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Seb Craig
Robin J. Craig also known as Seb Craig attended St Faith’s from 1943 – 1950 and was part of Latham House.
He then moved onto The Leys from 1950 – 1955. He was enlisted to complete National Service in the Royal Artillery from 1955 – 1957 after which he enrolled at the Central School of Speech and Drama which he attended from 1957 -1958.
Since finishing at Drama School Seb has worked continuously in the Entertainment Industry firstly as an Actor then as a Theatre Manager.
He returned to solely acting in 1985. Since which he has appeared in the West End in various productions, National Tours and appeared in Leading and Featured Roles in over 70 TV commercials worldwide including some TV productions, including “Off Their Rockers” on ITV.
He married in 1962 to Rita Janette Buckley an actress he met whilst at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch who he sadly lost after 43 years of a very Happy marriage. He has a Son and Daughter and 8 Grandchildren and divides his time living in Essex and London.
1890-1919 Sir Christopher Cockerell
1990-1999 Scott L Walker
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They got game, too
GU women also in a class of their own
Sun., Feb. 21, 2010
Heather Bowman and the GU women have made the extra effort all season. (Jesse Tinsley)
By John Blanchette blanchettejp@gmail.com(509) 844-5558
GU rolls: Details of Gonzaga’s rout of Pepperdine/C5
Prominent among the explanations for the obsession that is Gonzaga basketball is location. The Zags are, it’s pointed out, the only game in town, so it’s no wonder they’re loved half to death. The big-city conceit inherent in this rationale is that the only entertainment alternative in Spokane is stopping by the nearest Les Schwab’s to watch them sipe the snow tires.
Besides, there’s this other game in town.
OK, so they play in the same joint. It is a slightly different phenomenon when the Bulldog women hang out the “Game Today” sign, as was the case Saturday when they sent out the senior class with an 87-45 pasting of Pepperdine at the McCarthey Athletic Center. But it’s a phenomenon nonetheless.
The Zags thus close out their home schedule 15-0. The closest game was the first one, a 12-pointer over USC. The last one ran the average margin of victory over the seven dwarfs of the West Coast Conference to 36.1 points. This suggests there actually is more drama in tire siping, and yet a yen for the unknown was not a factor in luring 4,829 out of the sunshine.
Apparently, butt-kicking is comfort food.
This one followed a familiar script: a few defensive stops to ignite a game-changing run of 21 straight points, the never-routine playmaking of Courtney Vandersloot and the reliability of the Zags’ many finishers, among them Vivian Frieson, who passed the 1,000-point career plateau late in the game after coach Kelly Graves gathered his players at a timeout and demanded, “We’re getting it for her.”
Naturally, she got it on a degree-of-difficulty drive that the coach acknowledged “frustrates the heck out of me most of the time.” Serves him right.
If these sort of details are the inevitable crumbs from a 42-point banquet, the customers have yet to complain. Only two larger crowds have gathered for a women’s game at McCarthey – the sellout last year for Tennessee and the uniting of the hometown Bjorklund sisters, and the 2005 finale against Portland. As it happens, 4,829 is now closer to the norm than the extreme.
Over the past four seasons, the Zags have managed to boost their attendance a mere 100 percent. The 2,935 average is only a few hundred short of what the rest of the WCC teams combined draw – and 1,976 of those are holders of the thoroughly reasonable $75 season tickets.
Everybody has their theories. Graves cited the resources Gonzaga has invested in marketing, a community that feels strongly about high school and college sports and that good local players dot the roster. Athletic director Mike Roth pointed down the bench and noted that “people like the big guy (Graves) in the pink shirt.” Pepperdine coach Julie Rousseau concluded, “Success gets people’s attention.”
Every patron leaves entertained – even near-misses that roll off the rim are punctuated with emotive groans – and every player leaves grateful.
“When we go other places, I’m so thankful we have the support we do,” said junior Janelle Bekkering. “It would be so much different playing in one of those empty gyms.”
What is remarkable is that it by no means the same crowd that packs it on alternate weeks.
“The demographics are completely different,” Roth said. “That’s in gender – there are many more women than you’ll find at a men’s game – and in age. It’s higher on one end and lower on the other end, where the men are toward the middle. That’s pretty universal in well-attended women’s events around the country.
“And I truly believe the men’s team has helped us here. Most of these people don’t get to go to a men’s game – 90 percent of them. So they said, ‘Let’s go to a women’s game.’ ”
And then the women kept them coming. A national ranking, 99 wins in four years and a magician like Vandersloot will do that.
There is one curiosity: aside from the band, student participation is negligible. There is no Kennel Club, but more of a Kennel Klatch. What else they’ve found to do is a mystery.
After all, there’s supposed to be only one game in town.
What's Worth Watching: 'Bridgerton,' Netflix's Regency-era 'Downton Abbey'
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How the Autonomous World is shifting the Future of Work
An ‘Autonomous World’ is about to emerge according to Jeremiah Owyang, founder of Crowd Companies. Gloria Lombardi explores and finds out more.
By Gloria Lombardi (@LOMBARDI_GLORIA)
Could you imagine having a robot as a colleague? The idea may seem rather fanciful. But, according to founder of Crowd Companies Jeremiah Owyang (pictured right), we are witnessing a rise of the Autonomous World, which he defines as: “The future state when intelligent technology systems, operating without human participation, enable new business models in a more efficient society.“
The Autonomous World is driven by the digital world. “It relies on the merger of robots and The Internet of Things (IoT),” clarifies Owyang. It is already creating new ways of doing business. “It is also changing the Collaborative Economy in different ways.”
The effects of the Autonomous World on the future of work will be both good and bad, Owyang says. On the positive side, workers will rely on robots to get their work done. “The management as well as other employees will use machines and even artificial intelligence systems to fulfil their tasks.”
But, on the downside, workers themselves maybe displaced. “They may find out that they no longer have a job: the robots are doing it for them.”
In order to be part of the workforce of the future people will need to develop new skills to manage technological advancements. “They need to prepare now for the changes that will come when computers are able to complete some tasks better and cheaper than them.”
However, many people are still either unaware that the move is about to happen. “Or they are trying to resist it.” Yet, the shift is happening. And, “it will not be stopped.”
Not surprisingly, there is a lot of concern about the rights of workers. Owyang is seeing the rise of the Universal Basic Income. “It is a form of socialism where common resources and a basic income is provided to all workers.” Even if people are not currently working, they will be guaranteed a wage. “The aim is to have no one ending up starving or becoming homeless.”
The worker-machine relationship in the workplace
Will the Autonomous World emulate humans? No. Robots will behave differently from people. “They are going to be faster and complete transactions quickly. They will be like sub-workers or sub-serving workers.”
Obviously, autonomous machines are not social creatures like humans are. Yet, they will be able to improve communications. “For example, they will give workers essential information on emerging situations immediately at the time they occur. They will collect data, analyse it and and produce important alerts or notifications for people to access as soon as a set of circumstances change.”
And, these technologies will certainly extend the idea of the workplace. It is worth mentioning the role of self-driving cars. With the vehicle driving itself people will be able to work while commuting. “The car will start looking like an office in its own right: WiFi, large screens, and the opportunity to connect various devices to work in comfort.”
Autonomous vehicles will also function as a sort of logistics partners. “If someone needs a package to be delivered to the office, they can use those technologies to quickly send them the material. For workers, that means that they can get things on demand.” And, the supply chain itself will be faster thanks to the technology.
The impact on society is and will be big. Good examples come from ride-sharing companies such as Uber, Lyft and Didi Kuaidi, which are preparing to launch their own self-driving cars. “Uber is already building the technology in its vehicles.” Meanwhile, car manufacturers such as Volvo, Ford, Mercedes and Yamaha are working on producing their own self-driving transport. And, the industry impact has continuing effects. “These firms are opening laboratories and innovation centres in Silicon Valley as they, too, strive to integrate software with their products.”
Additionally, new collaborative partnerships are developing. For example, Lyft, which is the second largest ride-sharing start-up in the United States, has partnered with General Motors: “Together they will be launching self-driving cars soon.”
The role of mobile in an Autonomous World
The Autonomous World is intrinsically and entirely linked with the mobile experience. “It is summoned by mobile.” For example, people will organise their rides through the apps on their devices. The self-driving car will go to their house and take them wherever they need to go.
Mobility will also enable WiFi access: mobile devices will be on a very fast connection inside the car. “In some respect, the self-driving vehicles themselves will be like smartphones.”
And, a new form of mobile apps will emerge. “The current way of downloading and installing applications as well as logging in, is old and antiquated. It will not sustain in the long run.” In the future, people will not need to download the app: “It will be instantly available on the phone.”
And, it will provide richer experiences than today’s apps are offering. Yet, “it will take some time before we reach that point.”
Nurturing corporate culture and human talent
Employees will always be seen as an important asset. But, the idea of talent will change in an Autonomous World. “Many companies are already outsourcing high expertise and skills from the freelancer world. They are already relying on the on-demand workers.” And, leaders must carefully take them into account. “They must prepare and nurture an internal culture that considers these individuals.”
Institutional knowledge is going to be critical too. “Companies have to ensure that the knowledge of their organisation is captured and retained.”
But, that is important anyway. “Whether or not the business has engaged with freelancers or used any machine that could potentially replace humans.”
Fascinating or frightening depending on how it is seen, the Autonomous World is shifting the future of work. “And companies must prepare for it.”
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CAM Software for a New Generation of Machinists
By Alan Rooks Editor in Chief, Manufacturing Engineering
At EMO, 3D Systems launched the latest version of its GibbsCAM software. The new release, GibbsCAM12, includes the first new interface for the software in many years. In this podcast, Chris MacBain, product marketing manager for 3D Systems, talks with Alan Rooks, Editor in Chief of Manufacturing Engineering magazine, about GibbsCAM and its role in the manufacturing industry; why the updated interface was needed; how it changes the way machinists work with the software, and new developments MacBain expects to see in CAM software in the coming years.
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'A new frontier': The quest for Australia's first Aboriginal astronaut
This was published 1 year ago
By Ella Archibald-Binge and Rhett Wyman
January 8, 2020 — 12.00am
Like many children, Giovanni D’Urso used to dream of becoming an astronaut. But now it’s not such an unrealistic career prospect.
The 27-year-old is one of two students from the University of Technology Sydney who have recently completed a three-month stint at NASA’s prestigious Jet Propulsion Lab in California, as part of an ambitious program to recruit talented Indigenous students to work in the space industry.
UTS students Giovanni D'Urso and Tui Nolan have just returned from a stint with NASA in the US. Credit:Rhett Wyman
Growing up in Mt Druitt as one of seven children, Mr D’Urso developed an early fascination with science and robotics, constantly “taking things apart and building silly projects”.
His curiosity led him to study mechatronic engineering, which earned him a work experience placement at NASA JPL, a world leader in robotic exploration of the solar system.
Travelling to JPL’s California headquarters in August, he spent three months helping to develop RoboSimian – a limbed robot originally designed to aid recovery operations in disaster zones, but now being repurposed for space exploration.
“The stuff that we do won't necessarily go to another planet, but it helps inform the thinking and design that other people will use in order to get there,” he said.
“So kernels of your ideas and your knowledge and research will make it to other planets, which is amazing.”
The Kamilaroi man was one of the first Australian students to attend JPL under a pilot program to create career pathways for Indigenous science, technology, engineering and maths students, set up by UTS director of Indigenous engagement Chris Lawrence.
“Indigenous Australians are the first STEM people; they've been here for 65,000 years,” Mr Lawrence said.
UTS associate professor Chris Lawrence hopes to see the first Aboriginal astronaut within his lifetime. Credit:Rhett Wyman
“We know there are a lot of bright, smart Indigenous students out there and we just want to make sure that we find them and encourage them.”
The Noongar man has applied for a grant from the newly formed Australian Space Agency to set up a national Indigenous space academy, which would create a talent pool of First Nations students for the local space industry.
“The ultimate goal is to have the first Aboriginal astronaut,” he said.
“And hopefully she's a woman. Hopefully I’ll see that in my lifetime.”
The program has already opened doors for students like UTS PhD candidate Tui Nolan.
The 33-year-old joined Mr D’Uso at JPL this year, applying his knowledge of statistics and maths to develop algorithms to help detect planets outside the solar system.
He insists his area of expertise is really just “puzzle work”.
“And when you view it from the terms of thinking of it as a game with yourself … it’s actually quite a fun job to have.”
The Gudjal and Wiradjuri man will this year take his puzzle-solving skills back to the US as a Fulbright postdoctoral scholar at Cornell University, an Ivy League school in New York.
“It is important to realise that what we're doing is setting up a new frontier where more Indigenous people are getting more involved, not just in education but in leadership, providing pathways and inspiration for future students to achieve these goals as well,” Mr Nolan said.
Following the success of last year’s pilot program, five work experience placements at JPL will be available to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander STEM students in 2020.
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Ella Archibald-Binge
Ella Archibald-Binge is a Kamilaroi woman and the Indigenous Affairs reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald.
Rhett Wyman
Rhett is a Palawa man and a photographer at the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Robert A. Berghoff
Smith Senior Living Board Chair, 2007 – 2012
Smith Village President, 2002 – 2007
“I know from personal experience that the Smith Village staff can make days much brighter for residents and their families,” says Bob Berghoff, whose mother Doris moved into the original Washington and Jane Smith Home.
“My family was delighted with the welcome we received when we stopped in for an impromptu visit. My mother had made so many new friends and savored time with people who had been her neighbors for many years, we were grateful she could make time for us too” he adds. “And she always appreciated the elegance of her surroundings—a style that has been carried forward in the new Smith Village.”
As the second generation to serve as both a trustee and board chair, Bob Berghoff views Smith Village as an integral part of Beverly. His own community engagement extends to service as a trustee and director of the Beverly Area Planning Association, the Beverly Improvement Association and the Beverly Arts Center. He also has served seniors on the North Side as president of the Covenant Home of Chicago.
A graduate of Northwestern University and the University of Chicago Law School, he is a partner in the firm of Berghoff & Berghoff, Ltd., and has practiced law in Chicago since 1965.
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By Observer Staff
Culver City High School Student Completes 12 years of Dance at Westside School of Ballet
Toscana Finke has performed 15 different roles from The Nutcracker, from Blue Soldier to the Dew Drop Fairy
Toscana Finke as Dew Drop
Toscana Finke is a graduating senior from Culver City High School who has been dancing at Westside School of Ballet for over 12 years, three of those at the most advanced level (Level 7). She is one of the last students currently with Westside Ballet that has trained directly under founder Yvonne Mounsey.
Toscana has performed 15 different roles from The Nutcracker, from an 8-year-old Blue Soldier, to her dream role, the Dew Drop Fairy. She has also performed in a wide variety of pieces in past Spring Showcases, including Yvonne Mounsey's Classical Symphony, George Balanchine's Valse Fantasie, and Marius Petipa's Sleeping Beauty.
This will be Toscana's tenth and final Spring Showcase. She will be performing in Paquita as a soloist, dancing an ebullient solo. Toscana will be featured as a soloist in contemporary ballet Handel Dances choreographed by Sophie Monat as well; her solo is another high-octane piece. Finally, Toscana will be performing in the jazz piece Grease as the lead Sandy Olsson.
After graduation, Toscana will be heading to upstate New York to further her education at the very selective small liberal arts school, Hamilton College. She was awarded a scholarship, and is intending to double major in Neuroscience and Dance and Movement Studies, while also taking Pre-Med courses in order to pursue a career in medicine. She is looking forward to becoming the role model that she dreamed of as a six-year-old in Level 1: fouette-ing physician.
Westside Ballet School
Here's a Facebook 'reGram' of Toscana dancing in Nutcracker: https://www.facebook.com/westsideballet/posts/1792695444107336
GREASE: In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the 1978 motion picture "Grease", Westside Ballet's jazz teacher Michele Bachar Mendicelli is choreographing an homage to the romantic comedy film, which was based on the original musical from 1971. The film was a commercial and critical success and was considered one of the best films of 1978.
Named after the 1950's United States working-class youth subculture known as greasers, the musical is set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School and follows ten working-class teenagers, lead by "bad boy" Danny Zuko (played by Zane Jessewein) and "good girl" Sandy Olsson (played by Toscana Finke).
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"GRACE AND GRIT" - a film depicting the power of dance in difficult times. Young Dance Students and Professional Alumni Present Drive-in Dance Film
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Artist: Tom Verlaine
“Tom Verlaine and Television were for me the most inspiring: They were not glamorous, they were human.” (Patti Smith in a recent interview for New York magazine) An accurate description of Tom Verlaine’s career would read much like a thesaurus entry for influential. He has truly shaped the sound of modern music, from his early days with the Neon Boys and Television, throughout his solo career, and most recently as the guitarist in Patti Smith’s band. Always ahead of the curve, Tom’s influence is immeasurable throughout the rock world with bands as diverse as The Strokes and Dos claiming him as an influence. No one, however, has been able to replicate his sounds, from delicate lace like details to soaring and singing lines. It’s hard to describe without a slew of superlatives.
(from thrilljockey.com)
Song: Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho
Contribution to: Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Get The Song Now!
“Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho” (or alternatively “Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho”) is a well-known African-American spiritual. The song is believed to have been composed by slaves in the first half of the nineteenth century. Some references suggest that it was copyrighted by Jay Roberts in 1865. The first recorded version was by Harrod’s Jubilee Singers, on Paramount Records #12116, in 1922 (though some sources suggest 1924). Later recordings include those by Paul Robeson (1925), Mahalia Jackson (1958), Elvis Presley (1960), Cassandra Wilson (1995) and Hugh Laurie (2011).
About Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) was America’s first cancer center, founded in 1898 by Dr. Roswell Park. His revolutionary model of a ‘multidisciplinary approach’ to cancer – with scientists and clinicians working in concert and in consult – has become the standard by which all modern-day comprehensive cancer centers are measured. RPCI is among the first and only upstate New York facility to hold the National Cancer Institute designation of “comprehensive cancer center” and to serve as a member of the prestigious National Comprehensive Cancer Network. Many RPCI faculty serve on the NCCN panels that create the Clinical Practice Guidelines in OncologyTM – the internationally recognized standards for clinical policy in oncology, and the most comprehensive, most frequently updated clinical practice guidelines available in any area of medicine.
Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho
by Tom Verlaine
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Top Outcomes for Quantum Physics Honours Students
Three Honours students from the School of Physics' Quantum Physics group, who completed their Honours research in 2011, have had their work appear in separate articles in the journal Physical Review Letters, the premier technical journal for the physical sciences.
The trio of Honours students - Dominic Else, Todd Green, and Tom Keevers - have each published work from their Honours theses in a world-class, high-impact publication.
The three papers appearing in Physical Review Letters, published within a month of each other, address hot topics in the fields of quantum information and quantum technology. .
Todd Green's paper, written on his Honours research completed with supervisor Dr Michael J. Biercuk, addresses the problem of making quantum technologies robust against error.
"This work contributes to our understanding of the effects of noise and opens the way for the development of improved noise mitigation schemes for a wide variety of quantum systems," explained Todd.
Physical Review Letters is considered the 'gold-standard' international journal for research in Physics.
Associate Professor David Reilly, from the Quantum Physics group, explained the importance of this journal in the field:
"Physical Review Letters is the premier physics journal and has reported the foundational papers leading to many Nobel prizes, for instance, the quantum Hall effects, superfluid helium-3 and many more. Most professional physicists never get an opportunity to publish in Physical Review Letters in their entire career! Publishing in this prestigious journal as the outcome of your Honours work is a major achievement and testament to the hard work of these students," said Associate Professor Reilly.
Dominic Else, lead author of a paper published with Quantum Physics supervisors Professor Stephen Bartlett and Associate Professor Andrew Doherty, said of his work, "We studied how certain systems spontaneously generate entanglement - a resource for quantum computation - and showed how this can still occur in less idealised situations."
The work built on earlier more limited research by other scientists in the field, but has dramatically expanded the potential applicability of this phase of matter.
Similarly, the Honours research conducted by Tom Keevers under the supervision of Dr Dane McCamey, an ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow, has made an impact by touching on the timely issue of carbon-based electronic devices.
"The information obtained from our study will help us improve the efficiency of solar cells made from these novel materials," said Tom Keevers.
Having this trio of prestigious papers published is an achievement recognised by researchers outside the field of quantum physics - Professor Tim Bedding, from the Sydney Institute for Astronomy, said he was extremely proud that undergraduate students had the ability to contribute to the international research enterprise.
"With dedication and commitment, students willing to put in the effort can produce significant outcomes from their Honours research. The stage of an author's career doesn't matter - good ideas that advance knowledge in the community are recognised and rewarded," said Professor Bedding.
All three students are currently continuing their studies as PhD students in Quantum Physics.
"Slow hopping and spin-dephasing of Coulombically-bound polaron pairs in an organic semiconductor at room temperature" W. J. Baker, T. L. Keevers, J. M. Lupton, D. R. McCamey, and C. Boehme, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 267601 (2012).
"Symmetry-Protected Phases for Measurement-Based Quantum Computation," Dominic V. Else, Ilai Schwarz, Stephen D. Bartlett, and Andrew C. Doherty, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 240505 (2012).
"High-order noise filtering in nontrivial quantum logic gates" T. Green, H. Uys, and M.J. Biercuk Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020501 (2012)
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By Central New York Heartbeat
2018 marked the 60th anniversary of the Grammy Awards, one of the biggest nights in the music industry. Every year, the academy names artists it feels are worthy to take home top prizes and titles for their work, including best new artists and best album.
But the Jan. 28 award night brought a new level of scrutiny from music critics as the winners were announced and a noticeable absence was formed: Only one woman took home a top televised prize, and influential pieces from the rap and hip-hop genres were seemingly overlooked in favor of more “tame” pop pieces.
Alessia Cara was the only woman to take home a major award and was the only female televised winner, noted Maura Johnston with Rolling Stone. This came despite the White Rose campaign that took the awards show by storm, with people wearing white roses as a sign of unity with the #MeToo movement.
“Despactio” by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, lauded as the best-selling Spanish song of all time with 7 million copies sold, was also noticeably skipped over three times (despite it also holding the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 100 chart for 16 weeks, tying for longest top-spot streak in history), pointed out Brittney Hodack with Forbes Magazine.
And though Bruno Mars broke the decade-long drought of artists of color winning Album of the Year, Maeve McDermott with USA Today claimed it still showed the academy has a problem with race and hip-hop music by not acknowledging Jay-Z’s 4:44 or Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. Jay-Z’s piece was called “as close to Grammy bait as any” for its vulnerable narrative, and Lamar’s was deemed “consensus album of the year” for both its commercial and critical success, claimed Rodney Carmichael with NPR.
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Crunch Still In Contention For Calder Cup Glory
‘Cuse Crunch seek championship, while SU men’s LAX falls in ACC Tourney.
Game 1 of the Calder Cup Finals in 2013 at the War Memorial between the Syracuse Crunch and the Grand Rapids Griffins. Michael Davis photo
The Syracuse Crunch hockey team will continue its quest for its first Calder Cup championship this weekend, when the Crunch hosts the Toronto Marlies in the first two games of the American Hockey League North Division final playoff series.
The Crunch, the AHL affiliate of the Tampa Bay Lightning, advanced to the division final by defeating the St. John’s IceCaps 3-1 in the best-of-five North Division semifinal series. In the decisive fourth game April 28, Syracuse’s Gabriel Dumont scored the game-winner in overtime — his first goal since Dec. 30 — and goaltender Mike McKenna recorded 26 saves for his third win in the playoffs.
Syracuse, the North Division champions with 90 points, will host the Marlies on Friday, May 5, and Saturday, May 6, 7 p.m., at the Onondaga County War Memorial Arena. The middle three games will be played in Toronto May 9, 10 and 13, with the final two games, if necessary, May 15 and 17 in Syracuse.
The Marlies finished second in the North Division, just one point behind Syracuse. If the Crunch wins this series it will advance to the Eastern Conference finals — one step away from the Calder Cup finals.
The Crunch, which re-entered the AHL in 1994, has never won the Calder Cup, the AHL’s version of the Stanley Cup. The Crunch reached the Calder Cup finals in 2013 but lost in six games to Grand Rapids.
Single-game tickets for the playoffs can be purchased in person at the Crunch office located inside the War Memorial Arena, 800 S. State St., by calling the office at (315) 473-4444, or through Ticketmaster.
Orange Men’s Lax Falls in ACC Semifinals
The No. 1 Syracuse men’s lacrosse team nearly overcame a nine-goal halftime deficit to No. 18 North Carolina April 28 before falling 16-15 to the defending national champions in the ACC Tournament semifinals on the Tar Heels’ home field in Durham, N.C.
The Orange is 11-2, with 10 of its 13 games decided by one goal and three of its wins in overtime. Syracuse will conclude its regular season Saturday, May 6, by facing Colgate (5-8) in Hamilton.
The Orange remains a lock for a NCAA Tournament bid and will likely host a first-round game at the Carrier Dome.
The 10th-ranked Syracuse women’s lacrosse team reached the ACC Tournament championship game before losing 18-11 to No. 3 North Carolina April 30 in Richmond, Va. The Orange (15-6) will learn its fate in the NCAA Tournament when the bracket is announced Sunday, May 7.
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Syracuse University men’s basketball coach Jim Boeheim did his best to put a brave face on the Orange’s 1-4 start in Atlantic Coast Conference play.
“It’s five games. Who cares?” Boeheim said after Syracuse fell to 1-4 with a 101-90 double-overtime loss at Florida State Jan. 13. “You’ve got 13 games to go. Anything can happen. Who cares? That doesn’t matter. You play the next game.”
Boeheim noted that all four of SU’s losses were close, and three of them were on the road to Wake Forest, then-No. 3 Virginia and then-No. 23 Florida State. It’s difficult to win on the road, Boeheim reminded us, particularly in the powerful ACC.
That’s all true, and the Orange (15-6) has since evened its ACC record at 4-4 by defeating Pittsburgh twice and Boston College at home. But as Syracuse reaches the halfway point of its ACC schedule Wednesday night, Jan. 31, at Georgia Tech (10-10, 3-4), it’s important to remember that the Orange will likely need to win another road game or two to have the best chance of qualifying for the NCAA Tournament.
As we learned last year, the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee looks closely at a team’s home and road records. The 2016-2017 Orange finished 19-15 overall, 10-8 in the ACC, and notched impressive wins over then-No. 6 Florida State, then-No. 9 Virginia and then-No. 10 Duke. But Syracuse won only two games away from the Carrier Dome last season, and that road performance plus an ugly home loss to St. John’s sent the Orange to the NIT instead of the NCAA Tournament.
SU starting forward Matthew Moyer sprained his left ankle during the Jan. 24 Boston College contest. Michael Davis photo
Entering Wednesday night’s game at Georgia Tech, the Orange is 12-2 at home (3-1 in the ACC) and 3-4 on the road or at neutral sites (1-3 in the ACC). Syracuse’s three away-from-the-Dome wins are against Connecticut Dec. 5 at Madison Square Garden, at Georgetown Dec. 16, and at Pittsburgh Jan. 27.
None of those three wins jump out at you as Connecticut was ranked No. 74, Georgetown No. 162 and Pitt No. 180 in the Jan. 27 Rating Percentage Index (RPI), one of the key tools utilized by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee.
But the good news is that Syracuse was ranked No. 30 in the RPI, and it can move itself off the NCAA Tournament bubble by earning another road win or two against solid teams and picking up a signature win against a top-ranked team. The even better news is that by playing in the ACC, the Orange has the opportunity to do both.
“Coach told us there’s only been a couple of road wins so far in the ACC and that shows you how tough this conference is,” said SU freshman forward Oshae Brissett. “Everyone loves to win on their home court and every team is good, so once you get one away win, then everyone can start talking about you again and we can start to feel confident in ourselves.”
The Orange picked up that first ACC road win Jan. 27, albeit against a Pittsburgh team that’s 0-9 in the conference and has lost seven of those games by double digits. With a surprising effort from freshman center Bourama Sidibe (a career-high 18 points and 16 rebounds in 31 minutes), the Orange overcame a woeful shooting effort (35.2 percent) and the loss of starting forward Matthew Moyer (out indefinitely with a sprained left ankle during the Jan. 24 Boston College game) to outlast the Panthers 60-55 at the Petersen Events Center.
Syracuse’s remaining road games are at Georgia Tech Wednesday, Louisville Feb. 5, Miami Feb. 17, No. 4 Duke Feb. 24, and Boston College Feb. 28. To win one or two of those games, the Orange will need to play more consistently on the offensive end.
Syracuse played what Boeheim called its “best offensive game” in an 81-63 rout of Boston College Jan. 24 at the Dome. But then the Orange turned around and played so poorly on offense against Pitt that the struggling Panthers might be the only ACC team Syracuse would have defeated on that day.
“I think on the road you can almost get sped up too much,” said point guard Frank Howard, who’s averaging 3.1 turnovers at home and 5.7 on the road. “On the road you want to be poised, you want to be smart with the basketball.
“We’ve had a few road games, we want to be comfortable on the road and we don’t want to look at it like it’s a different game,” Howard added. “You just want our defense to travel, and our offense to travel with it.’’
The lack of consistency has a lot to do with the team’s makeup with two juniors in their first full year as starters (Howard and center Paschal Chukwu), a sophomore in his second year as a starter (Tyus Battle), a redshirt freshman (Moyer), and four true freshmen (Brissett, Sidibe, Marek Dolezaj and Howard Washington).
The Orange has four games remaining against current-top 25 teams and three of them are at home: No. 2 Virginia this Saturday, Feb. 3, No. 19 North Carolina Feb. 21, and No. 20 Clemson March 3. As the season enters the homestretch, the question now is not “Who cares?” The question is, can this group find a way to earn the wins necessary to get the Orange into the NCAA Tournament?
“You’re going to have ups and downs, that’s just the way it is,” said Boeheim, the 42nd-year coach who has led the Orange to 32 NCAA Tournament appearances. “I have to be patient, as much as I can be, which is not that easy.
“They’re doing everything they can to try to get there,” Boeheim added. “Even in the games we’ve lost, they’ve been right there, they’ve done everything we’ve asked them to do, but we got to get older quicker.”
No. 2 Virginia Visits the Dome
The Orange will get its second crack at Virginia this season when the No. 2 Cavaliers visit the Dome at 4 p.m. Saturday. The Cavaliers (20-1) entered Wednesday’s home game against Louisville with a 12-game winning streak and as the ACC’s only undefeated team (9-0).
Virginia upended No. 4 Duke 65-63 Jan. 27 for its first win at Cameron Indoor Stadium since 1995. On Jan. 9 at Virginia, the Orange led 31-29 early in the second half but Virginia steadily pulled away and led by as many as 14 points before settling for a 68-61 victory.
Tickets for Saturday’s game are available online at Cuse.com, by calling (888) DOME-TIX, or at the Carrier Dome box office at Gate B during regular business hours.
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Can Telemedicine Save You a Trip to the Doctor?
by Christina DesMarais on February 05, 2014
in Health & Fitness, News, Health and Home, Blog, Time Savers :: 1 comment
Going to the doctor can be a hassle. Not only do you have to get there — which costs time as well as money for gas or public transportation — but once in the door, you often have to sit around in a waiting room exposed to people who could make you sick.
Thankfully, technology today has evolved to the point that you might not even need to be in the same room with your physician to receive a consultation or treatment. The system is called telemedicine, and it involves using a webcam-enabled computer, smartphone or connected gadget to transfer information between you and your doctor.
According to Jared Rhoads, a senior research specialist with CSC, an IT services and solutions company based in Falls Church, Va., the term telemedicine can be used to describe a wide variety of uses that fall into four general buckets.
1. TeleCare
In telecare, modern technology allows caregivers to remotely monitor people with chronic issues. For example, someone with congestive heart failure could step on a Wi-Fi-enabled scale to automatically send daily weight measurements that could signal dangerous fluid retention or loss to a caregiver, who can take action if measurements are out of whack.
Telecare can also benefit people in assisted living, such as those with dementia.
“Home sensors can detect if a person has gotten up in the morning — and let’s say their daily routine is to put a kettle of tea on and turn on a light in the bathroom, a set of definable, measurable things," Rhoads said. "You can have a sensor system that tries to detect whether a person appears to be up and about and doing their daily thing, and if not, then it will send an alert to a family member or some other caregiver.”
2. TeleMedicine
Basic telemedicine, a type of telemedicine that's been going on for decades, uses videoconferencing or telephone calls to connect patients with one or more consulting physicians. It’s particularly helpful for people in rural settings who may not have physical access to specialists.
“If you need a consult right away from a certain type of neurologist, let’s say, there might only be a few available in the state and you might be hours away from where you could possibly meet them," Rhoads said. "But if you can go to your local community hospital and then even if they don’t have that kind of skillset on staff, they can contact someone and do a consultation through telemedicine.”
Rhoads said an HD webcam isn’t usually necessary for video conferences.
“The better the quality, the more pleasant the experience and everything, but it doesn’t really hinder the discussion because it’s mostly about the audio, exchanging the information and talking with your doctor,” he said. “If you’re doing something skin-related and you’re talking with the dermatologist about a suspicious mole, they’re probably going to ask you to take a picture with a camera anyway and then email them the picture, or they might have a website where they can direct you to and then you upload it directly to them.”
Mental healthcare in which psychiatrists connect with patients by video is another hot area within the telemedicine space. “The camera is just secondary," Rhoads said. "You just need a voice on the other end of the line to talk to.”
3. TeleHealth
The notion of “quantified self” involves tracking metrics about yourself such as your heart rate, weight, what you eat, your activity and much more over time, often using some kind of gadget in conjunction with a smartphone app. For people with health issues, scads of Internet-connected devices exist that do things such as monitor blood glucose levels or blood pressure and store metrics in the cloud, where you can see levels on a timeline as well as easily share this information with a healthcare professional.
4. TeleCoaching
Telecoaching is an interactive online patient education experience.
“Especially when you have a newly diagnosed diabetic, it’s a real education- and training-intensive thing to get a new patient trained so they can stay on top of their own condition and do a really good job of self-management,” Rhoads says. “So that kind of hand-holding during that maybe the first six months that someone has been diagnosed with diabetes tends to be a good and successful application.”
The limits of telemedicine
Many healthcare diagnoses require diagnostic techniques such as MRI or X-imaging, so if whatever ails you involves giving a doctor a look into the inner tissues of your body, you’re going to have to physically take yourself to a medical facility. It's the same principle for blood work, bacterial cultures or stool samples — these are things most people can’t handle at home and not appropriate for sending to your physician via mail, if avoiding travel is your goal.
Getting stared with telemedicine
The adoption of virtual visits with doctors via telemedicine isn’t mainstream yet, according to Dr. Joseph Kvedar, director of the Boston-based Center for Connected Health.
“We’re still in somewhere between early adopter and early majority, so the chances are high that if you went to your doctor and said ‘Hey, I want to start doing visits virtually,’ they would probably discourage that," he said. "They would have either quality concerns — maybe their lack of familiarity — or at some point they might have reimbursement concerns because unless they’re in a system that’s promoting shared risk … Then they might be essentially working for free by doing it virtually, so that wouldn’t be appealing.”
Even so, talking to your doctor about telemedicine is a good first step, Kvedar suggested.
“Let’s suppose you have high blood pressure, diabetes or one of those conditions, and you say ‘I really want to get more involved by monitoring my health; how can I interact with you, my physician, to monitor those data, record them and make them relevant to your decision-making?’" Kvedar said. "Many docs will engage with that."
Some state regulations dictate that patients must meet a doctor in person before he or she can prescribe medication. “Only 13 states clearly allow doctors to establish a patient relationship —typically required to prescribe drugs — without at least an initial in-person visit, according to the Robert J. Waters Center for Telehealth & e-Health Law,” reports The Wall Street Journal.
That said, in certain states, a few good online solutions can help as well. The NowClinic website connects sick people with doctors who will diagnose them via webcam, phone or chat. A 10-minute consultation costs $45 payable by credit or debit card and is available in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Michigan, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming and for HPN/SHL commercial members in Nevada.
Teladoc and American Well are similar options, with the latter also offering mobile apps as a way to interface with a doctor.
Cool new diagnostic tools on the way
Telemedicine is a burgeoning space that’s innovating at a rapid pace, and you’ll want to pay attention if getting a diagnosis from home sounds like a good idea to you.
Rock Health, a San Francisco seed accelerator that funds digital health-related start-ups, surmises Apple is stealthily working on a health product. Clues include the fact that the iPhone is loaded with sensors, and CEO Tim Cook is on record as saying, “The whole sensor field is going to explode.” The company is hiring medical device experts, and the iPhone 5s uses the M7 coprocessor, which is designed to monitor physical activity.
CellScope Otos is another system to watch for. It’s an otoscope for the iPhone that collects high-quality images of the ear canal and eardrum to diagnose ear infections and track them over time. Currently in use by early adopter doctors, it will soon be sold to clinician users for around $200.
A CellScope device for consumers to use at home — a boon for parents with young children — is planned for launch later this year. The idea is that home users could send images to their own doctors for diagnosis (or get connected to a different doctor if theirs doesn’t participate in Cellscope’s program). The company says it’s also working on software tools that would give users an immediate analysis of what’s going on in their ears.
And designed to aid with the early detection of disease, uChek turns an iPhone or Android phone into an accurate urinanalyzer that can measure urine parameters such as glucose, protein, urobilinogen, calcium, blood, creatinine, pH, ketone and much more. At last check, the India-based company was working toward FDA approval.
Stay tuned — these examples of telemedicine are just a tiny sample of what you can expect in the near future. Want to know what kinds of gadgets can help you now? Check out What’s New in Activity Trackers, SmartWatches and Other Wearable Tech.
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Living with dignity hard for many with mental issues
7 in 10 say they are stigmatised, over half have problems joining community events: Survey
Janice Tai and Melody Zaccheus
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Seven in 10 people with mental illness believe they are stigmatised by society, while slightly more than half have problems joining community events.
These are some of the key findings of the first government survey on the well-being of those with mental health issues.
Describing the findings as worrying, social workers are calling for more to be done to raise awareness of the problem.
The National Council of Social Service (NCSS) - a statutory board that oversees more than 450 social service organisations here - polled 477 people recovering from mental health issues such as mood and anxiety disorders or schizophrenia last year.
The study, whose results were released to The Sunday Times yesterday, found that 55 per cent had problems joining communal activities, including public festivities and communal sporting events.
Seven in 10 said they had problems "living with dignity" because of the attitudes and actions of others, meaning they do not feel accepted by society or that they can contribute meaningfully to it.
Ms Tan Li Li, executive director of the Singapore Association for Mental Health, said the findings are of concern as the respondents were using mental health social services in the community.
This means that they were likely to have less severe mental health issues and were able to hold jobs.
"So, knowing that 70 per cent have problems due to the attitudes of others may be cause for us to think about what we are lacking as a society," she said.
More than one in 10 people here will have a mental health condition in their lifetime, according to a 2010 Singapore mental health study.
The most common condition is major depressive disorder, which affected more than 5 per cent of adults in the 2010 survey, or more than 57,000 men and twice as many adult women.
Mr Anjan Ghosh, director of the service planning and development group at NCSS, highlighted that this feeling of being stigmatised could also stem from the respondents' own perceived fears and misconceptions.
He urged more interaction between both groups.
He added: "It is a vicious circle. The more there is perceived stigma, the more people with mental health issues isolate themselves and the more misconceptions develop due to the lack of interaction."
To raise awareness and educate the public on mental health issues, NCSS is coming up with a series of videos featuring real-life stories of people with conditions such as depression.
Last year, NCSS and the Singapore Anglican Community Services started an employment internship programme that provides on-the-job training for people with mental health issues.
By March next year, NCSS intends to start an employment assistance programme that will enable employers, through training for instance, to better understand and harness the potential of such workers.
Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob yesterday also made a call for employers to drop their prejudices and stop discriminating against people with mental health conditions.
Speaking on the sidelines of a mass walk in Orchard Road aimed at combating such stigma, held to mark World Mental Health Day tomorrow, she said getting hired is an important step in the road towards recovery for such people.
Employment will help them find a "meaningful purpose" and enable them to take care of their own needs, explained Madam Halimah, who is an MP in Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC. "Give people with mental health issues a chance to work and also to contribute to the company," she urged.
•Additional reporting by Melody Zaccheus
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9 November, 2018 10 June, 2020
Review – Camarilla (Vampire: the Masquerade)
Without a doubt, the biggest roleplaying game (re)launch of 2018 is the fifth edition of Vampire: the Masquerade, the flagship game of the World of Darkness from White Wolf Entertainment. The core book first appeared at Gen Con 2018, and the first two supplements – Camarilla and Anarch – released in PDF format a few days ago. As you can tell from the title, this article is about the Camarilla book (you can read about Anarch here).
The Quick Take: Camarilla features stunning cover art, some dashes of brilliance inside (all hail Victoria Ash), the introduction of the Banu Haqim to V5, background on the Second Inquisition, and a lot of information that anyone running a V5 campaign will want to get their hands on. However, it does have some flaws, most notably a few sections that miss the mark, leaving me wishing they could have been reworked (religion) or dropped (Chechnya) to provide more basic information on nightly existence in the V5 World of Darkness.
In Vampire: the Masquerade, the Camarilla has always been the ‘default’ social structure for the game. An organization that ostensibly spoke for all vampires, but with seven pillar clans (the seven from the core V5 book – Ventrue, Tremere, Toreador, Brujah, Nosferatu, Gangrel, Malkavian). As a global notion, the Camarilla’s universality was obviously a sham. But on a more localized level (most of Europe and much of North America), it was essentially true. Not that all of the vampires in Camarilla cities were true believers – they weren’t. The Anarchs, railing against the system, have always been a thing. But everyone was considered part of the Camarilla. And everyone was expected to (mostly) follow the rules, and was (mostly) protected by the rules, regardless of oaths to the Tower (I mean, as much as one can expect in a corrupt oligarchy of immortal monsters, anyway). Sure, maybe the rabble weren’t the Prince’s favorite Elysium companions – but they could come the same as anybody, and they were shielded from physical attack the same as anybody.
With V5, that has changed. The Camarilla has closed ranks. It no longer considers all vampires to be members, even if they live in Camarilla cities. The Brujah and the Gangrel are no longer collectively members (of course, individual members of the Anarch clans can be members of the Camarilla, and individual members of the Camarilla clans can be Anarchs). The protections of the Camarilla only extend to members of the Camarilla, and membership is a formal process. But these basics we knew from the V5 core book.
What Is The Camarilla Now?
So, on a very fundamental level, not a lot has necessarily changed for vampires who are still in the Camarilla, except perhaps the loss of the ability to feel like you’re being noble and egalitarian in any way. The book really comes out hard with the feeling of the Camarilla as an elitist social club, complete with hazing rituals and an incredibly condescending attitude. Not that it wasn’t always an elitist social club with a condescending attitude – but it was less harsh when everyone got to be in the club.
Vampires who are not in the Camarilla, however, are probably now stuck in some sort of ghetto – a designated (and crummy) area of the city where the non-Camarilla vampires are tolerated. They don’t get to come into Elysium. The Camarilla structure will not generally protect them (although it will still protect the Masquerade, of course). This introduces new frictions, although it does make more difficult some of the classic Vampire clichés like the punks, thugs, and socially inept trying to make their way through a scene at court.
The Coterie system has become more formalized through the resurrection of some 17th century paperwork that no one had looked at in the last 200 years. Coteries are now a formal institution. You can’t just have a few random licks start hanging out, they have to be sanctioned by the Prince. They have to be assigned a mentor – whether they or the mentor like it or not. They are required to Haven together.
The general structure of a Camarilla city is explained, including the formal positions such as Prince, Seneschal, and Sheriff (sidenote: I am baffled why the first-listed “example” of a Prince is someone who held the office for literally two months). There are some modifications though. Most notable, at least for me, is the renaming of ‘Harpy’ to ‘Herald’ – a term with a broader ambit, more respect, and lacking the sexist undercurrents of the term harpy (seriously, how many times has there been a male Prince and a female lead harpy, and which of those titles has a positive connotation?).
Alliance With The Ashirra/Banu Haqim Join the Camarilla
The biggest metaplot addition from the V5 core book to Camarilla is material on the Ashirra and the Banu Haqim. The Banu Haqim (formerly known as the Assamites) are a Clan with its power base in the Middle East and Central Asia that, after the rise of Islam, gradually saw a membership shift that was more and more Muslim. The Ashirra is a sect consisting of Islamic vampires (although not all Islamic vampires). Many (something more than a majority) members of the Ashirra are Banu Haqim, but far from all. So there’s a significant overlap, but the two are distinct.
As a clan, the Banu Haqim have been sundered by the reawakening of a potent Methuselah, who predates Islam and wants to purge the Clan of it. This plot development kicked off many years ago, and has now been mostly consummated, with the Muslim members of the Clan having to flee the ancient stronghold of Alamut. Many of these individuals have subsequently joined the Camarilla, and many are members of the Ashirra. Although many Banu Haqim are still in Alamut (especially those of the warrior caste), the Banu Haqim appear to be positioned to become the new ‘sixth Clan’ of the Camarilla (there are also hints that the Camarilla is trying to find a new seventh Clan).
The alliance between the Camarilla and the Ashirra is in no small part driven by the Gehenna War, as the territory being assaulted by the massed Sabbat is typically the home turf of many Ashirra, giving the Camarilla and the Ashirra a common foe. There are a few new tidbits about the war, such as discussion of how the Sabbat used the U.S. military to gain access to the region, but the additions on that front are more about flavor and less about additional concrete detail.
Note that the alliance with the Ashirra is also indirectly tied into a resurgence of religious practices among Camarilla kindred, especially cult worship of Methuselahs. But I will admit that I found the section on religion fairly confusing, as it tries to blend multiple different religious notions, to acknowledge that this is kind of completely different from before while also making it sound like these cults have been around from ages, and its lack of a clear notion of what the Camarilla thinks of Antediluvians (it’s gone from saying they don’t exist to protecting them in the Gehenna War; but it’s unclear why Methuselahs are now worshiped, but not their Antediluvian forebears).
Each of the five Camarilla clans from the V5 corebook gets a six-page spread. This includes one full-page art piece and one page of ‘paper dolls,’ and discussion of the Clan’s role in kindred society, its role in mortal society, and the sins of the Clan. One of these discussions takes the form of a sidebar of a Second Inquisition report on the Clan or an intercepted electronic communication between members of the Clan. The ‘sins’ vary, but mostly focus on feeding – feeding preferences (Ventrue), love/lust (Toreador), whether Aisling Sturbridge should stay in New York (shout-out for the Regent of the Chantry of the Five Boroughs), and drinking blood to quiet the voices in your head (Malkavian).
A longer presentation is, of course, reserved for the Banu Haqim, who are given a lawgiver/peacekeeper spin. They get the equivalent of the material presented in the core book plus the equivalent of the material presented here for the other Clans (including the Clan Compulsion). The spin on the Banu Haqim still leans towards the combat side, even though it was the vizier caste that more heavily went to the Camarilla. But there is no longer any mechanical distinction between the two lineages. They share the traditional Assamite Discipline spread, with Blood Sorcery replacing the signature discipline of Quietus (this was expected, since some of the Quietus abilities were distributed to Obfuscate and Blood Sorcery). Possibly because all Banu Haqim now know Blood Sorcery, there is no reference in the Camarilla book to the third caste, the sorcerers. The Clan Bane still relates to a possible urge to diablerize other vampires, although is only triggers in a particular situation, rather than being a free-ranging urge (indeed, a Banu Haqim will mostly be able to entirely avoid the bane if they so choose).
There is material on the Brujah, Gangrel, Caitiff, and Thin-Blooded, but it is very much of a ‘view of others’ variety. But it still illuminates how Camarilla Vampires might think of these lineages (note to self: do not be a Caitiff in a Camarilla domain).
Victoria Ash
I loved these letters so much I’m giving them their own section. Victoria Ash (the signature Toreador character from the Revised edition of Vampire: The Masquerade, who recently made a guest appearance on LA by Night) has penned a lengthy series of letters to her childe, which are scattered throughout the Camarilla book. Victoria Ash is the apex Toreador – all about experience and beauty and excitement and connecting and romance (and social standing and power, while you’re at it). The tone of her letters perfectly and consistently captures the tone of this seemingly-but-not-really shallow take on Kindred existence. You may not want Victoria Ash herself showing up in your chronicle, because she can twist you around her little finger and have you thanking her for it, but the world of Vampire is a richer place for having Kindred like her in it, making sure that the World of Darkness isn’t all grim power plays divorced from the mortal world.
However, Victoria Ash also gets her own lore sheet, so perhaps one player character will be thrilled to see her show up. Options include the one-dot ‘you had a fling with her’ background (which mostly helps if she shows up in the chronicle) to the five-dot ‘she actually cares about you and will move heaven and earth to help you sometimes.’ Note that the other three do not relate to having that sort of relationship, but mostly to emulating her.
Crunchy Bits
In addition to the basic rules for the Banu Haqim, there are also two new rituals. Ishtar’s Touch, a level 2 ritual that enhances Presence/Dominate, and One with the Blade, a level 3 ritual that basically makes a magic sword.
The more significant, and more interesting to me, material content is another six new lore sheets. These lore sheets, like the ones before them, are quite specific (many rely on a relationship to a particular canon character), but I suspect that I will look forward to any new ones that are published, because they hit they can really hit (for example, I have a character converted from V20 to V5 who could really sync up with the Carmelita Neillson lore sheet, which is reprinted in the Camarilla book for reasons unknown – when that sort of synergy comes up you can get a real kick out of just grabbing a dot for flavor reasons).
The new lore sheets are Fatima al-Faqadi (an elder assassin of the Banu Haqim who was the Revised signature character for the Assamites), Fiorenza Savona (who is apparently the older woman who has the half-naked guy on a leash in the Ventrue images in the core book), Pure Ventrue Lineage (when you really just want to brag about your great-grandsire), the Cult of Mithras (the blood cult that venerates the eponymous Ventrue Methuselah who was inspiring mystery cults back in the Roman Empire), the Pyramid (status in the reforming Tremere Pyramid), and Victoria Ash (discussed above). Yes, that means half of the lore sheets are Ventrue-focused, although only Pure Ventrue Lineage is restricted to Ventrue.
The lore sheets in Camarilla seem to be a bit more internally varied than the ones in the core book. Lore sheets don’t have to be bought in order – although every lore sheet has five levels and 1-5 dots, you don’t buy them in a progression. You can buy the four-dot background without every buying the two-dot one. Nonetheless, the lore sheets in the core book tended to have a ‘progression’ feel to them – like you could naturally buy the one, then the two, and so forth. Many of the lore sheets in Camarilla forego that, taking more advantage of the piecemeal nature of the mechanic. So, for example, the Fatima al-Faqadi lore sheet includes one level that represents your character having survive an assassination attempt, while another makes her your ally to the point that she will kill for you. Others are not directly opposing, but don’t make sense to buy in order. For example, the 3-dot level on the Fiorenza Savona lore sheet means that you’ve known her for a long time, so it don’t really make sense to take it at any time but character creation – but the 1- and 2-dot levels could readily be picked up later by some vampire who only recently met her.
Finally, Camarilla has rules for institutional conflict, which can be used to simplify situations such as the local newspaper v. the Catholic Church, or well-funded PAC v. the police department.
Art, Layout, Design, Editing, and Such
The biggest thing I have to say about the design of Camarilla is that I LOVE the cover. Very striking. And there’s a less elegant, more decayed counterpart on the inside.
However, there’s also some less rosy things to say. There are, unsurprisingly, a lot of similarities between the art in the V5 core book and here, including additional photos from the same shoots that were used in the core book. Unfortunately, at least from my point of view, these pictures of people that don’t really convey ‘vampire’ were not exactly my favorites when they appeared in the core book, and that hasn’t changed here. The cover art is amazing, but there wasn’t anything else that was really a ‘wow’ moment for me – too many of the full-page spreads are those photo shoots. My expectations for the V5 art may have been too high, since the old Vampire images you remember are the best, not the random ones. But such an iconic property should be able to do better than a couple of really great pieces per book.
Another nagging issue was the editing here. I didn’t go over it with a fine-toothed comb, but V5 seemed pretty solid. Camarilla, on the other hand, had a bunch of errors that leaped out at me – misspelled words, doubled words, goofy line breaks (like someone had put a line break in the text and then changed the column width), and one place where the text just … stopped … then started a new bit at the top of the next column like nothing had happened. Only the PDF is out now, so I’m sure there will be an updated PDF to correct these problems. But that always raises the question of what the status of the physical books will be.
The overall graphic design/layout is solid, with quotes, Victoria’s letters, Second Inquisition reports, and artwork appropriately presented.
I read Camarilla from cover to cover, front to back (as one does). I would not recommend reading the book in that order. Too much of the basic information is stuck in the back of the book. The second full chapter (Our Faith) is pretty non-illuminating, and spends its final five pages on the story of a Methuselah who I’ve never heard and who didn’t do anything interesting, and then a cult of the Methuselah’s take on a Catholic mass (e.g., “Vester Methuselah vobiscum”/”your Methuselah be with you” instead of “Dominus vobiscum”/”the Lord be with you”). I don’t get why precious page count near the start of the book is being consumed on what are essentially massive sidebars.
Even worse, eight pages in the Gehenna War section are spent on the status of Chechnya, despite the fact that Chechnya is not controlled by the Camarilla and is not really involved in the Gehenna War. This means Camarilla spends as many pages on this non-Camarilla territory as it does on the “important cities” of Aleppo, Berlin, Brussels, Chicago, Constantinople, Dubai, London, Paris, Prague, Rio de Janeiro, Stockholm, Tokyo, Venice, and Vienna put together. I’m not saying that there isn’t something interesting to write about a bunch of criminal vampires taking over an entire region, giving everyone blood ID cards, and making them show up for regularly scheduled feedings … but a Camarilla book isn’t the place for it.
As you can tell, I found it frustrating reading through some of these early parts, because I really wanted to find out some basic information on how the Camarilla works in the modern nights – the sort of thing that can really affect how a campaign will play on a night-to-night basis.
Keeping it simple, I think I would read the beginning (Introduction and The View From The Top) through about page 17, then skip to page 73 and go from there, only coming back at the end for Our Faith, Mission Statement, and the Gehenna War. If I was being more complicated, I would suggest something like reading Introduction (5), The View From The Top (9), Loyalty and Order (85), The Court (99), Mission Statement (37), The Second Inquisition (73), Kindred Clans (125), The City (113), The Gehenna War (53), and Our Faith (19). You definitely want to get a little bit at the beginning though, since it will introduce the context for the Victoria Ash series of letters that are spread throughout the book, and they are really good.
Camarilla features stunning cover art, some dashes of brilliance inside (all hail Victoria Ash), the introduction of the Banu Haqim to V5, background on the Second Inquisition, and a lot of information that anyone running a V5 campaign will want to get their hands on. However, it does have some flaws, most notably a few sections that miss the mark, leaving me wishing they could have been reworked (religion) or dropped (Chechnya) to include more basic information on nightly existence in the V5 World of Darkness. It’s good, but not as good as it could have been.
Posted in Reviews, RPGTagged V5, Vampire, Vampire: the Masquerade, World of DarknessBy Strange Assembly5 Comments
5 thoughts on “Review – Camarilla (Vampire: the Masquerade)”
Uriah Jackson says:
There were noticeable typos in the core book as well, especially in the discipline section, where level breaks and power titles were both missing in spots.
Strange Assembly says:
They had an update for V5 pretty quickly too (it was out before I wrote the core book review). So maybe my V5 PDF was mostly fixed by the time I was really looking.
Also, if I had to guess I’d suspect that the Chechnya stuff was probably Rein·Hagan’s addition. He was living in Georgia (the country) and trying to raise awareness of the Russian incursion a few years ago, so it wouldn’t surprise me if he wanted to highlight another country that was also struggling with Russian influence.
C.T. Phipps says:
I know who wrote the work and the big issue is that it was edited without his permission to change a two 1st person narrative descriptions (one by a psychopath and one by a humane vampire) into 3rd person. It’s why the text is so schizophrenic.
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Earlier this month, Cyclone Gita rampaged through the South Pacific. Gita was one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the region. On February 12, it struck the island nation of Tonga.
The devastation caused by Gita was severe. Fortunately, there were few fatalities – two deaths have been attributed to the storm – but property damage was catastrophic. More than 1,000 homes were destroyed or damaged and the power grid was severely impacted. The 120-year-old Parliament building – a national symbol to the Tongans and survivor of numerous cyclones and earthquakes – was destroyed. Food crops such as bananas and breadfruits were devastated, leading to fears of food shortages.
The Tongans are widely known, however, as a strong and resilient people. They also were one of the first island nations in the South Pacific to build an international submarine fiber optic cable to connect to the rest of the world.
Recently, SCW has been tracking the developments in the South and Central Pacific as the global submarine cable network reaches out to more and more islands. Tonga, however, has had an international cable since 2013. So in terms of communications, Tonga was better prepared for the disaster than it would have been at any previous point in its history.
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“I’ve been told that the international cable survived Gita intact,” Tony said. “While most buildings on the island were hit, the cable station, being a new and well-built structure, was not badly damaged.”
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BMW rolls out premium car-sharing service in Seattle, pay by the minute
BMW on Friday (re)launched a free-floating car-sharing service that allows people to rent nearby vehicles as needed. Short-term, one-way rentals of BMW 3 Series, Mini Cooper and i3 vehicles are available as of writing to those in the Seattle area.
Those interested in giving it a shot will first need to download the ReachNow app for Android or iOS and register. The company says most drivers are approved and can drive within minutes so long as you’re at least 21 years of age, have a valid debit or credit card and a clean driving record.
Once approved, the app can be used to find nearby vehicles for rent (assuming you don’t already have one in sight). Pricing is handled on a per-minute basis.
Expect to pay $0.49 per minute while actively driving and $0.30 while parked. The rate includes fuel / charging, insurance and parking costs at public meters and in residential parking zones within the Seattle home area. There are also automatic price caps of $50 for up to three hours, $80 for up to 12 hours and $110 for a full 24 hours.
It’s worth pointing out that there’s a one-time registration fee of $39 and a $1 per trip shared asset fee that’s used to help maintain the fleet as well as a host of other “uncommon” fees (a $50 fine for smoking in the vehicle, for example). There’s also a massive 17.3 percent tax rate that you’ll have to consider.
The German automaker is currently running a promotion that lowers the driving rate to $0.41 per minute and eliminates the registration fee. BMW says you can even reserve a ride for up to half an hour at no cost.
https://www.techspot.com/news/64397-bmw-rolls-out-premium-car-sharing-service-seattle.html
Evernessince
Literally every other form of transport is cheaper than this. If you're in a city better to just walk, take mass transport, or hail a cab. Makes even less sense if you're in the suburbs. $30 / hour or just buy your own car at $120 / month plus $50 for gas. Plainly easy choice.
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Evernessince said:
but..but...it says premium!!!
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Did I miss something here? Why would anyone ever do this? If you need a car for a day, just go to a car rental place and pay $35 or so for a budget compact sedan, for the day.
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I don't get this either. By the time you pay all the cost/fees/taxes/one-time this and that, you could almost just purchase your own private jet.
NTAPRO
where could I get a car for $120 a month?
NTAPRO said:
All over the place. So long as you don't have to have the latest and greatest and have decent credit you can get that easily. Just don't expect a family vehicle at that price.
Skidmarksdeluxe
Stuff that. I would never pay those ridiculous prices, I'd rather walk or stay at home.
Now I fully understand why my Amish neighbors prefer horses ........
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Tom Hanks returns as head of Oscar’s acting branch.
Lucas Shaw | July 7, 2009 @ 3:15 PM Last Updated: July 8, 2009 @ 1:06 PM
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the election results for its board of governors on Tuesday, awarding nine incumbents, four new members and a former governor returning form hiatus.
Tom Hanks returns to represent the actors branch after a year off, leaving the race for the fifteenth spot coming down to one of two directors — Gil Cates or Edward Zwick.
The vote between Cates and Zwick ended in a tie, producing the first runoff in a vote for Academy governors. Academy Executive Director Bruce Davis said that a second vote would be conducted with ballots due back by July 29.
Of the newly elected members, the four joining the board for the first time are James D. Bissell (art direction branch), Lynne Littman (documentary), Bill Kroyer (short film and feature animation) and Robert G. Friedman (public relations).
Michael Apted held the position Littman now assumes, but he stepped down two years before his term ended due to work obligations.
Besides Hanks, the other returning members are Caleb Deschanel (cinematographers), Rob Epstein (documentary), Tom Sherak (executives), Mark Goldblatt (film editors), Bruce Broughton (music), Mark Johnson (producers), Kevin O’Connell (sound) Bill Taylor (visual effects), and James L. Brooks (writers).
There were 27 governors not up for re-election, representing all 15 branches.
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The Salvation Army and New Covent Garden Food Co
07 December 2009 by Mathew Little
Soup and salvation are seen as a winning combination
The Royal Horticultural Society, the Bat Conservation Trust and the Salvation Army might appear to be a disparate collection of charities, but they have been carefully chosen as partners over the past few years by the New Covent Garden Food Co.
According to Nick Munby, senior brand manager at the company, they all appeal to a particular type of consumer that is likely to purchase the firm's range of soups.
"One of the main factors in the selection of those charities has been access to our key target audience," he says. "That market is what we call empty nesters - couples living at home on their own after the children have moved away."
The Salvation Army is the newest addition. In 2008, New Covent Garden's PR agency, 360, was tasked with finding a suitable partner for a Christmas soup promotion. The charity, known historically for providing 'soup and salvation' and for its continuing role in helping the homeless, was approached.
The campaign, which is being repeated this Christmas, has two elements. First, New Covent Garden's soup of the month for December has been branded with the Salvation Army logo. The charity will also receive a proportion of the sale price, forecast to be about £12,000 in total.
On 27 November, Salvation Army members and supporters took part in the Soup Kitchen Challenge, a fundraising event in which they made their own soup and sold it to family and friends.
Celebrities such as Sir Cliff Richard, actor Sheila Hancock and TV chef Ainsley Harriott also supported the day, and a special Soup Kitchen Challenge was held for MPs.
The partnership is expected to raise at least £15,000 this year and will be repeated in 2010. But Major Ivor Telfer, assistant secretary for the programme at the Salvation Army, says he believes that it is also about encouraging healthy eating. "We are very concerned about healthy living and lifestyles, and soup, especially home-made soup, is a very healthy fast food," he says.
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Article - The Goose Patrol
Author: Gary Smith
The Los Angeles Police Department has one of the largest motorcycle squads in the world. Numbering around 400, the brand of motorcycles used by the Department have varied over the past twenty years, but it wasn't always so.
When I joined the Traffic Enforcement Division of LAPD in 1961 the only bike available to motor cops by the City of Los Angeles was the Harley-Davidson. Over the years Harley had been the mainstay for police bikes around the country to such a degree that most police agencies had developed specifications for purchasing police motorcycles that were literally Harley specifications.
Several other companies tried to enter the market in the early 60's, but failed to overcome the Harley advantage. Foreign makes such as Triumph, BSA, BMW and Honda all made bids for the job, but failed to meet the requirements of the LAPD. In addition, a law still existed on the books in California that prohibited agencies from buying foreign made vehicles for government use. Other reasons for their failure were, they were too small or under powered or they just didn't look like police bikes.
In 1967 , Moto Guzzi motorcycle distributors for the USA market approached LAPD with a proposal. They would build a police unit to the specific designs of the department! Having gained the interest of the LAPD, Guzzi distributors then set to work to overcome the law prohibiting the purchase of foreign vehicles. Once that obstacle was overcome, the LAPD decided to take Moto Guzzi up on the proposal and began testing their vehicles for performance.
After the first stock Moto Guzzi loaners were tested by the street cops, an experienced motor officer and a representative of the Motor Transport Division were selected to travel to Milan, Italy, where the Moto Guzzi factory was located, and advise the designers of the requirements for the new police bike.
There were many obstacles to overcome. First, there was no current motorcycle produced by Moto Guzzi that even came close to what was needed. So, they made one from the ground up!
George (Scotty) Henderson, the TED (Traffic Enforcement Division) officer chosen for the mission to Italy said, They literally designed a bike right before my eyes. When we got to work with the design engineers, we were given Carte Blanch for ideas on how to make the motorcycle. Since many of the Harley oriented specifications still existed (and many still exist today), some original designing was done.
We had to have a foot shift on the left side and the rear brake pedal on the right side. Many European bikes still shifted on the right side at that time. , Henderson related. They designed a linkage so the shift lever and the rear brake lever could be reversed. Of course, that made the bike shift up into first gear and down into the other three gears.
It was decided that the direction of shifting was not that important, so they proceeded. Handlebars, side stand, foot boards, seat and all other parts of the machine were designed and fit around the 750 cc V-twin Moto Guzzi engine.
After several weeks of design and redesign, testing and hassles between Moto Guzzi executives, the final product came forth.
In the summer of 1969 , ten LAPD motor officers were called to a meeting attended by police management and representatives from the motorcycle company. I, and the other nine officers were assigned the first foreign made police motorcycles used in Los Angeles.
Most of us were excited and pleased to get off the, shall I say, less agile, Harley-Davidson. Some of the old-time officers mis-pronounced the name as Moto Goosey and the bike soon was nicknamed The Goose .
It handled beautifully, had more ground clearance than the Harley and a drive shaft. The new bikes were also equipped with Pirelli tires that seemed to enhance the bike's capabilities on the street.
The Goose Patrol gave the new bikes rave notices and the city bought a large number of the Moto Guzzi Police Special , a model that later appeared on the public market as the Eldorado.
The Gooses rewrote the book for police motorcycles and made it possible for Kawasaki, BMW and Honda (for a while) to get into the police market.
Gary Smith is a retired LAPD officer who served 23 years on the department and 16 years on the motor squad. He worked 18 years with American Honda Motor Co., during which time, he served on the Board of Trustees of the American Motorcyclist Association. He helped to establish and manage the Honda Hoot Motorcycle Rally in Knoxville, TN. Now retired and living in Vancouver, WA.
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D. O. B. 4 October, 1994
Markram has only been playing for the Titans since 2015 and his future appearances will be limited as he chases international glory with the Proteas, but he is certain to go down as a legend of the franchise.
Born and raised in Pretoria, ever since he captained the SA U19s to their first and only junior world cup triumph in 2014, Markram has been one of the most highly-rated players in the country.
He served an apprenticeship with the Northerns team before announcing himself in spectacular fashion with centuries in his first two four-day games.
A natural leader, he was groomed to take over the captaincy of the franchise and led the Titans in three Sunfoil Series matches in 2017/18 before his international career took off.
He made a similarly fast start with 380 runs in his first four innings, but was a marked man against big guns India and Australia. Unsurprisingly though, given his solid technique and superb temperament, Markram came through those series with aplomb and was the leading run-scorer in the epic series win over Australia.
In torrid batting conditions last summer, Markram still managed to average 35.33 in the five Tests he played, while he averaged 41 in the eight ODIs he played, sealing his place in the World Cup squad.
He has already captained South Africa, in the ODI series against India, and is a brilliant white-ball player as well. He uses his strengths brilliantly and can both build a long innings and also clear the boundary in the closing overs, as he showed when scoring 183 for the Titans against the Highveld Lions at the Wanderers in 2016/17, the highest ever score in franchise 50-over cricket, since equalled by team-mate Theunis de Bruyn.
Markram was at it again in last season’s triumphant Momentum One-Day Cup campaign, making three centuries in five innings, including 127 off 88 balls in the final against the Dolphins, and a phenomenal 169 off 128 deliveries against the Cape Cobras at Newlands, sharing a world record sixth-wicket stand of 272 with Farhaan Behardien, to lift the Titans from 31 for five to a matchwinning total of 320 for six.
He can also bowl effective right-arm off-spin that has proven successful in limited-overs cricket and is a fine all-round fielder.
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'Life In Pieces' Drafts NFL Great Kurt Warner For Football-Themed Episode
Jim Halterman October 4, 2016, 12:00 pm
The CBS sitcom Life In Pieces is taking advantage of the NFL's Rams moving from St. Louis to Los Angeles by building an entire episode around a game, with Kurt Warner, one of the team's most legendary players, signed on as a guest star.
In explaining how the Rams-centric story came about, series creator Justin Adler went back to a story point planted in the show's first season before it was announced that the Rams would be moving back to the West Coast. "The parents (played by Dianne Wiest and James Brolin) were fans from when the Rams were still in Los Angeles," Adler says. "Serendipitously after we established that [in the first season], the team has moved back to Los Angeles so it worked perfectly." The series also stars Colin Hanks, Thomas Sadoski, Betsy Brandt, Zoe Lister-Jones, Angelique Cabral and Dan Bakkedahl.
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From its beginning last fall, each episode of the California-set comedy (the actual city has never been established) consisted of four separate stories (the "pieces" in title) that often were not related. In the second year of the series, Adler and his writers are experimenting with the format, as can be seen in the Rams episode, which is filming this week at the L.A. Coliseum and set to air in early 2017. "We liked the idea of doing a singular event episode where all four stories took place at that event but they weren't necessarily tied together," Adler explains.
RELATED: CBS Renews Life In Pieces For a Second Season
In one of the stories in the episode, Warner, who quarterbacked the Rams to the franchise's only Super Bowl title in 2000, plays a version of himself as he crashes the Shorts' tailgate party but quickly wears out his welcome with the family by being anything but a gracious guest. "Everyone knows that Kurt Warner is such a great guy," says Adler, "and to let him have a sense of humor about his persona is going to be super funny and we're so lucky that he's doing the show."
Life in Pieces, Season Premiere, Thursday, October 27, 9:30/8:30c, CBS.
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Dispatch Blogs / Truth in Genesis | By Herman Cummings
The Beast, The False Jesus, And The Rapture, Part 2 – Deceit
Meanwhile, by now, Islam had split into the Shiites and the Sunnis, and had secrets of its own. Some of the known secret orders were the Assassins, Fatimids, Ismailis, Karmathites, and the Druses, who appear to have been the most involved in the occult. A secret deal was made to kill or run off the Disciples and Jews in Asia Minor and Africa, but not to damage the Catholic buildings, nor hurt the Augustine monks, and to turn over Jerusalem to the Pope.
However, the Muslims decided to keep Jerusalem for themselves.
photo Messer Woland via wikimedia commons
The power and prestige of the Pope was reduced, when the Eastern Orthodox had split from Rome, on which the inner circle would pour out their revenge. It is surmised that the Roman/Islam connection could have played a major role in the Eastern fall to the Ottoman Empire. This type of deceit would show up again. Enter the Reformation.
The paganism and ungodliness of the outward Catholic Church had come into question. When refugees of the Eastern Orthodox brought their bibles to the West, and it was learned that the Catholic regime had changed certain scriptures, many wanted to leave Catholicism for something closer to the truth. Martin Luther is credited for igniting the cause that started Protestantism, a collection of faiths that taught that a person could “go” to Jesus directly, without the Pope or Mary being the mediator.
Unfortunately, they didn’t have the true knowledge and understanding of the Godhead, and kept the false doctrine of the Trinity, therefore they still did not baptize correctly. The Papacy saw this as a further erosion of power and control over the people. Enter the Jesuits.
The Order of Jesuits was founded by a man named Ignatius Loyola, on August 15, 1534. It was sanctioned by Pope Paul III on September 27, 1540. Their mission was to secretly cause chaos, civil unrest, and even wars, to eliminate Protestantism, and force the world back to Catholicism, and under the rule of the Pope. Its leader would become known as the Superior General, since it was a military order, and would be commonly called the “Black Pope.”
For a while, they tried to be called the Society of Jesus, but that disguise didn’t last. In today’s world, the “Black Pope” is said to be in control of the Military Oder of Malta, Freemasonry, the Nation of Islam (Fruit of Islam), Opus Dei, the Ku Klux Klan, Knights of Columbus, the Mafia
Commission, B’nai B’rith, and the Order of the Illuminati. For probably centuries, the “white Pope”, the one that people see and go visit, has been taking orders from (or at least controlled by) the Superior General. Now that the elected (white) Pope is Jorge Bergoglio, who has taken on the name of Pope Francis, and was the top Jesuit in Argentina, we can now guess who is in command. The current Superior General is the Reverend Father Adolfo Nicolás.
Those of you that are older, perhaps you remember when President John F. Kennedy went on television and warned the nation of “secret societies”. He tried to undo the damage that President Wilson had done when Wilson signed the bill that give birth to the Federal Reserve in 1913. Kennedy signed Executive Order 11110, returning power to the U. S. Treasury to print money, so that the US economy would not be controlled by private bankers.
The Secret Service, who guard the President, are Federal Reserve employees. Jesuits control the bankers. The Jesuits also trained and controlled another group. Enter the Order of Skull & Bones, in Part 3.
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Herman Cummings - Herman Cummings is a computer data analyst, who used his training to analyze the written text of Genesis. On EasterSunday, in 1990, a lady stood up in Sunday School and asked the pastor “How can I teach my children about Adam & Eve, when all they are taught is evolution in school?”. The pastor could only say “Just believe the Bible”. That was of no help to the lady. So Herman Cummings began his research to resolve the issue, since the worlds of Creationism and Theology could not literally reconcile Genesis with scientific reality. After receiving the revelation of the first chapter from the Lord in December 1993, Herman Cummings became the world’s leading expert on the book of Genesis (Bereshit).
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How the Great Bear project is a leader in carbon offsets
James Tansey is CEO of Offsetters a company that is working on carbon offsetting in Vancouver, Jan. 3, 2013.
Deborah Baic/The Globe and Mail
Wendy Stueck
Published January 6, 2013 Updated January 6, 2013
As concepts go, carbon offsets are a simple thing: for every ton of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere, a ton can be "offset" by, say, using wood waste instead of coal in a cement manufacturing plant.
The hard part comes in determining what should and shouldn't qualify as an offset and setting up a system to track and trade the units. As offset systems have evolved over the past two decades, there have been problems with verification as well as charges that carbon offsets let industry and governments take a 'business as usual' approach instead of investing in technology to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions.
Despite the hiccups, a carbon market has emerged, with the World Bank pegging its worth at about $176-billion (U.S.) in 2011. One of the players in that market is ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd., a Vancouver-based company. Last year, the firm acquired Offsetters, a company co-founded in 2005 by James Tansey, an associate professor at University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business. Dr. Tansey is now CEO of the merged company, which has a portfolio of projects that include selling carbon offsets from the stretch of B.C. coast known as the Great Bear Rainforest.
The Globe and Mail spoke to Dr. Tansey a few days after Jan. 1, when California and Quebec became the first jurisdictions in North America to adopt carbon cap-and-trade regulations under the Western Climate Initiative.
What is the status of the global carbon offset market – and where is that market best established?
The biggest single market by far is within the European Union, with the EU Emissions Trading System, the cap-and-trade system there. Although pricing is down now, it probably accounts for 90 per cent of global volume of carbon trading.
But with California and Quebec coming on line, that's now the second-largest [offset] market in the world.
B.C., despite holding off on cap and trade, still has a sophisticated, regulated market and as some of the regulations evolve around [proposed] new LNG plants, there's a reasonable chance there will be an offset component to that as well.
The European Union's ETS has had growing pains – will it survive?
It is going to survive. A lot of people are saying it isn't working because the prices are low. But the reason the prices are low is that economic output and emissions are down in Europe. So demand for allowances are down. It's still functioning, it's still operating, the only problem with it right now is that the prices are too low to send a big signal to drive change.
Is there a globally recognized standard for carbon offsets?
There is definitely a globally recognized set of standards. The most pervasive international standards are the Clean Development Mechanism, under the United Nations. And the second is the Verified Carbon Standard. What B.C. did, because we have forestry that's unlike really any other parts in the world, is take some of the best pieces from the VCS and one or two other standards and create a B.C. protocol.
Our forestry protocol in B.C., the Forest Carbon Offset Protocol, is considered the highest-quality in the world and the most conservative.
The Great Bear Rainforest project is the first FCOP-based project. It includes a benefit-sharing agreement with first nations that is unprecedented. It's going to become a global benchmark for how to do forest carbon well.
That sounds great – and obviously some jurisdictions are working hard on carbon markets. But isn't that just a drop in the climate-change bucket when countries like China aren't doing carbon offset programs of their own? Or are they?
China has six pilot programs in place for cap-and-trade. We have been hiding behind China for a few years when they are actively exploring carbon management and trading systems.
The real story here is that in the absence of federal movement [in North America], you've got the seventh-largest economy in the world – California – combined with 70 per cent of emissions in Canada shifting toward regulation.
The fact that China is a few years behind doesn't mean we shouldn't move and that we shouldn't lead.
Follow Wendy Stueck on Twitter @wendy_stueck
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The Botanical Garden in Rio de Janeiro
January 25, 2019By The Golden ScopePosted in Travel
In the beautiful Rio de Janeiro, right at the foot of the Corcovado, there is the Botanical Garden, a place where you can admire the lush tropical flora of Brazil.
It was founded in 1808 by King John VI of Portugal, new imported varieties of plants into it should have acclimatised. Later, in 1822, it was opened to the public as a park.
After you get at the gate, you are on a path bordered on both sides by a long row of tall palm trees that reach 30 meters …. it’s a very, very, nice welcome!
This park is located at the end of the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon and covers an area of 137 acres with fascinating paths surrounded by an impressive variety of plants and romantic ponds surrounded by nature.
Enormous water lilies, colorful orchids, roses, carnivorous plants and peculiar sensory plants which, just touch them, they “portray” closing immediately leaves …. All this and much more, not only plants native of Brazil but from all over the world, too… a little paradise.
The botanical garden has about 11,000 plant species, including the Imperial Palms that date back to the foundation, in 1908!
In this wonderful “oasis”, part of the national historical and artistic heritage of Brazil, there are, at the shadow of Corcovado and with the impressive Christ Redeemer, Casa dos pilões, a former gunpowder factory, Casa de los Cedros and other monuments that date back to the late sixteenth century.
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Connecticut lawmakers pass $19 billion budget
SUSAN HAIGH
Legislators on Wednesday passed a $19 billion budget that Democrats say addresses Connecticut's unprecedented fiscal problems without hurting citizens but Republicans claim relies on short-term fixes and does nothing to tackle billions in future deficits.
The one-year budget was an 11th-hour agreement that was negotiated between the General Assembly's majority Democrats and Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell in recent weeks and finalized Wednesday, the final day of the 2010 legislative session.
"No, it's not perfect, but we've done a darn good job for the residents of this state. We can hold our heads up high and say we have saved people," said House Majority Leader Denise Merrill, D-Mansfield, who received a standing ovation from her fellow Democrats.
The plan does not raise additional taxes or cut state aid to cities and towns. It retains funding for everything from dental care for the elderly and disabled, and libraries and courthouses across the state.
Earlier in the evening, Rell and the two Democratic leaders of the General Assembly announced they had reached an agreement on a revised budget "that fully balances the budget without raising taxes, cutting municipal aid or harming needed social services."
None of Rell's GOP colleagues in either the House of Representatives or Senate voted for the plan, however. The minority Republicans dropped out of the budget talks on Saturday, claiming the agreement does not address the state's long-term fiscal problems.
Connecticut is facing large deficits down the road - $3.8 billion in 2012 and $3.7 billion in 2013.
"I think we've missed an opportunity to do what really needs to be done," said Sen. Anthony Guglielmo, R-Stafford Springs. "A lot of people are going to be fooled by this because they think we solved the problem ... but I think the illusion is going to go away pretty quick."
The 2011 budget, which takes effect July 1, was originally approved in September as part of a two-year plan. It has a $2 billion hole - $1.3 billion that was supposed to be filled with borrowed money and a $700 million deficit that has developed since September.
To balance the budget, the compromise plan delays a second $100 million payment to the state's employee pension fund, and relies on improved state tax collections and anticipated federal economic stimulus funds. It also cuts $171 million in state spending, sweeps an energy conservation fund, and borrows nearly $1 billion.
Those bonds will be paid off by continuing a surcharge on electric bills for the next eight years. An average ratepayer is currently paying $7.50 a month. Under this plan, they would pay a reduced surcharge of $5.03 a month.
The surcharge to pay for investments in energy infrastructure was originally supposed to expire for Connecticut Light & Power customers in July, and on future dates for United Illuminating and municipal electric company customers.
Sen. Eileen Daily, D-Westbrook, co-chairman of the tax-writing committee, said lawmakers are hopeful the state can ultimately reduce the nearly $1 billion borrowing if the state's economy continues to show signs of improvement.
The plan does not include the governor's proposal to allow Keno, a lottery-type of game, in bars and restaurants. There is also no additional concessions from state employees or an early retirement plan that was proposed.
"This is not a change in the way we do business," said Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, D-Fairfield. "In many ways it is business as usual."
But Republicans warned that the effects of the recession may not be over.
"If we don't have our fiscal house in order, it makes it difficult for everybody," said Sen. Scott Frantz, R-Greenwich. "Are we spending beyond our means? I think it's yes."
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Holocaust concentration camps 'inescapable hell' for survivor
Nov. 23, 2010 Updated: June 17, 2016 5:45 p.m.
By DANIELLE CAPALBO
As a teenage girl, Judith Altman watched Nazi officers lead her parents to their deaths. With hardly any family remaining, she was left, she said, to endure the "inescapable hell" of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Holocaust.
Last Thursday, Altman visited an audience of students at King Low Heywood Thomas to share the harrowing details of her survival, just days before the school unveiled its production of The Diary of Anne Frank.
During "Anne Frank Day," King's Upper School students were also divided into groups to discuss the manifold implications of Holocaust and how to prevent discrimination from escalating to a dangerous and volatile point.
The high school students and teachers said Altman's presence brought a deeper context to their discussions.
"She's really special," said 16-year-old Amelia Arnold, a junior at King who is just two years older than Altman was when Nazi Germany annexed Czechoslovakia. "I'm grateful to have heard her speak. She's painted a picture that was heartbreaking and powerful."
It's been decades since the allied forces liberated Altman, but her visit served as a reminder to students that intolerance and genocide continue to threaten humanity, said Christos Galanopoulos, the chairman of the history department at King.
In a course called Genocides of the 20th Century, he said, students have discussed atrocities in Cambodia, Armenia and Yugoslavia, and by having the opportunity to hear Altman's story, he said the content -- however jarring -- has taken a multi-dimensional shape.
"There's no way that words alone, as strong as they can be, can connect as well as the real experience, which they felt," he said, calling Altman a "muse." "Without the little examples of the human experience, you're never going to be able to understand history fully because you're never going to be able to relate to it personally."
Before Altman concluded her story, she noted that grand-scale atrocities originate from much smaller demonstrations of intolerance.
"If you see an injustice -- in your church, in your school, around your town -- stand up. Don't just say, 'It doesn't concern me,'" Altman said. "It's a big, big job for you to do, but we hope you will create a better world."
Students said the message resonated with them, not least because headlines have been swirling in recent months that testify to the consequences of hate-speech. And about a week before Altman's visit, a swastika was spray-painted in bright orange on the back of a stop-sign in the Shippan neighborhood of Stamford.
"'What can we do as a community?' -- that's been the question,'" said Jackie Martino, the chair of the performing arts department at King and the director of The Diary of Anne Frank.
Martino said that she and her students sifted through newspaper clippings from the past couple of weeks that specifically told stories of anti-Semitism, from Shippan to Bellmore, N.Y.
"If I were looking beyond acts of anti-Semitism, I would have had a laundry list," Martino said.
Arnold said that Altman's message was timeless.
"These things go on, still -- even in America," she said. "I hope this becomes an eye-opener for tolerance. People need to see the humanity in one another."
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Rebellion's Finnish director on criticism of the drama, and his bid to demystify 1916...
His military background informed Aku Louhimies’ approach to the 1916 drama, he tells TheJournal.ie.
By Daragh Brophy Sunday 17 Jan 2016, 9:00 PM
Jan 17th 2016, 9:00 PM 33,322 Views 104 Comments
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REBELLION HAS BEEN pulling in the viewers for RTÉ on Sunday nights since the start of the year.
And while there was always going to be interest in any Irish production going out in what’s now come to be known as the ‘Love/Hate slot’ – the fact that it was the marquee drama of the 1916 centenary meant there was a heightened curiosity factor ahead of the first episode.
Reaction to that debut outing was largely positive – and while many viewers agreed that the drama was holding up last weekend, others took to social media to take issue with the way events were depicted.
Disappointing second episode. Fictional lead characters aren't a patch on the real men and women of 1916 #rebellion
— History Matters 365 (@Hist_Matters) January 10, 2016
Source: History Matters 365/Twitter
Considering that the Rising is of such significance in Irish history, the response comes as no great surprise to the drama’s director.
“All the five episodes are quite different – so reactions might be quite different to three than they were to two,” says Aku Louhimies, who is a highly-regarded director and screenwriter in his native Finland.
This is definitely a period of history in Ireland that people have different emotions about, or strongly disagree over.
Much of the commentary in the wake of last Sunday’s episode focused on the killing of James O’Brien, the unarmed RIC officer who was shot by the Irish Citizen Army at the gates of Dublin Castle.
While the drama depicts the policeman refusing several times Captain Seán Connolly’s commands to open the gate, historical accounts describe the events happening much more quickly – with O’Brien being shot as he attempted to close the entrance on the rebels.
Source: Rebellion/screengrab
In a phone interview with TheJournal.ie, Louhimies says one of his conditions of taking the job was that the events depicted would have to have been historically proven.
I have to trust that it’s accurate script-wise if it’s gone through historians and they’ve said it’s okay to do this way, then I assume it’s right.
That said – the production is a drama, he adds. He doesn’t necessarily entertain every line of criticism he encounters.
There’s some people say – here, Pearse wasn’t that tall. That’s irrelevant… I have to pick the best possible actor for a role.
As far as the events of 1916 are concerned, historians have different interpretations of what happened, he adds.
When it comes to putting together each episode:
We decide in this drama, it’s going to be like this.
Source: Patrick Redmond
Who is Aku Louhimies?
With more than two decades of experience as a director under his belt, Louhimies has helmed everything from documentaries to TV series, along with eight feature films.
He characterises all of his non-documentary work as “drama” he says.
Some lighter, some darker.
His Irish agent, Richard Cook, put him in contact with RTÉ as Rebellion was being planned, he says – and he became involved with the script in the early stages.
While the fact that he was something of an outsider may have had something to do with him getting the job in the first place, the director was familiar with the Rising from his history studies.
Source: IMDB/Aku Louhimies
Louhimies says his military experience informed his approach to the role (service is a requirement in Finland and the director remains a reserve officer to this day, with a rank of lieutenant).
It’s one of those things when you run around with guns… I don’t want to make killing too much of an entertainment. I would not want to romanticise any kind of violence ever – even though I’m sure it’s necessary sometimes, and sometimes it happens.
Before filming started, he “wanted the actors to shoot with real guns, to understand what it’s like to carry one”.
He also sought to demystify and de-romanticise some aspects of the Rising he says, cautioning:
It doesn’t make the significance of this happening any different.
Viewers of last week’s episode will have noted how characters in Rebellion almost never die as soon as they’re shot – with some lying in the streets for prolonged periods after attacks.
As Louhimies stresses, in real-life people “suffer for days before dying”. It’s all part of the Finn’s effort to prick the romanticisation of the State’s founding event.
Charlie Murphy of Rebellion (and Love/Hate) Source: RTÉ
The 47-year-old said he would be keen to follow the public reaction here to the final episodes of the drama.
He was also full of praise for the Irish film and TV industry during our interview – and talking in glowing terms about Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, which was nominated for an Oscar this week.
Touching on another minor criticism of the show raised by some viewers, the fact that it was so reliant on Love/Hate for its cast, he said he hadn’t even seen the Dublin crime drama before he took the Rebellion job.
“I didn’t look at their CVs,” he says.
They must have chosen good actors for that show as well.
Read: The rebellion kicked off in Rebellion last night but some (even Gerry Adams) weren’t happy
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Wonder Foxes are an exciting new venture born out of The Seniors Band
Their debut album 'Beautiful Stranger' will be released 2nd September 2019.
This time fronted by Paul Senior, he says...
"The songs on this album are very personal to me and a little different from what you may have heard before. They have a far more 'singer song writer feel' about them, whilst still retaining a story telling aspect. The title track is literally about a stranger who saved my life... But that's a story for another time!
We've been lucky enough to work with Chris Hamilton (Toast Recordings) who's produced this Ep, and Mike Calvert once again plays some really exquisite and haunting cello parts throughout.
We're currently performing as an acoustic duo, but watch this space, what started off as a studio project could well take on a life of its own!
We're truly grateful to anyone who takes the time to listen, buy or support our music. If there's any small part of it that makes you smile, touches your heart in any way, shape or form - we will consider it a job well done!"
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Cindy McCain kisses husband's casket in emotional moment at Arizona service
Senator John McCain received a rare honor as his casket laid in state at the Arizona State Capitol.
Cindy McCain lays her head on the casket of her husband, Sen. John McCain, during a memorial service at the Arizona Capitol.Ross D. Franklin / AP
Aug. 29, 2018, 8:07 PM UTC
By Ethan Sacks
In a moving moment that underscored just how great the loss of John McCain has been to his family, the late senator's wife, Cindy, leaned over his casket and kissed it during a memorial service Wednesday at the Arizona State Capitol.
McCain's family greets mourners in Arizona paying final respects to senator
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After the tender personal moment, John McCain's children filed past the casket to touch it as it laid in state in the building's rotunda — a rare honor. Cameras showed daughter Meghan McCain breaking down in tears as she stood by the coffin.
Meghan McCain cries at the casket of her father during the memorial service.Jae C. Hong / AP
John McCain died Saturday of brain cancer at the age of 81. He leaves behind a legacy as a naval aviator who survived a five-year span as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and returned to become a longtime Republican congressman and senator from Arizona and a two-time contender for the presidency.
On Wednesday, signs of that military legacy were evident at the service. Uniformed Arizona National Guard members carried the casket into the rotunda.
Before the service, veterans and active military members lined up outside to salute the hearse as it made its solemn journey to the Capitol.
Cindy McCain embraces the flag-draped casket of her husband, the late John McCain. pic.twitter.com/wDClGrQyCN
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 29, 2018
McCain is the third person to lie in state at the Capitol rotunda in the past four decades, according to the Associated Press. The others were Olympian Jesse Owens (1980) and Arizona state Sen. Marilyn Jarrett (2006).
Following a memorial service at North Phoenix Baptist Church on Thursday, McCain's body will be flown to Washington for a viewing Friday at the U.S. Capitol. Former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama will deliver eulogies during a private memorial service at Washington National Cathedral on Saturday, and McCain will be buried at the U.S. Naval Academy the next day.
After husband's death, will Cindy McCain enter political arena?
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“It’s a Joke!” Falwell Dismisses Trump-Hating Grads
By Todd Starnes/Twitter
The president of Liberty University, one of the nation’s most influential evangelical universities, is dismissing complaints from a small group of disgruntled graduates who are upset over his support for President Trump.
The graduates, who reportedly organized after the racial unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, say they plan on returning their diplomas in protest.
PODCAST: Click here to listen to Todd’s interview with Liberty University President Jerry Falwell
“I’m sending my diploma back because the president of the United States is defending Nazis and white supremacists,” 2006 graduate Chris Gaumer told NPR. “And in defending the president’s comments, Jerry Falwell, Jr. is making himself, and it seems to me, the university he represents, complicit.”
To be clear, President Trump denounced all those who committed acts of violence at Charlottesville – including the Antifa protestors who attacked police officers and members of the news media. The president later condemned the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and white supremacists by name.
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“The truth as stated by @realdonaldtrump is that violent white supremacists, Nazi, KKK and similar hate groups are pure evil and un-American,” Falwell tweeted in support of the president.
It’s hard to understand why a handful of miffed college graduates would take issue with Falwell’s tweet or his support for the president.
“We’re asking that Liberty University return to its stated values and accept that the pursuit of power is leading it into some dark places, and really repudiate that,” 2006 alum Georgia Hamann told NPR.
Falwell told me on my nationally syndicated radio program that he’s not terribly bothered by the angst-driven grads.
“It’s a joke. It’s grandstanding, that’s all it is,” Falwell said.
And for the sake of full disclosure – I’ve spoken at Liberty University’s Convocation service twice.
And it’s been my impression that a majority of the students actually support President Trump.
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Leonardo’s Optics Through the Eyes of Duchamp: A Note on the Small Glass
by Donald Shambroom
Marcel Duchamp,
To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour, 1918
© 2000 Succession Marcel Duchamp, ARS, N.Y./ADAGP, Paris
The following example of Marcel Duchamp’s overlooked encounter with the mind of Leonardo da Vinci is excerpted from a longer essay. The edition of Leonardo’s Treatise on Painting referred to is Josephin Peladan’s 1910 French translation Leonard de Vinci, Traite de la Peinture. This publication aroused great interest among the Duchamp brothers and their Cubist friends at Puteaux.
To Be Looked At, With One Eye, Close To, For Almost An Hour (in French: A regarder d’un oeil, de près, pendant presqu'une heure) is a cruel set of commands. Nobody would want to look at anything following this prescription. Duchamp wrote the phrase in small capital letters across the face of a glass painting, and insisted that his directive, issued in the infinitive, serve as its title. But the owner of this work, Katherine Dreier, hated the title, and referred to it instead as Disturbed Balance.
Duchamp, however, was being uncharacteristically descriptive with To Be Looked At... because the image on glass is based upon optics and experiments with the functioning of the eyes. It follows Leonardo da Vinci’s study of vision. In fact, the idea, the image and the phrase itself all come from this short illustrated passage in the Treatise on Painting (1):
Objects in relief, viewed close up with one eye [vues de près avec un seul oeil], seem like a perfect painting. If the eyes A and B look at Point C, C will appear at
Leonardo de Vinci,
Treatise on Painting, 1651
© 1910 Joseph Peladan, Leonard de Vinci, Traite de la Peinture, Librairie Delagrave, Paris
D F. But if you look at it with one eye, M, it will seem to be at G. Painting only presents this second form of vision.
Marcel Duchamp, Note, 1919
© 1993 Pontus Holten, ed. Marcel Duchamp: Work and Life, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Paintings are flat surfaces. Spacial illusions in paintings are derived from monocular, not binocular, vision. Leonardo was fascinated by the transformation from physiological optics to the artifice of painting, so he studied the behavior of a pair of human eyes. When an object to be looked at is placed close to the face, the paths of vision of the two eyes cross. Duchamp took Leonardo’s X-shaped diagram of cross-eyed vision, along with the wording of his title, directly from this passage in the Treatise. In a posthumously-published sketch for To Be Looked At... he even used Leonardo’s letters "A" and "B" to identify the eyes, or viewing points, represented by circles at the extremities of the cross. But he then placed the configuration on a receding plane, in perspective, and turned it into a pair of giant scissors, a device soon to appear in The Large Glass. Now the cross-eyed observer, it would seem, could cut his way through the visual field by flexing his eyeballs together and apart to make the scissors work. In the small glass To Be Looked At... most of this peculiar tool lies outside the rectangle of the picture, so only its tips can be seen.
The squat, transparent pyramid hovering above the scissors would appear to transport the setting of this one-act farce for eyeballs to ancient Egypt. But it does not. Instead we are right back in the arena of the optics of Leonardo, who wrote frequently and vehemently about the "pyramid of vision." According to Leonardo:
The body of the atmosphere is full of infinite pyramids composed of radiating straight lines (or rays of light), which are produced from the bodies of light and shade, existing in the air; and the further they are from the object which produces them the more acute they become, and although in their distribution they intersect and cross they never mingle together, but pass through all the surrounding air, independently diverging, spreading, and diffused.(2)
If you look into a mirror and close one eye, you will have formed a visual pyramid pointing at your open eye, whose base is the shape of your face. Leonardo displays remarkable insight into the mechanism of light as it reflects off our surroundings. The receiving human eye always forms the apex of a complex geometric solid, whose base is delineated by the outline of an object in view, and whose sides are formed by the rays of light racing towards the viewpoint from its edges. Leonardo’s use of the word "pyramid," however, is confusing, because in common usage a pyramid sits on the earth, on a perfectly square base, its axis pointing up to the sky. Duchamp’s Egyptian pyramid in To Be Looked At... is a deliberate and mocking distortion of Leonardo’s idea as it occurs, in the Treatise on Painting, at the center of his theory of optics.
In 1918, from the isolation of Buenos Aires, where he made To Be Looked At..., Duchamp had good reason to poke fun at the visual pyramid. He was probably sick to death of it. His brother, the painter Jacques Villon, was, in contrast, obsessed. Villon believed that Leonardo’s pyramid could provide the unifying theory in his enterprise to make Cubism more than just a passing fad, to transform it into an enduring, classical art form. In 1915, the last time the two were able to meet until after the Great War, Villon would talk of nothing else. All this had started in 1911, when the brothers and their Cubist friends became fascinated by Leonardo’s optical formulations: "Every body in light and shade fills the surrounding air with infinite images of itself; and these, by infinite pyramids diffused in the air, represent the body throughout space and on every side."(3)
Was Leonardo da Vinci a Cubist himself? He was, it is true, presenting a vision of the space around objects filled with latent images. The eye at any given location could only perceive one image at a time. Visual pyramids "intersect and cross [but] they never mingle together..." But could a painter, a Cubist painter, overcome the laws of light and vision? Could his imagination and intuition capture these half-formed, transparent images, as evoked by Leonardo, before they are condensed into a point, as they overlap, interpenetrate, and jostle for predominance? Jacques Villon struggled to embed this concept of latent visual pyramids into his paintings for the rest of his life.
Marcel Duchamp discussed these ideas with his brother in the early days of Cubism. Then he chose a different path, a directly-perceptual method of creating transparency and overlapping planes in the visual field. He preferred the method that children use. He crossed his eyes.
Portrait of Chess Players, December 1911
Only one painting, supported by a group of studies, was produced using the cross-eyed method: the Portrait of Chess Players.
For a Game of Chess, October 1911
Duchamp asked his two brothers, Jacques and the sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon, to sit in front of a chess table, in the midst of a game, and face each other nose-to-nose. Marcel then stationed himself within a foot of his motif, and, in an experiment with scissored configurations of his binocular vision, observed his brothers’ profiles merging and multiplying, engulfing the armies of chessmen behind them. Next, to sort things out, he studied Jacques, on his right, "with one eye, close to, for nearly an hour." He followed this procedure with Raymond, this time with his left eye, all the while intending the physical proximity of the three artist-brothers (one behind and two in front of the canvas), clustered around their favorite game, to reflect their intellectual and emotional closeness. It is a rare glimpse into a private world.
Duchamp left a clear record of the steps leading up to his finished painting. Five preparatory drawings survive. One is in the format of a triptych, with a central square drawing flanked by two smaller contiguous squares. At first glance it looks as if all three squares are filled with Cubist studies of a man’s head. A closer look reveals Raymond’s, then Jacques’s, physiognomies, delineated separately on either side, on the flanking panels. These two monocular visions are repeated, combined and merged in the central panel, which became the prototype for the final painting, the Portrait of Chess Players. Duchamp had put Leonardo’s visual scissors, as depicted a few years later in the small glass painting of 1918, into practice, in the service of Cubism. He never repeated this experiment.
1. Josephin Peladan, translator and editor, Leonard de Vinci, Traite de la Peinture (Paris: Librairie Delagrave, 1910), 113. English translations in A. Phillip McMahon, translator, Treatise on Painting by Leonardo da Vinci (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956), 177, and Edward MacCurdy, translator and editor, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (New York: George Braziller, 1954), 241.
2. Peladan, Leonardo de Vinci, 89. English translation in Jean Paul Richter, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Volume I (New York: Dover Publications, 1970), 39.
3. Richter, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Volume I, 39.
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New diagnostic tool: HeartFlow
On December 5, 2018, Tufts Medical Center announced that it became the first health care facility in Boston to adopt the HeartFlow Analysis, a first-of-its-kind non-invasive technology to aid physicians in the diagnoses of coronary artery disease (CAD), the most common form of heart disease.
CAD is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States, according to the American Heart Association. CAD develops when the arteries leading to the heart narrow or become blocked, which may lead to a reduction in blood flow to the heart, causing chest pain, heart attacks and death. Despite being the most common form of heart disease, studies have shown there is a need to improve how CAD is evaluated and diagnosed. Many of the non-invasive tests available today have low accuracy rates in detecting CAD.
“We use coronary artery CT angiography (cCTA), a non-invasive technology that allows us to see blockages in coronary arteries and better identify chest pain patients with coronary artery problems so we can avoid unnecessary coronary catheterization,” said Radiologist-in-Chief at Tufts Medical Center. “However, cCTA has some significant limitations, particularly in accurately diagnosing whether blockages are clinically significant, especially if they are calcified. The HeartFlow Analysis integrates cutting edge fluid dynamic calculations with the cCTA images to help us determine whether the blockages are likely to result in a heart attack, thereby minimizing unnecessary coronary catheterization.”
The HeartFlow Analysis takes data from a patient’s non-invasive cCTA scan and leverages deep learning to create a personalized, digital 3D model of the patient’s coronary arteries. It then uses powerful computer algorithms to simulate blood flow and assess the impact of blockages on blood flow to the heart. Within hours, the HeartFlow Analysis is provided to the patient’s physician via a secure web interface, and provides information on the extent of a patient’s arterial blockage and the impact the blockage has on blood flow to the heart. The HeartFlow Analysis has been used for nearly 20,000 patients with suspected heart disease.
“The HeartFlow Analysis allows us to quickly and easily determine whether blockages are causing abnormal blood flow; in the past, this required an entirely separate type of testing, or assessment during an invasive angiogram,” said James Udelson, MD, Chief of the Division of Cardiology at Tufts Medical Center. “The ability to assess both the anatomy of blockages and the physiology of blood flow in one test is very efficient, and may help us prevent the need for an invasive procedure in many patients.”
About Tufts Medical Center and Tufts Children's Hospital
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ZIP code 72584 Education Attainment Charts
This section of charts contains education data for ZIP code 72584 Arkansas based mainly on the latest year 2020 American Community Survey census data but also the survey from Common Core Data available for Public Elementary through Secondary Schools. In Figure 1, the percent of all people aged 25 years or older, who have either graduated from high school or completed the Graduate Equivalency Degree (GED) or some equivalent certification/credential. 72584 depicts it has a High School Grad or higher of 93% which is the second most percent high school graduates or better of all the zip codes in the greater ZIP code 72584 region. The zip code with the highest percent high school graduates or better in the area is 72573 which shows a high school graduates of 100% (7.3% larger).
In Figure 2, the percentage of people aged 25 years or older who have graduated from college/university with at least a bachelor's degree is provided. Note that the bachelor's degree is also called a four-year degree because it normally takes four years of full-time study to finish the course curriculum required to obtain the degree. This chart portrays the proportion of the population in this region who are college graduates with at least a bachelor degree or higher. In many ways, this analysis alongside the prior chart are very quick measures of the level of education in any particular area. ZIP code 72584 shows it has a Bachelors Degree or higher of 44% which is more than all other zip codes in the greater ZIP code 72584 region.
Figure 4 shows the percentage of people 25 years of age or older who either have no schooling at all or dropped out of school before being able to complete high school. Additionally, these are people who also do not have a Graduate Equivalency Degree (GED) or some other high school level type credential/student achievement. This analysis, along with the last two charts, provides another high level review and comparative data on the ZIP code 72584 Arkansas educational level. 72584 depicts it has a School Dropout Rate of 7% which is the second smallest when ranked by percent who dropped out of school of all the other zip codes in the local area. The zip code with the highest percent who dropped out of school in the area is 72536 which depicts a percent who dropped out of school of 23% (approximately 3.4 times bigger).
Figure 5 provides a more detailed look at the educational attainment for ZIP code 72584 Arkansas. This chart provides the proportion of people aged 25 years of age or older and what was their level of educational attainment. The chart provides 5 broad categories including: No Education/No School, Some High School, High School or equivalent, Some college or Associates Degree, and Bachelors Degree or higher. ZIP code 72584 has the percentage of percent of people with no schooling the second smallest when sorted by percent of people with no schooling of all the other zip codes in the area at 7% of the total. Second, it has the second smallest as measured by percent of people with no schooling of all the other zip codes in the metro area as measured by percent of people with less than a high school education at 33% of the total. Third, it has the smallest proportion of percent of people with high school degree, ged, or equivalent at 17% of the total. Also, it has the largest proportion of percent of people with some college or an associates degree at 44% of the total and is ranked #1.
The next chart shows a break down of people who have received a bachelor's degree or higher advanced degree generally in a campus learning environment. In particular, Figure 6, provides the proportional breakdown of all the people who have received a postsecondary education along with what the level of advanced degree that was obtained. Note that these categories do not include any type professional development type activities such as those related to maintaining professional credentials in workshop lessons. Note Professional Degree includes medical, dental, lawyers, etc. ZIP code 72584 has the largest proportion of percent of people with an associate degree at 65% of the total and is ranked #1. Second, it has the largest proportion of percent of people with a bachelors degree at 35% of the total and is ranked #1.
The chart in Figure 7 shows the broad area of academic concentration or the discipline for people who have received a bachelors degree. This high level classification is essentially the field of study for which a degree was obtained. ZIP code 72584 has one of the largest proportions of percent of people with a business degree at 60.2% of the total and is ranked #2. The only larger zip code being 72536 with 87.1%.
The next chart (Figure 8) provides a more detailed deep dive on the category of major degree obtained for people aged 25 years or older who earned a bachelor's degree or higher. Specifically, this frequency distribution details out what the major field of study was the degree obtained. ZIP code 72584 has the largest proportion of percent of people with a degree in computers, mathematics and statistics at 17.5% of the total and is ranked #1. Second, it has one of the largest proportions of percent of people with a degree in business at 60.2% of the total and is ranked #2. The only larger zip code being 72536 with 87.1%.
Figure 9 provides comparative data between the places in the greater ZIP code 72584 Arkansas region for broad educational attainment. This analysis uses provides five broad education attainment categories including: No Education/No School, Some High School, High School or equivalent, Some college or Associates Degree, and Bachelors Degree or higher. ZIP code 72584 has the percentage of percent of people with less than a high school degree the second smallest in terms of percent of people with no schooling of all the other zip codes in the metro area at 32.6% of the total. Second, it has the smallest proportion of percent of people with high school (or ged) at 16.9% of the total. Third, it has the largest proportion of percent of people with some college or an associates degree at 43.6% of the total and is ranked #1.
A more detailed frequency distribution of educational attainment is provided in Figure 10. In particular this illustration breaks out the highest levels of university educational opportunities beyond the four year college degree. Included in the breakout are the relative proportion of masters degrees, PhD/Doctorate/Doctorial holders, and professional degrees such as medicine, dentistry, lawyers, etc. ZIP code 72584 has the percentage of percent of people with no schooling the second smallest in terms of percent of people with no schooling of all the other zip codes in the greater region at 6.8% of the total. Second, it has the second smallest when sorted by percent of people with no schooling of all the other zip codes in the area when ranked by percent of people with less than high school at 32.6% of the total. Third, it has the largest proportion of percent of people with an associate degree at 28.4% of the total and is ranked #1. Also, it has the largest proportion of percent of people with a bachelors degree at 15.3% of the total and is ranked #1. The next exhibit (Figure 11) provides detailed cross tabulation analysis that provides education success data broken out or cross tabulated by age group. Please note that the columns add to 100% and you must use the pagination buttons at the bottom of the table to see all the rows. Figure 12 is a cross tabulation analysis that shows large educational success categories and is broken out or cross tabulated by racial group. Please note that the columns add to 100% and you must use the pagination buttons at the bottom of the table to see all the rows.The final cross tabulation analysis is provided in Figure 13 and shows education success broken out by gender. Please note that the columns add to 100% and you must use the pagination buttons at the bottom of the table to see all the rows.
ZIP code 72584 School Enrollment Charts
ZIP code 72584 Area Schools Charts
Figure 23 lists all the schools in the area along with the school district, county location and other program information/credential such as if they are a public charter school or private charter school or magnet school. Some of the Area Schools are: Izard Co. Cons. Elem. School, Izard Co. Cons. High School, Izard County Cons Middle Sch, Melbourne Elementary School, and Melbourne High School. The next illustration in Figure 24 shows the total child school enrollment for all grades (through 12th grade) at the school shown using NCES data (Common Core of Data, Public Elementary-Secondary School Universe Survey.) Looking at Enrollment for Area Schools we find that Cherokee Elementary School ranks the largest with a value of 589 enrolled students. The next largest values are for: Salem Elementary School (390), Melbourne High School (385), Salem High School (371), and Highland Middle School (367). The difference between the highest value (Cherokee Elementary School) and the next highest (Salem Elementary School) is that the enrolled students is about 51.0% larger.
Figure 25 show the ratio of the number of students to the number of teachers in the classroom. A good student to teacher ratio should be low because it indicates that there are less students for any one teacher to educate in a class and generally a better learning environment, better success and optimal teaching excellence. Teachers includes all educational staff such as special education teachers and any other educator. Note that distance learning (online learning/remote learning) is not included in these values. Looking at Student to Teacher Ratio for Area Schools we find that Izard County Cons Middle Sch ranks the largest with a value of 8.5 student to teacher ratio. The next largest values are for: Izard Co. Cons. High School (9.2), Calico Rock High School (9.5), Viola High School (10.9), and Calico Rock Elementary School (11.3). The difference between the lowest value (Izard County Cons Middle Sch) and the next lowest (Izard Co. Cons. High School) is that the student to teacher ratio is 7.9% larger.
The next chart, Figure 26, shows the racial mix of students at each location in this district of the state of Arkansas department of education.
Zip code 72584, Arkansas Education Data
Education Attainment
Figure 1: 72584, AR At least High School Education
Figure 2: 72584, AR Bachelors Degree or Better Education
Figure 4: 72584, AR School Dropout Rate
Figure 5: 72584, AR Education Attainment Breakdown
Figure 6: Higher Education Attainment (100%=All People with Bachelor or better)
Figure 7: 72584, AR Bachelors Degrees Field of Study
Figure 8: 72584, AR Bachelors Degree Obtained
Figure 9: 72584, AR Education Attainment by Level Comparison (Age 25+)
Figure 10: 72584, AR Education Attainment Detailed Comparison (Age 25+)
Figure 11: 72584, AR Detailed Education Attainment Breakout by Age Group (Age 18+)
Figure 12: 72584, AR Detailed Education Attainment Breakout by Race (Age 25+)
Figure 13: 72584, AR Detailed Male and Female breakdown of Educational Attainment
Figure 14: 72584, AR School Enrollment by Aggregate Categories
Figure 15: 72584, AR Overall Public vs. Private School Enrollment
Figure 16: 72584, AR Public vs. Private K-8 School Enrollment
Figure 17: 72584, AR Public vs. Private High School Enrollment
Figure 18: 72584, AR Public vs. Private College Enrollment
Figure 19: 72584, AR Public vs. Private Graduate or Professional School Enrollment
Figure 20: 72584, AR Total Enrolled in Schools
Figure 22: 72584, AR Public vs. Private Preschool
Figure 23: List of Schools in the 72584, AR Area (2013)
Figure 24: 72584, AR School Enrollment (2013)
Figure 25: Student to Teacher Ratios (2013) - Low Scores Are Better
Figure 26: 72584, AR School Racial Mix (2013)
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The Feminist's Guide to Watching "The Lord of the Rings"
For years, I resisted watching The Lord of the Rings because I could barely drag myself through the books, though I victoriously made it to the final page, nearly crying with happiness that it was over. My quibbles with the books actually have nothing to do with feminism (though a few more female characters would have been a vast improvement); rather, I completely lost patience with Tolkien's apparently desperate need to describe everything, from innocuous fields and mountains to clothes and sword hilts and seemingly endless meals. I really do think (fully aware that for many Tolkien fans this is rank blasphemy) that the books could be vastly improved by simply excising unnecessary descriptive passages. This would very likely result in one gloriously succinct volume, which the less obsessive of us could enjoy without sacrificing months of our reading lives. As a result of what was truly a miserable reading experience, I flatly refused to watch the movies.
Over the past few years, I've been making a concerted effort to be more open-minded about movies, in part because I've discovered great movies this way. This month, I finally watched The Lord of the Rings, all three films, and now I'm hooked. So much so that I might conceivably reread the books. But as head-over-heels as I am about these films, as a feminist, I must say they're a bit... lacking. For one thing, the films basically have three female characters. I know there are all those dancing hobbit ladies in the Shire, a handful of elven women, and the poor cowering peasant women needing protection and so on, but in the end, there are three: Arwen (Liv Tyler), Galadriel (Cate Blanchett), and Eowyn (Miranda Otto). These women do not at any point in the films talk to each other, nor do they appear to have any relationships with other female characters. The Lord of the Rings notoriously fails the Bechdel test, and more importantly in a film that emphasizes above all else the profound bonds of friendship, fails to portray any kind of emotional bond between women. Women are also depicted without moral complexity - good, but without having to try. It's particularly interesting to note that the orcs are solely male, thus denying the possibility of an inherent evil in a female being.
Galadriel, the elven queen who advises Frodo (Elijah Wood) in his quest to destroy the ring, is the least defined of the three characters. Though she appears in all three films and is the narrator of the initial prologue, her scenes are few and short. It is clear that she is enormously powerful and wise, the peer of Gandalf (Ian McKellan), like him able to read portents and work magic. She is able to withstand the temptation of the ring when Frodo offers it to her freely, but her ordeal of combating that temptation is the sole glimpse we get of a female character engaged in a moral struggle.
Arwen, an elven woman in love with the mortal Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), should be, at first glance, the character that feminists will loathe. She chooses to give up her family, her people, and her immortality for the sake of her love for Aragorn and the acme of her dreams is to have Aragorn's son. She nearly dies when she is separated from the man she loves and the only other strong emotional bond she has is with her father Elrond (Hugo Weaving). This portrait of feminine subjugation is somewhat tempered, however, by the fact that Arwen makes a choice. Both Aragorn and Elrond attempt to convince her to leave Middle-earth with the rest of the elves and accept her place among them, retaining her immortality. She defies both of them, making a purposeful choice and refusing the paternalistic protection of both, even prepared to make the same choice in the event that Aragorn refuses to accept her sacrifice. Her deliberate election may be made for the sake of her love for a man, but in so making it, she determines her own destiny, rather than allowing the men in her life to determine it for her.
In The Fellowship of the Ring, Arwen saves Frodo's life, protecting him from the Nazgul and delivering him to a healer. In so doing, she proves herself an able horsewoman, a person of no little courage, and a capable sorceress, summoning a river to her aid. These scenes of daring rescue also mitigate the more patriarchal aspects of Arwen's character, though unfortunately these traits, particularly the horsemanship and magic, seem tied directly to her status as an elf, rather than her individual talents, and pale when compared with the feats of Legolas (Orlando Bloom).
Eowyn, of all the characters, is the closest to a feminist heroine that The Lord of the Rings offers. Her status as a swordswoman is the most obvious trait that differentiates her, but it must be said that physical prowess and fighting ability do not a feminist make. Aragorn consistently belittles her, insisting she stay out of the fighting she longs to join and treating her as a mere apprentice in swordsmanship, though she is more than capable, while her uncle and brother speak frequently about safeguarding her and chide her when she protests. All the men around her treat her like a child and when she does ride into battle in The Return of the King she keeps Merry (Dominic Monaghan) always at her side. In The Two Towers, she is subjected to the vile attentions of the traitor Grima and her defiance and disgust are only faintly expressed. It's clear that she is vulnerable at court as a woman, but it's really rather disappointing that a woman prepared to ride into battle proves unequal to firmly rejecting a lecher.
The one moment in the films that should prick the feminist ear is in The Return of the King. King Theoden (Bernard Hill) lies mortally wounded and the Witch King of Angmar, leader of the Nazgul, prepares to finish him off. Eowyn, seeing her beloved uncle in mortal peril, steps between them and fights the Witch King. He nearly kills her, laughing at her defiance because he can be killed by no man. At this point, Eowyn reveals herself to be a woman and she stabs the Witch King, destroying him and proving the prophecy true - no man has killed him. This victory is, however, very much mitigated by the fact that Eowyn does not act alone. The Witch King is weakened first by Merry, a hobbit (thus the prophecy holds true), who stabs him with an enchanted blade and gives Eowyn an opening.
The prophecy about the Witch King is dependent on a fundamental weakness of patriarchal ideas. The Witch King assumes himself invulnerable because it is inconceivable to him that any creature but a man could be a mighty enough warrior to challenge him. Hobbits are described as retiring, adventure-shy, and too small and weak to be fighters; the same view is held of women. In the end however, the hobbits earn the adulation and gratitude of an entire world, having proved themselves creatures of courage through their adventures. Eowyn is destined to be the bride of Faramir (David Wenham). Oh, yay.
While I was watching The Two Towers, I turned to my sister and pointed out that the Rohirrim could double their armed forces if they armed the women as well as the men. And then maybe they could not arm all those little kids that definitely did not survive the battle of Helm's Deep.The decidedly patriarchal attitudes of the Middle-earth world thus make the road to victory quite a bit harder. Luckily, Sauron seems intent on a world run by orcs and thus free of women, so he doesn't realize the potential of doubling armies by training both genders, but unluckily, the men of Rohan and Gondor are equally clueless and thus take greater risks than needed by fighting with vastly out-numbered forces. They are constantly frustrated by the small size of their armies, in every single battle fought; I say, arm the women.
The most unfortunate aspect of the treatment of female characters in The Lord of the Rings is that there are no female characters that are not, by the end, romantically attached. Galadriel is married and shares the rule of her realm with her husband. Arwen, as expected, becomes Aragorn's queen. And Eowyn, having first pined for Aragorn, falls in love with Faramir. Male characters are not treated in the same way. Frodo, Gandalf, Gimli, Legolas, Merry, Pippin, Bilbo - none of them are romantically attached. The women's destinies are wrapped up in the men; the men's destinies are their own.
As a feminist, I'm quite used to seeing films that fail to reflect my own values as far as gender is concerned, but I find the exercise of a feminist analysis both instructive and, in a way, cathartic. I love The Lord of the Rings films; The Lord of the Rings films reflect values in opposition to my own. Through this process of analysis, it is possible to complicate the patriarchal values of these films, without losing an appreciation for them and without compromising my own politics.
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6 Movies for Fans of "Hocus Pocus"
There are inevitably some movies that a person simply can't judge according to anything approaching critical standards. I don't mean liking movies that are bad (or so bad they're good - my favorite in this category is the extremely silly The Magic Sword), but rather movies that are so deeply embedded in one's life that, well... their flaws are as much virtues as flaws, if flaws can even be found. For those of us of the home video generation, certain movies have become cult favorites not only because of their kookiness, kitschy-ness, or quirkiness, but because we've seen them so many times that we can quote them from opening to closing credits.
Hocus Pocus was savaged by critics upon theatrical release, but as a staple on the Disney Channel, it became an adored Halloween classic for 90's kids. Its combination of witchcraft, snark, and celebration of the sibling bond squared the circle of family entertainment, throwing Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker as a trio of featherbrained witches into the midst of a heartwarming story of a brother looking out for his younger sister. Though slightly more kid-friendly than, say, The Addams Family and Addams Family Values, the fun of Hocus Pocus lies, at least in part, in growing into the buried adult humor, especially in Midler's performance. The stakes in Hocus Pocus are significantly higher than in your average kids' Halloween film. Whereas in the far tamer Halloweentown, the kids are threatened by being frozen in time (though the movie never succeeds in making that threat especially menacing), in Hocus Pocus, a child has died within the first five minutes of the film. The witches are funny, but they are also genuinely evil and genuinely dangerous. Max, Dani, and Allison are not saving a cartoonish fantasy world; they are trying to keep each other alive. The witch sisters aren't smart, but they are powerful. This counterbalance to the absurd humor rescues the movie from wallowing in silliness and places it squarely in the horror-comedy genre.
Doth I protest too much? Perhaps, but it seems likely that Hocus Pocus could end up as the kiddie Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! At least part of its cult status is due to the difficulty of finding films that are similarly creepy, yet ludicrous, wacky, yet scary: here are six recommendations for Hocus Pocus fans, each with a quote to match!
"I smell children."
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Though often dismissed as the lesser Mary Poppins, given its combination of animation and live action, its no-nonsense, magical protagonist, songs by the Sherman Brothers, and the presence of David Tomlinson, it would be better to call Bedknobs and Broomsticks the darker Mary Poppins. Instead of the specter of workaholism menacing the nuclear family in an otherwise sunny and secure world, in this film, the Blitzkrieg and Nazi raiders are the dangers posed to three refugee orphans, the witch - played with a deliciously schoolmarmish stiff upper lip by Angela Lansbury - forced to take them in, and the charlatan who just happened to stumble on a genuine book of spells (Tomlinson). There is a scrappier quality to the storytelling, but the effects are top-notch, culminating in an incredible scene of an army of animated - as in moving, not drawn - suits of armor going toe-to-toe with Nazi gunners.
"I put a spell on you and now you're mine."
Bell Book and Candle (1958)
This Hollywood oddity is usually remembered today as the inspiration for Bewitched. A frigidly feline Kim Novak stars as a bored, barefoot witch in Manhattan, who sets her spells on her clean-cut publisher neighbor, played by Jimmie Stewart in his final leading man role, with the help of her cat and familiar, Pyewacket (played by Novak's actual pet!). The romance is enjoyable enough, but the witchy shenanigans of the supporting cast are far more fun: Jack Lemmon plays a bongo-playing, mischief-making warlock with a creepily glazed smile, Elsa Lanchester is a daffy, gossiping witch with a gypsy sense of style, and Hermione Gingold is the grand-dame of the magical set. With weirdly diaphanous costumes by Jean Louis and set design by Cary Odell and Louis Diage that draws inspiration from the avant-garde Greenwich Village club scene of the time, the movie is an eccentric charmer, dipping only a toe into transgressive politics, but unafraid of combining wackiness and tragedy.
"Go to hell!" "Oh, I've been there, thank you. I found it quite lovely."
I Married a Witch (1942)
French auteur René Clair directs this Hollywood comedy starring Veronica Lake as a witch who, after being torched in Puritan Salem, comes back from the dead to wreak havoc on the descendant of her accuser, a twitchy politician on the eve of both his wedding and gubernatorial elections, played by Fredric March, only to accidentally drink her own love potion. Again, the supporting cast is fabulous, with Cecil Kellaway as Lake's demonic father, Robert Benchley as March's friend, always ready to take a stiff drink in his place, and Susan Hayward as March's shrewish fiancee, a thankless role that she enlivens with a double dose of venom. Fast-paced and frothy, this film would fit snugly in the oeuvre of either Ernst Lubitsch or Preston Sturges (who was an uncredited producer). Like so many mainstream films about witches and the men they love, the ending frustrates, but this film is otherwise delicious.
"Hang him on a hook and let me play with him!"
The Love Witch (2016)
The Love Witch, written, directed, produced, scored, costumed, designed, and edited by Anna Biller, is one of the most singularly weird witch movies ever made, drawing as deeply on Italian thrillers and gialli of the '70s as it does on swoony romance paperbacks, tarot cards, and Renaissance Faire culture. Samantha Robinson, in a star-making performance, plays Elaine, a witch so bent on amorous fulfillment that she overdoes it every time, leaving a trail of dead would-be Romeos in her wake. A psychedelic color swirl of reds, pinks, purples, greens, and yellows, nonchalant nudity, and a poker-faced sense of humor elevate the occasionally clunky dialogue, though that clunkiness may very well be part of the point. Elaine is so deeply ensorceled by millennia's worth of misogynistic notions of love and romance that the magic she performs on men to force them into a performance of that love turns in on itself and is reborn as the same kind of violence patriarchy enacts on women; if she speaks in women's magazine platitudes, it's no wonder. You will be singing "Love Is a Magickal Thing" for weeks afterwards.
"Max likes your yabbos. In fact, he loves them."
Miranda (1948)
This sweet, subtly sexually transgressive British comedy follows the adventures of a mermaid, played by the exquisite Glynis Johns (Mary Poppins, The Court Jester), who persuades a vacationing, and decidedly married, doctor (Griffith Jones) to take her to London with him to see the sights. She's always wanted to attend the opera at Covent Garden, you see. Johns's mermaid is irresistible to men - including a very young David Tomlinson sans moustache - and soon has a string of straying beaux, happy to overlook her diet of raw fish and her total lack of commitment, but the lovely thing is that, for once, the mermaid isn't a siren luring men to their doom. She just likes everybody and likes to have a good time. She treats all her conquests with the same cool and generous lust - and the ending is not one you're going to see in a Hollywood film! The inimitable and brilliant Margaret Rutherford plays an eccentric registered nurse.
"You know I always wanted a child. And now I think I'll have one. On toast!"
Robin Hardy's folk-song-laden horror film has acquired a carapace of spoofs and spoofs of spoofs, but it remains a stubbornly unique contribution to the genre, remake be damned. A sternly religious policeman (Edward Woodward) flies out to a remote Hebridean island where a child has been reported missing and finds himself in a hotbed of pagan ritual, led by Lord Summerisle, played by Christopher Lee in a no-holds-barred, go-for-broke performance. A collection of kooks, from Diane Cilento to Lindsay Kemp, round out the cast, but despite the hijinks, a mixture of Summer of Love sex, nude Waldorf School-style games, and Hieronymous Boschesque processions, The Wicker Man ceases to be a fish-out-of-water comedy blended with an Ealing Studios satire in the final scene, all the more haunting for being such a hairpin turn in tone.
"Booooooooooooooooooooooooooook!"
Posted by Gianna Ward-Vetrano at 6:33 PM
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NLRB schedules representation election (by mail) for Lawrence Journal-World newsroom employees!
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Q&A: Tim Bavington
The artist and UNLV graduate on his great teachers, becoming a professor, and the importance of color.
Noted artist Tim Bavington joins the UNLV Fine Arts faculty. (Geri Kodey/UNLV Photo Services)
Please note that this Article is more than three years old and details may have changed since the publish date.
By Audrey Barcio
London-born artist Tim Bavington, '99 MFA, joined the UNLV art department faculty this semester. His music-inspired works have become part of the permanent collections of museums across the country, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Hi latest work, a mural design done along with fellow alumnus Sush Machida, '02 MFA, is on view at the Emergency Arts Building for the Life is Beautiful festival.
Audrey Barcio, a current MFA student, recently interviewed Bavington for a series she's doing on the art faculty.
Some people listen to music, or the radio on the way to work. What did you fill your mind with on your way into your new job at UNLV today?
I was thinking of how to sequence the drawing course I'm teaching, what order should things be taught.
You earned a Masters in Fine Art from UNLV in 2000. Could you talk about what factors initially drew you to the program?
A teacher I had in California at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where I went for undergrad, introduced me to (former professor and art critic) Dave Hickey. Dave talked me into coming here. A studio at that time sounded pretty good. I was working in my garage, and it seemed like a no-brainer. Looking back now, having someone like Dave Hickey tell you to join the program is pretty important; you should listen to that. "
Aside from the fact that you were a student then, and you're teaching now, what are some of the differences you are noticing between the MFA program then vs. the program today?
I have yet to see with some studio visits lined up this week. I noticed that the studios have moved into a old fast food restaurant, that's quite a big difference. It's something I'm looking forward to finding more about. There was a really good gang of us here having a great time when Dave was here, I hope that something similar is going on with the group here.
Describe your relationship with the visual landscape of Las Vegas.
"When you have been here so long you sort of forget about it, it's normal for you. It's a different kind of normal than other cities in the states. There is a connection to it and my work but I haven't quite been able to put my finger on it.
For artists it ups the ante for the visual, if you are going to make work in this environment then you have to compete with visual environment around you."
Aside from interacting with art objects, what is your favorite aesthetic experience to have in Las Vegas?
I think the best aesthetic I like is the James Turrell installation at the Louis Vuitton store on the strip. That's amazing; it's the best aesthetic experience in town.
What factors have compelled you to return to UNLV to teach at this time?
I've had a commercial career and a long fine art career. It's been 25 years out since I got my BFA and it seems like this is the natural course of life for an artist. I never really wanted to teach, but then all of sudden something clicks where you realize you could give something back. I remember great teachers -- like the one who introduced me to Dave Hickey -- that changed my life.
Art professors are legacy builders. What specific intentions do you have for influencing the aspiring artists you will be interacting with as a professor UNLV?
Specifically, one of the things I'm very interested in, and I feel about art education all over, is that the subject of color is incredibly underserved. Art education is underserved everywhere, but within that, color is really not taught. It's part of a class here and there, but not a whole class. I'm going to write a curriculum for color theory. Vegas is a great place for color, not only for the light, but a great city where you can actually study color in. Everyone needs to know how to use color, but that's my thing. I'm biased.
Audrey Barcio
UNLV Department of Art Welcomes Tim Bavington to Faculty
Nevada Entertainer/Artist Hall of Fame Honors Tim Bavington, Sue Kim, and Joe Williams
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Montreal gunman took his own life, police say
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Quebec police have confirmed that 25-year-old Kimveer Gill was the shooter during a rampage Wednesday at downtown Montreal's Dawson College. Quebec provincial police now say autopsy results show that Mr. Gill died after shooting himself in the head.
Spokesman Jayson Gauthier says police shot Gill in the arm before he turned his own weapon on himself and fired a bullet into his head.
Earlier, police said Mr. Gill was shot and killed by police following the incident.
Mr. Gill lived with his mother in Laval, north of Montreal, loved guns and violent video games, and threatened violence against others on his website.
One of his victims, an 18-year-old woman, died at the scene. She was identified by family members as Anastasia DeSousa of Montreal. "She was full of life, she was the perfect little niece," her uncle, Réal Hevy, told the Montreal Gazette.
Shooting victims were ferried to three hospitals, the most seriously injured to the trauma unit of the nearby Montreal General Hospital, and others to the Jewish General and Jean-Talon Hospital.
Montreal General Hospital officials said Thursday afternoon that three of the eleven patients originally brought to the hospital have been discharged. Two patients, who were originally taken to the intensive care unit, have had their condition stabilized.
However, four remain on life support in intensive care at the hospital, and one is much worse shape than the others. He said one is in a deep coma, and the others are sedated.
"When they remain in intensive care, it means they're critical. We're always afraid for their lives," trauma director Dr. Tarek Razek. Thursday afternoon. "Over the next 24 to 48 hours, well, it's an on hour-by-hour basis."
Mr. Gill's Web page, which was taken down by early Thursday morning, included a photo of a tombstone with his first name printed on it with an epitaph that read: "Lived fast died young. Left a mangled corpse."
The last entry on his blog was posted a 10:41 a.m. Wednesday, just hours before the rampage at Dawson College.
"Whiskey in the morning, mmmmmm, mmmmmmmmm, good !! ," he wrote.
The site also contained 55 pictures of Mr. Gill, several of them with him holding knives and guns, wearing a black trench coat and combat boots, which witnesses said he was wearing at the time of the attacks.
"I think I have an obbsetion [sic] with guns ... muhahaha," he wrote in an inscription below a picture of himself aiming the barrel of the gun at the camera.
Mr. Gill also gives some insight into what sort of person he may have been.
"He has met a handfull [sic] of people in his life who are decent. But he finds the vast majority to be worthless."
He said he dislikes: "The world and everything in it."
He also says: "Life is like a video game, you gotta die sometime."
One of his favourite video games was called "Super Columbine Massacre." Columbine is the high school in Colorado where on April 20, 1999, two teenagers clad in black trench coats, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, killed 12 fellow high-school students and a teacher and wounded 24 others before committing suicide.
He also complained that another shooting game, Postal 2, was "too childish." The purpose of the game is to get through as much of the game as possible without going berserk and gunning people down, or, failing that, to avoid getting caught and being thrown in jail.
"i want them to make a game so realistic, that it looks and feels like it's actually happening," he wrote in his blog.
The blog was posted on the now infamous VampireFreaks.com, which has figured prominently in at least two high-profile killings in Canada in the past few years.
A 12-year-old and her 23-year-old boyfriend met on the site before being charged with murder in the deaths of an Alberta family in April.
In February, 2005, a judge declared a mistrial in the Johnathan murder trial, in which a three young men were charged in the slaying of the 12-year-old boy, after it was discovered that a key 15-year old witness may have perjured herself after her blog on VampireFreaks.com contradicted some of her testimony.
The site's administrators posted a response referring to the incident in Montreal as a tragedy, but said that Mr. Gill was a "bad seed," and that VampireFreaks.com had been unfairly implicated in the shootings.
"Just because someone goes around shooting people and happens to be a member of vampirefreaks, doesn't mean that this website has influenced him to do such a horrible thing," the administrators wrote on the site Thursday.
The Sûreté du Québec said the guns found at the scene were legally registered and that they do in fact have units that try to monitor as many of these sites as possible.
"The difficulty is that there are million of sites," said Const. Jayson Gauthier, spokesman for the Sûreté du Québec. He added that the internet team looked over the site this morning before it was taken down.
"An initial preliminary look at his site didn't reveal to us that there was any information that he could have been a threat to society. There is no indication whatsoever that he could have done something like this. The guns are registered, but the site doesn't tell us that he's going to do anything."
As horrific as it was, the attack could have been much worse. Police arrived on site within three minutes of the gunman's opening fire and, in their words, "neutralized" the shooter a short time later.
Montreal Police Chief Yvan Delorme said the motive for the attack was unclear, but he dismissed suggestions that women or members of specific ethnic or religious groups were being targeted.
"There is no racist connotation whatsoever, this is not related ... to terrorism. We have no information linking these events to anything other than what occurred on site," he said.
Nonetheless, the crime had immediate and broad repercussions, from pandemonium in a huge chunk of downtown Montreal to reigniting the heated gun-control debate.
The shootings also sparked intense emotion from traumatized students, anxious parents and the highest offices of the nation.
La Presse reporters who went to Mr. Gill's house said they were met by his father, who refused comment. The Quebec provincial police confirmed o the newspaper, , however, that they questioned his family.
The killer parked his Pontiac Sunfire on a downtown street, pulled the weapons from the trunk and walked toward the entrance of Dawson College.
The first of more than 400 calls to 9-1-1 came at 12:41 p.m., shortly after the shooting started outside the college. The gunman proceeded into the school cafeteria and other common areas. He apparently said little, simply shooting victims at random, using a single semi-automatic rifle. Witnesses said dozens of shots were fired in the short time before police arrived.
Shortly after the rampage began, the gunman was killed by police during an intense gun battle inside the school. (Because the man died at the hands of Montreal police, the death is now being investigated by the provincial Sûreté du Québec).
The incident was, for all intents and purposes, over by 1:10 p.m.
Dawson College, which has 10,000 students, is an English-language CEGEP. Students who attend junior colleges in Quebec are usually aged 16 to 19, though Dawson also has a large number of mature students.
Montreal has been the scene of two previous rampages.
On Dec. 6, 1989, Marc Lépine murdered 14 women at École Polytechnique, a crime driven by his hatred of women.
And on Aug. 24, 1992, disgruntled Concordia University professor Valery Fabrikant murdered four colleagues.
The motive for the shooting at Dawson College remains unclear.
Concordia University, which is located nearby, sent shuttle buses to help remove Dawson students and offered counselling services. École Polytechnique sent out a "message of solidarity."
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Dog stranded by COVID reunited with Australian family 5 months later
Sept. 2 (UPI) -- A dachshund left behind in the United States when her owners had to fly home to Australia amid the COVID-19 pandemic was reunited with her family after five months and a 10,000-mile journey.
Zoe and Guy Eilbeck said they set out for a yacht trip around the world with their sons, Cam and Max, and the family adopted Pipsqueak the wiener dog -- affectionately known as Pip -- in Messina, Sicily, in 2018.
The Eilbecks were forced to abandon their sailing plans in March, when the coronavirus pandemic led to several international borders being closed. They docked their 40-foot yacht in Hilton Head Island, S.C., and had 48 hours to fly home before the Australian border closed.
Pip was unable to accompany the family on the flight due to Australia's strict rules for the importation of animals. Pets need to have a U.S. government declaration that they are in good health and have been tested for rabies.
The family departed the country March 27, leaving Pip with friend Lynn Williams in North Carolina.
Williams, who already had multiple dogs, placed an ad to find another temporary home for Pip. The dog ended up at the home of Ellen Steinberg in Hillsborough, N.C., on April 4, before moving again to the home of friend Stacey Green when Steinberg had to leave town to visit family.
The Eilbecks got an import permit for Pip, but airline Qantas announced around the same time that it was suspending its dog transporting services.
Zoe Eilbeck worked out a plan to import Pip through New Zealand by working with Australian pet transport company Jetpets, but the scheme required the dachshund to depart from Los Angeles.
Eilbeck posted on social media seeking someone flying cross-country to bring Pip to California, as most U.S. airlines had suspended pet transport on cargo flights from May to September.
Melissa Young of dog rescue foundation The Sparky Foundation responded to the post and volunteered to bring Pip with her to Los Angeles, where the canine was handed over to Jetpets.
Pip arrived in Auckland on July 23 and was in quarantine overnight before taking a flight to Melbourne, Australia, where she was put into mandatory 10-day quarantine.
The dog was cleared to fly to Sydney and was booked for an Aug. 3 flight, but the flight was canceled when the state of Victoria closed its borders with New South Wales.
Zoe Eilbeck's brother, Rob, took Pip in at his Melbourne home for a few days, and the dog was booked on multiple flights to Sydney that all ended up canceled.
Pip's story was reported in the Sydney Morning Herald and came to the attention of officials at airline Virgin Australia, which announced it would fly Pip home.
The dog finally arrived at Sydney Airport on Aug. 11, five months after being left behind in the United States. The Eilbeck family had an emotional reunion with their pet.
"She's part of our family and it's been five months and that's a long time to miss anybody," Guy Eilbeck told Virgin Australia officials.
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Vienna celebrates Gustav Klimt
Vienna has dedicated 2012 to Gustav Klimt, the Austrian Symbolist painter whose 150th anniversary of birth was on 6 February. To celebrate the life and work of the artist who spent most of his life in Vienna, ten of the capital’s museums are organising a host of activities in his honour throughout 2012.
The Belvedere displays its extensive collection of Klimt’s work, the Albertina presents 170 of his drawings, and the Leopold museum dedicates an exhibition to the artist’s private correspondence. Seven other art institutions in Vienna are staging Klimt exhibitions until the end of the year – for more details see www.wien.info/en.
Born in 1862 in Baumgarten – a modern-day Viennese suburb – Klimt was a divisive figure whose art work was adored for its revolutionary, decorative and uncompromising style but scorned for its overt sexuality.
In 1897 he became one of the founders of the Wiener Sezession (Vienna Secession) whose members, tired of the prevailing conservatism, were united in their desire to push the boundaries of art outside the confines of academic tradition.
The artist later found himself centre-stage in the important cultural and societal role played by Vienna at the turn of the 20th century, and he became a famous and sought-after portraitist in high society circles.
Klimt died in Vienna 1918 but works such as “The Kiss” and the “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” – which sold for €135 million in 2006 almost 100 years after it was painted – assure his legacy as one of the world’s most popular artists.
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TSA and airport workers indicted for allegedly smuggling 20 tons of cocaine through Puerto Rico airport
In this Oct. 30, 2014, file photo, a TSA officer, left, checks a passenger’s ticket, boarding pass and passport as part of security screening at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. The investigation of TSA officers at Puerto Rico’s San Juan airport was initiated by TSA, officials said, as part of the agency’s effort to “address employee misconduct and specific insider threat vulnerabilities,” said Jose Baquero, federal security director for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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Feb. 13, 2017 at 9:30 p.m. UTC
Twelve current and former TSA agents and airport workers have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Puerto Rico for allegedly taking part in a conspiracy to smuggle tons of cocaine through the airport in San Juan, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico said Monday.
U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez said the defendants smuggled suitcases containing at least 8 to 15 kilograms each of the drug through the TSA security system at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport. Rodriguez-Vélez said sometimes as many as five mules were used on each flight, with each mule checking-in up to two suitcases. Between 1998 and 2016 they are alleged to have smuggled 20 tons of cocaine through the airport.
“These individuals were involved in a conspiracy to traffic massive quantities of illegal narcotics to the continental United States,” Rodríguez-Vélez said in a statement.
Six current and former TSA employees, José Cruz-López, Luis Vázquez-Acevedo, Keila Carrasquillo, Carlos Rafael Adorno-Hiraldo, Antonio Vargas-Saavedra, and Daniel Cruz-Echevarríae allegedly smuggled the cocaine through while employed as TSA officers at the airport, where their responsibilities included providing security and screening for checked and carry-on baggage placed on outbound flights.
According to the news release from the U.S. Attorney’s office, defendants Edwin Francisco Castro, Luis Vázquez-Acevedo and Ferdinand López served as facilitators between the drug trafficking organizations and the TSA employees who smuggled the cocaine onto the airplanes. Miguel Ángel Pérez-Rodríguez, who worked for the airport security company, was a source of supply of cocaine to the drug trafficking organization.
Rodríguez-Vélez said defendant Javier Ortiz began assisting drug trafficking organizations as an employee of Airport Aviation Services as a baggage handler/ramp employee. He allegedly would pick up suitcases he knew contained cocaine from the mules at airline check-in counters. Ortiz would then place the suitcases into the X-Ray machines being monitored by the TSA drug trafficking organization members, who cleared thems. After the suitcases had been cleared by TSA members, Ortiz took the suitcases to their designated flight, making sure no narcotic K-9 unit or law enforcement personnel were present when the suitcase went from the checkpoint to the airplane. Once the suitcases were loaded onto the plane, Ortiz would call the drug trafficking organization member with the all clear and the mules would then board the plane. Ortiz also paid the TSA employees for clearing the suitcases through TSA security, according to the indictment.
Defendant Tomas Dominguez-Rohena assisted the drug trafficking organization by taking the suitcases he knew contained cocaine after they had been cleared by TSA members or smuggled past security to their designated flight; defendant José Gabriel López-Mercado served as a mule.
If convicted the defendants face a minimum sentence of 10 years up to life in prison. According to U.S. Attorney’s office, the investigation was initiated by TSA.
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President Trump, first lady Melania Trump pardon Thanksgiving turkey in annual White House tradition
WASHINGTON (NewsNation Now) — The holiday season may be a bit quieter this year as many make changes to mitigate the risks of COVID-19, but Americans can still expect a time-honored White House tradition to be carried out.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump participated in the annual pardoning of the National Thanksgiving Turkey in the White House Rose Garden Tuesday afternoon.
This year’s turkeys, “Corn” and “Cob,” hail from Walcott, Iowa. In keeping with tradition, the guests of honor were welcomed to the nation’s capital with a world-class reception, including a red carpet and a stay at the Willard InterContinental Hotel.
(National Turkey Federation)
Both turkeys will receive a pardon, but only one will be named this year’s National Thanksgiving Turkey and visit the White House. That honor went to “Corn” following a poll created by the Trump administration. After the ceremony, both turkeys will retire to their new home at Iowa State University.
White House Christmas Tree arrival, presidential turkeys kick off holiday traditions in DC
According to the White House, turkeys have been sent as gifts to American presidents since the 1870s. But President George H. W. Bush was the first to formally grant the bird a presidential pardon.
The arrival of the White House Christmas Tree by horse-drawn carriage on Monday kicked off a host of holiday events in Washington.
White House still planning holiday parties, despite coronavirus warnings
The White House is still planning holiday parties despite warnings from U.S. public health experts for Americans to not gather with people from outside their households.
Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s spokeswoman and chief of staff, said decisions to attend the parties will be a “personal choice.”
“It is a longstanding tradition for people to visit and enjoy the cheer and iconic décor of the annual White House Christmas celebrations,” Grisham said.
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Cat helps mute boy say 'I love you'
Thursday, 19th July 2012
A cat has helped a young boy who has a form of mutism say "I love you" and show his emotions.
Seven-year-old Lorcan Dillon suffers from an anxiety condition that makes it very difficult to communicate, but when his mother Jayne bought a cat home, he began to improve.
Over the past two years, Jessi-cat and Lorcan have become inseparable. Ms Dillon said that her son finds it very hard to express himself but when he's with his pet, he finds it easy to talk to her.
She said: "He would not say 'I love you mummy' or anything like that but with the cat he can cuddle her and stroke her and talk to her and he does say 'I love you Jessi-Cat' which is really nice.
"It is a way for him to express his emotions that otherwise he wouldn't be able to do."
She explained that she first got the animal because cats in particular are good with children with special needs.
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which commander is known as the lady of the mercians
Frete GRÁTIS em milhares de produtos com o Amazon Prime. [1], In 865 the Viking Great Heathen Army landed in East Anglia and used this as a starting point for an invasion. After her death in 918 Edward the Elder was able to extend his rule of Mercia as well as Wessex. Hello, Sign in. [48] In Wessex, royal women were not allowed to play any political role; Alfred's wife was not granted the title of queen and was never a witness to charters. As the U.S. election result proved too close to call on Wednesday morning, political figures and observers around the world reacted to the uncertainty just as Americans did. Encontre diversos livros escritos por Grieser, Marjory A com ótimos preços. He argues that King Edward was anxious not to encourage Mercian separatism and did not wish to publicise his sister's accomplishments, in case she became a symbol of Mercian claims. She is best known as the “Lady of the Mercians” who defeated the Vikings and established English rule which would be consolidated by her brother Edward the Elder (r. 899-924 CE) and lay the foundation for the reign of the first recognized English king, Aethelstan, who was king of the Anglo-Saxons 924-927 CE and King of the English 927-939 CE. Alfred had built a network of fortified burhs and in the 910s Edward and Æthelflæd embarked on a programme of extending them. [17] Æthelred was much older than Æthelflæd and they had one known child, a daughter called Ælfwynn. They granted the church of Worcester a half share of the rights of lordship over the city, covering land rents and the proceeds of justice, and in return the cathedral community agreed in perpetuity to dedicate a psalm to them three times a day and a mass and thirty psalms every Saturday. [12] The relics gave the church great prestige as Oswald had been one of the most important founding saints of Anglo-Saxon Christianity as well as a ruling monarch, and the decision to translate his relics to Gloucester shows the importance of the town to Æthelred and Æthelflæd, who were buried in St Oswald's Minster. [12][18], Æthelred's descent is unknown. [56] In the Three Fragments, Æthelflæd also formed a defensive alliance with the Scots and the Strathclyde British, a claim accepted by Clarkson. [16] Æthelflæd was first recorded as Æthelred's wife in a charter of 887, when he granted two estates to the see of Worcester "with the permission and sign-manual of King Alfred" and the attestors included "Æthelflæd conjux". "La Belle Dame sans Merci" ("The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy") is a ballad produced by the English poet John Keats in 1819. They returned with the remains of the royal Northumbrian saint, Oswald, which were translated to the new Gloucester minster. No need to register, buy now! After Æthelred's death in 911 Æthelflæd ruled as "Lady of the Mercians", but Alfred's successor as King of the Anglo-Saxons, Edward the Elder (r. 899–924), took control of London and Oxford, which Alfred had placed under Æthelred's control. [King Alfred's Daughter: The Lady of the Mercians] [By: Grieser, Marjory A.] King Alfred's Daughter: The Lady of the Mercians: Grieser, Marjory A: Amazon.com.mx: Libros. When Æthelflæd died in 918, Ælfwynn, her daughter by Æthelred, succeeded as 'Second Lady of the Mercians', but within six months Edward had deprived her of all authority in Mercia and taken her into Wessex. She was praised by Anglo-Norman chroniclers such as William of Malmesbury, who described her as "a powerful accession to [Edward's] party, the delight of his subjects, the dread of his enemies, a woman of enlarged soul". He then received the submission of all English not under Viking control and handed control of London over to Æthelred. [83], The 1,100th anniversary of the death of Æthelflaed was marked throughout 2018 in Tamworth with a number of major events, including the unveiling of a new six-metre statue,[84] the creation of the town's biggest ever piece of community art,[85] a major commemorative church service, talks, a special guided walk, commemorative ale and an academic conference weekend drawing academics and delegates from all over the world. Mamie Doud, the last first lady born in … William of Malmesbury wrote that their burial places were found in the south porticus during building works in the early twelfth century. The success of Edward's campaigns against the Danes depended to a great extent upon her cooperation. Lisez des commentaires honnêtes et non biaisés sur les produits de la part nos utilisateurs. Aethelflaed (r. 911-918 CE) was the daughter of King Alfred the Great of Wessex (r. 871-899 CE) and became queen of Mercia following the death of her husband Aethelred, Lord of the Mercians (r. 881-911 CE). After her husband's death, the people of Mercia gave her the title Lady of the Mercians, a feminine version of the title that her husband had held. In the 890s, Æthelred and Edward, Alfred's son and future successor, fought off more Viking attacks. Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians - Ebook written by Margaret C. Jones. However, when Æthelred (not to be confused with Lady Æthelflæd, whom this article is about!) But Æthelflæd had clearly proved her right and ability to rule; and for the Mercian nobility, she offered the only chance to avoid extinction at the hands of the West Saxons. He may have been misinformed about the position but it is also possible that the tombs were moved from their prestigious position next to the saint, when the couple became less known over time or when tenth-century kings acted to minimise the honour paid to their Mercian predecessors. When this failed they applied to Æthelflæd, her husband being ill, for permission to settle near Chester. Shortly afterwards the Viking leaders of York offered her their loyalty, but she died on 12 June 918 before she could take advantage of the offer, and a few months later Edward completed the conquest of Mercia. Her probable date of birth is 870 or 871 CE based on the approximate date of her marriage. This story is a fictionalized account of the life of Lady Aethelflaed. In 913 she built forts at Tamworth to guard against the Danes in Leicester, and in Stafford to cover access from the Trent Valley. Read honest and … A key role in this fight was played by Alfred's oldest child, Aethelflaed, known as the Lady of the Mercians by her own people. She is best known as the “Lady of the Mercians” who defeated the Vikings and established English rule which would be consolidated by her brother Edward the Elder (r. 899-924 CE) and lay the foundation for the reign of the first recognized English king, Aethelstan, who was king of the Anglo-Saxons 924-927 CE and King of the English 927-939 CE. She was exceptional for many reasons. Our Role . [50] Alfred had constructed a network of fortified burhs in Wessex, and Edward and Æthelflæd now embarked on a programme of extending them to consolidate their defences and provide bases for attacks on the Vikings. 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[80], Simon Keynes points out that all coins were issued in Edward's name, and while the Mercian rulers were able to issue some charters on their own authority, others acknowledged Edward's lordship. on Amazon.com. Defences were built before 914 at Hereford, and probably Shrewsbury and two other fortresses, at Scergeat and Weardbyrig, which have not been located. Her statue stands near Tamworth Castle. Try [21], Compared to the rest of England, much of English Mercia —Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Shropshire —was unusually stable in the Viking age. A few months later, the leading men of Danish-ruled York offered to pledge their loyalty to Æthelflæd, probably to secure her support against Norse raiders from Ireland, but she died on 12 June 918, before she could take advantage of the offer. She was the eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and his wife Ealhswith. Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians (869/870-918) Æthelflæd, has been described as 'our greatest woman-general', was was born around 864, the eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and his queen, Ealhswith. [60] No charters of Edward survive for the period between 910 and his death in 924,[61] whereas two survive in Æthelflæd's sole name, S 224, possibly dating to 914 and S 225, dated 9 September 915, issued at Weardbyrig, one of the burhs she built at an unidentified location. In early 918, Æthelflæd gained possession of Leicester without opposition and most of the local Danish army submitted to her. [59], No coins were issued with the name of Æthelred or Æthelflæd on them, but in the 910s silver pennies were minted in west Mercian towns with unusual ornamental designs on the reverse and this may have reflected Æthelflæd's desire to distinguish specie issued under her control from that of her brother. [41] Simon Keynes describes the town as "the main seat of their power" and Carolyn Heighway believes that the foundation of the church was probably a family and dynastic enterprise, encouraged by Alfred and supported by Edward and Bishop Werferth. Aethelflaed was a supreme negotiator, a powerful and ruthless war-leader, and a … [64] Martin Ryan sees the foundation as "something like a royal mausoleum, intended to replace the one at Repton (Derbyshire) that had been destroyed by the Vikings". Which commander is known as barbarossa?. She had been raised in a royal court, but now she had to command respect in her own right - not just the respect of her own people, but the respect of potential opponents, who would soon learn that she had all her father’s fire. She was not just a regent until the next male heir came of age but was viewed as the head of government by her own people. Furthermore, the politic… Gwent in south-east Wales was already under West Saxon lordship but, in the view of Charles-Edwards, this passage shows that the other Welsh kingdoms were under Mercian lordship until Edward took direct power over Mercia. The Norse Vikings then joined with the Danes in an attack on Chester, but this failed because Æthelflæd had fortified the town, and she and her husband persuaded the Irish among the attackers to change sides. The land was valuable, including most of the city's usable river frontage, and control of it enabled the Mercian rulers to dominate over and profit from the city. Derby was the first to fall to the English; she lost "four of her thegns who were dear to her" in the battle. [14] Æthelflæd was thus half-Mercian and the alliance between Wessex and Mercia was sealed by her marriage to Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians. Æthelflæd witnessed charters of Æthelred in 888, 889 and 896. In 904 Bishop Werferth granted a lease of land in the city to Æthelred and Æthelflæd, to be held for the duration of their lives and that of their daughter Ælfwynn. [40] It was initially dedicated to St Peter but when Oswald's remains were brought to Gloucester in 909, Æthelflæd had them translated from Bardney to the new minster, which was renamed St Oswald's in his honour. A translation of the Mercian Register is an appendix in Tim Clarkson's biography of Æthelflæd. [10] In the twelfth century, Henry of Huntingdon paid her his own tribute: Some historians believe that Æthelred and Æthelflæd were independent rulers. [13] Many Mercians disliked the subordination of their ancient kingdom to Wessex, and Wainwright describes the Mercian annalist's description of the deposition of Ælfwynn as "heavy with resentment". [65] Æthelflæd died a few months too early to see the final conquest of the southern Danelaw by Edward. Ready to decisively engage the enemy in close quarter combat, Mercians are highly skilled with sophisticated weapon systems ranging from the SA80 A2 rifle through to the Warrior Armoured Infantry Fighting Vehicle with its 30mm canon. Known to history as the Lady of the Mercians, she earned a reputation as a competent general and was feared by her enemies. Découvrez des commentaires utiles de client et des classements de commentaires pour King Alfred's Daughter: The Lady of the Mercians sur Amazon.fr. At about the age of nine she received a different kind of education, in the harsh realities of her turbulent times. Download this stock image: Aethelflaed or Ethelfleda,also known as the Lady of the Mercians. [20] Alex Woolf suggests that he was probably the son of King Burgred of Mercia and King Alfred's sister Æthelswith, although that would mean that the marriage between Æthelflæd and Æthelred was uncanonical, because Rome then forbade marriage between first cousins. Historians consider this unlikely, but she may have sent a contingent to the battle. [69] Irish and Welsh annals described her as a queen and the Annals of Ulster, which ignore the deaths of Alfred and Edward, described her as famosissima regina Saxonum (renowned Saxon queen). She is best known as the “Lady of the Mercians” who defeated the Vikings and established English rule which would be consolidated by her brother Edward the Elder (r. 899-924 CE) and lay the foundation for the reign of the first recognized English king, Aethelstan, who was king of the Anglo-Saxons 924-927 CE and King of the English 927-939 CE. The members with the know how for Rise of Kingdoms, You can also check out our guide for this game here, House Flipper: Home Design, Renovation Games, Tower Craft 3D - Idle Block Building Game, Archer's Tale - Adventures of Rogue Archer, Ninja’s Creed: 3D Sniper Shooting Assassin Game, Selecting a Starting Commander and Nation. Æthelwold joined forces with the Vikings when he was unable to get sufficient support in Wessex, and his rebellion only ended with his death in battle in December 902. Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians 3 years ago admin . Read on to learn more about her life and legacy. Marios Costambeys dates Æthelflæd's birth to the early 870s. After her death, west Mercian coin reverses were again the same as those on coins produced in Wessex. Aethelflaed became a hunted refugee, along w… To the West Saxon version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Æthelflæd was merely King Edward's sister, whereas for the Mercian Register she was Lady of the Mercians. Choose either above to see what others have said. No similar offer is known to have been made to Edward. And the way in which she used her influence helped to make possible the unification of England under kings of the West Saxon royal house. Æthelflæd benefited from a Mercian tradition of queenly importance, and was able to play a key role in the history of the early tenth century as Lady of the Mercians, which would not have been possible in Wessex. Lisez des commentaires honnêtes et non biaisés sur les produits de la part nos utilisateurs. [82], In June 2018, Æthelflæd's funeral was re-enacted in front of a crowd of 10,000 people in Gloucester, as part of a series of living history events marking the 1,100th anniversary of her death. The Register covers the years 902 to 924, and focuses on Æthelflæd's actions; Edward is hardly mentioned and her husband only twice, on his death and as father of their daughter. 00:59:59; Æthelflæd is one of the most remarkable and unfairly forgotten figures in English history. [a] Information about Æthelflæd's career is also preserved in the Irish chronicle known as the Three Fragments. Æthelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, was a queen in all but name, while few have heard of Queen Seaxburh, who ruled Wessex, or Queen Cynethryth, who issued her own coinage. It is in this context that the establishment of a new minster at Gloucester by Æthelred and Æthelflæd is to be seen. A building suitable for a royal mausoleum has been found by archaeological investigation at the east end of the church and this may have been St Oswald's burial place. She is best known as the “Lady of the Mercians” who defeated the Vikings and established English rule which would be consolidated by her brother Edward the Elder (r. 899-924 CE) and lay the foundation for the reign of the first r… Aethelflaed (r. 911-918 CE) was the daughter of King Alfred the Great of Wessex (r. 871-899 CE) and became queen of Mercia following the death of her husband Aethelred, Lord of the Mercians (r. 881-911 CE). Aethelflaed or Ethelfleda,also known as the Lady of the Mercians. Edward did not conquer the Viking Kingdom of York in southern Northumbria. ... she laid the foundations of the England we know today. In the Midlands and the North she came to dominate the political scene. Encontre diversos livros escritos por Grieser, Marjory A com ótimos preços. She may also have translated the relics of the martyred Northumbrian prince Ealhmund from Derby to Shrewsbury. Other sources confirm that the Norse were driven out of Dublin in 902 and that Æthelflæd fortified Chester in 907. Hywel Dda was king of Dyfed in south-west Wales, Clydog ap Cadell probably king of Powys in the north-east, and Idwal ab Anarawd king of Gwynedd in the north-west. Victoria Thompson argues that if Æthelflæd had chosen Edward's royal mausoleum in Winchester as the burial place for her husband and herself, that would have emphasised Mercia's subordinate status, whereas a traditional Mercian royal burial place such as Repton would have been a provocative declaration of independence; Gloucester, near the border with Wessex, was a compromise between the two. Aethelflaed or Ethelfleda,also known as the Lady of the Mercians. Mercians (r. 881-911 CE). became ruler of western Mercia in 882, he decided to try and retake control over his lands. Wainwright argues that he probably sent his oldest son Æthelstan to be brought up in Mercia, to make him more acceptable to the Mercians as king; Æthelflæd does not appear to have tried to find a husband for her daughter, who must have been nearly thirty by 918. On their way back they were caught by an English army in Staffordshire and their army was destroyed at the Battle of Tettenhall, opening the way for the recovery of the Danish Midlands and East Anglia over the next decade. They then moved on Mercia, where they spent the winter of 867–868. The title was derived from the title of a 15th-century poem by Alain Chartier called La Belle Dame sans Mercy.. Découvrez des commentaires utiles de client et des classements de commentaires pour King Alfred's Daughter: The Lady of the Mercians sur Amazon.fr. Aethelflaed (r. 911-918 CE) was the daughter of King Alfred the Great of Wessex (r. 871-899 CE) and became queen of Mercia following the death of her husband Aethelred, Lord of the Mercians (r. 881-911 CE). [42][43] Heighway and Michael Hare wrote: In the age when English scholarship and religion reached their lowest ebb, Mercia and in particular the lower Severn valley seem to have maintained traditional standards of learning. [12] According to Frank Stenton, Æthelflæd led Mercian armies on expeditions, which she planned. King Alfred's Daughter: The Lady of the Mercians: Grieser, Marjory A: Amazon.com.mx: Libros. Stafford argues that Æthelred and Æthelflæd exercised most or all of the powers of a monarch after Alfred's death but it would have been a provocative act formally to claim regality, especially after Æthelwold's rebellion. Æthelflæd was born around 870 at the height of the Viking invasions of England. Æthelflæd was born at the height of the Viking invasions of England. Compre online King Alfred's Daughter: The Lady of the Mercians, de Grieser, Marjory A na Amazon. Which commander is known as the Conqueror of Chaos? [35] After Æthelflæd's death, Edward encountered fierce resistance to his efforts to consolidate his control of the north-west and he died there in 924, shortly after suppressing a local rebellion. The version of record as reviewed is: "Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians" (PDF), WikiJournal of Humanities, 1 (1): 1, 2018, doi:10.15347/WJH/2018.001, ISSN 2639-5347, Wikidata Q59649817.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}, This article is about the Lady of the Mercians. [King Alfred's Daughter: The Lady of the Mercians] [By: Grieser, Marjory A.] However, when Æthelred (not to be confused with Lady Æthelflæd, whom this article is about!) And Edward very probably hoped for that. Which of the Babylonian Codes of Law was the first full set of written laws in recorded .. A key role in this fight was played by Alfred's oldest child, Aethelflaed, known as the Lady of the Mercians by her own people. [19] In the view of Ian Walker: "He was a royal ealdorman whose power base lay in the south-west of Mercia in the former kingdom of the Hwicce around Gloucester". [44], Mercia had a long tradition of venerating royal saints and this was enthusiastically supported by Æthelred and Æthelflæd. Æthelflæd died at the height of her power, and is the only female ruler in British history to be succeeded by her daughter. Celtic visions of Æthelred and Æthelflæd as king and queen certainly offer a different, and equally valid, contemporary take on the complex politics of this transition to a new English state. Noté /5: Achetez King Alfred's Daughter: The Lady of the Mercians de Grieser, Marjory A: ISBN: 9781608443062 sur amazon.fr, des millions de livres livrés chez vous en 1 jour Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians (c. 870 – 12 June 918) ruled Mercia in the English Midlands from 911 until her death. Related Episodes . 34 1 REPORT Keynes argues that a new polity was created when Æthelred submitted to Alfred in the 880s, covering Wessex and English (western) Mercia. In 911 Aethelred was killed in battle with the Danes, and Aethelflaed became the political and military ruler of the Mercians. King Burgred of Mercia was joined by King Æthelred of Wessex and his brother, the future King Alfred, for a combined attack on the Vikings, who refused an engagement; in the end the Mercians bought peace with them. [86], This article was submitted to WikiJournal of Humanities for external academic peer review in 2018 (reviewer reports). [23] Worcester was able to preserve considerable intellectual and liturgical continuity and, with Gloucester, became the centre of a Mercian revival under Æthelred and Æthelflæd that extended into the more unstable areas of Staffordshire and Cheshire. The ‘Lady of the Mercians’, as she preferred to be known, lived in a world of male-dominated kingdoms. King Alfred the Great of Wessex fought back. Æthelflæd proved her worth as a leader and military commander earning her the respect of the Mercians. She is best known as the “Lady of the Mercians” who defeated the Vikings and established English rule which would be consolidated by her brother Edward the Elder (r. 899-924 CE) and lay the foundation for the reign of the first recognized English king, Aethelstan, who was king of the Anglo- Saxons 924-927 CE and King of the English 927-939 CE. The historian Ann Williams regards this view as partial and distorted, that he was accepted as a true king by the Mercians and by King Alfred. [38] The remains of the royal Northumbrian saint Oswald were seized and taken from his resting place in Bardney Abbey in Lincolnshire to Gloucester. [7] Brief details of her actions were preserved in a pro-Mercian version of the Chronicle known as the Mercian Register or the Annals of Æthelflæd; although it is now lost, elements were incorporated into several surviving versions of the Chronicle. [67] Edward died in 924 at Farndon in Cheshire a few days after putting down a rebellion by Mercians and Welshmen at Chester.[68]. [22] Mercian scholarship had high prestige at the courts of Alfred and Edward. Aethelflaed leads her armies to victory over the Vikings at Derby. Wainwright sees Æthelflæd as willingly accepting a subordinate role in a partnership with her brother and agreeing to his plan of unification of Wessex and Mercia under his rule. The only recorded event took place in 916, when she sent an expedition to avenge the murder of a Mercian abbot and his companions; her men destroyed the royal crannog of Brycheiniog on Llangorse Lake and captured the queen and thirty-three of her companions. Find the perfect mercians stock photo. Aethelflaed rebuilds and reforms Mercia in cooperation with her brother Edward of Wessex. In 909 Edward sent a West Saxon and Mercian force to the northern Danelaw, where it raided for five weeks. In Keynes's view, "the conclusion seems inescapable that the Alfredian polity of the kingship 'of the Anglo-Saxons' persisted in the first quarter of the tenth century, and that the Mercians were thus under Edward's rule from the beginning of his reign". "[9] She was praised by Anglo-Norman chroniclers such as William of Malmesbury and John of Worcester[10] and she has received more attention from historians than any other secular woman in Anglo-Saxon England. The town was one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw, together with Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham and Stamford. -Image ID: D851WN Viking Invasions . This should have been the end of Æthelflæd’s leadership. Huge collection, amazing choice, 100+ million high quality, affordable RF and RM images. In 918 Leicester surrendered without a fight. [54] At the end of the year, the East Anglian Danes submitted to Edward. Viking Invasions . [12] In the late ninth century Gloucester had become a burh with a street plan similar to Winchester, and Æthelred and Æthelflæd had repaired its ancient Roman defences. Her father married her to Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians. If you are still looking for help with this game we have more questions and answers for you to check. [15] They are mentioned in Alfred's will, which probably dates to the 880s. Æthelstan took control of it in 927 but after his death in 939 the kingdom was contested until the expulsion of the last Norse king in 954. Stafford sees her as a "warrior queen", "Like ... Elizabeth I she became a wonder to later ages. In 877 the Vikings partitioned Mercia, taking the eastern regions for themselves and allowing Ceolwulf to keep the western ones. [52][d], In 917 invasions by three Viking armies failed as Æthelflæd sent an army which captured Derby and the territory around it. Charters show the Mercian leaders supporting the revival by their generosity to monastic communities. In 911 AD, Aethelred died, and Aethelflaed became the sole ruler of Mercia, adopting the title Lady of Mercia. A key role in this fight was played by Alfred's oldest child, Aethelflaed, known as the Lady of the Mercians by her own people. King Alfred the Great of Wessex fought back. Soon afterwards the English-controlled western half of Mercia came under the rule of Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, who accepted Alfred's overlordship. The Mercian infantryman is at the heart of the action, providing the fighting element of the British Army's forces. Family Tree Details. But it also contains, especially for our period, much genuine historical information which seems to have its roots in a contemporary narrative. [34] Simon Ward, who excavated an Anglo-Saxon site in Chester, sees the later prosperity of the town as owing much to the planning of Æthelflæd and Edward. Æthelstan, the eldest son of Edward the Elder and future king of England, was brought up in their court and, in the view of Martin Ryan, certainly joined their campaigns against the Vikings. The accession of a female ruler in Mercia is described by the historian Ian Walker as "one of the most unique events in early medieval history". The following year, the Vikings conquered East Anglia. She is best known as the “Lady of the Mercians” who defeated the Vikings and established English rule which would be consolidated by her brother Edward the Elder (r. 899-924 CE) and lay the foundation for the reign of the first recognized English king, Aethelstan, who was king of the Anglo- Saxons 924-927 CE and King of the English 927-939 CE. Æthelflæd was born around 870 at … The marriage may have taken place earlier, perhaps when he submitted to Alfred following the recovery of London in 886. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle tells how she continued her father’s policy of building fortresses, from which soldiers could go out to fight the Danes. She is best known as the “Lady of the Mercians” who defeated the Vikings and established English rule which would be consolidated by her brother Edward the Elder (r. 899-924 CE) and lay the … In the year 911, Aethelflaed, known as the Lady of the Mercians, took over the command of the kingdom of Mercia after her husband’s death. Boudica was known as the Celtic Rose. Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, (d. 12 June 918) was the eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and his queen, Ealhswith. [57], Little is known of Æthelflæd's relations with the Welsh. “Aethel” means “noble” but the meaning of “flaed”, again according to Arman, is unclear but “could mea… [38], On her husband's death in 911, Æthelflæd became Myrcna hlædige, "Lady of the Mercians". Myrcna hlæfdige, Lady of the Mercians. In 896 a meeting of the Mercian witan was held in the royal hall at Kingsholm, just outside the town. The ‘Lady of the Mercians’, as she preferred to be known, lived in a world of male-dominated kingdoms. [28], Æthelred's health probably declined at some stage in the decade after Alfred died in 899, and Æthelflæd may have become the de facto ruler of Mercia by 902. In 911, Æthelred died. Time to resurrect knowledge of the First Lady of the Mercians, queen, wife, mother, city planner and field marshal. Eldest child of King Alfred of Wessex, Aethelflaed was cherished by her father and received an education normally reserved for a royal son. Æthelflaed, lady of the Mercians, now invades and captures the royal domain at Llangorse, on 19 June. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians. For other people called Æthelflæd, see, 9th and 10th-century ruler of Mercia in England. Æthelred died in 911 and Æthelflæd then ruled Mercia as Lady of the Mercians. [25] In 901 Æthelflæd and Æthelred gave land and a golden chalice weighing thirty mancuses to the shrine of Saint Mildburg at Much Wenlock church. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for King Alfred's Daughter: The Lady of the Mercians by Marjory A. Grieser (2010-01-05) at Amazon.com. Æthelred and Æthelflæd fortified Worcester, gave generous donations to Mercian churches and built a new minster in Gloucester. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for King Alfred's Daughter: The Lady of the Mercians at Amazon.com. As the Lady of the Mercians she not only held her territories against the invading Vikings but extended them, and would come to change the face of England. The Lady of the Mercians book. Her birth date is not known but it is estimated to be around 870 and she was Alfred’s eldest child. For some two hundred years from the mid-7th century onwards it was the dominant member of the Heptarchy and consequently the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. The Lady of the Mercians Fights the Danes. [55] According to the Three Fragments, in 918 Æthelflæd led an army of Scots and Northumbrian English against forces led by the Norse Viking leader Ragnall at the Battle of Corbridge in Northumbria. Frete GRÁTIS em milhares de produtos com o Amazon Prime. According to Wainwright, it "contains much that is legendary rather than historical. Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians Æthelflæd was born into a world without a united England and grew up with her father, Alfred the Great, constantly in conflict with the neighboring Vikings. Aethelflaed dies; Mercia merges with Wessex under King Edward the Elder. However, King Alfred was not the only leader facing pressure from outside forces. Which European wrote the first travelogue detailing China's history, culture and .. Homer's epic 'The Iliad' focuses on events happening during which war or battle? King Alfred’s daughter, Aethelflaed, was married to Aethelred, Lord of the Mercians. [b] Ealhswith's mother, Eadburh, was a member of the Mercian royal house, probably a descendant of King Coenwulf (796–821). Tim Clarkson's biography has a detailed discussion of Æthelflæd' burhs. [6][e] She was succeeded as Lady of the Mercians by her daughter, Ælfwynn, but in early December 918 Edward deposed her and took Mercia under his control. Her father married her to Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians. [3] The situation was transformed the following year when Alfred won a decisive victory over the Danes at the Battle of Edington. Which commander is known as the Lady of the Mercians? Her name most likely means “overflowing with nobility” according to scholar Joanna Arman (32). In 883 he made a grant with the consent of King Alfred, thus acknowledging Alfred's lordship. 912 CE - 917 CE. As the rights of lordship had previously belonged fully to the church, this represented the beginning of transfer from episcopal to secular control of the city. [62], Æthelflæd died at Tamworth on 12 June 918 and her body was carried 75 miles (121 km) to Gloucester, where she was buried with her husband in their foundation, St Oswald's Minster. 918 CE. She had been raised in a royal court, but now she had to command respect in her own right - not just the respect of her own people, but the respect of potential opponents, who would soon learn that she had all her father’s fire. Her birth date is not known but it is estimated to be around 870 and she was Alfred’s eldest child. Thereafter the two kingdoms became allies, which was to be an important factor in English resistance to the Vikings. King Alfred and his daughter Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians (London, British Library, MS Royal 14 B V).Episode two will be shown tonight on BBC Four (21.00–22.00), and is entitled "The Lady of the Mercians".Æthelflæd (d. 918) was the daughter of Alfred of Wessex, … Aethelflaed (r. 911-918 CE) was the daughter of King Alfred the Great of Wessex (r. 871-899 CE) and became queen of Mercia following the death of her husband Aethelred, Lord of the Mercians (r. 881-911 CE). Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians. Considered an English classic, the poem is an example of Keats' poetic preoccupation with love and death. She was the eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and his wife Ealhswith. Together, they made a powerful partnership, but after Aethelred died in 911, his widow could so easily have faded into the background. Æthelflæd, described only as "my eldest daughter", received an estate and 100 mancuses, while Æthelred, the only ealdorman to be mentioned by name, received a sword worth 100 mancuses. - D851WN from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors. Historians disagree whether Mercia was an independent kingdom under Æthelred and Æthelflæd but they agree that Æthelflæd was a great ruler who played an important part in the conquest of the Danelaw. [2] In 874 the Vikings expelled King Burgred and Ceolwulf became the last King of Mercia with their support. In 915 Chirbury was fortified to guard a route from Wales and Runcorn on the River Mersey. Her statue stands near Tamworth Castle. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. [12] According to the Mercian Register, Æthelflæd was buried in the east porticus. [January, 2010] [Grieser, Marjory A.] Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, (d. 12 June 918) was the eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and his queen, Ealhswith. He commented: "It was through reliance on her guardianship of Mercia that her brother was enabled to begin the forward movement against the southern Danes which is the outstanding feature of his reign". [11], Æthelflæd was born around 870, the oldest child of King Alfred the Great and his Mercian wife, Ealhswith, who was a daughter of Æthelred Mucel, ealdorman of the Gaini, one of the tribes of Mercia. By 878, most of England was under Danish Viking rule – East Anglia and Northumbria having been conquered, and Mercia partitioned between the English and the Vikings – but in that year Alfred won a crucial victory at the Battle of Edington. Placement next to the saint would have been a prestigious burial location for Æthelred and Æthelflæd. This is an incomplete list of people who have been created honorary Knights or Dames by the British crown, as well as those who have been raised to the two comparable Orders of Chivalry (Order of Merit and Order of the Companions of Honour) and the Royal Victorian Chain, which do not carry pre-nominal styles.. Use of pre-nominal styles and post-nominal initials. As noted before, Aethelred and Aethelflaed had only one daughter, and the former did not have any known close male relatives. In 903 a Mercian ealdorman "petitioned King Edward, and also Æthelred and Æthelflæd, who then held rulership and power over the race of the Mercians under the aforesaid king". [58] According to a version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle strongly sympathetic to Edward the Elder, after Æthelflæd's death "the kings among the Welsh, Hywel and Clydog and Idwal, and all the Welsh people sought to have [Edward] as their lord". [4], Ceolwulf is not recorded after 879. He was described by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as "a foolish king's thegn" who was a puppet of the Vikings. [49], When Æthelred died, Edward took control of the Mercian towns of London and Oxford and their hinterlands, which Alfred had put under Mercian control. This is one of the few times in Alfred’s lifetime when the couple were known to have acted jointly (generally Aethelred acted on his own). She may have been the de facto ruler for a few years during her husband's illness. [45] Saintly relics were believed to give supernatural legitimacy to rulers' authority, and Æthelflæd was probably responsible for the foundation or re-foundation of Chester Minster and the transfer to it of the remains of the seventh-century Mercian princess Saint Werburgh from Hanbury in Staffordshire. She is known as an effective military commander, diplomat, and a benevolent ruler. [12] Ian Walker suggests that Æthelflæd accepted this loss of territory in return for recognition by her brother of her position in Mercia. She is known as an effective military commander, diplomat, and a benevolent ruler. [39] The Mercian rulers built a new minster in Gloucester and, although the building was small, it was embellished on a grand scale, with rich sculpture. [46] In 910 the Danes retaliated against the English attack of the previous year by invading Mercia, raiding as far as Bridgnorth in Shropshire. Edward had succeeded as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 899, and in 909 he sent a West Saxon and Mercian force to raid the northern Danelaw. Nothing is known of Aethelflaed’s youth and she only enters the pages of history at the age of 15 or 16 when she was married to Aethelred. It seems that there was no real serious opposition to Aethelflaed being the sole ruler of the kingdom, despite her being a woman. Both sides claimed victory but Ragnall was able to establish himself as ruler of Northumbria. Instead, she became one of the most powerful and influential rulers in Dark Age Britain. Æthelflæd was born around 870 at … King Alfred the Great of Wessex fought back. It did not suffer major attacks and it did not come under great pressure from Wessex. Æthelred's health probably declined early in the next decade, after which it is likely that Æthelflæd was mainly responsible for the government of Mercia. [70][71] She was also praised by Anglo-Norman historians such as John of Worcester and William of Malmesbury, who described her as "a powerful accession to [Edward's] party, the delight of his subjects, the dread of his enemies, a woman of enlarged soul". [5] Alfred died in 899 and Edward's claim to the throne was disputed by Æthelwold, son of Alfred's elder brother. [c] According to the Three Fragments, the Norse (Norwegian) Vikings were expelled from Dublin and then made an abortive attack on Wales. He claimed that she declined to have sex after the birth of her only child because it was "unbecoming of the daughter of a king to give way to a delight which, after a time, produced such painful consequences". This story is a fictionalized account of the life of Lady Aethelflaed. What happens to the captives is not known. King Aethelred dies; Aethelflaed becomes sole monarch in Mercia, known as Lady of the Mercians. "[77] According to Charles Insley, The assumption that Mercia was in some sort of limbo in this period, subordinate to Wessex and waiting to be incorporated into "England" cannot be sustained ... Æthelred's death in 911 changed little, for his formidable wife carried on as sole ruler of Mercia until her death in 918. Dame is an honorific title and the feminine form of address for the honour of damehood in many Christian chivalric orders, as well as the British honours system and those of several other Commonwealth countries, such as Australia and New Zealand, with the masculine form of address being sir.It is the female equivalent for knighthood, which is traditionally granted to males. Alfred adopted the title King of the English, claiming to rule all English people not living in areas under Viking control. In Higham's view, Keynes makes a strong case that Edward ruled over an Anglo-Saxon state with a developing administrative and ideological unity but that Æthelflæd and Æthelred did much to encourage a separate Mercian identity, such as establishing cults of Mercian saints at their new burhs, as well as reverence for their great Northumbrian royal saint at Gloucester: There must remain some doubt as to the extent to which Edward's intentions for the future were shared in all respects by his sister and brother-in-law, and one is left to wonder what might have occurred had their sole offspring been male rather than female. [63], The choice of burial place was symbolic. Æthelflæd was born at the height of the Viking invasions of England. Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians (c. 870 – 12 June 918) ruled Mercia in the English Midlands from 911 until her death. She was not just a regent until the next male heir came of age but was viewed as the head of government by her own people. For seven years after her husband’s death, Aethelflaed continued to fight to keep the freedom of Mercia. Mercia was the dominant kingdom in southern England in the eighth century and maintained its position until it suffered a decisive defeat by Wessex at the Battle of Ellandun in 825. Find answers for Rise of Kingdoms on AppGamer.com She is one of the few known women who not only held a role within the household as mother and lady – and within the court, as daughter and wife to kings – but also wielded power on the battlefield. Æthelred played a major role in fighting off renewed Viking attacks in the 890s, together with Æthelflæd's brother, the future King Edward the Elder. [33] Æthelflæd re-founded Chester as a burh and she is believed to have enhanced its Roman defences by running walls from the north-west and south-east corners of the fort to the River Dee. The Kingdom of Mercia was a state in the English Midlands from the 6th century to the 10th century. In Mercia, Alfred's sister Æthelswith had been the wife of King Burgred of Mercia; she had witnessed charters as queen and had made grants jointly with her husband and in her own name. You can comment on the page with Disqus or Facebook. [81] Ryan believes that the Mercian rulers "had a considerable but ultimately subordinate share of royal authority".[65]. After the death of her husband, Athelflaed was known as 'Lady of the Mercians' as she ruled over Mercia in her own right. The East Anglians were forced to buy peace and the following year the Vikings invaded Northumbria, where they appointed a puppet king in 867. According to Nick Higham, "successive medieval and modern writers were quite captivated by her" and her brother's reputation has suffered unfairly in comparison. The updated content was reintegrated into the Wikipedia page under a CC-BY-SA-3.0 license (2018). Æthelflæd agreed and for some time they were peaceful. She, too, was accused of murder, but was also, like many of the royal women, literate and highly-educated. [12] Ian Walker describes her succession as the only case of a female ruler of a kingdom in Anglo-Saxon history and "one of the most unique events in early medieval history". Tier Lists and Best Commanders updated May 2020 Most historians believe that Æthelred was incapacitated in his last years. Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians (c. 870 – 12 June 918) ruled Mercia in the English Midlands from 911 until her death. [79] In Wainwright's view, she was ignored in West Saxon sources for fear that recognition of her achievements would encourage Mercian separatism: [Æthelflæd] played a vital role in England in the first quarter of the tenth century. In 886 Alfred occupied the Mercian town of London, which had been in Viking hands. According to Pauline Stafford, "like ... Elizabeth I she became a wonder to later ages". Æthelflæd is known as the Lady of the Mercians Search for more answers for Rise of Kingdoms or ask your own here. Which commander is known as barbarossa?. In 914 a Mercian army drawn from Gloucester and Hereford repelled a Viking invasion from Brittany, and the Iron Age Eddisbury hill fort was repaired to protect against invasion from Northumbria or Cheshire, while Warwick was fortified as further protection against the Leicester Danes. [51], Æthelflæd had already fortified an unknown location called Bremesburh in 910 and in 912 she built defences at Bridgnorth to cover a crossing of the River Severn. Among the towns where she built defences were Wednesbury, Bridgnorth, Tamworth, Stafford, Warwick, Chirbury and Runcorn. The queen and various others are taken, she presumably being the wife of Gryffydd, although precise dates for most of Brycheiniog's kings are unavailable. In the Handbook of British Chronology, David Dumville refers to "Q. Æthelflæd" and comments, "The titles given her by all sources (hlæfdige, regina) imply that she wielded royal power and authority". [75] Alex Woolf concurs[76] and Pauline Stafford describes Æthelflæd as "the last Mercian queen", referred to in charters in such terms as "by the gift of Christ's mercy ruling the government of the Mercians". Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Tier Lists and Best Commanders updated May 2020 Did this help? [24] In 883 Æthelred granted privileges to Berkeley Abbey and in the 890s he and Æthelflæd issued a charter in favour of the church of Worcester. His successor as the ruler of the English western half of Mercia, Æthelflæd's husband Æthelred, is first seen in 881 when, according to the historian of medieval Wales, Thomas Charles-Edwards, he led an unsuccessful Mercian invasion of the north Welsh Kingdom of Gwynedd. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. In January 878 Viking invaders swooped down on the palace at Chippenham in Wiltshire where Alfred and his family were staying. In the mid-880s, Alfred sealed the strategic alliance between the surviving English kingdoms by marrying Æthelflæd to Æthelred. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. [January, 2010] The Great Danish Army, or the Viking Great Army, known to the Anglo-Saxons as the Great Heathen Army (Old English: mycel hæþen here), was a coalition of Norse warriors, originating in Denmark but including warbands from Norway & Sweden, who came together under a unified command to invade the four Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that constituted England in AD 865. We already have an answer for a similar question which you can see here: Which commander is known as the Lady of the Mercians? She was the eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and his wife Ealhswith. Additionally, the earlier Mercian royal dynasties seemed to have either died out or were collaborating with the Vikings. If you have more answers to add you can do that below. She is best known as the “Lady of the Mercians” who defeated the Vikings and established English rule which would be consolidated by her brother Edward the Elder (r. 899-924 CE) and lay the … [6], The most important source for history in this period is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle but Æthelflæd is almost ignored in the standard West Saxon version, in what F. T. Wainwright calls "a conspiracy of silence". Rex Factor. Noté /5: Achetez King Alfred's Daughter: The Lady of the Mercians de Grieser, Marjory A: ISBN: 9781608443062 sur amazon.fr, des millions de livres livrés chez vous en 1 jour Eleven centuries ago, Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, died and was buried in Gloucester. In 917 she sent an army to capture Derby, the first of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw to fall to the English, a victory described by Tim Clarkson as "her greatest triumph". Æthelflæd was succeeded by her daughter Ælfwynn, but in December Edward took personal control of Mercia and carried Ælfwynn off to Wessex. became ruler of western Mercia in 882, he decided to try and retake control over his lands. In the year 911, Aethelflaed, known as the Lady of the Mercians, took over the command of the kingdom of Mercia after her husband’s death. Find answers for Rise of Kingdoms on AppGamer.com [36] Æthelred was well enough to witness charters at a meeting of Edward's court in 903, but he did not witness any later surviving charter.[37]. [12] Tim Clarkson, who describes Æthelflæd as "renowned as a competent war-leader", regards the victory at Derby as "her greatest triumph". In Nick Higham's view, medieval and modern writers have been so captivated by her that Edward's reputation has suffered unfairly in comparison. This was the only occasion in Alfred's lifetime when they are known to have acted jointly; generally Æthelred acted on his own, usually acknowledging the permission of King Alfred. July 18th, 2016 ; by specialcollections; in ... described in the early tenth-century document known as the Burghal Hidage, served as armed networks to prevent attacks from neighboring bases in Ireland and Wales. Mamie Eisenhower, American first lady (1953–61), the wife of Dwight (“Ike”) Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States and supreme commander of the Allied forces in western Europe during World War II. Only then did Mercia's independent existence come to an end.[78]. By the end of ninth century Aethelred and Aethelflaed had fortified Worcester and granted the church of Worcester a half share of the rights of lordship over the city. Richard Abels describes him as "somewhat of a mysterious character", who may have claimed royal blood and been related to King Alfred's father-in-law, Ealdorman Æthelred Mucel. Which of the following is not part of Mexico's flag. As Alfred planned the marriage ensured that even after his death in 898, and the accession of Edward the Elder the alliance between Wessex and Merica remained strong. 917 CE. Compre online King Alfred's Daughter: The Lady of the Mercians, de Grieser, Marjory A na Amazon. Account & Lists Account Returns & Orders. But her reputation has suffered from bad publicity, or rather from a conspiracy of silence among her West Saxon contemporaries. [26], At the end of the ninth century, Æthelred and Æthelflæd fortified Worcester, with the permission of King Alfred and at the request of Bishop Werferth, described in the charter as "their friend". Æthelflæd is known as the Lady of the Mercians, If you are still looking for help with this game we have more questions and answers for you to check.Tier Lists and Best Commanders updated May 2020, We have similar questions to this one that may have more answers for you: Show all. 918 CE. Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians Æthelflæd was born into a world without a united England and grew up with her father, Alfred the Great, constantly in conflict with the neighboring Vikings. After her husband's death, Æthelflæd ruled Mercia on her own, leading the army to war and working with her brother to achieve their father's aims. This story is a fictionalized account of the life of Lady Aethelflaed.
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Tornado touches down in Bloomingdale
The National Weather Service in Charleston, S.C. has confirmed an EF-1 tornado touched down near Bloomingdale on Tuesday. A weak tornado with EF-0 intensity touched down near a mobile home on Pop Shearouse Road. Most of the roof of the mobile home was blown off and some tree damage occurred. As the tornado progressed eastward, it intensified and snapped trees along Stagecoach Road. Roof fascia was also ripped off of a home. The degree of tree damage in this area was consistent with an EF-1 tornado with maximum winds estimated to be 90-95 mph. The tornado continued eastward to Cheyenne Road where the damage pattern became more sporadic. Here, trees were uprooted and damage to the roof of an RV and outbuilding occurred. The tornado continued to produce isolated tree damage as it moved eastward before dissipating near Jimmy DeLoach Parkway. The tornado touched down around 4:09 p.m. and lifted around 4:13 p.m. It was on the ground for 1 mile and had a maximum damage width of 100 yards.
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Project to make natural gas available to homes in Wayne County
UGI has been working on it for the last six weeks.
Author: Courtney Harrison
Published: 7:41 PM EDT August 6, 2020
Updated: 7:41 PM EDT August 6, 2020
WAYMART, Pa. — More than six miles of natural gas lines are being installed in Waymart.
UGI says the Waymart Project will provide hundreds of homes and businesses access to hook up to the brand new natural gas lines that have been installed.
"With the help of two grants from the state and a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture, we were able to get a project economically viable," said Don Brominski of UGI Utilities.
Residents of Waymart and Canaan Township were invited to learn about the project that UGI has been working on for the last six weeks.
"We wanted to find some information about what was going on. Is this going to be cost-effective, what is involved in changing over? Is it going to be worth us to do something like that," said Hella Poehailos of Waymart.
Hella and her husband, James, were debating the pros and cons of switching; it may be cost-effective, but what would it do the local community?
"You've got to think about the small businesses that we already do support in the area like the propane vendors that we have," James said. "If we switch over to natural gas, it might cut them out of the picture as far as generating business to them. It's something to think about."
Now that the line is installed, the big question was what was it going to cost for customers to hook up.
The answer is free.
If any residents decide to make the switch to natural gas, they would need to change over to appliances work with natural gas.
"Could be a big cost in the beginning, but over time it could be a savings too," Poehailos added.
The natural gas will come from Marcellus Shale Drilling in Susquehanna County, be sent to a transfer station in Union Dale, and then to homes and businesses in Waymart and Canaan Township.
UGI said the installation should be complete by September.
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Miranda departs Wolves on loan
Wolves’ Roderick Miranda has joined Portuguese side FC Famalicao on a season-long loan.
The defender signed for Wolves in 2017 and made 19 appearances during the 2017/18 campaign as the club won the Championship title.
Last season, the Portuguese joined Olympiacos on loan and spent the entire campaign with the Greek side, before returning to Wolverhampton in the summer.
Wolves would like to wish Roderick the very best of luck for the upcoming season.
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The Cradle of Modern Grand Prix Racing
WORLD NEWS TOMORROW – Other races in the Formula One series may feel more steeped in Grand Prix racing history — the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, for example, or the Monaco Grand Prix, or even the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring old and new — but no other race on the calendar is as symbolic of the story of the modern incarnation of Grand Prix racing as the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
“It’s quite simply the home of motorsport,” said Michael Schumacher, the multiple-world-champion driver at the Mercedes team.
Indeed, Silverstone was the site of the first Formula One Grand Prix championship race in May 1950, won by Giuseppe Farina in an Alfa Romeo, and it has held all but 17 of the British Grand Prix races since then. Aintree and Brands Hatch occasionally held the race until 1987, but Silverstone has since been the permanent home of the British Grand Prix.
More than that, though, the race is the home race for the largest number of Formula One teams, as most of the industry of the series — the team factories and home bases — is in England, within an hour or so drive of Silverstone.
“We always try to put our best foot forward at Silverstone,” said Vijay Mallya, owner of the Force India team. “It’s where our factory is based and it’s our second home race of the season. It’s also one of the most atmospheric events on the calendar thanks to the passion of the British fans, who always show tremendous support. For our team, it’s definitely a highlight of the season.”
Although Formula One has expanded around the world, with more races run outside Europe than ever before, it remains primarily a British industry. The British Grand Prix at Silverstone has survived through many battles in recent years, pitting the owners of the circuit — the British Racing Drivers’ Club — against Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One promoter.
The battle usually has to do with fees charged for staging the race, although for many years it also had to do with Ecclestone’s request that the circuit invest in its facilities so that they would match the level of elegance and practicality of the lavish new circuits that have been constructed around the world, in countries that often have no auto-racing culture or tradition.
Major efforts have been made, and since last year Silverstone has had a new pit building and paddock on a par with — or better than — many of the new sites.
The Silverstone circuit was built on a plateau that had been the site of a World War II Royal Air Force bomber station. Despite several developments over the years, it still has much of its original high-speed layout.
At the track in 1985, Keke Rosberg set Formula One’s first 160-miles-per-hour, or 256-kilometers-per-hour, qualifying lap, in a Williams. Despite changes to the layout made in 2010, the middle section of the track remains one of the fastest in the world.
“Even after the track was amended, it didn’t lose its magic; for me as a driver, it is one of the best and interesting tracks of all,” said Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel, the defending world champion driver. “The track is demanding for a driver and provides everything a driver likes, including the unpredictable weather that is possible in July in Silverstone.”
The British Grand Prix has indeed produced some of Formula One’s most historic and memorable races.
Home drivers have often figured in the most exciting races. In 1977, James Hunt, who was the reigning world champion and driving for McLaren, started on pole, but dropped to fourth. He then passed two drivers, retook the lead after another car dropped out and won the race.
In 1985, the race was the scene of one of the early battles between two of the biggest rivals in racing history, Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost. Senna was racing in a Lotus and Prost was in a McLaren. Prost passed Senna for the lead and the victory, seven laps from the end of the race.
In 1988, Senna was third and Prost fourth at the start. In strong rain, Senna took the victory, again proving his prowess on a wet track.
David Coulthard, a Scottish driver at McLaren, won the race in 1999 and also in 2000, when he did so after an exceptional passing move on Rubens Barrichello in a Ferrari.
But one of the most popular victories in recent years was that of Lewis Hamilton, in 2008, the year when the bright young British star went on to win the world championship.
“By far the best victory I’ve ever had,” Hamilton called it, after he started the wet race in fourth position, before passing his teammate at McLaren, Heikki Kovalainen, for the lead on Lap 5.
The track has never been good to Hamilton’s current teammate and compatriot at McLaren, Jenson Button. The world champion in 2009 at the Brawn team, Button has never finished higher than fourth at Silverstone, in 12 years running at the race. But he nonetheless maintains his love of his home event.
“It’s part of the fabric of F1, and still one of the world’s greatest motor-racing circuits,” Button said. “This has been an incredibly unpredictable season, but at least it’s a little easier to predict that Silverstone will once again be packed and that all the British drivers are going to get a lift from the energy the fans bring.
“I always enjoy racing at home because the atmosphere is unbeatable,” he added.
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Ellie Goulding shuts down The 1975’s Matty Healy for saying no one buys her albums
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ABC/Fred LeeIn today’s lesson of “if you can’t say anything nice…”
After Matty Healy of The 1975 claimed to Beat that no one buys Ellie Goulding‘s music, the “Lights” singer clapped back with the perfect response.
To back things up, Healy, who was talking about his band’s upcoming album Notes on a Conditional Form and the evolution of music, offered his thoughts on how streaming has shaped the music industry. Unfortunately, he made his point by targeting one person in particular: Goulding.
“The artists whose single streams are in the billions, people don’t buy their albums, necessarily,” he begins in his Thursday interview. “Ellie Goulding [for example], people will listen to her music at the gym and they will listen to it on playlists. They’ll put the Pop playlist on and it will get out there.”
Continues Healy, “When it comes to her putting out a record, which is someone saying, ‘Will you invest in my lifestyle?’ or ‘Do you want to invest in me, as an idea?’ I have a lot of ‘Yes, I want to invest in you as an idea, and less, ‘I’ll pop this on when I’m doing whatever.”
He also went on to claim that Goulding is not one of the “Drakes of the world,” which he means she doesn’t have the ability to keep people’s attention for three minutes.
Well, Ellie heard about the “Chocolate” singer’s apparent diss and responded in kind on Thursday.
Posting to her Instagram stories, the 33-year-old quipped while posting a snippet of the article, “I’ve had 3 multi platinum albums so I feel like people have been fairly invested but ok I’ll let you have it.” She also threw in a cross-eyed emoji with its tongue sticking out.
As of Friday, Healy has not responded.
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Virginia Commonwealth Games creates unique memories for O’Daniel family
The father daughter duo has been brought together at the games in a different way
LYNCHBURG, Va. – The Virginia Commonwealth Games is a family tradition for the O’Daniel father-daughter duo.
“I‘m here for the fireworks, she’s here to represent for her softball team,” Matt O’Daniel said. He is the assistant Fire Marshal for the Lynchburg fire department. He’s in charge of overseeing the fireworks and lighting of the cauldron during the opening ceremonies, “I’ve been here, since they brought it to Lynchburg, I think 4 years.”
His daughter, Mattie, is a star pitcher who will be starting high school in the fall at Brookville.
“I think the first year she did it, they had a softball practice and I was here preparing for the fireworks,” O’Daniel said. And since then, they’ve been able to watch each other perfect their craft.
“I like to watch him learn,” Mattie said. “I’ve always thought about going into the office and stuff.”
“It’s fun. We get to work together I guess, I think it gives her an opportunity to meet people, do interviews, meet former olympians, and see behind the scenes how things are run,” Matt added.
Having the games this year despite a pandemic has done a lot for the athletes and their families, “It brings back a little normalcy to our lives," Matt said.
But the memories the O’Daniels are making there, means a lot more than wins or losses.
“Me and my dad really work together a lot,” Mattie said. “He helps me with pitching, he always catches me, stays on me about working hard, it’s just nice.”
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Brakhage’s lecture on Conner at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, April 1973, is printed in the Conner All this is true exhibition catalogue (there’s a Spanish PDF version of that with better images here).
The problem in making the film was that in order for me to do the film I would also have to go through the same processes that these people were using to exploit Kennedy. If the film was completed then he was as dead as they had made him. So it took me two and a half years to finish the film. That has something to do with why it changed. Part of the reason why it changed, why we go through these eight versions of the 16mm film, was that I did not want to stop the changes. Like life is change. Like when REPORT was finished—then he was dead. So it took me two and a half years to acknowledge that he was dead.—Bruce Conner
So I want to start with a film that is difficult to take anything but thoughtfully, and that is Conner’s film on the assassination of President Kennedy. It is called REPORT. It was completed about two and a half years after President Kennedy was assassinated.
First, let me say a little bit about it. He made many versions of this film before he completed one; that is, many 16mm versions, and as I understand it, only one 8mm version. The 8mm version was, obviously, picked up at the time of the assassination from TV images. At that time he was living in Brookline, Massachusetts, which is just outside of Boston. He went through the catharsis and shock that most of America did—the assassination was so immediate to people. It was on TV, it was on radio, you could not escape it. Almost immediately he had his camera in hand, and as they started repeating these shots he took images from the TV screen and very quickly produced an 8mm film. This film is quite different from the film he made many versions of and struggled with for two and a half years.
I think the difference says a great deal about his work and gives you a real perspective on two types of filmmaking. With 8mm you have all the immediate potentiality of the powers of a sketch. You have that brevity, the quickness, the lightweightedness of the camera, that expendability of it. Nothing in the area of 8mm will ever be in the consideration for prizes or awards. In fact, even in this classroom we have to go a little out of our way. The projector sits on the floor. It will be a little like home movies. The lights will be dim, you will have to strain a bit to see it—the image is small—expendable, in every sense of the word.
You might almost use as a metaphor that brooding and struggling with 16mm, with all of its technical resources, is like creating an oil painting. Conner struggled between these two concepts—a sketch or, say, a masterpiece—in making the 16mm version. The 8mm is the immediate capturing of his immediate feelings at this point.
The 16mm is thoroughly worked through. Of the many versions he made of the 16mm film he says that most of the changes were in the first eight minutes. The first eight minutes of the first four editings of this film had certain events repeating and repeating with no variation. Like the one shot which shows the carrying of the rifle down the hallway. In one version, for eight minutes he repeated (with slight variations) the carrying of Oswald’s rifle down the hallway. The next one was the shot of Jacqueline Kennedy going up to the door of the ambulance to open the door.
I remember this one vividly myself. The door is locked and she steps back. He made a version which repeated this shot over and over again. The third one was the motorcade coming by before the actual assassination. The fourth was a scene of Jacqueline Kennedy in Washington, where the casket is lying in state. She walks up to the casket, kneels down, kisses the casket, and walks away. At that same point where she starts toward the casket, it repeats over and over again, so that, as with the ambulance door, she never gets to the casket—just as she never gets inside the ambulance. So there are metaphors on death, not just intrinsic to the Kennedy assassination, but through Conner’s using that occasion in a very Kansas way of facing death that you could research by reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz carefully.
How many of you had the feeling in watching this, that particularly overcame me so strongly at the time, that when Oswald is going down the hall, we all know that at some moment Ruby steps out and shoots him, but almost with the purity of Greek drama this is not made visible in Conner’s film? All of us know these faces and images and what happens, but I would guess that even if you knew nothing of the events there would be a sense of peril and terror throughout Bruce’s film. The images shown out of focus and utterly abstract would be nerve-wracking. Suddenly, in their collage effect, these images become menacing, a carrier of death—not just the faces of one or two men, but there is a wand that seems to come out in the air from the side where we know he was shot. How many of you saw that? You will see it again in the 16mm version, so watch for it, but it is particularly alive in the 8mm. There is a movement over on the right as Oswald becomes flanked by two men, and it is as though he were going to be downed by the bad fairy or something. This wand will come down and kill him, or something will—this menacing shark-shape, or the woman doing the TV ad; Conner freezes her when her teeth are bared.
Bruce was just alive and wracked on that day of the assassination and had to make his homage. To what? To Kennedy? To death? Alive and in a state of nervousness before that TV set, he took images charged with the immediacy of the actual event.
It should be as real as if you were there: And here sits the artist; and he knows it is not real at all. It is made up of thus and so, and he with his camera is making it up again, trying to get at this event in stark terror and death. This is the quality that makes this film great.
From a lecture by Stan Brakhage at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, April 1973
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Home Feature The Unnoticed Superstar
The Unnoticed Superstar
By David H. Hendrickson
Ink. Press. Publicity.
Most of the time, it goes to forwards. They get it when they score a key momentum-turning goal or bury a game-winner late in the third period or in overtime.
And when the forwards don’t get it, the goaltenders do for tossing a shutout or making one acrobatic save after another.
Defensemen? Fuhgedaboudit.
For them to get noticed, they either have to score a goal or screw up. For the average blueliner, the latter is more likely to happen.
Boston College’s Mike Mottau, however, is anything but average. He’s already a two-time All-American and is a mortal lock to make that three in the next few weeks.
Most of that fame comes from his offense. Even a hockey neophyte can look at the stats and appreciate his abilities. Earlier this year, he set a Hockey East record for most career points in league games by a defenseman with 93 — 14 goals and 79 assists.
On this evening, he broke a BC record for career games played with 159 as soon as he stepped on the ice. Then, with 40 seconds left in what looked like a 1-0 loss to Maine, he tied another school mark — this one for career assists (127) — when he took a faceoff won by Blake Bellefeuille and slid a D-to-D pass to Bobby Allen, who ripped a shot into the net to tie the game.
“I don’t really think about it,” he said days earlier when asked about the assist record. “One of my roommates keeps track. I don’t know how many away I am. It’ll be exciting, but I’m just concentrating on winning games now.”
No doubt about it, Mottau’s offense deservedly draws attention and is a big reason why Boston College has been Hockey East’s top scoring team the last three years.
“It’s so much easier when you have great defensemen who can just move the puck up and get it on your tape and you’re out of your zone,” said Brian Gionta earlier this season. “Mottau, Allen and all of them, they’re just a great bunch of guys who know the game and get the puck out of your zone.
“That’s the biggest key, because if that first pass isn’t right on, then it slows the game right down and you get caught in your own end. We probably have one of the best defensive corps in the country. That’s a huge benefit to us.”
But Mottau is far from a one-dimensional offensive threat. He’s every bit as exceptional, if not more so, in his own end. On Thursday, he won the Hockey East award for Best Defensive Defenseman, a rare honor for someone who is also the league’s top-scoring blueliner.
The evidence on this evening came repeatedly. Within a span of a few minutes in the second period, he broke up a pass on a two-on-one, delivered a thundering check to Barrett Heisten and then later showed his offensive dimension, hitting Ales Dolinar with a potential breakaway pass at the far blue line.
So it was a no-brainer to have Mottau on the ice for a key defensive zone faceoff in the closing seconds with the score tied, 1-1, and the game set to go into overtime thanks to the stunning goal by Allen.
But with 2.5 seconds left on the clock, the game went, in BC coach Jerry York’s words, “from euphoria to disappointment.” Maine’s Niko Dimitrakos took a faceoff won back to him and cut around a picked-off Mottau and ripped asunder Eagle hopes of a Hockey East tournament three-peat.
Of course, the season isn’t over for Boston College.
“You take a hit and move on,” said York.
There’s still a shot at a national championship. The Eagles solidified their grasp on a berth in the NCAA tournament by rallying to defeat New Hampshire in the Hockey East semifinal game one night earlier, in no small part to Mottau’s rarely discussed leadership.
“He just told us [before the third period] that this was not going to be our last game,” said Bellefeuille. “We don’t have an automatic bid for the NCAAs, so he just emphasized, ‘Let’s not let this be our last game.’ He really got us pumped up.”
York is even more emphatic about what Mottau’s leadership means to the Eagles beyond his offensive and defensive prowess.
“I’ve coached 28 teams and there are captains and co-captains, so that’s a lot of top kids involved,” he said. “But he’s by far the best captain I’ve ever had. His comrade-ship with the other players and just the peer pressure that he puts on his contemporaries to do the right thing and work hard. He’s got terrific leadership skills.”
There’s also the remaining matter of individual awards. Mottau has already been named Hockey East Co-Player of the Year with UNH’s Ty Conklin, as well as another All-Hockey East First Team selection.
What’s left other than a third All-America honor? Mottau was recently named one of ten finalists for the Hobey Baker Award along with teammates Jeff Farkas and Gionta.
The odds don’t favor Mottau, even though he may well be the best player in the country. Only two defensemen have won the honor, Tom Kurvers in 1984 and Mark Fusco in 1983. That’s a long dry spell for blueliners.
“I don’t think about it,” he said recently outside the BC locker room. “We have some Hobey Baker candidates here. It’s good to look back after a season and look at points and accolades. It’s nice. But when it’s happening, I don’t think about it because it’s almost a distraction. Right now, we just want to win games. The points and recognition are secondary.”
He then added with a grin, “For a defenseman, you’ve got to take that as secondary all the time.”
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Emma Roberts Gives Birth, Welcomes 1st Child With Garrett Hedlund
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New parents! Emma Roberts and Garrett Hedlund welcomed their baby on Sunday, December 27, according to multiple reports.
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TMZ reported on Monday, December 28, that the couple have named their baby boy Rhodes. He reportedly weighed a whopping 9 pounds.
Us Weekly broke the news in June that the Unfabulous alum, 29, was pregnant with her and the actor’s first child.
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The actress’ mom, Kelly Cunningham, confirmed the pregnancy hours later, writing via Instagram that she was “very excited” to become a grandma.
Roberts, the Tron: Legacy star, 35, and their families felt “surprised, shocked and happy at the same time,” a source exclusively told Us in July.
The insider added, “They know the sex of the baby but are keeping it private for now. They haven’t picked out any names yet.”
The American Horror Story alum was first linked with Hedlund in March 2019. “Garrett and Emma have been friends, but this is new, casual and just a couple of weeks old,” a source exclusively told Us at the time. “They are having fun and enjoying each other.”
Us confirmed their relationship after the Scream Queens alum ended her engagement to her on-again, off-again fiancé, Evan Peters. The former couple started dating in 2012 after filming Adult World. The Pose star, 33, proposed two years later, but he and Roberts took long breaks in 2015 and 2016.
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After calling it quits, the New York native spoke of her split to Cosmopolitan. “I think that no matter who you are or what you do or wherever in the world you are, anything ending is hard,” Roberts told the outlet in May 2019. “Losing something is hard. And the only thing I can say for that is … I’m realizing that life is highs and lows. I’m trying to ride them out and live somewhere in the middle.”
She added at the time: “When you’re low, you think it’s never going to end. When you’re high, you’re so scared of it ending. And I’ve lived in both of those places for too long.”
As for Hedlund, the Minnesota native was previously with Kirsten Dunst. He and the Virgin Suicides star, 38, dated from 2012 to 2016.
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Stagnant since 1903, at an elevation of 9000′, a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.
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Bilingual Classes Supporting Families to Learn Sign Language Together
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kinderhände is a small NGO based in Vienna that teaches Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS) to hearing families of children who are deaf, children with deaf parents, and children with hearing impairments. This is done by offering bilingual playgroups and learning materials, and by promoting the use of ÖGS so that families can develop a common language. It also has an online platform for families to use at home, and has developed teacher-training modules to support ÖGS use in schools. Between 2014 and 2018, kinderhände has gone from supporting five children per semester to over 80.
“The first deaf person I met was my son. I didn’t know how to communicate with him. kinderhände was a terrific support – I finally met professionals who answered my questions and eased my worries.”
Eva Meißlmother of a deaf son
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Every semester kinderhände offers around 15 courses, with a maximum of eight children per course.
In 2017, kinderhände supported 165 children over two semesters in their playgroups, and supported more families through other offers, such as their parent-child café and learning materials.
In Austria, as in most countries, over 90 per cent of children who are deaf are born into hearing families, which can mean that a common family language is missing.
Using a bilingual team of one person who is deaf and one who can hear, kinderhände offers bilingual classes in German and ÖGS to children aged six months to 14 years and their families. Through bilingual games, songs, and other tools, children and families learn ÖGS together. In 2017, kinderhände supported 165 children and their families over two school semesters. It also offers counselling and information to parents of deaf children who are learning about sign language for the first time. Both parents and children gain confidence from communicating through a shared language.
Although the primary aim of kinderhände is to support communication in families where a child is deaf, there are other benefits as well. Sign language supports language development in children with cochlear implants, children from migrant backgrounds, and children whose parents are deaf. For the past three years, kinderhände has also offered courses to teachers and other staff to promote ÖGS in schools. The organization has its own publishing facility to produce bilingual learning materials such as song books and card games, and it provides an online platform so families can learn at home.
Though many of the learning materials were developed with initial funding from the Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research, the organization receives no ongoing state funding. Today, it is financed exclusively through donations and the sale of materials and course income.
kinderhände’s services have extended from offering bilingual classes to being a centre for counselling, training, and information about ÖGS for families and schools; and consequently the demand for the organization to open branches in other parts of Austria is growing. The organizational structure, teaching curriculum, and clear philosophy are all ready to be replicated; and as a publisher, kinderhände is able to produce and adapt materials according to demand. When funding is available, the programme could also be implemented in other countries with other sign languages.
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In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general or attorney-general (sometimes abbreviated AG) is the main legal advisor to the government. The plural is attorneys general or attorney generals.[1][2][3]
In some jurisdictions, attorneys general also have executive responsibility for law enforcement, prosecutions or even responsibility for legal affairs generally. In practice, the extent to which the attorney general personally provides legal advice to the government varies between jurisdictions, and even between individual office-holders within the same jurisdiction, often depending on the level and nature of the office-holder's prior legal experience.
Where the attorney general has ministerial responsibility for legal affairs in general (as is the case, for example, with the United States Attorney General or the Attorney-General for Australia, and the respective attorneys general of the states in each country), the ministerial portfolio is largely equivalent to that of a Minister of Justice in some other countries.
The term was originally used to refer to any person who holds a general power of attorney to represent a principal in all matters. In the common law tradition, anyone who represents the state, especially in criminal prosecutions, is such an attorney. Although a government may designate some official as the permanent attorney general, anyone who came to represent the state in the same way could, in the past, be referred to as such, even if only for a particular case. Today, however, in most jurisdictions, the term is largely reserved as a title of the permanently appointed attorney general of the state, sovereign or other member of the royal family.
Civil law jurisdictions have similar offices, which may be variously called "public prosecutor general", "procurators", "advocates general", "public attorneys", and other titles. Many of these offices also use "attorney general" or "attorney-general" as the English translation of the title, although because of different historical provenance, the nature of such offices is usually different from that of attorneys-general in common law jurisdictions.
In regard to the etymology of the phrase Attorney General, Steven Pinker writes that the earliest citation in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1292: "Tous attorneyz general purrount lever fins et cirrographer" (All general attorneys may levy fines and make legal documents).[4] The phrase was borrowed from Anglo-Norman French when England was ruled by Normans after the conquest of England in the 11th-century. As a variety of French, which was spoken in the law courts, schools, universities and in sections of the gentry and the bourgeoisie, the term relating to government got introduced into English. The phrase attorney general is composed of a noun followed by the postpositive adjective general and as other French compounds its plural form also appears as "attorneys generals".[5][6] As compared to major generals, a term that also originates from French ("major-général") and also has a postpositive adjective, it also appears as "attorney generals". Steven Pinker writes: "So if you are ever challenged for saying attorney-generals, mother-in-laws, passerbys ... you can reply, 'They are the very model of the modern major general.'"[4]
Attorneys-general in common law and hybrid jurisdictions
Attorneys-General in common law jurisdictions, and jurisdictions with a legal system which is partially derived from the common law tradition, share a common provenance.
Main article: Attorney-General for Australia
In Australia, the Attorney-General is the chief law officer of the Crown and a member of the Cabinet. The Attorney-General is the minister responsible for legal affairs, national and public security, and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. Christian Porter is the current Attorney-General. The Australian states each have separate attorneys-general, who are state ministers with similar responsibilities to the federal minister with respect to state law.
Functions of the state and federal attorneys-general include the administration of the selection of persons for nomination to judicial posts, and authorizing prosecutions. In normal circumstances, the prosecutorial powers of the Attorney-General are exercised by the Director of Public Prosecutions and staff; however, the Attorney-General maintains formal control, including the power to initiate and terminate public prosecutions and take over private prosecutions. Statutory criminal law provides that prosecutions for certain offences require the individual consent of the Attorney-General. This is generally for offences whose illegality is of a somewhat controversial nature or where there is perceived to be a significant risk that prosecutions of a political nature may be embarked upon. The Attorney-General also generally has the power to issue certificates legally conclusive of certain facts (e.g., that the revelation of certain matters in court proceedings might constitute a risk to national security); the facts stated in such certificates must be accepted by the courts and cannot legally be disputed by any parties. The Attorney-General also has the power to issue a nolle prosequi with respect to a case, which authoritatively determines that the state (in whose name prosecutions are brought) does not wish to prosecute the case, so preventing any person from doing so.
For the attorneys-general of the various states and territories of Australia see:
Attorney-General of the Australian Capital Territory
Attorney-General of New South Wales
Attorney-General of the Northern Territory
Attorney-General of Queensland
Attorney-General of South Australia
Attorney-General of Tasmania
Attorney-General of Victoria
Attorney-General of Western Australia
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The Attorney General of Canada (French: Procureur général du Canada) is a separate title held by the Canadian Minister of Justice (Ministre de la Justice), a member of the Cabinet. The Minister of Justice is concerned with questions of policy and their relationship to the justice system. In their role as attorney general, they are the chief law officer of the Crown.
A separate cabinet position, the Minister of Public Safety (Ministre de la Sécurité publique), formerly the "Solicitor General", administers the law enforcement agencies (police, prisons, and security) of the federal government.
For the attorneys-general of the various provinces of Canada see:
Alberta Minister of Justice and Attorney General
Attorney General of British Columbia
Minister of Justice and Attorney General (Manitoba)
Office of the Attorney General (New Brunswick)
Minister of Justice and Public Safety and Attorney General of Newfoundland and Labrador
Minister of Justice of the Northwest Territories
Attorney General and Minister of Justice of Nova Scotia
Minister of Justice of Nunavut
Attorney General of Ontario
Minister of Justice and Public Safety and Attorney General of Prince Edward Island
Ministry of Justice (Quebec) (also as Attorney General)
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Saskatchewan
Minister of Justice (Yukon)
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In Fiji, the role of the Attorney General is defined as "providing essential legal expertise and support to the Government". More specific functions include "legislative drafting", "legal aid", "the prerogative of mercy" (advising the President), "liquor licensing" and "film censorship".[7]
The current Attorney General is Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum. In January 2008, he sparked controversy by accepting other government positions in addition to his role as Attorney General. Sayed-Khaiyum is currently responsible also for "Public Enterprise, Electoral Reform and Anti-Corruption". An article in the Fiji Times pointed out that "never before in the history of this nation has the Attorney-General held a portfolio dealing with matters other than the law and the judiciary", and criticised the decision.[8]
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The Secretary for Justice, known as the Attorney-General before the Transfer of the Sovereignty in 1997, is the legal adviser to the Hong Kong Government and heads the Department of Justice. They are assisted by five law officers, namely:
the Solicitor General who heads the Legal Policy Division,
the Director of Public Prosecutions who head the Prosecutions Division,
the Law Officer (Civil Law) who heads the Civil Law Division,
the Law Officer (International Law) who heads the International Law Division, and
the Law Draftsman who heads the Law Drafting Division
(The Administration and Development Division is headed by an Administrative Officer.)
Crimes and offences are prosecuted at the suit of the Secretary of Justice.
The Secretary of Justice, appointed by the Chinese government on the advice of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, is an ex officio member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong. The position is normally held by a legal professional, and was, before July 2002, a civil service position.
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Main article: Attorney General of Ireland
“ The Mission of the Office of the Attorney General is to provide the highest standard of professional legal services to Government, Departments and Offices. ”
The Attorney General of Ireland is the legal adviser to the Government and is therefore the chief law officer of the State. The Office of the Attorney General, is made up of a number of different offices:
The Attorney General's Office (located at Merrion Street, Dublin 2) containing the Advisory Counsel to the Attorney General
The Office of Parliamentary Counsel to the Government (also located at Merrion Street, Dublin 2) containing the Parliamentary Counsel who draft legislation and have responsibilities in the area of Statute Law revision
The Chief State Solicitor's Office (CSSO) (located at Little Ship Street, Dublin 8) containing the solicitors representing the Attorney and the State
Since the enactment of the Prosecution of Offenses Act 1974 the responsibility for the prosecution of indictable criminal offences is mostly in the hands of the Director of Public Prosecutions who is by law independent of the Attorney General and the State. The current attorney general is Séamus Woulfe, SC.
Main article: Attorney General (Isle of Man)
In the Isle of Man, the Attorney General is a Crown appointment (appointed by the UK government) and sits in the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man, 'ex officio'.
Main article: Attorney General of Israel
The Attorney General of Israel is the head of the public prosecution from the state, the person who advises the government in legal matters, the person who represents the state's authorities in the courts, and advises in preparation of law memoranda of the government in general and the Justice Minister in particular (likewise he examines and advises for private proposals for a law of Knesset members).
Main article: Attorney General of Jamaica
This is a position which existed in Jamaica for a long time.
The Hon. Marlene Malahoo Forte, QC, MP is the new Attorney General of Jamaica as of March 7, 2016.[9]
Main article: Attorney General of Kenya
In Kenya the Attorney General is the Principal Legal Adviser to the Government and ex officio Member of Parliament and Cabinet. His duties include the formulation of legal policy and ensuring proper administration of Kenya's legal system including professional legal education. Assisting the Attorney General in the performance of his duties as Principal Legal Adviser to the Government are:
Solicitor General
Senior Deputy Solicitor General
Director of Public Prosecutions
Registrar General
Administrator General
Chairman of Advocates Complaints Commission
Chief Parliamentary Counsel
Chief State Counsel
Further information: Politics of Kiribati
In Kiribati, the Attorney General is defined by section 42 of the Constitution as "the principal legal adviser to the Government". The Constitution specifies: "No person shall be qualified to hold or to act in the office of Attorney-General unless he is qualified to practise in Kiribati as an advocate in the High Court." The current Attorney General, as of 2016, is the Honourable Tetiro Semilota.[10]
Main article: Attorney General of Malaysia
In Malaysia the Attorney-General or Peguam Negara (as he is referred to in Bahasa Malaysia) is the principal legal adviser to the Government. He is also the principal public prosecutor in the country, and is also known as the Public Prosecutor. He has the power, exercisable at his discretion, to institute, conduct or discontinue any proceedings for an offence, other than proceedings before a Syariah court, a native court or a court-martial. The current Attorney-General of Malaysia is Tommy Thomas since 2018.
Main article: Attorney General of the Maldives
Main article: Ministry of Justice (Mauritius)
In Mauritius, the Attorney-General, who should be a barrister, is the principal legal adviser to the government and holds the office of a minister.
The Attorney-General's Office is also responsible for the drafting of legislation, and vetting of all contracts or agreements of which the government is a party, including international agreements, treaties or conventions.
Main article: Attorney General of Myanmar
In Nepal, the Attorney General is the chief legal adviser of Government of Nepal as well as its chief public prosecutor. An Attorney General is appointed by the President on the recommendation of Prime Minister. The Attorney General's Office is a constitutional body under the Constitution of Nepal (2072). For a person to be eligible for the post of Attorney General, they must also be qualified to be appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court.[11]
Main article: Attorney-General (New Zealand)
In New Zealand, the Attorney-General is the chief law officer and primary legal advisor of the New Zealand government.[12] The Attorney-General is the Minister responsible for the Crown Law Office, the Parliamentary Counsel Office, and the Serious Fraud Office.[12] Historically, the post could be held either by a politician or by a senior jurist, but today, it is invariably held by a member of Parliament. The Attorney-General attends Cabinet, but the post is not the same as the Minister of Justice. By tradition, persons appointed to the position of Attorney-General have been lawyers. Only two former Attorneys-General have not been lawyers, most recently Dr Michael Cullen who held the post in 2005, and again from 2006.
Main article: Attorney-General of Pakistan
The Attorney-General of Pakistan is the legal adviser to the government of the Pakistan and its public prosecutor.
Main article: Office of the Solicitor General (Philippines)
The Attorney General of the Philippines was an office that existed from 1901 until 1932, when the office was abolished and its functions taken over by the Secretary of Justice. Since then, the Solicitor General of the Philippines, previously the second law officer, has been the principal law officer and legal defender of the Philippine Government. The Office of the Solicitor General is the law firm of the Republic of the Philippines. It is tasked with representing the Philippines, the Philippine Government, and all its officials in any litigation or matter requiring the services of a lawyer especially before appellate courts.[13] It is an independent and autonomous office attached to the Department of Justice for budgetary purposes.[14]
In Samoa, the Attorney General is the legal adviser to the government. The current Attorney General is Aumua Ming Leung Wai.[15]
Main article: Attorney-General of Singapore
The Attorney-General of Singapore is the legal adviser to the government of the Republic of Singapore and its public prosecutor. The current Attorney-General is Lucien Wong.
Main article: Attorney General of Sri Lanka
The Attorney-General of Sri Lanka is the chief legal adviser of the Government of Sri Lanka and head of the Attorney-General department which is the public prosecutor.
As of 10 October 2019, the Attorney General of Sudan is Tag el-Sir el-Hibir.[16]
Main article: Attorney General (Tonga)
The office of Attorney General was established in Tonga in 1988, and was held jointly with the portfolio of Justice Minister until the two were separated in 2009.[17][18] The Attorney General is defined as the "Chief Legal Advisor to Government".[19]
Main article: Attorney-General of Trinidad and Tobago
According to the Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago, the supreme law of the nation, The Attorney General shall be responsible for the administration of legal affairs in Trinidad and Tobago and legal proceedings for and against the State shall be taken— (a) in the case of civil proceedings, in the name of the Attorney General; (b) in the case of criminal proceedings, in the name of the State.
Main article: Law Officers of the Crown
England and Wales
Main article: Law Officers of the Crown in England and Wales
The Attorney General for England and Wales is similarly the chief law officer of the Crown in England and Wales, and advises and represents the Crown and government departments in court. In practice, the Treasury Solicitor (who also has the title of Procurator General) normally provides the lawyers or briefs Treasury Counsel to appear in court, although the Attorney General may appear in person. The person appointed to this role provides legal advice to the Government, acts as the representative of the public interest and resolves issues between government departments.
The Attorney General has supervisory powers over the prosecution of criminal offences, but is not personally involved with prosecutions; however, some prosecutions (e.g. riot) cannot be commenced without their consent, and they have the power to halt prosecutions generally. Criminal prosecutions are the responsibility of the Crown Prosecution Service, headed by the Director of Public Prosecutions. The Attorney General may appeal cases to the higher courts where, although the particular case is settled, there may be a point of law of public importance at issue.
The Attorney General's deputy is the Solicitor General for England and Wales.
Under the Government of Wales Act 2006, the Counsel General is the chief legal adviser to the Welsh Government.
Main article: Law Officers of the Crown in Northern Ireland
Since the prorogation of the Parliament of Northern Ireland in 1972, the Attorney General for England and Wales was also Attorney General for Northern Ireland. The separate office of Attorney General for Northern Ireland was re-created alongside the new office of Advocate General for Northern Ireland upon the devolution of policing and justice powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2010.
Main article: Law Officers of the Crown in Scotland
Under the recent constitutional reforms, the Lord Advocate has become an officer of the Scottish Government, while the United Kingdom Government is advised on Scots law by the Advocate General for Scotland.
The Lord Advocate is assisted by the Solicitor General for Scotland.
Other attorneys-general in the UK
Main article: Law Officers of the Crown (Other persons)
The Attorney General of the Duchy of Cornwall is the chief legal adviser to the Prince of Wales, and there is a separate Attorney General for the Duchy of Lancaster, an appointment that is held by the Crown.
Main articles: United States Attorney General and State attorney general
See also: District attorney and United States Attorney
In the federal government of the United States, the Attorney General is a member of the Cabinet and, as head of the Department of Justice, is the top law enforcement officer and lawyer for the government. The Attorney General may need to be distinguished from the Solicitor General, a high Justice Department official with the responsibility of representing the government before the Supreme Court. In cases of exceptional importance, however, the Attorney General may choose personally to represent the government to the Supreme Court.
The individual U.S. states and territories, as well as the federal district of Washington, D.C. also have attorneys general with similar responsibilities. The majority of state attorneys general are chosen by popular election, as opposed to the U.S. Attorney General, who is a presidential appointee confirmed by the Senate.
In nearly all United States jurisdictions the attorney general is the chief law enforcement officer of that jurisdiction, and as such attorney general may also be considered a police rank. The proper form of addressing a person holding the office is addressed Mister or Madam Attorney General, or just as Attorney General. The plural is "Attorneys General" or "Attorneys-General".
Main article: Attorney General of Zimbabwe
The Attorney General is the chief legal advisor of the government of Zimbabwe. The office falls under the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs.
Similar offices in non-common law jurisdictions
See also: Advocate General and Public procurator
Non-common law jurisdictions usually have one or more offices which are similar to attorneys-general in common law jurisdictions, some of which use "attorney-general" as the English translation of their titles.
Main article: Attorney General's Office of Afghanistan
Main articles: Attorney General of the Union and Prosecutor General of the Republic
Main article: Prosecutor General of the Republic of Crimea
Main article: Attorney General of the Republic (Dominican Republic)
Main article: Public Prosecutor General (Germany)
Main article: Chief Prosecutor of Hungary
Main article: Ministry of Justice (Italy)
Main article: Attorney General (Mexico)
In the Netherlands, there are two types of attorneys-general, that are only historically related.
The first type of attorney-general ("advocaat-generaal" in Dutch) is the public prosecutor in criminal cases at appellate courts.
The second type of attorney-general ("procureur-generaal", while their replacements are called "advocaat-generaal") is an independent advisor to the Supreme Court. These people give an opinion on cases (called "conclusies") in any field of law (not just criminal law), supported by a scientific staff. The Supreme Court may either follow or reject the opinion of the attorney-general (which is published together with the eventual decision). In a way, an attorney-general acts as yet another judge, but in the Dutch system that does not allow dissenting opinions to be published, it is the only way to reflect different perceptions on a case. The Procureur-Generaal also prosecutes members of parliament in the case of misfeance.[20]
Dutch attorneys-general do not normally advise the government.
Main article: Office of the Attorney General of Norway
Main article: Prosecutor General of Russia
Main article: Public Attorney's Office of the Republic of Serbia
Main article: Procurator General of the USSR
Main article: Spanish Attorney General
Main article: Supreme People's Procuracy of Vietnam
List of countries, states or territories with attorneys-general
For a more comprehensive list, see Justice ministry § Related articles and lists.
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Office of the Attorney General Archived October 24, 2015, at the Wayback Machine (Fiji), official website.
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"Kiribati appoints first female Attorney-General". www.pressreader.com. September 30, 2016.
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Barzilai, Gad (2010). The Attorney General and the State Prosecutor: Is Institutional Separation Warranted?. Jerusalem: Israel Institute for Democracy.
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Home / Articles / Minnesota's same-day registration success pushed for federal elections
Minnesota's same-day registration success pushed for federal elections
Andy Birkey // Published May 7, 2008 in Minnesota Monitor
If the nation followed Minnesota's lead in same-day voter registration, it could drastically increase voter turnout, Minnesota legislators say. Rep. Keith Ellison and Sen. Amy Klobuchar have offered a bill, the Election Day Registration Act, which would allow voters nationwide to register to vote at the polls for federal elections in the hopes that it will increase voter turnout.
United States voter turnout has been lower than 55 percent since 1972. During that same time frame, Minnesota's average voter turnout has been more than 70 percent. Same-day registration was enacted in 1976 in Minnesota.
Research by Eric Ostermeier and Larry Jacobs of the University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute's Center for the Study of Politics and Governance demonstrated that voters who registered at the polls accounted for 15 to 21 percent of Minnesota voters in federal elections -- or about the same margin by which Minnesota leads the nation in voter turnout (PDF).
Current federal law does not require identification for voting. Those standards are left up to the states. If the Election Day Registration Act were to pass, it would create a voter registration system that is very similar to Minnesota's.
"For over 33 years, Minnesota's same day registration law has helped produce the highest voter turnout of any state," said Klobuchar in a press statement last week. "Same day registration works, it encourages people to be engaged and interested in the issues facing our country - this bill gives a voice to every American who wants to vote."
For now, the bill is backed exclusively by Democrats, including Minnesota Reps. Tim Walz, Betty McCollum and Jim Oberstar. A divide between Democrats and Republicans has developed, with the former looking to...
Andy Birkey :: Minnesota's same-day registration success pushed for federal elections make voting as easy as possible and the latter looking to reduce voter fraud through stricter identification standards.
David Schultz, a senior fellow at the University of Minnesota's Institute for Law and Politics, recently released a paper looking at the rhetoric surrounding voter identification and voter fraud. "Less Than Fundamental: The Myth of Voter Fraud and the Coming of the Second Great Disenfranchisement (PDF)," looks at how recent actions to tighten voter registration requirements, as a deterrent to voter fraud, are disenfranchising certain voters -- in much the same way the rhetoric of voter fraud was used as a reason to disenfranchise Americans 100 years ago.
"A second great disenfranchisement is afoot across the United States as, yet again, voter fraud is raised as a way to intimidate immigrants, people of color, the poor, and the powerless, and prevent them from voting," wrote Schultz.
The bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform looked into voter fraud and found 52 convictions for voter fraud by the Department of Justice since 2002. The New York Times recently looked deeper into those convictions and found that a significant majority were immigrants and felons who were confused about their voting status. In fact, one felon showed poll workers his prison-issued identification in an attempt to vote.
Schultz wrote, "[A]ssume the fifty-two convictions by the Department of Justice are accurate instances of fraud. This means that fifty-two out of 196,139,871 ballots cast in federal elections, or .00003% of the votes were fraudulent. While critics might assert that these cases represent only the tip of the iceberg, it is important to underscore that prosecutions occurred on the heels of the Justice Department taking an aggressive stance on this crime. There is a greater chance of one being hit by lightning than of an election being affected by fraud."
And as Ellison told Minnesota Public Radio recently, Minnesota's open voting process has not encouraged fraud, and instead has energized Minnesotans to become politically active. He said: "In Minnesota, we've been doing this for many, many years. It's been going really well. We have the highest voter turn out in the country. We have almost no fraud. I've never heard of a proven case. And we have a very active and civically engaged community because people can participate."
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Vote NO on all Florida Judges in 2020 (short version)
Voters throughout Florida are being asked whether or not to retain appellate court judges. I am recommending a NO vote on each of these judges, no matter what part of the state, for two reasons:
1. These judges aren't doing their job. In 75% of their cases they refuse to give an explanation for their ruling. This is bad for individual litigants but also means that trial judges and prosecutors are not held accountable for failing to follow the law.
2. Each of these judges was appointed by a Republican governor. Many of them are members of the Federalist Society, an organization devoted to dismantling the regulatory state and quashing individual constitutional rights.
If you would like to read a more detailed explanation of why I believe these judges should not be retained, and for a summary of each Judge's tenure and links to the Florida Bar materials on these elections, you may go here.
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Making the Case to VOTE NO on all FLORIDA JUDGES in 2020
Floridians will face a lengthy ballot in 2020. Depending on what part of the state they live in, voters will be asked the same question four, five or even six times: "Should Judge so and so of the District Court of Appeal be retained in Office?" This year, there is one justice from the Florida Supreme Court (Carlos Muniz) and twenty-four judges from the five district courts of appeal up for retention. I am encouraging all Florida voters to vote NO on all of these judges. I will give my reasons but first a little history:
History and Georgraphy: In the early 1970's Florida courts were consumed by scandals, especially the Florida Supreme Court, whose members were popularly elected. Governor Reuben Askew led a series of judicial reforms that resulted in the merit selection system. The thinking was that judges should face the voters periodically and could be removed by election if they were corrupt or incompetent. No judge has ever lost a merit retention election in Florida, and these ballots rarely draw any attention.
Voters should understand that the Florida Supreme Court only hears a limited number of cases, such as death penalty cases or when an issue has statewide importance. The District Courts of Appeal are intended to be the final stop for most appeals, whether civil or criminal. Florida is divided into five regions, so for instance, the First District covers north Florida, the Second District covers most of the west-central section, the Third District covers Miami-Dade and the Keys, the Fourth District covers the rest of south-east Florida, and the Fifth District stretches from the east coast to the west and includes Orlando.
Why Vote No? For years I advised voters who asked me, to vote yes on all judges. This was based in large part on direction from the Florida Bar. Each election the Florida Bar polls its members, finds they overwhelmingly support retention, then publishes a voter's guide that contain biographies of the candidates and descriptions of their job, and an admonition that none of the judges can discuss issues in any manner. The not so subtle message each election is that each judge should be retained, and I went along with this messaging in past elections.
I have now been a member of the Florida Bar for 35 years. My first 23 years I worked almost exclusively as a criminal defense trial attorney handling major cases in the Sarasota Bradenton area. The past 12 years I began handling numerous appeals in the Second District Court of Appeal in Tampa. An appeal is of course important to someone who has been convicted and sentenced to prison and may represent their last chance at freedom. Appeals are also important for accountability, to make sure that trial judges and prosecutors are following the law, and to require new trials when the rules aren't followed. Therefore, it is very important to ensure these judges are doing their job. In my opinion, they aren't.
As mentioned above, the District Courts of Appeal are the final stop for almost all cases. So imagine for a second that you were unjustly accused and wrongfully convicted of a serious crime in Florida. Imagine you hired an attorney who agreed with you that serious mistakes had been made in your trial and agreed to represent you on appeal. Imagine that the attorney works on the case for months, files a compelling written brief of arguments in the court, then makes a powerful oral argument to the judges. Now imagine that you get the ruling of the court; "Per Curiam Affirmed," commonly known as a PCA. You ask the lawyer what it means, and you are told it means that you lost the appeal, that the court is giving no reasons for their decision, and you have no opportunity for any further appeals.
Presently, the District Courts of Appeal in Florida are issuing a PCA in approximately 75% of all cases they hear. This means that three out of four times, the appeal is denied and nobody knows why, except the judges and they're not telling. This is a terrible state of affairs for the citizens of Florida and for their attorneys. On the other hand, trial judges and prosecutors delight in PCAs, taking them as a stamp of approval that they can get away with anything without consequences.
Attorneys have been complaining about PCAs for as long as I have been practicing. We have a sneaking suspicion that PCAs are used in most cases as a result oriented device to cover up the many errors that occur in a trial court. As such, PCAs have been a tool of mass incarceration, filling our prisons with citizens who were illegally if not wrongfully convicted. Our complaints about PCA's have fallen on deaf ears, with appellate court judges justifying their use due to their alleged heavy work load. They also claim that PCAs are only used "when the points of law raised are so well settled that a further writing would serve no useful purpose." Elliott v Elliott, 648 So.2d 137, 138 (4th DCA 1994) In my experience, this statement is utterly and completely false.
I handled homicide cases for the most part, and these trials had numerous legal issues arise with no precedent in Florida law. These were substantial questions that needed definitive responses from the court, yet when I would appear for oral argument the judges showed little interest in the case or the issues. Invariably I would receive my PCA a few days later, giving me little confidence that the judges had considered my issues or even read the arguments. In my view, when Florida appellate judges are issuing PCAs in three out of four cases, they are not doing their job, and therefore should not be retained in office.
My primary argument for voting NO on all Florida judges is that they are simply not doing their job. The problem is institutional and systemic, that is, the system is designed to fail, not to vindicate the constitutional rights of litigants. But why should an individual judge lose their job because of systemic failure? This leads to my next justification for voting NO on all judges -- politics. Every judge up for retention in 2020 was appointed by a Republican governor.
In the past I have been leery about politicizing judicial races but that position feels naive now. Without a doubt, Florida judges have been politicized over the past 20 years. These days, membership in the Federalist Society seems like a prerequisite to being named judge. Though they deny it, the Federalist Society is a political organization whose primary goal is to dismantle the regulatory state for businesses while reducing constitutional protections for individual litigants. Judges who come out of the Federalist Society are chosen because they will vote a certain way, not for their fealty to the law.
Voters in Florida have been given the power of the ballot and it is time that they use it. If you are dissatisfied with mass incarceration, judicial hostility to constitutional rights and judges who won't do their job, then VOTE NO. It is doubtful that this article will result in sufficient NO votes to remove any judge, and even if it did, Florida's Governor (who is in large part responsible for these judges) gets to appoint their replacements. Nevertheless, each NO vote will send a message to Florida's judiciary that they need to do better.
All Florida voters will vote whether to retain Justice Carlos Muniz. Justice Muniz was appointed by Governor DeSantis in January of 2019. He has chosen to ignore binding United States Supreme Court precedent in death penalty cases. VOTE NO on Justice Carlos Muniz
FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
Joseph Lewis, Jr. was appointed by Jeb Bush in 2001. VOTE NO to retain Judge Lewis.
Scott Makar was appointed by Rick Scott in 2012. VOTE NO to retain Judge Makar.
Rachel Nordby was appointed by Ron DeSantis in October of 2019. VOTE NO to retain Judge Nordby.
Tim Osterhaus was appointed by Rick Scott in 2013. VOTE NO to retain Judge Osterhaus.
Clay Roberts was appointed by Charlie Crist in 2007. Roberts was the director of the Florida Division of Elections during the disastrous 2000 presidential election. VOTE NO to retain Judge Roberts.
Adam S. Tanenbaum was appointed by Ron DeSantis in October 2019. VOTE NO to retain Judge Tanenbaum.
SECOND DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
Drew Atkinson was appointed by Rick Scott in 2018. VOTE NO on Judge Atkinson.
Morris Silberman was appointed by Jeb Busch in 2001. VOTE NO on Judge Silberman.
Daniel H. Sleet was appointed by Rick Scott in 2012. VOTE NO on Judge Sleet.
Andrea Teves Smith was appointed by Rick Scott in January of 2019. VOTE NO on Judge Smith.
THIRD DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
Monica Gordo was appointed by Ron DeSantis in 2019. VOTE NO on Judge Gordo.
Eric William Hendon was appointed by Rick Scott in 2018. VOTE NO on Judge Hendon.
Fleur Jeannine Lobree was appointed by Ron DeSantis in 2019. VOTE NO on Judge Lobree.
Thomas Logue was appointed by Rick Scott in 2012. VOTE NO on Judge Logue.
Bronwyn Catherine Miller was appointed by Rick Scott in 2018. VOTE NO on Judge Miller.
FOURTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
Alan O. Forst was appointed by Rick Scott in 2013. VOTE NO to retain Judge Forst.
Mark W. Klingensmith was appointed by Rick Scott in 2013. VOTE NO to retain Judge Klingensmith.
Martha C. Warner was appointed by Bob Martinez in 1989. VOTE NO to retain Judge Warner.
FIFTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
Kerry I. Evander was appointed by Jeb Bush in 2006. VOTE NO to retain Judge Evander.
John M. Harris was appointed by Rick Scott in 2018. VOTE NO to retain Judge Harris.
Richard B. Orfinger was appointed by Jeb Bush in 2000. VOTE NO to retain Judge Orfinger.
Meredith Sasso was appointed by Rick Scott in January, 2019. VOTE NO to retain Judge Sasso.
F. Rand Wallis was appointed by Rick Scott in 2013. VOTE NO to retain Judge Wallis.
The Florida Bar provides official biographies on all candidates.
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[PCC 586] Morin and Lawler on "Nature and Health"
Tuesday, Mar 2, 2021, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
UW Program on Climate Change
UW Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE)
The UW Program on Climate Change (PCC) and Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE) are organizing a seminar in Winter 2021 focused on the intersection of climate change and human health. We aim to bring together researchers in the two communities to discuss how climate change has and will impact human health. Conversations will be wide ranging and include methods for projecting future climate and relevant exposures and impacts, including broader considerations related to determinants of health and wellbeing, and implications for climate change communication and management. Some sessions will focus on cross-cutting issues and others on specific exposures and pathways. We hope that bringing together these two communities will facilitate collaboration in research and education on the intersection of climate change and health and develop a foundation for further joint educational programming. Each week will consist of two 30 min talks, one focusing on fundamental climate change (PCC) and the other focused on health impacts (CHanGE).
The seminar will be held on Tuesdays from 3:30-4:50 via Zoom. Participating graduate students may register for ATMS/ESS/OCN 586 (2 cr, GCeCS requirement) and undergraduates ATMS/ESS/OCN 475 (3 cr, climate minor capstone requirement) that also meets on online via Zoom Thursdays 3:30-4:50.
Week 9 (March 2) Nature and Health
Cory Morin (Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Global Health)
Josh Lawler (Environmental and Forest Sciences)
Week 10 (March 9) Food Security
David Battisti (Atmospheric Sciences)
Jennifer Otten (Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences)
pcc.uw.edu…
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Mustang Aeronautics
1997-2009: 1470 Temple City Troy, MI 48084, USA.
The president of Mustang Aeronautics is Chris Tieman. Chris earned a degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and has a background in metal fabrication. He acquired his pilots license in 1986 and soon began looking for something to build that was faster and more economical than the average factory airplane. The Mustang II was the best choice for the desired requirements so plans were purchased and construction started.
When Robert Bushby decided to retire in 1992 Chris' hobby of home kitplane builder became his profession. Mustang Aeronautics, Inc. acquired the design rights from Robert Bushby in March 1992 for both the Midget Mustang and Mustang II aircraft. Located just north of Detroit in Troy, Michigan. His background in aeronautical engineering and architectural aluminum are evident in today's complete kits that have reduced build times dramatically. New manufacturing processes have simplified the kits yet still maintained the economy of the Mustang through improved manufacturing efficiency.
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From Cultures of the Book at Penn
Down The Rabbit-hole: Chapter 1 of Alice's Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
The chapter, which has become synonymous with the modern-day novel, left a lasting impact on book history. Nowadays, chapters are found in virtually every form of text. They can be found in fiction and story books, non-fiction novels, as well as informative works such as textbooks and cookbooks. Depending upon the author and purpose of the text, each chapter might be outlined in a table of contents at the beginning of the novel and have its own title. Some novels, such as those in the Harry Potter series, also have a small illustration at the beginning of each chapter that depicts a scene in the upcoming section; this in a sense gives each section its own title page. Some chapters even become incredibly iconic and are instantly recognizable by readers like "Down the Rabbit-Hole": the first chapter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Chapters also give authors another way to add more creativity into his/her work, and some choose to integrate special attributes that generate a unique reading experience for his/her audience. And yet, in some books it seems as if chapters do nothing more than simply create installments; some authors opt to just use numbers to begin each chapter. Though in modern times chapters can take all sorts of forms and be found in all types of writings, this has not always been the case. Initially, chapters could only be found in non-fiction and informative works; their purpose was to make navigation within large text easier. And yet, its simple origin as a better way to find and reference information ultimately altered our reading culture from one of long, continuous reading to one oriented around pauses. In essence, the chapter has evolved from a teaching tool to a stylistic device that has greatly influenced the development of our society’s reading habits.
1 Origin
2 Chapters and Christianity
3 Increasing Ubiquity and Initial Transition into Common Literature
4 Modern-day Utilization
5 Opinions of Chapters
Beginning of Liber (Chapter) VI (Six) in Pliny the Elder's "Naturalis Historia"
Despite what one might assume, the idea of dividing text emerged centuries before the codex. The first signs of a chapter-esque system existed in writings from the 1st century: 200 years before the codex replaced the scroll as the dominant platform. In modern day, most people associate the chapter with narrative; necessary for the shifting of scenes in a story.[1]. And yet, storytellers were not even the first individuals to utilize this newborn technology. In fact, it was intellectuals and scholars who used chapters first as a method to divide their large manuscripts full of knowledge into smaller segments. With this, readers feel less overwhelmed by the immense amount of knowledge present in the text, and have a better opportunity to fully understand the information they are presented. However, chapters served a greater purpose than simply dividing the book into sections: they acted as reference points that made finding specific information in these long text easier. Both of these functions of chapters are continually used in modern day textbooks. For example, introductory-level biology textbooks cover a huge breadth of information, but only certain sections usually pertain to the particular topic taught in class. More often than not, individuals would not read all 900+ pages of a textbook just to learn about cell organelles or ecology specifically. Rather, readers would go straight to the portion of the book distinctively concerning the material relevant to the class lesson. Early scholars understood this and realized that readers would consult their works, not read continuously through them like a narrative. They understood that their audience were fellow intellectuals who also desired to acquire knowledge. Chapters create this system of reading. Chapters break up this information into more approachable parts, and allow readers to easily choose which sections they want to read based on what they want to learn. This, in conjunction with other paratexts such as page numbers and footnotes, made navigating through this sea of information much easier.
Beginning of Liber (Chapter) V (five) in Aulus Gellius's "Noctes Atticae"
As stated, the idea of a divisional system to separate text into smaller portions can be seen in many scholarly works prior to the transition of the scroll to the codex in the 4th century. Books from the 1st and 2nd century, such as Pliny The Elder’s Naturalis Historia and Aulus Gellius’s Noctes Atticae, employ such. In both instances, the authors divided their works into different bits called “liber”, which is latin for “book”. Though each of these portions contributed to an over-arching idea, they all contained dissimilar information. These writings touched upon a variety of topics relating to zoology, botany, ethnography, anthropology, astronomy, history, philosophy, and even simple everyday observations. Understandably, not all of these distinct subjects might be relevant to an individual's intellectual inquiries. By utilizing these chapter-esque methods, Pliny the Elder and Aulus Gellius have given readers the ability to more easily locate specific sections. Furthermore, below the "Liber" number it can be seen that these early scholars also further segmented the individual "libers" into smaller parts using roman numerals. Similarly, both text begin with an index that outlines the contents of the work and their locations within the physical book. The combination of both of these additional features makes it even easier to find the location of certain information with greater specificity and precision. With this, the audience can read the particular portions pertaining to their academic agenda without having to gloss through the entire text. These scholarly works laid the ground work for this new technology to become the division system modern society is accustomed to.
Chapters and Christianity[edit]
Book of Esther in Scroll form on leather.
Reading entire passages to locate one relevant scene or quote was incredibly inefficient which made narratives significantly more difficult to learn from. “Indicat[ing] very precisely where… quotations [could] be found” or at what physical part of a scroll particular events existed was hard given many of these long, continuous passages of text had no division or reference system [2]. This only became increasingly inconvenient as uniform, mass-production did not exist and “no rules governing the length of lines or the number of lines to a column” existed for scroll manufacturing [3]. One can see this on the scroll version of the Book of Esther: a book in the third section of the Christian Old Testament and one of five scrolls in the Hebrew bible. Though there seems to be divisions based on the layout of writings, the scroll itself was still simply a long text on a leather parchment. No markers or reference points of any kind exist. This makes finding any particular moment more tedious and difficult if one isn't familiar with the holy writing. This also forces individuals to remember the physical location of the portions on the roll they wished to cross-reference in the future. Doing so is even more troublesome given the immense length of the substrate as well as the vast amount of content it contains. This also makes referencing quotes and lines from this scroll in other writings difficult: no markers or referencing tools exist for writers to mention, and for readers to identify and look for.
Book form of Old Testament with modern day chapter and verse system.
Christian scholars acknowledged the difficulty in using narratives for educational purposes. Scholars wrote down the whole message God gave them so that future readers could also get the whole message and not just a couple segments [4]. Gospel stories, thus, were written continuously, undivided, and unlabeled which caused great frustration when trying to teach from them. Deriving the idea from informative text like those written by Pliny and Gellius, Christian scholars adopted the idea of chapters into the bible. This new, physical evolution of the testament became the signature technique of the gospels. But more importantly, this transition exists as the first time the idea of chapters and text division was implemented into narrative writing.
Eusebius developed the first method to divide the bible in the 3rd century. Eusebius’ system was very simple. Essentially, he divided the gospels into many small sections each marked by a number and a letter in the margins. A table of reference called the Canons at the beginning of the manuscript identified these sections and their relation to the other gospels in the narrative [5]. However, many other scholars also attempted to divide the gospels in their own way, and thus the divisions of the bibles that first adopted the chapter systems varied drastically. However, these conflicting ideas on how to divide the bible is understandable given the subjectivity involved in segmenting a story. Scholars can easily organize information based upon how the topic and concepts within the book relates to one another. However, there is no objective way to determine what counts as a significant moment in a story deserving of its own section, and where one installment should start and end. Because of this, "almost each Bible had its own particular division" [6]. It would take some time before a universal division system emerged for the testament, and by the end of the 12th century there were thousands of different systems of division in use [7].
However, “[society] owes to Stephen Langton [the] division of” the modern-day bible [8]. The system “successfully started by Stephan Langton [in the 13th century] had such a lasting impact”, and over time it developed into the biblical one used today [9]. He created longer, less frequent divisions that clustered events into chapters based on time and place rather than focusing on getting these events to run in parallel. In any case, though chapters now existed in a narrative environment, their purpose still remained the system as if it was in an informational one: a way to easier reference and locate certain sections. With chapters, referencing certain events during Gospel teachings became effortless as individuals could easily locate passages without having to skim through other parts of the testament to find them. This in conjunction with the addition of verses allows even greater specificity, making even referencing lines a didactic possibility [10]. This signified a shift of reading practices from one revolving around over-arching concepts to one revolving around remembering fragments. Since chapters allowed readers to choose which parts they wished to read, it became much easier to pick out sentences that particularly stuck with them. This created much controversy as individuals such as John Locke believed such divisions presented a considerable risk of obliterating the powerful coherence of the Word of God [11].
Moreover, this created new possibilities in subsequent writing practice. The ability to easily navigate the bible allowed the authors to reference of quotes and scenes in their own writings; this generated greater authenticity and made points and arguments more convincing. Since the bible represents the word of god, this essentially made scholarly text that cited the bible both more powerful and more authoritative. The general theme of a gospel diminished in importance, and the individual lines became more significant as these could be cited and referenced; these were considered the direct words of god. Given its immense influence in European society, the Church had an undeniably significant role in transitioning chapters into narrative text. The idea of chapters might have disappeared and been replaced by another form had the Church not adopted it as the signature technique of the bible.
Increasing Ubiquity and Initial Transition into Common Literature[edit]
William Caxton 1485 edition of “Le Morte d’Arthur”. This version differs from the original Winchester Manuscript in that it is divided into 21 divisions each with its own set of chapters.
As this new idea of chapters began to become more recognized in the 14th to 15th century, scholars started to insert them into other texts for teaching/referencing purposes. The chapter's transition into common literature mirrored its slow addition into the bible: it was initially awkward given they were designed for locating information within a text. Chapters continued to function primarily in didactic environments, and their presence in literary works were still geared towards an academic audience. They evinced a type of reading revolved around taking notes and understanding events in the context of the novel. They created a focus on referencing and learning from specific plot points and passages rather than over-arching concepts. For example, William Caxton divided the iconic “Le Morte d’Arthur” into 21 divisions each with its own set of chapters in his 1485 edition. This gave readers the ability to more easily choose which moments of the story could be applied to certain teachings. Not only did William Caxton add divisions for easier referencing, but he added summaries to the beginning of the novel for each one. With this, readers could “understand briefly the content of this volume” without having to read the entire book [12].
This further supports the idea that chapters are meant for a didactic setting and a focus on learning from specific events. These summaries allow readers to analyze how specific moments relate to themes and morals present in the narrative without having to actually read the entire novel. Caxton essentially gave his audience the ability to choose from which moments the audience wished to learn from.
Modern-day Utilization[edit]
Layout of all the components of The Unfortunates by B.S Johnson.
As time progressed, the chapter did not undergo much change. Though the average length of the chapter did increase, it slowly became another aspect of the novel that was simply expected rather than have any sort of significance. Understandably, society had become accustomed to these divisions because of their increased presence within literature. However, in modern-day authors have started to utilized novels in a way to create unique qualities in their works. In a sense, these authors became more like artist and use the chapter to express and create different meanings and experiences for the viewer.
First page of Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar with instructions on what order the chapters should be read in.
One example of this is adventure or “pick your path” books. Adventure books start with chapter one but differ from conventional novels in that each chapter ends with a “now what do you decide to do” scenario. The reader gets to choose the actions of the character and depending on what he/she decides to do, the book instructs he/she to go to a certain chapter and this goes on until the ending. This means chapters are like levels of a video games in a sense. Furthermore, a specific piece of literature that utilizes a similar ideology is The Unfortunates by B.S Johnson. This novel came in a box with 27 separately bound chapters. Only a first and last chapter is specified, and thus the chapters can be read in any order the audience pleases. In both cases, the use of the chapter strays from its traditional purpose of referencing and citation. These artists are using chapters in a way which emphasizes how the chapter's divisional function can directly affect the narrative. These artists made a more interactive experience, and essentially gave the readers the power to author their own story by giving them control over the individual installments. This increased customization in novels is tailored to an audience that wishes to have the power to create what they want to read. It evinces a type of reading that forces the audience to become immerse in the story. In the case of adventure books, the reader even has a direct impact on the narrative thread, literally taking the role as the protagonist and making decisions that govern the course of the novel. In both cases, readers become involved in the making of the story. Authors also use chapters to create stories with unique reading experience. This can be seen in both Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar and Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen. In Hopscotch, readers can proceed through the novel normally, or a table of instructions offers a special way to read the novel that creates a second story. Flipped on the other hand is simpler, in that after each chapter, the narrator switches from the perspective of the male protagonist to the female protagonist. This special quality allows the audience to hear both sides of the story: two different voices which give a broader perspective on the events of the novel.
Opinions of Chapters[edit]
Chapters not only transformed how texts conveyed and organized information, but it also gave authors another aspect of the physical book to toy and play around with. However, the greatest effect of the introduction of chapters into narrative writing relates to how it influenced society’s modern day reading habit. As Laurence Sterne said, chapters created a reading culture oriented around pauses. Chapters gave individuals the ability to immerse themselves and incorporate novels into their everyday routines. No longer did people have to dedicate entire days to finish an entire book; reading at such an intensity unimaginable by our society's standards [13]. In the world's current fast-pace society, where finding any sort of pleasure time is difficult, this particular aspect has become increasingly more important. A chapter can be read before bed, after one wakes up, on a lunch break, or really anytime someone has a little bit of free time. This draws a parallel between books and TV series. Like episodes of a series, individuals can squeeze singular chapters into their busy schedule. But most importantly, chapters made installments that “relieve the mind” [1]. The breaks that chapters create encourage readers to pause and think: to truly reflect and ruminate after events of a passage.
↑ 1.0 1.1 Sterne, Laurence, and Douglas Grant. Sterne: Memoirs of Mr. Laurence Sterne; The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey; Selected Sermons and Letters. Harvard University Press, 1970.
↑ Banning 2007, Reflections upon the Chapter Division of Stephan Langton, pg. 149 .
↑ Ackroyd 1992, The Cambridge History of The Bible, pg. 51 .
↑ Chapters and Verses—Who Put Them in the Bible?” Jehovah's Witness, [1].
↑ “Eusebian Canon.” Eusebian Canon (Full Story) - Early English Bibles, [2].
↑ Banning 2007, Reflections upon the Chapter Division of Stephan Langton.
↑ Banning 2007, Reflections upon the Chapter Division of Stephan Langton, pg 142.
↑ Chapters and Verses—Who Put Them in the Bible?” Jehovah's Witness, www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-no2-2016-march/bible-chapters-and-verses/.
↑ Finkelstein, David. The Book History Reader. Routledge, 2010, pg 52.
↑ Malory, Thomas, et al. Le Morte D'Arthur / The Original Edition of William Caxton Now Reprinted and Edited with an Introd. and Glossary ; by H. Oskar Sommer ; with an Essay on Malory's Prose Style by Andrew Lang. D. Nutt, 1891.
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Andrew Pattison (born 30 January 1949) is a former South African-born Rhodesian and later Zimbabwean[1] tennis player. His career-high ATP singles ranking was world No. 24, which he reached on 24 September 1974. Pattison won four singles tournaments, and seven doubles tournaments. Pattison has two sons, Sean and Dale. He is married to Debra Hill and they reside in Peoria, Arizona.
(1949-01-30) 30 January 1949 (age 71)
Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
No. 24 (27 September 1974)
3R (1971, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1981)
QF (1975)
1 Career finals
1.1 Singles (4 titles, 7 runner-ups)
2 World Team Tennis
Career finalsEdit
Singles (4 titles, 7 runner-ups)Edit
Loss 0–1 Jul 1972 Columbus, Ohio, U.S. Hard
Jimmy Connors 5–7, 3–6, 5–7
Loss 0–2 Jul 1972 Tanglewood, USA
Bob Hewitt 6–3, 3–6, 1–6
Loss 0–3 Aug 1972 Montreal, Canada Clay
Ilie Năstase 4–6, 3–6
Win 1–3 Apr 1974 Monte Carlo, Monaco Clay
Ilie Năstase 5–7, 6–3, 6–4
Win 2–3 Apr 1974 Johannesburg, South Africa Hard
John Alexander 6–3, 7–5
Loss 2–4 Oct 1974 Vienna, Austria Hard
Vitas Gerulaitis 4–6, 6–3, 3–6, 2–6
Loss 2–5 Jan 1976 Columbus, Ohio, U.S. Carpet
Arthur Ashe 6–3, 3–6, 6–7(4–7)
Loss 2–6 Feb 1976 Dayton, Ohio, U.S. Carpet
Jaime Fillol Sr. 4–6, 7–6, 4–6
Win 3–6 Sep 1977 Laguna Niguel, U.S. Hard
Colin Dibley 2–6, 7–6, 6–4
Win 4–6 Nov 1979 Johannesburg, South Africa Hard
Víctor Pecci 2–6, 6–3, 6–2, 6–3
Loss 4–7 Jul 1980 Newport, Rhode Island, U.S. Grass
Vijay Amritraj 1–6, 7–5, 3–6
World Team TennisEdit
In 1974, Pattison was a member of the World Team Tennis (WTT) champion Denver Racquets.[2] He was named 1974 WTT Playoffs Most Valuable Player.[3]
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^ Wilt, Tom (27 August 1974). "Racquets Win WTT Championship". Greeley Daily Tribune. p. 16.
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By Kamiel Choi
On 3 April, 2014
Ehrlich, gapminder, peak child, population growth, Rosling, Weisman
Essays philosophy Resistance
I watched an entertaining and instructive talk by Swedish professor Hans Rosling the other day, because YouTube recommended this video. Mr. Rosling introduced himself as a dry statistics professor but did everything humanly possible to maximize the probability of laughter he induced among his mixed audience. Watch the first few minutes of his presentation and you’ll know what I mean.
His organisation, gapminder.org has the modest motto of “looking good at the data” and he makes the case that a lot of our public debate is biased by preconceptions that have proved completely wrong. He gives the example of Bangladesh, where the current fertility rate (the number of children per woman) is about 2.2. Polls in Britain and the UK (so-called ignorance polls) have shown that most people think it’s twice that number – and educated people’s guesses were even further off.
What his data shows is that we tend to paint a much bleaker picture of the state of the world because of cultural biases like the one that “people in poor countries just breed like rabbits”.
Rosling proclaims that we have already reached “peak child”, the maximum amount of children born per year. Population will keep growing, because of the “add-on effect”: when the largest generation (born in the last two decades) reproduces, they will keep the number of newborns higher than the number of deaths (hence net population growth) but the number of children we add every year will decline.
Mr. Rosling then points at the obvious, that yes of course we have more than enough resources, but our problem is the distribution and waste of them. If corn ends up in gas tanks and soy in a Chinese cow’s (a rich person’s steak-holder’s) stomach, the poorest billion won’t have a stable supply of tortillas and tofu, especially when also plagued by natural disasters.
You can download free software at www.gapminder.org/, and test your own hypotheses against the data.
Rosling calls himself an “possibilist” rather than an optimist. Of course, from his vantage point as a TED-talking professor, it would be impossible to give another message. And the data he brings is quite convincing, as far as statistics go. Yes, we are normally to pessimistic in our estimates of child mortality in developing nations, or average life expectation. But too much data can miss the obvious. We have all these lines that smoothen, all these dots on the map that nicely converge, so that we’re very tempted to just extrapolate and believe that the result is the way we should look at the future.
But the future is likely to hold some surprises. As we know from climate science, where the worst expectations had to be profoundly readjusted when new data came in, we should be very careful to rely on statistical trends, as it might leave us less prepared for the unexpected.
For that, I recommend the book “Countdown” by Alan Weisman, a tour-de-force by the journalist who also wrote “The world without us”, the fascinating thought-experiment of what would happen to this planet would all of humanity perish today. “Countdown” is about the world with us, with the prognostized 9 or 10 billion of us. Weisman has traveled to twenty countries for this book, and his writing is very engaging. We follow the author on a trip to the country with the highest birth rate (Niger, about 7 children per woman) where the logic that in order to have a few surviving children, they need to give birth to so many, is still prevalent. We are with him in Israel, where ultra-religious Haredim see it as a moral obligation to have as many children as they biologically can. We join him in Japan, where he tests a robotic arm that can lift elderly and bring them to the bathroom without developing back problems – a much-needed device in a society where the elderly constitute the largest demographic. We travel to Iran, with its exceptional decline in fertility rate, to Costa Rica, to the Indian state of Kerala, to the US, and to many other places. We are invited to a party with Paul Ehrlich, the honest biologist who in the seventies wrote “the population bomb”, and continues to convey the message that our numbers matter a lot more than we think. By the end of the book, you’ll be familiar with the thinking of a lot of researchers, NGOs, and normal people – and you might know a little bit more about the world that is generating all the statistics.
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The artist formerly known as Daetona has come a long way from spitting in a Kris Kross-styled kiddie rap crew in Toronto's Chester Le housing projects, or from the battle rapper who slaughtered us with punch lines of a looped telephone dial tone. Soon after he nearly quit the rap game entirely, Tona hit the studio with fellow Toronto stalwart Rich Kidd and cranked out his most versatile work to date. Silverspring Crescent is the sound of an MC flexing his conceptual and sonic range. Over Long Island iced teas on the eve of his album release, Tona details his growth as an artist, his epic (rigged?) cross-town battle with Blake Carrington, and what the hell it means to "Jay Electronica a hoe." Scarborough, stand up.
Why go with just one producer, Rich Kidd, for Silverspring Crescent?
The chemistry works. I've been working with Rich Kidd for a very long time. He has so many different directions he can take his sound, and it sounds so polished. He's one of the best producers, period, not even talking Canada. His sounds fits my format so well, we started clicking. There's not many people that would've selected half the joints I choose to rhyme over on Silverspring Crescent. But those are the ones I'm drawn to. And he's consistent with his shit. As long as dudes like Rich Kidd and others are elevating their game to that level, I'll always be able to put out quality music.
What is the working relationship like?
Now that he's getting his artistry together, he doesn't have as much time as he used to. He's always been an artist as long as I've known him, but now, due to schedules clashing, he might send me a batch of joints and I'll send them back to him. He'll add to it, finish it up and we'll put it out. That's the way it's been working lately.
Any worry that, since he raps as well, he might hog the best beats for his own project?
If I were him, I'd be doing that. I wouldn't give rappers my best shit. [Laughs] But all of his shit sounds crazy, so how can you separate?
Does he ever give you guidance on the vocals?
You know what happens? He'll give his ideas through beat titles; they'll already have a concept sometimes. Especially with Silverspring Crescent, he'll name the beat something crazy like, "She Can Get It," and the way the beat moves, sometimes the title is perfect — this is what I'm-a call the track. That's not a formula I'd recommend for anybody, but it works for me.
You decided to put this album out just a couple months ago. Why so sudden?
The project has been done for almost a year, but I just got this situation with Sony/RED in the States through Billy Danze of M.O.P. Once we solidified that, I already had a due date on the album and get ready to push it. We had to select a June date because there's going to be a lot of stuff happening in the fall. I don't want this project to interfere with all that's going on in the fall. I wanted to get this out as early as possible — and a lot of people have been waiting on it because I was dropping singles off it last year.
What's coming in the fall, then?
A new project I'm working on. It'll be different. I reached for producers I've been wanting to work with for a while. I got Paperboy Fabe [who has produced for Ledisi, Game, Jay Rock and Cyhi Da Prynce] in the U.S.; he's a Grammy Award-winning producer, and he's real dope. I got to sit down with him and work. As well as some other producers I've been waiting to work with. Their schedules freed up, so this album coming in the fall is going to sound well-rounded, completely different than Silverspring Crescent. Sonically, it's going to take it to another level.
What kind of memories does the street Silverspring Crescent evoke for you?
Scarborough is our neighbourhood. When people think of Canada, they think of Toronto, but Scarborough has been established as its own [borough] since 1967. Now we're all amalgamated, but if we were to section Toronto off, it'd be like Brooklyn — they have their own style, flavour, their own brand. That's what Silverspring Crescent represents. We started the creative process over there in a preproduction studio, and I lived ten minutes away from Silverspring Crescent. My man Richie Henessey, who's the executive producer for this project, he's formerly S-Roc from BrassMunk. We wrote the album together. He lives right on Silver Springs Boulevard, actually, and we combined that with the crescent I grew up on. We've always been working together since day one, since Agile brought me in the studio with BrassMunk to just watch them work. Silverspring is a reflection of that, of Scarborough, of all of us. In my jacket on the album cover, it has everything Scarborough is about, even the Scarborough flag. I want people to understand, it's not just Toronto but where I come from — Scarborough — it's about that when they have an interaction with me. Scarborough's in my heart.
Who was the first artist you felt really represented for Scarborough?
Maestro, hands down. He makes that clear over his career. I think he said something about putting the scar in Scarborough. He'd come by the crib to work with my brothers; my brother and his cousin had this group Freaks of Reality. They had that "Chi-Litchi Latchi-Low" song. We always had our own shit, our own style, and we wanted to separate it. Maestro was part of that. BrassMunk, Kardinal, Choclair — all those guys are Scarborough. Same thing with Monolith — I don't think there's anyone more Scarborough than those guys. Even down to Julian de Guzman — he plays [soccer] on TFC right now. We embody it. We make sure it reflects in our personalities.
Why don't you live there now?
Back when we were living there, the standard of living isn't the greatest. I always visit, but we come from those conditions. You love the community, but as things improve, it's about progression. At some point you switch lifestyles. It's always in our hearts, though.
Do you really consider this your debut? I saw that in a press release.
Nah. Before this I had a collaborative project with [producer] Lyve [Direct Deposit in 2009), and before that I had Don't Holla [an EP released in 2007]. "Dial Tone" was on that. I think that was more my debut than anything else. But because of the scale it's on now and the fact I'm more seasoned, you can see the growth, the transition to where I'm at now. This is the rebirth. I went about two years where I just dropped singles, no [lengthy] projects. So this year is a rebirth. More projects are coming out. I wasn't inspired in 2011, going into '12. I wasn't feeling it. And Rich Kidd — I don't think he understands the depth of it — but he's responsible for keeping me motivated. I was so stagnant musically, but once I started clicking with his beats? New inspiration, new life.
On "Where the Love Go" it sounds like you are ready to throw in the towel.
That's when it was written. I wasn't passionate about what I was doing. I always told myself that if I wasn't having fun doing this anymore — getting in the studio, being creative — then I'm done. Because there wasn't money coming in; I wasn't touring. The game was stagnant; nobody was being creative. It's like they were looking to see what the next thing would be. I was like, "Fuck it. I don't want to do it anymore." Then life situations happened as well. You know what? Fuck it. But you get over it. I'm sure every artist has gone through that. Doesn't matter the career, you reach a point where things feel stagnant and you think maybe it's time for a change. That song came when I was done with it. I've been doing this for a while…
When did you write your first rhyme?
I was 13, 14 — the peak of high school. Grade 9, we started performing, but it wasn't us writing the rhymes. Back then I had a mentor for hip-hop. We were in a group called Young N.A.P.P.S., and our mentor would write all our shit, got us comfortable onstage. We were performing at age nine, ten.
So you were Kris Kross, and you had a Jermaine Dupri.
Yep. [Laughs] Exactly. But our shit was much more 'hood. We were much more grimy, bro.
Who was your mentor?
My boy P Crucial. He was somebody that grew up with us in the projects. He had a vision. He put five of us together. None of us had any experience rapping but we were involved in hip-hop. He was my older brother's friend, so he had been in hip-hop way before us. He was just training us. We'd be in the basement for long days, rhyming for hours. He'd make us close our eyes and had us envision being on Arsenio Hall. All types of shit, bro. He really put the dream in our heads. He was Morpheus. He gave us all pills. Some of us unplugged; I stuck with it. I'm here now, and everything I do is a tribute to him. He got me started.
So you wanted to do this since then? You never wavered?
Until Don't Holla. Me doing mixtapes and battling, I didn't want to do it professionally. I was just spittin'. It was cool being part of it. But once I started putting records together I felt, OK, I can do this. I can compete with the best of them — even though I couldn't back then, that's how I felt.
Do you still need a day job?
I still do things here and there. Before this I was job-hopping; it wasn't career-oriented. I've been a system analyst. I've worked the background of an online gaming casino, doing IT networking, just jumping from job to job. But any part-time stuff I pick up now, the music is on the forefront. So I can sustain myself through part-time work and the music.
Do you go into the studio every day, write every day?
More writing every day. It's been a while since I sat in a studio and vibed out. I like to go in with ideas and have the people there — my team, build on that. I like going in with an idea sketched out and then building on that impulsively.
"Get Away," featuring Melanie Durant, is a strong tune. Tell me about that song.
It's about getting away from a relationship I didn't want to have, a one-night stand that became something more attached. You didn't really want it but at the same time you can't fight it. I wanted to get away but at the same time I didn't. I was fighting that emotion on that song.
A lot of guys can relate to that.
They can. And I hope they catch what it's about. That's why I made that song a little more melodic.
What's been the hardest song for you write?
It's going to be on the new project [tentatively titled Carpe Diem). It's called "My Struggle." I'm bearing it all on that. As vulnerable as rappers don't like to sound, I don't give a fuck. I needed to get everything out on that, and I got everything out. So much shit between family and lifestyle. It was a crazy year for me [in 2012], and I put it all on that song. It's not formatted for radio, but it'll be pushed out first. I want to bring people into how I feel. I don't care how it makes me look. There's a lot of emotion. When people hear it, especially family members, they're not gonna like it. They're not going to understand where it's coming from, but it's coming from a place that was real. It was tough to write because I was already thinking about how people are going to react to it. Rich Kidd did that beat.
Explain this line to me: "Swimmin' in the coochie, introduce her to the backstroke/ Jay Electronica hoes who think it's a damn joke." What's the Jay Electronica reference there?
Did you catch Jay Electronica at Manifesto [in 2010]? He was talking to the crowd and was saying how he liked to choke girls during sex. He went off about it. I was like, "Yo, as raw as he is right now, I kinda like that shit too." I don't want to choke them till they pass out obviously, but when you're got up in the moment, a little choking gets involved. Shit happens. That's what I was referring to, and I wrote that a week after that concert. People felt weird about it, but I could relate to it. It was fuckin' horrible timing for him to talk about that at Manifesto, where you're not supposed to be cursing onstage. Kids out there (for a free show). Horrible timing… but I related to it.
Another song that grabbed me was "Blue Shield." What's the worst experience you've had with the cops?
So many. It's just a continuous cycle with these cops. I understand somebody has to uphold the law; shit would be crazy without cops there. But it's how they do it. They'll never get cooperation from the community with how they harass, how they follow you home. They'll see you in a nice car and start asking questions. Constant harassment. I don't get it.
Do you feel that now, or was this just growing up in a lower-income area in Scarborough?
Now. As legitimate as I'm keeping it right now, there's never a time I feel like they're not pinpointing me because of my complexion. It's negligent racism; they neglect to see that I'm just regular people on my way home. You don't need to follow me because of quotas or because I "fit a description." It's stupid shit. Nonstop harassment. Until they smash that stigma… There's even times when I'm driving and wearing my hat and I might feel the need to take it off because it might alleviate some of the pressure off the situation. I shouldn't even want to feel like that. There's times I don't [take it off]; you want to harass me, do it. My shit is legit. They try to put us in all one category.
Do you find the harassment the same in other cities?
New York's the worst. They pulled us over saying we fit the description of a stabbing that happened hours ago. Meanwhile we just drove in with Ontario plates. How can we possibly fit that description? Are you saying we all look the same? What are you saying? Until that bullshit ceases, which it probably never will, you have to write songs like "Blue Shield" to get the message out there.
You have a naturally strong, deep voice, which gives you an advantage as an MC. Where does that come from? Did you father have a heavy voice?
That's just puberty, man. Shit. The name Tona comes from my distinctive tone of voice. I've learned how to project it. When I first started, it used to be super-low tone. I wasn't projecting it well. Now I know how to find a nice mid-tone, not too low or too high, and I can throw it and create moods with it by controlling it.
What is your most memorable battle?
Blake Carrington. I still have the VHS tape and everything. I want to convert it and put it online one day for people to see. I didn't know this cat; I just brought me and my cousin out to Mississauga for a battle. It was pretty big, like $1,000, and back then to me, that was some money. I was 17 — $1,000 to spit some rhymes and shit? I'm going for it. So the battle started. I think I was the first or second person up, and I killed this guy. But while I was battling (in the first round) I saw Blake. The reason I noticed him is because I knew, this is the only competition I'm gonna have all day. I knew I had to start prepping lines for him right away. Mind you, I had to go through like four or five opponents first. The finals come down to me and him. I feel like I got the first round. Second round, he definitely got that. Third round comes, and he says a line he had said before — in the same battle. He was like, "Yo, stop the beat!" This is where I started getting mad.
The judges were from Mississauga, and they were like, "Yo, should we give him another shot?" Usually, you repeatin' the same shit from the same battle, no one's giving you another shot. You're getting kicked out of there. So after three rounds, they give him another shot. We go a fourth round, and I feel I won that too. So now in my mind it's like 3-1. They wouldn't give it to me; they went another round, and then another round. It was supposed to be three rounds and it went six. The a cappella, though, he killed me on that. I gotta give him that; it was the very last round. Killed me. I probably did one more battle after that and left it. It's not even a sport no more. I just remember leaving pissed off. In my mind I had already spent that $1,000. Mississauga cats, they were hating. Me and Blake were going at it. I want people to see that. I kept all that stuff. This was like 2001 or '02. It's important to keep all that.
What's the biggest challenge for you now?
Getting the world to hear the music. I want my reach to extend beyond the Canadian boundaries. I want the U.K., Africa… there are so many lanes. Everyone is focused on across the border, but I think Europe could be a big market for me. My challenge now is bridging the gap between here and there. Sony in the U.S. is helping me do that. They asked me where I wanted to target my music, and I said there's so many places, let's not just focus on one. Germany, Amsterdam, anywhere. Once the world tunes in, they'll understand it's universal music.
What's the best compliment you've received?
Comparing me to Jay-Z, because that's one of my favourite artists that I used to get compared to. I even heard somebody say, "Why does Ludacris sound like Jay-Z on this song?" And it was my song. It sounded like Luda and like Jay. I'm not imitating somebody's sound, but I think it's a compliment that some people couldn't separate my music from their wavelength.
Anything else you want to let people know?
I want people to see the growth. There are songs that are hard, but there are songs that are light as well. I'm not one MC; I'm not just going to give you bars all the time. I want to make music people can party too, music that is thought-provoking like "Blue Shield" or "Darkest Dayz," that'll make you think about your life. It can't always be negative. And have fun. I'm well-rounded. I'm not gonna just bar you to death. I want people to enjoy the music. It's about versatility, not adhering to one style and sticking with it your whole career. I need them to see the vision.
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OVERVIEW: DOON…
Veronica doesn't think she's going crazy. But why can't anyone else see the mysterious blond boy who keeps popping up wherever she goes? When her best friend, Mackenna, invites her to spend the summer in Scotland, Veronica jumps at the opportunity to leave her complicated life behind for a few months.
But the Scottish countryside holds other plans.
Not only has the imaginary kilted boy followed her to Alloway, she and Mackenna uncover a strange set of rings and a very unnerving letter from Mackenna's great aunt—and when the girls test the instructions Aunt Gracie left behind, they find themselves transported to a land that defies explanation. Doon seems like a real-life fairy tale, complete with one prince who has eyes for Mackenna and another who looks suspiciously like the boy from Veronica's daydreams. But Doon has a dark underbelly as well. The two girls could have everything they've longed for...or they could end up breaking an enchantment and find themselves trapped in a world that has become a nightmare.
DOON is loosely based on the premise of the musical Brigadoon, with permission from the ALan Jay Lerner Estate and the Frederick Loewe Foundation.
FORMAT: Doon is the first book in a proposed series. It is a YA romance novel with a few fantasy elements in it, but it is mostly a romance novel. It stands at 368 pages and was published by Blink on August 20, 2013 and the paperback will be released July 29, 2014.
ANALYSIS: On paper – or the flap of a book cover – Doon sounds like an amazing and slightly unique book that was just perfect for me. It promised to be 'loosely based' off of musical Brigadoon and it takes place in Scotland. Unfortunately, what was promised didn't really meet up to what was delivered.
The entire idea behind the story was fairly original and had so much potential, but extremely predictable, almost boring main characters, a slow moving plot, and irritating conversations and 'cutesy catch phrases' really just ruined the whole book.
I'll start with the main characters. The novel switches between the POV of Veronica and Mackenna. These characters were extremely irritating to the point it ruined the whole book.
Veronica is this 'gorgeous' beauty who doesn't know how beautiful she is, but that isn't the worst. She spends the entire novel swooning over this mysterious guy and whining/crying about how broken she is as a person all because her daddy left her and her boyfriend dumped her. While I understand the need for this back story, we – as readers – are reminded of Veronica's daddy issues and boyfriend woes every 5 seconds.
Mackenna is the opposite of Veronica, except she too doesn't realize she's beautiful. She is supposed to be fun-loving, but comes across as snarky, mean, and extremely jaded. Now, here is the kicker. She loves Broadway and musicals. So, every few moments she is comparing life to some favorite musical or saying these really cheesy phrases like 'Holy Hammerstein!' and ' Sweet Baby Sondheim'.
Maybe things have changed since I was a teen, but I can almost guarantee that teenage girls would not repeatedly make these phrases an everyday occurrence, multiple times throughout the day. It just seemed unrealistic and very tiring.
If the bad characterization of the two main characters wasn't bad enough, we are given the secondary character of James MacCrae and Duncan MacCrae. These are extremely handsome guys who come equipped with eight-pack abs, because six-pack abs just aren't sexy/hot enough. Unfortunately, these characters lack personality and are only developed from afar because we are given a look into life from Veronica/Mackenna.
Another huge issue with the book was the writing. The team of authors seemed set out to make a point that Veronica/Mackenna are BFFs. To make their point, they tell the readers that these two 'share a brain' at least a dozen times. I get that it is a cute phrase and all, but it really was overused.
In addition to the issue of the overuse of cute phrases, the use of a rather frustrating Scottish dialect made this novel a difficult read. Every individual who is from Scotland speaks with an abundance of dinnas, kennas, tas, fers, and other random words. Every single time someone opened their mouth they had this come out of their mouths.
Overall, the entire book – which should have been great – was executed in an extremely juvenile way. This would have been great had two 13 year olds written this, but it wasn't. I understand it is a YA novel, but I really don't see this appealing to its main audience. And it certainly is not appealing to anyone outside of the main audience.
Sadly, what could have been a wonderful novel with a few slightly typical YA quirks turned into something completely different. I kept reading hoping it would get better, but it didn't. I would not advice people to not read this book, I would just say to approach it with caution and a very, very open mind.
Casey said...
Cindy, I think you hit the nail on the head. This story is both conventional and transparent, which makes it extremely boring. On top of that, there was zilch in the way of chemistry between any of the characters; the friendship feels forced and contrived, and the romances are even less believable. What's more, there were at least four instances of poor editing--incorrect word choice and grammatical errors that should have been caught before publication. Sigh. I too had high hopes from the premise, and I was extremely disappointed.
I really tried to be open to this book. It being a first in the series and all, but the more I read the more I was like - why are these people friends? The whole 'I love him, but he can't love me' plot was underdeveloped and not very detailed.
I understand having a goal of creating a story with your best friend (as the authors are best friends in real life), and maybe to the relationships were so detailed in their minds that it didn't come across in the book - I don't know but it just didn't work.
I disagree it may be because i'm younger but I thought it was a cute story about 2 best friends finding love and happiness which we all want. So I think people should read the book and look closer to the meaning. I agree with a little about the errors but maybe they were just excited about the book coming out.
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Gordon Campbell on the government’s belated moves on property speculation
Is it a property tax on capital gains or a capital gains tax on property? The Jesuitical distinctions in the government’s spin about its latest moves on property speculators are all about whether the government can claim that it jumped, or confess that it was pushed, into a response. Calling it a property tax means that it was an extension of existing provisions – while calling it a capital gains would be to ’fess up to sleeping with the enemy.
Definitional issues aside – and since this new tax walks and talks like a capital gains tax, lets call it that – there is no doubt that the government has had to be dragged reluctantly to this position. Clearly, a politician can live in denial for only so long. For months, Finance Minister Bill English had been peddling the line that governments can’t really do much to dampen down the demand side of speculation in housing. Australia, English liked to point out, had (a) a stiffer capital gains tax and (b) strict rules against foreign speculators buying existing houses …but regardless, English claimed, they still have a housing price bubble in Sydney ! .
It was never a convincing argument. (Hey, we still have fires too, but no one thinks it would be good idea to live without the Fire Service.) Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler for one, didn’t buy it. Last week, the RB signalled that our Wild West stance towards housing speculation in Auckland is putting the New Zealand economy at serious risk, if and when the price bubble eventually bursts. Speculators account for some 41% of Auckland house sales. Come October, the RB decreed, such people will need to stump up with a 30% deposit before they can get a bank loan.
With refreshing honesty, Wheeler has since explained what a “modest” impact these moves would have, and he cited a recent ANZ survey that Auckland house prices are expected to rise by 75% over the next 5 years. That’s a price bubble, by any standard. Yet by Wheeler’s own reckoning, the RB’s new counter-measures would achieve only an 8% decline in house sales, and a 2-4% decline in house prices. Given that Auckland house prices have risen 9.5% in the past three months, a 2-4% reduction is better than nothing, but would hardly be a game-changer. What the RB was issuing was a none-too-subtle invitation to the government to step up, and do more.
Ion passing, its worth noting the main reason for the modest effect of the RB’s moves. The RB’s tougher lending requirements will constrain only those speculators who borrow from local banks. Foreigners who pay cash, or who access their mortgage money from Singapore and China (at only 2.5 % rates of interest) would be unaffected. As Lyndon Fairbairn, a New Zealand developer based in Singapore told RNZ, we’re a very attractive place for foreign investors in property to do their business.
We offer high yields on rental property – roughly four times above those currently available in Sydney, New York or Singapore, Fairbairn claimed, and our compliance costs are minimal. “We don’t have stamp duties, or [until now] a capital gains tax. It’s a very easy place to transact…”
With his back pushed to the wall, English has finally acted. Yesterday, the government announced that the Budget will unveil a new regime that’s likely to include such things as (a) a de facto registration system for foreign speculators which will among other things, make money laundering more difficult (b) a capital gains tax on property on-sold within two years, with a few exceptions for the likes of family – inherited property and (c) possibly, a withholding tax for foreign investors.
For now, foreigners will still be able to buy existing homes in New Zealand. In Australia by contrast, foreigners are barred from buying existing houses and thus, they can’t fuel the price inflation spiral in the ‘secondary’ housing market. Since they can buy only new houses, this means that foreign investors add to Australia’s housing stock, and they create jobs in the construction industry in the process. It seems like a no-brainer for New Zealand to do likewise, but so far, we’ve chosen not to follow suit.
Until yesterday in fact, Bill English had seemed to be fixated solely on the supply side of the housing equation. Freeing up land and building houses is a worthy long-term goal, but it can also look like you’re doing nothing in the meantime. In that respect, these new taxation-based attempts to dampen down demand should be seen as a belated response to an inertia that was no longer politically viable.
For The Love of Money
Quite a few songs deal with taxes and money….starting all the way back in the 1920s with Fiddlin’ John Carson’s anthem “Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Them All.” From Philadelphia in the early 1970s, here’s Eddie Levert and the O’Jays doing their classic “For The Love of Money” on what looks like the Soul Train television show. It’s a world of flares, loud checks, snappy dance moves…and a cautionary message besides. Given that both of Levert’s sons – the musicians Gerald and Sean Levert – have since died from drug-related overdoses and withdrawals, the lyrics probably carry a personal weight for him now that they may not have, back in the day.
People will lie, Lord, they will cheat
People don’t care who they hurt or beat….
For a small piece of paper
It carries a lot of weight
Call it lean, mean, mean green
Almighty dollar….
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What Is a Pulse Oximeter, and Should You Get One to Warn of COVID-19?
TUESDAY, April 28, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Even though many Americans might not even know what pulse oximeters are, the tiny devices are flying off pharmacy shelves as high-risk folks worry about COVID-19.
That's because they perform a critical function, measuring the concentration of oxygen in the blood. How? Just clip the device onto a patient's finger for a reading.
A healthy blood level of "oxygen saturation" normally measures 95-100% on a pulse oximeter, and readings lower than 90% are considered dangerously low.
With shortness of breath a key symptom of severe COVID-19, many people are buying pulse oximeters as "early warning" devices to track their blood oxygen levels, in case they require supplemental oxygen in a hospital.
According to one recent report from CNN, by last Friday pulse oximeters were already sold out on websites of major drugstore chains CVS and Walgreens.
Sales spiked especially after the New York Times published an op-ed article by ER physician Dr. Richard Levitan last Friday. Levitan, who works in Littleton, N.H., volunteered for 10 days at New York City's Bellevue Hospital recently. He saw that COVID-19 patients who didn't feel out of breath had falling oxygen levels. Levitan suggested the devices might provide people stuck at home with COVID early warning that hospital treatment was required.
Severe shortness of breath is one key indicator that a person who's at home with COVID-19 might need to head to the ER. But pulmonary specialist Dr. Len Horovitz said the intensity of breathlessness can vary widely between patients.
In fact, he said, "recent clinical reports reveal that patients with COVID-19 may have significant oxygen desaturation -- less than 8% -- and yet appear conversant, and not breathless.
"For this reason, it would be helpful if those patients were able to monitor their oxygen saturation so that if they dipped down to the mid-80s or lower, they could use supplemental oxygen [at a hospital]," said Horovitz, who practices at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
Pulse oximeters are already in standard use in hospitals and doctors' offices nationwide. However, one doctor speaking to CNN stressed that people shouldn't rely on a pulse oximeter to determine if they are infected with the new coronavirus.
"If the question is, 'Would it be a good early indicator if somebody has COVID-19 infection?', I would say probably not," said Dr. J. Randall Curtis, a professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Washington. That's because dips in blood oxygen levels typically occur only after COVID-19 has progressed to a more serious stage -- long after initial symptoms such as high fever or a dry cough occur.
But once mild-to-moderate COVID-19 has set in, some patients might benefit from a pulse oximeter, said Dr. Eric Cioe-Pena, who directs global health at Northwell Health in New Hyde Park, N.Y.
"If the oxygen level on a pulse ox is less than 90%, that is a concerning sign and a good reason to go to the hospital emergency department," he said. But he believes that not every American needs to run out and get one of the devices, which typically cost around $50.
"Pulse oximeters are appropriate for patients with COVID-19 who have risk factors for severe disease, like heart or lung problems, diabetes, or those age 60 and over," Cioe-Pena said. "They are not appropriate for young healthy people."
Horovitz said there can also be a psychological downside to using a pulse oximeter: "Obsessive checking -- as patients do with temperature."
Hoarding is another issue, he said, with folks who don't need such monitoring buying up pulse oximeters.
Many factors can lower the accuracy of a standard pulse oximeter, as well. Speaking to CNN, Dr. David Hill listed nail polish, artificial nails, cold hands and poor circulation as potentially interfering with device accuracy.
"One reason not to encourage everyone to go out and get one is there's a higher likelihood of having falsely low readings in a normal population," said Hill, a pulmonary and critical care physician in Waterbury, Conn., and a spokesman for the American Lung Association. "Then those people are going to be calling physicians or going into emergency rooms that are already busy for potentially something that's nothing."
There's more on pulse oximetry at the American Lung Association.
SOURCES: Len Horovitz, M.D., pulmonary specialist, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City; Eric Cioe-Pena, M.D., director of global health, Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, N.Y.; CNN
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InsideHoops.com NewsWire | Oct. 29, 2007
The San Antonio Spurs announced today that they have traded guard Beno Udrih to the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for a protected 2008 second round draft pick.
InsideHoops.com editor Jeff Lenchiner hears the Wolves also received cash considerations in the deal, and that they are going to waive Udrih. Strange deal. I haven't confirmed this new info as a fact yet but it came from a trusted source.
The 6-3 Udrih was selected by the Spurs in the first round of the 2004 NBA Draft, with the 28th overall pick. In three seasons in San Antonio he appeared in 207 regular season games, averaging 5.2 points and 1.8 assists in 13.0 minutes.
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The Bootleg Files: The Fighting Kentuckian – The 8mm Version
Posted on September 28, 2018 by Phil Hall
BOOTLEG FILES 655: “The Fighting Kentuckian – The 8mm Version” (severely truncated 8mm version of the 1949 John Wayne film).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: Severely edited version of a feature film in a long-defunct home entertainment format.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Not likely.
Prior to the proliferation of video cassette recorders in the late 1970s and early 1980s, movie lovers who wanted to screen their favorite classic films at home made use of portable projectors that screened the 35mm or 70mm Hollywood theatrical fare in the much smaller 16mm, 9.5mm, 8mm and Super 8 formats.
But there was a problem with the films sold for home viewing. Due to the expense of producing and shipping prints and the limited amount of footage that could wrapped around the smaller format reels, the feature films being sold directly to consumers were edited with varying degrees of severity. Sometimes the editing was not problematic, most notably with the 16mm home entertainment print of the Lon Chaney version of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” – the 35mm theatrical prints are lost and the 16mm version, which only cut some relatively minor sequences, is all that remains of that silent classic.
More frequently, the edited versions sold to consumers, especially in the 8mm and Super 8 formats, butchered the films drastically. Sometimes, these chopped versions consisted of a single sequence – in comedy films, a grand climactic chase sequence would be marketed as a standalone offering. But perhaps the most extreme case of a heavily truncated Hollywood title was an 8mm version of the 1949 John Wayne feature “The Fighting Kentuckian,” which played in the theaters at 100 minutes but was sold to the home entertainment version in a 3-minute and 26-second version. Even worse, the film’s soundtrack was erased and replaced with subtitles to explain what was happening.
“The Fighting Kentuckian” was made at Republic Pictures, the low-rent studio where Wayne was under contract. While Republic had no problems loaning Wayne out to bigger studios, it had problems keeping Wayne satisfied in its less-than-extravagant settings. In order to maintain a happy star, Republic enabled Wayne to branch out into producing. He served as producer in his 1947 feature “Angel and the Badman,” and “The Fighting Kentuckian” was the second Republic release on which Wayne carried producer credit.
At Wayne’s insistence, Republic recruited Oliver Hardy to co-star with him in “The Fighting Kentuckian.” On the surface, this seemed like a strange casting decision because Hardy was known as one-half of the comedy team of Laurel and Hardy and Wayne was actively splitting the funnyman away from his longtime partner Stan Laurel. Wayne knew Hardy since the 1920s and they were good friends, and the script of “The Fighting Kentuckian” called for a single sidekick for Wayne, so there was no place for Laurel. Fortunately, Laurel had no problems with Hardy working as solo – the comics had been off-screen since 1945 and Laurel was having diabetes-related health issues and was not particularly eager to be back on the screen at the time.
Less pleasant for Wayne was having Republic studio chief Herbert Yates require the casting of Vera Ralston as his leading lady. Ralston was a Czechoslovakian ice skater that Yates tried to make into a star. The fact that Ralston was his mistress – and, later, his second wife – clouded the executive’s notion of her star potential. Wayne worked with Ralston on the forgettable 1945 feature “Dakota,” and he was unhappy to have her in this film. Ralston’s inadequacy as an actress required multiple takes on her scenes – and Wayne would later blame her for what he perceived as the film’s mediocrity, although he was being highly unfair since it is an entertaining (if forgettable) work and Ralston gives a satisfactory performance in a badly-written role as Wayne’s adoring love interest.
“The Fighting Kentuckian” takes place in Alabama in 1818. Wayne plays a Kentucky militiaman returning from the Battle of New Orleans who become involved in foiling a plot to prevent a robber baron from cheating hundreds of French army refugees out of land granted to them by Congress. Ralston is the daughter of a French general – her Czech accent is never explained – while Hardy is Wayne’s bumbling sidekick.
For a 100-minute film, “The Fighting Kentuckian” packs a lot of plot into a relatively compact running time. Wayne and Hardy engage in silly comedy, perennial bad girl Marie Windsor provides her usual brand of sexy menace, and silent film buffs can spot Griffith leading lady Mae Marsh in a small role. The grand finale is, to borrow Variety’s lingo, a boffo chase and fight sequence that reaffirmed Republic’s ability to churn out highly enjoyable fare with relatively minimal expense.
For the 8mm home entertainment version, “The Fighting Kentuckian” is shrunken into a confusing shadow of its theatrical edition. This edition only mentions the film’s title and Wayne in its opening credits. The establishing shots feature the Kentucky militia marching through a town, with a subtitle explaining that “The Fighting Kentuckians come marching through, on their way home to Kentucky.” The viewer is clueless regarding when or where this march occurred. The next subtitled shot involves a man in a coonskin hat opening saloon doors while exclaiming, “Fighting Kentuckians outside.” We then see Wayne and Hardy marching along, singing something that the silent film format prevents us from enjoying. Elderly women look on in concern and a subtitle tells us that one of them is saying, “Soldiers are coming.”
Wayne and Hardy are then standing around with mugs of what might be alcohol. Wayne sees someone off-screen and hands Hardy his mug before walking out of the frame. Hardy spills the contents of the mugs on himself and brushes the excess liquid off his garments. Wayne connects with Ralston’s Miss Marchant, and the subtitles tell us that Wayne will stay in Alabama with this lovely lady and his roly-poly friend.
The subtitles on the next sequence are difficult to read, but what can be deciphered is information that Wayne and Hardy are engaged as surveyors. Wayne and Hardy try to chart out territory, with Hardy falling backwards into a stream and creating a huge splash. The remaining footage features a battle between … well, it is difficult to determine who is fighting who, and for what reason. Wayne and Ralston are hiding behind a log and Hardy arrives in a wagon to the rescue while blowing a horn. The footage concludes with Wayne and Ralston at their wedding ceremony, with Hardy giving the groom a top hat as a gift.
The theatrical version of “The Fighting Kentuckian” fielded mixed reviews but generated a healthy box office return. It is not certain when the 8mm version was released or how long it was in circulation, but prints can be found on eBay. This version was not included in the digital formatted home entertainment releases of the film, but a highly battered version that looks like it was videotaped off a screen can be found in an unauthorized YouTube posting.
At a time when DVDs and Blu-rays are overpacked with 4K restorations and director’s cut versions, it is somewhat amusing to see how distant generations viewed movies at home at the other extreme – even an absent soundtrack and 97 missing footage minutes was no deterrent for selling John Wayne to his fans.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: While this weekly column acknowledges the presence of rare film and television productions through the so-called collector-to-collector market, this should not be seen as encouraging or condoning the unauthorized duplication and distribution of copyright-protected material, either through DVDs or Blu-ray discs or through postings on Internet video sites.
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The Mateel Community Center
The Mateel Community Center has fostered the arts in rural Northern California for approximately forty years. Serving as the cultural hub of the Southern Humboldt community, we provide arts, educational, and social service programs, and present a myriad of multicultural musical, theatrical, dance, comedy, film, craft, and rental events- earning our non-profit organization international acclaim.
Located in the hamlet of Redway, CA, the Mateel Community Center hall is a showcase of fine woodworking, craftsmanship, and solar design that first opened in 1988. Owned and operated by the MCC, a 501-c3 non-profit organization, the Center is well utilized by the entire community and serves as a venue for both commercial and non-profit rentals, as well as in-house Mateel productions.
For hall photographs, expanded facility descriptions, and operational policies of our facility visit our Hall Rental pages.
See the Calendar for a complete list of upcoming events.
MCC Mission Statement:
The Mateel Community Center seeks to involve all segments of the community in the creative actualization of a cultural vision embracing diversity, vitality, justice and sustainability. Our programs and events serve changing community needs, emphasizing the performing and visual arts.
MCC Vision Statement:
We envision the Mateel Community Center as a hub of a culturally diverse and inclusive community.
We facilitate and nurture the community's capacity for creative self-expression.
We offer programs and facilities that serve the whole community with an emphasis on visual and performing arts.
We build relationships that are local, regional, and international both to enrich our own community and to share our experiences, values, and talents with others.
Who Is The Board of Directors?
Megan Gomes ~ President
Dusty Hughston ~ VP
Eryn Snodgrass ~ Treasurer
Pleasure Strange
Bruce Champie
Stephen Helliwell
Nate Miller
Babette Bach
The Mateel Community Center is a 501 © 3 nonprofit organization. The overall mission and vision is articulated, developed, and monitored by the nine-seat Board of Directors. The Board of Directors, in turn, works with staff to implement the strategic mission, vision, and objective goals of the organization.
Board terms are three years. Nominations for the board are taken at the annual membership, meeting held in November. Nominees must have a one-year history of membership to be eligible. Executive positions for the board are: President, Vice President, and Treasurer. Additionally, the board appoints a secretary to record board minutes and handle correspondence.
The Board of Directors meets twelve times a year, on the third Tuesday of each month at 5:30pm. Meetings are generally held at the Mateel Community Center.
To contact the board of directors please send your correspondence to: board@mateel.org This email gets forwarded to the entire board.
The Board of Directors customarily meet on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 5:30pm in the Mateel Hall unless otherwise noted below or rescheduled. Dates may be subject to change. The following are the upcoming 2018 dates.
Upcoming 2019 Meeting Dates/ Location:
Tuesday June 18
Tuesday July 16
Tuesday August 20
Tuesday September 17
Tuesday October 15
Tuesday November 19 Annual Membership Meeting
Tuesday December 179
Mateel is located at 59 Rusk Lane in Redway
Mailing address is POB 1910, Redway, CA 95560
Phone number is 707-923-3368
FAX number is 707-923-3370
Mateel History
For approximately 40 years, the Mateel Community Center has fostered the arts in rural Northern California. Serving as the cultural hub of the Southern Humboldt community, we provide arts, educational, and social service programs, and present a myriad of multicultural musical, theatrical, dance, comedy, film, and craft events- earning this 501-c3 non-profit organization both statewide and international acclaim.
The seeds that grew into the Mateel Community Center were planted in 1978 when a group of progressive young people purchased the old Firemen's Hall in Garberville as a gathering place for meetings and dances. This building was burned down by an arsonist in 1983, after which a major fundraising campaign was developed to rebuild the center in its’ current Redway location. One of the benefit events created to help with funds for the new building was Reggae On The River®, a festival which has since garnered an international reputation and continues to play a vital role in funding the annual operational expenses of the community center.
The Mateel Community Center hall has a maximum occupancy of 800 people and is a showcase of fine woodwork and passive solar design, with a full service commercial kitchen, state of the art sound and lighting, and a removable stage. Featuring a large balcony, huge windows, a sunny portico, and a new outdoor stage and amphitheater area, Mateel has been the chosen venue for thousands of events, programs, classes, weddings, meetings, and memorials presented by more than 400 different user groups and individuals. The average annual attendance at events in the MCC hall totals more than 50,000 individuals, a figure which seems to grow larger every year.
Thanks to this dedicated support base, the Mateel Community Center has been able to realize accomplishments unheard of in what might otherwise be a sleepy rural town. The cultural diversity and economic significance our organization brings to this isolated area of the North Coast augments the quality of life for local residents and is a model for other rural communities.
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Livestock was established in 2010 at The Market Studios in Dublin by Joan Healy, Louise Ward and Francis Fay. Livestock continues today with Francis Fay & Eleanor Lawler as co-curators.
Livestock is an artist-led initiative set up to support, encourage and promote performance, the artists and their work. The bi-monthly event is an opportunity for performers to show new or evolving work.
Central to their ethos is the creation of a positive and welcoming environment where artists can perform their live work to an appreciative audience. We believe performance facilitates a relationship between artist and audience, creating an intimacy and a space for dialogue between both parties.
Livestock has been part of Dublin Live Art Festival since 2012, exposing Irish performance artists’ work to International artists taking part in the Festival.
Check out Livestock on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Livestock are currently on residency in The MART Gallery Dublin
Meet the Curators
Co-Curator
Eleanor Lawler’s work concerns ideas around domesticity, being female and the ageing body. These concerns manifest as performance, textiles, movement, installation and film. Eleanor has been performing since 2011 and has been fortunate to have performed in Europe and USA.
Her films have been shown in Liverpool Biennale, Whitechapel Gallery and as part of “Visual Deflections” in 2008/9. Her latest film, The Invisible Woman, will be shown at LACE Gallery in Los Angeles in March 2018.
She has co-curating Livestock with Francis Fay since 2011 and has been an Assistant Director at Dublin Live Art Festival for 2013/14 & 15. She is an active member of the MART Gallery and Studios in Dublin 6.
Francis Fay
“There’s a place in the soul where you’ve never been wounded.” – Meister Eckhart
(Meister Eckhart: The Essential Sermons)
Francis Fay uses performance art to explore forms enhancing our understanding of reality, by investigating intimately the physical and spiritual seduction of location. He is especially interested in points of intersection wherein worlds collide and in which the inner landscape intertwines with what we know and can see for ourselves.
Reclamation is one of Fay’s key objectives. Queering traditional ritual, he uses it as a lens through which to reframe bodies, subjects and places, bypassing veils of illusion, habits and patterns in order to respond to the world through direct experience, connecting to the elemental, and ultimately conversing directly with the source.
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16 Year Old Hacker Jailed
Adam Mudd from the UK has received 2 years in jail for setting up a global computer hacking business. He was 16 when he created the Titanium Stresser software, which carried out over 1.7m attacks on major websites, including Minecraft, Xbox Live and Microsoft. Mudd earned more than $500,000 in dollars and bitcoins from selling the software to hackers.
Now 20-year-old pleaded guilty and was sentenced, with the judge noting that he came from a “perfectly respectable and caring family”. The judge also admitted that the sentence in the case must have a “real element of deterrent” and refused to suspend the jail term. He pointed out that it was a serious money-making business and Titanium Stresser was doing exactly what Mudd created it to do and sent the defendant to a young offender institution.
Mudd, who lived with his parents, had previously undiagnosed Asperger syndrome and was eager to gain status in the online gaming community than the money. He carried out about 600 of DDoS attacks against 181 IP addresses in 2014 and 2015. The man admitted to security breaches against his college while he was studying computer science. On one occasion, the college hacking affected 70 other schools and colleges, including Cambridge, Essex and East Anglia universities.
It was revealed that there were more than 112,000 registered users of Titanium Stresser who hacked about 666,000 IP addresses worldwide. Mudd created the software in September 2013 using a fake name and address in Manchester. His customers were offered a variety of payment plans, including discounts for bulk purchases, as well as a referral program.
The teenager was arrested in March 2015, when he was in his bedroom at his computer. Mudd refused to unlock the machine before his father intervened. He was expelled from college and now works as a kitchen porter, banned from the Internet for 2 years – this was a form of punishment for any computer-obsessed teenager.
His sentencing comes on the day that alleged hacker Lauri Love was given the go-ahead to challenge his extradition to the United States. American authorities have been fighting for Love, suffering from Asperger syndrome, to face trial on hacking charges. He could face 99 years in prison if he is found guilty. Love is alleged to have stolen huge amounts of data from a wide range of the US agencies, including the Federal Reserve, the US army, Nasa and the FBI.
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Race Fans, Richmond-Area Residents Help Richmond International Raceway Give Back to Local Community
With the holiday season in full swing, Richmond International Raceway is proud to announce the results of its successful campaign to benefit two area charities and ultimately, citizens in Henrico County and the Greater Richmond Metropolitan Area.
Throughout the past several weeks, the Richmond International Raceway ticket office served as a drop-off point to donate new, unwrapped toys to the Marine Toys for Tots program and food items to help the Central Virginia Foodbank. With track president Doug Fritz pledging to supplement the toy numbers with a shopping spree by staff members and with a monetary donation to the Central Virginia Foodbank, area residents and race fans responded with incredible generosity.
All told, 709 new, unwrapped toys will find their way into the hands of area children through the Marine Toys for Tots program and 619 pounds of food items will help Richmond-area residents during a time of need.
Additionally, Richmond International Raceway held its third annual Community Tree Lighting on Wednesday, December 6. Hundreds attended the event, which was highlighted by a performance of several holiday songs by Laburnum Elementary School students, decorations created by Wilder Middle School students and a performance by the Henrico High School Mighty Marching Warrior Band. The tree, which is located at the front of the raceway's property at the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Richmond-Henrico Turnpike, will remain illuminated through Christmas Day. The master of ceremonies for the event was Matt DiNardo, meteorologist for Richmond's ABC affiliate, WRIC TV-8. Frank Thornton, Chairman, Fairfield District, Henrico County, also welcomed those in attendance.
"During the holiday season and throughout the entire year, Richmond International Raceway strives to give back to our great community," said track president Doug Fritz. "We are proud to serve as a collection point for both groups and we are very pleased by the generosity of our area residents and race fans. This is the third year we have worked with these programs and also held a Community Tree Lighting. We are looking forward to many more years of helping citizens in Henrico County and the Greater Richmond area through these worthwhile causes."
About Central Virginia Foodbank:
Through its more than 500 partner agencies, the Central Virginia Foodbank serves the hunger needs of 31 counties and five cities in the Central Virginia area. Last year alone, Central Virginia Foodbank distributed 12.9 million pounds of food to support our community's most vulnerable citizens¿children living in poverty, the working poor, frail elderly, disaster victims, battered women and those who are disabled, homeless or mentally challenged.
About Marine Toys for Tots:
Since 1947, U.S. Marines have been looking after America's needy children at Christmas through their Toys for Tots program. By distributing new toys, Marines deliver a message of hope and let children know that someone cares. The objectives of the new toy include building/restoring self-esteem and eliminating the "second class citizen" syndrome that is associated with "second hand" toys. Marines bring the joy of Christmas to needy children and accomplish passive mentoring by serving as positive role models.
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Music Lives!
Vinyl Revivyl
Vinyl Revivyl is a cover band based out of Guelph playing classic rock, blues, country and top 40 songs from the 1960’s to current. Inspired by a shared love of great music and bands from different genres and an even greater desire to play/sing, each member brings their own unique influence to the bands music and show that leads us to add our own little pizzazz to each song we cover. From heavy metal, jazz, classic rock, blues, country and pop it all comes together nicely. As life time students of music we strive to create a great experience for every venue we play.
We play everything from rock, acoustic melodies, country, blues and everything in between. From the 60’s on. The band is always learning new material and with professional sound and lighting equipment we work with you to create a show that meets the need of any venue we play at. It’s not just about playing great music, it is about creating a great experience and we do both!
Social Media/Website Links: Website: Vinylrevivyl.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VinylRevivyl/
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Browse: Home / 2014 / November / Day of the Dead Celebration Brings Life to Mexican Tradition
Day of the Dead Celebration Brings Life to Mexican Tradition
Students dressed up at a Dia de Los Muertos celebration at Cal Poly Pomona several years ago.
The Mexican tradition of celebrating the lives of loved ones who have died comes to Cal Poly Pomona this week.
The César E. Chávez Center for Higher Education, in collaboration with the Ethnic & Women’s Studies Department, will host the 20th annual Día de los Muertos event Friday, Nov. 7.
The event will feature 25 multicultural altars, as well as a performance by Chicano Batman, a Los Angeles-based indie band that combines various Latin-style forms of music with soul and socially conscious lyrics.
Aztec dancers will kick off the festivities at 5 p.m. Ballet Folklorico, Japanese Taiko drummers, and spoken-word artists also will perform.
“It’s really about celebrating life and knowing death is not scary, but a part of living,” says Lorena Márquez, the Chávez Center coordinator. “Celebrating death is also celebrating life.”
Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is celebrated across Latin America, but originated in Mexico. The holiday is a combination of Aztec ritual and Catholicism that Spanish conquistadors brought to the region, according to nationalgeographic.com.
On Día de los Muertos, the dead are honored with celebrations, festivals, and parties meant to be lively and upbeat. It is said that the day marks a time when the spirits of the dead come back to join in the festivities.
Márquez says families often will visit the graves of their loved ones to clean up, decorate the sites, and bring the deceased person’s favorite dishes.
One of the most noted symbols of the holiday are calaveras, or skulls, which are painted and shown as joyous.
Cal Poly Pomona’s event will include these skulls, as well as the marigolds and candles that are often seen as part of the holiday, Márquez says.
Free face painting will be offered from 1 to 4:30 p.m. at the Chavez Center and from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Bronco Commons.
The altars on display will be placed to remember loved ones, but also to highlight social issues of concern to the students who construct them, Márquez says.
All of these aspects are an important part of keeping cultural traditions alive, she adds.
“Traditions can sometimes get lost,” she says. “So for some, the first time they might be introduced to Día de los Muertos is through Cal Poly Pomona’s remembrance of it.”
The event has grown and evolved over the years.
At one time, the campus had six or seven altars and held the event at University Park. Now, there are 20 to 30 altars, up to 1,000 people attend, and the celebration is now in the Bronco Commons, Márquez says.
“Twenty years before us, students put in the time and the energy, and now they are coming back to the event,” she says. “They are bringing their families. The students of the past and present are really what make this event what it is.”
Visit http://www.cpp.edu/~oslcc/cecche/dia-de-los-muertos.shtml for more information about the event. The event also can be found on Facebook or on Twitter.
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Contestants during a visit to the Grand Palace in Bangkok on December 4th. The Miss Universe contestants are touring, filming, rehearsing and preparing to compete for the Miss Universe crown in Bangkok, Thailand. Tune in to the FOX telecast at 7:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed on Sunday, December 16, 2018 from the IMPACT Arena in Bangkok, Thailand to see who will become the next Miss Universe. HO/The Miss Universe Organization
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Romina Lozano, Miss Universe Peru 2018; and Joyce Prado, Miss Universe Bolivia 2018; during a visit to the Grand Palace in Bangkok on December 4th. The Miss Universe contestants are touring, filming, rehearsing and preparing to compete for the Miss Universe crown in Bangkok, Thailand. Tune in to the FOX telecast at 7:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed on Sunday, December 16, 2018 from the IMPACT Arena in Bangkok, Thailand to see who will become the next Miss Universe. HO/The Miss Universe Organization
Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers, Miss Universe Great Britain 2018; Catriona Gray, Miss Universe Philippines 2018; and Emily Sara-Claire Maddison, Miss Universe Jamaica 2018; during a visit to the Grand Palace in Bangkok on December 4th. The Miss Universe contestants are touring, filming, rehearsing and preparing to compete for the Miss Universe crown in Bangkok, Thailand. Tune in to the FOX telecast at 7:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed on Sunday, December 16, 2018 from the IMPACT Arena in Bangkok, Thailand to see who will become the next Miss Universe. HO/The Miss Universe Organization
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Comet Humason
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Comet Humason, formally designated C/1961 R1 (a.k.a. 1962 VIII and 1961e), was a non-periodic comet discovered by Milton L. Humason on September 1, 1961. Its perihelion was well beyond the orbit of Mars, at 2.133 AU. Its period is 2940 years, and the diameter of its nucleus estimated at about 41 km.
It was a 'giant' comet, much more active than a normal comet for its distance to the Sun, with an absolute magnitude of +1.5, a hundred times brighter than an average new comet. It had an unusually disrupted or 'turbulent' appearance. It was also unusual in that the spectrum of its tail showed a strong predominance of the ion CO+, a result previously seen unambiguously only in Comet Morehouse (C/1908 R1).
News And Comments — Comets: Comet Humason 1961e', Irish Astronomical Journal, Vol. 6, p. 191 (1964)
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Movement may refer to:
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Social movement, a coordinated group action focused on a political or social issue
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Art movement, a tendency or style in art followed by a group of artists
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She Wolf (Spanish: Loba) is the eighth studio album by Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira. It was released on 9 October 2009, by Epic Records and Sony Music Latin. As executive producers, Shakira and Amanda Ghost enlisted collaborators including The Neptunes, John Hill, Wyclef Jean, Lukas Burton, Future Cut, Jerry Duplessis and Timbaland. Musically, the record shifts from her traditional Latin pop and pop rock musical styles, instead exploring electropop, with influences of folk and world music. The lyrical themes of the album mostly focus on love and relationships and were based on the conversations Shakira had with her friends.
She Wolf reached number one on the charts of Argentina, Ireland, Italy, Mexico and Switzerland. It also charted inside the top five in Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom. It debuted at number fifteen on the Billboard 200. She Wolf was certified double-platinum in Colombia and Mexico, platinum in Italy and Spain, and gold in numerous countries including France and the United Kingdom.
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A philosophical movement is either the appearance or increased popularity of a specific school of philosophy, or a fairly broad but identifiable sea-change in philosophical thought on a particular subject. Major philosophical movements are often characterized with reference to the nation, language, or historical era in which they arose.
Talk of a philosophical movement can often function as a shorthand for talk of the views of a great number of different philosophers (and others associated with philosophy, such as historians, artists, scientists and political figures). On the other hand, most philosophical movements in history consisted in a great number of individual thinkers who disagreed in various ways; it is often inaccurate and something of a caricature to treat any movement as consisting in followers of uniform opinion. More often the defining ideas of any philosophical movement are templates on which individual thinkers develop their own particular ideas.
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Settle District U3A Code of Conduct
U3A members are expected to conduct themselves within the movement’s “guiding principles”. They are also expected to treat each other with dignity and respect.
The member Code of Conduct clarifies the standard of behaviour expected as a member of a U3A.
Members must always act in the best interests of Settle District U3A and the U3A Movement, strive to uphold its reputation and never do anything which could bring Settle District U3A or the U3A Movement into disrepute or expose it to undue risk.
Members expected to use Settle District U3A’s resources responsibly and only to further its stated charitable objects/purposes.
Members are expected to reflect the current organisational policy of Settle District U3A, regardless of whether it conflicts with their personal views.
Members are expected to abide by Settle District U3A’s procedures and practices.
Members are expected to treat each other with dignity and respect at all times. Sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic or otherwise offensive and inflammatory remarks and behaviour are not acceptable. These constitute harassment and have no place in Settle District U3A.
This policy was adopted at the Committee meeting of Settle District U3A on 7th February 2020 and will be reviewed every two years.
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Viola Parrocchetti: designer, artist, storyteller
On a starry night, beneath a palm tree, two lizards sway in each other’s arms, absorbed in a romantic waltz. Another couple – human, this time – wade through the sea near Positano’s famous stack of houses carrying a battered suitcase, while overhead three stone-sculpted Ancient Greek theatre masks look down on the scene like gods appalled by human follies. A dreamy woman in sepia with a flamboyant, colourful butterfly hairpiece occupies the centre of a classic Amalfi Coast view, the line of the coast beneath Ravello’s famous solitary pine tree. Positano habitués may recognise her as artist and dancer Vali Myers, a remarkable free spirit who lived with a pet fox in a wild canyon outside town. Another dancer, the great 1930s Russian ballerina Olga Spessivtseva, appears in the rich Byzantine costume of Yarsolavna, the wife of Prince Igor in Michel Fokine’s ballet of the same name. In her hands she holds a sketch of Capri’s unmistakable rocky profile, which can also be seen rising from the sea through the window behind the divine Olga.
These are just four of the collages recently created by Viola Parrocchetti, designer and creative director of Carla Sersale’s Le Sirenuse Positano resortwear line, as narrative and inspirational storyboards for the brand’s latest Spring Summer collection. Parrocchetti, who currently lives and works in Milan, explains that she often makes collages at an early stage of her creative work on a new collection, “in order to understand the story behind it”. When I praise the understated, allusive nature of Le Sirenuse’s latest Instagram marketing campaign, which used nine of the designer’s collages to promote a collection that was invisible and “off-screen”, Parrocchetti admits to admiring the story-first approach of Maria Grazia Chiuri, creative director of Dior, who “doesn’t assail the public with a fabric print or an embroidered detail from a handbag, but creates stories that make us realise where the inspiration comes from”.
But then she laughs and confides: “To be honest, there was also another reason for the collages in this particular case – due to the lockdown measures that were put in place in Italy during the pandemic, it was impossible to get the photographer and the model and the clothes in the same place at the same time. So Carla asked if I could come up with something to replace the usual photos!”.
Parrocchetti and Sersale have a family connection – Viola is the daughter of Carla’s eldest sister. But it was only when Viola moved to Mumbai in 2009 and began working with local artisans on a line of embroidered silk t-shirts that Carla realized her niece was very much in tune, creatively, with the fusion of Mediterranean and Silk Road influences that had long characterized the style and approach of Emporio Sirenuse. “I immediately loved what she created”, Carla recalls. “She was different from everybody else. She had her own style, her own language. She was new, romantic, modern, elegant and simple at the same time”.
In November 2012, Carla and her husband Antonio, co-owner of Le Sirenuse, flew to Mumbai. She takes up the story: “Viola had rented a room in the slum and hired her first master tailor and six assistant tailors. She had bought the stitching machines secondhand, and started a company with an Indian girl who remained her partner for the first few years. Visiting the workshop was something I will never forget. Antonio was with me, and at first, I confess, it was a little shocking. But we trusted Viola and started this collaboration. The first collection came into my Positano store in March 2013. Two years later we were in Bergdorf Goodman”.
Taking her cue from photos of the Suzani rugs collected by Antonio’s globetrotting father Franco, Viola designed a series of embroidered cushion covers that became a big hit at the Emporio. At the same time, she began to design prints and embroidered motifs for kaftans and other garments, which were given life by the deft fingers of her talented tailors. After she returned to Milan in 2015, Viola maintained her connection with the Mumbai workshop, which had since moved out of Dharavi. Today it accounts for around 90% of Le Sirenuse Positano’s production, with a smaller part coming from another atelier Parrocchetti helped to set up in Kolkata.
One important inspiration for Le Sirenuse Positano’s Spring Summer 2020 collection was, Viola says, the convention-defying creativity of free souls like Vali Myers and the hippy movement that followed in her path. Her collection pays affectionate homage to flared pants, to crop tops and exposed midriffs, to the glorious psychedelic album covers of the early seventies. But there’s also another strand in her designs – which, as Carla points out, are fabric-first: “She always begins by designing the fabric pattern, whether printed or embroidered. Once she is happy with her designs, she starts thinking what styles to apply them to”.
This other strand is an homage to the emigrés and artists who were drawn to the Amalfi Coast and Capri from the 19thcentury onwards, to Russians like Michail Semenov, a writer and art dealer who in the early years of the 20th century lived in a converted mill above the beach of Arienzo. He was visited here in April 1917 by Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau, in the company of ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev and choreographer Leonid Massine. This encounter of the Slavic world, France, Italy and the classical culture of Ancient Greece and Rome became a fertile creative melting pot, one that embodied a deeply romantic, highly cultured aesthetic and poetic vision of the world.
Viola has long been fascinated by a side of one of Italy’s most famous holiday destinations that is little appreciated by many of today’s visitors. “My dad has a lot of books about Capri and the characters who lived there over the years”, she says, “people like Jacques Fersen or Norman Douglas”. They were all, she adds “in love with a lost classical era”, creating an idealized Mediterranean idyll made of statue fragments (like the masks in that Vali Myers collage), tanned bodies, craggy landscapes and a diffuse Romantic pantheism.
Done in the most traditional way, with scissors and glue, then reworked on the computer, Viola Parrocchetti’s collages are themselves a tribute to a period, the first quarter of the twentieth century, when the collage became an art form in its own right – but also to another, later, flower power era when it reemerged in everything from festival posters to album covers. “I don’t want to reproduce all those 1950s Amalfi Coast clichés”, Viola explains, “things like the Vespa, the basket of lemons”. There’s more depth to the place in her view, a depth that emerges in the stories that swim in and out of her collages like lithe, sinuous dolphins.
The Le Sirenuse Positano 2020 Resortwear collection is available now at Emporio Sirenuse
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The Shed is a startup out of Virginia trying to revive the rental-for-everything business
Reducing consumption by expanding the notion of the rental economy and giving people access to tools and equipment has been something of a startup holy grail for some time. It’s a model that’s worked famously well for fashion and accessories (just ask investors in Rent the Runway), but has had not had the same resonance […]
Reducing consumption by expanding the notion of the rental economy and giving people access to tools and equipment has been something of a startup holy grail for some time.
It’s a model that’s worked famously well for fashion and accessories (just ask investors in Rent the Runway), but has had not had the same resonance for white label goods.
The Shed, out of Richmond, Va., hopes to change that.
Launched by Karen Rodgers O’Neil, a longtime marketing executive, and Daniel Perrone, a serial entrepreneur and technology executive whose previous company, BroadMap, was acquired by Apple; The Shed hopes to take the rental model that Home Depot has turned into a billion dollar business line and take it to the masses.
Unlike Home Depot, The Shed touts its presence in eight categories. Stanley Black & Decker is a marquee early partner and the company’s executives said that others have come on board.
“We don’t buy product,” said Perrone. “We take delivery of all the products and rent them out in the local marketplaces where we do business.”
The only thing the manufacturer provides is the products and some servicing starter kit so that The Shed and its employees can manage and maintain the product.
The Shed founders Karen Rodgers O’Neil and Daniel Perrone. Image Credit: The Shed
Since its launch in April the company has expanded beyond its Richmond, Va. home base to Denver — and will be looking to expand further into Portland, Austin, and San Jose, according to Perrone.
Among the features that the company intends to roll out as it expands is a dynamic pricing capability that will enable manufacturers to wring the most out of their goods when they’re in high demand.
Rodgers O’Neil came up with the concept back in 2012 when she was working as a marketing executive for General Electric out of Boston. Perrone met Rodgers O’Neil at a networking event in Boston and became convinced that her notion of offering more rental options to encourage a more circular economy and reduce consumption was something that could resonate with consumers.
To be sure, The Shed isn’t the first company to attempt to bring the rental business to a broader array of consumer products in an effort to cut down on consumption. The Los Angeles-based startup Joymode was attempting to do much the same thing. That company sold to an early stage investment firm out of New York.
Joymode’s chief executive, Joe Fernandez spoke about the difficulty of running the business. “Part of the thesis was that by making things available for rental, people would want to do more stuff,” said Fernandez, but what happened was that consumers needed additional reasons to use the company’s service, and there weren’t enough events to drive demand.
LA’s consumer goods rental service, Joymode, sells to the NYC retail investment firm, XRC Labs
By contrast, The Shed isn’t owning any of the inventory, just acting as a broker and managing inventory between local retailers and manufacturers who want to take advantage of the company’s service.
In addition to Stanley Black & Decker, companies like Primus camping equipment have placed their products on The Shed along with Mobility Plus, which added wheelchairs and mobility scooters; and Replacements, the largest china dealer in the country, which is offering a “Party in a Box” for dinner, cocktail or tea parties.
To date, the company has raised $1.75 million from investors and entrepreneurs from the Richmond, Va. area. Now, with 60 manufacturers on board and another 15 to 18 vendors signing up monthly, the company is looking to expand even further.
“I joined with Karen because I saw that this would be a game changer in the rental space,” said Perrone. There are a number of retailers in specific verticals that still don’t transact online, so The Shed becomes their avenue to reach the market, he said.
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Marie Davis Pierre: Dominica's first female Speaker dies
(The following is reprinted with the kind permission of Alix Boyd Knights and Dr. Lennox Honychurch, the authors of the book "Women in Parliament in Dominica: Past and Present").
Marie Davis Pierre has the distinction of being the first female Speaker in Dominica a position which she held for just over seven years. When ask what motivated her to enter politics, she replied that she was never really motivated. She recalls that when the Dominica Freedom Party came into power, Miss Charles (as Dame Eugenia Charles was then) first asked her to be Speaker, she refused. But, she says, ''Miss Charles was persistent. She said I knew the Rules of the House, having written a book on Parliamentary Procedure, and that her members were new and knows nothing about Parliamentary Procedure''. She adds that her family and friends told her she should accept, so she did.
The road which led Marie Davis Pierre to the Speaker's Chair was long and varied taking her through her education at the Convent High School, which she entered at the age of 12, having won the single Annual Roseau Town Council Scholarship which was offered for girls.
Through being a choir member and a catechist, running a kindergarten private school then into the public service.
Mrs. Davis Pierre recalls that on leaving school in 1937, being unable to find a job, she started a Kindergarten School which she called ''St. David School''. Later, in 1944, she joined the Civil Service as it was called then. Around that time she, too, became a catechist, serving the Catholic Church in that capacity for 56 years and at the same time joined the Cathedral Choir.
Marie Davis Pierre's love for music and singing is well known and many can recall her musicals, concerts, and solo performances in church. But it was her path through the Civil Service which eventually led her to becoming Speaker.
In 1965, when Mrs. Davis Pierre was appointed Deputy Registrar, she immediately set about re-organizing the Law library, Trade Mark Section carefully indexing and filling all books and documents so that they could be retrieve more easily.
In 1967, when Dominica attained its new Status as an ''Associated State'' with Great Britain, she was chosen to be Clerk of the House and by 1970 she was sent on a 3 months attachment to the House of Commons to study Parliamentary Procedure under the Westminister System of Government. The following year, 1971, she was sent to Canada on another attachment to study Record keeping and Management. She wrote reports on her return to the State on the two attachments and presented them to the Government of the day.
That short stint on Record Keeping enabled her to reorganize the filing system of the Office of the Clerk of the House of Assembly incorporating the advanced method she had learned. It was now possible to file documents in such a way that they could easily be retrieved. She also put her learning on how to prune the files containing these records so as to reduce storage space, to good use.
Mrs. Davis Pierre also gave many lectures on those two subjects to Junior Public Servants, Village Clerks and other such public entities.
It was as Clerk of the House she became the first Caribbean Clerk of Parliament to write a book on Parliamentary Practice and Working Methods of the Dominica House of Assembly which was published in 1975. To quote what historian Dr. Lennox Honychurch had to say in the Press about the Book –
'' It is a concise and well researched piece of work which is much needed at the present time not only by the Dominican Parliamentarians but I am sure by those of our sister islands, as well. As a member of the House who has been diligently plodding through the 1145 pages of ''Mays Parliamentary Practice, I can personally say that Mrs. Davis Pierre's book is most welcome. The Clerk of the British House of Parliament has observed that no small State has produced such a work''.
Mr. Royston Ellis, a Journalist, had this to say in the 'Educator' Newspaper:
''Mrs. Davis Pierre wins admiration for her scholarship. This is the first attempt by a West Indian Clerk of Parliament to write a Manual on Parliamentary Procedure. Its pages give more insight into life in Dominica than any guide book. Mrs. Davis Pierre who has been Clerk of the House for 8 years and spent 6 months in writing this invaluable handbook is already known in the pages of Dominica's newspaper for her forthright views''.
On the 3rd November, 1978 when Dominica became a Sovereign Democratic Republic, as Clerk of the House Mrs. Davis Pierre assisted in preparing the procedure for the important event when the Constitutional Instruments were handed over to the Honourable Premier, Mr. Patrick John, by her Royal Highness Princess Margaret in an Address incorporating the Queens's Message to the people of Dominica. On the 15th November, 1978, she receive a letter of thanks and appreciation from Mr. Patrick John, (then Prime Minister), Stating-
''On my own behalf and on behalf on my Cabinet Colleagues I wish to convey sincere thanks and appreciation for your contribution in making Independence Celebrations the tremendous success that it was. Through reports of overseas guest and personal observations there is no doubt that you have done a great job. In a show of real national spirit you have come forward as true sons and daughters of this land. May God bless you.''
In December 1978, Mrs. Davis Pierre retired from the Civil Service having reached the retirement age and having given thirty-three years of service. On her retirement as Clerk of the House she presented to the Prime Minister, Mr. Patrick John, and the then Leader of the Opposition, Dame Eugenia Charles, bound volumes of the Minutes and Hansards with indices of the Meetings of the House of Assembly, dating from 1st March, 1967 the date she was appointed Clerk of the House of Assembly, to the 28th October, 1978, the date immediately preceding Independence, 12 years all told. It could not have been an easy job. She also presented to the House three bound volumes with indices of the laws of Dominica from 1627 to 1978 and another volume with all the speeches of Colonial Governors, the Resolutions of the various members of the Legislative Council striving for improvement of their Colonial status and dispatches from the Secretary of State. A copy of all these documents can be found in the Library of the House of Assembly.
In 1980 when the Freedom Party came into power, she became the first female Speaker of the House of Assembly. She was re-elected in 1985.
In the House she experienced some difficult situations, such as 'walk-outs', disorderly behaviour etc. Mrs. Davis Pierre gives credit to the Convent High School for the character training that she received which enabled her to study the behavioral pattern of each member and keep a balance. From the onset, Madame Speaker made it clear to Members that they were expected to abide by the Rules of the House and to respect the authority of the Chair. She made sure, through hand-outs, that all new members appointed to the House were initiated with the procedures of the House.
Madame Speaker held the view that the people should not be alienated from the Business of the House and so she tried to ensure, through various articles she wrote in the Press to forge a closer link between Parliament and the people.
When asked what advice she had to offer Women entering politics today, Mrs. Davis Pierre was quick to reply, that she was not in a position to do so as she did not like politics. She went on to say that she felt that people entering politics today see only the faults and not the positive side of things and that so much negativity was inhibiting the progress of the country.
There is no doubt that Mrs. Davis Pierre has left an indelible mark on the Parliament of Dominica, not only as the first Female Speaker of Dominica and the Region but also because of the many projects she undertook when she was Clerk of the House to improve access to papers and documents, creating the library and in many other ways enhancing the values of the Parliament itself.
(Ms. Marie Davis-Pierre, who was the Speaker of Dominica's Parliament from 1980 to 1988, passed away on Saturday 24th May, 2014).
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Brain and Body
Oldest Water on Earth Found Deep Within the Canadian Shield
December 14, 2016 | Maggie Romuld
A scientist takes a sample of water from a mine deep underground in Ontario, Canada (2013)
Photo credit: B. Sherwood Lollar et al.
University of Toronto scientists one up themselves by finding 2 billion-year-old water, half a kilometer deeper than the 1.5 billion-year-old stuff.
In 2013, researchers from the University of Toronto discovered water that was about 1.5 billion years old. At that time, it was the oldest water found on Earth. Some members of the original team working in the same Canadian copper, zinc, and silver mine, near Timmins, Ontario, have now found a deeper source of water—and it’s at least 500,000 years older than the previous find.
On December 13, geoscientist Barbara Sherwood Lollar presented “New Frontiers for Deep Fluids and Geobiology Research in the World's Oldest Rocks” at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Sherwood Lollar and her colleagues have studied the deep hydrosphere for several decades in mines around the world, and in her presentation, she referred to the Kidd Creek mine, on the Canadian Shield, as an “iconic site.”
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The fracture water discovered in 2013 was found at a depth of 2.4 kilometers (1.5 miles) below the surface, and Sherwood Lollar told BBC News that “It really pushed back our understanding of how old flowing water could be, so it really drove us to explore further.”
The newest investigation was led by Dr. Oliver Warr, also from the University of Toronto. The study took advantage of the fact that mine exploration was drilling deeper into the Precambrian rocks of the Canadian Shield, and the most recently discovered water was found at a depth of 3 kilometers (1.9 miles).
The scientists derived the resident time, or “age,” of the water through an analysis of gasses dissolved in the fluid. Previous research of air trapped within ancient rocks found that noble gasses such as helium, neon, argon, and xenon occur in distinct ratios linked with certain eras of Earth’s history. Ancient water flowing through fractured rock can become trapped deep in the crust, preserving evidence of the conditions present when it was isolated.
BBC News reported that the scientists also found chemical traces left behind by single-celled organisms that once lived in the fluid. Sherwood Lollar said that “By looking at the sulphate in the water, we were able to see a fingerprint that’s indicative of life.” Adding that “This has to be an indication that organisms have been present in these fluids on a geological time scale.”
The researchers believe that a better understanding of Earth’s geobiology would help us understand how life adapts to extreme conditions on Earth. It could also help us identify potential limits to life on this planet—and others.
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Shah Rukh Khan says has never felt complete as an actor and that’s what has kept him going for almost three decades in the industry.
The 53-year-old actor says rather than looking for end result, he believes in quietly celebrating milestones.
“I have never felt complete. As an artiste, I am very incomplete and I know that. If I am not, then I would not like to work. If I am complete then why would I wake up in the morning and work hard and still try to do something?,” Shah Rukh said in a group interview.
Shah Rukh says he is restless by nature.
“I always think, within the commercial cinema set-up that I am working in, how can I bring in something new, as an actor, as a producer, in whatever capacity I can. I am not complete at all, I am very restless. If you think you are complete, then you are boring, over and done with!”
The issue with looking at things in life as a finish line, according to Shah Rukh, is what does one do when they cross it.
“So I don’t think of things as completing. As an old saying goes…the journey is important. If I cross anything, which I think is a good achievement then I don’t think of it as an end-line, I think of it as a milestone.
“But I don’t plan for it. I don’t think of ‘I should earn this much’, or ‘I should have that many awards’, or ‘I have to make that many hit films’, I think it is very organic. Because, if you worked in films as long as I have, specifics become less important…,” he says.
Shah Rukh says the films that he is currently doing, he is loving them as he isn’t looking for any end result in the projects.
“After twenty-five years of working, I have realised that the only reason you should be working is for the happiness of your heart,” he says.
His upcoming film “Zero”, directed by Aanand L Rai, aims to celebrate the incompleteness of people.
In the film, Shah Rukh plays a vertically challenged man while Anushka Sharma features as a scientist with cerebral palsy and Katrina Kaif plays an actor who is emotionally incomplete.
Shah Rukh says the film neither looks at these characters with pity nor asks viewers to give them sympathy.
“When films are made on special abilities, normally there is an attempt to gain sympathy. In the entire film, we have tried that all the three character never ask for sympathy from the audience or the world. We don’t want anyone’s sympathy or empathy,” he adds.
Playing a vertically challenged person, Shah Rukh says, was not a gimmick for them.
“For the last one year, we have been worried that the character’s height shouldn’t become the mainstay of the film. In the first ten-fifteen minutes and even after the trailer, you overcome that. That doesn’t become a gimmick. Aanand and I didn’t want that to happen,” he says.
“Zero” is scheduled to be released on December 21.
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10 Things to Know about Segovia Cathedral
Lawrence Stevens Jun 20, 2016 Jun 20, 2016
I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called 10 Things to Know about Segovia Cathedral and is located at http://trip-n-travel.com/listicle/15941/.
Source: Contando Estrelas
Segovia is a town in central parts of Spain and to the northern parts of Madrid. The whole of Spain is basically characterized by religious groups with the vast majority being of the Catholic denomination. Hence, there are as many as thousands of churches in Spain with most having the title of cathedral. Segovia Cathedral, thus, is one of the many churches in Spain that serve a large group of people in the town of Segovia. A few interesting facts about the Cathedral are well unraveled below.
Source: Kevin Poh
Segovia Cathedral location is in the city of Segovia discovered in the Castelia-Leon community. The precise location of the cathedral is the central part of the town in the main square called ‘Plaza Mayor.’ The Segovia Cathedral is nearby the La Conception and El Fogon Sefardi restaurants that are world-class hotels in the city of Segovia.
Name: Cathedral of Sevogia
Address: Plaza Mayor,40001, Sevogia, Spain
Website: https://catedralsegovia.wordpress.com/#_=_=_
Source: Son of Groucho
The Segovia Cathedral was initially built by the use of the Gothic style that is presently outdated in the whole of Europe. The cathedral was constructed for nearly fifty years between the years 1525 and 1577.The former cathedral was located near the ancient city of Alcazar but due to wars, it was destroyed by the Comuneros and was moved to its present place in the main square.
3. The Design of the Cathedral
Segovia Cathedral was relocated from Alcazar and built in its present location in the style of the Trasmeran stone builders by their two generations. The Segovia Cathedral was built to last ages by hard stones. Its interior and other features were made progressively after the main church was made. The church has got three big vaults, a bell tower, an ambulatory, side chapels and designed glass windows. The designer was Juan Gil del Anatanon.
4. Interior Exploration
The interior of the Segovia Cathedral is accessed by three doors that were made in the sixteenth century. There are two doors on the southern part of the cathedral called San Goreto and San Frutos doors while on the northern side of the cathedral we have the Puerta del Perdon. There are many features in the interior from the paintings on the wall and the old design. The designs in the cathedral are handmade making them quite sensational especially the stained glass windows.
5. Exterior View
Source: Jiuguang Wang
The Cathedral of Segovia is indeed spectacular from the outside in the square. The gothic design of the cathedral come to life from this point. The stained glass windows of the cathedral color and the high vaults are quite bright from the sun’s reflection. The giant doors from the outside are one of a kind. The Cathedral of Segovia also has a museum on the outside from which a brief history of the church can be acquired at relatively low costs.
6. The Altarpiece
The altarpiece is where the priest or bishop who carries out the mass stands to give sermons. The altarpiece was decorated in the year 1768.There was a lot of man hours spent to incorporate the marble bronze and Jasper to the altarpiece. The altarpiece was designed by a renowned Italian architect called Francesco Sabatini. The image of the Virgin Mary is placed centrally on the altar.
7. The Tower
Source: Brad Hammonds
The tower on the Segovia Cathedral is approximately one hundred meters above the ground. It’s a spectacular design that almost all the Roman Catholic churches have to serve as a reminder for Christians when the church is about to start. The tower is accessible by steps that are very long regarding distance. The view from the tower is quite big as the features of the town of Segovia is clearly visible from this point.
8. Capilla de la Piedad and de San Andres
Source: Enrique López-Tamayo Biosca
Capilla de la Piedad and de San Andres are among the chapel found in the Segovia Cathedral. The chapels are used for prayers for subtle groups of people and are accessible to everyone. The Capilla de la Piedad and de San Andres are known for their famous altarpieces that depict the death of Christ. The two altar pieces were designed by architects, Juan de Juni, and Pedro de Brizuela respectively.
9. Capilla de la Conception
The chapel of ‘The Conception explicitly singles itself out in that its dedicated to the Virgin Mary, who the Segovia Cathedral is all about. The chapel has several symbols and paintings depicting the traditional immaculate conception. An artistical piece that is only found in the Chapel of Conception is the tree of life. The tree of life is symbolic showing Jesus and the devil standing next to the tree with people enjoying a feast in the tree. The chapel is must visit in the Segovia Cathedral.
10. Capilla de Santiago and Capilla del Cristo del Consuelo
The Capilla de Santiago and Capilla del Cristo del Consuelo are the other two chapels that are found in Segovia Cathedral.The Capilla de Santiago dedication is to one of the disciples of Jesus called James. The apostle in hand was known to be the patron saint of Spain and as the first apostle to be martyred. The Capilla de Santiago has paintings of angels with musical instruments. The Capilla del Cristo del Consuelo is known to have the artistic marble design of a famous bishop of Segovia called Diego de Covarrubias. The bishop was also a jurist; how interesting.
Have a good trip and travel!
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Royal Paper
AP reports that a Fagus sylvatica 'Purpurea', or purple beech tree, planted in 1786 at Versailles Palace for Marie Antoinette has been felled by a storm.
The 82-foot high specimen, whose canopy measured 72 feet across, will be cut up and sold to paper makers.
I love just about everything about beech trees, from their smooth muscular bark to the undulating leaf margins, and the purple-leaved variety is particularly handsome. Unfortunately, in places like Palo Alto and Los Altos I rarely have the chance to specify such large and thirsty trees, which are much better suited to riparian areas with cooler, wetter summers (like, you know, Atherton). On the other hand, if I were king, I suppose I wouldn't be burdened by such practicalities.
If the Sun King and his progeny lived and landscaped a Bay Area version of Versailles today, I wonder what species they would choose?
Topics: gardens, specimen plants
As your blueberry bushes start blooming, you might notice the flowers look almost exactly like the little bells of madrone (Arbutus). And then you might think, "no, I'm going crazy: one's a smallish deciduous shrub that makes tasty little antioxidant bombs, the other's a big evergreen tree that makes barely-edible globes of mush. No way they're related."
Not that you're not necessarily going crazy, but they are in fact related, in the botanical family Ericaceae. I've written before about binomial nomenclature in horticulture, distinguishing between the different species within a common genus. Now, we're talking about different genera (plural of genus) within the next higher group, the family.
While Karl Linnaeus gets most of the credit for his systematic classification of things great and small, the idea of biological families actually comes from one of Linnaeus' contemporaries, French botanist Pierre Magnol. Families tend to be named for one of their genus that typifies the group on the basis of some physical characteristic (e.g. flower structure). In these cases, the suffix "-aceae" simply gets tacked on to the stem of the botanical genus name. Thus, the genus Rosa (i.e., the rose) was determined to be representative of a group of plants with common reproductive characteristics, so that group was given the family name Rosaceae (pronounced "rose-ACE-ee-ay". Other families include:
-Aquifoliaceae (named for the aquiline leaf margins of the holly, the only living genus in this family)
-Caprifoliaceae (named because the leaves resemble the cloven hooves of goats)
-Graminaceae (the grass, or grain (grass seed), family)
-Leguminaceae (the legume or bean family, aka Fabaceae (think fava beans)
(Because the Rosaceae tend to produce delicous fruits — from rose hips to apples, pears, stone fruits, strawberries, almonds — as well as flowers that stir the soul, one of my favorite instructors Quin Ellis was fond of saying that the grass family may have set the dinner table for civilization… but the rose family provided dessert.)
If you want to geek out on this even more than we already have, the Department of Biology at St. Louis University has a very nice discussion of biological nomenclature; for the "lite" version, see the Dummies Guide. But back to the humble blueberry: its family Ericaceae also includes, not surprisingly, cranberry and huckleberry; the aforementioned Arbutus and its cousin Arctostaphylos (manzanita); azaleas and rhododendrons; and the eponymous Erica, genus of heaths and heathers. And while I noticed the similarities between the flowers, in fact the most common trait is the foliage structure: smooth-edged, single leaves arranged alternately along the stems. (Good thing, too: to develop a more robust root system and better fruit yields, I strip the flowers off for the first three years.)
Topics: edibles, gardening, horticulture, specimen plants
Today in the Times
Today's New York Times holds a plethora of good stuff, from inspiring advice on winter-blooming shrubs and greenhousing, to a sobering outlook for New York's famed zoos and gardens, to an encouraging (if vapid) effort by PepsiCo to assess how much carbon it takes to make orange juice.
The moral of the latter story: it's nitrogen fertilizer, not transportation, that leaves the biggest footprint. Anyone have any suggestions for how PepsiCo might clean up their act? Anyone?
Topics: environment, farming, gardening, media, seasons, specimen plants
Good Day, Mr. President
Now that Senator Obama is President Obama, I'll set down my champagne for a moment to briefly digest his environmental past and promises.
In 2006, Obama introduced the Healthy Places Act in Congress, an effort to create accountability by helping local governments assess health impacts of new projects. His website details his new administration's "comprehensive plan to invest in alternative and renewable energy, end our addiction to foreign oil, address the global climate crisis and create millions of new jobs." He also puts some focus on sustainable urban planning.
Grist.com last month set out a review of Obama's environmental policies. Most of these are centered around changes to U.S. energy policy, but the article also includes a few quotes from Obama interviews indicating that his religious faith plays an important role in his outlook on the environment, a fact confirmed in this AP article by Amy Lorentzen.
It's also instructive to read into Obama's picks for environmental and energy policymakers. These folks are not only luminaries in their fields, but clearly bring a bias toward research-based policy, from the reality of climate change (regardless of its origins) to the potential of renewable energy sources. I'm particularly optimistic that under new EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, both forest and wetland wildlife habitats will be increased.
The ASLA has been optimistic as well that a change of administration will bring a change in priorities. Their site publishes a list of initiatives, as well as proposed angles on the economic stimulus package that will help the profession and the planet.
Our new President has the opportunity — obligation, even — to reform America's farm bill, a la Michael Pollan's recommendations. A couple of weeks after Pollan's letter, Obama was interviewed by TIME and indicated that he had not only read it, but also understood the costs of an agricultural system "built on cheap oil":
"There is no better potential driver that pervades all aspects of our economy than a new energy economy. I was just reading an article in the New York Times by Michael Pollan about food and the fact that our entire agricultural system is built on cheap oil. As a consequence, our agriculture sector actually is contributing more greenhouse gases than our transportation sector. And in the mean time, it's creating monocultures that are vulnerable to national security threats, are now vulnerable to sky-high food prices or crashes in food prices, huge swings in commodity prices, and are partly responsible for the explosion in our healthcare costs because they're contributing to type 2 diabetes, stroke and heart disease, obesity, all the things that are driving our huge explosion in healthcare costs. That's just one sector of the economy. You think about the same thing is true on transportation. The same thing is true on how we construct our buildings. The same is true across the board."
Obviously there are plenty of pressing issues that will demand President Obama's attention. Even though he has invited our participation to an unprecedented degree, I'm under no delusion that he can (or would) reform all our bad habits with the stroke of a pen. We have sky-high expectations, for sure, and there are plenty of voices more than willing to keep our new Ecologist-In-Chief in check. But I am encouraged that those of us who love our planet now have at least a fighting chance to see some redemption.
Today is a very good day, indeed.
Topics: climate change, environment, farming, policy, sustainability, urban spaces
Pantone Color for 2009: Mimosa
Pantone, perennial tastemaker and producer of fun swatch books, has decreed that mimosa yellow is the new black.
Uh, okay.
Topics: design industry, inspirations, trends
Planting The Seed
"In 1994, Congress transformed the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday into a national day of community service to further commemorate a man who lived his life in service to others. Never has it been more important to come together in shared purpose to tackle the common challenges we face."
—USAService.org
Actually, Jan. 17-19 is a three-day weekend of service, and this handy event finder will show you plenty of opportunities in your backyard... everything from blood drives and food sharing to habitat restoration, tree planting, and parks beautification. Many of these are perfect opportunities to introduce children to the values of volunteerism and service; you'll find me and mine planting trees in Castro Valley.
Making a difference in your neighborhood, community and world is as simple as making some time to volunteer. Even if it's just an hour, won't you join me in lending a hand?
Topics: environment, events, gardening, inspirations, neighborhoods, parks, planting, policy, urban spaces
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Normal Council Informed Town’s Triple-A Bond Rating Extended By Credit Bureau
NORMAL – The Town of Normal has always taken pride in the fact that, even when there were daunting construction projects such as the Bloomington-Normal Marriott Hotel and the Hyatt Hotel in progress, the Town’s bond rating remained at a high level for creditors to make note of and residents to have some pride in. Toward the end of Dec. 21’s Normal Town Council session, City Manager Pam Reece let Council members know the Town was notified by Fitch Ratings, a top credit rating company with offices worldwide, has reaffirmed the Town’s triple-A bond rating.
“I cannot tell you how excited we are to hear that news,” Reece told Council members during the Council session held remotely as a result of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. “We did not ask them to do a review. It was just one of their standard reviews.” She thanked Town Finance Director Andrew Huhn and the Town Finance staff for their efforts. She also thanked “all the Town departments who worked very hard to be fiscally responsible, also to the elected officials.”
Reece said receiving the Triple-A bond rating “is an affirmation that supports that we have ample reserves, and what the credit bureau calls superior budgetary flexibility.” She said the credit bureau noted “the Town takes an active role in economic development.” She thanked all those involved in helping to achieve the rating.
All Council members offered Reece and the staff congratulations on the achievement. Fitch first assigned a Triple-A rating to the Town in April 2010.
Capital Investment Plan Presented: Huhn presented Council members with the Town’s annual report concerning its Capital Investment Plan (CIP) for Fiscal Years 2021 through 2025. Huhn explained to Council members the Town has about 130 projects the Town would like to see addressed totaling $100,008,233 in cost. The largest item to be addressed with those funds, roughly 47 percent, will address needs concerning water and sewer utility service. Council members voted 6-1 to approve the plan with Council Member Stan Nord casting the lone opposing vote.
The second biggest concern which will be addressed, taking up roughly 30 percent of the funds is transportation development. Huhn said that will include maintaining roads, bridges, sidewalks, and curbs. The next category of items to be addressed using 18 percent of funds is capital assets which primarily includes all types of vehicles used by varying Town departments including police, fire, and facilities management. Parks and open space development will receive 3 percent of the funding, while public facilities will be addressed using 2 percent of the money.
Children’s Museum Update: Council members heard from Beth Whisman, Town Cultural Director and director of Children’s Discovery Museum concerning what CDM and the Normal Theater, both of which have been shuttered since the pandemic began in March have been doing despite those closings. Whisman said CDM has given away 8,000 Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math – or STEAM – activity kits to keep students engaged.
She said STEAM kits have been provided to a number of local agencies which children benefit from including: Unit 5 and Bloomington School District 87; Unity Community Center; Bloomington Day Care; YWCA; Bloomington-Normal Boys & Girls Club; Heartland Head Start; and Scott Early Learning Center.
Whisman said the closure has given CDM staff time to work on protocols necessary for when the Museum can open its doors again to visitors per Restore Illinois guidelines. She said CDM has received over $28,000 in grants for education outreach. She added that “when you have 140,000 visitors on a regular basis coming through your building, it’s rare that you have a few months to do big projects all at once.”
She informed Council members CDM staffers have used time while the museum was closed to the public to making improvements to both exhibits and to the building itself. She added the Museum store “has been vital to the Museum, keep a front door the public, providing access to our take-home kits and curbside service as well as our in-store sales opportunities.”
CDM has managed to maintain their revenue streams through its annual Halloween event and sales of its “Camp In A Box” kits, Whisman added. She said CDM will continue to offer its “Daily Dose Of Play” online as a means of keeping kids active once the weather gets colder once playtime is forced indoors.
One Committee Appointment, Two Committee Reappointments Announced: Before the Council session closed, Mayor Pro Tem Kevin McCarthy announced the names of new members to two separate public boards and the reappointment of another individual to the McLean County Regional Planning Commission.
Michael Pettorini has been reappointed to the McLean County Regional Planning Commission. He was originally appointed to the Commission to fill a vacancy in March and as a result of this reappointment will now be serving a full term which expires Dec. 31, 2023. A 30-year resident of McLean County now residing in Normal, Pettorini is employed by State Farm with expertise in matters centering on facilities management, project management, and property management.
Rachel Lund has been appointed to serve on the Normal Planning Commission. Lund will fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Dave Shields, who resigned from the Commission due to relocating out of Normal. Lund’s term on NPC expires March 31, 2023.
Through her employment at State Farm Insurance, Lund is involved with the Women’s Networking Group as well as the User Experience Research Group. She has previously worked as an Engineer of Human Systems Integration at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, VA. Her accomplishments while at NSWC Dahlgren included serving as Department Chair of Diversity and Inclusion, and the Social Media Manager of the Human Factors Engineering Technical Advisory Group.
Mandava Rao has been appointed to serve on the Board of The Twin Cities’ public transit system, Connect Transit. Rao will fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Mike McCurdy, who resigned from the Board due to a job-created relocation out of Normal. Rao’s term on the Board expires June 30.
Rao was named Normal’s Citizen Of The Year in 2016, and a year later, was also recognized by Telugu Association of North America (TANA) with a prestigious service award at their 21st national convention for rendering services at national level.
Rao has numerous civic activities to his credit including being a founding member of the Minority and Police Partnership, an active leader within Not In Our Town, past president of the McLean County Indian Association, and has served as chairperson of the Town of Normal’s Human Relation’s Commission.
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