reference to their navigation in their natural state. It did not contemplate that such navigation might not be improved by artificial means, by the removal of obstructions, or by the making of dams for deepening the waters, or by turning into the rivers waters from other streams to increase their depth. For outlays caused by such works the State may exact reasonable tolls. They are like charges for the use of wharves and docks constructed to facilitate the landing of persons and freight, and the taking them on board, or for the repair of vessels."
In Sands v. Manistee River Improvement Co., 123 U.S. 288, 295, a corporation had been authorized by the State of Michigan to improve the Manistee River, and to charge tolls for the use of the improvement. An action to collect tolls was resisted on the ground that the imposition was a taking of property without due process of law, which contention was overruled, and in the course of the opinion it was said:
"The Manistee River is wholly within the limits of Michigan. The State, therefore, can authorize any improvement which in its judgment will enhance its value as a means of transportation from one part of the State to another. The internal commerce of a State that is, the commerce which is wholly confined within its limits is as much under its control as foreign or interstate commerce is under the control of the general government; and, to encourage the growth of this commerce and render it safe, the States may provide for the removal of obstructions from their rivers and harbors, and deepen their channels, and improve them in other ways, if, as is said in County of Mobile v. Kimball, the free navigation of *150 those waters, as permitted under the laws of the United States, is not impaired, or any system for the improvement of their navigation provided by the general government is not defeated. 102 U.S. 691, 699. And to meet the cost of such improvements, the States may levy a general tax or lay a toll upon all who use the rivers and harbors as improved. The improvements are, in that respect, like wharves and docks constructed to facilitate commerce in loading and unloading vessels. (Huse v. Glover, 119 U.S. 543, 548.) Regulations of tolls or charges in such cases are mere matters of administration, under the entire control of the State."
Many other cases of similar import might be cited, but these are enough to disclose the principle which is clearly recognized.
The principal works of the boom company are wholly within the State of Minnesota. The centre of the main channel of the Mississippi River is northeast of the island. The State of Minnesota had therefore the undoubted right to improve this portion of the Mississippi River lying southwest of the island for the purpose of facilitating the navigation of logs. It could do the work itself, or could authorize a corporation to do the work, and it could prescribe any reasonable fees for the use of the improvement. The power of the State to authorize the construction of these works did not depend at all upon the question whence all or most of the logs likely to be run into the boom should come. It is enough that the State authorized this improvement and prescribed the conditions upon which it might be used by any owner of logs. These conditions are not shown to be unreasonable. It is a legitimate exercise of power on the part of a State to provide state supervision of what is done in works of such a character, and to require payment of reasonable charges for such supervision. It does not appear that the plaintiff was compelled to avail itself of this boom; that its logs were forcibly seized by the boom company, and against its will passed through the boom. On the contrary, it would seem not improbable from the testimony that the persons who organized and owned the boom company were engaged in the *151 business of cutting logs on the Chippewa River, and that this litigation sprang from their desire to get all the benefits of the boom without submission to the inspection laws of the State, which gave authority for the works. At any rate, if this plaintiff wanted to take advantage of the conveniences furnished by the boom, it is not in a position to avoid compliance with these provisions of the statutes of the State which authorized the construction of the works.
It is true that that which is called a "shear boom" extended across the navigable channel of the Mississippi and to near the Wisconsin shore; but if neither the State of Wisconsin nor the United States complained of this as an obstruction of the navigation of the Mississippi, it does not lie in the mouth of the plaintiff to complain. Indeed, its complaint is not that the shear boom interfered with its rights of navigation in any way, but that after its logs had been passed into the works constructed under the authority and within the limits of the State of Minnesota it was not permitted to avail itself of the advantages furnished thereby and repudiate the charges prescribed by the State.
Before passing from a consideration of the right of this boom company under its charter to place the shear boom across the main channel of the Mississippi it may not be inappropriate to notice a decision of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin upon a like question. In J.S. Keator Lumber Company v. St. Croix Boom Corporation, 72 Wisconsin, 62, 88, it appeared that the St. Croix Boom Company was a corporation created by the State of Minnesota, and that it had constructed its boom on the St. Croix River at a place where the river was the boundary line between Minnesota and Wisconsin, and wholly occupied the river with its works. An action was brought to recover damages on account of the way in which the boom was constructed and operated. The opinion of the Supreme Court, by Mr. Justice Cassoday, is a very elaborate discussion of the rights of parties. In it it is said:
"The obstructions here complained of were in that part of the St. Croix River constituting the boundary line between *152 this State and Minnesota. The defendant justifies under corporate authority derived solely from Minnesota. We are here confronted with the question whether such authority, so granted by that State alone and without the concurrence of this, is of any validity. Our constitution declares that `the State shall have concurrent jurisdiction on all rivers and lakes bordering on this State, so far as such rivers or lakes shall form a common boundary to the State and any other State or Territory now or hereafter to be formed and bounded by the same.' (Sec. 1, Art. IX, Const. Wis.) This provision is substantially the same as the third section of the act of Congress of August 6, 1846, enabling the organization of this State preparatory to its admission into the Union. Substantially the same provision, as applied to Minnesota, is found in sec. 2 of art. II of the constitution of that State, which is in substance the same as section 2 of the enabling act for the organization of that State passed by Congress in 1857. Such `concurrent jurisdiction,' therefore, is fairly established by the combined action of the general government and each of these two States. Its significance is the important inquiry presented. No one will deny that the one State has as much jurisdiction over the commerce of the river as the other, nor that the jurisdiction of each and both must be and remain subordinate to any action of Congress under the commercial clause of our national Constitution. The question recurs whether one of these States, without the concurrence of the other, can legally grant the booming privileges and rights authorized by the defendant's charter."
Without attempting fully to define the rights which either State might grant, it was held that a private party could not maintain an action for damages on the ground that Minnesota had exceeded its jurisdiction in granting rights upon waters within the limits of Wisconsin. Referring to Rundle v. Delware & Raritan Canal Co., 14 How. 80, the court stated the facts and the rulings in that case, and summed up its own views in these words (pages 98, 99):
"The plaintiffs owned certain mills in Pennsylvania, opposite Trenton, New Jersey, supplied with water from a dam in the *153 Delaware River, by a title running back prior to 1771. In that year the two provinces, which subsequently became the States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, respectively passed acts declaring the river a common highway for the purposes of navigation, and appointed commissioners with full power to improve such navigation and remove any obstructions. By compact in 1783, it was agreed by the two States that the river should continue to be and remain a common highway in its whole length and breadth, equally free and open for the use, benefit and advantage of each of the two States. The defendant company was incorporated under the laws of New Jersey in 1830, and was thereby authorized to and did construct a canal in that State, with a feeder from a dam in that river above the plaintiffs. The action was brought by reason of the diversion of such water, to the damage of the plaintiffs. The court held, in effect, that the plaintiffs had no grant of the usufruct of the waters of the river, but only a license to draw from their dam; that such license was revocable and in subjection to the superior right of the State to divert the water for public improvements, either by the State directly or by a corporation created for that purpose; that the plaintiffs, being but tenants at sufferance in the usufruct of the water of the two States, who owned the river as tenants in common, were not in a condition to question the relative rights of either State to use its waters without the consent of the other; that as, by the laws of their own State, the plaintiffs could have had no remedy against a corporation authorized to take the whole waters of the river for the purpose of canals or improving the navigation, so they could not sustain a suit against a corporation created by New Jersey for the same purpose, which had taken a part of the waters. The principle of that decision seems to be that a mere private party should not be heard to complain that one of two States, divided by such river, had invaded the rightful jurisdiction of the other by diverting more than its share of the waters. So here, we think, the plaintiffs are not entitled to be heard as to whether Minnesota has infringed the rightful jurisdiction of Wisconsin. This State is not a party to this suit, and her comparative rights in *154 and upon the waters of the river at the points in question cannot be adjudicated in this action."
Without pursuing this subject further, we are of opinion that the improvement made in the Mississippi River by the construction of the boom and its works, and the exaction of reasonable charges for the use of such works, including fees of state officials for inspecting and scaling, if done under state authority, cannot be considered in any just sense a burden upon interstate commerce. It is nothing more than action upon the part of a State in furnishing additional facilities for the navigation of the waterway, and for such additional facilities reasonable charges may be exacted. The "shear boom," even though it extends across the main channel of the Mississippi River and into the territory of Wisconsin, was not complained of by that State, and the plaintiff cannot be heard to raise any question in that respect. Indeed, its only purpose was to enable the boom company the more easily to collect the logs of plaintiff and others floating down the stream. The work of separation and brailing was done wholly within the limits of the State of Minnesota in works constructed therein. For these reasons we are of opinion that the judgment of the court below was right, and it is
MR. JUSTICE PECKHAM, with whom concurred MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, MR. JUSTICE BROWN and MR. JUSTICE WHITE, dissenting.
I dissent from that portion of the opinion of the court which determines the validity of a lien upon the logs of one owner in order to secure payment of the fees for the inspection and scaling of logs owned by another.
The situation in which the log owner is placed practically compels him to make use of the boom for the purpose of having his logs inspected and scaled as required by the law, and under such circumstances he cannot be properly or fairly held, by the use of the boom, to consent that his property should be taken for the debt of another person. The mere inconvenience, however great or small, to the inspector, of having *155 some one watch at the exit of the boom to demand of each log owner the fees for inspecting and scaling his particular logs, furnishes no answer to the objection of the log owner to the taking of his property for the debt of another. This act accomplishes that result in its plainest and baldest form. It reduces to actual practice and in the form of a legislative enactment, sanctioned by judicial approval, the illustration that is generally made for the purpose of showing that there are some things so contrary to justice as to admit of no doubt of their utter illegality; such as the arbitrary taking, under the form of a legislative enactment, of the property of one man and bestowing it upon another.
If an owner is practically compelled, in order to conform to a statute, to use a warehouse for the receipt of his grain, I think it plain that it would be utterly illegal to permit a lien on the grain of such owner to attach, for the purpose of obtaining payment for the services of a state inspector in inspecting the grain of another. Whilst as now decided by the court, a state regulation which substantially compels the sending of logs into the boom to be there inspected and scaled, may not be a regulation of interstate commerce, I think a state regulation which confiscates the logs of one person to pay the debt of another clearly constitutes such a direct burden upon that commerce as to cause the statute making the regulation, at least to that extent, to be repugnant to the Constitution of the United States.
Without enlarging upon what seems to me a very great inroad made upon the rights of individual property by the opinion of the court herein, I am content merely to record my dissent from the doctrine therein announced.
I am authorized to say that MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, MR. JUSTICE BROWN and MR. JUSTICE WHITE concur in this dissent.
DocketNumber： 44
Citation Numbers： 176 U.S. 126, 20 S. Ct. 325, 44 L. Ed. 400, 1900 U.S. LEXIS 1727
Judges： Brewer, After Stating the Case
RUNDLE v. Delaware and Raritan Canal Company , 55 U.S. 80 ( 1853 )
County of Mobile v. Kimball , 102 U.S. 691 ( 1881 )
Gloucester Ferry Co. v. Pennsylvania , 114 U.S. 196 ( 1885 )
Wabash, St. L. & PR Co. v. Illinois , 118 U.S. 557 ( 1886 )
Huse v. Glover , 119 U.S. 543 ( 1886 )
Sands v. Manistee River Improvement Co. , 123 U.S. 288 ( 1887 )
Pigeon River Co. v. Cox Co. , 291 U.S. 138 ( 1934 )
Vincent v. Foss Crabtree, Inc. , 118 Fla. 717 ( 1934 )
Somers v. Kane , 162 Minn. 40 ( 1925 )
Tirrell v. Johnston , 86 N.H. 530 ( 1934 )
Waters Co. v. . Gerard , 189 N.Y. 302 ( 1907 )
Commonwealth v. Ferrari , 114 Pa. Super. 290 ( 1934 )
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Strike ENds with A Success
The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest school district in the country, went on strike due to a need for higher pay raise for teachers and staff, and the employment of more staff in schools. The teachers, who work and represent the district, and others who participated to support the teachers and the students, finally took a firm stand and went on a full out strike.
The morning of January 14th, 32,000 teachers walked in the rain down the streets of Los Angeles with picket signs and a unity of red shirts to voice their needs for all to hear and see. This would not be the only day they would be striking out in the streets either, it would continue on for 5 more days, making this a 6 day long strike compared to 30 years ago from the United Teachers Los Angeles of 9 days worth of striking.
“Both the union [United Teachers Los Angeles] and the school district say they want smaller class sizes, bigger teacher salaries, and more counselors and nurses in the district's roughly 1,000 schools,” CNN reports.
The teachers were actually offered a deal before the strike occurred. The offer purposed to "ensure no increase in any class size, increase nurses, counselors and librarians at all schools, along with a 6% salary increase and back pay for the 2017-2018 school year," LAUSD said. But union President Alex Caputo-Pearl said “the offer is good for only one year and the school district's proposal is woefully inadequate."
Seemingly said, the Los Angeles school district is asking to get more money. It was said 90% of its funding comes from the state. The financial stabilization of the schools district has gotten worse, so the Los Angeles County Office of Education had to step in to fix the matter.
The first day of the strike left over 600,000 students and 2,400 substitute teachers around the county in class. This caused a huge concern with parents, who are closely sandwiched into the affair of teachers on strike and students not having their teachers present.
Over the course of 5 days, January 15 through January 21, the continuous strike developed, fully involving parents, students and other staff members joining in on the cause. The state lost over 100 million dollars, paying for those empty seats no one sat in.
“Both sides are feeling the pressure. Teachers braved four days of rain on the picket line and risk losing a week of pay. The district saw attendance plummet and with it, the money it receives from the state, which is based on how many kids show up in class.” USA Today also reports.
Now, as the strike came to it’s finally days, an agreement was made, stopping the United Teachers Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Unified School District to negotiate on a deal again. This time the proposal worked out! On January 22, the strike ended with the agreement being “a three-year contract through 2021-22 school year. LAUSD relinquishes power to unilaterally raise class sizes to save money. Class sizes will gradually decrease over three years by at least one student per year, 2021-22 provisions will require new funding. LAUSD officials say — either through a parcel tax or increased state or federal funding, 300 more nurses through 2021. 77 more middle- and high school counselors. And a 6 percent raise for teachers — 3 percent retroactive, 3 percent ongoing.” LAist reports.
Now that the strike is over, will other districts from across the country join in on the strikes?
For more information check here:
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-edu-lausd-teachers-strike-20190115-story.html
https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-lausd-strike-lacounty-strike-response-20190115-story.html
https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-lausd-strike-day-two-20190115-story.html
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/14/us/los-angeles-teachers-strike/index.html
https://www.dailynews.com/2019/01/15/lausd-teachers-strike-day-2-heres-whats-happening-today
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he is not just a great film composer he is a great composer.
Ennio Morricone is rightly considered one of the world’s greatest film composers, a legend whose work has reached far beyond the scorched desert-scapes of Almeria (A Few Dollars More) and the tumultuous waters of Iguazu Falls (The Mission). Much sought after by filmmakers the world over for his matchless versatility and productivity, Morricone’s innovative soundworks and truly exhaustive range of musical styles have complemented practically every conceivable movie genre there is.
However, he has not solely restricted himself to the silver screen, having created some remarkable signature pieces for radio and theatre, together with extensive forays into both absolute and applied music. Fondly referred to as il maestro by his peers, Morricone is just that: a master of his craft, a true virtuoso, effortlessly interweaving contrasting styles to produce some of the most sublime music of our day.
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 2:39
Chi Mai 5:07
The Mission 2:53
Gabriel's Oboe 2:14
Cinema Paradiso 3:00
Once Upon a Time in The West 5:06
The Sicilian Clan 3:59
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 9th July 2013
Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam 1st February 2015
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Fess 99, the basement session with Dom Pipkin
Dom Pipkin appears regularly at the Green Note and is widely considered one of Europe’s finest exponents of true New Orleans RnB piano. He’s had Radio 2 and Jazz FM specials around his music, and played the piano all over the world. He’s been playing the music of Professor Longhair for decades, and on this the occasion, the night before Longhair or “Fess”s 100th Birthday he dedicates an evening to the man’s extraordinary music and some of the New Orleans artists he influenced.
Henry Roeland “Roy” Byrd (December 19, 1918 – January 30, 1980), better known as Professor Longhair was a New Orleans blues singer and pianist. His piano style has been described as “instantly recognizable, combining rumba, mambo, and calypso.”
The music journalist Tony Russell wrote that “The vivacious rhumba-rhythmed piano blues and choked singing typical of Fess were too weird to sell millions of records; he had to be content with siring musical offspring who were simple enough to manage that, like Fats Domino or Huey “Piano” Smith. But he is also acknowledged as a father figure by subtler players like Allen Toussaint and Dr. John.”
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"I always knew I'd regret it, so I have no regrets."
Chul-su (Park Il-mok) is a motorcycle courier who is instructed by his boss to travel to Yeosu, find the family of a deceased homeless man and deliver his cremated remains to them even though doing so will result in him missing his own father's memorial the following day. After making his apologies and excuses to his family by phone, Chul-su sets off on his journey inadvertently taking the same route as an incredibly anxious young woman, Mi-jin (Go Joon-hee), who is travelling with a baby.
Finally arriving in Yeosu late at night, Chul-su falls asleep in the bus terminal awakening the following morning to discover not only have the homeless man's ashes gone missing but also that the aforementioned baby has been left in their place.
Thus begins a journey of a different kind for Chul-su; a search to find Mi-jin, discover why she abandoned the baby, ascertain if she is even the child's real mother and hopefully deliver the ashes to the homeless man's family in the process...
From the very moment we are first introduced to Chul-su, we are brought 'slap, bang' face-to-face with his day-to-day life of clashing responsibilities and ever-increasing pressures brought on by both society's requirements and others' expectations. His job demands commitment and a willingness to set aside personal matters; his family expect him to play the dutiful role as main male familial figure; and society fully expects him to juggle all of the above in order to be considered a fine, upstanding member of the community.
Problem is, the majority of the numerous requirements placed on Chul-su are mutually exclusive making it all but impossible for him to come even close to pleasing all of the people all of the time; instead more often than not pleasing none and thereby repeatedly appearing wanting.
There is more than one mention in Yeosu's narrative of Chul-su having originally decided to become a motorcycle courier because of his love of motorbikes and, to my mind at least, the fact that for save for an extremely short single scene at the beginning of the film he is only ever seen walking or using public transport subtly underlines the implication that in all his striving to be the adult he is expected to be his personal desires, loves, hopes and dreams will always suffer most of all.
While, of course, being a young woman in Korea means the expectations placed on Mi-jin are somewhat different to those faced by Chul-su, the overall fallout to her personally has similar traits. Her need to secure finances to continue her college education sitting at odds with society's classic assumed female 'goal' of family requiring her to sacrifice her wants, needs (and even herself) for the needs of a significant other and the perceived good of society at large, Mi-jin's (outwardly) feisty character stands as the personification of the changing place of women within Korean society over the years - especially when contrasted with the accepting attitude of the elderly lady who Chul-su and Mi-jin deliver the ashes to - and as such Mi-jin has been, and is, far less willing to just accept situations than Chul-su.
In fact, so great is her subconscious need to take a stand that it pushes her agree to be a surrogate mother for a fee, becoming pregnant out of wedlock; thereby - she believes - allowing her to show herself to be an individual who determines her own fate at the same time as providing the money she needs to secure a better future for herself, and even, perhaps, giving her an opportunity to silently say that she'll let no-one dictate what she can or cannot do under any circumstances.
However, even though Mi-jin was fully aware that she would ultimately regret the decision she was nonetheless determined to make, what she failed utterly to take into account was the very thing that makes her who she is at her core - her femininity - and she could never have foreseen how maternal instincts she didn't even know she had would not only change her desires and perceptions but also show her - at least partly - to be the woman society always insisted she was and should strive to be.
It could be said that the meeting and interactions of Chul-su and Mi-jin are almost meant to be: Both are part of the younger generation and neither have been able to live as they would wish to (as Mi-jin says "There is just no way for young people to achieve their dreams") but every scene in which they are together positively screams of the essence of Yeosu's narrative:
That essence is the statement that no matter how harsh life sometimes appears and regardless of how difficult the sharing of problems may be, share them we must if we are to discover the answers within ourselves that a lone individual could never hope to find.
Yeosu is a presentation by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism and Arirang TV and this is not the first time these institutions have collaborated on a film detailing narratives set in different beautiful areas of Korea (for example: they also collaborated with KOFIC to produce The Trip (2009), set on Jeju Island).
The stunningly beautiful surroundings of Yeosu provide a perfect backdrop to the film's storyline and naturally serve as the haven the characters need so badly to finally find themselves; far from the hustle and bustle of cities that never sleep. As such, the cinematography produces some staggeringly arresting visuals that deftly balance the darker elements of the storyline, repeatedly accenting them in the process.
Ultimately, when Chul-su and Mi-jin set out they have a difficult, cathartic journey to make and the utterly gorgeous, and gently apt, area of Yeosu provides the ideal place to undertake it.
Yeosu featuring only two main characters and a couple of supporting roles allows a great deal of depth to be given to the stories of Chul-su and Mi-jin; making the entire narrative content and underlying themes noticeably stronger as a result.
Both Park Il-mok (Chul-su) and Go Joon-hee (Mi-jin) have incredible chemistry together allowing for a number of (always beautifully understated) moments of quiet humour to bring some gentle light to the darker sections of the narrative. Both give exemplary performances throughout with Go Joon-hee given somewhat more of an opportunity to portray a varied range of emotions; her portrayal of Mi-jin thereby being ever so slightly more memorable.
As already stated, the rest of the cast play far smaller supporting roles but all perform admirably.
Cast: Park Il-mok, Go Joon-hee, Jung Eui-chul
The stunningly beautiful surroundings of Yeosu provide the perfect backdrop to the cathartic journey of a young man and woman who are both desperately searching to understand and come to terms with their lives and choices. Visually stunning; narratively deep, Yeosu infuses its gently gripping story with intelligent, thought-provoking social commentary and critique throughout.
The DVD edition reviewed here is the Korean (Region 3) Art Service Limited Edition First Press version. The film itself is provided as an anamorphic transfer with an aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and there are no image artifacts (and no ghosting) present.
The original Korean language soundtrack is provided as Dolby Digital 2.0 and is well balanced throughout.
Excellent subtitles are provided throughout the main feature but English-speaking viewers should note that, as with many Korean DVD releases, there are no subtitles available on any of the extras.
DVD Details:
- ‘Yeosu’
- Director: Jin Kwang-gyo
- Language: Korean
- Subtitles: English, Korean
- Country: South Korea
- Picture Format: NTSC
- Disc Format: DVD (One Disc)
- Region Code: 3
- Publisher: Art Service
DVD Extras:
All images © Korean Ministry for Culture, Media and Sport; Arirang TV; D&D Media and Art Service
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For hundreds of years pen-and-paper has been a freeform way for people to express their ideas. Years ago Microsoft realized that the computer could become a substitute for pen-and-paper. They released their first Microsoft Tablet PC in 2002 running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. This Microsoft tablet, over-priced and underpowered, was a total flop, but Microsoft didn’t give up. Now, 14 years later, with the release of the Anniversary Update for Windows 10, Microsoft has brought a true pen-and-ink type of interface to the PC.
Called “inking”, the first we saw of this was with the original release of Windows 10, which included the Edge browser. This browser gives us the ability to draw, write on, and mark up Web pages directly within the browser.
In Edge when you want to “ink” you simply click on the icon in the upper right corner of the browser. Then you use the inking toolbar to choose the type and color of the pen (including highlighter) and start to mark up the webpage. You can share your marked-up pages through email or social networks or save them to OneNote. To make the annotations, you can use a touch screen, stylus, or mouse for your annotations or you can type a note on the keyboard.
The Windows 10 Anniversary Update gives Windows 10 even more inking support with its new “Windows Ink Workspace” feature.
If you use a stylus with your Windows 10 device, you can go to the Settings and choose Devices to find the Pen & Windows Ink option where you can set your preferences.
You can set up your stylus to have the shortcut button on the stylus bring up the Ink Workspace. You may need to pair your stylus in the Bluetooth settings first. You will also see an icon for the Ink Workspace of the notification toolbar at the bottom right of the screen.
While you are in the Pen & Windows Settings, you can also customize your settings to control the pen to your liking. For example, you can state whether you write with your right or left hand. There are several other options for setting up what the pen does when you press its shortcut button. This includes the ability to start apps and bring up the Windows Ink Workspace. You can also control the handwriting panel, show/hide the cursor, and show/hide visual effects.
From the Ink Workspace you can launch pen-enabled apps. Out of the box, the Anniversary Edition includes an updated Sticky Notes, Sketchpad and Screen Sketch applications. These apps are quite useful.
Sticky Notes has been completely overhauled. As always, you can use it to type or jot down quick notes. If you enable Insights in the Sticky Notes settings menu, the Sticky Notes app will use character recognition to read your notes and use Bing and Cortana to provide information on what you wrote. The idea behind this is that you should be able to scribble a date and have it show up on your calendar or scribble a flight number and have it show up as a link. In my testing, however, I found this feature to be pretty hit-and-miss.
The second included app is Sketchpad. This is a digital whiteboard where you can use different styles and colors of pens, pencils, and highlighters to get your point across and share with others or save as an image file.
Screen Sketch, the third included app, is a tool that allows you to mark up your screen. It takes a screenshot of the screen that you are looking at when you launch it. Then it allows you to draw, write, or otherwise mark up the screen and share it or save it.
The interface for these apps accepts commonly-used routines. For instance, there is a ruler to help you draw straight lines. You can snap drawings to the ruler. You can rotate the ruler with two fingers and you can drag it around with a single finger. The ruler works in Powerpoint as well as Sketchpad. Inking also works in Word where you can simply cross out a Word or scribble over a paragraph to delete it. Bing Maps lets you draw a line between two points for directions.
Future Apps
Most Ink features will be available for use with other apps when they take advantage of the Windows Ink platform. I would expect quite a few apps will appear in the future, but the Windows App Store is still lacking in apps so there is no telling how quickly that will happen.
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Def Leppard stream Hysteria hit from London To Vegas package
Def Leppard are streaming video of their 1989 hit, “Rocket”, as the first preview to the April 24 release of their forthcoming live package, “London To Vegas.”
The tune was the seventh and final single issued from their fourth album, which they performed in full during a December 2018 appearance as captured on “Hysteria At The O2”, one of two concert films – alongside “Hits Vegas, Live At Planet Hollywood” – on the new set.
Produced by Mutt Lange, “Hysteria” went on to become Def Leppard’s biggest-selling album, with worldwide sales of 25 million copies, including 12 million in the US alone.
“London To Vegas” will be issued in multiple formats, including limited edition 2Blu-ray+4CD, 2DVD+4CD and digital format releases.
Packed in a 10” box with a 40-page hardback book, the package is rounded out with audio from both concerts.
Def Leppard announce London To Vegas live package
Def Leppard stream 1980 live rarity from The Early Years box set
Def Leppard and ZZ Top announce US tour
Motley Crue and Def Leppard tour has sold more than 1 million tickets
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Quality is the key at Wagner's Classic Cars
A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to check out the inventory at Wagner’s Classic Cars in Bonner Springs. I really like going there, because they have some of the nicest cars around. But I held the story back so I could present it when I had fewer car shows to write about. But believe me, this place is as good as any car show. Let’s take a look at some of the exceptional cars that were on hand during our visit.
This ’60 Impala convertible was just crazy nice. Not only did it have a 348 with three carburetors, but it had a super-rare four speed. Power steering and a power convertible top are other notable features. You could eat off of the bottom of this car—it was that perfect. This color is called Taso Turquoise, and it fits the era of this car exactly right. It’s hard to imagine today that this long, conspicuous convertible was commonplace. New Impalas don’t seem to make such a bold statement anymore.
If you’re a MOPAR fan, you’ll probably like this ’71 Plymouth GTX. Finished in Sherwood Green Metallic, this was a serious muscle car. Of course, a big part of that is the 426 Hemi V8 under the Air Grabber hood. And, if the sound of the engine didn’t do it for you for some strange reason, there was an unusual 8-track stereo player under the dashboard. I’ll bet you have to turn it up really loud if you want to hear it, though. Wagner’s is understandably proud of this rare Plymouth, because it has a price tag of $135,000.
1939 was the inaugural year for the Mercury division, and this ragtop here is a pristine example. You can just feel that late-‘30s vibe with this car. The rich maroon paint combined with the real leather interior come from an era when things were crafted with quality. They also happened to have a ’40 Ford convertible in the same color on display while we were there. Now, I think the Ford is better looking (mainly because of the weird rear wheelwells that ’39 Mercs had), but when you compare things like the finished steering column and other details, you can see that the Mercury was aimed at a more discerning clientele.
They had a couple of nice ’69 Camaros on display, including this pretty Daytona Yellow ’69 RS/SS. That yellow contrasted nicely with the black vinyl top, hockey stick stripe, and interior. The only thing missing for me would be houndstooth upholstery. This one also had some kind of aftermarket air conditioner, which I didn’t love. But that air conditioner was powered by a 396 big block, which I did. Like most of the cars here, this one was just as nice underneath as it was on top. Any Camaro fan would want a car like this.
Finally, let’s look at this 1951 Chevrolet Deluxe two-door hardtop. You don’t see many non-convertible ’51 Chevys restored to this high standard, but we have the exception here. This would have been like a top-of-the-line “Impala” of its day, and featured options like power steering, center-mounted clock, and deluxe steering wheel. Under the hood, we’ve got a 235-c.i. Stovebolt six, mounted to a fairly uncommon Powerglide automatic transmission. I especially love the chrome “top bow” strips. The $36,500 takes it home.
Check out all of the cars on display at Wagner’s Classic Cars in the slideshow below, or click this link for a nicer version.
Labels: Bonner Springs, Car Dealerships, Car Museums, COPO, Hemi, Mercury, Wagner's Classic Cars
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Bolsonaro, governors give initial sign of unity against Covid-19
One of the signs at demonstration on May 21, 2020, in Brasilia against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. EFE-EPA/ Joedson Alves
A member of the Kaingang tribe takes part in a demonstration on May 21, 2020, in Brasilia against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. EFE-EPA/ Joedson Alves
A man wearing a gasmask takes part in a protest on May 20, 2020, in Brasilia against President Jair Bolsonaro. EFE-EPA/Joedson Alves
By Eduardo Davis
Brasilia, May 21 (efe-epa).- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his country's 27 state governors set aside some of their differences on Thursday to provide a measure of unity against Covid-19 at a time when the pandemic is accelerating in the South American giant.
Brazil today is one of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus and Bolsonaro, one of the world's most skeptical leaders regarding the seriousness of the situation, reached minimal agreements with lower-echelon elected leaders regarding federal financial aid to the country's states and municipalities as some 19,000 Brazilians have died and 292,000 have been definitively confirmed to have become infected with the virus.
He did so in a videoconference with governors and lawmakers in which financial aid was barely mentioned and the president's tough criticism of - and opposition to - quarantines and other measures adopted by local governments to limit the spread of the virus, which Bolsonaro calls "a little flu," were not mentioned at all.
The meeting revolved around a financial aid program to the states and municipalities already approved by Parliament but still not green-lighted by the president.
The bill sets forth that the federal government will distribute a total of 120 billion reais (about $21 billion) to the states and municipalities to combat the coronavirus, of which the first half will be released piecemeal over the coming four months.
However, in return for supporting it, Bolsonaro said he intended to introduce a clause that freezes the salaries of all federal, regional and municipal public officials until the end of 2021, a move that was accepted on Thursday by the local government leaders.
As Bolsonaro said, it's a "share of sacrifice" that is being asked of the public sector amid a profound crisis in which informal workers and private business so far have been the most heavily affected.
According to figures from the Economy Ministry, since the pandemic erupted in Brazil a total of about eight million workers in the private sector have seen their workshifts and pay reduced.
In addition, although about 12 million people were unemployed before the health crisis, now some 50 million informal workers have managed to survive thanks to a governmental subsidy of 600 reais ($110), the distribution of which has been beset with serious logistical problems.
Since the first coronavirus case was detected in Brazil on Feb. 26, this was the second meeting Bolsonaro has held with governors and, in contrast to the earlier meeting, agreement and dialogue was the order of the day instead of arguments and shouting matches.
Bolsonaro, who on other occasions has accused governors of pushing the country towards "bankruptcy" by restricting economic activities, this time expressed more caution and concern about Covid-19
He proposed a broader dialogue, adding that "continuity must be given to the efforts of everyone in seeking to mitigate problems and reach those who are affected by the crisis, the size of which we still don't know," but the seriousness of which is clear, he emphasized.
"We know how this is harming Brazil and the whole world," said the ultrarightist leader, who despite his softer tone focused much more on the economic effects and the impact on employment than on the more human and health elements of the crisis.
"We have to work together," Bolsonaro declared, receiving support for this stance from the governors, along with Senate chief Davi Alcolumbre and Chamber of Deputies leader Rodrigo Maia, who also have been the targets of censure on the part of the president's supporters, who have gone so far as to demand the "closure" of Parliament and the Supreme Court.
Gov. Joao Doria of Sao Paulo state, the country's industrial and financial heartland, who has had very harsh confrontations with Bolsonaro over the quarantines that he imposed in his tate, was one of those who hailed the president's tone on this occasion.
"Brazil needs to be united," said Doria. "We're going forth in peace. We're going to work for Brazil and we're going together," he said in his speech.
The head of the Senate made similar comments, adding that "now is the time to raise the white flag" because the country "is at war" against the coronavirus "and in wars everyone loses."
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Nonprofit fraud hurts more than the bottom line
By Marion Lee, CFRE
A thief has three characteristics: first a thief is not recognized by you as being a thief; second, he robs you of what you have without your realizing it at the time; and third, a thief leaves you feeling foolish after you have been robbed.
–N. Ravichandran
In this article, I ‘d like to explore why theft happens, how to work smarter to prevent this happening in your nonprofit and how to recover when it does happen. This article is over 18 years in the making. I have lived the devastating discovery of a theft, assisted in the discovery process, and watched as the perpetrator was prosecuted. It changed my life. For many years, the questions, the grief, and the feeling of responsibility and betrayal were my close companions. Money was stolen, people I was responsible for were hurt, people I trusted betrayed trust and I had to face my own inadequacies as a leader. There is more peace now, but it was hard fought through important internal battles of trust and self-confidence.
Since January of 2017, our organization has direct knowledge of six cases of theft in Central and South Texas with an estimated loss of just under $5 million dollars. All but one nonprofit will probably recover from the loss, but when people steal from a nonprofit more than money is lost. Services to children and fragile populations are diminished or cut altogether. Quality of life programs for everyone in the community are affected. And the people closest to home, the donors, staff, volunteers and volunteer board will suffer loss of trust, jobs, fear, insinuation and rumor, investigation and a level of stress that is for some, unbearable.
Since 2011, there have been 1,100 reported cases of embezzlement (misappropriation of funds committed to one’s trust) in the nonprofit sector (IRS). This figure may seem small compared to the 1.5 million nonprofits operating in the United States today until you begin to dig deeper. The 1,100 reported cases are documented only through the IRS electronic filing of 990s. They do not include cases reported through paper filing, which are hard to compile, nor do they include the cases that are not reported to the IRS or to legal authorities. The number of unreported cases is conservatively estimated to be at least ten times greater than those recorded (IRS).
In a 2006, a documented study conducted by faculty from New York University, in conjunction with the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, estimated that charities had suffered a theft in charitable funds of $40 billion or 13% of total gifts to charity in 2005. Twelve years later, the study has updated losses to approximately $49.6 billion, the majority of which go unreported and unpunished.
We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will.
–Frank Abagnale (focus of the movie “Catch Me if You Can”)
And he would know. Mr. Abagnale is one of the most celebrated confidence tricksters in America, lecturer for the FBI and now leads his own consulting company which focuses on financial fraud. In his article, “Embezzlement”, published in the Financial Fraud Law Report, Mr. Abagnale discusses the primary reasons fraud and theft occur in nonprofit and forprofit environments:
Lack policies and procedures that govern how money is tracked, receipted, deposited, and invested, which includes the oversight of basic accounting practices such as bank statement review and reconciliation, audit practice and correct and timely financial statements
Lack standards and procedures in hiring and employment tending to rely on the “good ole boy/girl network”
Rely on volunteer board members and staff members who do not have experience, expertise or understanding of their roles and responsibilities
Expand program services without the adequate number of administrative staff to manage the system
Have a pervasive culture among both board and staff members that: 1) standards and procedures normally found in a corporation are not needed in the administration of a nonprofit, and 2) passion for the mission equals goodness, honesty, and kindness
Rarely report the theft, prosecute the perpetrator or provide an appropriate response when asked for a reference on the perpetrator*
Face a legal system that does not support the investigation or prosecution of theft within nonprofits. On three occasions, I have been told by detectives, FBI and IRS representatives, and staff from District Attorney offices that the funds reported stolen were not enough to pursue an investigation. In each of these cases, amounts ranged from $150,000 to just under $1 million. One officer told me: “It is just not enough money to warrant the paper work, or the costs associated with the investigation. After all, we probably are not going to get the money back. It is just not worth it.”
While “not worth it” to law enforcement, to the nonprofit, those lost funds meant cutting a program, potential reprisals from the funding source (government funds) and last, but not least, the thief would face no repercussions and live to steal another day. To another organization that needed the funds to provide hot meals and a safe place for the elderly in their community, it meant the closing of the center until they could regroup. Mr. Abagnale believes that prevention is truly the only recourse, as punishment and recovery of funds is very rare.
Wisdom cannot be stolen…it can only be shared
–Jefferson Smith (no, not Jimmy Stewart, although he might have said it)
Putting policies in place
It only takes one step to change. Sometimes in nonprofit organizations the smallest step means so much, but it seems to take an army to make it happen. Small administrative, overworked staff are frequently unable to face one more task, but let’s parse this out:
Conduct a mini assessment that follows a check or a gift through your organization. Does one person pick up the mail, enter the gift into the system, make the deposit and receipt the gift? Does anyone log in a gift ledger separate from the financial software?
Split these jobs up. Have another staff member pick up the mail and enter the check or gift into a ledger or Excel spreadsheet
Check your daily deposits against the ledger on a weekly basis at the minimum (this also keeps gifts from being lost)
Bank and Financial Statements – The single easiest and most used way to steal is the direct route: writing a check
Review the bank statements monthly. Look for checks that do not clear or for duplicate checks. Do not rely on printed statements-review statements electronically
Make sure that the bank statements balance with the reconciliation – out of balance due to timing, etc. is understandable, but not for months
Produce monthly correct financial statements from the financial software including a balance sheet, profit and loss statement and year-to-date comparison. DO NOT LET ANYONE TALK YOU INTO DOWNLOADING TO ANOTHER FORMAT (Excel) AND FOR GOSH SAKES-DO NOT ROUND UP!
Watch for odd or consistent amounts posted under miscellaneous or other headings
Hiring and employment
Create a job description based on realistic needed skills and post it in the appropriate venues
Ask for three references from at least two current or past employers and check the references*
Run criminal and credit background checks for positions that will be handling money or that will have access to funds. Run criminal and credit checks once a year.
DO NOT let anyone -staff or board-talk you into hiring friends without vetting them: “They are friends of friends, family, employers so you don’t have to check into their references. The staff or board member is not trying to lead you astray, but they truly believe in the recommendation of their friend- “who should know and can be trusted.”
The best embezzlers are frequently the hardest workers in the office. They’re in early, last to leave, never take vacations, prone to over-deliver and never want or accept help. Establish policies that require staff to take vacations and share information. (Alexis De Sela will have an article in the March newsletter with more on this topic.)
Board members and support staff
Do not place undue reliance or responsibility on the shoulders of volunteers even if they present as the most revered, best board treasurer in the world. Do your own work and follow the standards and guidelines that you can find at www.councilofnonprofits.org
Do not count on the bank, accountant or auditors to catch your thief. They can act as a limited safeguard, but it isn’t their primary responsibility
Help board members learn their roles and responsibilities through educational classes, resources and good modeling
Skilled administrative staff to manage the system
Running the organization on a dime is admirable, but not having enough people to do the job, and thus allowing theft due to lack of oversight is not. The executive cannot do it all well. Ask for help.
Do not assign tasks, particularly financial oversight, to unskilled staff
Do not grow the program, even if urged by board members or funders, beyond the capacity of the staff to manage
Don’t over estimate your own capacity. Admit what you don’t know and either educate yourself or find professional support
Be aware of odd behavior or inappropriate relationships or alliances
Open your eyes and if it walks like a duck, looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it’s a duck or an embezzler; either way, listen to your instincts
The very culture within nonprofit organizations is what draws us to be a part of something that betters lives. That’s why it’s so wonderful to work in and for a nonprofit. Sadly, in an economy that moves over $390 billion (2016) we can no longer afford to be innocent.
Educate staff and board in acceptable business practices
Teach board members to read the financial statements and create an environment where asking questions about the finances is acceptable
Promote responsible reporting, hiring, polices and processes
Establish high standards and avoid the pitfall of trading accountability for kindness
The easy way is not always the right way
Reporting the theft, prosecuting the perpetrator and being honest (within the law)** when asked for a reference on the perpetrator is the toughest part of the discussion. The decision to invest the time, energy and money into investigating the theft and then potentially prosecuting the perpetrator is a decision that has to be made by the nonprofit’s leadership. The organization has to take into account issues related to:
Liability (replacement of funds if government grant)
D&O insurance (costs associated with the investigation and prosecution and/or replacement of funds)
How the funds were stolen and how to secure the system
If the perpetrator was working alone or if there is an accomplice within the organization or support organization such as a bank or audit or investment firm
Public perception and donor reactions
Effect on staff, volunteers and board members
Some nonprofit organizations are reluctant to report a theft and to prosecute the perpetrator because:
They are fearful of damaging the nonprofit’s reputation in the community and with donors. This has not been proven true when organizations are transparent with the public
They are fearful of damaging their personal or professional reputations or being held accountable legally and financially. It is human nature and is actually more prevalent than the first reason, and
We have a legal system that does not support the investigation or prosecution of theft within nonprofits because if the amount stolen is not in the millions, it is simply not worth the work
Making the decision to investigate and prosecute is very difficult. When asked, my opinion is the same as it was many years ago and I can only state my own beliefs – the beliefs of a person raised by my great grandfather, a District Criminal Judge in Bexar County for 32 years. A crime is a crime. No matter how you dress it up, it’s a crime to steal and if you hide it, for any reason, in my opinion, you become a part of the crime. If you fail to report it and fail to do everything in your power to bring the individual to justice, then you are accomplice to the crime. If you do it to protect your reputation, then you lack integrity. I paid dearly for this opinion, but it is the one decision I made years ago that I do not regret.
But he that filches from me, steals my good name.
So, let’s talk about the people that get caught in the vortex of an embezzlement. Not the donors or the people you serve, but that quiet group: the board, the staff and the perpetrator.
Why do they steal? When I interviewed some perpetrators, the answers are oddly the same:
“They owed it to me,” tops the charts. People who steal from nonprofits feel that they work long hours for low pay, little-to-no recognition and they are owed the funds for their dedication.
“I had to so that I could support the image expected of me.” Maybe this says something about the messages we are sending in our work environments. This tells us that our interview questions should focus on asking candidates about about their values and how we fulfill our mission.
“It wasn’t their money anyway, somebody gave it to them so…”
And my personal favorite, “It is no big deal, because no one got hurt.”
We don’t often hear about what goes on behind the scenes when fraud is discovered. The focus always seems to be on how much money was stolen, sometimes who stole it and how, but rarely do you hear about the people who are left to pick up the pieces, staff and board members who share in the aftermath.
For all members of the nonprofit, initially there is a profound sense of shock and disbelief. The successful embezzler is usually someone who is well liked, fun, charming, compelling and the go-to person in the office. Get rid of your image of the dark loner working in a small office, keeping to themselves. Board members ask each other and themselves how they could not have seen it. Staff gathers to compare notes and ceaselessly examine how they could have kept it from happening. They have a sense of guilt, self-doubt and helplessness.
And, finally, comes the fear. In a fraud situation, the staff sadly, is guilty until proven innocent. Unless the mode of theft is clear cut, there is always the chance that more than one person was involved. They along with everyone connected to the situation should be vetted and cleared. It is a lengthy, time-consuming process which is distracting, often feels degrading, and instills a sense of distrust within the remaining group. Additionally, staff members worry that they will lose their jobs, lose respect within their community and be tainted in a way that will harm them professionally as well as personally. They wonder, should they stay or seek employment elsewhere. Some leave as soon as possible but most remain, true to the mission and the people they serve. Their hearts and minds are focused on keeping the programs alive and helping the people they serve.
Board members experience all of the above and for some, this includes a profound sense of responsibility. Upon their shoulders lies the decision on next steps: sweep it under the rug, or grapple with the full gamut of discovery and prosecution? Over the years, we have found that approximately one-third of the board resigns upon the discovery of the fraud hoping to escape liability, notoriety and responsibility. One-third will remain, but take an inert position, heads buried in the sand, just hoping it will be over soon, and one-third, brave souls, step up to actively support the organization through the troubled times. They support the staff, accept interim positions, make hard decisions that may lead to facing the media, communicating with law enforcement, and taking the heat.
Profile of an Embezzler
In a study conducted in 2005 (updated in 2016), The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University in partnership with the Association of Fraud Examiners, developed a profile of an embezzler. They found that the majority of individuals who committed fraud were married women, median age of 41, with children. They steal on average, $160,000. Men who steal are usually married, with children, between the ages of 35 and 55, and steal considerably more, with an average of $350,000. Embezzlers have many of the characteristics that remind me of front line responders and fighter pilots. Intelligent, perceptive, highly skilled in predictive behavior, with a high-threshold for anxiety and risk-taking. Most understand that nonprofit leadership will not prosecute due to their own fear of exposure. Although the embezzler realizes if caught that their employment will be terminated, (in 5% of the cases, the individual is not terminated), but they will keep the money or the goods and lay low in a job outside of the nonprofit sector until enough time passes, and they can step back into a position where it is made easy for them to steal again.
Nonprofit organizations are likely to discover a theft or fraud situation more quickly and endure it with less trauma if they have taken the measures outlined above and established the clear, definitive policies and procedures they need before the fraud occurs. We are blessed to work in an industry that changes the world on a daily basis where we: laugh often and much, find the best in others, try to leave the world a better place, and know as we turn out the lights that one life may have breathed easier because of our mission.***
*Organizations should have scripts when providing references to make sure they are being factual.
** Be sure to have a policy on providing references and consult an attorney on how to best provide a reference for someone who has stolen from the organization.
***Exerpt from What is Success? By Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Nothing in this article should be construed as legal advice. If you have specific issues with theft or suspect theft at your organization, please consult with legal counsel or the authorities.
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Blast from the Past: Electric Melty Tingles by K.Z. Snow
It’s August of 1970, and the friends of 21-year-old Oliver Duncan are having a blast at his bachelor party. Except Ned Surwicki. He isn’t an Ivy Leaguer. He doesn’t appreciate female strippers. And although he’s been Oliver’s best friend since they were 14, Ned isn’t much inclined to celebrate his pal’s impending marriage. Ned is gay, something he’s known since he kissed a boy and got the melty tingles. He’s also in love with the groom-to-be.
Ned is miserable.
On the night before his wedding, Oliver realizes he’s miserable too. And he has only one person to turn to.
Thus begins a romance that spans forty years, requires one coming-out after another, and survives a broken engagement, a menage with War and Pees, world travel, an ill-advised marriage, scores of fuck buddies, a father who thinks his son is destined to be a clone of Liberace, parents who reject their son, and, worst of all, the failure of two misguided men to pursue their fondest dream.
The most important coming-out for Ned and Oliver is summed up in a declaration they spend too many years trying futilely to forget: “I love you. That’s never going to change.”
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Oliver’s current room at the Pfister was two floors down from where his bachelor extravaganza had been held, which was also one of the suites in which the wedding party was to gather in the morning. The out-of-town guests were staying in the hotel’s 1965 Tower addition—a hideously dissonant piece of architecture that reminded me of a stack of butter cookies or coffee filters—I couldn’t decide which. Oliver made me identify myself before he opened the door, and then he yanked me inside.
“What’s going on?” I asked as he locked the door at my back. I went to the closet and hung up my tux, then set down my bag. “How come you’re not staying upstairs?” By upstairs I meant one of the two suites the Duncans had reserved for the wedding.
Oliver stood with his hands on his hips, stared at the floor, and nibbled at the inside of his cheek. He wore a Hang Ten T-shirt and a matching pair of Adidas shorts, and all I wanted to do was tackle him and drop him onto one of the room’s two double beds.
When he looked up, I noticed the shadows beneath his eyes. He was on his way to being a mess, both physically and mentally, but he was beautiful to me.
“I’m all fucked up, Ned.”
Oliver’s face contorted, and he suddenly bolted into the bathroom. The sounds of retching were unmistakable.
I sprinted to his aid just as the toilet flushed. Kneeling beside him, I laid one hand on his back and curled the other over his forehead.
“Your hand feels good,” he mumbled to the swirling water. “Cool. Soothing” After a moment, he tentatively sat back on his heels and caught his breath.
Christ, he was a wreck. I got up and wet a washcloth at the sink then poured a glass of water. When I sat beside Oliver again, he took some water into his mouth, swished it around, and spat it into the toilet. Then he took a drink. I tilted his head toward me and gently swabbed the perspiration from his face. The delicate spears of dark lashes on his lowered eyelids made him look young and vulnerable.
Well, hell, he was young. We both were. Oliver was twenty-one. I was still twenty.
“That’s like the fourth time I’ve thrown up today,” he said.
“Have you been drinking?” He didn’t smell like it.
“No. Maybe I should start.”
“What’s wrong? Tell me.”
He dolefully shook his head. “Tomorrow… I’m not up to it.”
“You feel that bad?” Late August was a strange time of year to get the flu, but it was possible. Or maybe he had food poisoning.
“I only feel bad when I think about walking into that church. Just sitting here with you, I feel fine.” Oliver briefly put a hand over mine. His felt clammy. “Thank you for coming.”
“I had to show up sooner or later. I’m your best man.”
I laughed nervously. “What, you’re firing me?”
Oliver’s smile was so wan, he looked like an invalid. He rose from the tiles and shambled out of the bathroom. I followed. When he sat on the edge of one bed, I sat on the other, facing him.
K. Z. Snow spent her formative years in Milwaukee bars—not because her parents were drunks, but because they were neighborhood tavern keepers. And, ja, a good life it was! She learned her first words off a Wurlitzer jukebox and could play poker as well as dance a mean polka by the time she was five. Too much has happened since then to recount. She now lives a quiet life with two rescue dogs in rural Wisconsin, where a crazy-ass crop duster pilot provides the area’s only excitement. Except when someone digs up an obscenely shaped potato. Or the Packers win.
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Sir John Major’s Speech to the Institute of International and European Affairs – 11 December 2018
December 11, 2018 December 11, 2018 admin 2018, Albert Reynolds, Bertie Aherne, Brexit, Downing Street Declaration, John Bruton, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland
Below is the text of the speech made by Sir John Major at the Institute of International and European Affairs
Sir John Major’s Speech at the Inaugural Albert Reynolds Memorial Lecture – 10 December 2018
December 10, 2018 December 11, 2018 admin 2018, Albert Reynolds, Brexit, Downing Street Declaration, Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland Peace Process, Republic of Ireland
Below is the text of the speech made by Sir John Major at the inaugural Albert Reynolds Memorial Lecture held
Sir John Major’s Speech in Northern Ireland – 9 June 2016
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Sir John Major’s Speech at Joint Award for Outstanding Contribution to Ireland – 4 December 2014
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Sir John Major’s Speech on the 20th Anniversary of the Downing Street Declaration – 11 December 2013
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Below is the text of Sir John Major’s speech marking the 20th anniversary of the Downing Street Declaration. The speech
Sir John Major’s Interview on the Andrew Marr Show – 5 February 2012
February 5, 2012 admin 2012, Albert Reynolds, Commonwealth, Constitution, HM Queen Elizabeth II, Northern Ireland Peace Process
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Sir John Major’s Speech to Trinity College Dublin Historical Society – 21 November 2007
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Sir John Major’s Speech at the Children for Peace Dinner – 23 June 2006
June 23, 2006 October 20, 2018 admin 2006, Albert Reynolds, IRA, Northern Ireland Peace Process, Warrington Bomb
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Mr Major’s Briefing to Journalists on Northern Ireland – 21 September 1995
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Mr Major’s Joint Press Conference with Albert Reynolds – 24 October 1994
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Al Arabiya News TV Live Stream
Al Arabiya ( العربية) News TV is a Saudi free-to-air television live stream news TV channel transmission in Modern Standard Arabic. The channel is based in Dubai and broadcasts to a pan-Arab audience; it is stared as a competitor to Al Jazeera. introduced on 3 March 2003, the channel is based in Dubai Media City, United Arab Emirates, and is possessed by Saudi broadcaster Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC). Channel also provides Live Streaming TV Online free for its viewers. The current general manager of Al Arabiya is Adel Al Toraifi, who acquired that post from Abdulrahman Al Rashed on 22 November 2014., who had held the position since 2004 and was outspoken against Islamic extremism.A free-to-air channel, Al Arabiya transmissions standard newscasts every hour as well as talk shows and documentaries. These programs cover current affairs, business, stock markets and sports. It is valued among the top pan-Arab stations by Middle East audiences.
The news organization’s website is available in Arabic, English, Urdu and Persian. As of March 2018, the website’s number one consumer by country was Saudi Arabia, with 20% of the entire viewership. On 26 January 2009, American president Barack Obama presented his first formal interview as president to the television channel.As a response to Al Jazeera’s criticism of the Saudi royal family throughout the 1990s, relatives of the Saudi royal family recognized as Al Arabiya in Dubai in 2002. According to a 2008 profile in The New York Times of Al Arabiya director Abdul Rahman Al Rashed, the channel works “to cure Arab television of its penchant for radical politics and violence”. Al Arabiya is said to be the second most recurrently watched channel after Al Jazeera in Saudi Arabia. Al Arabiya transmission the email messages of Syrian president Bashar Assad in 2012 that were trickled by opposition hackers. The channel’s English language website also attained emails which revealed that PR agency BLJ were behind the infamous positive profile of the Syrian first lady, Asma Assad, in Vogue magazine while her husband’s regime was accountable for the crushing of peaceful demonstrations in 2011.
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Economic slowdown: the ruling class fears revolution
At the recent meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the rich and powerful gathered to discuss a strategy for the defence of their system. In the past, the mood of this gathering has been one of confidence and determination. This year, however, it reeked of desperation. The ruling class has gone from victory celebrations to staring into the abyss within the space of just 25 years.
2019: new year, new crisis
As we step into a new year, the world is facing a decisive turning point. The crisis of capitalism is reaching a new level – one that threatens to overthrow the entire existing world order that was painfully put together after the Second World War. 10 years after the financial collapse of 2008, the bourgeoisie is nowhere near solving the economic crisis.
[Video] The 2008 crash to now: a decade of crisis
Rob Sewell, editor of Socialist Appeal(British paper of the IMT) spoke at the Revolution Festival in London about the 2008 financial crisis, 10 years after the fact. He explains that we are living through perhaps the greatest ever organic crisis of capitalism, from which there has been no meaningful recovery; and that all attempts to deal with the fallout of 2008 (from quantitative easing to austerity) have now disrupted the social and political situation.
World’s biggest money-laundering scandal: the true face of Danish capitalism
Jonas Foldager
Upwards of a trillion-and-a-half Danish kroner in “dirty money” (an amount that corresponds to about 60 percent of the Danish GDP) appears to have passed through the Danish financial giant Danske Bank. This case is just one in a long series of scandals, which show that the bourgeois rule of law is an illusion.
Britain: don't be fooled by budget headlines – austerity isn't over
The headline announcement from the latest UK budget was that “the era of austerity is finally coming to an end”. This assurance, coming from a Conservative chancellor, is an indication of just how far the mood in society has shifted. After eight years of cuts borne by the working class, the vulnerable, and the poor, it is clear that ordinary people are no longer willing to tolerate any more hollow rhetoric that “we’re all in this together”.
Capitalism's wealth gap grows
Mo Levi
According to the British chancellor, Philip Hammond, austerity is apparently over. But for the super-rich it looks like it never even began! The latest figures reveal that the international billionaire class made more money in 2017 than in any year in recorded history.
Fukuyama’s second thoughts: 'socialism ought to come back'
26 years ago, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the defenders of capitalism were euphoric. They spoke of the death of socialism and communism. Liberalism had triumphed and therefore history had reached its final expression in the form of capitalism. That was the moment when Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama uttered his famous (or notorious) prediction that history had ended. What he meant by this was as follows: now that socialism (in the form of the Soviet Union) had failed, the only possible socio-economic system was capitalism, or as he and others preferred to describe it: “the free market economy”.
The real stakes in the Trump-China trade war
Two weeks ago, Trump announced tariffs on another $200bn worth of imports from China. The announcement was met with protests from the Chinese, as well as big business in the US. China responded with tariffs on another $60bn of imports from the US. This trade war reveals the frictions that have been developing for some time between the imperialist powers, and threatens to plunge the world into a new recession.
Britain: Corbynomics – the many vs the few
In Britain, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell have made a number of bold and much-welcomed pledges in order to fix the "broken economy". But what kind of economic programme should a Labour government carry out?
Argentina, Turkey and the debt bomb under the world economy
While all eyes are on the unfolding trade war between China and the United States, another crisis in the world economy is threatening to spin out of control. Since April, Argentina and Turkey have seen their currencies collapse and inflation spiral. Other so-called emerging economies such as Indonesia, India, Brazil and South Africa are also coming under similar pressures.
2008-2018: capitalism's lost decade
10 years ago, on 15 September 2008, Lehman Brothers – one of the largest and oldest investment banks in the world – filed for bankruptcy after being engulfed by the subprime mortgage scandal.
World poverty: capitalism's crime against humanity
In the years following the global financial crisis of 2008, the world has seen the most widespread questioning and rejection of the capitalist system since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The intractable crisis of the world economy is making itself felt in all spheres of life, causing immense instability in politics and world relations.
China: a trade war the bourgeois can get behind
World politics is a never-ending drama with Trump as President of the United States. From the G7 bust-upto the North Korea negotiations, he never fails to create waves. Now Trump is preparing a full-scale trade war with China, with potentially devastating consequences for the world economy.
G7 summit ends in chaos
Expectations for the G7 were not high, but the outcome was even worse than expected. For the first time ever, the G7 ended without a joint statement, and with Trump lashing out at Canada and the EU. The summit in North Korea, on the other hand, ended with all smiles and a joint statement promising peace, denuclearisation and security.
Trump’s war on globalisation
On Thursday the deadline passed for an agreement between Trump and Canada, Japan, Mexico and the EU on trade. Failure to reach an agreement meant that the steel and aluminium tariffs threatened by Trump came into force. With this, Trump has begun the process of unravelling globalisation. On Saturday, the G-7 finance ministers met and the 6 non-US ministers came together against the US, expressing their “unanimous concern and disappointment” over the US decision.
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Review: Spiritual Beggars, "Return to Zero"
I remember being a little taken aback the first time I heard Michael Amott’s side project Spiritual Beggars. Being familiar with his work in Carcass and Arch Enemy, what I heard was not at all what I expected, but being a classic hard rock fan, I enjoyed it.
The band’s latest effort, Return to Zero, doesn’t change the formula a whole lot. Perhaps it dials back the psychedelic and puts a little more hard rock edge out front, but it won’t be a foreign sound to fans of previous records. There’s a heavy 1970s rock vibe on this record and a strong Deep Purple influence.
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Labels: Arch Enemy, Blues rock, Carcass, Hard rock, Reviews, Spiritual Beggars
Review: Firewind, "Days of Defiance"
Firewind has long been one of the steadiest, most reliable acts in the power metal genre. Despite guitarist Gus G.’s newfound stardom as Ozzy Osbourne’s latest guitarist, nothing has changed on the band’s latest record Days of Defiance.
The record comes blazing out of the gates with “Ark of Lies,” a tune that has everything fans have come to expect from Firewind. It’s a fast-paced, melodic and memorable. If anything, Gus’ guitar work here is leaner, meaner and more focused, as on the traditional opening riff of “Chariot,” the chunky riffing under the keys on “Killing in the Name of Love” or the almost thrashing opening of “The Yearning.”
Labels: Best of 2010 Candidates, Firewind, Gus G, Ozzy Osbourne, Power metal, Reviews, Traditional metal
Review: Kamelot, "Poetry for the Poisoned"
I’ve always liked Kamelot, and over the years, I’ve enjoyed just about everything they’ve done. But I’ve never been a hardcore fan. So maybe it’s a little strange that a record which is somewhat experimental for them has quickly become my favorite offering in their catalog.
The elements that have always made up Kamelot’s music are still there – strong melodies, operatic and dramatic flair, and, of course, Roy Khan’s powerful and hypnotic vocals. But there’s certainly a more progressive direction here. That’s always been a part of their sound, but it gets pushed a little more to the forefront on some of the tracks. There’s some flirtation with electronic sounds and a harsher vocal here and there, and the usual bombast, though still present, is dialed back in places.
Labels: Best of 2010 Candidates, Bjorn Strid, GusG, Jon Oliva, Kamelot, Power metal, Prog metal, Reviews, Savatage, Soilwork
Review: White Wizzard, "Shooting Star"
So it’s been about six months since White Wizzard’s full-length debut, Over the Top, blew me away. It’s a record that will most certainly be near, if not at, the top of my year-end list. But much has changed for the band in those few months. They’ve lost a guitarist and singer Wyatt Anderson, who turned in a such a fantastic performance on that record. This single serves as both a tribute to the late Ronnie James Dio and the introduction of new singer Peter Ellis.
Labels: Dio, Reviews, Traditional metal, White Wizzard
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A Muslim Woman Is Running for Congress – So What?
Posted by Guest Contributor on 19 May 2014 / 1 Comment
This post was written by Laila Alawa (@lulainlife).
There’s a new face in town this congressional election season in the United States, and she isn’t here to contribute to the general elderly white male trope that is usually the case, plastered across campaign posters and events. Cheryl Sudduth is set to run for Congress, hoping to represent the 11th congressional district of California. Ms. Sudduth hopes to improve the public education system, and close the achievement gap for the community’s underserved.
Image via Facebook.
She’s not your ordinary congressional hopeful, though. African American, Muslim, and a woman, she poses a visible triple threat to others running for the congressional position in her area. Yet her running for Congress extends much further in effect than to those within her district.
Growing up, I never quite found much color or diversity in those who ran for state and federal government positions in the yard signs and posters that were plastered about town and in newspapers. It led me to feel a disconnect between the opportunities I deemed possible and those I thought might be a little more than a ways out of my reach. I found opportunities in the examples of women of color I could identify with – and those opportunities were in professions like literature, education, medicine and science. Serving as the town mayor or as a state representative? It was just out of the question. How could I even think I had a chance to run? I set aside the dream of serving my community on a governmental level away years ago, but in seeing the living, breathing example of Cheryl Sudduth, I have started to think, maybe there is a chance for an Arab Muslim American woman to run, too.
Time and again, Muslim American community leaders, advocates and lecturers extol the need for us to enter local, state and federal arenas. How can we expect our issues to be addressed if we are not present at the table to confront them? Currently serving in office are Representatives Keith Ellison of Minnesota and Andre Carson of Indiana, elected in 2006 and 2008, respectively. Yet it remains a stark reality that a Muslim American woman has yet to be elected to national office. With a lack of role models to guide them, it is only natural that the number of women throwing themselves into the ring to run for federal or state government positions are few and far in between. It is a fact that across the board, there is a higher likelihood for women to drop out of their pursuit of a career if they cannot find like-gendered role models that have pursued the profession before them. With that in mind, why isn’t the Muslim American community giving Ms. Sudduth’s campaign more airtime and acknowledgment?
There is a propensity within the community to support individuals once they have already reached their goal – or if they fit a certain kind of “expected” Muslim identity. In this case, Cheryl Sudduth is neither. A covered, African American Muslim woman, she is struggling to meet fundraising goals and has interestingly not garnered the buzz she deserves both within and outside the Muslim American community. In this, a reality check needs to be had within our community: African Americans make up 35% of the Muslim American demographic, and outside of that, no single ethnic group consists of more than 30% of the total. The lack of support and undercurrents of suspicion against an African American Muslim candidate from Muslim communities in the US are unwarranted, but have been recognized as a normalcy by advocates on the issue, with perceptions from immigrant Muslim communities wavering between “aren’t Africa American Muslims from Nation of Islam?” to “They’re less knowledgeable than us on the religion, anyways.” All these perceptions, however, are rooted in fallacies and misunderstandings holding us back as a cohesive Muslim American community. In essence, the idealized Muslim immigrant-origins candidate running for a position in government is a dream, at least for now. The probability of such a candidate is outweighed by the potential – and reality – of African American Muslims, a larger population, rooted in hundreds of years of this nation’s history, and running for positions while immigrant-based populations are still playing catch up in forming national identity. As a result, we owe it to the progress of our religious community and the greater national communities to support trailblazers like Cheryl, candidates that are alone in their battles, but deserve support and exposure regardless.
For those of us living in the United States, we have a responsibility to make sure that stories like Cheryl Sudduth’s aren’t the only ones out there. It will be a true sign of progress when we can stumble upon election campaigns for candidates like her and be reminded of other campaigns being run by Muslim American women. Furthermore, there’s also a need to recognize and support Muslim women of all backgrounds – women that do not necessarily fit the “mainstream” portrayal of Muslim communities. Until her campaign is no longer an anomaly, committing ourselves to become more engaged in our local, state and federal governments in whatever way possible is a responsibility that cannot be put off any longer. At the end of the day, if we aren’t running, who will?
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Thank you for sharing this story and Ms. Sudduth’ candidacy. I agree with you that we need representation from diverse voices within our communities. Hopefully her candidacy will garner the support and attention not just from the Muslim community in her district, but the rest of her fellow citizens as well.
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The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) encourages scientists who could support the fight against the coronavirus to return to Poland. They can expect attractive remuneration funded by NAWA as well as a starting grant from the National Science Centre (NCN) in Poland.
The efforts of numerous research teams around the world focus on developing a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 or inventing successful ways of treating the infected. In addition, researchers specialising in various scientific domains try to find solutions which will lessen the social and economic consequences of the pandemic. In response to the challenges related to COVID-19, the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) is announcing a dedicated call for applications under the programme Polish Returns 2020 – COVID-19 edition.
‘The entire world today is looking to scientists with hope that they will stop the COVID-19 pandemic,’ says Prof. Wojciech Maksymowicz, deputy minister of science and higher education. ‘The health crisis we are currently witnessing affects almost all areas of social and economic life. We must concentrate all our efforts to combat it. For that purpose, we need doctors, outstanding scientists. In the past years, medical doctors chiefly left Poland. We are taking another measure to reverse this process. We should remedy the shortages in health care by looking to our own people who had left. This programme is the first step in the right direction. I can say that we are working on the next ones,’ the deputy minister adds.
The call for applications in the special edition of the Polish Returns programme is directed at scientists of Polish origin who work abroad and whose research can help broaden our knowledge of and find a solution to the vital problems caused by the COVID-19 epidemic and its consequences.
‘The aim of this action is primarily to bring back scientists in the areas of medicine, pharmaceutics, broadly defined biomedical sciences and health sciences. This human capital is extremely valuable at the moment and we must take action to bring these people back,’ says Dr. Grażyna Żebrowska, Director General of NAWA.
The programme offers funds for: remuneration for the returning scientist, remuneration for the members of the project group, and resettlement costs. Also the costs of adaptation and organisation of the workplace and preparation of research facilities are eligible for funding.
In addition, the National Science Centre (NCN) in Poland covers the costs of fundamental research in the form of the so called research component. This funding takes the form of a starting grant, which enables the scientist to launch their research right after their arrival.
‘I am happy about the developing cooperation between NAWA and the NCN. This is yet another programme in which the two agencies have joined forces. Thanks to the Polish Returns, experienced researchers will come back from abroad. Their return can not only help expand our knowledge of COVID-19 and help fight the coronavirus, but also strengthen Polish science in the areas in which it is most needed. It will boost the diversity, the degree of internationalisation and the mobility of research teams at Polish universities and research institutes,’ says NCN Director Prof. Zbigniew Błocki.
Under the Polish Returns 2020 – COVID-19 edition, NAWA finances projects that will last between 3 and 4 years with a maximum amount of PLN 2,270,000 per project if the project does not involve the so called research component. Otherwise, i.e. if the project does include the so called research component, the maximum amount of the grant is PLN 2,220,000 from NAWA’s resources and PLN 200,000 from NCN’s resources.
The objective of the Polish Returns programme is to enable Polish scientists to return to their home country and take up employment at Polish higher education institutions, scientific units or research institutes. The programme offers the returning scientists optimal conditions to carry out world-class research or developmental work in Poland. The funds obtained under the Polish Returns programme cover the salary of the returning scientist and the costs of establishing a project group (research team). Thanks to the programme, Polish universities and scientific institutions gain experts with international experience and expertise in the area of the newest research trends.
So far, NAWA has launched three editions of the Polish Returns programme (the evaluation of the applications in the third edition is currently in progress). 40 scientists have launched or will launch their research projects at Polish universities and institutes in the years 2018–2020 under the Polish Returns programme. These researchers have returned from among others American, British, French, Danish, Spanish, German, Austrian, Swiss, Japanese, Singaporean and South Korean academic and research institutions. They do research among others in Warsaw, Gdańsk, Kraków, Poznań, Wrocław and Szczecin.
Applications under the Polish Returns 2020 – COVID-19 edition may be submitted by universities and other scientific institutions that are planning to employ a returning scientist.
Applications under the programme can be submitted from 15 July 2020 until 31 August 2020. They may be submitted solely through NAWA’s electronic application submission system.
Projects under the Polish Returns 2020 – COVID-19 edition have to begin: no earlier than on 1 January 2021 and no later than on 30 September 2021.
The announcement of the call for applications as well as other documents can be found HERE (Polish language)
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Home » Blog » Features » OMD And The Art Of War
June 9, 2015 by Paul Browne
“Though khaki uniforms are universal
Your propaganda is losing appeal”
Despite the horrors of armed conflict, it’s probably not surprising how influential war has been on popular culture. Outside of the likes of cinema and literature, music has drawn from a wide range of battlegrounds to reflect public opinion or to offer up commentary, from iconic protest songs such as ‘Eve Of Destruction’ through to the pointed lyrics of ‘Oliver’s Army’ by Elvis Costello.
Growing up in the post-war years, it’s inevitable that bands such as OMD would draw on these strong cultural influences. Many of their earliest songs demonstrate this, such as the lyrics to ‘Bunker Soldiers’, whose regimented beats graced OMD’s eponymous debut album. Meanwhile, ‘The Messerschmitt Twins’ (another track from the OMITD album) was a phrase that Andy McCluskey had conjured up in his head, which prompted him to pen a song with the title. In fact while Andy was researching the history of the Messerschmitt airplane, a reference to the Enola Gay led him to write yet another song with a military influence.
Every age has its cultural influences, but it’s difficult perhaps to explain just how influential conflicts such as the Second World War had on the post-war generation. Certainly the influence continued through the 50s and 60s resulting in classic films such as The Great Escape, The Dambusters and Bridge On The River Kwai.
Subsequent generations were meanwhile also growing up under the spell of war-themed comic strips care of titles such as Valiant, Battle and the iconic Commando. This was where kids would inevitably pick up a raft of cliché phrases which included “Take that Jerry!” along with “Donner und Blitzen!” and “Achtung!” which would dominate playground games that revolved around a theme of war.
Outside of these pursuits, it was also the height of power for Airfix – a model kit company who produced endless armies of tanks and airplanes that boys would spend hours gluing together before adding a paint scheme that was usual rendered with an unsteady hand (or it could have been the glue fumes…).
For the young Paul Humphreys and Andy McCluskey, these cultural icons would have been present and correct during their formative years. “I’d been interested in aeroplanes since I was a kid”, remarked Andy in the 1987 OMD biography Messages, “I think I liked the primitiveness of the Second World War aeroplanes, I always like machines that reflect a certain humanity – you can see how they’re made, and you felt they could become unmade at any minute!”
One such airplane was the B-24 Liberator – a mass-produced aircraft which saw service during the Second World War, yet this American warplane was often considered difficult to fly, was prone to battle damage due to its lightweight construction and was usually not the plane of choice for aircrews of the time. Again, children in the post-war period could have a go at constructing their own versions of aircraft such as the Liberator care of Airfix.
This interest in military issues would continue up to the early OMD songwriting period. “A lot of the war references are because I was interested in the lengths to which people would go in a situation beyond the norm” commented Andy in the Messages biog, “And of course the machinery of warfare tied the whole thing together – hence, ‘Bunker Soldiers’, ‘Messerschmitt Twins’, and my continuing fascination with aeroplanes”.
Despite this fascination, it’s clear that Andy isn’t glorifying war or celebrating it in any way. “I don’t believe in fighting wars. I loathe violence and militarism”. It’s this particular approach that perhaps can confound critics, particularly following the release of ‘Enola Gay’ in 1980. Considering that the song revolves around the controversial atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, it’s perhaps not surprising that the subject matter would provoke questions.
But again the historical event only forms part of the influences behind the song. “I was fascinated that this aeroplane had the capability to do that and I was also fascinated that the guy could name the aeroplane after his mother and then go and do that!”
So while the historical event may play a part in the influence, there’s often more subtle ideas at play. Ideas about how wartime can change people and make them do things that they wouldn’t normally do under ordinary circumstances.
This particular theme was explored not once, but twice, during the Architecture & Morality period with the release of ‘Joan Of Arc’ and ‘Maid Of Orleans’. Here was religious inspiration provoking a will to march into battle. It marked a period of fascination not just for motivations during a time of war, but also religion. It’s no surprise that ‘Telegraph’ had also been penned around this time – a particular song that did little to hide lyrical content that is clearly employing a metaphor for religion.
By the time of the 1983 album Dazzle Ships, it was clear that this military influence was still a well worth drawing from. Peter Saville’s interest in the design concepts of the titular warships obviously struck a chord. In fact the Dazzle Ships tour programme also includes illustrations of dazzle-designed ships as well as a brief narrative about life on a warship (it’s worth noting that ‘Silent Running’ which features on the album is also a term for the stealthy manoeuvres of submarines). The promo shots of the band in this period also seem to suggest a very formal military dress code.
The early interest in the B-24 Liberator also returned for the 1993 album that bore the same name. At this stage however, Andy had begun to be more inspired by more of the aesthetic elements of the warplane, such as the gaudily painted nosecone artwork that the planes displayed.
The impact of the Second World War on culture had begun to wane by the time of the 1980s. But military themes were kept fresh by an influx of interest revolving around the Vietnam conflict. Although this was marked by popular feature films such as Oliver Stone’s Platoon, it was also reflected in music by such memorable tunes as ‘19’ by Paul Hardcastle. It also saw the revival of Edwin Starr’s ‘War’ which had originally been a protest song released in 1970, but had subsequently been covered by Bruce Springsteen (no stranger to protest songs, including ‘Born In The USA’) and also Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Frankie, of course, are probably best remembered for tunes such as ‘Two Tribes’ which had been inspired in part by the threat of the Cold War – a cultural influence that’s also all over Dazzle Ships.
It’s a sign of the times that OMD have largely moved on from these strong cultural influences, which essentially belong to a place and time that is far removed from today (although the lessons remain). Despite this, even as recently as 2013, tracks such as ‘Dresden’ from the English Electric album harkens back to controversial wartime events.
Shrugging off such cultural baggage can be difficult for the post-war generation. There was also perhaps an element of being one step removed from the true horrors of war through the veil of films and media. These days, in which armed conflict can be broadcast live on the internet, there’s no such fig leaf to hide behind.
A younger audience might have an entirely difference frame of reference when listening to the likes of ‘Bunker Soldiers’ and ‘Enola Gay’. Yet the ambiguity of the lyrics for many of these songs still offers up a timeless quality that perhaps carries more weight than a traditional protest song.
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Don’t misread Orwell: 1984 supports Black Lives Matter
by Jake Smaje on July 4, 2020 1 Comment
Copyright Daisy Harrison-Broninski 2020
Russell Square is a bustling and leafy area in the middle of London. It is home to many great institutions that in their own way represent British history, including the School of Oriental and African Studies, a university founded to train colonial administrators, and the British Museum, a beautiful collection of artefacts collected from around the world. Between these two institutions steeped in controversial colonial history sits Senate House, the striking building that Orwell modelled the exterior of his Ministry of Truth upon in his famous novel 1984. Its white art deco façade seems to rise endlessly into the sky, making it one of London’s most striking, and arguably austere, buildings. The proximity of these institutions to a building that plays such a key role in Orwell’s most famous work is prescient in times when 1984 is being invoked to criticise Black Lives Matter’s attempt to get the UK to recognise the legacy of colonialism, most notably in the toppling of slave trader Edward Colston’s statue in Bristol. In particular, the following quote from 1984 has been used by many on social media to criticize this act:
…every statue and street building have been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
Those who have shared this as if it denounces the felling of statues like Colston’s have misunderstood 1984 and George Orwell. Orwell’s point is better illustrated by the fact that the statue stood for 125 years in the first place. The spaces we inhabit act as tributes to historical individuals whose true impact and role in history is often erased by foregrounding more favourable characteristics. Colston’s statue did not engage with his role in the slave trade, instead describing him as ‘virtuous and wise’. Where Orwell’s statues are “renamed” ours are recategorised so that Colston, and many others, are remembered by their virtue rather than their violence.
This discussion has never been just about Edward Colston, or even statues. It is about why our society is so protective over the dominant, but incorrect or obscuring, narratives of history. The characters in Orwell’s two most famous fictional works, Animal Farm and 1984, are served narratives that reinforce dominating power structures through false tellings of history. This is what Orwell stood against: the protagonists of both Animal Farm and 1984 were not the people supporting the status quo but were instead subversive thinkers, in the case of Winston Smith of 1984, and revolutionaries, in the case of the animals of Animal farm.
Winston Smith, the protagonist of 1984, rebelled by collecting parts of the cultural legacy cut out from the dominant narrative. The nursery rhyme line “Oranges and Lemons, ring the bells of St Clement’s” led to him learning about a history which wasn’t endorsed by the near-omnipotent Big Brother, from a small antiques shop in the proletariat area of the city. This simple fragment of history led him on a fateful journey to a showdown with authority in the infamous torture chamber Room 101. The experience of learning about history through fragments collected outside of the mainstream will be familiar to anyone who takes an interest in British colonial history, which is noticeably absent from the national curriculum and more jingoistic popular histories of Britain.
Orwell was critical of the status quo and was no shrinking wallflower when it came to challenging power. His work is so often used to invoke the USSR and communist dictatorship, however, it is also evocative of some episodes in the history of the British Empire. A particularly famous example is the burning of documents relating to the detention of over a million Kikuyus in settlement camps in Kenya during the 1950s as a response to the threat of a small nationalist insurgency known as Mau Mau. This has left historians unable to see the incarceration from the perspective of the British government and prevented the extent of the atrocities from becoming widely known to the public until the mid-noughties. Only in 2011 did the government admit that they had continued to keep 200,000 documents secret from the public for over five decades, some of which showed that the government had covered up the systematic abuse in the internment camps.
This nuance is lost on many. In the Daily Express Leo Mckinstrey writes:
For most of us 1984 was a warning.
For radical agitators it was a blueprint.
McKinstry is right of course in saying that Orwell meant 1984 as a warning, but he is wrong that it is the ‘radical agitators’ of the left using it as a blueprint. It is not Black Lives Matter who present a threat to history; many have been very clear about their desire for a broader history curriculum and for more context to be given to British history. The people who are using 1984 as a guide are some of the politicians running our country. Our prime minister, Boris Johnson, a man famous for lying, has recently claimed ignorance over footballer Marcus Rashford’s campaign that forced a major government U-turn and had have his own words quoted back to him by the leader of the opposition to remind him of his original policy about COVID-19 and care home safety. This is not to mention his unconditional support for Dominic Cummings whose trip to Durham was painted as a reasonable decision by government ministers while most of the country was shocked by the audacity with which they revised the meaning of the lockdown conditions.
This has been a persistent problem since Johnson became leader of his party: during the 2019 General Election an independent fact checker found that 88% of Conservative Party adverts contained lies, while the Tories rebranded their twitter as ‘Fact Check UK’, a fake fact-checking service. This enduring problem with truth from our current government recently led to an anonymous civil servant tweeting the following from a civil service twitter account:
Arrogant and offensive.
Can you imagine working with these truth twisters?
If social media existed in the universe of 1984 then Winston Smith, who was a civil servant tasked with rewriting history, would most likely have written something similar from his desk in the Ministry of Truth, given the chance.
What many who are invoking Orwell seem to have missed is that those with power are the ones that control the narrative of history. The very nature of protest suggests that people feel they do not have enough power to influence the course of, and telling of, history. Orwell would not be surprised that his work would be used to smear protesters that Donald Trump has called ‘Anti-fascists’. He recognised that becoming part of the cultural canon was part of reinforcing the narrative of those in power; he is afterall the man who wrote that “who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present controls the past”. The crowning irony is, of course, that Orwell was a self-professed anti-fascist who went to Spain to fight alongside anarchists against the fascist armies of General Franco. This was the cognitive dissonance that Orwell sought to capture in the word doublespeak. A term in the fictional language of 1984 termed Newspeak which was designed to reduce the possibility of subversive thoughts. People are concerned that history is being re-written in front of our eyes. This is a valid concern. The phrase ‘history is written by the victors’ has always been true. However, in this epoch there are new challenges ranging from politicians who are no longer held to account for their pathologically clumsy lying such as Johnson and Trump, to the social media echo chambers that have seen fake news so successfully spread. One thing is for certain: against this backdrop it is unlikely that Black Lives Matter is the movement that will lead us into the world of 1984.
Jake Smaje works in data governance for a large INGO in the WASH sector and is the trustee of United Social Ventures, a livelihood charity in Uganda, having previously worked in a range of roles in the charity sector in Rwanda, Kenya and Bangladesh. Since completing his BA in History at the University of Leeds in 2016 with a specialism in African History, he’s held a continued interest in the political economy of the Global South.
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Pubblicato il 13 Marzo 2013 da Notturno Metal
The Melodic Rock outfit PARIS has its origins in the French capital, but a short look at the album credits of the band’s debut record illustrates that we are actually dealing with an international affair. The two main characters, Frédéric Dechavanne and Sébastien Montet, hail from France, the duo is responsible for the songwriting, the lead vocals, the guitars and the keyboards. The Italian delegation is represented by producer Alessandro Del Vecchio (Lionville, Hardline, Issa), the rhythm section Anna Portalupi (Mitch Malloy, Lionville, Hardline) on bass and Alessandro Mori (Mitch Malloy, Lionville, Axe) on drums. Guests are in-demand Swedish songwriter Robert Säll (Work Of Art, W.E.T.) on guitar and Steve Newman (Newman, Big Life) from the United Kingdom on backing vocals.
Frédéric and Sébastien met in the suburbs of Paris when they were still little kids, later in High School they dicovered their common interest in AOR, Melodic Rock and Hard Rock. In 1985 they founded their first band together and started to write their own songs inspired by the multi-platinum albums and concert visits of some of the most successful acts of the genre during their heyday in the late 80s, Def Leppard and Bon Jovi. The guys continue to work on their own material during the next couple of years, but life had other plans for the two friends, so from 1993 on their band and song writing activities were put on hold for almost two decades.
Frédéric and Sébastien grew up in the suburbs of Paris. They were already long-time friends when they discovered their common interest in AOR and Melodic Rock in the mid 80s. During their days in High School in the late 80s they attend countless concerts of bands like Def Leppard and Bon Jovi and they founded their first band and instantly started writing their own songs, inspired by some of the most successful acts of the Melodic Rock genre. Until 2003 they kept on working on their own material, but life had other plans for the guys and their songwriting activities were put on hold.
In 2010 the two friends, who always kept in touch through the years, rediscovered the joy of making music together. New technologies paved the way for their revitalized musical collaboration with Frédéric now living in Germany, and they eventually recorded a demo album with 11 newly songs in 2011.
Ready then to take the next step, they contacted Alessandro Del Vecchio. The internationally renowned producer and musician took them under his wings and produced the songs in his studio, including some old favorites Frédéric and Sébastien had written 20 years ago. The PARIS debut “Only One Life” was recorded with the help of an international line-up of studio musicians, resulting in a collection of truly catchy Melodic Rock tunes.
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Byanjana Thapa, a writer and biologist working as a healthcare business analyst, conversed with Parikrama Students’ Family, sharing with us her relationship with poetry, her motivations, and a few pointers for poetry-writing.
For centuries poetry has played a key role as a medium of communication, an art form that allows us to express ourselves and appreciate the world around us. As beautiful as poetic oeuvres are to read, if you haven’t been struck by a bolt of inspiration, you would just be staring at a blank page for hours not knowing what to write. With the deadline for KARYAKRAMA 2020 right around the corner, many closet poets and even experienced ones could be in search of this inspiration, or possibly stuck in the middle of creating their poetic concoctions. This situation could be very stressful and daunting, to say the least.
To help out, Parikrama Students’ Family approached a young and acclaimed millennial poet Byanjana Thapa, who talks to us about her connection with poetry, her inspirations, and also shares a few helpful tips on poetry writing. Thapa is a writer and biologist currently working as a healthcare business analyst, and is widely known for her exemplary knack for English poetry and prose writing. Some of her popular literary works include “To Drown” and “To Ebba, soul and body” in La.Lit Literary Magazine, “Tuesday Night Tango” in These Fine Lines: Poems of Restraint and Abandon, and “Chamomile” in House of Snow: An Anthology of the Greatest Writing About Nepal. She also helps run Sangini Bhet: a community aimed at creating confidential and compassionate conversation spaces for Nepali identifying, female-identifying individuals, where they can share their narratives, reflect on specific social issues and publish Nepali feminist perspectives on issues that matter.
1. When did you start writing poetry? What inspired you to write poems?
I began writing poetry when I was around ten or eleven years old. My father was a diplomat, so we moved countries a lot. We moved to Switzerland when I was ten. It was a huge change for me, not only because the culture and language were so different, but also because I faced the daunting task of making new friends with those barriers. As it was often hard to relate to the people around me, I spent a lot of time in my room reading and writing. I was a gregarious child, but also lived in my head a lot, and had a very fertile imagination – I still do. I became very reflective then, and that is when I began writing poems.
2. What impact has poetry had in your life?
Poetry helps me process very specific and acute emotions – it brings me closer to understanding myself better. It has been one of the tools that has helped me shape my identity over the years.
3. How do you find the inspiration for your poems?
Truth be told, I have never sat down with the intention of writing a poem. They come to me fully-formed and at any odd hour of the day or night. I often describe the process as “whelping”. My poems tend to be about very personal or private things – I often write only for myself. The work I choose to share or publish is primarily prose. In fact, I consider myself more a prose writer.
4. In your opinion, what makes a well-written poem?
For me, a well-written poem is primarily two things: honest and accessible. Trying to adhere strictly to rhyme, structure, meter – these things are unimportant, in my opinion, and even a bit boring. Also, the aim should not be to try to sound profound or write something avant-garde in a way that is unrelatable or abstruse. However, I do think it is important to say something fresh and stay away from clichés. The topic can be age-old (love, for example), but the imagery, the perspective, the understandings the poet comes to over the course of the poem – those should be fresh. And because every human being is unique, if we are honest and deeply in touch with ourselves, a fresh perspective is bound to emerge. Write from a place of honesty and authenticity. Also, while poetic license does exist and sometimes rules can be bent (e.g. e e cummings), basic grammar is important!
5. Any message for the participants of KAVYA-KRAMA 2020?
Creative expression, whether it is poetry or prose, art or music, is an opportunity to share your innermost thoughts, emotions and philosophies with other human beings. Naturally, this can be terrifying. It is normal to be afraid or hesitant to put your work out there – you could be afraid of judgment, ridicule, even persecution. Ultimately, the important thing is to take a deep breath and do it anyway, even if you choose to remain anonymous. It does not have to be done in haste. You can wait until the time is right, and you feel comfortable and confident enough. But being a writer or artist means that risk will always be there. It’s helpful to remember that artists are also some of the bravest people out there. What you have to say is important, and you never know who needs to hear your perspective.
The following is an excerpt from one of her pieces, “To Ebba, soul and body”, published in La. Lit Literary Magazine:
“I struggled with the question of death itself. What was death, in fact? As a scientist I am compelled to respond in biological terms, but as a granddaughter? The fact of the matter is this: at one moment she was there and the next moment she was not. One moment, there was breath, there was life force in her body, and in the next, her body was vacant: she had left it. But who was “she”? Who left, or what, exactly?
The idea of “ātmā” is central to Hindu philosophy – an immutable self or soul that transcends the mortal world, exists intact and independent of the vessel that houses it, the “deha”. That is the metaphor of the water droplet on the taro leaf: the waxy leaf houses the droplet, yet being hydrophobic, cannot absorb or alter it. They are symbiotic, yet separate. Touching, yet untouched. The vessel’s decaying does not compromise the integrity of the soul. It escapes its temporary lodging and, with the karma it has accumulated, either finds a “better” or “worse” physical body in the next life. Or, if it has achieved the extraordinary feat of accumulating no karma, it escapes the vicious cycle of rebirth, and becomes one with “brahman”, the universe. It is this thought that allows us to continue existing even after we cease to exist. Even in dying, we never let go of life.”
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As the youngsters of the Pontarddulais Youth Club reached their official leaving age towards the end of the 1950s, the young men amongst them felt a strong desire to continue with the rich and successful choral activities they had experienced in the Club.
They turned for advice to the charismatic leader of those musical activities, Noel Davies. That is the beginning of a story that continues today, with a decision in 1960 to establish a new male voice choir – a particularly brave initiative in an area already renowned for its famous and successful male choirs.
With Noel Davies at the helm, membership grew remarkably quickly, and within a short period of time the new choir achieved impressive successes in concert halls and eisteddfodau. By 1963, the membership having burgeoned to 120 singers, Pontarddulais Male Choir gained the first prize in the ‘Chief Male Choir’ competition at the Llandudno National Eisteddfod. This was the beginning of an unrivalled record of victories in Wales’s premier competitive festival - 17 to date, with the latest of them at Cardiff in 2018. Furthermore, the choir achieved countless first prizes at the major eisteddfodau of Cardigan and Pontrhydfendigaid as well as the Miners' Eisteddfod in Porthcawl. Success also came at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod in 2001 and again in 2004.
Over more than half a century, the Choir has performed in concerts throughout Britain and across Europe, as well as in Canada and the United States, often in prestigious concert halls, churches and cathedrals. There have been constant broadcasts on radio and television at home and abroad, and the Choir has appeared at many prestigious international events. Importantly over the years the Choir has captured its unique sound for posterity on countless records, tapes and compact disks.
As his long and dedicated career as Musical Director drew to a close in 2002, after 42 years of tireless and remarkable service, Noel Davies was able to look back on an incredible contribution to the musical life of the nation. But the Choir’s story did not end with his retirement. After a period as accompanist of the Choir, Clive Phillips became a worthy successor as Musical Director, continuing with the principles established by his predecessor in emphasizing anew diversity in the repertoire, ranging from the light in nature to contemporary classical music; the importance of singing in the Welsh language, as well as other languages; and an unequivocal commitment to the principle of competition.
It is testimony to the sense of close fraternity within the Choir that some of the original members of the Youth Club are still singing with the Choir, and that many of the current singers have given fifty years and more of service. In addition to maintaining standards over the years, ‘Côr Y Bont’ has managed to sustain its numerical strength, to this day still boasting over a hundred voices.
In the early years, many choristers worked in the local coal, steel and tinplate industries, with the remainder in various occupations in education, the civil service, local government and so on. Today, naturally enough, the majority of members are enjoying retirement, though singing and performing are central to that retirement of course.
In his book, Great Welsh Voices Alun Guy writes:
"The general consensus among critics and reviewers alike is that the combination of voices of more than a hundred members of this choir produces the best amateur choral sound not only in Wales but in Britain and beyond."
The choir continues to welcome new members of all ages, and if you are interested in joining, the first step would be to come along to one of the twice weekly rehearsals at the Primary School, James Street, Pontarddulais, on Mondays and Wednesdays between 7 and 9 o'clock (except August or bank holidays). There you can enjoy the singing and experience how the singers set about learning the music. You will also become aware of the camaraderie and light hearted humour within the Choir’s ranks. You do not need any special vocal abilities, nor any previous experience of singing, nor indeed the ability to read music. The main essentials are the ability to sing in tune and a willingness to engage in learning. By joining the Choir, your singing voice along with your reading, whether sol-fa or staff notation, will gradually develop and flourish.
Of course, as well as potential members, the general public are always welcome in our practices. It is worth checking with the Secretary of your intention to visit in case there is a temporary change in the practice venue.
We hope you enjoy browsing through our website, and perhaps we shall be able to welcome you to one of our concerts in the future.
Please contact the Secretary if you are interested in inviting the Choir to perform.
Noel Davies MBE
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Braunwyn Windham-Burke Reveals How She Balances Marriage And Dating Other Women!
Back in December, Braunwyn Windham-Burke surprised us all when she came out and announced she wouldn’t be divorcing husband Sean Burke. The Real Housewives of Orange County star joyfully opened up to GLAAD about her sexuality — we’re still cheering for her — while stressing that she’d always been attracted to women, but her husband would forever be her family.
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On January 12, the Bravolebrity did an exclusive interview with US Weekly about where this leaves her and the state of her marriage, especially now that she’s dating a woman named Kris. She told them:
“I’m leaving tonight. I’m gonna go spend the night with Kris and that’s hard for Sean. He supports me, but, yeah — that is definitely hard. Kris knows that I’m with my kids a lot, you know, and that’s hard for her because she wants to be with me. It’s a new relationship, you know, but she also knows I have seven kids. I have a husband. She knew what she was getting into. There’s never been any lying or anything and so she understands that too.”
Honesty is certainly the best policy! And, seriously, the fact that Braunwyn’s been so open with both her husband and her new girlfriend really sets such an INCREDIBLE example for others. We’ve also gotta say — it’s so AMAZING to see a celebrity breaking the mold and sticking to what fits their life! Just cuz most people would get divorced in this case does not mean that this is a one-size-fits-all scenario. Power to her for being able to balance her life with Sean and Kris!
On that note, she added:
“I still just want to be very cognizant of both relationships and keeping them private because it’s not just like, I know everyone says, ‘It’s all about Braunwyn.’ Well, it’s actually not right now. You know, this is me trying to balance the feelings and emotions of two people I really care about. And I think trying to keep some things private is a big part of that.”
We TOTALLY get it, Braunwyn! And we support you 100%! In a world where so many things are black and white — where people feel like they’re trapped in their circumstances — it’s wonderful seeing someone making it work in a way that (hopefully) leaves everyone happy. Sean has been very open about his support of his wife, and she’s clarified that an open marriage doesn’t mean that either of them would be falling in love with anyone else. It sounds like she just wants the option for both of them to date other people on the side for fun. Of her husband’s dating life, the reality star stated:
“Dating someone and falling in love and starting a new life are two very different things. If Sean dated someone, that’s great. I support that. I think he should be. If Sean fell in love and started a new life, started a new family, yes that would be heartbreaking. We’ve been together 26 years. We’ve been together since we were children. And I think that people kind of forget that it’s not just that we’re married, we’ve been together since we were kids. We are family. We are each other’s people. We are closer to each other than anyone else.”
We get it, and we’re happy for both Braunwyn and Sean that they’re so open about all of this.
What do you all think? Is dating on the side a disaster waiting to happen? Or is this the healthiest thing the couple could do?
[Image via Braunwyn Windham-Burke/Instagram]
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The High Coast Bridge
In 1502 Leonardo da Vinci, known among other tings for his daring bridge designs, completed a drawing for an arched bridge. This bridge would link the two cities of Pera and Constantinople in a single span over the Bosporus. The sultan of the Ozmanian Empire wished to replace the temporary pontoon bridge over the Golden Horn with a permanent structure. At that time, da Vinci's plan was virtually invonceivable. The bridge he proposed would be 350 meters long, 234 of them over water. The narrowest section measured 23 meters wide.
In 1943 the Sandö Bridge spanning the Ångerman river opened, several centuries after da Vinci completed his design. It was the longest concrete bridge in the world to be built in one arch, measuring 264 meters long and rising 40 meters above the river. The middle section of the bridge collapsed during the casting process, killing several construction workers. Despite the tragedy, Sandö Bridge was masterpiece of structural engineering. However, public attention was understandably focused on the events of World War II and the bridge never received the recognition it deserved.
Half a century later, in 1997, the Sandö Bridge has been replaced by yet another masterpiece. The new structure is an enormous suspension bridge only 70 meters shorter than San Francisco's famed Golden Gate Bridge. At the Veda ferry slip the bridge spans a distance of over 1,400 meters. It took eleven years to complete the project, from drafting board to finished product. The 1,800 meter long section of roadbed is supported by two pairs of 180 meter high pylons. The pylons hold two thick cables. The 6.5 decimeter thick cables are made of 11,300 steel wires, each wire nearly six millimeters thick. The design and construction of the bridge allows for a one meter lateral swing in a strong wind; it also enables the structure to bear the thousands of tons of extra weight accumulated during snowstorms. The Sandö Bridge, the gateway to the High Coast area, is rightly one of the most impressive attractions along European Highway 4.
Could da Vinci's bridge - a structure designed to be "carried on its own shoulders" - have been built with 16th century technology? This question has occupied many designers since the 1950s when his plans were discovered. Numerous engineers believe that the bridge could have been successfully erected.
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COMCAST EXTENDS COVID SUPPORT WITH 60 DAYS OF FREE INTERNET FOR LOW-INCOME CUSTOMERS AND FREE ACCESS TO THE NATION’S LARGEST PUBLIC WIFI NETWORK THROUGH JUNE 30, 2021
PHILADELPHIA – December 7, 2020 – Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) announced today that it will extend its commitments to help people connect to the Internet during the COVID-19 pandemic as millions continue to stay home while many workplaces and schools operate virtually. Comcast will continue to provide free Internet service for the first 60 days for new Internet Essentials customers, and free access to more than 1.5 million public Xfinity WiFi hotspots, the largest network of its kind in the country, through June 30, 2021. Today’s announcement marks the third time Comcast has extended these commitments.
“Our teams have worked tirelessly to ensure our network is operating at peak performance and help our customers and our communities navigate this unprecedented crisis,” said Dave Watson, Chief Executive Officer, Comcast Cable. “For nearly a decade, we’ve been on a mission to ensure students have the resources they need to be successful. We have accelerated that work during COVID-19 by partnering with public schools to provide Internet for more low-income students and by working with community centers to create safe spaces for families to connect to free WiFi through Lift Zones.”
Comcast has repeatedly committed to keeping its customers connected, and to make its services available to families and students who don’t have Internet access. These commitments are part of Comcast’s comprehensive efforts to help families and individual stay connected, and to help empower small businesses, during the COVID-19 pandemic:
Network Investment – Comcast has invested more than $12 billion to expand and evolve its network since 2017. Since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis in the United States, network teams have worked around the clock to triple network augmentations, install new hardware, and upgrade network software – to expand capacity and ensure that it could meet the rapidly growing needs of its customers. The company performs nearly 700,000 diagnostic speed tests daily which show that, on average, it is meeting, and most times exceeding advertised speeds across all of its service areas.
Xfinity WiFi Free for Everyone – More than 1.5 million Xfinity WiFi hotspots in business and outdoor locations – the largest public WiFi network in the country and three times larger than any other provider’s – are available to anyone who needs them for free, including non-Xfinity Internet subscribers. Since taking the unprecedented step of making all of these hotspots available for free, hundreds of thousands of non-Xfinity customers have taken advantage and usage by consumers has skyrocketed. For a map of Xfinity WiFi hotspots, visit www.xfinity.com/wifi.
Free 60 Days of Internet Essentials and School Programs – Internet Essentials is the nation’s largest and most comprehensive broadband adoption program that provides high-speed Internet service to low-income families and has connected more than four million low-income students since its inception. New customers who sign up before June 30, 2021, will receive 60 days of complimentary service. Comcast will also continue to waive the requirement that customers not have back debt due so more families can apply. For more information, visit www.internetessentials.com. We are working with hundreds of public school districts in cities like Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Sacramento to provide free Internet service directly to students in need.
WiFi-Connected Community Lift Zones – In September, Comcast announced a multiyear program to launch more than 1,000 “Lift Zones” in community centers across the country by working with its network of thousands of nonprofit partners and city leaders. Comcast is providing WiFi in these facilities to help students get online, participate in distance learning, and do their schoolwork. Comcast plans to have at least 200 Lift Zones installed before the end of the year.
Comcast RISE – In October, Comcast launched Comcast RISE, a multi-year initiative created to help strengthen and empower small businesses, starting with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color owned businesses; those hardest hit by COVID-19. The Comcast RISE program will help thousands of small businesses over the next three years through grants, marketing and technology upgrades, including media campaigns and connectivity, computer and voice equipment, as well as free marketing insights to all applicants. For more information, visit www.comcastrise.com.
Providing Free Educational Resources – In partnership with Common Sense Media, Comcast has curated thousands of hours of free educational programming into an education destination for Xfinity video customers to support remote learning for kids K-12.
For more information and updates from Comcast related to Coronavirus, visit:
http://www.comcastcorporation.com/COVID-19/
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Movie Review: "Brave" by Andy Schopp
Directors: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell
Writers: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell, Irene Mecchi
Cast: Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Craig Ferguson
The bagpipes sound on the misty hilltop while a herd of Highland cows graze nearby. No, unfortunately this wasn't my vacation I took last week, but it was the setting of the new Pixar movie, "Brave". The movie is set in 10th-Century Scotland and centers around a young princess named Merida. The Queen wants her daughter to be proper and dignified and act like a "lady", while Merida thinks she ought to be able to decide her own fate. She wants to be free to do what she wants; she wants to learn to fight and she wants to be able to marry whomever she wants. This becomes the main conflict for Merida in the movie when the King and Queen organize a gathering of all the clans to let the first born children compete for her hand in marriage. Merida is frustrated and upset and in a firestorm of anger, and in defiance she bounds out of the castle and runs away. This is where she meets the (not necessarily so evil) witch.
Right off the bat, one thing I would like to bring up that I know is on EVERYONE'S mind, where is the Pizza Planet truck!? Well, I could spoil it for you and simply tell you where it is, but that really ruins the fun of the entire game doesn't it? I will only say that YES it is in the movie, and it doesn't even look out of place the way they fit it in, which is amazingly ingenious! Keep your eyes peeled ladies and gents, that's all the advice i can give!
But back to the actual review. First off, how can you not start with the animation in he film? I can assure you, Pixar did not drop the ball when it came to animating this feature, it looks amazing! While a lot of people will simply say they already do amazing so that isn't anything surprising, I say BOLLOCKS! Just because something has been amazing in the past doesn't mean it always stays that way. With "Brave", Pixar literally broke the mold of their previous animated films. The software and concepts they had used in the past just couldn't cut what they were trying to do with the animation on this film. Since it's set in a real life scenario, in a real time, and in a real country, they said they wanted to make it feel as real as possible while still looking like an animated movie. They had to write a very expensive, brand new, software program to handle the clothing and hair of this movie; Merida looked especially fantastic with her fire-red hair exploding in curls. What I'm saying is that you shouldn't go in and just expect excellence every time; notice the amazing progress that continues to unfold in the animated movie industry. Give credit where it's due, and it is certainly due in this instance.
Fergus fights the bear
One thing that really stood out to me in this film: the villain. Such an integral part of any Pixar and/or Disney feature. Sometimes, in secret, we really watch for the villain, when we should actually be rooting on the hero. "Brave" kind of turns the good guy-bad guy formula around on itself in that there is no traditional villain. Going in you believe it to be the witch that's brought up in the trailer, or the bear that the first trailer really focused on. I will tell you now that neither of those characters are the villain. They have a lot to do with the struggles of the protagonist(s) but don't actually work against her/them in a purposefully villainous manner. The true enemy is honestly the doubts and fears and indecisions of Merida and her mother. It is a movie more about compromise and mending bonds than it is about overcoming evil. For this I grant the movie great value because it gives a family movie a much deeper level of emotion and humanity than I ever thought it could.
I couldn't talk about this next part without putting in a spoiler alert. If you don't want to know anything about the movie then don't read this section. Just know that there is a part of this section that I think is important for people to know, since it was my one and only true gripe with the film.
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After Merida meets the witch in the woods she is given a cake to change the way her mother thinks so that she can once and for all call off all the wedding "HooHa". After giving her mother the cake it doesn't quite go the way she had hoped; her mother becomes a bear. She retains her mind for two days then by the second sunrise she will become a bear fully, then only bits and pieces of her memories will remain. In theory this is a great plot point. It turns the tables on the mother-daughter relationship and makes the daughter the primary caregiver of the mother so that they can finally see how the other sees it. The way it actually plays out though...is less than enthralling. It's just too damn silly. I know that it's a kids movie and i know that it's an animated movie; what I don't understand is why they had to make the mother look like such a gigantic buffoon! She looks a fool trying to keep her crown on ,walk proper and eat with silverware. It was too silly looking to actually be funny in my opinion. It took me out of what was actually happening in the plot. It was supposed to be heartwarming and make Merida and her mother become closer and truly see what amazing things each of them can do. It just didn't play out that well.
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A stunning shot from "La Luna"
I'd like to close up with saying that it is actually a great watch. While it seems that I may not like just how silly it is, I still enjoyed the movie for everything it had going on. Take your families to see this, or if you are a fan of animation/Pixar movies then go see it by yourself. I think there is enough "grown-up" themes for adults to like it and plenty of childish humor for the kiddos to really get on board. I wouldn't sprint to the theater to see it, but I'd definitely give it a quick walk! Also as a side note, make sure you arrive on time! The short at the beginning of the movie, "La Luna", is FANTASTIC! It almost made me drop a small tear as to how generational and traditional it felt. It really fit in line with "Brave" for embracing all of the emotional concepts that it was going for!
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December 30, 2013 Shaheen Reviews 0 ★★★★½
Free from bonds, but not each other
It’s time to choose sides… On the surface, Sorry-in-the-Vale is a sleepy English town. But Kami Glass knows the truth. Sorry-in-the-Vale is full of magic. In the old days, the Lynburn family ruled with fear, terrifying the people into submission in order to kill for blood and power. Now the Lynburns are back, and Rob Lynburn is gathering sorcerers so that the town can return to the old ways.
But Rob and his followers aren’t the only sorcerers in town. A decision must be made: pay the blood sacrifice, or fight. For Kami, this means more than just choosing between good and evil. With her link to Jared Lynburn severed, she’s now free to love anyone she chooses. But who should that be?
I think my feelings are broken.
What a sequel! I loved Unspoken so much I had very high expectations from its sequel. I held off on reading it for so long because of this – I was really scared I wouldn’t like Untold. But I loved it, it’s amazing, and I don’t want to wait for Unmade.
The plot of the book is surprising, with the action beginning unexpectedly soon. I was absolutely riveted and read the book in two sittings, only really taking a break to sleep (I just could not keep my eyes open any more)! But when I reflect on it, I have to admit nothing really happened: we aren’t in a much different situation that we were at the end of Unspoken. This book is about the characters learning to work together to defeat Rob, so it basically sets us up for a final battle in Unmade, but nothing really happens to progress the series arc.
There is, however, a lot of progression in the character arcs, which is where the strength of Untold really lies. We find out a lot more about Holly, Rusty, Angela and Ash, alongside Jared and Kami. Brennan has brought her characters to life extraordinarily well. One wonders, though, whether this back story will come into play in the next novel, or whether it’s been included simply for character development (I hope for the former).
And of course, there is a lot of focus on Kami and Jared – in particular, on who they are now they are not linked. Both of them, having been linked since birth, have never ever actually been alone, and it’s heartbreaking that they are now as alone as the rest of us and aren’t mentally and emotionally equipped to deal with it. They are violently attracted to one another, but each has their own issues to deal with and there is a lot of tension because of this. I hesitate to call it relationship drama, because it’s so much more than that — this is two people who do not know how to live without one another on a level that none of us can comprehend (although the author brings it to life wonderfully).
I absolutely loved being back with Kami and her friends. I’ve always loved Kami, especially her voice and way of narration, unique outlook on things and determination to get to the bottom of every mystery. I also love her loyalty and focus – she doesn’t let her confusion over the Lynburn boys get in the way of stopping Rob Lynburn from taking over Sorry-in-the-Vale. She’s also a wonderful friend and sister, I like that Brennan has chosen to place the emphasis she does on Kami’s relationships with those around her – it makes her a more rounded and infinitely ore relatable character.
Untold is an amazing novel, full of wonderful characters and the vivid imagery that made Unspoken to enjoyable. Although I was a little disappointed at how little the overall series progressed, I still enjoyed it a lot. The cliff-hanger ending (worse than Unspoken, in my opinion), will ensure that readers will be coming back for more, but in this case, I think it was completely unnecessary. We were all coming back anyway for the characters and how awesome Kami is. If you aren’t already reading The Lynburn Legacy books, I don’t have the words to describe to you what you’re missing out on. You should read it and see!
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Primus at The Stage AE
Primus Tickets
EVENT RESCHEDULED TO SUNDAY 27TH JUNE 2021. Originally Saturday 28th June 2070. All original tickets are still valid!
See Primus as you've never seen them before as they come to Stage AE on Sunday 28th June 2020 to pay tribute to iconic candid rock band Rush by performing their 1997 album A Farewell to Kings in its entirety! The A Tribute To Kings Tour gives the opportunity for the alt-metal band and Rush fans to pay homage to one of their greatest influences as a group, and the first band that Claypool ever saw live!
“A little over one year ago, Ler LaLonde and I started kicking the idea around of Primus performing a series of shows featuring an iconic Rush album from our youth,” Primus frontman Les Claypool said in a Facebook post. “Being that A Farewell to Kings was the first Rush record I ever heard, and that it contains my all-time favorite Rush tune, Cygnus X1, the choice narrowed quickly.”
Funk-metal band Primus was formed in 1984 in El Sobrante, California and currently consists of bassist/vocalist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry "Ler" LaLonde and drummer Tim "Herb" Alexander. The group is known for its humorous, idiosyncratic style that leans heavily on Claypool's unusual style of bass-playing, and an unlikely fusion of musical genres. Throughout the years, the band has released nine studio albums; its most recent being 2017's The Desaturating Seven. The band has also been responsible for influencing several subsequent groups, particularly in the nu-metal scene, including Deftones, Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Incubus. Primus has been nominated for two Grammy Awards to date and is known for having created the original theme for the TV series South Park.
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RANJIT SINGH ALIAS RANA versus STATE OF PUNJAB
Ranjit Singh alias Rana v. State of Punjab - CRM-16820-M-2006 [2006] RD-P&H 6016 (28 August 2006)
IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH.
Crl. Misc. No. 16820-M of 2006
DATE OF DECISION : 07.09.2006
Ranjit Singh alias Rana
.... PETITIONER
..... RESPONDENT
CORAM :- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL
Present: Mr. B.P.S. Gill, Advocate,
Mr. N.S. Gill, AAG, Punjab.
This is second petition filed by petitioner Ranjit Singh alias Rana under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for the grant of regular bail in case FIR No. 80 dated 20.7.2004 under Sections 364/364-A/ 368/120-B IPC, registered at Police Station Division No.8, District Ludhiana. His earlier petition was dismissed as withdrawn on 2.9.2005.
2. I have heard counsel for the parties and gone through the contents of the FIR.
3. The aforesaid FIR was registered on the complaint made by Narinder Kumar alleging therein that on 20.7.2004, his son, namely Chirag, aged about 7 years, was kidnapped by some unidentified persons, who came in a maruti car. In the car, three persons were present and the driver kept the car in starting position, while one of the occupants of the car came out, forcibly took out son of the complainant and ran away in the said car. As per the prosecution, on the next day, the child was recovered from the house of the petitioner.
4. In this case, during the investigation, six persons were arrested, including Des Raj, who is the maternal uncle of the complainant and his son Amandeep Happy. The other accused are stated to have been friends of Amandeep Happy.
5. Counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is in custody since 22.7.2004 and till date, out of 25 witnesses cited by the prosecution, only 4 have been examined and none of them has deposed even a single word against the petitioner. Counsel contends that the conclusion of trial in this case is going to take a long time. He further contends that admittedly, as per the prosecution version, the petitioner was not involved in the kidnapping of the child. The only allegation against him is that the child was recovered from his house. Counsel for the petitioner submits that the accused, at whose behest the child is alleged to have been kidnapped, is maternal uncle of the complainant and the motive of the alleged abduction is also not strong. He contends that the aforesaid FIR is outcome of a property dispute between the main accused Jai Pal and the complainant.
6. In view of the aforesaid facts, without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, keeping in view the fact that the child was recovered on the next day, coupled with the fact that 21 prosecution witnesses are yet to be examined and the petitioner is in custody since 22.7.2004, I deem it appropriate to grant bail to the petitioner. He is accordingly ordered to be released on bail subject to his furnishing bail bonds to the satisfaction of the trial court.
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Book Review: The Transporter
He’s used to being in the driver’s seat…until the girl he rescues makes him lose control.
Shane Sullivan, a.k.a. the Transporter, channels his need for speed into top-secret delivery runs for the Hudson Kings, an elite band of mercenaries. His precious cargo has never talked back—until now. He’s riding to the rescue of his fellow team member’s sister, who’s fleeing her abusive boyfriend. His job: steer clear of trouble and get her to New York City in one piece. But he didn’t count on her driving him to distraction. Now he needs to keep both hands on the wheel—and off his best friend’s sister.
Cecily Keegan has a poor track record when it comes to falling for charming bad guys. So although she’s grateful for this hard-bodied wheelman’s protection, she’s terrified of listening to her heart, which has been racing since she got into his backseat. But when she learns that the danger is far greater than a possessive ex, she has to trust Shane—because sometimes the bad guys turn out to be good after all.
First off, let me say that this book is well written. The pacing was smooth and the dialogue spot on which makes for an enjoyable book. I really think that this is a book that a lot of readers will love.
That being said, I didn't fall in love with this book. There was a sense of remove, a glass wall between me and the characters. This really affected my being able to care about the characters which in turn affected the tension that the author was trying to build up. I think that a part of it is the fact that I didn't find it realistic that Cecily is running from an abusive relationship yet is immediately ready to jump right back into one fraught with danger. I have had an abusive relationship in the past and it took me a while to gain back my sense of self worth. Sure I had some rebound flings but those were filled with self doubt. And that self doubt just isn't apparent in her when it comes to Shane.
Like I said, I am sure that many of my readers will enjoy this book and it is the start of a new series so jump into the story of the Hudson Kings from the beginning. This book does contain violence and some rather hot sex scenes so be forewarned.
Book Review: Running Into Love
Book Review: Fierce Obsessions
Book Review: Killing June
Book Review: before I knew
Book Review: Tangled In Time
Book Review: The Lady's Guard
Book Review: Fury of Surrender
Book Review: Turned Up
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Leeds United For Sale Again - But What Happens In The Short Term?
Leeds United are officially up for sale again, just three months after GFH Capital completed their “bargain purchase” of the Club from cuddly Uncle Ken Bates on 21 December last year. This news might be received with joy, despair or indifference, depending on your current attitude to the low-budget kitchen-sink drama that is LUFC these days.
The joyous ones are the optimists, dreaming that – at last – a rich billionaire (as opposed to the sort of impoverished billionaires normally linked to the Club) will come steaming in on his souped-up camel, and purchase for us long-suffering fans the baubles we have craved ever since winning the Last Proper League Championship.
The pessimists meanwhile are withdrawing their heads back under the carapace of their impenetrable gloom, pausing only to remind the rest of us that they knew all this takeover talk was bollocks right from the start last May, that no-one with any dosh would come within a mile of Leeds United, and that we’ll now probably be sold back to Ken Bates for ten bob after a second administration, so that he can fulfill his stated aim of reducing us to the Ryman League, Division Three.
Personally, I’m languishing among the indifferent tendency, somewhere between these first two groups. I’ve quite frankly had enough of Leeds United this last year or so, especially after the battering all our psyches took with the roller-coaster TOMA* saga of last summer, and being roundly laughed at and suffering from chronic urine-extraction by dopey fans of daft little cobble-stone clubs (you know who you are.) It’s just not good for morale, and mine is shot through, thanks very much.
The thing is though, the Club has somehow to carry on its business of playing games of football with some appearance of trying to win them, and maybe in the process attracting what they are nowadays pleased to call “customers” through the computerised turnstiles. And this undertaking is not helped at all, not in the least, by any measure of uncertainty among the fanbase. Last summer was awful, and now – with GFH Capital apparently anticipating completion of a sale withing a window of between six and twelve months – we have more of the same in the offing. So another transfer window will pass without the urgent surgery needed to transform the current squad into a lean, mean winning machine. Another six months to a year during which the creeping disease of apathy will spread further throughout the body of support, once so vibrant and fanatically motivated. The manager is off, the latest boy wonder Super Sam is being tipped for a move to a proper football club and the fans are in the dark – as usual – regarding any long-term vision for our once-great Club.
Surely (you’d have thought) there must be some plan, some concrete strategy, for getting back to the Premier League, which is the only environment where a club like Leeds United – with its history, tradition, remaining infrastructure and global fanbase – can hope to survive and prosper. This has to be the minimum aim, and nobody with any ambitions of running the club should be under any illusions – once the Promised Land is reached, the support will not be content, like any old Wigan or Norwich, with mere survival. The Leeds fans will want to swagger in like they own the place, have a brief look around, and then win it. That’s what we did last time, 21 years ago, and the fact that it’s a totally different world nowadays will not stop that urgent demand for success, that imperious need to take on the game’s elite, and make them eat crow.
This demand, this greed and yearning for past glories to be repeated, can serve either as an inspiration for ambitious and visionary owners, or as a millstone around the neck of people who might want to come in, seek to have the club tick over in the lower reaches of the Premier League, and depart with some sort of profit. Obviously it’s to be hoped we might attract the former type, but they’ve not emerged as yet despite months of speculation about the shape of things to come post-Bates. The time is fast approaching when decisions need to be made for the good of Leeds United, about its strategy for success in the 21st Century, its model for progress in the new high-finance structure at the top end of the game and the picture it can justifiably paint for the fans of the type of club they’re going to have to support going forward. GFH Capital told us that they were here for the long haul, but now they’re jumping ship faster than the scarediest rat, making some of us wonder just how quickly that ship is sinking. What leadership can we expect from them now, what confidence can we have in them when they’re already yesterday’s men? Meanwhile we all remain firmly, blindly in the dark, where we’ve spent the bulk of the last decade, wondering what’s to become of our beloved Leeds.
Now that’s far, far too long a period of unhappiness and uncertainty for a group of people who have – mostly – continued to shell out their hard-earned, buy the tacky merchandise and roar their support from over-priced seats during a period of sustained failure and mostly crap football. The fact is that the Club is bang to rights on accusations of gross complacency and mistreatment of its prime asset – the highly vocal, passionate and still predominantly dedicated support, both immediate and match-going, and more generally in all parts of the globe. Fans want to know what’s going on at their club; quite understandably they want to be involved, they want to feel part of what’s going on. The Club have callously disregarded all of this for ages now, recent cosmetic gestures towards “fan engagement” notwithstanding, and despite welcome moves towards a more realistic pricing structure. There just hasn’t been enough transparency, and now we’re going to enter another disturbing period of uncertainty, to emerge eventually – well who knows in what shape we’ll emerge? Treat any group of “customers” (if we really must so term fans) with such blatant disregard and such arrogant refusal to consult them and address their concerns, and eventually – even with fanatics and people who live their lives through their obsession – you’ll lose them. I’ve been a fanatic, for 38 years, at some cost to my financial and social well-being, and yet they’ve damn nearly lost me. I’m starting to prefer my football wrapped in a film of nostalgia – it’s less painful than the current reality. But whatever defiant noises I might make, and however much I might warn of erosive apathy – I still care. Too deeply for my own good. And there remain thousands like me.
But we can’t carry on like this. It’s got way beyond a joke, and the jibes from opposing fans – all too well aware of our history, and nursing the standard anti-Leeds chip on their shoulders – are far less worrying than the grumbles of discontent from the ranks of the still-faithful. Get your act together, Leeds United, and do it soon, or preferably do it NOW. We’re still with you. But for how much longer?
*TOMA – For the uninitiated, this is an acronym referring to the perceived unlikelihood of Leeds United benefiting from a buyout to its advantage. Take Over My Arse.
if were such a big club. why is there no rush to buy us out
well well well, lets see the official statement on LUF.com we have invested 10 million where the hell has this got spent then certianly not on team, these investors are really bates and is a disaster.
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Irony: Nathalie Baptiste Has It
This is fantastic. Nathalie Baptiste, writing in the American Prospect, has a piece titled “How to Be a Walking ‘Confirmation Bias’ (Role Model: Mia Love).” To prove her point that confirmation bias is bad, she opens her column with this paragraph:
Have you ever been in a debate with your right-wing uncle and when you ask him for proof of his wild claims, he pulls up a Fox News article? Instinctively, you roll your eyes. Of course he sought out Fox News as a source—it’s a haven for people like him. Everything he already thinks about minorities, LGBTQ people, Muslims and single moms is there. Automatically turning to Fox News to search for information that he knows will affirm what he already believes is called a confirmation bias.
Well, it’s official. We can dismiss any evidence from Fox News because a priori we know it must be wrong . Nathalie Baptiste has confirmed it.
The plural of anecdote is…
anecdotes, Charlies Blow, data, logic, Racism, statistics
Charles Blow, in the New York Times, writes about the “Privilege of ‘Arrest Without Incident’”. The purpose of the article is to highlight the fact that white people, when arrested, are not injured by the police whereas black people, in similar circumstances, are. I don’t know if Blow is right, but I do know he has utterly failed to establish any evidence for his contention.
The piece opens with a description of a white woman who was arrested by police without injury after leading them on a chase and shooting at people. Then, after admitting that “[e] very case is different,” Blow assembles his “evidence” that non-whites are disproportionately injured when being arrested. He cites the cases of Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, John Crawford, Antonio Martin and Jerame Reid. He sums up their experiences – which occurred in different states, under different circumstances involving different police officers – with the following analysis:
But none had the privilege of being “arrested without incident or injury.” They were all black, all killed by police officers. Brown was shot through the head. Garner was grabbed around the neck in a chokehold, tossed to the ground and held there, even as he pleaded that he couldn’t breathe; it was all caught on video. Rice was shot within two seconds of the police officers’ arrival on the scene. Crawford, Martin and Reid were also cut down by police bullets.
In the cases that have been heard so far by grand juries, the grand juries have refused to indict the officers.
Maybe one could argue that in some of those cases the officers were within their rights to respond with lethal force. Maybe. But shouldn’t the use of force have equal application? Shouldn’t it be color- and gender-blind? Shouldn’t more people, in equal measures, be taken in and not taken out?
Taking five cases of non-whites being shot, stringing them together, and then comparing them to one selected case of a white person not being shot and claiming it proves anything is ludicrous. What makes these cases representative of a larger trend? As far as I can tell, they are just six cases that have made the news recently and thus stand out in Charles Blow’s mind. Here are just a few pieces of data that we need to know before we can possible say anything concrete about whites vs. blacks and their propensity to be injured while being arrested:
How many white people are shot while being arrested?
How many black people are shot while being arrested?
How many white people are not shot while being arrested?
How many black people are not shot while being arrested?
Those numbers would at least be a start at something empirical, though there is a lot more information one would want to know about the circumstances in each case (beginning with the cause for each arrest) to be able to make useful comparisons.
Someone should have told Mr. Blow, long ago, that the plural of anecdote is not data.
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Newsboys to appear at Cruz religious liberty rally
August 6, 2015 7:00 am·
The nationally-acclaimed, Grammy Award-nominated and Dove Award-winning Christian pop rock band Newsboys will make a special appearance at Republican presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’ Rally for Religious Liberty on Aug. 21 in Des Moines.
“Our campaign couldn’t be more excited for the Newsboys to perform at this rally,” Cruz said. “We are looking forward to working with them and all participants in this event to shine a light on the ongoing assault on religious liberty in this country.”
The Rally for Religious Liberty will be held at the Iowa events Center Grand Ballroom at 730 3rd Street in Des Moines. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Dick and Betty Odgaard of Grimes are hosts of the rally and will be joined by six others who have likewise been targeted by the government for their religious beliefs, including U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sergeant Phillip Monk, Barronelle Stutzman of Richland, Washington, Kelvin Cochran of Atlanta, Georgia, Blaine Adamson of Lexington, Kentucky, and Melissa and Aaron Kline of Gresham Oregon.
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March 19, 2014 Matt Blitz Leave a comment
Amanda asks: What is gluten and why is it bad for you?
These days, just casually strolling down a grocery aisle, one can find a multitude of gluten-free products. From gluten-free whole grain bread to gluten-free beer to gluten-free Betty Crocker chocolate brownie mix, the market for food items without gluten has exploded over the past decade. But is gluten all that bad for you? Should a normal person avoid gluten in their diet? What’s the deal with the gluten?
Gluten (meaning “glue” in Latin) is just a name for a group of proteins most often found in grains like wheat, barley, and rye. The term ‘gluten’ actually refers to two families of proteins: glutenins and gliadins, which exist in the mature seeds of these grains. Gluten is sticky, stretchable, elastic, and can act as a thickening agent in products besides food, like toothpaste and hair gel. While our ancestors were hunter/gatherers, about 10,000-12,000 years ago (probably beginning in Western Asia) we began transitioning to a more grain-based diet via cultivation and advancements in agriculture.
As is the case with non-human milk, our digestive systems sometimes have problems with these relatively recent introductions to our diets. For those who have trouble digesting milk, they are lactose intolerant (see What Causes Lactose Intolerance). A similar problem exists for people who have gluten sensitivities. While there is still some debate on the issue, it’s thought that the majority of those that are sensitive to gluten have celiac disease (aka coeliac disease outside of America). (Note: having a wheat allergy does not necessarily mean you are sensitive to gluten. Many people are allergic to wheat for non-gluten related reasons.)
Celiac disease is an outright (so far incurable) gluten intolerance- even a small amount of gluten can trigger an autoimmune response within the body. This causes the rejection of the proteins instead of the absorption of them. The reaction damages the villi (hairlike elements) lining the small intestine. If left untreated, this can cause inflammation, diarrhea, bloating, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcers, intestinal cancer, anemia, and other nutritional deficiencies, sometimes leading to death.
Celiac disease affects approximately one percent of the U.S. and U.K. populations today (and is generally thought to have similar numbers elsewhere in the developed world). This is 4-5 times as many people than were diagnosed around the mid-20th century. There are several theories why cases of celiac disease are on the rise. While your first thought might be that increased screening might be the culprit, rather than an actual rise in the prevalence of the disease, it should be noted that according to a study done by Dr. Joseph Murray of the Mayo Clinic which looked at blood samples from the 1950s, its was confirmed that celiac disease is indeed on the rise, with results showing approximately a fourfold increase today vs. the 1950s.
So what gives? In 2011, executive directors at the University of Chicago celiac disease center speculated that improvements in sanitation and hygiene in developed countries have put our bodies more at risk because our bodies have not needed to learn how to fight certain microbes off, perhaps contributing to the issue. Another possible explanation is the increase of gluten and complex carbohydrates in our diet; it’s been said we are in a state of “gluten overload.” There is also a theory that the introduction of infant formula and the drastic reduction in breast-fed babies may be a contributing factor. Breast milk contains, among many other beneficial elements, bifidobacteria, which helps protect infant intestines from damage. While in the 1950s infant formula was the primary nutrition for about half of all babies in the United States, today, despite all widespread medical recommendations to the contrary, only 12% of babies in the U.S. are exclusively breastfed for at least the first 6 months of their lives, which is the bare minimum span generally recommended.
It is also thought that genetics plays a role. According to a 2003 study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, the odds of having the disorder jumps to 2.5 percent if a member of your extended family has it – an uncle, cousin, so forth. If a member of your immediate family has celiac disease, it goes up to 4.5 percent. Ethnicity and heritage can also determine if you are more or less prone to celiac disease. People of African, Hispanic, or Asian descent are less prone, closer to 0.5 percent.
With all of this newfound research and fear around gluten sensitivities and celiac disease, it’s no wonder that companies have begun to market so many gluten-free products. But most doctors will say, unless you are the one percent with celiac disease, going gluten-free is an unnecessary step.
In fact, according to a paper published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, “Gluten-Free Diet: Imprudent Dietary Advice for the General Population?”:
The number-one reason consumers cite for buying gluten-free products is that they are perceived to be healthier than their gluten-containing counterparts…. Despite the health claims for gluten-free eating, there is no published experimental evidence to support such claims for the general population. In fact, there are data to suggest that gluten itself may provide some health benefits, and that gluten avoidance may not be justified for otherwise healthy individuals.
As cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston stated,
[People who go gluten-free] consume gluten-free packaged products that are often just as high in saturated fat, sugar and sodium as other junk food, and these products often contain high-glycemic refined ingredients like white rice flour or fillers like potato starch that can affect your blood sugar and trigger cravings.
Studies also show that gluten-free diets can cause deficiency in iron, folate, thiamine, calcium, vitamin B12, and zinc. Of course, humans got along just fine without such intake of grains and vitamin enrichment not that long ago in our history, and most of us do eat too much in the way of grain (particularly refined wheat) based products; so eating a more balanced diet with plenty of fruits, vegetables, and protein, rather than what many of us consume- grains, grains, and more grains- is generally advisable beyond a discussion of gluten.
In any event, while a total gluten-free diet isn’t recommended for most of the population, and evidence of any benefit of such a diet is scant, the gluten-free industry has skyrocketed over the last decade. In February 2014, the New York Times reported that sales for gluten-free products, which are generally much more expensive than their gluten-filled counterparts, topped ten billion dollars in 2013. Additionally, eleven percent of households in the United States purchased gluten-free products in 2013, up from five percent in 2010.
Gluten sensitivity and celiac disease is rising across the world, but even today only a small percentage of the population is affected by it. No matter, because if we have learned anything, it’s that if there is money to be made, many companies will capitalize on it, and the significant markup on gluten-free product is certainly a great way to make money- even if it means convincing people they should be buying something that they don’t really need… which is kind of what much of business and marketing is all about, so nothing unique here.
As with most such things, unless you have a specific allergy against something, it seems portion control and the age old “moderation in everything,” rather than going with some fad diet, holds true once again. It’s almost like much of the business side of the nutrition industry is setup just to introduce new profitable fads every so often rather than just teaching simple, good nutrition that science has had mostly nailed down for quite some time. 😉
On that note, I highly recommend you read this piece: Who Invented the Food Pyramid and Why If You Follow the U.S. Version You’ll Be Eating in an Extremely Unhealthy Way. If you guessed that the nutritionists involved in the development of the U.S. Food Pyramid were a tad upset about what it became after lobbyist had their say (including significant changes made thanks to the wheat industry), you’d be correct.
Can Honey Go Bad or Make You Sick?
Pre-Sliced Bread Was Once Banned in the United States
Do Vaccines Cause Autism?
Why Milk is White
Bread Goes Stale About Six Times Faster in the Refrigerator than at Room Temperature
A large percentage of “gluten-free” products are not actually gluten-free. They simply contain a level of gluten that is deemed harmless (usually considered to be under 10 mg per serving). The problem is that “10 mg” is kind of an arbitrary number based on few reliable studies.
Aretaeus of Cappadocia who lived around the first or second century was the first known person to document celiac disease, thinking it was a problem of not enough heat in the abdomen, perhaps from drinking water that was too cold, among other things. He thought that this lack of heat resulted in inadequate digestion of food. He called it a “Cœliac Affection” from the Greek “κοιλιακός” meaning “abdominal.”
It wasn’t until the 1940s that Dutchman Dr. Willem Karel Dicke discovered that wheat was causing the worsening of symptoms in people with celiac disease. He observed this thanks to a famine in 1944 resulting in a shortage of bread, which in turn resulted in his patients afflicted with this disease getting better and death rates dropping to near zero. Once the famine was over, the death rate went back to what it was before. A few years later, it was discovered that it was the gluten in the wheat that was the culprit.
It has been proposed that a gluten-free diet may be beneficial to those on the autistic spectrum. Despite being widely touted by certain individuals treating autistic individuals, a variety of studies have been done conclusively demonstrating that there is no benefit to autistic children who don’t have digestive problems.
Sometimes celiac disease symptoms do not crop up until later in life or could be confused with other conditions. Therefore, the US Department of Health and Human Services says the only way to know for sure if one has celiac disease is through blood testing and intestinal biopsy. A reliable blood test that requires only 24 hours for results was announced in January 2014 by the University of Melbourne in Australia. *The future is now.* 😉
Effects of a gluten-free diet on gut microbiota and immune function in healthy adult human subjects
Why You Might Want To Rethink Going Gluten-Free – Gizmodo
The Truth About Gluten – WebMd
Is Gluten Really That Bad for You? – Huffington Post
Gluten-Free Diet: Imprudent Dietary Advice for the General Population?
Gluten: 5 things you need to know – CNN
Is Wheat Gluten Really Bad for Everyone? – Mother Jones
Gluten-Free Products – Target
What is gluten? – LiveScience
What is Gluten, Anyway? – USnews
Most People Shouldn’t Eat Gluten Free – Scientific America
enter for Celiac Research & Treatment – MASS General Hospital for Children
CELIAC DISEASE: ON THE RISE – Mayo Clinic
Prevalence of celiac disease in an adult Jewish Population in israel – Israel Medical Association
Gluten-Free Foods Market To Hit $4.2 Billion This Year: Report – Huffington Post
Celiac disease – USA Today
Who Has the Guts for Gluten? – New York Times
A Big Bet on Gluten-Free – New York Times
National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NDDIC) – Skip NavigationU.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
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Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys Announces New Solo Album, Shares “Shine on Me” Video
Waiting on a Song Due Out June 2 via Easy Eye Sound
Mar 30, 2017 By Christopher Roberts
Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and The Arcs has officially announced his new solo album, Waiting on a Song, and shared a video for the album's first single, "Shine on Me." More
Watch: The Pretenders and Dan Auerbach Perform “Holy Commotion!” on “Colbert”
Alone Out Now via BMG
In October The Pretenders released, Alone, a new album that was produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and The Arcs. Last night frontwoman Chrissie Hynde and her backing band (which included Auerbach) stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform the album's first single, "Holy Commotion!". More
Watch: The Pretenders - “Holy Commotion!” Video (Produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys)
Alone Due Out October 21 via BMG
The Pretenders are releasing a new album that's produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and The Arcs. Alone is due out October 21 via BMG. Now the album's previously shared first single, "Holy Commotion!," has a video. More
The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach Forms New Solo Project Called The Arcs
First Single Inspired by Mayweather/Pacquiao Fight Out May 2
Apr 24, 2015 By Trevor Flynn
The Black Keys frontman and producer Dan Auerbach is forming a new solo project to be called The Arcs. More
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