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In January of this year (2019) Joel Grigg was voted in as Pipe Major and Thomas Coughlan was voted in as Pipe Sergeant when Bill Grigg and Pat Cox handed over their roles to a younger generation. After 16 years of being at the helm both thought it was an ideal time to hand over their roles to younger members to take the band forward.
The band was formed on the 15th September 1998. It originated from the newly resurrected Birmingham St Patrick’s Day Parade. Many people who knew each other with a nod and a hello came together at a meeting held at the Irish Centre in July 1998. They had all played with pipe bands back in their home towns or villages as youngsters in Ireland. The first ever practice took place at SS Mary & Johns’ School on the 15th September 1998 and from that moment the band has gone from strength to strength. It has recently taken part in its first competition with many more to come.
We have been extremely fortunate to have played at so many interesting and various events over the years. We have played in Leitrim, Mayo, Monaghan, Wicklow, Kerry and New York as well as all over England. We have met a great many people and friends along the way. More recently we have recorded the 2011 Christmas special with Westlife, we have appeared on stage with The Chieftains on their 50th Anniversary World Tour and played the Olympic torch in and out of Birmingham on its route to London.
Many people have passed through the ranks of the band and each and every one of them has added to our ethos which is to play traditional Irish Pipe music to as many people as possible.
Shane O’ Neil was the first Pipe Major of the band. Shane was a trainee teacher in Birmingham and had seen a poster looking for members for the band. When he played the pipes it was like hearing them sing. he eventually admitted that he had been All Ireland U-18 Champion.. we had our first Pipe Major! As Shane moved back to Ireland Frank Brennan took over as Pipe Major. A Monaghan man who had played in his village Pipe Band as a youngster continued to carry on the good work that Shane had started and the band grew and played more and more events. Frank suddenly passed away in November 2002 at an early age. Frank played a huge part in the bands’ progression and the development of youth in the band.
Bill Grigg was appointed Pipe Major and still leads the band today. The band is looking to enter competitions in the 2012 – 2013 season and look forward to entering the competition circle and doing the best they can against other competing bands. Our first competition was the Birmingham Indoors held in Smethwick Birmingham on the 24th March 2013. In the Trios the band came 6th / 10th and 12th a good result for our first competitive outing.
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HomeEntertainmentHeaven Just Got A Little Cooler
Heaven Just Got A Little Cooler
May 11, 2012 Entertainment, Music
On May 4th at the age of 47, Adam Yauch, one-third of the iconic hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, passed away. Yauch, better known by his stage name MCA, had been battling cancer of the throat since 2009, as he announced following his diagnosis via video on the group’s website.
The Beastie Boys, a trendsetting all-white group of rappers based out of the boroughs of New York, have made history with their unique crossbreeding of street, punk, and rock sounds. In April of this year, the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, although Yauch was too ill to attend, or to perform at the ceremony. In a show of solidarity that night, members Adam Horovitz (“AdRock”) and Michael Diamond (“Mike D”) refused to perform as well. On the evening of May 6th, HBO re-aired the ceremony, this time with a special “In Memory of Adam Yauch” message.
Yauch was not only a rapper, but an avid cinematographer as well, and directed many of the Beastie Boys early music videos. In 2008, he co-founded the production company Oscilloscope Laboratories, which has been responsible for the release of the harrowing Tilda Swinton feature “We Need to Talk About Kevin”, among many other dark, quirky indie films.
While well known for his edgy, gravelly rap voice on songs like “Intergalactic”, “Ch-Check It Out”, and “Sure Shot”, Yauch was equally renowned for his activist work concerning Tibetan civil rights. After attending a speech given by the holy Dalai Lama in the early 1990’s, he converted from his Jewish heritage to the spiritual path toward nirvana, in order to secure personal peace. Since that time, he contributed to the efforts of such organizations as the International Campaign for Tibet, working to secure the freedom and equality of the Tibetan people under rule of the People’s Republic of China. It was during his activism work that he met his wife, Dechen Wangdu, with whom he had a now-13-year-old daughter.
From the age of 22, when the Beastie Boys released their first album, “Licensed to Ill”, until the time of his last breath, Yauch was an ever-evolving, ever-growing spirit, whose work in music and social welfare will not soon be forgotten.
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Tag Archives: Rabbit polyclonal to ACAP3.
The recently developed subgenomic hepatitis C virus (HCV) replicons were limited
The recently developed subgenomic hepatitis C virus (HCV) replicons were limited by the fact the fact that series encoding the structural proteins was missing. contaminants, we pointed out that these cells discharge substantial levels of nuclease-resistant HCV RNA-containing buildings using a buoyant thickness of just one 1.04 to at least one 1.1 g/ml in iodixanol gradients. The same observation was manufactured in transient-replication assays using a geniune extremely modified full-length HCV genome that does not have heterologous sequences. Nevertheless, the actual fact that equivalent levels of such RNA-containing buildings were within the supernatant of cells holding subgenomic replicons demonstrates a non-specific discharge in addition to the presence from the structural protein. These results claim that Huh-7 cells lack host cell factors that are important for computer virus particle assembly and/or release. The hepatitis C computer virus (HCV) was identified as the causative agent for most posttransfusion and sporadic non-A, non-B hepatitis cases (11, 45). According to recent estimates, about 170 million individuals worldwide are infected. One striking characteristic of HCV is usually its strong propensity to persist in the infected host, which often leads to severe liver damage, ranging from chronic hepatitis to liver cirrhosis and even hepatocellular carcinoma BMS-387032 (33). The possible immune evasion BMS-387032 strategies that allow persistent viral replication in the presence of the host’s immune response are not well understood, but the high variability of the virus appears to be a key determinant (38). As a consequence, HCV isolates exhibit marked sequence diversity and have been grouped according to phylogenetic analysis into six different genotypes which together form the genus within the family (60). HCV particles are enveloped, have a diameter of 55 to 65 nm, and harbor an 9,600-nucleotide-long plus-strand RNA genome. It carries a single long open reading frame (ORF), which is usually flanked by highly conserved and structured nontranslated regions (NTRs), both of BMS-387032 which have been shown to be required for RNA replication (25, 42, 70). The 5 NTR also harbors an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) which directs the expression of a large polyprotein that is co- and posttranslationally cleaved by cellular and viral proteases into at least 10 mature viral proteins (3, 59). Analogous to other flaviviruses, the nonstructural BMS-387032 proteins presumably form an ordered replicase complex, which associates with intracellular membranes. Even though the exact conformation of this complex is currently unknown, considerable in vitro studies have identified several enzymatic activities within the nonstructural proteins shedding light on the organization and function of the replication machinery. The NS3 protein is the important protease of HCV which in conjunction with NS4A mediates all cleavages in the NS3-to-NS5B region (4, 28, 69). Furthermore, NS3 harbors nucleoside triphosphatase and helicase activities (40, 66). While the function of NS4B in the viral replication cycle remains to be defined, NS5A was found to be a highly phosphorylated polypeptide that may be involved in the resistance to the Rabbit polyclonal to ACAP3. antiviral effects elicited by alpha interferon (23, 24, 26, 27). Interestingly, a large number of adaptive mutations that increase the replication efficiency of subgenomic HCV replicons in Huh-7 cells map within the NS5A gene, in part affecting potential phosphorylation sites (9, 30, 43, 48). Although this suggests a direct role of this protein in RNA replication, the exact mechanism is currently obscure. NS5B, which is the most C-terminal cleavage product of the polyprotein, constitutes the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) (8, 47). The viral structural proteins core, E1, and E2 are located in the N-terminal third of the ORF separated from your nonstructural proteins by a short hydrophobic polypeptide (p7) of unknown function. The HCV core protein has been shown to bind RNA and is believed to be responsible for genome packaging (44). Two major core species with apparent molecular masses of 23 and 21 kDa (p21 and p23) have been described, corresponding to the unprocessed precursor and the processed form that lacks at its C terminus the transmission sequence of E1 (36, 46, 53, 61, 71). As p21 predominates both in transfected tissue culture cells and in computer virus particles from infected sera, it is believed to be the mature form (71). The glycoproteins E1 and E2 are liberated by signalase cleavages and associate to form noncovalently.
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The earliest mention of the Methodist movement in the Baldwinsville area is from Louis Dow Scisco's book of 1895 - "Early History of the Town of Van Buren", Onondaga Co., N.Y. pg 47. In his book he states:
“Methodism entered into the religious life Van Buren somewhat later than the other denominations, but its extension met with success. The strength of the Methodist church at the present day is in fact due to the wonderful adaption of its old system to the conditions of the time. As early as 1811 a Methodist Society was organized in the present town of ElBridge, but not until 1821 was the work of the traveling preachers rewarded in the northern part of the old town of Camillus. An exhorter named James Baldwin held meetings in that year in one of the old log schoolhouses near Baldwinsville and formed a class which included Samuel and Cynthia Wigent, Abraham and Polly Gillette, Eliza and Miriam Linsday. These seven held meetings for religious worship and by their efforts succeeded in spreading the Methodist influence to a considerable extent in their neighborhood. The town of Van Buren was at this time within the territory of the old Marcellus Circuit in the old Genesee Conference. Manly Tooker and Nathaniel Salisbury are mentioned is early preachers in this Circuit. The 1828 the Baldwinsville class was transferred to the Lysander Circuit and about 1838 the class meetings began to be held on the north side of the Seneca River in the town of Lysander, to which community the subsequent history of the class belongs. It became in time a church, drawing largely its membership from the south side of the river, and is now the Methodist Society of Baldwinsville. Van Buren people have always constituted an important part of its membership.”
Methodist services were first held at Baldwinsville in 1821 on the south side of the river, by James Baldwin, an exhorter, where he formed a class. In 1828 Baldwinsville was transferred to the old Cayuga district and Lysander circuit. In 1829 Baldwinsville and Lysander circuits were transferred to Oneida Conference, while in 1836 Baldwinsville and Lysander appear in the Oswego district of that conference. In 1838 the Baldwinsville class had twenty-five members, and in the next year meetings were held in the school house on the north side of the river. In 1840 Baldwinsville was placed in the Clay circuit and in 1843 was made a station, having then forty-five members, but no church property. On the 29th of August of that year, at a meeting called for the purpose, E. Hickok, A. Dayton, B. Nichols, T. Nichols, and D. Derbyshire were elected trustees of the First Methodist church. A lot was bought, a wooden church erected and dedicated in December, 1844. In June, 1869, the society having outgrown the old church, measures were taken to build a new one. The present building was dedicated October 20, 1870, and cost about $32,000.
In 1830 or 1831 the Rev. Elijah Barnes and Rev. Benjamin Rider were appointed to the Lysander circuit, and through their efforts a class was organized at 'Betts's Corners,' as Lysander was then called. Previous to 1844 services were held in the school houses or in dwellings, but in that year a wooden church was built; in 1849 a parsonage was purchased. This church has several times been repaired and enlarged.
The origin of the Methodist church at Little Utica was a class formed in September, 1832, called the 'Palmertown Class,' with George Kellogg leader. A church was built in 1834, which was repaired and improved in 1857 and in 1875.
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How we live the journey…
At CBC Fremantle we embark on a shared journey with the families of the College in the development of their sons from today's boys into the gentlemen of tomorrow. We understand that the quality of relationships is critically important in the lives and education of our boys. For them to fully grow, it is essential that everyone they encounter at school has an interest in their development beyond their capabilities as a student.
'The journey' is carefully planned to foster a sense of belonging and identity in each of our young men.
An education at CBC Fremantle challenges its graduates to be independent thinkers with the courage and persistence to confront injustice in our society. It decries the mediocrity so often prevalent in popular culture and encourages our young men to seek different and better ways to express what they believe. In short, they are encouraged to discover what has worth in this world, to place value upon it and then to strongly represent their beliefs.
The CBC gentlemen…
Our strength and effectiveness as a College depends on the home and school combining to deliver a consistent message to each boy about what it means to develop as a good young man. Our graduates should be distinguished by the following characteristics:
Tomorrow's gentleman forms attitudes and actions based on Gospel values.
We believe that Gospel values are immutable, may be embraced equally by people of all faiths and should underpin the relationships between all members of our community. Critical to the achievement of this vision is a shared understanding and acceptance of the specific values which we uphold, requiring these values to be explicitly expressed, consistently applied and unapologetically promoted.
Tomorrow's gentleman strives to be his best and understands the inherent value of doing so.
The quest for personal excellence is an admirable aspiration which is widely employed as an ideal in many schools.
At CBC Fremantle, we introduce a further refining concept which has far reaching implications and offers greater challenge around this ideal. We adopt the mantra that once a boy offers his best in any field of endeavour, it is always good enough.
This cultural belief necessitates that every activity conducted at the College must be differentiated to such an extent that every student enjoys success if they provide their best effort.
Tomorrow's gentleman is accountable, resilient and prepared to face and overcome challenges.
At CBC Fremantle we ask all parents to love their sons unconditionally and to support the school in keeping them accountable for their actions. We acknowledge that this can be a delicate balance but it is critical to the establishment of the essential coping techniques which are characteristic of the well-formed young adult. It is only through learning that they must accept responsibility for their shortcomings and that being accountable builds resilience, that our young men will be prepared to successfully cope with the more complex challenges of adulthood.
Tomorrow's gentleman is selfless by nature and able to form positive, mutually-beneficial relationships.
Many of the strong influences in the life of an adolescent (media, music, peers) attempt to position the young person as the 'centre of the world'.
In an attempt to promote consumerism and the accompanying materialistic focus, the message is promulgated that the path to happiness lies in prioritising 'self'. The Christian message which forms the foundation of our school's philosophy could not be more diametrically opposed. It presents the truth that the only lasting happiness one will find, and the only enduring sense of purpose one can attain, is derived from what is done for others, and not for oneself.
Tomorrow's gentleman recognises and values the 'other' in his life.
At CBC Fremantle we believe that God often comes to each of us disguised as the stranger in our lives. This 'other' can be the stranger in the sense that they are not personally known to us or they can be the person who offers us the greatest challenge to our beliefs. The stranger is likely to be the individual who challenges our values and forces us to reconsider our actions. Although this 'stranger' can often have an unsettling effect upon us, they also represent significant opportunities for growth. An inclusive community is not characterised by a totally like-minded cohort.
Steps on the CBC Journey…
Choosing CBC
Opening Mass
The Servant Leader
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The executive secretary oversees the smooth operation of the Columbia Union Conference and its entities, ensuring that they abide by their respective constitutions and bylaws. He also directs the keeping and distribution of minutes, policies, and resolutions of the Union Executive Committee and its sub-committees. He heads the Columbia Union’s Ministerial Department and Human Resources for union employees, and serves on several boards and committees, assisting the leadership team in supporting the union’s eight conferences, two health care networks, university and health sciences college.
About Rick Remmers
Born in Wisconsin, Remmers resided in several locations around the United States and also lived in Guatemala for several years. He first joined the Columbia Union family when his father was working at the Review and Herald, at the time located in Takoma Park, Md. During those years, he attended the John Nevins Andrews School in Takoma Park, Md., and later Ohio Conference’s Mount Vernon Academy in Mount Vernon.
Remmers, a fourth-generation Seventh-day Adventist pastor with more than 30 years of experience, started his ministry as an associate pastor at the Mount Vernon Hill (Ohio) church. Most of his service has been within the Columbia Union territory—as a pastor in several other Ohio churches, Chesapeake Conference’s Atholton church in Columbia, Md., and the Hagerstown (Md.) church. From 2002-05, he served as executive secretary and ministerial director at the Illinois Conference.
Remmers has been the president of the Chesapeake Conference since 2011, previously serving as the conference’s executive secretary. He was appointed as the Columbia Union Conference's Executive Secretary in January 2021.
Remmers, who holds a Doctor of Ministry, is married to Shayne, and they have two young adult children.
Executive Secretary: Rick Remmers
Email: rremmers@columbiaunion.net
Executive Assistant: Shannon Kornick
Email: skornick@columbiaunion.net
Conference Secretary Philosophy and Job Description
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Community Development Block Grant Funds in Disaster Relief and Recovery
Community Development Block Grant Funds in
Eugene Boyd
Analyst in Federal Economic Development Policy
Oscar R. Gonzales
In the aftermath of presidentially declared disasters, Congress has used a variety
of programs to help states and local governments finance recovery efforts, among
them the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program. Over the years,
Congress has appropriated supplemental CDBG funds to assist states and
communities recover from such natural disasters as hurricanes, earthquakes, and
tornadoes. In addition, CDBG funds supported recovery efforts in New York City
following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; in Oklahoma City following
the bombing of the Alfred Murrah Building in 1995; and in the city and county of
Los Angeles following the riots of 1992. In response to those calamities, CDBG
funds were made available for short-term relief efforts, mitigation actions, and long-
term recovery, and to provide housing and business assistance, infrastructure
reconstruction, and public services.
In December 2005, Congress provided $11.5 billion in CDBG assistance to the
five states (Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas) affected by the Gulf
Coast hurricanes of 2005. The funds were included in the Defense Appropriations
Act for FY2006, P.L. 109-148 (119 Stat. 2779), and were designated to be used for
“necessary expenses related to disaster relief, long-term recovery, and restoration of
infrastructure in the most impacted and distressed areas.” In June 2006, Congress
appropriated an additional $5.2 billion in CDBG supplemental assistance as part of
the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on
Terror, and Hurricane Recovery Act of 2006, P.L. 109-234, for Gulf Coast recovery
This additional appropriation brought the total amount of CDBG supplemental
assistance for Gulf Coast recovery activities to $16.7 billion. It also included
provisions that limit the amount states can use for administrative expenses to 5%;
allow states to seek waivers of program requirements, except those related to fair
housing, nondiscrimination, labor standards, and environmental review; sets aside
$1 billion for housing rehabilitation and repair activities, including public and
assisted housing; prohibits the use of funds for activities that are reimbursable by or
made available by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) or the Army
Corp of Engineers; and require states to develop and HUD to approve state recovery
plans that give priority in the use of funds for infrastructure development and
rehabilitation and the development and rehabilitation of affordable rental housing
As a condition for the receipt of CDBG disaster recovery assistance, both P.L.
109-148 and P.L. 109-234 require that each of the five Gulf Coast states report
quarterly on all awards and use of funds to the House and Senate Appropriations
Committees. The acts do not prescribe the form these quarterly reports are to take
nor the content they are to include. This report will be updated as events warrant.
Background ..................................................1
CDBG Disaster Assistance ......................................2
Short-Term Disaster Relief..................................2
Mitigation Activities.......................................2
Long-Term Recovery Activities..............................3
Other Actions by HUD in Support of Disaster Recovery...............4
Authority to Waive Program Requirements......................4
Funding Transfers.........................................5
Matching Funds...........................................5
Reporting Requirements....................................5
Response to 2005 Hurricanes.....................................6
Enacted Legislation........................................6
Disbursements .......................................10
Program Activities....................................10
Reporting, Oversight and Implementation Issues............13
Pending Legislation.......................................13
Policy Considerations.........................................14
Table 1. Allocation of $19.7 Billion in CDBG Disaster Relief Assistance.....9
Table 2. State Allocations and Disbursements of CDBG Disaster Relief
Funds, as of April 14, 2008.....................................10
Table 3. Disbursements of CDBG Disaster Recovery Funds by Activity as of
April 14, 2008...............................................12
Table A-1. Funding History of CDBG Supplemental Appropriations for
Disaster Relief...............................................16
Funds in Disaster Relief and Recovery
The CDBG program, administered by the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), is the federal government’s largest and most widely available
source of financial assistance to support state and local government-directed
neighborhood revitalization, housing rehabilitation, and economic development
activities. These formula-based grants are allocated to more than 1,100 entitlement
communities (metropolitan cities with populations of 50,000 or more, and urban
counties), the 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the insular areas of American Samoa,
Guam, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Grants are used to
implement plans intended to address local housing, neighborhood revitalization,
public services, and infrastructure needs, as determined by local officials with citizen
Due to the block grant nature of the program, local and state officials exercise
a great deal of discretion in determining which combination of eligible activities (in
25 categories) to undertake when developing their community development plans.
Eligible CDBG activities include historic preservation; real property acquisition,
demolition, site preparation and disposition; economic development and job creation,
including assistance to for-profit entities and establishment of revolving loan funds;
housing assistance, including rehabilitation loans and grants; public service activities,
including job counseling and employment training; and assistance to not-for-profit
entities, including community development corporations and faith-based institutions.
Any of the eligible activities undertaken by a community must address at least
one of the program’s following three national objectives:
!principally benefit low and moderate income persons;
!aid in eliminating or preventing slums or blight; or
!meet particularly urgent community development needs because
existing conditions pose a serious and immediate threat to the public.
It is this third program objective — meeting an urgent threat — that allows CDBG
funds to be used to assist in disaster response activities.
The program’s authorizing statute requires each state and entitlement
community to allocate 70% of its CDBG funds to activities that primarily benefit
low- and moderate-income persons. In response to previous disasters, HUD has
waived this provision in order to allow a community to address an urgent threat to
the safety of residents.
CDBG Disaster Assistance
The CDBG program has been used frequently by the federal government to
respond to natural and manmade catastrophes (for a list of CDBG disaster recovery
appropriations see Appendix Table A-1). In general, Congress has provided
increased flexibility and allocated additional CDBG funds to affected communities
and states to help them respond to and recover from presidentially declared disasters.
This includes allowing communities to reprogram CDBG funds to meet disaster-
related needs, including short-term disaster relief, mitigation activities, and long-term
recovery activities. In assisting communities and states in responding to disasters,
HUD may expedite grant awards for affected communities in presidentially declared
disaster areas, including allowing affected grantees to move up their CDBG program
start dates.
Short-Term Disaster Relief. Past disaster relief legislation has allowed
CDBG funds to fill gaps in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and
Small Business Administration (SBA) emergency relief activities. In general, such
legislation prohibited CDBG funds from substituting for FEMA or SBA funding but
allowed CDBG funds to be used for activities that are not reimbursable by FEMA or
SBA. Typically, CDBG has been used to finance the removal of debris, the provision
of extra security patrols, and the emergency restoration of essential services, such as
water, sewer, electrical, and telecommunications. For instance, approximately $250
million in CDBG funds were used to finance the emergency temporary restoration
of utilities in the affected areas of Lower Manhattan following the destruction of the
World Trade Center, and an additional $500 million was made available for
permanent utility restoration and infrastructure improvements.1
Mitigation Activities. Mitigation activities are intended to lessen the impact
of a disaster, and can range from such physical measures as the construction of levees
to protect against flooding to buildings designed to withstand earthquakes.
Mitigation activities may also involve training exercises and public awareness
programs. Less typical is the use of CDBG to compensate businesses and workers
for lost wages or revenues. Mitigation can take place at any time — before a disaster
occurs, during an emergency, or after a disaster, during recovery or reconstruction.
Mitigation activities have involved the use of CDBGs to fund buyouts of real
property in areas prone to a recurrence of the event. For instance, following the
Midwest floods of 1993, CDBG and Hazard Mitigation Grants from FEMA were
used to acquire privately-held real property within flood plain areas in the nine
1 Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, Partial Action Plan S-2 for Utility
Restoration and Infrastructure Rebuilding, prepared by the Lower Manhattan Development
Corporation in partnership with Empire State Development and New York City Economic
Development Corporation, available at [http://www.renewnyc.com/content/pdfs/PAP
%20S-2%20%20As%20Approved%20by%20HUD%20as%20of%20091503.pdf], visited
March 23, 2006, p. 1.
affected states2 and convert the land to public uses, such as recreation, or allowing
it to return to its natural state.3 CDBG funds were also used to construct and repair
levees in an effort to reduce the area’s vulnerability to future flood losses. Following
the Midwest floods of 1997, Congress again appropriated CDBG funds to cover
buyouts of privately-held land in flood prone areas in the affected states.4
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Congress appropriated
$2 billion under P.L. 107-117 for disaster relief and recovery assistance to New
York.5 The act earmarked at least $500 million for economic losses to individuals,
businesses, and nonprofit organizations in an effort to mitigate the attack’s economic
impact. That provision required HUD to implement the program within 45 days after
passage of the act. It limited economic loss grants to small businesses located within
a designated area to no more than $500,000. In addition, the act earmarked at least
$10 million for the tourism and travel industry.6
Long-Term Recovery Activities. The third set of activities eligible for
CDBG assistance is associated with long-term recovery and reconstruction efforts.
This would include assistance to businesses and residents affected by a presidentially
declared disaster, as well as grants intended to attract new businesses to the area. The
forms of assistance may range from business loans to infrastructure improvements.
For instance, to assist in the redevelopment of the Lower Manhattan area of
New York following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Congress
appropriated $3.5 billion in CDBG funds. Of the $3.5 billion in CDBG funds made
available, $1.49 billion has been allocated to recovery assistance including $350
million in business recovery grants (to compensate businesses for lost revenue) and
small firm attraction and retention grants (awarding incentives to businesses agreeing
to stay in Lower Manhattan).7 The $1.49 billion also included $280.5 million in8
residential grant assistance to encourage renters and owners to stay in the area. In
2 States affected by the 1993 floods included Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri,
Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
3 108 Stat. 13; U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency and State of Missouri
Emergency Management Agency, Success Stories from the Missouri Buyout Program,
(Washington: August 2002) available at [http://www.fema.gov/pdf/casestudys/
mo_buyoutreport.pdf], visited March 23, 2006, p. 2.
4 111 Stat. 198.
5 In total, Congress appropriated $3.483 billion in CDBG disaster relief assistance. These
funds were made available in three separate appropriations acts: $700 million in P.L. 107-
38; $2.0 billion in P.L. 107-117; and $783 million in P.L. 107-206.
6 115 Stat. 2336.
7 Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, Partial Action Plan 002: New York Business
Recovery and Economic Revitalization, prepared by the Lower Manhattan Development
Development Corporation, available at [http://www.renewnyc.com/FundingInitiatives/
PartialActionPlans.aspx], visited March 23, 2006, p. 2.
8 Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, Partial Action Plan 001: Residential Grant
exchange for a two-year commitment to stay in the area, renters and owners in
designated Lower Manhattan neighborhoods received residential grants that covered
up to 30% of their housing costs.9 In addition, $330 million in CDBG funds were
made available to cover some portion of costs incurred by Con Edison and Verizon
in restoring utility and telecommunication services to the Lower Manhattan area.
Other Actions by HUD in Support of Disaster Recovery
In addition to providing CDBG funding assistance, Congress has included a
number of other provisions in past disaster relief appropriations to facilitate relief and
recovery efforts and to ensure accountability. These have included the use of
waivers, funding transfers, matching funds, and reporting requirements.
Authority to Waive Program Requirements. Previous disaster relief
appropriations have granted the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
significant authority to waive program requirements but have generally prohibited
waivers in four areas: nondiscrimination, environmental review, labor standards, and
fair housing. This is consistent with the program’s authorizing legislation which
For funds designated under this title by a recipient to address the damage in an
area for which the President has declared a disaster under title IV of the Robert
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, the Secretary may
suspend all requirements for purposes of assistance under section 106 for that
area, except for those related to public notice of funding availability,
nondiscrimination, fair housing, labor standards, environmental standards, and10
requirements that activities benefit persons of low- and moderate-income.
Congress, on a few occasions, has waived or modified the CDBG program’s
income targeting provisions, which require grantees to allocate at least 70% of their
funds to activities that benefit low- and moderate-income persons. For instance, in
response to the Midwest floods of 1998 and the Florida hurricanes of 2004, the11
income targeting requirement was lowered to 50%. In response to the 1992 Los
Angeles riots, Congress increased the ceiling on the use of the CDBG funds for12
public service activities in Los Angeles from 15% to 25%.
In addition to waivers, affected grantees in presidentially declared disaster areas
may request the suspension of certain statutory or regulatory provisions. This may
include extension of the deadline for submitting annual performance reports, and
Program, prepared by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation in cooperation with
the State of New York and the City of New York, available at [http://www.renewnyc.com/
FundingInitiatives/PartialActionPlans.aspx], visited March 23, 2006, p. 1.
9 Ibid., p. 9.
11 112 Stat. 76; 118 Stat. 1254.
12 42 U. S. C. 5306(a)(8).
changes in the time frame for measuring whether the community met the CDBG
program’s income-targeting requirement (that 70% of CDBG expenditures benefitted
low- and moderate-income persons).13 Grantees may also seek a suspension or
removal of statutory provisions prohibiting the use of CDBG funds for new housing
construction or for repair or reconstruction of buildings used for the general conduct
of local government. Several past disaster relief acts included language requiring
HUD to publish in the Federal Register, five days in advance of the effective date,
any waivers or suspensions of any statute or regulation governing the use of CDBG
funds for disaster relief.14
Funding Transfers. Congress has included language in previous disaster
relief appropriations allowing communities to transfer CDBG funds to other
programs. For instance, disaster relief assistance legislation in response to the
Northridge, California, earthquake of 1994 included a provision allowing HUD to
transfer $75 million in CDBG assistance to the HOME Investment Partnership
program (a housing block grant administered by HUD).15 In addition, Congress
included language in appropriations dealing with the 1998 Midwest floods that
transferred administrative authority over CDBG funds for land buyouts from HUD16
to FEMA as a part of a disaster mitigation strategy.
Matching Funds. Congress has also included language in disaster relief
appropriations requiring communities to meet a financial match requirement as a
condition for receipt of CDBG-funded disaster relief assistance. For instance,
disaster relief assistance in response to the Florida hurricanes of 2004 required each
state to “provide not less than 10 percent in non-Federal public matching funds or its
equivalent value (other than administrative costs) for any funds allocated to the state
under this heading.”17 CDBGs awarded to states following the 1998 Midwest floods
were conditioned on each state providing 25% in non-federal public matching
funds. 18
Reporting Requirements. Several past appropriations acts have included
provisions requiring quarterly reports on the expenditure of funds in order to provide
oversight and ensure accountability in the allocation of disaster relief funds.
Legislation providing CDBG disaster relief assistance to communities affected by the
1997 and 1998 Midwest floods included provisions that required HUD and FEMA
to jointly submit quarterly reports to the House and Senate Appropriations
Committees on the use of CDBG funds for land acquisition and buyouts.19
13 The time frame for measuring low- and moderate-income benefits may not exceed three
14 118 Stat. 1254.
15 108 Stat. 13.
16 111 Stat. 199; 116 Stat. 889.
19 111 Stat. 199; 112 Stat. 77.
Legislation providing CDBG assistance to New York following the September 11,
2001, terrorist attacks also included quarterly reporting provisions.20
Response to 2005 Hurricanes
Enacted Legislation. CDBG Supplemental Appropriations, P.L. 109-148.
Congress included $11.5 billion in supplemental CDBG disaster recovery assistance
in the Defense Appropriations Act for FY2006 (P.L. 109-148) which was signed by
the President on December 30, 2005. These funds were to be used for “necessary
expenses related to disaster relief, long-term recovery, and restoration of
infrastructure in the most impacted and distressed areas” in the five states (Alabama,
Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas) impacted by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita,
and Wilma. The act allows for the following:
!the affected states may use up to 5% of their supplemental allocation
for administrative costs;
!HUD may grant waivers of program requirements (except those
relating to fair housing, nondiscrimination, labor standards, and the
environment);
!Mississippi and Louisiana, the most affected states, may use up to
$20 million for the Local Initiative Support Corporation and
Enterprise Foundation-supported local community development
corporations; and
!the governor of each state may designate multiple entities to
administer a portion, or all, of a state’s share of the $11.5 billion.
The act also reduced the income targeting requirement for activities benefitting
low- and moderate-income persons from 70% to 50% of the state’s allocation;
limited the maximum amount of assistance any of the five states may receive to no
more than 54% of the total amount appropriated; and required each state to develop,
for HUD’s approval, a plan detailing the proposed use of funds, including eligibility
criteria and how the funds will be used to address long-term recovery and
infrastructure restoration activities. It did not, however, specify the method to be
used to allocate funding among the five states. HUD was authorized discretion in
determining the allocation methodology. On January 25, 2006, HUD Secretary
Alphonso Jackson announced the allocation of the $11.5 billion among the five states
(See Table 1).
20 115 Stat. 221.
According to an agency press release, HUD used a number of data sources in
developing the methodology for allocating the $11.5 billion in CDBG supplemental
assistance. These included data sources from FEMA, the Small Business
Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and
the U.S. Geological Survey. Using data from these agencies, HUD calculated for
each of the five states the extent of each state’s unmet housing needs and areas of
concentrated distress. HUD defines unmet housing needs as homeowners and low-
income renters whose homes had major or severe damage, whereas concentrated
distress is defined as the total number of housing units with major or severe housing
damage in counties where 50% or more of the units had major or severe damage.21
HUD then allocates 55% of the funds based on each state’s unmet housing needs, and
the remaining 45% is allocated based on the degree of concentrated distress, as
measured by each state’s share of damaged and destroyed housing stock and business
and infrastructure damage.
On February 13, 2006, HUD published in the Federal Register a notice of
allocations, waivers, and alternative requirements governing the $11.5 billion in
CDBG disaster recovery assistance.22 In addition to providing waivers allowing the
states to allocate funds to CDBG entitlement communities and directly administer the
program, the notice also includes language that “funds allocated are intended by
HUD to be used toward meeting unmet housing needs in areas of concentrated
distress.”23 The language included in the act is not interpreted as restricting the use
of these funds to unmet housing needs. Rather, it provides some level of flexibility
in allowing funds to be used for long-term recovery and infrastructure restoration in
the areas most affected by the Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005.
FY2006 Supplemental Appropriations, P.L. 109-234. On February 16, 2006,
as part of its ongoing efforts in support of Gulf Coast recovery efforts following the
hurricanes of 2005, the Administration sent Congress a $19.8 billion supplemental
appropriations request. The request included $4.2 billion in additional CDBG
assistance for the state of Louisiana for such housing and flood mitigation activities
as infrastructure improvements, real property acquisition or relocation, and other
activities designed to reduce the risk of future damage, including elevating homes in
the most flood prone areas.
Several concerns were raised during the March 8, 2006, Senate Appropriations
Committee hearing on the President’s supplemental appropriations request. Senator
Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas objected to the absence of additional funding for
Texas. She noted that the state used its regular CDBG appropriations to assist
21 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Jackson Announces Distribution
of $11.5 Billion in Disaster Assistance to Five Gulf Coast States Impacted by Hurricanes;
Funding will help states in long-term recovery of high impact areas. Available at
[http://www.hud.gov/news/release.cfm?content=pr06-011.cfm], visited March 23, 2006.
22 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, “Allocation and Common
Application and Reporting Waivers Granted to and Alternative Requirements for CDBG
Disaster Recovery Grantees Under the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006,”
Federal Register, vol. 71, no. 29, February 13, 2006, p. 7666.
Katrina victims evacuating from Louisiana. In addition to the cost of addressing the
immediate needs of evacuees, the state has also incurred additional educational and
public safety expenses associated with the significant increase in population. The
Senator noted that the state’s population increased by three percent following
Hurricane Katrina. In his testimony before the Committee, Texas Governor Rick
Perry requested an additional $2 billion in CDBG funds for the state. Senator
Christopher (Kit) Bond of Missouri noted that states had yet to submit state plans for
the use of the $11.5 billion in supplemental assistance approved by Congress in
December 2005, under P.L. 109-148. He suggested that the additional $4.2 billion
should be made available only to Louisiana and Mississippi, but that only $1 billion
of the $4.2 billion should be made available until the states meet certain benchmarks
and goals.
On March 13, 2006, the House Appropriations Committee reported H.R. 4939,
which included $4.2 billion in funding for Gulf Coast recovery efforts. The bill,
which was approved by the full House on March 16, 2006, would have allocated the
$4.2 billion in disaster recovery assistance among the five states affected by the
hurricanes of 2005. On April 5, 2006, the Senate Appropriations Committee reported
its version of H.R. 4939. The Senate bill recommended an appropriation of $5.2
billion in CDBG funds for disaster relief activities, and similar to the House bill, it
would have allocated the funds among the five states (Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama, Texas, and Florida) affected by the hurricanes of 2005. The Administration
had sought to provide the assistance exclusively to Louisiana. On June 13, 2006, the
House approved the conference committee version of the bill, which was reported on
June 8, 2006 (H.Rept. 109-494). On June 15, 2006, the Senate approved the
conference version of the bill, and the President signed the measure into law as P.L.
109-234. The final version of the bill, which appropriated $5.2 billion for CDBG
disaster relief, retains language included in the House and Senate bills affecting the
use and administration of these funds. The act encouraged the affected states to use
the funds for infrastructure improvements and rental housing. Other provisions of
the act:
!require that at least $1 billion be used for repair and reconstruction
of affordable rental housing in the impacted areas;
!allow each state to use not more than 5% of its supplemental CDBG
allocation for administrative expenses;
!allow the affected states to seek waivers of program requirements,
except those related to fair housing, nondiscrimination, labor
standards, and environmental review;
!allow governors of the affected states to designate one or more
entities to administer the program;
!prohibit the use of CDBG funds for activities reimbursable by
FEMA or the Army Corps of Engineers;
!lower the program’s low- and moderate-income targeting
requirement from 70% to 50% of the funds awarded;
!require each state to develop a plan for the proposed use of funds for
review by HUD;
!direct HUD to ensure that each state’s proposed plan gives priority
to activities that support infrastructure development and affordable
rental housing activities; and
!prohibit the use of CDBG funds to meet matching fund requirements
of other federal programs.
A summary of the allocation of the $5.2 billion appropriated to the five states
affected by the hurricanes of 2005 is presented in Table 1 below.
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, P.L. 110-116. The Department of
Defense Appropriations Act for FY2008, P.L. 110-116, appropriated $3 billion in
supplemental CDBG funds exclusively for the state of Louisiana’s Road Home
Program. This additional assistance may only be used to cover costs associated with
otherwise uncompensated but eligible claims that were filed on or before July 31,
2007. Funds may be use to supplement, but not supplant state funds and must be
administered by the state in accordance with plans approved by the Secretary. For
additional information on the Road Home Program, see CRS Report RL34410, The
Louisiana Road Home Program: Federal Aid for State Disaster Housing Assistance
Programs, by Natalie Love.
Table 1, presents the aggregate allocation, by state, of CDBG funds
appropriated under the three supplemental funding acts.
Table 1. Allocation of $19.7 Billion in CDBG Disaster Relief
StateP.L. 109-148P.L. 109-234P.L. 110-116Total CDBG
CDBG DRCDBG DRCDBG DRDisaster Relief
Supplement a l Supplement a l Supplement a l Appro pria t io ns
Approp.Approp.Approp.
Alabama $ 74,388,000 $ 21,225,574 $0 $ 95,613,574
Florida $ 82,904,000 $ 100,066,518 $0 $ 182,970,518
Louisiana* $ 6,210,000,000 $4,200,000,000 $3,000,000,000 $13,410,000,000
Mississippi $ 5,058,185,000 $ 423,036,059 $0 $ 5,481,221,059
Texas $ 74,523,000 $ 428,671,849 $0 $ 503,194,849
Total $11,500,000,000 $5,173,000,000 $3,000,000,000 $19,673,000,000
Source: HUD, Federal Register, Feb. 13, 2006, vol. 71, no. 29, p. 7666; HUD, Federal Register, Oct.
30, vol. 71, no. 29, p. 63338; and P.L. 110-116, Sec. 159.
Disbursements. P.L. 109-148 and P.L.109-234 require the five states to
report quarterly to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on the24
expenditure of funds. Aggregate information listed on-line on the expenditure of
funds is readily available, but in some instances — Alabama, Florida, and Texas —
there is an absence of detailed information on the use of funds across activity
categories. The laws require states to present data in a standardized format. Much
of the details on the allocation and use of funds are described in each state’s
community development plan. Table 2, is based on data made available from
HUD’s disbursement reporting system (Line of Credit Control) system.
Table 2. State Allocations and Disbursements of CDBG
Disaster Relief Funds, as of April 14, 2008
Disburseme nt sa
AllocationTotal% of Total
Allo ca t io n
Alabamab 95,613,574 18,385,00019.2%
Floridab 182,970,518 6,386,000 3.5%
Louisianac 13,410,000,000 7,152,000,000 53.3%
Mississippi 5,481,221,059 2,028,000,00037.0%
Texasb 503,194,849 22,706,0004.5%
Total 19,673,000,000 9,227,477,00046.9%
Source: HUD Inspector General Semi-Annual Report to Congress. Disbursements are based on data
from HUD’s Line of Credit Control (LOCC) system which was made available to the House and
Senate Appropriations Committees.
a. Disbursements are funds made available, but not yet expended by state grant recipients. Publicly
available disbursement and expenditures data may lag at least two quarters behind. The latest publicly
available expenditure data posted on state websites, HUD’s Inspector General’s report, or HUD’s
Disaster Recovery website, was for the period ending September 30, 2007.
b. Reported disbursement figures for the states of Alabama, Florida, and Texas may lag behind actual
disbursement of funds for these states.
c. State has not disbursed any of the $3 billion in funds awarded under the third supplemental
Program Activities. Table 3, identifies the allocation of funds by planned
activity for each of the five states. According, to the data, as of April 14, 2008, both
Louisiana and Mississippi have disbursed approximately 60% of the total funds the
two states were allocated under the supplemental appropriations acts. Substantial
portions of the funds allocated to the five states are to be used to address housing
needs of both homeowners and renters. In Louisiana, the repair of local
infrastructure, private utilities, and economic development represent significant
segments of the activities to be supported with CDBG disaster recovery assistance.
Mississippi also has identified economic development and the repair of local
24 119 Stat. 2780 and 120 Stat. 473.
infrastructure and private utilities as significant components of the state’s disaster
recovery plans. For the other three states — Alabama, Florida, and Texas — data
from HUD’s Inspector General report are not as detailed in identifying activities
financed with CDBG disaster recovery funds. Disbursements are grouped into one
of three broad categories — administrative, housing, and non-housing costs.
Table 3. Disbursements of CDBG Disaster Recovery Funds by Activity as of April 14, 2008
1ST SUPPLEMENTAL — P.L. 109-148
Lo u i sian a M ississip p i Texas F lo rid a Al ab ama
Au thorized Au thorized Au thorized Au thorized Au thorized
Amount Disbursed Amount Disbursed Amount Disbursed Amount Disbursed Amount Disbursed
meowner Programs4,003.03,900.02,500.01,500.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
ing for Renters376.329.14.01.30.00.00.00.00.00.0
storation Homeless Support25.90.20.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
r Housing Activities32.111.80.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
rastructure, State Level0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
rastructure, Local Level931.716.4584.512.60.00.00.00.00.00.0
ately-Owned Utilities200.0180.8440.0440.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
onomic Development330.5117.51,250.08.30.00.00.00.00.00.0
Services46.70.05.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
nning 12.5 6 .8 0.0 0 .0 0.0 0 .0 0.0 0 .0 0.0 0 .0
chnical Assistance9.40.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
iki/CRS-RL33330ministrative Costs148.611.0169.27.33.72.24.10.63.70.6
g/wstricted Balance60.40.00.40.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
s.or Housing0.00.0100.02.50.00.00.00.00.00.0
leak Permit Inspection0.00.05.02.40.00.00.00.00.00.0
://wikiing Costs 40.26.155.14.520.27.2Housing Costs 30.59.723.60.050.47.9
httpbtotal 6,177.1 4 ,273.6 5 ,058.1 1 , 988.0 74.4 18.0 82.8 5 .2 74.3 15.7
2ND & 3RD SUPPLEMENTAL — P.L. 109-234 and P.L. 110-116
Millions of US$LouisianaMississippiTexasFloridaAlabama
Activity Amount Disbursed Amount Disbursed Amount Disbursed Amount Disbursed Amount Disbursed
meowner Programs2,900.02,600.00.00.0223.00.00.00.00.00.0
ing for Renters1,007.031.7258.50.0122.80.00.00.04.10.0
rastructure, State Level0.00.055.00.042.01.10.00.03.20.7
Services25.90.00.00.020.00.00.00.00.00.0
ministrative Costs41.20.00.00.021.40.65.00.01.00.0
stricted Balance106.20.0109.50.00.00.075.00.00.00.0
stricted Balance (3rd supplemental)a1,000.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
thod of Distributing Housing0.00.00.00.00.00.020.00.00.00.0
total 5 ,080.3 2 ,631.7 423.0 0 .0 429.2 1 .7 100.0 0 .0 8.3 0 .7
TAL 11,257.4 6 ,905.3 5 ,481.1 1 ,988.0 503.6 19.7 182.8 5 .2 82.6 16.3
: HUD Inspector General’s quarterly report to House and Senate Appropriations Committee.rd
otal funding for 3 Supplemental was $3 billion. Total figure includes only $1 billion of the $3 billion appropriated for Road Home activities.
Reporting, Oversight and Implementation Issues. HUD requires
that all five states receiving funding develop action plans for its review that describes
the needs, strategies, and projected use of CDBG disaster recovery funds. In
addition, grant recipients are expected to provide the following information to the
!quarterly funding and expenditure reports;
!detailed information on the percent of funding spent;
!expenditure information provided by category, specifically funding
related to housing and non-housing activities; and
!CDBG funds used to cover administrative costs.
Although HUD has sought to standardize the process when reporting budget
and expenditure data by creating templates to be completed by the states, publicly
available data provided by the states, particularly web based reports, are not uniform.
Louisiana and Mississippi have the most complete reports available, whereas
Alabama, Florida and Texas have provided less information. This lack of readily
accessible detail makes comparisons difficult as does the lack of a one-page
standardized summary report that identifies the components, by line item, of
activities classified as housing and non housing activities. (See Table 3.) Alabama,
Florida, and Texas). In addition to a lack of standard format for reports, information
has also been provided at different points in time, and comparability is difficult.
Obtaining data for the same time period on a quarterly basis can allow for better
comparability across the five states receiving CDBG disaster relief funds. HUD does
have the ability to access more timely data through the use of its disaster relief grant
reporting data base (DRGR), however, that information is not readily accessible to
Pending Legislation. Gulf Coast Hurricane Housing Recovery Act of
2007, H.R. 1227. On March 16, 2007, the House Financial Services Committee
reported H.R. 1227 (H.Rept. 110-51). On March 23, 2007 the bill was referred to the
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Title I of the bill
includes provisions that increase the state of Louisiana’s flexibility in the use of
CDBG funds for its Road Home Program and that provide additional oversight and
reporting requirements to guard against waste, fraud, and abuse of CDBG funds
awarded to the state for disaster recovery activities.
Specifically, the bill would
!transfer $1.175 billion from FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant
Program (HMGP) to the CDBG program;
!allow the transferred funds to be used in support of the state of
Louisiana’s Road Home Program, including setting aside $15
million to fund a pilot program of land acquisition to be
administered by the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority;
!allow CDBG funds to be used to meet the non-federal matching fund
requirements of other federal programs, including FEMA, in areas
affected by Hurricanes Katrina, Wilma, Rita, and Dennis when such
funds support disaster relief, long-term recovery, and infrastructure
restoration;
!eliminate the requirement for a separate environmental review if one
has been conducted by FEMA; and
!allow cities and counties that used their regular CDBG allocations
to provide rental assistance to Hurricane Katrina, Rita, or Wilma
evacuees to be reimbursed from previously appropriated FEMA
The bill also includes a provision exempting CDBG program funds used to finance
Louisiana’s Road Home Program from provisions in previous appropriation acts
(P.L. 109-148 and P.L. 109-234) prohibiting the duplication of benefits derived from
hazard insurance, flood insurance, or disaster payments from FEMA.
The bill includes three provisions intended to strengthen oversight activities.
One provision would require the state of Louisiana to file monthly progress reports
on the Road Home Program with the House Financial Services Committee and the
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. The second provision
would require the GAO to provide quarterly monitoring reports on the use of the
$1.175 billion in HMGP funds transferred to the CDBG program, and a third
provision would require the GAO to conduct a study of the effectiveness of the pilot
program administered by the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority after two years
of implementation.
The CDBG program’s broad list of eligible activities and its flexibility has
allowed communities and states affected by disasters to undertake short-term disaster
relief efforts, implement mitigation strategies, and finance long-term recovery
activities. These funds have been used to support disaster recovery efforts spanning
multiple states, as well as to respond to disaster recovery efforts in highly urbanized
As Congress examines legislative proposals intended to finance long-term
disaster recovery efforts, it may move to consider a number of CDBG-related policy
!Is the CDBG program an appropriate and effective means of
providing federal support for long-term disaster recovery efforts?
!If it is, what should be the level of CDBG assistance awarded to
affected areas?
!Should CDBG assistance be controlled by the individual
communities, by the states, or by a multi-state regional entity or
entities?
!Should Congress require states to meet a matching fund requirement
as a condition for receiving disaster recovery-related CDBG funds?
If so, what level of matching funds would be appropriate? Would it
be fixed, or adjustable to account for such factors as level of
damage, state fiscal capacity, income levels, and other factors?
!What, if any, additional compliance and accountability measures or
actions should Congress require of CDBG recipients as a condition
of receiving CDBG funds?
Table A-1. Funding History of CDBG Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief
Public lawFundingIntended use of funds
Road Home Appropriations under$3,000,000,000Provides funding for the Road Home Program, through the Department of Defense
ent of Defense AppropriationsAppropriations for FY2008. The funding will be provided as part of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development, Community Planning and Development, Community
Development Fund. The funds can only be used to cover costs associated with otherwise
iki/CRS-RL33330uncompensated but eligible claims that were filed on or before July 31, 2007, under the
g/wRoad Home program administered by the State of Louisiana.
s.or Emergency Supplemental$5,200,000,000Makes emergency supplemental appropriations to HUD in response to the consequences of
leakAct for Defense, the Global War onHurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma. CDBG disaster recovery funds were to be allocated
://wikiery, 2006 among the five states (Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida) affected by the
httpGulf Coast hurricanes of 2005; limited the amount that any one state could receive to $4.2
billion and encouraged states to target assistance to infrastructure reconstruction and
activities that would spur the redevelopment of affordable rental housing, including federally
assisted housing and public housing. Requires each state to develop recovery plan that must
be approved by HUD, and to submit quarterly reports to House and Senate Appropriation
Committees. (120 Stat.472)
Department of Defense, Emergency$11,500,000,000Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma. CDBG funding for activities and necessary expenses
ental Appropriations to Address Hurricanesrelated to disaster relief, long-term recovery, and restoration of infrastructure in the most
ic Influenza Act,impacted and distressed areas related to the consequences of hurricanes in the Gulf of
Mexico in 2005 in states for which the President declared a major disaster under title IV of
the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et
seq.). (119 Stat. 2780)
. Military Construction Appropriations$150,000,000Florida Hurricanes of 2004. For use only for disaster relief, long-term recovery, and
ergency Hurricane Supplementalmitigation activities related to four hurricanes. The state may use the supplemental to
iki/CRS-RL33330reimburse entitlement communities. (118 Stat. 1253)
g/wL. 107-206. 2002 Supplemental Appropriations$783,000,000Assistance to rebuild Lower Manhattan following Terrorist Attacks of 9/11/2001. Funds
s.ort For Further Recovery from and Response toawarded to the State of New York through the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
leakttacks on the United Statesin cooperation with the City of New York in support of the city’s economic recovery efforts.
://wikiFunds may be used for assistance to properties and business, including to redevelop
httpinfrastructure, and for economic revitalization activities. (116 Stat. 889)
. Department of Defense and$2,000,000,000Assistance to rebuild Lower Manhattan following Terrorist Attacks of 9/11/2001. Funds
ergency Supplemental Appropriations formade available to reimburse businesses and persons for economic losses, including funds to
ery from and Response to Terrorist Attacksreimburse tourism area. (115 Stat. 2236)
. Departments of Veterans Affairs and$700,000,000Assistance to and reimbursement of State of New York following terrorist attacks of
and Urban Development, and Independent9/11/2001 (Sec. 434). The amounts subject to the fifth proviso under the heading
encies Appropriations Act, 2002“Emergency Response Fund,” in P.L. 107-38, are available for transfer to HUD 15 days after
OMB has submitted to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations a proposed
allocation method and plan for use of the funds. Funds may be awarded to the State of New
York for assistance for properties and businesses damaged by, and for economic
revitalization related to, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City, and for
reimbursement to the State and City of New York for expenditures incurred from the regular
Community Development Block Grant formula allocation used to achieve these same
iki/CRS-RL33330purposes. (115 Stat. 699)
s.or. 1999 Emergency Supplemental[$230,000,000]Rescinds $230,000,000 in CDBG unobligated balances available under division B of the
leakrescission Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, P.L.
105-277. (113 Stat. 109)
http277. Omnibus Consolidated andProvisionCompensation for Oklahoma City bombings. Notwithstanding the third undesignated
ergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999clarifying the useparagraph under the heading Community Development Block Grants under title II of the
of funds providedDepartments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent
to Oklahoma CityAgencies Appropriations Act, 1999 ( P.L. 105-176), of the amount made available under
through the such heading for Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, up to 50% of such amount shall be available
program in theto such city for payment of claims for bomb damage and repairs for infrastructure located
FY1999in the area described in clause (1) of such undesignated paragraph. Any amounts available
appropriations act.for use under such undesignated paragraph that are not expended to pay such claims or for
such repairs shall be utilized for the revolving loan pool described in such undesignated
paragraph. (112 Stat. 2681-546)
. 105-277. Omnibus Consolidated and$250,000,000Presidentially declared disasters of 1998 and 1999. For use only for disaster relief, long-term
ergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999recovery, and mitigation activities related to four hurricanes. The state may use the
supplemental to reimburse entitlement communities. (112 Stat. 2681-578)
Department of Veteran Affairs and$12,000,000Oklahoma City Bombing. Of the amount made available under this heading, $12,000,000
and Urban Development and Independentis for the City of Oklahoma City for a revolving loan pool that shall be made available only
encies Appropriations Act, 1999for the purposes of making loans to carry out economic development activities that primarily
benefit the area in Oklahoma City bounded on the south by Robert S. Kerr Avenue, on the
north by North 13th Street, on the east by Oklahoma Avenue, and on the west by Shartel
iki/CRS-RL33330Avenue. (112 Stat. 2476)
g/w 1998 Supplemental Appropriations$130,000,000Presidentially declared disasters of 1998. $130,000,000 in CDBG funding which shall
s.orremain available until September 30, 2001, for use only for disaster relief, long-term
leakrecovery, and mitigation in communities affected by presidentially declared natural disasters
://wikidesignated during fiscal year 1998, except for those activities reimbursable by or for which
httpfunds are made available by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Small
Business Administration, or the Army Corps of Engineers. (112 Stat. 76)
1997 Emergency Supplemental $500,000,000Midwest Floods of 1997. $500,000,000, in CDBG funds, of which $250,000,000 shall
ery from Natural Disastersbecome available for obligation on October 1, 1997, and all of which shall remain available
verseas Peacekeeping Efforts, Includinguntil September 30, 2000. For use only for buyouts, relocation, long-term recovery, and
osniamitigation in communities affected by the flooding in the upper Midwest and other disasters
in FY1997 and such natural disasters designated 30 days prior to the start of FY1997, except
those activities reimbursable or for which funds are made available by the Federal
Emergency Management Agency, the Small Business Administration, or the Army Corps
of Engineers. (111 Stat. 198)
. Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions$50,000,000CDBG funds to remain available until September 30, 1998, for emergency expenses and
repairs related to recent presidentially declared flood disasters, including up to $10,000,000
for rental subsidy contracts under the section 8 existing housing certificate program and the
housing voucher program under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as
amended, except that such amount shall be available only for temporary housing assistance,
not in excess of one year in duration, and shall not be subject to renewal. (110 Stat. 1321-
. Emergency Supplemental$39,000,000$39,000,000, to remain available until expended to assist property and victims damaged and
iki/CRS-RL33330onal Disaster Assistance,economic revitalization due to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in
g/wnti-Terrorism Initiative, for Assistance in theOklahoma City on April 19, 1995, primarily in the area bounded on the south by Robert S.
s.orery from the Tragedy that Occurred atKerr Avenue, on the north by North 13th Street, on the east by Oklahoma Avenue, and on
leaklahoma City, Rescissions Act, 1995the west by Shartel Avenue, and for reimbursement to the City of Oklahoma City, or any
public trust thereof, for the expenditure of other Federal funds used to achieve these same
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Department of Veteran Affairs and$225,000,000Northridge/1994 earthquake in Southern California. $225,000,000, in CDBG to remain
and Urban Development, and Independentavailable until September 30, 1996, of which $50,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from
encies Appropriations Act, 1995funds provided under the heading ‘Department of Education, Impact Aid’ in the Emergency
Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1994 (P.L. 103-211): Provided, That of the foregoing
amount, $200,000,000 and $25,000,000 shall be for the cities of Los Angeles and Santa
Monica, California, respectively. (108 Stat. 2335)
L. 103-327 Department of Veteran Affairs and$180,000,000Tropical Storm Alberto and other disasters. $180,000,000 in CDBG funds to remain
and Urban Development, and Independentavailable until expended to be used to assist states, local communities, and businesses in
encies Appropriations Act, 1995recovering from the flooding and damage caused by Tropical Storm Alberto. (108 Stat.
. 103-211. Emergency Supplemental$500,000,0001994 earthquake in Southern California and the Midwest Floods of 1993. $500,000,000, in
($425,000,000CDBG funds for emergency expenses for all activities eligible under Title I, except those
after transfer ofactivities reimbursable by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) or available
funds to HOMEthrough the Small Business Administration (SBA): Provided, That from this amount, the
program)Secretary may transfer up to $75,000,000 to the HOME program. (108 Stat. 12)
Emergency Supplemental$200,000,000Midwest Floods and other disasters. Only in areas affected by the Midwest floods, high
the Majorwinds, hail and other related weather damages of 1993 and other disasters: $200,000,000,
of the Midwest Act of 1993in CDBG funds, of which $25,000,000 is for those community development planning
iki/CRS-RL33330activities related to recovery efforts and for immediate recovery needs not reimbursable by
g/wthe Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). (107 Stat. 748)
s.or. Supplemental Appropriations Act of$40,000,000Hurricane Andrew, Hurricane Iniki, Typhoon Omar, and other presidentially declared
leakdisasters. $40,000,000, in CDBG funds to be derived by transfer from the $100,000,000
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httphousing” in the Dire Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1992 (P.L. 102-368), for
use only for the repair, renovation, or replacement, or other authorized community
development activities affecting structures damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Andrew,
Hurricane Iniki, Typhoon Omar, and other presidentially declared disasters. (107 Stat. 264)
Supplemental Appropriations Act of$45,000,000Hurricane Andrew, Hurricane Iniki, or Typhoon Omar. $45,000,000 in CDBG funds for use
for authorized community development activities only in areas impacted by Hurricane
Andrew, Hurricane Iniki, or Typhoon Omar. (107 Stat. 264)
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LO25: Use of Glasgow Blatchford Score, time to endoscopy, and proton pump inhibitor use in patients presenting with upper gastrointestinal bleeding to the emergency department
S. Sandha, J. Stach, M. Bullard, B. Halloran, H. Blain, D. Grigat, E. Lang, S. Veldhuyzen van Zanten
Introduction: Upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) is a common presentation to the emergency department (ED). Early endoscopy within 24 hours has been shown to reduce re-bleeding rates and lower mortality. However, low-risk patients can often be managed through outpatient follow-up. The aim of this study was to compare the timing and appropriateness of endoscopy and proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use in a tertiary care ED setting for low- and high-risk patients determined using the Glasgow Blatchford Score (GBS). Methods: Retrospective chart review was conducted to examine the management of patients presenting with an UGIB in 2016 to the University of Alberta Hospital ED. TANDEM and Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) databases were used to identify patients using specific ICD-10 codes and the CEDIS presenting complaints of vomiting blood or blood in stool/melena. Patients with GBS 0-3 were categorized as low-risk and those with GBS > 3 were considered high-risk with appropriateness of and time to endoscopy, disposition of patient at 24 hours, and use of PPIs determined for each group. Results: A total of 400 patients were included. A total of 319/400 patients (80%) underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). EGD was performed within 24 hours in 37% of patients (29/78) with GBS 0 to 3 and in 77% (248/322) with GBS greater than 3. Of the remaining high-risk patients, 11% (36/322) underwent EGD after 24 hours and 12% (38/322) did not undergo EGD. The endoscopic diagnoses were peptic ulcer disease (PUD) in 41% of patients (130/319), esophagitis in 18% (56/319), and varices in 14% (45/319). PPIs (data available 375/400) were administered (mainly intravenously) to 93% (279/300) of high-risk and 79% (59/75) of low-risk patients. Data on patient disposition showed 60/322 (19%) high-risk patients were discharged from the ED within 24 hours and only 31/60 (52%) of these underwent EGD before discharge. Of 29 low-risk patients undergoing EGD within 24 hours, 9 (31%) were admitted, 17 (59%) were discharged from ED, and 3 (10%) were kept for observation in the ED greater than 24 hours. Of low-risk patients, 76% (59/78) were discharged from the ED within 24 hours. Conclusion: A majority of patients presenting with UGIB appropriately received endoscopy within 24 hours. 19% of high-risk patients were discharged from the ED. Earlier discharge for low-risk patients can be improved as only 76% of low-risk patients were discharged from the ED within 24 hours. As expected, PPI use was high in these patients.
MP15: Blood transfusion in upper gastrointestinal bleeding: evaluating physician practices in the emergency department
J. Stach, S. Sandha, M. Bullard, B. Halloran, H. Blain, D. Grigat, G. Sandha, E. Lang, S. Veldhuyzen Van Zanten
Introduction: Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) is a common presentation to emergency departments (ED). Of these patients, 35-45% receive a blood transfusion. Guidelines for blood transfusion in UGIB have been well established, and recommend a hemoglobin (Hb) level below 70 g/L as the transfusion target in a stable patient. There is no consensus on a transfusion threshold for unstable UGIB. There is limited data regarding physician practices in the ED. The aim of our study is to determine the appropriateness, by expert consensus, of blood transfusions in UGIB in a tertiary care hospital ED. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed patients presenting with UGIB to the University of Alberta Hospital ED in 2016. These patients were then screened for blood transfusions. Data were obtained from the patient records. Chart derived data were verified with records obtained from the blood bank. For each patient, the history, vitals, Glasgow Blatchford Score (GBS), relevant labs, and record of blood transfusions were collected and organized into a case summary. Each patient summary was presented individually to a panel of three expert clinicians (2 Gastroenterology, 1 Emergency Medicine), who then decided on the appropriateness of each blood transfusion by consensus. Results: Blood transfusions (data available 395/400) were given to 51% (202/395) of patients presenting with UGIB. Of these, 86% (174/202) were judged to be appropriate. Of the 395 patients, 34% (135/395) had a Hb of <70 g/L. Of these, 93% (126/135) were transfused, and all of these were considered appropriate. 18% (70/395) had a Hb between 71-80. 74% (52/70) of these patients were given blood, and 79% (41/52) were considered appropriate. 13% (50/395) of the patients had a Hb between 81-90, with 28% (14/50) receiving a transfusion. Of these, 36% (5/14) were deemed to be appropriate. 35% (140/395) of patients had a Hb of >90. 7% (10/140) of these received blood. 20% (2/10) were considered appropriate. Conclusion: The panel of expert clinicians judged 86% of the blood transfusions to be appropriate. All transfusions under the recommended guideline of 70 g/L were considered appropriate. In addition, the majority of transfusions above a Hb of 70 g/L were considered appropriate, but 37% were not. Further studies evaluating the feasibility of current guideline recommendations in an ED setting are required. Educational interventions should be created to reduce inappropriate blood transfusions above a Hb 70 g/L.
Thomas Walther, Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski, Jean-Luc Rouvière, Eric A. Stach
Journal: Journal of Materials Research / Volume 32 / Issue 5 / 14 March 2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2017, p. 911
Building and Imaging Silicide Nanostructures in Nanowires
F. Panciera, Y.-C. Chou, M. C. Reuter, D. Zakharov, E. A. Stach, E. Jensen, K. Mtolhave, S. Hofmann, F. M. Ross
In-Situ Liquid Cell Electron Microscopy of the Solution Growth of Core-Shell Nanostructures
E. Sutter, K. Jungjohann, S. Bliznakov, E. A. Stach, A. Courty, S. Wong, C. Lewis, P. Sutter
Study of grain growth and defect formation in Ag thin films by planar TEM with in-situ heating
S. Brossard, F. Martin, J. Bourgon
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2014, mrsf13-1646-ff01-08
Silver thin films are used as a functional layer in many applications such as low-emissivity and solar control coatings on glass for insulating windows, as well as transparent conducting electrodes for OLEDs and PV. For these applications, the conductivity of the film is critical; it is linked to the crystallinity and the grain size of silver layers which thickness ranges from 5 to 15nm. Such coatings often undergo thermal treatments up to 700°C aimed at toughening the glass substrate or improving the coating itself by promoting grain growth and curing point defects. This treatment can however dramatically damage the silver layer by inducing the formation of defects in the layer, such as holes or silver domes, decreasing both conductivity and light transmission of the coatings. Because of the extreme thinness of the films (less than 15 nm), the investigation of these phenomena requires in situ imaging at the nanoscale. In this study, grain growth and defects formation were observed in 15 nm-thick Ag films encapsulated with zinc oxide and silicon nitride using Transmission Electron Microscopy with in-situ heating from ambient temperature to 600°C. Significant grain growth was found to occur only from 400°C, and from 500°C holes in the silver layer started to form and grow, as well as thick silver domes formed by dewetting. Irradiation by the electron beam was also found to cause grain growth.
Electron microscopy at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials
E.A. Stach, D. Su, E. Sutter, L. Zhang, K. Kisslinger
Journal: Microscopy and Microanalysis / Volume 18 / Issue S2 / July 2012
Extended abstract of a paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2012 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, July 29 – August 2, 2012.
The Use of Ag-Au Alloy Catalysts to Control the Growth Mode for Si Nanowires
Y-C Chou, M Reuter, E Stach, F Ross
Extended abstract of a paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, August 7–August 11, 2011.
H2-Driven Crystallization of Supported Pt Nanoparticles Observed with Aberration-Corrected Environmental TEM
L Li, Z Zhang, J Ciston, E Stach, L-L Wang, D Johnson, Q Wang, A Frenkel, S Sanchez, M Small, R Nuzzo, J Yang
New opportunities for In situ Science Based on the TEAM Platform
D Miller, U Dahmen, E Stach
Real Time ETEM Studies of the Nucleation and Growth of Carbon Nanotubes Utilizing Fe/Pt Catalyst on a Spherical Al2O3 Support
D Zakharov, D Zemlyanov, A Mane, J Elam, F Ribeiro, E Stach
Understanding Growth Termination of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Carpets by Documenting the Evolution of Catalyst Morphology with the Transmission Electron Microscope
SM Kim, C Pint, P Amama, D Zakharov, R Hauge, B Maruyama, E Stach
Extended abstract of a paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2009 in Richmond, Virginia, USA, July 26 – July 30, 2009
Effect of Catalyst Composition on Si Nanowire Growth Kinetics
S Kodambaka, J Tersoff, C-Y Wen, M Reuter, E Stach, F Ross
Early Stage Strong Metal Support Interaction (SMSI) Effects in an Experimental Titania-Supported Platinum Catalyst An Environmental TEM Study
C Kliewer, S Miseo, J Baumgartner, E Stach, D Zakharov
Volumetry of human taste buds using laser scanning microscopy
T Just, E Srur, O Stachs, H W Pau
Journal: The Journal of Laryngology & Otology / Volume 123 / Issue 10 / October 2009
In vivo laser scanning confocal microscopy is a relatively new, non-invasive method for assessment of oral cavity epithelia. The penetration depth of approximately 200–400 µm allows visualisation of fungiform papillae and their taste buds.
This paper describes the technique of in vivo volumetry of human taste buds. Confocal laser scanning microscopy used a diode laser at 670 nm for illumination. Digital laser scanning confocal microscopy equipment consisted of the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph HRTII and the Rostock Cornea Module. Volume scans of fungiform papillae were used for three-dimensional reconstruction of the taste bud.
This technique supplied information on taste bud structure and enabled measurement and calculation of taste bud volume. Volumetric data from a 23-year-old man over a nine-day period showed only a small deviation in values. After three to four weeks, phenomenological changes in taste bud structures were found (i.e. a significant increase in volume, followed by disappearance of the taste bud and appearance of a new taste bud).
The data obtained indicate the potential application of this non-invasive imaging modality: to evaluate variation of taste bud volume in human fungiform papillae with ageing; to study the effects of chorda tympani nerve transection on taste bud volume; and to demonstrate recovery of taste buds in patients with a severed chorda tympani nerve who show recovery of gustatory sensibility after surgery.
Applications of Atomic Scale Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
ND Browning, R Erni, CJ Mitterbauer, L Fu, M Chi, S Mehraeen, M Herrera, H-T Chou, H Stahlberg, Q Ramasse, A Ziegler, G Nicotra, I Arslan, J-C Idrobo, E Stach, A Bleloch
Journal: Microscopy and Microanalysis / Volume 12 / Issue S02 / August 2006
Extended abstract of a paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 30 – August 3, 2005
Analysis of Nano-scale Strain Near Shallow Trench Isolation Structures by Energy-filtered Convergent Beam Electron Diffraction
P Zhang, J Mardinly, O Karpenko, A Istratov, H He, J Ager, C Nelson, E Stach, C Kisielowski, E Weber, J Spence
Elastic Energy Relaxation in Buried Quantum Dots
Vladimir V Chaldyshev, Anna L. Kolesnikova, Alexei E. Romanov
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011, 0959-M09-05
We theoretically analyze three models, which correspond to three different ways of the elastic energy relaxation in buried quantum dots. The first model considers formation of a pair of prismatic dislocation loops. One of them lies on dot/matrix interface, whereas the other is a satellite and locates in the adjacent matrix. The second model also includes the satellite loop and differs from the first one by non-local reduction of the dot plastic distortion. The origin of the satellite loop is the materials conservation requirement. The third model considers the case when this requirement is violated and only the misfit dislocation loop is formed. We determine the critical radii of the dots and loops, as well as the dependence of the satellite loop size on the dot size. The model calculation are compared to the relevant experimental data.
In-situ Electron Microscopy: A Practical Tutorial
E A Stach
Extended abstract of a paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2005 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July 31--August 4, 2005
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08/09/2009: Secretary Teodoro Meets with Key US Legislators
08 SEPTEMBER 2009 – While in Washington D.C. to meet with his U.S. counterpart Secretary Robert Gates, Philippine Secretary of National Defense Gilberto C. Teodoro, Jr. took the opportunity to meet today with key leaders of the US Congress. In separate meetings on the Hill, Secretary Teodoro conferred with Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI) and Representative Bob Filner (D-CA) to thank them for their crucial role in the passage of the Filipino veterans provision contained in the Stimulus Package. Secretary Teodoro also met with U.S. Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) in Washington D.C. to discuss Philippines-United States defense cooperation and the two countries’ strategic interests in the Asia Pacific region. Ambassador Willy C. Gaa accompanied Secretary Teodoro in these meetings.
Senator Inouye, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, told Secretary Teodoro that the recognition by the United States of Filipino veterans of World War II and the grant of corresponding benefits had long been overdue. He said, “I have long felt that the US has shortchanged the Philippines….We’re going to make up for that.” Secretary Teodoro assured Senator Inouye that the Senator’s model of championing the cause of the Filipino WWII veterans was sufficient and that what should be done now is to work together to implementing the law. On Senator Inouye’s concern about Mindanao and the peace process, Secretary Teodoro said that the Abu Sayyaf is less a problem now and that direct conflict with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is suspended, at least temporarily. The Secretary said that in order for the peace process to move forward, there is a need to establish ground rules and not to depend on old agreements as templates. Senator Inouye expressed his intention to visit the Philippines in December this year.
In the succeeding meeting, Secretary Teodoro told Rep. Filner that the Philippines and the United States should now build on the success of the Filipino veterans campaign and bring the relationship to something beyond it. He said that one area of cooperation is Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR), a non-traditional security initiative that increasingly becomes more important as a result of climate change and natural disasters that know no borders. Rep. Filner acknowledged Secretary Teodoro’s comments and said that the impacts of climate change have put pressures on affected people and made them struggle where to live. Rep. Filner told Secretary Teodoro that he is bringing to the Philippines a trade mission from San Diego in November 2009. During his visit, he will also take this opportunity to meet with Filipino veterans groups. Aside from being the Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs, Rep. Filner is also Chair of the Philippines-United States Friendship Caucus in the House of Representatives.
At the meeting with Senator Webb, Secretary Teodoro expressed his appreciation for US assistance in building schools and infrastructure in areas prone to conflict particularly in Mindanao. He added that despite recent clashes with the Abu Sayyaf, the Philippine government in general has significantly weakened this terrorist group. The Secretary said, “There is not much outside support for the Abu Sayyaf, especially from Al-Qaeda and the Jemaah Islamiyah.” Senator Webb is Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee for East Asia and the Pacific and Member of the Committee on Armed Services.
Senator Webb thanked Secretary Teodoro for his visit and expressed the desire to visit the Philippines soon. He said that “we do not show up enough in Southeast Asia.” Senator Webb also expressed his interest and concern in maritime disputes in East Asia, particularly in the South China Sea. Secretary Teodoro acknowledged Sen. Webb’s concerns and pointed out that the main focus of the Philippines is internal security and force build up as well as enhancing the Coast South Watch in partnership with the United States and other countries.
Asked to comment on the significance of these meetings on the Hill, Ambassador Gaa stated that Secretary Teodoro has shown the seriousness of the Philippines in engaging the legislative branch of the US government. “His visit on the Hill highlighted the gratitude of the Philippine defense and military sector for the efforts made by the champions of the Filipino veterans in the US Congress,” the Ambassador said. “Under the Obama administration, there has been renewed interest and drive by the U.S. government to engage more closely the East Asian region. The North Korean nuclear issue, U.S.-China relations, the threat of Jemaah Islamiyah, regional cooperation on disaster relief and humanitarian assistance, are among some of the issues on which the Philippines has been working closely with its regional partners, ASEAN and the U.S. government. Thus, it was an excellent opportunity for Secretary Teodoro to discuss with key US legislators the latest developments in the region that affect Philippine and U.S. interests, particularly in the areas of regional security and stability,” Ambassador Gaa added. END
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06/04/2010: Maryland House of Delegates and Senate Warmly Welcome Ambassador Gaa
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND 06 April 2010 – The Maryland House of Delegates and Senate warmly welcomed the visit of Ambassador Willy C. Gaa during separate sessions of the two houses aimed at “renewing and reaffirming long-standing ties.”
After being introduced by Delegate Kris Valderrama to the House of Delegates during the session chaired by Speaker Michael E. Busch, Ambassador Gaa underscored the special relations between the Philippines and the United States strengthened through Maryland and its legislators.
Delegate Valderrama of the Prince George’s County 26th Legislative District, is the first Filipina-American to be elected to the Maryland House of Delegates.
At his address to the House of Delegates, Ambassador Gaa cited historic ties, saying “The Philippines and the United States – through the great State of Maryland – share a history founded firmly on values and principles that we hold dear to our heart: democracy, freedom and the right to self determination.”
“Senator Millard E. Tydings – a former member of this House – sponsored legislation that granted independence to the then Philippine Commonwealth,” explained Ambassador Gaa during his address to the House of Delegates.
“Today, the Philippines is a thriving democracy and a sovereign equal in the community of nations that continues its march towards greater peace, progress and prosperity,” stressed Ambassador Gaa.
Prior to the address, Ambassador Gaa met the Honorable Michael E. Busch, Speaker of the House of Delegates of the State of Maryland.
After addressing the House of Delegates, Ambassador Gaa was also recognized by the Maryland State Senate. Ambassador Gaa was introduced by State Senator C. Anthony Muse.
At both the House of Delegates and State Senate, Ambassador Gaa was received with ovations.
“The State of Maryland is important to the Philippines. Apart from our historic ties, there is a thriving Filipino-American community in the state contributing positively to the socio-economic development of the State of Maryland,” Ambassador Gaa said after the sessions.
“We also have Filipino teachers and nurses in Maryland whose experience and expertise allow them to contribute to growth in Maryland and in the Philippines,” added Ambassador Gaa.
Strengthening Ties with Fil-Am Leaders
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND 06 APRIL 2010 Ambassador Willy C. Gaa meets with Delegate Valderrama of the Prince George’s County 26th Legislative District. During the meeting, Ambassador Gaa stressed the strong ties between the Philippines and the United States that are continuously renewed through the vibrant Filipino-American community and leaders elected to State positions. Delegate Valderrama is the first Filipina-American to be elected to the Maryland House of Delegates. Her father, former Delegate David Valderrama, was the first Filipino-American to be elected to a state legislature in the US Mainland.
Shared History and Values
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND 06 April 2010 Ambassador Willy C. Gaa meets Speaker Michael E. Busch of the Maryland House of Delegates to renew ties based on shared history and values. Ambassador Gaa presented Speaker Busch with the book “Joined by History,” a commemorative publication by the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs on Philippine-US relations. After being introduced by Filipina-American Delegate Kris Valderrama, Ambassador Gaa addressed the House of Delegates chaired by Speaker Busch. In his address, Ambassador Gaa underscored the historic ties that joined the Philippines and the United States, through the State of Maryland.
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND 06 April 2010 Ambassador Willy C. Gaa is welcomed by the Senate of the State of Maryland with a standing ovation. Ambassador Gaa was introduced by State Senator C. Anthony Muse from Prince George’s County.
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November 10, 2016 by denisefrisino
My godmother, Mary Sommerhauser Russell, chose to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during WWII because she was tired of wearing white nylons. Nurses back then, much in demand, had a choice as to which service they could join.
“I had good looking legs and wanted to show them off. I liked the Army uniform better.”
While she admits it sounds vain, she has no regrets because, with the army, she saw real action. Mary landed on Omaha Beach in August 1944, two days after the Liberation of Paris. She was 22 years old.
She tells of sailing on the RMS Queen Mary, which had already been whisked to Sydney, Australia, to be converted into a troopship, painted navy gray, stripped of its finery and had degaussing coils added to protect the ship from magnetic mines.
For her journey to Europe the approximately 72 nurses were sequestered on the upper deck with the thousands of male troops below.
“I had a date every 15 minutes,” she smiles slyly. “But then in the middle of the night they came and made us move to a lower deck.”
Well, that got Mary’s goat. She rose early the next morning to see who had taken her precious upper deck and when she looked up, there, standing at the railing, was a well-known world leader dressed in his famous blue jumpsuit, holding his cigar. Winston Churchill traveled frequently as “Colonel Warden” on the Queen Mary, who, because of her speed, was difficult for any U-Boat to catch, and became known as the “Gray Ghost.”
Raised in Butte Montana, in a German and Irish household, Mary knew how to get a job done.
“When we got there they kept telling us we would have a hospital, but we worked in tents in the fields. To save our precious penicillin we would dig holes in the cold ground, put the vial of penicillin in a condom, then in a can and bury it. There was no refrigeration. You made due.”
She talks of how the snow covered soldiers arrived at their medic tents with disfiguring frostbite, the engineers that stayed with the makeshift hospitals to keep the equipment running, the death and hope they all lived with daily.
There is no telling how many lives she touched in an attempt to save our boys and the horror she keeps privately tucked away.
But I know that from now on I will refer to First Lieutenant Mary Sommerhauser, Mrs. Ralph Russell, who just turned 95, as the real Queen Mary–for all the love and support she gave to the hundreds of troops on the ground in the European Theater. I am so proud she is my godmother.
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Give Us Five NLRB Members
The National Labor Relations Board enforces the National Labor Relations Act, the principal law safeguarding your right to organize to improve your working conditions, whether or not you are in a union. Workers turn to the NLRB when they are illegally fired or otherwise prevented from working together for change.
The NLRB is supposed to have five members that are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. But corporations have persuaded Republicans in the Senate to use silent filibusters to prevent a vote on President Obama’s nominees. The Board needs at least three members to make decisions. Two of the five seats on the NLRB are currently vacant and the term of another member will expire in August.
Working people need and deserve a functioning National Labor Relations Board. The President has sent the names of five well-qualified nominees to the Senate. If we don’t let our Senators know that the NLRB matters, Senate Republicans will continue to abuse the Senate rules and filibuster the nominees and Senate Democrats will not take action to overcome the filibuster.
• Sign the online petition: giveus5nlrb.org
• Tweet this to your Senators:
CO Senators @MarkUdall & @SenBennetCO: Do whatever it takes to #GiveUsFive @NLRB members.
• Call your Senators and tell them to vote to confirm the five NLRB nominees and to vote for a rules change if the nominees are blocked.
Call 1-888-966-9824 and tell them:
• We deserve a fully functional NLRB with five members.
• If the nominees are blocked, I urge you to vote for rules change to allow for an up-or-down vote
• Text “NLRB” to “69866”
Why the NLRB Matters
For over 75 years, the National Labor Relations Board has been comprised of both Republican and Democratic members who help ensure fairness at the American workplace. It is the enforcement agency for the National Labor Relations Act, the principal labor law regulating private sector employees’ rights, including the opportunity to organize and negotiate and certain freedoms of speech.
The Board’s members are nominated by the President, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. When Board member Mark Pearce’s term expires in August, the Board will no longer have the quorum it needs to make decisions. Workers will have no recourse upon an illegal firing; union elections could be disregarded; and labor violation reporting could fall on deaf ears.
The NLRB also plays a growing role as the protector of employees’ right to speak out online about working conditions without fear of firing or discipline. The NLRB has stood up for workers’ right to freely discuss their jobs, bosses and workplaces on Twitter, Facebook and other online forums. In fact, social media free speech has become an important – and growing – focus of the NLRB, including over 100 cases involving social media since 2010.
Reporter Dave Jamieson captured the important mission of the NLRB through the lens of an ongoing dispute between mineworkers at the Cannelton mine in West Virginia and the anti-union Massey Energy company: “As FDR and other New Deal architects saw it, the labor board’s very mission was to remedy cases like the one at the Cannelton mine as fairly and expeditiously as possible … not just for the sake of workers unfairly punished for their association with a union. Just as critically, the labor board was to hold bad actors to account and level the playing field for employers who played by the rules.”
Yet other employers have sensed opportunity in the current chaos at the NLRB. As Jamieson wrote, “With the labor board now in limbo, more than 85 companies have challenged the cases against them, some preemptively. In many cases, the challenges are meant to scuttle union elections or undo penalties against the companies for unfair labor practices.”
As former NLRB Chair Wilma Liebman recently stated, the NLRB, “literally represents the interests of labor and business — and income inequality, and class issues, and everything that’s wrapped up in what the board does … It’s odd now, that organized labor is so reduced and labor law is so ossified, but it’s like the opposition won’t be happy until the nail is in the coffin.”
• Background on the issue LINK
• CWA president Larry Cohen write’s about the issue LINK
Source: cwa-union.org
The Future of Fair Labor
June 24 was the 75th anniversary of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which established the workweek at 40 hours, set standards for overtime pay, guaranteed a minimum wage and outlawed child labor, among other things.
Jefferson Cowie, a professor of labor history at Cornell, wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times, The Future of Fair Labor.
“Despite this noble history, today the act faces an uncertain future,” Cowie writes.
The challenges he lists include:
Employers classifying employees as “exempt” to avoid paying overtime
Employers classifying workers as independent contractors
Internships: “the most infamous classification hustle”
It’s true that we are in the middle of a seismic shift in the way we structure our work lives. Both workers and employers want more flexibility. But that similarity of interests shouldn’t mask the fact that employers will always have more power than their employees, and that it’s in their interests to make those employees work as long and as cheaply as possible.
In Roosevelt’s day, the courts found most wages and hours legislation unconstitutional based on the doctrine of “liberty of contract.” The idea was as simple as it was pernicious: wages and hours legislation violated an individual’s freedom to make an independent (read: worse) deal with his employer.
We can’t afford to drift further back to the bad old days of liberty of contract. Americans are drastically overworked and underpaid compared to workers in other advanced countries, and our workers are trapped in a rigid pattern of inequality that has ended a historic claim to being the nation of upward mobility.
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Prince Sun Jan 3, 2010 4:15pm EST NEW YORK (Billboard) - Soundgarden will reunite for concerts in 2010, according to a Twitter message from frontman Chris Cornell which directs fans to a new Web site, Soundgardenworld.com. Entertainment | Music The Seattle rock quartet -- Cornell, guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron -- has not played live since splitting up in the spring of 1997. Sources tell Billboard the group is weighing offers from several major U.S. and international festivals, but a tour routing is still a work in progress, due to Cameron's prior commitments to play with Pearl Jam in the spring and summer. Cameron has been Pearl Jam's permanent drummer since 1998; that group recently announced its first North American date of 2010 as part of the second weekend of New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (April 29-May 2), and will also play 10 European shows from June 22 in Dublin through July 10 in Oeiras, Portugal. For many years after Soundgarden split, the instrumentalists were said to have had little contact with Cornell, and reportedly turned down an offer to reform for Sub Pop's 20th anniversary concerts in Seattle in 2008. Cornell was not on hand for an impromptu live performance on March 24, 2009, at Seattle's Crocodile Cafe, when Cameron, Thayil and Shepherd played the Soundgarden songs "Hunted Down," "Nothing to Say" and "Spoonman" with Tad Doyle on vocals. But all four members were present at an October 6, 2009 Pearl Jam show in Los Angeles, when Cornell reprised the Temple of the Dog song "Hunger Strike" with the band, and sources say reunion plans began to take shape shortly afterward. Soundgarden formed in Seattle in 1984, with an initial lineup of Cornell on vocals and drums, Thayil on guitar and Hiro Yamamoto on bass. Cameron joined on drums in 1986, and the following year, the band released its first single, "Hunted Down," on the nascent hometown label Sub Pop. Famed indie label SST released Soundgarden's debut album, "Ultramega OK," in October 1988, but the band's churning, Black Sabbath-inspired rock'n'roll quickly reached a wider audience after it signed with A&M Records, which issued a new album, "Louder Than Love, in September 1989. Shepherd joined for the recording of "Badmotorfinger" in 1991. Driven by Cornell's impressive vocal range, Thayil's dark, detuned guitar work and Cameron's love of tricky time signatures, "Badmotorfinger" songs like "Outshined" and "Jesus Christ Pose," foreshadowed the Seattle-centric grunge explosion ushered in a few months later by Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Soundgarden fully broke through on 1994's five-times-platinum "Superunknown," thanks to smash rock radio hits such as "Spoonman," "Black Hole Sun" and "Fell on Black Days." After headlining the 1996 Lollapalooza festival in support of the album "Down on the Upside," Soundgarden ran out of steam and broke up. Since the split, Cornell has released three solo albums and three more with the now-defunct Audioslave, which featured the non-singing members of Rage Against The Machine. Thayil and Shepherd have kept a low profile, only occasionally releasing music and collaborating with artists like Sunn O))) and Boris, Probot, Steve Fisk and Mark Lanegan. Â Shepherd and Cameron also revived their side project, Hater, which released its second album, "The 2nd," in 2005. Entertainment Music More from Reuters Pictures of the Decade Pictures Outlook 2010: Return of the mac Global macro funds are set to battle for the top spot in what will likely be a more testing year than the last one. Full Article Strong gains help end '09 on high note Video: Hedge funds hit $2 trillion mark Funds Pictures of the Year A man surrounded by a raging fire in Cairo is among the indelible Reuters images of the year. 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Arcturus Therapeutics Receives FDA Allowance to Proceed with Phase 2 Study of ARCT-021 (LUNAR-COV19) Vaccine Candidate in the United States
Phase 2 study to be conducted in the U.S. and Singapore, and will evaluate both single dose and two dose priming regimens of ARCT-021 in up to 600 participants
Anticipate interim Phase 2 data in early 2021; targeting global Phase 3 study start in Q2 2021 which could allow application for emergency use authorization/conditional approval in H2 2021
SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–$ARCT #ClinicalTrial–Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc. (the “Company”, “Arcturus”, Nasdaq: ARCT), a leading clinical-stage messenger RNA medicines company focused on the development of infectious disease vaccines and significant opportunities within liver and respiratory rare diseases, today announced that the Company has received allowance of the Investigational New Drug (IND) application from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the Phase 2 clinical study of its vaccine candidate ARCT-021 following review of data from the Phase 1/2 study.
Arcturus previously announced that the ARCT-021 Phase 2 study had been approved to proceed by the Singapore Health Sciences Authority (HSA), who reviewed the same data as reviewed by the FDA. These Phase 1/2 study results demonstrated favorable tolerability and both humoral and cellular immunogenicity following administration of ARCT-021.
The Phase 2 study will enroll 600 participants, with 450 receiving ARCT-021 and 150 receiving placebo. Both older and younger adult participants will be included. Early interim analyses of safety and immunogenicity will be performed to inform dose selection for a Phase 3 study, which is targeted to start in Q2 2021, if the Phase 2 study is successful.
“Allowance of the IND for our ARCT-021 Phase 2 clinical study represents an important milestone for the program and we look forward to starting to screen study participants at U.S. and Singapore clinical sites very soon,” said Steve Hughes, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Arcturus. “We have advanced ARCT-021 to Phase 2 based on promising interim results from our Phase 1/2 study and extensive preclinical data. Our prior clinical results show that ARCT-021 administration results in humoral and cellular immunogenicity, and we are encouraged by an increasing body of evidence highlighting the potential importance of T cells in providing protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19. We believe that ARCT-021 holds promise to be a highly effective vaccine with a differentiated clinical profile, including the potential to only require a single dose for protection.”
About Arcturus Therapeutics
Founded in 2013 and based in San Diego, California, Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: ARCT) is a clinical-stage mRNA medicines and vaccines company with enabling technologies: (i) LUNAR® lipid-mediated delivery, (ii) STARR™ mRNA Technology and (iii) mRNA drug substance along with drug product manufacturing expertise. Arcturus’ diverse pipeline of RNA therapeutic and vaccine candidates includes self-replicating mRNA vaccine programs for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) and Influenza, and other programs to potentially treat Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency, Cystic Fibrosis, and Cardiovascular Disease along with partnered programs including Glycogen Storage Disease Type 3, Hepatitis B Virus, and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Arcturus’ versatile RNA therapeutics platforms can be applied toward multiple types of nucleic acid medicines including messenger RNA, small interfering RNA, replicon RNA, antisense RNA, microRNA, DNA, and gene editing therapeutics. Arcturus’ technologies are covered by its extensive patent portfolio (205 patents and patent applications, issued in the U.S., Europe, Japan, China and other countries). Arcturus’ commitment to the development of novel RNA therapeutics has led to collaborations with Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., part of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical, Inc., Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, CureVac AG, Synthetic Genomics Inc., Duke-NUS Medical School, and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. For more information visit www.ArcturusRx.com. In addition, please connect with us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve substantial risks and uncertainties for purposes of the safe harbor provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any statements, other than statements of historical fact included in this press release, are forward-looking statements, including those regarding the Company’s development strategy, the likelihood that preclinical or clinical results will be predictive of future clinical results or sufficient for regulatory approval, the likelihood of the Company to obtain clearance from regulatory authorities to proceed with planned clinical trials, the planned initiation, design or completion of clinical trials, the likelihood of success, or of the efficacy or safety, of the Company’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate or other product candidates, potential treatment regimens of the Company’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, future operations, the Company’s efforts to develop a vaccine against COVID-19 and therapeutic potential thereof based on the Company’s mRNA therapeutics, the continuation or success of collaborations with the Company’s strategic partners, and the impact of general business and economic conditions. Actual results and performance could differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statements as a result of many factors including, without limitation, the ability to enroll subjects in clinical trials as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of commercialization of third-party COVID-19 vaccines on the design, and ability to conduct, clinical trials, the availability of manufacturing capacity and raw materials, unexpected clinical results, and general market conditions that may prevent such achievements or performance. Arcturus may not actually achieve the plans, carry out the intentions or meet the expectations or projections disclosed in any forward-looking statements such as the foregoing and you should not place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. Such statements are based on management’s current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties, including those discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” in Arcturus’ Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, filed with the SEC on March 16, 2020 and in subsequent filings with, or submissions to, the SEC. Except as otherwise required by law, Arcturus disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or circumstances or otherwise.
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Posts Tagged ‘The Stand’
Nate Walcott & Mike Mogis Scoring CBS All Access’ ‘The Stand’
Tags: CBS All Access, Josh Boone, Mike Mogis, Nate Walcott, The Stand
Nate Walcott & Mike Mogis are composing the original score for the upcoming CBS All Access limited series The Stand. The show is developed by Josh Boone & Benjamin Cavell based on Stephen King’s best-selling novel of the same name and stars Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgård, James Marsden, Odessa Young, Jovan Adepo, Amber Heard, Owen […]
‘Dolores Claiborne’ Deluxe Edition Soundtrack Announced
Tags: Danny Elfman, Dolores Claiborne, score, Soundtrack, Taylor Hackford, The Stand, W.G. Snuffy Walden
Varese Sarabande has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1995 thriller Dolores Claiborne directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh and David Strathairn. The 2-CD set features the expanded original score from the Castle Rock Entertainment production composed by Danny Elfman (Batman, Spider-Man, Alice in Wonderland, The Nightmare Before Christmas, […]
Stephen King Soundtrack Collection Announced
Posted: November 10, 2017 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
Tags: Firecatcher, James Newton Howard, Nicholas Pike, Tangerine Dream, The Shining, The Stand, W.G. Snuffy Waalden
Varese Sarabande has announced the full details of the Stephen King Soundtrack Collection. The 8-CD set features 2-CD deluxe editions for the 2003 horror thriller Dreamcatcher directed by Lawrence Kasdan featuring the film’s expanded score composed by James Newton Howard (The Hunger Games, Maleficent, King Kong, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) and the post-apocalyptic mini-series The Stand […]
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From personal experience to moral identification: The roots of trust, confidence and police legitimacy.
Bradford, Benjamin (2010) From personal experience to moral identification: The roots of trust, confidence and police legitimacy. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom).
Contacts between police and public form here the starting point for an investigation into trust, confidence and legitimacy in relation to the British police. The ways in which people 'read' and judge encounters with the police, the messages they take from them, and implications for trust and legitimacy are key empirical concerns. The procedural justice model developed by Tom Tyler and colleagues constitutes the key theoretical reference point. This theory suggests that in their dealings with legal authorities people value fairness, respect and openness over instrumental concerns, and that procedural fairness is linked to enhanced trust, legitimacy and cooperation. The social-psychological insights of the procedural justice model are combined with more sociologically oriented accounts of the nature of policing in 'late-modern' Britain. The five papers presented demonstrate, first, that the influence of contact experiences on public confidence in the police has grown over time, just as the salience of other factors has declined. Second, personal experience affects important aspects or components of trust; judgements about police effectiveness, fairness and engagement with the community. Third, individuals do appear to value procedural fairness over instrumental outcomes, and fair treatment is linked with both higher confidence and a greater propensity to accept police decisions. Fourth, wider concerns may be as important as personal experience. The social and cultural position of the British police - what it represents - is a key factor in trust judgements. Finally, police legitimacy is implicated in basic psychological needs to maintain and reproduce order, suggesting that it is to an extent prior to any active assessments of the police organisation. In sum, contact matters, and it is judged in ways congruent with procedural justice theory. But assessments of the effect of contact on confidence must be placed within a broader understanding of the social and cultural meaning of the police.
Sociology, Criminology and Penology
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Something I've been meaning to do ever since Sunday, when Booker devoted his main story to the theme, is record how the case for anthropogenic global warming is unravelling.
More to the point, even the case for maintaining that global warming is a continuing phenomenon is becoming seriously unstuck, viz a letter in The Telegraph yesterday from Philip Stott, Emeritus Professor of Biogeography in the University of London.
Stott noted that week rain fell last week not only on the rag-bag of climate-change activists camped outside Heathrow (who seem to have enjoyed extraordinary media coverage). It also, he wrote, poured on the whole global-warming parade.
First, he continued, new research indicates that our climate may be only one third as sensitive to C02 as has been assumed. Secondly, corrected temperature figures for America from Nasa indicate that the hottest year in the 20th century was 1934, not in the 1990s. Thirdly, recent satellite figures from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration demonstrate no mean global warming since 1998. Indeed, the curve has flattened to below 1998 levels.
Finally, Stott concludes, our British weather continues to contradict all predictions. When, he asks, will our politicians, especially David Cameron, recognise that carbon claptrap, not global warming, is the danger for our economic future?
This is one of the stranger aspects of the global warming debate for, as the politicians profess even greater certainty that this is the dominant issue of our general, the scientists, it seems, are far from certain. For all we know, we could be slipping back into a new ice age.
In a recent article in The Boston Globe, reproduced in the IHT this state of uncertainty is reviewed, painting a graphic picture which totally contradicts Gore's assertion that, "There's no more debate ... There is no more scientific debate among serious people who've looked at the evidence."
In terms of one of the latest discoveries to shake the certainty – the fact that the NASA/Goddard Institute temperature figures have been exaggerating the temperature rise and that the hottest year in the 20th century was 1934, not in the 1990s, this has been due to the remarkable work of statistician Steve McIntyre, who has used his blog Climate Audit relentless to promote independent discussion on climate science.
Less spectacular, but probably just as important is the way McIntyre has recruited his readers, progressively to evaluate the validity of readings from individual weather stations, coming up with some significant findings.
One of the most dramatic is illustrated a remarkable photograph of Tucson University of Arizona Weather Station (illustrated) shown positioned in a bay on the concrete car park – thus failing to conform with the siting criteria for these sites. It also highlights the so-called "heat island" effect, where as sites have become more urban, rises in temperature experienced reflect the urban heating rather than real climate change.
For a long time, it has puzzled me how, from the hundreds of disparate weather stations inputing data into the system, how climate scientists have been able to produce a single figure for each year, representing a unified global temperature.
Here, in a measured interview on the Today programme, McIntyre pointed out that numerous adjustments must be made to arrive at the finished figures and that, crucially, the size of the adjustments in many cases exceeded the temperature increases being recorded.
In other words, the single global temperature is not real, but a calculated artefact, prone to multiple errors. The temperature rises thus recorded are an extremely fragile basis on which to commit not billions but trillions of dollars of expenditure.
As Booker reported last Sunday, Prof William Nordhaus, of Yale, has just published calculations showing that cuts in greenhouse gas emissions on the scale proposed by Gore might possibly save $12 trillion (£12,000bn) - but that their cost would be nearly three times as much, $34 trillion, more than half the world's GDP.
So fast is the evidence accumulating that the fatuity of basing major public policy initiatives on what many already believe to be a scam is becoming more evident by the day. The debate, far from being over, really has only just begun.
It is now hard to think of a situation where there has been such a great divide between the politicians – who remain fixed in their beliefs about global warming, impervious to the increasingly vibrant debate – and the wider world, where scepticism is growing in intensity.
But then, we are seeing the same thing across the board, where more and more the politicians (and the media) seem detached from reality. The political implications of this have yet to become clear but, while green politics may be a wonderful plaything for the likes of Cameron, in the fullness of time, there will be a price which he and his fellow travellers will be unable to pay.
Labels: Al Gore, Booker, cameron, climate change
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Option C disperses development out around the Greater Christchurch area away from established urban areas. The map indicates areas where development would generally occur.
Option C creates a greater degree of decentralisation of households and employment throughout the area. About 40% of the population growth is located in Christchurch City (20,852 people), 21% in towns (10,947 people) and 39% on rural and lifestyle blocks and larger residential lots of 2-5,000sqm (20,330 people). Lifestyle choice and a market driven rural-residential housing market are key factors encouraging decentralisation of both residential and commercial activity.
Residential development would occur in rural areas to the south-west of Christchurch City around Rolleston and Lincoln, north of the Waimakariri River , at Pegasus Bay and Rangiora, and around the Lyttelton Harbour Basin. About 90% of housing development would be in new subdivisions and rural residential developments and 10% would be urban renewal in areas of the City and towns. Christchurch and the major rural towns would largely retain their existing size.
These new subdivisions are likely to be a combination of traditional suburban subdivisions located close to existing towns with smaller sections, and rural residential developments (lifestyle and residential blocks) with large sections.
The look and feel of existing neighbourhoods would experience little change, as redevelopment of existing areas would take second place to the development of new housing developments. Section sizes would remain similar sizes within existing urban areas, though the average size of a section in a new rural residential area would be much larger. Limited redevelopment in Christchurch's Central City would proceed.
New subdivisions require water, sewerage, power and telephone services. Existing infrastructure in established suburbs and towns would require ongoing maintenance costing about $380 million for infrastructure by 2021 and $580 million by 2041.
This new development would provide some choice for house buyers, with a wide range of locations although limited opportunity for apartment, townhouse and mixed use housing choices. The large areas of land zoned for development will keep land cost low and housing prices affordable and competitive.
With development spread out around the Greater Christchurch area, people will spend more time travelling from their homes to work, school and shops. Arterial roads and city streets across the area will become more congested. By 2021 congestion would increase by 250% and commuting would take 31% longer. By 2041 congestion would rise by 630% and commuting would take 65% longer. For example, a 30 minute trip to work today would take 40 minutes by 2021 and 50 minutes by 2041.
Building and widening roads to avoid this predicted increase in congestion is likely to cost $1.6 billion by 2021 and $2.1 billion by 2041. By 2041 we would be spending over $4.9 billion each year on private motoring costs (cost of fuel and crashes), in addition to the $2 billion spent on roading.
With people living further from where they work, study, socialise or relax, walking, cycling and using public transport are unlikely to be attractive alternatives to driving. With more vehicles on the road, the costs of servicing and repairing the damage from crashes are likely to increase.
New developments would have little in the way of community facilities when first developed. This forces residents to travel to existing facilities until amenities are developed, if they are developed. The lack of community facilities, such as schools, recreation centres and libraries, may prevent communities from developing an identity or spirit.
Existing facilities in established suburbs may struggle to survive without a steady inflow of new residents. Sports and cultural groups in older suburbs may struggle to survive. The transition of population from old to new suburbs could result in a loss of community groups and facilities and social cohesion.
Without pressure to redevelop existing suburbs and towns, older properties could become rundown and unattractive, further destroying community identity and pride as people who can afford to move away do so, leaving others trapped in decaying neighbourhoods.
By encouraging growth to spread outward, the opportunity to create large open spaces and regional parks is reduced. While larger sections provide more private recreation space for individual homeowners, they reduce the space available for community recreation space.
It is possible that air pollution could worsen, due to a lack of reinvestment in older housing areas and use of wood burning fires in outer areas.
With more people living further away from their work, schools and shops, there'll be more vehicles on the road for longer periods. Vehicle emissions would increase 41% by 2021 and 103% by 2041 (carbon monoxide 170 tonnes/day in 2021 and 260 tonnes/day by 2041). With new developments spread right around the Greater Christchurch area it would not be practical to extend metro public transport services to some of these areas, giving residents no choice but to drive everywhere.
As section sizes are large, and more lifestyle developments occur, the volume of water used to water gardens and lawns will rise rapidly. Overall water consumption would increase to 3,240 litres per second by 2041, a 55% increase from 2001. Balancing residential demand for water with the water needs of farming and industry could lead to difficult choices over who gets priority for water and at what price.
Spreading development away from existing urban areas, the coastline and the Waimakariri River would reduce the risk of damage from flooding, earthquakes and tsunami. Emergency services, however, would be stretched to respond to a natural disaster due to the spread of population at greater distances than at present.
As development moves out into the countryside, productive lands currently used for market gardening and farming would be lost. The current separation of town and country would be blurred as development spread in every direction. Development could also destroy the natural habitat and eco-systems essential for the survival of hundreds of native plants, birds and animals living in the Greater Christchurch area.
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It used to be Spanish Rock in the US equaled covering “Rock en Español” bands. That’s how it was when Miguel and Brenda Avina moved to Denver in the early 2000’s, and that’s what many people thought “Rock En Tu Idioma” meant: you played your favorite Maná and Caifanes covers.
Miguel didn’t want to do that when he started iZCALLi in 2005 with an acoustic guitar and dual hand-percussionists Luis Galaviz and Raul Chavelas. He re-envision the Rock En Tu Idioma movement of the late 80’s and 90’s, he wanted to do original rock in Spanish — or in English, too, if he felt like it — and he had a vision: that there was a need for the kind of music he wanted to make, with a swath of influences ranging from cumbias to Zeppelin, and a community of musicians just waiting to unite.
The idea caught hold and scored the young band an opening gig with Spanish act BEBE; playing at The Gothic Theatre before that sold-out crowd, Miguel had another vision: “Hay que rockear harder”. A Les Paul replaced the acoustic, Galaviz switched from djembe to the drum kit, and Miguel recruited his sister Brenda on bass.
iZCALLi rounded up nine other bands and released a compilation — Rock en las Rocas Vol. 1, featuring early iZCALLi tunes “Me Siento Solo” and “Que Debe Fallar (Marybel) — the band’s first official release. A proper LP followed in Pintas en Pasteles, which replaced Galaviz with Madafra’s Mario Gonzalez on drums. The band went on tour not long after with Hombres G, and has over the years gigged with a slew of nationally renowned artists, such as Jaguares, Molotov, Los Enanitos Verdes and Julieta Venegas, to name a few.
iZCALLi’s sound drilled through the folk-based rock of Pintas and into deeper beds of alt-rock, indie, Latin sounds and ska for Despiertame, the band’s second LP. The same year, iZCALLi launched Rock de Mayo, a sonic Cinco de Mayo celebration that RETI=Rock En Tu Idioma (iZCALLi’s Flagship Promotion) has curated ever since, bringing Anglo acts like Eldren and Bandits to a crossover crowd — the same crossover iZCALLi has been reaching at coveted spots in festivals like Westword Music Showcase and the Underground Music Showcase several years running.
iZCALLi continues to grow, and they find themselves continuing to tour, bringing in Luiggy Ramirez on drums, and spreading the message via collaboration with Fort Collin’s SpokesBuzz, a nonprofit dedicated to the goal of transforming the Front Range into world-class music scene, playing on the national stage in events such as Latino Heritage Festival in Iowa, plus multiple appearances at SXSW. The band recently celebrated its 10th anniversary with a sold-out show at the Walnut Room and the release of iZCALLi III, a deeper exploration of the same roots that made Despiertame grow. It’s a big deal, but it’s also just another step in iZCALLi’s never-ceasing mission to bring you Rock En Tu Idioma — and an ever-expanding definition of what Rock En Tu Idioma can be.
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the places in the town that are no longer in existence
Places we pass by every day and that are familiar to us often change without us noticing. Only when we feel like having fresh rolls, to our surprise, we find out that where the bakery used to be for age, there is a boutique or a jeweler´s.
The project „Kladno Past“ is a mosaic of photographs, postcards and stories that give us the opportunity to travel against the time and show the town in views that cannot be seen any more. We believe that you will help us to put this mosaic together.
The project has been initiated by the civic association Kladno Záporno and it is financed from private sources. The media partner is Kladno monthly bulletin Kamelot.
The aim of the internet project „Kladno Past“ is to bring to life the history of Kladno, to create new cultural values to be shared by the community, and to encourage discussion on the life of the town.
The history of Kladno is specific in many ways, being short compared with the history of many other Czech towns. Kladno was largely formed by the industrial era and may appear to be an uninteresting town from a historical viewpoint. Our project aims to show that this is not true.
The industrial boom in the second half of 19th century was accompanied by a remarkable development in all fields of social life. It was the time when many new associations came into being, new public buildings were built, and the town spread. The economic, urban and social structure of the town experienced another change after 1948 when its iron and steelworks expanded in order to meet the market needs of the socialist block countries. The latest turning point occured in the year 1989. Since then, the town experienced fundamental changes. Heavy industry production was restricted and coal mines were closed down completely. Kladno lost what was historically the reason for its existence. There was a new challenge for the town to define itself, to find a new identity. This is a continuous process that will hardly ever be accomplished. However, the past should not be forgotten.
We would like to recall the history and memories of our town through old photographs and postcards. We believe that we will encourage local people to become involved in the project, at least those who have a special bond to their town. We believe that private archives represent an inexhaustible source of valuable documents (photos, postcards and others) that may reveal interesting information both to the public and the historians. The enrichment and sharing cannot be single-sided, we are very pleased to have the backing of the Sládečkovo Vlastivědné Muzeum in Kladno and the State District Archive in Kladno. These fine institutions can help us make public the documents that now only accessible to the professionals or enthusiasts.
The visual section of the project will be completed by stories of the particular places, buildings and people whose lives were connected to the Kladno history.
The website www.kladnominule.cz should also become a communication space where you can create your own blog, a space where you may contribute to the debate on the town´s past, current issues, and the future.
The ambition of the „Kladno Past“ is to become a local community project that may appeal to all Kladno residents who have an interest in the past and future of their town.
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Wage fraud will continue until politicians stop it. They can – but will they?
The lobbying efforts of powerful business interests have held too much sway in our democracy. A comprehensive rewrite of workplace laws is required.
Following yet another wage fraud scandal – this time at restaurant chain, Dainty Sichuan – a recent newspaper editorial contended that, “Further layers of workplace regulation are not the solution to wage fraud.” Instead, it argued in favour of stronger enforcement of existing laws. The editorial could not be more wrong.
A systematic and enduring pattern of gross exploitation of workers is compelling evidence that the existing regulatory framework is broken. 7-Eleven, Domino’s, Pizza Hut, Myer, Coles, Caltex, Australia Post, Woolworths. The list is extensive and grows each week.
The unprecedented number and scale of wage fraud cases is a direct result of regulatory failure. First, companies have increasingly sourced labour through intermediaries, thereby avoiding existing labour laws. Second, the penalties for wage fraud are far too low to deter wrongdoers. Third, the companies at the top of the often intricate structures of exploitation almost always escape liability for their flawed business models.
The workplace watchdog, the Fair Work Ombudsman, has just announced that it has now achieved a record-breaking $1m in court orders for compensation and penalties against 7-Eleven franchisees. But because of inadequate workplace laws, there have been no such orders against 7-Eleven for its part in creating a business model that led its franchisees to underpay employees in order to survive.
The answer is clear – stronger and more sophisticated regulation. A comprehensive rewrite of existing workplace laws is required.
That the era of deregulation is exhausted should no longer be an issue. Free market fundamentalists rebounded from the global financial crisis with a remarkable ease, treating it like a mere flesh wound. But almost a decade later, the game is up. The twin business strategies of suppressing wages and side-stepping taxation obligations to benefit those at the top of the wealth distribution curve is no longer acceptable. The economic and political damage is too great. The other 90% are joining the dots. They are many and they are angry.
The time is ripe for progressive politicians to redefine the role of government as dynamic, agile and at times, strongly interventionist. The art of regulation needs to be rediscovered. Like using muscles that have been inactive for a long time, the transition won’t be easy. The same private sector interests that have reaped the bounty of economic rewards for many years remain cashed up and overwhelmingly powerful.
Politicians will struggle to tame the influence of big business seeking to subjugate the public interest. To succeed will involve rebooting a genuinely representative democracy, including by confronting the pernicious influence of political lobbying and a myriad of other rent-seeking techniques.
There is no better illustration of the challenge than the wage fraud scandal at 7-Eleven.
Like employment agreements, contracts between franchisors and their individual franchisees are often not negotiable. They are prepared by the franchisor and are usually signed unchanged. While there is some legislation prohibiting certain clauses in franchise agreements, typically their extensive terms heavily favour head office.
When he was prime minister, Tony Abbott promised that “unfair contracts” could be rewritten to balance the ledger and give franchisees a fighting chance. As small business minister, Bruce Billson was charged with making it happen.
Then the lobbyists at the powerful Franchise Council of Australia went to work. Billson was persuaded to drastically water down the new laws. When they were introduced in 2014, 7-Eleven and other big franchisors had nothing to fear. Their take-it-or-leave-it contracts were left untouched.
In fact, the franchise contracts at 7-Eleven proved to be a ticking bomb. Less than one year later, in September 2015, the bomb went off when Four Corners and Fairfax revealed extensive wage fraud occurring in 7-Eleven franchises across the country. On reviewing the franchise contracts, Prof Allan Fels observed, “My impression – my strong impression – is that the only way a franchisee can make a go of it in most cases is by underpaying workers, by illegal behaviour.”
Having been dumped from cabinet by Malcolm Turnbull, Bruce Billson left parliament at the 2016 election. In a depressingly familiar trajectory, he parlayed his political career into a new role – as executive chairman of the Franchise Council. As the 7-Eleven compensation bill for wage fraud soared past $100m, Billson welcomed his new role, stating: “I’m a great believer in the franchising model … a wonderful way for enterprising men and women to get into their own business but not be on their own.”
Confronting a catalogue of wage fraud scandals and growing political pressure from the opposition, employment minister Michaelia Cash finally persuaded her cabinet colleagues of the need to act. In March this year, Cash introduced the protecting vulnerable workers bill. Under the bill, franchisors would be held liable for workplace violations by the franchisees where they exercise significant influence over the franchisee; if they knew or should have known of the underpayments; and if they failed to take reasonable steps to prevent the violations.
The proposed new laws, primarily targeted at franchises, are still not strong enough to change the situation for many underpaid workers.
Writing in the Australian Financial Review, journalist Adele Ferguson claimed that Bruce Billson “has conducted personal lobbying … of various current and former politicians no doubt helped by relationships and friendships built up during his years in parliament to ‘ensure that the franchise sector’s interests are strongly and clearly communicated to
the government and responsible Minister’.”
Billson’s lobbying efforts have included emails to Joe Hockey in Washington to warn him that the Trump administration opposes the new laws, including one which read:
Your Excellency Joe … it is likely that the White House, and in particular Vice-President Pence, will express the concerns of the US franchise community about what the Turnbull Government is doing in the name of protecting so-called ‘Vulnerable Workers’ with a particular focus on the franchising sector.
The lobbying by the Franchise Council continues, and as a result, the passage of the bill through parliament has been delayed. Whether it passes, and in what form, remains to be seen. A critical question posed by Prof Ross Garnaut in recent years – “whether changes in the way private interests seek to influence policy has removed the possibility of governing in the public interest” – remains unanswered.
All the while, the scourge of wage fraud continues to damage the lives of employees, their families and also the broader economy. For the first time in living memory, Australians are living through both a wage fraud crisis and low wage crisis. In the absence of politicians committed to robust regulation and able to withstand the immense pressure from the private sector, the situation will not improve.
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The Kometa-Xstra Cycling Team presents its third adventure in the continental category and its training projects for U23 and junior
The 2020 season of the Kometa-Xstra Cycling Team of the Alberto Contador Foundation officially started on Monday in the Gran Centelles Hall of Oliva Nova Beach & Golf Resort in Oliva, Valencia, in the Comunitat Valenciana. A campaign in which the Foundation faces its first ten years of activities in which have alternated both the implementation of sports projects and solidarity initiatives, educational and awareness of the Ictus.
The continental, sub23 and junior categories presented their members and outlined their objectives for a campaign that looks exciting and in which the structures want to deepen the formative and promotional role of new talent that has taken special prominence during the last campaign. The speaker from Navarre, Juan Mari Guajardo, was in charge of conducting a ceremony that began with the intervention of Luis Borho, general director of Oliva Nova Beach & Golf Resort, and included the testimonies of Giacomo Pedranzini, CEO of Kometa, John Rasmussen, CEO of Xstra Digital Storage, Fran Contador, Alberto Contador and Ivan Basso.
In his turn to speak, Luis Borho showed his appreciation for hosting the presentation again and reiterated his firm commitment to the deseasonalization of tourism in the Comunitat Valenciana through sport. “Oliva Nova has the best conditions for hosting sports training camps and all the work they do at Kometa-Xstra is a magnificent example. It is always a pleasure for us to be your hosts”.
The continental structure directed by Jesús Hernández presented in society the twelve riders of five different nationalities that make up the third project in the continental category. Five cyclists remain in the team (Hungary’s Márton Dina, Portugal’s Daniel Viegas, Italy’s Antonio Puppio and Spain’s Diego Pablo Sevilla and José Antonio García), while seven new faces have joined: Denmark’s Mathias Larsen, Hungary’s Erik Fetter, Spain’s Sergio García and Alejandro Ropero and Italy’s Riccardo Verza, Giacomo Garavaglia and Alessandro Fancellu. Both Garcia and Ropero promote from the U23 team of the Foundation (a circumstance they also share with Fancellu) and achieve professionalism after joining the junior team through the Selection Campus that takes place every year in September.
“The fundamental thing is to follow our line of work, effort and discipline. To continue on this path as well as we have done up to now. Always with that component of luck that the elite athlete needs in the face of injuries and mishaps, of course, but to maintain that commitment and never stop improving,” says Hernández on a season that will begin in just two days in the Challenge of Mallorca. “The objective is always to improve on the previous year, we have an incredible group and I think it will be a good season,” said Dario Andriotto. “This 2020 is a very important year for all of us, for a Hungarian cyclist the possibility of being here is already an honour, I trust that we can complete a very good season, because the atmosphere is really magnificent”, said Márton Dina. “It is already the eighth year that I am in this presentation, although I have changed categories; I am very proud of being part of the Foundation”, Diego Pablo Sevilla thanked. “Every year we are getting better, we are getting better, and I am confident that this season will be better than the last one”. Alejandro Ropero, one of the new faces, was also questioned: “This is to fulfill a dream, not to be in the category anymore, but to do it in a team that is more than that, it is a family. I am very happy to have received this opportunity. You can win or not, but the important thing is to keep working, keep growing and have confidence in yourself and your team-mates”.
In the atmosphere, a very special memory for Juan Camacho from La Mancha, who announced his retirement a few days ago as a result of a recurrent injury to his right knee and a boy very well considered by his colleagues and staff members.
Giacomo Pedranzini, Kometa’s CEO, expressed his satisfaction with the promotion of young talent to other structures, although he expressed his desire to avoid this ‘escape’: “We are happy when our young riders are required by a World Tour team, but we are sad to lose them. We must be able to move up, to evolve, with the whole team, to a higher category together with them. We’ll take it one step at a time. The cycling team must be successful in communicating our values, because through our values we can really change our society. “Someone once said: ‘start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you will be surprised to do the impossible,” he concluded.
John Rasmussen, CEO of Xstra Digital Storage, reminded attendees of his previous intense involvement with cycling, from 1996 to 2006, and used his speaking time to express his belief in the need to work on changing the financial structure of professional teams: “I decided to leave in 2006 because I found that structure unhealthy. But I am back because the fantastic people behind this team have the will to change that structure and build a healthy professional cycling team. Fran, Alberto, Ivan and Giacomo share my ideas about what the future of professional cycling should look like. Kometa and Xstra are not just sponsors, we see ourselves as partners. And as partners, together, we will build this team. We will build on the values of the Contador Foundation. Kometa and Xstra will grow this team to the highest level. We will create something new, something different, something beautiful, a team that riders, staff, managers, partners and sponsors want to be on”.
Fran Contador, general manager of the Foundation’s teams: “An event of these characteristics always brings with it many illusions, but in the specific case of this presentation it is even more true due to the fact that it represents the culmination of many months of work preparing this season and, at the same time, it implies the beginning of a very important sports year that brings with it the arrival of new and important support. We are very happy to be able to count on all of them in this project, both those who are still with us and those who are now joining us, with Xstra at the helm. It is a special year, without a doubt. 2019 has left us four of our riders in the World Tour category. And looking back, there are already more than 30 riders who have reached the professional level. In terms of sport, we are still working to be able to make the jump in category one day, with a lot of effort to achieve it but without any obsession. And in a more social aspect, we continue giving a new life to bicycles in disadvantaged groups that have no use, promoting the use of the bike as a means of transport or educational tool or raising awareness about a disease still too unknown as is the Stroke”.
For the u23 team directed by Rafa Díaz Justo, on the other hand, the one of 2020 will be the seventh season of existence. Six runners will join the project (the Catalan Eduardo Rodés, the Valladolid Vicente Hernaiz and the Andalusian David Martín and Mario Vilches, the La Mancha Fernando Tercero and the Czech David Andrle). From the previous year, the Balearic Joan Martín Bennassar, the Catalan Álex Martín, the Riojan Arturo Grávalos, the Asturians Edu Pérez-Landaluce and Yago Segovia and the Italian Alessio Acco continue.
“We are very motivated and we will try to do well and be one of the references within the national scene,” said Edu Perez-Landaluce. “This last year has been spectacular and we are very motivated for the new season. I think that the format of betting on young cyclists, in a reduced staff, is working for us so far. It is not a question of passing cyclists to the professionals, but to promote riders who perform well in the category, with a profession, with a route. We are seeing that there are cyclists who can be very good professionals without the need to accumulate many victories,” said Diaz Justo.
After an unforgettable sporting and emotional campaign, with the pin of a cyclist making the jump directly to the World Tour, the eighth adventure of the youth team directed by Guillermo Gutiérrez is marked by a profound renewal in its roster. “2019 has been a spectacular year, but it is not a result, it is a question of forming cyclists, of transmitting the values of companionship, union, sacrifice, self-improvement, dedication and of course academic preparation. For us the most important thing is the studies and then there are the races”, remembers the Cantabrian.
José Luis Medina, from Cadiz, in his second year in the category, gave voice to a team that also includes Pedro Beneit from Alicante, Francesc Bennassar from the Balearic Islands, David Quevedo from Cantabria and Alejandro Luna from Madrid. “We are going for a 2020 better than this 2019, it will be something very difficult to match, but all the teammates are going to give everything to achieve it. The ceiling is very high”, he added. Andalusian Marius Knight-Chaneac, Cantabrian David Gimeno Pardo, Catalan Arnau Gilabert, Antonio González Torres from Soria, Valencia’s Pablo García González and Madrid’s Samuel de Pablo Rubio, Miguel Ángel Molina Castrejón and Miguel Ramos Cabañas are the eight new faces joining the Kometa-Xstra Cycling Team for young riders.
Alberto Contador and Ivan Basso closed the event with a double speech in which they discussed some of the Foundation’s projects and their hopes for the future in the sports field. “In this team we put a lot of illusion and a lot of work. It’s been three years now and every year both of them go on. We have a lot of talent in all categories, with different priorities in the sense that for the juniors the most important thing is the school. Our mission is to prepare them for cycling. We don’t know how many great champions we have. We do have great people. In all areas. It is a human group of immense quality”, said the Italian. “This project started very slowly and over the years it has grown and taken on much more ground. We look to the future with ambition. Giacomo Pedranzini said the other day that my brother Fran is a kind of magician because he achieves a lot with fewer resources than others. And he’s right. He’s a tireless worker. And in the end he’s the brain of this whole project. His engine”, Alberto was sincere.
“Personally I would like to publicly thank Antonio Puppio and Alessandro Fancellu who, although they had the opportunity to run in a higher category, have wanted to continue with us to continue growing in their career. This has been very important for us, it is very good to have that confidence from your own runners. We would like all the boys to continue with us for many years, so that no one goes to another squad. If I have to make a wish for the future, it’s that we continue to grow, that we take one more step,” concluded Basso.
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Marcus Henry Kellogg (left) was born on March 31, 1833, in Brighton, Ontario, Canada. He was a civilian newspaper correspondent who was killed with Custer’s column during the Battle of the Little Bighorn and buried on Last Stand Hill.
John Dolan (right) died at Fort Myer, Virginia, on March 31, 1922, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. He was a Private in Company B who was not present at the battle due to detached service.
Philip McHugh died in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on April 1, 1910, and was buried in Immaculate Conception Catholic Cemetery there. His gravestone has March 31 as his date of death, but all references state April 1. He was a Private in Company L who was with the pack train and participated in the hilltop fight.
Edward Settle Godfrey (left) died in Cookstown, New Jersey, on April 1, 1932, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. He was an 1863 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point who was the First Lieutenant for Company K. He commanded that company during scouting and the hilltop fight.
William Frank died on April 6, 1880, in Baltimore, Maryland. His burial location has yet to be discovered. He was a Private in Company B who was with the pack train and participated in the hilltop fight.
Author DianePosted on March 31, 2019 February 26, 2019 Categories Seventh CavalryTags Ackerman, Arnold, Barnett, Butler, Dolan, Frank, Godfrey, Hall, Kellogg, McHugh
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Tag Archives: Alternate History
In Pursuit of Justice: A Review of The Gest of Robyn Hode & Little Joan According to Alaina of Dale
Title:The Gest of Robyn Hode & Little Joan According to Alaina of Dale
Author: T J Therien
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Historical
The story as you know it is a lie. Discover the true origins of the Robin Hood legend in this fast paced Novella that takes our titular character back to the roots of the early ballads.
Content warning: violence, murder, and attempted rape. I will not be discussing these things in my review.
Everyone deserves justice.
I appreciated how courageous many of the characters were, especially when it came to fourteen-year-old Robyn and Wilma, the woman who saved her from a pretty dangerous situation in one of the earliest chapters. The era they lived in definitely wasn’t a kind one for women or anyone living on the margins of society for reasons I’ll leave up to other readers to discover for themselves. It was cool to see them look out for one another in an environment where drawing attention to oneself could have so many negative repercussions.
This story had a large cast of characters that I had trouble keeping track of. There simply wasn’t enough room for me to get to know everyone well enough to immediately know who they were and how they were connected to everyone else when they popped up again after not being part of the plot for a while. It would have been nice to focus on a smaller number of folks and maybe save the rest for a sequel, if such a thing is in the works.
Some of my favorite scenes were the ones showing how Robyn, Wilma, and the other people who met up with them worked together to solve problems that seemed insurmountable. These weren’t the types of folks who the money or social connections to pull strings behind the scenes. Every bit of justice they hoped to seek would only come about through cooperation, a ton of hard work, and maybe a little luck as well. Those are exactly the sort of heroes I enjoy reading about.
Anyone who loves the original Robin Hood tales should check out The Gest of Robyn Hode & Little Joan According to Alaina of Dale.
Tagged: 2010s, Alternate History, Book Reviews, F/F, Fantasy, Folk Tales, Legends, LGBT, Retelling, Robin Hood, Self-Published, Short Stories, T J Therien, Young Adult
Safe Haven: A Review of Everfair
Title: Everfair
Author: Nisi Shawl
Genres: Fantasy, Alternate History, Steampunk
From noted short story writer Nisi Shawl comes a brilliant alternate-history novel set in the Belgian Congo.
What if the African natives developed steam power ahead of their colonial oppressors? What might have come of Belgium’s disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier?
Fabian Socialists from Great Britain join forces with African-American missionaries to purchase land from the Belgian Congo’s “owner,” King Leopold II. This land, named Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven, an imaginary Utopia for native populations of the Congo as well as escaped slaves returning from America and other places where African natives were being mistreated.
Shawl’s speculative masterpiece manages to turn one of the worst human rights disasters on record into a marvelous and exciting exploration of the possibilities inherent in a turn of history. Everfair is told from a multiplicity of voices: Africans, Europeans, East Asians, and African Americans in complex relationships with one another, in a compelling range of voices that have historically been silenced. Everfair is not only a beautiful book but an educational and inspiring one that will give the reader new insight into an often ignored period of history.
Content warning: Racism and sexism. I will not be discussing these things in my review.
Strap in for a wild ride.This book has a bit of everything!
Ms. Shawl did a very good job of explaining the political and historical landscape of the setting. I didn’t know a lot about how Belgium colonization of the Congo went so horribly wrong in our world, so I was grateful for all of the details the author provided about why Belgium made that decision and how they expected to make it work before she imaged how things could have turned out much differently for the Congo if they’d already had steam technology when this conflict boiled over.
The cast of characters was massive. Rather than telling this tale from the perspective of one or even a few different people, there were dozens of narrators and other protagonists to sort out as I read. Given the fact that each chapter was written in a form that was pretty similar to a short story and that previous characters often weren’t revisited until many years after their previous entry, I had lots of trouble keeping up with everyone and the plot at the same time. This felt like something that really should have been separated out into several novels or many more novellas. There was so much going on in the plot that nobody got all of the attention they deserved.
There was a list of characters, their relationships to each other, and approximately when and where they lived included before the story began. I was glad to have this information and would highly recommend taking a look at it before beginning the first chapter. As I mentioned earlier in this review, the cast of characters is humongous. Having a basic idea of everyone’s identity and when they lived is crucial in order to understanding the plot, and this list did help with that even though I still believe the plot would have been better served if it were divided into a series and no more than three or four narrators were included in each instalment.
Anyone who loves alternate history speculative fiction should check this book out.
Tagged: Africa, African, African-American, Alternate History, Book Reviews, Books, Diversity, F/F, Fantasy, Historical, LGBT, Steampunk, Tor Books
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Expo Centre Sharjah delays 17th SteelFab to June 2021
Sunday, November 1, 2020/ Editor -
Sharjah, November 1, 2020: The Expo Centre Sharjah, the organizer and the host of the SteelFab exhibition, has announced the postponement of the 17th edition of the event, which was scheduled to be held in January 2021, to June of the same year.
In a statement, the Centre’s Board of Directors said that the decision made after assessing the current global conditions and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the global economy, aviation, and air freight, and conferring with strategic partners and a number of industry leaders.
The Centre added: “We have already reached an agreement with a number of exhibiting companies that have booked a reasonable percentage of stands and booths. However, the delay of the event would be in everyone's best interest to attract the largest possible number of visitors and exhibitors.”
The early announcement of the new date of 17th SteelFab would help enable industry leaders to preset their plans and give them additional time to prepare for the event. The participating companies will also avoid the current restrictions of travel and allow both exhibitors and visitors to meet again with old and new customers in a very enjoyable and productive environment through an unprecedented shopping experience.
The statement added the Centre is forward to welcoming the participants and delegations from all over the world to the new edition of SteelFab which will certainly have the same success as the previous years, thus reinforcing Sharjah’s status as a leading global destination in the exhibitions and conferences sector.
The statement went on to emphasize the Expo Centre’s keenness to maintain the health and safety of everyone and the importance of organizing safe and successful event when the right conditions are in place while recognizing the important role SteelFab plays in supporting iron and steel industries at the local level, regional, and global scales.
Throughout 16 years, SteelFab has managed to attract major players from leading UAE and international companies and brands in the field of the steel industry, metal cutting, welding machines, and other relevant industries.
SteelFab is organized with the support of the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce & Industry and represents an annual forum to explore the latest equipment, advanced technologies, and new products and applications.
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After a triumphant decade as one of the most consistent and popular recording artists in history, Mariah Carey suffered a highly publicized emotional and physical breakdown in the summer of 2001. Now, with the release of her new album, Charmbracelet, and an enlightened sense of self-preservation, she's come back to reclaim her place in the pop pantheon. Lola Ogunnaike travels to Japan with Carey to bear witness to a diva renewed.
Vibe (US) March 2003. Text by Lola Ogunnaike. Photography by Wayne Maser.
Imagine waking up in a different country every day, living life inside private jets and five-star hotels. Imagine nearly having your clothes ripped off by a crazed Brazilian mob. Imagine crying out for help and no one caring. Imagine having a voice that moves people to tears. Imagine being the best-selling female recording artist in history. Imagine being Mariah Carey.
Now, imagine sitting in a rambling suite at the Four Seasons Hotel near Tokyo, nestled far away from the pulsating, neon lights of Shibuya (Japan's equivalent to Times Square). With the exception of the Clark Sisters CD playing in the background, her temporary abode is tranquil. Nothing like the noisy spectacle that was Narita Airport two hours ago when Carey arrived, bringing the promise of rainbows, butterflies, and sunshine. "Mariah, please hug me, please kiss me," fans begged in tattered English as the 32-year-old superstar signed autographs. Overzealous cameramen scurried about as security guards in starched, royal blue suits tried and failed to reestablish order. Carey and company were nearly trampled trying to exit the terminal. Many looked petrified; Carey smiled the entire time.
If you thought a little thing like Mariah's very public personal and career upheaval in 2001 was going to slow her down forever, your were sadly mistaken. For the past two months, she's been on an exhaustive promo tour, skipping from continent to continent in support of her latest album, Charmbracelet. She's lucky if she gets six hours sleep, which is still double what she was averaging a year ago this time.
"Her work ethic is insane," says Island Def Jam CEO Lyor Cohen, who was instrumental in bringing Carey into the Universal fold, singing her to a reported $7 to $8 million per album deal last year that allowed her to create her own label, MonarC. "She's psychotically professional and a real perfectionist."
Charmbracelet, the first fruit of that partnership, showcases Carey's wonderful range, from her signature, made-for-high-school-talent-show ballads to club-banging collabos with hip hop's hottest (including Cam'Ron, Jay-Z, Jermaine Dupri, and producer du jour Just Blaze), with a remake of Def Leppard's "Bringin' on the Heartbreak" thrown in for good measure. Her voice, a five-octave howitzer, is front and center, and she's done away with the purring and moaning that plagued her last CD.
If Carey's first two videos are any indication, she has also scrapped the barely there getups, though she remains willfully unashamed of her former sex kitten-meets-streetwalker image. "It's me playing dress up," says Carey, a self-professed prude who has lately grown fond of telling anyone who'll listen that she can count on the fingers of one hand the number of men she's been with. "I'm not promiscuous," she insists.
Carey's appeal always lay in her ability to tap into the hormonally imbalanced 13-year-old in all of us. Songs like "The One," "Yours," and "Boy (I need you)" — which rides that delightful Rose Royce sample used in Cam'Ron's "Oh Boy" — are perfect slumber-party fare. And in spite of the ridiculously juvenile title, Charmbracelet actually presents some of the most accomplished and mature work of Carey's 12-year recording career. While other world-renowned divas — delivering phrases like "crack is wack" before millions — may still be caught in a torrential downpour, Carey has indeed made it through the storm. "Yes, I've been bruised/ Grew up confused/ Been destitute/ I've seen life from many sides," she sings on the take-'em-to-church gospel number "My Saving Grace." On "I Only Wanted," which opens with heavy raindrops and a mournful guitar, she asks, "Couldn't love ever be something tangible and real?"
"She's a real thinker as far as the way she approaches the lyrics and the music," says 7 Aurelius, who produced "Subtle Invitation," one of the album's several standout tracks. Despite her writing and production acumen, though, Carey is still considered a lightweight by some, as cheesy as Velveeta. She blames it on the "diva" tag she's had for so long. "When that word is tossed around, people assume you don't really write your own songs and just stand there and sing in a pretty gown," she says. But silly album titles that sound like bad stripper names (Rainbow, Daydream, Glitter) haven't helped, nor has Carey's obsession with the sorts of things most ladies outgrew with their training bras (lunch boxes, stuffed animals, the color pink). Still, people, listen to the words. This is serious business here. "It's like breathing for me," says Carey. "If you're not strumming a guitar or playing a piano like Alicia Keys, people assume you're not involved. I don't think they realize how much time I put in in the studio. It's my second home." And as far as song input is concerned, "I'm really opinionated about stuff from beginning to end. Not controlling," she wants to make clear, "but it's my self-expression."
Carey and her self-expression spent all of the '90s at the top of the Billboard charts, racking up enough hits to put her in third place all-time, behind the Beatles and Elvis, for the most No. 1 records. At 23, she married one of the most powerful men in the industry, Sony Music Entertainment chief Tommy Mottola, in a half-million-dollar affair modeled on Princess Diana's nuptials, right down to the tiara. Carey's eventual split with Mottola in 1997 only made her seem hotter. The two-time Grammy winner signed an $80 million deal with Virgin and became a fixture of gossip columns, which breathlessly tracked her romances with Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter and Latin pop star Luis Miguel, and her partying at Manhattan hot spots. She was playing and working full tilt, and losing her grounding. In interviews, she spoke about her years-long bout with insomnia as if it were a common cold she couldn't shake. "I had always worked three times as hard as everyone," she says. "But during that period, I was working 10 times as hard, and it was ridiculous."
Imagine watching your life slip through your hands. Imagine running on a treadmill that won't shut off. Imagine dinner at 3 a.m. and breakfast at two in the afternoon. Imagine going, going, going, going until you drop.
Which is exactly what happened in July 2001, when Carey's body decided enough was enough. There were signs, of course. At a record store signing in Garden City, N.Y., her publicist, Cindi Berger, snatched a microphone from her, to interrupt a public rant. ("She does that all the time," Carey now says of Berger. "She's grabbed the mike from Sharon Stone. I don't know why no one has fired her yet," she adds jokingly.)
Meanwhile, "Loverboy," the first single from Carey's soundtrack album Glitter, was languishing on the charts — a first for an artist who'd grown used to seeing her songs soar. Matters came to a head on July 25 at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in Manhattan, where Carey allegedly dissolved into a dish-flinging tantrum and got her hands cut up. She was rushed to her mother's home in Westchester County. "Nobody was hearing me say, I can't do this," Carey says. "I'm not going to do another video today, and I'm not going to do one tomorrow. I'm exhausted I cannot go on another day like this. Somehow, they didn't hear me."
What was going through her mind? "I was like, Have I really gotten myself to this point?" Carey says. When my mother panicked and called 911, I was passed out on the kitchen floor." Calling an ambulance for your celebrity daughter might not have been the smartest PR move, but Mariah, who checked into Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Conn., to be treated for exhaustion, is glad her mother, Patricia, intervened. Mariah, who was running on less than two hours of sleep a night the week of her collapse, says, "No one was looking out for the human being that existed inside the machine that pays everybody."
The tabloids went wild with news of her breakdown. "i had never experienced fame in that invasive form, says Carey, who was caught in several unflattering photos, and there was even some speculation that she'd tried to kill herself. On that score, Carey's denial is adamant: "The last thing I would want is for some 13-year-old kid who emulates everything I do to have a difficult day and try to kill themselves." She offers her wrists for inspection. "Feel them. Look at them," she urges. There are no scars. Mariah Carey may be many things, but she's apparently no quitter.
And according to critics, she isn't much of an actress either. Glitter, a film loosely based on Mariah's rags-to-riches climb, was lambasted after its September 2001 release. "This is the worst performance by a pop star in a dramatic role since Madonna suited up for Shanghai Surprise," wrote one critic. "It's astonishingly bad."
I had an idea that was gritty, edgy, and it got so watered down and homogenized," says Carey. "The whole thing lost its spunk. Do I think it was the worst thing in history? No." With the poor showing of her soundtrack album (released on 9/11, of all days), it appeared that Carey's dual career had become an industry disaster zone. Virgin and Carey soon severed ties, though she walked away with a reported $28 parting gift.
Shibuya has been brought to a standstill. Carey is shooting her video for "The One," a midtempo love song, and thousands have turned out to watch. Policemen are freaking out . Fans are snapping photos with their state-of-the-art cell phones. Others are rushing the singer's limousine. The rain does not deter them, or Mariah for that matter. Dressed in a tight black minidress and sporting a pair of stilettos, she emerges from the car and ventures into the crowd without fear. Again she's unfazed by the chaos. In fact, she seems to revel in it. "I've never seen anything like it," says director Joseph Kahn. Later explaining the obsession with Mariah, Kahn says, "She's Japanese anime come to life, the cute girl in a school uniform fighting a giant robot." With this statuesque frame, eye-popping breasts, and flawless face, something about Carey is indeed cartoon-like. And like Hello Kitty, her smile is an enigma — is it sincere or sinister?
When not waging war on robots, she's taking on tell-all rappers, namely Eminem, who has made Mariah his new target. "Did I go there with him? N-O," Mariah says emphatically. Well, did Slim slide into second? Round third? "Listen to the song," she says. "We never even touched each other." Carey is referring to the revealing "Clown," a no-holds-barred dis record with a sweet melody. "your pain is so deep rooted / What will your life become," she sings. "Sure you hide it, but you're lost and lonesome / Still just frail, shook one." It's a nice psychological roundhouse, on a par with Nas's below-the-belt jab at Jay-Z on "Ether." Carey isn't publicly fingering Eminem as the "frail" one, but she says, "Bozo knows exactly who he is." To blast old flames isn't really her style, though. She rarely utters Mottola's name. "Part of it's a contractual issue," she says of her four-year marriage, "and part of it's trying to let the old stuff die. It's me being hopeful that if I take that attitude, he'll do the same.
"It's been a tough road with that situation," she continues. "Even when it looked dandy to the rest of the world." Does she believe her ex tried to sabotage her career? "I wouldn't want to go on record as saying that. But you can draw your own conclusions," Carey says. Cohen has his own views on the matter. "You wonder why some companies aren't doing so well?" he asks. "It's because they're too focused on negatively impacting a successful Mariah Carey album." Carey's apparent suspicions were confirmed when producer Irv Gotti revealed that the track sampled for J.Lo's album version of "I'm Real" was originally to be used by Carey (Lopez is signed to Sony). "He could've admitted that a year earlier and saved me a lot of grief," Carey states flatly. Was it difficult, then, to watch Jenny from the block bite Mariah's patented hip-pop formula, using choreography (and booty) to distract from a voice that doesn't come close to rivaling hers? "Everybody has their place," Carey offers diplomatically. "I'm trying not to feel competitive and let that take over me, even if I feel like what someone's doing isn't especially noteworthy."
Having endured her own trial by fire, Carey found that he loss of her father, Alfred Roy, to cancer last July put the smaller dramas into a larger perspective. "Celebrity stuff is fluff," she says, "None of it is real at the end of the day." Quite unlike some actresses who seem to like the tragic-mulatto role both on- and offscreen, Carey doesn't want sympathy. "It's been a difficult year, but my life leading up to it wasn't exactly a picnic. I was the one calling 911 when I was 6 years old and stuff was going on in my house," she says, without giving specifics. "I was the one pulling everything together. I saw things that people may never see in their lives. My family is not the Brady Bunch." No, it isn't/ Carey's big sister Alison, who's HIV-positive, reportedly claimed she turned tricks to support Mariah during the early years of her career. Before Roy's final illness, the sisters hadn't seen each other in seven years. "It would've been easy for me to be cynical before I even got in the industry," Carey says.
Through it all, Carey continues to be optimistic, to believe that after rainstorms there will always be rainbows. And like the almighty butterfly she has adopted as her personal metaphor, she understands that life is about metamorphosis, about dealing with trouble and surviving, wings and soul tested but intact. "I always laugh at the end," Carey says. "I always come out laughing and just keep on going." Imagine that.
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Is Myanmar the Next China?
The formerly reclusive Southeast Asian nation is undergoing an economic liberalization similar to what its northern neighbour embarked on in 1978.
At first glance, the idea that Myanmar is a “next China” should strike most readers as absurd. Myanmar’s population of less than 60 million is not even 5 percent of China’s. Most of the people are farmers and don’t even have a light bulb to read by because they aren’t connected to the aging electrical grid. Even factories in the commercial capital of Yangon only have electricity five hours a day. Most people are subsistence farmers who would consider themselves lucky to own an ox.
Myanmar’s wealth and heritage have been squandered as a result of 50 years of disastrous policies that saw it drop from one of Asia’s richest countries to one of its poorest. Its medical school was one of South Asia’s best. Now Burmese doctors work in hospitals from London to Hong Kong while back home the health care system is in shreds. The “Burmese way of socialism,” as the military government that ruled the country after a 1962 military coup styled its policies, was a disaster that might even rival Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward.
In short, Myanmar is a lot like the China of 1978 when Deng Xiaoping launched reform and opening up. There is lots of potential, and a fast-growing, mostly young population, with only about 5 percent of the people over 65. People are hungry for change.
I visited Myanmar in May as part of a delegation from the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and found it impossible not to be swept along by the belief that a transformation is underway. A reform-minded government, led by President Thein Sein, has started a sweeping process of economic and political reform. Long-time democracy activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has joined Parliament, with her party winning 43 of 45 seats in recent by-elections. Parliament passed a new foreign investment law in early May. The government has set a goal of creating one million new jobs before the end of its term in 2015. Six different exchange rates are being unified into one market-driven rate. Tax holidays and other inducements for foreign investors are being introduced. U.S. and E.U. sanctions, which badly hurt export industries, are being relaxed.
Officials have embraced change, with more or less enthusiasm, but have limited knowledge of the world beyond their borders. Managerial expertise is extremely limited, as is human capital more generally. Ditto infrastructure: Factories in Yangon typically only get electricity from noon until 5pm, relying on generators the rest of the time. Laws are archaic. The copyright law was enacted 70 years ago, under the British. The Companies Act dates from 1914, when Burma, as it was known then, was ruled as part of the British Raj.
But this country of more than 100 different ethnic groups also has the largest land mass in Southeast Asia outside of Indonesia. It has vast natural resources and a well-educated population. In short, if the economic policy shift now underway takes root, Myanmar is in the early stages of an economic takeoff that could parallel China in the 1980s.
China, too, wasted time during the years from 1949 until new policies started in 1978.
The question many people ask is if Myanmar is the next province of China. The country seemingly has made a strategic decision to ensure that it is not overly dependent on China. It sent shock waves from Beijing to Washington when it suspended work on the controversial US$ 3.6 billion Myitsone dam last year, a joint venture between Chinese and Myanmese companies.
“Are we worried that we will be a province of China?” This was the rhetorical question posed by a prominent member of the country’s business community. “Not really. Why would you leave China with 24-hour electricity, and come to a place where you get electricity every three days, there’s no running water, you can’t speak the language and it’s bloody hot.” China is going to have a say in Myanmar, just as it does in most neighboring countries, but fears that the country will be dominated by Beijing are receding. This is a proud, independent nation.
The embryonic economic liberalization is similar to what China experienced. Of course, it wasn’t only China but South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and its Association of Southeast Asian Nation neighbors like Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand that have gone through this sort of economic takeoff.
Myanmar, in short, is trodding a well-travelled road toward a more open economy. It has critical shortages in everything from human skills to infrastructure. But, for better or worse, the promise and perils of Myanmar today are similar to those of China in the 1980s.
Originally published in Caixin: http://english.caixin.com/2012-06-20/100402714_1.html
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HOW COMRADE PLEKHANOV ARGUES
ABOUT SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC TACTICS
Vperyod, No. 1, May 26, 1906
Signed: N. L.
to the Vperyod text
Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, djr@marx2mao.org (December 2001)
The last two issues of Kuryer contain Comrade Plekhanov's first letter "On Tactics and Tactlessness". The liberal bourgeois press has already quite rightly observed that Comrade Plekhanov is going far more to the right than Kuryer. The whole of this press is praising Comrade Plekhanov to the skies, and holding him up as a model for all other Social-Democrats.
Let us, then, examine Comrade Plekhanov's arguments as calmly as we can.
Comrade Plekhanov is arguing with the Poltava Social-Democratic newspaper Kolokol,[197] and quotes the following passages from it:
"The mere adoption of a Social-Democratic programme does not in itself make a single individual, or even a whole group, Social-Democratic. To become a Social-Democrat, one must also adopt in their entirety the principles of Social-Democratic tactics.
"The feature that sharply distinguishes the Social-Democratic Party from all other parties is, in addition to its programme, its unrelenting class position in relation to all other, bourgeois parties."
Comrade Plekhanov is very severe in his "strictures" of this passage. First, he demands that the word "opposition" be substituted for the word "position". In our opinion, this change would not improve the original wording in the least: if anything, it would worsen it. Secondly, Comrade Plekhanov undertakes the functions of a proof-reader. In the original there was no comma after the word "other". Unpretentious proof-readers usually correct such mistakes without making a fuss about it. Pretentious proof-readers write a feuilleton nearly half a column long about it!
But let us get down to the subject. What is Comrade Plekhanov's objection on the point at issue? He says: "The author depicts all the other[*] bourgeois parties as one reactionary mass."
This is not true. There is not a hint of anything like it in the passage we have quoted. And in the ensuing lines, which Plekhanov himself quotes, the author clearly distinguishes between two types of bourgeois party: -Cadet opposition" parties and (2) "Right" parties. Comrade Plekhanov's attempt to ascribe to the author the idea of "one reactionary mass" is not only unfair, but positively unworthy of a socialist who wants to discuss a real issue.
"Different bourgeois parties wear different colours", says Comrade Plekhanov. We have already demonstrated that this correct idea is by no means alien to the author of the article in Kolokol, for he distinguishes between the Cadet opposition "colour" and the Right "colour". Hence the author has not transgressed against the "principles" of Social-Democratic tactics, in spite of the opinion of the carping, but clumsy, critic. But for the purpose of defining Russian Social-Democratic tactics in the period of revolution it is not enough to distinguish between these two "colours" of the bourgeois parties. Here indeed there is a gap in the ideas, or in the way they are set forth, in Kolokol, but Comrade Plekhanov did not notice it. While inventing non-existent gaps, he overlooked the real gap.
If Comrade Plekhanov had wanted to debate real issues with the Bolsheviks** and not argue for the pleasure and entertainment of the Cadet newspapers, he could not but have mentioned that it is the Bolsheviks who have long insisted that it is necessary to distinguish at least three main "colours" among the bourgeois parties. Herein lies one of the main differences between the two tactics ; and Comrade
* Comrade Plekhanov also forgets to put a comma here, or to leave out the word "other", i.e., he himself makes the same slip that he so sternly admonishes our comrade for!
** We know neither the author of the article in Kolokol, nor the editors, nor the trend of this Social-Democratic newspaper. We are here concerned with the general ideas underlying Plekhanov's "criticism", and not specifically with his polemics with Kolokol.
Plekhanov's hopes of being able to obscure this difference in political tactics by sighing like a philistine petty bourgeois over "tactlessness" are vain.
A year ago the Bolshevik pamphlet Two Tactics* appeared abroad, and was subsequently republished in Russia. Its author maintained that the main fallacy of Menshevism as a whole was the fact that it did not understand which elements of the bourgeoisie can, together with the proletariat, carry through to the end the bourgeois-democratic revolution in Russia. The Mensheviks even now go astray by thinking that the bourgeois revolution must be made by the "bourgeoisie" (bourgeoisie in general, irrespective of "colour"!), while it is the function of the proletariat to help it. That explains why the Mensheviks (including Plekhanov) have never been able to define, in anything like a Marxist way, what the "decisive victory of the present revolution" will be in the light of the political regrouping of classes, although they did not mind talking about the decisive victory, even in resolutions. The Bolsheviks' assertion that decisive victory can mean only the dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry was repugnant to them, but they have been unable to refute, correct, or modify it.
The Bolsheviks have asserted, and still do, that the only firm and reliable ally the proletariat can have in the epoch of the bourgeois-democratic revolution (until that revolution wins) is the peasantry. The peasants are also "bourgeois democrats", but entirely different in "colour" from the Cadets or Octobrists. Before these bourgeois democrats, irrespective of what they themselves want, history has set aims that are genuinely revolutionary as regards the "old order" in Russia. These bourgeois democrats are compelled to fight against the very foundations of landlord power and the old state authority connected with it. These bourgeois democrats are not "compelled" by objective conditions to do their utmost to preserve the old authorities and to complete the revolution by striking a bargain with the old authorities. Therefore in their tendencies -- which are determined by what they are compelled to do -- these bourgeois democrats are revolutionary democrats. And the Bolsheviks defined
* See present edition, Vol. 9, pp. 15-140. --Ed.
the tactics of the socialist proletariat during the bourgeois-democratic revolution as follows: the proletariat must lead the peasantry, without merging with it, against the old authorities and the old order, paralysing the instability and inconsistency of the liberal bourgeoisie, which wavers between people's freedom and the old authorities.
It is exactly these principles of the tactics of the Russian Social-Democratic proletariat in the present period that the Mensheviks have not understood. Nor has Comrade Plekhanov understood them. And it is this concrete question of our tactics that he is trying to evade, obscure and cover up by his arguments about slips and misprints, by his irrelevant quotations, and so forth.
Judge for yourselves. In Kuryer, No. 5, Plekhanov goes to the length of ascribing to the Bolsheviks the idea that "the proletariat cannot march by the side of the bourgeoisie . . . this would be opportunism".
We are not dead yet, Comrade Plekhanov! Anyone who invents legends about us as if we were dead makes himself ridiculous. Even those who are only slightly familiar with Vperyod, Proletary, Two Tactics, The Victory of the Cadets, and other Bolshevik pamphlets, will see at once that Plekhanov is not speaking the truth.
For eighteen months already the Bolsheviks have been asserting that the Mensheviks' mistakes are due to their inability to distinguish between the revolutionary bourgeois democrats and all those bourgeois democrats who precisely at the present time are rapidly shedding their revolutionism. For eighteen months already the Bolsheviks have been asserting that owing to their ludicrous dread of "coming close" to the Socialist-Revolutionaries, the Mensheviks are coming far too close to the Cadets, and are underrating the importance of the bourgeois democrats of the revolutionary colour. The Bolsheviks assert that the opportunism of the Mensheviks consists in their forgetting the basic interests of democracy, and consequently of socialism, because it cannot achieve real successes in an era of bourgeois revolution unless democracy is successful -- on account of the temporary successes of liberalism, and in blind awe at the tawdry triumphs of the Zemstvo people or the Cadets.
This is what constitutes your opportunism, Comrade Plekhanov!
Marx taught us, exclaims Plekhanov, "to inquire what the bourgeoisie is compelled to do, and not what it wants to do".
Quite so, Comrade Plekhanov. But it is this lesson of Marx's that you forget when you take his name in vain, just as Bernstein did while undermining Marxism. You forget that the Cadets are "compelled" to seek a bargain with the old authorities, while the peasant or revolutionary democrats are "compelled" to wage a resolute struggle against it; or at any rate, that the Cadets are only capable of striking a bargain, whereas the peasants are also capable of waging a serious struggle. By means of general phrases about what the "bourgeoisie" in general is compelled to do, Comrade Plekhanov obscures the concrete issue, namely, what the "bourgeoisie" of the Cadet colour and the bourgeoisie of the revolutionary-democratic colour are compelled to do.
Now judge who is actually incapable of distinguishing the different colours among the Russian bourgeoisie in our day. Who treats the workers to scholastics, pedantry and "mummified truth", instead of pointing to the differences within bourgeois democracy that are essential precisely today?
Readers who are seriously interested in this problem should solve it not on the basis of casual impressions, but by seriously studying Social-Democratic literature and congress decisions. Compare the resolution on the State Duma adopted by the Congress with the resolution proposed by the Bolsheviks.* You will find that it is the Congress (Menshevik) resolution that is unable to draw a clear distinction between the peasant democrats and the Cadet democrats. On the other hand, it is just the Bolshevik resolution that stresses this distinction. The Congress resolution merely advises us to expose the inconsistency of all the bourgeois parties, whereas our resolution refers to the instability of the Cadets, and states that we must unite the peasant democrats against the Cadets. The Congress reso-
* See pp. 292-93 of this volume. --Ed. [Transcriber's Note: See Lenin's "The Unity Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.". -- DJR]
lution is quite worthless in this respect, for to expose all bourgeois parties is the duty of the socialists in all countries at all times. Whoever confines himself to this merely repeats Marxist phrases -- like a schoolboy learning a lesson by heart -- without being able to digest them and apply them to Russia. It is in the period of a bourgeois revolution that to say "expose all bourgeois parties" means saying nothing, and indeed, saying what is not true; for bourgeois parties can be seriously and thoroughly exposed only when particular bourgeois parties step into the foreground of history. Our resolution, on the other hand, distinguishes those particular "colours" that are of political importance today. And that is why the very first steps taken by the Duma confirmed the correctness of our resolution, for they clearly revealed to all the instability of the Cadets and the more revolutionary nature of the "Trudoviks".
Another example: the attitude to be taken towards the bourgeois parties. How did the Mensheviks decide this question before the Congress? With general phrases -- see their draft resolution. And the Bolsheviks? They pointed to three types of bourgeois opposition: the Octobrists, the Cadets and the revolutionary democrats (see the Bolsheviks' draft resolution).[*] How did the Congress decide this question? The Mensheviks did not dare to submit their resolution, and endorsed the Amsterdam resolution ! The Russian Social-Democrats in the period of a bourgeois revolution have nothing to say about the Russian bourgeoisie of different colours except to repeat what is being said in all European countries a hundred years after a bourgeois revolution!
Is it not obvious that our esteemed Plekhanov is laying the blame at someone else's door?
Take Comrade Plekhanov's arguments about "true socialism" in Germany in the 1840s. What was the essence of this "true socialism"? First, incomprehension of the class struggle and the significance of political liberty. Second, inability to see the relative importance of the different strata of the bourgeoisie in the political struggle then being waged. Is it not ridiculous for Comrade Plekhanov to accuse us
* See pp. 157-58 of this volume. --Ed. [Transcriber's Note: See Lenin's "A Tactical Platform for the Unity Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.". -- DJR]
of this, when it is he, at the head of the Mensheviks, who is obscuring the fundamental -- because of present conditions -- difference between the Cadet oppositionist bourgeoisie and the revolutionary-democratic bourgeoisie?
This accusation that there is an affinity between the Bolsheviks and "true socialism" in any case deserves a good laugh. Just think of it. We have always heard a chorus of accusation that we were too inflexible and ossified, too adamant. And yet our opponents call us "Blanquists", "anarchists" and "true socialists". The Blanquists are conspirators (they have never been in favour of the general strike), they exaggerate the importance of revolutionary government. The anarchists completely repudiate all government, revolutionary or otherwise, and as against the strict organisation of the Blanquists, they advocate complete licence to disorganise. The "true socialists" are something like peaceful Lavrovists,[198] semi-uplifters, non-revolutionaries, heroes of abstruse thought and abstract sermonising. The Mensheviks could not have found a better stick with which to beat themselves than these mutually exclusive accusations against the Bolsheviks. Our best answer to their charges is to point to this confusion in the Mensheviks' minds.
We, on the other hand, have always said, and say, that the Mensheviks constitute the Social-Democratic Right wing, inclining towards opportunism, i.e., towards forgetting the permanent, important and fundamental interests of the proletariat for the sake of momentary interests, for the sake of seeming possibilities of "adjusting" oneself to momentary moods, situations and relations.
What do Comrade Plekhanov's present tactics come down to? To grovelling before the Cadets' successes, forgetting the very shady sides of their present conduct, disguising their reactionary character compared with the revolutionary bourgeois democrats, and befogging the minds of those workers and peasants who are prone to believe in "petitions" and in a toy parliament.
The Cadets are doing their utmost to appear like ordinary bourgeois democrats, to hide their disagreement with the Trudovik Group, to cover up their disagreements with the peasant democrats and to obtain support for precisely the Right, unreliable wing of the bourgeois democrats.
No matter what Comrade Plekhanov's intentions may be, all he achieves is that he is in practice supporting these reactionary strivings of the Cadets. And that is why they are so lavish in their praise of him.
Comrade Plekhanov says that as far back as 1903 (Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.) he, in controversy with the then Right wing of the Party (Akimov, Martynov and others), urged that it was necessary to support every opposition movement against the autocracy. Marx held the same opinion in 1847. And Plekhanov wants to assure his readers that the Bolsheviks have forgotten this axiom.
Comrade Plekhanov is mistaken. The general thesis that oppositions must be supported is not rejected by those who answer the concrete question whether a particular section of the opposition and revolutionary bourgeoisie should be supported at a given moment. The mistake Comrade Plekhanov makes is, first, that he substitutes an abstract consideration for a concrete historical question. And secondly, his views on bourgeois democracy in Russia are totally unhistorical. He forgets that the position of the different strata of these bourgeois democrats changes as the revolution advances. The higher the revolution rises, the faster do the least revolutionary strata of the bourgeoisie desert it. Those who do not understand this cannot explain anything at all in the course of the bourgeois revolution.
We will take two examples to illustrate the foregoing.
In 1847 Marx supported the most timid opposition of the German bourgeoisie to the German government.[199] In 1848, he ruthlessly, furiously denounced and lashed the extremely radical German Cadets -- much more to the left than our Cadets -- who were carrying on "constructive work" in the Frankfurt Parliament, assuring the world that this constructive work was of the greatest agitational importance, and being unable to understand that the struggle for real power was inevitable.[200] Had Marx been false to himself? Had he changed his mind? Had he slipped into Blanquism (as the Bernsteinians and the German liberal professors think)? Not in the least. The revolution had advanced. Not only the German "Shipovites" of 1847, but the German "Cadets" of 1848 as well had fallen behind. As the true guardian of the interests of the advanced class, Marx ruthlessly
flayed the stragglers, particularly the more influential among them.
In quoting Marx, Plekhanov misrepresents him.
In 1903, and even earlier, in 1901-02, the old Iskra supported the "Shipovites", i.e., the timid liberal Zemstvo people of that time who, together with Mr. Struve, issued the slogan of "Rights, and an Authoritative Zemstvo". The revolution advanced, and the Social-Democrats descended, as it were, from the opposition upper ranks of the bourgeoisie to its revolutionary lower ranks. They "badgered" the Shipovites for their vague demands for a constitution; the constitutionalists, for ignoring universal, etc., suffrage; those who accepted the latter, for not accepting the revolution, etc., always in proportion to the development, expansion and deepening of the whole democratic movement. Did the revolutionary Social-Democrats contradict themselves, if from support of the oppositionist "Shipovites" in 1901-02 they went over to support of the revolutionary peasants in 1905-06? Not in the least. They were quite consistent.
It is Comrade Plekhanov who is inconsistent, in allowing the momentary successes of the Cadets to obscure from him the loftier democratic tasks that experience is already bringing to the front.
To proceed. Here is a particularly striking example of Plekhanov's exceedingly uncritical attitude towards the Cadet Duma.
Comrade Plekhanov quotes the following passage from Kolokol :
"Applying these general propositions to the parliamentary workers' group, we may say that this group will express the real aspirations of the more militant and class-conscious section of the Russian proletariat, in other words, will deserve to he called a Social-Democratic group insofar as it bases its activities in the Duma on the fundamental tactical principles of Social-Democracy.
"Not to sink in the general Cadet-opposition marsh in the Duma not to trail behind the Cadet majority in it, but to oppose this majority, and to expose the narrowness of its aspirations its leanings to wards compromise with the 'Right' parties and with the government -- these are the only tactics worthy of representatives of the proletariat the truly Social-Democratic tactics that we must strongly recommend to the representatives of the workers in the Duma. If they pursue any
other tactics, tactics that obscure the class-consciousness of the proletariat whose representatives the members of this group consider themselves to be in the Duma, they will become hangers-on of the bourgeois parties, tools with which to hinder the proletariat in fulfilling its independent tasks in the general course of the Russian revolution.
Plekhanov comments on this as follows:
"If our Poltava comrade had to apply his general propositions to the Socialist Party in France, he would not have to make any serious changes in the last lines of his article. He could merely substitute the word 'radical' for the word 'Cadet', 'Chamber of Deputies' for 'Duma' and lastly, the phrase 'social-historical movement' for 'Russian revolution'. That is amazingly convenient."
We invite our readers to go over this passage from Kolokol and Plekhanov's comment once again. The latter reveals to us with rare clarity one of the causes of Plekhanov's turn towards Bernstein.
Just think. "Kolokol " could merely substitute, in the last lines of its article, the word "radical" for "Cadet" and the phrase "Chamber of Deputies" for "Duma".
This argument nails Comrade Plekhanov's fallacies to the counter. It shows how very far he is from understanding what constitutional illusions are, and hence from understanding the present situation in the Russian bourgeois revolution.
Plekhanov has lost sight of the fundamental difference between the Russian Cadets and the Russian Duma, and the French radicals and the French Chamber of Deputies, between the relations of the former and those of the latter. He has overlooked a very short phrase in the Kolokol article, a very short but very characteristic and notable one. That phrase is: "compromise with the government ".
Think of it, Comrade Plekhanov. Can there be any talk in France about a "compromise" between the Chamber of Deputies and the government? No. Why? Because in France, in all things that matter, the government is subordinate to the Chamber. The majority in the Chamber is itself the actual government, for it appoints to the Ministry the men it desires. By securing a majority in the Chamber, the radicals become the government. Today the alignment of parliamentary forces corresponds, more or less, to the alignment of real forces among the people, and to the attitude
of the state to the people. Today the written Constitution does not to any extent diverge from the actual Constitution, from the alignment of forces.
In Russia there can and must be talk about an agreement between the majority in the Duma and the government. Why? Because in our country real power belongs, in law and in fact, not at all to the Duma, but to the old autocratic government. Unlike the Chamber of Deputies, the Duma is not an organ of state power, but merely an instrument for the presentation of the petitions, requests and demands of a section of the people to the old authorities. Therefore the majority in the Duma can "enter into an agreement" with the government; for France this would be an absurdity. The alignment of parliamentary forces does not in the least correspond either to the alignment of real forces in the country or to the relations between the state and the people.
In France the actual class struggle is being waged between the forces that are represented in the Chamber, and even the proportion in which these forces are represented corresponds, more or less, to their present relative "fighting strength".
In Russia the actual struggle is not being waged at all between the forces that are represented in the Duma, and their representation in the Duma is just now very distinctly and fundamentally out of proportion to their present relative "fighting strength". The real government of Russia is hardly represented in the Duma at all: it has other "institutions". The proletariat, too, is hardly represented, while the peasantry is very poorly represented in proportion to its numbers.
Comrade Plekhanov's attempt to draw a parallel between Russia and France shows that he is entirely immersed in constitutional illusions. He takes the name (parliament, chamber) for the object; the label for the contents. That is why he completely loses sight of all the more important special features of the present situation in Russia, when a struggle is maturing between the "people" -- which is least represented in the Duma -- and the old authorities, and the role of the "compromisers", of deserters in this struggle, is becoming particularly important and particularly dangerous.
Just as Bernstein in 1899 did an enormous amount of harm to the German proletariat by taking the petty-bourgeois intellectual "compromisers" (the social-liberals who were trying to reconcile the proletariat with the bourgeoisie) for the actual bourgeoisie that was wielding real power, so Plekhanov in 1906 is doing enormous harm to the Russian proletariat by taking the semi-reactionary bourgeois "compromisers" (the Cadets, who are trying to reconcile people's freedom with the old authorities) for an independent political force in the state, for an authority which it is possible and worth while to support.
Bernstein, in appealing for "tactfulness" towards the social-liberals, in appealing for support for them and pleading that they should not be pushed into the camp of reaction, appealed for support for a fiction. He was chasing the shadow of social peace and was oblivious of the fundamental tasks of the struggle for power.
Plekhanov, in appealing for "tactfulness" towards the Cadets, in appealing for support for them and pleading that they should not be pushed into the camp of reaction, is appealing for support for a fiction. He is chasing the shadow of parliamentarism (in the period of a bourgeois, not a socialist revolution) and is oblivious of the fundamental tasks of the struggle for power.
The social-liberal, Cadet bourgeoisie is carrying both Bernstein and Plekhanov shoulder-high, praising them to the skies, advertising them, reprinting their writings for the services they are rendering it in its struggle against the proletariat.
Make no mistake about it, workers. These phrases about Social-Democrats having to be "tactful" and about "supporting" the Cadets have a specific meaning in real politics, a meaning that is determined by the actual alignment of forces and not by Plekhanov's good intentions. It may not have been Plekhanov's intention to allay or blunt political and social antagonisms between the classes, and between the people and the old authorities; he may assure other people that he had no such intention; but in the present political situation this is precisely the effect of his arguments, whether he wanted it or not.
Bernstein was not striving for social peace (or so he said);
but the bourgeoisie rightly understood that this is what his arguments implied. And look at the Cadet press here in Russia. It is praising Plekhanov and, regardless of his wishes, is drawing its own deductions from what he says. In yesterday's Duma (No. 22), Mr. Kotlyarevsky argued that all "class struggle and class hatred" were an obstacle to the cause of national liberation. He drew a parallel between the struggle that Volna is conducting and the struggle of the Guesdists against the Jaurèsists, of Ferri against Turati, and of Kautsky against Bernstein. He expressed fear that "this preaching of class hatred that is now making itself heard in Russia, by undermining the solidarity of the various social groups that is so essential for joint political action, may cut away [mark this!] the ground for the activities of any sort of properly constituted popular representative body". "Is not this [class hatred] sapping the very spirit of constitutionalism?"
In today's Svoboda i Kultura [201] (No. 7), Mr. Struve bewails the fact that the Social-Democrats "are throwing liberty to be rent asunder by the furies of class strife ", that they have "a biassed and morbid craze for the ideas of the class struggle " (p. 458), that "political peace [recall the words "social peace" uttered by the European bourgeoisie!] is making entirely new claims upon us" (p. 514?. The bourgeoisie understands perfectly well that Plekhanov's ideas foster false hopes of "political peace" and in practice serve to blunt all class strife and all class struggle. Like the bird in the fable, Comrade Plekhanov was caught in the snare by only one tiny claw, but the whole "birdie" now finds itself entirely in Mr. Struve's cage, so far as present-day politics are concerned.
"Abuse is not criticism," writes Comrade Plekhanov. "Criticism really develops the mind, whereas abuse obscures it. Take the abusive term 'treachery'. We shout so often about the treachery of the bourgeoisie that when it does 'betray', that is, when it makes peace with the bureaucracy, and it becomes really necessary for us to shout about this from the house-tops, our cries will no longer have the desired effect, and we shall meet with the same fate as the boy who shouted, 'Wolf! Wolf!', when there was no wolf."
What a beautiful specimen of Russian Bernsteinianism is this little fragment of Plekhanov's reasoning!
First, see how clear it is that Comrade Plekhanov has not a leg to stand on. In November 1905, he wrote in Dnevnik, No. 3: ". . . we have had a lot of shouting lately about the bourgeoisie having betrayed something or other [!] But what can the bourgeoisie have betrayed? At all events, not the revolution, for it has never served the idea of revolution."
As you see, in November 1905 Comrade Plekhanov did not even understand what the bourgeoisie could betray. Now he does. He not only believes that the bourgeoisie can betray something, but holds that it actually will betray. Within six months Comrade Plekhanov has changed his mind. First he said that the bourgeoisie could not betray anything. Now he says that it actually will betray, that is, will make peace with the bureaucracy.
We should have been very pleased with Comrade Plekhanov's progress, had his views in other respects not remained just as changeable. Treachery is an abusive term, he says. This opinion is not new. It is the opinion held by every liberal bourgeois. The Cadets are dinning into the ears of the Russian public in thousands of newspaper articles that this talk about the "treachery" of the bourgeoisie is merely the abusive language of the "wild" Bolsheviks. Now the bourgeoisie has found a new ally on this issue. Comrade Plekhanov has also become convinced that "treachery" is an "abusive term".
Just as it was necessary at one time to repeat and reiterate the ABC of Marxism to counter Bernstein, so it is necessary to do so now to counter Plekhanov. He is greatly mistaken. "Treachery" is not "an abusive term"; it is the only scientifically and politically correct term with which to express the actual facts about, and the actual aspirations of, the bourgeoisie. The word "treachery" expresses the same idea as the phrase "striking a bargain". Plekhanov himself cannot help admitting this, for he identifies treachery with reconciliation with the bureaucracy. And now see what the "wild" Volna has said about the phrase "striking a bargain".
"But what, in substance, are the bargains struck by the Cadets?" we read in Volna, No. 13. "Not personal acts of
treachery, of course. Such a crude opinion is utterly alien to Marxism. The substance of the bargains is (and is only) that the Cadets don't abandon, and don't want to abandon, their stand for preserving the old regime and for obeying the commands of this regime."[*]
Thus the essence of treachery, or of striking bargains, is not personal acts of treachery. Treachery, or striking bargains, only means that the party of "people's" (read "bourgeois") freedom is striving to keep the old autocracy in power, to induce it to share power with the bourgeoisie.
The party of "people's freedom" is betraying people's freedom just because it is surrendering a large share of the people's rights and the people's power to the representatives of the old authorities. Comrade Plekhanov's unwillingness to understand this simple truth is quite monstrous. He is making out that the bourgeoisie in Russia has not yet betrayed anything, that it will do so only in the future.
This is total incomprehension of the very essence of treachery and bargains.
The bourgeoisie and the Cadets have betrayed freedom and made peace with the bureaucracy a thousand times. What is the programme of the Constitutional-Democratic Party? Does it represent a certain political step taken by the bourgeoisie? Undoubtedly it does. But this programme is precisely a programme of treachery, of striking bargains! And every political step the Cadets take is, in one way or another, a step in the fulfilment of this programme. Trubetskoi's[202] speech in the summer of 1905, the Cadets' hedging on the issue of the four-point system and the Draconian Freedom of the Press Bill, are all steps taken by the liberal bourgeoisie in fulfilment of this programme of treachery.
As Comrade Plekhanov sees it, the bourgeoisie cannot be accused of treachery unless it takes some new special step. This is not true. If the bourgeoisie, and the Cadets in particular, continue doing what they have been doing so far, the sum-total of all their actions will produce the most complete picture of treachery. The essence of present-day
* See p. 405 of this volume. --Ed. [Transcriber's Note: See Lenin's "The Workers' Group in the State Duma". -- DJR]
Social-Democratic opportunism is precisely failure to understand this.
If the philistine dreams of the Cadets come true, if the "peaceful pressure" of the Duma and of "public opinion" compels the government to make minor concessions, if the Council of State is prepared to yield a little -- as it is advised to do by Mr. Khomyakov, a member of the Council, whose plans the Cadet newspaper Duma reported yesterday -- if the old government reorganises the Ministry and gives several comfortable seats in it to the Right Cadets, and so forth, the result, in the long run, will be precisely "reconciliation" between the Cadets and the bureaucracy. The sum and substance of Plekhanov's mistake is that he thinks that the path of "treachery" is, or will be, a "new" path for our bourgeoisie, whereas it is really a continuation of its old path that constitutes the "corpus delicti " of its treachery, to use a legal term.
When the bourgeoisie does "actually" betray, says Plekhanov, nobody will believe us when we raise a cry about it, because everybody will have become too accustomed to the word "treachery".
What infinite political naïveté The whole policy of Social-Democracy is to light up the path that lies ahead before the masses of the people. We hold aloft the torch of Marxism and show, by every step the various classes take, by every political and economic event, that life confirms our doctrines. As capitalism develops, and as the political struggle becomes more acute, larger and larger sections of the people become convinced by what we say and by this factual (or historical) confirmation of what we say. At present, let us say, hundreds of thousands of men and women in Russia are convinced that our appraisal of the Cadets is correct. If the revolution develops fast, or takes a sharp turn towards an important deal between the Cadets and the autocracy, millions and even tens of millions will be convinced that we are right.
Therefore it is the greatest absurdity to say that later on people will not believe us when we raise a cry about treachery, because we are shouting about it too often now. Comrade Plekhanov is vainly trying to cover up this absurdity by arguments that elderly spinsters, dames de classe and
the like, usually produce for the benefit of high-school girls. "Criticism must be well founded," he tells us for our edification.
Both new and clever. Your criticism too, Comrade Plekhanov, should be well founded. As it happens, you do not quote a single fact, or a single important example, to prove that our criticism of the Cadets is unfounded; by your general arguments, however, you have sown a number of unfounded opinions in the minds of your readers! Just imagine, you are reducing the concept of "treachery" to that of a term of abuse!
Then there is this sentence. "In our ranks, the realisation of this antithesis [the antithesis of the interests of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat] has acquired, one may say, the rigidity of a prejudice. " What do you mean by "our ranks", Comrade Plekhanov? The ranks of the Russian philistines in Geneva? Or of the members of our Party, in general? But should not the broad ranks of the masses of the people also be borne in mind?
As a worker aptly remarked in Prizyv,[203] Plekhanov judges "from afar ". The masses of proletarians and semi-proletarians have as yet no idea of either this general antithesis or the bourgeois character of the Cadets. The Cadet press just now is probably ten times as large as the Social-Democratic press. The Cadets are also steadily corrupting the minds of the people through the Cadet Duma and through all sorts of liberal institutions. One must indeed have lost all sense of reality to imagine that we are running ahead of events and of the needs of the masses by exposing the instability and treachery of the Cadets. On the contrary, in this matter we are lagging behind events and the needs of the masses! It would be far better, Comrade Plekhanov, if you wrote a popular and "well-founded" criticism of the Cadets: that would be more useful.
Let us now examine Plekhanov's deductions concerning the Duma.
"Our government has already committed many unpardonable blunders," he writes. "These blunders have brought it to the brink of an abyss, but they have not yet pushed it into the abyss. It will fall into the abyss when the Duma is dispersed. . . . The Duma is rousing even the most somnolent;
it is pushing forward even the most backward; it is dispelling from the minds of the masses the last political illusions bequeathed by history. . . . The organic work of the Duma will have the most agitational effect."
Examine these arguments closely. The government will fall when the Duma is dispersed. Let us admit this for argument's sake. But why assume that the Duma will be dispersed if it engages solely in organic work? What is organic work? The work the Duma does within the law. The Duma submits Bills to the Council of State and interpellates the Ministers. The Council of State and the Ministers procrastinate and, as far as possible, smooth out all the conflicts that arise. Russkoye Gosudarstvo, the mouth-piece of the Russian Government, long ago said: let the Duma be an opposition Duma, but not a revolutionary one. In other words: you may engage in organic work, but not a single step beyond that!
What sense would there be in dissolving the Duma for doing organic work?? And it never will be dissolved if it never takes a revolutionary, quite non-organic step, or if no movement flares up outside the Duma that will convert even a Cadet Duma into an obstacle to the government. We think that there are far more reasons for such an assumption than for the bare statement that "the Duma will be dispersed".
The dissolution of the Duma is not the only cause likely to bring about the fall of the government. The government may fall for other reasons; for the Duma is by no means the chief factor, nor the surest index of the movement. It will not fall of itself, but as a result of the vigorous action -- of a third force (neither the government, nor the Duma). It is the duty of the Social-Democrats to explain that this action is inevitable; to explain the forms it is likely to assume, the character and class composition of the forces capable of carrying out such an "action"; to explain the conditions under which it can be successful, and so on and so forth. It is the Cadets, however, who are relentlessly fighting the Social-Democrats for doing this. Therefore one of the conditions for success in this work, and a guarantee that the masses will sympathise with it, is that the Cadets must be discredited.
Whoever talks about the government "falling" into the abyss and yet says that it is inopportune to criticise the Cadets and to accuse them of treachery, is utterly inconsistent. If I wanted to copy Plekhanov's style, I would say: falling "into the abyss" is merely a figure of speech, it is a revolutionary phrase. Into whose hands will power pass? Can the workers and peasants permit power to pass to the Cadets, who would at once share it with the old autocracy? Is it not, therefore, particularly necessary to warn the people against the Cadets?
We think it is. We think that Plekhanov's opportunism, his absolutely groundless opposition to tactics which expose the true nature of the Constitutional-Democratic Party, is hampering and damaging this necessary work of enlightening the masses about the Cadets.
In saying that constructive work in the Duma will have the most agitational effect, Plekhanov shows that he takes an extremely one-sided view of things. As we have already pointed out in Volna, the Mensheviks themselves put Plekhanov right on this point when they quite justifiably ridicule the prospect of the Duma "piling up a heap of laws".* So far Russia has been the country with the largest number of paper police laws. If the Duma spends all its time on "constructive" work, Russia will soon become the country with the largest number of paper radical laws. It is the greatest pedantry to imagine that the agitational effect of these laws or Bills will be in direct proportion to their length and number. To think so, one must have forgotten the example of the Frankfurt Parliament, which very zealously engaged in "constructive work" and, as Plekhanov does now, imagined that it was constructive work that had the most agitational effect. To think so, one must be blind to what is already going on in Russia; one must be blind to the signs that the public is growing weary of the endless blather of Cadet speeches in the Duma, blind to the impression that is being created by the Cadets' "Draconian" Bills and their lame excuses in justifying themselves for introducing them; one must be blind to the Cadets' infinitely loathsome, philistine fear of the new wave that is approaching, of the in
* See pp. 450-51 of this volume. --Ed. [Transcriber's Note: See Lenin's "Talk and Rumours About the Dissolution of the State Duma". -- DJR]
evitable new struggle, of what Plekhanov has called "falling into the abyss". Exposing the Cadets, Comrade Plekhanov, means preparing the minds of the masses of the people for this fall, preparing them to take an active part in bringing it about, to keep the Cadets away from the government "pie" when the fall comes; it means making bold and vigorous preparations for it.
The Duma is rousing the people; the Duma is dispelling the last illusions, we are told. True. But the "Duma" is doing this only to the extent that we are exposing the timidity and instability of the Cadet Duma, only to the extent that we are explaining the facts about the Duma that indicate the dispelling of illusions. The Cadets are not doing this. They are trying to counteract it. They are spreading constitutional illusions. Zubatovism also roused the workers, also exposed illusions; but it did this only to the extent that we combated the corruption of the minds of the people by Zubatovism. And let no one try to attempt to refute this argument by stating that the Duma is not Zubatovism. Comparing things does not mean identifying them. Show me a Cadet newspaper, or an important political statement by the Cadets, which does not contain elements of the political corruption of the minds of the people.
That is what Comrade Plekhanov forgets when he declares majestically and portentously: "This is the meaning of all philosophy: all that contributes to the political education of the people is good; all that hinders it is bad." Everything else is prejudice, scholasticism.
Yes, yes, a certain wing of Social-Democracy is indeed slipping into hopeless scholasticism. But which wing, the Right or the Left? Can one imagine anything more pedantic, lifeless and truly scholastic than reducing the tactics of the proletariat in a period of revolution to the task of politically educating the people? Where, then, is the border-line between the Social-Democratic class struggle and the struggle of a common or garden bourgeois "uplifter"? Revolution is in full swing, different classes are coming to the forefront, the masses have set about making history, bourgeois parties of different shades are arising, the complicated political crisis is becoming more acute, the struggle is entering a new stage for which the ground was prepared by
the unusually rich crop of events and experience of 1905 -- and all this is reduced to one thing: the political education of the people! Truly, our dame de classe has made a brilliant discovery. Truly, a wonderful "key" to all the concrete problems of politics and, moreover, a key that any Cadet, and even the Party of Democratic Reforms, and even Heyden, would accept in full, would clutch at with both hands. Yes, this is exactly the "broad" criterion we need, this is what will rally and unite the classes, and not sow hatred and strife. Precisely! Bravo, Plekhanov -- say all these good people. This is the "solution" that will certainly obscure, or force into the background, that new "period of madness", the new "whirlwind" which the bourgeois dreads so much. No whirlwinds -- then no cataclysms, Comrade Plekhanov, be consistent: no abysses either! The political education of the people -- that is our banner, that is the meaning of all philosophy!
Comrade Plekhanov has wholly and completely taken on the likeness of that average German Cadet in the Frankfurt Parliament. Oh, how many matchless speeches these windbags delivered on the political consciousness of the people! How many magnificent "constructive" laws they drafted for this purpose! And how nobly they protested when they were dispersed after they had bored the people to death and had lost all revolutionary importance.
We are told that the Russian revolution goes deeper, its tide is rising, it will not be stopped at the dam of the Cadet Duma, Cadet phrase-mongering, Cadet timidity, and Cadet Draconian Bills. Yes, gentlemen, that is absolutely true: the Russian revolution is broader, mightier and deeper. Its tide is rising. It is sweeping on over the Cadets. And we revolutionary Social-Democrats express this deeper movement, we are striving to explain this loftier task to the workers and peasants, we are helping them, as best we can, to rise above the Cadet dam.
[197] Kolokol (The Bell ) -- a legal Social-Democratic daily published in Poltava, Ukraine, from January 18 (31) to June 8 (21), 1906. Most of its contributors were Mensheviks. [p. 460]
[198] Lavrov, P. L. (1823-1900) -- Russian sociologist and publicist noted ideologist of Narodism. [p. 466]
[199] See Karl Marx's article "The Communism of the Paper Rheinischer Beobachter " (Marx and Engels, On Religion, Moscow, 1957 pp. 81-86). [p. 467]
[200] See Frederick Engels, "Marx and the Neue Rheinische Zeitung " (Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Vol. II, Moscow, 1958, pp. 328-37); Frederick Engels, "Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany". VII. "The Frankfort National Assembly": New York
Daily Tribune, 1852; Articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (Marx, Engels, Werke, Bd. 5, Berlin, 1959). [p. 467]
[201] See Note 108.
[Note 108: Svoboda i Kultura (Freedom and Culture ) -- a weekly magazine of the Right wing of the cadet Party. It was published in St. Petersburg instead of Polyarnaya Zvezda from April 1 (14) to May 31 (June 13), 1906. Its editor was S. L. Frank, with P. B. Struve as a close associate. Eight issues appeared in all. The Publication was suspended due to a sharp drop in circulation.]
[202] Prince Trubetskoi, S. N. (1862-1905) -- a liberal advocating a moderate constitution. In June 1905, he addressed a policy speech to Nicholas II as a member of a Zemstvo deputation sent to the tsar. [p. 474]
[203] Prizyv (The Call ) -- a popular newspaper published in St. Petersburg from January 15 (28) to June 15 (28), 1906. From the end of March onwards its contributors included Bolsheviks. [p. 476]
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Sat Jan 9th, 2021 - Abuja (FCT)
An Abuja Federal High Court on Saturday dismissed the certificate forgery suit filed against the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki.
The suit, filed by the All Progressive Congress (APC) and a chieftain of the party, Williams Edobor, was dismissed by Justice Ahmed Mohammed.
The judge held that the plaintiffs relied on the photocopied document presented by Obaseki without getting in touch with the university to verify the authenticity of the certificate and the claimants were unable to prove their case.
The judge added that the Deputy Registrar (Legal) of the University of Ibadan had given evidence in the suit that the university duly issued the certificate to Obaseki.
According to him, the governor was duly and properly admitted to study Classics which was later renamed Classical Studies in 1976, and graduated in 1979.
Justice Mohammed thereby dismissed the case.
The APC and Edobor had filed the suit alleging that Obaseki presented a forged certificate to seek re-election in the Edo State governorship election held on September 19, 2020.
They alleged that the forged document was issued by the University of Ibadan, while the governor presented same to Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) which conducted the poll.
Trouble began for Obaseki during the buildup to his re-election bid under APC – he was APC’s candidate for the first term election.
Obaseki was denied renomination by the APC after a fall out with his successor, Adams Oshiomhole, who was then the national chairman of the party.
The governor later defected to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) while Osagie Ize-Iyamu emerged as the APC flagbearer for the election.
Obaseki had defeated Ize-Iyamu as the APC candidate in the 2016 governorship election while the latter was the PDP candidate.
In 2020 again, Obaseki won Ize-Iyamu. He secured 307,955 of the total votes, 84,336 more votes than Ize-Iyamu who got 223, 619 votes.
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Retired NASA Scientists Take on Pope
With the papal encyclical on climate change scheduled for a June 18 release, the liberal media can be expected to portray the Vatican document as a major step forward for the United Nations agenda of controlling and taxing the use of natural resources by governments and people. But a group of retired NASA scientists is taking on the pope directly, armed with the expertise that has come through decades of planning U.S. space missions and dealing with the most complex and difficult issues of climate science.
Their verdict: the pope is risking his moral status and his credibility.
In fact, this group is directly warning Pope Francis that if he embraces the climate agenda of the United Nations, he will be violating both scientific principles and the religious values he embodies that are supposed to be reflected in direct aid for the poor people of the earth.
But the pope is apparently counting on his status as “the most popular person on the Earth,” in the words of Dan Misleh, executive director of the Catholic Climate Covenant organization, to make the “moral” case that we live on “an abundant yet finite planet,” and that global limits to industrial growth have to be imposed on a worldwide basis.
The battle, now taking shape, will likely help determine whether U.S. sovereignty will be sacrificed in order to make possible a system of “global governance” or world government.
In a controversial decision that could backfire, Republican House Speaker John Boehner (OH) has invited Pope Francis to deliver an address to Congress in September, an opportunity he could use to push the similar climate change agendas of both the Vatican and the Obama administration.
That a research team composed primarily of retired NASA scientists and engineers has entered the debate is relatively new and particularly noteworthy. These individuals have a lot of experience in the climate change area, as a result of sending astronauts into the atmosphere and outer space and returning them to earth.
The members of the group, the Right Climate Stuff Research Team, are veterans of the NASA Apollo program that landed astronauts on the moon and returned them safely during the decade of the 1960s, according to the introduction to their letter to the pope. They maintain a website setting forth their view that there is no convincing evidence that the planet is in a “climate crisis.”
These retired scientists suggest that the pope is making a big mistake by using unreliable or untested computer models that predict a “climate disaster.” They assert, “Our strict NASA policies, based on common sense concepts of the Scientific Method, trained us to ignore projections of un-validated models for critical design or operational decisions involving human safety, and instead, base such decisions on available physical data.”
Their spokesman is Harold H. Doiron, who serves as chairman of the Right Climate Stuff Research Team. He tells the pontiff in a letter that “There is no compelling scientific or humanitarian reason for immediate enactment of world-wide CO2 emission controls, as the UN is urging you to recommend…”
What’s more, Doiron and his colleagues argue, the poor in the developing world “need unfettered access to relatively inexpensive fossil fuel energy sources to improve their quality of life,” and if higher atmospheric CO2 levels do in fact occur, they will not hinder the development of poor nations but rather result in “increased food production” that will benefit them.
Rejecting the idea of CO2 as a pollutant that should be regulated, they said, “we know that CO2 is a very special colorless, odorless and non-polluting gas designed by our Creator to be an essential chemical compound for sustaining all plant, animal and human life.”
Doiron made a presentation in Rome on April 28 as part of a Heartland Institute event designed to warn the Vatican against rushing to embrace the U.N. climate change agenda. He included a PowerPoint presentation titled “An Independent, Objective Assessment of the Human-Caused Global Warming Issue,” which refers to the U.N. agenda as “climate alarmism” based on faulty models, not actual data.
He is scheduled to speak this week in Washington, D.C. at the Tenth International Conference on Climate Change.
At his presentation in Rome, Doiron said he was a member of a Catholic parish in Texas where fellow parishioners were “praying that Pope Francis will have discernment as he looks into this global warming controversy.” On Fox News Sunday, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, a practicing Catholic, said “there are more pressing problems on Earth” for the pontiff to be addressing than climate change.
Ignoring the concerns of conservative Catholics that the church should focus on moral issues, The New York Times ran a story, “Pope Francis Steps Up Campaign on Climate Change, to Conservatives’ Alarm,” reporting that the papal encyclical “will be accompanied by a 12-week campaign, now being prepared with the participation of some Catholic bishops, to raise the issue of climate change and environmental stewardship in sermons, homilies, news media interviews and letters to newspaper editors…”
The source of this statement was Dan Misleh, who has been invited inside the Vatican to help coordinate the campaign. He previously directed the educational and outreach efforts of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development.
His group has now become part of the Global Catholic Climate Movement, whose website shows poor people walking through flood waters, hurricanes, and smokestacks, as visitors to the site are urged to “change our course,” and to pray and then act.
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Hillary Clinton’s Tangled Web of Lies
While some liberal commentators may continue to dismiss the coverage of Emailgate as “nonsense,” and a “fake scandal,” the fact remains that Hillary Clinton’s ongoing lies regarding her exclusive use of private email while serving as Secretary of State constitute just more of a long trail of deceptions reaching back to her youth. In 2008 Accuracy in Media published a column by the now-deceased Jerome Zeifman, the Democratic Party’s general counsel for the Watergate investigation. I had several conversations with him in his final years.
Zeifman was openly critical of Mrs. Clinton. Having worked with her during the formative years of her career, he had tremendous insight into her early character, which continues today. “Eventually, because of a number of her unethical practices I decided that I could not recommend her for any subsequent position of public or private trust,” he commented for AIM in 2008.
Some have said that Zeifman “fired” Mrs. Clinton; but she was let go as one of a number of staff no longer needed. But as Zeifman said back in 1998, “If I had the power to fire her, I would have fired her.”
Mrs. Clinton’s unethical practices during the Watergate investigation included “erroneous legal opinions,” “efforts to deny Nixon representation by counsel,” and a general “unwillingness to investigate Nixon,” according to Zeifman.
The Democratic strategy of the time was to “keep Nixon in office ‘twisting in the wind’ for as long as possible” so that Republicans could not reclaim legitimacy, and so that a Democrat could gain the presidency, he wrote. Such cold political calculations ignored the damage that President Nixon was doing to the country in favor of acquiring political power.
“According to her boss, Democrat Jerry Zeifman, Hillary met with Teddy Kennedy’s chief political strategist—a violation of House rules,” Ben Shapiro recently wrote for Front Page Magazine. “She then manipulated the system to avoid investigating Nixon, hoping he’d stick around long enough to sink Republican election chances in 1976, letting her boy Teddy into the White House.”
Yet Mrs. Clinton is involved with The Clinton Foundation, and likes to present herself as an idealist. For example, her most recent press conference to address concerns about Emailgate was held in the United Nations building right after she finished a speech on women’s rights.
Back in 2008 Ron Rosenbaum of Slate Magazine called this ongoing dichotomy “Hillary I vs. Hillary II.” The first Hillary is an “idealistic believer in helping and healing children,” he writes. The second is a Machiavellian, which Rosenbaum cast as an “idealistic Machiavellianism, the use of complex tactical manipulation to achieve noble idealistic goals.”
Which is why up to $16 million in taxpayer funds will have been sent to the Clintons by Election Day of 2016, with some of it allocated to the “salaries and benefits of staff at his family’s foundation,” according to Politico on March 12. “But scrutiny of the act—and of the vast financial empire built by the Clintons—is poised to intensify as questions mount about the family’s commingling of personal, political, government and foundation business,” it reports.
Like so many in the media, in 2008 Rosenbaum refused to accept the rotten core—that Mrs. Clinton might have actually been cynical and politically calculating at such an early age. “I must admit, I found myself taken aback at Zeifman’s charges because I didn’t think Hillary had lost her innocence that early—or even now had become as cynical as some now say she is,” he wrote.
Zeifman clearly outlined how cynical Mrs. Clinton was at 27—and this informs her actions in the present scandal.
The second Hillary, the other side, is “not the dewy-eyed idealist, but the shrewd Machiavellian many see her as now,” wrote Rosenbaum in 2008. Yet, he concluded that he “find[s] Hillary Clinton more of a mystery, perhaps a more complex character in a novelistic sense, than Richard Nixon… I’d almost want to see her become president just to solve the mystery.”
The most recent of many Clinton scandals, Emailgate, itself demonstrates ongoing political corruption at the expense of national security, transparency, and accountability by both Mrs. Clinton and the White House.
Ben Shapiro finds no mystery in Mrs. Clinton and her husband’s repeated missteps: Mrs. Clinton just plain lies, and has kept on lying throughout her political career. “Hillary is still the only First Lady in American history to be fingerprinted by the FBI,” he notes. Cheryl Mills, “helped prevent the Clintons from turning over 1.8 million emails to Judicial Watch, Congress, and federal investigators,” yet this close Clinton ally “ended up being in charge of document production for Hillary’s State Department in the Benghazi investigation.” Shapiro is referring to Project X, in which those 1.8 million emails were kept hidden from Congress and the media. The story was broken by the investigative journalist Paul Rodriguez in late 1998, and Accuracy in Media reported on this cover-up at the time.
And now we have Emailgate, part 2, where Mrs. Clinton supposedly transparently turned over all her work-related emails to the State Department,
After using a private email account,
Years later,
After they were vetted by her advisors,
After deleting approximately half of the 60,000 emails, and
After allegedly using key word searches to determine whether the emails were work-related instead of reading each one of them,
Oh, never mind, it turns out they did read all 32,000 “personal emails” before they were deleted.
During her March 10 press conference, Mrs. Clinton deceived once again when she said, “The vast majority of my work emails went to government employees at their government addresses, which meant they were captured and preserved immediately on the system at the State Department.” But the State Department threw her under the bus on that one, when Jen Psaki, State Department spokesman, said three days later that “the department only started automatically archiving emails for other senior officials in February,” long after Mrs. Clinton was gone from the State Department.
Another problem she faces is the OF-109 form, which every State Department employee is required to sign upon departure from their job, certifying that they have turned over all work-related documents and communications, including email. So did she sign it, and hold on to the work material for nearly two more years, or did she get a pass on signing it? Either way, this would apparently be a violation of a law, or at least a State Department policy. So far, Hillary is refusing to answer that one, as is the State Department.
There are gaps within her email spanning months, according to Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC).
USA Today’s Catalina Camia put it most simply: “We can only go by what Clinton says.”
It’s the media’s mandate to verify—not take Mrs. Clinton, nor any of our political leaders, at their word.
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No “Major Scandal” in Obama Administration?
David Axelrod’s book tour is off to a rollicking start, with perceived attacks on Hillary Clinton’s upcoming presidential run, and an absurd comment about the ethics and integrity of the administration he served so loyally, and continues to do so.
Axelrod, former senior advisor to President Obama, recently asserted something so patently untrue that it demands a response. “And I’m proud of the fact that, basically, you’ve had an administration that’s been in place for six years in which there hasn’t been a major scandal,” he pronounced at a University of Chicago event.
The Washington Post leapt in to defend Axelrod’s claim by pointing to how President Obama’s approval ratings did not shift in the wake of the potential scandals he has faced since taking office. “It could be that scandals don’t have a lot to do with how Americans rate the president,” writes Hunter Schwarz for the Post.
It could also be that the liberal media, along with academia, determine what is classified as a “scandal”—and then refuse to report on scandals which don’t meet their own predetermined criteria. In this case, any lies, corruption, abuses of power, financial payoffs, or associations with unsavory characters or organizations that involve President Obama or anyone in his administration are never to be treated as a scandal.
The ongoing incestuous relationship between the Obama administration and the media often tilts in favor of the administration, leaving many scandals uninvestigated, minimized, or outright ignored. For example, both CBS News president David Rhodes and former ABC News president Ben Sherwood have siblings working for the administration. CNN’s deputy Washington bureau chief, Virginia Moseley, is married to Tom Nides, a former Obama staffer under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. And David Plouffe, Obama’s former campaign manager, joined Bloomberg News, while MSNBC hired Axelrod.
President Obama even joked in 2013 that “… David Axelrod now works for MSNBC, which is a nice change of pace since MSNBC used to work for David Axelrod.”
With so many members of the elite media in bed with the administration, Dartmouth College professor Brendan Nyhan’s 2011 observation that “the current administration has not yet suffered a major scandal, which I define as a widespread elite perception of wrongdoing” becomes essentially meaningless. Nyhan said that a scandal becomes a scandal “once the S-word is used in a reporter’s own voice in a story that runs on the front page of the [Washington] Post.”
If Axelrod is using the same criteria, then, of course, President Obama probably can be considered scandal-free. But a real scandal involves actual administration wrongdoing or lies, regardless of the “perceptions” dished out by the media.
Axelrod’s comments ignore the presence of a number of real scandals which the mainstream media, including The Washington Post, continue to report on as phony—including but not limited to:
Benghazi:
The deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya in 2012 were greeted with a concerted public relations campaign by the Obama administration blaming the attacks on a protest inspired by a YouTube video, as revealed in the smoking gun Ben Rhodes email. (Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor to President Obama, is CBS’ President David Rhodes’ brother.) The media, including David Kirkpatrick of The New York Times, continue to dispute key facts of the case such as al Qaeda’s involvement, have championed erroneous Congressional reports, ignore evidence of a cover-up, and have generally covered for the administration by promoting the idea that this is one of many “phony scandals.” The interim report of the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi details the various failings and scandals related to Benghazi.
IRS scandal:
The IRS targeted conservative groups applying for non-profit status from 2010 to 2012. In what some see as an attempt to influence elections, the IRS began requesting inappropriate information disproportionately from conservative groups and then delaying their approval, generally chilling free speech throughout the country. Lois Lerner, at the heart of the scandal, has refused to testify before Congress, pleading the Fifth Amendment. The media continue to argue that President Obama is not connected to this scandal, but it can be tied directly to the White House. The President has tried to assert that there isn’t a “smidgeon” of corruption at the IRS.
The Obama Justice Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) encouraged gunwalking across the Mexican border of thousands of weapons, resulting, ultimately in the murder of border agent Brian Terry. An ATF whistleblower, John Dodson, spoke out in 2011 about the problems with the ATF’s decision to let guns go to Mexico. As I wrote about in 2011, Fast and Furious was a scandal that no longer could be denied, but the media continued to do so. Sharyl Attkisson recounts in Stonewalled, “But as outrageous and remarkable as the allegations are, most of the media don’t pick up on the story. They’re steering clear.” As I wrote, the scandal “involves some 1,500 guns, about 1,000 of which ended up in Mexico, and a Border agent…who was murdered with weapons found near the scene of the crime in Arizona. The weapons were among 57 linked to Fast and Furious which have been tied to at least 11 violent crimes in the U.S., including the Terry murder.” Like Benghazi, Fast and Furious resulted in real deaths—but the media continue to ignore or downplay this scandal.
Following revelations in 2014 that there was widespread Veterans Administration falsification of health care wait times, and that certain locations had created secret waiting lists for veterans, the media finally declared this a scandal. But it’s not Obama’s scandal, it’s a Veterans Affairs scandal. Hunter Schwarz writes for the Post that “It was a very significant scandal, to be sure, but perhaps not one that people laid directly at Obama’s doorstep.” The Washington Post’s Fact Checker Glenn Kessler recently referred to this one as a scandal, noting that only eight people have lost their jobs so far as a result of this veterans care debacle, not 60 as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald said last week on Meet the Press. But as I have argued, there were really two scandals at the Veterans Administration at the time: health care wait times and the disability benefits backlog.
Solar panel business Solyndra received more than half a billion dollars as part of the administration’s green energy program, before going bankrupt. Its executives took substantial bonuses before the layoffs began. And, a Solyndra investor was also a major bundler for Obama, demonstrating a conflict of interest when the administration refused to turn over more documents as part of a Congressional investigation. And yes, the Post reported on its front page that the Obama administration had asked the company to “delay announcing it would lay off workers until after the hotly contested November 2010 midterm elections that imperiled Democratic control of Congress.” But NPR ran an article last year victoriously announcing that “Now that the loan program is turning a profit, those critics are silent”—as if that had anything to do with the crony capitalism of the Solyndra scandal.
Obamacare is an ongoing debacle of premium increases and high deductibles coupled with crippling regulations. It leads to less, not more, health care access. While the focus has been on errors made within the “Obamacare rollout,” the media continue to champion exaggerated statistics regarding the alleged 10 million who have received health insurance under President Obama’s signature legislation. In reality, this program marks a rapid increase in Medicaid, and many enrollees are part of a “substitution effect” by which people who previously had insurance have switched to Obamacare. The subsidies, which the media casts as essential to the law, are under dispute in the courts, and increase the burden on the American taxpayer. Even Politifact called President Obama’s false assertion that Americans could keep their health plan if they liked it the 2013 “Lie of the Year.” Meanwhile, the complicit media finds every chance it can to champion this legislation’s “successes.”
This list just scratches the surface. Executive overreach has become standard fare, whether on immigration or environmental regulations. The Obama administration’s penchant for controlling leaks, a lack of transparency, and a war on journalists has been noted by the likes of former Washington Post executive editor Len Downie Jr. who said “The [Obama] administration’s war on leaks and other efforts to control information are the most aggressive I’ve seen since the Nixon administration leaks,” and New York Times reporter David Sanger who said, “This is the most closed, control-freak administration I’ve ever covered.” James Risen of the Times added that the Obama administration has been “the greatest enemy of press freedom that we have encountered in at least a generation.”
The administration’s Middle East policies have been a disaster, if not scandalous. Just look at the growing threat from the Islamic State (ISIS) and other radical jihadist Muslim groups. More than 200,000 have been killed in Syria, Libya has become a jihadist playground, described by former CIA officer Bob Baer as “Mad Max,” and Yemen, as recently as September held up as example of where Obama’s foreign policy is working, has seen a coup by Iranian backed jihadists. And looming over all of this is the unfolding, outright appeasement of an Iran with nuclear aspirations.
What unifies all of these scandals and lies is how our news media have looked past all the administration’s corruption, treating, these occurrences as discrete, minor grievances, gaffes—or even conservative or Republican political maneuvering. This means that the constant lies by the administration, and President Obama himself, can be made with impunity. The media simply will not hold President Obama, or any of his associates who might tarnish his reputation, accountable.
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DAB Chief’s Irresponsible Act
Abdul Qadeer Fitrat, the chief of central bank of Afghanistan has fled the country and resigned. He says he was threatened as he had openly exposed the secret names behind the collapse of Kabul Bank. He was threatened or not, there is no proof and also Karzai's spokesman, Waheed Omar, doubts there were any real threats to his life. Nevertheless, Omar has pronounced Fitrat's action as an "escape" and "very irresponsible act."But Fitrat's resignation was expected as he was under severe pressure, apparently.
He had fewer points left to defend the weak position Afghan government had on the issue of Kabul Bank. Although it is possible that the Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) under Fitrat must have fallen short in preventing the embezzlement in the collapsed bank, Fitrat can not be hold responsible for the whole scenario. Putting the responsibility of bank failure - caused by President's and Vice President's brothers and Sherkhan Farnood, a world-class gambler – on the head of one individual is unfair and improper.
Kabul Bank's fall is no doubt a national loss for Afghanistan. Every organization that goes politicized will have the same kind of ending. In 2009 Presidential elections, it is believed that millions of dollars were spent by Kabul Bank shareholders for campaigning for Hamid Karzai. They supported Karzai so that their bank would have a strong political support for legal and illegal operations. But they did not know their prospects. Karzai won the elections. But, reportedly, his own brother Mahmood Karzai – shareholder in Kabul Bank- turned against him. The point of conflict between these two is not clear but can be conceived one of the factors that lead to failure of Kabul Bank.
If Fitrat's involvement in destruction of the Kabul Bank is proved, it will be another shock for the nation because it will be more evident that our government's high positions are hold by the most corrupt individuals. Previously, several ministers and other high government authorities had been reported to be involved in massive embezzlement. But because government backed them, they live freely rather than being behind the bars.
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Statue of Freedom Above the Capital Dome
The story of the Statue of Freedom is quite fascinating, as is the painting on the inside of the dome. It is a classical female figure, with long flowing hair and wearing a helmet with a crest composed of an eagle’s head and feathers. Her gown is secured with a brooch inscribed “U.S.” over which is draped a flowing robe fringed with fur. Every detail was scrutinized before approval by then Secretary of War Jefferson Davis like what she held in her hands or wore on her head.
As was custom in nineteenth century art, the Statue of Freedom does not wear or hold a knitted liberty cap, as would be expected, a practice that goes back to freed slaves in ancient Rome and was adopted as a symbol of liberty or freedom during the American and French Revolutions and was usually shown as red. The statues crested helmet and sword suggests she is prepared to protect the nation. Some of the people working on the statue were themselves slaves and therefore Jefferson Davis rejected the first two designs. The original plaster model is now in the centerpiece of Emancipation Hall at the Capital Visitors Center, so you can view it up close and personal.
The painting under the dome depicts six ideals with Roman mythology connections
The Apotheosis of Washington depicts George Washington sitting amongst the heavens in an exalted manner, or in literal terms, ascending and becoming a god (apotheosis). Washington, the first U.S. president and commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is allegorically represented, surrounded by figures from classical mythology. Washington is draped in purple, a royal color, with a rainbow arch at his feet, flanked by the goddess Victoria (draped in green, using a horn) to his left and the Goddess of Liberty to his right.
E Pluribus Unum, Out of many one.
Freedom,” also known as Columbia, is a personification of War, and depicts a woman fighting for liberty with a raised sword, a cape and a helmet and shield, trampling figures representing Tyranny and Kingly Power. To her left is a fierce bald eagle assisting with arrows and a thunderbolt.
Next panel shows Minerva, Roman goddess of crafts and wisdom who represents science and depicts Benjamin Franklin, Samuel F.B. Morse and Robert Fulton and also a teacher demonstrating the use of dividers.
Up next is Marine and shows Neptune, Roman sea-god, with trident and crown of seaweed riding in a shell chariot drawn by sea horses. Venus, goddess of love born from the sea, is helping lay the transatlantic telegraph cable, with an ironclad warship in the background.
Mercury, the Roman god of commerce, with his winged petasos and sandals and a caduceus, is depicted giving a bag of gold to American Revolutionary War financier Robert Morris. To the left, men move a box on a dolly; on the right, the anchor and sailors lead into “Marine.”
Mechanics is represented by Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and forge, standing with an anvil with his food on a cannon. The man at the forge represents the ironwork during the construction of the dome.
Ceres, Roman goddess of agriculture, shows her wearing a wreath of wheat and with a cornucopia, symbol of plenty, while sitting on a mechanical reaper, and with a young American holding the reins of horses. The goddess Flora gathers flowers in the foreground.
Visiting Washington DC is a bucket list thing, since I am a huge history buff. 2021 brings an opportunity and the Capital Dome visit is on it. The not so obvious parts of our nation’s history where there is more to this story and those who influenced it.
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Poise and Stride
‘Poise and Stride’
A book of short essays written by Joe Osborne on sale now
Joe Osborne, Managing Director of Godolphin Ireland, has published ‘Poise and Stride’, a beautifully illustrated book of 41 short essays based on his observations from business, entertainment and sport during his 40-year career in the thoroughbred racing and breeding industry. The essays were initially written as contributions to the Godolphin Flying Start quarterly newsletter ‘Time Flies’ and developed into a book over the past few months.
All proceeds from the sale of this book will go to Racing Academy & Centre of Education (RACE) in Kildare Town. The academy, a registered charity, was established as a social project in 1973 by Joe’s father Michael Osborne along with Stan Cosgrove and Derek O’Sullivan.
The foreword is written by RACE graduate, former champion jockey turned trainer, Johnny Murtagh and the book is illustrated throughout by Declan Considine. ‘Poise and Stride’ is available to purchase for €20 (plus P&P) by emailing RACE at poiseandstride@racingacademy.ie or phoning their office on +353 45 522468.
Commenting on ‘Poise and Stride’, author Joe Osborne, said: “This project has been a labour of love and a welcome distraction during the Covid-19 pandemic. The essays cover a diverse range of topics and I hope that the core messages in them will resonate with readers. My family has a longstanding link with RACE, so this is an opportunity to support them and to highlight the great work they are doing.”
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Pressed by Sanders, Trump Health Officials Agree Everyone in US Should Be Able to Get COVID-19 Vaccine Regardless of Income
By Jake Johnson On Jul 1, 2020 Last updated Jul 1, 2020
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at Desert Pines High School in Las Vegas, Nevada. | Gage Skidmore
"We need to manufacture and distribute free, high-quality masks and guarantee free vaccines to everyone in America."
The nation’s top infectious disease expert, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the head of the Food and Drug Administration, and the assistant secretary for health each agreed with Sen. Bernie Sanders Tuesday that any safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine must be made available to everyone in the U.S. regardless of their ability to pay.
“All of us hope to God that a good, safe vaccine will be developed as soon as possible,” Sanders said during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing. “But that vaccine may not mean anything to a lower-income person who might not be able to afford it.”
Noting that U.S. taxpayers have contributed billions of dollars to help develop a Covid-19 vaccine, the Vermont senator asked the panel: “Would you agree with me that after that kind of investment we should make sure that every American, every person in this country, can get a vaccine regardless of their income?”
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci, CDC chief Dr. Robert Redfield, FDA commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn, and Assistant Secretary for Health Adm. Brett Giroir, each answered in the affirmative.
In recent weeks, Sanders has repeatedly pressed Trump administration officials to commit to making any FDA-approved coronavirus vaccine free and available to everyone in the United States.
“Will the administration guarantee that once a vaccine is approved by the FDA it will be made available to everyone in this country free of charge?” Sanders asked in a May 14 letter (pdf) to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. “It would be morally unacceptable to allow the pharmaceutical industry to use this pandemic as another opportunity to make huge profits on the backs of people who can least afford it.”
Under the Medicare for All system Sanders advocates, vaccines—not to mention any and all other necessary health services and treatments—would be universally available for free at the point of service.
During the hearing Tuesday, Sanders also asked Fauci and the other health officials whether they would support the senator’s proposal to use the Defense Production Act to mass-produce and distribute face masks to everyone in the U.S. for free.
Fauci said he supports the plan, calling masks “extremely important.”
“There’s no doubt that wearing masks protects you and gets you to be protected,” said Fauci. “So it’s people protecting each other. Anything that furthers the use of masks, whether it’s giving out free masks or any other mechanism, I am thoroughly in favor of.”
In a tweet following the hearing, Sanders applauded the officials for agreeing that “we need to manufacture and distribute free, high-quality masks and guarantee free vaccines to everyone in America.”
“The Senate must listen to our public health experts and immediately pass my proposals to do exactly that,” Sanders said.
Today, I asked Dr. Fauci whether we need to manufacture and distribute free, high-quality masks and guarantee free vaccines to everyone in America.
The Senate must listen to our public health experts and immediately pass my proposals to do exactly that. pic.twitter.com/TCc4kDCsn6
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) June 30, 2020
In his testimony, Fauci broadly warned that the U.S. is currently “going in the wrong direction” in terms of fighting the pandemic and said he fears the infection rate could balloon to 100,000 new cases per day if a change of course is not implemented.
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Brilliant X-rays reveal what might be a new type of star
The strangely bright star J005311 (artificially coloured X-ray image, pictured) will eventually collapse into a neutron star. Credit: XMM-Newton/ESA, L. Oskinova/Univ. Potsdam, Germany
A strange and unstable astronomical object seems to have formed from the merger of two white dwarfs.
Unusual X-ray emissions from a star called J005311 suggest that it was created by the explosive merger of two ultra-dense white dwarfs, which are the type of object that the Sun will become at the end of its life.
A white dwarf’s atomic nuclei and electrons are squeezed together, allowing a regular star’s mass to pack into an Earth-sized orb. But a white dwarf cannot have a mass of more than 1.4 times that of the Sun; if it violates this limit, it collapses into an even more compact neutron star.
When scientists first described J005311 in 2019, they reported that it was too bright, and therefore too massive, to be an ordinary white dwarf. Lidia Oskinova at the University of Potsdam in Germany and her collaborators studied the star’s X-ray emissions and found evidence of a strange composition dominated by the elements neon and oxygen. This suggests that it could be the unstable product of two white dwarfs ― making it an entirely new type of star. The authors predict that it will collapse into a neutron star within 10,000 years of its formation.
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DC4: Tour Dates Announced
DC4, the Los Angeles-based hard rock band featuring former DIO guitarist Rowan Robertson alongside brothers Jeff Duncan (ARMORED SAINT, ODIN) on lead vocals and guitar, Shawn Duncan (ODIN) on drums and Matt Duncan on bass, has scheduled the following dates:
Jan. 10 - Blue Café - Long Beach, CA
Jan. 12 - Key Club - Hollywood, CA
Jan. 15-18 - NAMM - Anaheim, CA
Jan. 24 - Angels Roadhouse - Apple Valley, CA
Jan. 31 - Club Vodka @ Knitting Factory - Hollywood, CA (w/ KEEL)
Feb. 28 - Key Club - Hollywood, CA
May 10 - Thunder Of Gods Festival @ Dripping Springs - Austin, TX
DC4 recently entered the Skull Seven studio with producers Bill Metoyer (SLAYER, LIZZY BORDEN, ARMORED SAINT) and Joey Vera (ARMORED SAINT, FATES WARNING) to record additional tracks for the upcoming re-release of the group's new album, "Explode". The new tracks, titled "People" and "25 To Life", were added to the CD along with a video and new artwork (see below) for an "enhanced" package.
"Explode", which saw a very limited release in late 2007, will be issued on January 27.
Jeff Duncan and Shawn Duncan of ODIN fame and notable for their appearances in "The Decline Of Western Civilization - The Metal Years" formed DC4 with brother Matt Duncan in 1995 and released their debut EP, "Mood Swings", produced by Joe Floyd (BRUCE DICKINSON, WARRIOR). In 2001, DC4 released "Volume One", which was produced by Joey Vera. Robertson, who is best known for his dynamic guitar wizardry on DIO's "Lock Up The Wolves" album, joined the ranks in 2006.
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Series S02 - Coquitlam/Port Coquitlam Crime Prevention Society
Russell Hellard fonds
Coquitlam/Port Coquitlam Crime Prevention Society
CA CCOQ F9-S02
Hellard, Russell
22 photographs : col. ; 10 x 15 cm
2 photographs : col. ; 12.5 x 17.5 cm
2 photographs : b&w ; 12.5 x 17 cm
Russell Hellard was born in 1924 in Toronto, Ontario. He worked briefly as a laboratory assistant at the Ontario Research Foundation before enlisting with the Canadian Army in 1943. He trained at Camp Ipperwash in Ontario, then was sent for a Special Wireless Course at Vimy Barracks (the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals and Canadian Signal Training Centre), before being sent to Vancouver and then on to Victoria, British Columbia to await deployment to Australia. He served with the No.1 Special Wireless Group in Darwin monitoring Japanese wireless signals until the conclusion of the war in 1945. Once the war was over, it took six months to travel back to Canada with all of the equipment that had been shipped to Australia during the war. Mr. Hellard's unit returned to Canada in February, 1946.
Russell Hellard, his wife Kay and daughter Susan lived in Toronto before his company, Calgon, relocated him briefly to Edmonton for two years. The family then moved to Coquitlam in 1959. Hellard worked for 30 years in industrial water treatment and retired in 1981. During his retirement he became very active across British Columbia as a professional dog show photographer. He was very active in the area of crime prevention within the Coquitlam community between 1984 and 1997, serving as chairman of the Crime Prevention Committee from 1989-1991 and the Community Policing Committee from 1992-1996. He was also actively involved with the Crime Watch Patrol, Block Watch, Court Watch, and Vandal Watch programs. He volunteered his photographic skills for several large community events in Coquitlam, including the BC Summer Games and Centennial celebrations, both in 1991. Hellard has also been an active volunteer and activity group leader at Dogwood Pavilion with the Lifewriters Group, which began in 1999, the Veterans Group, and the Volunteer Improvement Program. He has also photographed many Dogwood Pavilion events over the years.
The series consists of records relating to the Coquitlam/Port Coquitlam Crime Prevention Society, an independent volunteer organization that was formed in 1996 to assist police, community organizations, committees, and citizens in crime prevention activities. Russell Hellard was the President and Chairman of the Society until its dissolution in 2000. The records include meeting minutes, notes, official documentation of the society, including the notice of dissolution, as well as records relating to public forums that were hosted by the Society. The series also includes photographs of the community forums that took place in March, 1997.
Accruals are possible.
Hellard, Russell (Creator)
Chan, Eric (Subject)
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SaskBarley is a producer-elected and directed commission. The board is comprised of six registered barley producers that are elected for a four year term.
Jason Skotheim (Chair)
jason@skotheim.ca
Jason actively farms with his brothers on a 4500 acre farm north of Prince Albert growing barley, wheat and canola. He is also a founding owner of Horizon Manufacturing Inc., Saskatchewan's only premium dry pet food manufacturer. Jason earned BSA and a MSc degrees in Agricultural Economics from the University of Saskatchewan and was previously employed within the provincial department of agriculture, based at the University of Saskatchewan as a research economist responsible to the Agriculture Applied Research Management (AgriARM) program which evaluated and extended research to Saskatchewan producers. Currently, he sits as a board member on the Saskatchewan Food Industry Development Centre Inc., and the Grocer Retail & Foodservice Value Chain Advisory Committee.
Brent Johnson (Vice-Chair)
boverjexcavating@yahoo.ca
Brent and his wife Jenna are the 4th generation to reside on the family farm started over 100 years ago near Strasbourg. The farm consists of 5000 acres of grain land, and a 180 head commercial cow/calf operation. Brent has worked a variety of off farm jobs during the winters including oilfield exploration, drilling and surveying, but currently farms full time and also sits as a Councilor in RM 220, McKillop. Brent is currently SBDC’s representative on the Saskatchewan Variety Performances Group.
Allen Kuhlmann
skuhlmann@sasktel.net
Allen farms with his wife Susan and son Wes near the village of Vanguard, Saskatchewan, where they grow wheat, durum, barley, flax and lentils. He also currently serves on the board of Great Western Rail and is the Mayor of the Village of Vanguard. He has previously served as the Chair of the Agriculture Council of Saskatchewan and the Chair of the Saskatchewan Flax Development Commission. He is an alumnus of the University of Saskatchewan, holding a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and a Bachelor of Commerce.
Matt Enns
makersmalt@gmail.com
Matt Enns actively farms in a multi-generational grain operation alongside three other owner-operators near Rosthern. The 10,500 acre grain farm has a rotation including canola, wheat, peas and barley and the Sask Valley area is a well-known producer of malting barley. Matt attended the University of Saskatchewan earning a B.Sc. in Physical Therapy while playing out his athletic eligibility with the Huskies, the highlight of which was a national championship in 2004. After graduation, Matt worked as a physiotherapist in Saskatoon and farmed with his Dad. This continued for 10 years until a neighbor’s farm went up for sale; the current partnerships were formed and Matt was able to join the farm full-time. In 2016 Matt happened upon the world of craft beer and saw an avenue to capitalize on their farm's ability to grow premium malting barley. This led to attendance at the "Malt Academy" at Winnipeg's Canadian Malting Barley Technical Center, touring of malting facilities and feasibility studies involving Saskatchewan’s end-users of malting barley. The result was the eventual founding of Maker's Crafted Malts. Maker's is located in Rosthern and is Saskatchewan's only craft malting facility. Matt produced the first commercial batch in January 2018 and together with co-maltster, Steven Maier, service brewers and distillers across Saskatchewan and the prairies. Maker's is a member of the Craft Maltsters Guild and attended the 2019 Craft Malt Conference in Montana where Matt presented on the agronomics and philosophy of growing malt barley and was able to exchange ideas with industry experts. The malting facility has led to numerous opportunities to educate and further the connection between the farm-gate and the general public. In the last year Maker's created the Bow Project to showcase Bow Barley developed at the U of S, spoke in numerous venues (including at CropSphere and Sask Ag's Crop Walks) and was interviewed by mainstream media outlets. Maker’s recently hosted a Farmer/Brewer day touring a field of agronomic and variety trials and bringing end-users to the fields of their production. Matt is passionate about high quality malting barley and believes there are many upcoming opportunities for Saskatchewan growers.
Keith Rueve
keithrueve@live.ca
Keith, his brother Kent and their families operate a third generation farm south of Muenster where they grow barley, wheat and canola. Keith studied at the University of Saskatchewan until returning to the family farm in 1985. He worked during the winter at various manufacturing facilities, and in 1991 he started employment at Pound-Maker Agventures during the construction phase of the ethanol plant. Keith has worked in ethanol operations since June of 1991 as a power engineer until taking over duties of Ethanol Plant Manager in December of 2001.
gwrightsk@gmail.com
Glenn Wright and his family live on a farm near Vanscoy, SK. Glenn moved out of the city in 2004 and began a grain farming operation from scratch. Glenn didn’t grow up on a farm, but all of his extended family farmed and he was always envious of his cousins. The farming seed was planted in Glenn’s mind at an early age. Glenn has grown cereals, canola, lentils, alfalfa (seed and forage) for many years and has more recently become interested in regenerative agriculture. Glenn has been doing more work with intercropping, reducing input costs, and trying other specialty crops such as camelina. Glenn has been growing hulless feed barley for 7 years, and understands the demands that face barley growers in meeting the needs of distinctive markets. Glenn is broadening his understanding of innovative farming practices as he “learns to do by doing” on his farm. Glenn grew his farm using off-farm income; he worked as an engineer for 20 years in resource extraction before leaving to focus on farming and return to school. Glenn is passionate about continuing his education and is presently pursing a law degree.
Jillian McDonald
jmcdonald@saskbarleycommission.com
Jill joined SaskBarley in May 2014, and comes with a background in international trade, business management, market research and communications. Jill previously worked with Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership (STEP), for a private advertising company and most recently as a lecturer and research associate at the University of Saskatchewan, as well as building a real estate investment company with her husband. Jill holds a B.Sc and M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Saskatchewan. Originally from a family farm near Indian Head, Jill and her husband currently reside on an acreage just outside Saskatoon.
Delaney joined SaskBarley in March 2016, and brings a decade of experience in media, communications and marketing. She has previously done communications work for SaskWheat, SaskPulse, SaskFlax and other Western Canadian agriculture organizations. In 2014 Delaney completed her Master’s degree in Communications and Public Relations through McMaster University and her thesis project focused on Saskatchewan’s agriculture industry. Delaney grew up in Saskatoon and is a proud ambassador for Saskatchewan and its agricultural industry.
Mitchell Japp
mjapp@saskbarleycommission.com
(to come)
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Notes on James Joyce’s “The Dead”
Dec, 23, 2013 Posted in The Arts
Snow at Phoenix Park
“The Dead” is symbolic, or so I understand. The game here, the purpose of this post, it to interpret everything I can in the story before I read any criticism. The Viking edition of Dubliners, the collection of Joyce’s fifteen short stories, also includes eleven critical articles; six of them treat “The Dead.” There must be a lot in it to analyze and interpret.
The story includes three sections: the arrivals, the dancing & eating, and the departures. This could symbolize three phases of life: birth/youth, productive adulthood, and old age/death.
Gabriel Conroy represents the Catholic Church or the Catholic clergy in Ireland and the Morkan family the Irish people, especially its women. Freddy Malins symbolizes the dissolute, drunken men of Ireland, and Mr. Browne the crass English commercialism that abets Freddy’s drinking. Music is a metonymy for learning and literature.
The main women of the story serve distinct purposes: the older Morkan twins, Aunt Julia and Aunt Kate represent older, traditional learning and values; Mary Jane newer, less traditional ways, and Miss Ivors the Celtic Revival. Young Lily, “the caretaker’s daughter,” symbolizes the lower class women (and people) of Ireland. (The class issues are less clear to me. Clearly that’s Lily’s role and the other women seem all to represent some aspects of educated upper classes. More than that, I can’t say.) Mrs. Malins (Freddy’s mother) symbolizes Presbyterian Protestantism, with its Scottish and Ulster connections.
Evidence – Names
An author’s choice of names can tell us a lot. Gabriel is the archangel who announced the coming of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ; this is the role of The Church. So Gabriel = The Church. His brother’s name is Constantine, i.e. The State. The notion that Joyce saw Ireland as being crushed between the forces of the Church and the State is well-documented and he alluded to this heavily in Ulysses. The name Constantine echoes the 4th Century Roman Emperor who legitimized Christianity, as well as the word “constable,” the ordinary manifestation of state power in Joyce’s Dublin. We hear only a little of Gabriel’s brother Constantine in “The Dead,” once pictured with their mother, “in a man-o-war suit,” and then as a curate in Balbriggen. The “man-o-war suit” is obviously suggestive; I don’t know what to make of his job as a “curate in Balbriggen.”
“Browne” is an English surname and is also the color of stout and excrement. “Morkan” (or “Morgan”) is an ancient Irish surname that pre-dates the introduction of Christianity, a very telling indication that the Morkan family represents the Irish people. “Malins” is less clear, other than the prefix “mal-” that means “bad or of poor quality.” Gabriel’s wife’s name, Gretta, is short for “Margaret,” another traditional Irish name. “Lily, the caretaker’s daughter,” bears the name of the symbol for innocence, purity, and virginity.
Character Detail
Mr. Gabriel Conroy lives in Monkstown; he has plenty of money; and everyone in the family defers to him. They are waiting for him, both to preside over the celebratory feast and to look after the wayward drunk, Freddy Malins. He is more educated than the common people; in an unguarded private moment, he thinks to his aunts as “ignorant old women.” The parallels with the Catholic Church in Ireland could not be clearer, “Monks’ Town.”
He is conflicted or ambivalent about his own Irishness, “Conroy” is also an old Irish name, from the western, more rustic part of the island. His mother, Ellen (another good Irish name), married T.J. Conroy of the Ports and Docks. In other words Gabriel Conroy (i.e. the Catholic Church) was imported from abroad, continental Europe to be more precise. Note Gabriel’s enthusiasm for goloshes, “everyone wears them on the continent,” and his preference for a cycling vacation in France, Belgium, or maybe Germany. Perhaps Italy would have been too obvious?
In a tiff with Miss Ivors, she accuses him of being a “West Briton,” essentially a collaborator with the English occupiers, but denies that heatedly.
Western Ireland, where the Irish language still persisted, is seen as true Ireland. That’s where Miss Ivors proposes the vacation; but Gabriel has no interest. His mother looked down on Gretta’s Connacht origins. The symbolism might be a little inconsistent here, but Ireland was viewed as a cultural backwater by the continental Roman Catholic hierarchy, Gabriel’s “mother” church in another sense.
Mr. Browne, while apparently quite sober and of no concern to the family, is always ready for a drink himself, and late in the story is identified as a bad influence on Freddy Malins, who he refers to “Teddy,” familiarly, condescendingly, and inaccurately. Of course, when Gabriel specifically warns him to refrain from giving Freddy alcohol, he ostentatiously gives him a glass of lemonade. The commercial interests, when called upon by the Church, would at least give lip service to Temperance movements and other civic/social obligations. At another point Browne praises Aunt Julia’s singing “in the manner of a showman.” He is cheap, crass, tawdry, English commercialism (another familiar Joycean theme).
Mrs. Malins speaks glowingly of Glasgow, Scotland, and her son-in-law, a great fisherman. “He caught a beautifull big big fish, and the man in the hotel boiled it for dinner.” A humorous, double swipe at the austere beliefs and ways of the Presbyterians: they have boiled the Christian religion down to an unpalatable mush and they eat/live in just such a joyless fashion.
Gabriel and the people
Gabriel (the Church) feels obligated to take care of his family (the people), but he looks down on them and his help to them falls far short of their actual needs. Young Lily is bitter towards men, presumably has been ill-used and taken advantage of; Gabriel gives her a coin as a Christmas gift. It might help salve his conscience, but does little to help the girl’s real (if undefined) problems. Thus the Church with the poor people of Ireland; it would offer a some charity but do nothing to alleviate the causes of poverty.
Gabriel is a college teacher; he loves books and the feel of books. He is a literary man. He’s rather be alone in the snow, walking by the Wellington Monument, rather than being with the people at dinner. His relationship with his wife is most touching. Towards the end of the story, back in their hotel room, he is sincerely and sexually attracted to her; but she breaks down and tells him of her long lost love for a young man. In other words, while the Catholic clergy, at times and certain places, does try to love the people, be intimate with them, and serve them, the people’s love for the traditional Irish ways (lost revolutionary & literary heroes) stands in the way.
The supper may also stand for the ceremony of the Mass. Gabriel carves the goose (administers the eucharist) to the assembly. Gabriel delivers a homily, full of bland compliments, platitudes about traditional values, and warnings against modernism.
Economic Allusions
The Morkan family has been reduced to renting the upper part of a “dark, gaunt house,” from Mr. Fulham, a corn-factor. “Fulham” is a neighborhood in London. A clear parallel to the heart-breaking reduction of the Irish people into tenants of English landlords. Note that Mr. Fulham occupies the ground floor, leaving the Irish people with the less desirable real estate.
There’s plenty of rich food available, in the aunts’ routine and especially at their annual dance (which stands for holidays, religious observances, etc.) Food thus stands for luxuries of all sorts, of which food is an important item, that the Morkans/Irish indulge in although their economic circumstances don’t really allow for such.
Political Allusions
Note the mention of the Wellington monument, which Gabriel would frankly rather be walking near, and the statue of King William, which grandfather Pat’s horse insisted on circling around. In both instances, the monuments of English imperialism prevail.
The abrupt departure of Miss Ivors might represent the self-exile of Joyce himself and other Irish intellectuals who felt the need to escape the stultifying environment of Catholic Ireland.
For the record, none of the six critical essays in the Viking edition interpreted the story remotely like this. Undergraduate plagiarists beware! Copy or use the ideas here and you’ll likely end up with a D minus.
However, in Harry Stone’s commentary on “Araby,” he noted some correlations of that story with Roman Catholic liturgy, Then he added, “These liturgical and religious parallels … lie unobtrusively in the background. They are not meant to be strictly or allegorically interpreted; they are meant to suggest, to hint, perhaps to condition. Unconsciously they tinge our associations and responses; they also harmonize the more explicit motifs of the story.” I’d like to think that something similar is going on with the historical and religious parallels that I found in “The Dead.”
Dubliners,
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This book is due for release in the UK on 21 May 2020.
Toxic is the first comprehensive history of nerve agents, tracing the spread of these terrible weapons from their Nazi origins to Russia’s 2018 deployment of Novichok in Britain. The deadliest means of chemical warfare yet developed, the first military-grade nerve agents were synthesised in Nazi Germany, with a massive industrial enterprise built for their manufacture—yet, strangely, the Third Reich never used them. At the end of the Second World War, the victorious Allies were stunned to discover just how advanced and extensive the programme was. Exploiting the Nazis’ knowledge, the Soviet Union and Western powers embarked on a new arms race: to develop their own nerve agents and munitions, amassing huge chemical arsenals.
Gradually, nerve agents spread elsewhere, first deployed in the Iran–Iraq War and then by terrorists in Japan. Despite arms control efforts and disposal of national stockpiles, they have been used again, in the Syrian Civil War and by assassins in Malaysia and Salisbury. Yet—as the powers developing them have learnt—building, testing and disposing of nerve agents is itself an extremely difficult undertaking, with bitter consequences.
Toxic recounts the grisly history of these weapons of mass destruction: a deadly suite of invisible, odourless killers.
Sources for Pre-Ordering this Book in the UK: (Generally, you don’t get billed until the book is actually shipped.)
From the Publisher (Hurst)
From Amazon UK (link here)
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North American sources will be announced as soon as available.
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Expect Noy war if Hacienda loses INSIDE CONGRESS Charlie Manalo 04/24/2012
Expect Noy war if Hacienda loses
Charlie Manalo
Last Dec. 16, four days after 188 members of the House of Representatives blindly affixed their signatures to the impeachment complaint against Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Renato Corona, the Tribune came out with an exclusive story exposing the agenda behind such move, which was obviously Palace-initiated.
In that story, the Tribune bared that the plot was allegedly hatched in a meeting among the elderly members of the Cojuangco family in their ancestral home after the high court declared illegal the stock distribution option they had employed in their vast sugar estate, the Hacienda Luisita, to avoid being covered by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).
Incidentally, both the CARP and the SDO were first implemented during the incumbency of the late President, Cory Cojuangco-Aquino..... MORE
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More Nuke Questions: Lies About Trident, Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Now Bikini, Too
Thu 7:45 am +00:00, 28 Jul 2016 3
Britain backs renewal of Trident nuclear programme … Trident programme involves four new vessels at an estimated cost of $54bn over the next 20 years. British prime minister affirms she would order nuclear strike … Despite opposition from the pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP) and some in the opposition Labour Party, parliament approved the Scottish-based nuclear-armed Trident submarines by 472 to 117 votes. – Al Jazeera
Why is Britain going to pay nearly $55 billion to “renew its ageing nuclear weapons system?”
It consists of four submarines with Trident missiles.
Why isn’t it reported on in more detail?
It’s not a popular system. Naval nuclear weapons technician William McNeilly recently published an expose of it.
He documented 30 alleged safety and security flaws in an 18-page document: “failure to check ID cards, fire risks from rubbish, the flouting of safety procedures, and a cover-up of a collision with a French nuclear submarine.”
There’s certainly a lot of carelessness surrounding these devastating nuclear weapons.
For us, nukes resemble a dominant social theme. At least partial propaganda in other words.
Information that obviously makes people more fearful about the future – and more inclined to accept the technocratic construct of a globalist society.
It is extremely hard to observe how they operate mechanically because you can’t get close enough to see one in action. You can’t even film them close up.
Their inner-workings are classified by military security so they cannot be explained.
Their history has been disseminated basically by military apparatuses. Reporters can only relay what they have been told.
For years, only ONE reporter was given access to the development and testing of nuclear weapons. The narrative was thus created and perpetuated by the Pentagon, which lies as a matter of routine.
For many years, talking about nuclear weapons in any detail in the US and Japan was punishable by death. The laws still exist though not enforced anymore.
These laws were passed right after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings – as if to make sure people wouldn’t speak about the issue.
Nuclear weapons benefit the political class immensely. The average corrupt political sociopath is immediately ennobled.
One day he is trying to figure out how to embezzle a couple of extra illegal bucks from the taxpayer. The next, he is standing in a marble-lined hall and delivering a speech about how he will not under any circumstances authorize the “murder of millions” via the nuclear weapons under his control.
Or even worse, as Prime Minister Theresa May just did, he will say “yes” he is willing to authorize such murders.
In her first statement in parliament as prime minister on Monday, Theresa May said Britain needed to retain its nuclear deterrent, which had been an insurance policy for the country’s security for nearly 50 years.
May did not hesitate when a member of the opposition asked whether she would be willing to order a nuclear strike.
“Yes,” May said.
The nuclear debate has not traveled far since the beginning of July, 1946 when the famous Bikini Island nuclear tests began.
Two years ago, the controversial but prolific investigator Miles Mathis – an artist and mathematician – published a debunking HERE entitled, The Bikini Atoll Nuclear Tests were Faked.”
… For more proof, we can go to Google. You can get a picture of the Bikini Atoll today from Google Earth. That’s dated 2013, not 1945. We are told the locals can’t live there now because of radioactivity, but we see at least three proofs against that.
One, we see lots of plant life both on and offshore. Radioactivity affects plants just as it affects animals, so the island should be barren.
Remember, the Bikini Atoll wasn’t said to be blasted by only Able and Baker. It was blasted 23 times, including three of the biggest blasts ever from US testing: the 4.5 megaton Navajo and the 5 megaton Tewa, in 1956; and the 15 megaton Bravo in 1954.
The Bravo blast was also supposed to be many times hotter than the surface of the sun, but it seems the roads on the island were undamaged and natives furtively repopulated in 1968.
Mathis also says photos of the Russian Tsar Bomba that were taken 100 miles out, were faked. From all of this he deduces potential fakery not of testing but of the entire narrative of “nuclear weapons.” When we examined the Nagasaki and Hiroshima explosions, we also decided lies were being told.
Whatever happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki doesn’t confirm much that has been said about the two explosions. You can see a summary of the conflicting evidence HERE in a list format. It’s pretty comprehensive.
We wrote:
Here is direct testimony of some of the exaggerations that took place from Crawford Sams – (of the ‘Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission’):
The object of this instruction, called Letter of Instruction, was “You will play up the devastating effect of the atomic bomb.” All right? So I was the one who set the deadline this time. Anybody who had been in Hiroshima and died within six months, whether they got run over by a bicycle or whatnot, would be credited to the atomic bomb. …
When the bomb went off, about 2 thousand people out of 250 thousand got killed [in Hiroshima] – by blast, by thermal radiation, or by intense x-ray, gamma radiation. … You see, it wasn’t “Bing” like the publicity here [said]: a bomb went off and a city disappeared. No such thing happened. That was the propaganda for deterrent …
You don’t hear much about the effects of Nagasaki because actually it was pretty ineffective. That was a narrow corridor from the hospital … down to the port, and the effects were very limited as far as the fire spread and all that stuff. So you don’t hear much about Nagasaki.
Perhaps there were no nuclear bombs then and something else was used. Or perhaps nukes were (and are?) a good deal less powerful than portrayed. There are many videos on Youtube portraying nuclear test fakery. The debunking is increasingly extensive: HERE and HERE.
We’ve been apparently lied to about vaccines, global warming and the efficacy of central banking, just to name a few globally disseminated elite themes. Is it not possible we’ve been lied to about elements of nuclear weapons info?
Please spread the word if you too have questions. Maybe the “nuclear meme” can be subject to more intensive reporting.
Conclusion: And here was our conclusion at the time, which still stands. “The entirety of the Cold War, including the ‘arms race’ and the ‘space race’ all have elements of directed history. In other words, they are not what they seem. They are what authorities wish us to believe. While here at DB we have never written that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not bombed with nukes, we do have grave reservations about the narrative.”
Source: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/nuke-hoax-continued-lies-about-trident-hiroshima-nagasaki-and-now-bikini-too/
3 Responses to “More Nuke Questions: Lies About Trident, Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Now Bikini, Too”
logoagogo says:
Thanks for reminding me that thedailybell is still going. I remember them ‘shutting up shop’ some years back. Clearly, they had more to say after all.
Men Scryfa says:
So hedging their bets. Great Post btw GordonTap. Imagine what would happen if someone came along and cracked this one wide open. Capricorn One style. Lol.
Had a couple of phone calls yesterday.
Was on the bus this morning one of those funny ‘police cars’ went by, you know one of those that is not, its siren blaring with blue front lights only, one of the ones without the proper markings….
I suppose then if there is an accident they can then say “well he was not impersonating a police officer”, or they just lie and it gets covered.
This is just getting silly.
Somebody’s got a bit of T-Rex syndrome, you know short arms when they don’t reach down to the pockets.
Good points. Trident costs so much because that’s what they think they can get away with charging. Same with Hinkley Point, same with head teachers’ salaries, same with concert tickets. I agree it’s a ludicrous amount of money for what’s a couple of submarines and old technology but there you go.
As for nuclear weapons themselves, I have little doubt their capabilities have been exaggerated but if they were a hoax then nuclear power would have to be a hoax too – and that seems very unlikely given its use around the world.
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Interview by Ryan & Tina Essmaker June 18, 2013
Photo by Ryan Essmaker
Keith Ehrlich
Keith "keef" Ehrlich is the Creator and Director of Made by Hand, a short film series that focuses on great design, craftsmanship, and the maker spirit. The series was featured in the 2013 SXSW film festival. He is also the founder of Bureau of Common Goods, a Brooklyn-based film and digital content studio. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Mandy Brown.
Describe your path to becoming a filmmaker.
I started making Super 8 films while attending a program for high school students at the School of Visual Arts (SVA). Film was something I was becoming serious about in high school, but I didn’t go to a school that had anything in the way of a video program. I thought I should see what filmmaking was all about and, if my memory serves me right, I was reading a book about Keith Haring, who went to SVA; that was my point of reference. I lived in the burbs of Philadelphia at the time, but my mother happened to live in NYC, near SVA, so I stayed with her to attend an SVA film program the summer before my senior year of high school.
That was an eye-opening experience. Everything was analog. We learned to cut film and it was a very tactile, exciting process. As soon as the program started, that was it. I knew this was what I wanted to do. After high school, I went to SVA for a 4-year film program and I was likely the last generation that got to do things in an entirely analog way. I learned to edit on a Moviola and a Steenbeck flatbed editing table. I was a very intense student and realized I would be paying for school for a long time and that I should take it seriously.
I also figured out right away that going to school was only part of my education. I needed to get involved in filmmaking in a practical way. I started working as a production assistant on independent features and from that, I learned what I didn’t want to do. I was turned off by some things in production, in particular the attitudes that I saw on so many crews. I recently read an interview with Jim Jarmusch where he talks about production being there to serve the film and not the other way around. That really resonates with me. At that time, my crew experiences often felt the other way around. I was also bothered by the fact that women were often marginalized. After a year, I took a step back from doing crew work. I decided to do some documentary work and got an internship with an Academy Award-nominated doc director.
I had several work experiences in addition to school, but the last was the one that put me on my path. I wanted to get into music video work, but didn’t know how. There was a bulletin board at school that I checked again and again, looking for interesting work—this was before online job boards. One day, there it was: a posting for an assistant at a company called Black Dog. Being young and stupid, I thought it was Chris Cunningham’s company, but it wasn’t; he was only a director on their roster. Black Dog is actually owned by Jake Scott, Ridley Scott’s son, and is part of Ridley Scott & Associates. I applied for the job, went to the interview, and the person interviewing me turned out to be a friend of a friend that I had coincidentally met the week before. I got the gig at Black Dog and was thrust into the music video world.
My curiosity and intensity in school carried over into my work at Black Dog. Almost every day, I was kicked out as the office was being locked up. I didn’t want to leave. I spent much of my time in a room called The Vault, which contained 3/4“ director reels that I watched and memorized; I was creating my own kind of mental archive of work. That came in handy later when I needed a job, because I was a resource. All along, I told myself, ”make yourself a resource that they won’t get rid of,“ and that’s what I did. Right before graduation, I was offered a job to be Jake Scott’s assistant because he was planning to move to New York City. I was excited because my peers didn’t know what they were going to do after graduation and I already had a job offer. I had worked hard for this moment. But then, last minute, Jake decided to stay in LA and I was out of a job. It was an, ”Oh, shit!” moment. I thought I was going to have to leave New York and that was horrifying.
“I worked in sales for a few years. During that time, it felt like I was never going to get back to the place I was in in college where I was afforded time to make. That felt miles behind me.”
I had to figure out how to survive. While at Black Dog, I saw what their sales team did and I thought I could do that. Even though I had no interest in sales, it was a way to meet people and earn a paycheck. I approached one of the guys in the industry who pioneered the idea of representing talent for commercials. I think he realized that I was a good hire, despite the fact that I was pretty punk looking, which definitely didn’t fit the bill. People in advertising didn’t all have tattoos then; so, it was a bit of an issue. Within a month, I went from being an assistant to being a full-on sales rep. The company represented different companies that had rosters of directors. It was like the ad industry’s version of swimming with sharks. At the end of every day, I had to show my boss a notebook of all the phone calls I made. It was hard sales, nothing creative, but I did it because I wanted to stay in New York and it was paying the bills.
I worked in sales for a few years. During that time, it felt like I was never going to get back to the place I was in in college where I was afforded time to make. That felt miles behind me. I realized that a step toward making was producing. I had learned a lot about post-production, had worked with some design companies that were doing early motion graphics, and had a primer of an education through doing sales. I thought, “If I can convince people that I can produce this stuff, then I’ll be in a different position.” I bullshitted my way into doing that and took a leap. I knew enough about the business to convince people, so I quit my day job and started freelance producing. I then did that for years.
What I’m trying to get at here is that it was not a fast path to directing, even though that was what I wanted to do all along.
The Cigar Shop—Jesus Martinez, owner of Martinez Hand Rolled Cigars, has a smoke.
“I don’t think you can be a good designer if you don’t have a business sense; I don’t think you can be a good director if you don’t have a sense of production. I think it’s all part of the job and frankly, we all have the capacity for creative output.”
So how did you get from there to where you are now?
I produced for five or six years and was fortunate enough to work for some companies that put a lot of faith in my knowledge. Other environments didn’t welcome my creativity because they only saw me as a producer. It was hard to go into environments where I was just the Excel spreadsheet guy, especially when I had an interest in other areas and frequently knew more about the job than those doing it. That is a big issue for me. There is a lot of talk in creative fields about separating those who are “creative” and make things, and all the other people—but that’s fucking bullshit. I don’t think you can be a good designer if you don’t have a business sense; I don’t think you can be a good director if you don’t have a sense of production. I think it’s all part of the job and frankly, we all have the capacity for creative output. I even find the label “creative” to be obnoxious. Thankfully, I was fortunate enough to land in an environment that fostered my creativity from time to time.
The last job I worked before jumping into full-time directing was a hybrid position at a design and production company called Bigstar. The role was a cross between an executive producer and creative director and was the beginning of being able to do what I wanted. There, we did movie titles for docs and movies from Academy Award-winning directors, network rebrands for on-air identities, and some commercial work. This was also the first job where I worked with a group of people under me and could encourage their creativity; that was circular because I also learned from them. Through that job, I started directing live-action work and then went out on my own.
So what are you doing now?
I’m my own boss. I have Bureau of Common Goods, which is my studio. I’ve been pitching a lot of client work lately, sometimes for brilliant ideas and sometimes for less exciting client work that pays the bills. That’s part of why I needed to do Made by Hand. My best foot forward right now is my personal work and it’s what people come to me for. I think that what people are attracted to is the aesthetic and sense of storytelling.
Not any more or less than any other kid. I think most kids are imaginative. I was fortunate enough to have a mother who really engaged me in the arts. The Philadelphia Art Museum is pretty amazing and we went there frequently. Admission was free on Sundays and, as a teenager, I spent many Sunday afternoons there. Also, I’m sure nobody says this, but I was tethered to MTV growing up; I was an MTV baby. In hindsight, some of the big music video directors of that time were people who were known for their work in other disciplines; music videos were just one form of art for them. Matt Mahurin, a famous illustrator, was one of the music video directors whose work I followed; there was also Jean-Paul Goude, who was a designer. That had a serious impact on me and music videos are what made me want to go into filmmaking.
The other thing was that my mother put movies in front of me. I had gotten into cinema as an art form when I was young. I think I saw A Clockwork Orange when I was 10; I was watching Peter Greenway films by the time I was 12.
Tina: Did your mom have an interest in film that she passed down to you?
My mom was just super hip. She is an avid reader as well. My mother was really this driving force, even though I’m not sure it was a conscious choice on her part. My parents also took us to concerts when we were young. It was the way I was brought up, the way I was cultured.
The Cigar Shop—A regular shop patron hanging out at the cigar shop.
The Distiller—A handful of wheat grain about to be milled and turned into a mash for fermentation.
Was there an “aha” moment when you knew that filmmaking was what you wanted to do?
I never had an “aha” moment. Somewhere around my junior year of high school, I started to become aware of the fact that if I was going to go to college, then I should probably decide what I wanted to study. Music videos and filmmaking were becoming appealing and then I did the SVA summer program. After living in New York for the Summer, essentially on my own at 17, I had to return to home and finish my senior year of high school. It was a bit of a head-fuck because I had been thrust into New York City in the mid–90s, and my mom worked all day in Soho art galleries, so she wasn’t there to entertain me. I went to classes and then walked around the whole city, taking it in. It was a super liberating, incredible feeling. Then I had to go back to another reality for high school, which was really challenging. It was emotionally difficult to go back to something that seemed so unimportant and I had that feeling that even my friends were a little alien to me now because they hadn’t experienced the independence that I had.
Have you had any mentors along the way?
No. I’ve never had someone who has taken me under their wing. My learning has come from studying other people’s work.
In that sense, have there been people whose work has inspired you?
Yes, so this is a story I kind of skipped over. Earlier, I mentioned Chris Cunningham, who I believe was the last genius of music videos because, in my view, he took a format that was running its course and made it exciting again. The things he did weren’t just technically brilliant, but his ideas were otherworldly and put together in a language people hadn’t seen before. When I first saw his work, I was blown the fuck away.
Once, when I was working at Black Dog, Chris came into the office one day from London. Everyone was petrified to talk to him because he’s this genius and really quiet, and because he’s “the guy”. I just walked up to him and said, “Excuse me.” He and I ended up sitting in an editing room talking about film and William Gibson’s Neuromancer over tea for an hour. He was 28 and that number stuck in my head because by the time I was 28, I wanted to feel like I had accomplished something as well.
As an aside, I feel like there’s so much pressure to make it by a certain age. I think people coming out of school believe they have to make it by a certain (usually young) age. I still wrestle with that, too. I’m probably going to ruffle some feathers with this one, but I think the concept of things like Young Guns is bad. Maybe some of these people had the privilege and opportunity, while other people were busy working to pay rent. It feels unnecessary to me, but then again I don’t like the concept of contests anyhow.
Coming back to the mentor thing though, I never had somebody to guide me through a process, but what I did have was this one person’s work among many others that I looked up to. He broke norms with his work and I wanted to do that too. I think mentorship can come in a lot of different ways.
“[My wife] supports me in every way…She’s often my barometer. In a certain sense, she’s a mentor, too. You’re very fortunate if you have a partner who understands what you do and works with you through the struggle of the making and the wanting to make.”
The Knife Maker—This group of knife forms have been cut out from a sheet of steel and are awaiting the next steps.
The Knife Maker—The intricate patterns of the handmade knife pins that Joel Bukiewicz uses to fasten on the handles of his knives.
Has there been a point when you’ve taken a risk to move forward?
Definitely. I should add that I was well-supported in this choice to quit my job. I wasn’t happy and I said, “Fuck it.” I had the privilege, in that moment, to try to make it as a freelancer and make directing my thing. I knew that if it didn’t work, I could do something else. Giving up a good salary to go make stuff was pretty risky.
Yes. My wife is super supportive of what I do and I don’t think I’d even be remotely getting to do what I want without her. She supports me in every way. Even making small films is an intense thing for me. I labor over every aspect of it and she’s the one who, if I’m waffling over a choice, I’ll ask for input. She’s often my barometer. In a certain sense, she’s a mentor, too. You’re very fortunate if you have a partner who understands what you do and works with you through the struggle of the making and the wanting to make.
Yes. Filmmaking is a really collaborative form because right out of the gate, it’s about the idea of working with others to make something for an audience. There’s the question of whether or not you embrace the audience and care about how they’re going to react. I actually don’t think about that, although I might eat my words later. I mean, I certainly don’t want to upset the audience, but I don’t want to treat them like dummies and spoon-feed them either. Aside from that, I just want to make the stuff I want to make.
How does that come back to contributing to something bigger? I spent all those years in advertising where we made things that were communicative, but they didn’t matter because it was just advertising. When I started working on more doc-based work, like the animation and design for Food, Inc., that felt more rewarding. Still, it wasn’t until Made by Hand that I felt like I could specifically have an agenda. There were a few points I wanted to hit and way up on that list was to inspire the shit out of people; that was the goal. I also wanted to re-inspire myself and figured that if I was inspired, others might be, too.
The other thing that goes along with that is that, in part, Made by Hand was a reaction to all the negativity surrounding unemployment and the dismal outlook for this next generation. I was angry about Wall Street robbing people of their savings and the fact that our parents would have to wait to retire. I was pissed off. I felt like I had to do something to engage in these topics on a personal level. Made by Hand is a way for me to make films that engage people through portraiture and hopefully allow them to see themselves in it. That was a front and center objective for me.
Tina: We’ve seen all the Made by Hand films, but your latest, The Bike Maker featuring Ezra Caldwell, is absolutely stunning in its emotional resonance.
I got to know Ezra through his blog that documents his experience with cancer. I’ve never made anything that felt this fragile. It’s hard for me to feel okay about the film. When I first found out that Ezra’s cancer came back, I actually considered canning the whole thing. Ezra is so engaging, warm, and open and I was worried about misrepresenting him. But he was unbelievably gracious.
Ezra Caldwell, The Bike Maker, holding one of the many cameras in his collection that he has used to document his life since being diagnosed with cancer.
“Made by Hand is a way for me to make films that engage people through portraiture and hopefully allow them to see themselves in it. That was a front and center objective for me.”
That question. No. No, how can you be? It’s very rare for me. I think that, not only am I rarely creatively satisfied, but satisfaction comes with small victories. There’s usually more frustration than applause or happiness. I’m the kind of person who is always looking to do more and do better. I’m learning from my mistakes and that’s what I see—the failures. (laughing)
Is there anything you’re interested in exploring in the next 5 to 10 years?
I have a dream project that I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. I know exactly what it is to the point that it feels stifling. I don’t fancy myself a writer; I know the characters and some of the details, but I haven’t found the person to do the writing with me. It’s a pretty intense narrative feature film that I think could be disruptive and I’ve been putting it off. I think I need to find a way to get that project moving—that’s the next big challenge.
Last summer, there was a feature film being shot across from our apartment. The crew size looked like a student shoot. It was camped out there for 10 days. I took our dog, Jax, out for a walk and learned that it was Neil LaBute’s new feature. He was filming with two actors, one being Stanley Tucci, and it was a minimal, low-budget project with just one setting. I talked with him several times, even though I didn’t recognize him at first. I walked away from that encounter thinking, “If Neil LaBute can work like that, so can you. Put your fucking foot on the gas.” I don’t think I can look myself in the mirror and tell myself I’ve done “it” until I’ve actually done a feature.
Tina: Well, we’re looking forward to seeing what you do! So if you could give advice to a young filmmaker starting out, what would you say?
I think it’s pretty simple: stay curious, look for inspiration in everything, and write it down. You never know when you have a seed that you’ll come back to. Watch a lot of films and deconstruct the things you like and don’t like. That will give you a good primer.
Second, if filmmaking is something you plan on doing as a career, prepare to struggle. It’s not going to be easy. All through film school, I had a lot of confidence, but that isn’t the end game. I don’t even know that there is an end game.
As a young person, you look up to your mentors and want them to tell you about the world and how it should be and how it’s all going to come together for you. For myself, years later, I now know that there’s no magic to be enlightened by.
Ryan: The only magic formula is working your ass off!
And loving the process—because you’re also going to hate the process at times. Those two things go together and if you don’t love all of it, then go do something else.
Well, I’m exceptionally fortunate to live in a place where I walk out my front door and am constantly engaged with people. I think the more you interact with people, the more room you have for being inspired. There’s that.
Then there’s the support system. I know so many talented people and we support each other’s work, help each other get work done, and inspire each other. I don’t know if I’d be able to do that if I wasn’t in such a densely populated area.
“I think it’s pretty simple: stay curious, look for inspiration in everything, and write it down. You never know when you have a seed that you’ll come back to.”
The Bike Maker—Ezra uses a drill press in his workshop.
The Bike Maker—Ezra torch brazing a piece of iron that will be a component on a bike he is building.
Is it important to you to be part of a creative community of people?
When I was in film school, I knew that one of the things I was paying for was to be around my contemporaries. I had some friends in the film department, but overall, I didn’t see them being a long-term support system for me. I was actually much more interested in students who were studying other disciplines and we’d hang out working at my apartment until the sun came up. When college ended, all that was over. That, combined with not getting to make the work I wanted to be doing was tough. Then I did Made by Hand and was lucky to fall into a community of people I knew who really liked it and have been supportive. I never found that in the filmmaking community, even though I tried. I do think a place like New York has a lot to offer in terms of community if you connect with the right group of people. I think the web community is pretty special in this regard; I’ve never seen anything like it.
Ryan: We haven’t either.
It’s different depending on how many jobs I am working on and if I’m pitching work or working on a production. My process also varies depending on what stage of a project I’m in. Every day is something different and I like that because I have gone through times when my days were regimented and the same, day in and day out. Now, I’m trying to figure out how to get the best out of myself each day. Also, I have a fur kid, our dog Jax, who needs a lot of attention, usually when I’m in the middle of something.
My answer to that is a really awful thing and makes me sound like a crotchety old man, but I’m feeling over-stimulated by the way we have so much music available to us now all the time. I once took a Greyhound bus from NYC to Houston and had maybe two cassettes with me for the ride. I listened to DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing the whole way down. At the same time, not a week has passed where I haven’t listened to The Cure’s Disintegration. So, I just spend a lot of time with the same records.
Do you have any favorite movies or TV shows?
I’m just going to pick a few films that I think other people should see. How about that?
Harold and Maude has always meant the world to me. They don’t make films like that anymore. It’s a story that’s heartwarming, sad, and exceptionally taboo, but so beautiful. It’s from this era of cinema that I think is the real golden age. Directors were making films like MASH and Network, where there isn’t the faculty to do that anymore. I also like everything from Stanley Kubrick—he’s just his own genre, right?
In terms of TV shows, everybody says The Wire, which is pretty wonderful. Also, I’m not a big Hollywood kind of person, but I do have some J.J. Abrams love and think Fringe is awesome.
I’ve become quite interested in Michael Lewis over the last few years. I started with The Big Short, which details the banking crisis of 2008. Lewis has a brilliant ability to make stories about credit default swaps not only incredibly engaging, but also understandable. I always imagine his scenes playing out like a Coen Brothers film.
Your favorite food?
Is beer a food? I think that’s the beauty of food—you don’t have to have a favorite. I do like really simple things, though. A few fresh ingredients thrown together is good for me.
What kind of legacy do you hope to leave?
I hope I don’t make any more of a mess than I have to. This sounds kind of trite, but I’d like to make the world a little better than it was when I inherited it. I think it’s achievable, whether that means entertaining someone for half an hour or inspiring somebody to do something.
The knife maker inspects the lines of a knife he is grinding, which is one of the most important details to get right.
“This sounds kind of trite, but I’d like to make the world a little better than it was when I inherited it. I think it’s achievable, whether that means entertaining someone for half an hour or inspiring somebody to do something.”
Next up: Jen Schuetz & Naz Hamid
Previously: James Victore
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Interview by Ryan & Tina Essmaker on May 28, 2013, at Prospect bar in South Slope, Brooklyn
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The Road Goes Ever On And On, December 25th, 2017
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with weary feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
~J.R.R Tolkien
Merry Christmas to all of you from sunny San Diego! It is happy Christmas Day around our house with presents, food and the holiday spirit in abundance. As this year draws near to a close there are a number of worthy family celebrations that I am thinking about and pausing to remember.
Granddad William Shepard (1888-1976). Today is the 129th anniversary of the birth of my Grandfather William Shepard. Born in 1888 in Alton, Illinois, he was the oldest person that I knew well. He was always generous in sharing stories of his life from his childhood along the Mississippi River and then his working and family years with wife Bura Davis Shepard in Oklahoma and Colorado. The last 36 years of his life were spent in San Diego where, 41 years ago this month, he died at 88 years old. He lived long enough to enjoy all 12 of his and Bura's grandchildren, and then the first 6 of their Great Grandchildren. In the midst of all the holiday celebrations I remember and celebrate Granddad's life.
This first picture shows my grandparents William and Bura Davis Shepard. This picture was taken in San Diego back in the 1970s, not long before Granddad passed away.
A 49th Anniversary. On Wednesday this week, Cindy and I will celebrate 49 years of marriage. We tied the knot just down the street from where we live now, at the La Mesa Church of Christ on Jackson Drive on a Friday night, two days after Christmas in 1968. We splurged and honeymooned in beautiful Orange County, California at the world famous Knotts Berry Farm (entry fee 25 cents). Cindy's father Joe Harris generously made the elaborate and expensive travel arrangements: he let me drive his almost new black Ford Fairlane Deluxe. We probably drove a total of 250 miles, with stops at The Torrey Pines Inn (oops, no room at the Inn) and the Laguna Beach Surf and Sand Hotel. After just a few days of honeymooning we returned to San Diego, packed up and went back to school at Abilene Christian University in Texas.
This second picture shows Cindy and me in a picture taken last month when visiting the San Diego Zoo.
Happy Anniversary Darrell and Mary! Speaking of Abilene Christian, 14 years later my brother Darrell was a student at that same school. He had met a student there who was from Chicago named Mary Medina. They were married in Abilene, also a few days after Christmas, but in 1982. On the last day of this year Darrell and Mary will celebrate 35 years of marriage. Congratulations and best wishes to both of them!
10 Years of "The Shepard's Crook." It was 10 years ago this week that I began writing The Shepard's Crook as a family blog. It has been a interesting and exciting venture for me, and one that I plan to continue. The story of our family is one that has no end. The discovery of details about our ancestors continue to be made with the promise of more revelations to come. Just this past year I have been able to add to our family tree family members who I never knew existed, and whose stories add immeasurably to our understanding of our family's history, and therefore to our understanding of ourselves.
I want to thank all of you who are readers of The Shepard's Crook, whether your last name is Shepard or Gower, or Davis or Shannon, of a host of other last names that make up this wonderful tapestry we call our family. Your support of this endeavor and your interest in this blog is greatly appreciated!
May the coming year, what Tolkien calls "the Road" that "goes ever on and on" be healthy, prosperous and full of wonderful surprises for all of you!
Celebrating 75 Years, Dec 11, 2017
Your brothers, sisters, children, parents...
Make no mistake, your relationships
are the heaviest components in your life.
~Ryan Bingham
75 years ago this month my Grandmother Nola Shannon Gower, and my mother Maida Gower Shepard moved to San Diego from Okemah, Oklahoma. My Mom's young sister Vicki Gower Johnston was also a part of this female threesome who made the arduous bus trip from Oklahoma to Southern California. They came to be reunited with husband Leroy and son Hendrix and wife Starlene.
The journey was on two lane roads all the way, along what is today a bustling interstate highway. In the winter of 1942 it was slow going compared to recent times. At that time World War II was in full swing, with San Diego being a major player in "the war effort."
Nola and Leroy Gower, 1942
Grandpa Leroy Gower, with his son Hendrix and pregnant wife Starlene had come to San Diego the previous summer to get jobs and make enough money to send for the three girls they had left behind in Oklahoma. After several months "the men folk" scrimped and saved enough to send money home. Grandma Gower then made travel arrangements for her and her daughters Maida and Vicki to come to the West Coast in the most practical way: by Greyhound bus.
Traveling by bus was a very common way of getting around the country in those days. The accompanying image is a poster from 1942 which illustrates how common bus travel was and how it even contributed to the all encompassing effort to win World War II.
My mom remembers it being a very difficult 1,400 mile trip. The emotional part of separating from their father and other family was hard enough. It was also difficult leaving the area of the country that had been home to them, where they had been settled and felt comfortable, and to adjust to a place they had never even seen before. San Diego was a big city that must have stood in great contrast to the small country town of Okemah, Oklahoma. The physical part of the bus trip was difficult too: sitting hours on end, day and night, watching the desolate Southwest landscape pass by. Besides all that, onboard bathrooms did not come along until 1954!
It was a draining journey for many reasons for these three women. Mother Nola was just 39 years old, while daughters Maida and Vicki were just 18 and 9 years old. They traveled alone as they made their way to their new life in San Diego.
Starlene Bass Gower, Maida Gower, 1943
In the 75 years since that time the Gower family, which numbered just 6 in 1942, has grown and evolved and scattered tremendously. Before the decade of the 1940s was complete, both daughters were married and four Grandsons had been born to Leroy and Nola, myself being the fourth. In their first 20 years in San Diego all 12 Gower grandchildren had been born, and the family was enjoying the prosperous life of the post-war years in Southern California.
Leroy and Nola are gone now, of course, but their legacy remains. Their descendants, which number over 50 today, have scattered to Washington, Texas, Arizona, and even Tokyo, Japan. My immediate family and I are among the few descendants who still live here in San Diego. Great Grandsons Shawn and Lloyd Gower and their families are the only others who still live here in the San Diego area.
A lot has happened to the Gowers in those 75 years since Leroy and Nola's family came to San Diego from Oklahoma. But it all goes back to those watershed events of 1942, when the decisions were made to move west, and then the hard work of relocating took place. I am grateful to my grandparents for their foresight, and the challenge they accepted to pick up roots and relocate themselves in California. Their decision to move west set the course for our family which has had tremendous ramifications for each of us.
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"Door Into the Past", Nov 29, 2017
Photographs open doors into the past,
but they also allow a look into the future.
~Sally Mann
It is always an unexpected pleasure when I connect online with people to whom I am related but have never met. And in many cases people I never even knew about. Recently I connected online with Vicki Gower Cragen who is a second cousin of mine on the Gower side of the family. Her grandfather Jackson Gower was the brother of my grandfather Leroy Gower. Vicki is a native Missourian and lives today with husband John near Hannibal, Missouri.
Vicki was gracious enough to sent me a picture of Serena Turner Gower, who Vicki and I share as a Great Grandmother. Serena (1876-1931) was the wife of our Great Grandfather George Gower. I was very pleased to hear from Vicki about Serena and to receive this picture. I know very little about Great Grandmother Serena and have never seen a picture of her, or her husband George for that matter. Of my eight Great Grandparents, I know less about Serena than any of them. So to receive a picture of little known Serena is a wonderful gift.
I do know that Serena and George Gower were both born in the area around Mountain View, Arkansas and were married there in 1893. In the 1920s they were among several Gower family members who migrated to Okemah, Oklahoma. Serena and husband George are both buried in Highland Cemetery in Okemah. My mother Maida Gower Shepard and I visited their graves a few years ago. At that time mom shared with me how she remembers Serena from her childhood in Okemah.
Many thanks to Vicki for sharing this picture. We don't know much about this particular picture. It is obvious very old from the grainy look of the image, and from the looks of the clap board siding on the house, and what appears to be a log cabin. Serena died in 1931, so it may be from the 1920s. Vicki says Serena and her sister Josephine Turner Vaughn are the two women in this picture. Josephine outlived her sister Serena by at least 10 years, so my guess is that Serena is the one on the right, sitting in the rocker. It is a wonderful thing just to have this image even if we can only ponder the details and guess at the many stories is contains.
Caroline Spear Davis. Speaking of Great Grandparents, today is the 152nd anniversary of the birth of my Great Grandmother Caroline Spear Davis (1865-1931), mother of my Grandmother Bura Davis Shepard. A native of Indiana, "Callie" (as she was known) married James Brooks Davis in 1896. In 1913 Callie and James and their 6 children, ranging in age from 2 to 16 years old, moved from their home in Spencer, Indiana to Beaver County, Oklahoma where they began a new life. It took a tremendous effort, and great courage, to move one's large family that distance in the early 20th century. We are indebted to her and husband James for their fortitude in forging a whole new life for their family.
This second picture shows Callie Spear Davis with her husband James and their 7 children. This picture was taken just a few years before this family migrated from Indiana to Oklahoma.
Happy Birthday Kim and Damian. Today also happens to be the birthday of my cousin Kim Boyd Clark of Grain Valley, Missouri who is also a great grandchild of Caroline Spear Davis. Furthermore it is also the birthday of Kim's oldest grandson Damian Ortiz of San Diego. Best wishes and happy birthday today to Kim and her grandson Damian!
Further congratulations are offered to Kim and husband Jeff Clark who are retiring! This very week they have concluded their jobs and are taking to the road as their retirement begins. We wish them the very best is this new adventure in their lives.
A Fantasy Road Trip, November 16, 2017
I am listening to a deeper way.
All my ancestors are behind me
but still they say,
you are the result
of the love of thousands.
~Linda Hogan
As a result of research I have done in recent months, we now know when and where our Shepard ancestors first arrived on American shores. And we know the stops they made in their journey across our country from the Atlantic to the Pacific. If one were so inclined, one could take a road trip across the U.S. retracing the route our Shepard ancestors took. Here are the particulars of that fantasy road trip retracing the seven steps our Shepard ancestors took to get across country in the 214 years from 1726 to 1940.
Shepard Migration from the East Coast to the West
Georgetown, Maryland. Our road trip would start at the port town of Georgetown, Maryland where 5X Great Grandfather John Sheppard III was born in 1737. His grandfather had arrived in Maryland from Barbados in 1726. Our trip would have to include Hagerstown, Maryland where John's son, James Cross Sheppard Sr. was born in 1775, the year before the U.S. came into being.
Kirkwood, Ohio. The second stop on our road trip would be in the Township of Kirkwood, Ohio where James Sheppard Sr. and his wife Hannah with 8 other family members settled in 1809 after making that 400 mile westward migration from Maryland. There in Belmont County we would visit Salem Cemetery in Hendrysburg where laid to rest are Hannah and James Sheppard Sr., parents of a large influential clan of ancestors who made a mark on that community that lasts to this day.
Montgomery County, Indiana. We would then travel another 350 miles westward into Montgomery County, Indiana where Hannah and James Cross Sheppard Jr. relocated from Ohio in 1840 with James' brother John Sheppard and 7 other family members. In Indiana we would visit James Cross Sheppard's grave in Paint Creek Cemetery outside the hamlet of Camden, Indiana. This road trip would be incomplete if we failed to honor the sacrifice of Civil War soldier William Shepard (1835-1862), the oldest son of James and Hannah. He is laid to rest in the Civil War section of Oak Hill Cemetery in Evansville, Indiana.
Madison County, Illinois. After leaving Indiana we would retrace the solo journey of soldier William Shepard's younger son William Elmer Shepard (1862-1915), and travel 235 miles to our fourth stop on this journey, Madison County, Illinois. That's where the young runaway William Elmer met and married local girl Elvira Owens. In the Mississippi River community of Alton, Illinois the two children of William Elmer and Elvira, William and Sadie, were born. On this stop we could visit the New Douglas Cemetery a few miles east, where several of Elvira Owens Shepard's family are buried.
South Flat Church in 1989
Beaver County, Oklahoma. Our fifth stop on this genealogical road trip would be 654 miles further southwest, in Beaver County, Oklahoma, where Elvira and William Elmer Shepard migrated in 1905 with their two teenage children William and Sadie. Two important places to visit during this stop would be the Sophia Cemetery where several family members are buried and, around the corner, the South Flat Church of Christ, spiritual home to many of our early 20th century ancestors. Beaver County is where William Shepard met and then married Bura Davis in 1915.
Two Buttes, Colorado. The sixth and next to last stop on this road trip would be the dusty little town of Two Buttes, Colorado, 160 miles northwest of Beaver County. That's where William and Bura Shepard decided to settle in 1928 with their first 3 children. In the 12 years they spent in Southeast Colorado a lot happened in their lives: 3 of their children finished High School, their 4th child was born, their oldest got married, and their first 2 grandchildren were born. On our road trip we would not need much time in Two Buttes (population 41); there is simply not much to see there.
San Diego, California. In 1940 our Shepard ancestors finally completed their westward journey when the 9 members of Will and Bura Shepard's family left Colorado and drove the last 1,200 miles to the shores of the Pacific. Some old Colorado friends named Gibbs told them about an opportunity to run a boarding house in San Diego, which was all it took to get them to California. Our road trip would include the boarding house at Albatross and Upas Streets, where the Shepards lived for the first few years of their new life in Southern California. Our journey would appropriately end with a visit to the resting place of a dozen family members in Greenwood Cemetery.
Bura Davis Shepard with daughter Pauline, early 1940s
It took 8 generations of Shepards, over 214 years, migrating a total of 3,000 miles to make their way from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It has been 77 years since Will and Bura completed the Shepard migration. They are both gone now but several of their descendants still live in San Diego to this day. In the last 77 years, most of their descendants have scattered up the Coast to Northern California and Washington, while others have migrated eastward to Missouri, Texas and Oklahoma. But for all of them our roots proudly include this two century migration from Maryland to California.
Bura Davis Shepard (1896-1986). An important person in the migration detailed above is my grandmother Bura Davis Shepard (1896-1986), whose birthday was last Wednesday, November 8. Born 121 years ago near Spencer, Indiana she moved in 1913 with her family to Beaver County, Oklahoma where she met and then married William Shepard, with whom she had 4 children. She and husband William made the major decision to move their family in 1940 from Colorado to the West Coast where they lived the rest of their lives. She was the spiritual and emotional head of our family during the latter part of the 20th century, a time of growth and prosperity.
Labels: Davis, Owens, Shepard, Sheppard
Happy Halloween! October 30, 2017
Werewolves howl.
Phantoms prowl.
Halloween's upon us now.
~Richelle E. Goodrich
Happy Halloween! It was always a joy as a kid when we would get excited about Halloween in the few days before the holiday itself. In contrast I have noticed that in our neighborhood today Halloween has become something of a month long celebration.
At the end of September in our community here in San Diego where we live, there were houses near us that had ornate pumpkins and orange lights strung across their front yards -- a full month before Halloween. Have you noticed a similar thing where you live? We love our holidays!
Birthday Wishes to Pam! Happy Birthday today to Pam Shepard of Anacortes, Washington whose birthday falls on the day before this great American holiday. Pam is the wife of my brother Russell Shepard, and mother of Linda and Steven. Pam and Russ live on Wildwood Lane in Anacortes with my mom Maida Shepard and are part of the family team who is caring for mom these days. Pam was born in Anacortes, Washington and has lived there her entire life. Best wishes to her for a happy almost-Halloween birthday!
Celebrating 93! On November 1, Wednesday of this week, and the day after Halloween, my mother Maida Gower Shepard will celebrate her 93rd birthday. Born in Mountain View, Arkansas in 1924, she is the second child of Leroy Gower and Nola Shannon Gower. Mom was raised in the small town of Okemah, Oklahoma during the 1920s and 1930s. In the early 1940s her family moved to San Diego, where she met and married another transplanted Okie, Eugene Shepard.
Mom and Dad lived in San Diego for 36 years during which time they raised their 6 children. In 1978 Dad retired and they moved to Anacortes. After 25 years there Dad passed away in the summer of 2003. Next April will mark 40 years that Mom has lived in her home on Wildwood Lane in Anacortes.
This second picture shows mom earlier this year, and was taken on a clear spring day in front of her long time home in Anacortes, Washington.
Paula Harris, Maida Shepard
At 93 she deserves the honor of being the senior member of our family. She is in fairly good health, but as a nonagenarian, she has various health concerns including some serious memory issues. But she continues to enjoy her home on Wildwood Lane, her family scattered hither and yon, and her church in Anacortes. Maida is proud to have 5 children, 9 grandchildren, 11 great grandchildren and 2 great great grandchildren, spread out over Washington, California and Texas.
This third picture shows Maida a couple of years ago when she was on a Hawaiian cruise with Cindy and me and Cindy's mom Paula Harris during Halloween.
Happy Birthday and best wishes to mom!
Labels: Engan, Gower, Harris, Shepard
Our Roots In The Caribbean, October 25, 2017
Family traditions counter alienation and confusion.
They help us define who we are;
they provide something steady, reliable and safe
in a confusing world.
~Susan Lieberman
Happy Birthday Mandi! Today is the birthday of Mandi Aquiningoc, daughter of Kerri Shepard Aquiningoc and granddaughter of my brother Gary Shepard. Mandi and her daughter Kambree are part of our family who live in the area around Weatherford, Texas. Mandi was born 25 years ago here in San Diego but has lived most of her life in Texas.
Best wishes to Mandi for a wonderful 25th Birthday. This first picture shows Mandi with her daughter Kambree.
Two More John Sheppards. In my last post, I introduced you to the oldest Shepard ancestors I had found, John Sheppard III and his wife Mary Ann Hudson Sheppard, whose lives reached back into the early 18th century. Mary Ann and John were originally from Maryland and were among our earliest Shepard ancestors who began the movement westward across the U.S.
You may be asking, What about John Sheppard II and John Sheppard I? Since there was a John Sheppard III, there must have been a II and a I, right? Indeed there was. Let me introduce to you John II and John I, who can now be added to our family tree.
6X Great Grandfather John Sheppard II was born in 1713. He died in 1741 at just 28 years old, according to the information attached to the cemetery listing for his son John Sheppard III. John II was married to a woman named Ann, whose maiden name is unknown. John II's father, who was John Sheppard I, was born in 1670, at St Michaels Parish, Barbados, and died in 1738. The wife of John I was Ann Sheppard (maiden name unknown) who was born in 1680.
Our Roots in the Caribbean. The "Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s" shows that John Sheppard I arrived in Maryland on a ship from the Caribbean Island of Barbados in 1726. This is one of the few details we have on the lives of our Sheppard ancestors from the 18th century.
The Caribbean was a common place from which European immigrants came to America in the 18th century. The "Passenger and Immigration List" on which John Sheppard I is found includes those who sailed to America for political, religious or economic reasons, or those who were deported for "Vagrancy, Roguery, or Non-Conformity," or those who were sold for labor in the new world across the Atlantic.
We don't know which of those offenses caused our John Sheppard to be among those who arrived by ship in Maryland in 1726. It would be nice to think he came to the new world for religious reasons. That sounds so pious. But knowing us Shepards these days, our Sheppard forefather could have left Europe and sailed across the Atlantic because of "roguery" or "non-conformity" (God forbid!).
The First of our Shepard Ancestors. Whatever caused them to leave their homeland, probably in Europe, and come across the Atlantic, our Sheppard ancestors came to the Caribbean either for personal reasons, or they were deported, or they were indentured servants. It is very possible then that John Sheppard I worked hard enough to clear his name and make enough money in Barbados to get on a ship and immigrate to Maryland. There he, and whatever family he had with him, became the first of our Shepard ancestors to arrive in the New Colonies. They arrived in 1726, almost 300 years ago!
The British West Indies of the Caribbean were very productive for Britain in the 18th century. At that time they brought in more revenue for England than all the Colonies of the new world combined. There were thousands of slaves from Africa who were forced to work in the Caribbean, but there were also many Europeans who voluntarily or involuntarily arrived in the Caribbean to help in the sugar cane industry. For that reason the West Indies were very important on the world scene, and were a very popular avenue by which many black and white individuals eventually made their way to what would become America.
The life story of founding father Alexander Hamilton is getting lots of press these days because of the blockbuster stage play "Hamilton." He is an example of this very migration pattern. His ancestors were also white Europeans, just as our Sheppard ancestors were. Hamilton made it to America, just as John Sheppard did, in the 18th century. Hamilton also came to America via the Caribbean. In his case it was the island of St Croix, not far from Barbados, the island from which John Sheppard I came to America.
With these three John Sheppards and their wives (our family's founding Fathers and Mothers) we can now show our Shepard ancestry for 9 generations before me, going back to 1670. The following is a 13 generation lineage including my brother Gary, his granddaughter, birthday girl Mandi Aquiningoc, and her daughter Kambree one of our youngest Shepard descendants.
John Sheppard I (1670-1738) and wife Ann Sheppard (b. 1680-?))
John Sheppard II (1713-1741) and wife Ann Sheppard (dates unknown)
John Sheppard III (1737-1827) and wife Mary Ann Hudson (1755-1824)
James Cross Sheppard Sr. (1775-1843) and wife Hannah Gatchell (1781-1839)
James Cross Sheppard Jr. (1813-1887) and wife Hannah Sheppard (b. 1812)
William Shepard (1835-1862) and wife Mary Ellen Sprague (1840-1919)
William Elmer Shepard (1862-1915) and wife Elvira Owens (1865-1931)
William Shepard (1888-1976) and wife Bura Davis (1896-1986)
Eugene William Shepard (1921-2003) and wife Maida Gower (b. 1924)
Gary Shepard (b. 1946) and wife Cindy Dillon (b. 1954)
Kerri Shepard Aquiningoc (b. 1968) and husband Manuel Aquiningoc (1961-1992)
Mandi Aquiningoc (b. 1992)
Kambree Aquiningoc (b. 2013)
In upcoming posts: "A Fantasy Road Trip" or "Where the Bodies Are Buried." I will take a Shepard genealogical journey across America, briefly retracing our family's ancestral steps across American from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
More Sheppard Ancestors, October 18, 2017
Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values,
so we reach ahead to our children and their children.
And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.
~Paul Tsongas
Vicki Johnston, Paula Tuzzolino
Today is the 84th birthday of my aunt Vicki Gower Johnston of Chandler, Arizona. Vicki and her sister Maida Gower Shepard are the two senior members of our family. Cindy and I were in Arizona a few weeks ago and had the opportunity to visit with Vicki and her primary care giver, daughter Paula, and Paula's husband Frank Tuzzolino. Vicki has lived in a care facility not far from Paula and Frank for two years now. She continues to have various health concerns but enjoyed our time together. Best wishes to Vicki for a very happy birthday!
The first picture I am including shows Vicki Johnston and her daughter Paula Tuzzolino.
Today is the 109th anniversary of the birth of my uncle Willie Davis (Bill) Russell who was born in 1908. He was married for 62 years to my aunt Pauline Shepard Russell. Among the descendants of Bill and Pauline Shepard Russell today are Shannon Wilk and her daughter Emma of Atchison, Kansas.
This second picture I am including today was taken earlier this month and shows Shannon and Emma Wilk.
New Ancestors For Our Family Tree. The last few months have been surprisingly productive in my continuing search for our Shepard ancestors prior to the Civil War. The soldier William Shepard (1835-1862) has been a keystone ancestor in our family history for many years. But discovering his parents and ancestry has been difficult until the last few months. I have shared recently in this blog about the discovery of the soldier William Shepard's parents Hannah and James Cross Sheppard Jr., and then the discovery of William's grandparents Hannah and James Cross Sheppard Sr.
When James Cross Sheppard Sr. (1775-1843) and his wife Hannah Gatchell Shepard (1781-1839) migrated from Maryland and settled in Kirkwood, Belmont County, Ohio in 1809, they brought with them their first four children (they eventually had 13). What I did not know until recent weeks is that James' elderly parents, Mary Ann Hudson Sheppard and John Sheppard III, also migrated to Ohio from Maryland just a few years later. John and Mary Ann therefore have become the newest additions to our Shepard family tree.
Our Shepard ancestors before the Civil War generally spelled their last name "Sheppard" with two "P's." That is how it usually appears on their headstones which is why I am spelling their name that way. I say that even though it was not unusual for their last names to be spelled either Shepard or Shepherd.
5X Great Grandmother Mary Ann Hudson Sheppard was an Irish immigrant. She was born in 1755 in County Wexford, on the Southeastern Coast of Ireland. She came to America as a child from Ireland with her parents Joseph Hudson (1717-1807) and Elizabeth Dunn Hudson (1720-1789). The Hudsons raised Mary Ann and her siblings in South Eastern Pennsylvania which was just north of where the Sheppards lived in Cecil County, Maryland.
Mary Ann's husband John Sheppard III -- our 5X Great Grandfather -- was born in 1737 in the port city of Georgetown, in the North Eastern part of what was then the Maryland Colony. John married Mary Ann Hudson on October 8, 1777 in Cecil County, Maryland -- 240 years ago this month! They were probably married earlier than that, but Maryland did not require marriage licenses until 1777. In addition to their son James Cross Sheppard Sr., they also raised a number of other children (perhaps as many as 12), among whom were two daughters Elizabeth Sheppard Midkiff (1782-1873) and Lydia Sheppard Waddell (1795-1872). A rich resource for these ancestors of ours comes from the cemetery listing for John Sheppard III and his wife Mary Ann on FindaGrave.com. You can select this link for that listing.
Sewellsville Cemetery, Kirkwood, Ohio
So John Sheppard III and Mary Ann Hudson married and bore their children in Maryland but migrated to Belmont County, Ohio a few years after their son James and his family did. The community of Kirkwood in Belmont County is where John and Mary Ann spent the last years of their lives. Mary Ann died at 69 years old in 1824, while husband John died 3 years later at the ripe old age of 90, which was exceptional for the nineteenth century. Mary Ann and husband John are both buried in Sewellsville Cemetery in Kirkwood Township, Belmont County, Ohio.
Our ancestors John and Mary Ann were frontier Americans, hearty Christian folk. Look at the given names in this post: Mary and Joseph, James and John, Lydia, Elizabeth -- all significant characters from the New Testament. We know that 4X Great Grandmother Hannah Gatchell Sheppard (John and Mary's daughter-in-law) was from devout Quaker roots. John and Mary Ann may have been Quakers as well, but if not Quakers they were certainly fine Christian people.
You may be asking, What about John Sheppard II and John Sheppard I? Since there was a John Sheppard III, there must have been a II and a I, right? The details on the lives of those two are scant, but we do have some important information about them. I look forward to sharing about that in my next post.
Labels: Gower, Russell, Shepard, Shepherd, Sheppard, Tuzzolino, Wilk
Their Legacy Remains, September 21, 2017
You can love them, forgive them,
want good things for them,
but still move on without them.
~Mandy Hale
It was in late September, 1921 that my grandparents Leroy Gower and Nola Shannon were married in Stone County, Arkansas. She was barely 18 years old and he was just 22 at the time. Leroy was the oldest child still living at home in the Gower family of Sylamore, Arkansas, a small farming community a few miles west of Mountain View, in Stone County. Nola was one of the last two children at home in the family of Sam and Fanny Shannon when she and Leroy decided to marry. The Shannons lived in Liberty, Arkansas just south a few miles from where the Gowers lived.
Their first home together was not far from where their families lived in Stone County, Arkansas. The first year after they married their son Hendrix was born. Two years later their first daughter Maida was born. The very next year Leroy and Nola decided to take their two small children and move westward. They left Arkansas and never looked back. Their first stop was Oklahoma where they settled in the small town of Okemah for the next 17 years. In Oklahoma they had one more child, a daughter Vicki, completing their family of 3 children.
It was 75 years ago this summer that these Gowers moved to San Diego. They didn't all move at the same time. 42 year old Leroy came first to find work, make some money, and send for his wife and daughters. Their teenage son Hendrix (Hank), accompanied Leroy to Southern California in the summer of 1942, bringing along his pregnant, 19 year old wife Starlene.
The first picture I am including with this post shows Leroy and Nola Gower with their daughters Maida and Melva (Vicki). I don't know for sure when or where this picture was taken, but it was probably taken in the early 1940s, perhaps in San Diego about 1942 or 1943 soon after they first moved there. Their family also included their son Hendrix (Hank) and his wife Starlene who are not pictured here.
This picture may have been taken in December, 1942 soon after the family was reunited after their move to San Diego. In this picture Maida (left) looks like a High School girl which she was in 1942, and appears happy about her life at the time. Leroy looks glad to be reunited with his family, as does Vicki (front) who turned 9 in October, 1942. Grandma Gower (back) looks like she just finished a long bus ride or for some other reason is not happy about the transition to life in another state.
Their first year in San Diego was very eventful for the Gowers.
Leroy and Hank found work at Railway Express in downtown San Diego
They found a place to rent behind a house on Arizona Street in San Diego
Starlene struggled through her first pregnancy
Leroy and Nola's 21st anniversary, Sept. 29, found them separated by nearly 1,500 miles
Daughter Maida's 18th birthday in Nov was a time of anxious longing for her new home
Nola, Maida and Vicki, endured a miserable bus trip from Okemah to San Diego in Dec.
The Gower's first grandchild, Hershell, was born to Hank and Starlene in Feb, 1943
Maida graduated from San Diego High School in June, 1943
It was a whirlwind of a first year for these Gowers who were new residents of California. But they seemed to survive the transition from small town Oklahoma to city life in San Diego fairly well. Nola and Leroy lived the rest of their lives in San Diego, except for Nola's sunset years with family in Washington.
Southern California was good for them for the many years they lived here. They saw their family grow to include a large clan of grandchildren and great grandchildren and more. Many of their kinfolk have relocated over the years, but a dozen or so of us who are descendants of theirs still live in the San Diego area. This second picture shows 3 of Leroy and Nola's youngest descendants: my grandchildren Preslea, Logan and William. The original Gowers who settled in San Diego are now gone, but after 75 years in San Diego their legacy remains.
Labels: Gower, Shannon
The Last Will and Testament of James Sheppard, Sr., September 12, 2017
Knowledge of our ancestors
shapes us and instills within us
values that give direction
and meaning to our lives.
~D. B. Neuenschwander
Birthday Wishes to Kelly Sauvage. Today is the birthday of my niece Kelly Shepard Sauvage, younger daughter of my brother Gary Shepard. Born and raised in San Diego, she and husband James Sauvage live today in Weatherford, Texas, with their sons Nate and Kyle.
In July, Kelly, Nate and Kyle visited some of their family in Anacortes, Washington. The first picture shows Kelly in the center with her father Gary at the top, her son Kyle on the right, son Nate bottom left, and Kelly's grandmother Maida Shepard on the bottom right. This picture was taken at Maida's home on Wildwood Lane in Anacortes. Best wishes to Kelly for a very happy birthday today!
The Last Will And Testament of James Sheppard, Sr. In the last couple of posts I have been sharing new stories about our Shepard ancestors from Indiana, Ohio, and Maryland. The most impressive and interesting historical family document I have recently encountered is the will of my 4X Great Grandfather James Cross Sheppard Sr. (His Great Grandson William Elmer Shepard (1862-1915) is the one who dropped one of the "p's" from his last name.)
James Sheppard (1775-1843) and his wife Hannah Gatchell (1781-1839) were married in Cecil County, Maryland in 1798. With the first 4 of their 13 children they migrated in 1809 to the frontier community of Kirkwood in Belmont County, Ohio. The timing must have been right for them to settle in Ohio, for over the following 30 years this Sheppard family made a very good life for themselves along the Cumberland Trail on the Eastern Ohio frontier. Historically we know that this was a prosperous time for Americans as our nation expanded westward.
A Treasure Trove of Information. Much of what we know about the life, the children and the wealth of James and Hannah Sheppard, is contained in James' will, which was written in 1840 and can be found in the County Records of Belmont County, Ohio. A copy of the text of James Sheppard's will is found at the bottom of this post. It is a fascinating document, which not only gives monetary details but also refers to other items and descriptions of historical interest.
James' wife Hannah died in 1839, an event which must have left him pondering his own mortality and the future well being of their 13 children. They ranged in age from 39 years old (Nathan Sheppard) to just 11 years old (George Washington Sheppard). When he wrote his will, James was 65 years old and had recently married for a second time to a woman named Esther Reynolds.
James lived only 3 more years after writing his will. But at 68 years old he lived far beyond the life expectancy for men in that time. Sadly, two of his youngest sons died the year after he did, Job at 20 years old, and Emanuel at just 17.
In his will, James bequeathed to his heirs cash gifts that totaled $5,150. That may not seem like much today, but in 2017 dollars it would be roughly equivalent to $150,000! And that was just the cash disbursements. It did not include "the home farm," another farm of 153 acres, a 10 acre sawmill, and a few other personal items that were mentioned in the will.
Outstanding Citizens of Belmont County. From these few details we can see that James and Hannah were well off. Whatever the total value of their estate might have been, it was sizeable, probably several hundred thousand dollars (in 1840 dollars!). In those early years of the 19th century, James and Hannah and their 13 children did remarkably well for themselves as outstanding citizens of the Kirkwood Township of Belmont County, Ohio.
There is a Shephard Road located in the South Eastern part of Kirkwood Township today. Could that road have been named after the James and Hannah Sheppard family, who were prominent members of that community 200 years ago?
When thinking about the descendants of James and Hannah over the past two centuries, I doubt if any of them have done any better financially than those Sheppards in the pre-Civil War years in Eastern Ohio. Not in Indiana, where some Shepards settled and did quite well. Not in Illinois, not in Oklahoma, not in Colorado, and maybe not even in San Diego or elsewhere in recent years. This is not to diminish the accomplishments of any of James and Hannah's descendants. It is simply to say that Hannah and James Sheppard Sr. and their large family did remarkably well in building a very good life for themselves on the American frontier. We can consider it an honor to be counted among their descendants.
The picture above shows Salem Cemetery where James and Hannah and several members of their family are buried. It is located in the little town of Hendrysburg, which lies alongside I-70 in Kirkwood Township, Belmont County, in Eastern Ohio.
The Last Will and Testament of James Cross Sheppard, Sr.
Found in Book of Wills Volume G. page 410
1843, St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio.
I, JAMES SHEPPARD, of the County of Belmont in the State of Ohio, do make and publish this my last will and testament in the manner and form following, that is to say;
FIRST, It is my will that my funeral expenses and all my just debts be fully paid.
SECOND, I give, devise and bequeath to my beloved wife ESTHER SHEPPARD, in lieu of her dower, the one-third part of the home farm on which we now reside, so long as she remains my widow, together with all the property she fetched with her at the time of our marriage, and also fifty dollars in money.
THIRD, I give and devise to my eldest son NATHAN SHEPPARD five hundred dollars.
FOURTH, I give and devise to my second son JOHN SHEPPARD one note of hand I hold on him the amount of which is three hundred dollars.
FIFTH, I give and devise to my third son WILLIAM SHEPPARD two notes of hand which I hold on him amounting to six hundred dollars.
SIXTH, I give and devise to my fourth son JAMES SHEPPARD one note of hand I hold on him the amount of which is two hundred and fifty dollars.
SEVENTH, I give and devise to my fifth son SAMUEL SHEPPARD one note of hand which I hold on him calling for two hundred dollars.
EIGHTH, I give and devise to my sixth son ISAAC SHEPPARD one note of hand which I hold on him calling for two hundred dollars.
NINTH, I give and devise to my seventh son AMOS SHEPPARD two notes of hand which I hold on him calling for one hundred and ninety nine dollars and ninety eight cents.
TENTH, I give and devise to my sons JOB and EMANUEL SHEPPARD the farm on which I now reside, it being the southeast quarter of Section twenth-three, Township nine, Range six and to their heirs and assigns forever, the same to be equally divided between them and it is also my will that each of them have four hundred dollars paid to them by my executors.
ELEVENTH, I give and devise to my son GEORGE SHEPPARD the farm I purchased of WILLIAM B. BEALL, situated in Belmont Co., Ohio containing about fifty-three acres, it being a part of the northwest quarter of Section number 15, Township nine, Range six and to his heirs and assigns forever. It is also my will that he shall have eight hundred dollars in money, the money to be put to interest until he shall arrive to the age of twenty-one years.
TWELFTH, I give and devise to my daughter Elizabeth Mumma, in addition to what she has already had of me, the sum of two hundred dollars in money and one double cover lid.
THIRTEENTH, I give and devise to my daughter MARY SHEPPARD, in addition to what she already had of me, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars in money and one side saddle and double cover lid.
FOURTEENTH, I give and devise to my grandson ISSAC EVANS one hundred dollars, the money to be paid to his guardian by my executor and by him put to interest until my grandson comes to the age of twenty-one years.
FIFTEENTH, I give and devise to my granddaughter SALLY ANN EVANS one hundred dollars, to be paid by my executors to her guardian and by him put to interest until she comes of age.
SIXTEENTH, it is also my will and desire that my executors pay to the guardians of my three youngest sons, JOB, EMANUEL and GEORGE SHEPPARD, the sum of five hundred dollars, to be by them put to interest for the purpose of educating them, should it be wanting. Should it, or any part of it, remain unexpended, when my youngest son comes of age, the balance to be equally divided between all my children, share and share about.
SEVENTEENTH, I give and devise to my niece JULIA ANN SPEAR, the sum of one hundred dollars.
EIGHTEENTH, it is my will that in case my wife should prove to be in a family way at this time and should be delivered of a living child, then in that case the said child to draw an equal share with the rest of my children.
NINETEENTH, my will is that my executors sell that lot of land where my sawmill stands, purchased of ALEXANDER McKEEVER, containing about 10 acres more or less, also all of my personel property not otherwise disposed of in this, my will.
TWENTIETH, It is further my will that whatever may remain that has not been disposed of in this, my will, that it be equally divided between my 10 sons, share and share about.
AND LASTLY, I hereby constitute and appoint DAVID HARRIS and ROBERT A. DALLAS to be the executors for this my last will and testament, revoking and annulling, all former wills by me made, and satisfying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 4th day of May, 1840.
(Signed) JAMES SHEPPARD (SEAL)
Labels: Gatchell, Sauvage, Shepard, Spear
More About Our Shepard Ancestors, August 29, 2017
History remembers only the celebrated,
genealogy remembers them all.
~Laurence Overmire
Happy Birthday Lyndsey! Today is the birthday of my niece Lyndsey Aquiningoc, one of the descendants of the Shepard ancestors mentioned in this post. Lyndsey lives in Granbury, Texas with her son Karver. She is the daughter of Kerri Shepard Aquiningoc and the Granddaughter of Jackie Perry and my brother Gary Shepard. Best wishes to Lyndsey for a very happy birthday!
Her sister Mandi gave her a beautiful compliment earlier today in a Facebook post: "Happy birthday to my beautiful sister. Thank you so much for everything you've done, for being there for me, and for being such an amazing woman with such a great heart! I'm so blessed and thankful to have YOU as my sister. This is YOUR day so shine and take advantage."
More About Our Shepard Ancestors
I mentioned in my last post that I have found some ancestors on the Shepard side of our family from the early 19th century: Hannah and James Cross Sheppard Jr. In 1840 when these Sheppards migrated from Ohio to Montgomery Co., Indiana, they settled into a whole new environment, put down roots and began a new life for themselves and the family that had come with them. Coincidentally it was exactly 100 years later, in 1940, that the last migratory step across the country occurred for our Shepard family. 1940 was when my grandparents, William and Bura Shepard and their family of 9 moved from Baca County, Colorado to San Diego, California. That particular move covered just over 1,200 miles.
This first picture shows 8 of the 9 Shepard family members who migrated from Colorado to California in 1940: Bill and Pauline Shepard Russell, Eugene Shepard, Bura and William Shepard, and children Rex, Beverly and Thelma. Not pictured here but who also made the move was Elmer Shepard, who may have been taking this photo. This photo was taken in front of the boarding house on Albatross Street in San Diego, which Bura and William ran when they first moved to San Diego 77 years ago.
Moving a family 1,200 miles in 1940 was probably easier than moving a family 350 miles in 1840. Road conditions, modes of travel, speed of transportation, increases in population and other factors made a big difference in facilitating the movement of families across the U.S.
Hannah and James, Jr. and Sr. When Hannah and James Cross Sheppard Jr. left Ohio in about 1840 and migrated to Indiana they left behind their parents Hannah and James Cross Sheppard Sr. Interestingly the James Cross Sheppards of two generations in our family married women named Hannah. The following lineage shows 9 generations of our family going back to James Cross Shepard Sr. and his wife Hannah Gatchell.
James Cross Sheppard Sr. (1775-1843) who married Hannah Gatchell (1781-1839)
James Cross Sheppard Jr. (1813-1887) who married Hannah (last name unknown)
William Shepard (1835-1862) who married Mary Sprague (1840-1919)
William Elmer Shepard (1862-1915) who married Elvira Owens (1865-1931)
William Shepard (1888-1976) who married Bura Davis (1896-1986)
Eugene Shepard (1921-2003) who married Maida Gower (b. 1924)
Steve Shepard (b. 1948) who married Cindy Harris (b. 1948)
Nathan Shepard (b. 1977) who married Chenda Sou (1980)
William Quincy Shepard (b. 2012), Logan Shepard (b. 2011), Preslea Shepard (b. 2010)
James Cross Sheppard Sr. and his wife Hannah were married in Cecil County, in Northeast Maryland in 1798. They bore their first four children in Maryland before deciding to move westward:
Nathan Sheppard (b. 1801)
Malinda Sheppard (b. 1803)
John Sheppard (b. 1805)
William Sheppard (b. 1808)
James Sr. appears in the book Made In Ohio: Furniture 1788-1988, published in 1984 by the Columbus Museum, in which he is said to have been a "cabinetmaker, carpenter, tanner, weaver and farmer." Those are all skills he would have put to good use on the Ohio frontier when he and Hannah and their first 4 children homesteaded in Ohio in 1809. After traveling some 400 miles from Maryland they settled in what became Kirkwood Township in Belmont County, Ohio. As homesteading settlers in Ohio, James and Hannah added 9 more children to their family:
Samuel Sheppard (b. 1812)
Isaac Sheppard (b. 1812)
James Sheppard Jr. (b. 1813)
Amos Sheppard (b. 1817)
Elizabeth Sheppard (b. 1821)
Mary Sheppard (b. 1821)
Job Sheppard (b. 1824)
Emanuel Sheppard (b. 1827)
George Washington Sheppard (b. 1829)
Among their Ohio born children was James Jr. who is the Sheppard son from which we are descended. James Sr. and Hannah remained in Kirkwood, Ohio until Hannah's death in 1839. James Sr. died just 4 years later, followed the very next year by the deaths of their two youngest sons Job and Emanuel Sheppard who were only 17 and 20 years old.
Included in this post is a picture of the gravestone marking the burials of James and Hannah and their youngest sons Job and Emanuel. It is located in Salem Cemetery in Kirkwood, Ohio. Why the four of them died in a period of just a few years is unknown. Disease epidemics took the lives of many 19th century American pioneers and that may have been the reason for these deaths. It is also curious that about this same time James and Hannah's sons James Jr. and John Sheppard decided to migrate from Ohio to Indiana with their families. Perhaps their mother's death in 1839 prompted them to move westward.
Mother Hannah Gatchell was an English immigrant whose parents were Nathan Gatchell and Elizabeth Anderson Gatchell, Quakers from the old Province of Maryland. Online at Findagrave.com at the burial listing for Hannah Gatchell Sheppard there is a story about her father Nathan Gatchell. As a Quaker he was not allowed to take up arms against the enemy, so he simply helped clean the guns of the colonists instead. But even that participation in the war was too much for his pacifist Quaker brethren and he was "disowned" by them.
I have said it before but it bears repeating: our forbearers like James and Hannah Sheppard deserve our eternal gratitude for having given us much more than their DNA. They paved the way for those of us who have come after them and have left us a great history to be discovered and appreciated.
There is much more to share about these new found family members. For next time: the fascinating will of James Cross Sheppard Sr.
The Last Will and Testament of James Sheppard, Sr....
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1.11 Hit the Bricks! podcast, the Internet
2.2 Virtual Wizard of Oz Con, The Internet
3.4 Journey with Dorothy, Banner Elk, North Carolina
4.1 Chesterton Wizard of Oz Days Gala, Chesterton, Indiana
5.1 The International Wizard of Oz Club National Convention, East Aurora, New York
6.2 Midwest Oz Fest 2020
7.4 The Magic of Oz: It's Illuminating event, Mattydale, New York
7.5 Wicked, Das Musical: Die Magie Zwischen Gut und Böse, Hamburg, Germany
10.1 Garmin Marathon in the Land of Oz, Olathe, Kansas
11 Date TBA
Gershwin Theater, Broadway, New York City, New York. Tickets may be purchased online at ticketmaster.com. For more details, go to wickedthemusical.com. For a "Behind the Emerald Curtain" tour on Saturday mornings, go to https://wickedthemusical.com/behind-the-emerald-curtain#scrolldown for details. Currently suspended.
The Apollo Victoria Theatre, The West End, London, England, United Kingdom. For more information, including booking tickets, see http://www.wickedthemusical.co.uk/ or http://www.wickedwestend.co.uk/, and tickets can be purchased through http://www.wickedtheatretickets.co.uk/. Currently suspended.
May 20-31, 2020: Chrysler Hall, Norfolk, Virginia CANCELLED
June 3-14, 2020: Altria Theater, Richmond, Virginia CANCELLED
June 17-July 5, 2020: Civic Center, Des Moines, Iowa POSTPONED
July 9-26, 2020: Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada CANCELLED
July 29-August 9, 2020: Southern Jubilee Auditorium, Calgary, Alberta, Canada CANCELLED
August 12-23, 2020: Northern Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada CANCELLED
August 26-September 6, 2020: National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada CANCELLED
September 9-27, 2020: The Bushnell, Hartford, Connecticut
September 30-October 25, 2020: Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham, North Carolina
October 28-November 15, 2020: Peace Center, Greenville, South Carolina
January 13-31, 2021: Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa, Florida
February 3-14, 2021: Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
February 17-March 7, 2021: Arsht Center, Miami, Florida
March 10-28, 2021: Dr. Phillips Center, Orlando, Florida
March 31-April 18, 2021: DeVos Performance Hall, Grand Rapids, Michigan
April 21-May 9, 2021: Bass Concert Hall, Austin, Texas
May 12-30, 2021: Civic Center Music Hall, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
June 2-20, 2021: Municipal Auditorium Music Hall, Kansas City, Missouri
June 23-August 1, 2021: The Hobby Center, Houston, Texas
August 4-September 5, 2021: Music Hall at Fair Park, Dallas, Texas
(No shows currently scheduled.)
Emerald City television series, NBC.com The latest Oz TV project has gone through its broadcast run on NBC. But the show's website is still up at http://www.nbc.com/emerald-city. You can still watch episodes online at http://www.nbc.com/emerald-city/episodes.
Now playing: Lost in Oz, Amazon Video streaming. NOW FREE FOR EVERYONE! This animated series from Amazon tells the story of Dorothy, a modern-day girl, and her dog Toto, who are whisked to Oz when Dorothy opens one of her mother's old journals. To get home, she must find the elements of magic and help restore magic to Oz. Fortunately she has made friends with Ojo the Munchkin and West, a trainee witch, to help her out. To get started, see Amazon's Lost in Oz website at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00Z89MYTI! More episodes are now in production, so keep an eye out for the announcements of even more of the show.
Now streaming: The Chronicles of Oz podcast, seasons 1, 2, and 3. This audio adaptation of the first three Oz books, each in six episodes, presents The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Marvellous Land of Oz, and Ozma of Oz. Produced by Crossover Adventure Productions out of Australia. All episodes, along with trailers and other materials, can be downloaded at http://chroniclesofoz.com/. And now complete…
Now streaming: The Royal Podcast of Oz, podbean.com and other podcasting sites. Now running for over a decade, this podcast is devoted to all things Oz, with interviews, reviews, news, and other items of interest to Oz fans of all types. You can listen to or download all editions at https://anchor.fm/the-royal-podcast-of-oz/, or look for it on your favorite podcast site.
Hit the Bricks! podcast, the Internet
Now playing: Hit the Bricks! podcast, the Internet. One hundred years after the events of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Gale farm is abandoned, and a new generation is off to have adventures in Oz. The first episode has now dropped, with further episodes to come every two weeks. For more information, see the show's website at https://hitthebricks.com/, and its Twitter feed at https://twitter.com/HitTheBricksPod/.
May 22-23, 2020: Yellow Brick Road Festival, Sedan, Kansas. This town in Kansas celebrates The Wizard of Oz every year. For details, see http://www.lasr.net/travel/city.php?Sedan&Kansas&Yellow+Brick+Road+Festival&City_ID=KS0604019&Event_ID=KS0604019e002&VE=Y or call 620-725-4033.
Virtual Wizard of Oz Con, The Internet
May 23, 2020: Virtual Wizard of Oz Con, The Internet. At last, an Oz event that can't be cancelled because of COVID-19, because it's online! As a fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Ryan Jay is hosting this online event featuring voice actors Rob Paulsen and Kari Wahlgren, musician Todrick Hall, authors Gregory Maguire and Danielle Paige, and actors Emma Ridley and Shanice Williams. Tickets are $10, and events start at 7:00 pm CDT. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit https://www.yaymaker.com/us/wi/adell/28514/events/virtual-venue/may-23/virtual-wizard-of-oz-con-fundraiser-10241914/.
June 5-7, 2020: Oz-Stravaganza, Chittenango, New York. L. Frank Baum's home town honors their favorite son with this annual festival (formerly known as OzFest). Events include a children's Oz costume contest; craft and vendor booths; the Munchkin Mile Kids Fun Run; and lots of other contests. For more information, see the festival's website at http://www.oz-stravaganza.com/, or the town's website at http://www.chittenango.org. CANCELLED
June 11-13, 2020: Wizard of Oz Festival, Judy Garland Museum and environs, Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Judy Garland's home town celebrates her most famous role in this annual festival, with events all over town spread out over three days. For more information, keep an eye on the event's website at http://www.judygarlandmuseum.com/festivals/judy-garland-festival-2020.
June 12-13, 2020: Wizard of Oz Festival, Ionia, Michigan. This Michigan town holds an annual Wizard of Oz festival. For details and schedule, see the festival's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/MichiganWizardofozfest/.
Journey with Dorothy, Banner Elk, North Carolina
June 12, 19, and 26, and July 2 and 3, 2020: Journey with Dorothy, Land of Oz Park, Banner Elk, North Carolina. This year celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its opening, the now-mostly-closed-but-not-abandoned Wizard of Oz theme park in the mountains of western North Carolina opens on select dates this summer for its annual Journey with Dorothy tour. For more information, see https://www.landofoznc.com/. CANCELLED.
Chesterton Wizard of Oz Days Gala, Chesterton, Indiana
DATE CHANGE! July 11-12, 2020: Chesterton Wizard of Oz Days Gala, Chesterton, Indiana. The home of one of the most celebrated Wizard of Oz festivals is going to do it again, after taking a few years off. For more information, see the event's Facebook pages at https://www.facebook.com/WizardofOzDays/ and https://www.facebook.com/events/2409107332697500/.
DATE CHANGE! July 17-19, 2020: OzCon International, Kellogg West Conference Center and Hotel, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Pomona, California. The fifty-sixth annual gathering of Oz fans on the west coast meets once again at Cal Poly Pomona. This year, the convention will be celebrating the widening of the Oz series to different authors after the death of L. Frank Baum with programming focusing on his successors as Royal Historian; thirty-five years of Return to Oz; and the music of Oz. For more information, see the convention website at http://www.ozconinternational.com/. NOW CANCELLED.
For more information, see the convention's website at http://www.ozconvention.org/.
September 11-13 and 18-20, 2020: Autumn at Oz Party, Beech Mountain, Banner Elk, North Carolina. The Wizard of Oz Park on the mountain may no longer be in regular operation, but it's still there, and Oz and park fans get together once a year for a party. This year, the park celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. For more information, check out http://www.landofoznc.com/autumnatoz.
September 26-27, 2020: Midwest Oz Fest 2020, Tinley Park, Illinois. The southwest suburbs of Chicago are hosting a big festival, with vendors and food and rides and games and parades and all the rest. It's early still, but to stay on top of the festival's progress, keep an eye on the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/MidwestWizardOfOzFestival/, and the event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/778939432609537/.
September (exact dates to be announced), 2020: Wizard of Oz Festival Ohio, Location to be announced. The third year for this event in Ohio. For more information, see the website at https://wizardofozohio.com/, and the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/wizardofozfestivalohio/. CANCELLED
October (exact date to be announced), 2020: The Oz Run, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. This annual 5K and half-marathon run raises money for local charities while the participants dress in Oz costumes as they make their ways to the Emerald City at the end. For more information, or to sign up, go to http://www.theozrun.com/. And if you want to find out a little more, including video of the 2016 run, see http://www.weau.com/content/misc/Oz-Run---Dec-19th-407438355.html.
The Magic of Oz: It's Illuminating event, Mattydale, New York
October 3-4, 2020: The Magic of Oz: It's Illuminating event, Mattydale, New York. This event celebrates the legacy of Oz creator L. Frank Baum and central New York State's role in Oz. Keep an eye on https://www.facebook.com/Lyman-Frank-Baum-Foundation-Incorporated-of-Syracuse-182342648464587/ for further information.
Wicked, Das Musical: Die Magie Zwischen Gut und Böse, Hamburg, Germany
Opening October 25, 2020: Wicked, Das Musical: Die Magie Zwischen Gut und Böse, Hamburg, Germany. For the first time in many years, Wicked will play on a German stage, and this time it's an all-new production, different from the original Broadway version. It's in development now (they're even auditioning), and is scheduled to open October 25. If you can read German, you can find out more information at https://www.stage-entertainment.de/musicals-shows/wicked-hamburg.html.
March (exact date to be announced), 2021: Wicked Marathon/Half Marathon/5K race, Wamego, Kansas. The annual Oz-themed road race, in the home of the Oz Museum, benefits the Wamego High School cross-country team and other running and fitness charities in the area. There is also a carbo-loading spaghetti feed the night before. For more information, and to register, see https://runsignup.com/Race/KS/Wamego/WickedFast and http://wickedmarathon.org/.
April (exact date to be announced), 2021: Garmin Marathon in the Land of Oz, Olathe, Kansas. If you're going to have a 26.2-mile run in Kansas, you may as well give it an Oz theme! For more information and to register, see the race's website at http://ozrun.org/.
December 22, 2021: Wicked movie, cinemas worldwide. The original release date for 2019 didn't pan out, but Universal is trying again by announcing a new release date for the film version of the hit Broadway musical version of the story of the witches of Oz, based on the novel by Gregory Maguire. Keep watching this space for updates, including casting. Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic messing up film production, Universal has pushed several animated films further back in the schedule—including Sing 2 to December 22, 2021. This now leaves Wicked without a release date. As soon as one is announced, this entry will be updated again.
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Taking Back the F Word
November 17, 2010 September 6, 2012 by caitlin.schwartz
By Natalie Selzer
Listing Feminist Philosophy amongst the courses that I’m taking this semester has garnered more than a few interesting — and upsetting — responses from male friends and acquaintances who have asked about my academic schedule. The one that topped the list, I think, was the guy who thought about it for a second before saying that he “lived with one of those,” as though a woman in college today that considered herself a feminist was some foreign, unexpected, unnamable phenomenon. Other responses have mostly been ‘good-natured’ variations on the feminism as the butt of a joke theme, followed by the assertion that they are, of course, just kidding around with me. The biggest problem: These responses aren’t from assholes. Far from it. They are from good guys that I wouldn’t think to pair with the words sexist or misogynist. They are from guys that, I think, respect me. So if they are good guys, why should I care? I care because I can’t write them off as douchebags whose opinion doesn’t matter to me. I care because the underlying message, intended or not, is that to be a feminist is to be strange or to be a joke. I care because I had to qualify the statement that they respect me with the words “I think.”
In their defense, the meaning of the word feminist got lost somewhere along the way between the second-wave feminist movement of the 1960s and the world of 2010 that we live in today. And then again, the word feminist never really meant any single thing—it has ranged from a focus on equal job and education opportunities all the way to radical lesbian separatist movements. But the term, in its simplest form, has been appropriated and polluted to the point that college-aged women of today have very little interest in associating themselves with the word, and men are not sure what holding feminist beliefs even means exactly. Where being a feminist should mean a firm belief that systematic social, economic, and political inequalities should not exist between men and women, it has come to be, for many, a caricature of angry, inflammatory women insisting on their own oppression where they appear to enjoy fairly equal rights. Or, if you are like Rush Limbaugh, you might be under the impression that “feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.” I’ll just point out that if a woman looked half as unattractive as Rush Limbaugh, the media would never have let us hear one peep from her. And yet Limbaugh never seems to be shut up.
But I digress. The point I’m trying to make is twofold. First, I want to emphasize that feminism does not have to mean an attack on the individual—its main goal is to criticize the social system that continues, today, to shape us into strictly defined feminine and masculine molds, where compulsory femininity (which morphs somewhat over time and space but can be understood almost always to include service to the masculine) is valued less than masculinity. To pick up on the stereotyped roles available to us: Qualities like nurturant, docile and communal, though usually expected from a woman, are always regarded as having less value than qualities like authoritative, strong and independent, which are expected from men. Just think about how you felt when reading those separate lists of words, what kind of images they evoked. Women are required to fit a certain niche and are then devalued for holding the qualities associated with it. And then again, if they demonstrate masculine qualities, they are also ridiculed, but for being argumentative, bossy, angry, selfish, or a flat out bitch.
Again, I do not, by any means, want to attack the men that I mentioned earlier who made offhand remarks or jokes about my Feminist Philosophy class; I want to attack the social environment that shaped their responses, and the idea that somehow the idea of feminist is not entirely pressing or relevant. Because though the responses themselves are not very important, they do reveal a sort of disregard for the ideas behind feminism. Which leads to my second point, and that is that the system that inflicts harmful and hurtful inequality between men and women absolutely exists here on campus, and in places that are, apparently, not immediately obvious to everyone. To be a feminist is to shed light on these inequalities and to, hopefully, combat them.
The sexism that I see rearing its head on the Tufts campus takes an almost exclusively social form, showing up in the interworking of personal interactions. We all are lucky enough to live in an environment where the injustices done to women are not, by and large, institutionalized; women have an equal chance of being admitted to college; they have the right to vote, learn, own property, hold a job, and all those other things that we take for granted living in the country that we do. But in focusing only on the abolition of institutional injustices (which have been incredibly hard won), we ignore the sexist expectations and actions in our everyday lives that have an enormous impact on how we treat and perceive one another.
Tufts women go to class, jobs, and extracurricular activities and expect to be treated with respect, to have their ideas and contributions taken seriously. And really, I think that they are. Yet the weekend rolls around, and everything is thrown out the window; we find ourselves dealing with a whole new set of social norms that are supposed to define our social lives and relationships. Systematically and without fail, within sexual relationships and in the things women hear from friends and the media, they are told that their most valuable characteristic is their physical appearance and their desirability to men. Sure, other qualities like intelligence or kindness or any other personality trait someone might prefer are good and sought-after, but when it really comes down to it, what is implied in so many varying ways is that sexual desirability and availability, as defined by men, is the single most important thing for a woman to possess. You can’t tell me that so many women fret over clothes, make-up, sexy underwear, and well-waxed pubic hair because they are intrinsically narcissistic or vain—they fret because the jokes and the feedback create doubt about whether they will, in the end, be considered valuable if they don’t put on the perfect, pretty face. And the thing is this: I’m not saying that all men value looks above everything else and disregard personality and intelligence. What I am trying to say is that the system around us, repeatedly and systematically, tries to tell us that they do.
The classic party theme that must always end in a clever pun on the word ‘ho’ is just another obvious example. Sure, I’m ruining the silly fun by saying anything. I’m being too politically correct, too uptight. The problem with these arguments, though, is that my frustration or my anger is being silenced, it isn’t allowed. I can object to the fact that these party themes imply that you are only welcome or fun if you expose yourself and make yourself sexually available to the men who—surprise!—can wear whatever the fuck they want without thinking twice about it. But my objection in many, many circles would be met with a glib ‘joke’ or a rolling of the eyes. But not a counterargument. The objection would not be engaged but ignored. Sex, sexiness, and tossing aside inhibitions are all wonderful; I don’t mean to say that they aren’t. I mean only to say that this type of situation, this informal yet socially coercive sexual service does not constitute the positive aspects of sex, sexiness and tossing aside inhibitions.
In the end, I just want to say that we are not living in a world where feminism is superfluous. We do not live in a world of sexual equality, especially in the most intimate of relations. We live in a world where sexism is very much alive, and yet people think the best way to deal with it is to shrug it off and make a joke. But in doing so, the systematic inequality is subtly reinforced. Feminism is silly, and so your frustrations are silly. Well, I want the word Feminist back.
What Has Kanye West Done to the Music Video?
The Great Union Debate
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Four More Players Sign Extended Contracts
Wick Academy FC are delighted to be able to continue the re-signing of the first team squad and announce that Ryan Campbell, Jack Halliday Craig Gunn and Jonah Martens have signed contract extensions, committing their futures to the club.
These contract extensions come hot on the heels of the 4 announced on Wednesday as Gary Manson continues to tie down his squad for the upcoming season and beyond.
Gary had this to say: “Once again I'm delighted to get the boys signed up. They have shown they can comfortably play at Highland League level but I feel they've only scratched the surface, there is a lot more to come from all 4 players and I look forward to trying to get the best out of them. This continues what has been a good week for the club and we're not finished yet.”
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William M. Batten
(1909-06-04)June 4, 1909
Chairman & CEO at
J. C. Penney Company (1969–1974), Chairman at New York Stock Exchange (1976–1984)
William M. Batten (1909–1999) was an American businessman.[1] He served as chairman and chief executive officer of the J. C. Penney Company from 1964 to 1974, and as chairman of the New York Stock Exchange from 1976 to 1984.[1][2][3]
William Batten was born in Reedy, Roane County, West Virginia on 4 June 1909.[1] He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Ohio State University in 1932 and did graduate work at the University of Chicago.[1][2]
In 1926, he started his career at J. C. Penney as a part-time salesman in his hometown.[2] In 1935, he worked as a full-time salesman in Lansing, Michigan.[2] He introduced the Penney credit card.[1] After serving in the Second World War, he worked in the New York City office of J. C. Penney in 1945. He became vice president in 1953 and a member of the board of directors in 1955.[2] In 1958, he became president and chief executive.[2] He served as chairman from 1964 to 1974.[2]
From 1976 to 1984, he served as chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, taking over from James J. Needham.[3] In this capacity, he oversaw a $70 million renovation of the exchange floor and the installation of electronic equipment that tripled the daily trading capacity to 150 million shares.[2]
He served on the boards of directors of AT&T, Boeing and Texas Instruments.[2] He served as chairman of The Business Council from 1971 to 1972.[4] From 1984 to 1986, he was a visiting fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[2]
He was married, with two children.[2] He died in Hilton Head, South Carolina on January 22, 1999.[2]
The Penney idea: Foundation for the continuing growth of the J. C. Penney Company (1967)
^ a b c d e Harvard Business School
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Sharon R. King, William M. Batten, Ex-Chief Of Stock Exchange, Dies at 89, The New York Times, January 27, 1999
^ a b New York Stock Exchange Past Presidents
^ The Business Council, Official website, Background Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
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Location: Holland Park, Brisbane, Qld.
Cavendish Road State High School is a school of 1700 students from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds.
How Cavendish Road State High School has used Gonski funding:
The school received over $400 000 in funding. The funding was used to support Year 11 and 12 students to succeed in their chosen pathway. This involved strengthening the case management approach for students who were on a QCE or QCIA pathway and providing focussed and intensive teaching targeted at ‘C’ students in order to improve the quality of their demonstrations of learning against the relevant year-level achievement standard. A specialised computer program was purchased and a Senior Schooling Teacher Aide was employed to input data and track student progress for the Senior Schooling Intervention Team. An external training provider was also engaged to support up to 36 students not on track to achieve a QCE.
The funds were also used to continue an interdisciplinary case management approach involving parents, the school and community to support Indigenous students. A range of strategies were implemented to strengthen the engagement of indigenous students and their families.
Funds were also directed to the school’s priority of improving the attendance rates of students through improved analysis and monitoring processes.
Gonski funds enabled the school to implement a whole school approach to the teaching of Literacy and Numeracy.
The funds have enabled the school to track the progress of all students across Years 7 to 12 and to support ‘at risk’ students resulting in improved retention and academic performance.
The increase in the school’s attendance rate by 2% has significantly contributed to improved student outcomes.
Approximately 50% of Year 7 students achieved in the Upper Two Bands in all areas of NAPLAN in 2016.
What Cavendish Road State High School could do with Gonski funding in the future
The full Gonski funding would enable the school to continue with the implementation of the school’s pedagogical framework and embed it as the shared language of teaching and learning. Funds would also be expended on enhancing teacher professional development.
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Pakistani Church calls for ban on TV preacher who inspired Dhaka terrorists
by Kamran Chaudhry
Zakir Naik, a major Salafist advocate, is the founder of Peace TV and a well known TV preacher. His network has broadcast in Pakistan since 2009. Dhaka massacre investigators found a direct link between his sermons and one of the attackers.
Lahore (AsiaNews) – Catholic Church leaders are calling on the Pakistani government to ban Peace TV, which is headed by Zakir Naik, an Islamic preacher who inspired the perpetrators of the massacre at the Holey Artisan Bakery Café in Dhaka.
Born in India, Naik champions the most radical Islamic Salafist positions, which he promotes on Peace TV. The network has broadcast in Pakistan in Urdu since 2009.
Speaking to AsiaNews, Fr Qaiser Feroz, executive secretary of the Commission for Social Communications of the Pakistani Bishops' Conference, said, “We demand a complete ban on Naik and similar preachers who promote hate and discrimination. He never plays a role in bringing together the followers of different religions and presents a distorted image of Islam. We have plenty of such clerics in madrassas (Islamic seminaries)”.
Millions of people watch Peace TV’s Urdu broadcasts every day. On its website, the network claims that its goal is “to promote inter-faith dialogues, common teachings of scriptures of major religions and world peace.” In reality, the investigation into the attack in Bangladesh, which left 20 people dead, shows the preacher’s dark side.
Police found a direct connection between his speeches praising the most radical views of Islam and Rohan Imtiaz, one of the gunmen who took part in the attack in Dhaka’s Gulshan diplomatic district.
On his Facebook page, the young man quoted a speech from the preacher "urging all Muslims to be terrorists."
Bangladesh has now banned the network. India is monitoring its sermons and the activities of its Islamic Research Foundation. Authorities in Canada, the United Kingdom and Malaysia have banned his sermons.
“Religion must be a source of peace and harmony, not conflict,” said Fr Feroz. “Religious leaders should avoid misleading the people. We admire Naik for his vast knowledge of sacred scriptures but hate how he looks down upon other religions and humiliates them. He is a fundamentalist and has contributed in increasing terrorism”.
Fr Morris Jalal, board member of a Lahore-based Catholic TV, endorses the Church’s call. “Naik is anti-society as well as anti-religion. Though a scholar, he has instigated violence and unrest, especially among youth”, he said.
“Harmony is possible with understanding, not diatribes,” he added. “Peace TV is an extremist channel whose founder does not believe that Osama bin Laden was a terrorist”.
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Creativity: The measurable and immeasurable
Tuesday 3 July - Thursday 5 July 2012
Queensland University of Technology – Brisbane, Australia
Annual Conference Refereed Proceedings 2012 (External Link)
Welcome to the 9th annual ASPERA conference and Annual General Meeting hosted by Queensland University of Technology.
This year’s theme of Creativity: the Measurable & Immeasurable promises to provide engaging and thought provoking papers and discussion, as creativity, after all, lies at the core of what we attempt to foster and develop in our students at every level.
At various stages in history, hunger, isolation, meditation, abstinence and even self-mutilation have been considered as pathways to creative inspiration, but hopefully we are no longer pursuing such extreme approaches. I can remember once a group of people who believed they had formulated a simple and less dramatic “recipe” for creativity, or at least for generating creative works. I would suggest, however, that if they really had discovered that elusive formula, they would be fabulously wealthy, more famous than Edward de Bono, and in all probability, lauded as the greatest alchemists of all time.
But the challenges to encourage creativity and perhaps control it are still the subject of much conjecture, research and exploration. In this context, Sean Maher, Geoff Portman and their team have arranged a program that features a truly wide-ranging group of presenters from our member institutions and the wider community who will undoubtedly stimulate us to consider and possibly challenge some of our concepts about creativity.
As outgoing president I would like to thank the ASPERA executive team for their continued work in what has been a rewarding and progressive year. I believe that ASPERA has reached a stage where it can extend its impact and support for its members, and the executive have put a number of initiatives in place this year which will hopefully assist in that future development, several of which we will announce at this conference.
I encourage everyone to engage in the dialogue that this annual conference facilitates and to submit your papers for publication in our combined 2011 – 12 conference proceedings, and wish everyone an enjoyable and rewarding experience.
Howard Worth
2011-2012 ASPERA National President
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Early Filariasis Diagnosis and Clinical Findings: A Report of 268 Cases in American Troops
Boyd G. King1
Affiliations: 1 From the Medical Service of the Fourth General Hospital
Source: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume s1-24, Issue 5, 1 Sep 1944, p. 285 - 298
1. 268 cases of early filariasis are presented.
2. The infection was contracted in three Pacific islands. No patients were seen that had not been in these areas.
3. 263 (98%) of the patients had been in the endemic areas four months or longer.
4. The observed incubation period varied from eight to sixteen months when the period of observation ended, with history of attacks as early as three months.
5. The mode of onset and clinical findings are described in detail. The tendency toward recurrences, the lack of severe constitutional reactions, the characteristic lymphangitis of extremity or genitalia and the adenopathy particularly in the epitrochlear region are stressed.
6. The intradermal reaction with Dirofilaria immitis antigen was positive in 90.8% of patients and 10.5% of a comparable number of control individuals.
7. Elevation of the total number of eosinophiles in the blood was present in 64.3% of the cases.
8. It is suggested that enlargement of the epitrochlear nodes and the intradermal reaction might be used as survey methods in approximating the incidence of filarial infestation in personnel residing in endemic areas.
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Return to torture: cleared Guantánamo detainee Abdul Rauf al-Qassim fears return to Libya
On Friday, the Washington Post reported on the case of a 42-year old Libyan, Abdul Rauf al-Qassim, one of around 80 prisoners currently languishing in Guantánamo who were cleared for release at least a year ago. Many of these prisoners –- including 17 Uyghurs from China’s Xinjiang province –- are still held because the Pentagon cannot guarantee that they will not be tortured or murdered if they are returned to their home countries and cannot find another country to accept them (although the Uyghurs may well join their five compatriots who were dumped in a refugee camp in Albania in May 2006). After the suffering that these prisoners have endured in American custody, this concern for their welfare remains one of the more surreal episodes in the reality-defying saga of the ‘War on Terror’, and is not helped by the fact that the majority of them are held in solitary confinement for 22 hours a day, in circumstances that would tax some of the most hardened convicted criminals in America’s ‘Supermax’ prisons.
In al-Qassim’s case, however, the problem is not that he cannot be returned to his home country, but that he doesn’t want to go, and is ‘publicly fighting’ the Pentagon’s plans to return him to Libya. Since March 2004, when British Prime Minister Tony Blair –- looking as comfortable as a schoolboy lost in the wrong part of town — was welcomed by Colonel Gaddafi in his Bedouin tent in Tripoli, the Libyan regime –- once an implacable terror-sponsoring enemy –- has become the West’s new best friend in North Africa. Never mind that the State Department reports annually that torture and abuse are still rife in Libya’s prisons, Gaddafi has renounced his Weapons of Mass Destruction, has joined the merry Western World of mega-bucks, oil deals and arms sales, and is a staunch ally in the ‘War on Terror’.
Ever since the first reports leaked out that the CIA had ‘rendered’ al-Qaeda suspects to Libya for ‘interrogation’, the former pariah’s status as friend to the West has been one of the more reprehensible manifestations of the murky realpolitik that actually underpins the whole US-led anti-terror coalition. It’s not the only corrupt alliance by any means, of course. In defense of ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, the US and the UK have been happily dealing with numerous repressive, undemocratic regimes, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt and Uzbekistan. Other regimes –- in theory less dictatorial –- have also queued up to be paid and not punished, including Morocco, Jordan and, at the time of writing, Kenya and Ethiopia. At the other end of the scale –- at least in the early years of the ‘War on Terror’ –- al-Qaeda suspects were also ‘rendered’ to Syria for ‘interrogation’, in a deal that reveals the West’s purported commitment to human rights and justice for the hollow, dead-eyed rhetoric that it really is: while President Bush was publicly calling Syria a member of the ‘axis of evil’, he was also busy engaging Syrian intelligence –- the notorious Mukhabarat –- as proxy torturers.
Despite being cleared for release by the Pentagon, Abdul Rauf al-Qassim has good reason to fear being returned to Libya. A soldier in the Libyan army from 1983 to 1989, he then deserted, traveling to Afghanistan ‘to immigrate and to start a new life’. After fighting with the mujahideen until 1993, when the last remnants of the Soviet regime fell, he ‘traveled back and forth between Pakistan and Afghanistan’ –- at one point studying at university in Quetta –- and also met and married an Afghan woman, Rahima, with whom he had a daughter, Khiria, who has spent the whole of her young life without her father.
Abdul Rauf al-Qassim’s wife, Rahima, and his daughter, Khiria.
Al-Qassim was captured in Lahore in May 2002, at the house of a Pakistani, after escaping from war-torn Afghanistan with his pregnant wife, but although it was clear that he had not taken up arms against the Americans, it was far less clear that he would not be regarded as a threat by the government of his home country. In his Administrative Review Board in May 2005 (convened to review the prisoners’ status as ‘enemy combatants’), he explained –- via a statement made to his Assisting Military Officer –- that he had received military training at two Libyan camps in Afghanistan, but only because he was living there, and admitted that he had joined the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group –- exiled opponents of the Gaddafi regime –- but only ‘out of desperation — he was broke, had no place to go, was hungry, unemployed and had no way to support himself’. He added that his family ‘did not receive monetary support from the [LIFG], but he received food, shelter and an allowance for clothes’. He also agreed with previous statements he had made: that he ‘did not believe in violence’, and that he ‘angrily defined [al-Qaeda’s] leadership and members as “savages” who twist the meaning of Islam, thereby hurting all Muslims’.
Although al-Qassim stated that a Libyan delegation, who visited Guantánamo in 2004 (and were actually flown there by the CIA), told him that they ‘knew he was with the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group only by name’, that he was ‘obligated to be with them’, and that they would ‘take care of him’, he repeatedly told his Assisting Military Officer that he was ‘afraid of returning to Libya’. ‘He said he does not want to go to Libya because he feels he cannot trust them and because they put people in prison for no reason’, his AMO reported. ‘He said he feels that if he returns to Libya, even after being released by the United States, he would be sent back to prison’. Such was his concern that the Presiding Officer of his ARB noted, ‘For the record, make sure that we put in our report that the Detainee is afraid of returning to Libya’, a comment that has clearly been ignored by the administration, as it prepares to fulfil his worst fears.
Al-Qassim is not without friends in America. The Center for Constitutional Rights has taken up his case, fighting for him in the courts and, with the help of the Afghan Human Rights Organization, tracing his wife and daughter. In addition, Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, has embraced his cause, urging the government to consider other options, and pointing out that, because he has an Afghan wife and child, he is eligible for Afghan citizenship. In a letter to the State Department, he wrote that it would be a ‘grave injustice’ to send al-Qassim to Libya, ‘because the State Department has reported that the country engages in torture, including electric shocks and suffocation’, and in a recent interview he said that, ‘by virtue of his alleged connection to a group that opposes the Libyan government’, al-Qassim was ‘at particular risk for abuse’, adding, ‘The State Department doesn’t have a leg to stand on if they’re going to contradict their own analysis’.
It remains to be seen whether the campaign mounted by Rep. Markey and CCR will be successful, although the omens are not good. In December 2006, unnoticed by almost everyone, another Libyan, 38-year old Mohammed al-Rimi (aka al-Futuri), was returned to Libya from Guantánamo. An economic migrant, who had traveled to Afghanistan via Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, al-Rimi explained in Guantánamo that he had spent two years in Afghanistan with the vast worldwide missionary organization Jamaat-al-Tablighi, and denied that he had any militant connections. Although he added that he had had problems with the Libyan authorities, and had left Libya because of religious persecution, he was apparently willing to return home when told that he had been cleared for release. On his return, Saleh Abdulsalam, a spokesman for a government-related charity, said that al-Rimi had been diagnosed with tuberculosis but was not wanted by Libyan authorities and would ‘go back to his family soon’, although according to human rights activists, this was a lie, and he has simply exchanged one prison for another.
What may help al-Qassim –- if his lawyers can extract enough leverage from it –- is a decision made by the UK’s Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) on 27 April, that two Libyan prisoners held without charge or trial in the UK’s own mini-version of Guantánamo could not be returned to Libya because they were at risk of being tortured. The Commission’s decision was particularly galling for the British government because, in October 2005, Libya signed a ‘memorandum of understanding’, promising that it would not torture or ill-treat Libyans returned from the UK. This was touted by the Foreign Office as the answer to a problem that had long preoccupied them –- how to bypass international conventions prohibiting governments from sending people back to a country where they might face torture or ill-treatment –- but it became increasingly more urgent as they cooperated with American intelligence in the wake of 9/11, and it seems clear, from the ways in which both the Americans and the British have been attempting to neutralize the prohibitions against returning people to countries where they face torture, that Abdul Rauf al-Qassim is part of a concerted effort by both countries to undermine international legal safeguards. Unfortunately for the Foreign Office, the SIAC judges concluded that the ‘memorandum of understanding’ was not worth the paper it was written on. One can only hope, for al-Qassim’s sake, that the State Department feels the same way.
Note: The Pentagon refers to al-Qassim as Abdul Rauf al-Qusin, and his name is also transliterated as Abdul Raouf al-Qassim or Abdul Ra’ouf al-Qassim. In documents presented to the Supreme Court in May 2007, which unsuccessfully sought an injunction to prevent his return to Libya, he is referred to as Abu Abdul Rauf Zalita.
For more on the Libyan detainees in Guantánamo, see my book The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (published by Pluto Press, distributed by Macmillan in the US, and available from Amazon — click on the following for the US and the UK). To receive new articles in your inbox, please subscribe to my RSS feed.
As published on CounterPunch.
Posted in Guantanamo, Libyans in Guantanamo, Return to torture, Uighurs in Guantanamo
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Title: Saskatchewan
Subject: 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, 2011–12 curling season, List of Telus Cup award winners, Royal eponyms in Canada, List of Canada Games
Collection: 1905 Establishments in Canada, Canadian Prairies, Provinces and Territories of Canada, Saskatchewan, States and Territories Established in 1905
Motto: Latin: Multis e Gentibus Vires[1]
("Strength from Many Peoples")
Largest metro
Saskatoon metropolitan area
Saskatchewanian (official),[2] also Saskatchewanite
Type Constitutional monarchy
Lieutenant Governor Vaughn Solomon Schofield
Premier Brad Wall (Saskatchewan Party)
Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
Federal representation
(in Canadian Parliament)
House seats 14 of 308 (4.5%)
Senate seats 6 of 105 (5.7%)
September 1, 1905 (split from NWT) (10th)
Ranked 7th
Total 651,900 km2 (251,700 sq mi)
Land 591,670 km2 (228,450 sq mi)
Water (%) 59,366 km2 (22,921 sq mi) (9.1%)
Proportion of Canada 6.5% of 9,984,670 km2
Total (2011) 1,033,381 [3]
Density (2011) 1.75/km2 (4.5/sq mi)
Total (2011) C$74.738 billion[4]
Per capita C$70,654 (4th)
Postal SK
ISO 3166-2 CA-SK
Central: UTC−6, year-round in most areas
Postal code prefix
Western Red Lily
Sharp-tailed Grouse
www.gov.sk.ca
Rankings include all provinces and territories
Saskatchewan ( or ) is a prairie province in Canada, which has a total area of 651,900 square kilometres (251,700 sq mi) and a land area of 592,534 square kilometres (228,800 sq mi), the remainder being water area (covered by lakes/ponds, reservoirs and rivers). Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by the Province of Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota. As of December 2013, the population of Saskatchewan was estimated at 1,114,170.[5] Residents primarily live in the southern half of the province. Of the total population, 257,300 live in the province's largest city, Saskatoon, while 210,000 live in the provincial capital, Regina. Other major cities include Prince Albert, Moose Jaw, Yorkton, Swift Current and North Battleford.[6]
Saskatchewan has been inhabited for thousands of years by various indigenous groups, and first explored by Europeans in 1690 and settled in 1774. It became a province in 1905, its name derived from the Saskatchewan River. The river was known as kisiskāciwani-sīpiy ("swift flowing river") in the Cree language.[7] In the early 20th century the province became known as a stronghold for Canadian democratic socialism. Tommy Douglas, who was premier from 1944 to 1961, became the first social-democratic politician to be elected in North America. The province's economy is based on agriculture, mining, and energy. Saskatchewan's current premier is Brad Wall and its lieutenant-governor is Vaughn Solomon Schofield.
"In 1992, the federal and provincial governments signed a historic land claim agreement with Saskatchewan First Nations."[8] The First Nations received compensation and were permitted to buy land on the open market for the tribes; they have acquired about 761,000 acres (3079 kilometres squared), now reserve lands. Some First Nations have used their settlement to invest in urban areas, including Saskatoon.[8]
20th century 2.1
Municipalities 3.1
Provincial finances 4.1
Government and politics 5
Law enforcement 5.1
Arts and culture 9
Provincial symbols 10
Centennial celebrations 10.1
Climate change 10.2
As Saskatchewan's borders largely follow the geographic coordinates of longitude and latitude, the province is roughly a quadrilateral, or a shape with four sides. However the 49th parallel boundary and the 60th northern border appear curved on maps and globes. Additionally, the eastern boundary of the province is partially crooked rather than following a line of longitude, as correction lines were devised by surveyors prior to the homestead program (1880–1928).
Saskatchewan is part of the Western Provinces and is bounded on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the north-east by Nunavut, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the American states of Montana and North Dakota. Saskatchewan has the distinction of being the only Canadian province for which no borders correspond to physical geographic features (i.e. they are all parallels and meridians). Along with Alberta, Saskatchewan is one of only two provinces that are land-locked.
The overwhelming majority of Saskatchewan's population is located in the southern third of the province, south of the 53rd parallel.
Saskatchewan contains two major natural regions: the Canadian Shield in the north and the Interior Plains in the south. Northern Saskatchewan is mostly covered by boreal forest except for the Lake Athabasca Sand Dunes, the largest active sand dunes in the world north of 58°, and adjacent to the southern shore of Lake Athabasca. Southern Saskatchewan contains another area with sand dunes known as the "Great Sand Hills" covering over 300 square kilometres (120 sq mi). The Cypress Hills, located in the southwestern corner of Saskatchewan and Killdeer Badlands (Grasslands National Park), are areas of the province that remained unglaciated during the last glaciation period.
The province's highest point, at 1,392 metres (4,567 ft), is located in the Cypress Hills less than 2 km from the provincial boundary with Alberta.[9] The lowest point is the shore of Lake Athabasca, at 213 metres (699 ft). The province has 14 major drainage basins made up of various rivers and watersheds draining into the Arctic Ocean, Hudson Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.[10]
Saskatchewan receives more hours of sunshine than any other Canadian province.[11] The province lies far from any significant body of water. This fact, combined with its northerly latitude, gives it a warm (but not really hot) summer, corresponding to its humid continental climate (Köppen type Dfb) in the central and most of the eastern parts of the province, as well as the Cypress Hills; drying off to a semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen type BSk) in the southwestern part of the province. Drought can affect agricultural areas during long periods with little or no precipitation at all. The northern parts of Saskatchewan – from about La Ronge northward – have a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc) with a shorter summer season. Summers can get very hot, sometimes above 38 °C (100 °F) during the day, and with humidity decreasing from northeast to southwest. Warm southern winds blow from the plains and intermontane regions of the Western United States during much of July and August, very cool or hot but changeable air masses often occur during spring and in September. Winters are usually bitterly cold, with frequent Arctic air descending from the north.[12] with high temperatures not breaking −17 °C (1 °F) for weeks at a time. Warm chinook winds often blow from the west, bringing periods of mild weather. Annual precipitation averages 30 to 45 centimetres (12 to 18 inches) across the province, with the bulk of rain falling in June, July, and August.[13]
Saskatchewan is one of the most tornado-active parts of Canada, averaging roughly 12 to 18 tornadoes per year, some violent. In 2012, 33 tornadoes were reported in the province. The Regina Cyclone, took place in June 1912 when 28 people died in a F4 Fujita scale tornado. Severe and non-severe thunderstorm events occur in Saskatchewan, usually from early spring to late summer. Hail, strong winds and isolated tornadoes are a temporary occurrence.
The hottest temperature ever recorded anywhere in Canada happened in Saskatchewan. The temperature rose to 45 degrees Celsius in Midale and Yellow Grass. The coldest ever recorded in the province was −56.7 degrees Celsius in Prince Albert, which is north of Saskatoon.
Average daily maximum and minimum temperatures for selected cities in Saskatchewan[14]
July (°C)
July (°F)
January (°C)
January (°F)
Maple Creek 27/11 81/52 -5/-16 23/4
Estevan 27/13 81/55 -9/-20 16/-4
Weyburn 26/12 79/54 -10/-21 14/-6
Moose Jaw 26/12 79/54 -8/-19 18/-2
Regina 26/11 79/52 -10/-22 14/-8
Saskatoon 25/11 77/52 -12/-22 10/-8
Melville 25/11 77/52 -12/-23 10/-9
Swift Current 25/11 77/52 -7/-17 19/1
Humboldt 24/11 75/52 -12/-23 10/-9
Melfort 24/11 75/52 -14/-23 7/-9
North Battleford 24/11 75/52 -12/-22 10/-8
Yorkton 24/11 75/52 -13/-23 9/-9
Lloydminster 23/11 73/52 -10/-19 14/-2
Prince Albert 23.9/11.1 75/52 -13/-25.2 9/-13
Henry Kelsey sees the buffalo on the western plains.
Saskatchewan has been populated by various indigenous peoples of North America, including members of the Sarcee, Blackfeet, Atsina, Cree, Saulteaux, Assiniboine (Nakoda) and Lakota Sioux. The first known European to enter Saskatchewan was Henry Kelsey in 1690, who travelled up the Saskatchewan River in hopes of trading fur with the province's indigenous peoples. The first permanent European settlement was a Hudson's Bay Company post at Cumberland House, founded in 1774 by Samuel Hearne.[15]
Part of Alberta and Saskatchewan were traded from the United States, which in return received part of Rupert's Land, today part of North Dakota and Minnesota.
Cree Pipe Stem Carrier, a painting of a Plains Cree warrior by Paul Kane.
In 1803 the Louisiana Purchase transferred from France to the United States part of what is now Alberta and Saskatchewan. In 1818 it was ceded to the United Kingdom. Most of what is now Saskatchewan, though, was part of Rupert's Land and controlled by the Hudson's Bay Company, which claimed rights to all watersheds flowing into Hudson Bay, including the Saskatchewan, Churchill, Assiniboine, Souris, and Qu'Appelle River systems.
In the late 1850s and early 1860s, scientific expeditions led by John Palliser and Henry Youle Hind explored the prairie region of the province.
In 1870, Canada acquired the Hudson's Bay Company's territories and formed the North-West Territories to administer the vast territory between British Columbia and Manitoba. The Crown also entered into a series of numbered treaties with the indigenous peoples of the area, which serve as the basis of the relationship between First Nations, as they are called today, and the Crown. Since the late twentieth century, land losses and inequities as a result of those treaties have been subject to negotiation for settlement between the First Nations in Saskatchewan and the federal government, in collaboration with provincial governments.
In 1885, post-Confederation Canada's first "naval battle" was fought in Saskatchewan, when a steamship engaged the Métis at Batoche in the North-West Rebellion.[16]
A seminal event in the history of what was to become Western Canada was the 1874 "March West" of the federal government's new North-West Mounted Police. Despite poor equipment and lack of provisions, the men on the march persevered and established a federal presence in the new territory. Historians have argued that had this expedition been unsuccessful, the expansionist United States would have been tempted to expand into the political vacuum. The construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway would likely have been delayed or taken a different, more northerly route, stunting the early growth of towns like Brandon, Regina, Medicine Hat and Calgary – had these existed at all. Failure to construct the railway could also have forced British Columbia to join the United States.
In 1876, following their defeat of United States Army forces at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana Territory in the United States, the Lakota Chief Sitting Bull led several thousand of his people to Wood Mountain. Survivors and descendants founded Wood Mountain Reserve in 1914.
European-Canadian settlement of the province started to take off as the Canadian Pacific Railway was built in the early 1880s, and the Canadian government divided up the land by the Dominion Land Survey and gave free land to any willing settlers.
The Battle of Batoche, 1885
The North-West Mounted Police set up several posts and forts across Saskatchewan, including Fort Walsh in the Cypress Hills, and Wood Mountain Post in south-central Saskatchewan near the United States border.
Many Métis people, who had not been signatories to a treaty, had moved to the Southbranch Settlement and Prince Albert district north of present-day Saskatoon following the Red River Rebellion in Manitoba in 1870. In the early 1880s, the Canadian government refused to hear the Métis' grievances, which stemmed from land-use issues. Finally, in 1885, the Métis, led by Louis Riel, staged the North-West Rebellion and declared a provisional government. They were defeated by a Canadian militia brought to the Canadian prairies by the new Canadian Pacific Railway. Riel, who surrendered and was convicted of treason in a packed Regina courtroom, was hanged on November 16, 1885. Since then, the government has recognized the Métis as an aboriginal people with status rights, and provided them with various benefits related to that status.
As more settlers came to the prairies on the railway, the population grew. On September 1, 1905, Saskatchewan became a province, with inauguration day held September 4. The Dominion Lands Act permitted settlers to acquire one quarter of a square mile of land to homestead and offered an additional quarter upon establishing a homestead. Immigration peaked in 1910, and in spite of the initial difficulties of frontier life – distance from towns, sod homes, and backbreaking labour – new settlers established a European-Canadian style of prosperous agrarian society.
Bennett buggies, automobiles pulled by horses, were used during the Great Depression by farmers too impoverished to purchase gasoline.
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Grams, Grant W.: Deportation from Saskatchewan during the Great Depression, the case of H.P. Janzen, in John D. Thiesen (ed.), Mennonite Life, 2010.
Grams, Grant W.: The Deportation of German Nationals from Canada, 1919 to 1939, in Peter S. Li (ed.), Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2010.
Grams, Grant W.: Immigration and Return Migration of German Nationals, Saskatchewan 1919 to 1939, in Patrick Douand (ed.), Prairie Forum, 2008.
Grams, Grant W.: Was Eckhardt Kastendieck one of Saskatchewan’s most active Nazis?, in Jason Zorbas (ed.), Saskatchewan History, 2007.
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Bennett, John W. and Kohl, Seena B. Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890–1915. University of Nebraska Press, 1995. 311 pp.
Bill Waiser. Saskatchewan: A New History (2006)
Bocking, D. H., ed. Pages from the Past: Essays on Saskatchewan History. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1979. 299 pp.
LaPointe, Richard and Tessier, Lucille. The Francophones of Saskatchewan: A History. Regina: University of Regina, Campion Coll., 1988. 329 pp.
Lipset, Seymour M. Agrarian Socialism: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan: A Study in Political Sociology. University of California Press, 1950.
Martin, Robin Shades of Right: Nativist and Fascist Politics in Canada, 1920–1940, University of Toronto Press, 1992.
Porter, Jene M (2008). Perspectives of Saskatchewan. University of Manitoba Press.
Veldhuis, Niels (2009). "Saskatchewan Prosperity: Building on Success". Fraser Institute.
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45561 Saskatchewan British LMS Jubilee Class locomotive named after the province.
Saskatchewan Act
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Scouting and Guiding in Saskatchewan
The effects of climate change in Saskatchewan are now being observed in parts of the province. There is evidence of reduction of biomass in Saskatchewan's boreal forests (as with those of other Canadian prairie provinces) that is linked by researchers to drought-related water stress, stemming from global warming, most likely caused by greenhouse gas emissions. While studies, as early as 1988 (Williams, et al., 1988) have shown that climate change will affect agriculture,[50] whether the effects can be mitigated through adaptations of cultivars, or crops, is less clear. Resiliency of ecosystems may decline with large changes in temperature.[51] The provincial government has responded to the threat of climate change by introducing a plan to reduce carbon emissions, "The Saskatchewan Energy and Climate Change Plan," in June, 2007.
In 2005, Saskatchewan celebrated its centennial. To honour it, the Royal Canadian Mint issued a commemorative five-dollar coin depicting Canada's wheat fields as well as a circulation 25-cent coin of a similar design. Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh visited Regina, Saskatoon, and Lumsden, and the Saskatchewan-reared Joni Mitchell issued an album in Saskatchewan's honour.
Centennial celebrations
Saskatchewan's other symbols include the tartan, the license plate, and the provincial flower. Saskatchewan's official tartan was registered with the Court of Lord Lyon King of Arms in Scotland in 1961. It has seven colours: gold, brown, green, red, yellow, white and black. The provincial licence plates display the slogan "Land of Living Skies". The provincial flower of Saskatchewan is the Western Red Lily.
In 2005, Saskatchewan Environment held a province-wide vote to recognize Saskatchewan's centennial year, receiving more than 10,000 on-line and mail-in votes from the public. The walleye was the overwhelming favourite of the six native fish species nominated for the designation, receiving more than half the votes cast.[49] Other species in the running were the lake sturgeon, lake trout, lake whitefish, northern pike and yellow perch.
The flag of Saskatchewan was officially adopted on September 22, 1969. The flag features the provincial shield in the upper quarter nearest the staff, with the floral emblem, the Prairie Lily, in the fly. The upper green (in forest green) half of the flag represents the northern Saskatchewan forest lands, while the golden lower half of the flag symbolizes the southern wheat fields and prairies. A province-wide competition was held to design the flag, and drew over 4,000 entries. The winning design was by Anthony Drake, then living in Hodgeville.[48]
The official tartan of Saskatchewan, created in 1961.
Provincial symbols
In 2006, the founder of One Red Paperclip, Kyle MacDonald, ended his trading-game after swapping a movie role in the film Donna on Demand for a two-story farmhouse in Kipling, Saskatchewan.
Hockey is the most popular sport in the province. More than 490 NHL players[46] have been born in Saskatchewan, the highest per capita output of any Canadian province, U.S. state, or European country.[47] Notable NHL figures born in Saskatchewan include Keith Allen, Gordie Howe, Bryan Trottier, Bernie Federko, Clark Gillies, Fern Flaman, Bert Olmstead, Harry Watson, Elmer Lach, Max Bentley, Sid Abel, Doug Bentley, Eddie Shore, Clint Smith, Bryan Hextall, Johnny Bower, Emile Francis, Glenn Hall, Chuck Rayner, Brad McCrimmon, Patrick Marleau, Dave Manson, Theo Fleury, Terry Harper, Wade Redden, Brian Propp, Scott Hartnell, and Chris Kunitz.
The Saskatchewan Roughriders are the province's only major professional sports franchise, and are extremely popular across Saskatchewan. The team's fans are also found to congregate on game days throughout Canada, and collectively they are known as "Rider Nation".
The Arrogant Worms' song "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate" about a disgruntled farmer who takes up piracy on the namesake river mentions various parts of the province such as Saskatoon, Regina and Moose Jaw. Popular Québécois band Les Trois Accords recorded a song in French called "Saskatchewan" on its first album, Gros Mammouth Album. It was the third single of that album and met moderate success in French Canada. The region is also referenced in the titular Buffy Sainte-Marie cover "Saskatchewan", by British Band Red Box; it was released as a single in 1984 and a reworked version appeared on their 1986 début album The Circle & the Square.
Canadian television sitcoms Corner Gas and Little Mosque on the Prairie are both set in small Saskatchewan towns. The novels of W. O. Mitchell, Sinclair Ross, Frederick Philip Grove, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Michael Helm and Gail Bowen are also frequently set in Saskatchewan, as are children's novels of Farley Mowatt. The English naturalist "Grey Owl" spent much of his life living and studying in what is now Prince Albert National Park.
Joe Fafard, sculptor
PAVED Arts
Artist-run centres
Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra
MacKenzie Art Gallery
Mendel Art Gallery
RCMP Heritage Centre
Saskatchewan Western Development Museum
The Government of Canada has agreed to contribute $20 million for two new interchanges in Saskatoon. One of them being at the Sk Hwy 219 / Lorne Ave intersection with Circle Drive, the other at the Senator Sid Buckwold Bridge (Idylwyld Freeway) and Circle Drive. This is part of the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative to improve access to the Canadian National Railway's intermodal freight terminal thereby increasing Asia-Pacific trade. Also, the Government of Canada will contribute $27 million to Regina to construct a Canadian Pacific Railway CPR intermodal facility and improve infrastructure transportation to the facility from both national highway networks, Sk Hwy 1, the TransCanada Highway and Sk Hwy 11, Louis Riel Trail. This also is part of the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative to improve access to the CPR terminal and increase Asia-Pacific trade.[45]
Airlines offering service to Saskatchewan are Air Canada, WestJet Airlines, United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Transwest Air, Norcanair Airlines, La Ronge Aviation Services Ltd, La Loche Airways, Osprey Wings Ltd, Buffalo Narrows Airways Ltd, Skyservice Airlines, Île-à-la-Crosse Airways Ltd, Voyage Air, Pronto Airways, Venture Air Ltd, Pelican Narrows Air Service, Jackson Air Services Ltd, and Northern Dene Airways Ltd.[44]
The Saskatoon Airport (YXE) was initially established as part of the Royal Canadian Air Force training program during World War II. It was renamed the John G. Diefenbaker Airport in the official ceremony, June 23, 1993.[41] Roland J. Groome Airfield is the official designation for the Regina International Airport (YQR) as of August 3, 2005; the airport was established in 1930. Under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP),[42] twenty Service Flying Training Schools (RAF) were established at various Saskatchewan locations in World War II.[43] 15 Wing Moose Jaw is home to the Canadian Forces formation aerobatics team, the Snowbirds.[42]
Ferries of Saskatchewan
Estuary connecting Estuary and Laporte South Saskatchewan River [40]
Lemsford North of Lemsford connecting 32 and 30 South Saskatchewan River [40]
Lancer North of Lancer connecting 32 and 30 South Saskatchewan River [40]
Riverhurst Highway 42 and Highway 373 Lake Diefenbaker [40]
Clarkboro Between Warman and Aberdeen on 784 South Saskatchewan River [40]
Hague Between Hague and Aberdeen South Saskatchewan River [40]
St. Laurent East of Duck Lake, 11 and Batoche 225 South Saskatchewan River [40]
Fenton Between 25 and 3 on Grid Road South Saskatchewan River [40]
Weldon Between 3, Weldon via 682 and 302, Prince Albert South Saskatchewan River [40]
Paynton Between 16 and 26 via 764 North Saskatchewan River [40]
Wingard East of Marcelin, 40 connecting to 11 Wingard North Saskatchewan River [40]
Cecil Between 302 and 55 east of Prince Albert North Saskatchewan River [40]
The main Saskatchewan waterways are the North Saskatchewan River or South Saskatchewan River routes. In total, there are 3,050 bridges maintained by the Department of Highways in Saskatchewan.[39] There are currently twelve ferry services operating in the province, all under the jurisdiction of the Department of Highways.
The first Canadian transcontinental railway was constructed by the Canadian Pacific Railway between 1881 and 1885.[37] After the great east-west transcontinental railway was built, north-south connector branch lines were established. The 1920s saw the largest rise in rail line track as the CPR and CNR fell into competition to provide rail service within ten kilometres. In the 1960s there were applications for abandonment of branch lines.[38] Today the only two passenger rail services in the province are The Canadian and Winnipeg – Churchill train, both operated by Via Rail. The Canadian is a transcontinental service linking Toronto with Vancouver.
Saskatchewan has over 250,000 kilometres (150,000 mi) of roads and highways, the highest amount of road surface of any Canadian province.[36] The major highways in Saskatchewan are the Trans Canada expressway, Yellowhead Highway northern Trans Canada route, Louis Riel Trail, CanAm Highway, Red Coat Trail, Northern Woods and Water route, and Saskota travel route.
The Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure operates over 26,000 kilometres (16,000 mi) of highways and divided highways. There are also municipal roads which comprise different surfaces. Asphalt concrete pavements comprise almost 9,000 kilometres (5,600 mi), granular pavement almost 5,000 kilometres (3,100 mi), non structural or thin membrane surface TMS are close to 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) and finally gravel highways make up over 5,600 kilometres (3,500 mi) through the province. In the northern sector, ice roads which can only be navigated in the winter months comprise another approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) of travel.[35]
Transportation in Saskatchewan includes an infrastructure system of roads, highways, freeways, airports, ferries, pipelines, trails, waterways and railway systems serving a population of approximately 1,003,299 (according to 2007 estimates) inhabitants year-round. It is funded primarily with local and federal government funds. The Saskatchewan Department of Highways and Transportation estimates that 80% of traffic is carried on the 5,031-kilometre principal system of highways.[34]
Eatonia Railway Station
Trans Canada 1
Saskatchewan medical health system has faced criticism due a lack of accessibility to the midwifery program. According to Leanne Smith, the director for maternal services in the Saskatoon Health Region declared that half of the women who apply for the midwifery program are turned away.[33] Ministry of Health data shows that midwives saw 1,233 clients in the 2012-13 fiscal year (which runs April to March). But in that fourth quarter, 359 women were still on waiting lists for immediate or future care.[33] The provincial Health Ministry received 47 letters about midwifery services in 2012, most of which asked for more midwives.[33] As a continuing problem in the Saskatchewan health care system, more pressure has been placed to recruit more midwives for the province.
Saskatchewan's medical health system is widely and inaccurately characterized as "socialized medicine": medical practitioners in Saskatchewan, as in other Canadian provinces, are not civil servants but remit their accounts to the publicly funded Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Plan rather than to patients (i.e. a single-payer system).[32]
The Ministry of Health (Saskatchewan) is responsible for policy direction, sets and monitors standards, and provides funding for regional health authorities and provincial health services.
School vouchers have been newly proposed as a means of allowing competition between rural schools and making the operation of co-operative schools practicable in rural areas.
Following World War II, the transition from many one-room school houses to fewer and larger consolidated modern technological town and city schools occurred as a means of ensuring technical education. School buses, highways, and family vehicles create ease and accessibility of a population shift to larger towns and cities. Combines and tractors mean that the farmer could successfully manage more than a quarter section of land, so there was a shift from family farms and subsistence crops to cash crops grown on many sections of land.
The prosperity of the Roaring Twenties and the success of farmers in proving up on their homesteads helped provide funding to standardize education. Text books, normal schools for educating teachers, formal school curricula and state of the art school house architectural plans provided continuity throughout the province. English as the school language helped to provide economic stability, because one community could communicate with another and goods could be traded and sold in a common language. The number of one-room school house districts across Saskatchewan totalled approximately 5,000 at the height of this system of education in the late 1940s.
The first 76 North-West Territories school districts and the first Board of Education meeting formed in 1886. The pioneering boom formed ethnic bloc settlements. Communities were seeking education for their children similar to the schools of their home land. Log cabins, and dwellings were constructed for the assembly of the community, school, church, dances and meetings.
The first education on the prairies took place within the family groups of the First Nation and early fur trading settlers. There were only a few missionary or trading post schools established in Rupert's Land – later known as the North West Territories.
Pine Grove Correctional Centre
Prince Albert Correctional Centre
Regina Correctional Centre
Regina Paul Dojack Youth Centre
Saskatchewan Penitentiary
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Regional Psychiatric Centre
Saskatoon Kilburn Hall
Caronport Police Service
Cormon Park Police Service
Dalmeny Police Service
Estevan Police Service
File Hills First Nation Police Service
Highway Transport Patrol (Special Constables)
Luseland Police Service
Moose Jaw Police Service
Prince Albert Police Service
Saskatchewan Conservation Officer (Special Constables)
University of Saskatchewan Department of Campus Safety (Special Constables)
Vanscoy Police Service
Wascana Centre Police (Special Constables)
Weyburn Police Service
Wilton Police Service
While both Saskatoon and Regina (Saskatchewan's largest cities) are roughly twice the population of an urban riding in Canada, both are (as of the 2011 federal election) split into multiple ridings that blend them with rural communities.
Recent federal elections have been dominated by the Conservative Party since the party currently represents 13 of 14 federal ridings in Saskatchewan, while the Liberal Party of Canada represents one federal riding.
Provincial politics in Saskatchewan is dominated by the social-democratic New Democrats and the centre-right Saskatchewan Party, with the latter holding the majority in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as of 2012. Numerous smaller political parties also run candidates in provincial elections, including the Green Party, Liberal Party, and the Progressive Conservative Party, but none is currently represented in the Legislative Assembly (Liberals and Conservatives generally caucus under the Saskatchewan Party banner in provincial affairs). After 16 years of New Democratic governments under premiers Roy Romanow and Lorne Calvert, the 2007 provincial election was won by the Saskatchewan Party under Brad Wall. In the 2011 election, Premier Wall and the Saskatchewan Party were returned with an increased majority.
For many years, Saskatchewan was one of Canada's more progressive provinces, reflecting many of its citizens' feelings of alienation from the interests of large capital. In 1944 Tommy Douglas became premier of the first avowedly socialist regional government in North America. Most of his Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) represented rural and small-town ridings. Under his Cooperative Commonwealth Federation government, Saskatchewan became the first province to have Medicare. In 1961, Douglas left provincial politics to become the first leader of the federal New Democratic Party.
Saskatchewan has the same form of government[31] as the other Canadian provinces with a lieutenant-governor (who is the representative of the Crown in Right of Saskatchewan), premier, and a unicameral legislature.
Source: Government of Saskatchewan.[30]
6 These values are the credit ratings from Standard & Poor's as of the end of the Fiscal Year.
5 The Provincial Sales Tax (PST) rate was reduced from 7% to 5% on October 28, 2006.
4 The highest rate of provincial corporate income tax was reduced from 17% to 14% on July 1, 2006. It was further reduced to 13% on July 1, 2007, and finally to 12% on July 1, 2008. The tax on paid-up capital was reduced from 0.6% to 0.3% on July 1, 2006, to 0.15% on July 1, 2007, and abolished altogether on July 1, 2008. These displayed values were obtained by adding the corporate income tax for each year with the corporate capital tax.
3 These values reflect the combined debt of the Government Service Enterprises (Crown Corporations) at the end of the fiscal year. SaskPower, SaskEnergy, and SaskTel account for 62.3%, 18.2%, and 12.1% of Crown Debt, respectively (as of March 31, 2013).
2 These values reflect the debt of the General Revenue Fund alone at the end of the fiscal year. They do not reflect the debt of Government Service Organizations (Health Authorities, Crop Insurance Corporation, etc.).
1 These values reflect the estimated population at the beginning of the fiscal year.
The Tabulated Data covers each fiscal year (e.g. 2012–2013 covers April 1, 2012 – March 31, 2013). All data is in $1,000s.
Gov't Debt2
Crown Debt3
GFSF Balance
Pers. Inc. Tax Revenue
Corp. Inc. Tax Revenue4
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Health Expense
Credit Rating6
2012–2013 1,073,107 3,804,817 5,374,362 16,000 666,000 2,406,254 838,275 1,284,893 2,515,869 4,575,589 AAA
2010–2011 1,041,729 4,135,226 3,982,386 96,000 1,006,000 1,795,788 1,155,273 1,186,922 2,527,799 4,202,106 AA+
2009–2010 1,025,638 4,140,482 3,852,168 167,705 958,000 1,890,848 881,424 1,084,001 1,910,624 3,934,231 AA+
2008–2009 1,010,218 4,145,286 3,556,270 1,969,933 1,215,000 1,844,226 591,930 1,108,628 4,612,408 3,976,241 AA+
2007–2008 996,130 6,824,323 3,394,328 1,282,869 1,528,934 1,938,258 673,641 995,995 2,325,116 3,504,333 AA
2006–2007 991,260 7,244,938 3,449,356 397,794 887,500 1,668,538 1,067,459 1,079,794 1,694,252 3,202,965 AA
2005–2006 994,996 7,197,223 3,490,817 539,466 887,500 1,447,905 918,279 1,112,350 1,721,100 2,990,625 AA
2004–2005 997,263 7,545,574 3,360,474 765,117 748,500 1,329,081 638,968 985,079 1,474,191 2,773,961 AA-
2003–2004 995,848 8,031,637 3,216,602 -210,017 366,000 1,245,763 682,052 854,480 1,140,962 2,515,823 AA-
2002–2003 997,805 7,821,426 3,205,043 82,860 577,000 1,429,757 557,360 813,932 1,243,649 2,342,835 A+
2001–2002 1,001,643 7,561,899 3,261,468 -278,902 495,000 1,196,410 507,542 770,984 903,044 2,199,723 A+
Major Saskatchewan-based Crown corporations are Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI), SaskTel, SaskEnergy (the province's main supplier of natural gas), and SaskPower. Bombardier runs the NATO Flying Training Centre at 15 Wing, near Moose Jaw. Bombardier was awarded a long-term contract in the late 1990s for $2.8 billion from the federal government for the purchase of military aircraft and the running of the training facility. SaskPower since 1929 has been the principal supplier of electricity in Saskatchewan, serving more than 451,000 customers and managing $4.5 billion in assets. SaskPower is a major employer in the province with almost 2,500 permanent full-time staff located in 71 communities.
A list of the top 100 companies includes The Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, Federated Cooperatives Ltd. and IPSCO.
17.1 finance, insurance, real estate, leasing
13.0 mining, petroleum
11.9 education, health, social services
11.7 wholesale and retail trade
9.1 transportation, communications, utilities
6.8 agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting
6.5 business services
5.8 government services
with economic sectors breaking down in the following way: [29]Saskatchewan's GDP in 2006 was approximately C$45.922 billion,
Oil and natural gas production is also a very important part of Saskatchewan's economy, although the oil industry is larger. Among Canadian provinces, only Alberta exceeds Saskatchewan in overall oil production.[27] Heavy crude is extracted in the Lloydminster-Kerrobert-Kindersley areas. Light crude is found in the Kindersley-Swift Current areas as well as the Weyburn-Estevan fields. Natural gas is found almost entirely in the western part of Saskatchewan, from the Primrose Lake area through Lloydminster, Unity, Kindersley, Leader, and around Maple Creek areas.[28]
Historically, Saskatchewan's economy was primarily associated with agriculture. However, increasing diversification has resulted in agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting only making up 6.8% of the province's GDP. Saskatchewan grows a large portion of Canada's grain.[25] Wheat is the most familiar crop and the one most often associated with the province (there are sheafs of wheat depicted on the coat of arms of Saskatchewan), but other grains like canola, flax, rye, oats, peas, lentils, canary seed, and barley are also produced. Beef cattle production in the province is only exceeded by Alberta. Mining is also a major industry in the province, with Saskatchewan being the world's largest exporter of potash and uranium.[26] In the northern part of the province, forestry is also a significant industry.
Fields of canola and flax on the Saskatchewan Prairie.
This list does not include Lloydminster, which has a total population of 27,804 but straddles the Alberta–Saskatchewan border. As of 2011, 9,772 people lived on the Saskatchewan side, which would make it Saskatchewan's 10th largest municipality. All of the listed communities are considered cities by the province, with the exception of Corman Park, which is a rural municipality. Municipalities in the province with a population of 5,000 or more can receive official city status.
Saskatoon 193,653 196,861 202,340 222,189
Regina 180,404 178,225 179,246 193,100
Prince Albert 34,777 34,291 34,138 35,129
Moose Jaw 32,973 32,131 32,132 33,274
Yorkton 15,154 15,107 15,038 15,669
Swift Current 14,890 14,821 14,946 15,503
North Battleford 14,051 13,692 13,190 13,888
Estevan 10,752 10,242 10,084 11,054
Weyburn 9,723 9,534 9,433 10,484
Corman Park 7,142 8,043 8,349 8,354
Ten largest municipalities by population
Regina skyline from Wascana Hill.
Saskatoon skyline and the South Saskatchewan River
The largest denominations by number of adherents according to the 2001 census were the Roman Catholic Church with 286,815 (30%); the United Church of Canada with 187,450 (20%); and the Lutherans with 78,520 (8%). 148,535 (15.4%) responded "no religion".[24]
Rank among
1901 91,279 n/a n/a 8
1911 492,432 n/a 439.5 3
1921 757,510 n/a 53.8 3
1941 895,992 n/a -2.8 3
1956 880,665 5.9 n/a 5
1961 925,181 5.1 11.2 5
1966 955,344 3.3 8.5 6
1971 926,242 -3.0 0.1 6
1986 1,009,613 4.3 9.6 6
1996 976,615 -1.2 -3.3 6
2001 978,933 0.2 -1.0 6
Saskatchewan's population since 1901
According to the Canada 2011 Census, the largest ethnic group in Saskatchewan is German (28.6%), followed by English (24.9%), Scottish (18.9%), Canadian (18.8%), Irish (15.5%), Ukrainian (13.5%), French (Fransaskois) (12.2%), First Nations (12.1%), Norwegian (6.9%), and Polish (5.8%).[21]
"In 1992, the federal and provincial governments signed an historic land claim agreement with Saskatchewan First Nations. Under the Agreement, the First Nations received money to buy land on the open market. As a result, about 761,000 acres have been turned into reserve land and many First Nations continue to invest their settlement dollars in urban areas", including Saskatoon. The money from such settlements has enabled First Nations to invest in businesses and other economic infrastructure.[8]
Since the late 20th century, First Nations have become more politically active in seeking justice for past inequities, especially related to government taking of indigenous lands. The federal and provincial governments have negotiated on numerous land claims, and developed a program of "Treaty Land Entitlement", enabling First Nations to buy land to be taken into reserves with money from settlements of claims.
The province celebrated the 75th anniversary of its establishment in 1980, with Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, presiding over the official ceremonies.[18][19] In 2005, 25 years later, her sister, Queen Elizabeth II, attended the events held to mark Saskatchewan's centennial.[20]
In the late 1920s, the Canadian Western Agribition was held in Regina. This farm-industry trade show, with its strong emphasis on livestock, is rated as one of the five top livestock shows in North America, along with those in Houston, Denver, Louisville and Toronto.
, was the dominant political force in the province until the 1920s; it had close ties with the governing Liberal party. Saskatchewan Grain Growers Association Its farming equivalent, the [17]
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Harrison Ford talks about his return as Han Solo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
10 December 2015 by Daniel Dercksen·Comments Off on Harrison Ford talks about his return as Han Solo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Han Solo makes a welcome return
”You can call them family films, but they are iconic representations of what we know about the complications of our lives.”
Lucasfilm and visionary director J.J. Abrams join forces to take you back again to a galaxy far, far away as Star Wars returns to the big screen with Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
The film stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew and Max Von Sydow. Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk are producing with Tommy Harper and Jason McGatlin serving as executive producers. The screenplay is by J.J. Abrams & Lawrence Kasdan and Michael Arndt.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens on 16 December 2015 (South Africa).
Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) gained worldwide fame for his starring roles as Han Solo in the original Star Wars epic space opera trilogy and the title character of the Indiana Jones film series. Ford is also known for his roles as Rick Deckard in the 1982 neo-noir dystopian science fiction film Blade Runner, John Book in the 1985 thriller Witness, and Jack Ryan in the 1992 action-suspense film Patriot Games and the 1994 spy action thriller film Clear and Present Danger. His career has spanned six decades and includes roles in several Hollywood blockbusters; including the epic war film Apocalypse Now (1979), the legal drama Presumed Innocent (1990), the action film The Fugitive (1993), the political action thriller Air Force One (1997) and the psychological thriller What Lies Beneath (2000).
Q: Is this the first interview since the Jedi days?
A: It’s certainly a part of almost every general interview. But specific to the “Star Wars” films, I probably haven’t talked about it for something like twenty-five years.
Q: Did you need persuading to come back?
A: I had a degree of self-interest. I was very gratified when I first saw the script and thought there were some amazing ideas; interesting things to do. Then I was very excited for the opportunity to work with J.J. Abrams, whom I’ve known for a long time.
Q: You’ve known Kathleen Kennedy for a long time. Was her involvement part of the attraction?
A: It’s the story; it’s the movie that’s going to be made. Of course, people are a very important part of the mix and you have relationships with people that are very important. I have a very long and fruitful relationship with Kathy Kennedy, so I was glad to be able to work with her again. I thought it was going to be fun. I knew that the film would be in good hands, but that wasn’t the only attraction to the project for me.
Q: What did J.J. Abrams tell you about his vision?
A: We had discussions about development of that character and his relationship to other characters in the story. They were very interesting and encouraging conversations. Then there was some work done in respect of the questions I had or input that I had with J.J. Abrams and I was pleased with that. But I’m a ‘get on at the beginning’ and ‘off at the end’ kind of guy, so I don’t really remember the street signs along the way.
Q: Was it enjoyable to be able to give more input?
A: We all had a certain amount of input once we got started. Over the course of making the “Star Wars” films, we worked with three different directors and each of them had a different style and different attitude towards the process. I would say that the relationship with those three different directors was different but I always felt that there was a degree of collaboration that was comfortable for everybody involved.
Q: What does J.J. Abrams bring to the table as a director?
A: He’s very thoughtful and very wise about human nature and the development of character and relationships. He brings a real sincerity and emotional understanding to relationships, which is something I was very pleased to see. He’s an enormously skilled filmmaker and very efficient director and producer. So it has been a real pleasure to work with him and all of the members of his team as this film has gone on.
Q: What is it like working with Daisy Ridley and John Boyega?
A: They are both very engaging personalities; both in their real lives and in their screen characters. I think the audiences will be delighted to make their acquaintance and follow them through the story. They’re both very inventive and spirited presences. Their characters are very interesting and go through some interesting changes. The casting has been brilliant, in both cases.
Q: Are relatable characters important?
A: The genius has always been this science fiction, fantasy context but underpinned by an emotionally recognizable human story that we all relate to by degree. We all recognize the power of these relationships, and the complications in people’s lives, and it’s made these films so important to pass on from generation to generation. You can call them family films, but they are iconic representations of what we know about the complications of our lives.
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Erik Compton, James Silas and Overcoming Adversity
By admin on September 1st, 2013
The following piece originally appeared in, and all rights belong to Pounding the Rock.
I don’t enjoy golf. I don’t enjoy playing it, watching it, and particularly talking about it. Mostly the talk, really. Tied at 18 at the Masters? I’ll tune in but please yank me out of any cocktail party conversation after two minutes or I might bring up cricket.
That doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate a good golf story.
Listening to sports radio last week I heard about Erik Compton, a professional golfer working on his third heart. Yes, you read that right. The first transplant came in 1992 at age 12 and the second in 2008 at age 28. Despite his battle with viral cardiomyopathy, Erik ranked as the number one US junior golfer in 1998 and was selected as a two time All-American at the University of Georgia.
After becoming a pro and receiving his second transplant, Compton made the cut in five of the seven PGA TOUR events he played in during 2010, earned his PGA TOUR card for the first time in 2011, and so far this year finished in the top 25 in three PGA TOUR events, including a fourth place tie at the Honda Classic. Erik’s currently ranked among the top 70 for 2013 winnings and 60th in the FedEx cup ranking.
And you thought Adrian Peterson’s comeback was impressive?
Erik’s feats, as a 12 year old boy and 28 year old pro, impress and inspire. I’ve never seen him play or heard an interview and I don’t need to. Res Ipsa Loquitur, it speaks for itself.
Comebacks from more typical sports injuries are by no means on the same plane as those from heart transplant surgery — much less double heart transplant– but when I heard about Compton I got to thinking about the repeated comebacks of one James Silas.
Known by such nom de guerres as “The Snake”, “Captain Late” and “The Late Mr. Silas”, James averaged 16.1 points and 3.8 assists per game with a field goal shooting percentage of .495 and free throw percentage of .855 over 10 seasons in the ABA and NBA. WithGeorge “Ice Man” Gervin as the shooting guard, they formed one of the most formidable backcourts in professional basketball, combining for an unbelievable 50.8 points in the ’79 – ’80 season. A year that Silas almost did not reach is his career.
James Edward Silas signed with the Dallas Chaparrals in 1972 after the Houston Rocketscut him in training camp. In his four ABA years he averaged over 18 points, four rebounds and four assists and played with an assertiveness and tempo that helped build the Spursinto a team averaging between 115 and 120 points per game. He defined the Spurs even before Ice’s finger roll and would become an ABA legend. Not bad for the 6’1″ Louisianan 5th round pick (70th overall) out of Stephen F. Austin.
In 1976 the leagues merged and the NBA would finally see what the ABA already knew. However, during his first NBA preseason against the Kansas City Kings, 230-pound King forward Bill Robinzine crashed onto Silas’ left knee and, though the Captain completed the game, he practically lost the next two years to the injury.
If Silas suffered the same injury today, he’d probably be good as new within a couple of months. In the late 70’s however, a knee injury could end a career. And based on thisFebruary 05, 1979 Sports Illustrated article (Try not to get too distracted by the Christie Brinkley cover), Silas almost called it quits many times, as every comeback was followed by a deeper setback. Sitting behind one of the goals, I remember Hemisphere Arena exploding during Silas’ first comeback on January 5, 1977 when he scored 28 points in 28 minutes off the bench. But that happiness wouldn’t last, as he was barely able to walk the morning after and ended up playing sparingly for the remainder of the season.
Only after more surgeries and lonely, extensive rehab was Silas able to play himself into shape again, regaining his starting position by December 1978. Without Silas at the helm the Spurs were already an elite NBA team, but one that would sometimes struggle scoring in close games. Soon after his return, his teammates learned that his nicknames were not the result of a lack of punctuality. With that final piece of the puzzle in place, the NBA finally witnessed what we in SA had seen for years and with Gervin leading the league in scoring, the Spurs reached the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time.
Silas played for two more years, one with the Spurs, his last with the Cavaliers, before retiring at the age of 32. He became the first Spur to see his jersey retired on February 28, 1984. When the Iceman was asked about Silas, he had this to say:
James Silas was a guy who we really went to at the end of the game. James Silas never missed free throws. They don’t give him enough credit and I’m disappointed in that, but we (the ABA players) give it to him because we played with him and respect him and a lot of us idolize his play.
I can neither describe the precise motivation behind the comebacks of Compton and Silas, or other professional athletes who have rebounded from serious illness or injury, nor explain where they find their strength. I do know, however, that when faced with a double anterior cervical compression with fusion (neck surgery) this past April, my doctor’s prognosis that I could return to the tennis court in three months if I followed directions and performed adequate rehab motivated me to do just that. Because, whether it’s a professional athlete or an amateur looking to hang on for a few more years, the desire to compete inspires us to repair our broken selves; to play again.
No one would fault Compton for foregoing his golf career after his second heart transplant yet he refused to let his condition define him. Similarly, nobody would of criticized Silas for retiring after failing on his third or fourth comeback attempt. Stories of people refusing to quit in the face of strong adversity such as Compton and Silas remind us that professional athletes, despite the swirling and unfavorable narratives, can still be very human. We just need to dig a little deeper to find examples of those that remind us of our true capacity.
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Porsche Carrera C2 at Talladega Gran Prix Raceway
May 22, 2010 Christopher Bradley 1 Comment
I’ve had the opportunity to track my 1999 Porsche Carrera C2 at Little Taladega two times over the last three years. The race track is the first of its kind in the United States. Talladega Gran Prix Raceway was originally designed by Ed Bargy as a motorcycle road race course. Typical race tracks were designed primarily for car racing with motorcyclists merely being an afterthought. Talladega Gran Prix Raceway was designed to avoid the use metal or concrete barriers outside of corners, which for a motorcyclist could mean the difference between a major injury or death and just a scrapped up bike and set of leathers. This is the first time on the track. It was a blast, and I plan to return as much as possible. Enjoy!
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May 22, 2010 Christopher Bradley 2 Comments
Three days of riding in the North Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina mountains. No one in the group has invested in a helmet camera, or a motorcycle mounted camera. In addition to being a standard point and shoot camera, my Casio Exilim shoots HD video as well. We had a small tripod, duct tape and an entire day to try this out. Several videos from several bikes. Here’s one of my favorites. It almost looks like we did this on purpose, but this is all the “image stabilization” this camera has when mounted to the rear case rack of my Ducati Multistrada with duct tape. The bike following is a MV Agusta Brutale that may be the easiest way to burn out your lifetime supply of adrenaline reserves. Enjoy!
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The Porsche 356 Speedster
May 22, 2010 Christopher Bradley 31 Comments
The Porsche 356 was the company’s first production automobile. Production started in 1948 when approximately 50 cars were built. In 1950 the general production of the 356 continued until April 1965. It is estimated approximately half of the total production of 76,000 Porsche 356s still exist.
The 356 was created by Ferdinand “Ferry” Porsche. The 356 was a four-cylinder, air-cooled, rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive car utilizing unitized pan and body construction. While the 356’s body was an original design by Porsche employee Erwin Komenda, its mechanicals were derived from the Volkswagen. Porsche quickly re-engineered and refined the car with a focus on performance. By the late ’50s many fewer parts were shared in common between Volkswagen and Porsche. The early 356 automobile bodies produced at Gmünd, Austria were handcrafted in aluminum, but when production moved to Zuffenhausen, Germany in 1950, models produced there were steel-bodied.
The basic design of the 356 remained the same throughout its lifespan, with evolutionary, functional improvements rather than yearly minor styling changes. A variety of models in both coupe and convertible forms were produced from 1948 through 1965.
Cabriolets were offered from inception, and in the early 1950s over 50% of total production. One of the most desirable collector models is the Porsche 356 “Speedster”, introduced in late 1954 after Max Hoffman, the sole US importer of Porsches, advised the company that a lower-cost, open-top version could sell well in the American market. With its low, raked windshield, bucket seats and folding top, the Porsche Speedster was an instant hit. Production of the Speedster topped 1,171 cars in 1957 and then started to decline. It was replaced in late 1958 by the “Convertible D” model. It featured a taller, more practical windshield, glass side windows and more comfortable seats. The following year the 356B “Roadster” convertible replaced the D model. Soft-top 356 model sales declined in the early 60s.
To distinguish among the major revisions of the model, 356’s are generally classified into a few major groups. 356 coupes and “cabriolets” built through 1954 are readily identifiable by their split windshields. In 1955, with several small but significant changes, the 356A was introduced. Its internal factory designation, the Type 1, gave it the nickname “T1” among enthusiasts. In early 1957 a second revision of the 356A was produced, known as Type 2. In late 1959 more additional styling and technical refinements gave rise to the 356B. This was known as the “T5” body.
The mid 1962 356B model was changed to the T6 body type. The twin deck lid grilles, an external fuel filler in the right front fender and larger windows are indicators.
The last revision of the 356 was the 356C which was introduced for the 1964 model year. It featured disc brakes as well as an option for the most powerful pushrod engine Porsche had ever produced, the 95 hp SC. Porsche 356 production peaked at 14,151 cars in 1964. The company continued to sell the 356C in North America through 1965 as demand for the model remained quite strong in the early days of the 911. The last ten 356’s were assembled for the Dutch police force in March 1966 as 1965 models.
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The Triumph Speed Triple Review
2008 Speed Triple
The Triumph Speed Triple is a phenomenal motorcycle. In 1994, the newly launched Triumph Motorcycle Company became one of the first manufacturers of a new type of motorcycle called the Streetfighter. This new class of bike was a modern sport-bike without the plastic fairing. The new Triumph Speed Triple was first released in 1994, and was named in honor of the historic Triumph Speed Twin was called the “Speed Triple”. The original 1938 Speed Twin was powered by a 498 cc vertical twin cylinder engine, and was considered a high performance machine in its day. The new Speed Triple was based on the new Triumph Triple series of modular engines, which also powered the standard Trident, Daytona sportbike, and the Thunderbird retro bike. This engine came in two displacements as a triple; 750 cc for some European markets, and 885 cc for all other markets.
Early Speed Triples were all carbureted, and were designated T300 series bikes. 1994/1995 models came with the standard 885 cc water cooled engine and a five speed transmission. Subsequent Speed Triples all had the same engine with six speed transmissions. As with all the modular Triumphs, the T309 series Speed Triple had a very large single steel tube backbone frame, and used the engine as a stressed member. Front and rear suspension were fully adjustable, and were made by Showa. At the rear was a single monoshock with a progressive linkage, and at the front were standard hydraulic forks fitted with dual disk brakes.
Following the T309, Triumph refined the motorcycle in a series of progressively improving generations.
T509 Triumph Speed Triple
Following the T309, Triumph released the first of its new generation of fuel injected sportbikes, the T509 Speed Triple. The new bike was a total redesign of the basic concept. The all new engine still displaced 885 cc, it produced 108 horsepower and was fitted with an engine management system by SAGEM. Surrounding the new engine was an all new aluminium = chassis, and a single sided swingarm. These two new features combined with upgraded suspension components made the new Speed Triple a vast improvement over its older sibling in terms of handling.
T595 Speed Triple
For 1999 the new Speed Triple was officially upgraded to T595 status and received the bigger engine. Due to tuning differences it did not make as much power as its fully faired contemporary, but it did have a substantially broader torque curve than its T509 predecessor. This made it more forgiving to ride and began a trend back to the characteristics of the original T309 Speed Triple.
Cosmetically the T509 and the 1999 T595 Speed Triples were nearly identical, and they shared many of the same components. As such, they shared many of the same idiosyncrasies, as well as the dual headlamps and single sided swing arm. Small fairings referred to as “Bikini Fairings” were popular on these bikes, as well as other aftermarket accessories that wouldn’t normally be of use to a fully faired Sportbike.
955i Triumph Speed Triple
For the years 2000 and 2001 the Speed Triple changed little. Restyled by designer Gareth Davies, both the Speed Triple and the Daytona came to be referred to as 955i bikes. Due to its flexible engine, excellent brakes, and good handling the Speed Triple continued to impress reviewers. In 2002 there was a significant change to the engine casings of the 955i engine that decreased weight by roughly 17 pounds and the power was slightly increased. In late 2004 a small number of Special Edition Speed Triples were produced. The primary difference with this new model was an all black paint scheme, including frame, wheels, bodywork, and most engine parts.
In 2005 Triumph released its fourth generation Speed Triple. The engine was still the reliable fuel injected engine used since 1997, but it had been increased in capacity to 1050 cc. This was accomplished by lengthening the stroke. Also fitted was an all new Fuel injection and engine management system made by the Japanese company Keihin. Other engine modifications resulted in a claimed 129 horsepower and an even broader, flatter torque curve.
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The Allure of the Automobile at the High Museum of Art
I’ve been looking forward to this since the announcement was firstmade about the exhibition. I had visions of being the first one inline. It is now May 19th, and I haven’t even been to the museum. I canwalk from the office. What am I thinking. To miss this opportunityspeaks volumes about how I spend my time. It also speaks volumes abouthow I live my life. I better get to the High!
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Making Use of Expertise
Let's say you're a professional who wants to give something back to your community by serving on a city board or commission. You open up the newspaper and read that your mayor is saying, "It is not the five of us commissioners who make the city great. It's the citizens who are passionate about it, and now we're telling them, 'Sorry you can't serve.'"
Or the mayor is saying, "On certain boards we require professional experience. With what is now required by the Ethics Commission, these same professionals are feeling they can't run the risk of making a mistake and being possibly thrown in jail."
Suddenly, sitting on a nonprofit board looks really good, at least in Palm Beach County, where many municipal officials have opposed the new ethics code.
These mayors, quoted in an article yesterday in the Sun-Sentinel, appear to be passing up an opportunity to explain the importance of conflict provisions to citizens' public service on boards and commissions. Instead, they appear to want to scare off those with expertise.
The county ethics commission's executive director presents the issue very differently. He explains that "the rules are not intended to preclude professionals from community service, but rather to ensure that no one is receiving special benefits from services on a board." He says, "If people are on a board because it's good for business, then they probably need to be on a different board to serve the community."
There are two problems here. One involves the concept of expertise, the other the role of experts with respect to government boards and commissions.
The Concept of Expertise
To sit on a board that decides disputes regarding land use issues, you don't have to have special expertise on these issues. What you need is the interest and intelligence to learn about these issues. There are professionals in the government who can advise you about technical matters, and in many cases you can sit as an alternate on a board to learn before you are required to decide.
It's great if you've had some experience, worked in the field in the past, handled a few matters as an attorney or accountant. But to do a good job on a land use board, you don't have to be a realtor, developer, architect, or attorney currently working in the field in your town.
An architect resigned as chair of the Delray Beach Historical Preservation Board. He said, "The rules basically say that I can't have anything to do with a project coming before my board. ... As far as I know, every other architect on a board in Delray Beach either has resigned or is in the process of resigning."
If this is true, it shows that architects are only interested in serving the town on boards that deal with their own business. They may see their service as using their expertise for the benefit of the town, but the public sees their service as trying to benefit themselves and their colleagues. The architect feels it's fine if he recuses himself from matters he presents to his board, but if his colleagues keep approving his projects, and he approves theirs, it looks like a mutual benefit society rather than a town board.
If it is true that architects only serve on boards they want to appear before, then it shows that they share a narrow view of expertise. But the fact is that architects are highly educated professionals who could serve well on any board or commission.
Making Expertise Available
The second issue involves the role of experts with respect to boards and commissions related to their work. When officials say that ethics provisions prevent the town from getting access to expertise, they are assuming that the only way professionals can share their expertise is by sitting on a board. Of course, this isn't true, because most boards and commissions are advised by counsel and other professionals in government, planning officials for planning boards, accountants for financial boards, etc.
There is no reason why outside professionals cannot make their expertise available to boards without sitting on them (and make them available to government employees, as well). If professionals must have a seat and title to offer their expertise, there is no reason why they can't create advisory boards. The advisory board who provides advice on a particular matter would neither be someone involved in the matter nor a colleague of those voting on it. Not every expert and not every board needs to have a vote.
Think, Talk, and Act Positive
Rather than acting as if conflict rules are destructive, local government officials should be looking for ways to make use of local expertise without making it look like experts are involved in government to benefit themselves. When the situation is presented and handled positively, not only will advice be offered informally or through advisory boards, but it will also turn out that there are architects who would love to sit on a library board, and teachers who would like to learn something about land use issues.
Ethics reform in Palm Beach County, as elsewhere, provides a great opportunity to change experts' view of public service and to find creative ways to make use of their expertise in a way that increases the public's belief that government is not about people trying to benefit themselves and their friends. The result will be not only professionals offering their expertise and general intelligence, but far more public participation in government.
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Virginia Whacks Maryland 12-8
From Media Releases
Virginia Men: 31 March 2007
Virginia scored five unanswered goals midway through the contest to pull away and gain a 12-8 win over Maryland before 5048 fans this afternoon at Klöckner Stadium.
The game was the first Atlantic Coast Conference contest of the year for the Cavaliers, who improve to 8-1 this season with their eighth consecutive win. Maryland saw its five-game winning streak end as the Terrapins fall to 7-3 this season.
Ben Rubeor, the nation’s leading scorer, led the way for Virginia once again with five goals and one assist. He has scored 34 goals and tallied 49 total points in just nine games. Overall the Virginia attack accounted for 10 goals and four assists.
Bryn Holmes put the Terrapins on the board first with the first goal of his career barely two minutes in with a fast break goal.
The Cavaliers scored twice in a 27-second span a minute later as Rubeor and Brian Carroll found the back of the net.
Maryland retook the lead on goals by Max Ritz and Drew Evans midway through the opening quarter.
“I thought that we were actually a little bit surprised by the pace of play early on,” said Virginia head coach Dom Starsia. “I thought Maryland took it to us in the first five or six minutes. I was very pleased that we responded to that, especially defensively.”
The back-and-forth scoring continued as Rubeor scored twice in the final 6:18 to give UVa a 4-3 lead going into the second period.
Dan Groot forced the fourth tie of the first half with the first of his two goals at the 11:49 mark of the second quarter.
Following Groot’s goal, the Virginia defense held the Terrapins scoreless for more than 19 minutes, while the Cavalier offense controlled the flow and scored five times in that span.
“I thought by early in the second quarter that we were moving our feet much more and we were attentive and alert at the defensive end of the field, and that that was going to keep us in the game,” said Starsia.
Rubeor’s extra-man goal with 6:49 remaining before halftime gave the Cavaliers the lead for good at 5-4. Danny Glading scored the first of his two goals with just over five minutes to play in the half as the Cavaliers took a 6-4 lead into the locker room at the break.
Virginia came out of the locker room strong, scoring three times in the opening 3:45 of the second half to take control of the contest. Jack Riley notched his eighth goal of the season on the Cavaliers’ first possession to push the lead to 7-4. Garrett Billings scored 47 seconds later on Virginia’s second possession and Rubeor scored on the third possession as the Cavalier advantage grew to 9-4.
“I think we just got sharper as the game went on,” said Starsia. “We created some unsettled opportunities and I thought we shot the ball a little better at the start of the second half. We jumped on them a little coming out of the locker room which gave us a chance to get a handle on this game. At the start of the second half I felt like our offense got a hungry look from the sideline and we felt like we could score some goals. Against a team like Maryland, if you get 12 or 13 goals, you’ve got to be pretty happy about that.”
Groot ended the Maryland scoring drought midway through the third quarter to cut Virginia’s lead to four goals at 9-5, but the Terps could get no closer.
Billings and Ryan Kelly scored back-to-back goals as UVa built a 12-6 bulge in the fourth quarter.
Kip Turner finished with 11 saves, his second-highest total of the season, before giving way to Bud Petit for the final three minutes.
Longstick midfielder Mike Timms had another big performance for the Cavaliers with a career-high nine ground balls. He also caused a game-high three turnovers.
The Cavaliers return to action at home on Tuesday when they host Binghamton at 4:00 p.m.
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Didier Drogba Launches Men's Underwear Range For Charity
Not many people would fancy taking on David Beckham when it comes to posing in underwear.
But fellow footballer Didier Drogba clearly isn’t scared of Golden Balls and has launched his own range – Drogba & Co in collaboration with Hom.
And the 36-year-old, who is two years younger than Becks, has decided to model them himself and what's more one euro from each pair sold goes to the Didier Drogba Foundation.
The former Chelsea star can be seen in the image wearing the tight under wear while writing his name on a piece of glass in front of him.
Accompanying the snap, he wrote: 'I'm very proud to announce the launch of my underwear brand.The first underwear brand that will be launched to support a foundation,my foundation, The didierdrogbafoudation.
'They will be out on 1st of May,you can pre-order them at http://www.hom.com/didier-drogba/ 1€ from every pair sold will go to my foundation #drogba&co #drogba&co #drogba&co #drogbaco #didierdrogbafoundation #underwear #launch.'
The Ivorian footballer, who plays as a forward for Galatasaray in the Süper Lig, is known not only as one of the best players in Chelsea’s history but also for his charity work over the years.
The Didier Drogba Foundation was set up to provide financial and material support in health and education to the African people.
The father-of-three decided on building the hospital after a trip to the Ivorian capital's other hospitals, saying at the time: ‘I decided the Foundation's first project should be to build and fund a hospital giving people basic healthcare and a chance just to stay alive.’
In order to raise money star-studded galas are held every year, which sees other footballers reach in their pockets to donate.
Over the years Drogba has played an important part in helping bring peace to his county.
Following the news that the Ivory Coast had qualified for the 2006 World Cup, he made a plea to combatants which led to a cease fire after five years of civil war.
In 2007, Drogba was appointed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as a Goodwill Ambassador.
His continued to demonstrate his charitable nature over the years and in late 2009, he announced he would be donating the £3 million signing on fee for his endorsement of Pepsi for the construction of a hospital in his hometown of Abidjan.
Not surprisingly his involvement in the peace process led to Drogba being named as one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine for 2010.
Meanwhile according to reports AS Roma are keen to for the player, who has scored 21 goals since joining the Turkish side, to join them this summer.
Labels: #Charity, #Didier Drogba, #Foundation, #Hom
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Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension - Hours Report
Does Perry the Platypus drink coffee? Find out HERE!
Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension was released on August 2, 2011 with a MSRP of just $39.99. It was developed by High Impact Games, and published by Disney Interactive Studios.
The game received an ESRB rating of "Everyone 10+" with "Cartoon Violence" listed as content for parents/gamers to be aware of.
How many hours have Wii owners reported battling Dr. Doofenshmirtz and his evil thingaminators in the last 2 months? Let's take a look!
Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension has about 5,830 Wii owners that have reported play-time data since the game released in August.
The game has 50,573 Total Hours of game-play reported on its debut, with an average play-time of 8 Hours 40 Minutes "Per person" reporting data.
Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension's average play-time per day/session reported is 2 Hours 49 Minutes.
The game's current Amazon.com sale rank is #365, and it is selling for $39.96.
(Sale rank and price recorded around 11:00PM on October 5, 2011.)
Across the 2nd Dimension's "professional" review score average is 74.75%, based on 4 reviews on GameRankings.com.
The game has a 4 out of 5 Stars rating on Amazon.com, based on 14 customer reviews. Phineas' and Ferb's latest game adventure has an 81.42% customer review score average, when the reviews are converted to a 100% review scale.
(Review score averages recorded around 11:00PM on October 5, 2011.)
Phineas and Ferb is another show we started watching through Netflix's streaming service with our oldest son. While he probably couldn't follow what was happening in the show when we started watching it, the show provided a good distraction and background noise; but like another show, soon I found we had watched all of the available episodes, some two or three times. Our oldest little bean will request to watch the show by saying, "Ferb!", so I think he's understanding it more now.
Like that other show, I also learned the theme song for Phineas and Ferb and have come to enjoy some of the characters on the show; specifically I enjoy the running relationship between Perry and Dr. Doofenshmirtz.
While I have not played Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension, I am surprised to see the game's average hours "Per person", or console, at more than 8 hours. Tony, from Nintendo-Okie.com, reviewed it and clocked about 3.5 hours with the game, so I think the reported game-play hours show the game is definitely being played more often, and/or by more than one person; compared to Tony's time with the game.
If you have not seen any footage of the game, below is a video containing two trailers from the game that I compiled together:
Have any of you played Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension, and if so, what do you think about the game?
Have any of you watched the Phineas and Ferb show, and perhaps are fans of it also?
If any of you are interested in the game you can see prices on Amazon.com linked below:
Labels: Data debut, Disney, Game-play hours, High Impact Games, Nintendo, Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension, Wii
Haven't played the games and can't call myself a fan of the show, but my younger two kids tend to watch it when it's on. I get the feeling they like it 'okay' but it's not a favorite of theirs as I never catch them going out of their way to catch it.
My Little Gamer October 6, 2011 at 10:14 AM
my two boys absolutely loved this game.. but, they beat it in one day last saturday.
if you're a fan of the show, you will love the game.
it also has lots of voice acting throughout.
*Pokes My Little Gamer* Is it real? :)
It's really nice in games like this that the audio's come along well enough that they can do actual voice acting for a lot of it (or irritating I suppose if you as the parent really dislike the game/tv show in question), but I think that really helps younger kids in particular enjoy the tie-in from game to show/movie.
I can remember one night becoming annoyed with a certain character, repeatedly yelling her one line over and over..."MOM!"
But, other than that one night, I think I have either gotten used to that part of the show, or just completely block it out now.
Also, LOL at your question and poking of another reader...better be careful though, or I may have to update my TOS with a "not responsible for physical violence" line.
So, being that it seems a fairly shorter game, is there any sort of replay value to keep players going back? I mean, it seems the game is playing a good bit, so I'm wondering what is bringing them back to it.
Thank you both for the comments/feedback!
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COMET joins elected officials at Grand Avenue truck traffic protest
This photo and story comes courtesy of the Times Newsweekly:
Elected officials vented at a press conference in Maspeth last Friday, Mar. 5, against the continued use of Grand and Flushing avenues as a commercial “through truck route” citing the damaging effects of exposure to diesel fumes to the community.
City Council Member Elizabeth Crowley was joined by Rep. Joseph Crowley, Rep. Anthony Weiner, State Sen. Joseph Addabbo, Assemblywoman Margaret Markey, City Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer and a host of community leaders in decrying the air pollution resulting from trucks that routinely use the connecting roadways to avoid traveling on the Long Island Expressway.
The public servants called on the Department of Transportation to alleviate the burden of vehicle congestion by turning the Grand Avenue-Flushing Avenue thorough- fare into a “local” route as part of a Maspeth Truck Bypass plan that was the brainchild of local civic leaders. The plan is currently the focus of a study being conducted by the DOT.
Council Member Crowley claimed that Queens is the only place where a route terminates at a borough boundary, causing trucks to clog up Maspeth’s primary shopping district.
“Neighborhood residents are thrilled that the study for the Maspeth Bypass Plan is underway,” added Rosemarie Daraio, president of the Communities of Maspeth and Elmhurst Together (COMET) civic association. “COMET is anxious to work with our elected officials and DOT to ensure that the study addresses the community's concerns and that it is completed as quickly as possible. Hopefully NYC DOT will consider installing signage as a preliminary step. We look forward to a safer and more environmentally friendly Grand Avenue.”
Senator Addabbo sponsoring health fair
Burglary spike in northern Maspeth
From this week's Forum West:
Residential burglaries are up throughout the precinct, including a huge spike over the past month - in part due to an apparent pattern in Maspeth.
The 104th Precinct has seen a 40 percent rise in home break-ins during the past 28-day period and an increase from 71 to 77 for the year to date, Captain Ray DeWitt reported at Monday’s COMET civic meeting.
There was good news in other major crimes last month, including decreases in robberies, assaults, grand larceny and auto thefts, according to DeWitt. However, burglaries con- tinue to be a problem through the precinct’s confines, and a pattern has been established by the NYPD in northern Maspeth.
“It’s throughout the precinct, all over and not confined to one neighborhood,” said Officer Tommy Bell of the precinct’s Community Affairs Unit. “But there is a pattern in the Maspeth area. They’re all so close to 73rd Street. We believe one person may be responsible for all those.”
Public hearing about a new grammar school at IS73 scheduled for April 14th
Co-location of a New School, P.S. 873 (24Q873), with I.S. 73 in Q873
I. Description of the subject and purpose of the proposed item under consideration.
Beginning in the 2010-2011 school year, P.S. 873 (24Q873, “P.S. 873”) a new school that will serve grades K-5, will open in school building Q873 (hereinafter referred to as “Q873”), an annex to school building Q073, located at 70-02 54 Avenue, Queens in Community School District 24 (“District 24”). P.S. 873 will be a zoned elementary school, and it will open with approximately 50-75 Kindergarten students in 2010-2011. P.S. 873 will phase-in one new grade per year until it grows to its full scale with approximately 270-350 students in grades Kindergarten-5 in 2015-2016. P.S. 873 will be co-located in Q873 with I.S. 73 - The Frank Sansivieri Intermediate School (24Q073, “I.S. 73”), an existing school currently serving grades 6-8. The 2008-2009 target utilization rate of Q873 was 82%, and its target capacity is 425.
I.S. 73 currently houses its grade 6 students in Q873, and its grade 7 and 8 students are housed in its main building, Q073. The 2008-2009 target utilization rate of Q073 was 86%, and its target capacity is 1,554. There are no other schools housed in Q073. The enrollment of I.S. 73 has been steadily decreasing over the past several years. I.S. 73 enrolls students in both 6th and 7th grade, as it has K-5 and K-6 feeder elementary schools. Two of I.S. 73’s feeder elementary schools, P.S. 049 Dorothy Bonawit Kole (24Q049, “P.S. 49”) and P.S. 102 Bayview (24Q102, “P.S. 102”) are currently expanding to K-8, contributing to the decline in I.S. 73’s enrollment. In fact, I.S. 73’s current 7th grade class is much smaller than its current 8th grade class. This year, I.S. 73 will graduate approximately 715 grade 8 students, while grade 7 contains approximately 590 students. Due to the matriculation of this large 8th grade class and I.S. 73’s lower enrollment trends, particularly in the 7th grade, beginning in 2010-2011, there will be space in Q073 for I.S. 73 to begin gradually transferring back some of its 6th grade sections that are currently served at Q873 to Q073 in order to create space in Q873 for P.S. 873. Eventually, all of I.S. 73’s 6th grade sections will be served in the main building.
Based on current enrollment trends, Q873 will have sufficient space for the phase-in of P.S. 873 and for some of I.S. 73’s 6th grade sections; and in the long term, Q873 will have sufficient space for P.S. 873 and Q073 will have sufficient space for I.S. 73 to operate at full organizational capacity. However, as P.S. 873 phases-in at Q873, the Department of Education (“DOE”) will continue to consider the available space in Q873 and in Q073 and will monitor enrollment trends at I.S. 73 to make a determination regarding whether P.S. 873 can remain in Q873 in the long-term. The combined projected enrollment in 2010-2011 for P.S. 873 and I.S. 73 is approximately 1,650, and the combined capacity of Q073 and Q873 is 1,979. At scale, the projected enrollment of I.S. 73 is 1,500-1,550 and the capacity of Q073 is 1,554; the projected enrollment of P.S. 873 is 270-350 and the capacity of Q873 is 425.
The co-location of P.S. 873 in Q873 addresses the need to relieve elementary school overcrowding in District 24.
II. Information regarding where the full text of the proposed item may be obtained.
The Educational Impact Statement can be found on the Department of Education’s Web site:
http://schools.nyc.gov/AboutUs/leadership/PEP/publicnotice/April_Vote
III. Submission of public comment.
Written comments can be sent to D24Proposals@schools.nyc.gov.
Oral comments can be left at 718-935-4198.
IV. The name, office, address, email and telephone number of the city district representative, knowledgeable on the item under consideration, from whom information may be obtained concerning the item.
Name: Natalie Ondiak
Office: Office of Portfolio Planning
Address: 52 Chambers St
Email: Portfolio@schools.nyc.gov
V. Date, time and place of joint public hearing for this proposal.
70-02 54th Avenue, Queens
There will be no question and answer period. Questions about the proposal can be directed as indicated in section IV above.
Speaker sign-up will begin 30 minutes before the hearing and will close 15 minutes after the start.
VI. Date, time and place of the PEP meeting at which the Board will vote on the proposed item.
Health Building
125 Worth Street, Manhattan
Transit Cutbacks
The MTA is running a huge deficit and is planning on making the following cutbacks which would affect our area.
The M train would be eliminated, and The V train would replace the M line between Metropolitan Avenue and Essex Street. The V would then continue its current route thru midtown Manhattan and then back to Queens ending at 71st—Continental Avenue. If you need to go to the Bowery, Canal Street , Chambers Street, Fulton Street, or Broad Street stops you will now have to transfer at Myrtle and Broadway, Marcy Ave., or Essex Street for the J or Z line. If you work in downtown Brooklyn you will need to transfer to the 4 ,5 or F train. The plan is for seven trains per hour during rush hour on the new V line which is comparable to the current service.
In addition to the M change, the G line will no longer run between Forest Hills and LIC.
New Community Board Chair
C.O.M.E.T member, Tony Moreno, was elected Chair of Community Board #4 on Tuesday February 2nd 2010. The 110th Police Community Council is having their annul "fundraiser" on Tues. Apr. 27th at the Grand stand Pub & Restaurant, 85-35 Grand Ave. in Elmhurst. The fare will be a hot buffet ($50) beginning at 6PM. Along with honoring 3 officers, and a civilian worker, they also have a "Man of the Year" award and the recipient this year is C.O.M.E.T member Tony Moreno.
Living in fear on 66th Street
Maspeth residents who live on 66th Street were granted a reprieve from their disorderly and sometimes violent neighbor who was arrested for assault and incarcerated since November 2010. COMET, who has been following this situation closely with the assistance of Anthony Como, Esq., who offers guidance to us on legal matters, was notified that the 25-year old male’s case was dismissed and subse-quently released in mid-February. As you can see from the photo, this individual let his property deteriorate and this has continually irked the residents who take pride in maintaining their block.
Picture from ‘The Forum’ Dec. 10, 2009 edition
Markey says, change traffic signs to forbid big trucks on Grand Avenue, but also beef up enforcement
Maspeth Assemblywoman Margaret Markey joined local elected officials (Council Member Elizabeth Crowley, Council Member James Van Bramer, Congress Member Joseph Crowley, Congress Member Anthony Weiner and State Senator Joseph Addabbo) and civic leaders (Juniper Park Civic Association, Maspeth Chamber of Commerce and COMET) at an outdoor press conference on Friday, March 5 in calling upon the city to reduce the number of big trucks that cut through the heart of Maspeth on their way to other boroughs.
She said, "Everybody knows that big trucks don't belong on local shopping streets. They kill retail business, they create hazardous conditions for pedestrians, and they pollute the air. It is important to do anything possible - as soon as possible - to reduce truck traffic on Grand Avenue."
Assemblywoman Markey said that getting big trucks off this street has been the community's goal for more than a decade. "Frank Principe and Community Board 5 developed a Maspeth Bypass Plan a decade ago to reduce dangerous truck traffic through the heart of the community. However, we don't need to wait for relief if this 'Local Route' designation can be made now and enforced."
Assemblywoman Markey said that while the designation will help, "Signs are not enough. We also need vigorous enforcement. It's up to the Police to catch truckers who violate the ban and make sure they are fined."
She said a bill in the Assembly she is sponsoring this year will permit the City to place cameras at key intersections - like Grand Avenue and 69th Street - and make it possible for the police to track down owners and operators and fine them when they break the law.
"In these tough economic times, it is important that we do everything we can to help neighborhood businesses survive. Getting trucks off this street now will make a difference to Maspeth and I join with my colleagues in asking the Department of Transportation to support the request we are making - and enforce it," she added.
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Wealthy Australian suburbs have low vaccination rates
By Jeannie Stokowski-Bisanti Mar 31, 2014 in Health
New research shows that wealthier Sydney, Australia suburbs are where parents are more often found to object to vaccinations for their children.
The research shows that affluent suburbs in Sydney's north, inner west and east have some of the lowest childhood immunisation rates in Australia.
Data from the National Health Performance Authority shows that about 80 per cent of five-year-old children in suburbs such as Manly, Paddington and Annandale are fully vaccinated compared to significantly higher rates in the Illawarra area,
According to some experts, parents in inner-Sydney may not complete their children's vaccinations because they travel or move overseas, are concerned about side effects or are influenced by information from anti-vaccination groups.
For the first time, the report records the number of parents who have registered as conscientious objectors to vaccination.
Associate professor in the school of public health at the University of Sydney, Julie Leask, told the Sydney Morning Herald that access and acceptance are the two major reasons parents forgo vaccination programs. She said, ''Parents on the north coast are subject to less acceptance because they don't like the idea of children getting so many vaccines so they pick and choose. Many parents are also influenced by their peers.''
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Wallis impresses on his ECU first team debut
Posted on April 22, 2016 in 'News'
It was a disappointing result for ECU Joondalup last week, losing to Stirling Lions 3-0 at Macedonia Park, but the performance of debutant keeper Scott Wallis was the standout on the day.
The 19-year-old made some critical saves to keep the Jacks in the game during the second half, but he said the result wasn’t what they were looking for. “To be honest it’s all about the team and their performance, and today we were just not good enough in the end,” he said. “We made some mistakes at the back and didn’t convert our chances, and it cost us today.”
Wallis said they were confident before the game and he said they were the better team in the first half, but came in at the break one down. “We were pumped up before the game and I thought we dominated for long periods of the half and we’re unlucky to come in at half time behind,” he said. “We had a good chat at the break, and I thought we would go on and win it and we pressed them looking to get the equaliser, but like I said we didn’t convert our possession into goals.”
With ECU pushing forward looking for the equaliser they left holes at the back, and Wallis pulled off some good saves to keep them in the game. “It has to be done sometimes, but that’s my job. I make mistakes as well we’re all in it together, we win as a team and we lose as a team. So we move on to next week and look to get three points at Floreat.”
ECU Coach Dale McCulloch said he was really pleased with Scott’s debut in the first team. “I thought Scotty was outstanding on Saturday, and pulled off some good saves for us,” McCulloch said. “Late on we were pushing men forward and we left gaps at the back, and Scott kept us in the game it was a good first full starting performance from the lad.”
The keeper enjoyed his debut, but not the result, and said the second goal killed them. “Yes, the second goal killed us, it was just one of the things,” he said. “The two lads went for the same ball, but we did have our backs to the wall and they were hitting us on the counter attack, but it was preventable. I enjoyed the game, although it wasn’t the result the team and I were looking for, but hopefully there is a lot more to come.”
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And she could not but appreciate this, even though the very intensity of his solicitude for her, the atmosphere of care with which he surrounded her, sometimes weighed upon her. Vronsky, meanwhile, in spite of the complete realization of what he had so long desired, was not perfectly happy. He soon felt that the realization of his desires gave him no more than a grain of sand out of the mountain of happiness he had expected. It showed him the mistake men make in picturing to themselves happiness as the realization of their desires. For a time after joining his life to hers, and putting on civilian dress, he had felt all the delight of freedom in general of which he had known nothing before, and of freedom in his love,--and he was content, but not for long. He was soon aware that there was springing up in his heart a desire for desires--_ennui_. Without conscious intention he began to clutch at every passing caprice, taking it for a desire and an object. Sixteen hours of the day must be occupied in some way, since they were living abroad in complete freedom, outside the conditions of social life which filled up time in Petersburg. As for the amusements of bachelor existence, which had provided Vronsky with entertainment on previous tours abroad, they could not be thought of, since the sole attempt of the sort had led to a sudden attack of depression in Anna, quite out of proportion with the cause--a late supper with bachelor friends. Relations with the society of the place--foreign and Russian--were equally out of the question owing to the irregularity of their position. The inspection of objects of interest, apart from the fact that everything had been seen already, had not for Vronsky, a Russian and a sensible man, the immense significance Englishmen are able to attach to that pursuit. And just as the hungry stomach eagerly accepts every object it can get, hoping to find nourishment in it, Vronsky quite unconsciously clutched first at politics, then at new books, and then at pictures. As he had from a child a taste for painting, and as, not knowing what to spend his money on, he had begun collecting engravings, he came to a stop at painting, began to take interest in it, and concentrated upon it the unoccupied mass of desires which demanded satisfaction. He had a ready appreciation of art, and probably, with a taste for imitating art, he supposed himself to have the real thing essential for an artist, and after hesitating for some time which style of painting to select--religious, historical, realistic, or genre painting--he set to work to paint. He appreciated all kinds, and could have felt inspired by any one of them; but he had no conception of the possibility of knowing nothing at all of any school of painting, and of being inspired directly by what is within the soul, without caring whether what is painted will belong to any recognized school. Since he knew nothing of this, and drew his inspiration, not directly from life, but indirectly from life embodied in art, his inspiration came very quickly and easily, and as quickly and easily came his success in painting something very similar to the sort of painting he was trying to imitate. More than any other style he liked the French--graceful and effective--and in that style he began to paint Annas portrait in Italian costume, and the portrait seemed to him, and to everyone who saw it, extremely successful. Chapter 9 The old neglected palazzo, with its lofty carved ceilings and frescoes on the walls, with its floors of mosaic, with its heavy yellow stuff curtains on the windows, with its vases on pedestals, and its open fireplaces, its carved doors and gloomy reception rooms, hung with pictures--this palazzo did much, by its very appearance after they had moved into it, to confirm in Vronsky the agreeable illusion that he was not so much a Russian country gentleman, a retired army officer, as an enlightened amateur and patron of the arts, himself a modest artist who had renounced the world, his connections, and his ambition for the sake of the woman he loved. The pose chosen by Vronsky with their removal into the palazzo was completely successful, and having, through Golenishtchev, made acquaintance with a few interesting people, for a time he was satisfied. He painted studies from nature under the guidance of an Italian professor of painting, and studied mediaeval Italian life. Mediaeval Italian life so fascinated Vronsky that he even
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Euro NCAP crash test: 5 stars for the new BMW 5 Series
12:40 AM PST - 6/5/2010 Written By: BMW Group
The epitome of aesthetic appeal and dynamic performance in the upper medium category now performs the function of a role model in the field of safety, too. The new BMW 5 Series passed the latest Euro NCAP crash test with the top rating of 5 stars. The sixth generation of the model series performed impressively on the test - which was extended to include additional criteria in 2009 - with its comprehensive safety fittings as standard as well as a highly effective vehicle occupant protection system for various different collision types. With its outstanding results on vehicle occupant protection for adults and children, pedestrian protection and standard safety features, the new BMW 5 Series moves into the leading position within its segment. It is also the first BMW model series to receive a 100 per cent on the Euro NCAP crash test rating for outstanding safety features.
The fact that the BMW 5 Series scored maximum points on the Europe's leading crash test is due to its integrated safety concept used by the premium automobile manufacturer in all new models. Highly resilient bearer structures and generously sized and precisely defined deformation zones provide the basis for the passenger cell to be able to perform its function as a survival space for occupants in the event of serious collisions. For example, the forces acting in the event of a head-on collision are dissipated via a number of different load paths in the floor assembly, side frame, front wall and roof and absorbed in the deformation zones. Reinforced side structures in the B columns and sills, highly rigid door reinforcements and stable seat lower cross-braces reduce deformation depth as well as intrusion speed in the event of side collisions.
The highly efficient restraint systems in the interior of the new BMW 5 Series, all controlled by a safety electronics system, feature front and pelvis-thorax airbags as well as curtain head airbags for both seat rows. All seats are fitted with three-point automatic seat belts. The restraint systems are fitted with belt force limiters and the front seats also have a belt tensioner function. The front seats are also fitted as standard with active headrests which provide protection from cervical spine injury in the event of a rear impact. Depending on the type and intensity of the accident, the central safety electronics system triggers the most effective protection elements as appropriate. In addition, there are ISOFIX children’s seat attachments on the rear seats as well as the option to deactivate the passenger airbag - both as standard.
One feature which optimizes active safety in the new BMW 5 Series is DSC (Dynamic Stability Control). The precise control and unusually wide range of functions provided by this system ensure easily controllable and safe handling even in demanding situations on the road. What is more the Speed Limit Device, another standard feature, and the belt detection function for all seats also contribute to the fact that the new BMW 5 Series is the first product to receive a 100 per cent rating for safety fittings on the Euro NCAP crash test.
The NCAP (New Car Assessment Program) test is regarded as one of the most demanding tests in the world to be applied to new motor vehicles. The Euro NCAP test is recognized as a benchmark for crash safety by governments, automobile clubs and consumer protection organizations throughout Europe. The test scenario includes a head-on collision, a side crash and a side impact against a steel post. In 2009 additional criteria were added, with testing of electronic safety features as well as additional injury risks in diverse types of collision.
After analyzing the test results, Euro NCAP testers certified that the new BMW 5 Series provides an extremely stable passenger cell which ensures extensive protection from injury both for driver and passengers, regardless of their size and seating position. Maximum points were especially scored on the side impact test, with particularly effective protection for adult passengers being achieved on all other test scenarios.
The analysis of vehicle occupant protection for children showed an outstanding performance by the new BMW 5 Series. The maximum point score was awarded on the test for seating systems designed for children aged three, for both head-on and side impact. Both test scenarios also registered a stable position and minimum head movement at the moment of collision in the use of seating systems designed for children aged one and a half and three.
The NCAP crash test now attaches greater importance to pedestrian protection. The new BMW 5 Series meets modern demands with its elaborately modeled body elements featuring yielding structures at the vehicle front and an active bonnet which contributes to the reduction of injury risk in pedestrians and cyclists. Its pyrotechnical trigger mechanism is activated at speeds of between 25 and 55 km/h as soon as the data registered by sensors indicate a collision, raising the bonnet at the front and rear. The testers awarded maximum points for the front bumper and for those elements of the vehicle front section which are relevant to head injuries in children in the event of a collision.
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Victoria Hanley
Victoria Hanley is certified as a Montessori teacher and as a massage therapist. Born in California, she lives in Colorado. Hanley has two young adult children and a young-at-heart husband. Hanley’s first novel, The Seer and the Sword, was published in more than a dozen countries around the world. The winner of the Colorado Book Award, the book has also appeared on the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age List, the Texas Lone Star Reading List, and the Oklahoma Sequoyah and Utah Master Lists. To learn more about Victoria Hanley, go to her website.
The Seer and the Sword: Standard medieval-adventure-fantasy
The Seer and the Sword by Victoria Hanley
It's hard to muster up any particularly strong feelings for The Seer and the Sword. It is your standard medieval-adventure-fantasy, with every plot development and character arc foreseeable far in advance, told in sparse and simple prose. It's hard to be too enthusiastic about it, yet at the same time I can't be too dismissive either.
The story revolves around two young royals: red-headed Princess Torina of Archeld, and Prince Landen, whose country of Bellandra has just been defeated by Torina's father. Landen is brought to Archeld as a slave, but is freed by Torina and allowed to join the ranks of King Kareed's army (why the king would have the son of his defeated enemy trained in combat is something of a mystery). Whilst Landen wonders over the fate of the Sword of Bellandra that was seized and concealed by Kareed, Torina finds that she has a gift for seeing fut... Read More
April 5th, 2011. Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 3 | Victoria Hanley | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | 1 comment
More books by Victoria Hanley
Zaria Tourmaline — (2009-2012) Young adult. Publisher: Orphaned fairy Zaria Tourmaline suffers from having a mind of her own. Although she tries to be a good fairy, her quest to find out what really killed her parents leads her to break the laws of Feyland again and again, putting herself and her friends into the path of perils she didn’t even know existed.
Click here for more stories by Victoria Hanley.
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Update for the 2017-2019 Capital Campaign at Good Shepherd
December 11, 2018 Tyler VanFossenArticles
Friends & Family of Good Shepherd,
We pray this finds you well. You have been re-directed to this page and are receiving this communication because, at some point along the way, our paths crossed. You might have once attended Good Shepherd but circumstances caused you to move away, you may be a BU alum, or you may be a part of our online community through sermons, bible studies, podcasts, or Matt & Anne’s social media presence. In one way or another, we consider you part of the extended family of Good Shepherd and are grateful to be a part of your lives.
We are currently in the middle of a three year Capital Campaign initiated in order to settle the outstanding debt on our mortgage. As we approach the end of 2019, we invite you to consider Good Shepherd’s Capital Campaign for your year-end giving.
Though the Capital Campaign is moving into its second year, this is probably the first you have heard of it. The focus of Phase One has been to raise $100,000 within the local worshipping body of Good Shepherd. So far we have raised over $40,000 and are on track to reach our goal by September 2019. We would be honored and grateful if you would join us in Phase Two—reaching out to all those people who have an affection and care for Good Shepherd’s ministry here in Binghamton. Phase Three will unfold early in 2019 in the form of an Artisan Craft Fair.
Of course, we cannot ask you to participate in a Capital Campaign to pay off a substantial sum without explaining how we came to acquire this debt. Church of the Good Shepherd, as some of you know, was established in 1873 in the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York. The congregation worshipped at 74 Conklin Avenue from 1873 until 2009. In 2002, Matt and Anne, fresh from seminary and enthusiastic, moved to Binghamton to serve Good Shepherd, a struggling congregation of less that 50 worshipers, most of whom had little knowledge of scripture or Understanding of the Gospel. Matt and Anne began with first one bible study, and then two, adding daily morning prayer, systematic preaching through the scriptures, and a small community soup kitchen. Slowly, the church began to grow.
One year after Matt and Anne began their ministry, the Episcopal Church confirmed the election of the first non-celibate, partnered gay bishop. Gene Robinson was consecrated Bishop of New Hampshire and the whole Anglican world was thrown into crisis. For the newly revived Good Shepherd, this proved a formidable trial. Because of the Episcopal Church’s embrace of false teaching, Good Shepherd’s vestry and congregation respectfully communicated to their bishop that they could not continue down this unbiblical path. In 2006, when the Episcopal Church, at its General Convention, affirmed its decision over the objections from the World Wide Anglican Communion, Good Shepherd took painful steps to leave the denomination.
In the fall of 2006, Good Shepherd initiated formal negotiations with the Diocese of Central New York for the purchase of her historic property for $150,000. Initially this conversation was friendly and a protocol for an amicable parting of ways was drafted. But after a year the process broke down and the Diocese sued Good Shepherd for all her property and assets. A two-year legal battle ensued concluding with Good Shepherd’s loss in court. On Sunday, January 11, 2009 the congregation worshipped one last time in the old building and then handed over the keys of the church and the rectory to the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York.
On Tuesday, January 13, 2009, Msgr. Michael Meagher called Matt to offer St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church’s newly vacant rectory as a temporary place to live. St. Andrew’s had recently merged with St. John’s, a block from the old Good Shepherd, and Msgr. Meagher himself had just moved. He had opened up the paper that morning and read the headline of Good Shepherd’s loss. On a frigid Thursday Matt, Anne, and the children, with help from the whole congregation, moved into a comfortable, spacious, well heated house. That Sunday the congregation worshipped in Baptist Church’s gym, but the following week, Msgr. Meagher insisted the congregation gather for the foreseeable future in the old St. Andrews.
Within the year, by the gracious generosity and kindness of Msgr Meagher and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse, Good Shepherd was able to purchase a 400-seat sanctuary, a school, a rectory, a large parking lot, and a storage facility, appraised at close to one million dollars. The Catholic Diocese of Syracuse dropped the price by half, and after a down payment, Good Shepherd acquired a mortgage of $350,000.
One year after winning the lawsuit, the Episcopal Diocese of Central NY sold Good Shepherd’s former property for 1/3rd the price Good Shepherd had offered to an Islamic Awareness Center.
Good Shepherd has been worshiping at its new location, 360 Conklin Avenue, for close to ten years. The new building and location has served to facilitate numerical growth and community outreach and provides a platform for Good Shepherd to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to serve those in need. What seemed in 2009 to be a calamitous loss turned out to be the story of God’s abundant providence.
You can chose to click here to listen to an interview with Matt and Anne about the events mentioned above.
The goal of the Good Shepherd’s Capital Campaign is to settle the remaining mortgage of $300,000. The diagram above provides a broad overview of our 3-Phase plan. We hope to eradicate our debt in bite sized fashion—the congregation, extended family, and the wider public… each contributing to the overall goal.
If successful, the $35,000/year that we spend on debt and interest will be used to facilitate the spread of the Gospel in Binghamton and beyond. We will better fund our free weekly community supper, social outreach ministries, support our seminarians, invest in missions and church plants, and fund necessary upgrades to our existing building. Our prayerful desire is to put Good Shepherd on an economically sound foundation for the work of the Gospel in the world.
Phase one will continue throughout the campaign as the congregation continues to give. During Phase Two we are seeking support from Good Shepherd’s extended family. Through a one time donation, weekly or monthly gifts, and/or yearly pledges, we invite you to help us reach our Phase Two goal of $100,000.
You can choose to give directly to the campaign online by clicking on this link: GIVE to the Capital Campaign at Good Shepherd. You will also be able to find it under the “Give” tab on our website.
You can also send contributions by check directly to The Anglican Church of The Good Shepherd at 360 Conklin Ave. Binghamton, NY 13903. Please make a notation on your check that you would like your donation to be applied to the Capital Campaign. All contributions are tax-deductible and a thank you and receipt will be sent to you.
We are so thankful for you and your connection to Good Shepherd. Your commitment to the Gospel and support of the Good Shepherd throughout the years has already been a vital encouragement to the ministry here. Whether you are able to give or not, we count ourselves blessed to be a part of your lives. May God bless you and keep you and give you his gracious and perfect peace in the year to come.
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Adams Site
Title: Adams Site
Subject: National Register of Historic Places listings in Fulton County, Kentucky, List of Mississippian sites, Caborn-Welborn culture, Mississippian culture, South Appalachian Mississippian culture
(15 FU 4)
Hickman, Kentucky
The Adams Site (15FU4) is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located near Hickman in Fulton County, Kentucky,on Bayou de Chien, a creek that drains into the nearby Mississippi River. The 7.25 hectare site is built over the remains of a Late Woodland village. It has a central group of platform mounds around a central plaza and another smaller plaza area to the southwest of the largest mound. The site was occupied from 1100 to 1500 CE during the Medley (1100 to 1300) and Jackson (1300 to 1500) phases of the local chronology.[1] Some very deep midden areas have been excavated from the village surrounding the mounds and plazas, some as deep as 1 metre (3.3 ft) to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) thick, attesting to the long term habitation of this site.[2]
Mississippian sites on the Lower Ohio River
^ Lewis, R. Barry (1996). "Chapter 5:Mississippian Farmers". Kentucky Archaeology. University Press of Kentucky. p. 142.
^ Pollack, David (2008), "Chapter 6:Mississippi Period", in David Pollack, The Archaeology of Kentucky:An update, Kentucky Heritage Council, p. 620, retrieved 2010-11-02
Early shell tempering in far Western Kentucky
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National Register of Historic Places, Hickman, Kentucky, Fulton County, Kentucky, Fulton, Kentucky, Kentucky
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Luxurious Family Home on a Hill Above Los Angeles
Oriole Way was completed by the California based studio McClean Design. This stunning family home is located on a hill above Los Angeles, California, USA. Oriole Way in Los Angeles, details by McClean Design: At the end of Oriole Way overlooking Sunset Strip, this lot was more of a cliff than a site but has…
Modern Home in the East Bay hills in Berkeley, California
Strathmoor House was completed by the Berkeley based studio WA Design. This project included the construction of a contemporary two-story residence with dramatic views of the San Francisco Bay. The house sits on a gently sloping ridge top in the East Bay Hills in Berkeley, California, USA. Strathmoor Housein the East Bay hills in Berkeley, California, description…
Hillside House with a Rooftop Carport
Los Angeles based Anonymous Architects have designed this inverted home for an actor. It floats at the top of a very steep slope, a bridge connects the roof with the street and provides the single entrance to the house. The roof acts as both carport and a deck space, enjoying wonderful views of the San…
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Postado em: 17th junho 2020 por Vanessa Barbara em Artigos, New York Times
Tags: coronavirus, covid-19, Jair Bolsonaro, quarantine, social distancing
Gravediggers work at the Vila Formosa cemetery in São Paulo, Brazil, in May. Credit: Victor Moriyama for The New York Times
Hospitals are on the brink of collapse, cemeteries are burying people in mass graves, and still, we refuse to take this virus seriously
by Vanessa Barbara
Contributing Opinion Op-ed Writer
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — It’s been almost three months since my toddler left the apartment. We’ve been enduring as best as we can: We spend countless afternoons at the balcony watching the street and counting red cars; we open and close all the curtains; we pile up boxes of paper tissues and make mountains; we invent stories about our neighbors based on the smells of their cooking. Recently, she has started to play with her own shadow. This was a wise move, since both of her parents are exhausted.
Quarantining with a 2-year-old is a draining job. On top of that, my husband and I are both still working remotely — he is a tax inspector for city hall — even as we cook and clean and disinfect the doorknobs. Day after day, we try to stay strong. But while many of us are making sacrifices, there are others who couldn’t care less.
In the city of São Paulo, according to mobile location data, a little less than half the population is complying with social-distancing measures. It is true that some have no choice but to keep commuting to their jobs, as underpaid freelancers, essential workers or merely exploited employees. But many are simply counting on their immune system’s superpowers, denying the severity of the pandemic, or free-riding off the efforts of the rest of us.
Every afternoon I can see from my window a group of men chatting on the sidewalk and drinking beer, as if this were all a joyous vacation. The other day I went to the drugstore to pick up a prescription and saw a group of three women lingering over the nail polish — mask-free, of course. I recently heard about someone who had just decided to resume his Pilates classes, as though his health is more important than everybody else’s.
Late last month, Brazil passed a milestone: Our daily death toll has now surpassed that of the United States. We have a contagion rate that ensures more deaths are coming. We have had more than690,000 diagnosed cases of coronavirus and 36,000 deaths, and yet, the actual numbers are probably much higher — we’ve had such limited testing that we just don’t know. In other parts of the world, the growth curve for infections is flattening out or falling; here, it is actually spiking. Hospitals are on the brink of collapse; so are morgues and cemeteries. In the Amazonian city of Manaus, deaths have soared so much that the main cemetery has begun burying five coffins at a time in shared graves.
Given the grimness of our statistics, one might reasonably expect that the population would start strictly adhering to health and safety protocols. But this is not happening. As the cases spread, so does the contempt of certain people in the streets for social-distancing measures. And it’s easy to pinpoint one of the main reasons for this contempt: our president.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Jair Bolsonaro has shown disdain for everything that doesn’t suit his personal agenda — especially if it’s fact-based news or scientific recommendations. He said in the past that Covid-19 is a “measly cold” and that people would soon see that they’d been “tricked” by governors and media when it came to the outbreak. On April 12, when more than a thousand Brazilians had already died, he proclaimed that “the matter of the virus” was “starting to go away.” When this proved to be wrong, he spent his days fighting against state and municipal shutdowns, deeming them economically disastrous for the country.
He fired our health minister, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, for supporting the isolation measures while resisting Mr. Bolsonaro’s attempts to promote chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as treatments for Covid-19. Along the way, the president has continued to attend pro-government street rallies, shaking the hands of his supporters and drawing large crowds just to appease his ego.
On April 23, Brazil registered more than 3,300 deaths. Asked about the rising toll, the president replied: “I’m not a gravedigger.” Five days — and more than 1,700 deaths — later, he said: “So what? I’m sorry. What do you want me to do?”
On the day Brazil reached 11,653 deaths, Mr. Bolsonaro issued an executive order classifying gyms, barbershops and beauty salons as essential businesses that could reopen. (Finally! Those women at the drugstore can get a decent manicure!) A few days later, the new health minister, Nelson Teich, resigned from his post, after less than a month on the job. The interim minister is an active-duty army general who has no experience in public health and immediately appointed nine other army officers to the ministry.
In the end, Mr. Bolsonaro is exactly like those fools, chatting idly on the sidewalk as doctors struggle to manage an influx of patients at already overcrowded hospitals. Those who follow him are choosing nail polish colors while many of us gasp for air. They are not only taking advantage of other people’s sacrifices — they are also rendering our efforts almost pointless.
Perhaps such blatant incompetence in dealing with the outbreak, combined with the various corruption investigations around Mr. Bolsonaro right now, will have political consequences for him, finally. (In the midst of the pandemic, he’s been accused of interfering in investigations by the federal police, in order to shield his sons.) Indeed, some have made this argument. But I’m not that optimistic.
Mr. Bolsonaro’s approval rating may be low — around 30 percent — but his radical base, which includes the agricultural caucus, the military and evangelicals, is still behind him, fueled by bigotry and fake news. The government has also managed to forge an alliance with the powerful centrist bloc in Congress, obtaining its support in return for political favors.
So I wouldn’t count on any changes soon. We’re just at the beginning of a long, painful, hopeless quarantine.
Vanessa Barbara is the editor of the literary website A Hortaliça, the author of two novels and two nonfiction books in Portuguese, and a contributing opinion writer.
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The relationship between cinema and literature is a complex give and take. One thing I've learned from my project is that the two forms of media are inextricably linked. So it comes as no surprise that novelists will sometimes write film scripts. What does come as a surprise are the specific examples I've dug up.
#1 The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep is one of the most famous film noir movies ever made. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, the 1946 film is based on the 1939 novel of the same name by Raymond Chandler. Set in Los Angeles, California, The Big Sleep (the book and movie) is largely responsible for defining the the hard-boiled crime novel. So, who did the studios get to write it? Chandler? Dashiell Hammett? James Cain?
...Written by William Faulkner
William Faulkner, known and acclaimed for his novels about the post-Civil War South. While the subject matter may seem a surprising departure from Faulkner's usual area of interest, the complex (perhaps even convoluted) manner of storytelling is right up Faulkner's alley
#2 Pride and Prejudice
The 1940 version of Jane Austen's 1813 novel of the same name, starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier is considered a masterpiece. At the same time a love story and a criticism of the society she lived in, Austen's novel could draw any number of screenwriters.
...Written by Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley, best known for Brave New World, seems an unlikely, if appropriate, choice for screenwriter. The exaggeration stylistically inherent in romantic era literature leads people to forget that, like Huxley, Austen was a satirist. And while people think of Huxley in terms of futurism, other novels of his (like Crome Yellow), are contemporary critiques on British society. Huxley also wrote the screenplay for the 1943 version of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine.
#3 Moby Dick
There have only been a couple film versions of Melville's 1851 novel. In fact, putting aside the Made-for-TV movies, only three film version have been theatrically released: the 1926 silent film, The Sea Beast, a 1930 version that is only very loosely connected to the novel, and the 1956 version starring Gregory Peck as Ahab. Who would you get to write something like this? Hemingway, maybe?
...Written by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury, best known as a science fiction/fantasy writer, and author of works including Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes, is not what anyone would expect for a project like this. But hey, you can't argue with results.
#4 Sex and the Single Girl
In 1962, Helen Gurley Brown published the non-fiction advice book, Sex and the Single Girl, advocating sexual freedom for women. The 1964 film is a farce centering around Dr. Helen Gurley Brown (the fictional version having apparently earned a PhD.) played by Natalie Wood, also starring Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, and Lauren Bacall. So, a raunchy sex comedy (by 1960's standards). Maybe Jacqueline Susann? Sidney Sheldon won an Oscar for this kind of thing (1947's The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer).
...Written by Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller!? The man is famous for his gallows humor! He wrote Catch-22, one of the finest novels of his generation. That said, he didn't seem to get the same critical respect for the films he worked on. Sex and the Single Girl was a financially successful critical failure. As was 1967's Peter Seller's spy spoof, Casino Royale (for which Heller remained uncredited). His only other screenplay, 1970's Dirty Dingus Magee, seems to have not really gained any traction.
#5 You Only Live Twice
Ninjas! Space Kidnappings! Evil Cat-Guy! It's got the crazy over the top action of a Roger Moore Bond Movie, but the suavity of Sean Connery! While a pretty serious departure from Ian Fleming's novel, it must have been written by some action/espionage writer, right?
...Written by Roald Dahl
The man who brought the world Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, and James and the Giant Peach, also brought us an awesome spy/action/adventure movie. This isn't only time Dahl adapted one of Fleming's novels. Ian Fleming wrote a novel titled Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car. Roald Dahl added the Child Catcher, a villain who kidnaps the protagonists. Just to reiterate, Ian Fleming wrote a novel about a magical flying car, and Roald Dahl added a diabolical villain. Something seems backwards here.
#6 Superman and Superman 2
The two best Superman movies. Ah, Superman. A character so morally unambiguous that a gritty reboot just can't cut it. These two films have action, adventure, romance, and are a lot of fun.
...Written by Mario Puzo
Really? That Mario Puzo? Someone, at some point actually said, "Hey, you know who would be great to right this light-hearted superhero movie? The guy who wrote The Godfather." I'm not arguing with the results, I'm just a bit surprised at how random this seems.
Labels: aldous huxley, author, film, joseph heller, mario puzo, moby dick, movie, pride and prejudice, ray bradbury, roald dahl, sex and the single girl, superman, the big sleep, william faulkner, you only live twice
TheophileEscargot July 31, 2013 at 5:48 AM
Fascinating post! One thing though, while Mario Puzo got the official credit for Superman, apparently "not a word from the Puzo script was used" after multiple rewrites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(film)#Development
Allen Knutson July 31, 2013 at 3:35 PM
Brilliant post. I would like to point out that the Big Sleep had several writers, including Leigh Brackett who went on to write The Empire Strikes Back.
Matt Kahn July 31, 2013 at 4:23 PM
If I know my internet fan theory logic, this means that Star Wars and Absalom, Absalom! take place in the same universe.
Faulkner was also a writer on To Have and to Have Not from a Hemingway book
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S.I. No. 2/1985 - District Court (Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) Acts, 1963 To 1983) Rules, 1984.
S.I. No. 2 of 1985.
DISTRICT COURT (AIR NAVIGATION (EUROCONTROL) ACTS, 1963 to 1983) RULES, 1984.
The District Court Rules Committee, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 91 of the Courts of Justice Act, 1924 , section 72 of the Courts of Justice Act, 1936 , section 17 of the Interpretation Act, 1937 (as applied by section 48 of the Courts. (Supplemental Provisions) Act, 1961), and section 34 of the Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Act, 1961 , do hereby, with the concurrence of the Minister for Justice, make the following Rules of Court:—
1. These Rules may be cited as the District Court (Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) Acts, 1963 to 1983) Rules, 1984.
2. These Rules shall come into operation on the 1st day of February, 1985, and shall be read together with all other District Court Rules for the time being in force.
3. In these Rules:—
"the Act" means the Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) Act, 1983 (No. 38 of 1983);
"the Organisation" has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) Act, 1963 .
4. Proceedings for the recovery of any sum due to the Organisation in respect of air navigation facilities and services provided by that body, or by any other person, shall be brought, heard and determined before any sitting of the Court for the transaction of civil business for the district court area, or in the case of the Dublin Metropolitan District, the district
( a ) wherein the defendant's residence or, as the case may be, his registered office, is located, or
( b ) if his residence or, as the case may be, his registered office is not located in the State, wherein the defendant has a place of business, or
( c ) if his residence or, as the case may be, his registered office is not located, or he has no place of business in the State, wherein he has assets, or
( d ) if his residence or, as the case may be, his registered office is not located, or he has no place of business or assets in the State, wherein the Organisation, for the time being has its headquarters.
5. Such proceedings shall be instituted by the issue of a civil process for a debt or liquidated money demand, and the provisions of the District Court (Summary Judgment) Rules, 1963 ( S.I. No. 213 of 1963 ) shall apply thereto.
6. A party seeking a certified copy of an order for the purposes of section 9 of the Act shall complete and lodge with the district court clerk the decree in duplicate, together with an affidavit of debt where appropriate. When it has been signed by the Justice the original decree shall be retained by the district court clerk, who shall certify and issue the copy.
7. When requested under section 9 of the Act the district court clerk shall issue a certified copy of the original civil process showing the statutory declaration of service thereon.
8. When so requested the district court clerk shall issue, pursuant to section 9(c) of the Act, a certificate in the Form 1 in the schedule hereto.
AN CHUIRT DUICHE
THE DISTRICT COURT
AIR NAVIGATION (EUROCONTROL) ACT, 1983
Section 9(c)
District Court Area of
District No.
Pursuant to section 9(c) of the above Act I hereby certify as follows:
(i) that the nature of these proceedings was a claim by the plaintiff to recover against the defendant the sum of £ for (give details of claim as in the civil process),
(ii) that the defendant's residence/registered office/place of business is located,
(or that the defendant has assets) in the State at
in said court area and district,
(iii) that the time for lodging a notice of appeal against the Court order will expire/has expired on the day of 19 ,
(iv) that notice of appeal/notice to set aside has/has not been received,
(v) that (if the debt exceeds £150) interest at the rate of 11% per annum is payable on the debt only (exclusive of costs and expenses) from the day of 19 ,
Dated this
District Court Clerk.
GIVEN this 30th day of November, 1984.
T. F. DONNELLY,
M. CYRIL MAGUIRE,
WILLIAM A. TORMEY,
JOHN P. CLIFFORD,
GERARD A. LEE,
SEAN McMULLIN,
SEAMUS Ó CATHASAIGH.
I concur in the making of the foregoing Rules.
Dated this 2nd day of January, 1985.
MICHAEL NOONAN,
Minister for Justice.
These rules, which come into operation on 1st February, 1985, regulate the practice and procedure of the District Court in relation to the recovery of any sum due in respect of air navigation facilities and services provided under the Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) Acts, 1963 to 1983.
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Peak Helium
Helium is a peculiar resource, because we were granted vast reserves — but once those reserves get used, the helium is lost and gone forever. It’s a noble gas, and it’s lighter than air. If you let it out from underground, it floats away into space.
Now helium supplies appear to be endangered, threatening science and technology:
In America, helium is running out of gas.
The element that lifts things like balloons, spirits and voice ranges is being depleted so rapidly in the world’s largest reserve, outside of Amarillo, Tex., that supplies are expected to be depleted there within the next eight years.
This deflates more than the Goodyear blimp and party favors. Its larger impact is on science and technology, according to Lee Sobotka, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
“Helium’s use in science is extremely broad but its most important use is as a coolant,” said Sobotka, a specialist in nuclear chemistry and physics who collaborates with researchers at several national laboratories.
Generally the larger users of helium (He ), such as the national laboratories, have the infrastructure to efficiently use and recycle helium, Sobotka said. The same cannot be said of many smaller scale users.
“Helium is non-renewable and irreplaceable. Its properties are unique and unlike hydrocarbon fuels (natural gas or oil), there are no biosynthetic ways to make an alternative to helium. All should make better efforts to recycle it. “
The helium we have on earth has been built up over billions of years from the decay of natural uranium and thorium. The decay of these elements proceeds at a super-snail’s pace. For example, one of the most important isotopes for helium production is uranium-238. In the entire life span of the earth only half of the uranium-238 atoms have decayed — yielding eight helium atoms per uranium atom in the process) and an inconsequential fraction decay in, say , 1, 000 years. As the uranium and thorium decay, some of the helium is trapped along with natural gas deposits in certain geological formations. Some of the produced helium seeps out of the Earth’s mantle and drifts into the atmosphere, where there is approximately five parts per million of helium. However ,this helium, as well as any helium ultimately released into the atmosphere by users, drifts up and is eventually lost to the earth.
“When we use what has been made over the approximate 4.5 billion of years the earth has been around, we will run out,” Sobotka said . “We cannot get too significant quantities of helium from the sun ¬— which can be viewed as a helium factory 93 million miles away — nor will we ever produce helium in anywhere near the quantities we need from earth-bound factories. Helium could eventually be produced directly in nuclear fusion reactors and is produced indirectly in nuclear fission reactors, but the quantities produced by such sources are dwarfed by our needs.”
Helium plays a role in nuclear magnetic resonance, mass spectroscopy, welding, fiber optics and computer microchip production, among other technological applications. NASA uses large amounts annually to pressurize space shuttle fuel tanks.
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Japan J. League 2 live
Welcome to the J. League 2 2021. The page is divided into four parts. The first presents the today's matches if today are played.
The second part presents a list of the last matches for the league. The third part presents the next match Japan J. League 2.
At the very bottom of the page you will always find actual table, which is refreshed in real time, so that you are sure that it is always up to date. Results J. League 2 are also updated live, so you do not have to refresh the page to see the current result.
Renofa Yamaguchi - Matsumoto Yamaga
SC Sagamihara - Kyoto Sanga FC
Machida Zelvia - Montedio Yamagata
Tokyo Verdy - Ehime FC
JEF United Chiba - Ventforet Kofu
Thespakusatsu Gunma - Blaublitz Akita
Tochigi SC - Fagiano Okayama FC
FC Ryukyu - Jubilo Iwata
Mito Hollyhock - Omiya Ardija
Omiya Ardija - Ventforet Kofu
Jubilo Iwata - Machida Zelvia
Albirex Niigata - V-Varen Nagasaki
Ehime FC - JEF United Chiba
Fagiano Okayama FC - Zweigen Kanazawa
Kyoto Sanga FC - Matsumoto Yamaga
Zweigen Kanazawa - Giravanz Kitakyushu
Matsumoto Yamaga - Montedio Yamagata
Ventforet Kofu - Tochigi SC
Montedio Yamagata - Tochigi SC
Blaublitz Akita - Kyoto Sanga FC
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8 Ventforet Kofu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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10 Tokyo Verdy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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12 Matsumoto Yamaga 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 JEF United Chiba 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Giravanz Kitakyushu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 FC Ryukyu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
16 Fagiano Okayama FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
17 Albirex Niigata 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
18 Blaublitz Akita 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
19 Machida Zelvia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
20 Kyoto Sanga FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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The Codex Purpureus: Calabria’s Unique Treasure
Also known as the Rossano Gospels, it's a 6th-century illuminated manuscript Gospel Book, one of the oldest surviving manuscripts of the New Testament.
Italian Hoursby Lucy Gordan
Anello degli Apostoli.
The Codex is famous for the reddish-purple (purpureus in Latin) color of its high-quality parchment pages and for its prefatory cycle of miniatures of subjects from the Life of Christ. The miniatures are arranged in two tiers on the page, sometimes with small Old Testament prophet portraits below holding scrolls of texts from the Psalms.
The Chamber of Commerce in Cosenza organized a weekend trip from June 21-23 for members of the Foreign Press Association to promote the province’s top cultural sights. Our first stop, a five-hour bus drive south from Rome and close to the quaint hill town of Morano Calabro, was for a lunch of homemade local specialties at Adriana Tamburi’s “La Locanda del Parco”, an agriturismo on the edge of the Pollino, the largest (nearly 750 square miles) National Park in Italy, located in both Calabria and Basilicata. Besides cooking for her guests, Adriana and her family provide Pope Francis with olive oil and honey.
Well-fed, we traveled on to nearby Civita, one of some 30 small towns in Calabria founded by Christian Albanian refugees fleeing the Ottomans in the 15th century. The inhabitants still speak the Albanian, known as Arbëreshë, of those times as do the inhabitants of Piana degli Albanesi outside of Palermo where I went on another press tour last fall (“Piana degli Albanesi: For its Albanian Culture and the World’s Best Cannoli”, October 2018). From Civita it was a longish drive (some 40 miles) to Rossano, the home of licorice and the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis, the main attraction of the trip for me.
Codex is the term usually applied to a hand-written medieval manuscript. Its book shape, page by page on parchment, paper, or papyrus and then bound, had by the 6th century, replaced the ancient world’s scroll. This book-form, considered the most important advance in book-making before the invention of Gutenberg’s printing press, spread with the rise of Christianity.
The Codex Purpureus Rossanensis, also known as the Rossano Gospels, is a 6th-century illuminated manuscript Gospel Book, one of the oldest surviving manuscripts of the New Testament. It’s famous for the reddish-purple (purpureus in Latin) color of its high-quality parchment pages and for its prefatory cycle of miniatures of subjects from the Life of Christ. The miniatures are arranged in two tiers on the page, sometimes with small Old Testament prophet portraits below holding scrolls of texts from the Psalms.
The 188-folios (376 pages, all some 12 x 10 inches) of this now incomplete Codex with 15 illuminations, contain the text of the Gospel of Matthew and the majority of the Gospel of Mark, each preceded by an index of its chapters. Its only lacuna is Mark 16: 14-20. It almost certainly had a companion second volume, which is lost. Wikipedia tells us that, “Like the Vienna Genesis [in the Austrian National Library] and the Sinope Gospels [all but one folio in the Bibliothèque Nationale] in Paris, the Rossano Gospels are written in Greek, two columns to a page, predominantly with silver ink, though the first three lines of each Gospel are written in gold ink, on purple dyed parchment.” It also contains part of a letter from Eusebius of Caesarea (263-339 CE), a historian of Christianity, exegete and Christian polemicist, to his fellow-Christian Carpianus about the concordance of the Gospels.
The guide to Rossano’s Diocesan Museum (closed Mondays, full entrance fee 5 euros), where the Codex has been on display in state-of-the-art multi-media conditions since July 3, 2016 when the new Diocesan Museum opened to celebrate the Codex’s return from Rome, tells us: “The Codex was created in a Byzantine scriptorium, almost certainly in Syria [most likely in Antioch] as claimed by the majority of scholars, though some say in Constantinople or Egypt. It’s dated to between the 5th and 6th century by historians of Byzantine art and paleographers. How it arrived in Rossano is still uncertain, but probably with the diffusion of Byzantinism in Calabria and in the south of Italy, connected to the spread of monachism. Thus, the manuscript probably arrived in the 7th century, along with the iconodule [or venerating icons] monks from Constantinople or Egypt or from Islamic northern Africa.” Rossano was a very important cultural center in those times culminating in the 10th century when it became a diocese.
The presence of the Codex in Rossano is documented with certainty from 1831, the year that the cathedral’s canon Scipione Camporata reordered the illustrations and numbered them in ink. The Neapolitan journalist/lawyer Cesare Malpica (1804-48), a devoted supporter of Pope Pius IX, mentioned the Codex in 1845. A generation later in 1879 two Baltic German Lutheran scholars, Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930) and Oscar von Gebhardt (1844-1906), discovered it more or less where it is today and published their discovery in 1883 for a worldwide scholarly audience. With the opening of the first Diocesan Museum here in 1952, the first museum of religious artifacts in Calabria, scholars started to come here to study.
Ancient Greek Mirror. Ufficio Beni Culturali
Cecilia Perri, the vice-director of the Diocesan Museum, was our gracious hostess and erudite guide. Also the founder and President of the cultural association “Insieme per Camminare,” which runs the Museum and offers cultural tours of Calabria, she first explained the layout of the twofold state-of-the art museum: three rooms for the Codex and six filled with treasures displayed in chronological order, thereby recreating the history of the Diocese from antiquity through the 19th century. Both sections have documentary videos and didactic panels in Italian and English about their contents. The Museum also offers a free brochure in Italian, English, German, French and Russian.
Although not as special as the Codex, the highlights of the Diocesan Museum include an ancient Greek bronze mirror dating from the 5th century BCE, found in 1906 in a tomb of a noble woman from nearby Sibari; an icon of a Pietà painted in 1499 by the Cretan artist Andreas Pavias (1440-c. 1504); a 16th-century monstrance, donated by Cardinal Bernardino Lopez de Carvajal, Archbishop of Rossano from 1508-11, which was used in the Corpus Domini procession until the 1990s; the Central-Northern Italian Icon of Peace or precious early 17th-century miniature on parchment of the mystical wedding of St. Catherine, probably commissioned for private devotion; a silver bust of the Achiropita, modeled in 1768 by the Neapolitan silversmith Costanzo Mellino, with the city of Rossano depicted on its base. A thank-you from the local population for the divine intervention to end the drought and famine in 1764, still today it’s carried in procession on August 14th and 15th as well as musical manuscripts, magnificently-embroidered vestments and splendid silver liturgical accessories.
“Painted Parchment of the Mystical Wedding of St. Catherine of Alexandria”. Ufficio Beni Culturali
Close up of the silver bust of the Achiropita. Ufficio Beni Culturali.
Instead, the Codex is on display in solitary splendor in a special microclimate showcase called a “climabox” for constant monitoring. The page on display is changed every four months or so. On the wall is a touchscreen (available in Italian, English, French and German) so each visitor and scholar can scroll the entire manuscript.
Before doing so for us, Dottoressa Perri said that in 2012 the Codex had been sent to Rome to ICRCPAL (Central Institute for Restoration and Conservation of Archival and Book Heritage) for restoration. There it was discovered that the purple dye of its parchment pages was not obtained from shells (murex), commonly used by the Phoenicians to produce “regal red” and, until this discovery, also believed by scholars to be the color source. Instead, it comes from orchil lichens. “However, no matter its color source,” explained Perri, “the pages’ purple color is an indication that the Codex first belonged to an emperor or high-ranking churchman.”
Then during the next half hour she went on to unveil information not found in the guide or videos. She said “very few manuscripts like the Codex Purpureus have survived. They are maybe eight: five in Greek and three in Syriac. The five in Greek are the Codex Purpureus, the Sinope Gospels and the Vienna Genesis, both already mentioned, the Codex Beratinus Purpureus, found in Berat and now in Tirana, and the Cotton Genesis (Ms. 5111) in the British Library, which was almost entirely destroyed by fire in the 17th century, so its dark page color is probably due to the fire and not purple dye. There is a possible sixth one, the Codex Purpureus Petropolitanus, but it has no illuminations. Dismembered in the 17th century, most of its pages are in the National Library in Saint Petersburg; with some in London, Patmos in Greece, and elsewhere. Those in Syriac are the Rabula Gospels in the Laurentian Library in Florence and manuscripts Syr 33 and 341 in the French National Library in Paris.
“All the illuminations of Rossano’s Codex, continued Perri, “are connected to Greek liturgy during Holy Week. Many scholars believe that the manuscript originated in Syria thanks to the liveliness of the illuminations and the flora and fauna they depict. Twelve of the miniatures are of episodes from the life of Christ; another, the title page, shows all four evangelists, proof that the Codex probably once contained the missing two gospels; the letter of Eusebius in a gold frame, and a portrait of St. Mark writing at his desk.
Portrait of Mark
The twelve episodes in the order in which they are bound depict: the resurrection of Lazurus complete with a companion standing next to him with his face covered because of the stench emanating from Lazarus; Christ joyously entering Jerusalem; the expulsion of the money-changers which includes oxen with a hump and inward-facing horns typical of a race in Syria which implies that the manuscript may have originated in Syria; the parable of the ten virgins; Christ washing his disciples’ feet, and the Last Supper on the same page with Judas as the central figure instead of Christ; the communion of the bread and wine with six apostles each (the oldest images of the Eucharist in Calabria); Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (supposedly the oldest depiction of a nighttime scene in Christian art); the title page with its vividly-colored wheel of the four Evangelists which again is probably proof that the Codex once contained all four Gospels; Eusebius’s letter with its gold frame; the miracle of healing the man who was born blind; the parable of the good Samaritan, which was recounted by Luke so is another proof that the Codex included all four Gospels; Christ’s trial and the repentance of Judas; the choosing between Christ and Barabbas; and a full-page portrait of the evangelist Mark writing at his desk with Sophia (Divine Wisdom) overseeing.”
Christ in the Gethsamene Garden
The Choice between Christ and Barabbas
“It seems that the title page,” continued Perri, “and then all the illuminations came first, followed by the Gospel of St. Matthew (now missing the illumination of him writing before his text), then the illumination of St. Mark followed by his text and then…”
On October 9, 2015, UNESCO recognized the Codex as World Heritage and inscribed it in the “Memory of the World” register. No wonder then that just two weeks before our visit Alberto Bonisoli, Italy’s Minister of Culture, and Monsignor Giuseppe Satriano, Archbishop of Rossano-Cariati, during a ceremony at the Quirinal Palace in Rome, (first the papal summer palace, then the residence of Italy’s kings, and now of its President) presented President Sergio Mattarella with one of five facsimili of the Codex it took the publisher Franco Cosimo Panini two years (2017-2019) to produce. “Another will shortly be donated to Pope Francis,” Dottoressa Perri told us, “and the remaining three belong to the Diocese. At least one will travel to promote Rossano and Calabria in Italy and around the world. We have taken one already to Pisa, Modena, and Treviso. Visits to Matera and Grosseto are also planned.”
Lucy Gordan
Former editor at the American Academy in Rome and at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, with journalistic accreditation in Italy and the Vatican, I’m culture editor of the US monthly Inside the Vatican; European... [More]
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Week 18: Laura Carlson
College: College of Education
Major: Kinesiology
When Laura filled this survey out last year, she had just finished running the half-marathon at NIRCA Nationals. With this, she described the half as her favorite race. This year, however, Laura is thinking about competing in regular track events. Laura says "If possible, I would spend every day of my life at a beach playing volleyball, drinking beer, reading some Hemingway and getting a good burn. Aside from that, I have season tickets to Spartan football and hockey. As far as sports go, I'm best at sleeping, then golfing, and finally, running." The picture to the left shows Laura at the 2015 end-of-season track banquet. Laura was awarded the Carlson Carlson paper plate. She was also voted most improved among all of the members. Below is an exclusive interview with Laura.
RC: "What do you enjoy about running?"
LC: "I like getting my stress out. It keeps my sanity."
RC: "Do you have sanity?"
LC: "You know, there’s points in time where I probably don’t, but after a run I feel better. It’s definitely somewhat there. And the Carlson Carlson thing? I enjoyed my last name so much that I wanted it to be my first name."
RC: "Oh, come on. That isn’t the story. What actually is the story behind the Carlson Carlson ID thing?"
LC: "Okay, so during AOP I didn’t send in a picture. When the woman asked me what I would prefer to be called, she was like “Would you prefer to be called Carlson.” And I’m thinking in my head, like “Yes, that’s my last name.” She didn’t tell me that she meant it to be my nickname though. So, hence, the Carlson Carlson name. I just go along with it."
RC: "So when you hand people your ID they think your name is Carlson Carlson?"
LC: "Yeah. I get a lot of weird looks from the ID people in the caf, especially when they say my name. You know, there’s one of those people at Shaw. She actually talked to me about it. And she like, made a line. There was this line of people waiting and she asked me about my name tag. She asked me if it was really Carlson."
RC: "What did you say?"
LC: "I said no. Also, my real name is on the back of my ID, so she could have just looked at that. And then she was like “Okay, I’ll start calling you by your first name. And then a couple of days after, I went back there and she still called me Carlson. So I was like, okay! Thanks for remembering!"
RC: "Would you like the running club to call you Carlson?"
LC: "Um, I don’t really care. As long as it’s not something derogatory or mean or makes me cry at night. I don’t want to be called stupid, or butthead, or AL."
RC: "I like the name AL."
LC: "But yeah I don’t really care; people can call me Carlson. I mean, it’s whatever people like. I’m not picky. As long as I know that you call me that. Otherwise, I won’t respond to you."
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The Milwaukee County Zoo's Western Lowland Gorilla Baby Arrives at Her New Home
Zahra shortly after her arrival at the Columbus Zoo
September 2018 Zahra Update
The Milwaukee County Zoo is pleased to announce its female baby gorilla, Zahra, has arrived at her new home today at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
A recent photo of Zahra shows her interacting with one of the Milwaukee County Zoo keepers. She has participated in human-assisted rearing since April 28.
Sadly, Zahra’s father, Cassius, passed away unexpectedly April 12, 2018, as did her mother, Naku, on April 28. Since then Zahra has participated in human-assisted rearing, as zookeepers were staying with her 24-hours per day, seven days a week.
The Milwaukee County Zoo has been consulting with the Gorilla SSP® (Species Survival Plan) and other zoos that have navigated similar situations on the best course for Zahra’s management and long-term welfare. The SSP recommended she be placed at the Columbus Zoo which houses a stable family unit, including a female gorilla to act as a surrogate mother, a tolerant silverback male and other females with offspring of varying ages. The Columbus Zoo has successfully surrogate-raised 15 gorillas. (Currently, the Milwaukee County Zoo does not have a long-term sustainable gorilla unit in which Zahra can be placed.)
“This is really the best option for Zahra, and we’re excited to see her start a new chapter in her life, and set her up as best we can so she continues to develop into a fully functioning adult gorilla,” says Zoo Director, Chuck Wikenhauser. The Columbus Zoo has an excellent reputation for surrogate-raising gorillas, and will serve as the best, supportive home for Zahra’s growth, development and long-term care.”
Zahra receives a bottle with formula from a MCZ keeper.
“Intellectually, Zoo staff who have been caring for Zahra 24/7 know this is the right thing for her, at the right time, but it is bittersweet for many, as zookeepers and animal care staff have invested many hours in her care and her needs, both physical and emotional. We thank our keepers, visiting zoo professionals and the Milwaukee community for their continued support. The health and well-being of our animals is the first priority, and of the utmost concern, and our motivations and actions are always to that end,” added Wikenhauser.
Zahra will be under 24/7 care by the Columbus Zoo's human-assisted rearing team until introductions with a potential surrogate mother begin. While the Zoo's animal care team will also take cues from Zahra to determine when she's ready to transition into each important phase, the goal is to place her with the surrogate as quickly as possible so she is soon with other gorillas.
The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium has been a pioneer of gorilla surrogacy for more than 30 years. The Zoo has been recognized internationally for their care of gorillas in social groups, including expanding social groups through the placement of young gorillas with surrogate mothers. Over the years, nine gorillas born at the Columbus Zoo have been raised in the surrogacy program, and, including Zahra, an additional seven have been sent from other zoos. The Columbus Zoo has potential surrogate mothers in mind for Zahra; however the final decision regarding the surrogate mother selection will ultimately depend on the animals' behaviors once Zahra has been introduced.
"There are many important details to consider in gorilla surrogacy, and we are proud to offer our animal care team's expertise, care, and commitment to ensure that Zahra's well-being continues to be top priority," said Columbus Zoo President/CEO Tom Stalf.
"In addition to the great care the Milwaukee County Zoo team provided to Zahra and now our animal care team's assistance, the surrogate mother and her troop will have their own integral role. While Zahra has already experienced tough challenges in her young life, she is being placed in a caring environment where she can thrive physically and socially while also helping to contribute to the success story for the future of this incredible species that continues to face many threats in their native range," continued Stalf.
The Milwaukee County Zoo's lead gorilla keeper, who accompanied Zahra, to make the transition as smooth as possible, will continue working with her at the Columbus Zoo for several more days. A second MCZ gorilla keeper travelled along with Zahra to the Columbus Zoo.
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About Hartford Van Dyke
Hartford Van Dyke is well-intentioned and very, very knowledgeable about the Federal System.
However, he is ignorant about the actual American System.
We are not Federales. We are not naturally subject to Federal Code. We are not subject to State Statutes.
So 90% of what he teaches, or more, is only applicable to them, not to us.
And while it is certainly handy to know and be able to remind them what their own Codes and Statutes say, the whole point is that we are not part of their system and not subject to any of it, so why belabor the point and waste a lot of time learning about how they are supposed to act and how they are supposed to conduct their business?
We need to take care of our own business and obey the Public Law without worrying about the rules of defunct and bankrupt Federal corporations.
I know Hartford. He's a good man. But he has suffered under the delusion that he can, as a Federal Citizen, access our credit and issue "Notes" and "Bonds". This is not true and never has been.
If he keeps going with this, he will get in trouble again --- and not for the first time, and those following after him will get in trouble, too.
You are very wise to step back and not believe the promises of ready money and not just go charging after whatever sounds good and easy.
Good things in life are seldom easy.
I don't know why a guy as bright as Hartford would keep stepping in the same cow pie, but cow pie it is, and anyone who tells you that you don't need to correct your political status records is not up to speed.
Labels: About Hartford Van Dyke, Anna von Reitz
How to Deal with a Dysfunctional Media and Press Corps
Recent attempts to let corporations --- Facebook, Twitter, etc. -- censor free speech have sparked much controversy.
As corporations they can set their company policies and ban things like "hate speech" --- however, as corporations receiving the benefits of bankruptcy protection and the "corporate veil" under our delegated authority (now returned to us) and as businesses making use of our public airwaves to deliver and sell their products --- not so much.
In fact, all segments and franchises of the Federal Government including Territorial and Municipal franchises --- are required to obey our Public Law -- which guarantees the right of Free Speech to all Americans.
Now all you have to do is stand up and reclaim your political status as an American and not a "US Citizen" ---- and tell President Trump that these yahoos are attempting to censor your Free Speech.
That's offense enough to justify liquidation of any corporation. Plus fines.
Remember that corporations can be organized and incorporated for any "lawful" purpose --- "lawful" not merely "legal". They have to honor our Public Law or get smashed flat as pancakes.
All President Trump has to do, is do it. In our behalf. Thank you, very much.
This comes on the heels of general discontent and disbelief with regard to the Mainstream Media. Everyone above the age of 14 knows that it is for-entertainment-purposes-only and that it is mostly anti-American screed, but few people know why.
(1) The Press has been under gag orders since WWII so they can't print any news that might in some way affect "national security".
That accounts for why all we hear about are car wrecks in Duluth and Kim Kardashian's latest nail polish.
The US Army in its utter brilliance has been defining us, their employers, as "the Enemy" and protecting us from ourselves by censoring everything down to cotton candy on one hand and running unlawful surveillance schemes against us through their agency contracts on the other.
If it weren't so stupid and at such cross-purposes, it would be funny, but as it is, we prefer to regard it as a stellar example of grotesque mis-management of manpower and resources.
(2) The Press organs are largely owned by six multi-national conglomerates that have no loyalty to this country and are run by foreigners.
We are about to start charging them for the use of our air waves and mandating standards that respect our right to free speech and open communications. And if they don't like it, they can sell out their interests in our communications industry to an American Company that will respect our rights and pay what they should for jamming our ears 24/7.
We could also bring anti-monopoly charges against the Six Little Piggies and bust them up like Ma Bell, forcing them to sell out and sell down so as to promote (and allow) competition and varied market sources.
The Army can establish its own standards for its own employees and keep their pert noses focused on their actual business, which is not promoting domestic political agendas here in this country or anywhere else. Our Constitution provides for them to "defend" us --- not dabble in big business, censorship, and fake Radio Free America crappola.
Please share this information with President Trump. He seems to be having difficulty with "The Press" --- without realizing that the American Press got sick in the 1930's, was finally murdered during World War II, and is still awaiting resurrection.
Most likely he doesn't realize that the U.S. Army has such a strangle-hold on the Press --- and that it is not entirely the fault of the Press that things are the way they are.
After all, it doesn't make much sense for us to blame the Press for failure to do its job, when it is being prevented from doing its job by an Army that isn't doing its job.
We give President Trump our free and full permission to begin anti-monopoly action against the Six Little Piggies --- the foreign multi-national media conglomerates clogging our airwaves with vacuous nonsense and sales ads and inappropriately slanted political screeds.
We give him our free and full permission to get the U.S. Army out of the censorship business and stop pretending that James Comey's personal welfare is a National Security issue. Instead, they can start protecting our right to Free Speech and clearing our airwaves. That is, after all, part of why we pay them.
We give him our free and full permission to lock down foreign media outlets and/or charge them high tariffs to operate in this country and to use our Executive Power to do so, without need for any reference to the Washington DC Municipal Charter and no permission from the Territorial "Congress" is required.
If the FCC doesn't like it, fire the whole lot of them. If the Territorial "Congress" complains, who cares?
If they want to sit around and be snarky and make fun of everyone but the in-crowd they need to pay through the nose until they bleed. If they want to push anti-American crap on our airwaves they need to be charged so much it puts them out of business. Period.
These are our airwaves. We can determine who gets the use of them or not and at what price. With or without the blessings of the Territorial Congress, and without the need for any special agency Nabobs. Again, thank you, very much.
And as for the National Press Club, the Journalism Schools at all the Public Universities, and the "American Press Corps" --- we encourage them to remember what their job is supposed to be, that editorials belong on the editorial page, not commingled with the news, that journalism is supposed to be a "noble calling" and not an excuse for political grandstanding, pandering, and payola-mongering.
If you are an American Journalist you owe it to yourself to resurrect The Fourth Estate in this country and reclaim your self-respect. And if you are not an American Journalist, what are you doing on our airwaves?
Labels: Anna von Reitz, How to Deal with a Dysfunctional Media and Press Corps
By Operation of Law
I highly recommend that those who are just encountering this information read our book, "You Know Something Is Wrong When.....An American Affidavit of Probable Cause" as a starting place. It gives the overall basics in an easy-to-read illustrated format and provides very handy information in the Appendix. This book gives references and citations as it goes through its narrative. It is available on Amazon.com as are all the other books.
If you are a more hard-charging "Just the Facts Ma'am" executive type, the same basic information is covered in a sound-bite format in our book "America: Some Assembly Required". If you need to get up to speed fast and can take in information in 30-second or less increments and build the picture as you go, this book will summarize the situation and the history for you in about an hour and a half. This book doesn't give a references and citations that have been provided elsewhere so includes only one or two new citations covering additional topics.
Behind, before, and underlying these two books is the first book, "Disclosure 101", which is the history of how I got involved, how I addressed the problem, and ultimately where it all led. This book includes publication of basic documents I or others issued in pursuit of remedy and gives eleven pages of underlying citations and references.
President Trump has, since the publication of these books, sicced teams of lawyers on the information and combed the National Archives. As a result, it has all been newly confirmed. At the highest levels of international government there has never been any disagreement about the facts, there has only been a divide between those who knew and those who didn't know. President Trump now knows and has the proof of the facts we have brought forward.
Despite what is apparent in the external world, many people think that our country functions under one government. It doesn't and except for five years early on, it never has.
Examine what happened between 1776 to 1781. During those years The United States of America [Unincorporated] was the sole face of our country to the external world. It was and is an unincorporated Federation of States, which are also unincorporated entities. The members of The United States of America Federation are known simply as: Wisconsin, Illinois, Massachusetts, Virginia, and so on.
Five years after the States and the original Federation were formed, a
Confederation of States of States was formed under The Articles of Confederation.
The members of the Confederation were all doing-business-as entities belonging to the Federation States. These "States of States" did business as "The State of Florida", "The State of Wisconsin" and so on. They were all members of the "States of America" and were called "Confederate States" long before the Civil War.
It was these original States of States that were party to The Constitution for the united States of America and they, together, were intended to exercise the nineteen Powers delegated to them by the sovereign States and The United States of America.
And then came the Civil War. The Confederation of States of America was torn apart. After the mercenary conflict (never a true war) ended, the original States of States needed to be "Reconstructed" --- hence the "Reconstruction Era".
Britain saw its chance to usurp --- again --- against our lawful government, and via fraudulent means substituted Territorial "States of States" to replace the actual Federal States of States, and used that as a means to commandeer our Federal Government and exercise our Delegated Powers for its own benefit. The Territorial "States of States" have operated under names styled like this: "the State of Vermont", "the State of Florida" and so on ever since.
Millions of innocent Americans assumed that the "State of Florida" was the same as "The State of Florida" but in fact a terrible change had taken place.
The actual Federal States of States were moth-balled and converted into State Land Trusts doing business as, for example, the Florida State, the Ohio States, and the Michigan State.
And every year the renegade Territorial United States Congress votes to "set aside" the actual Constitution owed to our General Government and pretends that our Federal Government --- which never exercised anything but Delegated Powers in the first place --- is "in abeyance" and that their Territorial Government therefore takes its place.
In fact, by Operation of Law, when an agent exercising delegated authority becomes incompetent to exercise that authority, it does not evaporate or bump down the railroad tracks to the next lower level of government. It reverts to the government that delegated the power in the first place ---- The United States of America and its member States.
The problem is that we were never notified of all these changes purportedly being made "for" us and were in fact purposefully deceived by international Trustees acting in Gross Breach of Trust against us and against our interests.
As a result, the "Reconstruction" of our Federal States of States has remained incomplete since 1868. We were purposefully misled into thinking that the Reconstruction was over and done, but in fact, nothing but a fraudulent substitution had taken place.
In the last two years both the Territorial United States and the Municipal United States have been bankrupted and also become incompetent to function under their own power, albeit for different reasons.
So all three levels of the Federal Government created to exercise the Delegated Powers and manage the Territorial Possessions and provide a government for Washington, DC, have been rendered incompetent.
By Operation of Law, the Delegated Powers have reverted to The United States of America, it's member States, and their People. To us, in other words. We have stepped forward in a timely fashion and acknowledged and accepted the return of our Delegated Powers. We have arranged for President Trump to enter the legitimate though long-vacant Office of the President of The United States of America and extended a month-by-month service contract in support of the American military and basic services as outlined by our original Constitution.
Everything else that you are seeing go on -- all the fire and nonsense of the political parties, all the investigations into this and that, all the fear-mongering and posturing and arguments ongoing in Washington, DC --- are the stuff that dreams and illusions are made of --- the corporate politics of legal fiction entities.
And all of it is completely foreign to us. It has nothing whatsoever to do with our actual government. It's the Kitchen Staff amusing itself and beginning to sober up after a long debauch and improper occupation of the actual Landlord's estate.
Our Government is not and has never been a "democracy". Our people don't "vote" --- they elect. We don't convene Congresses of "States of States". We convene Congresses of States. Likewise, our Congressional Delegates are "Deputies" of our State Legislatures --- that is, Fiduciary Officers owing their allegiance to us and our States, not "Representatives" owing allegiance to political parties and corporate bottom lines.
It is this last point that deserves special Notice and mention. A Fiduciary Deputy
working for our actual State of the Union is accountable for the way they spend your money and can be "recalled" by the State Legislature if they fail to meet the Prudent Man Standard.
A mere "Representative" claiming to "represent" your State of the Union in an agency capacity has no such accountability or office, and as a result these Territorial Congressional Delegations have been spending like drunken sailors and racking up Odious Debt against you and your State --- and getting away with it for 150 years --- simply because you didn't wake up and object. Instead, you were misled and duped into participating in their fraud and thereby seeming to support their insubordination.
And now we come to a New Day, not a New Deal.
The Delegated Powers have returned to us and to our States by Operation of Law.
You have been informed of the situation and are called upon to correct your political status records which have been conveniently falsified "for" you, and to return to reclaim your birthright and operate your actual State.
The means to convey your Trade Name back to the land and soil of your birth state and to seize control of your affairs and to assert your "reversionary trust interest" has been provided for you. Go to Article 928 on my website: www.annavonreitz.com and record your claim to your Good Name and Estate.
Recording your claim to your own Name and re-conveying it back to the land and soil jurisdiction of your state is Step One. Seizing control of all the Derivative NAMES and expatriating them back to the land and soil jurisdiction is Step Two.
Denying all Powers of Attorney and assigning your Trade Name as the only Attorney in Fact is Step Three. Rebooting your lawful County Jural Assembly is Step Four. And Reconstituting your State Jural Assembly is Step Five.
This is a lot to take in and a lot of work to do.
But Americans have done more with less.
All of you who have ancestors who were living in this country prior to the Civil War are automatically "grandfathered in" to the guarantees of the original Constitutions and the National Trust --- you merely have to accept and claim your birthright and heritage and record a "Claim for the Life - Lineage Treaty".
We took the pre-caution of locating a cadre of men qualified to claim each and every State over two years ago, so that under the Last Man Standing Rule, we have effectively claimed back the entire country from the verge of loss to foreign bank creditors. That does not relieve anyone of their responsibility as Americans to assemble and operate their lawful government.
That this situation even exists should be eloquent enough warning to all of you to (1) take action to preserve your own protections and exemptions and property rights and (2) pay attention and get involved in assembling your local county and state units of government.
Those things operating "as" counties and "as" States of States aren't your government. You are your government. That is what "self-governance" means.
So get your records straight and get busy, or a bunch of European sharpies will be more than willing to claim everything you think of as yours as payment for debts you don't owe.
And now one final plug. The research that led to these conclusions and actions and which have served to protect you and your family and bring forward the actions that have been taken to preserve your country and your property rights and your State of the Union --- has all been done by people like me, working away for free for years at a time, not all those people on your payroll.
We get nothing ---- no pay from the renegade "government" and in fact, many of us have suffered and died and been attacked by these criminals and prosecuted under deliberately constructed false legal presumptions. Many of us have spent time in jail --- not for our "political beliefs" --- but because we had the temerity to assert our birthright and claim our property and our exemptions.
In doing this, we protected all of you and even protected those persecuting us, because without this, all our land, all our rights, all our freedoms would have been lost.
The international bankers actually thought they were going to pull it off, and claim that our entire continent was "abandoned" assets, up for grabs.
If you have any sense of just how close this entire country and the rest of the world has come to disaster --- get going. Reclaim your Good Name and your rightful political status and then, boot up your local assemblies.
And if you can, send a donation our way. Because our accounts were commandeered along with everything else and bungled up and commingled as part of these infernal bankruptcies --- we still have no money to operate on.
Everything is being boot-strapped. Everything is being done by volunteers. Our researchers and our lawyers are making huge sacrifices. The least we can do as a nation is to pay their out of pocket costs --- materials, court fees, postage, travel, electricity.
Our PayPal is the same as my email address: avannavon@gmail.com. Snail mail for donations is: Anna Maria Riezinger, c/o Box 520994, Big Lake, Alaska 99652.
Labels: Anna von Reitz, By Operation of Law
STEPHEN WILLEFORD'S STORY about First Baptist Church Shooting
Stephen Willeford -- a good guy with a gun -- describes what happened on November 5th, 2017 in Sutherland Springs, Texas at the First Baptist Church when a madman with a gun killed 26 churchgoers. Willeford, a trained, long-time NRA Member, engaged the active shooter thus saving many lives and setting a heroic example. Help us complete GOOD GUYS WITH GUNS featuring not only Stephen Willeford as a good guy, but Stewart Rhodes of OATH KEEPERS, Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America, Sheriff Mack and others. See http://www.good-guys.us/donate/ for more information and how you can donate to help complete this important film.
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It's ok only if you're a PAP activist
Although activism can stem from any number of political or social orientations and can take a wide range of forms, it is usually used to describe an intentional action to bring about change in the spheres of economic justice, environmental well-being, social justice or political rights. The word is almost synonymously used with protest and dissent.
Which was why I was surprised to read that Mr Sitoh Yi Pin said, "Our activists will continue to fight", when responding to a question of what does he think about Member of Parliament Chiam See Tong, leaving Potong Pasir to contest in a Group Representation Constituency (GRC).
Never mind that Mr Sitoh did not actually answer the reporter’s questions – but since when did the People’s Action Party have real ‘activists”. I mean what is their protest or dissent for?
I thought the word ‘activist’ was another dirty word in Singapore. I remember sometime last year, when I was being interviewed by a newspaper and I asked to be identified as a social activist and the reporter showed her reluctance to include that in her report. She preferred if I identified myself as a community worker.
I guess it is ok to be an activist only if you are from the governing party.
I noticed that the PAP begins to throw around the word ‘activist’ around general elections time. For example, they wrote a tribute to their tireless and selfless activists after winning the 2006 general elections in the Aljunied GRC here.
Since the word has been thrown about by the PAP so much recently, is it an indication that the next General Elections is around the corner?
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Saturday, September 1, 2007 - 8:00am
Proposed Amendment to the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to Student Eligibility for the Higher Education Opportunity Program
Goal 4 and 5
Should the Board of Regents amend Section 27-1.1 of the Rules of the Board of Regents relating to student eligibility for the Higher Education Opportunity Program?
The proposed amendment will come before the Board of Regents in September for adoption as a permanent rule.
The proposed amendment was discussed at the meeting of the Higher Education and Professional Practice Committee in June 2007. A Notice of Proposed Rule Making was published in the State Register on June 27, 2007. Supporting materials for the proposed amendment are available upon request from the Secretary to the Board of Regents.
The proposed rule is needed in order to update the current criteria for determining student economic eligibility for the Higher Education Opportunity Program by: (1) taking into account inflationary conditions and changes in annual income; (2) accounting for New York State and local taxes and regional maintenance costs; (3) assuring consistency across the State-supported postsecondary opportunity programs; (4) maintaining the continuing linkage of these eligibility criteria with federally approved methods of needs analysis; and (5) recognizing the costs associated with a household that is solely supported by one member who is employed by two or more employers.
The amendment will update the existing definition of "economically disadvantaged," which was promulgated in 2002 and has become outdated because of inflationary factors. It will prevent a reduction in the pool of eligible students due to inflation and other factors. The amendment will ensure that the appropriate pool of students will be eligible for the program.
The proposed changes in the economic income guidelines for 2008-2009, 2009-2010, and on or after July 2010 were developed with the goal of determining for each household size, with the exception of the household of one, the income under which the expected family contribution would calculate to be zero. The income level for the household of one was determined by calculating 150% of an income at poverty level as established by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services poverty guidelines. The guidelines are based on poverty measures issued by the U.S. Census Bureau. The development model assumes an inflation rate of three percent for each of the three years, a New York specific allowance for State and local taxes, standard federal deductions and exemptions and a neutral effect for assets. It also makes an income adjustment for a household supported solely by one member who works for two or more employers at the same time, to account for additional costs associated with such employment.
The proposed amendment is also needed to update the definition of an independent student, to be more consistent with the federal definition of independent student for purposes of the needs analysis for federal student financial aid programs.
The proposed amendment was developed by a statewide task force of representatives from the City University of New York, the State University of New York, independent colleges and universities and the State Education Department’s Office of Higher Education. This task force met and reached a consensus on the proposed amendment.
I recommend that the Board of Regents take the following action:
VOTED: That Subdivision (b) of section 27-1.1 of the Rules of the Board of Regents be amended, as submitted, effective October 4, 2007.
The proposed amendment will become effective on October 4, 2007.
AMENDMENT TO THE RULES OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS
Pursuant to sections 207 and 6451 of the Education Law.
Subdivision (b) of section 27-1.1 of the Rules of the Board of Regents is amended, effective October 4, 2007, as follows:
(b) Economically disadvantaged. (1) A student is economically disadvantaged if he or she is a member of a household supported by one member thereof with a total annual income which does not exceed the applicable amount set forth in the following tables; or of a household supported solely by one member thereof who is employed by two or more employers at the same time, if the total annual income of such household does not exceed the applicable amount set forth in the following tables [by more than $1,800] for the number of members in the household plus the second job allowance; or of a household supported by more than one worker thereof, or a household in which one worker is the sole support of a one-parent family, if the total annual income of such household does not exceed the applicable amount set forth in the following tables [by more than $4,800] for the number of members in the household plus the employment allowance. For the purposes of this subdivision, the number of members of a household shall be determined by ascertaining the number of individuals living in the student's residence who are economically dependent on the income, as defined in subdivision (c) of this section, supporting the student.
For students first entering college between [July 1, 2003 and June 30, 2004] July 1, 2005 and June 30, 2008
Number of members in Total annual income in
household (including preceding calendar year
head of household)
1 [$13,300] $14,100
2 [18,400] 19,600
7 or more [40,450] [40,450] 42,900 plus $[4,100]
4,350 for each
family member in excess of 7
Second Job Allowance $1,800
Employment Allowance $4,800
For students first entering college [on or after July 1, 2005] between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010
For students first entering college on or after July 1, 2010
household(including preceding calendar year
of household)
7 or more 49,500 plus $5,570 for each
member in excess of 7
Second Job Allowance 2,790
Employment Allowance 5,570
The income figures in Tables I, II [and], III and IV of this paragraph apply to the student applicant's income only when he or she is an independent student. For purposes of this Part, an independent student means a student who:
(i) is 24 years of age or older by December 31st [of the academic year for which aid is requested] of the program year; or
(ii) [meets the criteria set forth in one of the following clauses:
(a)] is an orphan or ward of the court (A student is considered independent if he or she is a ward of the court or was a ward of the court until the individual reached the age of eighteen); or
[(b)] (iii) is a veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States who has engaged in the active duty in the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, or Coast Guard and was released under a condition other than dishonorable; or
[(c)] (iv) is a married individual; or
[(d)] (v) has legal dependents other than a spouse; or
[(e)] (vi) is a student for whom an opportunity program and financial aid administrator has made a satisfactory documented determination of independence by reason of other extraordinary circumstances;
(2) . . .
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Pavlov's Dog - 'Live And Unleashed' http://www.rocktopia.co.uk/media/reviews/photos/thumbnail/200x200s/95/cf/6e/1094_PavlovsDogLiveAndUnleashed_1299868211.jpg Hot
Live And Unleashed
Rockville Music
An album that long term followers of Pavlov's Dog will be delighted to add to their collection.
Hot on the heels of their excellent new studio album 'Echo & Boo', (their first for two decades, which is also reviewed this issue) comes the first official live release from Pavlov's Dog. Recorded during the band's 2009 tour, 'Live And Unleashed' is an excellent selection of tracks covering the band's career, as well as main-man David Surkamp's solo output, with songs selected from each of the five Pavlov's Dog studio albums, two from Surkamp's 'Dancing On The Edge Of A Teacup', as well as the song 'Heart Of Mine' which comes from Surkamp's HIFI project with Ian Matthews (Matthews Southern Comfort). Not surprisingly the set plunders the band's debut and the most recent Pavlov's Dog album with most frequency, with four songs coming from each and considering that there is a mammoth thirty five years between 'Pampered Menial' and 'Echo & Boo', the whole set runs with an amazing continuity.
One of the first things always mentioned when Pavlov's Dog comes up is David Surkamp's (in)famous high pitched warbling voice, which is either seen as huge attraction, or a complete turn off. I have to say that I find his style to be mesmerising and live it is an even more powerful force than I had expected. Having said that there is the odd occasion where he does seem to scream rather than sing, but surprisingly it actually increases the impact of the songs. The inspiration all comes from the same seventies rock style base, although what does make Pavlov's Dog stand out is the infusion of folk vibes, with a progressive bent and this aspect also comes over really well on 'Live And Unleashed'. Kicking off with the pairing of 'Preludin' and 'Of Once And Future Kings' from 1975's 'Pampered Menial' beautifully eases the band into the show with some fine violin work from Abbie Hainz, before some mad off-kilter guitar and keyboard work segues into the gentle melancholy of 'Of Once...'. The melancholy is quickly replaced with some quick fire almost rag time piano and in the space of five minutes, Pavlov's Dog have perfectly summed up the wonderful, weird world that they inhabit.
The other two songs from 'Pampered...' (Late November' and 'Episode') are also delivered beautifully, but it is the later output from the band that really comes alive here, with 'I Don't Need Magic' and the closing pairing of 'Angeline' and 'Angel's Twilight Jump', from the, at the time, still to be released 'Echo & Boo', that dazzle and sparkle with a vibrancy that is completely captivating. The gently funky feel of the aforementioned 'Heart Of Mine' from HIFI and 'Looking For My Shadow' and 'Wrong' from Surkamp's 2006 solo release are welcome additions. The latter sees Surkamp's wife Sara handle lead vocals and reveal an amazingly rich, bluesy voice that has a depth and clarity seldom heard, is quite startling.
'Live And Unleashed' is an album that long term followers of Pavlov's Dog will be delighted to add to their collection and as an introduction to the band is quite wonderful.
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29, Fayetteville Committee of Correspondence offers to furnish Confederate soldiers with winter clothing
Fayetteville, Tenn,. July 29, 1861
Hon. L.P. Walker
Secretary of War, Richmond, VA:
The undersigned have the honor to inform you that at and by a meeting of a portion of the citizens of the county of Lincoln on this day they were appointed a committee to correspond with you touching the matters embodied in the following resolution and proceedings, which were had and done in said meeting, which proceedings are as follows., to wit:
Resolved: That the chairman appoint a committee of three persons to correspond with the War Department in Richmond touching the following matters, to wit:
Can the said Department furnish all of our soldiers now in the field with shoes, socks, coats, pants, blankets, shirts, and every article necessary to constitute a soldier's winter dress? If not all of them can be so furnished, what proportion can be so supplied by the Department, and to what extent, with each of the articles making a complete soldier's dress? The object of our citizens being, if the Department cannot furnish all of said necessary winter clothing, shoeing, &c., to inaugurate a plan by which the deficit, if there should be a deficit, may be partially supplied.
Jas. G. Wood
Geo. J. Goodrich
Our citizens solicitude about our soldiers and their comfort during the approaching winter, and knowing that our ports were under a blockade, that our manufacturers of woolen goods are on scale of diminution entirely disproportion [sic] to the wants of our people and of our Army, and that our funding and financial system of government are yet without consolidation and organized system, we have apprehended that the Department would be unable to furnish all the comforts of clothing so necessary to shield the soldier from the blasts of winter. We therefore desired to know whether the Government wants aid and cooperation in the premises. If Government is unable to furnish all, we desire to know it an early day, that we may take such steps as to effect all that we can in the premises. From our wool we can make blankets, clothing, and socks, and clothe every man we have in the field (about 900) if necessary, and we trust that the Secretary of War may be pleased to inform us at an early day touching the above inquiries. The committee also respectfully suggests to the Department, if the Government has to rely upon private contribution, that some plan may be adopted at Richmond by the Department looking to the unity and cooperation of the people of every county in the South in the premises, and that said plan be published in all the papers of the South. Pardon the committee and those whom we represent for these suggestions, for, knowing that we are all animated by the one high and holy purpose of achieving and maintaining our independence, we thought we could do no less.
JOEL J. JONES
JACOB GILLISPIE
OR, Ser. IV, Vol. 1, pp. 506-507
29, Justification for the seizure of the Stevenson Mansion in Nashville
HDQRS. ARMY OF THE OHIO, Huntsville, July 29, 1862.
N. E. ALLOWAY, Nashville, Tenn.:
SIR: In reply to your letter of the 22d instant to Gen. Buell in reference to the Stevenson Mansion in Nashville I am directed to inform you that the property in question is not regarded by the general as confiscated, that act resting with the civil tribunals under the laws of Congress. Mr. Stevenson, however, the owner of the property, was, previous to the occupation of Nashville by the United States troops, and, as it is believed, still is, in arms against the Government; his property is therefore very properly seized, being necessary for the wants of the Government. The transfer of this property was made to you after the rebel army had commenced to evacuate Nashville and when it was quite plain that that city would fall into our hands, and it is therefore regarded as void.
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
[JAMES B. FRY,]
Col. and Chief of Staff.
29, C. S. A. orders security precautions in Cocke County during August 6, 1863 elections
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF EAST TENNESSEE, July 29, 1863.
Brig.-Gen. [A. E.] JACKSON:
GEN.: Information has been received at these headquarters that about 200 bushwhackers are expected to meet and control the election to be held an August 6 on the waters of Big Creek, southeast of Newport about 15 miles. The point is in Cocke Country, thirteenth civil district. The major-general commanding directs that you have a sufficient force sent secretly, if possible, to [such] person and prevent illegal voting.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
J. N. GALLEHER, Assistant Adjutant-Gen.
29, Report on One Lady's Retribution for the Murder of her Lover
A Woman's Vengeance.
The Nashville Times publishes a letter from a young woman, who tells how she pursued and shot a rebel to avenge the murder of her lover. The scene of the tragedy was Martin's Creek, Tenn. The woman's lover was a Dr. Sadler, whose Union principles had rendered him obnoxious to the rebel inhabitants, three of whom hunted him down, and killed him. The manner of his death is thus narrated by the young woman.
I had met Peteet, Gordenhire, and Turner on the road, and told my brother there that they were searching for Dr. Sadler to kill him. Sure enough they went to the house where he was; and strange to me, after his warning, he permitted them to come in. They met him apparently perfectly friendly, and said they had come to get some brandy from Mr. Yelton, which they obtained; and, immediately after drinking, they all three drew their pistols and commenced firing at Sadler.
He drew his, but it was snatched away from him; he then drew his knife, which was also taken from him. He then ran round the house and up a stairway, escaping out of their sight. They followed, however, and searched till they found him, and brought him down and laid him on a bed, mortally wounded. He requested some of his people to send for Dr. Dillin to dress his wounds. It is strange to me why, but Sadler's friends had all left the room, when Turner went up and put his pistol against his temple, and shot him through the head. They all rejoiced like demons, and stood by till he made his last struggle. They then pulled his eyes open, and asked him in a loud voice if he were dead. They then took his horse and saddle and pistols, and robbed him of all his money, and otherwise insulted and abused his remains.
The young woman (whose initials "L. J. W." are only given) determined on revenge, but kept her resolution to herself lest she should be prevented; and on a subsequent day proceeded to a house where she learned Turner (against whom she seems to have especially directed her revenge) was stopping, and deliberately shot him dead. She thus tells the story:
I asked Mrs. Christian if Turner was gone. She pointed to him at the gate, just leaving. I looked at the clock, and it was just 4 ½ o'clock, P.M. I then walked out into the yard, and as Turner was starting called to him to stop. He turned, and saw I was preparing to shoot him. He started to run. I fired at a distance of about twelve paces, and missed him. I fired again as quickly as possible, and hit him in the back of the head, and he fell on his face and knees. I fired again and hit him in the back, and he fell on his right side. I fired twice more, only one of these shots taking effect. By this time I was within five steps of him, and stood and watched him until he was dead. I then turned round and walked toward the house, and met Mrs. Christian, and her sister, his wife, coming out.
They asked me what I did it for. My response was, "You know what that man did the 13th of December last—murdered a dear friend of mine. I have been determined to do this deed ever since, and I shall never regret it." They said no more to me, but commenced hallooing and blowing a horn. I got my horse and started home, where I shall stay or leave as I choose, going where I please, and saying what I please."
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Home SPURS FAN CAVE What we learned from the Spurs Game 3 loss to the Nuggets
What we learned from the Spurs Game 3 loss to the Nuggets
Charlie Thaddeus April 21, 2019 Spurs News Leave a Comment
The wheels came all the way off for the Spurs at home in Game 4.
I don’t know that I expected the Spurs to win Game 4, but I didn’t expect that.
Just like the Game 2 loss, in which the Spurs blew two separate 19 point leads, the manner in which this loss came about worries me significantly more than the outcome itself. A loss on its own would be fine, the Nuggets are a good team full of good players and them all having a good game is just going to happen sometimes even when the Spurs are fully on their game. This wasn’t that though. Not even close. This was a brief flurry of activity followed by a complete, utter meltdown.
It doesn’t feel like this type of thing should be possible in the playoffs. The regular season is a grind and it’s easy to imagine how some of those games can just get away from you. Maybe you’re tired or bored or whatever. I get that. This is when your focus has to be at its best every night and, in the Gregg Popovich era at least, that’s never been a problem for the Spurs. They’ve been out-played before, they’ve been out-coached before, but out-focused? That has to be a new one, right?
To the Nuggets credit, their intensity starting about mid-way through the second quarter was a sight to behold. They were tough and fearless and they had no intention of giving the Spurs any breathing room at all down the stretch. Not once during the second half did I think that the Spurs had a run in them. It was out of the question. Possession after possession watching Nikola Jokic continue to indefatigably barrel his way into the lane getting everything he needed wore away at my psyche and I can imagine it did the same for the boys in Silver & Black too.
I’m disappointed. This isn’t the end of the world or anything and it’s certainly not the end of the series, but I’m disappointed all the same. Like many of you I’m sure, I spent the last couple days soaking up the glowing national media attention that tends to follow a Spurs playoff win. All that talk about how the mystical arts of the Spurs were at it again, carving up some unsuspecting team who just wanted to come out and make a name for themselves in the playoffs. I love that. It makes me glow with an entirely unearned sense of pride and glee. I wish I could bottle that feeling and put it my coffee or something.
The praise feels hollow at the moment. We’re now forced to once again reckon with the idea that there isn’t some mysterious basketball force behind the Spurs ability to show up and win a playoff game. The guys on the team simply have to earn it. They have to regroup from this debacle, dig deep, and make sure that a performance like this doesn’t recur. They might lose again. They might drop the series. Both of those things are entirely possible and both of those things are also okay. I really don’t care if they lose, I don’t, but I will be heartbroken if they continue to lose like this.
Mike Malone spent a lot of time after Game 3 talking about how he was looking forward to seeing how his guys responded from the punch in the mouth they received. Well, the Spurs have now been punched in the mouth too and it’s their turn to respond.
I hope they’re up for it.
So, it turns out the flip side of leaning on a super young dude as one of the pillars of your team’s success is that, sometimes, he’s going to play like a super young dude. That’s something that seems obvious in retrospect, but it’s still surprising given how much Derrick White has risen to the occasion over the course of this season. At the onset of each new challenge thrown his way, he’s always appeared to be unflappable and in Game 4, well, it sure seems like he got flapped. He didn’t seem scared of the moment or anything, but he spent most of the night forcing the issue and it just looked like he was pressing. Game 3 Derrick White was gliding around the court bathed in incandescent light, incapable of making a wrong decision and I can imagine it’s altogether pretty troubling to step out on the court in the next game and not feel like you quite have the same goods. Things weren’t falling for him and the extra attention that he’s earned, both from the Nugget’s defenders and everyone else, weren’t helping anything. Derrick will be back, but tonight wasn’t his night and we were all given a glimpse into what the Spurs chances look like without him. (they’re bad)
I love Jakob Poeltl dearly and I think he’s been doing a lot of really unheralded work in this series. His defense and hustle and propensity for getting the little things done is as integral to the Spurs success as just about anything else. I felt for him in this game though, because there was really only so much he could against the onslaught Jokic brought to the table. Jakob is big and physical and tries really hard, but at the end of the day Nikola Jokic has the same size and physicality paired with a crazy amount of talent coming out of his ears. Poor Jakob can only be expected to hold that flood back for so long and I’m not exactly sure what sort of counter punches the Spurs can draw up for it. Their is a school of thought that one way to win against the Nuggets is to just dare Nikola Jokic to beat you and, well, he did.
How did our stars play in this game? They were good, I don’t know. They’re stats were at least. DeMar and LaMarcus both shot the ball pretty well, grabbed boards, dished out assists and didn’t make too many mistakes. LaMarcus even hit a three! I still feel like something was missing. As things were falling apart I kept wanting one of them to step up, grab the reigns, and stop the bleeding. That’s kind of one of their main jobs, right? The entire Spurs roster couldn’t really buy a shot to save their lives in the second half and that should never, ever happen when you employ two dudes who were put on this earth to get buckets. DeMar getting tossed from the game late was obviously emblematic of the breadth of his frustration with how this night went and so, I guess the good news is that he knows as well as anyone that a performance like this from him isn’t going to be enough to get the job done. Hopefully, he can find a way to channel that anger and frustration into a monster he can unleash on Tuesday. We’ll see.
MARCO WATCH: Marco Belinelli hit a three with 1:07 seconds left in the game. Lonnie Walker IV dribbled around the top of the arc, turned, and fed it to Beli who was wide open. He caught it. He shot it. It went in and the Nuggets lead was reduced to 12. It was heartbreaking to watch if I’m being perfectly honest. There was no joy, no creativity, and no energy behind it whatsoever. It was a rote exercise, something that happened just because. If the shot had gone and rimmed out, well, the only thing to change would be the opening sentences of this paragraph. It’s tough times out there for us Marco Watchers. I think we all want something special to happen. We want Marco to provide that special jolt that only he can provide and it’s been largely absent from this series. Time and again though, he’s shown us that this is simply not how his particular brand of magic works. It’s not something you summon on command because you want it, no, it’s more ethereal than that. It’s a fickle, puckish creature that comes and goes at it pleases, lighting up the darkness when you least expect it. It answers to the whims of no one. The playoffs are a turbocharged atmosphere with an intensity that gets ramped up to 11 and stays there. It’s an environment where miracles almost become the norm because, hey, even being here is practically a miracle, right? In the playoffs you expect amazing. You demand it, almost. Maybe that’s not a domain where Marco’s skill set was ever going to fully thrive, or maybe I’m just not looking hard enough. Regardless, Marco’s best stuff always seems to happen when I’m least expecting it and I think it’s safe to say that, well, right now we’re least expecting it pretty hard.
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MyTableTennis.com
Over the last few days I've joined in discussions at the MyTableTennis.com forum. I've been in several threads, but the one I was most interested in was one titled "How should I coach someone in a match." I have a lot of experience there, so I posted some notes there, starting on page 5. (For a time the thread was basically hijacked by someone who put a "Hex" on it, but that person has since been banned, both for those postings and numerous postings in other threads.) Below are three postings I put up. Much of the discussion is on whether you should coach technique in a tournament match - which I consider a very bad idea, as my postings explain.
To learn to win close matches means playing lots of close and/or important matches where you develop the habit of tactically using all of your tools to win. To do so takes certain mental skills that can only be practiced at such times. So it's a highly effective time to develop tactical and mental skills, and not a very effective time to develop or fix technique. Some technique problems can be overcome indirectly in the course of a match - I gave examples in my Tip of the Week ("Mid-Match Technique Adjustments"), which was linked to above - but mental and tactical skills are what need to be emphasized in such matches. Hopefully you have far more time at the practice hall to work on the mechanical skills (i.e. technique) - and it is in important matches where you often find out what techniques you need to work on.
(Addendum: much of this posting is about not worrying about technique in matches. However, you do want to focus on using the shots that you want to develop. If you are a looper, for example, you should generally try to win mostly by looping, not by pushing.)
Shortly after the above I posted a note about a pertinent Tip of the Week I'd recently done, "Real Tactics versus Parroting Tactics." Later, it was pointed out that there was one person arguing that you should coach technique in a match, while everyone else pretty much disagreed. Below is my response.
I would essentially never coach technique in a match, so I'm in the second category with most everyone else [about never coaching technique when coaching a tournament match]. However, there's a subcategory of the second version. The large majority of the time when coaching in a tournament I coach the player to win. But there are occasional times where you might coach a player to win a certain way. This is not coaching technique; this is coaching playing style.
For example, I was coaching a kid named Tong Tong Gong (age 13) at the North American Teams a few years ago against Allen Wang. Tong Tong was about 2150 at the time, with a very good backhand and a quick but erratic forehand loop. Allen was about 2200, a pure two-winged looper from mid-distance, and about a foot taller. I believe Tong Tong was up 2-1 in games but lost the fourth game when he got into too many counterlooping duels with Allen, and Allen was a better counterlooper. I was all set to coach Tong Tong to stay at the table, and block and pick loop winners. Before I could say anything, Tong Tong said, "I can beat him counterlooping." It sort of floored me since he thought he could beat Allen at his own game. But I recovered, and made a snap decision to go with it. So I told him how best to win those counterlooping duels - get Allen off the table on the wide forehand, then counterloop off the bounce to the backhand; get the first attack so Allen has to go for the first difficult counterloop; etc. The whole game plan was on winning with counterlooping rather than just winning, which I thought he could do if he stayed right at the table. Anyway, Tong Tong won the match deuce in the fifth, counterlooping like a maniac. He might have won staying right at the table, but by doing it by counterlooping, he gained great confidence in that shot which would pay off later. One month later he'd pull off five upsets at the Nationals to make the National Cadet Team. (I coached all those matches, and they were ALL played strictly to win.)
There have been a few other cases where I've coached a player to focus on playing the way he was developing as a player, such as looping when he might have won by pushing and blocking. But when I do so, I usually let the player know his options, and let him choose, and they choose both ways. It's good to develop the habit of trying to win with the shots you are developing. But these cases are infrequent; usually you coach to win, period, and usually that means using the shots the player is training to use.
After I posted this, someone posted the following:
larry, doesn't coaching about playing style involves technique also? i think i would rather coach about adaptation and it involves technique. as long as it it not too complicated and too long to execute just to win a point, there is nothing wrong with coaching technique. also, would you agree with me if for example in a match a player needs to adjust the angle of his bat to compensate for the incoming spin either against a heavy underspin or very light underspin, if you see your player commit errors against this wouldn't it better if you just told me him to compensate bat angle? IMHO, technique is important to coach as long as the player can adjust to it. also, not every player has a mental fortitude problem. i would rather coach the player as what is needed to be coached. i'm just confused where to draw the line between coaching technique and coaching playing style because both obviously involves technique to some point basing on your statement.
And here's my response:
Coaching playing style and coaching technique are two different things, at least the way I define them. So is telling a player to adjust his racket, which isn't really technique.
If the player I'm coaching isn't looping enough, I would likely tell him to loop more, and give tactics to help set it up. But if his looping technique were off, there's not much you can do in the match, with occasional exceptions. The technique is done subconsciously, and it's not likely you can change that in the short course of a match. You can do a lot more by scheduling a practice session afterwards where you can focus on fixing the problem.
You can remind someone in the middle of a match to, say, adjust their racket angle against incoming spin, but that rarely makes a big difference. When someone loops at you, your subconscious sets the racket angle reflexively. If you try to do it consciously, you're not going to do well. However, the subconscious is constantly making adjustments, and will normally adjust by closing the racket regardless of whether a coach tells the player to do so. (Though of course the coach might take credit afterwards for it, even though the player's subconscious was already working on the problem!) It's usually better to use various workarounds, such as one I posted about earlier. Instead of telling them to close the racket against a spinny loop that they keep blocking off, tell them to block more aggressively. Then the spin will take on it less. Adjusting the racket angle to incoming heavy topspin that you are not used to is tricky to do, but blocking more aggressively is much simpler. The player might still have to close the racket more, but it's a less drastic change, and the subconscious can adjust quicker, and then the player can play free, i.e. let the subconscious take over.
Here's an easy test I've done many times. When I coach a complete beginner if I give him a heavy backspin serve, he goes right into the net. However, it doesn't take long for him to learn to open his racket to return it. But that's because I'm giving it to him over and over, and so he can consciously open the racket. If I then start varying the serves, and come back to the heavy backspin serve every third serve or so, even if I make it obvious that it's a backspin serve (and make it obvious the others are not), the player can no longer react consciously, and goes right back into the net again, over and over. It takes some training to learn to react properly in a game situation, where you don't know what's coming until the ball's coming at you and you have little time to react consciously. That's why telling a player to adjust his racket angle during a match usually won't work because his conscious mind isn't what's setting the angle in the match. (But as noted, the player's subconscious is already making adjustments, and perhaps might make the adjustment before the match is over.) An exception might be if the opponent is, say, giving the same serve every single time (say a heavy backspin serve), in which case you can tell your player to open his racket - and hope the opponent doesn't start changing his serve.
The Speed of Fan Zhendong
Here's the video (34 sec) of the Chinese 16-year-old, already #10 in the world. He's doing a random footwork drill with a coach feeding multiball. The key to his speed? Much of it comes from his balance. He's balanced even in his follow-throughs, and that is key to his being almost instantly ready for the next shot. His head remains almost still during his shots, even on the forehand. His feet are wide and parallel to the table, allowing great stability and quick transition from forehand to backhand and back.
Coach Wanted in Northern California
Established Club in northern California is accepting applications for a full time coaching position. Compensation is 30-60K depending on level and experience. The ideal candidate plays at a level of 2500 or higher, has multiple years coaching experience, and speaks English. Mandarin and Cantonese are a plus. Less coaching experience will be accepted from those who currently play at a very high level. You must be able to document your playing and coaching history. Match video is helpful. For more information send your resume to norcalttclub@yahoo.com.
Improve Your Serve
Here's the new article and video (1:28) from Killerspin.
Phil Mickelson Hires TT Coach
Here's the story from Table Tennis Nation - who is the mystery coach? Mickelson resides in Rancho Santa Fe, California. Any guesses? Or will the mystery coach please stand up?
The Ultimate Trick Shot
Here's a hilarious video (3:18) that shows the tribulations of two players apparently attempting to create a video for the ITTF Trickshot competition, and failing miserably - until something happens at the very end.
Non-Table Tennis: Sheeba and Bacon
I'm told that if one puts up a picture of a cat eating bacon, you'll triple your hits. Well, I don't have a cat, but I do have Sheeba, a corgi mix I got at a shelter 12 years ago. She'll be 16 in February, but still loves her bacon snacks. Here's a picture of her desperately trying to get that yummy bacon at the bottom of a large bacon snack jar. Yeah, I torture her this way - but she did get it! (Here's a head shot.)
Yesterday I did a scientific experiment.
Hypothesis: Dogs don't need their eyes to find food.
Methodology: I blindfolded Sheeba (she went along willingly), then waved a bacon treat under her nose.
Result: She snapped it up instantly.
Conclusion: Hypothesis proven correct. Also, dogs apparently love bacon, but this will require further testing.
Coach Wanted
Coaching Between Games
Ultimate Trick Shot
Topspinny Backhands.
Last Week's Tip of the Week
I put up a Tip of the Week last Monday, but since I was out of town and not blogging, some of you may have missed it. If so, you get a special double-tip week! So here's the July 22 Tip of the Week: Pushing Change of Direction.
It's been eleven days. I doubt if you missed me more than my dog, who went berserk at my return. (I had people taking care of her, but she tends not to eat much when I'm away.) As noted below, I was at a writers workshop in Manchester, NH, July 19-27. See segment on this below. And right after I finish this morning's blog I'm off to coach at the MDTTC camp. (We have ten consecutive camps this summer, each Mon-Fri; this is week seven. I should be at the rest of them - I missed two weeks, one for the writers workshop, one for the U.S. Open.)
Table Tennis Fitness
I just returned from nine days at a writers workshop (see below). While there was no table tennis there - other than my showing off my "blowing the ball in the air" trick, and one time showing off my ability to bounce a ping-pong ball up and down on a cell phone over and over - I did notice something related to table tennis.
The biggest difference between writers (as well as people I observed at the airport) and table tennis players, as well as people I observed at the airport, was the fitness level. There is a fitness epidemic in this country, and it's very noticeable at airports, and even more so at writers workshops. This isn't meant as an actual criticism of being overweight - to each his own - just an observation. But table tennis players in general are much more fit than the general population. Perhaps part of this is that there are so many Asian players, and they seem fitter than typical Americans. Or perhaps it's all those calories burned playing table tennis. Or perhaps it's fitness for the express purposes of improving their table tennis. Or perhaps it's because fitter people tend to seek out sports. Whichever it is, table tennis players, in general, and at all levels (at least beyond the beginning state) are far more fit than the average population.
At my worse, I once reached 196 pounds, and I currently am at 185. I'm now determined to get back to 175. Here's an article from Pongworld on training and fitness. Here's an article on table tennis and fitness by Australian star Greg Letts.
Non-Table Tennis - TNEO
TNEO is "The Never-Ending Odyssey," an annual gathering in Manchester, NH, of graduates of the six-week Odyssey Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Workshop. (I'm class of '06.) I just spent nine days there, July 19-27, where I was immersed with 27 others with story critiques, classes & lectures, readings, and lots of reading and writing. Three of my stories were critiqued; I've already rewritten them, and will be submitting them soon. Two other stories I have planned were plotted out, plus I wrote a brand new humorous story, "The Bat Nerd," which I read at the annual story reading at the local Barnes and Noble. Here's a Facebook picture (with comments) of the group in the workshop.
Flight Back from Manchester
The flights home were a disaster. Here's a short synopsis. I was scheduled for a 6:10PM flight Saturday night (July 27) on U.S. Air from Manchester to Philadelphia, with a connection to National Airport in Washington DC, arriving at 10:11PM. From there I'd take the subway to Shady Grove Metro Station where I had someone picking me up.
The 6:10PM flight was delayed to around 7:30PM due to both a crew problem (lack of a pilot) and weather. It became obvious I wouldn't be able to make my connection in Philadelphia, and there were no other non-full flights out of Philly that night. The earliest available flight the following morning was around 9AM. (Apparently U.S. Air wasn't able to get me on flights with other airlines.) They said they'd put me up in a hotel in Philly. However, a better option they said would be for me to spend the night in Manchester (again, they'd pay for the room), and catch a direct flight at 6AM the next morning. So I was sent back across the airport to the U.S. Air ticket office to get the hotel voucher and catch a shuttle to the hotel. However, after arriving there, they told me there were no available hotel rooms in Manchester! So they rushed me through security again so I could catch the delayed flight at 7:30PM. I reached Philly around 9PM. However, due to another glitch, they had trouble finding my checked-in bag, and it took them over 90 minutes before it was located. Then I took the shuttle to the hotel, arriving there around 11:15PM.
I now had a 7:55AM flight from Philly to DC. I got up a 5AM, was at the airport at 6:30AM, only to discover that due to another crew issue, the flight had been delayed to 9:40AM! Then it was delayed to 10:45AM. And then, at around 9:30 AM, it was cancelled! They put me on a different flight leaving at 11:30 AM. So I sat around the airport for about five hours before leaving. I arrived in DC at about 12:40 PM, took the subway to Shady Grove, arriving around 2:00 PM for my pickup. (The one who was going to pick me could no longer do so; Derek Nie's mom picked me up.)
Meanwhile, every step of the way as my flights changed I was calling the person who was to pick me up at Shady Grove. It got really frustrating as my schedule changed seemingly every ten minutes. On top of this, I had a 10AM coaching session scheduled for Sunday, which I had to miss. (It was a double - once a week on Sunday mornings I drive out to Virginia to coach, and they pay me double. So I'm out about $100 on top of everything else, plus a disappointed student.)
My Coaching Columns in USA Table Tennis Magazine
I've been submitting the best of my Tips of the Week to USATT Magazine, and they've been publishing them since January of 2012. Recently they've put together a page dedicated to them, with links to each article. If you've been reading my weekly Tips (every Monday morning) then you've read these.
Building Power and Weight Transfer
Here's a coaching article from Table Tennis Master.
Two Insane Pieces Of Luck Behind China’s Current Dominance
Here's an article from Table Tennis Master on how China's dominance in table tennis may have come about due to two great pieces of luck!
Kenta Matsudaira's Show
Here are video highlights of the Japanese star (4:08).
Here's the table tennis cover of this week's The New Yorker, which is dated today, though it came out a few days ago. I saw a copy at the airport, and paging through it, couldn't find anything on table tennis on the inside. Apparently the table tennis cover is an independent cover and doesn't actually illustrate anything from the inside.
Stéphane Veilleux Wins Smashfest
Here's a picture of the Minnesota Wild Hockey player holding up the huge table tennis trophy he won. Click on the picture and you'll see other pictures from the event.
Phil Mickelson Plays Matt Lauer on the Today Show
Here's the video and article from Table Tennis Nation.
Dragon on a Ping-Pong Table
Here's the latest artwork from Mike Mezyan. The title I've given it sort of tells you what it is - sort of like the movie Snakes on a Plane!!!
China's Luck
Flight Back from TNEO
Kenta Matsudaira
Power and Weight Transfer
Pushing Change of Direction
Smashfest
Stéphane Veilleux
TNEO
Topspinny backhands
USA Table Tennis Magazine Columns
Table Tennis Centers in Maryland, the U.S., and Belgium
On Friday at the Maryland Table Tennis Center I was wondering how USATT would be different if all their board members were required to spend a week at one of the "elite" training centers. Their perspective on table tennis in the U.S., and where it could go, might be a bit different from what they are used to.
There are about 50 full-time table tennis centers in the U.S. (Current count: 53; let me know if I'm missing any.) Of these, perhaps 5-8 can be considered "elite," i.e. ones with large junior development programs that consistently develop strong players. Key here is both the elite aspect and the large number of players they have.
Recently someone posted on a table tennis forum that "The USA has 50+ full time clubs." Someone responded, "Are you serious about the 50+ or do you mean 500+? In Belgium, there are about 50 clubs for each of the ten regions." Yes, that's 500 full-time clubs in Belgium, which has an area slightly smaller than Maryland (both about 12 thousand square miles), with a population about double Maryland's (about 11 million vs. 5.8 million). (And Belgium's numbers are dwarfed by Germany, England, and of course China and most Asian countries.) Now Maryland is, size for size and population for population, probably the most successful table tennis state in the U.S., with a higher percentage of its population USATT members than any other state. (They have 263 members out of a population of 5.8 million, or one member for every 22,053 people. Only New Jersey is close, with 351 members out of 8.8 million, or one for every 25,071.) Maryland also has one of the most successful junior programs in the country. And yet Maryland has only two full-time training centers to Belgium's 500! They have a full-time center for every 22,000 people, while Maryland has one for every 2.9 million. The U.S. has one for every 5.9 million people.
Of course the biggest difference is Belgium and other successful countries focus on leagues and junior programs. So does Maryland. Here's a rundown of the strongest of the 40+ junior players at MDTTC on Friday during a junior training session and the Friday night league (name, age, rating):
Wang Qing Liang, 16, 2644
Chen Bo Wen, 14, 2441
Tong Tong Gong, 14, 2334
Nathan Hsu, 2296 (was recently 2356)
Anthony Qu, 12, 2194
Roy Ke, 13, 2188
Derek Nie, 11, 2149
Crystal Wang, 10, 2099 (was 2166 before playing a tournament with a fracture wrist!)
Michael Ding, 13, 1989
David Varkey, 17, 1882
Lilly Lin, 15, 1874
Amy Lu, 11, 1852
Lisa Cui, 13, 1804
Princess Ke, 12, 1776
Jason Wei, 14, 1768
Adam Yao, 10, 1739
Wesley Duan, 12, 1685
Tony Li, 11, 1618
Between these, and all the little kids smacking forehands and backhand back and forth (not to mention all the non-juniors in the league - it's not just juniors), it's a different environment than what most in the U.S. sees unless they are at one of these "elite" training centers . . . or perhaps in Belgium.
$100,000 World Championship of Ping-Pong
The inaugural event will be held in London on Jan. 5-6, 2013. Players are required to use sandpaper rackets. $100,000 for sandpaper table tennis - yes, my friends, the world is changing.
ITTF Inaugural Level 3 Course
Here's an ITTF article about the first ITTF Level 3 Coaching Course, held in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Sept. 21-28. It was immediately followed by a two-day Level Three Course Conductor Training Seminar. Attending both were USATT Coaching Chair Richard McAfee.
Table Tennis Artwork
Here is more table tennis art by Mike Mezyan. The four here are labeled "Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind," and feature Chen Qi, Wang Hao, Ma Lin, and Wang Liqin. Here's a larger version. And here's his Facebook page for all his artwork.
Orioles Make Table Tennis a Priority
Here's an article from Table Tennis Nation on how the Baltimore Orioles baseball team (and their manager, Buck Showalter) made table tennis a priority. "Where is the ping-pong table?" Showalter asked when he showed up in spring training. Meanwhile, you can read my "Top Twelve Things Happening the Last Time the Orioles Had a Winning Season" article at Orioles Hangout, where it's a featured front-page story. I've had eight front-page articles there. My favorites are "You're No Good, Baltimore Orioles" and "The Wonderful World of O's."
Phil Mickelson and Table Tennis at the Ryder Cup
Here's an article on golfer Phil Mickelson and table tennis at the Ryder Cup. Here's the table tennis excerpt:
Ask anyone about the team room, and Mickelson's name invariably comes up. He talked of his and Woods' dominance on the Ping-Pong table Wednesday, boasting that few of their U.S. teammates can touch them.
''Put us together on that table, and we're rocking it,'' Mickelson said.
(That's only partly true, Steve Stricker said. Matt Kuchar is actually the Roger Federer of the U.S. Ping-Pong table, and Stricker said Mickelson is putting off that matchup until Sunday. ''He doesn't want to get any bad mojo going before the tournament starts.'')
Top Ten Points
Here's a Top Ten Points video (6:12) from recent years (Worlds, Olympics, World Cup). Includes lots of slow motion.
The Amazing Race - Downgrading to a Sauce Pan
As near as I can tell, "The Amazing Race" is a Chinese show where people compete for prizes. In this segment (1:37), they had to score a point - a single point! - against a little girl who was obviously an elite junior. She played them using a sauce pan and a tambourine, and rarely lost a point.
World Championship of Ping-Pong
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Email: tpgarretson@twgfirm.com
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Tom Garretson has been in private practice in Wichita since 1971. Since that time, he has been heavily involved in securities practice. He has represented public companies in connection with their initial public offerings and secondary offerings under the Securities Act of 1933, the preparation and filing of periodic reports under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and merger and acquisition transactions with other public and closely-held companies. Mr. Garretson has represented closely-held companies in numerous private placements of equity and debt securities, including complex financing and refinancing transactions involving various combinations of lenders and equity participants. Mr. Garretson counsels his clients in connection with all aspects of their business affairs and corporate governance. His practice also includes representation of underwriters in both public and private offerings and investment advisers in connection with registration and compliance under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
Mr. Garretson attended Northwestern University where he was an all Big Ten football player and baseball captain. After graduation, he spent one season with the Washington Redskins organization before graduation from Kansas University Law School in 1971. He has long held the Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review highest rating of “AV,” and is recognized as a “Senior Statesman” in Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions by Chambers USA.
Northwestern University (B.A., 1968)
Designated by Chambers USA as Senior Statesman in Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions Law
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Fellow of Kansas Bar Foundation
Former adjunct professor of University of Kansas School of Law teaching Business Planning
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Kansas Wildscape Foundation (dedicated to the creation, enhancement and promotion of outdoors opportunities in Kansas) – Director (2001-present), Chairman (2007-2008), Vice Chairman (2009)
Due Diligence in Mergers and Acquisitions of Private Businesses (Kansas Bar Association seminar)
Securities Registrations and Exemptions (Wichita Bar Association seminar)
Author of Securities Regulation chapter of the Kansas Bar Association’s Kansas Corporation Law and Practice Handbook – Fourth and Fifth Editions
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Salem Welsh Baptist Chapel - Barry Dock (1905)
The revival movement is taking an increasing hold on the people of Barry. Services are held nightly in diffferent places of worship in the town, and a gratifying feature of the gathering is the fact that denominationalism seems to be entirely lost sight of in the greater and more important purpose of the spiritualisation of the masses. Up to the present the number of conversions as the result of the movement exceeds 600, and this bountiful harvest of precious souls is shared by most of the churches of all denominations in the town. The revival has been equally felt by the local organisations of the Salvation Army. From, 'The Barry Dock News', 6th January 1905. Reliable information from experienced Christian business men, well known in the metropolis, shows that the influence of the Welsh revival has been by no means overstated. Evidently, the principality is stirred from end to end. Especially notable, perhaps, is the work at Barry, where the revival has so far been carried on almost exclusively in connection with the Welsh churches, but its effect has been far-reaching. There is not a place of worship in the town — church and non-conformist alike — where the influence of the movement has not been felt. Special services have been held daily at different chapels at Barry, Barry Dock, and Cadoxton during the past week, and morning, noon, and night the congregations have been very large. At the morning and afternoon meetings every day may be seen scores of instances of men who come home from work in the morning, attend the services during the day, and return to work again at night after but little rest. There has also been a considerable falling off in the attendance at the Technical School on the part of the young people, many of the boys and girls preferring to be present and take part in the revival services. Already there have been over 300 public testimonies of conversion, and each gathering adds to this number. People walking up and down the streets resort almost unconsciously to hymn-singing. Men and women who have lived openly lives of sin and indifference have come to the meetings — some, perhaps, from motives of curiosity, others to scoff and jeer — but have remained to pray, and, bathed in tears of sorrow and repentance, they have publicly declared their intention to forsake sin.
From, 'The Great Revival in Wales', by S B Shaw, page 64.
This is likely to have been one of the churches involved.
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Top 30 at Jordan-Hare – #5 LSU (1994)
5. Auburn 30 vs. LSU 26 – Sept. 17, 1994
Note: This game was #3 in the 2010 edition and #4 in the 2015 edition of this list.
How I Remember It: This game has to be the most played “College Flash Classic” in the history of television. I have to delete it from my DVR almost everyday, but leaving at least one to watch, of course. I have watched this game, or at least the 4th quarter, more than any other Auburn game ever, so it’s going to be tough to separate what I really remember from the game and what I’ve seen a thousand times on Fox Sports South.
Actually, it won’t be too hard because I know that when Auburn began it’s awesome comeback, I was in the car with my Granny, going to pick up my little brother from a birthday party at the Rec center. We were getting gas at the Shell station on 2nd Avenue in Opelika when Jim Fyffe announced yet another interception. I remember Granny saying something to the effect of “WHAT?!”, or something like that. Other than that, that’s all I really remember from that day.
What Really Happened: Auburn came into the game on a 14-game winning streak going back to the 1993 undefeated season, and was ranked #11 in that nation. LSU came into the game 1-1 and was unranked. The Good Tigers should have had no problem beating the Purple Tigers.
The two teams combined for no points in the first quarter, but Auburn would take a 3-0 lead after a field goal early in the 2nd quarter. One minute later, LSU would score on a 76-yard touchdown pass. On LSU’s next possession, running back Jermaine Sharp fumbled and Auburn recovered the fumble in the endzone for a touchdown. Matt Hawkins then missed the first extra point in Auburn’s last 75 tries, to keep the score at 9-7.
LSU added a field goal just before the half to give the Purple Tigers the 10-9 lead at halftime.
The first four possessions of the 2nd half would go as follows: Auburn punt, LSU interception, Auburn fumble, LSU fumble. This showed that this game wasn’t going to be anything close to normal, but when has any Auburn-LSU game been normal?
LSU scored first in the 3rd quarter with a field goal, and following yet another 4-and-out by a struggling Auburn offense, the Purple Tigers extended the lead to 20-9 with a touchdown.
LSU would tack on yet another field goal early in the 4th quarter, but that’s when things got crazy. On LSU’s next possession, Auburn’s Ken Alvis intercepted Jamie Howard’s pass and returned it 42 yards for a touchdown. Three plays later, Fred Smith intercepted Howard and returned it 32 yards for a touchdown. This tied the score at 23-23.
Despite the back-to-back interceptions returned for touchdowns, LSU showed that they weren’t going away by driving down on their next possession and adding another field goal with just over five minutes in the game.
Following what seemed like Auburn’s hundredth 4-and-out of the game, LSU’s next possession ended with yet another interception returned for a touchdown. This time it was Auburn’s Brian Robinson.
Down 30-26, LSU then drove to the Auburn 25-yard line, but Howard was intercepted again by Robinson, who returned the pass for 36 yards before fumbling. LSU recovered the fumble giving them another shot at the win.
Can you guess what happened next? Yep, Howard was intercepted for the fifth time of the game by Chris Shelling.
Auburn would take a knee as time expired to win one of the craziest games in Jordan-Hare history.
Why did I pick this game? This definitely wasn’t one of the prettiest games in Auburn’s offensive history. In fact, the offense scored zero touchdowns. Thirty points. No offensive touchdowns. That’s pretty rare. However, the defensive performance in the 4th quarter alone put this one in the list, and given the magnitude of the comeback that extended Auburn’s win streak to 15 games, there was no way this isn’t in every Auburn fan’s top 5.
Fun Fact: The two teams combined for 11 total turnovers. LSU: 6 ints, 2 fumbles. Auburn: 3 fumbles.
Play of the Game: Fred Smith’s interception to tie the game in the 4th quarter gave the team a second chance to win after being so far behind late in the game.
Player of the Game: I know this is a little Disney-movie-ish, but I’m giving this one to the entire Auburn defense.
Quote of the Game: “I think we’ve seen something maybe historic. I’ve never been in a game like that. I’ve never seen one. We couldn’t get a first down. Our offense offered no help, no chance of coming back.” – Terry Bowden
Extremely detailed, and partially handwritten box score: LSUSports.com
The Interceptions:
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Graduated with a BSc in Mathematics in 2011, Lancelot SHIR has taken a sweet and varied journey in life. A few years after graduation, Lancelot already had success with his first business — a tutorial center teaching mathematics — which he funded with two years of hard work of working.
As a local rock star tutor, it could have been all maths for Lancelot with his tutorial business achieving great results. However, he encountered a health problem in 2017 due to massive work pressure, and his life took an unexpected turn.?
“I was suffering from a stomach problem and a friend of mine suggested I used raw honey to treat the problem. It worked a treat and I was suddenly catapulted into the world of honey and bees – I couldn’t stop learning and it changed my life,” he says.
Lancelot learned all the things about beekeeping from a local beekeeper on a farm in Yuen Long, studying honey production without the use of antibiotics, no sugar, and no heat compression. His interest grew steadily and later started another business, Hong Kong Raw Honey in 2017, with two HKUST alumni. Since then, he not only became an advocate for health benefits of raw honey but also about maintaining the vitality of bees to the global ecosystem.?
For much of the past 10 years, beekeepers have been reporting annual hive losses of 30 percent or higher. The situation is alarming as the global decline in bee populations poses a serious threat to a wide variety of plants and corps critical to human well-being and livelihoods.
“It’s one of the main reasons I became a beekeeper, as bee numbers across the world are declining rapidly due to global warming and pesticide use, yet they are essential for the pollination of plants, with roughly 70 percent of food globally supported by bees,” Lancelot says.
Ever-expanding urban developments in densely populated cities threaten wild bees and their food supply. And ever stronger tropical storms are exacerbating the damage. ?As such, despite all the hard work, the supply of honey is unreliable.?
An effective way of tackling the problem can be widespread urban beekeeping for solitary bees. Lancelot says solitary bees, accounting for 90% of the world’s bee populations, are perfect to be kept in the home because they are harmless and can survive without the support of a hive. By using wood and other materials, a small base for solitary bees can be put anywhere whether at home or in the park, creating more pollination for the natural environment.
The practice of placing “bee hotels” in urban environments is growing across the world. “It’s very big in Taiwan and they even promote it to local schools, but in Hong Kong we have a while to go,” he says.
The journey was made possible to Lancelot in many ways by HKUST. Having taken Eco Studies and China Studies minors as a complement to his Mathematics degree, Lancelot was exposed to information about global warming and how climate change is impacting the earth. And he is driven to share his knowledge with others.
Lancelot has maintained his tutoring business and at the same time been busy building his production sites near Tai Mo Shan Country Park and Lantau Island, and running tours of his farms where visitors learn about major nectar plants in Hong Kong, bee anatomy and lifestyle, how to harvest honey, and building bee hotels.
“I’m working hard in the sun, trying to keep track of queens, and dealing with swarming. Bees have predators, they get sick, and the queen, who is essential to the health of the hive, can die as well, so there’s a lot to do,” he says.
Hong Kong Raw Honey is part enterprise, activism, and education. While the industry is nascent in the city, Lancelot says it can take off the way craft beer has globally, a reason why he is now focusing on distribution, marketing and packaging.?
“We need to let people know about it and be inspired by our product and what we are doing to help the world. Everyone in this city wants to be a lawyer, doctor or banker, and we need to change this and get people educated. I know it’s hard to do – even my parents were not entirely pleased with my choice,” says Lancelot, who shows us that although the road ahead is thorny, we just have to “bee” ourselves, and follow our dreams for the betterment of mankind.
Hong Kong Raw Honey is now for sale at HKUST’s souvenir shop. Come and support this young man’s efforts to?safeguard?bees and our abundant food varieties.
Lancelot (right) learned all the things about beekeeping from a local beekeeper on a farm in Yuen Long, studying honey production without the use of antibiotics, no sugar, and no heat compression.
By using wood and other materials, a small base for solitary bees can be put anywhere whether at home or in the park, creating more pollination for the natural environment.
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‘TheVoices’ is a movie that derives most of its humour from vulgarity as opposed to sharp wit or clever punch lines. The lead character is one dimensional, doing little to explore the complexities of the human mind, instead linking mental illness with psychopathic behaviour. It’s a bit disappointing in this sense because murder is a callous and calculated crime where as poor Jerry, who seems to suffer from depression and schizophrenia, turns out to be a slapstick serial killer with a very troubled childhood. So for instance if you’re a fascist with an intolerance of the diverse society we actually live in you will probably love this film.
That said this is a black comedy, so we can’t hold it accountable for its limited attempt in explaining that victims of abuse or psychological disorders are multifaceted individuals with an equally diverse range of human emotions. But we can judge it for being an attempt at comedy which it fails miserably. The quirky bright side of an out of touch Jerry is a clever contrast to the sinister world of severed heads and piled up pizza boxes from which he escapes, but the film lacks the intelligence of a black comedy and falls short of the laughs you’d normally associate with your average light hearted movie, so it really plays out as nothing more than a quirky gore movie with a foul mouthed cat who has a dispassionate view of his canine companion, the kind of quarrelling pair that you find on children’s tv.
In summary this isn’t a movie worth going to see unless you’re on something, or its raining and there has been a train strike and it’s gonna take you an hour and a half to walk up hill through a ghetto to the nearest bus station which is inhabited by a pack of crazed wolves. The Monty Python / Life of Brian score at the end of the film cements the feeling of resentment towards the whole picture, trapped in the middle of the centre row of a semi crowded cinema this was probably the most pain staking three minutes of my life, for which I can remark that going to see this film has only added to the therapy bill.
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Kaduna State Major Tertiary Institutions Get New Administrators
August 30, 2016 Campus Gist No comments
In line with its commitment to strengthen the education sector, the Kaduna State Government has named new heads for two of its tertiary institutions.
A government statement said that the Governor has approved the appointments of Professors Shehu Dalhatu and Emmanuel Joseph Chom as administrators for Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria, and Kaduna State College of Education, Gidan Waya, respectively. The appointment of the administrators is with immediate effect, and for a period of six months.
The administrators are replacing Professor Dalhatu Balarabe Yahaya, former rector of Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria and Mrs. Hope Hajara Gajere, former provost of the Kaduna State College of Education. According to the statement, the Governor, on behalf of the people and Government of Kaduna State, has thanked the former rector and the provost for the services rendered to the state in their respective capacities.
The Kaduna State Executive Council recently approved the White Papers on the reports of the visitation panels to its tertiary institutions. A range of recommendations to strengthen the institutions were made and accepted. The new administrators are expected to oversee the implementation of measures to revamp the institutions within their six-month tenure.
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Santorum announces his Iowa staff has been doubled
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Republican presidential candidate and winner of the 2012 Iowa Republican Caucus today announced that his campaign has added five additional staff members to his Iowa Campaign Team: Steven Munoz, Patti Brown, Jane Jech, Bob Algard, and Connor Stokes.
The five new Iowa staff additions will complement the efforts of Iowa Senior Advisor Cody Brown, State Director Walt Rogers, State Coalitions Director Kim Lehman, and Caucus Coalitions Advisor Karen Fesler.
Rick Santorum said: “While most campaign’s are slashing salaries and laying-off staff, our campaign continues to grow. I am excited to announce that our campaign has added five talented and hard-working members to our Iowa Team. Steven, Patti, Jane, Bob, and Connor will play an important role in our campaign’s efforts to repeat as Iowa Caucus victors and I am looking forward to working with them in the weeks to come.”
Steven Munoz will serve as Operations and Advance Director in Iowa.
In this capacity, Munoz will work directly with Iowa Senior Advisor Cody Brown and Iowa State Director Walt Rogers on Iowa campaign advance and logistics. Munoz first worked to implement Santorum’s 2011 Ames Straw Poll strategy and Iowa Caucus Captain Program. Following the 2011 Iowa Straw Poll, Munoz was promoted to a senior role in Santorum’s South Carolina Team and ultimately the National Advance and Travel Teams. Previously, Munoz served as statewide coordinator for the Gresham Barrett for Governor (R-SC) campaign. In 2014, Munoz worked with the French government to assist with the operations for American veterans at the ceremonies for the 70th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, France.
Patti Brown will serve as the Santorum Campaign’s Field Representative for Polk County.
Brown is one of central Iowa’s leading conservative activists, currently serving on the Executive Committee of the Dallas County, Iowa Republican Party. During the 2012 election, Brown was a member of Santorum’s Iowa Statewide Steering Committee. Brown was also appointed by Governor Terry Branstad (R-IA) to the Iowa Community Action Agency Commission and the 5th Judicial Nominating Committee. Brown has also served as the Director of the Iowa Policy Institute.
Jane Jech will serve as a Field Representative for the Santorum Campaign in Northeast Iowa.
Jech graduated from Iowa State University with a B.A. and lives and has raised her family in Marshalltown, Iowa. Jech is a former candidate for the Iowa State House of Representatives and the Iowa State Senate.
Bob Algard will serve as a Field Representative for the Santorum Campaign in Northwest Iowa.
Algard previously worked for Chick-fil-A in a development role as an Operations Director. Algard is a graduate of The Citadel with a degree in Business Administration. He also served as Class President and Battalion Commander. In 2014, Algard worked as a volunteer coordinator on several successful Senatorial and Congressional campaigns in South Carolina and Virginia, including Senator Tim Scott and Governor Nikki Haley’s re-election.
Connor Stokes will serve as a Field Representative for the Santorum Campaign in Southwest Iowa.
Stokes, a native of the Omaha/Council Bluffs area, recently graduated from The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. Before joining the campaign Connor was a regional development representative and sales manager in downtown St. Louis.
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AKA: ブギーポップは笑わない , (Boogiepop wa Warawanai); Boogiepop Doesn't Laugh
Genre: Atmospheric sci-fi horror mystery
Distributor: R1 DVD from Right Stuf International
Content Rating: PG-13 to R (some language, disturbing imagery, violence)
Also Recommended: Serial Experiments Lain, Vampire Princess Miyu (OAV), Noir
Probably the most difficult plot synopsis in the entire history of anime, as part of the viewing experience is figuring out what's going on and who the characters are. This synopsis is in chronological format, but the series is not.
Here's the easy part:
Five years ago there was a rash of killings that, for unknown reasons, stopped as suddenly as they started.
Next, cut to one month ago: The night the light appeared and changed everything, from the people who inhabit the city to the city's day to day feel, leaving in it's absence an odd looking "rainbow."
Finally, to the present: Children are disappearing without a trace. Rumor has it that they were taken away by a being called Boogiepop, the modern day Angel of Death. But is Boogiepop real, or just an urban legend?
Moto has a line in the first episode that follows: "It's the individual pieces of the puzzle which form the whole picture." This line, along with the underlying moral of the series, is very prophetic because it basically guides you through the rest of the series, from how the story is presented, to the music and sound of the anime, and to how the artwork integrates with and completes those two.
First things first: The story. Boogiepop Phantom is presented and written in a way almost entirely unique to anything else I have seen in anime. Each episode takes on a different point of view and tells a different story that, when integrated with the other eleven stories, makes Boogiepop Phantom. The original writing in this anime is, in a single word, "crisp," interweaving twelve different stories with a few similar scenes, just to let you know, first, where in the timeline the story takes place and, second, how this story fits with the rest of the series. Now, this would be a nightmare if there were even slight story discrepancies between episodes or, for that matter, if handled badly and uncaringly by the distributor/translator/script writer that brought it to America, but thankfully though, Right Stuf did an absolutely amazing job with this title. The scriptwriter and voice actors worked what must have been weeks on end to make sure that lines that needed to be emphasized to get the story across were, and keeping true to the original Japanese script. Even the dubbing (which, as all anime watchers know, can be a major deviation from the original story) is incredibly accurate, following the subtitles almost word-for-word. As if the whole storyline aspect of the anime wouldn't be difficult enough to follow, the series also follows no set timeline in it's presentation, with one episode nearer to the middle taking place "before" the rest of the series, and with another episode playing it's events in reverse order. This may seem rather random and whimsical to some people, but it's all very calculated to present this series with the maximum impact possible, something that it succeeds at very well, again, if you're an attentive audience member.
We next discuss the music and sound of the series. This anime contains so many different sounds and music within it's episodes, embracing not only the slightly anime-typical electronic off-beat music, but also a revision of the classical piece "Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg" by Richard Wagner, and incredible sound effects which only get better if you have the capabilities to hear the Dolby 5.1 surround. The voice actors in this series also put in an incredible effort, working closely with the scriptwriter to get the emphasis and voice tones just right. Several people within the voice acting buisness have even pointed out this anime as being Jessica Calvello's (Excel Saga, His & Her Circumstances) best performance to date.
Finally, the unique visual style adds to the overall presentation by providing, in conjunction with the sound and music, an atmosphere to the series. Everything until the last episode is colored in darker, hazy tones, giving the audience an odd sense of focus, almost like tunnel vision, that allows the audience to look into the series instead of just watching it - Madhouse, who also worked on Ninja Scroll and VHD: Bloodlust, really did an awesome job on this anime). The visual and audio style of this series gives it a totally unique atmosphere which seems to draw the best out of similar "atmospheric" anime like Lain, the Vampire Princess Miyu OVAs, and Noir.
I bought the first disk on a recommendation from a friend and was hooked after the first episode. Now, after multiple re-viewings and a run though or two with the director's commentary on, the final episode of the series sealed it for me: Dark, atmospheric, confusing, and impressive all at the same time, this series is a work of art. The story, the sound, and the artwork all come together in this series to form, in my opinion, a masterpiece.
Amazing, surrealistic, everything I wanted - like Noir, minus the sex appeal, apparent humor, and mindnumbingly slow recaps. Subtract three stars if you watch anime, but don't want to have to -watch- anime, picking up and deciphering clues as you go along. — Isaac Cynova
Recommended Audience: It's an adult anime just because of the story and how it's told. The horror-type violence would add to that as well, but basically, your kids won't watch this anyway.
Version(s) Viewed: R1 DVD, bilingual
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Turn Out The Lights — Before The Party’s Over
Posted on March 29, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer
The Sydney Opera House and Harbor Bridge appear at dusk. The Australian city was the site of the first Earth Hour in 2007, in which lights on prominent landmarks were turned off to raise awareness about global warming. Photograph by Sam Abell/NGS
Earth Hour: Cities, Landmarks to Go Dark
By Ker Thanfor / National Geographic News / March 28, 2008
Cities around the world will briefly go dim Saturday evening as the lights of buildings and landmarks are shut off for one hour to raise awareness about climate change. Called Earth Hour, the event is organized by the conservation nonprofit WWF to encourage people to conserve electricity and reduce the greenhouse emissions that cause global warming.
(Get the facts on global warming.)
Earth Hour started last year with one city, Sydney, Australia.
The response was so strong that WWF decided to take the event global for 2008, said WWF spokesperson Leslie Aun. “We were trying to get a few people to participate, but we ended up getting 2 million people and some 2,500 businesses,” Aun said.
This year, Earth Hour will include 35 official partner cities, as well as dozens of smaller cities spread out across six continents.
Partner cities in the United States include Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix, and San Francisco. “We have a city in every major U.S. time zone participating,” Aun said.
The event will take place from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. local time in each time zone.
(National Geographic Channel is the U.S. media partner for Earth Hour. National Geographic Channel and National Geographic News are both owned by the National Geographic Society.)
Landmarks Go Dark
In the United States, WWF President Carter Roberts sent letters to mayors around the country inviting them to take part.
Earth Hour organizers targeted cities where they felt mayors had shown genuine interest in the environment. Cities with iconic skylines were also preferred, Aun said. “It’s an event that everyone can take part in, but it makes a bigger statement if you can see a few skyscrapers go out,” she said.
Last year in Sydney, decorative lights at the city’s Opera House and Harbor Bridge went dark.
Following in that tradition, the lights of major landmarks in participating cities will be turned off for Earth Hour 2008. The Golden Gate Bridge and Bay Bridge in San Francisco will go dark, as will the CNN Tower in Atlanta, the basketball arena in Phoenix, and the Sears Tower and Theater District in Chicago.
“The witch from [the Broadway musical] Wicked is going to come out and wave her wand to turn off the light of the theater there,” Aun said. Individual consumers are also being encouraged to dim their lights for the hour.
Numbers Dispute
Some critics have disputed WWF’s claims that Sydney experienced a 10 percent drop in electricity consumption during Earth Hour last year.
But differences over numbers are beside the point, Aun said. “The point is not to save energy,” she said. “We could turn off the lights of the whole world for an hour, and it wouldn’t really move the needle in terms of making a genuine difference in climate change.
“Instead, Earth Hour is intended to raise awareness about climate change and to get people thinking about what they can do to reduce their energy usage for the coming year,” she said.
When nine o’ clock comes, we hope that’s not the end of this, but really a start in which people are looking at what they can do as citizens of the world,” Aun said. To those who dismiss Earth Hour as just a publicity stunt, Aun responds that so was the Boston Tea Party. “It was a symbolic movement that lit a flame that ultimately led to a revolution,” she said. “We happen to think this is the next revolution, that climate change is the most pressing issue facing our planet today. “
Scientists’ Response
Despite its good intentions, some scientists worry that people will misinterpret the goal of Earth Hour. “It seems to imply that shutting off the lights is the only solution to climate change,” said Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Science in New York City.
But Andreas Schmittner, an oceanographer at Oregon State University, said that as long as carbon emissions keep increasing, anything that raises awareness about climate change is a good thing. “We have not gone to any effective measure to reduce those carbon emissions,” Schmittner said. “Until that is achieved, it is good to raise awareness to keep the issue in the public discussion.”
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Avatars of the Astral Worlds
From astral projection to out of body experiences, the Astral world has been an endless source of wonder and mystery. From ancient knowledge to present day religious and spiritual beliefs, astral projection is both magical and misunderstood. What do we know? Where do we go from here? Find out in this new documentary exploring the other side of reality, it’s Astral Worlds.
Director: Kim Harrington
Batman and Me: A Devotion to Destiny, the Bob Kane Story
A look at the life of Bob Kane, the creator of Batman.
Image and music are intertwined in this third collaboration between director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass. The film was produced to celebrate the World Wildlife Fund’s Biological Diversity Campaign….
A vast, timely, and often chilling investigation into the idea and practice of democracy, ranging from Ancient Greece and Renaissance Europe to civil rights, fears of voter fraud, and the…
With the epic dimensions of a Shakespearean tragedy, The Queen of Versailles follows billionaires Jackie and David’s rags-to-riches story to uncover the innate virtues and flaws of their American dream….
Country: USA, Netherlands, UK, Denmark
The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames were America’s most influential and important industrial designers. Admired for their creations and fascinating as individuals, they have risen to iconic status…
Interstellar: Nolan’s Odyssey
Behind the scenes of Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi drama, which stars Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway
Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas
Christmas abounds with traditions, from neighborhood carolers to lovingly decorated trees, but from where did all these rituals emerge? This enlightening program looks at the origins of the Western world’s…
Hidden Colors 2 is the follow up to the critically acclaimed 2011 documentary about the untold history of people of African and aboriginal descent. This installment of Hidden Colors goes…
The academy award winning documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta. Director Zana Briski went to photograph the prostitutes when she met…
In the summer of 2015, former US Marine and world record weightlifter Matt “Kroc” Kroczaleski was publicly outed as being transgender. The reaction was universal: her sponsors abandoned her, she…
Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim.
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Tag: genderED
Welcome to the 16 Days Blogathon 2019!
Introduction to 2019 Blogathon
Welcome to our annual blogathon to mark the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign. We are now in our third year of bringing together some of the most important voices from civil society, academia and government around the world. Once again, the blogathon marks a collaboration between GenderEd at the University of Edinburgh, the Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW Sydney and Ambedkar University, Delhi.
From refugee policies putting women in danger of gender-based violence to the undermining of women’s reproductive rights at the UN, to the Counting Dead Women projects (such as in Australia, the UK and in the US), there is much to suggest that the world is as grim a place as ever for women, girls and their rights. As UN Women note,
“Violence against women is the leading cause of death and disability of women no matter their age”.
Along with the writers whose work you will read over the coming days, and the more than 6,000 organisations who run 16 Days campaigns every year, we are united in our commitment to women’s equality and share a desire to see a world free from sexual and gender-based violence.
From Monday 25 November 2019 (the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women) to 10 December (Human Rights Day), we will be posting blogs that explore some of the most pressing issues in gender-based violence. Our remarkable contributors look at the many ways in which gender-based violence interacts with health, trans identities, migration, sexualities and disabilities. They write about political rhetoric that invokes gender-based violence, and the promises and limits of legal systems. They write narratives and poetry, and explore the potential of thread and comic books to tell different stories – or to tell stories differently.
Through their blogs, we travel from Scotland to Myanmar, and from the Pacific to South Africa via India and beyond. We see how gender-based violence exists in all spheres – from past to emerging and ongoing conflicts, in houses and on university campuses, and in the smallest of villages to the largest of cities. It affects women and girls of all ages, of all backgrounds, from all places.
We will be posting updates on Twitter from @UoE_genderED and @HumanRightsUNSW and look forward to sharing these stories with you over the next 16 days. We hope that you will share them further.
We couldn’t have asked for a better person to open our 2019 blogathon than Eve Ensler – best-selling author, playwright, anti-violence activist, and initiator of V-Day and 1 Billion Rising. In her powerful blog, Eve reflects on the crafting of her 2019 book The Apology, in which she wrote the apology that she knew she would never receive from her abuser: her father. For our first blog of the year, we are therefore delighted to introduce Eve Ensler’s piece, ‘My father never apologized for sexually abusing me. So I wrote his apology for him’ (reposted with kind permission from NBC News).
Signed, Co-curators of the 16 Days blogathon
Fiona Mackay, Director genderED, University of Edinburgh
Louise Chappell, Director Australian Human Rights Institute, University of New South Wales
Rukmini Sen, Director Center for Publishing, Ambedkar University Delhi
Caitlin Hamilton, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Australian Human Rights Institute, University of New South Wales
Natasha Dyer, PhD candidate, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
Author uoegenderedPosted on November 25, 2019 November 25, 2019 Categories UncategorizedTags 16DaysOfActivism, 1Billion, Feminism, gender and politics, GenderBasedViolence, genderED, HumanRightsUNSW, MeToo, VDay1 Comment on Welcome to the 16 Days Blogathon 2019!
Day One | Introduction
photo credit: Jeanne Menjoulet 8 mars 2018 via photopin (license)
Written by Fiona Mackay (University of Edinburgh), Louise Chappell (University of New South Wales), Krishna Menon (Ambedkar University Delhi)
Welcome to our blogathon to mark the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign. Here we plan to post a blog on each of the 16 Days of Activism, to bring attention to a particular aspect of the scourge of violence against women which occurs in ‘peacetime’ and conflict, at international, national and local levels, in our homes, in public spaces and workplaces, on campuses, in parliaments, corporations and third sector organisations, in sport, militaries and entertainment industries. Topics will range from #MeToo, to gender-based violence and the rights of children, to addressing gender-based violence in post-conflict settlements.
The blogathon is a collaboration across our three organisations, which seek to advance women’s equality and support a world free from sexual and gender based violence: GenderEd at the University of Edinburgh, the Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW Sydney and Ambedkar University, Delhi.
The 16 Days of Activism is now in its 27th year, originating from the first Women’s Global Leadership Institute in 1991. The program starts on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and ends on 10 December, Human Rights Day, in an effort to galvanise action to end violence against women and girls around the world.
This year the theme is #HearMeToo, directed towards exposing the magnitude of sexual harassment and other forms of violence suffered by women everywhere. It is aimed at breaking the silence around gender-based violence, where ever it happens, and transforming the behaviours, norms and institutions that support gender-based violence.
Attention to gender-based violence is arguably greater than ever, as evidenced by the international reach of the #metoo movement across all sectors, and this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for 2018 awarded to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.
New efforts are taking place at local, national and international levels to stamp out gender-based violence and to protect and empower victim/survivors of. Within our own settings we have recently seen positive developments: In India, transformative training programmes for police, including the Justice for Her initiative, following on from the infamous 2012 Delhi gang rape; In Australia, the introduction of paid domestic violence leave; and, in Scotland, new laws to tackle coercive control that have been described as ‘gold standard’. At the UN-EU level, the new €500 million Spotlight Initiative, a multi-year program focused on eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls. Internationally, each of the Security Council’s Women, Peace and Security Resolutions and the International Criminal Court have mandates to ensure women’s voices are heard and to strengthen accountability for victims of sexual and gender-based violence.
Yet, the problem remains in epidemic proportions. Globally, the WHO cites gender-based violence as a major public health problem and a violation of women’s human rights. According to recent WHO data across 80 countries, almost one third of all women who have been in a relationship have experienced physical and/or sexual violence by their intimate partner. Globally, as many as 38% of all murders of women are committed by intimate partners. In addition to intimate partner violence, globally 7% of women report having been sexually assaulted by someone other than a partner. Evidence shows that intimate partner and sexual violence are mostly perpetrated by men against women. New forms of technology and the cyber-sphere are further exacerbating this problem.
According to the Thomson Reuters Foundation poll in 2018, India holds the dubious reputation of being the world’s most dangerous country for women and girls, due to the high risk of sexual violence and trafficking. But countries including Australia and the UK are by no means immune to the problem. As the femicide index initiative called ‘Counting Dead Women’ shows, in the UK and Australia, more than 100 women each year are killed by their current or former intimate partners, in ways that follow a similar pattern, and occur in similar circumstances.
Trends across the globe in terms of resurgent authoritarianism, rising populist movements, xenophobia, militarisation and securitisation (including the ongoing so-called War on Terror) create a dangerous and insecure environment for all; but women (particularly women from minority groups, castes, and identities) experience the effects, and lose rights and freedoms, in ways very different to men.
Clearly, much more needs to be done.
Across the next 16 days we will bring together a range of academic researchers and students, practitioners from NGOs and international organisations, and activists to amplify the 16 Days of Activism, and to expose, share, and campaign on a range of issues.
Author christinaneuwirthPosted on November 25, 2018 December 9, 2018 Categories 16 DaysTags Ambedkar University, Australian Human Rights Institute, gender, gender and politics, gender-based violence, genderED, governance, human rights, politics, research, truth, university, University of Edinburgh, UNSW, womens marchLeave a comment on Day One | Introduction
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Home UK England Former Muslim Aid trustees reject Charity Commission’s “serious mismanagement” findings
Former Muslim Aid trustees reject Charity Commission’s “serious mismanagement” findings
The former board of trustees of Muslim Aid have issued a joint statement rejecting the Charity Commission’s findings of “serious mismanagement” which was published on Thursday 6 December.
The following statement was released yesterday:
“The former trustees take serious issue with a number of the Commission’s comments, conclusions and the tone and balance with which those conclusions are reported.
It will be clear to any reader that the Commission’s overall finding of serious mismanagement is entirely out of proportion to the matters upon which it appears to be based. Unfortunately, along with the SORI (Statement of Results of the Inquiry) itself, the Commission’s Press Release can be described as unfair and unbalanced.
We are concerned what effect this Inquiry will have on the overall Muslim charity sector whose only crime, it would seem, is to facilitate the generosity of British Muslims.
The balance and tone of the Report is made all the more disappointing given that in crucial respects it fully vindicates the former Trustees. Thus, the Report rightly confirms that there has been no illegal funding of proscribed organisations. Importantly, the Report also rightly makes clear that the inquiry found no evidence of irregular or improper use of the charity’s funds. This confirmation is important because since 9/11, with a hostile atmosphere against Muslims, Muslim Aid itself was under greater scrutiny and had to deal with false slurs from certain sections of the media that its funds were diverted to extremists rather than aiding the poor. The Report also recognises the “vital relief work” carried on by the charity around the world, often in very difficult conditions.
The former trustees agree that the rapid pace of expansion of the charity created weaknesses in some governance systems of overseas branches in unstable areas of the world. However, as guardians of other people’s money, the trustees (many of whom were founding trustees) willingly opened themselves up to greater regulatory scrutiny, fully cooperated with the Charity Commission, appointed forensic experts and implemented procedures suggested by independent external advisors to ensure that its governance controls are kept up with the phenomenal growth of the organisation”. To that extent, while they believe the criticisms in the Report to be unbalanced and in many respects inaccurate, they also accept that there are lessons to be learned moving forward.
The former trustees always put the charity’s interests first and sought to bring in new skill sets on the board. They immediately took remedial steps, including the replacement of executive staff; some of them willingly stepped down as trustees to make way for others whose skills were suited to the organisation had become. The former trustees’ conduct was praised by the Commission on various occasions during the process, and the Commission has recognised their integrity.
In some ways it could be said that Muslim Aid has been a victim of its own success. Its income rose from £24,789 in 2011/12 to £34,659 in 2013/14. Its ambitious works spread into numerous developing countries including the high risk areas, with hundreds of projects and thousands of employees. This brought challenges to the board of MA 1985 trustees. We have passionately tried to discharge our duties as trustees with selflessness to cope with the expanded works of the charity.
We are grateful to the Muslim community for its solid support for Muslim Aid over the decades. We were honoured to oversee an organisation that earned a reputation of channelling millions to the world’s poor. The Charity Commission found shortcomings which we tried to deal with straight away. We hope there are lessons to be learnt for trustees in charities throughout the sector.”
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There is so much contradictory Absinthe information available online and in books, it’s hard to know what to believe.
Misleading Absinthe Information
One book “Absinthe The Cocaine of the 19th Century: A History of the Hallucinogenic Drug and its Effect on Artists and Writersin Europe and the United States” by Doris Lanier, compares Absinthe to drugs such as cocaine because it was said to be addictive, to give a sense of euphoria, have psychedelic effects and weaken the brain and other faculties.
During the 19th and 20th century Absinthe became popular all over the world. This was a time in history when many of today’s illegal drugs like crack cocaine, morphine and heroin were developed and used by normal everyday people for medicine, on prescription for coughs etc. In drinks also. Bars used to sell Absinthe, Vin Maraiani and Coca Cola. As these drugs and drinks were all thought to be harmless so they were widely consumed throughout Europe.
Absinthe was linked with these drugs because of its popularity with Bohemian artists and writers and with the loose morals of the courtesans of the Moulin Rouge and Montmartre.
Thujone was also claimed to be psychoactive and same as THC in the drug cannabis. The essential oils contain THC which affects the central nervous system and thujone which affects the GABA receptors in the brain. The effects of wormwood is similar to cannabis intoxication when smoked as a joint or consumed in large amount.
Absinthe was banned along with some drugs in the early 1900s in most of the countries all over the world. Everyone knows that it was banned due to madness of the time. Most of the people and websites are there today who mention Absinthe in the same sentence as magic mushrooms, LSD, weed, cannabis and ecstasy.
Absinthe Information – What we now know
We know that medical studies on Absintheand wormwood in the past were not accurate and were “colored” by the prohibition movement of the time and the worry that Absinthe was a drug. The thujone content in Absinthe is so less that it cannot have any dangerous effects. Even tests on vintage pre ban Absinthe has proved that it hardly contained any thujone at all. Before suffering from thujone a person would die of alcohol poisoning.
As many countries has authorized Absinthe so it can now be drunk anywhere across the world.
It is easy to get drunk on Absinthe because of it’s high proof. Due to the double quantity of the alcohol content in it one must take care when consuming it. The alcoholism experienced by Absinthe is far different from other spirits or fermented beverages. It is said to be a “lucid” or “clear headed” type of drunkenness. This can be described by the blend of herbs and the alcohol. These qualities are also enhanced by preparing cocktails containing Absinthe and the caffeine loaded drink!
Anyone can be confused by believing on some of the misleading Absinthe information. However, it is a great tasting herbal alcoholic beverage which is fun to prepare and has a great anise flavor. One can get real, top-quality Absinthe essences from AbsintheKit.com to prepare his own wormwood Absinthe at home.One can enjoy Absinthe on less expense at AbsintheKit.com.
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