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Freedom and Peace Movement
http://courage.btk.mta.hu/courage/individual/n3510?sq
The Freedom and Peace Movement (Ruch "Wolność i Pokój", WiP) was a Polish opposition group set up in 1985. What triggered the creation of the WiP was the trial and imprisonment of Marek Adamkiewicz, a conscientious objector, in 1984. Originally a grassroots initiative, the Freedom and Peace Movement evolved into a pacifist, anti-communist, environmentalist, and human rights organization, which became one of the most active opposition groups in Poland. It collaborated with similar organizations in Western Europe, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the GDR. Initially, the WiP operated in Warsaw, Krakow, Gdańsk and Wrocław. Its members represented diverse political persuasions including pacifism, anarchism, national conservatism, and Catholic social thought. The WiP took part in the 1988 strikes, triggered the 1988 reform of military service which introduced alternative civilian service for conscripts, and led the successful protests against the construction of the Żarnowiec nuclear power plant. The group got marginalized in 1988/89 and disbanded itself in 1992.
http://ruchwip.pl/
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Polish Underground Publications Collection at Polish Library POSK in London
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Walt Disney To Release Studio Ghibli’s Arrietty Within 1,200 Screens In The US
Published by カリス on February 7, 2012 February 7, 2012
Walt Disney Pictures is said to be releasing the Secret World of Arriety within US, hitting 1,200 screens on the February 17th. This is the most prominent US release of a Ghibli Studio creation to date, as reported by the Wall Street Journal financial newspaper. Co-executive producers Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy of the American Dub told the Wall Street Journal financial that the film’s marketing will be widespread, as they will plan to take in the fans of the classic bestseller The Borrowers (1952) by Mary Norton, to which the animation was based in.
Marshall and Kennedy were also the same producers of the American Dub Ghibli Animation Ponyo, which appeared in 927 screens and topped $15.1 Million back in 2009. Other Ghibli films were also highlighted in the big screen yet did not produce much impact within their respective airing. Howl’s Moving Castle opened in 202 screens in 2005, producing only $4.7 Million while Spirited Away opened in 26 screens back in 2002, resulting to $10 Million as its gross value. Princess Mononoke, which is the first of the films Walt Disney has released from Studio Ghibli, appeared in only 8 theaters and produced only $2.4 Million.
The Secret World of Arrietty, also known in Japan as the Borrower Arriety, is an animation adapted from Mary Norton’s the Borrowers. It was directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and was written by the renown children’s animation producer/ writer Hayao Miyazaki. Arietty is a young Borrower, living beneath the floorboards of a common home. She befriends Sho, a human whose greatly troubled with his failing heart condition. Sho lives with his great aunt named Sadako and their maid Haru, who soon grew a curious suspicion about other secret dwellers within their home. Arrietty and her family faces much trouble as they are tangled by Sho’s friendship, and their desire to remain undetected by unknowing humans. The Secret World of Arrietty first opened in Japan in July 2010.
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Baritone Todd Duncan, the original ‘Porgy’
Herb Boyd | 8/1/2019, 2:05 p.m.
Todd Duncan Contributed
If Anne Brown has appeared, can Todd Duncan be far behind? Certainly not in this column that featured her last week. She was the original “Bess” and Duncan was the original “Porgy,” whose names combined represent the musical composed by George Gershwin based on a book by Du Bose Heyward.
Brown and Duncan rose to national acclaim in the premier production of “Porgy and Bess” in 1935. Duncan was 32, having been born Robert Todd Duncan on Feb. 12, 1903, in Danville, Kentucky. His father, John, was a garage owner and his mother, Lettie (Cooper), was a music teacher, and undoubtedly gave her son his first piano and music lessons.
But it was later at Butler University in Indianapolis that Duncan earned his bachelor degree in music and his master’s degree in arts from Columbia University Teachers College.
A year before his historic breakthrough, in 1934, he debuted in Pietro Mascagni’s “Cavalleria rusticana” at the Mecca Temple in New York with the Aeolian Opera, a Black opera company. When he was chosen to portray Porgy, Gershwin personally selected him for the role, one that he performed more than 1,800 times. Like Brown, Duncan was obstinate about performing at venues that discriminated against people of color, and he was the ringleader when the cast protested the National Theatre’s segregation policy in the nation’s capital. He stated that he “would never play in a theater which barred him from purchasing tickets to certain seats because of his race.”
As was noted in the profile of Brown, the theater capitulated and permitted the first integrated performance at the landmark theater. Duncan was also the first performer for the role of Stephen Kumalo in Kurt Weill’s “Lost in the Stars.”
In 1938, he appeared on the London stage at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in C.B. Cochran’s musical production “The Sun Never Sets.” Among the noted performers in the production were Adelaide Hall and Edna Best. Stewart Granger, later to establish himself as a leading matinee idol, was also in the cast. The musical was adapted by Pat Wallace and Guy Bolton from various stories written by Edgar Wallace. Cole Porter composed the original music. “River God” is the only memorable song from the musical.
After the London run closed, Duncan and Hall toured Britain with the production. Two years later, he was ensconced at Howard University where he taught voice for the next 15 years, and among his students was vocalist Philip Booth. Even with a teaching load, he continued performing as a soloist, often accompanied by pianists William Duncan Allen and George Malloy. In this capacity, he racked up more than 2,000 performances in more than 50 countries as well as two film roles.
In 1945, he retired from Howard and opened his own voice studio and taught a number of students, intermittently continuing a string of recitals. This same year he became the first African-American to sing with a major opera company, and the first Black person to sing with an otherwise white cast as Tonio in Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci” with the New York City Opera. Later, the same year, he sang the role of Escamillo, the matador, in Bizet’s “Carmen.” Ten years later, in 1955, he was the first to record the ever popular “Unchained Melody,” composed by Alex North with lyrics by Hy Zaret.
The song was part of the soundtrack for the film “Unchained,” in which Duncan had a cameo appearance. Several singers recorded versions of the song, perhaps none more successfully than the one by Al Hibbler. In 1978, Duncan was the recipient of a major birthday salute by the Washington Performing Arts Society.
Among the awards he amassed was the George Peabody Medal of Music from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in 1984. Other awards included an honor from Haiti and one from the NAACP, the New York Drama Critics’ Award for his performance in “Lost in the Stars,” and honorary doctorates from Valparaiso and Butler University. He was also a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Throughout his illustrious career, Duncan always relished opportunities to sing spirituals and spoke fondly of them in one of his final interviews. “Spirituals are so deep inside of me, it’s difficult for me to find words that are meaningful. Spirituals are a part of whatever I am. When I sing them my being sings them, not my throat…it is very difficult for me to put in words something that is at the bottom of my very being.”
And there are splendid recordings of his versions of “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” and “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen.”
Duncan died of a heart ailment at his home in Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 1998, leaving to mourn his passing his wife, Gladys Jackson Duncan, and his adopted son, Charles, a successful attorney.
Soprano Anne Brown, Gershwin’s ‘Bess’
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Model of a boat
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Tomb equipment, model boats
Ancient Egyptian period, Middle Kingdom, 11th dynasty (2055-1985 BCE)
Unknown (Confiscated in 1952 (Case number 253))
A model boat that originally carried eight sailors, four of whom are missing. The boat has no sail and the sailors were equipped with oars which were fixed in the holes made in their fists. The Bow takes the shape of the head of a strange creature
The democratization of funerary beliefs and customs in the First Intermediate Period (c.2181-2000 BC) inspired many less well-off Egyptians to create representations of their own daily environment which they believed would continue in the afterlife. Unable to afford the scenes carved and painted on the tomb walls of wealthier Egyptians, poorer individuals purchased models representing various aspects of the daily life and placed them in the tomb.
The models included figures of household servants performing cooking tasks, farm laborers tending animals and crops, and men involved in manufacturing processes. These models were believed, just like wall scenes, to magically sustain the dead in their afterlife within the tomb, providing the food, drink, clothing, shelter that would be needed for continued existence.
Among the most important categories were model boats, as they were believed to provide transport along the river Nile, Egypt's main artery of communication. They were found in tombs primarily in the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom, although examples are known both earlier and later. Two or more boats were usually included in the burial; at least one representing the crew sailing upstream with the prevailing winds and placed facing south, the other equipped for rowing north with the current of the river (like the one we have here) and placed with the bow facing north. The largest collection of boat models was found in the tomb of Djehuty-Nakht at Bersheh and it comprised fifty five boats.
Some of the boat models had a religious significance. According to ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, Osiris’s body was taken by a boat for burial at Abydos, his chief cult place. In their lifetime, many Egyptians either made a pilgrimage to Abydos or sent a votive stela or both. In death they also wished to be buried there, or at least that their mummy should visit this sacred town. Usually, of course, not even this was possible so a wooden model of the deceased's mummy on a boat or a representation of this journey on the tomb wall had to serve instead.
Carol Andrews, Egyptian Mummies (London: British Museum Press, 1984).
Sue D'Auria et al., Mummies and Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt (Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1988).
Stuart Fleming et al., The Egyptian Mummy Secrets and Science, University Museum Handbook 1 (Philadelphia, PA: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1980.
Mona Serry, ed., Bibliotheca Alexandrina: Antiquities Museum, introduction by Ismail Serageldin (Alexandria: Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Antiquities Museum, 2015): 42-43, 314.
Angela M. J. Tooley, “Models”, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, edited by Donald B. Redford, vol. 2 (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001): 424-428.
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LEGO: The Lord of the Rings
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Zoological Letters has Launched! A Q&A with the Editor-in-Chief.
January 2015 marks the launch of an exciting new journal in the field of Zoology, Zoological Letters. We spoke to the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Shigeru Kuratani, about the origin, aims and scope of this new journal.
Shigeru Kuratani 3 Feb 2015
Museum collection of some of the world's remarkable biodiversity. Credit: Dan McKay
Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Shigeru Kuratani
The Zoological Society of Japan has long published a subscription journal, by the name of Zoological Science. Why is Zoological Letters an important addition to the literature, and what benefits will this sister journal bring?
As a sister journal of Zoological Science, Zoological Letters will cover a wide range of basic fields of zoology, from taxonomy to bioinformatics. Zoological Letters aims to publish more selected original and review articles, approximately 30 papers per annum. In contrast, Zoological Science extensively publishes over 100 papers per year worldwide. Also, Zoological Letters will serve as a pipeline to the database of all animal species published in past issues of Zoological Science.
Why was it important to launch Zoological Letters in a fully Open Access format?
Zoological Letters is 100% open access. This strategy is absolutely essential to the Society’s goal of supporting and fostering basic zoological research in the international zoological community. As the publication platform, it can adapt to the rapidly changing world of academic publishing. It is very important for basic zoological journals, including Zoological Science, to be stabilized at a time when commercial concerns have created competition between journals. This, of course, has had a strong impact on pure scientific research. Zoological Letters is being launched as a new open access journal in the field of zoological research — a stronghold of fundamental science — in response to the requirements of future zoologists all over the world.
Zoological Letters is being launched as a new open access journal in the field of zoological research — a stronghold of fundamental science — in response to the requirements of future zoologists all over the world.
What is your background, and why did you decide to become an Editor-in-Chief, first of Zoological Science and now Zoological Letters?
I was primarily trained in Kyoto University in the field of comparative morphology, mainly focusing upon the skeletal system of vertebrates, especially amniotes. One day, looking at the developing skull of the mouse, I came to an idea that the vertebrate skull is composed of metamerical elements equivalent to the vertebra, almost like the classical ‘Vertebral Theory’ by Goethe. I still remember my mentor was laughing (rather positively) while listening to me. This experience opened up the door to a classical world of comparative morphology and comparative embryology, fields that in Japan had long been dead. So, I obtained my copies of classical textbooks like those written by A. S. Romer or E. S. Goodrich, for example, which I read every day.
When I first obtained a position at Department of Anatomy, University of the Ryukyus, my primary question was still the segmental organization of the head and its evolutionary origin, which continued into my postdoctoral life in USA where I was engaged in experimental embryology of the central and peripheral nervous system. Like skeletal elements, the nervous system also shows segmental patterns in vertebrates. Up to that point, I might have been just one of those dilettantes who tend to turn their back to anything new. But I was always feeling that something developmental and genetic was shared in common between insects and vertebrates.
Incidentally, it was around that time that the Hox code was being discovered for the first time, as the genetic machinery to specify segmental anlagen in vertebrate and insect embryos. This was the beginning of what we now call Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Evo-Devo), which later became my specialty. Thus, I witnessed the moment where the classical idea of comparative morphology and molecular-level developmental biology together give birth to a totally new field of research. Simultaneously, I recognized how important it was to blend classical questions and ideas with the most advanced methodology of science. I think that experience was influential when I thought it would be exciting to create a forum where research from all the basic fields, modern or classic, can be mixed together. For this reason, I needed the term ‘Zoology’ as a part of the title of my journal.
What are currently the major challenges in the field of zoological research?
I will not try to define the current mainstream of Zoology today, and again, Zoological Letters welcomes research papers and reviews of all the basic zoological fields. So, I would like to emphasise that everybody should pursue his/her questions, and I want to stimulate research activities in every direction. Yet, the earliest four articles published upon the launch will more or less bias the further submission, I guess, which I think is inevitable. All four papers are rather Evo-Devo oriented, and three of them are obviously on vertebrates. I must stress this journal is not limited to that particular area.
In Zoological Letters also, I think I am going to prefer robust descriptions to problematic experiments, and I want my journal to be an arena where sound hypotheses lead to great discoveries, although I know that this will be very, very difficult.
I am quite interested in basic and evolutionary questions. I am much less interested in applied research of zoology, and I think there are now many other journals specialized for those areas. I would rather preserve the history of traditional zoology on a new scientific background today. So, we will handle papers in all the basic fields evenly. Truly challenging would be to publish exciting and influencing papers of very traditional fields. Fields like comparative morphology or taxonomy, for examples, are not new at all, but they still live and will never end. We can never imagine how new information from these fields will give us hints to solve big questions. In reality, they often provide us with totally new data and ideas with new technologies and ideas classically unavailable. I would like to assist survival of such important fields of zoology to enhance the activity of basic zoology as a whole. I would call that my challenge with Zoological Letters.
Hox cluster. Credit: Matteo P. Ferla
To confess, I was very much excited when I first read Peter Holland’s review (the monumental first paper of the journal). In this paper, he summarizes the advancement of recent comparative genomics, especially those of Hox-related homeobox genes, and puts forth a very exciting idea to explain the origin and diversification of metazoan body plans. I believe that this is a splendid method for raising hypotheses, especially since the scenario came up through observations and discussions from multiple angles and multiple dimensions. The story obtained like this makes us open our eyes and say “what if it is true…”. I always think unstable experimental evidence is easily exceeded by sound insights. So, I always tell my students not to jump up to easy experiments, but to think before they move their hands. In Zoological Letters also, I think I am going to prefer robust descriptions to problematic experiments, and I want my journal to be an arena where sound hypotheses lead to great discoveries, although I know that this will be very, very difficult.
Did homeobox gene duplications contribute to the Cambrian explosion?
Evolution of the vertebrate skeleton: morphology, embryology, and development
Unexpected link between polyketide synthase and calcium carbonate biomineralization
Evolutionary and developmental understanding of the spinal accessory nerve
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Shigeru Kuratani
Shigeru Kuratani received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Zoology at Kyoto University. He held the position of Group Director at the Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) from 2005 to 2014. Since 2014, he has been Chief Scientist at RIKEN.
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Zoological Letters has Launched! A Q&A with the Editor-in-Chief. - 3rd February 2015
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our elders and their wives
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Pat attended Cal Poly San Luis Obispo where he met both Christ as his Savior and his beloved wife, Camilla. Both have brought to him a life of joy, passion, and purpose. Pat graduated from Cal Poly with his BS in mechanical engineering in 1977 and was commissioned in the US Army. He served in the US Army for six years, three in Germany and three as a Special Forces A-team leader. He went into full time vocational ministry in 1983, received his M.Div. from The Master’s Seminary in 1991, and was called as pastor of Calvary Baptist in 1990. Pat strives to faithfully shepherd believers to radically follow Jesus Christ and mobilize them to make disciples of their neighbors and the nations. He and Camilla are the grateful, growing parents of eleven children and fifteen grandchildren (and counting).
Dennis cole
Dennis Cole became a follower of Jesus Christ during his senior year of high school in 1989. He and his wife Christine have adopted 5 kids - Mario, Melissa, Pete, Phineas, and Phoebe and have been foster parents for 11 kids. They began attending Calvary Baptist Huntington Beach in 1993. Dennis has served on the missions committee, nominating committee, and as a deacon for many years at Calvary, and is currently elder liaison to the deacons. Dennis plays his guitar and sings on the Sunday Morning Worship Team and he and Christine host the Calvary Amplify College Bible Study in their home every Friday Night. Their deepest desire is to bring God the glory in their home and community.
Dennis served as an English teacher and school principal for 21 years before becoming the Director of Humanities for the Orange County Department of Education. He is president of the Association of California School Administrators, Region 17, serving on their board for 8 years. He also serves as Vice-president of Legislative Action, and Director of Student Charters. Dennis is a member of the Junior Achievement Orange County Board, the Fountain Valley Schools Foundation Board, the Vanguard University Teacher Education Advisory Council, Concordia University Dean's Advisory Council, and he serves as a member of the Schools First Federal Credit Union President's Advisory Council.
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Dennis had served three years in the US Army (101st Airborne and 1st Special Forces), fifteen years with the Los Angeles County Fire Department, had two college degrees (AA and BA), was 34 years old, married, and had three children prior to responding by faith to the message of the gospel and making Jesus Christ both Savior and Lord of his life. He submitted his life to Christ in July 1984 and has been following hard after Christ ever since; serving in various ministries at Calvary including Men’s Ministry, High School Ministry, and Young Adult Ministry. Dennis retired as Captain from the Los Angeles County Fire Department after 32 years of service. Soon after leaving the Fire Service, he felt God’s call to full–time pastoral ministry and attended The Master's Seminary earning a M.Div. in 2005. He has three adult children who have blessed him with seven wonderful grandchildren.
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Dr. Ken Dean is a native Californian. He spent his early years growing up in the San Fernando Valley. He accepted Jesus as his Savior at the age of 12, thanks in part to the influence of his Godly parents and to his Christian teachers at school. Later, he attended Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA, earning a B.S. in Sports Medicine and a B.A. in Economics. After completing his undergraduate work, Ken attended the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic earning both his Doctor of Chiropractic Degree (D.C.) as well as earning post graduate certification as a Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician (C.C.S.P.). After practicing Chiropractic for many years, Ken decided that his love was teaching high school students. After earning his teaching credential at Azusa Pacific University, he is now a teacher of Human Anatomy and Physiology as well as Biology at Long Beach Polytechnic High School. Ken met Beth Showalter while attending the Long Beach Church of Christ, and the two were married in 1996. The Lord later blessed them with four wonderful children: Elisa, Kyle, Rachel, and Micah.
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Eric learned of Jesus at elementary school age, but didn’t develop a personal relationship with Him or walk with Him. He pursued his career, instead. While working in Hong Kong, Eric met his wife Reiko and they were married. Together, they have lived in Saudi Arabia, Florida and now southern California. Along the way, they came to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. Eric, Reiko and their two sons are active members of Calvary Baptist Church and Eric also serves with the Gideons International Ministry. He enjoys sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with those who need to hear it.
David grew up in Huntington Beach and came to faith in Christ at the age of seventeen after hearing the word faithfully preached at Calvary Baptist. In 1985 he married Sheri, a fellow member of Calvary, and has been blessed with three children and three grandchildren. After high school, David worked as a machinist in his family's business for over 30 years. David earned a B.A. (2007) and M.A. (2010) in Philosophy from Cal State Long Beach, and currently teaches history and social studies at a private school in Anaheim.
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Ryan has spent his entire life here at Calvary Baptist. His family moved here shortly before he was born and they quickly connected with their new church family. Thanks to the influence of his parents and various people within the congregation, Ryan accepted Christ when he was 10 years old. It was here at Calvary that Ryan met Trish in the 5th grade. They have been married for 20 years and have raised their adventurous kids, Martine and Jake, while attending here.
Ryan has worked in the Insurance Industry for over 20 years. He enjoys serving in the CBCHB High School Ministry and cherishes his gatherings with his Life Group friends. He loves spending time with his family traveling, playing games and laughing together.
Paul grew up in Thornton, Colorado in a Christian home. At the age of 12, influenced by his parents, Paul accepted Jesus Christ’s gift of salvation and became a follower of Christ. In 1968, after graduating from the Colorado School of Mines with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Paul began working with ARCO in Southern California. Shortly after moving to California, he met Sonia, and they married in 1969. Several years later, Paul accepted a position with Fluor Corporation, a large international engineering / construction company. He worked at international and USA offices with Fluor for 36 years in numerous positions, including managing an engineering department during his last 13 years. Paul received an MBA from Pepperdine University in 1982. Paul and Sonia have two married daughters and six grandchildren. Some of Paul’s interests include golfing, hiking, fishing and playing “UNO” with his grandkids. Paul serves as an elder at Calvary Baptist Church, as a leader at Bible Study Fellowship and in several roles in Christian/non-profit organizations.
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Jere came to know Jesus as Savior and Lord as a young man just starting out as a husband and father, and he has followed Christ ever since. Jere and his wife Robyn count 6 children, one son-in-law, and 2 grandchildren as blessings from God. His career in the event business started at Disneyland where he worked special events and promotions, tours, and entertainment support. Now Jere works for a trade show contractor as a Senior Account Manager. He is involved in several ministries here at CBCHB including Membership, Partners in Education, Youth, teaching Classes at Calvary, driving the church bus and sometimes sharing the message on a Sunday. Jere has a degree in Geography from CSU Fullerton and enjoys the outdoors, hiking, travel, and having all of his family together.
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Communist Party of Cuba
For the Communist Party of Cuba founded in 1925, see Popular Socialist Party (Cuba).
Coordinates: 20°59′27.7″N 77°25′41.5″W / 20.991028°N 77.428194°W / 20.991028; -77.428194
The Communist Party of Cuba[note 2] is the ruling political party in the Republic of Cuba. The Cuban constitution ascribes the role of the party to be the "leading force of society and of the state". It was founded on 3 October 1965 as a successor of the United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution, which was in turn made up of the 26th of July Movement and Popular Socialist Party that seized power in Cuba after the 1959 Cuban Revolution.
Partido Comunista de Cuba
First Secretary
Second Secretary
José Ramón Machado
3 October 1965; 55 years ago (1965-10-03)
United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution[note 1]
Young Communist League
Pioneer wing
José Martí Pioneer Organization
Communism[2][3][4]
Marxism–Leninism
Castroism
Guevarism
Left-wing nationalism
Left-wing[5] to far-left[6]
COPPPAL
IMCWP
ICS (inactive)
¡Hasta la victoria siempre!
(Until our victory, always!)
National Assembly[7]
www.pcc.cu
Politics of Cuba
The PCC is a communist party based on democratic centralism, a principle conceived by Russian Marxist Vladimir Lenin, entails democratic and open discussion of policy issues within the party, followed by the requirement of total unity in upholding the agreed policies. The highest body within the PCC is the Party Congress, which convened every five years. When the Congress was not in session, the Central Committee was the highest body. Because the Central Committee met twice a year, most day-to-day duties and responsibilities are vested in the Politburo. Since April 2011, the First Secretary of the Central Committee has been Raúl Castro, younger brother of the previous First Secretary Fidel Castro, who died on 25 November 2016. The Second Secretary has been José Ramón Machado Ventura.[8]
After taking power in Cuba in 1959, the party began gradually to introduce Marxism–Leninism, a fusion of the original ideas of German philosopher and economic theorist Karl Marx, and Lenin, guided by Joseph Stalin became formalized as the party's guiding ideology and would remain so to this day. The party pursued state socialism, under which all industries were nationalized, and a command economy was implemented throughout Cuba despite the long-term embargo by the United States. The PCC also supports Castroism and Guevarism and is a member of the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties.
3 Central Committee
3.1 Politburo
3.2 Secretariat
4 Mass organizations, related to the PCC
6 Ideology
7 Electoral history
7.1 National Assembly elections
A billboard in Havana promoting the ongoing socialist revolution
Cuba had a number of communist and anarchist organizations from the early period of the Republic (founded in 1902). The original "internationalised" Communist Party of Cuba formed in the 1920s. In 1944, it renamed itself as the Popular Socialist Party for electoral reasons. In July 1961, two years after the successful overthrow of Fulgencio Batista and the creation of a revolutionary government, the Integrated Revolutionary Organizations (ORI) was formed from the merger of:
Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement
The Popular Socialist Party led by Blas Roca
Parts of the student-based Revolutionary Directory led by Faure Chomón
On 26 March 1962, the ORI became the United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution (PURSC), which in turn became the Communist Party of Cuba on 3 October 1965. In Article 5 of the Cuban constitution of 1976, the Communist Party is recognized as "the superior guiding force of society and of the State, that organizes and orients common efforts toward the high goals of the construction of socialism and the advancement toward communist society".[9] All parties, including the Communist Party, are prohibited from publicly advertising their organizations.
For the first fifteen years of its formal existence, the Communist Party was almost completely inactive outside of the Politburo. The 100 person Central Committee rarely met and it was ten years after its founding that the first regular party Congress was held. In 1969, membership of the party was only 55,000 or 0.7% of the population, making the PCC the smallest ruling communist party in the world. In the 1970s, the party's apparatus began to develop. By the time of the first party Congress in 1975, the party had grown to just over two hundred thousand members, the Central Committee was meeting regularly and provided the organizational apparatus giving the party the leading role in society that ruling Communist parties generally hold. By 1980, the party had grown to over 430,000 members and it grew further to 520,000 by 1985. Apparatuses of the party had grown to ensure that its leading cadres were appointed to key government positions.[citation needed]
CongressesEdit
Main article: Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba
The Communist Party of Cuba held its first party Congress in 1975 and has had additional congresses in 1980, 1986, 1991, 1997 and 2011. The Seventh Congress took place from 19 to 22 April 2016,[10] around the 55th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs Invasion,[11] concluding with remarks by Fidel Castro.[12]
The Eighth Congress is scheduled to take place 16 to 19 April 2021.[13]
Central CommitteeEdit
See also: List of members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba [es]
Party headquarters
The leading bodies of the party were the Politburo and the Secretariat until 1991 when the two bodies were merged into an expanded Politburo with over twenty members. However, the Secretariat was re-introduced in 2002. There is also a Central Committee which meets between party congresses. At the Fifth Congress, the size of the Central Committee was reduced to 150 members from the previous membership of 225. Fidel Castro was the party's First Secretary (or leader) since its inception while Raúl Castro was the Second Secretary. Upon Fidel Castro's 2008 resignation from the party and Cuban government, Raúl Castro became First Secretary.
PolitburoEdit
Further information: Politburo of the Communist Party of Cuba
The 7th Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba was elected by the Central Committee on 19 April 2016 following the 7th Congress.
(birth–death)
Party position(s)
State position(s)
Raúl Castro Ruz
(born 1931)
3 October 1965 55 years, 103 days
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba
President of the Council of State
President of the Council of Ministers
José Ramón Machado Ventura
Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba
Vice President of the Council of State
Vice President of the Council of Ministers
10 October 1997 23 years, 96 days
First Vice President of the Council of State
First Vice President of the Council of Ministers
Esteban Lazo Hernandez
7 February 1986 34 years, 196 days
President of the National Assembly of People's Power
Ramiro Valdés Menéndez
Leopoldo Cintra Frías
Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces
Alvaro Lopez Miera
First Deputy Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces
Ramón Espinosa Martín
Deputy Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces
Lázara Mercedes López Acea
19 April 2011 9 years, 270 days
First Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee of Havana
Salvador Valdés Mesa
Vicepresident of the Council of State
Marino Alberto Murillo Jorge
Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla
11 December 2012 8 years, 33 days
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento
Secretary General of the Workers' Central Union of Cuba
Roberto Morales Ojeda
Minister for Public Health
Teresa Amarelle Boué
General Secretary of the Federation of Cuban Women
Miriam Nicado García
Rector of the Cientific Information University
Marta Ayala Ávila
Vice Director of the Center of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
SecretariatEdit
Further information: Secretariat of the Communist Party of Cuba
The 6th Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba was elected by the Central Committee on 19 April 2011 following the 6th Congress.
1 July 2006 14 years, 197 days
Abelardo Álbarez Gil
Head of the Department of Cadre Policy
Olga Lidia Tapia Iglesias
Víctor Fidel Gaute López
José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera
Head of the Department of International Relations
Omar Fernando Ruiz Martín
17 May 2013 7 years, 242 days
Jorge Cuevas Ramos
5 July 2013 7 years, 193 days
Mass organizations, related to the PCCEdit
Young Communist League, (UJC founded in 1962 by Fidel Castro), youth group of future militants of the PCC
Workers' Central Union of Cuba, (CTC, founded in 1939 by Blas Roca and Lázaro Peña), a Cuban trade union center.
Federation of Cuban Women, (FMC, founded in 1960 by Fidel Castro and Vilma Espín), a centralized women's organization.
National Association of Small Farmers, (ANAP, founded in 1961 by Fidel Castro), a peasant organization.
José Martí Pioneer Organization, (OPJM, founded in 1977 by Fidel Castro), student organization (pioneers).
Student Federation of Secondary Education,(FEEM, founded in 1970 by Fidel Castro), student organization (pre).
University Student Federation, (FEU, founded in 1922 by Julio Antonio Mella), student organization (university).
Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, (CDR, founded in 1960 by Fidel Castro), community work organization.
Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution, (ACRC, founded in 1993 by Fidel Castro), organization of active and retired military personnel.
Union of Journalists of Cuba, (UPEC, founded in 1963 by Fidel Castro), a centralized organization of journalists.
YouthEdit
The Communist Party of Cuba has a youth wing, the Young Communist League (Unión de Jóvenes Comunistas, UJC) which is a member organization of the World Federation of Democratic Youth. It also has a children's group, the José Martí Pioneer Organization.
IdeologyEdit
Compared with other ruling Communist Parties, such as in Vietnam, China, and Laos, the Communist Party of Cuba retains a stricter adherence to the tradition of Marxism–Leninism and the traditional Soviet model.[citation needed] The party has been more reluctant in engaging in market reforms, though it has been forced to accept some market measures in its economy due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the resultant loss of economic subsidies. The Communist Party of Cuba has often pursued an interventionist foreign policy, actively assisting left-wing revolutionary movements and governments abroad, including the ELN in Colombia, the FMLN in El Salvador, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and Maurice Bishop's New Jewel Movement in Grenada.[citation needed] The party's most significant international role was in the civil war in Angola, where Cuba directed a joint Angolan/Soviet/Cuban force in the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale.[14][15] More recently, the party has sought to support Pink Tide leaders across Latin America, such as Hugo Chávez and later Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela and Evo Morales in Bolivia. Since the Cuban Revolution, the party has also followed the doctrines of Castroism (the ideology of Fidel Castro, including some elements of social conservatism and inspiration from José Martí) and Guevarism.
Medical diplomacy has also been a prominent feature of the Party's foreign policy. The party maintains a policy of sending thousands of Cuban doctors, agricultural technicians, and other professionals to other countries throughout the developing world.
Raúl Castro, since becoming the leader of the party, has campaigned to "renew" Cuba's socialist economy through incorporating new exchange and distribution systems that have been traditionally seen as "market" oriented. This has led to some speculation that Cuba may transition towards a model more similar to that of China and that of Vietnam.[16]
Electoral historyEdit
National Assembly electionsEdit
1976 Fidel Castro Elected by the Municipal Assemblies
1st Sole legal party
1981 Elected by the Municipal Assemblies
1993 Full list 6,939,894 95.1%
Selective vote 360,735 4.9%
1998 Full list 7,533,222 100%
Selective vote
2008 Full list 7,125,752 91%
Selective vote 713,606 9%
2013 Raúl Castro Full list 6,031,215 81.30%
Selective vote 1,387,307 18.70%
2018 Full list 5,620,713 80.44%
List of political parties in Cuba
^ In turn made up of the 26th of July Movement and Popular Socialist Party
^ Spanish: Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC)
^ "7th PCC Congress Central Report, presented by First Secretary Raúl Castro Ruz". en.cubadebate.cu. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
^ "Cuba's New Constitution explained". 27 February 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
^ "The Cuban Communist Party at the Center of Political and Economic Reform: Current Status and Future Reform". 30 July 2014. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
^ "The Cuban Communist Party: Current Status and Future Reform". 30 November 2014. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
^ Víctor Jeifets y Lazar Jeifets (2017). "El encuentro de la izquierda cubana con la Revolución Rusa: el Partido Comunista y la Comintern" (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 January 2017.
^ (in French) Parti communiste de Cuba (extrême gauche) (créé en 1965, seul parti légal), Le Monde diplomatique
^ "IPU PARLINE database: CUBA (Asamblea nacional del Poder popular), Last elections". ipu.org. Inter-Parliamentary Union. 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
^ Shasta Darlington (19 April 2011). "Raul Castro to lead Cuba's Communist Party". CNN. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
^ "Cuba: Constitución". pdba.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
^ "Cuba's Communist Party Congress wants change, but also more of the same". Miami Herald. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
^ "Escambray". Escambray. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
^ Carroll, Rory (19 April 2016). "Fidel Castro bids farewell to Cuba's Communist party congress". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
^ http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2019-12-20/led-by-raul-the-11th-plenum-of-the-communist-party-central-committee-held
^ Michael Evans. "Secret Cuban Documents on History of Africa Involvement". Gwu.edu. Retrieved 13 January 2010.
^ "Cuba: Angolan War Memories Live On". 16 June 2007. Archived from the original on 16 June 2007. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
^ 古巴改革："社会主义更新"未完待续 (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 29 April 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
Barry Carr. Tim Rees and Andrew Thorpe (eds.). "From Caribbean Backwater to Revolutionary Opportunity: Cuba's Evolving Relationship with the Comintern, 1925-34". International Communism and the Communist International, 1919-43. Manchester. Manchester University Press. 1998.
"First Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba: Havana, December 17-22, 1975 (Collection of Documents)".
Fidel Castro. "Main Report, Second Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba" (December 1980).
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Bill 5524 - Bill proposed by Law Revue Committee formed in Bill 6688
Raised Bill No. 5524
February Session, 2014
LCO No. 2277
Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
(JUD)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE LAW REVISION COMMISSION WITH RESPECT TO THE ALIMONY STATUTES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 46b-81 of the 2014 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2014):
(a) At the time of entering a decree annulling or dissolving a marriage or for legal separation pursuant to a complaint under section 46b-45, the Superior Court may assign to either spouse all or any part of the estate of the other spouse. The court may pass title to real property to either party or to a third person or may order the sale of such real property, without any act by either spouse, when in the judgment of the court it is the proper mode to carry the decree into effect.
(b) A conveyance made pursuant to the decree shall vest title in the purchaser, and shall bind all persons entitled to life estates andremainder interests in the same manner as a sale ordered by the court pursuant to the provisions of section 52-500. When the decree is recorded on the land records in the town where the real property is situated, it shall effect the transfer of the title of such real property as if it were a deed of the party or parties. (c) In fixing the nature and value of the property, if any, to be assigned, the court, after considering [all] the evidence presented by each party, shall consider the length of the marriage, the causes for the annulment, dissolution of the marriage or legal separation, the age, health, station, occupation, amount and sources of gross and net income, earning capacity, vocational skills, education, employability, estate, liabilities and needs of each of the parties, [and] the opportunity of each party for future acquisition of capital assets and income and the tax consequences of the court's orders. The court shall also consider the contribution of each of the parties in the acquisition, preservation or appreciation in value of their respective estates.
Sec. 2. Section 46b-82 of the 2014 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (EffectiveOctober 1, 2014):
(a) At the time of entering the decree, the Superior Court may order either of the parties to pay alimony to the other, in addition to or in lieu of an award pursuant to section 46b-81, as amended by this act. The order may direct that security be given therefor on such terms as the court may deem desirable, including an order pursuant to subsection (b) of this section or an order to either party to contract with a third party for periodic payments or payments contingent on a life to the other party. The court may order that a party obtain life insurance as such security unless such party proves, by a preponderance of the evidence, that such insurance is not available to such party, such party is unable to pay the cost of such insurance or such party is uninsurable. In determining whether alimony shall be awarded, and the duration and amount of the award, the court shall consider the evidence presented by each party and shall consider the length of the marriage, the causes for the annulment, dissolution of the marriage orlegal separation, the age, health, station, occupation, amount and sources of gross and net income, earning capacity, vocational skills, education, employability, estate and needs of each of the parties, [and] the award, if any, which the court may make pursuant to section 46b-81, as amended by this act, the tax consequences of the court's orders and, in the case of a parent to whom the custody of minor children has been awarded, the desirability and feasibility of such parent's securing employment.
(b) If the court, following a trial or hearing on the merits, enters an order pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, or section 46b-86, as amended by this act, and such order by its terms will terminate only upon the death of either party or the remarriage of the alimony recipient, the court shall articulate with specificity the basis for such order.
(c) Any postjudgment procedure afforded by chapter 906 shall be available to secure the present and future financial interests of a party in connection with a final order for the periodic payment of alimony.
Sec. 3. Section 46b-65 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2014):
(a) If the parties to a decree of legal separation at any time resume marital relations and file [their written declaration of resumption] a written certificate that the marital relationship has resumed, signed, acknowledged and witnessed by each party, with the clerk of the superior court for the judicial district in which the separation was decreed, the [declaration] certificate shall be entered upon the docket, under the entries relating to the complaint, and the decree shall be vacated and the complaint shall be deemed dismissed.
(b) If no [declaration] certificate has been filed under subsection (a)of this section, then at any time after the entry of a decree of legalseparation, either party may petition the superior court for the judicial district in which the decree of legal separation was entered for a decree dissolving the marriage and the court shall (1) enter the decree dissolving the marriage in the presence of the party seeking thedissolution of marriage, and (2) incorporate the financial terms of the decree of legal separation into the decree dissolving the marriage unless it would be unconscionable to do so.
Sec. 4. Section 46b-86 of the 2014 supplement to the general statutes 84 is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof
(a) Unless and to the extent that the decree precludes modification, any final order for the periodic payment of permanent alimony or support, an order for alimony or support pendente lite or an order requiring either party to maintain life insurance for the other party or a minor child of the parties may, at any time thereafter, be continued, set aside, altered or modified by the court upon a showing of a substantial change in the circumstances of either party or upon a showing that the final order for child support substantially deviates from the child support guidelines established pursuant to section 46b-215a, unless there was a specific finding on the record that the application of the guidelines would be inequitable or inappropriate. There shall be arebuttable presumption that any deviation of less than fifteen per cent from the child support guidelines is not substantial and any deviation of fifteen per cent or more from the guidelines is substantial. Modification may be made of such support order without regard to whether the order was issued before, on or after May 9, 1991. In determining whether to modify a child support order based on a substantial deviation from such child support guidelines the court shall consider the division of real and personal property between the parties set forth in the final decree and the benefits accruing to the child as the result of such division. After the date of judgment, modification of any child support order issued before, on or after July 1, 1990, may be made upon a showing of such substantial change of circumstances, whether or not such change of circumstances was contemplated at the time of dissolution. By written agreement, stipulation or decision of the court, those items or circumstances that were contemplated and are not to be changed may be specified in the written agreement, stipulation or decision of the court. This section shall not apply to assignments under section 46b-81, as amended by this act, or to any assignment of the estate or a portion thereof of one party to the other party under prior law. No order for periodic payment of permanent alimony or support may be subject to retroactive modification, except that the court may order modification with respect to any period during which there is a pending motion for modification of an alimony or support order from the date of service of notice of such pending motion upon the opposing party pursuant to section 52-50. If a court, after hearing, finds that a substantial change in circumstances of either party has occurred, the court shall determine what modification of alimony, if any, is appropriate, considering the criteria set forth in section 46b-82, as amended by this act.
(b) (1) In an action for divorce, dissolution of marriage, legal separation or annulment brought by a spouse, in which a final judgment has been entered providing for the payment of periodic alimony by one party to the other spouse, [the Superior Court may, in its discretion and upon notice and hearing, modify such judgment and suspend, reduce or terminate the payment of periodic alimony upon a showing] upon notice and hearing, if the party paying the periodic alimony proves that the party receiving the periodic alimony [is] has been living with another person [under circumstances which the court finds should result in the modification, suspension, reduction or termination of alimony because the living arrangements cause such a change of circumstances as to alter the financial needs of that party. In the event that] in a marriage-like relationship over a period of six months or more, the burden of proving that the judgment requiring the payment of periodic alimony should not be modified, suspended, reduced or terminated shall be on the party receiving the periodicalimony. The Superior Court, after considering the evidence presented by each party and the relevant criteria set forth in section 46b-82, as amended by this act, may, in its discretion, modify such judgment and suspend, reduce or terminate the payment of periodic alimony.
(2) (A) If the party paying periodic alimony files a motion to modify the judgment requiring the payment of periodic alimony on the ground that such party is retired from employment and has attained the age of sixty-five, the burden of proving that such alimony should not be modified shall be on the party receiving the periodic alimony.
(B) If the party paying periodic alimony files a motion to modify the judgment requiring the payment of periodic alimony on the ground that such party is retired from employment, and such party has not attained the age of sixty-five, the burden of proving that such alimony should be modified shall be on the party paying periodic alimony. The Superior Court shall consider the evidence presented by each party concerning the relevant facts and circumstances concerning the retirement.
(C) In any modification proceeding under subparagraph (A) or (B) of this subdivision, the court, after notice and hearing, shall determine what modification of alimony, if any, is appropriate after considering the evidence presented by each party and the relevant criteria set forth in section 46b-82, as amended by this act.
(3) If a final judgment incorporates a provision of an agreement in which the parties agree to circumstances, other than as provided in this subsection, under which alimony will be modified, including the suspension, reduction, or termination of alimony, the court shall enforce the provision of such agreement and enter orders in accordance [therewith] with such agreement.
(c) When one of the parties, or a child of the parties, is receiving or has received aid or care from the state under its aid to families with dependent children or temporary family assistance program, HUSKY
Plan, Part A, or foster care program as provided in Title IV-E of the 174 Social Security Act, or when one of the parties has applied for child 175 support enforcement services under Title IV-D of the Social Security 176 Act as provided in section 17b-179, such motion to modify shall be 177 filed with the Family Support Magistrate Division for determination in 178 accordance with subsection (m) of section 46b-231. 179 This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
46b-81
Statement of Purpose:
To adopt the recommendations of the Law Revision Commission regarding alimony statutes.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]
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Strategic Plan for the Development of Health Information Systems in Georgia
Policy Brief, Policy Work, Europe & Eurasia, Report, Health Information and Management Systems, Other, Publications, 2007, 2008
The purpose this document is to outline a strategy for the development of a Health Information System (HIS) in Georgia. The strategy is expected to be used by in-country stakeholders and international development partners to strengthen in a logical and practical way the Health Information Systems (HIS) bringing it up to international standards. If successful the HIS will contribute to evidence-based decision making in health policy area.
The current work on the development of the strategic plan to strengthen HIS has been carried out within the framework of a grant made to Georgia by Health Metrics Network (HMN), which is a global partnership whose mission is to champion and facilitate better health information at country, regional, and global levels.
Curatio International Foundation, a non-for-profit institution with on-ground experience in research and policy advice has been awarded the Grant to assist the Government and non-government stakeholders in the HIS development strategy design. View the document.
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George Perris was born in Athens in 1983, his father is Greek and mother is French. At a very early age, Perris decided he wanted to become a singer and began studying the piano. He pursued his studies in Greek Literature at the University of Athens.
His first solo album “Kainouria mou mera” was released by EMI in 2006. In the years that followed, Perris performed at some of the most prestigious concert halls in Greece. His single “Karavani” (from that album) was included in a compilation that Radio Française distributes worldwide once a year… a rare achievement for a Greek-speaking artist.
2008 was a turning point for the young artist. He was a featured artist at the Athens Arena International Music Festival hosted by acclaimed tenor Mario Frangoulis, singing duets and appearing with many international artists such as Lara Fabian, Lucio Dalla, Justin Hayward and Madeleine Peyroux. At the same time, his second album, Perno Anasa was released by SonyBMG. This album was very personal, as Perris wrote most of the songs, establishing himself not only as a talented singer, but also as a songwriter with great promise.
In 2009 Perris performed in Cyprus, the United Kingdom –with the Oxford Philomusica– and the USA.
In the fall, the international French-speaking diva Lara Fabian invited George to perform as a guest artist on her European tour. Perris opened for her concerts in France and Belgium. The highlight of the tour was when Perris sang to audiences of 8,000+ at the famous Zenith arena in Paris. Attendees included Charles Aznavour and Nana Mouskouri who praised the young artist for his powerful performance.
In spring 2010, George returned to Russia for two performances: one with the Kiev Symphony Orchestra, and the second in St. Petersburg with the Presidential Symphony Orchestra. In May, he made an impromptu trip to Montreal, Canada, at the invitation of acclaimed composer and pianist Stephan Moccio to perform with him at the legendary Place des Arts in a sold-out performance.
2011 has been a year of significant live performances in various countries, including Canada where he performed with Stephan Moccio, and the Niagara Falls Symphony Orchestra, Cyprus, Monaco, Russia, USA and finally Greece where he performed with internationally known soprano Deborah Myers in Athens at the Badminton Theatre.
For Un souhait, his first french album released in April 2012, some of the most prominent Canadian and european songwriters offered George some original songs written for his voice (Frédérick Baron, Stephan Moccio, Marc Dupré, Steve Marin, Matt Herskowitz). A special feature of the album is “Ma solitude”, a powerful duet with Lara Fabian. The single “Un souhait” was voted 3rd (by fans) in the Weetix “best song of the year” competition.
In June 2012, Perris performed alongside Mario Frangoulis, Hayley Westenra and Alkistis Protopsalti at the Boston Symphony Hall with the legendary Boston Pops Orchestra conducted by Keith Lockhart. The Autumn of 2012 was quite busy for Perris as he embarked on his first tour in Canada. His “Un Souhait Tour” took him to Montreal, Toronto and Quebec city among others, to great acclaim. Towards the end of 2012, he released a new “LIVE” album in Greece, produced by Alkistis Protopsalti.
2013 was a full year for Perris. He went on a more than 30-city tour in Greece and Cyprus with the legendary Greek singer Alkistis Protopsalti, but also performed with Vincenzo Thoma at the Place des Arts in Montreal.
2014 brought George to North America for the release of his first English language album, “Picture This.” This debut album was recorded in LA, NYC, London, Montreal, Prague and Athens. George collaborated with producers such as Mark Portmann (Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion), Marco Marinangeli (Josh Groban, Il Divo) and Simon Hale (Bjork, Tina Arena). The album includes 13 tracks, 3 of which have been written by George, as well as the participation of the Prague Symphony Orchestra.
In addition, his show “George Perris Live at Jazz at Lincoln Center” filmed live at the prestigious Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York was broadcast throughout the spring of 2014 on The Ovation Channel. At the same time, Perris toured North America with multi-platinum American Pianist Jim Brickman. As of June 1st, his concert special was also aired as a special channel on demand on Comcast throughout the summer.
In May, George signed an exclusive deal with Decca Records/Universal Music. Both ‘Picture This’ and his DVD “Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center” were released worldwide in August 2014. The album made it to JB Hi-Fi’s -Australia’s biggest retailer- best sellers. George toured Australia as a special guest star on superstar Tina Arena’s “Reset” tour in the summer as well as appearing at the Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Foundation gala in Sydney.
In October, Perris performed a series of joint concerts with Mario Frangoulis in Bangkok, Istanbul and Ankara.
On November 4th and 5th, he performed the American National Anthem in New York’s legendary Madison Square Garden at the New York Knicks vs the Washington Wizards game and the New York Rangers vs the Detroit Red Wings hockey game. It was the first time that this honor was given to a Greek artist.
Soon thereafter, Perris released a new digital single globally, his version of “Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas” through Decca Records/Universal Music. The song is featured on “Superstar Christmas”, a compilation released by Universal Music which includes iconic artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder, Luciano Pavarotti.
Throughout 2015, Perris was back in his native Greece promoting his album “Picture This” and performing more than 30 concerts in Greece and Cyprus. At the same time, he worked on his next endeavor: his debut PBS Concert Special.
Starting December 2015, his PBS Concert Special “Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center” aired nationally in the USA, reaching 47% of the country (pot. 140 million viewers) in more than 450 airings of the show, prime time.
2016 has so far been an exceptional year for Perris: “Picture This Tour”, his first N. American solo tour with dates in the Spring was a success. In addition, his new Greek album of duets with longtime collaborator and friend Mario Frangoulis was an immediate hit: 65.000 copies sold and reached the 4th position in the charts. A “Kivotos” summer tour in Greece and Cyprus starts in June and immediately after that, he will be recording his second English album and next PBS Concert Special.
George Perris is engaged to a cause that is very important to him personally, the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans; an association that offers scholarships to young students facing great adversity in their lives. George is their International Ambassador and takes part in many HAA events in support of their mission. [www.horatioalger.org]
As George says, “Music, for me, has no frontiers. It only speaks the language of love, of freedom and above all, of hope.”
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Title-holders China handed tough draw in AVC Cup
2016/04/02 - 09:54 0 1748 AVCAVC Women's Cup
Defending and three-time champions China have been drawn in the toughest of pools for the 2016 AVC Cup for Women from September 14 to 20 in Vinh Phuc, Vietnam as the World Cup winners will test their mettle against Korea, Japan and Kazakhstan in Pool B.
The draw of lots ceremony for the one-week tournament took place in Ninh Binh on March 27, with Mr Le Tri Truong, general-secretary of Vietnam Volleyball Federation, presiding. Also in attendance as the AVC’s representative was AVC Secretary-General Mr Shanrit Wongprasert, and Miss Nguyen Nhat Thanh, VVF Administration Director.
Drawn in Pool B are world No.2 China, the Asia’s powerhouses which landed the AVC Cup title in 2008, 2010 and 2014. China are assured of starting as the hot favourites to capture the prestigious biennial tournament for the fourth time.
However, serious challenges can be expected from the 2014 Asian Games gold medallists Korea and world No.5 and London Games bronze medallists Japan, both of them have been drawn in the same pool as the Chinese side this time. The tall and towering Kazakhstan can be the other tough rivals to be reckoned with in Pool B.
Meanwhile, hosts Vietnam, the 2012 AVC Cup winners and world No.13 Thailand, world No.32 Chinese Taipei and world No.101 Iran are in Pool A.
The pool round-robin preliminaries will be held over three days from September 14 to 16. Hosts Vietnam will play Iran in the curtain-raisers, followed by the match between Thailand and Chinese Taipei, Kazakhstan against Japan and the clash of the Titans between China and Korea in the final showdown rematch of the previous edition in Shanzhen, China two years ago.
September 17 will be the rest day. The competition resumes the following day in the quarter-finals, with Pool A winners taking on Pool B fourth place and Pool B second place facing Pool A third place. The four winning teams advance to the semi-finals, with the losers relegated to the 5th-8th classification.
Only top eight teams at the last year’s Asian Senior Women’s Championship in Tianjin, China received the green light to compete in the AVC Cup for Women in Vinh Phuc, Vietnam, while the top eight sides from the last year’s Asian Senior Men’s Championship in Tehran, Iran were eligible for the AVC Cup for Men, due to be held in India later this year.
Tags: Women, AVC Cup, Drawing lots
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Xi Focus: Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law guides law-based governance in China
Pub Date:2020-12-10 15:06 Source:Xinhua
BEIJING -- The first central conference on work related to overall law-based governance in the history of the Communist Party of China (CPC) from Nov 16 to 17, 2020, marked the establishment of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law and its status as the guiding thought for law-based governance in China.
Formed in the course of law-based governance being promoted by the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core after the Party's 18th national congress in 2012, the thought answers major questions concerning why and how law-based governance should be advanced, representing the latest achievement in adapting Marxist theories on the rule of law to the Chinese context.
Under the guidance of the thought, the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics is enjoying vibrant development, laying a solid foundation in the pursuit of national rejuvenation.
The CPC has always attached great importance to ensuring that China's governance is based on law.
Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee has specifically put forward promoting overall law-based governance, which was incorporated into the four-pronged comprehensive strategy for the country's development.
The fourth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee in 2014 adopted a decision to advance the rule of law.
After the 19th CPC National Congress in 2017, the CPC Central Committee established its Commission for Overall Law-based Governance and made major decisions on promoting law-based governance in all fields. Historic changes and achievements have since then been made in developing the socialist rule of law in China.
In his speech at the November conference, Xi set forth requisites for the current and future work on law-based governance in China. Known as "11 upholds" in Chinese, they embody rich implications of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law:
-- Upholding Party leadership on overall law-based governance.
-- Taking a people-centered approach.
-- Staying on the path of the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics.
-- Adhering to Constitution-based governance.
-- Promoting the modernization of China's governance system and capacity along the path of the rule of law.
-- Adhering to a system of the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics.
-- Pursuing coordinated progress in law-based governance, law-based exercise of state power, and law-based government administration, and promoting the integrated development of the rule of law for the country, the government and the society.
-- Ensuring sound lawmaking, strict law enforcement, impartial administration of justice, and the observance of the law by everyone.
-- Taking a coordinated approach to promoting the rule of law at home and in matters involving foreign parties.
-- Fostering a high-quality team of professionals with both integrity and ability for legal work.
-- Ensuring that leading officials at various levels faithfully implement major decisions and plans made by the CPC Central Committee on overall law-based governance.
In formulating the theoretical system of the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law marked progress in the system of values with Chinese characteristics, thus contributing Chinese wisdom to the world for advancing the rule of law.
As the world undergoes momentous changes unseen in a century, China is in a critical period for realizing national rejuvenation and forging ahead with all-out efforts to build a modern socialist country.
To provide a solid guarantee of the rule of law for the cause, it's imperative to uphold Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law as the guiding thought for law-based governance, stay on the path of the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, and promote the modernization of the governance system and capacity along the path of the rule of law.
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Heavy Rainfall Forecast to Hit Anhui
Pub Date:2017-02-21 11:05 Source:China Daily
Central and eastern China are feeling the effects of this year's biggest cold wave, which is forecast to last through Thursday, bringing low temperatures, strong winds and snow to many parts of the country, the National Meteorological Center said.
The center issued a blue alert for the cold spell, which began on Sunday. That's the lowest level in the four-tier color-coded weather warning system.
Temperatures are expected to rise starting Friday, but until then, heavy snowfall is expected in Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu and other provinces.
"We haven't experienced such widespread and intense precipitation since last winter, and no province will be spared," said Sun Jun, chief forecaster at the center. "The snowfall is especially intense in provinces like Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan, where it will impact traffic and farming. But the cold wave will have less effect in the southern provinces."
Between Monday evening and Tuesday, parts of Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan are forecast to experience 20 to 25 millimeters of snow and accumulations of up to 15 centimeters in some areas.
Temperatures along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, as well as north of the river, are forecast to drop by 6 C to 12 C, and by as much as 19 C in some areas. Strong northerly winds carrying sand and dust are expected to sweep across the Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia autonomous regions and other provinces, Sun said.
In regions south of the river, heavy rainfall is forecast to hit Anhui, Jiangsu, and Hubei provinces for the next two days, with some areas getting 50 to 60 mm of precipitation. Temperatures in the region are forecast to drop by 4 C to 8 C, and up to 10 C in some areas.
Sun said the large-scale cold wave is the result of two cold fronts "working together". The stronger one cooled temperatures to around 0 C in northern China. This allowed the weaker front, after merging with warm, humid air currents from the south, to create precipitation across China.
Given that Tuesday marks the end of the 40-day Spring Festival travel period, Sun said those returning to work "need to be careful of slippery roads and catching cold".
On the bright side, the extra precipitation will help ease the winter drought, which is beneficial for the soil and winter wheat, he said. The precipitation also can help improve air quality by removing particulate matter from the air, he added.
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Hydrogen electrochemistry in unconventional settings: protic ionic liquids, closed bipolar electrodes and ultra-high vacuum
Goodwin, Sean (2017) Hydrogen electrochemistry in unconventional settings: protic ionic liquids, closed bipolar electrodes and ultra-high vacuum. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
Most commonly, electrochemical experiments are carried out at room temperature, in aqueous or organic electrolytes that contain both an analyte and a supporting electrolyte. However, voltammetry has also been undertaken in a wide variety of more unusual or extreme settings; aluminium smelting involves electrolysis at over 900 °C, bipolar electrochemical experiments often require the absence of supporting electrolyte, and dopamine releases in rats have been monitored by in-vivo electrochemistry of the rats’ brains.
In this thesis, unconventional electrochemical investigations are described. These include electrochemical experiments in protic ionic liquids (PILs), in ultra-high vacuum and using closed bipolar electrodes. In each case, the experiments were undertaken in order to further research into energy storage systems. Although electricity generation from renewable sources such as wind and solar is good for the environment, these sources are intermittent, and we need to develop efficient ways of storing this energy to compensate for the intermittency. The use of PILs, as well as closed bipolar electrodes, offer promising avenues to improving the efficiency of energy storage devices.
Using hydrogen as a means of energy storage is one route to solving the problem of intermittency of renewable energy sources. Chapter 3 is a study of hydrogen oxidation at Pt ultra-microelectrodes in one PIL, diethylmethylammonium trifluoromethanesulfonate, [dema][TfO]. Voltammograms of hydrogen oxidation show both a diffusion-limited plateau and an ‘additional’ plateau at lower overpotentials than the former. Different theoretical models are used to simulate this reaction, and the reaction is found to be inhibited by adsorption of under-potentially deposited hydrogen, Hupd.
In Chapter 4 a voltammetric method is developed for determining the concentration of precursor acid and base in PILs. The concentration of precursor acid is found to vary significantly depending on the method used to synthesise the PIL, and recommendations are made on how to synthesise a PIL with minimal precursor acid present. The base, by contrast, is found to evaporate out of the PIL very easily.
In Chapter 5, voltammetry of two PILs is undertaken under conditions of ultra-high vacuum. Precursor acids in the PILs are found to be relatively stable even under vacuums of 10-8 mbar. By using in-line mass spectrometry, the products of [dema][TfO] oxidation are also investigated.
Finally, closed bipolar electrodes are used in Chapter 6 to spatially separate H2 and O2 evolved in a water electrolyser. By separating these gases, the risk of the two species mixing is removed, making the electrolyser a much safer device to operate, particularly at low current densities.
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Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) starring Jim Carrey,
What happens when you take a 30 minute children’s Christmas classic and expand it to over two hours? You get Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas
In short, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas suffers from bloat. Suffers badly. In order to make this film, Ron Howard decided to make the villains of the movie the people of Whoville. They’re greedy, selfish, all about consumption and winning at any cost. In the process, they reveal a back story for the Grinch. Where he’s the helpless victim of the uncaring people of Whoville, of course. Except for Cindy Lou Who, who sees a glimmer of kindness underneath his cold, green, smelly exterior.
In short — watch the original 30-minute cartoon for a more enjoyable time. This version is bloated, and cliched.
The Grinch ‘sorting’ the mail – genuinely funny, though very short.
The Grinch winning the “honor” of judging the various Who contests.
Most of Jim Carrey’s time on screen. Though some of it goes on too long, and he uses too many characterizations. It’s almost as though he’s trying to be Robin Williams’ Genie in Aladdin.
Anthony Hopkins (Thor Ragnarok) as the narrator. A fine job.
Jim Carrey as the Grinch, a misanthropic and devious green-furred creature who despises Christmas and the Whos of Whoville. It is revealed in his origin story that he started to hate Christmas after his school classmates mocked him for trying to shave his beard when he was only eight years old. He’s taunted by Augustus MayWho. He does this primarily due to his crush on Martha May Whovier.
Christine Baranski as Martha May Whovier, the Grinch’s lifelong crush. She’s a leading citizen of Whoville and the romantic interest of Mayor Augustus MayWho. In the end, she ultimately rejects the Mayor and chooses the Grinch. As a young girl, shows compassion towards the young Grinch.
Jeffrey Tambor as Mayor Augustus MayWho, Whoville’s rude, arrogant, judgmental mayor. He’s revealed to be a school bully who picked on the young Grinch. He also denounces the Grinch every chance he gets and wants Christmas in Whoville to be Grinch-less.
Taylor Momsen as Cindy Lou Who, a young Who girl who believes that the Christmas spirit in Whoville is lost.
Bill Irwin as Lou Lou Who, the cheerful and slightly dimwitted postmaster of Whoville. He’s also Cindy’s father and Betty Lou’s husband.
Molly Shannon as Betty Lou Who, Cindy’s mother and Martha’s rival in a house-lighting contest. Without the Mayor’s cheating on Martha’s behalf, she would have won.
Clint Howard as Whobris, the mayor’s sycophantic aide and servant. He goes along with everything the Mayor says and does. A genuinely funny performance.
Discover the magic of the Mean One this holiday season! Oscar-winning director Ron Howard and Oscar-winning producer Brian Grazer bring Christmas’ best-loved grump to life with the help of the irrepressible Jim Carrey as The Grinch. The Grinch is a celebration of the holiday spirit no home should be without! Why is The Grinch (Carrey) such a grouch? No one seems to know, until little Cindy Lou Who (Taylor Momsen) takes matters into her own hands and turns both Whoville and The Grinch’s world upside down, inside out… and funny side up in her search for the true meaning of Christmas.
Under a thick carpet of green-dyed yak fur and wonderfully expressive Rick Baker makeup, Jim Carrey is up to all of his old tricks (and some nifty new ones) in this live-action movie of Dr. Seuss’s holiday classic. He commands the title role with equal parts madness, mayhem, pathos, and improvisational genius, channeling Grinchness through his own screen persona so smoothly that fans of both Carrey and Dr. Seuss will be thoroughly satisfied. Adding to the fun is a perfectly pitched back-story sequence (accompanied by Anthony Hopkins’s narration) that explains how the Grinch came to hate Christmas, with a heart “two sizes too small.”
Ron Howard proves a fine choice for the director’s chair with a keen balance of comedy, sentiment, and light-hearted Seussian whimsy. Production designer Michael Corenblith gloriously realizes the wackiness of Whoville architecture, and his rendition of the Grinch’s Mt. Crumpit lair is a marvel of cartoonish, subterranean grime. Then there’s Cindy Lou Who (Taylor Momsen), the thoughtful imp who rallies her village to recapture the pure spirit of Christmas and melts the gift-stealing Grinch’s cold, cold heart. You’ve even got a dog (the Grinch’s good-natured mongrel, Max) who’s been perfectly cast, so what’s not to like about this dazzling yuletide movie?
The production gets a bit overwhelmed by its own ambition, and the citizens of Whoville (including Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Molly Shannon, and Bill Irwin) pale in comparison to Carrey’s inspired lunacy, but who cares? If a movie can unleash Jim Carrey at his finest, revamp the Grinch story, and still pay tribute to the legacy of Dr. Seuss, you can bet it qualifies as rousing entertainment. (Ages 5 and older.) –Jeff Shannon
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Turkish investments strengthens ties with Africa
Leading Turkish firms have undertaken significant infrastructure projects to contribute to the economic development of the West African nation of Senegal. These projects will not only further invigorate Turkey’s long-standing rapport with Senegal but will also clinch ties with the African continent, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan remarked Tuesday.
In a joint news conference with Senegalese President Macky Sall in Dakar Tuesday, Erdoğan stressed that industrial and infrastructure investments of Turkish firms will continue to support the country’s Emerging Senegal Plan which lays out 2025 development goals.
Turkish contractors are set to build an Olympic pool, a stadium with a capacity to host an audience of 50,000 and a hotel for the fourth Summer Youth Olympic Games to be organized in Dakar in 2022. Up until now, 29 projects worth $750 million have been contracted to Turkish firms. Some of these projects have started operating and the rest are still under construction. The Turkish businessmen are expected to take important roles in the construction and mining sectors to expedite the second phase of the Emerging Senegal Plan.
Turkish contractor Summa has carried out several major projects in the West African country’s capital. Among them are the 35,000-square-meter Dakar Arena, the Dakar Expo Center and the Dakar International Conference Center. The company, together with another Turkish contractor Limak, constructed the Blaise Diagne International Airport in Dakar.
“I believe the projects by Turkish firms such as Tosyalı Holding and Summa will further pave the way for Senegal’s development,” Erdoğan said, adding: “Together with Senegal, we are building a common future, inspired by a deep-rooted historical bond. Our businessmen are ready to make bigger contributions to the Senegalese economy.”
In October 2018, Turkey’s Tosyalı Holding sealed a $2 billion iron and steel investment pact with Senegal’s Mines and Geology Ministry during a Turkey-Africa Economy and Business Forum.
Turkey’s Yapı Merkezi Group was awarded the contract to build a railway project along with France’s Eiffage and Senegal’s CSE in 2016. The project will put the city center of the capital Dakar just 45 minutes away from the Blaise Diagne International Airport.
The Regional Train Express (known by the French acronym TER) is being developed under a social and economic development plan launched by Senegal’s government in 2014. The line is to have 14 stations, with trains traveling at a maximum speed of 160 kilometers per hour and carrying an estimate 115,000 riders daily.
“In 2018, we accomplished our trade goal of $400 million. But last year, the bilateral trade volume fell below the potential. I believe this year, our trade will continue to rise again. We are aiming to reach $1 billion in bilateral trade” the president remarked.
According to the data obtained from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), the bilateral trade volume between Turkey and Senegal totaled $402 million. The better part of the trade was composed of Turkish exports to the Western African country with $390 million. In the period of January to November 2019, Turkish exports to Senegal were recorded at $263 million. Turkey’s purchases of Senegalese goods and products in the same period were calculated at $9.4 million.
During the bilateral meetings Tuesday, Turkey and Senegal signed seven agreements, Erdoğan noted. The president also stressed that the two countries will expand cooperation in the tourism and defense industries.
Senegal’s army bought 25 Turkish-made Ejder Yalçın armored vehicles and four Turkish Ejder TOMA riot control vehicles and displayed them during an Independence Day parade in the capital Dakar in April 2018.
Senegal outlook
Senegal, which gained independence from France in 1960, is surrounded by Mauritania, Mali, Guinea, Guinea Bissau and Gambia. It has a total area of 196,722 square kilometers (75,955 square miles) and is seen as a gateway to West Africa.
Ranking second among French-speaking African countries in terms of industrial development after the Ivory Coast, Senegal has seen an annual growth of more than 6% since 2014. The country has been among Africa’s most stable countries, according to the World Bank, with three major peaceful political transitions since its independence in 1960.
In November, Senegal and 13 other African nations made a move to gain financial independence from France and decided to withdraw their currency reserves from the French central bank. The move also comes with the decision to replace the CFA franc, the euro-linked currency used in 14 West and Central African countries, with a new common West African currency, named the eco.
The Senegalese economy was estimated to be worth $24.13 billion in 2018, representing 0.04% of the world economy, according to tradingeconomics.com. Growing 7% in 2018, Senegal is expected to excel further in economic development with added income from hydrocarbon reserves recently discovered in the Atlantic Ocean.
The country’s development strategy, called Emerging Senegal Plan, is an ambitious yet feasible path toward becoming an emerging economy. Accelerating and broadening the reforms required by this plan is integral to this vision, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Turkish institutions, such as the Turkish Maarif Foundation, Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency (TİKA), Turkish Airlines (THY) and the Yunus Emre Institute, also play an important role in the country’s development. The Turkish Maarif Foundation continues educational activities across 13 schools in the country. Fifty Senegalese student are currently studying at Turkish universities, Erdoğan said. THY has eight passenger flights and four cargo flights to Dakar. TİKA opened its first office in Western Africa in Dakar in April 2007.
Turkey-Senegalese Joint Economic Commission (JEC) was established in accordance with the Agreement on Trade and Economic and Technic Cooperation signed in 1992. The first JEC meeting was held in Ankara on Dec. 18-19, 2006, the second in Dakar on April 6, 2010, and the third in Ankara on April 9-11, 2014.
3-country African tourPrior to his visit to Senegal, Erdoğan visited Algeria on Sunday and Gambia on Monday as part of his three-country African tour. With the latest Africa tour, Erdoğan has visited 28 countries on the continent.
Erdoğan’s visit to Gambia was of historic importance as it was the first-ever official presidential visit to the country.
The two countries enjoy strong ties in many fields, including education, internal security, health care and infrastructural development.
The ties between the two countries were established in 1965, when Gambia gained independence from British colonial rule. Yet it took 45 years to open Gambia’s diplomatic mission in Ankara. Gambia opened its embassy in Turkey in 2010, while Turkey opened its mission in Banjul in 2011.
Their trade volume is not very high as Turkey had only $45 million in exports to Gambia in 2018, according to the TurkStat data. In 2019, the bilateral trade volume between Turkey and Gambia reached $55 million, with Erdoğan saying that the two countries want to carry out bilateral trade toward a more balanced structure.
Despite the low trade volume, Turkey provides a large extent of Gambia’s total electricity needs. In December 2018, Turkey’s Karpowership company, the designer and builder of the world’s first floating power plants and the global brand of Karadeniz Holding, inked a deal with Gambia’s National Water and Electricty Supply Company Ltd. to deploy a Powership of 35 megawatts (MW) for a period of two years. Karadeniz Powership Koray Bey has been in operation in Banjul since April 2018. Karpowership has been supplying up to 60% of Gambia’s total electricity needs.
During Erdoğan’s visit to Algeria – Turkey’s second-largest trade partner in Africa – the two countries expressed commitment to increasing the bilateral trade volume to $5 billion from the current level of around $3.1 billion.
Turkish exports to the country stood at $2.03 billion while imports from Algeria totaled $1.13 billion in 2018, according to TurkStat. In the period of January-November of last year, Algeria’s exports to Turkey totaled $655.7 million and its imports from Turkey reached $1.7 billion.
Turkey’s investments in the country stand at around $3.5 billion. Through a joint statement signed by Erdoğan and his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune during the visit, the Turkey-Algeria High-Level Cooperation Council was also established.
Turkey’s trade volume with African countries has reached $26 billion, a 381% increase in the last 17 years, as a result of the country’s efforts.
Turkey-Africa relations have gained substantial momentum since the declaration of Turkey as a strategic partner of the continent by the African Union in January 2008.
Turkey has embassies in 42 countries and commercial counselors in 26 countries on the Africa continent. Turkey’s national flag carrier THY also flies to 35 destinations on the continent.
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MacIntyre's group did a study where parents of a sick child wore a mask at home. Those who wore the mask at all times were protected, she said.
"When infection is widespread, it may be useful," she noted.
However, images from China show people wearing face masks that aren't likely to help, MacIntyre said.
"I recommend disposable masks," she said. "The cloth masks used commonly in China may not be protective. We did a trial of these, compared to disposable masks, and wearers had a higher risk of infection. This may be because the cloth masks are not washed regularly and may retain moisture and become contaminated."
So far the coronavirus has spread to 19 countries, with five confirmed cases in the United States. In China, nearly 6,000 have been infected, with 132 dead.
Schaffner noted that this coronavirus spreads the way flu does, yet the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn't recommend face masks as a way to avoid flu.
"The reason is that CDC requires scientific evidence to show that any intervention they recommend is likely to have value. It turns out that evidence for using masks in the community is scanty at best," he said.
Also, masks have different uses. Schaffner said a flimsy painter's mask prevents paint from getting in your mouth or nose, but won't stop a virus.
Then there are surgical masks. These are designed to keep fluids or germs from the doctor from contaminating the sterile field in the operating room. But viruses can still pass through it to the wearer, Schaffner said.
When doctors are treating patients who have a communicable disease, they wear a type of mask called an N95 respirator. Because this mask is sealed around the mouth and nose, it will block a virus. But using it requires special training, and it makes breathing harder and is uncomfortable to wear, Schaffner said.
So what can you do to guard against the coronavirus? Schaffner said the best precaution to follow is the same as protecting yourself from the flu, namely, avoid being around people who are sick, and wash your hands often.
Dr. Amesh Adalja, a spokesman for the Infectious Disease Society of America, said surgical masks and respirators offer protection in the health care setting and do offer some protection to the general public.
"However, most people in the general public don't wear them properly. They stick their hands under them," said Adalja, a senior scholar at Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security.
Adalja added that the risk to the United States right now from this coronavirus is very small. "Buying these masks could have unintended consequences, including shortages, demand spikes and price increases," he said.
"It's not really necessary to wear a mask to protect yourself," Adalja noted. "It's not something Americans need to do."
For more on medical face masks, see the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
SOURCES: William Schaffner, M.D., professor, preventive medicine and health policy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.; Amesh Adalja, M.D., spokesman, Infectious Disease Society of America, senior scholar, Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, Baltimore; Raina MacIntyre, MBBS, Ph.D., head, biosecurity research program, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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Duke Ferdinand of Parma, his wife Maria Amalia,their family
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prinzheinelgirl
Re: Duke Ferdinand of Parma, his wife Maria Amalia,their family
Oh, thanks so much CountessKate! Maria Theresa seemed to be fond of commissioning portraits of her (extended) family in Parma! I seem to remember Archduke Ferdinand and Marie Antoinette sending over portraits of their children to their mother, not the other way around (that is, MT commissioning such portraits).
A rather 'gossipy' piece on Maria Amalia's country estate at Sala Baganza; it mentioned that she met her lovers at the forest, ha! But it does provide some information on the estate.... every year, a tour/walk in honor of the duchess is held, complete with an actress impersonating her....
http://www.newparma.com/gennaio%202010/sala%20baganza_eng.pdf
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Further to Archduchess Maria Christina's trip to Italy in 1776 posted in the previous thread, it appears that Maria Amalia, Ferdinand, and their children made a short trip to Mantua to say goodbye and spend some more time with Mimi and Duke Albert before the latter left for Austria. Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Beatrix were also there. So it seems that any reported bad feelings - at least by this point - by Maria Amalia may have had for her sister seems largely exaggerated and unfounded.
« Last Edit: October 18, 2010, 01:13:51 AM by prinzheinelgirl »
CountessKate
Quote from: prinzheinelgirl on October 18, 2010, 01:02:18 AM
That's very interesting - and of course, Maria Amalia would not have been privy to what Maria Christina wrote to their mother. So her criticisms may have been purely between Maria Christina and Maria Theresa.
I agree. At any rate, it's clear that any bad feelings about Mimi getting a love match while she wasn't allowed to do so was gone by this time. If Maria Amalia was only warm and cordial to Mimi due to family ties/obligations and nothing else, she didn't have to go to Mantua to bid her sister goodbye and spend more time with her. After all, they got to see each other in Parma already. So assertations of certain authors that she was (ever) resentful of Mimi, etc. were not entirely correct.
What strikes me is that despite some of her siblings writing badly of her at times (Mimi to Maria Theresa, Marie Antoinette to Maria Theresa, Joseph to Leopold, and Maria Carolina to Mimi), she never seemed to have done the same. Clearly, whatever her faults, backbiting/criticising her siblings behind their backs wasn't one of them. Given her "freshness" (impudence) and being unperturbed, most likely she told them upfront what she thought of them, ha.
« Last Edit: October 18, 2010, 09:52:55 PM by prinzheinelgirl »
Further two topics in the previous thread, I'd like to add the following:
On Karl of Zweibrucken's ambition to marry an archduchess (Maria Amalia and Maria Elisabeth later on) -- It seems that Karl's ambition was not wholly unfounded. Maria Theresa and Franz Stephan were greatly interested in Karl, enquiring about him and even asked to immediately meet him. That most likely started Karl's frequent visits to Vienna.
On Maria Amalia's relationship with her sister Maria Elisabeth and her visit to Innsbruck -- iIt appears that they were very close. Maria Amalia's visit to Innsbruck in 1783 was very closely preceded by that of Karl Theodore of Bavaria's, whom ME had to entertain while in town. MA's visit was deemed much more enjoyable for her sister, for she was "beloved by ME". ME even traveled to Steinach am Brenner to meet her. ME organised a lot of activities (balls, visits to the theatre, walks, hunting, an "open house" celebration for 5 days, etc.) for sister. Also, ME did not wish for MA to leave only after 10 days (MA also made a visit to their sister Maria Anna in Klagenfurt) so MA promised to stop by Innsbruck to spend more time with ME from Klagenfurt. ME also escorted her sister all the way to Bolzano in Italy on her departure from Austria then. MA also spent some time with ME after she left Parma during her exile in 1802.
ivanushka
Quote from: prinzheinelgirl on October 18, 2010, 09:21:46 PM
What strikes me is that despite some of her siblings writing badly of her at times ( Marie Antoinette to Maria Theresa
My apologies if this has already been covered in the previous thread but what did Marie Antoinette say about Amalia to her mother?
Quote from: ivanushka on October 22, 2010, 01:04:39 PM
From what I remember, a number of letters in 1772-73 from Marie Antoinette said "how sorry I am about the Infanta" and that Maria Amalia's non-disclosure to Maria Theresa about the mended relations between France and Parma must be due to the "shame" that she feels; that the Infanta "would learn her duty and try to please her relatives", etc. I very much agree with the opinion posted in Part I of this thread that such remarks mainly tells of a bit of hypocrisy on Marie Antoinette's part because she was also NOT following her mother's wishes.
Oh, and here is another interesting one: in 1776, when Maria Amalia was supposed to meet her mother and brothers Joseph and Leopold in Gorizia for a family holiday/reunion, apparently Marie Antoinette wrote her mother that she'd rather have Maria Carolina come rather than the Infanta. As if her opinion or wishes counted (not like Mimi's, whose wishes and opinions MT readily accepted)! Try as I might, I can't see that remark in any good light.
Sorry, the exact term used in the first thread re: Marie Antoinette's references on Maria Amalia to their mother in the early 1770s was not "hypocrisy' but rather "sanctimonious displeasure".......
I think it was my expression but I don't mind 'hypocrisy' - Maria Amalia was just rebelling flagrantly while Marie Antoinette was trying to do the same covertly! Of course, Marie Antoinette had nothing like the same access to power, so her rebellions were more in the nature of just lying and excuses - very much teenage stuff - and pretty useless since Maria Theresa had a very good spy network surrounding her (as she did for many of her children).
[Oh, and here is another interesting one: in 1776, when Maria Amalia was supposed to meet her mother and brothers Joseph and Leopold in Gorizia for a family holiday/reunion, apparently Marie Antoinette wrote her mother that she'd rather have Maria Carolina come rather than the Infanta. As if her opinion or wishes counted (not like Mimi's, whose wishes and opinions MT readily accepted)! Try as I might, I can't see that remark in any good light. /quote]
While obviously not an especially loving remark, it's hard to judge out of context. Maria Amalia and Marie Antoinette were never very close, while Marie Antoinette and Maria Carolina were - so she might just have been saying "If it was me, I'd much prefer to see my favorite sister" - or she could have been doing a Marie Christine, sucking up to Mother by a little dig - "the former rebel doesn't deserve a visit - what about the Good Girl" - not necessarily particularly hostile to Maria Amalia but just winning a few brownie points with Maria Theresa and supporting Maria Carolina's claim to their mother's attention.
I think Marie Antoinette had the tendency to make herself appear better at someone else's expense; we see it in her letters to Maria Theresa expressing displeasure on her sister in Parma. I've also read that she encouraged the rumours of phimosis on her husband to make herself appear better. While it might be part due to immaturity, it also tells of not taking responsibility for her actions and wanting "applause" for herself.
It's quite true that it's hard to judge her remark out of context but I very much agree that it wasn't an especially loving remark. Like I said, I doubt if her opinion or wishes counted at all - and she was probably resentful that Maria Amalia was back to her mother's good graces by then (1776), enough for Maria Theresa to make a compromise at a holiday near Italy even though MT was mostly in ill health, while she was still receiving letters of criticisms! MT indeed made remarks about going to France if she happened to go the Austrian Netherlands but it was more of a "threat" - to make her toe the line - rather than a fun holiday/reunion!
Well, from what I have read Maria Elisabeth was like the "first lady" in Innsbruck so she couldn't have been very bored there. She entertained royals and nobles alike. I guess that was a lot better than being stuck in Vienna with Joseph II and presumably she had more freedom in Innsbruck. Maria Amalia's visit in 1783 was obviously one of the best visits for her and they appeared very close so she must've enjoyed it more than usual.
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Quote from: Prince Paul on November 02, 2010, 03:18:46 PM
Yes: Liesl (Elisabeth) and Mali (Amalia) seem to have been quite close.
According to what I have read, Maria Amalia and Maria Elisabeth embraced "most tenderly" at Steinach am Brenner (after a separation of 14 years), where Maria Elisabeth hastened to meet her sister in 1783. Obviously, ME can't wait for her sister to arrive in Innsbruck. I think that, among other things, shows that they were indeed very close.
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I am inclined to think that Maria Elisabeth never favored her mother´s (and Joseph´s) attitude towards Maria Amalia. It´s only a presumption, but ME seems to have had a "mind of her own" (her sharp tongue, her tantrums, her prolongued silences), even if she wasn´t given much importance within her family or at the Viennese court (Leopold seems to have been more benevolent towards her, increasing her allowance when he became Emperor). Liesl and Mali were only 2 and a half years apart, and the closest sister the latter had in age (aside from the baby Maria Carolina -the second of the three with that name- who died at birth; Joanna Gabriela was four years younger than Maria Amalia). Maria Christina was only a year older than Maria Elisabeth, but seems to have been more independent, more "mature" (with her many talents). She seems to have been placed more in the lot of the elder children (Marianne and Joseph), while the more frivolous Elisabeth seems to have been often paired with Amalia (possibly close to Charles and Leopold, although the boys must have had a different education and a more masculine environment). Sad that no letter from Maria Elisabeth seems to have survived (that I know of) to see what she really thought of Maria Amalia´s ostracism. The very warm reception she gave her younger sister in 1783 clearly indicates she was not in favor of it. I wonder what did she think of Marie-Antoinette, of Maria Christina (according to Kutschera, citing a letter of Leopold, it seems they abhorred each other...), etc. By the way, I just saw a fantastic exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, called "Vienna, 1780", showing the fabulous "second silver table service" of Maria Christina and her husband, Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen, that they used while being Governors of the Low Countries. The exhibition is only open until this November 7 (reason why I dashed to see it), but there is a very informative (and beautifully illustrated) hard-cover catalogue, that anyone can acquire online.
Prinzheinelgirl: how do I access to the personal message system you mentioned?
I remember that in one biography I read of Marie Antoinette - it was either by Antonia Fraser or Carolly Erikssen - the author said that for the purposes of their upbringing the children of Maria Theresa were basically divided into the older group and the younger group. The latter consisted of Caroline, Antoinette, Ferdinand, Maximilliam and presumably Johanna and Josepha until their untimely deaths. As Amalia and Elizabeth were both in the older group with Christine they would probably have suffered far more reminders of their mother's favouratism towards their sister than the younger children did. The inevitable jealousy and resentment this would have caused must have helped form a strong bond between them. Antonia Fraser said that Maria Anna (another member of the older group) was once made quite ill with jealousy over their mother's favouratism towards Christine. As someone who was forced to stay at home and under her mother's control, Elizabeth was probably impressed with Amalia's independence and refusal to tow the official line from Vienna and silently cheering her on.
I am inclined to think that Maria Elisabeth never favored her mother´s (and Joseph´s) attitude towards Maria Amalia.
There is evidence that communication to and from Parma was NOT banned at ALL levels in 1772-73; Maria Amalia and her doctors wrote the court doctors in Vienna regarding her daughter Carolina in 1773 and got replies. Maria Theresa knew about it. So I suspect communication among Maria Amalia, Maria Anna and Maria Elisabeth could've been done at the "lower levels" (i.e. through common friends/courtiers) when direct communication was banned. All 3 archduchesses were also clever enough and independent to contrive ways to circumvent this ban.
Maria Christina was only a year older than Maria Elisabeth, but seems to have been more independent, more "mature" (with her many talents). She seems to have been placed more in the lot of the elder children (Marianne and Joseph), while the more frivolous Elisabeth seems to have been often paired with Amalia (possibly close to Charles and Leopold, although the boys must have had a different education and a more masculine environment).
Quote from: ivanushka on November 03, 2010, 04:41:22 PM
The pairings were: Marie Christine and Maria Elisabeth, Charles and Leopold, Johanna and Josepha, Maria Carolina and Marie Antoinette, and Ferdinand and Maximilian. Joseph as the heir was raised alone and so were Maria Anna and Maria Amalia, who didn't have sisters deemed close enough in age. Maria Amalia wrote a friend about how she was "always raised alone".
If you see Maria Elisabeth's paintings, she was good at it. She also had a very good singing voice who could tackle technically demanding operas so I don't know why she was deemed inferior to Mimi. Most likely, Mimi's talents were only focused on because she was Maria Theresa's favourite.
Despite the 8-year gap in age between Maria Anna and Maria Amalia, they were very close. Maria Amalia also appears to be close to their father Franz Stephan like Maria Anna and she, from a very tender age, accompanied him and Maria Anna in outdoor pursuits. I know much was made about Marie Antoinette being Franz Stephan's favorite - but the only 'evidence' authors seem to have of that was when FS sent for his youngest daughter before leaving for Innsbruck. The claim seems largely exaggerated and quite unfounded. Although FS did not seem inclined to show overt favouritism, Maria Anna was the child who was closest to their father.
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8 Arizonans have been first round NBA draft picks
Jerryd Bayless was the last Arizona high school basketball player to get picked in the first round of the NBA draft.(Photo: Raj Mehta-USA TODAY Sports)
The state of Arizona has produced eight first-round NBA draft picks through the years, although it has been a while since a former Arizona high school standout was called up on stage with the commissioner.
The most recent Arizonan to be picked in the first round?
Former Arizona Wildcats and Phoenix St. Mary’s standout Jerryd Bayless, who was drafted No. 11 overall in 2008.
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In fact, the last five Arizona high school standouts to be drafted in the first round all went to Arizona.
Channing Frye, who also went to St. Mary’s, was taken 8th overall in 2005.
Richard Jefferson, a Phoenix Moon Valley product, was drafted No. 13 overall in 2001.
Mike Bibby went No. 2 overall in 1998. Bibby played high school basketball at Phoenix Shadow Mountain High.
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Sean Elliott out of Tucson Cholla High went No. 3 overall in 1989.
Fat Lever was the first Arizona high school basketball player to go in the first round.
The former ASU and Tucson Pueblo High standout was taken 11th overall in 1982.
No former Arizona high school basketball standouts are projected to be drafted in the first round this year, but it’s only a matter of time before Arizona’s first round drought will end.
It would be nice to see it end soon.
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South Carolina’s Frank Martin credits his mom as part of drive to top
USA TODAY Sports’ Nicole Auerbach says you’re sorely mistaken if you think this won’t be an entertaining Final Four.
South Carolina coach Frank Martin gives his mother, Lourdes, a long hug after the Gamecocks beat Florida to clinch a trip to the Final Four.(Photo: WLTX)
NEW YORK — You see the patent leather dress shoes glimmer as he stalks the sidelines, and you think Miami. You see the patented death glare when he stands still, preparing to rip into a player, and you think, well, this coach is perhaps a bit too intense.
But those public glimpses of Frank Martin, the South Carolina men’s basketball coach, tell only part of his remarkable story — and personality.
“Everybody thinks he’s tough,” said Lourdes Martin, Frank’s mother. “He is tough; you’ve got to be tough to coach. But at the same time, he’s got to take care of his players. At home, he’s a great husband, a great father, a great son. He cooks for them, takes care of them. He’s just a big teddy bear. Frank is very, very humble. He will always be the same man no matter where he goes.”
Lourdes is the reason her son is the way he is, fueled by a fiery passion but softened by a deep capacity for unconditional love, part basketball instructor, part life coach. She’s the most important woman in his life, Martin gushed Sunday, the strongest woman he’s ever met.
“Husband runs out, leaves her, never gives her a penny, she never takes him to court — doesn’t make excuses,” said Martin, 51, an hour after his No. 7-seeded Gamecocks beat Florida to advance to the program’s first-ever Final Four. “Worked on a salary as a secretary. Raised my sister and me. We’d go to Wendy’s or Burger King every two Fridays — that was our family meal.
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“She gave me the courage to try and do this for a living. Every time I’m in a difficult moment and I got to make a choice and do right or do wrong … I made her cry one time when I was a teenager because I made the wrong choice. I’m never making her cry again for making the wrong choice. And I’m watching her cry tears of joy because all her sacrifices have allowed me and my sister to move forward in life. Those are the tears that are important to me. That’s extending her life. When you make your mother cry for joy, it gives her more life, and she’s a special lady. Special lady.”
And those are the tears that were shed Sunday evening, as Lourdes watched her son do something he’d never done before, with a program that had never come close to a Final Four berth before. Confetti then covered the court; bits and pieces of the nets were being cut and stuffed in pockets and hats as mementos. Martin walked around and around until he found her.
“I was out of breath, and then when I hugged my son, it was just ‘Please, God, give me some peace,’” Lourdes said. “He told me, he said, ‘Mommy I’m so happy but please don’t cry.’ But he was crying, too. I’ve been crying for a while now.”
Martin was the first American-born child in his Cuban family, and he grew up alongside classmates at Miami High School who came over to the house to swim and eat tuna steaks and have never left Martin’s side in the decades since.
South Carolina coach Frank Martin talks to fans after the Gamecocks clinched their trip to the Final Four. (Photo: Robert Deutsch, Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports)
He worked myriad jobs as he grew older in Miami, at one point moonlighting as a bouncer at a local nightclub while coaching junior varsity basketball at Miami High School. He has said that one incident in 1992 — a group of men he had kicked out of the club for fighting returned with a gun and fired several shots at him — convinced him to pursue coaching full time.
Martin’s first gig coaching varsity came in 1993, at North Miami High School, and then came big success at Miami High — three consecutive state championships — but ended in his firing amid scandal, and the 1998 title being vacated because of recruiting violations. That situation is something Martin has not shied away from addressing, even during the most successful month of his coaching career, because it prompted him to shoot for college basketball jobs. He wrote more than 100 letters to college coaches all around the country; only Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski wrote back.
“When we sit around and start judging people and their difficult moments, it says a lot about the people that criticize, not the people that make the mistakes,” Martin said. “I was a part of an unfortunate situation coaching high school basketball. It was under my watch. I still to this day say we were not guilty, but I was responsible for that situation, and I lost my job. And that was the first time I ever said, you know what, I’m going to try this college thing.”
A year later, he landed a job at Booker T. Washington High School. One year after that, he was hired as an assistant coach at Northeastern. From there, he joined Bob Huggins and Andy Kennedy at Cincinnati, then followed Huggins to Kansas State.
USA TODAY Sports’ Nicole Auerbach thinks you’ll be doing yourself a disservice if you don’t keep an eye on these players in the Final Four.
When Huggins left for West Virginia, Martin became the head coach of the Wildcats, taking them to four NCAA tournaments in five years, including an Elite Eight run in 2010. Then, of course, he headed to South Carolina — where, in his fifth season, he’s taken the program to levels it had never been close to reaching, led by players such as Sindarius Thornwell and P.J. Dozier, homegrown stars who trusted Martin’s vision for what he could build if they stayed home and stayed with the Gamecocks.
“If you ever lose your dream or your desire to fight for your dream, then don’t get mad when you don’t get it,” Martin said. “But adversity and how we handle that determines what comes forward.”
These are lessons Martin teaches his players daily; he considers himself an educator. Yes, sometimes they’re lessons that are imparted with screaming and yelling — which brought a one-game suspension from the school at the end of 2014 regular season for “an inappropriate verbal communication.”
But the players see the teaching on the bench, the love in his embraces.
“A lot of times you see the yelling while we’re on the court, but people don’t pay attention when we’re on the bench and he’s teaching,” senior Justin McKie told The (Bergen County, N.J.) Record. “They just see he’s loud. And he is loud; coach is loud. That’s his intensity.”
Martin told players to trust him, hang on to him and “not let go of the rope,” a tug-of-war analogy he’s used for a few months now with his guys. He doesn’t give up on people, and they don’t give up on him. Martin’s wife, Anya, said current and former players visit her house so frequently it never feels like she only has three children. She said she sees how much he cares about his players, his kids, on a daily basis. She admitted her husband has been calmer than she thought he’d be as he’s worked toward reaching the pinnacle of the coaching profession — and that it must be because of those around him.
And how he treats them, too.
“Passion,” Martin said. “When I go back to my high school, which I do all the time, I never go see the teachers that made it easy on me, the ones that just kind of let me get by, I got no time for. I liked it when I was 17 years old. But I’ve got no time for them as a grown man now. I go back and I hug and kiss every single one that held me accountable here and would never let me off the hook. So, when I go in kids’ homes and I recruit, what I tell their parents is, you guys might be mad at me sometimes, I’m OK with that, but the one thing you never have to worry about me is that I’m going to lie or I’m going to cheat your child. Neither one of those two things are ever happening. And that’s who I am. That’s who I am.
“See I’ve got four core values I live my life by and I run my teams by and I run my family with: Honesty, loyalty, trust and love. And the only way you get to love is if you experience the other three. When you get to love, that gets strong. I don’t care what storm comes through, you’re not breaking love. But if you get to love without the other three, you let that thing go right away. So, you’ve got to go through the first three and that’s the only way you get to love. And that’s what I live by, I run my family by that, and I try to coach our guys that way. To get them to that place in life.”
Contributing: Tara Sullivan of the The (Bergen County, N.J.) Record, part of the USA TODAY Network
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Speech by Hazar Imam at the Foundation stone-laying ceremony of the Ismaili Centre, Dubai 2003-03-23
Posted July 23rd, 2016 by librarian-hd
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THE ISMAILI CENTRE IN DUBAI TO BE OPENED - 2008-03-23
Sunday, 2008, March 23
Aga Khan IV (H.H. Prince Karim)
Bismi-Llahi-R-Rahamani-R-Rahim
Your Highness Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum
Your Excellencies
I am deeply honoured by your presence this morning.
May I, at the outset, express my sincere gratitude to His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum for the kind courtesies and hospitality that have been extended to me since my arrival in Dubai. We fully understand that circumstances have prevented His Highness from joining us this morning. I am, however, delighted that His Highness Sheikh Ahmed is with us on this occasion and it is a joy to me that I am able to meet Sheikh Ahmed after twenty years on my first visit to Dubai.
Today's ceremony marks an event that I believe to be as significant for the contemporary landscape of this region as it is historic for the Ismaili Muslim Community worldwide.
At a time when the search for mutual understanding remains essential to assuring peace and stability, the creation of spaces that will enable that search becomes a greater imperative than ever.
The Ismaili Centre in Dubai was conceived, and will be established, for that very purpose, amongst others. It is, therefore, a matter of great happiness for me personally to be present here today as the foundation stone of the Centre is laid on land most generously gifted by His Highness the Crown Prince.
On behalf of the Ismaili Muslim community worldwide and myself as their Imam, I thank His Highness most sincerely for a noble gesture that epitomises attitudes and values which, for almost a millennium and a half, have defined the outlook and gracious disposition of an Ummah, historically diverse, yet bound by the ethics of a common faith.
Let me take this occasion to pay tribute to the experience of the Emirates which, like the lesson of Islam's history, illustrates admirably what heights are achievable, in realising human potential, when national interest and Muslim identity are anchored in values - our historical values - that widen intellectual horizons, and help to build bridges of friendship and understanding.
Your experience demonstrates that a sagacious crafting of policies on these inherited value systems and projected wisely and creatively into the future is the soundest basis
for building a dynamic modern civil society that will harness the creative energies of a pluralist citizenry for the common good of all.
The transformation of the small trading port that was once Dubai into a vibrant metropolis has paralleled its demographic growth and cosmopolitan evolution. The intermingling of cultures that so enlivens this thriving city is one of the strengths on which Dubai has built its renown as a point of global convergence.
It is precisely this notion of convergence that has characterised the Ismaili Community's successful endeavours to contribute, through the institutional framework of the Aga Khan Development Network, towards addressing critical development challenges of the day. The Centre will provide facilities to promote cultural, educational and social programmes from the broadest, non-denominational perspectives within the ethical framework of Islam. Amongst them will be an Early Learning Centre where the Aga Khan Education Services, a philanthropic agency, will draw on its own extensive experience in many parts of the world to offer broad, holistic, early childhood education on a secular and non-denominational basis at the highest international standards of excellence. The objective is to have a curriculum of proven calibre, taught by competent teachers, to help lay strong foundations for a child's continuing educational growth.
In the Middle East and the Gulf region, the Aga Khan Development Network is active in the areas of urban development, conservation, restoration, education, healthcare, microfinance, higher education, culture and rural development. The future Ismaili Centre in Dubai will serve as a resource to support these activities. Architect Rami El Dahan has seized the challenge of designing the Centre in a manner that will permit these interactions even as it preserves and revives traditions of architecture and spirituality.
At this juncture, perhaps, it would be appropriate to situate one of the functions of the Ismaili Centre in the tradition of Muslim piety. For many centuries, a prominent feature of the Muslim religious landscape has been the variety of spaces of gathering co-existing harmoniously with the masjid, which in itself has accommodated a range of diverse institutional spaces for educational, social and reflective purposes. Historically serving communities of different interpretations and spiritual affiliations, these spaces have retained their cultural nomenclatures and characteristics, from ribat and zawiyya to khanaqa and jamatkhana. The congregational space incorporated within the Ismaili Centre belongs to the historic category of jamatkhana, an institutional category that also serves a number of sister Sunni and Shia communities, in their respective contexts, in many parts of the world. Here, it will be space reserved for traditions and practices specific to the Shia Ismaili tariqah of Islam.
In the tradition of Muslim spaces of gathering, the Ismaili Centre will be a symbol of the confluence between the spiritual and the secular in Islam. Architect El Dahan has drawn inspiration from the Fatimid mosques in Cairo. Like its functions, the Centre's architecture will reflect our perception of daily life whose rhythm weaves the body and the soul, man and nature into a seamless unity. Guided by the ethic of whatever we do, see and hear, and the quality of our social interactions, resonate on our faith and bear on our spiritual lives, the Centre will seek to create, Insh'allah, a sense of equilibrium, stability and tranquillity. This sense of balance and serenity will find its continuum in the wealth of colours and scents in the adjacent Islamic garden which the Aga Khan Trust for Culture will help to develop as a public park.
I spoke earlier of the Emirate's policies that enable different elements of its society to empathise as a united citizenry, working for the common good of all. A key aim of the Ismaili Centre in Dubai will be to enhance, facilitate and, indeed, encourage mutual exchanges and understanding, all of which are so critical to a country's sustained development. The Centre will offer facilities for lectures, presentations, seminars and conferences relating to the Aga Khan Development Network's areas of activity in social, economic and cultural endeavour. It will also host recitals and exhibitions that will serve to educate wider publics about the breadth of Islam's heritage.
This, indeed, is a central purpose of the major Ismaili Centres that have already been established in London, Vancouver and Lisbon, and of the others that are in the process of being established in Toronto and Dushanbe. Consistent with this aim, in October this year, the Ismaili Centre in London hosted an international colloquium on the Holy Quran that was attended by more than 250 scholars from around the world, both Muslim and of other faiths. They brought an impressive array of academic disciplines to bear on a reflection of how the revelation of Islam, with its challenge to man's innate gift of quest and reason, became a powerful impetus for a new flowering of human awakening and civilization.
It is my hope that, Insh'allah, the future Ismaili Centre in Dubai will host similar programmes. Through its design and functions, this Centre, like its predecessors, will reflect a mood of humility, forward outlook, friendship and dialogue. Above all, this Centre is being conceived in the ethic of respect for human dignity. It will, therefore, aim to empathise with, and to expand our intellectual, cultural and moral horizons.
It is my humble prayer that, when built, the Ismaili Centre in Dubai will be a place for contemplation and search for enlightenment, where people come together to share knowledge and wisdom. It will be a place of peace, of order, of hope and of brotherhood, radiating those thoughts, attitudes and sentiments which unite, and which do not divide, and which uplift the mind and the spirit.
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Jason Marsalis redux
(more thoughts on jazz nerds, nerdy jazz, and jazz history)
by Peter Hum
On the Los Angeles Times‘ music blog, writer Chris Barton yesterday shared a lengthy message he received from drummer Jason Marsalis, who was keen to move forward in the discussion he sparked with his now-infamous and entertaining Jazz Nerds International rant.
If the whole Jazz Wars topic interests you, I’d advise you to read all that Marsalis wrote — it is strong and opinionated, but more nuanced, thoughtful and stimulating than his detractors might expect. I’ll limit myself to excerpting two passages, and in each case I’ll offer a bit of support for what Marsalis wrote.
First, Marsalis clarifies what he means by jazz nerds in this passage (which I’ve adorned with some bolding for emphasis):
Let’s define a jazz nerd. A jazz nerd, or JNA for short, is a jazz student who reduces all music to notes and concepts only. JNA worships complexity while ridiculing simplicity. JNA will hear groups lead by Dave Holland and Wayne Shorter and will marvel at the complex musical structure but ignore the historical substance behind their music. JNA saxophonists will listen to and worship the music of Mark Turner, Chris Potter, Michael Brecker, and other modern players but ignore the musicians that have influenced their music such as John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Warne Marsh, and Sonny Rollins. JNA will hear the music of James Brown and say that it’s no big deal because it only has two chords. JNA looks down on blues as “simple” while wanting to play endless non-melodic eighth and sixteenth notes over All the Things You Are in 7/4 straight feel. By the way, a slow blues is boring. Better yet, swing is actually uninteresting and straight feel is actually more “challenging” and “exciting.” Instead of embracing both, the JNA worships one while ridiculing the other. Speaking of that, 4/4 is “old” while 9/8, on the other hand, is “new.” A basic drum groove is boring unless you fill it with lots of notes. To the JNA, that’s modern music. So to recapitulate, JNA reduces music to as many complex notes as possible while ignoring the simple elements and history behind the notes.
The bolded parts of Marsalis’ essay are consistent with comments I’ve heard from other seasoned jazz musicians, including ones who don’t fall into the neo-conservative camp that many would place Marsalis in.
For example, Canadian saxophonist Jane Bunnett has commented on the historical short-sightedness of jazz students she had encountered. She told me that today’s students “don’t know the history of the music. They know Brad Mehldau, but they don’t know Teddy Wilson. They know Joshua Redman, but they don’t know Dewey Redman.”
Almost identically, Fred Hersch in an interview last week told me that every young pianist he knew wanted to sound like Mehldau, but was not interested in delving deeper into roots of jazz piano, learning about musicians such as Teddy Wilson or Jess Stacy. Hersch said that younger players don’t need to sound like the old giants, but they do need to “internalize” their playing, understand why they played what they did, why they thought they way they thought, and so on.
I’ve had one Canadian jazz educator express similar thoughts in a recent conversation with me. He says he has noticed that especially in the last few years, jazz students are increasingly disinterested in older jazz, which he suggested meant jazz before 1970.
And then there’s my most recent encounter with jazz ignorance. It’s not quite the same thing, in that the musicians were not complexity-loving, straight-8th playing, odd-meter worshipping jazz nerds. However, these young musicians, who are in fact reasonably accomplished, played Invitation at a jam session and because their knowledge of the tune was based on how it appears in The Real Book, they got the form wrong over and over, neglecting to take the book’s so-called coda with every chorus. For their edification, here is Invitation, played correctly.
When Marsalis refers to “nerdy” music that is complex and does not acknowledge the appeal of simplicity and the grounding principles of traditional jazz, I’m reminded of what pianist Frank Kimbrough told me, namely:
One thing I’ve noticed in recent years is music that sounds like it’s conceived and composed with computers, and I’m usually not very fond of it. Much of it is overly clever, and requires musicians to be tied to the paper, which is anathema to me. I want to hear cats listen to each other, not struggle to play a part and not get lost, playing in their own little world, too busy trying to read to listen to anything going on around them. The upside to it is that there are some ridiculously good musicians out here, many of them quite young, who are able to play anything that’s put in from of them, even if they can’t look up from their music stands. But do they listen? If so, great; if not, it doesn’t matter how “good” they are.
Similarly, Hersch last week expressed his disdain for music that he arose when “hip cats are playing hip shit for hip cats.” By that, I think he meant music students playing what Marsalis would regard as jazz-nerd music for music students. I’ve also read a DownBeat article in which Kurt Rosenwinkel, the hero of many a jazz-guitar nerd, make similar statements about what he called “insider jazz.”
How does one get beyond whether the music on the page is nerdy or not? Consider what drummer Matt Wilson told me last year:
My stuff is not too hard… I’m proud of it, actually, they’re easy. I like ‘em easy so that I can see what people can do with them. I’m big into how people can look at something and go with it. And go from there.
Sometimes I’ve played some music that’s more difficult and I find it really satisfying and more challenging…
As long as the music doesn’t get in the way of the musicians, I think it’s pretty cool. But when the music inspires the musicians and gets stuff out of them, it’s really great. That’s what all the good writers and arrangers, all those conceptualists do. They know how to usher people into an environment and allow them to play with it and see what can occur. I dig that part of it.
Further to his reflections about the lack of interest in jazz history, Marsalis coined another phrase — one that may not be as catchy as “Jazz Nerds International,” but which resonates with me. That phrase is “innovation propaganda,” and Marsalis explains:
if you don’t study the history of jazz, or music for that matter, the good news is that you have an out clause. Jazz magazines and writers created this flavour of Kool-Aid named “innovation,” and when a musician drinks “innovation kool-aid,” you believe the following principles:
To be very brief: I agree with 1 and 2 and the last half of 5, but disagree with 3,4, the first half of 5 and 6. But a few months ago, I wrote this very long post in which I argued that innovation in itself is not the alpha and omega of jazz, and that self-expression and a commitment to beauty on one’s own terms are at least as important for good jazz.
In a related post, I’ve argued that in jazz, personal authenticity matters more than cultural relevance.
The last words (for now) go to two Canadian musicians who gave the Marsalis missive a read and commented on my Facebook page:
Manitoba pianist Michelle Gregoire wrote me:
“OK I read it – I’ve been trying to figure out why the older I get, the more I feel drawn to the earliest pianists and I can just never get enough of the Blues. I find more and more in it, and I can’t get enough…. My music needs to say something, and I think at this age I know what my voice is, and I want it to speak. I’m not worried about the kids too much, cause to me they are just getting some tools together. As they hopefully continue to grow and develop as people, I think their sense of musicality could grow as well. Jason is about the same age as me, so his point of view is certainly interesting. I totally agree — inclusiveness is the trick. Because the more tools the kids have, the more they’ll have to find their voices…each person is a total and unique individual, and not everyone will fit into the boxes people like to create….everyone has the right to find themselves in some way and have the same experience all the greats had when they truly did their thing.
Ottawa-raised, Montreal-based guitarist Steve Raegele, whose beyond-jazz CD, Last Century, I reviewed, wrote:
I think this only matters if you worry about whether people think your music IS jazz. Beyond the pragmatism of playing with musicians with training (which for me means people who at one point played “jazzy jazzer jazz”) I have no need for the jazz litmus test. I can’t really get into his concerns. It’s more of a marketing issue.
Music is has the potential for infinite variation. Worrying about whether it carries the proper number of signifiers of an increasingly vast checklist of past musics is just as ridiculous as asserting that your music need not have any signifiers at all. Music can do whatever the hell it wants. Artists can blend however much or little of the past they choose to. Whether anyone cares to listen is another question, but if the only concern is pleasing people, I think it’s pretty clear what to do. What does one do, however, when this attempt to curry favour with a fickle public falls flat?
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The objective:
To develop a set of astrological symbols for every celestial body that is known and has been given a unique individual name. Each of these symbols will be consistent parts of a whole, referred to as a symbology, that is logically consistent and follows from a set of rules.
The purpose of this project is not astrological, but is instead an exercise in symbology, a creative process that is not often explored. By developing these symbols, I have learned a lot about myth, history, observational astronomy, and art. To speak more generally, it is enlightening to read the many names our global scientific community has given the asteroids, ranging from the honorific to the whimsical. It gives a unconventional understanding of the ideas and stories we value.
These are the rules I follow:
The symbology will be be based as much as possible on the familiar Western symbols of the seven planets and twelve constellations.
The individual symbols will be directly based on the referent of the symbol - i.e. the person, place, or concept that gave its name.
Each symbol will be unique, such that any two symbols differ by at least one symbeme, and no symbol is a left-right reflection of any other symbol.
Each symbol will be simple and distinctive enough that it can be drawn by anyone from memory without too much hand-ache.
The symbology will try as best as possible to be international and multicultural, without special weight to any one culture or language.
In service of these rules, there are a number of design considerations I make. For example, although many symbols include a small 5-pointed star, it can everywhere be replaced with any other kind of star or simply a nondescript mark without ambiguity. Another such decision is that in all of the symbols that I present, circles only exist in three different sizes: big (Sun), small (Venus), and tiny (Pluto), and all curves are circular arcs whenever possible.
The work of others:
Although to my knowledge this is the first expanded symbology that aims to be comprehensive, in good faith I would like to acknowledge the symbols invented by others. In those cases where their symbols inspired my own, I will credit them on the appropriate page.
Denis Moskowitz has created symbols for every constellation, and every Solar System object with a mass greater than 1019 kg, at https://www.suberic.net/~dmm/astro/
Mark Andrew Holmes has created astrological symbols for hundreds of asteroids at http://markandrewholmes.com/asteroid.html
Zane Stein has written on the history of astrology of minor planets, and many minor planet symbols can be found throughout his website, http://www.zanestein.com/
Martha Lang Wescott is a prolific astrologer, and some of her symbols can be found at https://marthalangwescott.com/basic-resources/
There is an artist known as MysticaLink who has illustrated a great number of alchemical and astrological symbols, including unique symbols for a number of minor planets. They have sold these images to stock photo companies, and most of them can be found at https://www.shutterstock.com/g/adobest
Other sources that have been useful throughout this project here and there:
"Dictionary of Minor Planet Names," Lutz D. Schmadel, 6th edition
"Myths, Symbols, and Legends of Solar System Bodies," Rachel Alexander, Springer, 2014.
JPL Small-Body Database Browser, https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi
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The Whitley Bay Town Cup was established in 1954 by the former Whitley Bay Borough Council who awarded the trophy annually to any individual or organisation that had taken part in or brought about an outstanding event during the 12 months ending in September each year.
The Cup was donated to North Tyneside Council in 1974. The original terms and conditions continued to apply, with a Sub-Committee comprising of all Members representing the former Borough of Whitley Bay meeting annually to consider the nominations for the Cup.
In March 1993, the Council's Leisure and Tourism Committee agreed to expand the criteria to also recognise meritorious service by an individual or organisation over a number of years.
Nominations are now being sought for the award of the Whitley Bay Town Cup for 2019. Nominations can be submitted by completing the attached form. For further information please contact democraticsupport@northtyneside.gov.uk or call (0191) 643 5313.
The Whitley Bay Town Cup Sub-committee will meet in December to consider nominations and award the Cup. The sub-committee is made up of Elected Members that represent the following wards: Monkseaton North, Monkseaton South, Collingwood, Whitley Bay and St. Mary’s.
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The researchers found that even among people with normal blood pressure, 11% had primary aldosteronism. That rate was 22% among people with resistant hypertension and those with stage 2 hypertension (blood pressure of at least 140/90 mm Hg).
But if someone with primary aldosteronism is already on blood pressure medication, isn't that enough? No, Funder said.
He pointed to one 2018 study. It found that when patients with primary aldosteronism did not have the condition sufficiently controlled with medication, their risk of heart complications and death were three times higher, versus people with hypertension only.
Whether screening guidelines change remains to be seen. For now, Vaidya said that people with resistant hypertension should be screened (as already recommended), and that doctors "might consider it" for patients with more moderate hypertension.
An issue, though, is that the screening method used in this study is "laborious," Vaidya noted. He said another option is to prescribe spironolactone for a period, to see if that lowers a patient's blood pressure further. The drug has been around for years, and is available as a generic.
Funder was even more supportive of that tactic. "A three-month trial of spironolactone for patients with established hypertension is the way to go," he said.
The study was funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
The Endocrine Society has more on primary aldosteronism.
SOURCES: Anand Vaidya, MD, MMSc, associate professor, medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston; John Funder, MD, PhD, distinguished scientist, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia; William Young Jr., M.D., professor, medicine, and chair, endocrinology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; Annals of Internal Medicine, May 26, 2020, online
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The concept Military policy represents the subject, aboutness, idea or notion of resources found in University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries.
The Resource Military policy
127 Items that share the Concept Military policy
U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan : Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session : hearing held October 8, 2015
U.S. national missile defense policy and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty : hearing before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, hearing held October 13, 1999
U.S. policy in Afghanistan and the regional implications of the June 2014 transition : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States, Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, June 18, 2014
Understanding the North Korea problem : why it has become the "land of lousy options", William Boik
United States Security policy in Europe : hearing before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, April 28, 2015
United States defense policy issues pertaining to the Asia-Pacific theater : hearing before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, April 14, 2015
2019 missile defense review, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Velocity : speed with direction : the professional career of Gen Jerome F. O'Malley, Aloysius G. Casey and Patrick A. Casey
War over Kosovo : politics and strategy in a global age, edited by Andrew J. Bacevich and Eliot A. Cohen
What is the state of Islamic extremism : key trends, challenges, and implications for U.S. policy : Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session : hearing held February 13, 2015
Worldwide threats : Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, hearing held February 3, 2015
United States strategy and military operations to counter the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and United States policy toward Iraq and Syria : hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, May 21 ; July 7, September 16 ; December 9, 2015
A Russian view on landpower, Aleksandr V. Rogovoy, Keir Giles
Afghanistan and Pakistan : accountability community oversight of a new interagency strategy : hearing before the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, September 9, 2009
Afghanistan and Pakistan : oversight of a new interagency strategy : joint hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, June 24, 2009
After the war : nation-building from FDR to George W. Bush, James Dobbins [and others]
Always strategic : jointly essential landpower, Colin S. Gray
American strategy : issues and alternatives for the Quadrennial Defense Review, Steven Metz
Another brick in the wall : the Israeli experience in missile defense, Jean-Loup Samaan
Battlefield successes and challenges - recent efforts to win the war against ISIS : hearing before the Subcommittee on National Security of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, second session, January 17, 2018
Beyond Mahan : a proposal for a U.S. naval strategy in the twenty-first century, Gary Anderson
Beyond preemption : force and legitimacy in a changing world, Ivo H. Daalder, editor
Biological weapons : limiting the threat, editor, Joshua Lederberg ; [foreword by William S. Cohen]
Can Russia reform? : economic, political, and military perspectives, Stephen J. Blank, editor
Charting a course : strategic choices for a new administration, edited by R.D. Hooker, Jr
China : recent security developments, Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, (electronic resource)
China's Goldwater-Nichols? : Assessing PLA organizational reforms, by Phillip C. Saunders and Joel Wuthnow
China's subtle strategy in the South China Sea, Aaron Austin
China-Latin America military engagement : good will, good business, and strategic position, R. Evan Ellis
Confronting Iraq : U.S. policy and the use of force since the Gulf War, Daniel L. Byman, Matthew C. Waxman
Continuation of the national emergency with respect to Iran : communication from the President of the United States transmitting notification that the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12170 of November 14, 1979, with respect to Iran, is to continue in effect beyond November 14, 2015, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1622(d), Pub. L. 94-412, Sec. 202 (d)
Continuation of the national emergency with respect to Iran : communication from the President of the United States transmitting notification that the national emergency with respect to Iran, originally declared on March 15, 1995, by Executive Order 12957, as amended and extended, is to continue in effect beyond March 15, 2014, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1622(d)
Continuation of the national emergency with respect to Iran : communication from the President of the United States transmitting notification that the national emergency with respect to Iran, originally declared on March 15, 1995, is to continue in effect beyond March 15, 2016, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1622(d); Public Law 94-412, Sec. 202 (d); (90 STAT. 1257)
Continuation of the national emergency with respect to Iran : message from the President of the United States transmitting notification that the national emergency with respect to Iran originally declared on March 15, 1995, is to continue in effect beyond March 15, 2010, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1622(d)
Continuation of the national emergency with respect to Iran : message from the President of the United States transmitting notification that the national emergency with respect to Iran originally declared on November 14, 1979, by Executive Order 12170, is to continue in effect beyond November 14, 2014, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1622(d)
Counterforce issues for the U.S. strategic nuclear forces, the Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office ; [prepared by Robert R. Soule]
Countering the new terrorism, Ian O. Lesser [and others] ; forword by Brian Michael Jenkins
Defense transformation : to what, for what?, Kevin Reynolds
Department of Defense investment in technology and capability to meet emerging security threats : hearing before the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, hearing held July 26, 2011
Department of Defense plans and programs relating to counterterrorism, counternarcotics, and building partnership capacity : hearing before the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, April 12, 2011
Don't ask, don't tell review : hearing before the Military Personnel Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, hearing held, July 23, 2008
Empty threat or serious danger : assessing North Korea's risk to the homeland : hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency of the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, first session, October 12, 2017
European common foreign, security, and defense policies--implications for the United States and the Atlantic Alliance : hearing before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, November 10, 1999
From war to deterrence? : Israel-Hezbollah conflict since 2006, Jean-Loup Samaan
Global challenges and U.S. national security strategy : hearing before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, February 10, 2015
Global challenges to readiness and the fiscal year 2012 budget request : hearing before the Subcommittee on Readiness of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, hearing held March 10, 2011
Hard power and soft power : the utility of military force as an instrument of policy in the 21st century, Colin S. Gray
Hearing on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 and oversight of previously authorized programs before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session : full committee hearing on U.S. policy, strategy, and posture in Afghanistan : post-2014 transition, risks, and lessons learned, hearing held March 4, 2015
Hearing on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 and oversight of previously authorized programs before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session : full committee hearing on how is DOD responding to emerging security challenges in Europe? : hearing held February 25, 2015
Hearing on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 and oversight of previously authorized programs before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session : full committee hearing on the President's proposed authorization for the use of military force against ISIL and the fiscal year 2016 National Defense Authorization budget request from the Department of Defense : hearing held March 18, 2015
Hearing on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 and oversight of previously authorized programs before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, first session : Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities hearing on high consequences and uncertain threats : reviewing Department of Defense strategy, policy, and programs for countering weapons of mass destruction for fiscal year 2018, hearing held March 23, 2017
Hybrid warfare, [Davi M. D'Agostino]
Improving the readiness of U.S. forces through military jointness : hearing before the Subcommittee on Readiness of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, hearing held March 31, 2011
Independent Panel's assessment of the Quadrennial Defense Review : Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, hearing held April 15, 2010
India in Africa : implications of an emerging power for Africom and U.S. strategy, J. Peter Pham
India's emerging nuclear posture : between recessed deterrent and ready arsenal, Ashley J. Tellis
International security, (electronic resource)
Iran's security policy in the post-revolutionary era, Daniel Byman [and others]
Learning to leave : the preeminence of disengagement in US military strategy, R. Greg Brown, (electronic resource)
Lessons for countering al Qa'ida and the way ahead : hearing before the Terrorism, Unconventional Threats, and Capabilities Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, hearing held September 18, 2008
Long-term implications of current defense plans : detailed update for fiscal year 2007
Long-term implications of current defense plans : summary update for fiscal year 2008
Long-term readiness challenges in the Pacific : hearing before the Subcommittee on Readiness of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, hearing held March 15, 2011
Long-term sustainability of current defense plans : hearing before the Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, February 4, 2009
Making twenty-first-century strategy : an introduction to modern national security processes and problems, Dennis M. Drew, Donald M. Snow
NATO : a strategic concept for transatlantic security : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, October 22, 2009
National security and the American economy in the 1960s, by Henry Rowen : materials prepared in connection with the Study of Employment, Growth, and Price Levels for consideration by the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, January 30, 1960
National security reform and the 2016 election, by Christopher J. Lamb and Joseph C. Bond
Nonproliferation and disarmament : what's the connection and what does that mean for U.S. security and Obama administration policy? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, second session, hearing held August 1, 2012
Nuclear weapons modernization in Russia and China : understanding impacts to the United States : hearing before the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, hearing held October 14, 2011
Pakistan at the crossroads ; Afghanistan in the balance : hearing before the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, July 12, 2007
Physics and metaphysics of deterrence : the British approach, Myron A. Greenberg
Planning U.S. general purpose forces : forces related to Asia, the Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office ; [prepared by Charles A. Sorrels]
Policy challenges of accelerating technological change : security policy and strategy implications of parallel scientific revolutions, James Kadtke and Linton Wells II
Political and socio-economic change : revolutions and their implications for the U.S. military, John R. Deni, editor
Private contractors in conflict zones : the good, the bad, and the strategic impact, by T.X. Hammes, (electronic resource)
Private sector perspectives on Department of Defense information technology and cybersecurity activities : hearing before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats, and Capabilities of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, hearing held February 25, 2010
Puncturing the counterinsurgency myth : Britain and irregular warfare in the past, present, and future, Andrew Mumford
Raising our sights : Russian-American strategic restraint in an age of vulnerability, by David C. Gompert, Michael Kofman
Re-examining the roles of landpower in the 21st century and their implications, William T. Johnsen
Red China's "capitalist bomb" : inside the Chinese neutron bomb program, by Jonathan Ray
Repeal of law and policies governing service by openly gay and lesbian service members : Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, hearing held April 7, 2011
Retaliatory issues for the U.S. strategic nuclear forces, [prepared by John B. Shewmaker and Mary R. Tietz]
Review of the DOD process for assessing the requirements to implement repeal of don't ask, don't tell : hearing before the Military Personnel Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, hearing held March 3, 2010
Revocation of Executive Orders 13574, 13590, 13622, and 13645 with respect to Iran, amendment of Executive Order 13628 with respect to Iran, and provision of implementation authorities for aspects of certain statutory sanctions outside the scope of U.S. commitments under the joint comprehensive plan of action of July 14, 2015 : message from the President of the United States transmitting Revocation of Executive Orders 13574, 13590, 13622, and 13645 with respect to Iran, amendment of Executive Order 13628 with respect to Iran, and provision of implementation authorities for aspects of certain statutory sanctions outside the scope of U.S. commitments under the joint comprehensive plan of action of July 14, 2015
Russia in the Arctic, Stephen J. Blank, editor
Russian influence and unconventional warfare operations in the "gray zone" : lessons from Ukraine : hearing before the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, first session, March 29, 2017
Russian military developments and strategic implications : Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, hearing held April 8, 2014
Strategic insights, produced by the Center for Contemporary Conflict at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
Supporting the warfighter of today and tomorrow : hearing before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, December 3, 2015
Terrorism, asymmetric warfare, and weapons of mass destruction : defending the U.S. homeland, by Anthony H. Cordesman
The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review : hearing before the full committee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, hearing held February 4, 2010
The Asia-Pacific maritime security strategy : achieving national security objectives in a changing environment
The Joint Chiefs of Staff and National Policy, 1953-1954, Robert J. Watson
The Joint Chiefs of Staff and national policy, 1945-1947, James F. Schnabel
The Joint Chiefs of Staff and national policy, 1955-1956, Kenneth W. Condit
The Joint Chiefs of Staff and national policy, 1957-1960, by Byron R. Fairchild, Walter S. Poole
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union's common security and defense policy : intersecting trajectories, Sarwar A. Kashmeri
The Russian military and the Georgia war : lessons and implications, Ariel Cohen, Robert E. Hamilton
Context of Military policy
2019 missile defense review
A Russian view on landpower
After the war : nation-building from FDR to George W. Bush
Always strategic : jointly essential landpower
American strategy : issues and alternatives for the Quadrennial Defense Review
Another brick in the wall : the Israeli experience in missile defense
Beyond Mahan : a proposal for a U.S. naval strategy in the twenty-first century
Beyond preemption : force and legitimacy in a changing world
Biological weapons : limiting the threat
Can Russia reform? : economic, political, and military perspectives
Charting a course : strategic choices for a new administration
China : recent security developments
China's Goldwater-Nichols? : Assessing PLA organizational reforms
China's subtle strategy in the South China Sea
China-Latin America military engagement : good will, good business, and strategic position
Confronting Iraq : U.S. policy and the use of force since the Gulf War
Counterforce issues for the U.S. strategic nuclear forces
Countering the new terrorism
Defense transformation : to what, for what?
From war to deterrence? : Israel-Hezbollah conflict since 2006
Hard power and soft power : the utility of military force as an instrument of policy in the 21st century
Hybrid warfare
India in Africa : implications of an emerging power for Africom and U.S. strategy
India's emerging nuclear posture : between recessed deterrent and ready arsenal
Iran's security policy in the post-revolutionary era
Learning to leave : the preeminence of disengagement in US military strategy
Making twenty-first-century strategy : an introduction to modern national security processes and problems
National security and the American economy in the 1960s
National security reform and the 2016 election
Physics and metaphysics of deterrence : the British approach
Planning U.S. general purpose forces : forces related to Asia
Policy challenges of accelerating technological change : security policy and strategy implications of parallel scientific revolutions
Political and socio-economic change : revolutions and their implications for the U.S. military
Private contractors in conflict zones : the good, the bad, and the strategic impact
Puncturing the counterinsurgency myth : Britain and irregular warfare in the past, present, and future
Raising our sights : Russian-American strategic restraint in an age of vulnerability
Re-examining the roles of landpower in the 21st century and their implications
Red China's "capitalist bomb" : inside the Chinese neutron bomb program
Retaliatory issues for the U.S. strategic nuclear forces
Russia in the Arctic
Terrorism, asymmetric warfare, and weapons of mass destruction : defending the U.S. homeland
The Joint Chiefs of Staff and National Policy, 1953-1954
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union's common security and defense policy : intersecting trajectories
The Russian military and the Georgia war : lessons and implications
The U.S. nuclear deterrent : what are the requirements for a strong deterrent in an era of defense sequester? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, hearing held March 19, 2013
The US Air Force after Vietnam : postwar challenges and potential for responses
The administration's strategy and military campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant : Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, hearing held November 13, 2014
The challenge of conventional and hybrid warfare in the Asia-Pacific region : the changing nature of the security environment and its effect on military planning : Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, second session, hearing held February 24, 2016
The challenges facing the Department of Defense : hearing before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, January 27, 2009
The continuing storm : Iraq, poisonous weapons and deterrence
The counterterrorism strategy against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant : are we on the right path? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, hearing held June 24, 2015
The final report of the Independent Panel's assessment of the Quadrennial Defense Review : Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, hearing held July 29, 2010
The formative years 1947-1950
The future of U.S.-Taiwan relations : hearing before the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, second session, February 11, 2016
The future of defense reform : hearing before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, October 21, 2015
The grand strategy of the United States
The lessons of history : the Chinese People's Liberation Army at 75
The limits of offshore balancing
The national defense strategy and the Nuclear Posture Review : Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, second session, hearing held February 6, 2018
The national security strategy of the United States of America
The politics of defence budgeting : a study of organisation and resource allocation in the United Kingdom and the United States
The president's decision on missile defense in Europe : hearing before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, September 24, 2009
The promise and pitfalls of grand strategy
The real rebalancing : American diplomacy and the tragedy of President Obama's foreign policy
The report of the Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel : hearing before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, August 3, 2010
The risk of losing military technology superiority and its implications for U.S. policy, strategy, and posture in the Asia-Pacific : Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, hearing held April 15, 2015
Through a glass darkly : looking at conflict prevention, management, and termination
To strengthen and clarify the commercial, cultural, and other relations between the United States and the people of Taiwan, as codified in the Taiwan Relations Act, and for other purposes ; and to provide Taiwan with critically needed United States-built multirole fighter aircraft to strengthen its self-defense capability against the increasing military threat from China : markup before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, on H.R. 2918 and H.R. 2992, November 17, 2011
Toward a pax universalis : a historical critique of the national military strategy for the 1990s
U.S. Army War College guide to national security policy and strategy
Understanding the North Korea problem : why it has become the "land of lousy options"
Velocity : speed with direction : the professional career of Gen Jerome F. O'Malley
War over Kosovo : politics and strategy in a global age
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Alliance of Patriots of Georgia was founded on 19 December 2012. In 2014, for the first time ever, the political party gained seats in the city assembly (5.37%), while in 2016, having received 5.01% of the votes, it gained seats in Parliament. The party claims to be of right-conservative ideology. In its vision and program, available on the English language webpage of the political party (unavailable in Georgian), the party defines patriotism as “thinking and pondering, speaking and discussing, acting and behaving in conformity with the national spirit, which in our case is the Georgian spirit”. According to the party’s vision, the tolerance of Georgian spirit implies readiness to adopt everything good from other nations, though, at the same time, giving preference to native Georgian. On its English-language website, the party declares the desire to integrate into the European Union while expressing skepticism about prospects of Georgia’s integrating into NATO. The political party has links with TV Obieqtivi and alike this media outlet, the Alliance of Patriots is notorious for its Turkophobia and homophobia.
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Making of The Droog Family Songbook
Apr 25, 2011 | 24 Hour RPG, Droog Family Songbook, Roleplaying | 0
So yesterday (well, very early this morning) I completed my 24-hour RPG, The Droog Family Songbook. It is inspired by a mashup of the films A Clockwork Orange and The Sound of Music.
I started with two apparently very different stories (films) and a spark of an idea. I was actually most interested in doing something with A Clockwork Orange, while The Sound of Music seemed like a good juxtaposition. One was dark, violent social commentary, the other was a Stanley Kubrick film. Ha! I jest! When I started I wanted to explore the idea of the use of violence. I had this kernel that I wanted players to use violence to get their own way, but at a price. It took me a really long time to work out that price. It needed to cost the character something in the fiction (while simultaneously giving them what they want), but also had to cost the player something. The lightening from the sky moment was coming up with the “end game” – the Denouement Chart that would affect how a character’s story will end. This is kind of like Fiasco, which is something I hadn’t realised before. Cool. Knowing that a character’s fate would be determined by their actions in the game let a lot of other things fall into place. I knew I was defining characters by what was important to them (Favourite Things), but was surprised at how easily they fitted with the end game mechanic.
The setting is something that I am really excited about. Not that it’s really a setting, more like a bunch of ideas and cliches thrown up in the air. What I am really keen on is the kind of post-modern (that’s the right concept, isn’t it?) mash-up that draws on the fiction of the films and spins 180-degrees. When I realised A Clockwork Orange was set in 1995 my mind immediately leaped to the idea of using the historical setting, as opposed to the fictional one from the film. It seemed totally appropriate for the mash-up theme of the competition. By mixing this with the plot from The Sound of Music I had both my setting and story arc for the game.
The creation process
So how did I go about putting the game together? It started more than a few days ago when I looked over the list and decided I wanted to do something with A Clockwork Orange, but couldn’t decide on what to match it with. I thought about West Side Story, as both films have “gangs” of youth and I figured there was much to mine there, but I just wasn’t feeling it. I did some reading (on Wikipedia! Please don’t tell my students!) to refresh my memory of both A Clockwork Orange and West Side Story, then drifted around the web to look at other things. I toyed with doing 2001: Space Odyssey and a Kubrick double feature. I don’t know what lead my to The Sound of Music, but the thought of the Ultraviolent Droogs meeting Sister Maria just sparked something. The dark, violent youth of Kubrick’s film mashed with the family wholesomeness of the Von Trapps was too much to pass up and so I committed to the challenge.
I did a bit more reading about the plot of both films, and a bit of history related to both (I honestly had no idea that The Sound of Music was based on a true story – and yes my wife just looked at me like I was stupid when I let that out) and announced my participation on 1KM1KT.net. As with all my 24-hour games, I started with page layout so I could write straight into InDesign – it is MUCH quicker than writing and then laying out later. For me, anyway. This required me doing a fair bit of web surfing, where I put together a scrap folder of inspiring images. Nuns; people dressed as Droogs; Nuns with guns; that kind of thing.
I was thinking about setting, my goal of making the choice of using violence central to the game, and that kind of thing. At this point I was calling the game “The Sound of Droogs”, and the characters would fight Nazis in 1995. I wrote the “Austria, 1995″ text that appears on page 4 at about this point. As I read a bit more about the Von Trapps I hit upon the idea of setting the book out to look like the family music collection, and then I realised the characters could be members of the Von Trapps (or Von Droogs), trying to make their escape. I wrote the first bit of flavour text (page 2) and re-wrote a couple of The Sound of Music songs, as Alex De Large might have sung them. That’s when I realised that “My Favourite Things” would make an awesome central concept to hang a character on. Here these characters were, in German occupied Austria, fearing for their lives and worried about the things they hold dear.
At this point I had a pretty good idea about the “setting” and what the game would be about – the Von Droogs trying to save their Favourite Things. I had also hit upon the idea of using the Zombie Cinema resolution system at about this point too – everyone rolls dice and the high scorer gets to narrate. That way a player could choose to use Ultraviolence and automatically win, though I still had no idea what the draw back would be.
I wrote the character creation system. It was bizarre not having stats or skills or even a list of talents. Really strange having no numbers at all. But it was also really liberating – it reinforced for me that this game was about telling a cool story, not rolling it or min / maxing it. I banged out the character generation notes and the basics of task resolution (this bit on my iPad while I visited my parents). I must say, getting away from the computer can really help the creative process.
As I write (and take breaks for sustenance, or visit family for Easter!) my brain will churn over my ideas, fit my desires into the mechanisms of other games, and run through “scenarios” to see how things might play out. I suppose that is how I stumbled upon the Denouement Chart – I didn’t even make the connection with Fiasco until I began writing this reflection! By the time I got home again (car trips can give you time to think!) I had the idea that the player framing a scene can be rewarded for “forcing” the Spotlight character into using Ultraviolence. This was the last “price” I needed to make the concept work (IMHO). Now there are three things that can cause a player to carefully consider whether to use violence to resolve a situation – it might affect their denouement, they have to graphically describe horrible actions, and they will reward another player. That last one is probably the biggest discourager!
I banged out the rest of the rules and designed the “character sheets”. It seemed short, and I felt like I was missing a lot of stuff, but I realised because the game was rules light, GM-less and essentially a “one-shot”, there was a lot of stuff that I didn’t need to include. Character advancement, adversary stats, GM advice, that kind of thing. Hopefully my rules explanations are clear enough.
It was about 1.30am by this time and I had been working on the game for more than 16 hours. I figured it was just a simple matter of putting in some images, tidying things up and doing the table of contents before exporting it all to PDF. It was simple, I suppose, but I didn’t finish until 4am! There seems to be subtle differences between InDesign on my PC and In Design on my new Mac, and it was confounding me!
You can follow the link at the top of the article to see the final product. I am really pleased with the result. This is the second GM-less game I have attempted to design, but the first I think that really works. I am very happy with the rules doing what I set out for them to do – force players to make the hard choice between getting what they want by doing something unpleasant, or leaving the situation to chance. I also feel the game reflects key elements of both films. It draws heavily on The Sound of Music for plot and setting, and the Song rule adds some of the whimsy of the film. A Clockwork Orange comes through with the use of graphic, unnecessary violence, and also via the end game, where the character may end up undergoing reeducation at the hands of a Doctor Von Keeton. I also think the mashing of the two films gives the whole thing a slight surreal edge that reminds me of much of Kubrick’s work.
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examples of allegorical interpretation of scripture
Allegorical interpretation, a third type of hermeneutics, interprets the biblical narratives as having a second level of reference beyond those persons, things, and events explicitly mentioned in the text. Literal: This refers to the obvious meaning of the text. 2 (trans. Carson, “Challenges for the Twenty-first-century Pulpit” in Preach the Word: Essays in Honor of R. Kent Hughes (ed., L. Ryken, T. Wilson; Wheaton: Crossway: 2008), 176-177. The goal of the allegory is to make spiritual concepts more understandable. Even through the Reformation, these terms are broadly indistinguishable. Another example is found in 1 Corinthians 9:9-10: For it is written in the law of Moses, thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. When making the connection, do we present it as an intention of the author? It’s an intriguing example of allegorical interpretation. Doth God take care for oxen? literal interpretation to the entire canon of Scripture, without resorting to spiritual or allegorical methods simply because the text dealt with the subject of prophecy. [2] Without naming Augustine, John Calvin responds to this kind of interpretation in characteristically blunt fashion: “The allegory which is here contrived by the advocates of free will is too absurd to deserve refutation… I acknowledge that I have no liking for any of these interpretations; but we ought to have a deeper reverence for Scripture than to reckon ourselves at liberty to disguise its natural meaning. An even clearer example of this is Romans 5:12-21, in which Adam is called a “type of the one who was to come,” using the word type (τυπος). Dictionary definitions are not especially precise either. Thomas R. Hatina, 2010). To see this reading of Scripture in action, you can read through the Canon of St. Andrew of Crete that is prayed during Lent in the Orthodox Church. The first spiritual sense is the allegorical sense, by which we understand the events recorded in the Bible by recognizing how they point to Christ. For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. Nevertheless what saith the scripture? (True allegory contains its interpretation, as "I am the true vine," John 15:1–8, but this is ignored in the allegorical interpretation.) And indeed, the human mind was designed to appreciate the beauty of intricate literary connections and be excited by the fulfillment of such patterns. Is there precedent for making this theological connection? Similarly, the … In Augustine’s rendering, there is a man (Adam) traveling a road. Our work is possible by the generosity of our readers. as well as how we will present it (as an interpretation or an illustration? The story of the Israelites and their exodus from Egypt can be interpreted allegorically as the salvation of a sinner from sin, with the crossing of the Red Sea symbolizing baptism. Allegorical interpretations of Genesis are readings of the biblical Book of Genesis that treat elements of the narrative as symbols or types, rather than viewing them literally as recording historical events.Either way, Judaism and most sects of Christianity treat Genesis as canonical scripture, and believers generally regard it as having spiritual significance. Biblical literature - Biblical literature - Types of biblical hermeneutics: As has been said, the importance of biblical hermeneutics has lain in the Bible’s status as a sacred book in Judaism and Christianity, recording a divine revelation or reproducing divine oracles. But on the other hand, in our age of right commitments to Christ-centered preaching and a right understanding that all the Scriptures do point to the gospel of Jesus Christ, it’s easy to be sympathetic to Augustine’s goal.4 The gospel should be preached! Beldman; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012), 383-409. This type of interpretation is found in the writings of Augustine, who believed that every passage of sacred Scripture contained four different interpretations (or meanings): the “literal,” the “allegorical,” “the moral,” and the “eschatological.” George Orwell, Animal Farm.Animal Farm is a great example of allegory, and is often taught in high school English classes to introduce the concept. Allegory can be used to skew someone’s thinking toward a … Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. [7] Philip Barton Payne, “Allegory” in The Evangelical Dictionary of Theology (ed. Even after considering both the source of a connection between a text and the gospel (passage or preacher?) Saints. J. While much can be learned, of course, from a knowledge of Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew, this is not an end unto itself. Consider how other parts of the Bible (typically New Testament connections) handle the content of your text. Clearly, if the Apostles could interpret the Old Testament in allegorical and typological terms, no one who claims to be a Christian should object to the Church Fathers doing likewise. In his early life He was educated primarily by his father, Leonides, who was martyred in 202 under the persecution of Roman Emperor Septimius Severus (A.D. 193-211). Contemporary scholars and certain Christian groups today tend to approach the study of scripture as archaeology.Rather than receiving the scriptures as God-breathed tradition in the life of the Church, the text is abstracted from its incarnate context, subjected to scientific analysis. The single best way to do this is to see how a subsequent passage (usually in the New Testament) refers back to your passage.9 If textual connections cannot be drawn, then we have to consider that the source could be the preacher and not the passage. [8] The Bible gives us warrant for making a connection between an Old Testament passage and a fulfillment in Christ, of course. The Scriptures have no less than 2,350 verses having to do with money and money management. Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. That the Passover lamb is a type. Here are some prominent allegory examples. The allegorical sense of Scripture does not negate the literal sense—it is another level of meaning in the text. This is the most important distinction to make and it provides us with a substantive criterion for distinguishing between typology and allegory.8. The most important example is the story of creation in the very first chapter of the Bible. Many more examples could be cited of typological interpretations of the Old Testament, found in the New. And, indeed, any one may see that the curiosity of certain men has led them to contrive these speculations, contrary to the intention of Christ.” See Calvin’s commentary on Matthew 22:34-40; Mark 12:28-34; Luke 10:25-37 in John Calvin, The Harmony of the Gospels, Vol. It can lead to preaching that dehistoricizes the Scriptures or plays fast and loose with God’s Word.10 Yet the impulse behind it—the desire to preach the gospel from all the Scriptures—is a right one. Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? We must not present something as an interpretation that isn’t intended by the author. [10] David R. Helm addresses this concern of dehistoricizing texts in his chapter on Theological Reflection in David Helm, Expositional Preaching: How We Speak God’s Word Today (Wheaton, Crossway, 2014), 61-86. Jesus speaks about money and money management more than any other topic including heaven, hell, salvation etc. There is a difference between an allegorical interpretation (the way you read the Bible) and the genre of allegory. It’s one of the darkest moments in the life a very troubled man, not least of which because he had just been told he will die the next day. Augustine developed a dual hermeneutic. The clearest examples of allegory in Scripture are the parables of Jesus. Among the earliest known usages of this method are those connected with interpretations of Homer. © 1999-2018 OrthoChristian.comWhen reposting our material a link to OrthoChristian.com is required. The Reformers sought the “plain meaning” of Scripture. The rejection of allegorical interpretation as a later method is misguided, because we find allegorical biblical interpretations in the New Testament itself, and this had its roots in traditional Jewish methods of interpretation. Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? If we are convinced of a connection—though possibly allegorical—one other distinction should come into play. Allegorical interpretation means that you see the literal meaning of a story as a sign that points to a deeper reality, namely, some spiritual or christological truth. During antiquity and through the Middle Ages, allegorical interpretation was one of a few ways of reading Scripture (along with literal, moral, and anagogical interpretation). [14] And here’s another good definition from a leading expert on the topic, Roy Zuck: What do Jesus, the Bible, and the Church Fathers Say about Tithing and Giving to God? Yet that story of a lost son who is loved and welcomed back by his father, having experienced something of an exile, can provide a remarkably affective illustration. Liturgical Hermeneutics and the Meaning of Scripture. Allegorical interpretation sees the OT as allegorical. Presently, we use the word typology to refer to connections between an Old Testament concept, typically, and an escalated fulfillment in the gospel of Jesus Christ that is textually warranted (by some standard), while we use the term allegory to refer to more arbitrary connections that are not textually warranted (by some standard).6. A separate presentation of Allegorical Interpretation has not yet been written, and therefore reference must be made to works treating of Scripture interpretation in general: Rosenmueller, Historia Interpretationis Librorum Sacrorum, iv. A particular form of allegorical interpretation is the typological, according to which the key figures, main… Read More; use in. Arranged alphabetically by author or source: St. Thomas cites St. Gregory the Great on the … Continue reading → King; Altenmünster: Jazzybee, 2012), 49. Yet for those committed to biblical exposition, this kind of interpretation is deeply problematic. allegorical - (Also called typology), this sense is the idea that all scripture is an allegory for Christ and all the events are related to him. But at he same time, we should not be afraid to make connections as illustrations. While allegory is an accepted method of interpretation, extreme care must be used when applying it. Here is Rev. [3] Mark Dever defines expositional preaching as “preaching that takes for the point of a sermon the point of a particular passage of Scripture.” Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Third Edition (Wheaton: Crossway, 2000), 44. Moral: The moral sense is the practical application of Scripture on an individual or corporate level. In Palestinian Jewish exegesis, allegory provides material for haggadah, the interpretation of non-legal passages of Scripture. In fact, God uses remarkably intimate language to articulate his love for his people and his commitment to bring them home. An example of this erroneous method of interpreting the Bible is recounted by John MacArthur, when he did just that in his very first sermon: 3 (trans. By contrast, Beale defines typology as “the study of analogical correspondences among revealed truths about persons, events, institutions, and other things within the historical framework of God’s special revelation, which from a retrospective view, are of a prophetic nature and are escalated in their meaning.” See G.K. Beale , Handbook on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament: Exegesis and Interpretation (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2012), 14. Robert Kinney is the Director of Ministries at the Simeon Trust, a ministry for training preachers. The Allegorical Sense of Scripture MARK SHEA One of the standing temptations of the biblical student is to oversimplify by seizing on one truth and using it to discount other, equally important truths. When in doubt, choose to illustrate rather than suggest an interpretation. [6] See Aubrey Spears, “Preaching the Old Testament,” in Hearing the Old Testament: Listening for God’s Address (ed., C.G. A story could be composed as an allegory, such as the Parable of the Sower (The Pilgrim’s Progress being a more extended example), but an historical narrative can also be interpreted allegorically, as St. Paul did. Allegorical interpretation is an interpretive method which assumes that the Bible has various levels of meaning, and tends to focus on the spiritual sense as opposed to the literal sense. In this farm fable, animals run a society that divides into factions and mirrors the rise of Leon Trotsky and the Russian Revolution. 14), Book Review: A Little Book for New Preachers, by Matthew Kim, Biblical Eldership and Global Missions: A Vital and Necessary Union, Genesis 37–39: On Being Like Joseph and Not Being Like Judah—At Least Not Yet (Bible Talk, Ep. Or are we, as readers, making the connection completely on our own? Leipsic, 1795. We title the sermon something clever like “Saul’s Last Supper,” suggesting that this passage anticipates an ultimate fulfillment in Christ’s final meal—though by way of contrast as Saul dies for his own sins and Christ dies on behalf of his people.
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Home » US News » Measles cases in northern Michigan prompt health officials to advise the public on vaccinations
Measles cases in northern Michigan prompt health officials to advise the public on vaccinations
With the two confirmed measles cases reported a week ago in Grand Traverse County and the three new cases involving an adult and two children, all not immunized, from Leelanau County identified yesterday, Michigan health officials are reminding the public of the importance of keeping vaccinations up to date.
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“Although the once common disease is now a rarity in the United States, Measles can spread when it reaches a community where groups of people are unvaccinated,” said Dr. Matthew Davis, Chief Medical Executive with the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH). “The progress made here in the U.S. may be threatened by the high incidence of measles elsewhere in the world. To protect against outbreaks and stop the disease from widely spreading in the U.S., we need to succeed in our efforts to keep immunization rates high.”
The cases from Leelanau County reportedly had contact with the Grand Traverse adults.
The Grand Traverse cases were unvaccinated and were exposed to measles during travel in the Philippines. The Philippines is experiencing a very large and ongoing measles outbreak, with more than 50,000 measles cases and more than 100 measles-related deaths reported this year. Many of the cases in the U.S. this year have been traced to travel in or contact with the Philippines.
Symptoms of measles include fever, runny nose, cough, loss of appetite, “pink eye,” and a rash. The rash usually lasts 5–6 days and begins at the hairline, moves to the face and upper neck, and proceeds down the body. A number of complications, especially diarrhea, are possible and measles can result in hospitalization,pneumonia, encephalitis and death. Individuals who develop measles begin to be infectious to others several days before they themselves become sick.
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MDCH officials say the measles vaccine is highly effective and very safe. The first of two routine childhood measles vaccine doses is given at 12 months of age. For international travel, infants as young as 6 months should be vaccinated against measles. The vaccination, or documentation of immunity to measles, is recommended for all persons travelling internationally.
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Catch new works from local filmmakers
North Central filmmaker Tim McSpadden, left, discusses a scene with cinematographer Joel Kaye and soundman Ty Chu, on the set of his feature-length film, “Love a la Carte,” being screened this month at the Super Saver Cinemas in Phoenix (photo courtesy of Tim McSpadden).
By Teri Carnicelli
In the days of black-and-white television, when Westerns ruled the airwaves as well as the big screens, Arizona locales often were the backdrops for shows like “Have Gun Will Travel” and “The Rifleman,” and feature films like “Stagecoach” and “McClintock.” In those days, the state played host to such great names as Tyrone Power, Jimmy Stewart and of course John Wayne, as well as Jane Russell and Joan Crawford. Even Elvis waggled his hips here, in “Charro!”
In later years, Arizona’s diverse scenery could be spotted in such movies as “The Gauntlet” with Clint Eastwood, “Starman” with Jeff Bridges, “The Quick and the Dead” with Gene Hackman and a young Leonardo DiCaprio, “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” with newbie Keanu Reeves, and, of course, “Raising Arizona” with a very skinny Nicolas Cage.
It’s been some time since Hollywood has come calling, but that doesn’t mean films aren’t still being made in the Valley of the Sun. It just takes a little more work to get them noticed.
“Love a la Carte”
North Central resident Tim McSpadden jokingly calls it his “home movie,” mostly because he’s leveraged his home to the hilt in order to fund this feature-length, comedy-drama about infidelity.
“Love a la Carte” is a comedic fantasy about one couple’s struggling marriage and why, despite all the reasons they should break apart, their union is stronger together. McSpadden wrote the script and directed the movie, which was shot in various locations around the state including at a few North Central locations—namely, Camelback Garage, Phoenix City Hall, and the underpass below Camelback Road in the Biltmore shopping area, among others.
“I wrote and directed it myself because I knew I could, and also I wanted a certain level of quality,” McSpadden says. “Low-budgets tend to be shot in only one location with a few actors and a simple plot. I wanted to do a throwback comedy about infidelity. In comedy, a lot of funny things come from things that also can be quite painful. You have to make jokes about something in order to rise above it.”
He began casting in 2009 with Phoenix-based Good Faith Casting. Filming began in May 2010 and the last scene was filmed in July 2012 at the Old World Brewery. Now that the 90-minute film is complete, McSpadden is ready to let the public get a gander at it and give some feedback.
To that end, the film will be screened 7 p.m. every Saturday night in February at Super Savers Cinemas, 2710 W. Bell Road. Tickets are $9.75 in advance and can be purchased at www.facebook.com/lovealacarte or buy them for just $10 at the door.
McSpadden will introduce the film, and hand out comment cards. Some of the actors will be present at the screenings, and moviegoers will have the opportunity to not only chat with them but also purchase movie posters and T-shirts. In addition, raffle tickets will be given in exchange for a $19 tax-deductible donation to Movies Making A Difference Productions Inc., a nonprofit located in Scottsdale. Tickets could “win” such items as movie props, exercise equipment, a washer and dryer set, and even McSpadden’s 1994 Saturn four-door sedan.
With audience feedback, and some technical assistance from new Post-Production Producer Mark Trengrove of Blade Cuts Editorial in Phoenix, the film will be gussied up for national distribution. And with McSpadden’s background in marketing and promotion for the television and film industries, he’s confident he can ultimately find a wider audience for his film.
‘Voyage Trekkers’
In a galaxy far, far away is a bumbling starship crew that seeks out—and basically ruins—new worlds and civilizations.
“Voyage Trekkers” is a comedy web series that follows the exploits of the worst crew in the Galactic Union, lead by the charismatic but impulsive Captain Sunstrike (Adam Rini), with the unfazed first officer Commander Powell (Logan Blackwell), and the exasperated Doctor Rena (Gabrielle Van Buren).
Created by writer and director Nathan Blackwell and his Squishy Studios, the show is produced with Tray Goodman’s Inside Creative Minds Media. Both men are Phoenix natives and still live in town.
“Everything is done locally; we’re all about local,” Goodman says.
Season One started out being shot around Phoenix, and each episode was 2 to 3 minutes in length. In all, there were 10 weekly episodes in the season, which are now available for purchase on DVD. Several hundred DVD’s were sold at last year’s Comicon in Phoenix.
Now “Voyage Trekkers” is ready to blast off with Season Two, and things have changed—for the better. Episodes are now longer, and they are shot primarily indoors at a film set built by the crew.
“We’ve basically built an entire starship set,” says Goodman, who calls the production “truly a labor of love.”
“Everyone involved, from cast and crew, volunteered their time for this web series,” Goodman explains. “What budget we had went to creating costumes, props, and feeding everyone.”
Goodman is no stranger to filmmaking, having been working in the industry in some capacity for more than 20 years. He’s even shot a feature-length film before, which he sold to an overseas distributor.
He and seasoned partner Blackwell are now considering making “Voyage Trekkers: The Movie.” But first, they will celebrate the launch of Season Two with a sneak peak preview, 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, at FilmBar, 815 N. 2nd St. The show is for ages 21 (because the venue also is a bar) and tickets are $7. Seating is limited, so buy your tickets in advance at http://www.thefilmbarphx.com. The screenings will be followed by a Q & A session featuring Goodman and the cast and crew.
You’ll also be able to visit them once again at this year’s Comicon, where they will have DVDs of both seasons available for purchase. But if you can’t wait until then, check out their website at http://squishystudios.com/ voyage-trekkers-web-series. You also can “like” them on Facebook to unlock an exclusive video.
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Pat Coston Movie Reviews
My Favorite Science Fiction Movies
When I first got the idea for this post, I was going to list my top 5 favorite science fiction movies. To do this, I first needed to make a list of all of my favorite science fiction movies. Then I thought maybe I'll make a top 10 and later top 20. Now I'm just going to list all 81 of them. If the movie was special to me in any way, I'm listing it. For each movie, I'll approximate when and where (Theater or Home) I saw it. There are movies I loved at age 12 that I would not like now. You can also check out this list of the top 100 SciFi movies. Here's another list of the Top 20 SciFi Movies of the 1980s.
You may not consider some of the movies on this list to be Science Fiction but they have elements of Science Fiction in them, so they qualify in my opinion. For example: The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Donnie Darko, Village of the Damned or Night of the Living Dead, 28 Days Later. There are literally thousands of genres and movies always belong to multiple genres. A movie can be a highschool, teenage, comedy, drama, cowboy, scifi, horror movie all at the same time.
I thought about how to order the list for example by year of release, year I saw it, alphabetically, randomly, etc. but I think it makes the most sense to order them by how strongly I feel about them. The order is roughly how much the movies mean to me. How much did the movie influence me? How much did it make me think? It was very hard to order the movies this way. Sometimes it was like comparing apples to oranges. I just had to go with my gut feeling.
To help me sort, I ordered them into 3 groups then ordered them within the groups.
Very Very Meaningful
Very Meaningful
Some movies I may like because they appealed to my intellectual side and made me think and others were just really fun action escape movies and others were both.
I list the year of each movie because there are many movies with the same names. If you rent "A Boy and his Dog", you'd better make sure you get the right one! Most of the time, I prefer the original over the remake.
I include a picture with each listing. I tried to get an actual shot from the movie instead of a movie poster or publicity shot. If you click on the thumbnails, you can see a larger picture in most cases.
Group 1: Very Very Meaningful
2001:A Space Odyssey (1968) - I remember wanting to see this in the theater when I was 5 years old but my parents would not take me. Later it was on TV when I was about age 10 but I remember I had to go to bed at 9 pm so I couldn't see the ending. Finally in grad school I rented the movie on VHS and finally watched the whole thing. I've since seen it on DVD and one day I'll watch it on an HDTV on a Blu-Ray DVD. The thing I respect most about this movie is that Stanley Kubrick worked very closely with Arthur C. Clark to create a future that was possible in 2001. We did not advance that fast in reality. We rarely do. SciFi is usually too optimistic as far as future change. This movie also tried to be as realistic as possible. There is no sound in space. It is possible for a man to survive in the vacuum of space for a short period of time. When communicating with Earth from a great distance there is a significant time delay so messages will usually be one-way and any interview will have to be spliced together removing the delays. Gravity will need to be simulated by spinning things. You have to watch this movie a few times to full grasp what happens. The Monolith is sent from a superior race to Earth where it alters a small tribe of pre-historic ancestor of man, making them more intelligent. They dominate and evolve into humans. We then discover a Monolith on the moon which then sends a signal out to Jupiter. A ship is then sent out to Jupiter to investigate and we meet up with a third Monolith which helps us evolve to the next step.
Primer (2004) - Theater 2004: I could not stop thinking about it for weeks. It is perhaps the most intelligent time-travel movie ever created. The layers are too many to fathom on a first viewing. I've since rented the movie on DVD many times to unravel the layers but I still can't figure it out. There is a book called The Primer Universe that explains it all. I plan to get that book soon. These two guys invent a time machine accidentally. They were trying to invent some kind of low powered refrigeration unit. It seems totally plausible. The unfortunate side effects of time travel are also explored. It's not so good for your health. The end was the perfect setup for a sequel which I hope to see someday.
The Prestige (2006) - Theater 2006: This movie had me thinking for weeks. My realization was horrific. David Bowie is amazing at playing Nikola Tesla. I didn't see a shred of Bowie in that performance. A magician uses his wealth to pay Tesla to create a machine that essentially does what a Star Trek transporter does so he could perform the most amazing magic trick. The machine has one major flaw which I won't spoil here. The way in which the magicians works around this flaw is the horrific part.
Westworld (1973) - I saw this on TV when I was about 12 years old. I had a TV set in my bedroom and one night I couldn't sleep, so I turned on the TV and Westworld was just starting. I watched it with amazement from beginning to end. The sequel Futureworld was a disappointment to me. It offered little more than what Westworld had already covered. I'm pretty sure that Robots will become a major part of our everyday lives eventually. It's also quite possible that machine intelligence will exceed our own. When that happens, the robots may turn against us.
Silent Running (1972) - I was about 12 years old when I saw this on TV. I was really intrigued about the preservation of nature. A fleet of ships carry the last trees and plants from Earth. When the order comes to destroy these floating ships, one man is horrified. He kills the crew and hijacks the ship to preserve nature. I've since rented this on VHS and later on DVD watching it many times.
The Truman Show (1998) - Theater 1998: Reality TV to the extreme. A corporation adopts a baby and films it's an entire life until it can escape that massive world in a dome that has been built around him. I'd love to see the sequel because I'm curious how Truman will deal with the real world. Just like the Matrix, it makes you think about our own reality. What would you do if you were in Truman's place?
THX 1138 (1971) - Very early George Lucas movie which deals with how drugs can be used to control society. Everyone simply has a number. The main character's name is THX 1138. It was interesting how religion becomes a computer controlled automated process to sooth the masses. One man and his wife stop taking their mind numbing pills and began to feel again. They awake with passions that have long been suppressed. Suddenly they have illegal motivations. The man decides he no longer wants to follow blindly as society wants and instead rebels and goes on the run. Robot police follow but eventually give up when they exceed their budget for capture and THX makes his way to the surface and sees the sun setting for the first time. Sorry about the spoilers but this why the movie is meaningful to me.
The Lathe of Heaven (1980) - I saw this on TV at maybe age 16. A man learns that his dreams can alter reality. His therapist realizes this and uses him to alter the future but it back fires. Be careful what you wish for!
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) - Theater 2001: Having gone to graduate school to study AI, I found this movie fascinating. We certainly will have issues when robots approach our level of intelligence and begin to look and act just like us. I love how this movie goes thousands of years into the future and shows how mankind is eventually wiped out but our AI beings live on.
Ghost in the Shell (1995) - Theater 1995: At first I dismissed this movie as a futuristic action movie but I was surprised to learn that it dealt with very intellectual issues about our "ghost" or "spirit" and machine intelligence. We can also live a very long time in this future replacing old body parts with new ones and even have an entirely new body with the only thing left of our original selves is our brain. Perhaps even our brain can be downloaded to the Network and we can live virtually but our "soul" (ghost) is gone. This movie, its sequels and TV shows also deal with a lot of different issues we might have in the future. It's a very thought provoking movie and series.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - Theater 2004: If you could erase painful memories, would you? A man and woman break off their relationship and want the memory of it erased. During the procedure, the man decides he wants to remember but it's too late. The process has begun, so he attempts to hide the memories in his other memories. Later the two meet again as strangers and begin to fall in love all over again when they receive packages from a disgruntled employee at the memory erasure company containing their interview tapes where they discuss each other. The special effects are amazing and the whole idea of erasing bad memories is fascinating.
Alien (1979) - Theater 1979: I was 14. It was my first R-rated movie and I was freaked for weeks to follow. If you came up behind me and tapped me on the shoulder, I'd scream. My parents forbid me to see R-rated movies after this. The look and feel of this movie were amazing. Ripley is our kick-ass chick that must fight the Alien. I'm not such a fan of the sequels even though most people probably think Alien 2 is the best of the series. I'm still loyal to the original. Seeing Sigourney Weaver in her small panties and tiny t-shirt was quite a treat for me at age 14.
Donnie Darko (2001) - Rented it when it came out on DVD but wasn't sure what happened. Later I saw the Director's cut and listened to the commentary, then it all made sense. I saw the sequel S. Darko. The "S" stands for Samantha which is the little sister played by Daveigh Chase. She's all grown up in the sequel and undergoes a similar experience to her brother Donnie. I actually enjoyed the sequel but there's nothing like the original. The great thing about the original Donnie Darko was that things were left vague and it left you thinking. In the Director's cut things are made more obvious and explicit. I don't want to be given all the answers. I like movies that challenge me and make me think.
Vanilla Sky (2001) - Theater 2001: I love surprise endings and I didn't see this one coming. What you learn at the end totally changes what really happened in the last half of the movie. I would love to re-watch this movie knowing what I know now. The second half of the movie would be totally different for me.
This Island Earth (1955) - I saw on TV and I've rented on VHS and DVD. I was maybe 14 the first time I saw this movie. My favorite scene is when they are assembling the device from the alien. It was also reviewed in the movie Mystery Science Theater 3000 which was hilarious.
The Quiet Earth (1985) - Theater 1985: I drove about 1.5 hours just to see this movie in Princeton, NJ. It was not playing in many theaters but I've always loved the concept of "last man on Earth".
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - rented in college on VHS and later again on DVD. The remake does not compare.
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) - I learned about this movie a few years ago thanks to a NetFlix recommend. The idea of computers taking over the world is fascinating. Computer programmed to keep us safe disarm the entire world to prevent war. It's not freedom but at least they have peace.
Solyaris (1972) - I saw the remake Solaris (2002) in theaters but later learned it was a remake. I rented the original via NetFlix and thought it was much more powerful. This can be a difficult movie to watch and it makes you question reality and happiness. The planet they orbit somehow reads your mind and materializes people and things from your memories. This is both a good and bad thing. Are these things real? My wife is dead but here she is alive again? Should I be happy or should I use logic and realize she is just a product of my imagination?
Village of the Damned (1960) - This sounds like a horror film but it's really Science Fiction. Some mysterious force field encompasses a small village and everyone in it falls asleep. When the field disappears, everyone awakes but all the women of child bearing age are pregnant. The babies all have blonde hair with mind control powers. They also grow more quickly than normal children. They believe themselves to be the next steps in human evolution. They are also hyper intelligent and can read your mind. They know people hate them so they decide to leave this small town and go into hiding until they are ready to reveal themselves. Realizing they pose a danger to the entire human race, the father of the leader comes up with a plan to destroy them.
Children of the Damned (1963) - I rented a DVD from NetFlix that had both Village and Children of the Damned on it so I watched them both back to back. They both have the same plot but they are both great movies. Children of the Damn does not make them all out to be blonde haired but instead they are normal children but each from a different place in the world. They are all brought together to be studied but they have plans of their own. They can quickly create new and deadly weapons out of common items to protect themselves. We fear what we cannot control and cannot understand.
Dark Star (1974) - I saw this in the theater at age 20. I liked it so much that I watched again and secretly taped the dialog which I wrote into a notebook and later typed up. This is an early John Carpenter movie which is very low budget but it deals with some great SciFi issues. Four astronauts blow up unstable planets to pave the way for colonization. An unfortunate sequence of events leads to Bomb 20 malfunctioning. The bombs have a certain level of AI and each has developed its own personality. Bomb 20 begins its countdown to destroy the planet except that the launch mechanism has failed so the bomb will destroy the ship. The captain tries to reason with the bomb using philosophy and logic and eventually convinces the bomb to stop the countdown. Unfortunately the bomb later concludes that it is God ... let there be light! Various members of the crew survive the blast only be to floating in space moving in different directions. Each one finds a way to make their life meaningful.
Children of Men (2006) - Humanity is doomed. Woman can no longer have children. A single woman is found to be pregnant so they must transport her to sanctuary so she can save the human race but the road is full of dangers. There is a fantastic scene about 10 minutes long with no cuts where they are in a battle zone and suddenly the two sides who are fighting realize the woman is carrying a crying baby so the battle stops as the woman walks out with all the soldiers stepping aside in amazement.
Signs (2002) - Theater 2002: Aliens invade Earth and we follow how a single family deals with the invasion. These aliens are both powerful yet weak at the same time. A series of coincidences come together to protect the family and help them to survive the ordeal. Were they truly coincidences or is there a God watching over us? These events help one man find his faith in God again.
Contact (1997) - Theater 1997: SETI makes contact and sends us the plan for a machine to transport us to meet them.
The Time Machine (1960) - It is based on H.G. Wells book of the same name. I love time travel stories and this is done so well. It's a very common theme where society is split into two different classes. We see this in Metropolis with the workers and the thinkers. This movie got me thinking about space and time. If the Earth is revolving around its axis and orbiting around the Sun and our solar system is spiraling around the center of our Milky Way galaxy which is also moving through space then how do we identify a point in space that is not moving? If we did move in time a few minutes but stayed at that point in space, went we arrived, we should be floating in the vacuum of space. A true time machine must transport the person not only in time but also in space and orientation.
Alphaville (1965) - I rented this in 1994 with a girlfriend but after the first 30 minutes, we decided not to finish it. Recently I rented it again and watched the whole thing and loved it. It's a film noir SciFi movie that is very odd at first but you get used to it. If you can stick with it, it's a very rewarding movie dealing with this city controlled by a computer.
Soylent Green (1973) - I saw part of it on TV about age 13 then rented it in college. Over population is the main problem. Suicide is accepted and welcomed. You're helping society. In fact, they have suicide centers to make your last hour very pleasing. The government pays people to commit suicide. Spoiler: Because of the food shortage, the government converts dead people to food and feeds it back to the masses. Soylent Green is people! Not seaweed crackers.
Enemy Mine (1985) - Theater 1985: A human and alien both crash land on a planet during a battle and get stranded. They must work together to survive. The alien has a child but dies during birth so the human raises the alien baby. They discover that humans have enslaved these aliens so the man tries to free the slaves and becomes a hero to the aliens. A great movie about war and friendship. The special effects, sets and makeup are also amazing.
Group 2: Very Meaningful
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) - Theater 1981: I saw this movie six times in the theater that year. That's how much I enjoyed it. I've seen it since then. In a post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, gasoline (petrol) is the most valuable commodity. A tribe has setup its village in a refinery but the local gang wants the fuel. Time for battle! I remember the kick-ass little feral kid who threw the steel boom-a-rang with razor sharp edges.
Planet of the Apes (1968) - saw on TV about age 13 then later rented all movies. I also read all the comic books and watched the TV show. I loved Planet of the Apes growing up. I've seen all the sequels including Beneath, Escape, Conquest and Battle. I love how it's circular. By going back in time, they cause themselves to come into existence and the whole story is one big infinite loop. It's not likely we'll enslave apes to do manual labor. It's more likely we'll use robots for that but still, it's a fun set of movies but the first one is still my favorite.
Akira (1988) - Rented on VHS about 1990. I also had the comic books. Amazing Japanese anime.
Logan's Run (1976) - my parents would not let me see the movie in the theater but I did watch it on TV about 1977 but had to go to bed before the ending. In high school I read the book and did a book a report. Later in college, I rented it on VHS and have since seen it on DVD. I also had the entire series of the comic book. The idea about a future where nobody grows old is quite appealing. The only problem is everyone must commit suicide when they reach a certain age. There is no marriage and no parents. Children are made in test tubes. Population is tightly controlled. Everyone lives in sealed domes. Life is nearly a paradise. Logan is a sandman (cop) who kills runners (people who don't want to commit suicide). The main computer instructs him to find Sanctuary, this imaginary place runners try to find. Nobody ever makes it past this robot that freezes fish until Logan blasts his way out and into the outside world and meets a man who has grown old. He returns to the dome and the computer reads his mind but cannot accept the truth and goes haywire.
The Matrix (1999) - Theater 1999: I love the entire Matrix series but the first movie is still my favorite. Interesting concept that reality is just a program. Knowing this, would I want it to continue or be cast into a harsh world. I wonder.
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) - Rented in college on VHS about 1990. An alien comes to Earth to collect water to save his dying planet. He is super smart and uses his brain to raise billions of dollars to create a ship to return to his planet but he underestimates the ruthlessness of business men on Earth. I love his invention of the perfect point-and-shoot camera. It takes the perfect picture every time regardless of lighting or motion.
Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) - I saw parts of it on TV as a kid and later rented it on VHS in college and later on DVD. This movie was the start of the whole Dr. Who craze and the longest running TV show. I was quite fascinated by the Daleks. I combined ideas from Planet of the Apes and Dr. Who to create my own comic called Planet of the Robots. This Dr. Who movie really influenced my artwork and the comics I drew at the time.
Night of the Living Dead (1969) - I rented this movie in college. You might be thinking this is a horror movie. It is, but the zombies are created from radiation from a fallen satellite returning from Venus. I've seen the sequels like Dawn and Day as well movies like Shaun of Dead or the funny The Return of the Living Dead. I've even seen the remakes and some of these movie. At its root, it's really a scifi movie. There was fear when the astronauts first went to the Moon that they might bring some disease back with them. This fear was the primary motivation behind the plot of this and many other movies.
28 Days Later (2002) - Theater 2002: Super scary because Zombies were no longer slow moving idiots. These zombies could run and run very fast. They were also very angry thanks to the Rage Virus. I thought the sequel 28 Weeks Later was also excellent.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) - I had seen the original on TV as a kid and loved it. When I was 14, I saw the 1978 version in Theaters and that left me jumpy for a week. I saw the 2007 version and was very disappointed. I much prefer the 1978 ending where the invaders win taking over 99.999% of humans with a handful of people holding out. I review all 3 movies here.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) - I used to watch this on TV growing up. Now as an adult I realize how ridiculous this is. But it's still good fun. I've seen the remakes but as always, the original is still the best.
A Clockwork Orange (1971) - I was too young to see this in theaters. My first exposure was the comic version in Mad Magazine. I finally rented it while in college and was a bit shocked by the extreme violence but amused by the ending. The movie has a very unique look. I also love when he's shopping for music. Instead of predicting CDs, music is still sold on tape cassettes except they've shrunk to be very small. It's interesting to see how accurate SciFi movies predict the future. It's amusing to see that most of the time, they are not even close to right.
Blade Runner (1982) - Theater 1982: I've seen the original and the director's cut. I prefer the original. I read recently that Deckard, who kills replicants, is actually a replicant himself but doesn't realize it. That idea is used in the new Terminator 4 movie. Based on a Philip K. Dick novel named "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
Twelve Monkeys (1995) - Theater 1995: I read recently that this borrows heavily from the movie La Jette, which I have not seen. NetFlix does not have this movie currently otherwise I'd rent it. Pretty scary that a scientist can unleash a virus that wipes out most of mankind. Also funny that they send someone back in time to change history and yet nothing is changed. Also funny how the future mis-interprets a distorted prank phone call.
The Butterfly Effect (2004) - Theater 2004: Great time-travel movie where Evan attempts to fix his mistakes in the past only to screw up his future even more.
War of the Worlds (2005) - Theater 2005: I have seen previous versions from the 50s and 60s but this is one of the rare cases where I really love the remake in 2005.
Brazil (1985) - Theater 1985: The future will look like the past. Interesting concept. Very unique movie.
Pi (1998) - Theater 1998: 3.14159265358979323846 ... Max invents a super computer that can predict the stock market. His computer can be used to unlock many secrets of nature and the universe. When others learn of this, they try to use him for their own needs.
Cube (1997) - This is the first movie I rented on NetFlix when I joined in 1999. There is also a sequel called Cube 2:Hypercube (2002) which is very good. Seven strangers awake to find themselves in a massive cube with small rooms with doors on each wall and the ceiling and floor. They can go in any six directions. They work together to get out but some rooms have deadly traps.
Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) - This is the second movie I rented on NetFlix when I joined in 1999. It's the same plot as Cube except there are 8 strangers and the cube is in the 4th dimension and does not follow the normal rules of physics. In some rooms, time runs slow, in others it runs fast. It's possible for multiple versions of you to split and go in different directions and meet later. They must work together to solve the puzzle of the maze and escape the cube to survive.
Dark City (1998) - Theater 1998: Fascinating city where these beings put everyone to sleep at night, then re-arrange their lives for the next day. When everyone wakes up, they continue like nothing happened even though their lives have been altered in major ways. One man with special powers is the only who can see these beings and challenge them and find a way out of this "city".
Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind (1984) - rented on VHS in college and later on DVD. Beautifully done Japanese anime of the future. After most of the Earth has been destroyed there is still small pockets of clean land run by small nations at War. Large creatures roam the Earth as a result of the radiation. One girl finds a way to be in harmony with nature and find a way to communicate with these large animals for the benefit of the planet.
The Andromeda Strain (1971) - saw parts of it on TV growing up and finally watched the entire thing on DVD recently. It was redone quite well for TV in 2008. Similar to Night of the Living Dead, a Satellite from space crashes on Earth bringing something back with it that instantly kills any life it comes in contact with ... except for a small baby and a very old man. Scientists must find out why these two are the only ones resistant to this virus strain. I loved how the underground research lab had multiple levels of decontamination.
Group 3: Meaningful
The Iron Giant (1999) - Theater 1999: Cartoon about a boy who meets and makes friends with a giant robot. A nice mix of hand-drawn and computer generated animation.
Barbarella (1968) - Theater 1978: Saw in theater when I was 14. It was like porno for teenage boys. It was rated PG but they still managed to have nudity and sex. The real fun was the fantastic imagination for the creation of the sets and costumes. Even the music was fantastic. Based on the French comic book from 1962, this movie drips of originality even to this day. The band Duran Duran took their name from a character in this movie. I just read that a remake of Barbarella has stalled or been cancelled. I would love to see a remake!
Star Wars (1977) - Theater 1977: Went to New York city for my 14th birthday to see this movie in a very large theater with amazing sound. My seat vibrated in the opening seat where the large ship passes overhead. I thought maybe these were special vibrating chairs but it was just the sound vibrating everything. We stood outside in a very long line for many hours. It was well worth it. When I first saw black and white 8x10's of the movie at a comic convention before the movie came out, I thought Star Wars was such a stupid name for a movie. The 8x10s of the movie didn't impress me either.
Rollerball (1975) - saw on HBO at friends house about 1977. Later rented on VHS and on DVD recently. I saw the 2002 remake and hated it. This movie held my imagination for many reasons. One is the concept that nations can stop war and fight out the differences in sport.
The Last Mimzy (2007) - I never heard of this movie until I caught it on TV recently. It really caught my imagination. Roger Waters from Pink Floyd sings the song "Hello I love you" during the credits. You can listen to that song and see scenes from the movie here. A girl finds a doll from the future. Future humans are dying and need DNA from the past.
The Day of the Triffids (1962) - I took a class in Science Fiction and we watched this movie. A night of shooting stars cause everyone on Earth to be blind except for those who missed it including our hero who was in the hospital with his eyes covered. The shooting stars carried seeds which sprouted deadly plants which take over Earth. The concept was stolen for the crappy 1984 movie Night of the Comet.
Fantastic Voyage (1966) - saw on TV many times and later rented in college in VHS. Fascinating idea of shrinking people to go inside a human. This idea is re-used again and again in later movies.
Metropolis (1927) - rented in college on VHS. Amazing special effects for 1927! Much like the Time Machine where the world is separated into races, the workers and thinkers, this future also has two societies. The workers and thinkers. They cannot exist without each other. One day a thinker descends into the underground and is astonished at what he sees. It's an over simplification of the real world but basically jobs today are split into physical labor jobs (blue collar) and desk jobs (white collar) so the movie takes that to the extreme. A worker rebellion occurs and a mediator must be found to stop the violence. Maria leads the rebellion but she's actually a robot in disguise.
Next (2007) - Theater 2007: A man who can see two minutes into the future seeing what will happen if he takes different paths. Great concept and wonderfully executed. Based on the novel "The Golden Man" by Philip K. Dick.
Total Recall (1990) - Theater 1990: Quaid goes to have a virtual vacation then this huge adventure happens where he saves Mars. In the end you're left wondering if it was all his virtual vacation. Based on the novel "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick.
Terminator (1984) - Theater 1984: The special effects in the first movie look dated now. I'm a huge fan of all of the Terminator movies. I was intrigued by the concept of computers gaining intelligence and wanting to destroy humans and the idea of going back in time to change the future.
Heavy Metal (1981) - Theater 1981: I was a big fan of the adult SciFi magazine Heavy Metal. The movie was a mixed-bag of different stories loosely joined together by a green glowing orb. Some of the stories were awful but others were brilliant. The creativity and artwork of Heavy Metal magazine and the movie was a big influence on me.
TRON (1982) - Theater 1982: I loved the computer graphics in this movie. I also got quite addicted to the arcade game spending $5 a day on it. In fact, I was at Disneyland the day the TRON game was first installed at the arcade. I was one of the first to play it. I liked the speeder bikes the best. I believe there is a remake in the works.
Back to the Future (1985) - Theater 1985: The sequels were OK but the first movie was the most fun. I've enjoyed the Back to the Future ride at Universal Studios, Florida. I've always wanted a DeLorean. It was the perfect car to use in the movie. I still want a DeLorean. It's funny how they pronounce giga-watts as jiga-watts.
Death Race 2000 (1975) - I saw parts of this movie on TV then finally rented it on VHS in college. As with the movie Rollerball, I enjoyed the idea of nations fighting it out over sport instead of war. I did not see the remake.
The Cell (2000) - Theater 2000: Similar to the movie Dreamscape (1984) a technology is used to enter the mind. Also similar to Alien (1979) in that it had a look all its own. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind also had a technology for erasing memories. In the movie Paprika, a technology is invented that can record dreams. The movie Brainstorm (1983) had a technology for recording and playing back your experiences.
Brainstorm (1983) - Theater 1983: The movie Dreamscape (1984) came out shortly after this movie and I thought they were very similar in nature. As I mentioned in my description of The Cell (2000) above, there are many movies about using technology to either enter the mind or record it whether you would be awake or dreaming. Good stuff.
Escape from New York (1981) - Theater 1981: Fantastic idea of putting all the hardened criminals on the island of Manhattan. It reminds me of how the British took thousands of prisoners to Australia to setup a colony. The US President's becomes a hostage when his plane crashes in Manhattan. One man is hired to rescue the president. His time is limited since he has charges placed in his neck that will explode if he's late. That reminds me of the collars used in Battle Royale.
Battle Royale (2000): Rented on DVD about 2003. In the future Japan, teenage violence is out of control. As a way to scare the teens into submission, a class of teens is kidnapped each year for a battle to the death where only one can survive. They are brought to a remote island and wear collars which will explode if they try to escape. They are given maps and watches and told to be in certain zones at certain times or they will die. If there is more than one survivor by a certain time, they all die. They are given bags of random weapons to kill each other. Some of the kids come up with a plan to turn the tables on their kidnappers.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964): Comedy about the US accidentally attacking the USSR which will result in the total annihilation of the world. Cult classic where cowboy rides the atomic bomb as it falls. Reminds of the scene in Dark Star where a surfer rides a piece of debris from his exploded ship into the atmosphere of the planet only get incinerated.
Forbidden Planet (1965) - I saw parts of this movie on TV as a kid but finally watched the whole thing in college. Features the now famous Robby the Robot. An alien race of geniuses destroyed themselves but left their technology intact. Later settlers on this planet discover the technology and destroy themselves. A ship is sent to investigate and discovers two survivors. The investigators must then fight this invisible force.
A Boy and his Dog (1975) - I rented this movie about 1984. The title sounds like it's a Lassie flick and in fact it shares this title with a 1946 film. But don't let the innocent title fool you. In a post apocalyptic world, a boy and his telepathic dog scavage for food and sex. They come across an underground world whose men have all gone sterile so they need his sperm to impregnate their women. Sounds like a porno flick. He's excited about the idea of having sex with all these women but they prefer to extract his sperm with their technology and artificially inseminate the women. He's none too pleased so he escapes and is followed by a daughter of one of the leaders. Final revealing quote by dog "Well, I'd certainly say she had marvelous judgment, Albert, if not particularly good taste."
eXistenZ (1999): I missed this in theaters but rented it on DVD and was impressed by the original look and feel of the virtual reality video game with guns made of bones and game consoles that plug directly into your spine. The insane thing is that when they are done playing the game, they are still not sure if they are back in reality or still playing the game.
Charly (1968): Saw parts of it on TV as a kid and later rented on DVD. A mentally challenged man has an operation which turns him into a genius, smarter than the doctors that cured him. He has trouble dealing with the complexities of a world he never fully understood. Unfortunately his cure is only temporary and he reverts to the mind of a child in the end. He was miserable as genius but now he is happy again with the mind of a child.
Zardoz (1974): Rented in college. In the far future, a savage society worships a large floating stone head which they consider God. They call him Zardoz. This God is operating by a community of immortals who are bored with life and want to die. Zed manages to get inside the stone head and meet an immortal who reveals the secrets to him. Zed is then trained to kill the immortals. Very unusual and original.
The Fifth Element (1997) - Theater 1997: A very colorful and fun vision of the future and a very sexy alien. Hard to forget. Looks great on HDTV.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964): Saw on TV as a kid. Outrageous concept.
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964): Saw on TV as a kid. Thought it was very realistic. Astronaut is stranded on Mars and must find oxygen, water and food to survive.
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959): Saw in college at a "bad movie" festival. Later watched again on VHS in college. An Ed Wood movie often considered the worst movie ever made. I love when the grave stones sway as they walk over the fake grass or when the police officer scratches his head with the muzzle of his loaded gun with his finger on the trigger. This movie is so bad, it's good.
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Great list! We share a common interest in these amazing movies-and think alike about them too!
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HomeNewsSpain Approves Hydrogen Strategy to Spur Low-Carbon Economy
Spain Approves Hydrogen Strategy to Spur Low-Carbon Economy
MADRID (Reuters) — Spain approved on Tuesday a plan to boost clean hydrogen production, aiming to build enough infrastructure to give it a major role in Europe's market for a fuel seen as key to meeting international carbon emissions targets.
The European Union is pushing to develop its capacity to produce hydrogen, widely used in heavy industry, from renewable power sources, currently a prohibitively expensive process.
Spain hopes its well-developed gas storage and transport system, combined with the plentiful sunshine and windy hillsides that make it a prime location for renewable energy plants, will eventually help it make enough of the fuel to export.
Madrid calculates that its hydrogen ambitions will cost 8.9 billion euros ($10.5 billion) over the next 10 years. It expects most of this to come from the private sector but may support projects that create jobs.
By 2030, Spain aims to install 4 gigawatts-worth of the electrolyzers needed to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, one tenth of the EU's target for 40 gigawatts across the bloc, the energy and environment ministry said in a statement.
It intends to hit the ground running with 300-600 MW by 2024. The EU wants 6 gigawatts by then.
The plan is to replace a quarter of the almost 500,000 tonnes of fossil-based hydrogen consumed by industry every year with the renewably-sourced version, and put thousands of hydrogen-powered vehicles on Spain's roads and railways.
France has pledged 2 billion euros for hydrogen projects over the next two years, while industrial powerhouse Germany has earmarked 9 billion euros by 2030.
Homegrown energy giant Iberdrola is building what it describes as Europe's biggest such project for industrial use near a former coal-mining town in Spain, for 150 million euros.
Oil and gas group Repsol, meanwhile, plans to produce synthetic fuels using green hydrogen at its northern Spanish refinery in partnership with Saudi oil giant Saudi Aramco.
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ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL PLANS REVEALED
Plans for the relocation of the St Mary's Music School and the provision of three public performance spaces were submitted to Edinburgh City Council on 9th December, and you can view them here. Presentations have also been held to the Urban Design Panel, Cockburn Association, Architectural Heritage Society, the World Heritage Committee Broughton Community Council and the Edinburgh Architectural Association. They have been universally positively received.
RICHARD MURPHY'S HOUSE AT HART STREET IS THE ARCHITECTS' JOURNAL "HOUSE OF THE YEAR"
We are delighted that Richard Murphy’s House at Hart Street has been named as the Architect’s Journal House of the Year 2015. Rory Olcayto, the editor of the Architects' Journal wrote in hyperbole rarely seen in an architectural journal of the new house as "a masterpiece." In an eight page article he writes of the interior: "underneath all the serious architectural intent, this home is fun, in a James Bond or Bruce Wayne manner." The accolade follows the Saltire Award for best new house in Scotland. It is also a Regional Finalist in The Civic Trust Awards.
DONALDSON'S SCHOOL NEW-BUILD INTERIORS REVEALED
As part of our developing design for the CALA Homes section of the Donaldson’s project we can now reveal these indicative artist’s impressions of the spectacular living spaces created inside the new-build apartments. The design envisages two crescents of apartments which focus on the rear of the celebrated Playfair building. Two new web pages are in the course of preparation, one for the CALA section of the development and one for the City & Country section development within the historic building.
DUNDEE INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS AWARDS ST ANDREWS GOLF MUSEUM AND CAFÉ BEST COMMERCIAL/NON DOMESTIC BUILDING 2015
The DIA best Commercial/Non-Domestic building award went to our recently completed café for the Royal and Ancient Golf Club. Our design placed the café on the first floor with the majority of the seats looked west towards the 1st tee and fairway. The building appears as a pavilion, and at the same time, the opportunity was taken to give the museum entrance façade more presence and visibility. Bill Black, the Project Director collected the award at the DIA Awards dinner in November. The Golf Museum and Cafe is also a Regional Finalist in The Civic Trust Awards.
CHURCH COMPETITION IN THE FAROE ISLANDS
A recent unsuccessful competition entry for a new church in the Faroe Islands. Richard was on holiday there in March this year to see the total solar eclipse and he brought back with him this competition. The church is to be located on the suburban fringe of the islands’ capital Torshavn. It presents a turf roof elevation to the north and drystone walling to the southern entry façade. Internally there are selected views of the sea and dramatic clerestory lighting captures both low winter sun as well as summer light.
MAGGIE'S CENTRE EXTENSION SUBMITTED FOR PLANNING PERMISSION
The very first Maggie’s Centre, designed by the practice and located at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, opened in 1997 and is approaching its twentieth birthday. We first extended it in 2001 and now the charity has commissioned us to extend it for a second time. The new plan pushes the main building further west providing more space in the kitchen area and an extra consultation room on the ground floor with more administration above. In addition a major new group room has been designed as a new pavilion on the North West side of the building. To the East, a substantial amount of open space is to be re-landscaped and a new entrance made to a path, culminating in a new garden pavilion. Drawings have been posted on the Maggies Centre webpage.
BUILDINGS ON SITE
DUNFERMLINE CARNEGIE LIBRARY & GALLERIES
The concrete frame of the Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries is currently being poured, with the mezzanine level floor slab recently being completed. The photograph shows the proportions of the internal, day lit street taking shape, which will connect the existing library with the new museum and gallery spaces.
CRAMOND HOUSING
The South Block of housing at the prestigious Caer Amon estate for AMA (New Town) Ltd (photographed on a dreich winter’s day!) is taking shape, with external walls, roofs and finishes largely complete except for roof lights. Internal partitions have been installed, and internal linings are about to commence.
James Mason lectured about the recently completed Young Street campus for Anglia Ruskin University to the Cambridge Construction Forum meeting.
Richard lectured to the twentieth century society about his new house as part of a weekly series of architects talking about their own houses.
Richard also presented the Royal High School project to the Edinburgh Architectural Association “Sites of National Importance” Seminar.
Richard’s talk at 'Creative Mornings' is now online and can be viewed here. Richard was asked to talk on the subject of “empathy” and in particular to talk about the Maggies Centre and buildings for health generally.
Forthcoming:
Richard will be giving a lecture about Carlo Scarpa to the 57°10' Architecture Society at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen on 4th February 2016.
Richard has also been invited to be a keynote speaker at the Sri Lanka National Architects' Conference on 17th February 2016.
Our new project at Galeri Caernarfon was covered in the North Wales Chronicle and The Daily Post.
Richard’s House at Hart Street was covered in Archdaily and the Architect's Journal.
The Royal High School planning application has been covered by The Times, The Scotsman, The Herald and STV. The Architect's Journal and Urban Realm also covered the story.
100 of Scotland’s finest buildings announced by RIAS as part of the Festival of Architecture 2016, the buildings will be part of a touring exhibition and the public will be invited to vote for the nation’s overall favourite building. We are delighted to have two of our projects included: Dundee Contemporary Arts and The Fruitmarket Gallery.
Richard Murphy recently recorded a video for Scotland’s National Orchestra, The RSNO about the DCA and the design process behind it. The project, Notes from Scotland is part of the Festival of Architecture 2016. You can watch the video here.
The very best for the festive season from all at Richard Murphy Architects. We don’t send out Christmas cards but donate to the Edinburgh Maggies Centre instead. You can donate here too.
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They also have a pungent smell. “Black cumin seed” By Mountainhills – Own work (CC BY-SA 4.0) via Commons Wikimedia. She is currently reading for a Masters degree in English. Healthline's mission is to make people healthier through the power of information. These processes damage our cells and contribute to a host of medical conditions. Black cumin, (Nigella sativa), also called black seed, black caraway, Roman coriander, kalonji, or fennel flower, annual plant of the ranunculus family (Ranunculaceae), grown for its pungent seeds, which are used as a spice and in herbal medicine. The plant is about two feet tall and topped with white flowers similar to Queen Anne’s lace. Black cumin seed (also called black coriander or black seed), comes from the Nigella Sativa plant that is native to Asia, the Mediterranean and Africa. Upon hearing the name, you might assume that black cumin seed is in the same family as cumin, the spice found in dishes from Mexico, the Middle East, and India. Going to introduce to the difference between Cumin, Caraway, Black Cumin and Nigella. The seeds differ dramatically in shape, color and size. Most notably, it helps fight Staphylococcus aureus, which is the primary cause of skin and soft tissue infections. Most people confuse black cumin seed for regular cumin, but it isnt the same thing. They consist of a number of active ingredients, including the powerful compound thymoquinone. Even some products available in the market also use these names interchangeably, i.e., black seeds as black cumin, and vice versa. Although both these plants are used as spices and are considered to have therapeutic properties, they are quite different from each other. Other Types of Cumin . Both are purported to have therapeutic properties, and both are spices. All parts of B. bulbocastanum have uses. Both are purported to have therapeutic properties, and both are spices. Moreover, black seeds have been used for centuries to treat various types of diseases. However, They are moreover commonly mistaken for dark cumin, nevertheless, give us a chance to first have a more intensive ⦠Considered native to the Mediterranean region, black cumin seed is cultivated in North Africa, Asia, and southeastern Europe. Debra Rose Wilson, Ph.D., MSN, R.N., IBCLC, AHN-BC, CHT, 9 Impressive Health Benefits of Kalonji (Nigella Seeds), What Is Black Seed Oil? We use them as a spice, natural flavouring or seasoning. This article reviews the potential…. Black seed, also known as black cumin seed, is a very small seed, and the people that use it swear that it can treat everything and anything! Black cumin seed (also called black seed) should not be confused with the herb, cumin (Cumunum cyminum, which is found in many grocery stores. Black Cumin Seed. The book of Isaiah in the Bible mentions cumin (caraway) seed, and reportedly, the Prophet Mohammed said, "Hold on to the use of the black seed for indeed it has a remedy for every disease except death." Moreover, black seeds have long been used to treat many health conditions, like inflammation and asthma. You’re not alone. This plant grows nearly three feet and has wispy foliage, small delicate, pale flowers, and capsule-like fruit filled with seeds. The main difference between black seeds and black cumin seeds is that black seeds are Nigella sativa while black cumin seeds are either Bunium bulbocastanum or Nigella sativa. The seeds are deep black and sharp-cornered. Some recipes call for ground cumin, prepared from cumin seeds. There are many misconceptions about black seeds and black cumin seeds. In fact, some products available in the market also use these names interchangeably, i.e., black seeds as black cumin, and vice versa. #6 Onion Seed The seeds, which are the most used part, act as a precious spice. Do you know Cumin seeds are a first cousin of carrot and parsley? It goes deeper than just feeling good. I believe that both curcumin (Curcuma longa) and black cumin (Nigella sativa) offer numerous health benefits. If you picture white cumin seeds (which are used frequently in Indian, Mexican, Middle Eastern cuisines, to name but a few), black cumin seeds are much thinner and feathery looking, and the taste and aroma is smoky with hints of sweetness and citrus. Leaves are used as herbs or as garnish similar to parsley. So what’s the difference? The round-shaped taproot is edible and tastes like chestnuts and coconut. There are numerous varieties of cumin that grow all over the world, but black cumin (often called black seed oil) may be the most potent medicinal species of cumin. When used in cooking, it has a distinctive flavour that is sweet and earthy. There are ongoing studies to look at the role of N. sativa in controlling the beginning, growth and spreading of tumors. 1. Black cumin can refer to the seeds of either of two quite different plants, both of which are used as spices: Bunium bulbocastanum, black cumin is considered similar to caraway, but they are two distinctly different plants. Cumin is traditionally used to prevent muscle spasms and prevent gas. The black seed of nigella sativa (black cumin seed) has been used for over three thousand years for preventing and treating many different diseases. The history of black cumin as a healer is undeniable, with popularity of the seeds slowly returning. What is the Difference Between Black Seeds and Black Cumin Seeds, Relationship Between Black Seeds and Black Cumin Seeds, Difference Between Black Seeds and Black Cumin Seeds, What is the Difference Between Mint and Peppermint, What is the Difference Between Thyme and Rosemary. “Blackcuminseeds” Di Badagnani – Opera propria (CC BY 3.0) via Commons Wikimedia2. Learn about the potential health benefits of cumin. Blackseed and black caraway may also refer to Bunium persicum. The cumin plant is a small plant native to the Mediterranean region. However, this usage is incorrect. These infections are often vancomycin-resistant and methicillin-resistant (MRSA), which means they don’t respond to antibiotics. What are Black Cumin Seeds – Definition, Features, Use3. Figure 1: Black Cumin (Bunium bulbocastanum). Black seeds are about the size of caraway seeds. All You Need to Know, The Health and Beauty Benefits of Black Seed Oil. Black seed oil comes from the "black seed" aka Egyptian Cumin. Black seed oil is extracted from N. sativa seeds and has been used in traditional medicine for over 2,000 years. Nigella sativa is a flowering plant that’s also called: The plant grows nearly three feet and has wispy foliage, small pale flowers, and fruit pods filled with seeds. Here are a few reasons why you might want to try it. Two botanicals, Bunium bulbocastanum and Nigella sativa, are commonly referred to as black cumin. © 2005-2020 Healthline Media a Red Ventures Company. Black cumin seed (Nigella sativa ) is an annual herbaceous plant and a member of the Ranunculaceae (buttercup) family. Black seed is also known as fennel flower, black caraway, black cumin and kalonji. The black cumin plant is native to southwestern Asia, the Mediterranean and Africa. According to some research, B. bulbocastanum has antioxidant properties and improves cell function to prevent aging and cell breakdown. Some of you may use the names black cumin and black seeds to refer to a multitude of black coloured seeds. Black cumin comes from Bunium bulbocastanum, a plant species in the Apiaceae family, and is sometimes called blackseed or black caraway. Flax seed oil comes from Flax seeds. Our website services, content, and products are for informational purposes only. The seeds of B. bulbocastanum are most prized. The main difference between black seeds and black cumin seeds is that black seeds are Nigella sativa while black cumin seeds are either Bunium bulbocastanum or Nigella sativa. Recent studies show that there appears to be a cancer-cell-killing potential in N. Sativa that holds hope for future prevention and treatment protocols. The fruit of the plant, the black seeds, accounts for its name. Most importantly, all parts of this plant have uses. Nutritional Value of Black Cumin Seeds (Nigella) The seeds are used sparingly for flavour and aroma only, so will not have any significant nutritional value. Cumin are not just first cousin of carrot and parsley but they are also a visual twin of the caraway seed. Overview Information Black seed is a plant. In comparison, black cumin seeds have fewer health benefits. Sometimes they are confused with âonionâ seeds or black cumin or caraway. We’ll look at the nature and uses of black seeds in the following section. Moreover, these spices can be used as a replacement for each other. Black cumin (Nigella sativa) is often called black onion seed or schwarzkümmel in German and is more closely related to the buttercup family of plants. It comes in three colors, black, amber, and white, with black being the most widely used. It ⦠It’s been used for centuries to treat everything from abscesses to herpes zoster. It is a plant species belonging to the family Apiaceae and is native to Northern Africa, Southeastern Europe, and Southern Asia. Healthline Media does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Black cumin seed oil â sometimes called black seed oil â boosts the immune system, promotes balanced blood sugar and cholesterol levels, and wards off harmful organisms. The prophet Mohammed is quoted as saying in the Koran, “This black cumin is healing for all diseases except death.”. Nigella seeds contain 40% dry weight fixed oil. More human research and clinical trials are required before N. sativa and B. bulbocastanum can be heralded as cures. The name black cumin to refer to two different plants – Bunium bulbocastanum and Nigella sativa. by Ingrid Naiman. In other languages: English = Nigella, love-in-a-mist, fennel flower, black cumin, black caraway, black coriander, black seed English, Old (also in King James Version of the Bible) = Fitch Finnish = Neidonkuka The largest producers of black cumin seed are Egypt, Indi⦠Do you have seeds of doubt about which cumin is the real black cumin? Its coal-black seeds are matte or dull, and shaped like tiny Brazil nuts. Black Seed, sometimes called Black Cumin Seed, is a herb native to South and Southwest Asia. One study concluded that N. sativa relieves most common nasal allergy symptoms, including: In new studies, N. sativa is showing promise as a treatment for bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. Here are 9 impressive health benefits of kalonji. What is the Difference Between Garam Masala and... What is the Difference Between Oregano and Marjoram, What is the Difference Between Coriander and Cumin, What is the Difference Between Cafe and Bistro, What is the Difference Between Middle Ages and Renaissance, What is the Difference Between Cape and Cloak, What is the Difference Between Cape and Peninsula, What is the Difference Between Santoku and Chef Knife. Nigella sativa, which is the other plant species known as black cumin, is also called black seeds. Black Cumin Benefits. Black cumin is often used as a spice, but can also be found pressed into an oil for supplemental usage. The edible roots taste like coconut or chestnuts, while the leaves can be used as herbs. The seeds, we are told, have a history of use as a spice and medicine in Africa, India and the Middle East and were even found in ⦠In English, N. sativa and its seed are variously called black caraway, black seed, black cumin, fennel flower, nigella, nutmeg flower, Roman coriander, and kalanji. The seeds are used in cooking curries, stews and other dishes. Researchers are exploring B. bulbocastanum as an antibacterial drug. Bunium bulbocastanum plant reaches about two feet tall and bears frilly leaves and white flowers. Here are photos of black cumin seeds and true cumin seeds N. sativa in particular may pan out as a panacea for certain conditions. 1. Nigella sativa is one the most revered medicinal seeds in history. This time it is an extract from the seeds of the nigella sativa plant, also sometimes called black cumin, black sesame, black caraway, black onion or fennel flower seed. Black seed oil has shown some positive results in research to find alternative and complementary medicines that can help the correction of blood sugar…. Morris, Susan York. It is a member of the Ranunculaceae plant family (same family as the buttercup flower). What is Cumin? Black seeds refer to seeds of Nigella sativa while black cumin seeds can refer to seeds of two different plants: Bunium bulbocastanum and Nigella sativa. 1. Considerable research is being conducted to determine potential applications for N. sativa in the treatment of a range of conditions, including: N. sativa has gained interest as a possible anti-cancer agent. Kalonji, or nigella seeds, are known for their culinary and medicinal uses. Her areas of interests include literature, language, linguistics and also food. Black Seed, also known as Nigella Sativa and black cumin, has been called the "Blessed Seed" for its miraculous curing ability. In Indian cuisine, we call them black zira (jeera). What are Black Seeds – Definition, Features, Use2. Black seeds refer to seeds of Nigella sativa while black cumin seeds can refer to seeds of two different... Health Benefits. Black seed oil may offer a number of health benefits. Thymoquinone helps to reduce inflammation, protect against cancer, and improve the immune system. Two botanicals, Bunium bulbocastanum and Nigella sativa, are referred to as black cumin. This food additive is also used for imparting a distinct, complex flavor to certain high-end gourmet cheeses. The black cumin he was referring to is Nigella sativa. Archeological studies report that black cumin seed seeds have been found in several sites from ancient Egypt, including ⦠You may or may not have heard of Black seed (nigella sativa) before. In the future, B. bulbocastanum may prove to be effective at reducing the effect of diabetes complications and aging due to oxidation and glycation. As your ally, our communities connect you to others who may share…. The seeds were even found inside the tomb of Tutankhamen, and are mentioned in the Bible. The fruit of B. bulbocastanum has been shown to be an antioxidant with potential cancer-fighting effects, though more research is needed. A large body of research supports the use of N. sativa for the treatment of allergic rhinitis. This variety is not related to the Cuminum cyminum species known as cumin, nor the cumin-related species Bunium bulbocastanum, also referred to as "black cumin." Moreover, they have a bitter taste, like a mixture of onions, black pepper, and oregano. Sometimes itâs even called âblack cumin.â #5 Black Sesame Seed (Sesamum indicum) Black sesame seeds are roughly the same length as Black Seed (Nigella sativa), but they are flatter and shaped like a two-sided tear drop, whereas the Black Seed is distinctly three-sided and shaped like the wedge of a lemon or an orange. However, it isnât related to the spice, and there are two plants called black cumin that have therapeutic properties: Nigella sativa and Bunium bulbocastanum. In ancient texts and historical documents black cumin seed is noted for its therapeutic attributes and ability to support the body in its own natural healing processes. It has been grown for centuries for its aromatic and flavorful seeds that can be used as a spice or as an herbal medicine. It goes by many names, including black caraway, Roman coriander, and black cumin, to name a few. In Russia and Poland seeds of Nigella damascena are sprinkled over cakes and breads. Black cumin seeds can refer to two different plants: Bunium bulbocastanum and Nigella sativa. “What Are the Two Types of Black Cumin?” Healthline, Healthline Media, 13 July 2020, Available here. Difference Between Black Seeds and Black Cumin Seeds – Comparison of Key Differences, Black Cumin Seeds, Black Seeds, Bunium bulbocastanum, Kalonji, Nigella sativa. People have used the seed to make medicine for over 2000 years. The specific epithet sativa means 'cultivated'. Most people use these two words interchangeably. Relationship Between Black Seeds and Black Cumin Seeds – Outline of Common Features4. The best seeds come from Egypt where they grow under almost perfect conditions in oases where they are watered until the seed pods form. It's how we impact everyone around us. Difference Between Black Seeds and Black Cumin Seeds Definition. Animal studies are showing promise for use of N. sativa for prevention of cognitive decline. Alternative treatments like B. bulbocastanum would be very beneficial. It looks like black sesame seeds and is often found on top of fladenbrot, a type of flatbread that's sold all over Germany in Turkish markets. Animal research indicates that N. sativa warrants further investigation for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. These seeds, about the size of caraway seeds, contain a number of active ingredients, including a powerful compound called thymoquinone (TQ). Black seed oil is considered a "multi purpose therapy" while Flax is ⦠Bunium bulbocastanum or b. bulbocastanum is also known as black cumin, earthnut, and great pignut. It is an annual flowering plant belonging to the family Ranunculaceae. But no matter what you call it, these seeds are loaded with health benefits that we are only beginning to understand. Although there hasn’t been extensive research on the therapeutic uses of B. bulbocastanum, several studies indicate that the herb may be effective in several treatment areas. Black seeds actually refer to Nigella sativa. Black seed oil is made from the seeds of the black cumin (Nigella sativa) plant, which belongs to the ranunculus family (Ranunculaceae). The scientific name of black seeds is Nigella sativa. However, most people use these two words interchangeably. Hasa has a BA degree in English, French and Translation studies. Moreover, black seeds have long been used to treat many ⦠“Black Cumin.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 10 Aug. 2020, Available here.2. All rights reserved. Black seed oil, also called black cumin seed oil, is the oil derived by pressing or cold extracting the seeds from the Nigella sativa species. It is native to parts of Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. Home » Life Style » Food » Herbs and Spices » What is the Difference Between Black Seeds and Black Cumin Seeds. No. More commonly referred to as "black seed", this plant is native to the same regions of the world as Bunium bulbocastanum, but grows taller -- to three feet -- and looks completely different with small pale flowers and pods filled with seeds. It was even discovered in the tomb of King Tut. Black Seed Oil for Diabetes: Is It Effective.
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United Arab Emirates Population: 9,701,315
The Trucial States of the Persian Gulf coast granted the UK control of their defense and foreign affairs in 19th century treaties. In 1971, six of these states - Abu Dhabi, 'Ajman, Al Fujayrah, Ash Shariqah, Dubayy, and Umm al Qaywayn - merged to form the United Arab Emirates (UAE). They were joined in 1972 by Ra's al Khaymah. The UAE's per capita GDP is on par with those of leading West European nations. For more than three decades, oil and global finance drove the UAE's economy. In 2008-09, the confluence of falling oil prices, collapsing real estate prices, and the international banking crisis hit the UAE especially hard. The UAE did not experience the "Arab Spring" unrest seen elsewhere in the Middle East in 2010-11, partly because of the government's multi-year, $1.6-billion infrastructure investment plan for the poorer northern emirates, and its aggressive pursuit of advocates of political reform. The UAE in recent years has played a growing role in regional affairs. In addition to donating billions of dollars in economic aid to help stabilize Egypt, the UAE was one of the first countries to join the Defeat-ISIS coalition, and is a key partner in a Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen.
Strategic location along southern approaches to Strait of Hormuz, a vital transit point for world crude oil
Location: Middle East, bordering the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, between Oman and Saudi Arabia
Area: total: 83,600 sq km
water: 0 sq km
Size comparison: slightly larger than South Carolina; slightly smaller than Maine
Land Boundaries: total: 1,066 km border countries (2): Oman 609 km, Saudi Arabia 457 km
Climate: desert; cooler in eastern mountains
Terrain: flat, barren coastal plain merging into rolling sand dunes of vast desert; mountains in east
Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas
permanent crops: 0.5% (2011 est.) permanent pasture: 3.6% (2011 est.) forest: 3.8% (2011 est.)
Irrigated land: 923 sq km (2012)
Natural hazards: frequent sand and dust storms
Current Environment Issues: air pollution; rapid population growth and high energy demand contribute to water scarcity; lack of natural freshwater resources compensated by desalination plants; land degradation and desertification; waste generation, beach pollution from oil spills
International Environment Agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection
signed, but not ratified: Law of the Sea
Nationality: noun: Emirati(s)
adjective: Emirati
Ethnic groups: Emirati 11.6%, South Asian 59.4% (includes Indian 38.2%, Bangladeshi 9.5%, Pakistani 9.4%, other 2.3%), Egyptian 10.2%, Filipino 6.1%, other 12.8% (2015 est.)
Languages: Arabic (official), English, Hindi, Malayam, Urdu, Pashto, Tagalog, Persian
Religions: Muslim (official) 76%, Christian 9%, other (primarily Hindu and Buddhist, less than 5% of the population consists of Parsi, Baha'i, Druze, Sikh, Ahmadi, Ismaili, Dawoodi Bohra Muslim, and Jewish) 15% (2005 est.)
note: data represent the total population; about 85% of the population consists of noncitizens
Population: 9,701,315 (July 2017 est.) (July 2018 est.) note: the UN estimated the country's total population was 9,400,145 as of mid-year 2017; immigrants make up more than 88% of the total population, according to UN data (2017)
15-24 years: 7.64% (male 408,376 /female 332,986)
55-64 years: 6.05% (male 499,579 /female 87,037)
65 years and over: 1.47% (male 106,739 /female 35,669) (2018 est.)
elderly dependency ratio: 1.2 (2015 est.)
potential support ratio: 83.4 (2015 est.)
male: 39 years
Birth rate: 9.8 births/1,000 population (2018 est.)
Major urban areas - population: 2.785 million Dubai
1.571 million Sharjah
1.42 million ABU DHABI (capital) (2018)
Infant mortality rate: total: 5.5 deaths/1,000 live births male: 6 deaths/1,000 live births
urban: 0.4% of population
urban: 98% of population (2015 est.)
Education expenditures: n/a
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write (2015 est.)
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24: total: 7.7% male: 6% female: 13.5% (2017 est.)
Country name: conventional long form: United Arab Emirates
conventional short form: none
local long form: Al Imarat al Arabiyah al Muttahidah
local short form: none
former: Trucial Oman, Trucial States
abbreviation: UAE
etymology: self-descriptive country name; the name "Arabia" can be traced back many centuries B.C., the ancient Egyptians referred to the region as "Ar Rabi"; "emirates" derives from "amir" the Arabic word for "commander," "lord," or "prince"
Government type: federation of monarchies
Capital: name: Abu Dhabi
Administrative divisions: 7 emirates (imarat, singular - imarah); Abu Zaby (Abu Dhabi), 'Ajman, Al Fujayrah, Ash Shariqah (Sharjah), Dubayy (Dubai), Ra's al Khaymah, Umm al Qaywayn
Independence: 2 December 1971 (from the UK)
National holiday: Independence Day (National Day), 2 December (1971)
Constitution: history: previous 1971 (provisional); latest drafted in 1979, became permanent May 1996 amendments: proposed by the Supreme Council and submitted to the Federal National Council; passage requires at least a two-thirds majority vote of Federal National Council members present, and approval by the Supreme Council president; amended 2009 (2016)
Legal system: mixed legal system of Islamic law and civil law
Suffrage: limited; note - rulers of the seven emirates each select a proportion of voters for the Federal National Council (FNC) that together account for about 12 percent of Emirati citizens
Executive branch: chief of state: President KHALIFA bin Zayid Al-Nuhayyan (since 2 November 2004), ruler of Abu Zaby (Abu Dhabi) (since 4 November 2004); Vice President and Prime Minister MUHAMMAD BIN RASHID Al-Maktum (since 5 January 2006)
head of government: Prime Minister Vice President MUHAMMAD BIN RASHID Al-Maktum (since 5 January 2006); Deputy Prime Ministers SAIF bin Zayid Al-Nuhayyan, MANSUR bin Zayid Al-Nuhayyan (both since 11 May 2009)
cabinet: Council of Ministers announced by the prime minister and approved by the president elections/appointments: president and vice president indirectly elected by the Federal Supreme Council - composed of the rulers of the 7 emirates - for a 5-year term (no term limits); election last held 3 November 2009 (next election NA); prime minister and deputy prime minister appointed by the president
election results: KHALIFA bin Zayid Al-Nuhayyan reelected president; FSC vote NA
note: there is also a Federal Supreme Council (FSC) composed of the 7 emirate rulers; the FSC is the highest constitutional authority in the UAE; establishes general policies and sanctions federal legislation; meets 4 times a year; Abu Zaby (Abu Dhabi) and Dubayy (Dubai) rulers have effective veto power
Legislative branch: description: unicameral Federal National Council (FNC) or Majlis al-Ittihad al-Watani (40 seats; 20 members indirectly elected by an electoral college whose members are selected by each emirate ruler proportional to its FNC membership, and 20 members appointed by the rulers of the 7 constituent states; members serve 4-year terms)
elections: last held on 3 October 2015 (next to be held in 2019); note - the electoral college was expanded from 129,274 electors in the December 2011 election to 224,279 in the October 2015 election; 347 candidates including 78 women ran for 20 contested seats in the 40-member FNC
election results: 19 men and 1 woman were elected; seats by emirate - Abu Dhabi 4, Dubai 4, Sharjah 3, Ras al-Khaimah 3, Ajman 2, Fujairah 2, Umm al-Quwain 2; note - only 1 woman (from Ras Al Khaimah) won an FNC seat
Judicial branch: highest courts: Federal Supreme Court (consists of the court president and 4 judges; jurisdiction limited to federal cases) judge selection and term of office: judges appointed by the federal president following approval by the Federal Supreme Council, the highest executive and legislative authority consisting of the 7 emirate rulers; judges serve until retirement age or the expiry of their appointment terms
subordinate courts: Federal Court of Cassation (determines the constitutionality of laws promulgated at the federal and emirate level; federal level courts of first instance and appeals courts); the emirates of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Ra's al Khaymah have parallel court systems; the other 4 emirates have incorporated their courts into the federal system; note - the Abu Dhabi Global Market Courts and the Dubai International Financial Center Courts, the country’s two largest financial free zones, both adjudicate civil and commercial disputes.
Political parties and leaders: none; political parties are banned
International organization participation: ABEDA, AfDB (nonregional member), AFESD, AMF, BIS, CAEU, CICA, FAO, G-77, GCC, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, LAS, MIGA, NAM, OAPEC, OIC, OIF (observer), OPCW, OPEC, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNRWA, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
National symbol(s): golden falcon;
national colors: green, white, black, red
National anthem: name: "Nashid al-watani al-imarati" (National Anthem of the UAE)
lyrics/music: AREF Al Sheikh Abdullah Al Hassan/Mohamad Abdel WAHAB
note: music adopted 1971, lyrics adopted 1996; Mohamad Abdel WAHAB also composed the music for the anthem of Tunisia
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Yusif bin Mani bin Said al-UTAYBA (since 28 July 2008)
chancery: 3522 International Court NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20008
consulate(s) general: Boston, Los Angeles, New York
Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affaires Steven C. BONDY (since 22 March 2018)
embassy: Embassies District, Plot 38 Sector W59-02, Street No. 4, P. O. Box 4009, Abu Dhabi
mailing address: P. O. Box 4009, Abu Dhabi
telephone: [971] (2) 414-2200
FAX: [971] (2) 414-2603
consulate(s) general: Dubai
The UAE has an open economy with a high per capita income and a sizable annual trade surplus. Successful efforts at economic diversification have reduced the portion of GDP from the oil and gas sector to 30%. Since the discovery of oil in the UAE nearly 60 years ago, the country has undergone a profound transformation from an impoverished region of small desert principalities to a modern state with a high standard of living. The government has increased spending on job creation and infrastructure expansion and is opening up utilities to greater private sector involvement. The country's free trade zones - offering 100% foreign ownership and zero taxes - are helping to attract foreign investors. The global financial crisis of 2008-09, tight international credit, and deflated asset prices constricted the economy in 2009. UAE authorities tried to blunt the crisis by increasing spending and boosting liquidity in the banking sector. The crisis hit Dubai hardest, as it was heavily exposed to depressed real estate prices. Dubai lacked sufficient cash to meet its debt obligations, prompting global concern about its solvency and ultimately a $20 billion bailout from the UAE Central Bank and Abu Dhabi Government that was refinanced in March 2014. The UAE’s dependence on oil is a significant long-term challenge, although the UAE is one of the most diversified countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council. Low oil prices have prompted the UAE to cut expenditures, including on some social programs, but the UAE has sufficient assets in its sovereign investment funds to cover its deficits. The government reduced fuel subsidies in August 2015, and introduced excise taxes (50% on sweetened carbonated beverages and 100% on energy drinks and tobacco) in October 2017. A five-percent value-added tax was introduced in January 2018. The UAE's strategic plan for the next few years focuses on economic diversification, promoting the UAE as a global trade and tourism hub, developing industry, and creating more job opportunities for nationals through improved education and increased private sector employment.
GDP (purchasing power parity): $696 billion (2017 est.) $690.5 billion (2016 est.) $670.5 billion (2015 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 0.8% (2017 est.) 3% (2016 est.) 5.1% (2015 est.)
Gross national saving: 28.5% of GDP (2017 est.) 30.9% of GDP (2016 est.) 30.7% of GDP (2015 est.) GDP - composition, by end use: household consumption: 34.9% (2017 est.) government consumption: 12.3% (2017 est.) investment in fixed capital: 23% (2017 est.) investment in inventories: 1.8% (2017 est.) exports of goods and services: 100.4% (2017 est.) imports of goods and services: -72.4% (2017 est.) GDP - composition, by sector of origin: agriculture: 0.9% (2017 est.) industry: 49.8% (2017 est.) services: 49.2% (2017 est.)
Agriculture - products: dates, vegetables, watermelons; poultry, eggs, dairy products; fish
Industries: petroleum and petrochemicals; fishing, aluminum, cement, fertilizer, commercial ship repair, construction materials, handicrafts, textiles
Labor force: 5.344 million (2017 est.) note: expatriates account for about 85% of the workforce
Unemployment rate: 1.6% (2016 est.) 3.6% (2014 est.)
Population below poverty line: 19.5% (2003 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: n/a
highest 10%: n/a
note: the UAE federal budget does not account for emirate-level spending in Abu Dhabi and Dubai
Taxes and other revenues: 28.8% (of GDP) (2017 est.) Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-): -0.2% (of GDP) (2017 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2% (2017 est.) 1.6% (2016 est.)
Exports - commodities: crude oil 45%, natural gas, reexports, dried fish, dates (2012 est.)
Exports - partners: India 10.1%, Iran 9.9%, Japan 9.3%, China 5.4%, Oman 5%, Switzerland 4.4%, South Korea 4.1% (2017)
Imports - commodities: machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, food
Imports - partners: China 8.5%, US 6.8%, India 6.6% (2017)
Debt - external: $237.6 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $218.7 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
Exchange rates: Emirati dirhams (AED) per US dollar - 3.673 (2017 est.) 3.673 (2016 est.) 3.673 (2015 est.) 3.673 (2014 est.) 3.673 (2013 est.)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - from hydroelectric plants: 0% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Electricity - from other renewable sources: 1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Crude oil - imports: 0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil - proved reserves: 97.8 billion bbl (1 January 2018 est.)
Natural gas - production: 62.01 billion cu m (2017 est.)
Natural gas - consumption: 74.48 billion cu m (2017 est.)
Natural gas - exports: 7.504 billion cu m (2017 est.)
Telephone system: general assessment: modern fiber-optic integrated services; digital network with rapidly growing use of mobile-cellular telephones; key centers are Abu Dhabi and Dubai; 5G technology developing; two operators are competitive, but majority owned by the government; HSPA (high speed packet access) + LTE networks cover most of the population; low cost smart phones readily available; well-established fibre-broadband network provides future growth (2018)
domestic: microwave radio relay, fiber-optic and coaxial cable; fixed-line 38 per 100 and mobile-cellular 326 per 100 (2018)
international: country code - 971; linked to the international submarine cable FLAG (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe); landing point for both the SEA-ME-WE-3 and SEA-ME-WE-4 submarine cable networks; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian)
Broadcast media: except for the many organizations now operating in media free zones in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, most TV and radio stations remain government-owned; widespread use of satellite dishes provides access to pan-Arab and other international broadcasts; restrictions since June 2017 on some satellite channels and websites originating from or otherwise linked to Qatar (2018)
Internet country code: .ae
Airports: 43 (2013)
Airports (paved runways): total 25
2,438 to 3,047 m: 3 (2013)
under 914 m: 2 (2013)
Pipelines: 533 km condensate, 3277 km gas, 300 km liquid petroleum gas, 3287 km oil, 24 km oil/gas/water, 218 km refined products, 99 km water (2013)
Roadways: total 4,080 km
(2008) paved: 4,080 km (includes 253 km of expressways) (2008)
by type: container ship 2, general cargo 103, oil tanker 22, other 489 (2018)
Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Al Fujayrah, Mina' Jabal 'Ali (Dubai), Khor Fakkan (Khawr Fakkan) (Sharjah), Mubarraz Island (Abu Dhabi), Mina' Rashid (Dubai), Mina' Saqr (Ra's al Khaymah) container port(s) (TEUs): Dubai Port (15,368,000), Khor Fakkan (Khawr Fakkan) (Sharjah) (2,321,000) (2017) LNG terminal(s) (export): Das Island
Military branches: United Arab Emirates Armed Forces: Critical Infrastructure Coastal Patrol Agency (CICPA), Land Forces, Navy, Air Force and Air Defense, Presidential Guard, Joint Aviation Command (2018)
Military service age and obligation: 18-30 years of age for compulsory military service for men, optional service for women; 17 years of age for male volunteers with parental approval; 2-year general obligation, 12 months for secondary school graduates; women may train for 9 months regardless of education (2016)
Military expenditures: 4.86% of GDP (2017) 4.99% of GDP (2016) 5.66% of GDP (2014) 6.06% of GDP (2013)
Disputes - International: boundary agreement was signed and ratified with Oman in 2003 for entire border, including Oman's Musandam Peninsula and Al Madhah enclaves, but contents of the agreement and detailed maps showing the alignment have not been published; Iran and UAE dispute Tunb Islands and Abu Musa Island, which Iran occupies
Illicit drugs: the UAE is a drug transshipment point for traffickers given its proximity to Southwest Asian drug-producing countries; the UAE's position as a major financial center makes it vulnerable to money laundering; anti-money-laundering controls improving, but informal banking remains unregulated
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Trouble Getting Your Point Across? SWEETEN the Deal—Serve Dessert First!
Photo © Lord William Chard
“We should get a new cabinet in the workshop! Stuff is all over the place. We can organize the space and make it look better.”
This was my friend’s lament for 6 months. But every time she presented it to her boss, she barely got the first words out of her mouth before her boss got visibly agitated and changed the subject. It was maddening. She tried every tactic she could think of—waiting until the boss was in a good mood, asking first thing in the morning, last thing at night, leaving notes, waiting, insisting. The worst part was that the cabinet was no big thing. It was well within the office budget, and her boss certainly had the authority to order the cabinet. There was plenty of room for it. But no! It was a cause of infinite frustration for my friend. She knew her boss could be very contrary. The Boss always wanted the last word, and wanted to be known as the “decision maker.” Unless The Boss specifically asked for opinions, the input of employees was clearly never welcome, even if it was important.
What, my friend lamented, could she possibly do? Tools were stacked up all over the place, and the space would be so much more efficient, and look so much more professional, with everything put away in a cabinet, but still her boss resisted. It would even make her boss look better to upper management. Was there anything else she could do?
YES! Serve Dessert First!
Now, the following approach may not work for every situation, but this is great for certain kinds of resistance, particularly when the person you’re trying to communicate with feels they might be losing their control of the situation (and that can be someone who has total control, like a boss, or someone with virtually no control who will want to hold on to what little security they feel they have).
First let’s look at my friend’s request:
There are three parts to this communication (in the above example, one sentence for each part), and each serves a specific purpose.
Look at the first one:
“We should get a new cabinet in the workshop!”
What would you call this? My friend thinks it’s a request. It’s the action that has to be taken. But perhaps her boss feels it’s a demand, or, worse, a command. And we know the boss isn’t taking commands from the staff. Judging from the boss’ reaction, the boss seems to feel it would require some kind of a compromise or sacrifice of authority, even though, in truth, it will benefit everyone. We already know that the boss shuts down at the first sentence.
The second part:
“Stuff is all over the place.”
This is the reason for the request, the essence of the problem, the “because.” “We need a cabinet because…”
And the final part:
“We can organize the space and make it look better.”
That’s the payoff, the desired outcome. If each of these three parts were the courses in a meal, this would be the sweet dessert at the end.
Now a lot of people would look at those three sentences and think that was a pretty well reasoned argument. “We need X (action) because Y (problem), so that we can have Z (reward).”
And in some situations, that is all it would take to get things done. But as my friend said, her boss got turned off from the very start.
Why would that be? Well, no one wants to be greeted with a demand, and a defensive person might instinctively shrink back from such a thing, sometimes without listening any further. People under stress, people who feel emotionally compromised, etc., may not want to, or be able to, deal with any more demands than they’re dealing with already. And people who may feel their authority or control over a situation is being compromised will fight back against the challenge to their status.
So what do you do? GIVE THEM DESSERT FIRST! Stimulate their apatite! If they’re resisting taking action, give them the sweet result, the desired outcome first. Like this:
“We can organize the space and make it look better. Stuff is all over the place. We should get a new cabinet in the workshop!”
We’ve put the desired outcome, the reward, right up front, where it will sweeten the entire conversation, just as the demand soured it in the first example. Who would disagree that a workplace should be neat and organized?
The “because,” the problem, is still right in the middle, justifying and reinforcing the need to make a change. But still, nothing that could be interpreted as a command. And following the happy desired-outcome, it seems like less of “a problem” and more of a challenge to be overcome, which seems less daunting. It also raises an unspoken question as to how that desired outcome could be achieved. And an astute listener might even begin to think about possible solutions at this point. But there’s no pressure on the listener (in this case, The Boss) to act or obey in a certain way. And yet, that happy outcome is also presented as dependent on taking action.
And the final sentence, which was a call to action when it was the beginning sentence, comes across as the answer to the unspoken question framed by first sentence. Heck, the boss might even think he came up with it.
The formula, now, would be: “We can have Z (reward) if we deal with Y (problem) by doing X (action).”
It’s the same set of sentences and ideas, but delivered much more softly, enticingly and less aggressively. But more importantly, this arrangement of the three parts gives the listener the feeling of control, while the first situation threatens loss of control, and that is no small thing. Most people like to have control over their interactions, and for someone who feels control is an important issue, helping them maintain their feeling of control can be key to keeping them open to your input.
To recap, if you’re presenting a proposal that’s being met with resistance when action has to be taken, be sure to sweeten the scenario by presenting the positive outcome, the reward, first. Some sales people call this “the hook.” Use it to hook their interest and set a positive, receptive mood to the discussion. Support that positive outcome by presenting the challenge (the problem) that is the obstacle that has to be overcome. At this point in your presentation, before you even suggest the action you want them to take, you should notice that you have sparked their interest or at least their attention. They may already be thinking of action to take, but you can follow it up with your suggested solution.
It’s a much more positive way to present a plan of action. Be sure to listen to what the other person has to say while this is going on. They might have other reasons for their resistance that they will be more willing to share when they realize this is a win-win proposal and they don’t feel pressured. And when those reasons come out, they can be addressed to get you closer to success.
And of course, while my example in this article is in three sentences for brevity, you can adapt the concept as need be. You might have a stack of several challenges/problems, or more than one terrific solution to offer. And there are no restrictions to the length. You might be able to get all three parts into a single sentence, or you might apply the structure to a business proposal that’s hundreds of pages long.
Think about this and put it into practice. I’d love to hear your success stories!
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Team Hitec Products signs Gjøs and Ysland
8. September 2020 Hitec Leave a comment
After the signing of Ann Helen Olsen, Team Hitec Products has signed two more young and talented Norwegian riders. Martine Gjøs (20) and Anne Dorthe Ysland (18) will join the UCI-team in 2020. Ysland is the current Norwegian road race and time trial champion and competed at the world championships in Yorkshire in 2019. Gjøs was the Norwegian road race champion in 2017 and competed at the world championships both that year and the season after.
“I am very happy and proud for this opportunity”, Ysland (photo top) says. “There’s no doubt that joining a UCI team, has been one of my biggest goals. I am sure that a team like Hitec Products will be a safe team, where I can develop and grow as a rider. I’m only 18, and my first season as senior will be next year. I know it’s a huge step up from juniors, and I want to learn as much as possible. Both from my teammates and the staff around.”
Gjøs, who is in her second year as an U23 rider and was third behind Team Hitec Products rider Pernille Feldmann in the finale stage of the Tour te Fjells in July, is also happy with the new step in her career. “Team Hitec Products seems like a great group of people that I’m looking forward to know better. The last year I have taken some steps, and I hope joining Team Hitec Products will help me to improve further as a rider and person.”
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Martine Gjøs
Goals and dreams
Both riders look forward to start riding for the team in 2021. Ysland: “I am so excited, I can’t wait. Team Hitec Products is the the perfect next step for me, where I can take my time and focus on becoming better each day. I am still young, so I need years to learn and grow to give the big names in the peloton a good fight. My goal for the next few years, is to become a strong and robust rider, so I can reach a higher level. And of course I have a dream to one day ride with the rainbow jersey.”
Ysland isn’t the only one who is ambitious. Gjøs is as well. “In the future I hope to be able to win some of the biggest races”, she says about that. “Team Hitec Products already have a great race program. With a mix of smaller and bigger races, I hope to get stronger step by step. I am prepared to help the team in the races, but also hope for some chances to prove myself.”
Karl Lima, team manager of Team Hitec Products, is happy to get both riders on the 2021 team. “Martine we have been following the last years. We’ve seen her steady progress and she is a natural target for us for 2021. Anne Dorthe already had an incredibly good season so far as a junior and we want to make sure she is taken good care of in her first elite season.”
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European specialists team up to define security standards for next-generation mobile devices
ARM Brightsight Giesecke & Devrient Infineon Technologies SEPIA project
Date: Thu, 11/11/2010 - 14:27
Five partners from industry and academia have joined forces in a European research project, SEPIA (Secure Embedded Platform with advanced Process Isolation and Anonymity capabilities), to define security standards for next-generation mobile devices including high-end cell phones and tablet devices
Herbert Reul, chair of the European Parliament committee on Industry, Research and Energy
As financial services, such as banking and payment, become increasingly accessed from mobile devices, it becomes increasingly critical to provide secure, certified cell-phone platforms to ensure such sensitive applications are efficiently protected from security threats. The SEPIA research project brings together ARM, Brightsight, Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) and Infineon Technologies, and is coordinated by Graz University of Technology (Austria). The project is co-financed by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
Mobile devices play an ever more critical role in our personal and professional lives today. They are increasingly used to access banking, location-based services, and social networking sites. Protecting people’s security, privacy, and identity on these devices is therefore a mounting concern. At present, however, there is no common security level across cell phone platforms and the technology varies widely. Set up to run for three years, the SEPIA research project aims to address this by developing new security enhancements and certification methodologies for mobile device platforms.
Herbert Reul, chair of the European Parliament committee on Industry, Research and Energy, confirms: “SEPIA addresses an ever more pressing security problem that is receiving increased attention on the European level, especially regarding mobile applications like eBanking”.
For the consumer, SEPIA should allow execution of security-critical applications such as electronic banking, location-based services, and social networking on cell phones, while ensuring that personal and confidential data such as usernames, passwords, location, and banking and payment details are stored and processed within a separate trusted environment. The expected outcome of SEPIA is that these security-critical applications will run in a protected and isolated environment, alongside other services such as games and software downloads, without risk of being affected by viruses, Trojans, or other malicious software.
From a technical viewpoint, the SEPIA project will be based on a mobile platform combining ARM® TrustZone® technology, which creates a protected area in advanced systems-on-chip, and the high-security MobiCore© operating system developed by G&D. The interplay between TrustZone and MobiCore ensures that if online services incorporate security-sensitive functions - for instance payment transactions - it is not possible for malware on the phone to manipulate username and password entries via the keypad or data output on the display.
Drawing on its expertise in hardware-based security, Infineon is contributing next-generation technology to allow secure storage of user credentials and passwords, thus adding further security to the new mobile platform. Brightsight will develop novel and cost-effective certification methods that allow mobile platforms to be certified incrementally, thus achieving short time-to-market cycles. The Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK) of Graz University of Technology is responsible for the scientific aspects of the project, including techniques to preserve anonymity and the development of security mechanisms for future cell phone processors.
The SEPIA project receives funding from the European Union’s FP7 scheme. It supports Europe’s foothold as a leading innovator in the sphere of mobile technology. SEPIA will make it easier to establish cross-platform, common security concepts and SEPIA’s new approach to security evaluation will reduce time-to-market.
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Biography of Victorian Romantic Painter of Lady of Shalott.
The Lady of Shalott (1888)
COLOURS USED IN PAINTING
For an idea of the pigments
used by John William Waterhouse, see:
Colour Palette Nineteenth Century.
John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)
Best known as the creator of The Lady of Shalott, one of England's great masterpieces of Romanticism, John William Waterhouse started painting in a manner close to Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) and Frederic Leighton (1830-96), depicting classical and historical scenes, but then turned to the depiction of literary themes executed in a dreamy, romantic manner. Although influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, his sensuous handling of paint gave his works a unique identity. As a youth, Waterhouse worked in his father's studio developing a talent for sculpture and painting, before he later attended the Royal Academy schools. His early classical themes were exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists. His later works can be classified as either Pre-Raphaelite or Neoclassical. He became financially successful and renowned during his lifetime, and prints of his works were widely popular among the middle classes. Famous examples of his pre-Raphaelite style of realist painting include Lady of Shalott (1888, Tate London) and Hylas and the Nymphs (1896, Manchester City Art Gallery).
Towneley Hall Art Gallery, Burnley.
MEANING OF ART?
See: Art Definition, Meaning
Boreas (1903)
Private Collection.
Early Life & Artistic Training
Very little is known of Waterhouse's private life, as few of his letters have survived. Although born in Rome, where his father was working as an artist, within a few years he returned to England where his father set up a studio. Waterhouse assisted him, and thus absorbed the basic techniques of watercolour, oil painting and sculpture at an early age. In 1870 he entered the Royal Academy school to train as an artist. In 1872 he exhibited with the British Artists and from 1874 with the Royal Academy. His first paintings were mainly classical and historical themes, revealing the influence of Alma-Tadema, one of the most eminent classical painters of late 19th century England. Waterhouse was also influenced by Frederic Leighton, a sculptor and painter who painted classical, historical and biblical subjects.
WORLDS BEST PAINTERS
For top creative practitioners, see:
For the greatest portraitists
see: Best Portrait Artists.
For the greatest genre-painting, see:
Best Genre Painters.
For the top allegorical painting,
see: Best History Painters.
WORLD'S BEST ART
For a list of the best examples of
Fine Art Painting, by the
world's top artists,
For the history of oils,
see: Oil Painting.
For a list of painters like
Waterhouse, see:
Modern Artists.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Often associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, Waterhouse was born the year after they first exhibited at the Royal Academy. It wasn't until the 1880s, that he came under the influence of the movement, which had revived literary themes in paintings. He inherited their taste for the myths of enchantresses, as well as the works of John Keats, William Shakespeare and Alfred Tennyson. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood originally came together in opposition to the Royal Academy's promotion of Renaissance master Raphael (1483-1520) as the ideal artist of all time. They also rebelled against what they considered the triviality of genre painting, which was immensely popular in the mid-1800s. The themes they preferred were initially religious, then later literary: notably themes of love and death. The founding members of the group were William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), John Everett Millais (1829-96) and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82). Later they were joined by Ford Madox Brown (1821-93), Frederic George Stephens (1828-1907), James Collinson (1825-81) and Thomas Woolner (1825-92) and Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898). In fact, they represented one of the first movements of avant-garde art, although they have been denied this status because of their support for traditional concepts of mimesis (imitation of nature) and history painting. The movement was mainly inspired by Romanticism, although they were later to be divided over the argument of Realism versus Idealism. The Pre-Raphaelites were to influence many other artists including Gustave Moreau (1826-98).
Waterhouse found Pre-Raphaelite subject matter quite agreeable, being especially fond of the femme fatale genre within Romantic settings. However, his painting technique differed considerably from the rest of the group. His fondness for blocks of colour and broad chunky brushstrokes were derived from French Realist painter Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-84). It was a style introduced to him by Stanhope Forbes (1857-1947) and other painters from the Newlyn School, based in St Ives in Cornwall. Waterhouse's famous masterpiece The Lady of Shalott (1888) is an illustration of Alfred Tennyson's poem the Lady of Shalott from Camelot. She sits in a boat, staring at 3 candles which symbolize life. Two have gone out, indicating her life will soon end. Alongside John Everett Millais' painting of Ophelia (1851, Tate), The Lady of Shalott is one of the most commonly reproduced posters of Pre-Raphaelite art, and is a strong candidate for the title of England's favourite painting. Waterhouse's mythological painting Hylas and the Nymphs (1896) is also a wonderful piece of art: a mythical scene showing Hylas being tempted to his death by river nymphs.
Another English painter whose works - like those of Waterhouse - caught the mood of Victorian England was the popular animal artist Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-73), best-known for his anthropomorphic paintings and prints of dogs.
Artistic Career
Waterhouse was elected an associate of the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1885 and became a full member in 1895. By the mid-1880s he was exhibiting at several galleries throughout the country, including London's Grosvenor Gallery and New Gallery. This brought a certain amount of financial success. By the 1880s he began exhibiting portrait paintings, as commissions increased due to his rising reputation. In 1901 he joined the St John's Wood Arts Club, which included the highly versatile artist George Clausen (1852-1944) and Alma-Tadema. He also served on an advisory council, advising up and coming artists such as the Indian-born British painter and designer Byam Shaw (1872-1919). Despite suffering from illness in the last decade of his life, Waterhouse continued painting until his death in 1917.
Today, his paintings are housed in some of the best art museums around the world, including those in England, America, Canada and Australia. In 2009 the Royal Academy of Arts hosted the largest ever retrospective of his works, entitled J.W. Waterhouse: Garden of Enchantment. This was the first exhibition ever to feature works from his entire career. The exhibition moved to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2010.
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Current Instalment
Patricia Esquivias
In response to rotating collar
This morning I went to the library because I wanted to show you some magazines with the work of the architect who made the buildings that I am working on. I was hoping to record a video for you while I was there, because lately I prefer that than doing the computer videos. But I wasn’t able to. So I tell you in writing.
I have been working on a set of apartment buildings that caught my attention years ago due to the different ceramic murals that each apartment had in the balcony.
What I wanted to show you was that all of this architect’s works are serious, straightforward and very well constructed.
He wrote that ‘decoration should be simple since a building’s good appearance owes to the quality of its materials and their proper use.’
Then, in 1958, he made this set of buildings with over 100 ceramic murals, commissioned from a pair of artists, and with several other decorative details. But it never happened again.
A family member told me he was an austere man. He married but had no children. Was tall, with dark hair and blue eyes, very handsome. Not sociable. He was a state architect. Always in suit, never without a jacket. When he would visit the building site a bell was rung and all the men stopped work during his round. He would go every day, which wasn’t the norm.
In the beginning of the project he had a car accident, his car was hit by a bus. He was injured and he got a permanent scar on his face.
Some think that the accident could have temporarily changed his sensitivity.
Others think that it was officially requested that the building be decorated in a way which would give a positive and more cosmopolitan image of Spain.
The murals depicted different cities in Europe in naif style and looked upon the Avenida del Generalísimo, in a new area being developed in the city, which then became known as Korea Town because of the large number of USA militaries who came to live there.
The article in the magazine mentions the murals but the photographs don’t do it justice.
I left a photo there from one of the murals I have managed to photograph. I have more, if you want to see them.
Patricia Esquivias (born 1979), studied in London and San Francisco. Since 2005 she has shown her video works amongst others in Madrid (Galería Maisterravalbuena, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia), Germany (Frankfurter Kunstverein, 5th Berlin Biennale), New York (White Columns, Murray Guy, New Museum) Los Angeles (Hammer Museum) and Amsterdam (Stedelijk Museum Bureau). She usually lives in Madrid.
Esquivias makes videos that link images drawn from diverse sources, creating fragmented narratives that present interpretations of the everyday as well as of historical events. Employing low-fi technology and a decidedly DIY aesthetic, her videos may seem improvised and typically involve the artist filming herself as she clicks through slide presentations on her laptop or manually selecting and displaying photographs, computer printouts, handwritten notes, magazine pages, and other ephemera, which serve as visual references for her stream-of-consciousness monologues.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The top U.S. envoy for Africa, Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson, met with reporters February 24 and answered questions on a wide
array of issues: Ethiopia, Kenya, Niger, Cote d’Ivoire, Somalia, and China’s operations in Africa.
Carson spoke at the Foreign Press Center in Washington and took questions from journalists there and in Johannesburg and New York through a video feed. Carson’s briefing followed his trip to Europe and Africa, which included stops in Spain for meetings with European Union officials, attendance at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and stops in Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria.
Asked to offer his view on the 2010 election in Ethiopia, Carson said it would be premature to comment prior to the voting. “Let’s see how they turn out. What we do say to Ethiopia, to the government, to the opposition parties and to the citizens is that we hope that this election will be run freely and fairly and that there be a level playing field for all — that the government and the opposition take their responsibilities seriously, that both sides respect the political rights of the others and that both carry out their responsibilities.”
Carson said the United States also has strongly urged that these elections be “substantially better in their aftermath than the 2005 elections, in which there was very bitter and serious violence in their wake. We all want Ethiopia to continue to move along an upward and more inclusive and stronger democratic trajectory,” he said. “Elections are simply an important process in the selection of democratic leaders. We want this to go well” and are “looking for an outcome that makes things better for everyone: free, transparent and open, with both sides taking their responsibilities seriously.”
On Kenya, Carson, a former U.S. ambassador to that country, said “we continue to encourage” that country’s president and prime minster to work toward the full implementation of the Kofi Annan Agreements that were worked out at the conclusion of violence in that country in 2008 following the “very difficult” elections there.
“It is important that in the run-up to the next elections in Kenya that there be a consensus … especially around the constitution. Both of those individuals — as leaders of their parties — have a responsibility to ensure that there is not a repetition of the violence there that followed the presidential and parliamentary elections. Constitution making is at an advanced stage. It is important that both men form a consensus behind it and that they deal with the issues of executive power … issues of impunity and issues of corruption” and land as well.
Carson added: “If we see individuals like [Attorney General] Amos Wako who are standing in the way of justice and progress and who violate our statutes in the United States, we will not hesitate to pursue action against them through all available means.” The career diplomat said that any action taken against Wako by the United States was done for “very, very clear and manifest reasons.” (While relevant U.S. law does not permit disclosure of these actions, the attorney general has publicly announced the measures that the United States has taken against him.)
“He has been attorney general in Kenya for a decade and a half. During that decade and a half, we have seen both grand corruption and minor corruption. We saw a billion-dollar scam shortly after he was named attorney general, and we saw most recently … another scam … in which another $150 million to $200 million in government money was stolen. During his term in office as attorney general, he has not successfully prosecuted one — not a single one — senior government official. No ministers. No deputy ministers. No permanent secretaries. Yes, he seems to be able to find the stockroom clerk but he cannot find the senior officials who are there.”
Additionally, Carson said, there has been a rash of high-level crime in which “impunity seems to be the rule of the day” and in which civil society leaders have been gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. “He [Wako] has not successfully prosecuted any of those individuals as well.”
On Niger, Carson said the United States has been “deeply concerned and troubled” by events since July and August of 2009, when the former president, Mamadou Tandja, started to unravel his country’s democratic institutions in pursuit of a constitutionally prohibited third term. The United States encouraged Tandja not to move in that direction, Carson said. When Tandja extended his term of office illegally on December 23 of 2009, Carson said, the United States suspended Niger’s participation in the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), ended the Millennium Challenge Corporation program there, terminated all U.S. assistance with the exception of humanitarian aid and asked Nigerien military officers studying in the United States to return home.
“We said we were opposed to the hijacking of democracy, even by civilians, and we meant it.” The coup that has just taken place, he said, offers an opportunity to move Niger back into the ranks of democracy. He quickly cautioned, however, that “no coup, whether it is a civilian or military coup, is a good coup. Coups by their nature are bad” and a “disruption of the political process,” he said.
Carson said the United States is looking to the military junta in Niger to restore democracy there expeditiously, within six months.
On Cote d’Ivoire, Carson said the United States remains very much concerned about the eruption of violence that occurred when President Laurent Gbagbo dismissed the government and suspended the movement toward elections in that country — which have been “too long in the coming.”
There is a need to return swiftly to the Ouagadougou Accords, Carson said. National elections have been postponed six times in the last two to three years, he said. “It is time for a serious effort to be made to resolve the political disagreements that have continued to tear apart what once was the most important economic country in Francophone Africa,” Carson said.
Asked about Somalia, Carson said the United States has been the largest contributor of food aid and humanitarian assistance there for much of the last decade. “We remain … committed to providing as much food assistance as we possibly can,” he said.
The continuing conflict in the South between the Transitional Federal Government and al-Shabaab warlords, Carson said, makes food delivery extraordinarily difficult. Despite this, he said, the United States remains committed to getting food there to feed the hungry.
Asked to comment on China’s rapidly expanding operations in Africa, Carson acknowledged that China has been focused on trying to acquire hydrocarbon and mineral resource rights to fuel its economic growth at home. Equally, he said, China is looking for markets for its own products. “In this context, Africa is a place where they see enormous opportunity.” Carson stressed that it is “up to African countries to manage very skillfully and carefully” their own particular economic and commercial relationships with China.
For this reason, he said, it is more important than ever that democratic institutions are present in African countries so that the voices of people throughout society can speak effectively about the consequences of this relationship. “This is what good governance is all about,” he said.
Carson also was asked if President Obama planned to attend the 2010 World Cup tournament in South Africa. Carson said he is not aware of any such plans.
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Excerpt of Your Art Will Save Your Life, by Beth Pickens
By TNB Nonfiction
You’re an Artist, Keep Making Art
The realization that art could first save and then expand my life came when I was a teenager in a troubled home. Life with my mentally ill mom and alcoholic dad near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, before the Internet, was difficult. A smart, queer feminist without the language to talk about any of it—let alone identify with those lineages—I was profoundly depressed and mostly miserable. I ached for art and counterculture (remember that word?), but they were really hard to come by in small Rust Belt towns in the nineties. I read books, made zines, bought 45s, and ordered Sub Pop record catalogs out of the back of SPIN magazine, which at the time was a wonderland filled with mysterious ads for things like The Anarchist Cookbook.
Warhol’s Last Starlet: Notes on the Unlived Life
By Sandie Friedman
Edie Sedgwick was my idol.
As a junior in high school, I read the biography Edie: An American Life by Jean Stein and George Plimpton, so I knew she grew up on a ranch, the troubled scion of a privileged family, had been institutionalized at Silver Hill and sculpted a horse at Radcliffe. In 1965, she became the most glamorous of Warhol’s “superstars,” the one who best set off his own spectral image when they appeared in photographs together.
The Modern Reader, What’s That?
By Henning Koch
Recently as I was walking down Wörther Strasse, Berlin, I found myself passing St. George’s English-language bookshop, where a few copies of my short story collection have been kenneled for the last few months. As usual, I find them dozing on the shelf next to Arthur Koestler, which is exalted company, to be sure, yet Koestler’s majestic spines always seem to throw a shadow over the modest heirs of my own invention.
Madness, Thy Name Is Second Novel
By Sung J. Woo
For the last month, I could see the end, that moment when I’d write the last sentence of my second novel. I imagined there would be exaltation, relief, a supreme sense of satisfaction rolled into that single keystroke when I’d tap the period and put an end to this work that began on August 11, 2002.
Much changed during those nine long-ass years: my father passed away, I got married, and my first novel was published. I also wrote about half of another novel that I paused (abandoned is too harsh a word – I’m coming back for you, little book, I swear!). For seven years, I did not add a single word to this eventual second work, but I did think about it often, and when I started it back up in the fall of 2008, I knew I had to bring it home. Because if I didn’t, who would? Andy Warhol once said that he wished for someone else to paint the paintings in his head. For a long time, I thought it was a goofy quote, lazy, even, but now I interpret it differently. Sometimes, I see a scene in my head that’s so perfect that the translation from brain to the written word, no matter how accurate or graceful, will still fall short. Times like these, I understand Andy completely. I wish somebody else would write it for me, just to take away the disappointment of my eventual failure.
Writing any novel isn’t easy, and the problems are there from the start, built into its framework. The rate at which people read is not the same as the rate at which you write the work – perhaps unless you’re Stephen King – so it’s as if you’re running a race in slow motion, constantly having to gauge the pace of scenes and dialogue and make sure they’re in balance within the rest of the exposition. Unlike short stories, whose plots and logistics can be contained wholly within a manageable slice of a writer’s brain, novels are sprawling creatures, so it’s very possible to decapitate the head of a character in chapter ten and have him bake an apple pie in chapter twenty, without any sort of Frankensteinian resurrection involved. Perhaps the biggest challenge is that you yourself are changing as the years roll by, so what you might have considered to be smart and moving in 2004 might seem smart-alecky and sentimental today.
With the second novel, there are added pressures. It’s not your first, so people expect more from you, bigger and badder and important and non-sucky. Except what few seem to realize is that you really didn’t know what the hell you were doing in the first place, that the debut novel is the result of hope and faith and persevered serendipity. It’s not as if I had a specific end product in mind while writing Everything Asian; the book formed itself during the process of writing, so there were no guarantees that things would work out the second time around just because they happened to do so the first time.
Adding to the angst was that with number one, as I came to the last couple of chapters, I sped up, excited to reach the finish line, while with number two, I found myself inexplicably slowing down. After slogging through three years of steady writing, when the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel revealed its glow, I wanted nothing more than to turn into Superman and burst through at supersonic speeds, and yet each new page came as willingly as a cat going to the vet. What the hell was going on?
My theory is that the novel had become a form of Stockholm Syndrome, where I learned to love my captor and did not want to leave its confines. Because what lay beyond this book was an even blacker unknown. What if, after slaving away for all this time, I was writing a spectacular turd? Once it was done, people would read it, and the verdict would be in. And what about book number three? And for that matter, just how many books did I actually have in me? Would I run out of things to write about at some point, and then what would I do with myself? As awful as it was to keep writing this second book, there was safety in these characters and their stories.
But last weekend, I hunkered down. With my wife out of town, it would be possible to write all day and all night, something I hadn’t done since – well, never. Three hours is usually what I can handle in one sitting, but I knew that if I made this final push, I’d be done. On Friday, I managed two sessions of three hours, and on Saturday, I started at nine in the morning and finished nine at night. Of course we’re not actually talking about twelve consecutive hours of banging at the keyboard. Staring at the wall, chatting with the cat, playing with the dog, straightening up the pile of magazines on the coffee table for the fifth time – it’s all part of the process. And yet despite all of this “writing,” I did find myself on the last word of the last sentence by the time day turned to night. Which means there was only one way to end it: the final period.
I wish I could say that pushing on that dotted plastic plateau was what I’d hoped, an orgasmic release of pent-up literary forces that transformed the books on my shelves into a hundred Nabakovian butterflies, but alas, I felt none of it. I was beyond exhausted, and all I could think was the amount of rewrites it would take to straighten out this morass of a novel.
In any case, it starts with the words His father was against the idea, and it ends with and so was he, my book number two, whose vital stats are as follows: 121951 words, 404 pages, three parts, 26 chapters plus an epilogue. If writing a book is like having a child, I think it might have been a C-section. The baby remains nameless, so I got my work cut out for me.
Check out Taylor Antrim’s excellent essay about the difficulties of writing the second novel.
The Death of Dylan Thomas
By Johnny Genocide
In New York’s Whitehorse Tavern there’s a table held sacred by many, table five. A quick glance suggests nothing out of the ordinary about this piece of battered furniture, its surface worn smooth by the bottom of countless glasses, its landscape dulled by the tears of broken dreams. However, this table holds a distinction held by no other table in the literary world. It’s the table that Dylan Thomas had his last drink at before being carried across the street to Saint Vincent’s Hospital where he died shortly thereafter. The Tavern has become a Mecca for wannabe writers and misunderstood artists, all trying to capture a piece of the agony that fueled their hero’s creativity. Pathetic hustlers of the English language, all trying to one up themselves by walking on the razor’s edge, flock to places like the Whitehorse. Those in the know want to sit at the table where the great bard himself finally met his end after playing a game of whiskey roulette with hand of death.
It’s sad that writers feel the need to emulate their idol’s demise, following in the footsteps of someone else’s self-induced madness. Many of us write, trying desperately to stay one step ahead of the emotional train wreck, begging fate for an end to the destructive storm that is our world. Our words keep us one step away from the darkness, those desperate hours that haunt us when the silence falls. We never get ahead of our insanity, always running in place and never going forward. One step from the madness and ten miles from sanity is where I stood at any given moment.
I sat at that table, whiskey in hand, not pretending to be a tormented writer, but because I wanted to toast the man who gave all of himself to his art until in the end, there was nothing left but the shell of a withering soul. I came because I was thirsty for something else in life. I came for the rightist of wrong reasons.
It was a cold winter night when I stumbled into the Whitehorse, desperate for something other than the void that my life had become. I was going through the motions, breathing with the shallowness of a man with no convictions. I was a man with no past or future, just a stagnant mechanized existence. I had just spent the better part of two hours listening to the relentless ranting of a fashion designer, a woman who went on and on about how brilliant she was. The first rule of literary survival I learned was simple; anyone who claims to be brilliant usually isn’t. They’re rubes, simpletons who’ve thumbed through college outlines of all the great books, higher learning through a series of Dummy’s and Idiot’s Guides. They’re pretenders to an intellectual throne far beyond their grasp. They’re the people that say all the right things at all the right times, always making a point to throw in the names of whoever is on the top of the avant-garde heap. “Blah, blah, blah… Andy Warhol. Blah, blah, blah…” On and on again until you want to die. “Blah, blah, I know more than you, blah.” My mind was spinning from an evening spent in a room full of cultural vampires. Enough was absolutely enough. Having told this room full of simpletons “I’d rather cut myself with broken car glass than listen to one more nanosecond of this dribble,” I was out the door and into the tavern in under five minutes.
The place was empty, as if the plague had just rolled through Greenwich Village. That was fine by me. I liked an empty bar, devoid of people working hard to preserve their livers in a bottle of whiskey. I didn’t drink a lot but when I did I didn’t need some buzz kill sitting next to me, waxing on and on about his broken dreams. New York is filled to the brim with tales of heartbreak and guaranteed schemes that fell apart just before the payoff. It’s a city that serves as a beacon to the mentally unstable artist and greedy yuppie alike, both of whom were big fish in the little ponds of their hometowns. Now they’re surrounded by bigger fish in the biggest pond of all, nasty giant fish with a taste for blood. In the end they’re eaten alive by the unforgiving nature of life in the city. The bowery is paved with the carcasses of some of the most brilliant artists I’ve ever met and the jails are filled with scheming yuppies. New York’s a town designed for hustlers and tricksters out for their own gain.
The waitress came back to the table with my drink, a double shot of Black Label Scotch, neat no ice. I stared down into the placid amber liquor, peering into its depth as if Buddha would swim to the surface with a lifesaving piece of wisdom written just for me. Nothing happened, other than the soothing smell of the double malt wafting up to my nose. “God I need some fucking peace,” I said to myself. My nerves had just started to calm down, as I lifted the heavy glass to my lips. The silence was perfect, dead like me, empty and void of the sounds of desperate bar people desperately trying to sound as if their lives had meaning. There was no blah, blah, blah to kill my buzz.
The first slug of scotch went down, burning my throat with that acrid warm feeling hard liquor has. My shaking thoughts suddenly started to smooth out like a plane after it’s flown through a turbulent patch of sky. I could breathe again, taking in the squalid barroom air with renewed faith. It was a perfect moment in time, one that could never be repeated, so I savored it with the enthusiasm of a man who discovers a hundred dollar bill in an otherwise empty wallet. For that brief moment all was well in my world. Everything was, as my wife would say, peachy.
Suddenly the silence was broken by the slamming of the tavern’s door. Looking up to see what idiot ruined my perfect moment, I saw him enter the bar, the worst possible sort to run into when you’re out for a quiet evening of destroying your liver. Sammy the Gimp scanned the room looking for a familiar face he could extract a free drink or dollar from. I quickly lowered my head but not before his eyes met mine. “Shit” I muttered. My evening would now be spent trying to get rid of Sammy. I looked back up knowing his smiling junkie face would be beaming in my direction. Sure enough it was, his scrawny wrist limply waving in my direction. No point in putting off the inevitable. I nodded which was the universal gesture amongst junkies to “come on over and waste my precious time.”
Sammy was one of those old time junkies that had the word loser burned into his forehead from years of failed schemes, broken promises and too much time on Riker’s Island. Getting involved with anything Sammy planned was a sure fire ticket to the joint. He was an idiot but he did have a certain charm. Sammy had an innocence reserved for the mentally retarded that made you feel bad for him, bordering on almost liking him. His toothless grin lit up like a roman candle as he limped over the table.
He got the name, Sammy the Gimp, after being shot by a junk dealer on Avenue A down in Alphabet City. He bought a large quantity of dope on credit and didn’t pay his bill on time. Unfortunately, the dealer had a large number of other deadbeat junkies also behind on their payments, so an example would have to be made. Sammy was that example, being stabbed 23 times. One of his injuries was a lacerated leg muscle that caused his cartoonish limp. When he was in my presence he was a nuisance at best. When he wasn’t around to step on my last nerve I felt bad for him. He was somebody’s little boy once, a son born to proud parents who could never have imagined their boy becoming a junkie. I watched, as if hypnotized, as his left foot dragged across the sawdust floor making the sound of sandpaper on steel. When he got to my table he clumsily pulled out a chair which sounded like fingernails on a chalkboard as it scrapped against the floor. He finally settled into it. God, this man was noisy.
“Johnny my man, how the hell are you?”
“Just fine Sammy. What brings you uptown? This isn’t your normal watering hole?”
“I was looking for you. Well, actually I was coming back from Harlem and I ran into that loud mouth skirt maker…”
“Fashion designer, Sammy, fashion designer, there’s a difference” I added.
“Yeah, whatever, she makes skirts, doesn’t she?”
It’s amazing how a simpleton like Sammy can somehow come out ahead in a conversation. He was right, the “loudmouth” did make skirts, and it was a funny thought to think of her as a skirt maker rather than that know it all fashion maven. I tried to keep quiet, as if my silence would propel The Gimp out of the tavern but Sammy picked up where he left off.
“Where was I? Oh yeah, I ran into the skirt maker and she said you insulted her then stormed out of the party over at Izzy’s place.”
“I didn’t want to listen to another second of those wannabe art-types rambling on about the state of art in New York, as if any of them really knew what was going on. Jesus, the shit that pours out of people’s mouths would lead you to believe that there’s a bad case of verbal diarrhea going round.”
“Verbal diarrhea?” he asked.
“Verbal diarrhea Sammy, didn’t you have something pressing to say?” I knew I was about to get the lowdown on some surefire scheme guaranteed to get me rich, loaded or both. Wanting to get it over with, I forced him to get to the point. There’s nothing worse than having to wait for a loser to spit out their plan knowing that you’d end up having to get involved in order to get rid of them. He continued, spitting wet lumps of peanut out of his mouth.
“Here’s the deal.” A chunk of gooey nut lands on my hand. “I was up in Harlem, going up there to cop this new shit that’s supposed to be off the charts but there’s no one home at the Buster’s place. I mean no one in sight. I knock on his door and nothing, not a peep. I bang on the door for ten minutes. I figure they’re in the back room so I try the door knob. The doors unlocked so I walk on in and guess what, guess what the fuck I saw?”
“Tell me Sammy, just tell me and get it over with.”
“Hey man, I’m trying to do you the favor here.” More peanuts fly out.
“Yeah, you’re right. Sorry Sammy, go on.”
“So I go inside and they’re all fucking dead. I mean shot up, guts hanging out, faces blown off dead. You couldn’t tell the boys from the girls.”
This was more than I needed to hear. The Gimp managed to show up at Busters after someone had put the fix on the dealer and now his big mouth is guaranteeing me a spot on the morning police report. This is what I meant about losers, they go to do something as simple as coping dope in Harlem and end up walking in on a gangland slaying. Then they start telling everyone who will listen, their tragic tale which eventually means that the guys who pulled the trigger will find out. They’ll start looking for Sammy which means they’ll talk to everyone who knows him with my name appearing first on their list. God damn gimpy footed little bastard had dragged me into his sad sack pathetic world once again. Even with my glaring eyes burning a hole through his forehead, my eyes saying “I’m going to skin you alive,” he kept talking.
“So I look around to see if there’s anything of value and I see a paper bag.”
“What paper bag?” I asked, knowing that the bag most likely contained drugs, money or both.
“The paper fucking bag filled with the purest heroin I’ve ever tasted.” My mouth dropped open. I was now officially sucked into one of The Gimps fucked up schemes because I couldn’t resist that damn drug.
I sat with Sammy at table five in momentary silence as if he’d shut up long enough for the enormity of his great fortune to sink in. To his left I could see the ghost of Dylan Thomas smiling as if egging me on to indulge my addiction. I’m sure Dylan wanted me to take my own version of that last drink and join him permanently at the table. The lure of drugs had overpowered the knowledge that anything Sammy touched turned to shit. All I could think about was that bag, that big fat bag.
“So Sammy, what did you do with the dope?” Saliva was now dripping from my mouth, slowly pooling on the table’s surface.
“What do you mean, I have it right here.” At which point he started to pull out an enormous freezer bag of white powder.”
“Put that away man. Are you crazy? You can’t walk around with that, you’ll get caught.” This was becoming a nightmare at a hundred miles an hour but I was too blinded by the thought of getting loaded to care.
“What am I supposed to do with all this junk man? Hey man, you want a little? You can have it for free since you always looked out for me.”
“Sure Sammy, I’ll take a little.” The drool started pouring from my mouth until I had to wipe it away with a napkin for fear of someone thinking I was having a medical emergency, a bad bout of dope-luster’s disease. Unbeknownst to me, The Gimp had prepared some “to go” bags of junk back at Buster’s place.
He signaled me to reach under the table, which I gladly did. My hand slid past a hundred years of chewing gum stuck to the table’s underside, past the rusting piss stained post that held it up until I felt the soft plastic skin of the bag. Taking a quick glance before shoving it in my pocket, it appeared to be close to an ounce. I looked back at Sammy who looked almost thoughtful yet resigned in the dim red lights of the bar. It was then I realized that Sammy wasn’t long for this world. His eyes were begging me to help him. Whenever drug dealers got shot up and some junky came along and stole their stash, they ended up paying with their lives. Nothing is free in this life, especially drugs. I felt bad and had to give The Gimp fair warning. As I started to say something Sammy cut me off.
“Listen man that stuff’s nearly pure so don’t use a lot. In fact, maybe you should smoke or snort it.” There was a glimmer of genuine concern in his beady little eyes.
“Yeah, I’ll keep that in mind. Listen Sammy, you need to get rid of that stuff. It’s going to bring you a world of hurt. Someone’s going to be looking for it.”
“Yeah man, I know. I’m going to start selling it one dime bag at a time.”
“That’s the wrong answer Sammy. You’ll get killed if you try to deal it on the street. The first thing everyone’s going to ask is where a lowlife like The Gimp got such good shit, no offense.”
“None taken asshole” he muttered. I continued.
“Look, we need to take this to Nick the Wop over on Grand Street and dump it. He’ll give you half of a fair price but you’ll be alive to spend the money.”
“What’s your end of the deal?” There was a sudden note of hostility in his voice.
“You just gave me an ounce of primo shit that will keep me high for weeks. I also sort of like you and I don’t want to hear about you getting killed.”
“Everyone laughs at me Johnny. They call me a loser behind my back.”
“That’s because you are Sammy. We’re all losers. Look at what we do, swinging smack everyday at the end of a spoon. We’re all fucking losers, one no worse than the next.”
“You’re not a loser. No one ever calls you that.”
“I am. You just can’t see it because I hide it well. Let’s call Nick and see if we can get this mess cleaned up. Go ahead and keep some for yourself and we’ll dump the rest with Nick.”
I left Sammy at the table, getting up and walking to the payphone by the men’s room. I got a hold of Nick and filled him in, giving him as little information as possible, saying my “friend” needed to make a fast transaction of dope for cash. He figured my “friend” was The Gimp. Nick agreed to meet us in an hour. After a little chit chat about Sammy’s ability to fuck things up, I said goodbye and walked back to the table. Sammy sat with a smile on his face and powder hanging off his crooked nose. The look of disgust on the bartender’s face filled in the missing pieces. In my absence, Sammy had snorted a pile of product in plain sight and was now in the twilight zone, the good twilight zone. I filled Sammy in on my conversation with Nick, having to stop and start as Sammy fell in and out of a heavy nod. After having tipped the bartender an extra twenty dollars, I had him call us a cab. As the Tavern started to fill up with the usual repressed homosexual college jocks desperate to save their masculinity through alcohol abuse, Sammy and I shuffled out to meet the cab. In a moment we were off towards Grand Street. I took a big snort from my bag of dope and within three minutes I was pleasantly numb.
The city at night, with lit up windows and neon signs, becomes a visual wonderland passing by in a blur. It’s like a perpetual string of Christmas lights spread throughout the concrete landscape, a warm fuzzy fist full of eye candy for those on the nod. Everything suddenly feels great. Everyone’s suddenly your best friend. Nothing hurts anymore and you become the dream of yourself you could never be in a state of sobriety. Everything is just a pleasant state of flux. Even riding in the yellow cab of death is fun. Even the driver amped up on crack for three days makes you smile. He’s your friend, your best friend. The normal potholes and torn up asphalt that jarred your kidneys to the point of no return feels like the gentle bounce of a trampoline as we sped down 3rd Avenue, towards Nick’s office.
Nick’s office was a loft space above a dim sum joint on Grand Avenue. While Nick was Italian, thus the nickname Nick the Wop, he felt more comfortable in Chinatown where, according to him, “everyone fought for a better deal but no one ever fucked you for a buck”. Nick was a connected guy, having worked his way up in a Brooklyn numbers crew, but was forced to quit when he got strung out. The Family doesn’t allow junkies. However, even without the Mob to back his play he still carried a serious reputation. Fuck with the Nick the Wop and you’d discover pain you never knew existed.
By the time we got to Nick’s office, Sammy and I were heavily sedated. Exiting the cab, I was hypnotized by the numerous neon signs, their Chinese symbols becoming more interesting when illuminated in a red or green glow. Sammy grabbed me by the arm as I started to walk into a Chinese record store in search of something other than what we had come here to do. Apologizing, in that whiney junkie voice we all get when smacked back, I turned towards Nick’s office.
Nick was in the business of fencing stolen goods. It didn’t matter what you had, from tubas to goldfish, from diamonds to women’s diaphragms, Nick could find a buyer for everything. Of course he’d give you pennies on the dollar but he assumed the risk and no one would ever know where the merchandise came from which was what I wanted. Sammy liked to brag about his big scores which usually amounted to nothing, except in this case. He’d be found out via the junkie internet, a series of payphones up and down Manhattan’s east side, within twenty fours which would earn him a trip to the morgue. Setting him up with Nick would keep him marginally safe.
To get into Nick’s, you had to walk through the dim sum joint, through the kitchen and up the world’s worst set of wooden stairs. This routine worked well since you’d never know Nick was here unless you had prior knowledge. After convincing Sammy that Nick really had an office here and he wasn’t being set up in some awful way, we made our way through the kitchen and its nonplused workers.
“You’re kidding Johnny, Nick’s back here?”
“Yeah I know, it seems a bit strange but it’s the perfect cover.”
“I don’t know Johnny.” He was getting nervous, like a cornered rat.
“I don’t know Johnny” I replied back, mimicking that dopey dog from the Davy and Goliath cartoon. “Look, I’m doing this to help you, you little fuck. I’m trying to save your sorry ass.”
He muttered something, looking at me like a broken hearted puppy which made me feel worse. Man, why did I get involved in this fiasco in the first place. I knew The Gimp was trouble and I still sat there listening to him. Before I had second thoughts, thinking about kicking him to curb, I smiled and pointed to the stairs. “Get the fuck up there Sammy,” bringing the kitchen’s conversation to a standstill.
We made our way up the stairs which lead to a large hallway covered in garish red felted wallpaper. Nick once told me that the rest of the building was a whorehouse and its madam had a thing about the color red. Everything was a shade of red. The hallway was lined by doors every twenty feet or so. However, finding Nick’s door was easy. We just looked for the door guarded by a three hundred pound gun totting thug. Straightening ourselves up, we approached the humorless man with the shotgun in his paws.
“What do you want?” He was brief and to the point.
“We’re here to see Nick, he’s expecting us.”
“Hey Nick,” the goon shouted. “There’s a couple of fucking junkies to see you.”
That’s great, I thought. Fifty nine minutes with Sammy and I’m lumped into the category of “fucking junkies.” Of course it didn’t help that I was nodding while I stood there, the perpetual string of drool now extending past my jacket well on its way to the floor.
“It’s alright Bruno, it’s just Johnny from Brooklyn and The Gimp. Let them in.”
“Get the fuck in there and don’t make any trouble, assholes.”
“Relax tough guy. I’m a friend of Nick’s.”
“Tough guy, fucking tough guy, you little shit?” The goon was pissed.
“Is there a problem out there?” Nick screamed.
“Nothing boss.”
Before the tough guy with the shotgun could do anything, Sammy and I slipped through the door. Nick smiled when he saw me, his smile suddenly turning to a frown when he saw Sammy. He didn’t like Sammy but business was business and this was well worth the trouble of bringing The Gimp along. I had Sammy hand him the bag of junk, which he immediately tested.
“Jesus, this stuff is nearly pure. How’d you get it? I hear that Buster’s place got shot up a few hours ago. It’s too bad Buster wasn’t there or you would have got away with it clean.”
My heart sank upon hearing those words. I assumed that Buster was killed since nobody would be stupid enough to steal from Buster unless Buster was dead. Nobody would be stupid enough… then there’s Sammy. Shit, I knew the loser’s credo, “everything they touch turns to rust, all schemes fail then crumble to dust.” Not only was I with Sammy now but I had an ounce of Buster’s product in my pocket. What the hell was Sammy thinking?
“Fucking Sammy, what the hell were you thinking? Didn’t you look around to see if Buster was dead? Do you know what’s going to happen if Buster finds out you walked off with his stash?”
“Relax” Nick said in his deep raspy voice. “No one is going to know anything about this. Here’s the solution, the fix to your problems.”
“Here we go” I muttered to myself. We were on the losing side of a coin toss and Nick knew it. We and I say we because I was with Sammy which made me guilty by association regardless of the actual facts, were screwed. There was one way out and I knew what it was even before Nick uttered a single word. We’d get to leave here alive and without fear of Buster ever knowing Sammy took his junk. The only drawback was we’d only get that out of the deal and nothing else. There’d be no money handed over, only the promise of silence. Nick continued.
“You’re going to give me the heroin and I’m going to keep my mouth shut, get rid of the junk and that will be that.”
“What about my fucking money.” Sammy whined.
“Your money you shitty little gimp? There’s no ‘your money’ involved. This stuff wasn’t yours to begin with and I’m doing you a big favor, saving your life by fixing this problem. Actually you owe me.” The Gimp looked like he was going to blow a gasket so I chimed in.
“Just shut up Sammy. Nick’s right. We walk away now and it’s a case of no harm no foul. Nick gets rid of this stuff and you’re off the hook.”
“Johnny, you told me you’d help me,” Sammy whined.
“Yeah, but I didn’t know that Buster was still alive. You might have taken a look at the bodies to make sure he was among them. I’m sorry Sammy but this has to play out this way. It’s either that or Buster’s going to come for you.”
On that note Sammy started crying. Another great scheme fallen apart, burning the word loser just a little deeper into his soul. I felt bad, hell even Nick looked upon The Gimp with pity filled eyes.
“Listen Sammy, I’ll give you an ounce for your troubles. This way you can have a good time and you won’t feel so bad. You just have to keep quiet about this or I’ll kill you myself. Are we square on that Sammy?”
“Yeah, I guess so. I mean abso-fucking-lutely.”
“Listen Sammy, I need to talk to Johnny about something so go wait out in the hall and for God sakes don’t get Bruno pissed off, alright?”
“Okay, Nick,” he said in that damn dopey dog voice.
After Sammy left I sat down on Nick’s couch to talk to him. Sitting next to me, his expression told me the news I was about to hear would not be good. I knew Nick from the old days. He always took care of me and vice versa, but time had changed us both to a point where we ran in different circles these days. We weren’t as tight as we used to be. I couldn’t ask for the favors I used to ask him for. Sammy was headed for a fist full of hurt.
“Johnny, this isn’t going to bode well for The Gimp. I mean I’ll get this stuff out of here and more importantly away from you two but Sammy’s got a big mouth. I can’t have this blowing back on me. Do you understand what I’m saying?”
“I got it Nick. I don’t like it but I got it.”
“You’re a good kid Johnny and I’ll keep you out of it but you know what has to be done if push comes to shove.”
I knew what had to be done. I knew I couldn’t say anything to Sammy because I was a “stand up guy.” Mind your own business where I came from and you lived a long life. Walking out into the hallway and facing Sammy was more painful than I thought it would be. I wasn’t a thug and didn’t have the stomach for this life. I had one chance to do something right which was protect The Gimp. I begged Sammy to let me send him out of town for a few weeks, anywhere he wanted my treat. The only condition was that he left that night. He thanked me for the offer but said he wanted to go home, catch another buzz and think about it. What could I do? I couldn’t repeat what Nick told me because I gave him my word I’d stay out of it. On the streets you’re only as good as your word. When your word’s gone so are you.
I took Sammy home by taxi, offering to stay with him until I could convince him to leave town. He smiled and told me to go home, he’d see me tomorrow and we could have a good laugh about it then. I left his rundown tenement building on the lower eastside, knowing there’d be no happy ending yet silently praying for one. I made my way back to Brooklyn, finally nodding off at about five in the morning.
I awoke the next afternoon to the phone ringing, echoing through my empty loft, pounding my ears like a jackhammer on crack. Picking it up, I mumbled
“Yeah, who is this?”
“It’s Nick. I just wanted you to hear it from me rather than some fucking junkie on the street.”
My heart dropped to depths I didn’t know existed. I knew what was coming as if the story would have some other ending. I constantly played a dangerous game with people who played for keeps, playing it for years but always escaping injury and death. However, at this single moment it all caught up to me, all the close calls and narrow misses. It was payback time and it was long overdue. Someone had just paid for my fucking sins, Karma with a sideways payback.
“Buster’s people found Sammy this morning. They cut his fucking left hand off. They cut his fucking… they shoved it down his… never mind. I’m sorry Johnny. I know you tried to help him.”
“Yeah I tried but obviously I didn’t try hard enough.” I thought I was going to start crying. Nick sensed this as well.
“Look Johnny, it was only a matter of time before Sammy’s mouth caught up to him. This wasn’t your fault. You’re not part of this world kid, you’re better than us and that’s a good thing. You don’t have to live this way. You don’t have to be an animal, but you have to quit using dope. It will kill you in the end. I have to hop but I wanted to tell you that you’re not in the loop on this one. Buster was convinced that you had no part in Sammy’s bullshit.”
“Thanks Nick, I mean that.”
“Listen Johnny, I got more than expected for Sammy’s score. I felt bad about jerking you for the money but Sammy would have blown the deal back to me so I had to play it the way I did. I left something for you in an envelope. Bruno stuck it under your door this morning.”
Looking across the room I could see the envelope near the front door. After hanging the phone up I opened it up, finding roughly four thousand dollars inside. I pulled out the ounce of junk I still had, poured out a line and soothed my trampled nerves. Calling a travel agent, I discovered that this was a great time of year to head west. Booking a one way ticket to San Francisco for the following week, I decided to go back to my hometown. Nick was right. I could get out of this way of life. I could go out on my own or in a casket, my choice. Sammy’s death was the final straw. I didn’t belong in a world were men’s hearts were tempered like cold hard steel. My metal was weak like tin, rusted from tears of regret and sorrow. Before exiting New York, I stopped by Nick’s and took him out to lunch. When we parted he said something that stuck.
“Kid, I wish you well out California. Go follow those dreams of yours. Write that book you keep threatening to write but don’t ever come back here again and don’t use my real name if you write about you and me. Don’t come back to where you don’t belong. Me, I don’t have the devil’s chance of leaving this life but you, you have a ticket out. Use it or the last thing you’ll see will be Bruno’s shotgun right before it takes your head off.” He didn’t have to say another word. I became a ghost and simply vanished.
Invisible Touch
By Greg Olear
here are three chapters in American Psycho—“Huey Lewis,” “Whitney Houston,” and “Genesis”—in which Patrick Bateman, the narrator, ruminates on three of his favorite musical acts. In the third such chapter, he writes:
I’ve been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that I really didn’t understand any of their work, though on their last album of the 1970s, the concept-laden And Then There Were Three (a reference to band member Peter Gabriel, who left the group to start a lame solo career), I did enjoy the lovely “Follow You, Follow Me.”
By this point in the book, Bateman has already mutilated a homeless saxophone player, chopped a co-worker to death with a chainsaw, and served his girlfriend a used urinal cake dipped in chocolate. But it was only upon reading the preceding paragraph that it really kicked in: “He thinks Phil Collins is better than Peter Gabriel?!?! Holy shit! That guy’s fucking nuts!”
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Spooky Sign at the Georgia Guidestones
September 21, 2014 Rich Winkel Leave a comment
Someone went to a lot of trouble to put up this monument while concealing their identity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones The inscription is a radical malthusian prescription for sustainability, seemingly written for some post-apocalyptic survivors. For years it been out in the middle of a georgia field with no explanation except for what’s written on it. And now something has been added to it. This photo shows the monument before the addition. Note the notch cut out of the stone inside the circle.
“Climate March” Hides Real Culprits and Real Solutions
Big business and the big political parties and politicians they own have converged in what is being disingenuously called the “People’s Climate March.” …
Not surprisingly little in terms of actual solutions are mentioned by the organizers and instead the march is meant to set the stage for political and financial deals to be made at the 2015 Climate Change Conference in Paris, France. Organizing the march are institutions funded by the very governments and corporate-financier special interests that have helped create devastating environmental and socioeconomic disasters across the planet over the past several decades in the first place.
Also involved are profiteers who have taken advantage of the general population’s genuine concern for the environment to propose and benefit from scams consisting of everything from land-grabbing thousands of acres in Africa to peddling “carbon credits” and other financial gimmicks that make immense profits from doing literally nothing at all in terms of production and by creating a false sense of security, may even be compounding environmental catastrophes.
For those drawn to such “marches” and who are dismayed or disillusioned by the disingenuous nature of those trying to hijack their good intentions to peddle self-serving political and financial gimmicks, what can they do to develop and actually make good on the vague promises being made during this year’s “People’s Climate March?” …
Reducing humanity’s impact is a topic that in fact does get brought up by the ringleaders of the climate change movement. However, their vision of the future is one where the population lives in utter austerity under a planetary regime but a handful control. Left unscathed are the corporate-financier special interests that will create this planetary regime that, not surprisingly, will also bestow upon these special interests, unprecedented power, wealth, and influence. And despite the austerity they have planned for the masses, none of their measures seem to address what will happen if the climate continues to change – as it has for millions upon millions of years before humans walked the Earth.
There is an alternative solution that is often never mentioned – one that doesn’t hamstring human progress or demand resource rationing, or the curtailment of energy use or food consumption. It is not political in nature and does not involve one group of people dictating the lives and allowances of others.
It is never mentioned because it would be a direct, coordinated, global decentralization of the big-business monopolies and their socioeconomic and environmentally disastrous supply-chains, factory farms, sweat-shops, and the iron grip they possess over so-called “intellectual property” and research and development in all fields from energy production to biotechnology to medicine and mass transportation.
Local development of, by, and for the people, leveraging technology, open source collaboration, and focusing on pragmatic, technical solutions to our problems, including reducing our impact on the environment and hedging against natural disasters whatever their cause, is indeed the solution. …
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2014/09/climate-march-hides-real-culprits-and.html
Vaccines and Autism: Two Decades of Denial
New study links autism, cancer to vaccines made with human fetal cells
September 21, 2014 Rich Winkel 4 Comments
A new study published in the September 2014 volume of the Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology reveals a significant correlation between autism disorder (AD) and MMR, Varicella (chickenpox) and Hepatitis-A vaccines.
Using statistical analysis and data from the US Government, UK, Denmark and Western Australia, scientists at Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute (SCPI) found that increases in autistic disorder correspond with the introduction of vaccines using human fetal cell lines and retroviral contaminants.
Even more alarming, Dr Theresa Deisher, lead scientist and SCPI founder noted that, “Not only are the human fetal contaminated vaccines associated with autistic disorder throughout the world, but also with epidemic childhood leukemia and lymphomas.” …
… the FDA has known for decades about the dangers of insertional mutagenesis by using the human fetal cell lines and yet, they chose to ignore it. Instead of conducting safety studies they regulated the amount of human DNA that could be present in a vaccine to no greater than 10ng. (www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/05/slides/5-4188S1_4draft.ppt )
Unfortunately, Dr. Deisher’s team discovered that the fetal DNA levels ranged anywhere from 142ng – 2000ng per dose, way beyond the so-called “safe” level. …
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/09/09/study-links-autism-to-vaccines-made-with-cells-from-aborted-babies/
The Climate Question
I’m not a climate scientist. I have to rely on strangers for my understanding of 99% of what I think I know about what’s going on in the world. Publications I tend to respect are adamant in their opposing views about 2 issues: that the earth is still getting warmer and that it’s due to human-generated CO2. Mother Jones, for instance, has this very impressive spread in their latest issue which says the oceans and the earth as a whole have never been warmer, with the inevitable implication that it’s due to human activity: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/global-oceans-break-all-time-heat-record-world-pace-warmest-year-ever
But it turns out that both questions (warming, CO2 caused) can be seen in a larger perspective that raises important questions about basic assumptions. The MJ article can be both correct and incomplete. According to http://www.climatedepot.com/2014/09/07/global-warming-pause-extends-to-17-years-11-months/, global warming has been fluctating around a high plateau for almost 18 years, despite global CO2 concentrations rising steadily during that time. This throws a monkey wrench into the IPCC’s theoretical computer models which were already highly suspect in any case, simply because highly non-linear systems like climate are virtually impossible to model accurately over time because of: a) incomplete understanding of positive and negative feedback mechanisms, b) lack of precision of computer representation of real numbers, c) lack of precision and completeness of measurements like temperature, humidity and and atmospheric gases, and d) the inevitable, massive amplification of such inaccuracies in simulations of complex systems over time. Absent a dramatic change in inputs, like a large increase in solar irradiance, digital computer models are nearly worthless in predicting the climate over decades. Quantum computers might offer a solution to roundoff errors in the future but for now we’re stuck with present technology.
Unfortunately one must also consider non-scientific issues when trying to judge the facts. And this is where things get more complicated even than the climate. Money talks, and seemingly objective scientific authorities can be easily manipulated when their lifestyles and income are involved. It’s easy to see how such corruption would work on behalf of the petroleum industry to minimize concerns over global warming, but most people overlook the flip side of the coin: the financial and political interests which stand to gain by implementing the only proposed solutions to rising CO2, which are entirely financial. There’s no doubt that monetizing CO2 production will result in mass impoverishment and starvation around the world due to drastic rises in energy costs and the costs of everything that depends on energy, from food production and transport to home heating. We should be very confident of the scientific reality before we implement such drastic measures, because people will die in large numbers.
Beyond the financial interests which are pushing for carbon markets, there’s another very powerful interest which stands to vastly increase its power via the policing and regulatory infrastructure which would have to be imposed to enforce such a regime. This is where finance gives way to raw power: those who can create real and virtual money out of thin air already effectively own whole nations. It would behoove them to consolidate their subsidiaries into a global fascist regime, and carbon taxes would provide both the rationale and the funding to do so, as well as enforce the depopulation agenda which they have pursued for decades.
Despite claims by the MSM, the question of global warming, much less AGW, is far from settled. At last count 1000 scientists have voiced dissent over the alleged consensus http://cfact.org/pdf/2010_Senate_Minority_Report.pdf. The antarctic ice cap is currently the biggest in recorded history: http://sunshinehours.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/antarctic-sea-ice-extent-sept-15-2014-another-all-time-record/
Finally there are a couple glaring facts which must be pointed out:
Al Gore’s “hocky stick” graph is a blatant hoax. It purports to show that global temperature follows global carbon dioxide concentration when the reality is the reverse: atmospheric carbon dioxide follows temperature via well known mechanisms: both ocean and land emit CO2 when the temperature rises due to changes in gas solubility in water and enhanced biological activity. It should go without saying that Gore has a large investment in carbon trading http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/11/03/blood-and-gore-making-a-killing-on-anti-carbon-investment-hype/ .
Finally, it turns out that Gore’s rarified social stratum has been banking on using global warming terror to pursue the above global governance objective for some time:
Because of the sudden absence of traditional enemies, “new enemies must be identified. … In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill….All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”
— The first Global Revolution, Club of Rome, 1991
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Global_Revolution
No one was talking about global warming in 1991 except this well financed group of evidently malthusian social engineers, who BTW are still mute to this day about the proven dangers of real environmental pollutants like endocrine disruptors and GMO’s. Carbon dioxide is part of the solar-powered biological energy cycle of the earth, an essential input for plant respiration. Increased CO2 increases plant growth, which might be helpful in remediating some of the devastation wrought by the same moneyed interests represented by the club of rome.
The upshot of all this is that I don’t know whether global warming is a concern but I doubt that it’s human caused in any case. Just my 2 bits.
Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.
— Historian Alan Bullock
John Kerry reveals Biden’s devotion to radical ‘Great Reset’ movement
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Trump Transition Team Emails: Window on Bipartisan Washington Corruption
Third in command in Vatican found guilty on all counts of sex abuse
Global Conference on the New World Order
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Minutemen Volunteers Arrest 2 CIA Cocaine Traffickers at Mexican Border
Cochrane Founder Warns Flu Vaccine Research Is Corrupted
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The World Is Dedollarizing
Medical Doctor: bring the power of birth back into the hands of the mother
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US Military, Monsanto Targeting GMO Activists and Independent Scientists
Russian Kickbacks to Clinton Foundation for US Uranium
DHS Is Still Under Globalist Control
Leo Zagami on Vatican Intrigue
DTaP Vaccine Shatters Family After It Kills Their Healthy Boy
Reprise: Obstetrical Abuse and the War Against Ourselves
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Leviticus 16:1-2, “Now the Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered profane fire before the Lord, and died; and the Lord said to Moses: ‘Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark, lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.’”
Back in Leviticus 9 and 10 you’ll recall an interesting series of events that occurred on the first day “Aaron and his sons” were on the job acting as the priesthood in this newly formed tabernacle. In fact, things were going swimmingly before taking an unexpected turn.
After they finished making all the various offerings on behalf of the congregation, we read how “the glory of the LORD appeared and fire came out consuming the offering.” This supernatural “fire” roaring out from the midst of the Holy of Holies was seen as confirmation their sacrifices had been accepted by the LORD! In response to this “all the people of Israel shouted,” fell on their faces, and worshipped and praised the Lord.
While all of this is happening it doesn’t take long for their exuberance to quickly turn into horror! Leviticus 10:1 sets the scene, “Then Nadab and Abihu, the two oldest sons of Aaron, offered profane fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them. So fire went out from the LORD and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.”
On their first day on the job, in one sensational moment, 2/5ths of the Priesthood ends up being fired! The same “consuming fire” that indicated God’s acceptance of their offerings had now displayed His rejection of Nadab and Abihu! The dramatic and public nature of God’s judgment served to illustrate these men’s actions would never be tolerated!
In light of the seriousness of the task that still lay before them, Aaron and his two remaining sons “Eleazar and Ithamar” have no other choice but to suck it up, bury their emotions, and finish out their priestly duties. While things still aren’t done exactly the way God instructed, taking into account the circumstance the chapter closes with Moses being content.
The reason I bring this up is that while chapters 11-15 bluntly transition to a section known as the Holiness Code, the opening of Leviticus 16 intentionally brings us back to the events of chapter 10. Again, in verse 1, we read, “After the death of the two sons of Aaron, the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron…” The idea is that God has something very important He wanted to articulate to Aaron through Moses in light of what’s just happened to his two oldest sons.
Speaking broadly, chapter 16 will document for us the procedures associated with what would become known as Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement. In His wisdom God will specifically designate one day of the year (according to verse 29 it would be “the tenth day of the seventh month”) where the High Priest was instructed to enter into the Holy of Holies and go through a set of procedures to make atonement for the sins of the people.
Before we get into the particulars, we should consider… Why did these things need to be articulated to Aaron in light of the actions of Nadab and Abihu? Though we spent ample time back in Leviticus 10 discussing the actions of these two men as well as the “profane” nature of their offering, it seems another factor contributing to God’s swift judgment centered on the reality Nadab and Abihu had also ventured into the Holy of Holies. In both Leviticus 10 and 16 we actually read how they made offerings “before the Lord.”
Logically, it would make sense why God would now use such an occasion to articulate how this most “Holy Place” in the tabernacle (the Holy of Holies) was to be treated. Who could enter? No priest other than the High Priest was ever to enter the Holy of Holies. When could he enter? Access was granted only one day a year. What was he to do while inside the Holy of Holies? Chapter 16 will cover the protocols. And why was it important he obey these instructions? As illustrated by Nadab and Abihu, disobedience would result in death!
Since our study in Leviticus makes no mention of the layout of the tabernacle itself (this was all recorded in the latter half of Exodus), let me very quickly provide you an overview. The complex was shaped like a rectangle and was defined by a perimeter fence made of animal skins. No matter where the tabernacle was ultimately erected it was always set up to face east with the only entrance being a gate built into the fencing on the eastern side.
Working your way through the complex moving east to west, you’d first encounter a large Bronze Altar located in what was known as the Outer Courtyard. This is where the various Offerings were to be made. Then before entering the actual tent of meeting, you’d also find a Bronze Basin that would be filled with water for the ceremonial cleansing of the priests.
Once inside the tabernacle, the space was divided into two rooms separated by a thick veil. In the first room you’d have the Table of Shewbread on the right and the Golden Candlestick positioned to the left. The final piece of furniture right in front of the veil was the Altar of Incense. Finally, behind the veil, the smaller room known as the Holy of Holies contained the Ark of the Covenant with the Mercy Seat upon which the presence of God would dwell.
With the layout of the tabernacle in mind, let’s look at what the High Priest was to do on the Day of Atonement… Leviticus 16:3-11, “Thus Aaron shall come into the Holy Place: with the blood of a young bull as a sin offering, and of a ram as a burnt offering. He shall put the holy linen tunic and the linen trousers on his body; he shall be girded with a linen sash, and with the linen turban he shall be attired. These are holy garments. Therefore he shall wash his body in water, and put them on.
And he shall take from the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats as a sin offering, and one ram as a burnt offering. Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house.
He shall take the two goats and present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. Then Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for the Lord and the other lot for the scapegoat. And Aaron shall bring the goat on which the Lord’s lot fell, and offer it as a sin offering. But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make atonement upon it, and to let it go as the scapegoat into the wilderness. And Aaron shall bring the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull as the sin offering which is for himself. ”
Before the High Priest ever stepped foot behind the veil, the day would begin with quite a bit of prep work. First, according to verse 4, the High Priest would remove his normal ornate garments, “wash his body in water,” before dawning a simple, white “linen” getup. It’s worth pointing out these “holy garments” were the common attire of all the other priests.
Secondly, the High Priest would select “one ram” which would be offered towards the end of this day “as a burnt offering” for the people as well as “two kids of the goats” which were to be used for their “sin offering.” In verses 7-8 we’re told these “two goats” were then to be “presented before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle” with lots cast designating one of the two goats “for the LORD and the other as the scapegoat.”
While we’ll discuss this in greater detail later in the study, according to Rabbinical traditions the “scapegoat” would be identified using a scarlet cord that was wrapped around its neck!
Lastly, on account this man was going behind the veil and entering into the holy presence of God, it was important he make sure there was nothing impure or off in his own life that might result in a swift judgment and untimely death. To cover his basis verses 6 and 11 say the High Priest was to first “offer the bull as a sin offering for himself and his household.”
According to verse 27 later in the day “the bull for the sin offering (of the High Priest) and the goat (sin offering for the people), whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, would be carried outside the camp and burned in the fire.” The implications of this are that while the High Priest would slaughter each animal in order to drain their blood in preparation for his activities in the Holy Place, their bodies were not burned on the altar.
As we work our way through the text keep in mind the High Priest will go into and out of the Holy of Holies three separate times: (1) To offer incense. (2) To make atonement for himself using the blood of the bull. (3) To make atonement for the people with the blood of the goat.
Leviticus 16:12-13, “Then the High Priest shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from the altar before the Lord (the Bronze Altar in the outer court), with his hands full of sweet incense beaten fine, and bring it inside the veil (first trip). And (with one hand) he shall put the incense on the fire (censer in the other hand) before the Lord, that the cloud of incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the Testimony, lest he die.”
In verse 2 we’ve already been told how the presence of the LORD manifested “in the cloud above the mercy seat” on top of the Ark of the Covenant. What an incredible scene it was to behold as the High Priest “puts the incense on the fire” he has in his “censer full of burning coals” with the smoke then billowing out merging with the cloud filling the Holy of Holies.
At this point the High Priest exists the Holy Place, disposing of the censer, in order to pick up the basin containing the “blood of the bull” he’s already slaughtered for himself. Now he enters for a second time… Leviticus 16:14, “He shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east side; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.”
After completing this task the High Priest again exists… Leviticus 16:15-16, “Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, which is for the people, bring its blood inside the veil (third and final trip into the Holy of Holies), do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.
So he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel (general defilement), and because of their transgressions (general rebellion), for all their sins (complete atonement); and so he shall do for the tabernacle of meeting which remains among them in the midst of their uncleanness.”
Leviticus 16:17-19, “There shall be no man in the tabernacle of meeting when the High Priest goes in to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, that he may make atonement for himself, for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel. (This task was completely reserved for the High Priest.) And he shall go out to the altar that is before the Lord (Bronze Altar), and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar all around. Then he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, cleanse it, and consecrate it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.”
Leviticus 16:20-22, “And when he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place, the tabernacle of meeting, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat (the second goat of the sin offering). Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, concerning all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a suitable man. The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to an uninhabited land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness.”
Leviticus 16:23-25, “Then Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of meeting, shall take off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there. And he shall wash his body with water in a holy place, put on his garments (his normal High Priestly attire), come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people (the burnt offerings were the two rams referenced earlier in the passage), and make atonement for himself and for the people. The fat of the sin offering (the bull killed for himself and goat for the people) he shall burn on the altar.”
Leviticus 16:26-28, “He who released the goat as the scapegoat shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp. And they shall burn in the fire their skins, their flesh, and their offal. Then he who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.”
Leviticus 16:29-31, “This shall be a statute forever for you: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether a native of your own country or a stranger who dwells among you. For on that day the priest shall make atonement for you, to cleanse you, that you may be clean from all your sins before the Lord. It is a sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.”
The idea being articulated to the people was that on the Day of Atonement something incredibly significant was being done for them by the High Priest. Everything needed to stop. All national activities screeched to a halt and the people came to witness this work.
Not only were they commanded to view this day as “a sabbath of solemn rest” and “do no work at all,” but they needed to consciously take time to consider their sin and the cost for atonement. This is what God is communicating when He says, “You shall afflict your souls.”
Leviticus 16:32-34, “And the priest, who is anointed and consecrated to minister as priest in his father’s place, shall make atonement, and put on the linen clothes, the holy garments; then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tabernacle of meeting and for the altar, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly. This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel, for all their sins, once a year.’ And he (Aaron) did as the Lord commanded Moses.”
In order to understand the overarching significance of what’s happening here in Leviticus 16 on this Day of Atonement you need to keep in mind this tabernacle of meeting was more than a mere tent. According to Acts 7 and Hebrews 8 Moses actually constructed the tabernacle according to the pattern God showed him of the throne room of heaven.
This tent situated in the very midst of the camp of Israel was the place in which the lines between the temporal and the eternal were blurred, a point whereby the physical and spiritual intertwined — a location where mortal man had access into the heavenly realm.
Not only does this explain why God was so specific about the formation of the tabernacle, but it helps us see why He was so particular about the activities that took place within its four walls. Contrary to popular opinion God deeply cares how He’s approached by man!
This word “holy” repeated all throughout our passage was first introduced to the Hebrew Scriptures back in Exodus 3:5 when God instructs Moses who’s beholding a burning bush to remove “his sandals for the place he was standing was holy ground.” You see the tabernacle was a “Holy Place” because within her walls dwelt the presence of God!
With this in mind you can understand why human access to the Holy of Holies was so restricted and why entering such a dicy proposition for any sinful man. No one other than the High Priest was ever allowed entrance. And even he could only go behind the veil once a year! Additionally, as illustrated by the judgment of Nadab and Abihu and reinforced by the LORD’s candor to Aaron that he would “die” if he entered on any other day but Yom Kippur, the stakes were incredibly high even in an ideal dynamic.
The first key to unpacking the significance of this passage is to understand at its core the Day of Atonement was all about man gaining ACCESS to the presence of God through a single mediator — the High Priest! Only this man could enter on behalf of the people.
The second key then centers upon what would result from the High Priest’s important work on this particular day: ATONEMENT & CLEANSING. This word “atonement” in the Hebrew is kaphar. While this word is all over Leviticus, its first use goes back to Genesis 6:14 when God instructed Noah to “make an ark of gopherwood and cover it inside and outside with pitch.” If you’re familiar with the story it was this covering that protected Noah and his family from the judgment that destroyed the world around them with a flood.
Simply defined as to cover this word “atonement” possess a much deeper theological meaning in relation to human sin. Not only does the word describe a process by which our sins are covered over to be no longer attributed to us by God, but atonement results in a reconciled relationship with our Creator. I’ve heard atonement defined as at-one-ment!
The entire purpose for the High Priest making these various sin and burnt offerings on behalf of the people and then entering into the Holy of Holies to “sprinkle the blood” upon the Mercy Seat atop the Ark of the Covenant was to “make atonement” for sin on behalf of the people knowing there was nothing they could do on their own. He did a work for them!
In the end it was “the blood” of a substitutionary sacrifice accepted by God that not only covered over the people’s sin making them righteous, but it was “the blood” that also acted as a purifying and cleansing agent. Amazingly, not only had their debt been paid, but any evidence they’d ever been delinquent had been washed away — justification!
One of the unique aspects of the Day of Atonement was how this deeper spiritual work was ultimately illustrated for the people. Back in verse 5 the High Priest was to select “from the congregation two goats as a sin offering.” Once chosen lots would be cast leaving one goat with a death sentence while designating the other to be this “scapegoat.”
In the Hebrew this word Azazel is complicated. That said… The best definition seems to be the one who takes away mainly for what the goat accomplished. Look again at Leviticus 16:20-22… In order to illustrate for the people the complete atonement provided for them through the death of the first goat on behalf of their sins (forgiveness and justification), the High Priest takes the Azazel, puts his hands on its head, and publicly confesses all the sins of the people thereby transferring them to the goat. Then the Azazel is led “by the hand of a suitable man” far from the camp “into the wilderness” never to be seen or heard from again.
I mentioned earlier a Rabbinical tradition claiming a scarlet cord was tied around the neck of the Azazel distinguishing him from the goat who’d be sacrificed. Well, that same source records that this “suitable man” would remove the scarlet cord upon releasing the Azazel, hang it upon the gate of the tabernacle, and that it would slowly change from red to white over the next few weeks demonstrating God had indeed forgiven the people of their sins.
Though impossible to confirm as Rabbinical sources can be unreliable, it’s interesting that in Isaiah 1:18 the prophet records the words of the LORD, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Furthermore, both the Mishnah and the Talmud record that roughly 40 years leading up to the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD this scarlet cord stopped turning white!
Practically, as incredible as this Day of Atonement was the drawbacks were obvious. For starters, the atonement, cleansing, and forgiveness provided by “the blood of the bull and goat” being sprinkled upon the Mercy Seat proved to be insufficient. Every single year the exact same ritual was required and a whole new set of sacrifices made. Atonement may have covered past sins, but was powerless to deal with man’s internal sin condition.
To this point in Hebrews 10:4 we’re told very clearly that “it was not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.” In the end, the only sufficient sacrifice and blood that could permanently atone for our sins would be that of a sinless, perfect man.
Beyond having an insufficient sacrifice, the brutal reality is they also had an ineffective High Priest who, because of his own sin nature, had to first offer for Himself before the people. Furthermore, it’s true access to God was predicated upon a singular place on earth (the tabernacle and later the temple) and limited to one day! Case in point, a serious matter would arise concerning the Day of Atonement if the place itself no longer existed!
With the obvious flaws to this entire setup in mind (limited access, an ineffective priest, and insufficient sacrifice) one has to ask… What’s the point? As with so many other things we’ve encountered in this book, Leviticus 16 is deeply important because it establishes the legal precedent by which the work Jesus would be accomplished on our behalf.
For example… Because of Leviticus 16 Jesus can be our effective High Priest. To this point in Hebrews 7:26-27 we read of Jesus, “For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens; who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people's, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.”
With this in mind, consider for Aaron to fill this important role a humbling was required. You see in much the same way in order to be our High Priest and offer lasting atonement Jesus had to first lay aside His heavenly robes and dawn common attire — humanity!
In Philippians 2 Paul writes, “Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.” And yet, in like manner, when Jesus was done with His work He also returned to heaven and took back His rightful place in glory!
On a related note… Because we do have an effective High Priest in Jesus there is no limitations on our access! In Leviticus 16 only one man once a year could enter into God’s presence. Today, not only do we have free access to the throne room of grace through Jesus anytime, but according to 1 Corinthians 6:19 the presence of God no longer resides in any physical structure as you and I have now become “the temple of the Holy Spirit!”
Because of Leviticus 16 Jesus can be our sufficient sacrifice. Hebrews 9:11-14, “Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come… Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of bulls and goats sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”
One of the things I’m really blown away by concerning Leviticus 16 is the idea that on the Day of Atonement the “sin offering” included “two goats” possessing two distinct roles. What make this amazing is that it also illustrates the two separate works of Jesus.
Obviously, Jesus is the goat who was killed to provide atonement! Like this goat, on the cross, Jesus was the ultimate atoning sacrifice. His blood was spilt for our sins and by its covering we are forgiven and our lives washed clean. Ephesians 1:7, “In Jesus we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.”
It’s interesting, but leading up to the time of Christ, the Ark of the Covenant had been missing since Nebuchadnezzar’s conquest of Israel and destruction of the Temple. The Ark was the one critical piece of furniture eventually missing from Zerubbabel’s reconstructed Temple following the Babylonian exile as well as the incredible remodel of Herod the Great.
My point is that for 600+ years leading up to Jesus the procedures of the Day of Atonement had been impossible because there was no Ark. I imagine that when the veil was torn following the death of Christ it had to of been an eerie and sober scene to see an empty Holy of Holies! Without a Mercy Seat exactly where did the High Priest scatter the blood?
I contend that just maybe the scene first witnessed by Aaron 1500 years earlier manifested one final time three days after Jesus’ death… If you read through John 20 by verse 11 Peter and John have come, confirmed Jesus’ body was missing, and left “Mary Magdalene standing outside by the tomb weeping.” At some point we’re told “she stooped down and looked into the tomb.” Notice what she saw — verse 12, “And she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.”
Imagine what she saw… Here you had a rectangular shaped ledge upon which Jesus’ body had been laid. Because the tomb had never been used, the seat itself likely bore seven blood stains — the seven locations where Jesus had been wounded: His head, back, side, two hands, and both feet. In addition to these seven blood splatters and lines clothes, Mary also sees “two angels” sitting on each of the far sides of this box. Interesting…
According to Exodus 25:17-18 God stipulated that on the Ark they were to “make a mercy seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits shall be its length and a cubit and a half its width. (A rectangular shaped box.) And make two cherubim of gold (angels) placing them at the two ends of the mercy seat.” While three days earlier the religious world peered into the Holy of Holies and saw a room that illustrated their religion — empty, on this new day Mary looked upon a Mercy Seat which the presence of God had rested for three days and saw the splattered blood of our redemption! Indeed the High Priest had been present!
And yet, as amazing as this is, it’s the Azazel (the “scapegoat”) that deepens the picture even further. Understand, the reason Jesus was able to take our sin upon Himself centered on the legal precedent established with the High Priest’s ability to actually transfer the sins and thereby guilt of the people unto the Azazel.
Again, this is purely tradition but when the point came whereby the Azazel was to be led out of the camp and into the wilderness the people would cry out, “Away, Away, Away!” In fact, because that goat was seen with such distain it became a custom in Israel that the “suitable man” charged with leading that goat into the wilderness would be a Gentile.
Think about that for just a moment… The Azazel taking upon itself the sins of the people before a Gentile led it out of the camp as a mob of Jews cheered, “Away, Away, Away!” In John 19:14-15 we read, “Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And Pilate said to the Jews, ‘Behold your King!’ But they cried out, ‘Away with Him, away with Him! Crucify Him!’” Little did they know they were sending away the Azazel.
The sin offering demanded two goats: one who bore the sins of the people and died and another who carried their sins away and lived. I need to say this, but if Satan is beating his condemnation drum in your life this morning please know… Jesus not only died to forgive you, but He’s carried those sins away! Jeremiah 31:34, “Their sin I will remember no more.” Psalms 103:12, “As far as the east is from the west He’s removed our transgressions.” Isaiah 44:22, “I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions, and like a cloud, your sins.” Micah 7:19, “He cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.”
But what this also tells us is that while this first work of Jesus has been completed, His work as our Azazel continues. Today, Jesus still wants you and I to still come to Him and lay upon Him our sins and the things weighing us down. He wants to give you a fresh start. May I ask… Are you carrying around burdens Jesus wants to free you from this morning? If this is you… Friend, “Cast all your cares upon Him, for He cares for you.” (1 Peter 5:7)
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Wayans Pulls the Ripcord for G.I. Joe
Written by: Big Ross, CC2K Staff Writer
That wackiest of the Wayans brothers, Marlon Wayans (Scary Movie, White Chicks, Little Man) has joined the cast of the upcoming, live-action G.I. Joe movie.
According to Variety, Wayans will be portraying the Joe team member Ripcord. There’s no word yet on if Wayans will bring his zany* sense of humor to the role for some (completely unneeded) comic relief, but this geek is hoping that’s not the case.
More movie details after the jump!
*If you can call his sense of comedy "zany". I, for one, do not find him funny in the least.
Filming is set to begin next month, and the movie is planned for an August 7, 2009 release.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who produced the highly successful Transformers, will produce G.I. Joe.
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Interview with Frozen River’s Courtney Hunt and Melissa Leo
Written by: Patrick Kelly, CC2K TV Editor
Every year, a handful of indie films garner positive reviews and grab the spotlight for as long as they can. Sadly and slowly, the films, which had gathered so much buzz so quickly, fade back to the depths they came from. But, every so often, there is an exception– a film that can offer more than buzz, a film that has staying power. Frozen River, this year's Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, undoubtedly fits that role. The film centers around a down-on-her-luck mother of two who, in desperate times and in need of quick cash, takes up smuggling illegal immigrants back and forth across the border between Canada and the United States. Set in upstate New York, the film explores the dynamics of two women, one white and one Native American, who must work together, against the law and against their differences, to achieve their selfless goals.
Courtney Hunt, the film's director (and first-time feature filmmaker), and Melissa Leo, who plays the film's main character, Ray Eddy, sat down to talk about their expectations of the film, the film's success and the unbelievable on-screen chemistry. And, Courtney shares some great advice for aspiring filmmakers.
Looking at the timeline of what the film went through. Small film festivals. Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. How’s it feel doing your first feature film? Did you have the idea that this was going to happen when you first wrote the script or has it snowballed?
Courtney Hunt: Well you can’t really think about your highest dream. You have to focus on telling a good story and making sure that is really your focus and I was pretty disciplined about that because I didn’t want to sit around and fantasize about, “What if?” It’s very important not to do that because I think Hollywood and movies, I think, seem very glamorous. The truth is, there is very little that’s glamorous about it and if you focus only on that part. So, for me, I was really about the nuts and bolts of it, which is getting your story to a place where it makes sense to people, where people get what you’re talking about, where what’s in your head is actually on the page and then getting that across to actors and picking the actors and casting the ones that are really good. So, I was really focused on the work and I couldn’t afford to focus on what was going to happen to it. I just had faith that a good story would find an audience.
CC2K's review of Frozen River
How long did it take the story to get “right” in your mind?
CH: It took a while. I didn’t work on it constantly. But, I’d say it took me a good year and a half with drafts and redrafts. And I had had the idea for a long time so it was kind of banging around in my head. But when you put pen to paper, totally different ballgame. So to get the words right when you’ve written it down and really make it stand out— it takes about three drafts I think. You take notes–you right another one. You take notes— you don’t change everything. It’s usually that last draft were you kind of comb all the extra out. It’s a long process.
And it started off as a poem and then as a short film right?
CH: Yes that’s right.
The chemistry in the film was incredible. I don’t remember the last time I saw a film where I forgot I was watching it…. It was beautiful. So how did that happen, all the way down to TJ (Charlie McDermott), the acting all just melded together really well. So, how did you all work together? Was that natural right off the bat or did it take a little bit?
CH: Well I mean it was different with every actor and I think that you show up and with Missy and Melissa and Charlie, these are professionals. They show up and they know their lines, they know what’s going on. They have their way of working their method and you just try to adjust to whatever method that is. And Charlie and you didn’t even meet before the day he showed up on the set so that’s not like rehearsal and getting to know you, that’s called do it {snaps fingers} and they did it. I mean they did a beautiful job and they worked I think…At the beginning for Charley it was maybe a little more awkward getting into it because we had already been shooting for two weeks. So he had a little bit of a curve to go through but boy he did it.
Melissa Leo: It is always harder for an actor to step into the moving machine then to be there to be there at the beginning. Misty and I had already worked with Courtney on the short. And there was a foundation of a relationship there already. She’s a delight to work with. It was just totally awesome—the very different actors that we are. And the other thing that much be mentioned is Courtney’s script—it was just so clearly written and we just had follow that guideline and Courtney’s direction as we went along and there you have it.
The script, the story itself was clear and was compelling and I thought it was formed really well but I thought the best part about the film for me was that there were no auteristic gimmicks or no flash. You just told the story as it was. Was that hard to do or was that the kind of style you had set forth when you started writing it?
CH: Well the style comes from the story. I let the story dictate the style. So, we did it up there in the midst of the actual environment and landscape that it exists, which I already knew about. Like, I kind of write for location in my mind and I would never write for a location that I’ve never really seen. Like I’d never write a script based around Moscow because I haven’t seen Moscow—I don’t know what that is. But I knew this location so a lot of what happened is about that, is about knowing where you’re going and you’re just going to turn the camera on get it all.
So, Courtney, you have a law degree. So, how did you choose to become a filmmaker?
CH: It’s funny, there used to be a theatre on M St., an art house theatre, and I would go there and see the old features with my mother when we lived in DC. That’s all I did. And then going to law school was the aberration, which was the kind of, like, “oops, what did I do,” “how did I get here?” Ok well my boyfriend was going, he was a lawyer, my mother was a lawyer and they were like, “Oh just do that.” You know. And I just took a little detour there and I went straight back to film school, straight in this other path. But it was a good experience—and I learned a lot about different kinds of people I wouldn’t have met otherwise. It was good.
Melissa, how did you feel seeing the reviews and the popularity this film has generated. You’ve been an actress for a long time, so how does that feel for you—a small indie film kind of making it like this, kind of reminiscent of 21 grams?
ML: Well, there was a lot more of a machine behind 21 Grams than Frozen River.
I feel that it’s miraculous. I have done it a long time. A lot of films sitting on shelves nobody’s ever seen. Words could not express how thrilled I am that people will actually get a chance to see this film and I feel extraordinarily grateful to Courtney that she stood by me and would not have somebody else play Ray Eddy—she easily could have done that. Probably could have raised the money a little easier…I’m just overwhelmed with gratitude.
CH: And I think it goes both ways. I mean Melissa is an extremely experienced, extremely dedicated actor and a really talented actor and I think that for me I just happened upon her really quite by accident. And I don’t know, that if I’d gone through traditional channels like the agent. If I hadn’t run right into her I don’t even know if it would have worked. I think that a lot of times the business gets in the way of the movies a little bit. And I was able to just cross paths with her cause it was a little town. And so I felt that I stumbled across something really undiscovered.
How hard was it coming up with the money for the film?
CH: It was about as hard as it could be. We had to go outside the industry, we went everywhere that we could go that we know—production companies—and they passed and they passed and they passed. They liked it. It wasn’t that they thought the writing was poor or they didn’t say, “Hey, you need to do something else with your life here— you’re barking up the wrong tree.” But they didn’t really know “How do we sell this, How do we sell it?” You know and I heard that a lot. So what we did, my husband wrote a prospectus and we went outside the industry, we went to real estate…other little areas we knew. Some of my law school friends invested. And I had about 5 chief investors and then we just kind of gathered just enough to get it done. And then after that we gathered just enough to get through post. It’s a lot of work but you just have to be willing to….In a way, it was easier than dealing with the big Hollywood situation because I didn’t have any, sort of, all controlling producer saying, “OK, you’re not going to do this and you can’t do that.” I did steer my own ship, which was kind of great in a way. Less strings attached, you know. The people that invested wanted to invest.
Yea, it’s hard when the business starts to touch the script or when it starts to touch the shooting.
CH: I mean, I think there are situations where there’s probably great producers out there that are totally creatively in sync and you just kind of threw it together and I’m starting to meet some really interesting producers now that I have to say—pretty cool and have done great projects. You know, where I was sitting, it was just—couldn’t pull it off.
I know there is some truth to the smuggling atmosphere in upstate New York. Is there any specific truth to this story?
CH: No, this whole scenario playing out with the baby. The only thing I heard of is a baby smothering to death being brought across in a bag. Or it held onto the mother so tightly that it smothered. That was heartbreaking. The actual way this played out I had written that, I had fictionalized that. Are these the sort of people that are involved in it? The ones I met were like this, but their stories were different.
Melissa, how did you find the inspiration to play the character you did?
ML: Film is a collaborative art and I think it was a really beautiful collaboration of this very clear script that Courtney clearly had researched. You know, both my character and Missy’s character, and the environment as she’s saying and the circumstance. She invested her own heart and soul in it. My almost thirty years of experience doing it definitely came along you know. My training at SUNY-Purchase with Joan Potter. All the many sets that I’ve been on— big and small and in between. I brought that experience with me and was specific on what I felt her clothing needed to be, her appearance to be and dove in and did it.
So what inspired the film?
CH: Well, the situation exists up there. It goes on around Messina. It also goes on all along the border in fact. There’s like 1119 arrests for illegal immigrant smuggling across that border last year. But not at that point, you know, only like a fifth of them were in that point. And that point goes all the way up to New Hampshire, all the way to the end of Maine. So, it’s like 295 miles long. Can you see that I’ve been reading some statistics? Anyway, the point being is that it does go on and that it was inspiring to me only in that I thought it was adventurous.
I was like, “Who does that?”, “Who are these people?”. And that the reservation straddles the border there is to me, it’s like a little whole in the border. And I was interested; I was interested in two women stuck in a car together. How’s that going to end up? Two women, from different cultures, stuck in a car together. How’s that going to end up? You know, all of these questions were just what I was kind of pursuing in writing the script.
So, now that the film is becoming more and more successful and the snowball is rolling, what is the future plans for both of you?
CH: I was thinking of becoming a flight attendant (laughs). I don’t know. At this moment I’m like “Ahhhhh”. There’s so much going on. I don’t know what’s next but I’m looking at all kinds of different projects. I don’t know that I’ll be given more creative freedom ever than I got with Frozen River. I doubt that will ever happen again, but it might, who knows. I’m looking forward to working on maybe, a slightly bigger budget level. And, hopefully doing more good stories. There’s lots of good stories out there and I didn’t write them all. I am reading stuff that’s just great.
ML: I have several things in the can that will be coming out. I am in a film with Ellen Burstyn and Hillary Duff called Greta. A film with Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro called Righteous Kill. Sarah Michelle Geller shot a film Veronika Decides to Die based on the book by Paulo Coelho. We shot that a month and a half ago. All that will come out and I will go look for another job as soon as we finish this press tour.
Do you have any advice for aspiring filmmakers?
CH: Yea, I think that although it’s a really tough racket…it is a tough racket. It’s important to know that you have something to say. And not just say stuff because you think it might be cool. To really know you have something to say and get down to whatever your metaphors are for your life and say it. And don’t give up on it.
Author: Patrick Kelly, CC2K TV Editor
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Let the Love Flow (for Flow)
Written by: Russell Davidson, CC2K Sports Editor
Stop reading. Go to your nearest tap. Turn the handle, and watch the water come out. A big deal?
You’ve no idea. Check out Irena Salina’s new documentary FLOW: For Love of Water, and be enlightened. You probably don’t know it, but the world is heading towards a crisis, if it’s not already there. Fresh water, the denominator of all existence, is disappearing. And, as is often the case, we Americans are among the main culprits. Like An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s film about global warming, Salina’s film shows the effects of messing with and mismanaging our natural world.
Nothing could be more plentiful than water, right? Obviously, the oceans are full of it. But it’s fresh water that FLOW is concerned with, the water people drink, cook with, farm with, bath in, put into their bodies. This water is becoming scarce, due to a myriad of factors. FLOW shows us that water is becoming more and more polluted. It shows us that bottled water, unregulated and untested as it is, can actually be worse for you than tap, not to mention the un-biodegradable bottles that result. FLOW takes us to India, to Bolivia, to Michigan, all different places with different problems, all fighting to keep the available fresh water in the hands of the people, not the global corporations who charge for it. Salina tackles all the problems inherent in how we use water, irrigating where we shouldn’t, building dams, assuming water is self-replenishing, when, often, it isn’t. Sobering stuff here.
The film is a needed education. If we run out of fresh water, the whole planet is in for it. By interviewing everyone from the Vivendi executives who exploit for profit to the impoverished people dying from polluted drinking water, Salina does a tremendous job of personalizing the problem. This is no far-out environmental concern, a false alarm. FLOW is at it’s best when it makes the point that we’re all connected, everyone to everything to all that we do. Salina lays out the big picture and shows us the smallest, no easy feat considering the scope of the issue.
Watch this movie and see what happens when good, clean water runs out. See companies such as Nestle and Coke drain water for their own gain, caring little for those affected. See what happens when chemicals get into the water, and when we drink it, what it does to us. Something as precious and important as clean water should be a right. Indeed, as humans, Salina says we are entitled to it. No one should be denied safe drinking water.
The film also shows how important grass-roots organizations are to changing the way things work. FLOW shows how activists have had local successes with the water problem, with fighting the corporations, with coming up with new ways to collect and use water. But more than that, Salina convinces us, people need to change the way they think about water, to conserve it, to monitor what’s in it, to not trust the various governments involved to do the right thing.
Let’s love water. Go with the FLOW.
Author: Russell Davidson, CC2K Sports Editor
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Sometimes Relationships Suck: Books that Remind Us Why It’s Good to be Single
Written by: Beth Woodward, CC2K Books Editor
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. The stores are filled with flowers and chocolate and those stupid message hearts that taste like chalk. Which, if you’re in a relationship, is great. But when you’re not in a relationship, it can be absolute torture. As if February isn’t miserable enough by itself, you’re surrounded by happy couples and mementos of love. And even CC2K, usually a safe haven for reliably cynical pop culture dissection, is jumping on the bandwagon with a weeklong celebration of all things sexual—which isn’t so great if you’re not having any.
If the aforementioned rant sounds suspiciously familiar, you’re in luck: though television and film and virtually every other medium may be saturated with all things Valentine by February 14, you’ve still got a lot of options within the literary world that remind us—sometimes unexpectedly—that sometimes, it’s good to be single.
Here are just a few examples:
Heathcliff and Catherine of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights may be remembered as one of the greatest literary love stories of all the time, but if you haven’t checked out the book since high school, I recommend reading it again. In actuality, it is the ultimate anti-relationship novel. Selfish, self-absorbed Catherine spurns Heathcliff to marry Edgar Linton, the milquetoast-but-wealthy boy from across the moor. In vengeance, Heathcliff destroys everything and everyone that has wronged him—including, inadvertently, Catherine herself. In the years afterwards, Heathcliff becomes even more obsessed with Catherine, even seeing her ghost, until he mysteriously—and suddenly—dies, alone and unloved. Bronte does tack a happy ending onto the story, involving a romance between Catherine’s daughter and her cousin, Hareton. (Apparently, kissing cousins weren’t a bad thing back then—guess the options out there in the English countryside were pretty limited.) But it’s Heathcliff and Catherine that everyone remembers, and by the time the book ends they’re both dead, destroyed by the very love that consumed them.
The Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer: Yes, you read that right. One of the most popular teen romance series of all time is actually a cautionary tale about abusive relationships and the type of all-consuming love that not only kills you, but destroys all vestiges of ambition and personality. The series focuses on the love story of Bella, a normal teenage girl, and Edward, a vampire. Aside from the obvious problems (she’s 17; he’s 104 and undead), Edward leaves a lot to be desired for a girl of the 21st century. He’s controlling, overprotective, and jealous—going as far as having his sister “kidnap” Bella when he is away from home to prevent her from seeing her best friend, Jacob. But what’s worse is Bella’s complete and utter inability to see this: the more of a jackass Edward becomes, the more she loves him. Instead, she sees herself—being weaker, slower, and more fallible than Edward—as inferior. So rather than going off to college and finding her own way in the world, she stays behind and gets married to Edward. She later gives birth to a human/vampire hybrid child in a scene so graphic and disturbing that it could make even the most maternally inclined among us think, “Maybe I’ll adopt instead.” Bella becomes a vampire, and they’re set to spend the rest of eternity together as creatures of the night. And maybe this all sounds romantic—if you’re seventeen. But once you have a few more years (and a few more relationship experiences) under your belt, you realize that the idea of giving up your own dreams and ambitions—and life—for someone else really isn’t romantic at all. century.
As you may recall, there actually was a romance at the center of George Orwell’s 1984. Winston Smith, a low-ranking Party member, begins a passionate, forbidden affair with a beautiful woman named Julia. But they are caught, arrested, and tortured. Now this is point in any romantic novel where love would conquer all, where the lovers would be subjected to the worst kinds of tortures but still refuse to betray one another. But this is why 1984 isn’t remembered as a romance. Julia cracks first, betraying her lover the first day she’s imprisoned. Winston holds on for weeks, clinging desperately to his love for Julia. But when he is threatened with his worst fear—rats, and hungry ones at that—he begs that they torture Julia rather than him. Once the Party establishes that they have complete and utter control over their lives, they are released back into the world—devoid of their desire for one another or to rebel against the Party. And really, isn't destroying one's spirit a worse fate than death, anyway?
Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is remembered as many things—but a love story is not one of them. Edna Pontellier is an unhappily married woman in late 19th century Louisiana. Her husband is kind but inattentive, and she feels apathetic toward her children. As she spends a summer with her family at a holiday resort, she begins a process of self-discovery that leads her away from traditional feminine norms. She moves out of her family home while her husband and children are away. She rediscovers a childhood passion for art. She also falls deeply in love with a younger man named Robert Lebrun. But Robert is unable to go against societal traditions, and he leaves her. Realizing that she is alone and that she will never be happy in such a confining world, Edna drowns herself. So much for happily ever after!
And speaking of suicide, let’s talk about Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The greatest romance of all time? Hardly! Everyone knows the plot, so I won’t go into that. But let’s look at the facts. Romeo and Juliet knew each other all of about two minutes before they declared their undying love to one another. Romeo was a bit of a player, totally “in love” with a girl named Rosaline—who, since she wanted nothing to do with him, was apparently a little smarter than Juliet—when the play begins. And Juliet herself was all of thirteen when she fell for Romeo. Thirteen. (I dated a guy when I was thirteen, too. He mooned my brother, I slammed my front door on him, and that’s how our relationship ended. Thank God I didn’t kill myself over him—I could have been stuck with “butt boy” for all eternity!) The real tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is that they really are just stupid kids who probably would have gotten over their infatuation in a few months—or when Rosaline came back into the picture, whichever came first. And what the hell kind of a great love is that?
The lesson here: If these are the kinds of endings that relationships bring, maybe we should all stick to pornography and vibrators.
Selected Book Releases, February 9-15
Fool by Christopher Moore—The latest from humorist Moore is a retelling of King Lear.
Lethal Legacy by Linda Fairstein—The latest addition to the Alex Cooper series of crime novels.
The Silent Man by Alex Berenson—Spy-thriller about a CIA agent on the trailer of Russian attackers.
Gladiator: A True Story of ‘Roids, Rage, and Redemption by Dan Clark—Clark, the former star of American Gladiators, tells the story of his battle with steroids.
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 by Thomas E. Ricks—The Washington Post’s senior Pentagon correspondent tackles the Iraq War under General Petraeus and the implications for the future.
Author: Beth Woodward, CC2K Books Editor
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With the 2019/20 Premier League campaign slowly coming to an end, several top clubs have been roaming the transfer market and analyzing the players they can potentially lure into their team ahead of next season.
According to a report from a reliable journalist, David Ornstein, Chelsea, who has placed Bournemouth defender Nathan Ake on their target list in the transfer market, will be having an intense battle with their England rivals, Manchester City and Manchester United. Several odds appearing in https://www.bestusacasinosites.com have formerly predicted that the Dutch defender is most likely to leave Bournemouth at the end of the season, but his destination can’t be determined yet.
The 25-year-old Dutch defender, who first joined the Cherries on loan from the Stamford Bridge back in the summer of 2016, was quick to establish himself in their team, joined AFC Bournemouth permanently in 2017 and from his performance displayed over the years has seen him tagged as one of the best defenders in the English top flight.
He has been pivotal for the Cherries in his three seasons helping the club maintain their status in the Premier League. The Dutch international is currently helping the club battle out of the relegation zone with his team. Having spent three campaign, with no kind of achievements, big win online casinos predicted that the Dutch defender could be willing to part ways with the club and the number of clubs asking for his signature is not at all inferior to Bournemouth, with Manchester City and Chelsea set to intensify their chase for his signature.
Following their 2-1 defeat at the hands of Chelsea, Manchester City have officially lost out in the race of the Premier League title to Liverpool this season. In their match against the London club, every flaw in the City team could be seen to have originated from their defence and it’s not the first time the club’s defences have failed them. Having recognized this problem Pep Guardiola will need to address the problem by signing a centre-back he could rely on.
Chelsea, on the other hand, have always had issues with their defence but they have a better chance of bringing in Nathan Ake to the team considering they still have a minor relationship going with the Dutchman and it was rumoured that Chelsea still have a buy-back clause included in his contract.
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I feel very fortunate for having worked with so many talented crew and artists. They have been key in the success of my films and I will always be thankful to them for their engagement.
The Voice of Thais (in post-production)
52 minutes | Historical Documentary
Looking for Thais is a historical documentary that wants to recover the forgotten Elena Jordi, considered the first woman director in Spanish history. The documentary, besides reconstructing the life of this courageous woman, is a trip to different film institutions and museums trying to find Thais, the only film she made in 1918 and that is, to this date, still lost.
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The Flat (in pre-production)
90 minutes | Psychological Thriller
Carla and Julio are going to be parents. Before the baby is born, they move to a bigger flat. But strange things start happening in the new apartment: misplaced objects, weird noises, dreams that come true… They both start investigating what is going on until they discover an unexpected truth.
A Second Chance (2014)
6 minutes | Social Drama | 11 official selections
A ten year-old boy is caught up stealing in a supermarket. But the cashier, instead of calling the police, decides to give him a second chance. Fifteen years later, the same guy has a job interview. But the interview doesn’t go as he expects.
Violet, the Courtesan (2012)
15 minutes | Social Drama | 22 awards, 72 official selections
A prostitute is working in her usual spot when she is suddenly surprised by a mysterious woman. After the woman explains to the prostitute her desperate situation, she decides to help her to make her dream come true.
Homemade Food (2011)
A lonely man celebrates his birthday every day in different restaurants. One night he meets a woman that does exactly the same thing. This encounter will make him realise about the worrying loneliness that people live in our current society.
The Gold from the West (2010)
24 minutes | Ecological documentary
We visit many villages in the province of Lleida (Spain) to unveil the secrets of how small companies produce and market organic olive oil. We also talk about the future of organic olive oil and the consequences that this kind of agriculture brings to nature and to our society.
Save the World (2007)
14 minutes | Social Drama | 60 awards, 135 official selections
One day Richard decides to quit his job, leave his girlfriend and family, and focus on a more serious task like saving the world, although in a very particular way.
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Djamel’s Eyes (2005)
11 minutes | Social Drama | 8 awards, 37 official selections
Djamel and Paco are recovering from a shipwreck in an Italian hospital. They share the same room but they both are very different from each other. With a bit of time and talking, they both realise that they are not as different as they initially thought.
Time Cocktail (2004)
15 minutes | Comedy | 7 official selections
What would happen if reality and fantasy mixed with such intensity that would be difficult to find the border separating them? This is what happens to the protagonist of this story when he decides to drink a time cocktail in a very special bar.
On/Off (2003)
Jane and Andy are organising a special event at home. Jane’s boss is coming to dinner and her future in the company depends on impressing him. But things don’t go the way they expected. Actually, they go terribly wrong.
The Ogre’s Time (2002)
15 minutes | Romantic | 1 award, 21 official selections
A woman starts receiving mysterious letters from an anonymous admirer at her office. Day after day, she gets addicted to these letters until suddenly she stops receiving them. When she investigates who is behind the letters, she finds out something very unusual.
A Bad Dream (2001)
What would happen if everybody used a bathrobe instead of common clothes? Between reality and nightmare, this story shows the situation of a man in constant paranoia when he feels he is the centre of attention for wearing a bathrobe. But he will soon find out that people around him have a similar problem.
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102 Minutes That Changed America
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Absolute Zero Conquest of Cold
This scientific detective tale tells the story of a remarkable group of pioneers who wanted to reach the ultimate extreme: absolute zero, a place so cold that the physical world as we know it doesn't exist, electricity flows without resistance, fluids defy gravity and the speed of light can be reduced to 38 miles per hour. Absolute zero became the Holy Grail of temperature physicists and is considered the gateway to many new technologies, such as nano-construction, neurological networks and quantum computing. The possibilities, it seems, are limitless. The first episode Chronicles the major discoveries leading towards the mastery of cold, beginning with King James I's court magician, Cornelius Drebbel, who managed to air condition the largest interior space in the British Isles in 1620. Other stories will include the first "natural philosopher," Robert Boyle, a founder of the Royal Society in Great Britain; the Grand Duke Ferdinand II de Medici's involvement in the creation of the first thermometer; the establishment of the laws of thermodynamics by three young scientists, Sadi Carnot, James Joule and William Thomson; and Michael Faraday's critical achievement in liquefying several other gases which set the stage for the commercial application of cold to refrigeration and air conditioning.
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A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popular culture comes the riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight, traveling around the world training an army of climate champions and influencing international climate policy. Cameras follow him behind the scenes-in moments private and public, funny and poignant-as he pursues the empowering notion that while the stakes have never been higher, the perils of climate change can be overcome with human ingenuity and passion.
Renowned filmmakers Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk have taken the baton from 2006 Academy Award-winner Davis Guggenheim. What started then as a profound slide show lecture has become a gorgeously cinematic excursion. Our extraordinary former vice president invites us along on an inspirational journey across the globe that delivers the tools to heal our planet. The question is: Will we choose to take the baton?
Arctic Ice Hotel
Deep inside the arctic circle, this team of elite engineers Is embarking on an epic endeavor. They're attempting to build a unique structure, one of the largest snow and ice hotels in the world. Constructed from more than 15,000 tons of snow and ice, spanning over 26,000 square feet, they are pushing to complete this ambitious build in an unheard-of six weeks.
Engineers brave the cold and nights of the Arctic Circle to build the Ice Hotel. Using cutting-edge tech, they'll construct this modern marvel in just six weeks.
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Global CO2 emissions coming from aviation will go from about 2% to, by 2050, something closer to 20%. Technology is the only key to open up a brighter future that can be sustainable at the same time. The way we fly is about to change, driven by a new breed of aviators not afraid to think differently. From clean, green electric aircraft to autonomous sky taxis, could the days of the jet age be numbered?
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Howard Schumann
BLISSFULLY YOURS (Sud Sanaeha)
Directed by Apitchatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, (2002), 119 minutes
An unknown author once said that “love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.” Blissfully Yours, the second feature from Thai director Apitchatpong Weerasethakul, is a film about ecstasy that happens outside of time. It is roughly divided into two parts - one ordinary, the other transcendent and is without a typical plot or character development. Rather, it speaks directly to the human spirit, to its capacity to transcend the “stuff” of life and reach for the eternal.
Blissfully Yours begins in the small Thai city of Khon Kaen as Min (Min Oo), an apparently mute young man with a skin condition visits a doctor together with his girlfriend Roong (Kanokporn Tongaram) and Orn (Jenjira Jansuda), an older woman who has lost a child by drowning. Shot in the offices of the director’s doctor parents, we soon learn that Min is a Burmese immigrant who is in Thailand illegally and is seeking a work permit from the doctor in order to remain in the country and that Orn has been hired to look after him. Without proper ID, however, the doctor refuses to cooperate.
The film then moves to the souvenir factory where Roong works on an assembly line worker hand painting Disney figurines, and then to Orn who prepares a skin cream for Min by chopping vegetables. There is also a glimpse of the office where Orn’s husband works. About forty five minutes into Blissfully Yours, credits suddenly appear on the screen, we hear a Thai popular song in the background, and we know that we in unfamiliar territory. Taking time off from work because of an illusory illness, Roong and Min drive to the countryside for an afternoon picnic recorded in long, uninterrupted takes and the film never looks back. Stress fades away as scenes of nature replace the familiar images of city life. Roong and Min walk through dense jungle to reach an opening in the woods with a clear view of mountains and streams.
Not much is said as the camera lingers on Roong and Min as they eat berries, splash in the cool waters, and engage in erotic activities that seem to be initiated by Roong alone as she caresses Min’s sexual organ in full camera view. There is much attention given to bodies and their sensitivity to touch especially when we learn that Min’s rash is both physical and political. Through a voice over and doodling shown on the screen, we find out that he has hiding from the Burmese police for an undisclosed reason, has a son in Rangoon, and may have picked up his skin rash while hiding in a septic tank. It is also hinted that Roong is a member of the Karen ethnic group, a hill tribe that have fought for independence from Burma since 1949.
Weerasethakul pushes viewer patience to the limit as shots of Roong snuggling up to the passive Min take several minutes to unfold and one is reminded of Werner Erhard’s assertion that boredom is a “high space” to be in. Orn, who is also enjoying sex with a male companion, has her tryst interrupted when her lover’s bike is stolen and she makes her way through the forest to join Min and Roong. As Roong and Min lie on their backs looking up to the sky sharing moments of peace and spiritual awareness, Orn lies alone and begins to cry. It is a moment of quiet isolation filled with mystery and magic as this visionary, sexually explicit, and sensual work of art becomes blissfully ours forever.
"They must find it hard, those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as authority" Gerald Massey
oscar jubis
I'm glad you chose to review this film. I think Weerasethakul is one of the three or four great filmmakers who emerged in the 2000s. He has been working in short form since Syndromes and a Century (2006) but there will be an episodic feature film by "JOE" released next year under the title:Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Can't wait!
Originally Posted by oscar jubis
I'm definitely looking forward to any new work by this director. Thanks for commenting on my review.
cinemabon
An exercise in patience
"Blissfully Yours" was originally released in 2003 and made its way around the world in a variety of film festivals since that time. It was and still is banned in Thailand due to its erotic nature (supposedly some of the X rated shots were cut as earlier versions of the film seem to contain more sex scenes that are present in the current version). While some reviewers found it an interesting "art film," others have labeled it "boring beyong belief" and "an example of a student film gone awry." It definitely takes a certain kind of person to appreciate this work. The film is available via Netflix. I found the long silent takes with no dialogue so difficult to watch at times that I had to fast forward my way through the film to see its point. However, the point is really one of languid reverie. One is reminded of Debussy and how his music flows without seeming purpose or conclusion. Its sets a mood. If you do not mind that kind of approach to film (or storytelling), then I would agree with Howard... this is your kind of film.
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Thanks for your comment. I report on a film from my own experience and, while I do weigh other reviewers opinions, it is never a deciding factor. Obviously, Blissfully Yours is a different kind of a film, but I think most viewers would know that beforehand.
I was wrong when I posted that the new film from Weerasethakul will be released next year. It will have its world premiere at Cannes next month along with new films from Abbas Kiarostami,Mike Leigh, and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
Sounds like a good lineup but I will probably have to wait until the Vancouver Film Festival in September to see many of them.
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HOLLYWOOD MOVIE STILLS: ART AND TECHNIQUE IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE STUDIOS
By Joel Finler
Hardcover; 224 pages; B/W; editions: 1995, 2008, 2012
An incredible, sumptuously mounted endeavor, this book is essential for film lovers fascinated by not just the film stills and their background, but the intriguing and exciting stories that go along with them.
The various avenues of movie marketing are an essential and vital component in Hollywood's movie-making machine. While the actors are guided through their roles by the watchful eye of the director, another "movie" of sorts is documented by the stills photographer.
In charge of capturing the various performers, locations, sets, and other film related personnel at work, the stills photographer was a sadly overlooked, if vital aspect in the shaping, and marketing of a motion picture.
Joel Finler rectifies this oversight with his exhaustive, meticulously compiled historical account of this seemingly lost art form. This all new edition is expanded by over 30 pages and a hefty amount of additional photos.
Movie stills were just as integral to the success of a production and its stars as the film itself. Finler's book not only documents this unique photographic dimension of cinema, but the few hundred photos are generously complimented by an all encompassing text that leaves no stone unturned, no corner unexplored within the often surreal world of still photography.
Finler's book begins during the silent era and focuses primarily during that Golden Age period through the 1950s and into the early 1960s. He covers many prime filmmakers of the time including such early trendsetters and controversial hands as Cecil B. DeMille and D.W. Griffith respectively.
You'll see such fascinating, and candid images such as Alfred Hitchcock snoozing between takes on THE LADY VANISHES (1938); or Johnny Weissmuller giving Maureen O'Sullivan an indoor swimming lesson prior to shooting their then upcoming Tarzan movie. One of the most striking photos is an image showcasing the shooting and recording of the iconic MGM lion and its famous roar.
The posing, photographing and marketing of various major Hollywood stars and starlets is also vividly covered in both written and pictorial detail. These include such classic film performers Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Ingrid Bergman, Betty Davis, Clark Gable, Robert Mitchum, and Humphrey Bogart among dozens of others. We see the stills seizing the stars in behind the scenes moments, or out in public, at their homes, in the midst of filming, or publicity photos of various sorts including photos that have been touched up hiding any imperfection the camera may capture.
For genre and horror fans there's vintage photos of Lon Chaney Sr., Boris Karloff, Fay Wray and her KING KONG. There are also rare behind the scenes pics from sci-fi fare such as George Pal's DESTINATION MOON (1950), Edward L. Cahn's IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE (1958), or Roger Corman's THE LAST WOMAN ON EARTH (1960).
You'll also find Sean Connery trying to impress Ursula Andress between takes on DR. NO (1960), Charlton Heston having his picture taken by one of his ape captors during a break filming PLANET OF THE APES (1968) and Clint Eastwood in Italy casually reading the script for Sergio Leone's FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964).
If the entire historical perspective of the still photographers, the films, the stars, the directors, their triumphs, travails and the behind the scenes stories weren't enough, there's also a useful appendix and a thorough bibliography for devout cineastes seeking additional sources.
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SOFIA: The Legacy Exhibition
From December 6th to 9th 2018, in Pinta Art Fair, one of the most importants art fairs in Miami, a special exhibition will be shown to honor the legacy of an outstanding Venezuelan: Sofía Imber.
Curated by Maria Luz Cardenas, Sofía Imber: The legacy, is a tribute focused on the essential contributions of this great Venezuelan woman to the arrival of modernity in her country, to her contributions in journalism and the institutional development of culture in Latin America. The ideals and values that inspired her work as well, also a tribute to her strength in the struggle for freedom and democracy, all of which make her an exceptional Venezuelan and Latin-American personality.
The exhibition itinerary indicates, first of all, the quality of the works of her Collection linked to the production of artists of fundamental importance in 20th century art; secondly, her contributions to television and editorial journalism and, thirdly, the creation and growth of the Sofía Imber Contemporary Art Museum. The exhibit also includes the launch of www.MACSI.org a special project of Arts Connection Foundation to preserve Sofia Imber legacy.
The work of Sofía Imber is remarkable in the promotion of modern art in Venezuela, especially because of the contact between artists in the formation of her own collection and projection of artists such as Jesus Soto, Auguste Herbin, Vasarely, Fernand Léger and Alejandro Otero among many other.
”The very important number of my works in Venezuela has a very close relationship with Sofía Imber. A mural of mine called Sophia, in the University City, is a recognition that I wanted to render to her capacity to promote the arts, which was later reflected in that great Museum of Contemporary Art ” Víctor Vasarely.
In Journalism, her invaluable contributions include her participation in the founding team of CAL Magazine (Criticism, Art, Literature), the Good Morning (Buenos Dias) TV Program and the leadership of the Cultural Pages of the newspaper “El Universal”. CAL magazine, during the sixties, conjugated the latest Venezuelan literary and artistic avant-garde in its highest aesthetic display. CAL is legendary, its influences remains to be valued. It was a complete experience of integration of the arts and thought, the work of a team formed by Sofía Imber, the writer Guillermo Meneses and the work of graphic designer Nedo, under the production of Hans Neumann.
Good Morning (Buenos Días) with Carlos Rangel, was a pioneering experience for public opinion programs on Venezuelan television. It was an unprecedented experience and during its years of diffusion it contributed considerably to the consolidation of the debate of ideas. Carlos and Sofia marked a before and after in the field of communication in Venezuela.
With the creation and development of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas, the contributions of Sofía Imber skip the scales. In 1972, when she was summoned by the Simon Bolivar Center for the operation of an “exhibition space”, she was determined to provide Venezuela with a museum institution of the same quality level as the best art museums on the planet. With the creation of the Museum, the institutional vision in the country was changed. This meant working for culture as never before in Venezuela. The Sofia Museum became an open museum paradigm, a pioneer in social programs, linking the institution with participatory communities.
The MACSI Collection is legendary, its edges of meaning, infinite possible readings, behavior, relationships between the works and their quality make it an inexhaustible process and, also, different from the collections of normal museums. Her development -responsibility of Sofía Imber- was assumed from the first moment as a creative act, an open work that did not depend on the canonical classifications of movements, styles and periods, but on the importance, quality and value of each piece. which allowed an incessant dynamism in the relations between the works. Sofia was able to go to the artwork, hitting the selection thanks to her sharp eye and a devouring vision of the best. More than attending to chronological movements or styles, its growth obeyed the criterion of piece by piece.
The website, Sofia Imber Museum of Contemporary Art (1972-2001): The Different Museum (www. MACSI.org), is a project of Arts Connection Foundation within I AM MONUMENTS and I AM Venezuela platforms to preserve the legacy of Sofia Imber as intangible heritage of our beloved Venezuela.
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CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF NORTHERN IRELAND EXPRESS CONCERN ABOUT BRITISH LEGACY PLANS
IRISH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING
Distributed to Congress by Irish National Caucus
“British government reneging on its legacy-promises has evoked a strong rebuke from the Catholic Bishops of Northern Ireland. In reference to the government’s plan to, in effect, grant pardon for past murders by British soldiers, the Bishops state: “justice would be pursued, where possible, regardless of the identity of the perpetrator.”
—Fr. Sean McManus
Bishops in letter to Lewis over legacy cases
Allison Morris. Irish News. Belfast. Thursday, April 9, 2020
Catholic bishops in Northern Ireland have written to the Secretary of State expressing concern at plans for dealing with the legacy of the past, insisting “justice should be pursued”.
In a letter signed by Bishops Eamon Martin, Noel Treanor, Donal McKeown, Larry Duffy and Michael Router, they express “deep concern” at a statement by Brandon Lewis last month that laid out the British government’s approach.
He set out proposals for an “independent body focused on providing information to families and swift examinations of all unresolved deaths from the Troubles”.
However, he also said there would be an “end to the cycle of reinvestigations that has failed victims and veterans for too long”, ensuring that ex-soldiers in Northern Ireland “receive equal treatment to their counterparts who served overseas”.
Mr. Lewis said this “new approach seeks to put victims first with information recovery and reconciliation as the overarching goal”.
In response, the bishops said it was deeply concerning that the UK government had departed from the Stormont House Agreement and the fundamental principle that “justice would be pursued, where possible, regardless of the identity of the perpetrator”.
They also cautioned against destabilizing the executive and other institutions at a time when a unified government is needed more than ever.
“Reconciliation can only come about if the nature of the violence perpetrated is acknowledged, and conditions for its recurrence are removed,” they said.
“Real reconciliation means that we cannot forget the past. We must face the past, no matter how costly or painful that encounter may be, before real reconciliation can flourish.
“Victims and survivors have paid the highest price for the fragile peace we all enjoy today. For too long their voices have been marginalized in our society, and their needs neglected.”
They said they looked forward to discussing the issues in person, adding: “Justice should be pursued, for a just society is a society of peace.
“For those victims who do not feel justly treated, the wounds of the past will never fully heal. We therefore support the ongoing pursuit of appropriate criminal, legal and civic justice for all victims.
“While we do not wish to outline all of our detailed concerns on this issue at present, we wish to express our alarm and disappointment at the new position which the UK government is taking… and specifically its departure from the understanding inherent in the Stormont House Agreement to which all parties signed up to with goodwill.
“The timing of the announcement was unfortunate, coming at a time when our citizens, and people across the world, are dealing with the serious impact of the global coronavirus pandemic.
“The implications of the proposals are therefore not receiving the widespread scrutiny they might otherwise receive.”
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Bunreacht na hÃireann
Constitution of Ireland
Iris Oifigiúil / Official Gazette
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Education Act 1998
No. 51 of 1998
Amendments and other effects
SIs made under the Act
Commencement Information
S. 1 22 December 2000 Education Act 1998 (Commencement) (No. 3) Order 2000 (S.I. No. 495 of 2000), art. 2
Ss. 2 - 6 5 February 1999 Education Act 1998 (Commencement) Order 1999 (S.I. No. 29 of 1999), art. 2
Ss. 10 - 12 22 December 2000 Education Act 1998 (Commencement) (No. 3) Order 2000 (S.I. No. 495 of 2000), art. 2
S. 13 5 February 1999 Education Act 1998 (Commencement) Order 1999 (S.I. No. 29 of 1999), art. 2
S. 18 22 December 2000 Education Act 1998 (Commencement) (No. 3) Order 2000 (S.I. No. 495 of 2000), art. 2
Ss. 25, 26 5 February 1999 Education Act 1998 (Commencement) Order 1999 (S.I. No. 29 of 1999), art. 2
Ss. 27, 28 23 December 1999 Education Act 1998 (Commencement) (No. 2) Order 1999 (S.I. No. 470 of 1999), art. 2
Ss. 49 - 53 5 February 1999 Education Act 1998 (Commencement) Order 1999 (S.I. No. 29 of 1999), art. 2
How Affected
Affecting Provision
Constr. of cert. refs. amended 30/2004, ss. 45 (2), 53
Defs. applied 8/2001, ss. 1 (2), 2 (1)
30/2004, ss. 10 (11), 53
14/2005, ss. 1 (3), 7 (1)
Power to investigate non-compliance with. 8/2001, ss. 1 (2), 42 (1) (a)
Saver for S.I. No. 373 of 2003, art. 18
Trans. of cert. functns. under S.I. No. 418 of 2011, arts. 1(2), 3 & sch. 1
S. 2 amended 14/2018, ss. 2, 13(4)
S. 2 def. applied 39/2000, ss. 1 (2), 7 (1)
S. 2(1) amended 40/2013, ss. 1(2), 97, sch. 2 pt. 11 item 1
11/2013, ss. 1(2), 72(1), sch. 6, item 27
14/2012, ss. 1(2), 4
9/2007, ss. 2, 9(3)
S. 2(1) def. of "disability" amended 30/2004, ss. 52, 53 (2)
S. 2(1) def. of "school" amended 42/2004, ss. 3 (1), 72, sch. 7, pt. 8
S. 6(b) applied 26/2005, ss. 266 (a), 364 (1)
S. 6(g) amended 40/2013, ss. 1(2), 97, sch. 2 pt. 11 item 2
42/2004, ss. 3 (1), 75, sch. 7, pt. 8
Ss. 7(2) (a), 9 (a), saving for. 8/2000, ss. 4 (5), 48
S. 7(4)(a) substituted 14/2012, ss. 1(2), 5(a)
S. 7(5) repealed 14/2012, ss. 1(2), 5(b)
S. 7(5) amended 42/2004, ss. 3 (1), 75, sch. 7, pt. 8
S. 7(5) subsection inserted 30/2004, ss. 40, 53 (2)
S. 8(4) amended 11/2013, ss. 1(2), 72(1), sch. 6, item 27
S. 9 applied 22/2002, ss. 1 (2), 9 (1)
S. 9(i) amended 14/2018, ss. 3(a), 13(4)
S. 9(m) amended 14/2018, ss. 3(b), 13(4)
S. 10(2)(f) amended 14/2018, ss. 4, 13(4)
S. 10(4) designated centre excluded from accounting requirement 6/2009, ss. 1(2), 48(6)(d)
S. 13(3)(a)(ii) deleted 9/2007, ss. 3(a), 9(3)
S. 13(3)(h) deleted 9/2007, ss. 3(a), 9(3)
S. 13(4) deleted 9/2007, ss. 3(b), 9(3)
S. 13(11) amended 33/2004, ss. 3, 4, 61 (1), 63, sch. 2, pt. 1
S. 13(12A) inserted 11/2013, ss. 1(2), 66
S. 13(13) subsec. inserted 9/2007, ss. 3(c), 9(3)
S. 14(2) amended 11/2013, ss. 1(2), 72(1), sch. 6, item 27
S. 15 (2) (d), applic. ext. 22/2000, ss. 1 (2) (3), 19 (1)
S. 15(2)(d) amended 14/2018, ss. 5(a), 13(4)
14/2018, ss. 5(b), 13(4)
Ss. 16, 17 applied 11/2013, ss. 1(2), 44(17)
S. 21, applic. ext. 22/2000, ss. 1 (2) (3), 22 (8)
S. 23 substituted 14/2012, ss. 1(2), 6
S. 23(1)(a) substituted 14/2018, ss. 6(a), 13(4)
S. 23(2)(b) substituted 14/2018, ss. 6(b), 13(4)
S. 24, applied with modifications 8/2001, ss. 1 (2), 42 (5)
S. 24(5)(b)(ii) amended 11/2013, ss. 1(2), 72(1), sch. 6, item 27
S. 24(7)(a) amended 11/2013, ss. 1(2), 72(1), sch. 6, item 27
S. 24(7)(b) amended 11/2013, ss. 1(2), 72(1), sch. 6, item 27
S. 24(7)(b)(ia) inserted 31/2015, ss. 32(a), 34(4)
S. 24(7)(b)(iii) amended 31/2015, ss. 32(b)(i), (ii), 34(4)
S. 24(7)(b)(iv) amended 31/2015, ss. 32(c), 34(4)
S. 24(7)(b)(v) inserted 31/2015, ss. 32(d), 34(4)
S. 24(13) repealed 11/2013, ss. 1(2), 65
Pt. 6 (ss. 25 - 37) establishment day appointed S.I. No. 246 of 2001, art. 2
S. 26, applic. ext. 22/2000, ss. 1 (2) (3), 21(6)
S. 28 (1) (b) cl. deleted 23/2001, ss. 1 (3), 36 (a)
S. 29 substituted 14/2018, ss. 7(1), 13(4)
S. 29 (a) (c), applic. ext. 22/2000, ss. 1 (2) (3), 27
S. 29(1) amended 9/2007, ss. 4(a)(ii), 9(3)
22/2000, ss. 1 (2), 26 (1)
S. 29(1)(c) substituted 9/2007, ss. 4(a)(i), 9(3)
S. 29(4) substituted 9/2007, ss. 4(b), 9(3)
S. 29(4A) substituted 9/2007, ss. 4(b), 9(3)
S. 29(4A), inserted 22/2000, ss. 1 (2) (3), 26 (2)
S. 29(4B) inserted 9/2007, ss. 4(b), 9(3)
S. 29(4C) inserted 9/2007, ss. 4(b), 9(3)
S. 29(4D) inserted 9/2007, ss. 4(b), 9(3)
S. 29(4E) amended 40/2013, ss. 1(2), 97, sch. 2 pt. 11 item 3
S. 29(4E) inserted 9/2007, ss. 4(b), 9(3)
S. 29(7)(b) amended 9/2007, ss. 4(c), 9(3)
S. 29(9), (10) amended 11/2013, ss. 1(2), 72(1), sch. 6, item 27
S. 29(13) subsec. inserted 9/2007, ss. 4(d), 9(3)
S. 29A inserted 14/2018, ss. 7(2), 13(4)
S. 29B inserted 14/2018, ss. 7(2), 13(4)
S. 29C inserted 14/2018, ss. 7(2), 13(4)
S. 29D inserted 14/2018, ss. 7(2), 13(4)
S. 29E inserted 14/2018, ss. 7(2), 13(4)
S. 29F inserted 14/2018, ss. 7(2), 13(4)
S. 32 repealed 14/2012, ss. 1(2), 7
S. 33(g) repealed 14/2018, ss. 12(a), 13(4)
S. 33(j)(iii) amended 40/2013, ss. 1(2), 97, sch. 2 pt. 11 item 4
S. 33(j)(iii), substituted 42/2004, ss. 3 (1), 75 and sch. 7, pt. 8
S. 37A inserted 14/2018, ss. 8, 13(4)
S. 40(1), composition of Council specified S.I. No. 45 of 2003, art. 2 & schedule
S.I. No. 247 of 2001, reg. 2 & schedule
S. 40(4), requirement to give notice to persons under. S.I. No. 245 of 2001, regs. 3, 4, 5
S. 41(2)(da) inserted 28/2012, ss. 1(2), 86 & sch. 3
S. 41(2)(f), procedure for advice given under. 30/2004, ss. 27, 53 (2)
S. 42, organisations designated S.I. No. 344 of 2013, reg. 2
S. 44(4) amended 33/2004, ss. 3, 4, 61 (1), 63, sch. 2, pt. 1
Part 8 (ss. 49 - 53) 47/2012, ss. 1(2), 12(4)
S. 53 bodies prescribed S.I. No. 353 of 2015, regs. 2, 3, schedule
S. 53 substituted 11/2015, s. 7
S. 53 amended 9/2007, ss. 5, 9(3)
S. 54 Educational Research Centre established S.I. No. 392 of 2015, arts. 4, 5
S. 54, National Council for Special Education dissolved 30/2004, ss. 45 (1), 53 (2)
S. 54, National Council for Special Education established S.I. No. 270 of 2004, arts. 4, 5
S. 54, State Examinations Commission established S.I. No. 373 of 2003, arts. 3, 4
S. 54 (6), subsec. substituted 23/2001, ss. 1 (3), 36 (b)
Part 10 (ss. 60-70) inserted 14/2018, ss. 9, 13(4)
S. 24 Education Act 1998 (Unregistered Persons) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 32 of 2014)
S. 33 Education Act 1998 (Publication of Inspection Reports on Schools and Centres for Education) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 153 of 2015)
Education Act 1998 (Publication of Inspection Reports on Schools and Centres for Education) Regulations 2006 (S.I. No. 49 of 2006)
S. 37(6) Education Support Centres (Appointment and Secondment of Directors) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. No. 281 of 2018)
Education Support Centres (Appointment and Secondment of Directors) Regulations 2017 (S.I. No. 394 of 2017)
S. 38 Education Act, 1998 (National Council For Curriculum and Assessment) (Establishment Day) Order 2001 (S.I. No. 246 of 2001)
S. 40 Education Act 1998 (Composition of National Council For Curriculum and Assessment) Order 2009 (S.I. No. 131 of 2009)
S. 40(1) Education Act 1998 (Composition of National Council For Curriculum and Assessment) Order 2003 (S.I. No. 45 of 2003)
Education Act, 1998 (Composition of National Council For Curriculum and Assessment) Order 2001 (S.I. No. 247 of 2001)
S. 40(4) Education Act 1998 (National Council For Curriculum and Assessment) (Appointment of Members) Regulations 2001 (S.I. No. 245 of 2001)
S. 42 Education Act 1998 (Section 42) (Designation of Organisations) Order 2013 (S.I. No. 344 of 2013)
S. 53 Education Act 1998 (Section 53) (Prescribed Public Bodies) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 353 of 2015)
S. 54 Educational Research Centre (Establishment)(Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. No. 309 of 2017)
Educational Research Centre (Establishment) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 392 of 2015)
National Council For Special Education (Establishment) Order 2003 (S.I. No. 270 of 2004)
State Examinations Commission (Establishment) Order 2003 (S.I. No. 373 of 2003)
S. 65 Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018 (Admission Policies and Admission of Students) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 17 of 2020)
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Submerged cathedral
When I arrived in Moscow I remember the bus ride and the window, the passing birches. It was dark but clear and I remember thinking about my travel companions, our entrance to a new forest.
We were left at the big hotel "Universitiet". We were from everywhere: Latinos, Africans, Arabs and Asians. It was like being in a tower of Babel. I remember the window in the room was the size of the wall. From up there, buildings covered the entire landscape and that image appears in my memory in sepia.
The next day I dragged my suitcase around behind a very serious, almost indifferent Russian. It was her obligation to take me places. It was cold and the Peruvian poncho I wore to keep me warm attracted attention. At times I remember the sad gray and opaque colors of the landscape. It was the end of autumn.
The woman stopped in front of a five-story building that looked like a music box. Tens of overlapping melodies with various musical instruments and styles were heard from inside. This was the Tchaikovsky Conservatory Student Residence. There I'd live for a year while studying the Russian language.
I remember that the residence in front was a kindergarten which in turn was next to a nursing home or psychiatric clinic.Very timely! One would think ... like the story of the Argentine violinist who's hands were paralyzed from crossing the street.
One afternoon, Fernando, a good friend of Costa Rica and clarinet student, invited me to a concert at the Moscow Conservatory.
We got off the trolley and walked towards Bolshaya Nikitskaya, the eighteenth century Conservatory building and former manor of a Russian nobleman. At the entrance we saw the statue of Tchaikovsky, covered by a snow skirt. Giggles of laughter ensued among some students. Ah, those Latinos! They laugh at everything!
A crowd of people ran and piled next to the door of the "Great Auditorium of the Moscow Conservatory." There were students from all over the world, but especially Soviets; some rare or eccentric personalities, some with intense inner worlds. They say that the character of the musician depends on the instrument they play and it is true! (to better understand see "Orchestra Rehearsal" by Federico Fellini).
I asked Fernando: Who was the artist? And he told me a name I had never heard. He was a Russian musician who always gave surprise concerts; he was also a student of this Conservatory and teacher.
As the crowd of students pushed the door, we joined the melee. We entered the long corridor with columns and yellow walls. A theater usher directed us to the second floor.
We sat on the balcony in the front row in silent disbelief with our good luck. All around there were whispers and portraits of Russian composers on the walls. On stage there was an old wooden organ and under spotlight, a black grand piano.
Last call. The seats are darkened and in complete silence. A small man, with gray hair, glasses, walks with deliberation to the piano and greets the public. An ovation breaks out which he greets with sobriety and then takes a seat on the velvet lined piano bench.
The silence is different. It is part of the same music. He strikes the chords with strength, accuracy, and the ability to create intensities which become soft, almost imperceptible. I close my eyes.
Leaving the theater we move towards a lonely street and walk a long time without speaking. Then, we hug. It was an event that had changed us.
Fernando said, "What you just heard are the sonatas of Hayden and 'The Sunken Cathedral' of Debussy. And the interpreter, so you don't forget, is called Sviatoslav Richter."
The following year, in 1986, Richter went to Siberia on a tour and is said to have given 150 concerts. He travelled with own piano and played in remote villages without concert halls. They also say that he preferred playing in darkened rooms, with only one lamp lighting the score, so viewers would not be distracted by his gestures or facial expressions.
We walked back to the dorm. At the top was a giant poster of Vladimir Lenin with a red background. The darkness of the road, the light through the birches, the fragile, slippery, dangerous ice, the icy river water. The sound of footsteps in the snow, cold air, the cawing of crows, the breath becomes snow.
Mexico, August, 2015
Translation: Jaleh Ruhe
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Three more minor-leaguers identified
September 7, 2010 (Tuesday)
JEWISH BASEBALL NEWS — The September/October issue of Jewish Sports Review identified three more Jews playing minor-league baseball, all of them right-handed starting pitchers:
Alex Kaminsky, formerly of Wright State University, signed a free-agent contract with the Cleveland Indians in June. In 14 starts with the “rookie-league” Mahoning Valley Scrappers, Kaminsky went 6-5 with a 2.48 ERA and 58 strikeouts in 69 innings. During the “AA” Akron Aeros season finale Monday (9/6/2010) — his lone outing with the team — he pitched 3 scoreless innings, allowing 2 hits and 2 walks while striking out a pair to earn the win. Fellow Jews on the Aeros include SP Eric Berger and 2B Jason Kipnis.
Justin Schumer, who schooled at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, signed a free-agent contract with the San Francisco Giants in July. Since then he has pitched three games for the “rookie-league” AZL Giants and six for the “A-short season” Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, assembling a combined record of 2-0 with a 1.00 ERA and .196 opponent batting average.
Mexico City native Mauricio Tabachnik, 20, is in his third season with the San Diego Padres’ franchise. In 2010, he went 3-4 with a 3.48 ERA, 42 strikeouts and 12 walks for the “A-short season” Eugene Emeralds.
Articles Alex Kaminsky, Justin Schumer, Mauricio Tabachnik
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Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign
Title: Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign
Subject: Frederick Ashworth, Battle of Iwo Jima, Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, Battle of Okinawa, Wallace M. Greene
Collection: 1944 in the Marshall Islands, 1945 in the Marshall Islands, Articles Containing Video Clips, Campaigns of World War II, History of the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean Theatre of World War II, Wars Involving the Marshall Islands
Part of World War II, Pacific War
An SBD Dauntless flies patrol over the USS Washington and USS Lexington during the Gilbert and Marshall islands campaign.
November 1943 – February 1944
Gilbert and Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean
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Kanemitsu
Keiji Shibazaki †
Seizo Ishikawa
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Chūichi Hara
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3,300 dead or missing,
4,830 wounded 21,000 dead,
141 captured
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In the Pacific Theater of World War II, the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, from November 1943 through February 1944, were key strategic operations of the United States Pacific Fleet and Marine Corps in the Central Pacific. The purpose was to establish airfields that would allow land based air support for the upcoming operations across the Central Pacific. The campaign began with a costly three-day battle for the island of Betio at the Tarawa atoll. The campaign was preceded a year earlier by a diversionary raid on Makin Island by U.S. Marines in August 1942.
Japanese bases in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands were the outer perimeter of eastern defenses for the Japanese Empire. The Marianas campaign followed the next summer.
1944 US newsreel about the invasion
The Japanese forces occupied the Gilbert Islands three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. As a provided token defense of Tarawa, they built a seaplane base on Makin and dispersed troops along the coastlines of the atolls to monitor the Allied forces movement in the South Pacific.[1] Following Carlson's Raiders diversionary Makin Island raid of August 1942, the Japanese command was made aware of the vulnerability and strategic significance of the Gilbert Islands.[2] The largest and most strategically important islands of the Gilberts was Tarawa. Fortifications were quickly improved by the Japanese starting in March 1943 with nearly 5,000 troops stationed abroad. An additional 3,000 Special Naval Landing Force and base force troops and 940 naval construction units were supplemented by 1,247 laborers.
By comparison, the Makin islands were held by only a total of 798 combat troops, including some 100 isolated Japanese aviation personnel.[3] General Holland M. Smith, Commanding General of V Amphibious Corps blamed the Carlson raid for the rapid build-up of Japanese forces and staunchly felt, even long after his retirement, that Tarawa should have been bypassed, instead of incurring heavy Marine casualties during the seizure.[1][4] Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Ernest King and Raymond A. Spruance did not agree, and believed that retaking the Gilberts to provide an air base for the next step, the battle for the Marshall Islands, was essential for continued movement toward Japan across the Pacific. The code name for the capture of the Gilberts was Operation Galvanic,[3][4] which called for the seizures of Tarawa, Makin, and Apamama.
^ a b Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. 7; Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls: June 1942–April 1944 (Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 2001).
^ Bruce F. Meyers, Swift, Silent, and Deadly: Marine Amphibious Reconnaissance in the Pacific, 1942–1945, (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2004).
^ a b Benis M. Frank and Henry I. Shaw, Jr., History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II, Vol. 5; Victory and Occupation (New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1990).
^ a b Gen. Holland M. Smith and Perry Finch, Coral and Brass (New York: Viking, 1974, 1976).
Drea, Edward J. (1998). "An Allied Interpretation of the Pacific War". In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army. Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.
Dyer, George Carroll (1956). "The Amphibians Came to Conquer: The Story of Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner". United States Government Printing Office. Retrieved May 5, 2011.
Hoyt, Edwin P. (1978). Storm Over the Gilberts: War in the Central Pacific 1943. Mason/Charter.
Wright III, Burton. Eastern Mandates. World War II Campaign Brochures. Washington, D.C.:
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HomeResourcesBlack Lives Matter in the Workplace, too
Black Lives Matter in the Workplace, too
Debra Wheatman, CPRW, CPCC
Owner and President, Careers Done Write
Career Issues Employees Diversity Employers
I’m sure you’ve noticed the ubiquitous statements against racial inequality in recent days. Such statements are being issued by public organizations, educational and nonprofit institutions, and for-profit companies. These statements are, sorry to say, generally mealy-mouthed in nature. It is very unusual for any entity to come out publicly to disavow both explicit racism and microaggressions. (Kudos to Ben & Jerry’s for taking an aggressive stance.)
The United States was built on slave labor, and that history is something that is still felt more than 400 years after the first slave ships arrived. Overt and covert racism have shaped the business world. Corporate America is predominantly white. Although business leaders understand that racism is divisive, that it brings about the worst in people, and is bad for business, the topic remains taboo in many organizations. And so, by not encouraging meaningful conversations about race in the workplace, companies inflict self-damage through their silence, inaction, and, dare I say, ignorance.
It is not enough to have policies about zero tolerance for workplace racism. That is reactive. Forward-thinking, competitive companies need to be proactive. That means:
Taking an exhaustive look at your culture. Is your culture open and accepting and non-racist? It is? That’s great. Is it also actively anti-racist?
Evaluating your leadership. Are they diverse? Do they represent the world as a whole or just a microcosm?
Looking into implicit and unconscious biases in your hiring practices.
Fostering a culture of open and honest communication, in which people can feel free to voice legitimate concerns without fear of retribution.
For non-minority employees, here’s what you can do:
Check-in with your black colleagues. Don’t just pretend that current events have no impact on them. Don’t just ask them how they feel. Shut up and listen.
Educate yourself. The more informed you are, the less ignorant you become. Learn about the history of systemic racism and white supremacy and how both have informed corporate culture.
Be a vocal advocate. That means calling out racism and microaggressions in real-time. Don’t visit your colleague’s office after the fact to offer your support. That is not enough.
Don’t just be intolerant of racism. Be vehemently anti-racist.
Be empathetic. You don’t, and can’t, understand what it is like to be institutionally marginalized. But you can understand, validate, and identify with the other person’s emotions and perspectives.
Do not tolerate “All Lives Matter.” All lives won’t matter until black lives matter just as much as white lives do.
We like to pretend that personal beliefs, biases, and inclinations do not make their way into the workplace. They absolutely do. The onus of ensuring that repugnant views are not tolerated in the workplace is up to both management and employees. #BlackLivesMatter
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Nuclear Ban – at the national level
Nuclear Ban – at the…
Legislation in the US Congress
The Norton Bill (H.R. 2419)
calls on the US government to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, eliminate its nuclear weapons along with those of the other 8 nuclear armed nations, and use the money saved to address climate change and other urgent social needs. This Bill thus covers everything we are asking for! Despite having a very low chance of passing, this Bill is an opportunity to raise awareness of the issues and to get members of Congress to support as co-sponsors.
Sponsors so far:
Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (Washington, DC)
Rep. Jim McGovern (Western Mass.)
Call for co-sponsors:
We are asking all 98 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus to co-sponsor this Bill, especially focusing on those who have already signed the Green New Deal resolution and/or supported other bills and resolutions to address the danger of nuclear weapons.
Green New Deal Resolution (H.Res. 109/ S.Res. 59)
calls on the US government to implement a Green New Deal with a 10-year national mobilization to address climate change and create millions of jobs.
Other Nuclear Weapons Legislation in the US Congress
The ICAN Parliamentary, or Legislative, Pledge commits law-makers throughout the world to try to get their country to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. More than 1,000 elected members of parliament and members of Congress around the world have so far signed the pledge, including more than 200 in Italy, nearly 200 in the UK and dozens in Australia, Germany, Spain and elsewhere.
So far, members of the US Congress who have signed the pledge are:
Keith Ellison (no longer in Congress)
Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC)
Jim McGovern (MA)
Betty McCollum (MN)
Barbara Lee (CA)
Carolyn Mahoney (NY)
Earl Blumenauer (OR)
Call to Sign the ICAN Pledge
Presidential Candidates’ Pledge
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"Satchmo, Take Two: Louis Armstrong at the Movies"
ghost of miles posted a topic in Jazz Radio & Podcasts
Louis Armstrong was a legendary innovative trumpeter, a vocalist who had a profound impact on jazz singing, and a dynamic entertainer--and he got a chance to showcase all these aspects of his talent in 28 full-length films and several short features in which he appeared between 1931 and 1969. We'll celebrate Armstrong's birthday this weekend with a program that includes music from the films New Orleans, High Society, A Man Called Adam, The Five Pennies, and more, including the outtake "Ain't It the Truth" from Cabin in the Sky. You can also watch movie clips of Armstrong and Billie Holiday doing "Farewell to Storyville" as well as the Paris Blues battle scene with Sidney Poitier and Paul Newman on the "shows" page of the new Night Lights website. "Satchmo, Take Two" airs this evening on Armstrong's birthday at 11:05 p.m. EST on WFIU and at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville. It will also air tomorrow evening at 10 p.m. EST on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio. The program will be available for online listening Monday morning on the new Night Lights "Shows" page. Next week: "The King at Midpoint: Benny Carter."
"Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong" by Ricky Riccardi
EKE BBB posted a topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
Published by Oxford University Press https://www.amazon.es/Heart-Full-Rhythm-Armstrong-English-ebook/dp/B08DYC3DT5/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_es_ES=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&dchild=1&keywords=riccardi+ricky&qid=1601967043&sr=8-1 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/heart-full-of-rhythm-9780190914110?cc=us&lang=en&# Description Nearly 50 years after his death, Louis Armstrong remains one of the 20th century's most iconic figures. Popular fans still appreciate his later hits such as "Hello, Dolly!" and "What a Wonderful World," while in the jazz community, he remains venerated for his groundbreaking innovations in the 1920s. The achievements of Armstrong's middle years, however, possess some of the trumpeter's most scintillating and career-defining stories. But the story of this crucial time has never been told in depth — until now. Between 1929 and 1947, Armstrong transformed himself from a little-known trumpeter in Chicago to an internationally renowned pop star, setting in motion the innovations of the Swing Era and Bebop. He had a similar effect on the art of American pop singing, waxing some of his most identifiable hits such as "Jeepers Creepers" and "When You're Smiling." However as author Ricky Riccardi shows, this transformative era wasn't without its problems, from racist performance reviews and being held up at gunpoint by gangsters to struggling with an overworked embouchure and getting arrested for marijuana possession. Utilizing a prodigious amount of new research, Riccardi traces Armstrong's mid-career fall from grace and dramatic resurgence. Featuring never-before-published photographs and stories culled from Armstrong's personal archives, Heart Full of Rhythm tells the story of how the man called "Pops" became the first "King of Pop." Table of Contents Prologue - Bigger Than Jazz 1. "There's a New King" - March 1929 2. "If Louis Did It, It Must Be Right - April-December 1929 3. "I Break It Up Everywhere I Play" - December 1929-May 1930 4. "He Would Just Amaze You" - June-November 1930 5. "Just One of the Cats" - November 1930-May 1931 6. "I Done Got Northern-fied" - May-August 1931 7. "They Admit You with a Smile" - September-November 1931 8. "An Artist of Eminence" - December 1931-June 1932 9. "The Real Test is Entertainment" - July-November 1932 10. "Always a Way, Man" - November 1932-June 1933 11. "What the Hell is Wrong with Louis Armstrong?" - July 1933-June 1935 12. "A Much Improved Salesman" - June-December 1935 13. "Swing Is My Bread and Butter" - January-December 1936 14. "A Boom to the Colored Race" - January-June 1937 15. "Just Glad to See Us" - July 1937-May 1938 16. "A Solid Man for Comedy" - May 1938-December 1939 17. "He is Like the Armstrong of the Old Days" - January 1940-July 1941 18. "I Never Tried to Be God" - July 1941-July 1942 19. "A Little Higher on the Horse" - August 1942-December 1943 20. "A Great Deal Less Than Grown Up" - January-December 1944 21. "Why Should I Go Back?" - January 1945-December 1945 22. "We Really Did Romp" - January 1946-February 1947 23. "Ain't No Music Out of Date as Long as You Play It Perfect" - 1947 Epilogue - I Can't Give You Anything But Love
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Mosaic Father's Day Sale
alankin posted a topic in Mosaic and other box sets...
Mosaic has a Father's day sale until June 19th for two boxes by Armstrong and Hines. ("Pops" and "Fatha" - get it ) The Columbia and RCA Victor Live Recordings of Louis Armstrong and the All Stars (#257, 9 CDs) now $129 (regularly $149) http://www.mosaicrecords.com/prodinfo.asp?number=257-MD-CD Classic Earl Hines Sessions 1928-1945 (#254, 7 CDs) now $99 (regularly $119) http://www.mosaicrecords.com/prodinfo.asp?number=254-MD-CD How do you like these sets?
"It's All in the Game: Louis Armstrong 1947-57"
This weekend's Night Lights Louis Armstrong program is up, featuring lots of music from Armstrong's 1947-57 period (including the bebopper parody of "The Whiffenpoof Song") and interviews with jazz writer Dan Morgenstern and historian Michael McGerr: It's All in the Game: Louis Armstrong, 1947-57 The program page also includes about half a dozen outtakes from my interviews with Dan and Michael, as well as a segment on Louis and Jack Teagarden that had to be removed from the final version of the program, and a slide show featuring several William Gottlieb photographs of Armstrong (as well as a revelation about the cover of the AMBASSADOR SATCH album ). A happy Fourth of July holiday weekend to all.
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Chemical compound
Preferred IUPAC name
Ethenylbenzene[1]
Styrene[1]
Vinylbenzene
Phenylethene
Phenylethylene
Cinnamene
Styrol
Diarex HF 77
Styrolene
Styropol
100-42-5 Y
3D model (JSmol)
Interactive image
CHEBI:27452 Y
ChEMBL285235 Y
7220 Y
ECHA InfoCard 100.002.592
C07083 N
RTECS number
WL3675000
44LJ2U959V Y
CompTox Dashboard (EPA)
DTXSID2021284
InChI=1S/C8H8/c1-2-8-6-4-3-5-7-8/h2-7H,1H2 Y
Key: PPBRXRYQALVLMV-UHFFFAOYSA-N Y
c1ccccc1C=C
Appearance colorless oily liquid
Odor sweet, floral[2]
Density 0.909 g/cm3
Melting point -30 °C (-22 °F; 243 K)
Boiling point 145 °C (293 °F; 418 K)
Solubility in water
0.03% (20 °C)[2]
log P 2.70[3]
Vapor pressure 5 mmHg (20 °C)[2]
Magnetic susceptibility (χ)
Refractive index (nD)
Viscosity 0.762 cP at 20 °C
Dipole moment
Main hazards flammable, toxic, probably carcinogenic
Safety data sheet MSDS
R-phrases (outdated) R10 R36
S-phrases (outdated) S38 S20 S23
NFPA 704 (fire diamond)
Flash point 31 °C (88 °F; 304 K)
Explosive limits 0.9-6.8%[2]
Lethal dose or concentration (LD, LC):
LC50 (median concentration)
2194 ppm (mouse, 4 h)
5543 ppm (rat, 4 h)[4]
LCLo (lowest published)
10,000 ppm (human, 30 min)
NIOSH (US health exposure limits):
PEL (Permissible)
TWA 100 ppm C 200 ppm 600 ppm (5-minute maximum peak in any 3 hours)[2]
REL (Recommended)
TWA 50 ppm (215 mg/m3)
ST 100 ppm (425 mg/m3)[2]
IDLH (Immediate danger)
700 ppm[2]
Related compounds
Related styrenes;
related aromatic compounds
polystyrene, stilbene;
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Styrene [5] is an organic compound with the chemical formula C6H5CH=CH2. This derivative of benzene is a colorless oily liquid, although aged samples can appear yellowish. The compound evaporates easily and has a sweet smell, although high concentrations have a less pleasant odor. Styrene is the precursor to polystyrene and several copolymers. Approximately 25 million tonnes of styrene were produced in 2010,[6] increasing to around 35 million tonnes by 2018.
Natural occurrence
Styrene is named after storax balsam, the resin of Liquidambar trees of the Altingiaceae plant family. Styrene occurs naturally in small quantities in some plants and foods (cinnamon, coffee beans, balsam trees[disambiguation needed] and peanuts)[7] and is also found in coal tar.
In 1839, the German apothecary Eduard Simon isolated a volatile liquid from the resin (called storax or styrax (Latin)) of the American sweetgum tree (Liquidambar styraciflua). He called the liquid "styrol" (now styrene).[8][9] He also noticed that when styrol was exposed to air, light, or heat, it gradually transformed into a hard, rubber-like substance, which he called "styrol oxide".[10] By 1845, the German chemist August Hofmann and his student John Blyth had determined styrene's empirical formula: C8H8.[11] They had also determined that Simon's "styrol oxide" - which they renamed "metastyrol" - had the same empirical formula as styrene.[12] Furthermore, they could obtain styrene by dry-distilling "metastyrol".[13] In 1865, the German chemist Emil Erlenmeyer found that styrene could form a dimer,[14] and in 1866 the French chemist Marcelin Berthelot stated that "metastyrol" was a polymer of styrene (i.e. polystyrene).[15] Meanwhile, other chemists had been investigating another component of storax, namely, cinnamic acid. They had found that cinnamic acid could be decarboxylated to form "cinnamene" (or "cinnamol"), which appeared to be styrene. In 1845, French chemist Emil Kopp suggested that the two compounds were identical,[16] and in 1866, Erlenmeyer suggested that both "cinnamol" and styrene might be vinylbenzene.[17] However, the styrene that was obtained from cinnamic acid seemed different from the styrene that was obtained by distilling storax resin: the latter was optically active.[18] Eventually, in 1876, the Dutch chemist van 't Hoff resolved the ambiguity: the optical activity of the styrene that was obtained by distilling storax resin was due to a contaminant.[19]
From ethylbenzene
The vast majority of styrene is produced from ethylbenzene,[20] and almost all ethylbenzene produced worldwide is intended for styrene production. As such, the two production processes are often highly integrated. Ethylbenzene is produced via a Friedel-Crafts reaction between benzene and ethylene; originally this used aluminum chloride as a catalyst, but in modern production this has been replaced by zeolites.
By dehydrogenation
Around 80% of styrene is produced by the dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene. This is achieved using superheated steam (up to 600 °C) over an iron(III) oxide catalyst.[21] The reaction is highly endothermic and reversible, with a typical yield of 88-94%.
The crude ethylbenzene/styrene product is then purified by distillation. As the difference in boiling points between the two compounds is only 9 °C at ambient pressure this necessitates the use of a series of distillation columns. This is energy intensive and is further complicated by the tendency of styrene to undergo thermally induced polymerisation into polystyrene,[22] requiring the continuous addition of polymerization inhibitor to the system.
Via ethylbenzene hydroperoxide
Styrene is also co-produced commercially in a process known as POSM (Lyondell Chemical Company) or SM/PO (Shell) for styrene monomer / propylene oxide. In this process, ethylbenzene is treated with oxygen to form the ethylbenzene hydroperoxide. This hydroperoxide is then used to oxidize propylene to propylene oxide, which is also recovered as a co-product. The remaining 1-phenylethanol is dehydrated to give styrene:
Other industrial routes
Pyrolysis gasoline extraction
Extraction from pyrolysis gasoline is performed on a limited scale.[20]
From toluene and methanol
Styrene can be produced from toluene and methanol, which are cheaper raw materials than those in the conventional process. This process has suffered from low selectivity associated with the competing decomposition of methanol.[23] Exelus Inc. claims to have developed this process with commercially viable selectivities, at 400-425 °C and atmospheric pressure, by forcing these components through a proprietary zeolitic catalyst. It is reported[24] that an approximately 9:1 mixture of styrene and ethylbenzene is obtained, with a total styrene yield of over 60%.[25]
From benzene and ethane
Another route to styrene involves the reaction of benzene and ethane. This process is being developed by Snamprogetti and Dow. Ethane, along with ethylbenzene, is fed to a dehydrogenation reactor with a catalyst capable of simultaneously producing styrene and ethylene. The dehydrogenation effluent is cooled and separated and the ethylene stream is recycled to the alkylation unit. The process attempts to overcome previous shortcomings in earlier attempts to develop production of styrene from ethane and benzene, such as inefficient recovery of aromatics, production of high levels of heavies and tars, and inefficient separation of hydrogen and ethane. Development of the process is ongoing.[26]
Laboratory synthesis
A laboratory synthesis of styrene entails the decarboxylation of cinnamic acid:[27]
C6H5CH=CHCO2H -> C6H5CH=CH2 + CO2
Styrene was first prepared by this method.[28]
The presence of the vinyl group allows styrene to polymerize. Commercially significant products include polystyrene, ABS, styrene-butadiene (SBR) rubber, styrene-butadiene latex, SIS (styrene-isoprene-styrene), S-EB-S (styrene-ethylene/butylene-styrene), styrene-divinylbenzene (S-DVB), styrene-acrylonitrile resin (SAN), and unsaturated polyesters used in resins and thermosetting compounds. These materials are used in rubber, plastic, insulation, fiberglass, pipes, automobile and boat parts, food containers, and carpet backing.
Explosive autopolymerisation
Styrene will polymerise spontaneously to polystyrene, without the need of external initiators.[29] This is known as autopolymerisation, and will take place at ambient temperatures and above. At 100 °C it will polymerise at a rate of ~2% per hour, and more rapidly than this at higher temperatures.[22] The polymerisation reaction is exothermic; hence, there is a real risk of thermal runaway and explosion. An example is the 2019 explosion of the tanker Stolt Groenland; in this incident 5,250 metric tons of styrene monomer detonated while the ship was docked in Ulsan, Republic of Korea. The autopolymerisation reaction can only be kept in check by the continuous addition of polymerisation inhibitors.
Styrene is regarded as a "known carcinogen", especially in case of eye contact, but also in case of skin contact, of ingestion and of inhalation, according to several sources.[20][30][31][32] Styrene is largely metabolized into styrene oxide in humans, resulting from oxidation by cytochrome P450. Styrene oxide is considered toxic, mutagenic, and possibly carcinogenic. Styrene oxide is subsequently hydrolyzed in vivo to styrene glycol by the enzyme epoxide hydrolase.[33] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has described styrene to be "a suspected toxin to the gastrointestinal tract, kidney, and respiratory system, among others".[34][35] On 10 June 2011, the U.S. National Toxicology Program has described styrene as "reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen".[36][37] However, a STATS author describes[38] a review that was done on scientific literature and concluded that "The available epidemiologic evidence does not support a causal relationship between styrene exposure and any type of human cancer".[39] Despite this claim, work has been done by Danish researchers to investigate the relationship between occupational exposure to styrene and cancer. They concluded, "The findings have to be interpreted with caution, due to the company based exposure assessment, but the possible association between exposures in the reinforced plastics industry, mainly styrene, and degenerative disorders of the nervous system and pancreatic cancer, deserves attention".[40] In 2012, the Danish EPA concluded that the styrene data do not support a cancer concern for styrene.[41] The U.S. EPA does not have a cancer classification for styrene,[42] but it has been the subject of their Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program.[43] The National Toxicology Program of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has determined that styrene is "reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen".[44] Various regulatory bodies refer to styrene, in various contexts, as a possible or potential human carcinogen. The International Agency for Research on Cancer considers styrene to be "probably carcinogenic to humans".[45][46]
The neurotoxic[47] properties of styrene have also been studied and reported effects include effects on vision[48] (although unable to reproduce in a subsequent study[49]) and on hearing functions.[50][51][52][53] Studies on rats have yielded contradictory results,[51][52] but epidemiologic studies have observed a synergistic interaction with noise in causing hearing difficulties.[54][55][56]
On 7 May 2020, a gas, reported to be styrene, leaked from a tank at the LG Chem (LG Polymers India Private Limited) plant at RR Venkatapuram, Visakhapatnam, Andra Pradesh, India. The leak occurred in the early morning hours while workers were preparing to reopen the plant, which was closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thirteen people reportedly died and over 200 people were hospitalized.[57][58]
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^ Simon, E. (1839) "Ueber den flüssigen Storax (Styrax liquidus)" (On liquid storax (Styrax liquidus), Annalen der Chemie, 31 : 265-277. From p. 268: "Das flüchtige Oel, für welches ich den Namen Styrol vorschlage, ... " (The volatile oil, for which I suggest the name "styrol", ... )
^ For further details of the history of styrene, see: F. W. Semmler, Die ätherischen Öle nach ihren chemischen Bestandteilen unter Berücksichtigung der geschichtlichen Entwicklung [The volatile liquids according to their chemical components with regard to historical development], vol. 4 (Leipzig, Germany, Veit & Co., 1907), § 327. Styrol, pp. 24-28. Archived 1 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine
^ (Simon, 1839), p. 268. From p. 268: "Für den festen Rückstand würde der Name Styroloxyd passen." (For the solid residue, the name "styrol oxide" would fit.)
^ See:
Blyth, John; Hofmann, Aug. Wilhelm (1845a). "On styrole, and some of the products of its decomposition". Memoirs and Proceedings of the Chemical Society of London. 2: 334-358. doi:10.1039/mp8430200334. Archived from the original on 1 May 2018. ; see p. 339.
Reprinted in: Blyth, John; Hofmann, Aug. Wilhelm (August 1845b). "On styrole, and some of the products of its decomposition". Philosophical Magazine. 3rd series. 27 (178): 97-121. doi:10.1080/14786444508645234. ; see p. 102.
German translation: Blyth, John; Hofmann, Aug. Wilh. (1845c). "Ueber das Styrol und einige seiner Zersetzungsproducte" [On styrol and some of its decomposition products]. Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie (in German). 53 (3): 289-329. doi:10.1002/jlac.18450530302. ; see p. 297.
Note that Blyth and Hofmann state the empirical formula of styrene as C16H8 because at that time, some chemists used the wrong atomic mass for carbon (6 instead of 12).
^ (Blyth and Hofmann, 1845a), p. 348. From p. 348: "Analysis as well as synthesis has equally proved that styrol and the vitreous mass (for which we propose the name of metastyrol) possess the same constitution per cent."
^ (Blyth and Hofmann, 1845a), p. 350.
^ Erlenmeyer, Emil (1865) "Ueber Distyrol, ein neues Polymere des Styrols" (On distyrol, a new polymer of styrol), Annalen der Chemie, 135 : 122-123.
^ Berthelot, M. (1866) "Sur les caractères de la benzine et du styrolène, comparés avec ceux des autres carbures d'hydrogène" (On the characters of benzene and styrene, compared with those of other hydrocarbons), Bulletin de la Société Chimique de Paris, 2nd series, 6 : 289-298. From p. 294: "On sait que le styrolène chauffé en vase scellé à 200°, pendant quelques heures, se change en un polymère résineux (métastyrol), et que ce polymère, distillé brusquement, reproduit le styrolène." (One knows that styrene [when] heated in a sealed vessel at 200 °C, for several hours, is changed into a resinous polymer (metastyrol), and that this polymer, [when] distilled abruptly, reproduces styrene.)
^ Kopp, E. (1845), "Recherches sur l'acide cinnamique et sur le cinnamène" Archived 8 November 2016 at the Wayback Machine (Investigations of cinnamic acid and cinnamen), Comptes rendus, 21 : 1376-1380. From p. 1380: "Je pense qu'il faudra désormais remplacer le mot de styrol par celui de cinnamène, et le métastyrol par le métacinnamène." (I think that henceforth one will have to replace the word "styrol" with that of "cinnamène", and "metastyrol" with "metacinnamène".)
^ Erlenmeyer, Emil (1866) "Studien über die s.g. aromatischen Säuren" (Studies of the so-called aromatic acids), Annalen der Chemie, 137 : 327-359; see p. 353.
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^ van 't Hoff, J. H. (1876) "Die Identität von Styrol und Cinnamol, ein neuer Körper aus Styrax" (The identity of styrol and cinnamol, a new substance from styrax), Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft, 9 : 5-6.
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The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was a World War II-era fighter aircraft produced by the United States from 1941 through 1945. Its primary armament was eight .50-caliber machine guns and in the fighter-bomber ground-attack role, it could carry five-inch rockets or a bomb load of 2,500 pounds (1,103 kg). When fully loaded the P-47 weighed up to eight tons (tonnes) making it one of the heaviest fighters of the war. The P-47 was designed around the powerful Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine which was also used by two U.S. Navy fighters, the Grumman F6F Hellcat and the Vought F4U Corsair. The Thunderbolt was effective as a short-to-medium range escort fighter in high-altitude air-to-air combat and ground attack in both the World War II European and Pacific theatres.
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Rogers science opens doors to public
By Max Kaczynski on January 28, 2013 in Campus News Old
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As the new semester began, many students on campus were rewarded with a new academic building. Rogers Science and Health, which is now home to every science and mathematics student, is officially open. Students from every major flooded the new facility to finally see what construction workers have been up to for over a year.
After interviewing multiple students and faculty, the overall consensus was that Rogers is an impressive landmark on campus. Dr. Greg Pillar, environmental science and chemistry professor, said, “It’s sort of like a kid on Christmas morning. There’s a lot in this building that you want to just start playing around with, but you have to restrain yourself because you have other things you have to do.”
The building is full of unique features, including a green house, state of the art labs and projectors.
“What I really like about the new building is that it has spaces for mingling and associating,” said Dr. Jessica Braswell, a sixth-year environmental science professor.
Students have multiple options on every floor to study, whether alone or with a group.
“It doesn’t feel like an institutional building,” said mathematics professor Mike Tarabek. “It feels like more of a communal-type space. It just feels like a place to be, not just a place to be sent.”
Students are also enjoying the building as much as the professors. When asked about their favorite part of the new building, junior Alex Stocking answered with excitement, “Definitely labs and the fact that they have a lot more independent study rooms.”
Rogers has given students more resources to further their education. Senior Steven Saenz stated, “I was excited to see everything new.”
Walker Science has been out of date for years. Tarabek commented on the building, saying “Science has progressed a lot since the building was completed in the mid 60s, and the building just wasn’t able to keep up.”
“Walker Science was not laid out in a way that all allowed us to maximize our teaching effectiveness,” said Braswell. “In many ways, we were constrained by the shape of the room, or the way the lab benches were stuck to the floor so you couldn’t do everything that you wanted to do because you were constrained by the shape, arrangement and orientation of the room.”
Although Rogers may seem close to perfect, there are some drawbacks. According to Saenz, students do not have individual desks in the classrooms, so it becomes hard to view the Smart Boards without having to move your body.
Pillar commented on a few mistakes. “Small things here and there had to be changed during construction because it looked good while planning but when constructed, it didn’t work.”
Pillar also mentioned how he was a little disappointed on how the faculty offices seemed separated from the students and lab rooms.
Overall, professors and students appear to be excited about the opportunities Rogers Science and Health will bring.
“I think it’s going to become a center for our campus,” said Tarabek. “I think it’s going to become something that we take pride in for many years. I think it’s going to be a draw to the campus and Charlotte itself.”
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Statue of Sri Chinmoy Dedicated in Vaasa, Finland
A statue of Sri Chinmoy holding the World Harmony Run Torch was dedicated in Finland on Sunday June 13, 2010. The statue is located in a park on the outskirts of the city of Vaasa on the west coast of Finland overlooking the Bothnian Bay. Vaasa is a bilingual city with street signs in Finnish and Swedish and about 1/4 of the city’s residents speak Swedish rather than Finnish. The Vaasa Sri Chinmoy Centre has a long affiliation with this park as there is a Sri Chinmoy Peace Mile with a plaque located in the park and the Centre’s Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team also holds 2 mile races in the park.
Sculpted by British artist Kaivalya Torpy, the life-size statue of World Harmony Run founder Sri Chinmoy is the second in the world to be dedicated in which the visionary is depicted holding a World Harmony Run Torch. The first such statue is located in Mazatlan Mexico.
The statue in the park in a photo at 11 pm. At this time of year truly the land of the Midnight Sun.
Local park officials, politicians and members of the Vaasa and Helsinki Sri Chinmoy Centres joined together for the dedication. Sri Chinmoy Centre members from other countries such as Norway, Sweden, Russia, Italy, Czech Republic, England, Estonia, Austria and the United States were also present at the statue unveiling in the park.
World Harmony Runners representing Russia ran into the park with the Torch and a musical group from the Czech republic sang a song composed by Sri Chinmoy about the country of Finland.
The large nature attraction, called Sand Bay Park in English, contains tall trees and winding paths through the woods for hiking and biking. A beach pavilion is nearby and there are benches interspersed throughout the park providing views out over the water. The statue is located close to a Villa and gazebo available for rental for group functions and meetings. Participants gathered after the ceremony to share a meal and cake in the Villa nearby the statue.
Later that evening, a Songs of the Soul Concert was held in a concert hall in dowtown Vaasa with performances by Sangit Desh and Agnikana’s Group.
View more photos of the statue in Finland at Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries.
Plaque for Statue of Sri Chinmoy in Finland
Author sharaniPosted on June 17, 2010 June 17, 2010 Categories Sri Chinmoy, world harmony Run2 Comments on Statue of Sri Chinmoy Dedicated in Vaasa, Finland
Tribute to World Harmony Leader Sri Chinmoy Dedicated in Puerto Rico
World harmony leader Sri Chinmoy’s lifetime of service to bettering the world was recognized last week in Caguas, Puerto Rico when a 2 metre high statue was dedicated in the Botanical and Cultural Garden of Caguas. The life-sized statue sculpted by British artist Kaivalya Torpy depicts Sri Chinmoy in a dhoti with hands raised in prayer and joins other statues previously dedicated around the world in places such as Bali, Norway and Mexico.
The Mayor of Caguas, William Miranda Marin, received the World Harmony Run Torch and was presented with the Torchbearer Award by Run organizers. During the ceremony, Mayor Marin stated, “Sri Chinmoy will live for eternity…It is a privilege for us to have this beautiful statue of Sri Chinmoy in these gardens. We are subscribers to the same philosophy that Sri Chinmoy promoted during more than 40 years of his service to humanity.”
An international choir performed songs composed by Sri Chinmoy in honour of Puerto Rico and a procession of representatives displayed the many nations represented within the group of Sri Chinmoy’s students in attendance.
Those present from the Sri Chinmoy Centres International found it significant and appropriate that a statue be dedicated in the place where his worldwide mission began. Sri Chinmoy founded his first centre for meditation in Puerto Rico in 1966 – they now cover the globe.
The statue is located in a corner of the botanical garden ringed with trees and near a small brook. It will serve as a grove for reflection and cultural activities for the garden’s many visitors.
Author sharaniPosted on February 21, 2010 Categories Sri Chinmoy, tributes, world harmony Run1 Comment on Tribute to World Harmony Leader Sri Chinmoy Dedicated in Puerto Rico
World Harmony Run and Statue of Sri Chinmoy in Mazatlan Mexico
A life-sized bronze statue of World Harmony Run founder Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007) depicted holding a World Harmony Run torch was inaugurated in a festive ceremony on the evening of November 26, 2009 in Mazatlan, Mexico.
The statue is right on the coast of the Pacific Ocean ringed by palm trees in a location adjacent to a coastal plaza featuring other statues and lookouts over the ocean. Eventually its environs will be landscaped with benches and will include additional information about the late spiritual leader’s contributions in various fields.
Other statues by the same sculptor, British artist Kaivalya Torpy, are located in Norway, Bali and the Czech Republic. The statue unveiled in Mazatlan is the first in the Americas and the first ever of the spiritual leader holding a torch — the symbol of the World Harmony Run.
The Mayor of Mazatlan Jorge Abel Lopez Sanchez was in attendance to unveil the statue and he was presented with the World Harmony Run Torch Bearer Award during the ceremony. Students of Sri Chinmoy representing various countries also were in attendance. The Mazatlan Fire Department Band and Gymnastics Team performed a stirring drum and trumpet performance and ascended heavenward with gravity defying human pyramid formations. The World Harmony Run torch was held aloft from atop one such human pyramid.
Activities continued the following day with visits by the World Harmony Run to three elementary schools culminating in the school children running the torch to the foot of the statue where they were greeted by the Secretary of the Mayor.
A World Harmony Run ceremony including school children also visited a large Mazatlan shopping mall where Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artwork was on exhibit inside the mall.
The local daily newspaper Noroeste featured an article about the statue dedication in the November 28th edition of the paper and a second article about the World Harmony Run festivities also appeared on the sports page in the same day’s paper.
Read more at WorldHarmonyRun.org.
Author sharaniPosted on December 3, 2009 October 5, 2011 Categories Sri Chinmoy, world harmony Run2 Comments on World Harmony Run and Statue of Sri Chinmoy in Mazatlan Mexico
British-French Joy Weekend in France
On the weekend of September 26-27, the Marseille Sri Chinmoy Centre hosted a British-French Joy Day Weekend. Members of the British, French, Irish, and Italian Sri Chinmoy Centres gathered in Villeneuve-Loubet on the south coast of France for a weekend of meditation, fun and music.
The beautiful venue for the British-French Joy Day on the Cote D’Azur drew additional visitors from varied countries – Singapore, the U.S., Canada, Australia, Iceland and Switzerland to name a few. All functions, meals and meditations were held outside in a vacation apartment residence with a view of the Mediterranean from the apartment balconies. The beach and sea – walking distance from the apartments – served as a delightful venue for games and swimming.
Games on the Beach on the Coast of France
Performances included three magic acts – Robert from Prague, Czech Republic, Tulasi from Wien, Austria and Oindrajalik from Marseille, France.
Three Magicians Perform at French Joy Day
Musicians from France, the UK and Italy performed and a humorous play with Sahadeva, Devashishu and Suswara helped put the joy in “Joy Day”. An early morning race in a local nature park rounded out the Joy Day festivities.
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From Bali to New York – Sri Chinmoy’s Birth Anniversary Observed
In locations as far apart as Bali and New York City, Sri Chinmoy’s students observed the 2009 anniversary of his August 27th birthday through prayer, meditation, singing and athletics.
Bali – Ceremony at Statue of Sri Chinmoy
The Bali Sri Chinmoy Centre and ARMA staff observed Sri Chinmoy’s birth anniversary on the afternoon of August 27th in Ubud on the island of Bali. They gathered for meditation at the foot of a statue of Sri Chinmoy first dedicated there in February 2009. The life-size bronze sculpture of the late spiritual leader was sculpted by British artist Kaivalya Torpy.
Ceremony at Sri Chinmoy statue in Bali
The statue was adorned with a flower garland and orchids for the ceremony. Each person also prayerfully placed a flower in front of the statue.
Participants meditated and sang some English songs composed by Sri Chinmoy. The words to one of the songs:
“Affection, Love, Sweetness, Fondness, God has for me. Every day I live and grow under His protection tree.”
-Sri Chinmoy
Tumpeng Yellow Rice
Afterwards, the Tumpeng was cut (traditional Indonesian yellow rice shaped in a cone) and traditional Balinese cakes were also offered as prasad.
New York – August Celebrations
In Jamaica Queens, New York, Sri Chinmoy Centre members from over 50 countries gathered to observe the August 27th birthday of Sri Chinmoy. This year more than 1,500 visitors from countries across the globe shared meditation, musical performances, plays, and athletic activities over a two-week period.
For the first time during August Celebrations, a poetry festival was held paying tribute to the tremendous legacy of devotional poetry written by Sri Chinmoy. Professors lectured on his literary contributions and his work was recited in both English and Bengali, his native tongue.
Other activities traditionally shared during August Celebrations in New York included a public marathon hosted by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team in Rockland State Park, New York; a public Songs of the Soul Concert at the New York University Skirball Center in Greenwich Village and the setting of a Guinness World Record on August 27th, Sri Chinmoy’s birthday, by Ashrita Furman and an international team of helpers. This year’s record was the creation of the world’s largest lollipop.
Author sharaniPosted on September 28, 2009 Categories Sri ChinmoyLeave a comment on From Bali to New York – Sri Chinmoy’s Birth Anniversary Observed
World’s Largest Lollipop
August 27, 2009. On the occasion of Sri Chinmoy’s birth anniversary, New Yorker Ashrita Furman unveiled the world’s largest lollipop with a weight of 6,706 pounds (3041 kg). It surpasses the previous Guinness World Record for a giant lollipop by almost 2,000 pounds (907 kg). Ashrita Furman, holder of the most Guinness records, was the architect behind the feat accompanied by an international team of over 25 assistants.
World's Largest Lollipop – Photo by Jowan Gauthier
The 6,706 pound (3041 kg) lollipop is 10 feet (3 m) in diameter and 10 inches (25 cm) thick. The huge red candy is made of sugar and corn syrup, which was melted in hundred 100-gallon (380 litre) pots. Including the stick it has the height of 25 feet (7.50 m). This size ensures Ashrita Furman a new entry into the Guinness Book, because the previous largest lollipop was 4,759 pounds (2158 kg).
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Author sharaniPosted on September 12, 2009 September 13, 2009 Categories ashrita, Ashrita Furman, Sri Chinmoy's students4 Comments on World’s Largest Lollipop
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Madison/Black Earth – William Hollis Putnam died at home, surrounded by his family, in Black Earth, Wisconsin on January 27th, 2019 at age 77, after a courageous battle with the blood cancer, MDS (Myelodysplastic Syndrome).
Bill was born in Madison, Wisconsin on July 17, 1941, to Willard H. Putnam and Mary Elizabeth (O’Brien) Putnam. He attended St Raphael and Blessed Sacrament Grade Schools and Edgewood High School. He graduated from Milton College in February of 1965, with a double major in History & English. He also did graduate work at UW-Madison. He was united in marriage on June 6, 1964, to Patricia Barnes and they had two children, William and Rachel.
Bill shared his love of history when he began teaching at Madison Central High School from February, 1966 until the school closed in June, 1969. He coached hockey, including Central’s City Championship Team in 1969. Bill was on the faculty at West Junior High School for two years, and then taught US history at West Senior High from the fall of 1971 until his retirement in June, 1999. Bill held his students to very high standards. He guided them on how to take notes, write essays, term papers and grasp complex concepts such as ETHOS. He had the ability to reach students who felt marginalized or who needed additional resources to succeed. He was famous for his “Scholars’ Row”: and for making his class fun to be a part of, even if your interests did not revolve around history. There was never a dull moment in Room 234, especially when sending students searching for a board stretcher or 100 feet of shoreline. Bill’s students knew he cared for each of them as an individual and always made everyone feel accepted and respected. He encouraged respectful discourse in differing political and social points of view.
Bill also coached hockey and soccer for West from 1975 to 1982. Through his teaching and coaching, Bill positively influenced thousands of students. He said he never felt like he went to work; he absolutely loved being a professional educator and loved his students.
1980 Hockey Team – Photo by Dick Gruber
Bill was also an avid outdoorsman learning to fish from his Father-in-law, Bob Barnes in the Boundary Waters Canoeing Area from 1964-1980. He fished in Northern Wisconsin for over 50 years enjoying “Gods Country”, on the lakes with family and friends: George Chryst, Dave Mergen, Roger Wiebe, Steve Shaw, Bob McClellen, Skippy Skrobot, Carl Reuter, Bob Martens, Dick Walser, Lee Ackley, Paul du Vair and Karl Solberg. Fortunately, Bill shared his extensive knowledge and love of the lakes near Boulder Junction & Manitowish Waters with the family’s younger generation. He and his wife purchased a cabin in Boulder Junction, WI Township in the year 2001, and he personally worked on its renovation. “Put’s Place” became the favorite gathering spot for family and friends. Bill’s love of deer and duck hunting was fostered by close friend Bob (Gretchen) Martens in the mid 1960’s. Bill’s hunting spots included the Martens Farm, the Barnes family’s school house near Dodgeville at Bethel Horizons, Ron Olson’s “The Swamp” near Muscoda and most recently the Cusic farm. Bill also had a lifelong love of cars. Growing up working on and driving everything from his first car, a 1951 MGTD, to his 1967 GTO. He was a member of the Vintage Sports Car Driver’s Association (VSCDA Group 1) from 2000-2014, racing at Blackhawk Farms and Road America. Always the chef and host, Bill was featured in a December 25, 1988 article in the Wisconsin State Journal entitled: “Large Meals Suit Bill Putnam Just Fine.” He loved “feeding the troops.” Bill was known to many as a lover of Rock-n-Roll and especially for his ability to dance like Elvis. He was generous, kind, thoughtful, hard-working, supportive, creative, introspective, always learning new things, a fun man to be around and a consummate gentleman. He was the quintessential Renaissance Man.
Bill is survived by his wife, Patty; son, Bill (Emily) Putnam and daughter, Rachel (Ron) Olson; grandchildren, Aidan J. Olson, William (Liam) Putnam, Heidi & Josephine Putnam and their mother, Heather Maxwell; sisters, Patty Chryst, Penny (John) Richert; sister-in-law, Connie Fox; brother-in-law, David Barnes (Vicki Rabe); and many nieces & nephews, Rick Chryst, George (Shelley) Chryst, Cathy (Bob) Greco, Paul (Robin) Chryst, Mary Ellen (Dave) Strauser, Susan (Dan) Corwith, Annie (Sam) Ballweg, Seth (Elena) Barnes, and Brianna Barnes, 17 great nieces and nephews, and 6 first cousins. Also surviving are close family friend, Lare Arra and his family, Cynthia, Liam and Ella.
Bill was preceded in death by his parents, Willard & Betty Putnam, his mother and father-in-law, Bob & Christine Barnes, two brothers-in-law, George Chryst, and Stan Fox, as well as his cousin, Bill O’Brien.
The family would like to thank Bill’s medical team in Madison: Dr. Rob Olson, Dr. David Hei, Karen Huseby-Moore, NP, the staff members at the Carbone Cancer Center, the Infusion Center at Meriter Hospital, and the IMC/8th floor. Special thanks to David B., RN and Kim A.,RN. The Heartland Hospice representatives (Denise, RN) and Lisa Mahoney’s very special network of in-home caregivers. Heartfelt appreciation is also extended to Bill’s medical team in northern Wisconsin: Dr. Demet Gokalp Yasar, and staff members at the Marshfield Clinic and the Howard Young Medical Center in Minocqua. Thanks to “Team Bill” for their tireless support.
The family requests that memorial donations be made in the name of Bill Putnam to any of the following: *Marshfield Clinic (for the Oncology Dept., at Minocqua) Attention: MCHS Foundation, 1000 N. Oak Ave., Marshfield, WI 54449 *Howard Young Foundation, Surgical Services, PO Box 470, Woodruff, WI, 54568 *Meriter Foundation, (for the Infusion Center), 202 S. Park St., Madison, WI 53715 *UW Carbone Cancer Center, c/o 4th Floor Dr. Hei, 1 South Park St, Madison WI 53715.
A Celebration of Life/Irish Wake will be held in the spring, with an announcement to follow at a later date. Please sign the Tributes section on the Cress Funeral Home website.
After the sudden death of a long time fishing partner, Bill wrote this Reflection:
When you are sitting there at the cabin,
The moon shining across the lake;
A boat skimming by,
A fisherman on his way;
This boat leaves no wake
Only an etching on the moon.
And over the water, the call of a silent loon.
Around the next point an anchorage is sure;
Then we’ll ALL fish TOGETHER around the next point.
Who’s Coming
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Firefly: The Train Job (S01E02)
July 1, 2009 By Simon R. 1 Comment
Mal: Now, this is all the money Niska gave us in advance. You bring it back to him. Tell him the job didn’t work out. We’re not thieves. But we are thieves. Point is, we’re not takin’ what’s his. Now we’ll stay out of his way as best we can from here on in. You explain that’s best for everyone, okay?
Crow: Keep the money. Use it to buy a funeral. It doesn’t matter where you go or how far you fly. I will hunt you down, and the last thing you see will be my blade.
Mal: Darn.
This is one of the quintessential episodes of the short-lived but brilliant show Firefly, and one of the best episodes of any science fiction show in recent memory. While the premise of the show (an old-fashioned train robbery) is engaging in and of itself, it’s the way that Joss Wheedon, the TV show’s creator and the director of this episode, introduces his characters and lets them play within the tapestry he has imagined, that truly hook the viewer and set the tone for the series as a whole. I often tell people that Firefly is sort of like what would happen if there was a TV show about the adventures of Han Solo–the Solo who shoots first, that is. And the above dialog between the show’s hero, Malcolm, and one very nasty henchman, perfectly capture the mix of determination, heroism, and (provided you have seen the episode) humor that has eluded so many TV protagonists in recent memory.
Firely is also often described as a western in outer space, and with the backdrop of a train heist, and a cast of ragtag scoundrels living life by their own rules, it’s easy to see how one would arrive at this sort of conclusion after watching The Train Job. Interestingly, Wheedon had originally intended to use this as the true pilot episode, and the character introductions feel much more natural and organic than in the substitute pilot demanded by FOX. So much characterization is packed into the 40 short minutes of The Train Job that I think Aaron Sorkin would even be jealous. But far from just introducing the characters, they each find a way to contribute to the show (save for River, the young girl whose past is hinted at and spends most of the episode practicing emo stares in the corner). We get hints that “shepherd” Book is more than he claims to be, see many sides of the illustrious Jayne, and even get a peek at a budding romance between the ship’s mechanic and doctor. But it’s the final minutes of the show, when the fearless take-no-prisoners Captain Mal demonstrates what Faramir in Lord of the Rings would call his true quality that we see how special these characters, and the who show, really are.
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Recollections from the Chimney Rock Fire
BLOGS October 31, 2017
Smoke erupts as the wind warning sign on Highway 22 shows winds 122 km/hr. Photo Credit: Parks Canada Photo, Mike McLean.
On Wednesday, October 25, a massive fire broke out near Chain Lakes Provincial park. Alberta Wildfire quickly listed the blaze as “out of control” and an evacuation notice was put in effect for residents on all of Chimney Rock road and south to Highway 520 on the west side of Highway 22. As the fire tore through the area, and smoke billowed throughout the hills, residents had to make decisions on what to take, and when to go.
Monica Schlosser of the Rocking P Ranch
Monica Schlosser, of the Rocking P Ranch, headed out bright and early Wednesday morning to wean over 350 head of cows at one of their properties, Willow Creek Place, on the Chimney Rock road. As they gathered cattle they were unaware that the pasture they pulled cows and calves off of would later be the exact same pasture a massive 1,200 hectare fire would decimate a mere few hours later. “We had the cows corralled and were loading calves on a liner when we looked up to the south side of the ridge and there was a huge plume of smoke coming towards us. We just kicked it into high gear, got the calves loaded onto the liner, sent it down the road, loaded two more horse trailers, and sent them, and by then they could barely see the road the smoke was so thick.”
Schlosser, her husband, son, father and two hunters who had been in the area when the fire broke out, were now unable to leave. A police officer arrived and offered the group an airlift out, that they turned down. “We knew that if we had too we could move our cattle from the corrals northwest away from the fire and to safety, so we weren’t leaving, and if we were, it was on horseback with our cows.” Schlosser notes that, although the plan was solid, the local police officer was not so sure. “He couldn’t turn around and leave, and he seemed pretty nervous to be there. We told him we had horses, and we could get him out, and he told us he’d never ridden before. Suppose you have to learn sometime!” she says with a laugh.
The Rocking P ranch has dealt with fire before and the knowledge of what to do kept them calm and organized. “We knew we had our escape route, but the smoke was so thick, it was pretty spooky at times. Blake, my husband, was up on the ridge watching for the fire. About two hours after it had broken out we knew it had passed through. We saw the water helicopters fighting the fire to the south, but we were worried the wind would change and blow the fire towards us again. So we put backpacks on and hauled as much water as we could and fought the fire on the north flank.”
Schlosser recounts that they lost six weeks worth of winter grazing, and miles of fence line, but all buildings, and livestock was saved. “We found out what an awesome neighbourhood we live in. That evening the police escorted a cattle liner, and four trucks and trailers to Willow Creek so we could load the rest of our cattle. They knew that we weren’t leaving without our cattle. People just came to help us, they put themselves in harms way and were willing to jump in. They came with water tanks and whatever else they could to help us, it was really amazing. We owe a lot of people a huge thank you.”
An image from Willow Creek Place Photo Credit: Rocking P Ranch
Sheila Harvie of the Chimney Rock Ranch Wellness Retreat
Sheila Harvie owns and operates Chimney Rock Ranch Wellness Retreat, and as the name suggests, her ranch was dangerously close to the fire. “We were very, very lucky that we didn’t lose anything in the fire,” she says. Harvie was away from home when the fire broke out. “There were working cowboys out in the hills, who had been moving cattle, fighting the fire with shovels and dirt so that it wouldn’t come near our place.”
Harvie flew into her ranch, via helicopter, as the fire was raging in the hills to ensure the gates were open for her horses to escape if need be. “It was extremely smokey, and the wind was billowing. It was harrowing. We flew in and popped the gates and then landed at a nearby neighbours to ensure they were safe and could get out if need be.” The efforts of the firefighters and the community meant that the fire was able to be diverted one half of a mile North away from Chimney Rock Ranch Wellness Retreat.
An aerial image of the path the fire took, directly to Highway 22. Photo Credit: Rob Jones.
Lucy Streeter of the T over V Ranch
Lucy Streeter recalls watching the Chimney Rock fire from her father-in-law’s, Harry Streeter’s ranch, the T over V Ranch, and thinking to herself that her own home, a few miles away, was on fire. “My husband, Ty Streeter and I, were preg checking all our cows, and someone asked me if I knew about the fire. I hadn’t heard anything, then I look up and two of our guys are running at us from separate directions, and I knew something was very wrong. We looked toward our own house and we thought it was on fire. So we jumped in our truck and headed that way, we are five miles from highway 22 and you could see the fire was at Chimney Rock and the wind was blowing so hard. Thankfully, the fire hadn’t reached our house yet. The firefighters later told us that at one point the fire was moving 6 miles an hour. It would have taken less than two hours to get to our house if the winds hadn’t shifted and blown the fire back onto itself. Our ranch was the next to go if the winds hadn’t changed.”
Ty Streeter is a partner in Wild Hoggs Bucking Bulls, and many of their top bulls live at Lucy and Ty’s ranch. “We started loading what we could, starting with our best bucking bulls. Then, as we were making that decision, trucks and trailers just started to pull into our driveway, one after the other. It was so surreal. People were just coming in droves to help us, because of the help we managed to load up thirty bucking bulls and seventeen horses.”
Streeter then turned to loading her own trailer. “I had three horses, two dogs, one cat, and three chickens in my trailer.” She laughs, “people are going to think I’m some crazy chicken lady, but our son, Jake has one chicken that he absolutely loves, so that chicken had to come, so into the kennel she went. Then I figured she’d be lonely, so I pretty much grabbed whoever I could catch to go in with her.”
The Streeter’s managed to remain calm because fire preparedness has been in the fore-front of their minds since the Waterton fires earlier this fall. “We had already thought about what we needed to take – photo albums, licenses, passports and birth certificates. Then I grabbed some of my buckles, bronzes and a plaque I’ve won in the cutting pen. Things that I could never get back if I lost them.”
At the T over V Ranch the cows waited in the corrals as the fire loomed closer, “our plan was to let them out at the last moment, depending on the way the wind was blowing. After the Waterton fire scare we actually got fire insurance for our cattle, so although no one wants to deal with that loss, we did have that in the back of our minds. Out in the hills, our neighbours and friends were moving their own cows away from the fire, but the wind would change so often. I could see how people die in something like this. You think you’re good and behind the fire, and then all of a sudden the wind changes, and you’re in front of it. We didn’t want to turn the cows loose first thing because who knows which way that fire is going to go.”
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17th World Conference on Tobacco or...
Misleading descriptors on cigarette packs in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam: before and after implementation of misleading packaging regulations
Jennifer Brown 1, 2
, Joanna Cohen 1, 2, Katherine Smith 1, 2
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Health, Behavior & Society, United States of America
Institute for Global Tobacco Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States of America
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Tobacco companies use descriptors on cigarette packs to convey less harm. The WHO FCTC Article 11 calls for the elimination of misleading packaging. This study compares the use of misleading descriptors on packs before (2013) and after (2015/2016) regulations on misleading descriptors were implemented in three lower middle income Asian countries.
A census of cigarette packs on the market were purchased in 2013 and 2015/2016 in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam using a systematic protocol. Packs displaying the country's health warning labels in rotation at time of purchase were double coded for select misleading descriptors in 2013 and for banned descriptors in 2015/2016.
In 2013, 33%, 28%, and 11% of packs, in Indonesia (n=215), the Philippines (n=98), and Vietnam (n=83), respectively, displayed "light(s)", "mild", or "low". In 2015/2016, 76 packs (36%) from Indonesia (n=209) displayed one or more of the following banned descriptors: "light", "mild", "low tar", "slim", "special", "full flavor", and "premium", 36 with those in the brand name. No packs from the Philippines (n=83) displayed explicitly banned descriptors. Three packs from Vietnam (n=88) displayed "mild" but no other banned descriptors. In the Philippines and Vietnam, alternative descriptors such as "smooth" and colors (e.g. "wind blue") have replaced "light(s)".
While compliance with new regulations in the Philippines and Vietnam is high, as they do in other countries, tobacco companies are using alternative descriptors to convey cigarette strength. By retaining a similar overall design, many brands previously labeled "light(s)" may still be recognizable to consumers. In Indonesia, tobacco companies are taking advantage of a loophole in regulations that allows for misleading descriptors to remain in previously used brands or trademarks. These findings reinforce that tobacco companies continue to use the same tactics to circumvent regulations on misleading descriptors and the need for plain packaging that includes restrictions on brand names.
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Flavoring Workers' Lung (Popcorn/Diacetyl) Anatomy of a Disaster in One Flavor Factory
May 29, 2007 The Pump Handle 2Comment
We’ve been writing for the past few months about U.S. regulatory agencies’ failure to take meaningful action on diacetyl, a toxic component of artificial butter flavor, despite having been aware of its risks since at least the start of this decade. Now, mounting evidence suggests that some flavor manufacturers have known about diacetyl’s association with severe lung disease and failed to take appropriate action for even longer – since the early 1990s, when diacetyl started killing workers in flavor plants. Disabled workers are currently suing flavor manufacturers over their failure to alert purchasers of artificial butter flavoring to the substance’s dangers.
James McNair has an important article in the Cincinnati Enquirer on the diacetyl disaster at the flavorings plant in Carthage, OH, owned by the Swiss multinational company Givaudan. Three workers at the plant have died from bronchiolitis obliterans. Evidently, the director of environmental health and safety at the plant (formerly known as Tastemaker Corp.), who was hired after the first worker death, thought the plant couldnât be operated safely. So he was fired:
In 1992, John Hochstrasser had just started his job as director of environmental health and safety at the Givaudan plant. Hochstrasser was worried about contaminated workplace air because a worker in the company’s liquids department in Carthage, Janice Meenach-Irick, had just died of bronchiolitis obliterans. Other employees were having breathing difficulties. “We had significant environmental issues, significant health issues that were going to come up,” Hochstrasser said under oath in a wrongful discharge lawsuit he filed against Givaudan in 1998. “They have to come up sooner or later.”
At his urging, Givaudan upgraded its ventilation equipment and conducted medical tests on employees. But Hochstrasser still thought the plant needed to improve ventilation. Until then, he suggested that Givaudan shut down the plant. But Givaudan fired him in 1997.
“They should not have let those employees in the plant,” Hochstrasser said in his deposition in federal court in Cincinnati. “They were exposed the entire time they were in the plant.”
Givaudan settled the suit in 2000 by agreeing to pay Hochstrasser $25,000 a year for 20 years. He said he provides consulting services to the company.
McNair traces industry knowledge of the problem to the 1980s:
Industry awareness of diacetyl as a human health threat in large amounts dates back to at least 1985. That year, the Research Institute for Fragrance Materials reported that “high concentrations may cause irritation of respiratory tract” and is “capable of producing systemic toxicity.”
One year later, diacetyl was fingered by expert witnesses in a lawsuit filed by two young, healthy, non-smoking workers at International Bakers Services in South Bend, Ind.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health wrote that the workers’ obstructed breathing was consistent with bronchiolitis obliterans. NIOSH concluded that “some agent” in the mixing room probably caused the disease. Diacetyl was one of 40 chemicals that experts said should be tested for health effects.
Susan Daum, an occupational physician who wrote the book Work is Dangerous to Your Health, examined those cases as an expert witness in the lawsuits. In her 1989 affidavit, she wrote that the company’s use of such chemicals without first determining their safety for human use was “tantamount to using the blenders at International Bakers Services as blue-collar guinea pigs.”
According to McNair, workers at several factories who developed bronchiolitis obliterans have sued Givaudan, and now there are also suits by Givaudan workers, trying to break the workers compensation bar against suing your own employer:
It was during Hochstrasser’s tenure at Givaudan that the flavorings industry learned more about the effect of butter fumes on workersâ¦.. By the time [University of Cincinnati healt specialists brought in by Givaudan] completed breathing tests and health surveys in 1997, they found bronchiolitis obliterans in six employees. Two died later.
One of them was Walt Vaske, who died in 2003. The other was Clifford Walker, who worked at Givaudan from 1990 to 2000, part of that time as a flavor mixer. His wife, Bernice Walker of Colerain Township, said he developed the breathing problems while at Givaudan.
“He was active. He played basketball, cut the grass and went fishing all the time,” she said. “These last three years, he wasn’t able to do anything like that. He just did not have the strength or the desire to do any of that. And he was coughing constantly. ”
Clifford Walker died last Oct. 4. He was 59.
Bernice Walker, represented by Crick, filed suit in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court in January. She named Givaudan, 11 chemical suppliers and the Flavor and Extract Manufacturing Association as defendants. The suit claims that flavoring chemicals had the “propensity” to cause bronchiolitis obliterans and respiratory illnesses. It accuses the companies of failing to warn employees of the chemicals’ danger.
But the suit goes one step further. It says that the companies and the association conspired to withhold information about the dangers of diacetyl and another flavoring compound, acetaldehyde, “from the scientific and medical communities, the government and the public, including Mr. Walker.” It says Givaudan never told Walker that he had bronchiolitis obliterans. He found out, the suit says, in 2006, a decade after his diagnosis.
In its answer to the lawsuits, Givaudan said it had nothing to do with Walker’s death…. It denies that exposure to diacetyl or acetaldehyde can cause respiratory system damage or shortness of breath.
This is a true tragedy. It appears that even the death of a worker, along with warnings from their own director of environmental health and safety, weren’t sufficient for a manufacturer to abandon an extremely toxic chemical, or even to warn customers (like the popcorn manufacturers) of its potential effects. Now, after dozens of workers have been disabled and several have died, the media are focussed on deadly diacetyl. Change in these factories will finally happen, years too late.
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2 thoughts on “Anatomy of a Disaster in One Flavor Factory”
John Hochstrasser, Ph.D., P.E., CIH, BCEE, QEP says:
Re: Anatomy of a Disaster in One Flavor Factory
Please be advised that I do not provide consulting services to Givaudan. I am currently a “fact” witness and served only briefly as an “expert” witness.
Prevention of inhalation or skin contact.
For routine operations, respirators may be needed until other control measures can be implemented or to supplement them. They may also be needed during maintenance activities and emergencies. At a minimum, use half-mask respirators equipped with organic vapor cartridges and particulate filters. However, in some situations, more protective respirators may be appropriate.
Personal Protective Equipment. Chemically resistant gloves, protective clothing, and tight-fitting goggles should be worn if skin and eye protection are needed.
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Words Matter: The Power of Speech in Changing Minds
Words are powerful, and, when used well, they can incite people to both good and evil. They give those in positions of power, well, power – and lots of it. And, thanks to the Bill of Rights, specifically the very first item on it, people can say almost anything with presumably no consequences. This means when someone with influence says something publicly, it can have a huge impact on society.
While everyone has the right to say whatever he or she wants, those with influence over audiences have the responsibility to exercise their free speech with vigilance. While speech can be, and is, used benevolently, it is also used nefariously. Examples of either are unneeded here; the evidence for both is plentiful and ever growing.
The media are not the only ones with this responsibility. Anybody who has influence over any number of people is aware of the impact of their words. Words matter, and saying certain things can have unforeseen consequences. The expression “Be careful what you wish for” wasn’t created in a vacuum.
A gut-wrenching story illustrates the importance of this responsibility on a very personal level. In Massachusetts, a woman was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for sending text messages to convince her boyfriend to commit suicide. She continually told her boyfriend to get back into his truck while it was filling up with carbon-monoxide. While she is protected under the First Amendment to an extent, the consequences of her words are too real to be ignored. She ignored her responsibility to exercise this right with caution and is being punished for her “reckless conduct.”
The recent shooting of Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise offers a lesson as well. A distraught Bernie Sanders supporter, angry over the recent election of Donald Trump, found it necessary to travel to Virginia from Illinois and open fire on a group of Republican lawmakers. The shooter may have been tackling other mental illness issues at the time, but is it possible all the toxic, and sometimes violent, rhetoric against President Trump pushed this man to do what he did? Would he have not done what he did if he weren’t influenced by media outlets he followed constantly attacking Trump, making the president seem more evil than Satan himself? We will never know with certainty since the shooter is now dead, but the rhetoric can’t be written off.
And here’s why we can’t just look the other way (so to speak!) — because to say it had no influence in the commission of the crime is to deny that speech can also bring good. National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg well-articulated the relationship between free speech and action.
I have always thought it absurd to claim that expression cannot lead people to do bad things, precisely because it is so obvious that expression can lead people to do good things. According to legend, Abraham Lincoln told Harriet Beecher Stowe, ‘So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.’ Should we mock Lincoln for saying something ridiculous?
As Irving Kristol once put it, ‘If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book. You have to believe, in other words, that art is morally trivial and that education is morally irrelevant.’
If words don’t matter, then democracy is a joke, because democracy depends entirely on making arguments — not for killing, but for voting. Only a fool would argue that words can move people to vote but not to kill.
Goldberg also points out that the First Amendment was built on an effort to stop leaders from murdering in the name of religion.
Ironically, free speech was born in an attempt to stop killing. It has its roots in freedom of conscience. Before the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the common practice was that the rulers’ religion determined their subjects’ faith too. Religious dissent was not only heresy but a kind of treason. After Westphalia, exhaustion with religion-motivated bloodshed created space for toleration. As the historian C. V. Wedgwood put it, the West had begun to understand ‘the essential futility of putting the beliefs of the mind to the judgment of the sword.’
This didn’t mean that Protestants instantly stopped hating Catholics or vice versa. Nor did it mean that the more ecumenical hatred of Jews vanished. What it did mean is that it was no longer acceptable to kill people simply for what they believed — or said.
But words still mattered. Art still moved people. And the law is not the full and final measure of morality.
All in all, freedom of speech is a considerably large power given to the residents of this country. And, in the words of one well-known superhero’s uncle, “With great power comes great responsibility.”
Filed Under: Front-Page Feature, Liberty Tagged With: First Amendment, free speech, Jonah Goldberg, Rep. Steve Scalise
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Old Friends Battle It Out
Posted on January 6, 2012 by Tired & Weary
Birmingham City’s FA Cup third round clash with Wolverhampton Wanderers will pitch two old friends together in Chris Hughton and Mick McCarthy.
The two ex-internationals spent plenty of time together whilst on duty for the Republic of Ireland and struck up a friendship that lasts until this day.
Despite that, both managers will have their minds entirely focussed on the game with a place in the fourth round being of paramount importance.
Chris Hughton will look to use his squad the ‘best way’ he can, which could signal call ups for Morgaro Gomis, Wade Elliott, Jordan Mutch and Liam Ridgewell.
Hughton has also hinted that he may include England u21 goalkeeper Jack Butland in the squad for the Saturday lunchtime clash.
Speaking to bcfc.com Hughton said: “It’s a local derby and one we want to win, but I’m sure Mick will have something to say about it.
“I think if you’re playing against your local rivals it should spice things up a little bit.
“There are some wonderful derby games over the years to look back on and it always has that bit of an edge to it and rightly so because that’s the nature of our game.
“The magic is still there for me and for anybody that is involved in English football.
“It’s the major cup competition throughout the world, irrespective of how it’s tweaked or people’s approaches to it on any give occasion.
“In some ten or 15 years I think it will be looked upon the same way.
“It’s a wonderful competition for players to play in and for the supporters to be involved in and club to be involved in.
“In some ways it’s a release from our Championship games because we go into another big group of games after this weekend.
“It’s always exciting when this competition comes around and there’s also the fact that we’re on television and it’s against our local rivals.
“That heightens the spectacle and I hope it can be a good game and I’m sure it will be.
“It’s good to have home advantage on Saturday for lots of reasons and we just hope we can benefit from that.”
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That is impossible to sustain
"Henry Kissinger: Jews Are ‘Self-Serving Bastards’" I should immediately note that you can't trust anything said by Henry the K, as his lies tend to reflect what he perceives his audience wants to hear, but one comment, by Gaza Calling, to this typically Jew-centric Gawker posting was interesting (and the reaction of the commentators to someone having the audacity to point out one of the most obvious Jewish tricks to provide more colonialists for Israel so predictable):
"The line about "rescuing Jews stuck behind the Iron Curtain from Soviet oppression" is simpleton talk. In truth, Jews were among the most highly educated sector of the Soviet population and the whole issue about saving them was one of the biggest scams of the 20th century.
The smartest Russians, however, may have been those who stayed behind and through a backroom deal with Yelsin came into possession of all of Russia’s natural resources, making these "oligarchs" the greatest collection of thieves, perhaps, in all of history. That they were even more exclusively Jewish than were our neocons was only, of course, a coincidence, such as, for example, the Pope being Catholic.
If you want read some fascinating Kissenger talk about the ME from the 70s...read this in full...
[www.meforum.org]"
More interesting: read the document at the link, a December 1975 memorandum of conversation between U.S. secretary of state Henry the K and Iraqi foreign minister Sa'dun Hammadi. An example of the kind of lying, sprinkled with obvious truths, practiced by American diplomats, but packed full of zingers (my emphasis in red):
"Hammadi: We, of course, have different views, and I will tell you why. Iraq is part of the Arab world. We believe the United States has been the major factor in building up Israel to what it is today.
Kissinger: True.
Hammadi: It was created in 1948 and could not have lived up to this day without the United States.
Kissinger: The Soviet Union was active then, too.
Hammadi: True. That is why there were some strained relations with the Soviet Union. Our good relations with the Soviet Union are only more recent. The Communists were not popular with the masses then. But the difference is you believe Israel is there to stay. We believe Israel was established by force and is a clear-cut case of colonialism. Israel was established on part of our homeland. You don't believe that. But that is not the whole story. Israel is now a direct threat to Iraq's national security.
Kissinger: How to Iraq?
Hammadi: Israel has built up to a military power that can threaten Iraq, especially with the recent news that we read of the U.S. supplying sophisticated weapons. So it is not only the Arab world that is threatened, and Iraq being part of the Arab world, but Iraq itself. We think the U.S. is building up Israel to have the upper hand in the area. Even Lebanon—they say it affects Israel's security. A strong, powerful, nuclear Israel with the upper hand in the area. Whatever happens in the Arab world is interpreted as a threat to Israel. Even a change in government in Iraq would be interpreted that way.
Kissinger: My impression is if you change your government in Iraq, they won't object. [Laughter]. I understand your problem.
Hammadi: This is my painting of the picture now—up to 1980. You say the United States is bringing all its weight to bring about a settlement. But this is a settlement, not peace. A new wave of troubles and clashes will start because Israel is not a state to stay within what they are. Because if there is an opportunity, they will expand. The record shows it. And they are supported by the biggest power in the area. What the United States is doing is not to create peace but to create a situation dominated by Israel, which will create a new wave of clashes.
Kissinger: I understand what you are saying. When I say we are willing to improve relations with Iraq, we can live without it. But it is our policy to move toward better relations. I think, when we look at history, that when Israel was created in 1948, I don't think anyone understood it. It originated in American domestic politics. It was far away and little understood. So it was not an American design to get a bastion of imperialism in the area. It was much less complicated. And I would say that until 1973, the Jewish community had enormous influence. It is only in the last two years, as a result of the policy we are pursuing, that it has changed.
We don't need Israel for influence in the Arab world. On the contrary, Israel does us more harm than good in the Arab world. You yourself said your objection to us is Israel. Except maybe that we are capitalists. We can't negotiate about the existence of Israel, but we can reduce its size to historical proportions. I don't agree that Israel is a permanent threat. How can a nation of three million be a permanent threat? They have a technical advantage now. But it is inconceivable that peoples with wealth and skill and the tradition of the Arabs won't develop the capacity that is needed. So I think in ten to fifteen years, Israel will be like Lebanon—struggling for existence, with no influence in the Arab world.
You mentioned new weapons. But they will not be delivered in the foreseeable future. All we agreed to is to study it, and we agreed to no deliveries out of current stocks. So many of these things won't be produced until 1980, and we have not agreed to deliver them then.
Our policy is to move our policy towards peace and to improve relations with the Arab world. Iraq is not a negotiator, but I think the policy of Egypt and Syria to improve relations with us helps us to bring pressure for a settlement.
The Israelis like you better than [Egyptian president Anwar] Sadat because they like to put it in terms of a U.S.-Soviet problem. We don't want you to have unfriendly relations with the Soviet Union; we don't interfere in your relations with the Soviet Union. But basically, the Israelis prefer radical Arabs.
If the issue is the existence of Israel, we can't cooperate. But if the issue is more normal borders, we can cooperate.
We have moved toward normalization with others—except Libya. South Yemen, we will move towards.
Hammadi: We are on the other side of the fence. We have the right to ask many questions.
Kissinger: Please.
Hammadi: Given the record, what can make us believe the United States won't continue the policy of the last twenty years of giving unlimited support.
Kissinger: It depends on what you mean by unlimited support. One important change in America … Sabbagh was with me when I saw Faisal for the first time. I told him it would take a few years; we would have to move slowly. I have told all the Arabs this. It has now reached the point in America where attitudes have changed. When I testify to congressional committees, I face increasingly hostile questions about Israel. No one is in favor of Israel's destruction—I won't mislead you—nor am I.
But the support in the 1960s was $200-300 million. Now it is $2-3 billion. That is impossible to sustain. We can't even get it for New York. It is just a matter of time before there is a change—two to three years. After a settlement, Israel will be a small friendly country with no unlimited drawing right. It will be affected by our new electoral law, strangely enough. So the influence of some who financed the elections before isn't so great. This has not been so noticed. It will take a few years before it is fully understood.
So I think the balance in America is shifting. If the Arabs—if I can be frank—don't do anything stupid. If there is a crisis tied to the Soviet Union, groups in America could make it an anticommunist crusade.
Hammadi: So you think the U.S. policy after a settlement wouldn't be the same?
Kissinger: We want the survival of Israel but not dominating the area. No one can conquer the Arab world. Even if they take Damascus, Cairo, and Amman, you will be there, and Libya will be there. So if Israel wants to survive as a state like Lebanon—as a small state—we can support them.
Hammadi: What is the Israeli thinking?
Kissinger: First, they want to get rid of me. Because I made them go back. Second, in 1976, they want to provoke the Arabs—in Lebanon, in Syria—because they think if there is war they can win and create great turmoil. Third, they want to pass legislation in America to antagonize as many Arabs as possible. So we get the anti-boycott, anti-discrimination, anti-arms sales legislation. They hope the Arabs will go back to a situation like 1967-1973 when the Syrians and Egyptians adopt an anti-American line. So they can say they are the only American friend in the Middle East. What they want is what you predict—that they be the only friend. We want other friends, to reduce that argument.
Aide: Your Excellency, do you think a settlement would come through the Palestinians in the area? How do you read it? Is it in your power to create such a thing?
Kissinger: Not in 1976. I have to be perfectly frank with you. I think the Palestinian identity has to be recognized in some form. But we need the thoughtful cooperation of the Arabs. It will take a year or a year and a half to do it and will be a tremendous fight. An evolution is already taking place.
Aide: You think it will be part of a solution?
Kissinger: It has to be. No solution is possible without it. But the domestic situation is becoming favorable. More and more questions are being asked in Congress favorable to the Palestinians.
Hammadi: Do you think a Palestinian state is possible?
Kissinger: We don't exclude it as a matter of principle. You can't do it now.
Hammadi: What about Palestinians who are now refugees? The Palestine area is now crowded—Gaza and the West Bank.
Kissinger: They should have a choice, either to stay where they are or go to a Palestinian state.
Hammadi: You think some in, say, the Galilee area might choose to leave Israel and join the new Palestinian state?
Kissinger: In Galilee?
Hammadi: Arab Israelis.
Kissinger: I have told friends that peace isn't a final end. Wars begin elsewhere between countries that are at peace. Only in the Middle East do wars begin between countries that are at war. But we support the existence of Israel. We draw the line at the destruction of Israel.
Aide: The Palestinians already put aside this idea. This is my personal view. Because the Israelis are trying to buy land in the Galilee area, and there is resistance. The Communist Party in the area is using it in the municipal elections. Is this because the Israelis are looking to the creation of a Palestinian state and want to buy this land?
Kissinger: It could be in their minds. I am not familiar with it.
Aide: This is being used by the Communist Party in the area. The Israelis know you Americans are behind the idea of a Palestinian state.
Kissinger: We have to be careful and move gradually. The Israeli press accuses me. I have said we can't move to the Palestinians until they accept the existence of the State of Israel and Security Council Resolution 242. I have never excluded the recognition of the PLO; I have always tied it to recognition of Israel and 242. The implication is we will do something if they do recognize Israel and 242.
Aide: Kaddumi says: "How can we recognize Israel if they don't recognize the PLO?"
Kissinger: With all respect, what Israel does is less important than what the United States does."
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Opened in 1921, the Ambassador Theatre is situated in the heart of New York City's Theater District. The theater is known for its hexagonal auditorium and many hits, from Godspell to long-running Chicago. Theater enthusiasts typically buy tickets to shows at the Ambassador in advance to secure seats at this in-demand Broadway venue.
The best way to visit the Ambassador is to stop by for one of its productions, including Tony Award-winning musicals, which are staged six days a week. To find the best seats, it's advised to buy tickets in advance. Another way to see the Ambassador from the outside is on a Theater District walking tour, which allows you to see New York City attractions while learning about the legends of Broadway.
Architecture and design fans enjoy the theater's Adam-style interior plasterwork.
The theater offers patrons assistive listening and audio description devices.
Check the calendar in advance—both matinee and evening performances are offered.
Wheelchair seating is only available in the Orchestra section of the theater.
Keep your camera in your pocket, since filming and taking photos is prohibited.
The Ambassador Theatre is located at 291 West 49th Street, off of Broadway. To reach the theater by subway, take the 1 train to 50th Street Broadway, or the N, Q, R, or W train to 49th Street. Walking tours of the neighborhood are a convenient way to visit the area and get your bearings.
The Ambassador offers several performances weekly, and the theater is typically dark on Wednesdays. On Saturday and Sunday, performances are offered in both the afternoon and evening—providing more options to fit a show into your busy schedule. Expect bigger crowds between mid-November and the new year, and lower demand in January and February.
Exploring Midtown Manhattan
The Ambassador Theatre is located in the iconic Theater District, a short walk from several of Midtown Manhattan's must-see sights. For a family-friendly activity, stop by the Ripley's Believe it or Not! museum in Times Square, or for a more traditional sightseeing experience visit Rockefeller Center, the Empire State Building, or the light-flooded center of Times Square, at 46th Street and Seventh Avenue.
Address: 219 W 49th St, , NY , USA, New York City, New York 10019, USA
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Private Theatre District Tour
Explore New York City's Theater District on a private 2-hour walking tour that introduces you to backstage stories and insider secrets of the Great White Way. With a private guide, walk through the area around Times Square to see theaters that have been home to legendary performances and Broadway stars. You'll hear about the history of live theater, including the early days of Vaudeville and the creation of the musical.
Small-Group Broadway Theater District and Times Square Walking Tour
Most tours of Broadway can be so large, you might have trouble hearing your guide. This New York City Broadway Theater District and Times Square walking tour runs with a small group to offer you a more intimate experience. Hear the backstage stories about the stars of yesterday and today, and visit famous Broadway theaters like the Majestic Theatre, home of the ‘Phantom of the Opera.’
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Thought to have been built sometime in the first century B.C., the Treasury is one of Jordan’s most intricate temples (or perhaps tombs; no one knows which one it is for sure), with a design influenced by Greek architecture. At the entrance, visitors are greeted by statues of Castor and Pollux, Zeus’ mythological twins, who are believed to have spent half of their time in heaven and the other half in the underworld. Glance up and you’ll spy two enormous eagles symbolizing Dushara, a deity linked to Zeus and worshipped by the Nabateans. There is also an urn at the top, one believed to have once been filled with a Pharaoh’s treasure and covered in bullet marks said to have been from Bedouins wanting the urn for themselves. Peek inside the Treasury to see a chamber with attached rooms and uniquely rounded windows.
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Little Petra (Siq al-Barid) was a northern satellite of the main city, and it resembles Petra proper in enough ways to earn its nickname. Like at Petra, visitors approach Siq al-Barid through a canyon-like passage similar to the Siq at Petra. Unlike Petra, many of the structures carved into the cliff walls served as houses, as well as temples and communal gathering areas.
Archeologists believe Siq al-Barid (Cold Canyon in English) once served as a trading post and agricultural hub where camel caravans could resupply on the way to and from Petra. Wander through the narrow passage with rock-cut stairs climbing up on either side, and it’s easy to imagine Little Petra as a busy community humming with activity. One of Little Petra’s most famous sites, the Painted House, houses one of the only surviving Nabatean painted interiors. The frescoes depict scenes related to wine consumption and Dionysus worship.
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Tucked in the hills of Petra, the Monastery (Al-Deir) is only matched in magnificence by the Treasury. Built during the first century, the structure carved into the mountain was not a monastery at all, but rather served as either a tomb or a temple for members of the cult of Obodas. While less ornate than the Treasury, the Monastery is significantly larger, measuring 148 feet high and 165 feet across.
An uphill but relatively easy trail leads from the Nabataean Museum to the Monastery, ascending a set of some 800 ancient rock-cut steps along the way. As an alternative to the 40-minute walk, visitors can hire a donkey and guide to carry them to the top. Either way, those who make it to the Monastery are greeted with panoramic views over the surrounding hills and gorges.
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In 1990 American archeologist Kenneth W. Russell discovered the ruins of a Byzantine-era church. Two years later excavation began on the site of what is today simply called Byzantine Church or Petra Church. Originally constructed by the Nabataeans in the middle of the fifth century AD, the church as expanded and remodeled by the Byzantines in the early sixth century.
Today, the awning-covered ruins are most famous for the 750 square feet (70 square meters) of well-preserved mosaics found within. These floor and wall mosaics, added during the Byzantine remodeling of the church, depict humans, birds and animals within geometric frames. In 1993 archaeologists discovered a series of carbonized papyrus scrolls dating back to the fourth through sixth centuries AD. Collectively known as the Petra Scrolls, these scrolls represent one of the largest collections of ancient written material ever discovered in Jordan.
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HomeArtificial IntelligenceIn This Exhibition, An AI Dreams Up Imaginary Artworks That Artist Alexander Reben Then Creates IRL
Summary: In This Exhibition, An AI Dreams Up Imaginary Artworks That Artist Alexander Reben Then Creates IRL
The exhibition consists of artworks that were “dreamed up” by artificial … [+] intelligence and then created in the real world by computational artist Alexander Reben
Alexander Reben Alexander Reben again pushes the boundaries of computational art—this time using OpenAI’s GPT-3—to reveal how humans and machines might collaborate in the future.
The description for the piece, titled “A Short History of Plungers and Other Things That Go Plunge in the Night,” reads: “The sculpture contains a plunger, a toilet plunger, a plunger, a plunger, a plunger, a plunger, each of which has been modified.” It states that the piece was created by a collective of anonymous artists founded in 1972 known as “The Plungers” (quotes theirs), who were dedicated to “the conceptualization and promotion of a new art form called Plungism.” The work apparently made such a splash that it became a “landmark of conceptual art and one of the most famous artworks of the late 20th century, and it was even featured on an episode of Seinfeld in 1997.”
“Because it was just text describing things, there was actually quite a bit of room for my own interpretation, my own creativity, and my own sort of artistic signature to come out with these works as well,” Reben said.
Alexander RebenIn many cases, the biggest creative burden is the proverbial (or literal) “blank page.” With a project like this, Reben is using AI to mitigate the tyranny of going from nothing to something—and in the process pushing himself as an artist working with digital and real-world materials.
Read the complete article at: www.forbes.com
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US President Donald J. Trump (C) listens as he meets with immigration crime victims to urge passage of House legislation to save American lives, in the Cabinet Room at the White House, Washington, DC, USA, 28 June 2017. EPA/Molly Riley / POOL
On Thursday the House of Representatives is scheduled to hold two "crucial votes" on immigration and national security bills, both sponsored by Republican Congressmen Bob Goodlatte of Virginia. One of the bills, dubbed Kate's Law, is designed to increase the penalties for immigrants convicted of certain crimes who, after being deported, have returned to the US illegally.
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President Donald Trump met at the White House on Wednesday with victims of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants, and he urged Congress to approve a law increasing penalties for criminals who have been deported but have illegally reentered the country.
In brief remarks delivered before journalists, Trump emphasized that "countless ... Americans" and their families, some of whom are "friends" that he met on his election campaign, have been the victims of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants, who - often - have been deported multiple times but have returned to this country.
Many "courageous" families have lost loved ones "because our government refused to enforce our nation's immigration laws," said the president.
"Nobody died in vain," Trump added, noting that on Thursday the House of Representatives is scheduled to hold two "crucial votes" on immigration and national security bills, both sponsored by Republican Congressmen Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, who was present at the White House meeting.
One of the bills has been dubbed Kate's Law, in tribute to a woman who died in 2015 from a gunshot fired by an undocumented immigrant. The bill is designed to increase the penalties for immigrants convicted of certain crimes who, after being deported, have returned to the US illegally.
Kate Steinle, 32, was killed while she was walking along a dock in San Francisco with her father when an illegal immigrant opened fire at her.
The suspect, Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez, had been deported multiple times and had several convictions for serious crimes on his record when he killed Steinle.
In an appearance at the White House, the interim director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Thomas Homan, said on Wednesday that the recidivism rate for undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes fluctuates between 45 percent and 70 percent, depending on the type of crime.
According to ICE data, of the almost 66,000 people detained since January for being in the country illegally, a total of 48,000 are criminals.
However, Homan admitted on Wednesday that immigrants do not commit more crimes than people born in the US.
The House is also scheduled to vote before its July 4 recess on a bill to deny federal funds to so-called "sanctuary cities" - which protect undocumented immigrants - if they do not cooperate with ICE agents.
Trump also said that the MS-13 gang "is a prime target. They are bad people. And we've gotten many of them out already." He added that the administration, by detaining and deporting MS-13 members, is "liberating towns" from the influence of the gang "and we're doing it fast."
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Inherited by the Graduate Institute in 2008 from the Crédit Agricole, which had received it from the Crédit Lyonnais after the merger between the two banks in 2002, the collection represents the preserved part of a once gigantic collection of economic and financial information gathered by the Crédit Lyonnais Service des Etudes Financières, created in 1871.
Owing to difficulties of preservation — it had been stored in a former textile factory in Tourcoing in northern France, where it experienced damage from humidity — most of the collection was lost. Two major parts, however, survived. One is the vast store of government budgets from countries over the world, which was sorted out through the cooperation of EHESS and the University of Paris XII, under the supervision of Professors Broder and Flandreau, and transferred to the Centre Technique du Livre, a state-run library repository in France. The other is the collection of stock exchange publications which the Graduate Institute acquired from Crédit Agricole in 2008.
Covering stock exchange information for 6 continents, the repository could be said to be Thoreau’s figurative "Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within (…), opening new channels (…) of thought." Approximately 700 linear meters, the collection covers an immense stock of information concerning the world of finance in the age of globalisation. High frequency quotation records from 73 stock exchanges from 41 countries constitute the main component of the collection. They bring to life the complexity of Stock Exchange trading, underscoring the multiplicity of exchanges: several for each country, sometimes several for one market, and occasionally (as for a rare series of prices for gold mines), one market for several cities — as was the case for South African Gold Mines options traded simultaneously over the counter in Paris and London, and for which one Hirsch, a bullion broker in London and Paris produced a price list.
The complete series, such as London, New York, Brussels, or Amsterdam cover over 100 years of stock exchange quotations. More exotic or rare series, such as Bilbao, Alexandria or Cairo have shorter time frames but are still complete. This stock (no pun intended) of information offers a very rare opportunity for a better understanding of the world of capitalism and finance as it opens up a transnational dimension, beyond the well-researched operation of individual markets. It discloses the entangled spatial logistics of capital raising, trading and the global architecture of financial information.
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6.1 The Client shall be deemed to have accepted the goods 24 hours after delivery to the Client.
6.2 After acceptance, the Client shall not be entitled to reject goods which are not in accordance with the contract.
7. Remedies of Client
Where the Client accepts or has been deemed to have accepted any goods, then the Seller shall have no liabilities whatever to the Client in respect of those goods.
The Seller shall be under no liability in respect of any damage or loss to third parties caused either directly or indirectly by the performance of any contract or goods supplied and the Client at all times indemnifies the Seller against such loss or damage.
9.1 The Seller will use all reasonable endeavours to carry out its obligations within a reasonable period of time but will not be liable to the Client for any loss, costs or expenses arising directly or indirectly from any delays in doing so and the Seller will not be deemed to be in breach of this contract by reason of any delay in performing, or failure to perform, any of its obligations in relation to this contract, if the delay or failure was due to any cause beyond the Seller’s reasonable control. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the following will be regarded as causes beyond the Seller’s reasonable control:
(a) Act of God, explosion, flood tempest, fire or accident;
(b) War or threat of war, sabotage, civil disturbance or requisition;
(c) Acts, restrictions, regulations, bye-laws, prohibitions or measures of any kind on the part of any governmental, parliamentary or local authority;
(d) Import or export regulations or embargoes;
(e) Strikes, lock outs or other industrial actions or trade disputes;
(f) Difficulties in obtaining raw materials, labour, fuel, parts or machinery;
(g) Power failure or breakdown in machinery.
If the Seller is prevented from carrying out its obligations in the above circumstances, the Client will be notified in writing and if the Seller is still prevented from carrying out its obligations 3 weeks from the date such notice was sent, then either party may give written notice to the other cancelling the contract. If the contract is cancelled in this way the Seller accepts no liability to compensate the Client for any loss or damage caused by failure to perform.
9.2 Except where the Client is dealing as a consumer (as defined in the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 section 12) the Seller does not give any warranty, guarantee or indemnity as to quality, fitness for purpose or otherwise of the goods.
9.3 Except in respect of death or personal injury caused by the Seller’s negligence, the Seller will not be liable to the Client for any loss of profit or any indirect special or consequential loss, damage, costs, expenses or other claims, which arise out of or in connection with the supply of goods other than as a result of an obligation arising under the Sale of Goods Act 1979 (as amended) and the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1973.
10. Website
10.1 The Seller will attempt to ensure that the information available on the website at any time is accurate. However, the Seller will not be held liable for any errors or omissions.
10.2 All drawings, photographs, descriptive matter and specifications of the goods on the website are for the sole purpose of giving an approximate description of the goods.
11. Proper Law of Contract
This contract is subject to the law of England and Wales.
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What Non Violence Accomplished
Sep 3, 2017 | History
The 1950’s and 1960’s were a turbulent time in America because the issues that led to the American Civil War had not been resolved. Four million people of African descent who had been enslaved before the War were freed by their own efforts and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, but, in spite of Reconstruction, their new status was still not settled.
What would happen to them? How were they to be incorporated into the body politic? As I have said before in this blog and in my book, The Weeping Time, from the perspective of former slaves, the most important thing was family—finding and reuniting with loved ones and building new lives in this new realm called freedom. During the period of Reconstruction after the war, they were granted citizenship and the right to vote by means of the 14th and 15th Amendments, but because of the backlash and political reversals of 1877, many of those rights were to eroded in the subsequent years. The advent of segregation and the birth of the KKK during this period underscored the fact that there was some unfinished business after the war.
Fruits of Non Violence
The Civil Rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s was essentially about finishing that business: restoring the rights of citizenship which had been fought for and granted all those years before. The remarkable thing about this movement is that what took war to achieve in the first place and the violence of the KKK to reverse, now was accomplished by the principle of non violence. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists with their largely faith based roots marched, protested, desegregated buses, restaurants and other public spaces – without firing one bullet.
Here is a reminder of what they accomplished, some of which is under threat in the present moment:
1956 Desegregation of Transportation Federal District Court rules that discrimination on public transportation is unconstitutional as a result of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1964 Civil Rights Act Federal law forbids discrimination based on race, sex, color, religion or national origin; guarantees all citizens equal protection under the law.
1965 Voting Rights Act Federal legislation prohibits racial discrimination in voting. Specifically, the law prohibits any state or local government from imposing any voting law such as literacy tests or other devices that historically resulted in discrimination against racial or language minorities.
1965 Immigration and Nationality Act On the heels of the Civil Rights Act, immigration was also opened up by means of the Immigration Act of 1965. This law did
away with the use of national origin quotas (which up to this time largely went to Western and Northern Europeans) and for the first time, accepted immigrants of all nationalities. Family reunification and those with special skills were given some preference.
These are some of the reasons that America has been repeatedly called “ the leader of the free world.” These are some of the reasons that America has been greatly admired by peoples and governments around the world with respect to human rights.
All of this was accomplished by non violent means. Is this not worth preserving?
Anne C.Bailey
Author of The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History
Picture Credit: President Lyndon Johnson and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr upon the signing of the Voting Rights Act; Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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Basetsana Kumalo, a former Miss South Africa, television host, and businesswoman invested the money she won from the 1994 SA beauty pageantry wisely in acquiring a luxury house in one of the most affluent estates in the country. The five-bedroom house which is best described in glowing words like opulence can boast of some top of the range amenities and a welcoming atmosphere orchestrated by the beautiful landscaped garden in its immediate surroundings. Kumalo alongside her husband and children currently call the R25 million luxury mansion home, though the Miss South Africa title holder has made several other investments in real estate.
Although her net worth is currently not known, the businesswoman has continued to feather her nest through multiple endeavors. For one, she is one of the most successful television hosts in her country. Kumalo has established a good number of businesses that will always keep her afloat wealth no matter the situation. Her victory at the 1994 Miss South Africa beauty contest attracted lucrative endorsement deals that went to line her pocket. Besides, the former black queen has made her mark in publishing with a few publications. Basetsana’s efforts have not gone unnoticed as the beauty queen has bagged some prestigious awards and accolades to show for her years of hard work and perseverance.
Did Basetsana Kumalo Build or Buy Her Luxury House?
A bird’s view of the house image source
From what we gathered from the existing records, Basetsana Kumalo did not build her luxury mansion from the scratch; rather, the former Miss South Africa bought the property when she was 21 years of age in 1995. The money she used in acquiring the house came from the proceeds of her victory from the Miss South Africa Beauty Pageant. Kumalo came into great wealth at a time when her mates were still living with their parents, struggling to figure out what to do with their lives and the best career path to follow.
Kumalo was faced with several choices of what to do with the money she won from the beauty pageant, but her mum was on hand to guide the youngster, advising her to invest the money in landed property as opposed to acquiring an exotic automobile. Though she had other overwhelming financial needs at the time, the South African beauty heeded her mum’s advice and went for real estate. The house came into her possession precisely one year after she handed over the Miss South Africa Crown, and 25 years later, the opulent 5-bedroom mansion is where Basetsana Kumalo currently resides with her husband and children.
Basetsana Kumalo’s Luxury House Sits At Saddlebrook Estate
Basetsana Kumalo and family enjoying the opulence of their house image source
When the talk is about the most prestigious estates in all of South Africa, then, Saddlebrook Estate deserves a mention as it houses only the rich and famous. Saddlebrook is sited in Midrand – a town located in central Gauteng Province which boasts of the best in basic amenities like 24-hour top-of-the-range security. The estate is equipped with a biometric system that features a fingerprint recognition technology used in controlling access to the territory. This special arrangement reduces the influx of people into the estate, giving it a quiet and peaceful atmosphere.
The TV personality and former beauty pageant has her home situated somewhere on the map of Saddlebrook where she brought up her children who are all grown-up now. Value-wise, the five-bedroom mansion will surely fetch a tidy fortune if put on the market. Though we don’t seem to have the details about its purchasing price in 1995, the house is currently estimated to be worth around R25 million in market value as it has continued to appreciate with the passage of time.
Basetsana’s Saddlebrook Estate Mansion is the Last word in Luxury
triple volume foyer with a double staircase in solid marble image source
The word opulence does not even begin to describe Basetsana Kumalo’s house; a visitor would be completely engulfed in glamour by a mere view of the compound which is bordered by a beautiful landscaped garden. The garden itself pictures comfort and luxury and would appeal to anyone who loves to be surrounded by nature. An Instagram photo shared by the SA television personality’s daughter revealed a model front lawn attached to the house as well as a fashionable driveway within the compound.
A post shared by Basetsana Kumalo (@basetsanakumalo)
Moving into the building, you will find the five-bedroom mansion equipped with state-of-the-art amenities. Only the master’s bedroom can boast of a salon, a lounge sporting its own refreshment spot, double dressing-rooms, in addition to a massive balcony where you can relax and enjoy an early morning coffee. Right at the center of the building is an entertainment area with a beautiful design, there are also other attractions like a pool, a huge balcony, a Jacuzzi, and an impressive family room.
After taking a tour of the house, one would have no choice to agree that it is a house fit for a king. However, a surprise lies in wait, in the form of a second dwelling tucked away in the mansion. The second living place is fitted with some amenities like an expansive cellar that houses the wines, a magnificent chef’s kitchen, and a soundproof cinema. All these put great finishing touches to the house and we are yet to factor in this triple volume foyer brandishing a superb double staircase decorated in solid marble. It is gathered that part of the second dwelling is currently being used as offices and gym as the main house is big enough to cater to the family’s needs.
What Does Basetsana Kumalo do?
Basetsana Kumalo is one South African woman with many hats and keeps acquiring more. She is a beauty queen title-holder, a television personality, a radio host, and a businesswoman. Moreover, she is a philanthropist just like every other beauty queen before and after her. The SA beauty’s philanthropy is targeted towards children, especially the ones orphaned by AIDs and other related diseases. The Romeo & Basetsana Kumalo Family Foundation was launched alongside her husband to target these kids and she also joined efforts with actress Salma Hayek in working towards the eradication of maternal and neonatal tetanus on a global scale.
Kumalo prepared herself for the task ahead by acquiring basic education from Thabisang Primary School and Trinity Secondary School. It was while the youngster was a student of the University of Venda that she joined the Miss SA beauty pageantry. The entrepreneur released her memoir entitled Bassie: My Journey of Hope in October 2019.
25 yrs of a public life, 25 yrs as a TV producer, 25 yrs as an entrepreneur, 25 yrs of serving the Lord & 25 yrs of SADemocracy, here is my Memoir:
Bassie:My Journey of Hope
Out October 2019#BassiesBook #JourneyOfHope #HappyWomensDay@PenguinBooksSA pic.twitter.com/aWtcFopZoZ
— Basetsana Kumalo (@basetsanakumalo) August 9, 2019
These are the Contributors to her Fortune
The former beauty queen’s net worth is said to be under review, but Basetsana Kumalo’s journey to financial emancipation started during her formative years as the South African has been a hard worker even while still in her parent’s home. Besides, she was greatly influenced by the neighborhood she grew up in and the viable financial advice she received. Her financial bottom-line is continually boosted by
• Pageantry
• TV and Radio Hosting
• Publishing
She Became A Beauty Queen at 16
Kumalo was still a student studying education at the University of Venda when her career in beauty pageantry took off at the age of 16. Her reason for choosing to study education was to forge a career path in teaching like her mother. Her mum takes the credit for channeling her mind towards contesting for the Miss South Africa pageant and consequently, she became Miss Soweto at 16 and also Miss Black South Africa. 1994 was when the SA beauty was bestowed with the crown of Miss South Africa after which she went on to Miss World where she ended up as the first runner-up the same year.
She Started her Television Hosting Gig While Still the Reigning Queen
Basetsana Kumalo was still basking the glory of her reign as Miss South Africa when she began hosting Top Billing – the lifestyle TV program. She later collaborated with the producer of the show Patience Stevens to form a partnership; their collaboration birthed Tswelopele Productions with the former Miss SA having a fifty-percent stake. Impumelelo accredited the company as one of SA’s top 300 empowerment firms. Tswelopele Productions’ flagship brand happens to be Top Billing television show popular on SABC3. The company embarked on a successful merger with Union Alliance Media in 1999 which saw it listed on the JSE Securities Exchanged South Africa.
This feat gave Basetsana pride of place among the youngest women directors of black extraction to become part of South African’s mainstream economy. Of recent, top billing has recorded impressive success, furnishing the Tswelopele brand with more projects including SABC2’s Afrikaans magazine program entitled Pasella and SABC1’s Seskohona – the Swati youth show. She became a director at Gauteng Travel Academy in 2001 and made a guest judge appearance during the finals of the 2016 Miss South Africa beauty pageantry aired on Mzansi Magic and M-Net.
Kumalo had a brief gig on radio in 2006. On the 10th of August, the television host took charge of the Breakfast show on Metro FM but it clearly didn’t work as the former beauty queen came out petrified after handling the microphone for three hours.
She Is a Shrewd Businesswoman with a few Brands to her Credit
Basetsana Kumalo moved fully into business in 2000 following the launch of her clothing range. She collaborated with Stature Ladies wear by Bassie by going under their label to launch her range. However, she later put a stop to the range, but while it lasted the brand reached over 240 outlets in Sub-Saharan Africa under the distributorship of Ackerman’s department stores.
A couple of years later in 2002, the television host went under the Bassie brand to launch her range of eyewear distributed across 60 stores nationwide through Torga Optical. This was followed up by the Bassie Red cosmetics textrange which was launched into 100 Foschini stores throughout South Africa. Then in 2006, the Bassie Gold range was birthed.
As her business acumen continued to increase, Basetsana Kumalo joined the South African Business Women’s Association, emerging as its president. Pro-Direct 189 is the name of her investment company through which she earned a place as a new shareholder with Tawana in 2008. Unipalm Investment Holdings Vhangana Energy Resources has Kumalo as a board member, so do other companies like SME Financial Holdings Limited, Tactic Group Limited, Seven Falls, Morongwa Investment Holdings, PHAB Holdings, as well as Q2 Petroleum.
She has a Hand in a Few publications
Inspirational Women at Work is a book released in 2004 that addressed South Africa’s new face of leadership; Kumalo is a contributor to its content. She joins a league of 36 most loved celebs in South Africa to feature on Recipes. The businesswoman is part of Top Billing magazine as its editor-at-large and also functioned as Drum Magazine’s Beauty Editor during the period of her reign as Miss South Africa.
The Former Beauty Queen Also Earns through Endorsements
Emerging as the winner of South Africa’s beauty pageant and ending up as the first runner-up in the ensuing Miss World contest put Basetsana in the public eye and it goes without saying that she would become a magnet for brands. Within a short period of time, Revlon Realistic Hair Care range of products chose her as the face of the brand. While the deal lasted, Kumalo covered both Sub-Saharan Africa as well as the international market, working as a spokesperson for the brand for a period that spanned five years. She made an appearance on the website of the BriteSmile procedure in a brief endorsement gig.
Basetsana Kumalo swept Quite a good Number of Awards in Recognition of her Work
Basetsana Kumalo and Nelson Mandela image source
Basetsana Kumalo started getting rewards for her good work in 2002 and 2003 when she was voted in the Television Style Awards by Elle Magazine and the Sunday Times as the most fashionable female entertainment/magazine show host. She was also recognized in 2004 when the businesswoman cum television host was voted #74 as the only Miss SA on the 100 Greatest South Africans list. Two years down the line in 2006, she earned further recognition from the Cape Town Fashion Festival which bestowed her with the Fashion Icon Award. She became a nominee in the category of the Top 10 Most Glamorous South African women.
Even before she started her hosting gigs and dong exploits in the business world Kumalo was bestowed with an honorary scholarship from the legendary South African freedom fighter and late president, Nelson Mandela; the scholarship covered overseas studies. The successful entrepreneur has also received the Annual Rapport/City Press Prestige Awards.
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Written By: Lisa Scottoline
Narrated By: Lisa Scottoline, Cassandra Campbell, Edoardo Ballerini
#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical fiction fueled by shocking true events, the tale of a love triangle that unfolds in the heart of Rome...in the creeping shadow of fascism.
What war destroys, only love can heal.
Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist; Marco the brash and athletic son in a family of professional cyclists; and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy, kind-hearted and thoughtful, the son of a lawyer and a doctor. Their friendship blossoms to love, with both Sandro and Marco hoping to win Elisabetta's heart. But in the autumn of 1937, all of that begins to change as Mussolini asserts his power, aligning Italy's Fascists with Hitler's Nazis and altering the very laws that govern Rome. In time, everything that the three hold dear--their families, their homes, and their connection to one another--is tested in ways they never could have imagined.
As anti-Semitism takes legal root and World War II erupts, the threesome realizes that Mussolini was only the beginning. The Nazis invade Rome, and with their occupation come new atrocities against the city's Jews, culminating in a final, horrific betrayal. Against this backdrop, the intertwined fates of Elisabetta, Marco, Sandro, and their families will be decided, in a heartbreaking story of both the best and the worst that the world has to offer.
Unfolding over decades, Eternal is a tale of loyalty and loss, family and food, love and war--all set in one of the world's most beautiful cities at its darkest moment. This moving novel will be forever etched in the hearts and minds of readers.
by Lisa Scottoline
This title is due for release on March 23, 2021.
This title is due for release on March 23, 2021
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The Bad Habits Brass
In the year 2011, forces brought a select group of men together to form the likes of which had never been seen. These men, all with vast backgrounds in music, created a band that seemed to be something to pass the time. But these nine unsuspecting souls did not know what was to come. After a few rehearsals, the allegiance took the stage, slaying local pub and saloon stages. The musical warriors soon realized that they were more just than a cover band; they were The Bad Habits Brass.
Based out of River Falls WI, The Bad Habits Brass is an eight-piece cover band with a full horn section. Influenced by greats such as Stevie Wonder, Tower of Power, James Brown, and Kool & the Gang, The Bad Habits Brass brings a funky and joyful presence wherever they go.
BHB is made up of former music students from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. In the beginning, the group played a few gigs at local bars, eventually adding town and music festivals like River Falls Days, Prescott Days, and The Midtown Global Music Festival (Minneapolis, MN) to their schedule. They have performed on many summer parks series’, and have developed a reputation as an outstanding wedding band.
The Bad Habits Brass developed a relationship with the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, booking many shows with them. In April of 2012, BHB got their first opportunity at the University. BHB worked with the University and TOMS Shoes to celebrate their One Day Without Shoes event. Following this successful event, BHB was asked to open for UWRF’s Finals Fest 2012, featuring Minneapolis-based artists Jeremy Messersmith and Cloud Cult. They also opened for Finals Fest 2013, featuring Minneapolis-based bands Farewell Milwaukee and Joey Ryan and the Inks. BHB has been featured on the UWRF Summer Concert Series, Week of Welcome, and has been worked with the College of Business and Economics’ marketing students on multiple benefit events.
"Rarely do you find a band whose entertainment and energy level matches their professionalism! The Bad Habits Brass are trained musicians who are so easy to work with and truly know how to BRING THE FUNK!"
Karyn Wells - Event Coordinator, UW-River Falls
"The Bad Habits Brass were a great band to be featured at our community festival (River Falls Days). The audience loved the band’s charismatic stage presence and energy. With classic funk hits, the Bad Habits Brass engaged the audience to get up and dance.They are great to work with. Not only were they professional, they also adapted their set list to ensure that it fit our family-friendly audience."
Maranda Mahr- River Falls Chamber of Commerce
“The Bad Habits Brass were absolutely awesome! We could not have been happier with them throughout the entire planning process and on our wedding day. They are very talented musicians who obviously love what they do; they seemed to have almost as much fun as our guests! Our dance floor was packed the entire night with both young people (like us) and the older folks (like our parents), which meant everyone was having a great time. And we had multiple guests comment on how fun and refreshing it was to have a live band instead of the usual DJ. We cannot say enough about The Bad Habits Brass and recommend them to anyone without reservation!”
Pat and Kellyn Houlton
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Late Baltimore journalist Gwen Ifill to be honored on a U.S. postage stamp
Ed Gunts
Image via USPS
A former Baltimore Evening Sun reporter will soon be honored on a U.S. postage stamp.
The late Gwen Ifill, who covered William Donald Schaefer’s City Hall in the early 1980s and later became the first African American woman to host a national political talk show, is among the “people, events and cultural milestones” being commemorated in a new series of First Class “Forever” stamps next year.
The U.S. Postal Service announced this week that Ifill, whom it called “one of America’s most esteemed journalists,” will be the 43rd person depicted in its Black Heritage series.
“Among the first African Americans to hold prominent positions in both broadcast and print journalism, Ifill was a trailblazer in the profession,” the announcement said.
The stamp will feature a photo of Ifill taken in 2008 by photographer Robert Severi, with the words Black Heritage at the top and Ifill’s name at the bottom. Art director Derry Noyes is the designer.
Born in 1955, Ifill worked as a City Hall reporter for The Evening Sun from 1981 to 1984. It was a time when the A.S. Abell Co. still had two daily newspapers in Baltimore with separate and competing staffs, The Evening Sun and The [Morning] Sun. Ifill got her share of scoops over rival City Hall reporters Sandy Banisky and Will Englund at The Sun. The evening paper eventually folded in 1987.
After Baltimore, Ifill wrote for The Washington Post and The New York Times. In the 1990s, she made the leap to broadcast journalism, first covering politics for NBC and then joining PBS in 1999.
At PBS, she was a co-anchor for PBS NewsHour for 17 years and moderator and managing editor of “Washington Week,” a political talk show. Her position with “Washington Week” made her the first African-American woman to host a national political talk show. With NewsHour co-host Judy Woodruff, she was also part of the first all-female anchor team on a nightly news program.
While at PBS, Ifill covered eight presidential campaigns and moderated two vice presidential debates. In 2009, she wrote “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.”
She died at 61 in November 2016 after a year-long battle with cancer. Her alma mater, Simmons College in Boston, renamed its communications school the Gwen Ifill College of Media, Arts and Humanities to honor her.
Her cousin, Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, tweeted earlier this week that seeing the honor for her mother “just makes my heart soar.”
Other subjects to be featured on Forever stamps in 2020 include champion golfer Arnold Palmer (who also died in 2016), the state of Maine, Wild Orchids, Earth Day, the 19th Amendment, hip-hop, the Year of the Rat and the Harlem Renaissance.
Ed Gunts is a local freelance writer and the former architecture critic for The Baltimore Sun.
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Strategic Air Command (1955)
Air Force reservist Lt. Col. Robert (Dutch) Holland is recalled into active duty at the peak of his baseball career.
Action Drama
Apocalypse: The Second World War / Apocalypse: La 2ème guerre mondiale (2009)
1080p (FullHD) / BluRay IMDb
Apocalypse: The Second World War (2009)
A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters and private citizens. The series is shown in color, with the black and white footage being fully colorized, save for some original color footage. The only exception to the treatment are most Holocaust scenes, which are presented in the original black and white.
Apocalypse War of Worlds 1945-1991 / Apocalypse La Guerre Des Mondes (2019)
Blu-Ray, 2 x Blu-Ray | BDMV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~30.0 Mbps | 6 x ~ 52mn | 86.4 GB
French (Français): DTS-HD Master Audio, 6 ch, 3714 Kbps \ English: DTS-HD Master Audio, 2 ch, 1705 Kbps
Subtitles: French (Français), English
Genre: Documentary, History, War, TV Series
Summer 1945. An iron curtain comes down, separating the Communist Eastern bloc and the West, led by the Americans. And nuclear weapons leaves mankind under perpetual threat of a new Apocalypse.
2019 Blu-Ray Documentary History Mathieu Kassovitz TV Series War
Private Valentine: Blonde & Dangerous (2008)
Posted By: Tavaz
When fluffy, bubble gum movie star Megan Valentine suddenly finds herself broke and humiliated in the public eye, she wanders from the wreckage of a car accident and witlessly enlists in the U.S. Army hoping in vain that it will change her life.
Comedy War Adventure Drama
A Soldier's Story (1984)
In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain Davenport—also a black man—is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and fearful black troops, Davenport must battle with deceit and prejudice in order to find out exactly who really did kill the Master Sergeant.
Drama Mystery War Crime
Ararat (2002)
A variety of characters, some close relatives, others distant strangers, are each affected by the making of a film about the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
Naked Among Wolves (1963) Nackt unter Wölfen
Posted By: Someonelse
SD / DVD IMDb
Naked Among Wolves (1963)
Based on a true story of inmates at KZ Buchenwald that risked their lives to hide a small Jewish boy shortly before the liberation of the camp.
Drama War
Lifeboat (1944)
During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.
Drama Thriller War
Fail-Safe (1964)
Fail Safe (1964)
Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.
The 9th Company / 9 ротa (2005)
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9th Company (2005)
The picture opens in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, in late 1988, when military trainees Petrovsky, Ryaba, Chugun, Stas, Pinochet, Lyutev and Vorobyev are whipped into shape at a training camp by the brutal, sadistic commander, Warrant Officer Dygalo - prior to being sent off to the front lines. After several one-by-one dalliances with the local whore, Snow White, and a cautionary lecture on the history, geography and culture of Afghanistan (which most of the men sleep through), the trainees head off to battle - first to the Bagram air base, then to the Afghani province of Khost to secure supply lines. But nothing can begin to prepare them for the brutal devastation into which they are plunged, or the relentless tide of slaughter that scatters thousands of Soviet victims in its wake.
Drama History War Action
BDRip | MKV | AVC 1920x1080, ~ 4.1 Mbps | 6 x ~ 52mn | 6 x ~ 3,15 GB
French (Français) \ English: DTS, 6 ch, 1510 Kbps; French (Français) \ English: DTS, 2 ch, 768 Kbps
Subtitles: French (Français)
Genre: Documentary, History, War, TV Series, Top Rated TV #34
Apocalypse: The Second World War(2009) is a six-part French documentary about the Second World War. The documentary is composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters and private citizens. The series is shown in color, with the black and white footage being fully colorized, save for some original color footage. The only exception to the treatment are most Holocaust scenes, which are presented in the original black and white.
Documentary History War TV Series Top Rated BDRip BDRip 1080p 2009 Mathieu Kassovitz
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Drama Romance War
The Duellists (1977) [Special Collector's Edition]
The Duellists (1977)
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.
The Silk Road (1988)
In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk Road. One student is Zhao Xingde, who becomes the favorite of his commander, Zhu Wangli. While sacking a fortress, Xingde discovers Tsurpia, princess of the Uighur. He hides her; they fall in love. When he's sent away to study Xixian, he leaves Tsurpia in Zhu's care, but returns to find her engaged to Li. Tragedy follows, and he and Zhu enter a pact to take revenge when Li arrives at Dun-Huang, the region's seat of learning and culture. Against overwhelming odds, they find a surprising way to leave a monument to their life and love.
The Sword and the Claw (1975) + Extra
Lionman (1975)
When the king is murdered, his baby son and heir is hidden in the forest where he is abducted and raised by a pride of lions. As an adult he uses his beastly strength and claw-like hands to take revenge against the new king and his armies.
Action Adventure War
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Home / World Cannabis News / A Scientific Look at Whether Marijuana or Alcohol Is Safer
A Scientific Look at Whether Marijuana or Alcohol Is Safer
Sarah Parfitt December 15, 2017 World Cannabis News
Does alcohol or marijuana harm your body more? Dozens of factors play a role in making a determination, but the science can’t be denied. Scientists have studied the effects of alcohol for decades. But with marijuana still being federally illegal, researching it is a bit more difficult.
No one has ever died from using just marijuana, but statistics from 2014 show that some 30,700 Americans died from an alcohol-related cause, Business Insider reports. Homicides and alcohol-related car accidents were not included in this statistic. But it is estimated that if those two factors were included, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believe it would be closer to 90,000 deaths. Interestingly enough, the American Journal of Public Health says that people who use marijuana aren’t likely to die younger than those that do not use marijuana.
In regards to addiction, those that develop a marijuana dependency or addiction are estimated to be a mere 9%. When it comes to alcohol, it is estimated (from old data) that about 15% of those consuming alcohol become addicted. Addiction rates for other drugs are higher with cocaine being 17%, heroin at 23% and nicotine being the highest at 32%.
What about cancer risk? Alcohol is classified as a carcinogen by the US Department of Health. Heavy drinking may increase the risk of receiving a cancer diagnosis. A January report suggests that marijuana use isn’t connected to an increased risk of lung cancer or cancers of the head and neck, which is seen in many tobacco users.
Driving after drinking poses a bigger risk. The National Highway Safety Administration researched intoxication via THC and alcohol. Those consuming alcohol with a blood-alcohol level of at least 0.05 are 575% more likely to be involved in an accident.
In 2009, the American Journal of Addiction review said, “The risk from driving under the influence of both alcohol and cannabis is greater than the risk of driving under the influence of either alone.”
Alcohol consumption can bring out the negative in people and has been noted to increase occurrences of domestic violence. In marijuana use, it isn’t likely to induce any violent behavior. The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence shows that, statistically, alcohol is a factor in 40% of violent crimes. When couples drink at the same time, cases of mental and/or physical abuse increase.
What about the effects on memory capacity? Both temporarily impair the memory. Alcohol can lead to blackouts when used heavily. During those moments, it’s difficult to impossible to form a memory. Longtime heavy drinkers are more likely to develop long-term memory problems along with an inability to pay attention, improper emotional responses and difficulties in social cognition. When it comes to marijuana use, memory is affected in the short-term. Heavy users may have mild, but longer-term memory issues.
Both alcohol and marijuana can have an effect on psychiatric disorders. When it comes to marijuana, some strains may promote psychosis or schizophrenia. Those with psychiatric disorders should avoid marijuana strains that induce anxiety, paranoia, dizziness and confusion. Research hasn’t caught up with marijuana yet, so it is unknown whether marijuana use is linked to long-term psychosis. Regarding alcohol, binge drinkers and heavy drinkers are more likely to suffer from depression. They are more likely to commit suicide or self-harm. Scientists can’t determine whether consuming alcohol excessively causes depression and anxiety or whether those people are drinking that much to deal with depression and anxiety symptoms.
Now, some marijuana strains may produce “the munchies” but drinkers are more likely to gain weight. Studies indicate that marijuana users have a lower risk of obesity than drinkers. When it comes to alcohol, weight gain is likely. Alcohol contains carbohydrates and can slow the metabolism.
Taking all of these factors into consideration, the general consensus is that alcohol is much worse for humans than marijuana because alcohol has the likelihood of increasing the risk of more health conditions, violence and impairments.
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How G20 Central Bank Digital Currencies Are Progressing
October 2, 2019 /in News /by admin
Central bank digital currency has become a hot topic among finance ministers and central bankers worldwide, with some G20 countries ahead of the rest on work done toward issuing their own digital currencies. Experts have weighed in on their expectations of when the first G20 digital currency will be introduced.
When Will a G20 Central Bank Issue a Digital Currency?
Central bank governors and finance ministers of many G20 countries have been working on their own central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), particularly in response to Facebook’s planned Libra coin. Mark Cliffe, chief economist and head of global research at ING Group, expects to see the first G20 central bank digital currency soon. In a blog post published Friday, he wrote:
When might we see a fully-fledged digital currency from a G20 central bank? … they’ll be making moves towards just that in the next two to three years.
Philip Middleton
Last week, ING Group held a joint event with the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), an independent think tank for central banking. At the event, OMFIF Deputy Chairman Philip Middleton revealed a less optimistic view. Discussing the prospects of CBDCs, including the advantages and drawbacks of such an offering, he opined: “I think we’re a long way off a G20 central bank issuing a fiat digital currency.” While asserting that Sweden’s efforts are the closest a central bank has come to issuing a CBDC, he expects Asia will be ahead of most other countries in this area.
Various G20 Nations’ CBDC Projects
Some G20 central banks are already experimenting with CBDCs, many of which have publicized their progress. China, for example, has frequently been in the news lately because its central bank was rumored to soon introduce a digital yuan. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) claimed last month that the country’s sovereign digital currency was “almost ready.” However, PBOC Governor Yi Gang clarified last week that there is no timeframe for the launch and more time is needed for further research, testing, trials, assessments, and risk prevention.
Unlike China, other G20 nations are not claiming that their CBDCs are near launch-ready. In the U.S., Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said this month that the Fed is not considering issuing a CBDC right now. “We are following very carefully the whole question of digital currencies,” he remarked. “It’s not something that we are actively considering … For us, it raises substantial, significant issues that we want to see carefully resolved.”
Japan’s Masayoshi Amamiya
Japan is also not planning to issue a CBDC in the near future, partly due to uncertainties over how it would affect conventional commercial banking, Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Masayoshi Amamiya explained in July. “If central bank digital currencies replace private deposits, that could erode commercial banks’ credit channels and have a negative impact on the economy,” he detailed, dismissing the idea that central banks can boost the effectiveness of negative interest rate policies by issuing digital currencies.
South Korea is another crypto-advanced Asian country without a plan to issue a central bank digital currency. Earlier this year, the Bank of Korea released the results of a study it conducted on the prospect of issuing a CBDC. “We have no plans to issue any type of CBDC that is available for all people in the near future … We have to work further on [the] benefits and costs of CBDC implementation first,” an official of the central bank told the press.
India is currently deliberating on a draft bill containing a provision for a CBDC. The bill seeks to regulate state-issued digital currencies while banning other cryptocurrencies. It has not been introduced in parliament and the Indian crypto community is arduously lobbying lawmakers to change it.
Russia’s Elvira Nabiullina
Russia, on the other hand, has repeatedly indicated that it plans to issue a CBDC, but not in the immediate future. Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina said in June that the technologies must be reliable in order to launch such a project. “If we are talking about the national currency which works for the whole country … this requires that the technology allows for reliability and continuity. Technologies, including distributed ledger technologies, must be mature.”
Meanwhile, Canada’s central bank is taking a unique approach, collaborating with Singapore’s central bank on a digital currency project. The two trialed cross-border and cross-currency payments using a test CBDC. Turkey published an economic roadmap in July which includes the creation of a central bank digital currency. The South African Reserve Bank is also exploring the possibility of a CBDC, which it described as “a domestic, general-purpose central bank digital currency” it would issue and back. Earlier this year, the central banks of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) jointly trialed a common digital currency.
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney recently proposed a digital reserve currency to replace the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. He suggested that such a currency could help provide equilibrium to the financial system during periods of uncertainty.
England’s Mark Carney
European Optimism
Several European central bankers have expressed their optimism and support for central bank-issued digital currencies. European Central Bank board member Benoit Coeure said this month that Facebook’s Libra was “a wake-up call” for central banks. In response to the social media giant’s plan, he further suggested: “We also need to step up our thinking on a central bank digital currency.” In a joint statement, France’s Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and his German counterpart, Olaf Scholz, said:
We encourage European central banks to accelerate work on issues around possible public digital currency solutions.
The Swiss National Bank’s governing board member Thomas Moser believes that a CBDC will be introduced sooner rather than later. Reuters reported him saying Friday that he “wouldn’t be surprised to see a first central bank issue its own digital currency within the next year.”
What do you think of the G20 countries issuing their own central bank digital currencies? Which country do you think will issue the first one? Let us know in the comments section below.
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