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Tokyo life & travel now - August 2020
After a month of rain and gray skies in July, August has arrived in Tokyo with its heavy summer heat. Usually, this would be the season for summer festivals and summer fireworks, but many events have been canceled or postponed this year.
Japan is trying to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government gives daily updates on the situation in the city.
Many facilities are open again now and are operating with special care. People are being asked to wear masks when out in public - and masks are available again in stores and online. Many shops regulate the number of customers who can come in at one time and have guidelines for social distancing, such as leaving extra space when waiting in line. Shopping malls, supermarkets, stores, and restaurants have disinfectant for cleaning your hands ready.
International travel into Japan still is restricted. Domestic travel is allowed, but people are asked to be careful to protect themselves and others.
If you are already in Japan, the best idea might be to consider staying close to home. Often we overlook the things that are within easy reach. Staying away from the most popular and crowded spots is an opportunity to explore something new or revisit a place we have not been to for a while. But please remember to take precautions also against the heat when you are outside this summer.
These official sites have more travel-related information.
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Official Video Channel with information for residents and visitors of Tokyo https://tokyodouga.jp/foreign
Go Tokyo – The Official Tokyo Travel Guide https://www.gotokyo.org/en/index.html
Japan information for Tokyo and all of Japan by the Japan National Tourism Organization https://www.japan.travel/en/
More articles to read.
5 blogs from Tokyo about Japan travel and life
https://authentic-tokyo.com/news/detail?news_id=690
10 useful sites for planning a (rescheduled) trip to Tokyo
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Official Video Channel
Tokyo travel planning - where to stay and what to do
Using public transport in Japan
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Nick Stavros
June 18, 2018 by ATForum
Nick Stavros, age 39, CEO of Community Medical Services, presided over the recent sale of the OTP platform to the private equity firm, Clearview Capital. The sale relieved the inactive owners of their equity in the company, and left Mr. Stavros as the largest individual owner. With Clearview leaving him at the helm as CEO, no operations are expected to change within the Arizona-based company.
Even though the OTP system began as a family business, Mr. Stavros did not grow up in the industry. “Five years ago, I didn’t know what methadone treatment was,” he told AT Forum. Prior to joining the company, he spent eight years in the military, and then left his position as an Infantry Captain and attended UCLA, where he earned an MBA. His parents, who founded the company in 1983, called him soon after and asked him to join the business to help them prepare the company for a sale. “This was in 2012,” he said. He was on the job for nine months, and found out that he had a strong passion for treating addiction.
So he changed course. Instead of prepping the company to sell to a larger organization, he decided he’d rather stay with it and partner with a private equity firm to buy out the other owners—family members and non-family members. “With the intention of staying with the company, I spent four years building a platform to grow from, to attract investors.” He partnered with Clearview Capital after meeting with numerous interested investors, because “they have an outstanding reputation in this space,” he said. “They’re pretty hands off and their values aligned most with ours.”
“I love what I’m doing,” said Mr. Stavros, asked why he is staying involved. “From an entrepreneurial perspective, this is an opportunity to build an amazing business. We are very patient-focused; We live by our values; I do a mission, vision, values presentation with every new employee and a weekly online town-hall meeting with the whole company. We make decisions based on our values and we are all impassioned by the uphill battle of our cause and by the tenacity of our patients in their recovery. There aren’t a lot of companies out there that continue to grow while staying true to their values.”
Under his tenure, Community Medical Services has grown from 6-14 clinics in 4 states and from one Medicaid contract to more than 15. “Our goal was to be cash-flow neutral every year, investing every penny back into the company,” he said. “By the end of 2018, we’re going to be at 21 organic clinics and the private equity funds will allow us to potentially add on an additional 10-20 acquisitions. The goal is to be treating 60,000 patients by the end of 2022.” Currently, the program treats more than 5,000 patients.
There is still a shortage of slots nationwide. “One of the problems is that there is mostly just a consolidation taking place,” he said. “The growth rate of new OTPs isn’t coming close to paralleling the growth rate of the epidemic.”
Finally, Mr. Stavros seconded other leaders who said it’s important for OTPs to get involved in their communities and to seek out STR funds and other new forms of funding. “We are the largest recipient in the state of Arizona for STR funds,” he said. With those funds, the program has started the country’s first 24/7 OTP, a number of Medication Units, and a vibrant peer support program.
As with many other advocates in this space, Mr. Stavros has a personal connection to this field. His sister died from a heroin overdose when she was 21.
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Justin McQuality
Title: Assistant Track & Field/Cross Country Coach
Email: jmcquality@uchicago.edu
Justin McQuality begins his third season as assistant coach for the track & field and cross country teams in 2020-21.
In the 2020 indoor track & field season, McQuality was named the NCAA Division III National Women's Assistant Coach of the Year by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). He was also the USTFCCCA Midwest Region Women's Assistant Coach of the Year. McQuality's cohort of jumpers submitted historic seasons in multiple events. Laura Darcey submitted the fourth-best pentathlon score in the history of NCAA Division III (3,794 points). Isabel Maletich posted the fifth-best triple jump in NCAA Division III history at 12.58 meters. Darcey was named the 2020 USTFCCCA National Women's Field Athlete of the Year, while Maletich captured USTFCCCA Midwest Region Women's Field Athlete of the Year honors.
In his first season, Isabel Maletich won the 2019 national title in the women's indoor long jump and took national runner-up in the outdoor long jump. Additionally, the UChicago field athletes broke a combined nine school records in 2019. The new record holders included Maletich in the triple jump (indoor/outdoor) and long jump (indoor/outdoor); Laura Darcey in the outdoor high jump and outdoor heptathlon; Alexandra Thompson in the indoor high jump; and Isabel Garon in the pole vault (indoor/outdoor). The group qualified for NCAAs a total of nine times and hauled in seven All-American awards.
McQuality arrived on campus after a successful tenure at The College at Brockport. He spent three years as an assistant track & field coach specializing in jumps, multi-events and hurdles. In 2018, McQuality's horizontal jumps groups finished among the top 16 in the Division III event squad rankings during both the indoor and outdoor seasons, with the women's and men's triple jump groups finishing as high as third and fourth last indoor season.
Prior to Brockport, McQuality coached at Fredonia State University for five years. His oversight groups included jumps, sprints, hurdles, javelin and multis. McQuality implemented training and strength programs for the teams while also serving as recruiting coordinator.
McQuality began his coaching career with a one-year stint at Illinois College with the horizontal jumps and multis. In recent years, he was an instructor at the Princeton University and Stanford University Track & Field Camps.
As a collegiate student-athlete, McQuality was a three-year captain of the track & field team at North Central College. He secured All-American honors in the indoor triple jump, as well as qualified for the national meet in the outdoor long jump during his career
McQuality received his bachelor's degree in exercise science and psychology from North Central. He went on to earn his master's degree in exercise science – with a concentration in human performance & injury prevention – from California University of Pennsylvania.
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America The Beautiful (And Freezing)
Filed Under:climate change, Drought, Everyday Earth, snow, weather, Winter, Winter Storm
Icy Water In NYC (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Much of the U.S. is currently facing bitterly cold temperatures from the Midwest to the South and all the way up to the Northeast.
In fact, many parts of the U.S. have already broken records for snowfall and below zero temperatures while other parts have seen unseasonably warm temperatures.
It all gives some credibility to the idea of “Global Weirding,” a new word for the anomalies like extreme winter storms and droughts caused by climate change.
Looking across the U.S., “Global Weirding” is definitely in full effect:
The most obvious case is in Boston, where this winter has left the city within a foot of reaching the snowiest winter in its history.
This winter alone has produced 95.7 inches of snow, 11.9 inches away from the 1995-96 record of 107.6 inches of snow. And with winter weather lasting for about another three to four weeks, breaking that record could become a very likely reality.
The Northeast also saw the second longest streak of subfreezing days ever recorded in its history with 15 consecutive days of temperatures below 32 degrees; 1961 has the longest running with 16 days.
However Northeast cities like Boston aren’t bearing all of the brunt.
At 2 degrees, New York City faced its coldest day in this year’s winter season, prompting the Fire Department of New York to advise people to take caution in venturing outdoors.
Meanwhile, in Pittsburgh, new records are being broken almost weekly with temperatures dipping as low as -17 degrees.
The Midwest hasn’t fared that well this winter either.
In Detroit, February is getting very close to being among the top five coldest months on record.
“We’re running about almost 12 degrees below normal this month,” explains Accuweather Meteorologist Dave Bowers.
That makes this winter close to the coldest month in Detroit in 1977, which had an average temperature of just under 13 degrees.
The record-breaking one and half inches of snow didn’t help matters.
Other states like Minnesota and Illinois are also facing large amounts of snowfall, causing flight cancellations and messy commutes for those willing to brave the cold.
At times, the South is known for overreacting to the cold and snow that many in the Northeast and Midwest have become accustomed to, however this winter has created a few understandably treacherous conditions for Southerners in places like Georgia and Alabama.
A winter storm this season left thousands without power and hundreds stranded on highways awaiting some form of assistance even though officials urged people to stay off the roads.
“People were trying to get wherever they could,” Athens Police Chief Floyd Johnson said. “A lot of people had run out of gas.”
While feet of snow did not hit the South, inches of the cold powder did accumulate a good number of inches in North and South Carolina, and while the cold is usually no laughing matter, a town in Kentucky jokingly issued an arrest warrant for Ice Queen Elsa from Disney’s “Frozen.” Apparently the police were fed up with all the snow.
Winter for the West hasn’t been the typical winter that the majority of the U.S. sees, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t dealing with its own weather quirks from abnormally warmer temperatures to droughts.
While Denver faces one of the worst winters on record, the Northwest is seeing temperatures warm enough to make flowers bloom and keep people active outside.
At a little north of 60 degrees, states like Washington and Oregon are seeing sun-filled, dry days that could be a result of El Nino, a weather pattern that warms the waters of the Pacific Ocean.
In California, droughts have caused cutbacks in water use; even at restaurants.
Even tactics like draining lakes are being used to address the drought issues facing the West, drawing concern and questions from residents of the Sunshine State.
Needless to say, this winter has created some of the strangest weather in history of the U.S. Climate change may have a role to play in all of it, but for now, people are probably more concerned with just surviving the brutal weather attacks long enough to make it to spring.
Shawn Thomas writes Lifestyle & Entertainment content for CBS Local. Follow him on Twitter.
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Jodi Amendola, a PR News ‘Top Women in PR’ Honoree, Appointed to Board of Help In Healing Home Foundation
Press Releases Amendola, Marketing
Award-winning Amendola Communications CEO will take a lead role in driving not-for-profit foundation’s marketing, public relations, and social media efforts
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., October 23, 2018 – Amendola Communications further cemented its reputation as one of the leading public relations, marketing communications, social media and content marketing agencies specializing in healthcare and healthcare IT (HIT) with a focus on giving back with today’s announcement that its CEO Jodi Amendola has been unanimously appointed to the Board of the Help In Healing Home Foundation.
In addition to her personal involvement with the Foundation, which offers low-cost lodging and care to patients (and their caregivers) recovering from major surgeries and transplants as well as those undergoing long-term cancer treatment, Jodi will leverage her team of PR and marketing experts to help execute programs for the Foundation.
Jodi Amendola
Jodi and her agency have won numerous awards, including PR News naming her to its ranking of Top Women in PR for 2017; Amendola Communications’ designation by PR Source Code as a “Best-of-the-Best” PR agency nationwide for several years; and the agency being named as a top Healthcare Agency in Ragan and PR Daily’s Ace Awards.
Jodi has delivered high-impact public relations and marketing campaigns for the healthcare and HIT industries for 30 years. She is an active member of the National Charity League and has served on numerous boards, including AzHIMSS, the Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation and the X2 Health network, a non-profit executive women’s health network, DARE NJ, and the Community Resource Council.
“I can honestly say that I have never seen a potential appointee generate so much enthusiastic support,” said Ron L. Jones, president and CEO of the Help In Healing Home Foundation. “Jodi brings an expertise that we have largely lacked up until now, so we look forward to learning from her and taking advantage of her experience and advice. She is also a thoughtful, caring person who brings a tremendous amount of energy into the room. We look forward to working closely with Jodi and her team.”
The Help In Healing Home Foundation is located in long-term leased facilities at the Village at Mayo Clinic, adjacent to the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix. The complex accommodates up to 84 patients and caregivers in 4,900-square-foot Southwestern-style “casitas” that include amenities such as six private bedrooms and bathrooms, a living room, conversation pit, dining room, full kitchen, library, and laundry room. Despite the quality of its offerings, the Foundation only charges $45 per night—far less than even a budget-priced hotel would charge—while offering access to world-class facilities, clinicians and staff. Most of its residents come from the Southwestern United States, although the Foundation accepts patients from all across the world.
“The Help In Healing Home Foundation does tremendous work in treating not just the bodies, but the spirits, of patients who face long, difficult recoveries from life-altering procedures,” Jodi said. “Most are extra vulnerable to illnesses, so they need to stay in a protected environment. The Foundation helps take isolation and loneliness out of that situation by creating a community that lets patients share experiences and interact with others in similar circumstances while still protecting their health.”
Jodi became aware of the Foundation last year when she and her daughter volunteered there for a National Charity League event. “We had an amazing experience and I am proud to serve as a Board member for such a great organization,” Jodi said. “I look forward to helping them further their mission.”
As a 501(c)3 not-for-profit, the Foundation depends on the generous support of private donors to continue its mission. Jodi and her team will develop a marketing plan to help make potential donors aware of the great work the Help In Healing Home Foundation is doing and to drive the communications to help the organization meet and exceed its fundraising goals.
As CEO of one of the largest PR agencies based in the Phoenix area, Jodi was asked to join the Board both as a result of her passion for developing award-winning marketing and publication relations programs for healthcare and HIT, and for her demonstrated commitment to giving back.
She recently served as a judge for the Healthcare Marketing IMPACT Awards sponsored by Advertising Age and Modern Healthcare. Locally in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area, she participated in a PERCH panel on go-to-market strategy and sales for hospitals and health systems targeted at health tech start-ups. She also was the featured speaker at a National Charity League spring kick-off meeting, where she shared her entrepreneurial experiences with middle school and high school girls.
About the Help In Healing Home Foundation
The Help In Healing Home Foundation at the Village at Mayo Clinic enables patients recovering from life-altering procedures such as organ, bone marrow, and stem cell transplants as well as cancer patients to enhance their healing process in a secure, warm, and compassionate environment. Its series of 4,900-square-foot Southwestern-style “casitas” can house up to 84 patients and their caregivers while offering a home-like environment that includes individual bedrooms and bathrooms, a living room, kitchen, dining room, library, and conversation pit. As an independent, 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, the Help In Healing Home relies on private donors to continue its mission. For more information or to make a donation, visit: www.helpinghealinghome.org.
SOURCE: Amendola Communications
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SAP Study Shows Residents Are Requesting Digital Transformation in Civic Services
Press Releases ERP, SAP, Software
November 13, 2018 BARCELONA — City residents demand smarter innovations when it comes to their government services, but only on the condition their data remains secure and private, according to the global Citizen.e Survey conducted by sentiment research firm sensation.io and SAP SE (NYSE: SAP).
The survey was designed to provide insight into how people perceive, interact with and prioritize public services and how they value trust and transparency.
Today, people embrace digital transformation and want innovations that provide value daily. When engaging with government, they expect easy-to-use self-service tools that offer the same level of convenience found in their consumer experiences. Key highlights from the study include:
Thirty-eight percent of U.S. residents surveyed cited saving time as their primary reason for digital adoption; this number rises to 47 percent for Europeans.
Generation Z is the most connected, educated and sophisticated generation yet, but their adoption is dependent upon trust and transparent value propositions.
While there are local differences in the data, residents in every country surveyed said they were optimistic about a majority of smart tech innovations in their cities.
According to the study, smart cities that invest in intelligent digital solutions will see rapid rates of adoption provided that there is a foundation of trust between the authority and the resident, because “users will not share their data if they do not believe it will be taken care of in a secure manner and reused for purposes other than which it has been asked for.”
“Government officials can simultaneously improve quality of life and foster economic growth with intelligent digital solutions,” said Peter Maier, co-president of SAP Industries. “By investing in innovative solutions that align with strategic livability and prosperity goals, public services and urban sustainability can be reimagined in a way that residents increasingly expect and appreciate.”
The Citizen.e Survey results will be featured November 13–15 at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona. Join the conversation by following SAP on Twitter at @SAPIndustries, visit SAP.com and watch live presentations in SAP’s booth (Hall 2, Level 0, Street C, Stand 349).
Any statements contained in this document that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “project,” “predict,” “should” and “will” and similar expressions as they relate to SAP are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. SAP undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. The factors that could affect SAP’s future financial results are discussed more fully in SAP’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including SAP’s most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates.
SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE in Germany and other countries. Please see https://www.sap.com/copyright for additional trademark information and notices.
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The Baroque Period in music dates from approximately 1600-1750. The orchestra was founded to play the music of composers such as Monteverdi, Purcell, Handel, Telemann, Vivaldi, Bach, and Scarlatti among many others.
The Classical Era dates from approximately 1750-1825. The three major composers were Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Other composers in the BONJ repertoire include Saint Georges, Salieri, Dittersdorf, and others.
The Romantic Era in music dates approximately from 1800-1920, overlapping the end of the Classical and beginning of the Modern Era including works by Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Mahler, and Dvorak.
The Modern Era dates from 1900 to the present. BONJ has performed music of such 20th century composers and living composers such as Amy Reich, Margret Schaefer, Stanley Grill, David Williams, Ting Ho, and Marco Frisina.
BONJ has performed many operas at the annual summer music festival and in collaboration with New Jersey companies. BONJ has also performed at The National Opera Center in New York City.
BONJ has produced several exciting and wonderful music videos incorporating graphics and videos of our concert works.
The orchestra presents several chamber music every season, including the special Chamber Music Celebration at the Summer Music Festival. BONJ artists perform the great chamber music of the 17th through the 21st centuries
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The Killing Fields: Terminator Crops at Large
By Drs. Mae-Wan Ho, Joe Cummins and Jeremy Bartlett
The Governments of the United States and the United Kingdom are simultaneously pushing terminator technology in ‘public consultations’. But terminator crops have already been released since the beginning of the 1990s.
ARE THE REGULATORS KNOWINGLY DECEIVING US OR ARE THEY BEING FOOLED?
Last December, one of us (MWH) was acting as expert witness in defence of citizens who have taken civil disobedience action against GM crops. Among the crops in question were GM oilseed rape varieties used to produce F1 hybrids, as described in the application for release from AgrEvo UK (now Aventis).[1] At the time, we were just preparing our submission to the consultation document, “Guidance on Best Practice in the Design of GM Crops” put out by the UK Government’s Advisory Committee for Release to the Environment (ACRE). One of the main ‘enabling technologies’ for ‘best practice’ – to prevent gene flow – is precisely the seed/pollen sterility system mentioned in AgrEvo’s application.
It soon dawned on us that the GM oilseed rape lines undergoing field trials in the UK are engineered using ‘terminator technology’ – so named by critics because it can render harvested seeds sterile – for no other reason than to enforce corporate patents on GM seeds. Not only that, according to AgrEvo’s application, similar crops produced by the company Plant Genetic Systems (PGS), a subsidiary of AgrEvo, have been undergoing field-trials in France and Belgium since the beginning of 1990, and subsequently on larger scales, also in Sweden and Canada before coming to the UK.
A search on the US database on field trials[2] revealed that similar male sterile lines engineered with the ‘terminator-gene’, barnase (see below), have been tested at least as early as 1992. Since then, there have been 132 field trials, the vast majority of them done without risk assessment, as the first environmental assessment came up with ‘FONSI’ – Finding of No Significant Impact.[3] Crops modified for male sterility include rapeseed, corn, tobacco, cotton, Brassica oleracea, potato, poplar, Cichorium intybus, petunia and lettuce.
Separately, the other genetic component in terminator crops, the site-specific recombinase (see below), has also been engineered into corn and papaya, and there have been 14 field trials between 1994 and 1998. No environmental impact assessment had been carried out at all, as it was deemed unnecessary.
There are more than 150 US patents listing barnase or site-specific recombination or both,[4] the oldest, on site-specific recombinase, going back to 1987.[5]
The first terminator patents that came to the attention of the public were those jointly owned by US Department of Agriculture and Delta and Pine Land Company, which Monsanto had intended to acquire. The novelty in those patents is the proposal to combine the terminator-gene system with the site-specific recombinase system, giving the company complete control over the hybrids as well as proprietary chemicals that control gene expression.
As a result of universal condemnation and rejection by farmers and non-governmental organisations world wide, Monsanto had announced it will not commercialise terminator crops, to everyone’s relief. Research and development, however, have continued unabated, and the technology kept surfacing in different forms.[6] But on the whole, everyone has been duped into thinking that such crops only exist in theory, when they have been out there in one form or another for more than 10 years.
In the UK, ACRE’s consultation can only be seen as an exercise in smoothing the path for commercial development of a technology condemned as contrary to basic human rights, because it prevents farmers from saving, replanting and exchanging seeds, practices going back thousands of years that are essential to food security.
It is no coincidence that simultaneous consultation is going on in the United States on the USDA-Delta and Pine terminator patents. The USDA is indeed considering commercial development of the technology, and also recommends it for preventing GM gene flow. Surely, to require containment of GM genes is to admit that they are unsafe, which is an argument for stopping GM crop development altogether. It is not an excuse for validating a morally bankrupt technology.
What the regulators and the public are not yet aware of is that the technology introduces serious hazards over and above those of GM crops in general.[7] The terminator-gene barnase is a universal poison that breaks down RNA, an intermediate in the expression of all genes. The recombinase, in theory, breaks and rejoins DNA at specific sites, but is far from accurate, so it has the potential to break and rejoin DNA inappropriately, thereby scrambling the genome in unpredictable, lethal ways.
After a report in the Scottish press, a spokesperson from the UK Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) denied that the enzyme barnase was in the crops undergoing field trials. The DETR spokesman was reported to have said that it was the barnase gene and not the enzyme which was present in “a few oil seed rape crops currently being trialled.” and that “where the enzyme would be poisonous, the gene was not harmful.”[8] Obviously, he did not know that the barnase gene had to be expressed to make the barnase enzyme in order to have male sterility. Furthermore, the barnase gene could spread, either by crossing with related species, or by the genetically modified DNA being taken up and integrated into the genome of unrelated species, and it may become expressed in other cells and tissues, with potentially fatal consequences.
On seeing our press releases,[9] Dr. Ian Woiwod of Rothampstead, a scientist involved in overseeing the UK field trials, indicated that he had no knowledge of such crops in the field trials.[10] Indeed, in a correspondence describing the trials published in Nature in 1999,[11] there was no mention of the male sterile spring and winter oilseed rape. Have our regulators been kept in the dark? During a workshop at the first meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety held in Montpellier last December,[12] the UK Government delegate from the DETR actually thanked Mae-wan Ho for providing the information on terminator crops.
HOW SEED/POLLEN STERILITY IS ENGINEERED INTO CROPS
There are two key components to terminator technology, which is being widely used, not only in plants but in animals as well, as revealed by the 150 plus patents filed in the US alone (see above). The first component is ‘site-specific recombination’, carried out by a recombinase, an enzyme that recognises specific ‘sites’, or short DNA sequences, labelled ‘s’ in the diagram below. Any stretch of DNA sequence flanked by two such sites will be spliced out by the recombinase.
…s-any DNA sequence-s…
The other key element is literally the ‘terminator’. It is barnase, an enzyme that breaks down RNA. RNA is an intermediate in the expression of all genes, and that is why barnase is lethal to all cells in which it is expressed, unless its specific inhibitor, barstar, is also present. Both barnase and barstar are produced by a soil bacterium, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens. Inside the bacterial cell, barstar binds to barnase in a one-to-one complex, disarming the latter so it can do no harm. However, when barnase is secreted outside, it is no longer bound to barstar and is thus harmful to other cells.
To engineer pollen sterility, the barnase gene is placed under the control of a promoter that allows the gene to be expressed only during anther development, i.e., in the male part of the flower. The barnase with its anther-specific promoter is stitched next to the transgene of interest, say, a gene coding for herbicide tolerance, also with its own promoter. Theoretically, there will be no fertile pollen from this transgenic crop. In the case of crops that are normally self-fertilised, there will be no seeds set. In out-crossing plants, the only fertile seeds set will be those fertilised by non-genetically modified varieties nearby, which will not be herbicide tolerant; so farmers who want the herbicide tolerant trait will have to buy fresh seeds from the company every season. The problem is that such a male-sterile line by itself cannot be propagated; it does not breed true.
To propagate the line, the company makes use of site-specific recombination. For example, the promoter of the barnase could normally be blocked by a sequence flanked by sites recognised by a recombinase
.. anther-specific promoter-s-blocking sequence-s-barnase gene..
The recombinase can be engineered into the same genetically modified line with the barnase gene for male sterility, or it could be introduced by crossing the genetically modified line containing barnase with another that contains the recombinase to generate a hybrid. The recombinase is placed under the control of a promoter that responds to an external chemical, say, the antibiotic tetracycline.
..tet-specific promoter-recombinase gene…
When tetracycline is applied, the recombinase is expressed, and splices out the blocking sequence in the barnase promoter, so barnase is expressed. By treating harvested seed with tetracycline before they are sold to the farmer, the company can ensure that the plants grown from the seeds will be pollen sterile.
If female-sterility is required, the barnase gene could be placed under the control of a promoter that works only during ovule development, i.e., in the female part of the flower, and the rest is similar.
Alternatively, the recombinase may be engineered into a genetically modified line with the gene coding for barstar, which, when crossed with the male sterile genetically modified line containing barnase, will produce a hybrid. The hybrid, treated with tetracycline, will produce plants that will still set seed, at least in theory, because the barstar inactivates the barnase. However, if the farmer tries to re-sow the harvested seeds, he or she will find that only about half (7/16)[13] of the seeds will have the same characteristics as those bought from the company, and about one fifth (3/16) of the seeds may be completely sterile. But it could be considerably worse.
In AgrEvo’s application for field trials, only two lines are mentioned. These are:
a.. the ‘male sterile oilseed rape line’ engineered with barnase under the anther-specific promoter and a gene for phosphinothricin (glufosinate herbicide) tolerance; and
b.. the ‘restorer oilseed rape line’ engineered with barstar, also under the anther-specific promoter plus the same gene for glufosinate tolerance.
No detailed genetic map or other molecular genetic data were supplied with the document, as it was clearly intended for the public register. Companies are currently allowed to conceal molecular genetic data under ‘commercially sensitive information’, and most of them do so. Does either of these lines contain the site-specific recombinase? Does the barnase gene exist in a blocked form in another line in which male fertility can in principle be indefinitely maintained?
If barnase is not blocked, then the ‘male-sterile’ line cannot possibly be a true-breeding, uniform line, as it must be fertilised by pollen originating from non-male sterile oilseed rape. A male-sterile line can only be heterozygous for barnase and herbicide tolerance.
TERMINATOR CROPS CANNOT PREVENT GENE FLOW; AND INTRODUCE NEW HAZARDS
The system is ineffective for preventing gene flow for the following reasons:
a. All gene control systems are known to be ‘leaky’ in the sense of not being 100% effective, and the proposed system is no exception, particularly as so many elements have to be engineered perfectly, which is beyond current capability. As a result, some fertile pollen/seeds are likely to be produced.
b. Pollen sterile genetically modified (GM) plants can still be fertilised by non-GM pollen, just as GM pollen from ovule-sterile plants can cross with non-GM plants, thus enabling gene escape.
c. This system does not at all prevent horizontal gene transfer, a process whereby the GM DNA is taken up directly into cells of unrelated species and incorporated into the cell’s genome. If anything, horizontal gene transfer may be enhanced due to the increased structural instability of the complicated constructs involved. Transfer to bacteria and viruses in all environments can be envisaged. Plant residues, dust and pollen may all contribute. Transfer to insect pollinators or feeders could take place; and these may also become vectors for further horizontal gene transfer.
Significant hazards are introduced by this system, over and above those due to GM crops in general. First, barnase is a potent RNAse that breaks down RNA indiscriminately, and is known to be harmful, if not lethal, to all cells, animals and humans included. When perfused into rat kidneys, barnase causes kidney damage.[14] IT SHOULD NOT BE PERMITTED IN ANY GM CROP, LET ALONE GM CROP INTENDED FOR ANIMAL FEED OR HUMAN FOOD.
Second, the ‘site-specific’ recombinases are known not to be 100% specific. There is already evidence suggesting that unintended rearrangements and deletions of genomic sequences have resulted from the use of such recombinases. In other words, the recombinases have the potential to scramble genomes in unpredictable, harmful ways (see Note 7). This has now been demonstrated for the first time, basically because some researchers have finally cared to look for it.
The recombinase Cre is part of the ‘site-specific recombination’ Cre/lox system originally isolated from the bacteriophage (bacterial virus) P1. Cre catalyses recombination between two lox sites, splicing out any stretch of DNA in between.
The system is not only used in plants, but also extensively exploited in transgenic mice. Studies in the test-tube have shown that Cre recombinase can catalyze recombination between DNA sequences found naturally in yeast and mammalian genomes. These ‘illegitimate sites’ often bear little similarity to the lox element. However, there have been no reports on such illegitimate recognition in the animals or plants themselves. And there have even been pilot studies using the Cre/lox system in human gene therapy.
In a study just published,[15] researchers in the United States showed that high levels of Cre expression in the spermatids of heterozygous transgenic mice leads to 100% sterility in the males, despite the absence of any lox sites. Heterozygous mice carry only one copy of the Cre recombinase gene.
The sterility is caused directly by the recombinase enzyme scrambling the genome, essentially by breaking and rejoining DNA at inappropriate sites on the same or different chromosomes. The researchers have pinpointed the genome-scrambling event to the time at which the two ‘daughter’ spermatids and their paired chromosomes have just separated from each other, but are still joined by a ‘cytoplasmic bridge’. This is enough to allow the enzyme to pass from the spermatid containing the recombinase gene to the other that does not, thereby to scramble up the chromosomes of both the transgenic and non-transgenic spermatid. The result is 100% sterility. Embryos fertilized by these sperms arrest predominantly at the 2-cell stage, and do not go beyond the 4-cell stage.
The researchers warn: “These results indicate that Cre can catalyze illegitimate recombination having overt pathological consequences in animals.” A similar recombination system is found in animals containing the RAG recombinases. Illegitimate recombinations in somatic cells are linked to human leukemias.
The greatest danger of terminator crops stems from the spread of the genes and constructs, not only to related species by out-crossing but by horizontal transfer to unrelated species. The increased complication of the genetically modified constructs involved will only increase structural instability and hence the tendency to horizontal gene transfer and recombination. Transfer of both the terminator gene barnase and the recombinase will have drastic, potentially fatal effects on agriculture and on biodiversity.
It is high time to stop these killing crops once and for all.
[1] Application for field trials from AgrEvo (now Aventis) March 1999 “Part B: Information about the release application to be included on the public register”.
[2] www.nbiap.vt.edu/cfdocs/fieldtests3.cfm
[3] “Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact” Prepared by Biotechnology Permits, Biotechnology, Biologics, and Environmental Protection Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Permit Number 92-017-01: rapeseed; male sterility; restorer gene www.nbiap.vt.edu/biomon/relea/9201701r.eaa.
[4] www.delphion.com.
[5] US04673640 06/16/1987 Regulated protein production using site-specific recombination.
[6] See “Terminator in different guises” ISIS News #3, December 1999
[7] ISIS has warned of this more than once. See “Why patents on life-forms and living processes should be rejected from TRIPS – Scientific briefing on TRIPS Article 27.3(b)” by Mae-Wan Ho And Terje Traavik, TWN and ISIS Report, 1999 www.i-sis.org; “Terminator in different guises” by Mae-Wan Ho, ISIS News #3, December 1999 www.I-sis.org; “Terminator gene product alert” by Joe Cummins, ISIS News#6, September 2000 www.i-sis.org.
[8] “GM ‘poison’ allegation denied” http://uk.news.yahoo.com/001205/79/ar32n.html.
[9] “Terminator alert: UK GM field trials contain ‘terminator’ crops” ISIS Press Release 6.12.2000; “Terminator recombinase does scramble genomes” ISIS Press Release 8.12.2000 www.i-sis.org.
[10] Personal communication by e-mail to ISIS from Dr. Ian Woiwod, 8.12.2000.
[11] Firbank, L.G. et al, (1999). Nature 399, 727-8.
[12] Critical Issues on Biosafety, Third World Network Workshop during the First Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, 11 December 2000, Le Corum, Montpellier.
[13] It deviates from the usual 9/16 Mendelian ratio the inheritance of two genes, barnase and barstar, because there is a one-to-one complex between barnase and barstar; hence plants in which there are two copies of barnase and only one copy of barstar will be expected to be partially sterile.
[14] Ilinskaya,O and Vamvakas,S (1997). Nephrotic effect of bacterial ribonucleases in the isolated and perfused rat kidney. Toxicology 120, 55-63
[15] Schmidt, E.E., Taylor, D.S., Prigge, J.R., Barnett, S. and Capecchi, M.R. (2000). Illegitimate Cre-dependent chromosome rearrangements in transgenic mouse spermatids. PNAS 97, 13702-13707.
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Summer solstice celebrations at Stonehenge hit by funding blow
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Summer solstice revellers disappointed that coalition government will cut funding to new Stonehenge visitor centre
Summer solstice revellers disappointed that coalition government will cut funding to new Stonehenge visitor centre Sometimes the police come in for criticism, while at other times English Heritage attracts the ire of the druids, ravers, hippies and sun lovers who turn out for the summer solstice at Stonehenge. At today’s celebrations there was a political target – David Cameron and the coalition government – following the announcement that government funding for a visitor centre at the ancient monument was being cut. The outcry from solstice revellers was led by the unmistakeable figure of Arthur Pendragon, a druid who believes he is an incarnation of the once and future king. Pendragon, who rejoices in the title of battle chieftain of the council of British druid orders, said he was not surprised that the £10m funding was dropped. “I knew the writing was on the wall. I knew the new government wouldn’t stump up the money. It’s no surprise but, still, it’s a disgrace. This wouldn’t happen anywhere else in the world.” Pendragon has campaigned for 20 years for a new visitor centre at the World Heritage site and to close at least one of the busy roads that surround the stones. Tourists are often shocked at the state of the centre and amazed that traffic is allowed to roar past so close. Last year Gordon Brown promised £10m towards a £25m scheme to build a glass and timber centre and to shut the nearby A344. The scheme was expected to win planning permission soon and the project was due to be completed in 2012 to coincide with the staging of the Olympics in the UK. Last week the government announced the funding would be pulled. English Heritage, which manages the site, said it was “extremely disappointed”, arguing that transforming Stonehenge was “vital to Britain’s reputation and to our tourism industry”. It said it would try to find the funding from elsewhere. Pendragon said he was worried about how the shortfall would be met: “I don’t want to see them making up any shortfall with a public-private partnership. I don’t want to see Americans going home with T-shirts reading: ‘I’ve been to McDonald’s Stonehenge’. “All they’ve got to do is go to an investment banker with a decent proposal. Nearly a million visitors come through here every year. Any investment bank will see that it’s a money spinner. “It’s not as if they aren’t good for the money. Being English Heritage, they’ve got a castle or three they can put up as collateral. “We’ve been 20 years waiting for this visitor centre, faffing about. They can borrow the money and build the bloody visitor centre. That’s what I intend to make sure they do.” Rollo Maughfling, archdruid of Stonehenge and Britain, greeted the rising of the sun with a blast on his trumpet – which sounded not unlike a vuvuzela. “It’s been a wonderful, warm night,” he said. Around 20,000 people turned up to mark the solstice and by dawn there had been 30 arrests for minor offences. It was also the first time the solstice sun had peeped from behind the clouds since 2003. While campaigning tends to be left to Pendragon, Maughfling said it was a druid’s duty to get involved in politics when the need arose – and it had now arisen. “You have to tangle with politics to make sure that, for example, our national shrines and temples are looked after,” he said. “Look at any of the stories of druids in ancient British literature and ancient Irish literature, there have been times when the security of the land has been in the hands of druids as well as kings. Druids have taken sides in all kinds of matters. We can’t stand apart from it all.” Peter Carson, head of Stonehenge for English Heritage, said he was pleased at how the solstice went but disappointed at the withdrawal of funding. “But it’s not over yet,” he said. “Let’s see what we can do. Maybe there is a way forward. The project has a great deal of support. It will ensure a suitable setting for Stonehenge and it will upgrade considerably the very poor facilities we currently have.” Sky, a pagan from Devon, broke off from a drumming session to explain how crucial it was that Stonehenge was improved. “It’s the most wonderful place and it’s a disgrace that we’re still waiting for a new visitor centre and for improvements to the roads. I bring people here from abroad sometimes. They’re amazed by the stones – but also amazed at how crummy the facilities are. I’d like that David Cameron to come down here and tell us why Stonehenge, our national treasure, is being treated so shabbily.”
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Cyber surfing: Thursday
Good morning. Here’s what’s “out there” about the Seahawks for today, Sept. 1:
Mike Sando of ESPN.com was at practice Wednesday and offers some observations. Says Sando: “(Leon) Washington has embraced the way assistant head coach/offensive line Tom Cable instructs running backs to read their keys, which includes making cuts properly in relation to defenders’ alignment. It’s pretty clear Washington will command additional touches on offense this season. He’s healthier and more confident.”
Also from ESPN.com, John Clayton rates the quarterbacks in the league. He puts Tarvaris Jackson at No. 30, in the hit-or-miss category, offering: “Jackson was beaten out by Gus Frerotte and Brett Favre during his five seasons with the Vikings. Unless Dave Krieg comes out of retirement, he should beat out Charlie Whitehurst for the starting job.”
Chris Burke at SI.com previews the four teams in the NFC West. He predicts a 7-9 record and second-place finish behind the Rams for the Seahawks, offering: “This felt like a really solid offseason for the Seahawks. They added some terrific pieces, like (Zach) Miller and (Sidney) Rice, that should have pushed a defending division champ over the top. Instead, Seattle will enter the regular season praying its offensive line can hold it together and banking on its defense to improve despite not making any real upgrades. It feels like this team will be better in 2012 than it will in 2011.”
Danny O’Neil at the Seattle Times writes that the starters will play more than usual in Friday’s preseason finale against the Raiders at CenturyLink Field. Offers O’Neil: “The Seahawks, however, aren’t just sweating the final pieces of their 53-man roster this week. The offensive line remains very much a work in progress to the point that Seattle will deviate from standard-operating procedure of resting veterans for the exhibition finale. Seattle’s starters will play on Friday night against Oakland at CenturyLink Field. Coach Pete Carroll wouldn’t say how much, but he implied the first unit is going to play. In fact, he was already fairly certain of that after Saturday’s loss in Denver when he watched starting quarterback Tarvaris Jackson get sacked five times.”
Dave Boling of the News Tribune has the story on one of the more entertaining aspects of practice: The chirping that goes on between wide receiver Mike Williams and free safety Earl Thomas. Says Boling: “This time of the NFL exhibition season, a common question arises from fans: Where are the best battles on the practice field? For the Seahawks, the best competition has nothing to do with the depth chart. Hands-down, the fiercest battle is the nonstop verbal jousting between receiver Mike Williams and safety Earl Thomas during practices. To clarify, nobody in the franchise wields a sharper needle than linebackers coach Ken Norton Jr., whose comments between plays can buckle the knees of a strong man at 50 paces. Be they comical, constructive or critical, Norton is the all-time heavyweight champion of the spontaneous remark. But for intramural mockery, scorn and feigned contempt, Williams and Thomas may be the best tandem the Seahawks have had in a long time.”
Just in case you can’t get enough about Doug Baldwin, John Boyle of the Everett Herald has another story – and angle – on the rookie free agent wide receiver who has been the talk of the preseason. Says Boyle: “If not for a newspaper publisher in Pensacola, Fla., and a former head coach of the Buffalo Bills, there’s a good chance that Doug Baldwin wouldn’t be battling for a shot to make the Seahawks roster. And if that doesn’t make any sense, well just bear with us for a moment.”
At PI.com, Christian Caple has notes and news from another busy day for the Seahawks.
Here at Seahawks.com, we check in with Cable to see how he’s handling the growing pains of his offensive line. Of the No. 1 units, he says, “Probably playing that group more than you normally would. But we need to do it. And I think Saturday was a perfect example of how much they need to continue to play and continue to grow. We have to do it now. We’re all in it together. We know we’ll have some bumps in the road. But we what to minimize it. Saturday, we didn’t do a good job of it.”
There’s also the daily Hawkville report, which focuses on John Carlson and the decision to have season-ending surgery on his shoulder: “The decision was kind of made by my shoulder,” Carlson said. Talk about body language. But that was the case. Initially, Carlson was going to rehab the shoulder and try to play with it. “It kind of resolved itself by not coming along as far as we wanted it to,” he said. “That’s where my shoulder is. I need to get it fixed and start the rehab process.” We also have Tony Ventrella’s daily video recap, as well as written and video reports from the unveiling of a statue of Walter Jones at the new Seahawks 12 Club at Sea-Tac.
September 1, 2011 – 8:44 am
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Leonore Goldschmidt: The Teacher Who Outsmarted Hitler
In Nazi Germany, Jews of all ages and classes were subject to discrimination and violence. This intolerance extended to Jewish educators and schools.
In 1933, mere months after Hitler took power, a new law took effect called The Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. Under this decree, Jewish civil servants such as educators were fired en masse.
Leonore Goldschmidt was a teacher who was passionate about her career. When she was suddenly removed from her job, she was heartbroken — but not defeated.
Photo: YouTube/Smithsonian Channel
She found a loophole in the Nazi system which allowed her to open her own private school for Jewish youth.
The law stipulated that Jewish teachers could teach up to five non-Aryan students at a time. So, Goldschmidt gathered four other fired teachers and formed a collective. This way, 25 Jewish students could learn at one school. This is how the Goldschmidt School was created.
Hitler was an evil person, but he was also incredibly intelligent. To say that a lowly schoolteacher outsmarted him is no small claim. But we think you’ll agree that this woman is wise and learned in ways most of us can barely wrap our brains around. Can you imagine doing what she did just for the sake of giving her students the education she knew they deserved?
Watch this video to learn more about Leonore’s bravery and commitment to teach in the face of discrimination.
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200 years of the Sovereign. Part VI: The UK’s Premier Gold Coin
By Lauren Brewer | October 27, 2016 | 1
2017 sees the Gold Sovereign’s bicentenary, and to mark the occasion a special one-year-only design has been unveiled, recreating Pistrucci’s original 1817 engraving. It’s a truly fitting tribute and acknowledges the rich history of the coin which I’ve been exploring in these blogs. If you missed the previous posts you can start from the beginning here, but now here’s the final chapter in the sovereign’s history so far…
In Part V, I explored the decline in production of Gold Sovereigns as a result of World War I and the worldwide economic crisis, which lead to the end of the Sovereign. Until 1957 when it was revived once again…
Apart from one special limited edition commemorative issue for King George VI’s coronation in 1937, no Sovereigns had been struck since 1932. In 1953, Sovereigns were produced for Queen Elizabeth II for the Coronation Sets but they were for national collections, not collectors.
The Sovereign’s revival
The Mary Gillick Portrait of the Young Queen on the Gold Sovereign
Then in 1957, worldwide demand for the coins became so great that The Royal Mint resumed production of bullion gold Sovereigns for circulation. Not only would this satisfy demand, it would also blunt the premium that was making it so lucrative to counterfeit the coins.
These early ‘restoration’ Sovereigns of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign feature Mary Gillick’s portrait of the young Queen on the obverse, engraved especially for her new coinage.
The portrait design was changed in 1968 prior to Decimalisation in 1971, to a portrait by Arnold Machin. This portrait still features on postage stamps all these years later.
A new market emerges
Queen Elizabeth II’s reign has been a time of change for the Sovereign. A new market has emerged – the collector’s market.
In 1979, The Royal Mint produced the first proof version of the Sovereign of her reign. This higher grade version was limited to just 12,500 pieces and proved very popular with collectors.
With a newfound interest from collectors, it is not surprising that we have seen more design variations of the Sovereign than ever before.
A third portrait design by Raphael Maklouf was used from 1985 to 1997 and a fourth by Ian Rank-Broadley FRBS replaced this until 2015 when Her Majesty’s portrait was updated by The Royal Mint engraver, Jody Clark.
The UK’s Premier Gold Coin
We have also seen the introduction of commemorative one-year-only designs, which started in 1989 with the issue of a special 500th anniversary Sovereign, featuring a design similar to the first Sovereign in 1489. These special commemorative designs have become more and more popular.
Since then, there have been one-year-only designs for the Queen’s Golden Jubilee in 2002, the modern St. George and the Dragon in 2005, the Diamond Jubilee in 2012 and the Queen’s 90th birthday in 2016.
These limited editions have seen a surge in Sovereign collecting, cementing its position as the UK’s premier gold coin.
It’s universal appeal shows no sign of slowing. In recent financial crises, people all over the world clamoured for Gold Sovereigns.
The Sovereign’s reputation for quality and reliability remains and will remain for years to come and now the next chapter in the Sovereign story has been written…
Announcing the new UK Bicentenary Gold Proof Sovereign
The UK Bicentenary Gold Proof Sovereign
To mark the Bicentenary of the “modern” Gold Sovereign in 2017, The Royal Mint have just released a brand new Gold Proof Sovereign reprising Benedetto Pistrucci’s original engraving from 1817.
With a low edition limit of just 10,500 worldwide, a special one-year-only design change and a fine proof finish, the 2017 Bicentenary Gold Sovereign has all the elements to be one of the most collectable British gold coins of the 21st century. And now you can own one.
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halsallms on November 15, 2016 at 9:44 am
fantastic coin, great design
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The UK’s referendum and Spain: A Brexit is unlikely to be welcomed by Spanish citizens
The UK’s referendum will not only have an impact on Britain, but also on the rest of the European Union. As part of our series covering views on the referendum across Europe, Salvador Llaudes assesses the perspective of the Spanish government and Spanish citizens on a potential Brexit.
Internal tensions pushed David Cameron to launch the risky wager of undertaking a referendum on EU membership before the end of 2017. Leaders only use this mechanism, which often has a polarising effect on the electorate, when they are sure of attaining a clear victory. Following this same logic, after his successful experiences of 2011 (the referendum on the ‘alternative vote’ electoral system) and 2014 (the referendum on Scottish independence), Cameron has seen himself as having enough leverage to call a new plebiscite that could solve the relationship between the UK and the EU for at least a generation.
The referendum, scheduled for 23 June, will see Cameron ask for a vote in favour of remaining in the European Union, after months of negotiations with his partners regarding the new nature of the relationship between the two sides. Donald Tusk played an essential part, in his role as President of the European Council, in the success of the negotiations. At the same time, countries like France (for her opposition in granting the UK further concessions over economic governance), Belgium (for her reticence to renounce the principle of “ever closer union”) and most of all, the Visegrad Group, that is, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary (for their discomfort regarding proposals concerning social benefits), had a relevant role too.
Of course, only in the case of Britons deciding to stay in the EU, will the agreement come into effect. With the exception of the section regarding competitiveness, which is more ambiguous and imprecise, the rest (economic governance, sovereignty and social benefits) will bring about some changes regarding the relationship between the EU and UK, and will have certain effects on Spain. Though undesirable for a country so firmly pro-European, these effects do not have to be particularly dramatic, especially if they do not entail a cascade of petitions to obtain a singular status from other countries.
The UK’s referendum and Spain
Regarding economic governance, Cameron has obtained the recognition that different currencies co-exist in the EU, but a clear red line for Spain has been salvaged as it is highlighted that the only currency of the EU is the euro. Likewise, and in this same section, the UK has achieved the creation of a mechanism that guarantees the non-discrimination of countries outside the Eurozone.
According to this, economic matters that affect the banking union and the internal market can be put forward to the European Council. Although this does not translate into veto power, depending on how and how frequently it is used, it could eventually provoke serious difficulties when taking decisions. This is clearly against Spain’s interests, though at the same time, it may pose an opportunity to balance German economic power, given that the British and Spanish productive models are very similar, due to the export of services, internal demand and the role of the banking sector.
In terms of national sovereignty, the UK will now have one more singularity: from now on it will be exempt from “ever closing union” and it will not be obliged to integrate further in the future (there is even a compromise for this to be reflected in an eventual treaty reform). Furthermore, in this sphere, it is important to highlight the assignation of a “red-card” to national parliaments, according to which they could veto legislation (although only in the case of 55 per cent of national parliaments also exercising it). This concession, which would limit the power of legislative initiative of the Commission, is, in principle, dangerous and undesirable for a country like Spain, which has traditionally had a weak parliament, especially in the control of foreign affairs. Nevertheless, it could pose an opportunity as an incentive for the Parliament to establish a network with other national parliaments that hold the same EU perspective as Spain.
In regards to the last point of the negotiation, countries have decided upon the creation of mechanisms to limit social benefits, in particular those concerning child benefits and in-work benefits. The introduction of such mechanisms should not be alarming for Spain given the type of Spanish immigration in the UK – mostly young and without family burdens. However, the curbing of in-work benefits, which would allow the UK to activate an “emergency brake” for seven years to limit the social benefit claims of EU migrants, is potentially more harmful.
Nevertheless, this would not apply to those already residing in the UK (around 200,000 Spaniards according to official figures, of which, barely 1 per cent are social benefit claimants) and, if the economic situation in Spain continues to improve, the migration rate is expected to decrease. Likewise, Spain is the EU country with which the UK has the most favourable relations in terms of migration, given that the lowest estimates point to 300,000 Britons residing in Spain. This offers a certain guarantee against the discriminatory treatment of Spaniards in the UK.
Which way the vote will go is a decision now in the hands of the British people. As in other referendums, what is relevant is whether citizens are replying to the question set, or whether other factors such as their trust in the current government or their views on the negotiations play a role in shaping opinions. Should the UK opt to leave it would certainly be more costly for Spain and the EU as a whole (not to mention the UK itself).
Note: This article gives the views of the author, and not the position of EUROPP – European Politics and Policy, nor of the London School of Economics. Featured image credit: La Moncloa Gobierno de España (CC-BY-SA-2.0)
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The negotiations were not a success and to say that they were is taking journalistic licence to its limits and beyond.
None of the agreements Cameron supposedly secured are legally binding and all could be reneged on, even if there is a “stay” vote. Anyone who trusts this “jam tomorrow” promise is likely to be very disappointed.
There is no comparison between Spaniards living here and Brits living in Spain, Brits are highly unlikely to be in Spain looking for work, they will have retired there or are self sufficient and not claiming welfare benefits.
You’ve said that as if it’s a good thing that they aren’t looking for work. Pensioners contribute nothing directly to a tax system yet use public services. They’re usually a net drain on an economy unless they spend so much money while they’re there that they compensate for it.
Workers on the other hand (1% of Spanish citizens are claiming benefits in the UK according to the figures in this article) are typically a net gain to an economy – particularly in this case where the UK is receiving tax revenues from working age Spaniards without having to pay for their education (and who will in all likelihood move back to Spain before retiring).
“None of the agreements Cameron supposedly secured are legally binding and all could be reneged on, even if there is a “stay” vote.”
This is an extremely pedantic/silly point that seems to be getting raised by Eurosceptic campaigners regularly to try and muddy the waters. It’s a bit like saying if the UK votes to leave the government could force people to work 80 hours a week because the Working Time Directive wouldn’t apply – something being technically possible doesn’t mean it’s going to happen and the political capital that would be lost in tearing up the renegotiation would make it a spectacularly stupid idea. It’s not going to happen and if you think this constitutes a reasonable argument for leaving the EU then you need to go back to the drawing board.
Considering they are living there, they are likely to be spending all there money there, so they are contributing to the Spanish economy.
Not all migrant workers are a net gain to the economy and it is misleading to claim this.,
it depends what work they are doing and whether or not they are paying tax, also, what benefits (such as tax credits) are supplementing their earnings. They will be using the NHS, school places, public transport etc., none of which they have contributed to. They could be receiving child benefits, housing benefit, maternity payments etc. etc.
I do not agree that saying something could be reneged on is pedantic, or silly.
As you will know the so called agreements Cameron supposedly secures will require all members states to agree to and Cameron has been told this cannot be guaranteed.
If you have some positive statements want to contribute to the EU debate why don’t you make them, rather than indulging in petulant comments?
Nobody has claimed all workers are a net gain to the economy. What was actually said is that your suggestion it’s better on average for an economy to have ageing retired citizens than productive people of working age isn’t borne out in empirical evidence – in fact the opposite is typically true. And we have plenty of empirical evidence that EU migrants overall are a net gain to the UK economy – they made a net contribution of £20 billion to the UK economy between 2000 and 2011, as shown by Dustmann and Frattini’s well quoted study.
And if we got rid of those that weren’t contributing, the net gain would be even higher.
I’m not sure why you’re so keen to say that mostly young working age, tax paying Spaniards in the UK (and do presumably by extension others from elsewhere in the EU) are such a burden on the UK but the mostly retired British immigrants in Spain are somehow an unalloyed benefit. There are always pros and cons to any such system of free movement of peoples, and that includes the Brits living elsewhere in Europe. Holidaying in the Algarve last year it was rather depressing to see some towns turned into Essex in Sun, with British bars and shops everywhere.
Chris Hanretty
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Joely Fisher is an American actress and singer, She was born on October 29, 1967, and her birthplace is Burbank, California, U.S. She is the daughter of Edwin Jack Fisher, who was an American singer and actor, and Connie Stevens, who is an American actress, director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and singer. She had three siblings Tricia Leigh Fisher, Carrie Fisher (half-sister) and Todd Fisher (half-brother). She completed studies at Emerson College. She made many notable films such as Pretty Smart, I’ll Do Anything, The Disappointments Room, The Tribes of Palos Verdes, and so on. She is best known for her television sitcom Ellen, for which she received the nomination for Golden Globe Award.
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Joely Fisher Date of Birth: 29 October 1967
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10 Famous Yoga Teachers You Should Know
Published by admin at 16th June 2017
10 Famous Yoga Teachers | Ana Heart Blog
In the world of yoga, in both the spiritual and physical sense, there are numerous influential and knowledgeable yoga teachers, however, to name them all would take days. In this article, we explore the practices of ten of the most famous yoga teachers, some of whom are traditional teachers that are no longer with us, such as Sri T. Krishnamacharya, and others that have developed modern forms of yoga and brought them to the masses, such as Lakshmi Voelker.
Founder of Bikram Yoga, a type of hot yoga that uses Hatha Yoga postures, Bikram Choudhury created a now established series of 26 postures which he claims restored his health after a paralysing weightlifting accident in the ’60s. After his accident, Choudhury thought he would never walk again but then, through his yoga techniques, was walking within six months of the accident, despite doctors’ uncertainty regarding his recovery. In the ’70s, Choudhury arrived in the United States where he opened yoga studios in California and Hawaii. For Bikram Yoga, the room must be heated to 40°C to “replicate the Indian climate” for ultimate health in mind and body.
Baron Baptiste
Continuing his father Walt Baptiste’s yoga legacy, American yoga teacher Baron Baptiste practices Baptiste Yoga, firmly established in the ’40s. Baptiste Yoga uses Hatha-inspired postures with the aim to increase focus and boost confidence and is a highly physical form of yoga. Over the years, Baptiste has written several internationally renowned books, including his latest book Perfectly Imperfect: The Art and Soul of Yoga Practice (2016), and is the founder of the Baptiste Institute which has Baptiste Yoga studios and partners all over the world, bringing yoga to the masses.
Lilias Folan
Now in her 70’s, Lilias Folan is considered the ‘First Lady of Yoga’ after hosting a successful yoga television show titled ‘Lilias, Yoga and You’ in the ’70s, which attracted more than 10 million viewers throughout its run. Folan brought yoga to ordinary people such as housewives and office workers, making her a real yoga icon. Today, Lilias continues to teach yoga in the United States and is regularly found speaking at prominent yoga and wellness events. Time Magazine labeled Folan the “Julia Child of Yoga” – an endorsement that cements her a place in popular American history.
Sri T. Krishnamacharya
Widely referred to as the ‘Father of Modern Yoga’, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya was an Indian yoga teacher, ayurvedic healer and scholar. He is best known for reviving Hatha Yoga and, during his life which, sadly, ended in 1989 when he was 100-years-old, he taught some of the world’s most influential yoga teachers, including Indra Devi and Srivatsa Ramaswami, and wrote several books on yoga, including Yoga Makaranda (1934). One of Krishnamacharya’s fundamental teachings is that every person’s yoga programme should be tailored to their needs as everyone is different.
B. K. S. Iyengar
Full name Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar, B. K. S. Iyengar was one of Sri T. Krishnamacharya’s first students and was the founder of Iyengar Yoga, a type of Hatha Yoga which focuses on precision, alignment, posture, and breathing to improve strength, mobility and stability. In 2004, he was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine. Iyengar died in 2014 at the age of 95; however, his techniques retain a global audience.
Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
Born in India in 1915, Jois was passionate about yoga from an early age and, consequently, at the age of 12, became one of Sri T. Krishnamacharya’s students. Jois is famed for founding Ashtanga Yoga, a contemporary take on classical Indian yoga that is very physical and athletic. In 1948, Jois founded the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute (now the Shri K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute) in Mysore, India. He died in 2009 at the age of 93, leaving a unique yoga legacy behind.
David Life and Sharon Gannon
Both students of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, David Life and Sharon Gannon are the founders of Jivamukti Yoga, a physical and highly spiritual form of yoga that embraces music and meditation. The duo regularly appears on television and in magazines and was described by Vanity Fair as the pair “making yoga cool and hip.” The pair has published four books, including Art of Yoga (2001).
Beth Shaw
With innovation at her heart, New York native Beth Shaw is one of the 21st century’s most influential yoga teachers and is the founder of yoga fitness educational system, YogaFit. Beth’s teachings combine the mind, body, and fitness to ensure good health, helping you to become your “best self.” Through YogaFit, Beth has been responsible for training from than 75,000 fitness instructors worldwide. Shaw has also written numerous books, including Beth Shaw’s YogaFit.
Lakshmi Voelker
Essential to making wellness accessible to everyone, Lakshmi Voelker is the founder of Chair Yoga which embraces alternative fitness methods from those limited physically and mentally. All Voelker’s programmes occur while seated on a chair. Lakshmi has had numerous successful DVDs and now offers Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Certification and works as a private yoga therapist, too.
Ana Forrest
A pioneer in yoga practices that focus on mental wellbeing through highly physical activity, Ana Forrest is the founder of Forrest Yoga which aims to help students “cleanse emotional and mental blocks that dictate and limit their lives.” Forrest Yoga uses traditional Hatha Yoga techniques and focuses on breathing, core strength, self-awareness, and spirituality to help you “heal and grow.”
Yoga is an incredibly powerful practice that, if undertaken regularly, can completely transform your outlook on not only your life but also the world around you, filling your life with positivity.
Whether you’re a yoga newbie or a fitness aficionado, embrace the teachings of the world’s famous yoga teachers to find out which methods work best for your mental and physical health.
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Reading with Emine Sevgi Özdamar
The next event of our reading series «Das andere Buch an der Uni», will see Emine Sevgi Özdamar read from "Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde" on Friday, 7 November 2003.
Reading series «Das andere Buch an der Uni»
Emine Sevgi Özdamar reads from "Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde"
Library of the University of St. Gallen, under the cupola
Friday, 7 November 2003, 7.30 pm
Free entry. Reading in German
The University of St.Gallen Library has invited Emine Sevgi Özdamar to read from her latest book “Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde”. Looking amazed and with incredible wit, the author recalls an almost forgotten Berlin in the 1970s. The life of people she shares a flat with in west Berlin’s Wedding district and their east Berlin friends in Pankow, the Turkish immigrants in the neighbourhood, the political events of the “German Autumn”, the daily S-Bahn journeys between the west and the east, important and less important love stories and finally her great love for the Heiner Müller and Benno Besson’s theatre.
The book is the last volume of a trilogy entitled “Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei…” which began in 1992. In the book, she depicts the childhood and adolescence of a girl in Turkey, where tradition and modernity collide. In the novel “The Bridge of the Golden Horn”, published in 1998, she writes about a young Turkish woman in Berlin. She also includes obvious autobiographical sections, such as factory work and stage school.
Emine Sevgi Özdamar was born in 1946 in Malataya in eastern Turkey. She came to Germany for the first time in 1965 to work in a Berlin factory. Two years later, she returned to Turkey and attended a stage school in Istanbul. As an actress she returned to Germany in 1976 where she worked with Benno Besson as assistant director at the East Berlin Volksbühne theatre. Engagements in Paris, Avignon and Bochum followed. At the same time, Emine Sevgi Özdamar also works for film and television. For example she acted in “Happy Birthday Türke” by Doris Dörrie. In 1991 she received the acclaimed Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.
Emine Sevgi Özdamar is a woman who likes to travel: "I’m a woman without roots. I prefer to sit in a train between countries. The train is a great home."
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Marlis Werz
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5 Books & Authors To Help You Celebrate Latinx Heritage Month
by Kay Kuever September 25, 2018
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September 15th marked the beginning of Latinx Heritage Month or Hispanic Heritage Month. It’s time to celebrate, honor, and recognize the artistic and cultural achievements of Latinx Americans. It’s also an amazing opportunity to show some love for a few of my favorite Latinx authors, each of whom represents diverse cultures. If you’re ready to explore some Latinx authors, I highly recommend these reads.
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez
Sanchez, the daughter of Mexican immigrants. She also a poet, novelist, and essayist, and her biggest role model is Lisa Simpson. Her debut young adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, is a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. The story follows Julia, who was never supposed to fit the shoes of her perfect sister, Olga. After a tragic accident that takes Olga’s life, however, Julia struggles to keep the pieces of her family together. Julia must also journey through her own grief and figure out who her sister really was. Of course, that means uncovering the façade of being the perfect Mexican daughter.
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Her Body and Other Parties, Machado’s debut short story collection, deserves all the praise it has received. It is a National Book Award finalist, receiving the Shirley Jackson Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Bard Fiction Prize (to name a few). It’s an electric and beautifully honest collection that recognizes the reality of life as a woman. Machado has been named a member of “The New Vanguard” by The New York Times. They listed her as one of the “15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century.”
Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics by Frederick Luis Aldama
Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics won the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Scholarly/Academic Work and was published by the University of Arizona Press. This is a groundbreaking study and archive of Latinx superheroes in comics since the 1940s. The book brings visibility and awareness to characters who face censorship by main-stream media culture.
All the Wind in the World by Samantha Mabry
This genre-bending book mixes romance with magical realism and a hint of dystopian. It does all this in a beautifully enticing way. Set in the backdrop of the Southwest, farm workers Sarah Jac and James have fallen in love. They are doing what they can to keep a solid grasp on their future. But how far can a relationship built on lies get? What about starting over at a new cursed plantation?
The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body by Alberto Rios
Rios, a University of Arizona graduate and a professor at Arizona State University, is Arizona’s first state poet laureate. This book is a beautiful collection of poetry surrounding Nogales, which straddles the border of Arizona and Mexico. Rios shows that adventures can cross culture, language, and generations in this National Book Award finalist.
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Artist Adam Hughes reflects on his DC cover art in “Cover Run”
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I’ve been meaning to get my hands on Adam Hughes’s Cover Run: The DC Comics Art of Adam Hughes for some time now. Hooray for Christmas presents!
Cover Run examines in great depth probably the best, powerhouse cover artist of Wonder Woman and Catwoman ever. Hughes walks and talks us through the best and worst of his work and we learn a lot about him and his process. It’s nice to confirm he’s well aware of these great influences that come through in his work, and his sometimes imitations of style from the likes of Maxfield Parrish, Kevin Nowlan, Mike Mignola, Gil Elvgren, Bob Peak, even Norman Rockwell and Edward Hopper, and a whole bunch of art nouveau.
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Opening weekend review–Nolan’s final Batman film falls short
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Thursday evening brought in the newest national movie theater marathon, this time for Christopher Nolan’s third and final Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises. Starting at six p.m. with Batman Begins, followed by The Dark Knight and culminating with a midnight showing of the new feature film, fans of Nolan’s vision of Batman surely got their fix. Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy is as it’s described–dark. But none as dark and bleak as the third and final installment.
Can you have fun at a movie that is so dark? The “dark” I am referring to in the context of Nolan’s film is “the bleak future ahead.” Batman films before Nolan also were dark, but in a fantasy, comic book way. I miss the sleek Batmobiles of earlier films. To be fair, the current various DC Comics Batman series are pretty dark–gruesome at times–so maybe movies are just mirroring the evolution of the comic stories. There’s a bit of a battle between making your story seem real and still have the rules of comic books apply. Battle scenes in the current franchise, with Tumbler tanks that could be right out of an Iraq army base, take away some of the fun, the fantasy, of watching superhero films. I want my Batman movies to be not only dark but also fun, and I am looking for escapism, not realism. If you have the same mindset, can you still have fun watching the new Batman movie? Sure. What I am not sure of is whether you may like The Dark Knight Rises more were you to see it without the benefit of the Dark Knight Marathon.
I attended last night’s screening of the full marathon with borg.com writer Art Schmidt. And we had fun. Crowds at these big screenings really want to be there, and really want to like the new movie. But where I had the most fun was re-watching Nolan’s second installment–The Dark Knight–on the big IMAX screen. And I think the crowd simply responded, audibly, better to The Dark Knight than The Dark Knight Rises. Would I have liked The Dark Knight Rises more had it not been viewed at the end of such a solid film as The Dark Knight? That’s the question I am left pondering.
I’d seen both Batman Begins and The Dark Knight in the theater when first released. I was not a fan of Batman Begins, other than I liked Michael Caine’s Alfred and Morgan Freeman’s Lucius Fox. I will acknowledge in the first two films the nods to Frank Miller’s Batman: Year One as a positive thing. I should have liked Liam Neeson as Ra’s Al Ghul, but didn’t. Last night, in the right mindset for a fun evening of movie watching, I was pleasantly surprised that I found Batman Begins to be better than I had remembered from viewing it in its initial release.
But it was installment two, The Dark Knight, that proved to be the highlight of the entire night. It cemented the reasoning for Heath Ledger being awarded an Academy Award for his performance as the Joker. His performance was both creepy and comical, despite his grim, psychotic nature. But Aaron Eckhart’s brilliant performance as Harvey Dent was not far behind. The writers of this “trilogy” seem to me to have screwed up somehow. Why? After watching all three films the real hero of the trilogy is unquestionably Harvey Dent. Despite him turning criminal after going through the murder of his fiance and the destruction of his face, he is entirely a sympathetic victim who acted heroically until his world was devastated. But this is all wrong–the hero of a Batman trilogy should be Batman, plain and simple. After watching the newest film, The Dark Knight Rises, we are left with a vision of Batman as a whiny adult who could not get beyond early tragedy in his life. Sure, he had it tough, and yes, he is a sympathetic character, but the character never really moves beyond the mindset of the young Bruce Wayne sitting in a cave. Classic Batman stories do not rely on Bruce Wayne moping around about his problems–he is able to push them aside and help other people. For me, the fatal flaw in Nolan’s trilogy is this basic thread at the core of Bruce Wayne’s character. What Batman fans want is a movie where Batman gets to be the hero, where he saves the day, and leaves a better world behind.
Most of The Dark Knight Rises does not even feature Christian Bale in the Batsuit. I’ve always thought a detective story focusing solely on Bruce Wayne and his analytical skills would be a great idea. For a book, yes. But now I know it doesn’t work for a movie. Fans want to see Batman being Batman. And not being beaten to a pulp by an ugly thug who has little motivation or character development. Tom Hardy’s Bane is just bad for the sake of being bad. Without revealing details, I think a plot twist at the end is predictable, and a last-minute attempt to make us feel sorry for Bane is too little, too late. You cannot really even tell what actor is playing Bane. The marquis credits say it is Tom Hardy, a solid young character actor who has been in Star Trek Nemesis, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Blackhawk Down and Inception, but how would any of us know who he was with that face-covering breathing apparatus? What does that thing even do? He acts like Darth Vader, even holding someone up by his neck. He sounds like Ian McKellan’s Gandalf. His dialogue is muffled. He speaks in loud shouts like the ringmaster at a circus.
Marion Cotillard’s character Miranda seemed to be an afterthought in the script, a character whose actions would have insulted the intelligence of the Wayne and Fox characters from prior films. There is no chemistry between Wayne and Miranda, yet out of nowhere they are a couple—right after Wayne speaks longingly of Rachel (who was killed by the Joker in the last film), and while we movie goers see him developing some attraction to Anne Hathaway’s Salina Kyle. (Seeing Batman Begins back to back with The Dark Knight also showed why Katie Holmes was better cast as Rachel than Maggie Gyllenhaal).
Caine, Bale, Freeman, and Oldman all were underused in The Dark Knight Rises, and when used they play caricatures of their roles from past films, even repeating scenes from the past two films, often doing things that seem out of character, like Caine turning his back on Bruce, like Gordon turning his back on Batman. Matthew Modine added to his list of drab roles by playing a police officer who came off as annoying and irrelevant. There are points where you don’t know whether to cheer the street mob or the police, the bad guys or the good. Ultimately everything becomes a free-for-all and Nolan tries to make Gotham a cross between the Holocaust and New York City in John Carpenter’s Escape from New York.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has a nice opportunity to shine in the film, but too much time is spent on his character, and not enough on Bruce Wayne or Batman, where the focus should have been. Throughout the movie you can’t help but look for how Gordon-Levitt will fill Batman’s shoes one day–like Shia LaBeouf’s Mutt in the last Indiana Jones movie. Note to Hollywood producers: if you are going to reboot your franchises every five years you don’t need to worry about taking valuable screen time to build up having younger characters pick up the reins for the title roles in future movies.
The best part of the movie was without a doubt Anne Hathaway as Salina Kyle. Although there were a few directing decisions that seemed like missed opportunities—like what could have been a more overt and less subtle switch from innocent maid to deceitful thief in a key early scene—her dialogue was the best of anyone’s in the film and her performance was also spot on. Her character had chemistry with Wayne, and if there was a saving grace to the movie it was the scenes of Batman and Catwoman together. Hathaway seemed literally to bring out better acting by Bale.
One good scene had Fox introduce Wayne to some new gadgetry, straight out of any Q scene in a 007 movie. Cameos from actors in past movies were also a nice addition, added some fun to the film, and the story at least made an effort to try to tie up storylines from early films.
Despair and hopelessness accounted for a long film that I thought would never end. Once it got to an ending, the creators could not decide which ending to use, so they used them all. The sound was loud throughout without letting up, lots of thumps and bass notes to tell you when you’re supposed to feel angst or fear. I know operatically the third scene of a three-part work often can have a large gothic, epic feel winding up to a conclusion, but the film did not feel like an ending, more like another installment in a continuing franchise. But the foundation of this third installment rests on the proposition that Harvey Dent was a bad guy in installment two. Harvey Dent was a victim who turned bad in the end. Gordon and Wayne do the right thing by not revealing the criminal acts he committed after his life was ruined. After all, Harvey Dent was dead. Yet so much of The Dark Knight Rises hinges on Gordon’s conflicts with this decision to keep this quiet. In the big scheme of things it’s not the gravity needed to support a film. It’s not enough to support a story and what happens to cause Gotham to fall apart.
The crowd had a good time but there sure was a lot to discuss afterward. Ultimately disappointment was what I walked away with for the new film, happy that I got to see The Dark Knight movie in the theater again, and it really left me looking forward to a new director and a new vision for future Batman films.
The Dark Knight Rises at our theater included a great, extended trailer for the next James Bond 007 film, Skyfall, including revealing the new Q actor as the young Ben Whishaw from The Hour—a very cool switch-up from the older characters playing Q in the past. We also saw a previously released trailer for The Hobbit, which looked great, and a fun preview for Expendables 2. The big reveal we were waiting for was the teaser trailer for DC Comics’ coming Superman reboot Man of Steel, and it was disappointing–very bland and unremarkable for what we heard was to be an exciting new preview.
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There are some 'free' article spinners out there that require you to enter your text with properly formatted 'spintax' in order to create the end result. But how you need a totally separate tool to create this machine formatted text, so how is this really useful to you? Spinbot does all thinking for you, from taking in the context of every phrase to creating additional textual content that is as readable and meaningful as the text you originally entered.
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The word robot is derived from the Czech noun robota meaning “labor”, and is an accomplishment of the cubist painter and writer Josef Capek, older brother of novelist and playwright Karel Capek. The word robot first appeared in 1920 in the Karel Capek’s play “RUR” (“Rossum’s Universal Robots”) and since then this play popularized the word invented by playwright’s brother.[2]
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ALICE – which stands for Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity, an acronym that could have been lifted straight out of an episode of The X-Files – was developed and launched by creator Dr. Richard Wallace way back in the dark days of the early Internet in 1995. (As you can see in the image above, the website’s aesthetic remains virtually unchanged since that time, a powerful reminder of how far web design has come.)
Companies use internet bots to increase online engagement and streamline communication. Companies often use bots to cut down on cost, instead of employing people to communicate with consumers, companies have developed new ways to be efficient. These chatbots are used to answer customers' questions. For example, Domino's has developed a chatbot that can take orders via Facebook Messenger. Chatbots allow companies to allocate their employees' time to more important things.[10]
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In one particularly striking example of how this rather limited bot has made a major impact, U-Report sent a poll to users in Liberia about whether teachers were coercing students into sex in exchange for better grades. Approximately 86% of the 13,000 Liberian children U-Report polled responded that their teachers were engaged in this despicable practice, which resulted in a collaborative project between UNICEF and Liberia’s Minister of Education to put an end to it.
The word bot, in Internet sense, is a short form of robot and originates from XX century. The modern use of the word bot has curious affinities with earlier uses, e.g. “parasitical worm or maggot” (1520s), of unknown origin; and Australian-New Zealand slang “worthless, troublesome person” (World War I -era). The method of minting new slang by clipping the heads off respectable words does not seem to be old or widespread in English. Examples: za from pizza, zels from pretzels, rents from parents, are American English student or teen slang and seem to date back no further than late 1960s.[4]
This chatbot aims to make medical diagnoses faster, easier, and more transparent for both patients and physicians – think of it like an intelligent version of WebMD that you can talk to. MedWhat is powered by a sophisticated machine learning system that offers increasingly accurate responses to user questions based on behaviors that it “learns” by interacting with human beings.
Reports of political interferences in recent elections, including the 2016 US and 2017 UK general elections,[3] have set the notion of botting being more prevalent because of the ethics that is challenged between the bot’s design and the bot’s designer. According to Emilio Ferrara, a computer scientist from the University of Southern California reporting on Communications of the ACM,[4] the lack of resources available to implement fact-checking and information verification results in the large volumes of false reports and claims made on these bots in social media platforms. In the case of Twitter, most of these bots are programmed with searching filter capabilities that target key words and phrases that reflect in favor and against political agendas and retweet them. While the attention of bots is programmed to spread unverified information throughout the social media platform,[5] it is a challenge that programmers face in the wake of a hostile political climate. Binary functions are designated to the programs and using an Application Program interface embedded in the social media website executes the functions tasked. The Bot Effect is what Ferrera reports as when the socialization of bots and human users creates a vulnerability to the leaking of personal information and polarizing influences outside the ethics of the bot’s code. According to Guillory Kramer in his study, he observes the behavior of emotionally volatile users and the impact the bots have on the users, altering the perception of reality.
Jabberwacky learns new responses and context based on real-time user interactions, rather than being driven from a static database. Some more recent chatbots also combine real-time learning with evolutionary algorithms that optimise their ability to communicate based on each conversation held. Still, there is currently no general purpose conversational artificial intelligence, and some software developers focus on the practical aspect, information retrieval.
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Study: Social Safety Net Vital for Health of California Children in Poverty
by Michelle Stuckey, California Healthline Associate Editor October 30, 2014
Nearly half the children in California are living near or below the poverty line, and the social safety net is vital to their health and well-being, according to a recent report by the Public Policy Institute of California.
The state’s social safety-net services help keep poor kids — especially young children — healthy, according to the report.
“Research suggests that poverty in the first few years of life may undermine brain development, adversely affect overall health status, and lead to both diminished success in early elementary school grades and lower chances of ever completing high school,” report authors wrote.
The social safety net includes:
CalFresh, the state’s food stamps program;
CalWORKs, the state’s welfare program;
Free and reduced-price school lunch;
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, or WIC; and
Other programs.
Using the California Poverty Measure — which includes family earnings, safety-net resources and adjustments for housing and other costs — PPIC found that 25% of children in California live in poverty, while an additional 26% live near the poverty line. The report estimates that nearly 1.3 million additional children in the state would be living in poverty if their families did not use social safety-net services, which would raise the state’s childhood poverty rate to nearly 40%.
The report shows poverty rates are similar across all childhood age groups:
26% among those ages five and under;
25% among children ages six to 12; and
24% among children ages 13 to 17.
Los Angeles County has nearly double the number of children living in poverty of any other region in the state, with 730,000 children in poverty. The rate of childhood poverty in Los Angeles County ranges from 28% to 32%, depending on age. The next-highest numbers of children living in poverty were in the San Francisco Bay Area with about 360,000 and the Inland Empire region with 330,000.
In contrast, Northern California has the lowest number of children living in poverty, with 40,000, according to the report. The rate of childhood poverty ranged from 15% to 20% across Northern California. However, the report noted that the childhood poverty rate would more than double in the region without the use of the social safety net.
For a family of two adults and two children, the California Poverty Measure estimated the 2011 poverty threshold to be as low as $19,500 and as high as $37,400, depending on where the family lived and whether the family residence was rented or owned. Since most of the state’s residents live in high-cost counties, and 89 % of Californians live in rented or mortgaged housing, poverty thresholds for a family of four for the majority of the state’s residents ranged from $29,500 to $37,400. By comparison, the official poverty threshold is $22,811 for a family of four in any California county.
How Poverty Plays a Role in Health
“Child poverty can have an extremely detrimental effect on health during childhood and into adulthood,” said Michele Stillwell-Parvensky, senior policy and communications associate at the Children’s Defense Fund-California. “Children living in poverty have worse health outcomes on a number of measures, starting from birth,” including “higher risk for infant mortality or low birthweight, developmental delays, asthma, mental health challenges, obesity, and poor nutrition.”
Stillwell-Parvensky added, “Poor children are also less likely to have regular access to needed health care.”
Stillwell-Parvensky said the social safety net is key in promoting health development among children living in poverty. “First, without the social safety net, millions more children in California and across the nation would be poor, and be at risk for worse health outcomes as a result. Second, social safety-net programs mitigate the negative effects of child poverty on health and well-being.”
She noted that “proper nutrition is essential to child health, and CalFresh and the free and reduced-price school meals program are essential in reducing food insecurity and hunger among children.”
However, the report noted some policies that address childhood poverty are only beneficial to specific age groups. For instance, WIC provides assistance for young children, while the free and reduced-price school meal program typically helps children in elementary, middle or high school.
Recent Cuts Leave Social Safety Net ‘Tattered’
State funding for social services fell from 6.2% in 2007-2008 to 4.7% in 2013-2014, according to a January PPIC report. Specifically, spending on the Department of Social Services — which oversees CalFresh and CalWORKS — fell by 5% during the economic recession.
“California’s social safety net for children and families is tattered after years of devastating cuts to California’s health and human services programs during the recession,” Stillwell-Parvensky said. “We need a major reinvestment in social safety-net programs to restore past cuts and fully meet the needs of California’s poor children.”
She noted, “The social safety net is particularly failing our youngest children — children under age six are the poorest age group, and we know that poverty early in a child’s life is especially harmful because the early years are such a crucial developmental time.”
According to the recent PPIC report, California lawmakers now “are renewing their focus on safety net and other programs that include reducing the number of children in poverty as one of their goals.”
‘Enduring Policy Complexities’
Report authors Sarah Bohn and Caroline Danielson noted that state and federal programs sometimes create “enduring policy complexities. Programs will continue to have multiple aims that may conflict with each other in terms of poverty reduction.”
They give three examples:
Families are more likely to make use of a non-restrictive food assistance program, but policymakers might seek to encourage healthy eating by excluding certain types of purchases from those types of programs. Doing so might undercut participation;
Programs designed to bolster families’ efforts to achieve self-sufficiency in the long run — by, for example, incentivizing work and education (and penalizing non-compliance) — might also be less likely to reduce poverty in the short term; and
California’s regional cost of living variation raises thorny questions about whether uniformly scaled safety-net benefits are equitable.
The authors concluded:
“Finally, it is important to consider various ways of assessing progress, including not just reduced poverty rates but also movement up the income ladder and reductions in the amount of time children spend in poverty.”
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Brescia to build state-of-the-art $14 million academic pavilion
2018 Parent Page
London, ON – Brescia University College is investing in future women leaders through the construction of a new $14 million state-of-the-art academic pavilion. The 30,000 square foot, light-filled building captures the best in educational design. The pavilion will include three state-of-the-art food and science laboratories, sensory and research laboratories, two multi-tiered classrooms, informal study spaces and an active learning classroom designed for dynamic group work to support Brescia’s current and future growth aspirations.
“Almost 100 years ago, the Ursuline Sisters founded Brescia to be a student-centred and empowering educational experience for women and today students continue to be at the forefront of every decision,” says Brescia’s Principal, Dr. Susan Mumm. “In fact, students, faculty and staff have been consulted at every step of the process and we are confident our new academic pavilion will meet the needs of current and future students and will also set a course for the next 100 years.”
Designed by the internationally recognized architectural firm HDR, the pavilion is anticipated to open in Fall 2019, which coincides with the 100th anniversary celebration of the University’s founding in 1919.
“This is an exciting time for Brescia,” says Karen Fryday-Field, Chair of the Brescia Board of Trustees. “The academic pavilion is one of the key priorities in our five-year strategic plan and as we reach the mid-point of our plan, we are delighted to see this critical priority come to fruition. This new building is essential to ensuring we continue to offer the unique Brescia experience including world-class facilities and academic programs.”
For more information on Brescia’s academic pavilion, including renderings and live updates, visit: brescia.uwo.ca/academic-pavilion
Additional facts, photos and updates can also be found by following @BresciaUC and #BresciaBuilds2019 on Twitter.
Above: Exterior rendering of Academic Pavilion, Brescia University College courtesy of HDR
Colleen Aguilar, Director, Communications & External Relations at 519-432-8353, ext. 28293 or at colleen.aguilar@uwo.ca, or Caitlin Core, Communications, Marketing & External Relations Officer at 519-432-8353, ext. 28280 or at ccore@uwo.ca.
Brescia University College, Canada’s women’s university college, is affiliated with Western University. The 1,500 women registered as either full- or part-time students at Brescia study a wide variety of subjects in the Schools of Behavioural & Social Sciences, Food & Nutritional Sciences, Humanities and Leadership & Social Change in an empowering, compassionate, student-centred and invigorating environment. Degrees are granted by Western. The Catholic University College welcomes students from all backgrounds and values diversity.
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Isadore Goldsmith: A Life of Strife and Sadness Revealed in the Newspaper, Part II
Posted on August 21, 2018 by Amy
As I wrote in my last post, Isadore Goldsmith seemed to begin having legal and medical problems in January, 1893, after allegedly being assaulted in Philadelphia and then trephined in the hospital as part of the treatment for his injuries. He then was arrested for drunkenness but released when the court concluded he was epileptic, not drunk. But his troubles continued, as detailed in my last post: suicide attempts, some bizarre behavior, and more encounters with the police.
Then in 1896, Isadore married the same woman twice. On October 17, 1896, Isadore married Mary Wheeler the first time in Camden, New Jersey. Keep that date in mind as you read this article from the November 8, 1896, Philadelphia Times (p. 2):
“Declares He Is Sane,” The Philadelphia Times, November 8, 1896, p. 1.
Apparently Isadore had been committed to the Norristown Asylum on June 19, 1895, and had escaped on October 16, 1896, the day before he married Mary in Camden. (Later articles say he escaped on October 13, but in any event, he and Mary married within days of his escape.)
On November 17, 1896, the court in Washington, DC, determined that Isadore was not insane:
“Goldsmith Adjudged Sane,” The Philadelphia Times, November 18, 1896, p. 7
And the very next day, November 18, 1896, Isadore married Mary Wheeler for the second time, this time in DC. The Philadelphia Inquirer found this second wedding sufficiently newsworthy that they wrote about it on the front page on November 20, 1896:
“Was Married Twice,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 20, 1896, p. 1
The somewhat unusual spectacle of a man marrying the same woman twice was witnessed in this city today [Washington, DC]. The two-time bridegroom in the case is Isadore Goldsmith, a young Philadelphian. His story is a romantic one. Goldsmith was an inmate at the Norristown Insane Asylum, from which institution he escaped on October 13. He went quietly to Camden, where he was married to Mary B. Wheeler on the day after his escape. The couple came to this city, where he was arrested as [?].
Goldsmith appealed to the courts for a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that he was perfectly sane and had been unjustly incarcerated. The case came up before Judge Hagner on Tuesday. Goldsmith was the most important witness in his own behalf. He was entirely rational and made a good impression. Some hard questions were put to him, but his answers revealed a clear memory and connected reasoning.
… [A description of his testimony about his January 1893 assault.]
While at a hospital in Philadelphia last summer he was informed by Dr. Hughes, the physician, that a relative wanted him sent to the Norristown Insane Asylum. He was in the Philadelphia Hospital because he had feared one of his attacks was coming on; but he left when he heard of this intention. He was afterwards arrested and incarcerated at Norristown until his escape.
[After medical testimony, the judge determined that Goldsmith was sane and released him.]
To-day Mr. Goldsmith and his wife were re-married by a local clergyman. This second marriage ceremony was performed because Mr. Goldsmith feared that it might be claimed that his first marriage took place while he was legally an insane person.
The newspaper considered his story to be “a romantic one.” But there is no explanation of how he met Mary or anything about her or their relationship. And who was the relative who had had Isadore committed the prior June?
In the 1898 Philadelphia directory there is a listing for Isidore Goldsmith, a repairer. I think this might be my Isadore because on Mary’s death certificate, her occupation is listed as china repairer, so perhaps they were working together.
But in 1899, Isadore made the newspaper again. This time he was accused along with three other men of committing arson, according to this article in the June 25, 1899 Philadelphia Times (p. 16):
“Held in Bail for Arson,” The Philadelphia Times, June 25, 1899, p. 16
The paper described him this way:
It is said that Goldsmith bears a shady reputation with the police; that he attempted to commit suicide last December, and that he has been a successful worker of the epileptic fit dodge to secure free admission to hospitals both here and in Washington.
Isadore made at least one more attempt to end his life in October, 1906; again he made the front page of The Philadelphia Inquirer:
“Rushed Pony into Sea to Save Man,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 9, 1906, p. 1
A pony ridden by James Irwin this afternoon was driven into the surf in pursuit of Isadore Goldsmith, a middle-aged Philadelphian, who was fully clothed and apparently bent on drowning himself. Hundreds on the boardwalk and Young’s Pier where the man had waded into the breakers, wild with excitement, shouted to “save him,” but no one cared to face the heavy sea, and the life guards had retired from duty today.
The pony balked, but spurs urged him into the sea. Reaching Goldsmith, Irwin caught him by the coat collar and was dragging the man ashore, when Goldsmith fought to free himself. During the battle between the two, Irwin, a slim young man, was nearly dragged from the saddle, but he held grimly to Goldsmith with one hand and to the pommel in the saddle with the other. Both were swept time and again by the heavy seas.
Those watching the battle feared that both would be drowned until the pony had backed them into comparatively shallow water, when several men went to the rescue of Irwin and the desperate man he had pulled from certain death. Goldsmith was sent to the police station, and he was found to be in no condition to give an explanation of his conduct.
Cheers greeted Irwin when he brought Goldsmith to the beach, and some rushed to him to shake his hand, hailing him as a hero.
This attempt I find particularly troubling as it endangered another person as well as an innocent animal.
Six months after this episode, Isadore’s wife Mary died on April 19, 1907, from a stroke, and then six months after that, Isadore finally found the peace he must have been seeking—he died on October 11, 1907, from a cerebral hemorrhage and acute alcoholism.
Isidore Goldsmith Death Certificate, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-68DJ-WR?cc=1320976&wc=9FRT-N38%3A1073183102 : 16 May 2014), 004008905 > image 483 of 536; Philadelphia City Archives and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
The last news item I found for him was this brief death notice in the Philadelphia Inquirer. I guess his death did not merit the front page despite the fact that the struggles he had endured were often considered front page news.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 12, 1907, p. 9.
Was the cerebral hemorrhage related to his injuries from 1893? Was he really an alcoholic or was he an epileptic or both? His several attempts at suicide and his ongoing hospitalizations suggest a man with severe mental health issues.
Isadore was clearly a man with many problems—whether those problems started with the alleged assault in January 1893 or whether they started years before when he was a young man, I don’t know. In the end, it doesn’t really matter. All we can say is that this was a man who had a very troubled life. And his troubles somehow managed again and again to be considered front page news in Philadelphia.
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23 thoughts on “Isadore Goldsmith: A Life of Strife and Sadness Revealed in the Newspaper, Part II”
Alex on August 21, 2018 at 10:32 am said:
Such a sad story. Sadly the problems these days with mental health – even with the amount of awareness and charities etc out there to help people, I wonder if how he suffered would be any different today? I’d like to hope that he would have had more support these days.
Amy on August 21, 2018 at 11:03 am said:
So would I, Alex. We have come a long way and certainly understand epilepsy better, but we still have a long way to go in understanding mental illness.
nwpaintedlady on August 21, 2018 at 10:39 am said:
Wow! Wow again! My heart and thoughts wander to Mary and what she must have endured as his wife…your so right, no matter what the cause, it was a troubled and very sad life. Remind me Amy, were there any children?
No, there were no children. I wish I knew more about Mary. How did he meet her? She must have seen something in him that others did not.
fhtess65 on August 21, 2018 at 11:36 am said:
So very sad indeed…a difficult life for a man who sounded like he was just trying to find his place in the world…I hope he and Mary found at least some happiness together.
I do also.
Peter Klopp on August 21, 2018 at 2:26 pm said:
As suspected on your previous post, Amy, Isadore suffered from mental illness. As it is often the case with people who suffer from this terrible disease, Isadore had his moments of mental clarity and thus was able to fool the medical authorities to declare him sane. A sad sad story, which in spite of our advances happens too often in our streets, where the homeless suffer from mental illness and do not receive proper treatment.
Amy on August 21, 2018 at 2:39 pm said:
It is so true. We have come a long way, but we have a long way to go. We just need to walk in that other person’s shoes a bit.
Michael on August 21, 2018 at 10:41 pm said:
Wow. What a troubled life. I am very curious about which of his family members sought the earlier commitment.
Amy on August 21, 2018 at 10:46 pm said:
I am going to guess his brother George. His parents were both gone, and George was the only brother still in Philadelphia in 1896. I doubt it was a sister back then, so George would be my guess.
EmilyAnn Frances on August 22, 2018 at 1:28 pm said:
Then as now, some journalists and some newspapers (but not all), go after the sensational just to drive up sales. Same as today. I agree with you that Isidore had many mental and emotional issues prior to the attack. But I do think his later problems were aggravated by the very primitive medical treatments of the time.
I agree—I think it was a combination of a number of problems that haunted him including poor medical care.
Luanne on August 23, 2018 at 7:50 pm said:
I’m speechless. I’d like to meet this Mary Wheeler, too . . . . I’d guess that he had a severe mental illness and was getting no help at all for it.
It was the dark ages for those with mental illness. And epilepsy.
People were so unaware which added more cruelty to the cruelty against anyone “different.”
And sadly….we still do.
gentraveling on August 23, 2018 at 8:57 pm said:
Rough, rough life! It’s so hard to diagnose mental/emotional/personality disorder issues. Very sad.
It really is. The more I think about it, the sadder it seems.
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Cathy Meder-Dempsey on August 25, 2018 at 1:21 pm said:
A sad story which needed to be told. Without the newspaper coverage, you may have had to do a lot of deeper digging to learn more about his illness. Don’t you think it’s the hard stories like this which make us better researchers?
I am not sure what I would do without those newspaper databases. They are the key to opening my eyes to the people behind the dates and names.
Debi Austen on August 30, 2018 at 2:17 pm said:
What a sad life – so much happened in 43 short years. I’m glad he finally found peace.
Me, too, Debi.
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Lena Goldsmith Basch’s Grandchildren Reach Adulthood
Posted on April 9, 2019 by Amy
As seen in my last post about the Basch family, the children of Lena Goldsmith Basch suffered two losses in 1915. Their brother Jacob died on April 5, 1915, and Ella’s husband Isidor Shatz died seven months later. But not all the events of the 1910s were sad ones.
On February 5, 1917, Lena and Gustavus Basch’s oldest granddaughter, Frank’s daughter Rae, married Sidney Katz in Columbus. She was twenty years old, and he was 28.
Ancestry.com. Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993
Sidney was born in Ohio on January 13, 1889,1 and grew up in Cincinnati, where in 1900 he was living with his widowed mother, Dina Bing Katz, and siblings.2 Sidney’s father Henry Katz had died when Sidney was just ten on December 24, 1899.3 Both of Sidney’s parents were German immigrants. In 1910, Sidney was living with his mother and sister in Cincinnati, working as a traveling millinery salesman.4
Rae and Sidney settled in Chillicothe, Ohio, about fifty miles from Columbus, where their first child, Dorothy Basch Katz, was born on March 19, 1919.5 In 1920 they were still living in Chillicothe, and Sidney was working as a dry goods merchant.6 Rae and Sidney had a second child, Jean, born on June 19, 1920,7 and then a year later a third daughter Frances was born on November 5, 1921.8
Rae’s younger brother Lewis served in World War I. He enlisted on October 18, 1918, when he was just eighteen. He was discharged two months later after the war ended.9 In 1920 he was back in Columbus, living with his parents Frank and Fred and his sisters and attending Ohio State University. According to the 1920 census, no one in the household was employed.
Frank Basch, 1910 US census, Census Place: Columbus Ward 3, Franklin, Ohio; Roll: T624_1180; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 0057; FHL microfilm: 1375193
Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census
Joel’s son Sidney Basch also served in World War I. He served from November 1917 until April 25, 1919.10 In 1920, he also was safely back home and living with his parents Joel and Jeanette and brother Gustavus. Joel was still in the tobacco business, and Sidney was a clerk in the industrial slate business.11
In 1920, Joseph Basch and his wife Ida were living with their twins, Elene and Joseph, Jr. Their father Joseph, Sr., was working with his brother Joel in the tobacco business.12
The two sisters, Hinda and Ella, were living together in 1920. Neither had children, and neither was working. The bequests left by their brother Jacob (and perhaps by Isidor Shatz also) must have left them sufficiently comfortable that they did not need other income.13
Thus, as of 1920, the surviving five children of Lena Goldsmith and Gustavus Basch were all living in Columbus, Ohio.
The 1920s brought another marriage and more children to the extended family. On March 9, 1925, Frank and Freda (Rosenthal) Basch’s youngest child Ruth married Sigmund S. Front in Columbus.
Sigmund was born on November 4, 1893, in Krakow, Poland, to Henry Elias Front and Rose Thieberger.14 He immigrated with his mother and siblings in August, 1899, joining his father who was already here.15 By 1901 the family was settled in Wheeling, West Virginia, where his father was working as a laborer in a brewery in 1910.16 In 1920 Sigmund was living with his family and working, along with his brothers, as a salesman for the gas and electric supplies business now owned by his father in Wheeling and known as The Front Company.17
Their wedding received a lovely detailed write-up in the Columbus newspaper, which also reported that they would be living in Wheeling after their honeymoon:
Columbia (OH) Dispatch, March 10, 1925, p. 16
Wheeling is about 130 miles east of Columbus, Ohio, and I have no idea how Ruth and Sigmund met. After marrying and settling in Wheeling, they had two sons born in the 1920s. In 1930, Ruth and Sigmund and their children were living in Wheeling, and Sigmund was now the secretary of the Front Company, according to the census, although the 1930 Wheeling directory lists him as its president.18
Meanwhile, Ruth’s father Frank Basch and his wife Freda and their two unmarried children, Coryne and Lewis, were still living in Columbus in the 1920s. Lewis studied dentistry at Ohio State University graduating in 1925, and then he served in the dental reserves.19 In 1930, Lewis was living with his sister Coryne and his parents in Columbus where he was practicing dentistry. He was the only family member with an occupation listed.20
Frank and Freda’s oldest child Rae, who had married Sidney Katz in 1917 and moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, was still living with Sidney and their three daughters in 1930. Sidney was a clothing merchant.21
As for the other Basch siblings, the 1920s were relatively quiet. Joel Basch and his family continued to live in Columbus. In 1926, Joel purchased for investment a building in Columbus, perhaps with his inheritance from his brother Jacob.22 In 1930, Joel was still in the tobacco business and living with his wife Jeanette and sons Sidney and Gustavus in Columbus. Sidney was working as a clerk in a finance company and Gustavus as a salesman in a furniture store.
Joel Basch, 1930 US census, Census Place: Columbus, Franklin, Ohio; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 0042; FHL microfilm: 2341530
The youngest brother Joseph and his wife Ida were also still in Columbus during the 1920s. Their daughter Elene was studying at Smith College in the 1920s,23 and her twin brother Joseph was a student at Ohio State University.24 In 1930 both Joseph and Elene were living at home in Columbus, where their father continued to work in the tobacco business with his brother Joel. Neither Elene nor Joseph, Jr. was employed.25
There also do not appear to have been any noteworthy events in the lives of the two sisters, Hinda Basch and Ella Basch Shatz, during the 1920s. Ella, however, was not destined to enjoy the next decade. She died on January 29, 1930, from heart failure; she was sixty-four. According to her obituary, she had been a social worker, although I never saw any indication of that on any of the census records.26 She had been a widow for almost fifteen years and had no children who survived her. Under the terms of her brother Jacob’s will, the property that she had inherited from him now passed to her sister Hinda. Hinda continued to live in Columbus in 1930.27
“Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-D4LQ-GG4?cc=1307272&wc=MD96-DN5%3A287601401%2C287598802 : 21 May 2014), 1930 > 00001-02900 > image 2674 of 3183.
There were now four remaining siblings left in the Basch family: Frank, Hinda, Joel, and Joseph, all living in Columbus, Ohio. By 1940, there would only be three left.
Sidney Katz, World War I draft registration, Registration State: Ohio; Registration County: Ross; Roll: 1851088, Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 ↩
Sidney Katz, 1900 US census, Census Place: Cincinnati Ward 2, Hamilton, Ohio; Page: 3; Enumeration District: 0017; FHL microfilm: 1241274, Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census ↩
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156611817 ↩
Sidney Katz, 1910 US census, Census Place: Cincinnati Ward 2, Hamilton, Ohio; Roll: T624_1188; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 0023; FHL microfilm: 1375201, Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census ↩
SSN: 300184495, Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 ↩
Sidney and Rae Katz, 1920 US census, Census Place: Chillicothe Ward 1, Ross, Ohio; Roll: T625_1431; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 132, Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census ↩
Ancestry.com. U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1 ↩
Ancestry.com. Ohio, Birth Index, 1908-1964 ↩
SSN: 273365982, Branch 1: ARMY, Enlistment Date 1: 18 Oct 1918, Release Date 1: 11 Dec 1918, Ancestry.com. U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 ↩
Ancestry.com. Ohio Soldiers in WWI, 1917-1918. ↩
Joel Basch and family, 1920 US census, Census Place: Columbus Ward 5, Franklin, Ohio; Roll: T625_1381; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 96, Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census ↩
Joseph Basch and family, 1920 US census, Census Place: Columbus Ward 4, Franklin, Ohio; Roll: T625_1381; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 86, Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census ↩
Hinda Basch and Ella Basch Shatz, 1920 US census, Census Place: Columbus Ward 7, Franklin, Ohio; Roll: T625_1381; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 138, Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census ↩
The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Records of the US Customs Service, RG36; NAI Number: 2655153; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; Record Group Number: 85, Ancestry.com. Baltimore, Passenger Lists, 1820-1964 ↩
Wheeling, West Virginia, City Directory, 1901, Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995. Sigmund Front, 1910 US census, Census Place: Wheeling Ward 7, Ohio, West Virginia; Roll: T624_1692; Page: 15B; Enumeration District: 0108; FHL microfilm: 1375705, Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census ↩
Sigmund Front, 1920 US census, Census Place: Wheeling Ward 7, Ohio, West Virginia; Roll: T625_1966; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 102, Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census ↩
Sigmund Front and family, 1930 US census, Census Place: Wheeling, Ohio, West Virginia; Page: 13B; Enumeration District: 0036; FHL microfilm: 2342284, Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census ↩
“Play Will Open Graduation Days at University,” Columbus Dispatch, Friday, Jun 12, 1925, Page: 6. “More Reserve Officers,” Columbus Dispatch, Wednesday, Jul 15, 1925 Columbus, OH Page: 5. ↩
Frank Basch and family, 1930 US census, Census Place: Columbus, Franklin, Ohio; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 0044; FHL microfilm: 2341530, Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census ↩
Sidney and Rae Katz and family, 1930 US census, Census Place: Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 0021; FHL microfilm: 2341599, Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census ↩
“Store Building Sold,” Columbus Dispatch, June 13, 1926, p. 27. ↩
Columbia Dispatch, December 28, 1924, p. 30 ↩
School: Ohio State University, School Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA, Yearbook Title: Makio Yearbook, “U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012”; Yearbook Title: Makio Yearbook; Year: 1926 ↩
Joseph Basch, 1930 US census, Census Place: Columbus, Franklin, Ohio; Page: 22A; Enumeration District: 0029; FHL microfilm: 2341529, Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [Elene is listed a number of lines below her parents and brother on the page.] ↩
“Mrs. Ella Schatz, Social Worker, Passes Away,” Columbus Dispatch, January 30, 1930, p. 2 ↩
Hinda Basch, 1930 US census, Census Place: Columbus, Franklin, Ohio; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 0056; FHL microfilm: 2341528, Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census ↩
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23 thoughts on “Lena Goldsmith Basch’s Grandchildren Reach Adulthood”
Debi Austen on April 9, 2019 at 10:22 am said:
A lovely summary of the wedding but it surprised me that there was only bridal attendant, Coryne. Reading about what they were wearing really makes the event come to life in our minds.
Amy on April 9, 2019 at 10:23 am said:
Maybe she just wanted to keep the bridal party limited to her sister to make it special or to avoid having to make choices among others!
fhtess65 on April 9, 2019 at 10:45 am said:
Aren’t newspapers wonderful? That wedding article is such a treasure – so many contemporary details … almost like you were there! As always, great post 🙂
Amy on April 9, 2019 at 1:41 pm said:
Thank you! (And by the way, is your name Tess? I just looked at your login name more carefully—family history tess?)
fhtess65 on April 12, 2019 at 11:35 am said:
My name is Teresa, I use tess as an online handle, but not in real life 🙂 And you guessed correctly – family history tess…
For the longest time I couldn’t figure it out! Thanks for confirming my theory, Teresa!
Cathy Meder-Dempsey on April 9, 2019 at 12:29 pm said:
You may have already run across something similar but I thought I’d mention this here. At times people’s names, omitted in wedding announcements, birthday parties, obituaries, etc., can be found in other articles about recent out of town visitors to the area. You may have to put two and two together but isn’t that what our research is all about anyway?
Yes, I have often found those articles—sometimes they are the only clue I find as to a wedding date. And we all know that newspaper articles are not necessarily accurate or complete. Maybe there were other members of the bridal party whose names the reporter just didn’t catch.
Cathy Meder-Dempsey on April 9, 2019 at 3:07 pm said:
Of course, Amy, you would know these newspaper tricks but it was the first thing which crossed my mind. 🙂
EmilyAnn Frances on April 10, 2019 at 1:47 am said:
Hi Amy. What was meant by “dental reserve”? Was Lewis Basch working as a dentist in a branch of the service?
Amy on April 10, 2019 at 7:55 am said:
Yes, in the reserves.
Thanks. I might have missed something since there are so many people covered here. What happened to Ruth after 1930? I would love to know if in later years she put her experience as the editor of the society column at the college newspaper to use.
Stay tuned. The 30s and beyond are coming. 🙂
Thanks, Emily!
Luanne on April 10, 2019 at 2:15 pm said:
Fabulous wedding info, Amy!! More excellent work on your part. When is your next book coming out?! 🙂
Thanks, Luanne! The next book has been started, but with all else that’s been going on, I haven’t looked at it since December. It will be a LONG time before it’s done!
Oh nooooooooo! Maybe, I hate to say, take a month long blogging break and use it to work on the book?
I need to be in a better place to write the book—right now my brain is distracted by other things. But genealogy research and writing the blog is an escape and very soothing. So it’s a life saver right now.
Luanne on April 10, 2019 at 10:00 pm said:
Yes, I understand that!
Su Leslie on April 10, 2019 at 6:56 pm said:
I love old newspaper articles about weddings. Roll over Facebook and Instagram!!
Hehe! I love them also. Especially the always helpful guest lists!
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Embedding Employability in the Business School Curriculum
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By Anne Kiem
The General Election seems like a long time ago now, but the repercussions will be felt for some time to come. Theresa May is back at the Home Office and the Conservatives have once again pledged to restrict net migration to below 100,000. Students will also remain part of this target.
The Prime Minister understands the value of international students, saying that the Government wants to “encourage the brightest and best international students to come to the UK”. This was also reiterated by universities minister Jo Johnson, extolling the short and long term benefits of welcoming international students to study in our universities and to remain and work here afterwards. He was very clear saying that “there is no cap on the number of students who can come to study in the UK and no intention to introduce one. Nor is there any cap on the number of former students who can stay on to work – so long as they have a graduate job.”
Nevertheless, students still remain part of the net migration targets and this could still send out the message that international students are not welcome in the UK. Whilst it appears that the government understands the importance of international students, we need to highlight the importance of the message they are sending out and remove students from the net migration targets.
Whilst Theresa May remains at the Home Office, the Conservative party majority has meant a change in personalities at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and we have already been in touch to set up meetings. Support for small businesses is clearly still a priority with Anna Soubry appointed as Minister for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise. As part of that agenda the government will work towards devolution to the regions. It is not yet clear how this will be arranged, but it should play neatly in to the regional/local geographies of our members. We will be working to ensure that decision makers are aware of the benefits of businesses engaging with business schools.
Following the Queen’s speech, the government announced that there will be a referendum on membership to the European Union, by the end of 2017. This could potentially have a huge impact on UK business schools, as free movement allows Universities to attract the best students and staff across Europe. The negotiations about the future of the UK in the EU are vital for UK business schools and we will be sure to make our voices heard.
Concern also exists over the continued focus on narrowly defined STEM subjects and of course, we all know that budgets across most departments will be squeezed. What impact this will have on business schools we nervously await. With any new government comes uncertainty, but we will be working to make the voice of the business schools heard.
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Blessed Pietro of Gubbio
29 October (Augustinians; Diocese of Gubbio, Italy)
Born to the Italian nobility, Pietro studied law at universities in Perugia, Italy, and Paris, France. He was a successful and brilliant lawyer known for his honesty, and who concentrated on representing the poor.
When he was 40 years old, Pietro came to know the Augustinians and was drawn to them, wanting to put himself and his law practice at the disposal of the Church. Priest. Friar in the Augustinian monastery in Gubbio, Italy. Chosen by the Order‘s vicar-general to serve as Provincial Visitor to Augustinian houses in France; tradition says that he travelled bare-footed and met all his brother Augustinians that way as a sign of humility. Noted preacher. Known for his holiness of life, his zeal for the Augustinian Rule and the Christian life, his patience with Augustinian brothers who had trouble living up to the Rule, and as a miracle worker. He spent later years as a prayerful monk the Gubbio monastery where he had begun.
early 13th century in Gubbio, Umbria, Italy
between 1306 and 1322 in Gubbio, Umbria, Italy of natural causes
buried in the common grave of friars in the center of the choir area in the Augustinian church in Gubbio
legend says that one day soon after his burial, the monks were in the choir, sang the Te Deum, and heard a voice from the tomb that responded: Te Dominum confitemur! (Lord, we thank you!); the frightened brothers opened the tomb and found the body of Blessed Peter on his knees, looking up and hands crossed on his chest
relics still enshrined in the Augustinian church
1874 by Pope Pius IX (cultus confirmation)
Midwest Augustinians
sitios en español
Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición
fonti in italiano
“Blessed Pietro of Gubbio“. CatholicSaints.Info. 23 March 2017. Web. 17 January 2021. <>
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#CeciliaBrainard Drawing: Old Haunted House in Cebu Philippines
I'm sharing a corrected version of the Old House in Cebu, my interpretation of the Villalon House. This sat on a hill in Cebu and I used to stare at this last thing at night and wonder about the ghosts and enchanted people that supposedly occupied the house. Sometimes the house would be lit up and the next day people would say the spirits had a party. This was all part of my growing up in Cebu.
Thanks to those who follow my progress in Art, a new field to me. In this pen and ink, I widened the surrounding yard because a dear friend wisely gave me feedback that the house looked like it would slide down the hill. I also made other corrections. Then I made a mistake on the stairs (fire escape?) and turned it into a woman (ghost?).
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Easter -- Coloring Easter Eggs
We colored these Easter eggs by drawing designs on hardboiled eggs before dying them. I used food coloring in hot water with a bit of vinegar. The results are pleasing.
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Remembering the Notre Dame Cathedral of Paris Before the Fire
Like most people I am heartbroken at the fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris yesterday. April 15, 2019. Today the experts said it may take 10-15 years to rebuild. I've had the privilege of visiting the Notre Dame and even hearing Masses there. Now I realize those were gifts and I am grateful.
Here are some pictures I took of the Notre Dame during various visits to Paris.
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Guest Blogger: A Theatrical Experience by Evelyn Morales Del Rosario
My guest blogger is Evelyn Morales Del Rosario who shares her piece, "A Theatrical Experience". The writing is part of the collection of essays, Behind the Walls: Life of Convent Girls (Anvil, Ed. Cecilia Brainard and Orosa).
A THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE
by Evelyn Morales Del Rosario
We were a Theresian family. All three of my father’s sisters were Theresians. We were the Morales clan, and we all studied at St. Theresa’a Manila from Kindergarten through High School. We were nine girls. My father loved the nuns, and the nuns loved him.
This was not always a benefit for my sisters and me because the nuns knew each one of us individually. Every other class had a Morales student, and every class had either one of us or one of our cousins. We were clearly identified and could never get away with anything.
I was the fourth daughter and had the misfortune of coming after my sister Bunny who was every teacher’s ideal student. She was beautiful with a very sweet and charming personality. I was the awkward one with big feet. Bunny was the president of her class and of the Student Council. I was lucky to have been voted secretary. Bunny breezed through class with high honors while I struggled to keep awake while studying the most boring of all subjects, history. I was a romantic, a dreamer.
The one thing that fascinated me in school was the theater. I volunteered to join any kind of play and ended up having to beg my father to allow me to be part of the production team. I had to sacrifice all other activities just to satisfy the call of a theatrical production. I never thought I was particularly talented, I just wanted to be part of it all. I loved practices that ran until evening. We used to scare ourselves silly with stories of a headless nun roaming the corridors. Of course we never saw anything.
We had a fascinating teacher, Tita Radaic who taught ballet and modern dance. The year I was fourteen, the school decided to interpret in dance, the Song of Songs, more commonly known as the Psalms of David. This was a very radical and modern decision, and it attracted a lot of attention in the local media. Naturally I wanted to be a part of this production. I could not dance, so did not audition. But I was asked to read the Psalms before each dance segment. I was giddy with excitement; I could not believe this was happening to me. Of course I said I would do it and decided to worry about getting my father’s permission later.
It took me about a week to build up the courage to approach my father, and when I did, he said no, I could not do it. He worried about my being in school late at night. I was an indifferent student, and he was afraid I would not be able to keep up. The family was also scheduled to go to Baguio during the performance dates. I was devastated. I had to tell Sister Hilde that my father refused. I prayed harder at Mass every morning, lighting votive candles in San Marcelino church before class and promising God everything I could think of just to make my father change his mind.
Without my knowing, Sister Hilde called phone my Father and asked him to come and talk to her about my involvement in this production. She planned her arguments well, promising Father that my homework would be done between rehearsals, and offering to let me sleep at the dormitory during the performance dates. Father finally agreed. I was ecstatic.
I loved the rehearsals. I would practice my lines and study my lessons every evening. I had never done so well in my classes. We were informed that our presentation was going to be filmed and aired on television. We were awed.
The night of the dress rehearsal came, and my father brought me to school and turned me over to Sister Hilde. I felt like an orphan. Here I was, the lector of the school main production of the year, and my own family would not even be there to see me. I started to feel very sad. But that was nothing compared to the angst I would experience that night. I had not realized that the dormitory would be literally empty except for me. It was a long weekend, and all the boarders had gone home. I was brought to this large hall lined with beds. The mosquito netting was rolled up over each bed. I was given a bed in the middle of the hall, shown how to untie the straps holding the netting up, and how to tuck the netting under the mattress. I had never slept under a mosquito net before. Father always kept our bedrooms at home freezing cold so that we shivered under woolen army blankets. I had brought my long white flannel nightgown, but the dorm was so hot. The nun in charge of the boarders told me that her bedroom was down the hall. I was to sleep in the dorm all by myself.
The dress rehearsal ended at 8:30 pm, and I made my way to the dormitory, half running and trying to keep my head down and my eyes half closed. I was so afraid of seeing the headless nun or some other ghost. I arrived at the dorm shivering from fear. I had to go to the bathroom, but did not want to risk it. I was in agony. Finally I decided to sing my prayers and tiptoed to the bathroom. Afterwards, I ran back to the dorm and slid into bed. I had a flashlight with me, but it made such eerie shadows that I felt less afraid when I turned it off. I pulled the sheet over my head and willed myself to sleep while praying the rosary. I sincerely regretted ever even wanting to take part in this presentation. I had one more night of this torture to live through.
It turned out that the show was a success. I was tickled to see myself on television. But I still shudder whenever I remember those two nights alone in the dormitory.
BIO: Evelyn Morales del Rosario studied at St. Theresa's College in Manila from kindergarten through high school. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Connecticut. She completed a year of law school at the Ateneo Univerity and obtained an MBA from De La Salle Univedrsity. She completed all coursework for DBA at De La Salle University.
She has worked in the airline industry, has been a food author and food stylist. She has extensive managerial, marketing and corporate communications experience. She has lived and worked in Germany, Geneva, and now lives in Montreal.
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Guest Blogger: Agape by Tony Robles
My Guest Blogger is Tony Robles who shares his personal essay, "Agape." This story is part of the book Finding God: True Stories of Spiritual Encounters (Ed. Cecilia Brainard). The book won the 2019 Gintong Aklat Award in the Philippines.
Tony Robles
The race was lost before it began. There I stood next to the starting blocks waiting for the fellow in the white cap to say, “Runners, on your mark, get set. . . BANG!” How did I get into this situation—all those white faces in the stands. Who were they? I stood on the track with five or six other boys—all a bit older, all a bit pink in the oppressive Florida sun. I glanced at them and wondered what they were thinking. I looked up at the sea of white faces in the stands and became nauseated. My intestinal discomfort wasn’t primarily due to the sea of white faces surrounding me as it was the fact that I knew I was in a race I wouldn’t— no, couldn’t win. Somehow I wished the fellow in the white cap would just pull the trigger and get it over with. As I stood, I entertained the thought of the fellow in the white cap shooting me—perhaps in the leg or in the ass—then I’d have a legitimate excuse not to run. They would just cart me off and I’d be forgotten quickly.
I attended a small Christian school in Central Florida. When I say small, I mean small. There were maybe forty students in the entire student body ranging from first grade to high school senior. We had a high school graduating class of two. It wasn’t a Christian school of nuns with rulers and bad breath. No, this school had teachers who wore red, white, and blue polyester and had breath that was stench-free. We studied the usual subjects—Math, Science, and English—but with a Christian slant.
For instance, after reading a passage on Darwin, the lesson concluded that while he was a scientific genius for coming up with his celebrated theory—his soul was eternally lost because his teachings were contrary to Biblical scripture. I remember thinking that if Darwin had gotten a look at us, with our red, white, and blue polyester outfits, he’d surely change his theory and declare that we were the true monkeys, spawning discontent among the creatures of the earth. We not only studied the basics but we also recited the pledge of allegiance to the American and Christian flags, memorized Bible passages to be recited before the entire school and sang Christian songs. During those songs, I remember our principal Mr. Collins jumping up and down like some sexually aroused cheerleader. He was a good man.
Of course we all participated in sports. Our coach was Mr. Call, a burly, bald man who was also a teacher. He was always covered in polyester, a killer in the Florida sun. He wore a Cross that dangled from a gold necklace. It rested nicely on his blue polyester tie. He always had huge wet spots in the armpits of his shirt. We had a flag football team, a softball team, and a basketball team. Mr. Call coached them all. Whenever he wanted to make an important point to us, he’d take his forefinger and thrust it toward the heavens and impart, “Young men, I’ve coached many a team in my day.” He thrust his finger a lot.
I was a bit of a novelty to my teammates—to everybody actually. I was the only non-white guy in the school. I was conscious of that, perhaps sometimes more conscious of it than the others. At first the kids didn’t know what to make of me. Was I black? Was I an Indian? I would say “Filipino” and the reply would be, “Oh.” The inquiries never stopped. I remember a cute little girl of about seven or eight asking me, “Are you a nigger?” Was I? There was another kid who greeted me numerous times by saying, “Hey spic!” He always seemed to say it while riding his bike. I wanted to discuss it further but the little shit was too quick. I was receiving quite an education to say the least. I got that kind of attention quite a bit. I’d wait for the bus and passersby would stare at me from their cars. The whites didn’t know what I was; the blacks didn’t either. It was 1977 and I must have been the only Filipino in town. I remember waiting for a bus when a black brother in a car slowed down to examine my face. I looked back and gave him a black power salute. He sped off. I tried hard to fit in. All the guys in school had straight blond or dirty blond hair, which they parted down the middle and combed back, layered and feathered. My hair was different, curly and somewhat coarse. I couldn’t straighten it, especially in the 90-degree weather. It seemed to curl up even more.
Our small school was invited to compete in a state track meet. The schools invited were Christian schools. Our school was tiny but Coach Call decided to gather a few boys and put together a relay team. We were taken to the park to practice. We practiced handing off the baton; however, we didn’t have a baton so one of the boys—Randolph Nash III—broke a piece of wood from an innocent tree and formed it into a baton of sorts. The five of us ran and handed the baton off to each other. What amazed me most of all was how the blond hair of the other boys remained so still while running in the wind. It was always in perfect place while mine resembled Koko the Clown’s. It was always in disarray, like a bird’s nest caught in a violent storm. The Randolph Nashes, the Jimmy Finches, the Steve Colvins all had the pretty hair, the perfect hair I wanted. They were tall and ran like gazelles while I ran like another kind of animal. We ran our sprints, our socks stretched to our knees and slowly dripping toward our ankles. A week prior to the track meet, three of our teammates notified us that they would not be able to compete. That was the end of our relay team. The wooden baton was tossed into the trash.
The sudden defections from the team left David Boozer and I as the sole representatives from our school. David was the opposite of his last name. He was about sixteen and during prayer sessions he would close his eyes and engage in a sort of spiritual mumbling. He was one of the guys but you could tell he listened to God’s voice inside. He was like me—not exceptionally talented but well liked. Coach Call explained to us that we should enter individual events. I would run the 100- and 440-yard dash and David would run the mile. Coach Call couldn’t go to the meet with us so David and I took a bus. We got to the hotel and it was wall-to-wall polyester. White faces were plastered everywhere. We walked to a cafeteria area where the event coordinator addressed the participants. He was chunky, resembling a carnival barker.
“Yes, this year in addition to our track-and-field events we’re gonna have a boys’ preachin’ competition.”
Dave and I grabbed our trays and made our way to the steam table. It was there that I saw something that nearly made me drop my tray. It was a Filipino! He was a short guy with a flat nose. He was behind the steam trays wearing a white uniform topped with a big white hat. He was in charge of doling out perfect cornbread squares. He lifted each piece with a pair of tongs. The rising steam covered a large part of his face. He looked at me and smiled.
“Kumusta ka,” he said.
I stood there looking at the cornbread square, then at him.
“Mabuti,” I replied.
I don’t know where the mabuti came from. I didn’t speak any Filipino. It came from somewhere. But the way I pronounced it sounded like, my booty. He laughed.
He spoke with an accent. I spoke like a white guy ready to run a race. He gave me the thumbs-up and gently placed a piece of warm cornbread on my tray. I looked down at my tray and looked back up at the Filipino guy. He was waiting for me to move forward so he could plop cornbread on Dave’s tray. I looked at him thinking he was going to plop an extra piece of cornbread on my tray. He didn’t—our connection, our solidarity seemed to last until he plopped the cornbread on my tray. It was like a punch press—one after the other after the other. There would be no extra cornbread for me. I felt a bit awkward so I moved onward to the meat while my Filipino brethren schmoozed with the non Filipinos. I took my tray and sat with Dave. I saw a girl; she looked Indian. She avoided eye contact with me. She too was trying to fit in.
Morning came, breakfast, and prayers. Dave was calm but I was nervous. “I’ve been praying about the race,” he said.
Dave seemed to have a certain peace while I was riddled with anxiety. We put on our shorts and running shoes and made our way to the track. I felt intimidated. The other schools had track uniforms with fancy emblems. I had on a pair of shorts and a blue T-shirt with our school’s logo—a warrior. It was plain as if drawn by hand. My race was first— the 440. I hadn’t trained for that event. I was to run in place of Randolph Nash III with his perfect blond hair that never moved. One time around the track didn’t seem too hard. I took my mark and waited for the gun to sound. BOOM! I took off from lane 1. I went into the turn with the sound of feet raining behind me. I pushed my legs as fast as they could go. Suddenly, something took a hold of me, first by my legs, making its way to my lungs and into my mouth. Fatigue decided to introduce itself to me at the midpoint of the race. My strides became slower, my breathing quick, heavy then shallow. It felt like a panic attack in front of the large crowd. One by one the pink bodies in the other lanes flew by. Their strides were deliberate as if rehearsed thousands of times. They looked a bit comical to me as I slowed to a muddy trot. They looked like they needed to go to the bathroom. It was as though they were all holding in their shit and were desperately racing toward some kind of golden shit pot. As the other boys flew by I slowed down and began to walk. I waved them off in defiance, panting like a dog. The others made it to the finish line but I continued walking. I thought they’d just let me walk the rest of the way but the racing announcer kept urging me onward.
“Come on now! Don’t quit! Keep going!”
I could hear the laughter of the crowd as I came down the stretch.
“Let’s hear it for our last place competitor!”
Clap clap clap.
I felt ashamed after the race. I was a fill-in and hadn’t trained for that particular race. I was the only non-white guy on the track and I unceremoniously petered-out. I began to think that I had shamed my race. I mean, all brothers are supposed to be good runners, right? And what about the Filipino cornbread guy from the cafeteria? Was he watching? Did I shame him? Did I shame all non-white people that day by quitting, by saying simply, “That’s it, I’m not running in your race”? The ramifications of the race began to weigh heavily upon me. Later that evening in the dining room, I didn’t see the Filipino guy but I had cornbread anyway. As David and I walked about the hotel, I heard cat calls in the distance.
“Hey, you sag when you run!”
The trees surrounding our hotel had much more wind than I did.
“Don’t listen to them,” David said. “Just pray.”
Those other teams had teams of 10-20. Dave and I were from the smallest school in the area. David was to run the mile and he stayed quiet until morning.
I watched as Dave warmed up on the track. He stretched on the ground literally doing the splits. The runners took their positions and waited for the gun to sound. Perhaps he had a chance to win it. I began to pray. All the other schools had gotten a medal except ours. Dave was our last hope. The gun sounded and Dave was in the middle of the pack.
“Come on, Dave!” I thought to myself.
Dave began to pick up the pace with two laps to go. Unlike my performance, he seemed to get stronger in his stride. He looked as though he was running not merely a race but running for God, as an offering of his best. As I watched, it seemed that Dave was running for all the little schools, running for all the folks not blessed with outstanding athletic ability. With one lap to go, Dave was in fourth place.
“Come on, Dave!”
He came down the stretch in a cluster of adolescent bodies, his legs burning. But it wasn’t enough—a boy from one of the big schools edged him out of third. The crowd cheered as the competitors walked and caught their breath. The following morning Dave and I took the bus home. We were a team of two from a tiny school. Dave was soft-spoken, never bragged. We didn’t discuss the race or the meet during the ride home. Dave looked out the bus window, taken by another bout of spiritual mumbling as the trees sagged in the passing wind. He seemed to know that God had another day for him, that there were more important races for him to run. And as for me, running was never really my forte. But we both represented Agapé School in Orlando, Florida—and in case you don’t know it, Agapé means God’s love. And running across these pages, this story is written with a little of it.
BIO: Tony Robles was born in San Francisco, California. He is an author and a poet. He attends a Samoan Church where the Pastor says, “It don’t [sic] matter if you’re Samoan, Filipino, or Spanish, we’re all a part of God’s family.” He can’t forget what a Filipino pastor said, fifteen years ago, about “God (being) an equal-opportunity lover.” He always remembers what his Uncle Anthony said about Jesus: “I don’t want a black Jesus, a brown one, a white one, a red, yellow, blue, or purple one. . . I want a real one.” Tony has a Web site at www.tony-robles.com.
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Guest Blogger: Thank you by Raquel Villavicencio Balagtas
My Guest Blogger is Raquel Villavicencio Balagtas whose moving personal essay, "Thank You", is part of the book, Finding God: True Stories of Spiritual Encounters (Edited by Cecilia Brainard & Orosa, Anvil 2009). The book won the Gintong Aklat Award for 2010). Thank you Raquel.
by Raquel Villavicencio Balagtas
It was February 2006, two years and five months to date, when I read a pamphlet titled, “How to Avoid Purgatory.” It was given to me by Sister Lily Natividad of the Divine Endeavors Organization (DEO) exactly one year earlier, February 2005, when I went home to Manila.
I said thank you, took it back with me to Charleston, SC, and set it aside, with no intention of reading it at all. I was, still at that time, what I would describe as a “last in, first out Sunday Mass goer,” a cradle Catholic.
I was cleaning my book shelf, February 2006, when I saw the pamphlet again. I read it and my life has never been the same again. Like St. Augustine, in many ways, I can say to God: “Late have I loved You.”
I was fifty-nine years and two months old, still married to George, but residing separately. I found myself first in New York in 1990. Then I moved to Charleston, SC in 1993 and have been here ever since.
Flashback to February 12, 1987. I was forty-one years old then. We lost our third son, Gino, to an asthma attack at the age of seventeen.We have five sons and it was the third that we had named after George. We did not want to name the first and second sons after George because it was believed to be bad luck if you named your first son after the father. So maybe if it was the third, we were already safe.
It was a humbling experience for us to lose a son. I realized then that there is Somebody more powerful than us. Although we were never in politics, at that time, we felt that we could do anything we wanted because of the position George had and the “connections” he had. We had a joke then that it was only the U.S. Embassy that we had no control over.
So how could a seventeen-year-old, very intelligent, very athletic, very popular and very religious boy die so suddenly and right before my very eyes? He was graduating from La Salle-Alabang high school and he was going to take up medicine.
That night of February 12, I was still at my Dad’s house working when I got a call from my son Gamby that Gino was having a hard time breathing, that he was having an asthma attack. I was at home in three minutes as we live in the same subdivision. He was in the dining room holding onto the baluster and using his inhaler. He was having labored breathing.
I held him in my arms and he looked at me and said, “Maaaaaa.” I saw fear in his eyes. He must have felt that this was a different attack, much stronger than the previous ones. I said, pray, my son, pray. He made the Sign of the Cross. My second eldest son, Yuri, and I helped him to the car. He was already gasping for breath although I did not know that he was already dying. By the time we got to Perpetual Help Hospital, and they were wheeling the cart, he was already frothing in the mouth and his body had already stretched and had begun to stiffen due to the lack of oxygen. Still, I did not realize that he could be or that he WAS DYING!
I was panicking. Where was everybody? Where was my family? George was in Mt. Banahaw taking a forty-day retreat. But where was my father? He was home, of course. I called him to tell him to please pray because Gino was dying. Pray, pray, I told myself. My heart and soul searched for my mother, who had passed away three years earlier. I called on Mary, all the saints in heaven, all of my dead relatives. But they were all so far away.
Yuri and I, who were then waiting outside the ER, sat in two chairs facing each other. We held hands and with open palms, we started to pray the Our Father really loud, repeatedly, again and again and again.
Flashback to October 3, 1984, Makati Medical Center. My mother, the first death in our immediate family. Oh how I thought that our family was invulnerable! That no one would die prematurely! When we got to the hospital that night, they were already resuscitating her. No more pulse, no more breathing. I did not want my mother to die. Besides, they told us she had about six months, not three weeks! In all my naiveté, I demanded from God that He make her live again. With a firm jaw, as if I could demand it, I said, God, if You don’t make her live, I will never believe in You again.
God, in all His goodness and kindness, made her live. My father said, “You can all go home now.” We said, “No, we’re staying.” We went outside the room, sat down on a bench and prayed the Rosary. I led the praying. In the third decade of the Rosary, as I was saying the Our Father, the Holy Spirit must have come to me because as I said, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” I realized it was up to God to make her live or die. No amount of childish threat could make her live. I resigned myself to her leaving us. In my heart I then said, if You wish to take her, it’s OK, Lord.
My aunt then told us to come in for mother was going. We continued the Rosary inside the room, lifting up her soul to God. My father prayed, “Lord, take care of her.”
Fast forward to Gino, February 12, 1987. It was during the Our Father that I could really feel God was with Gino at that time. The priest who came said that by my faith alone, I had saved my son. Not for one moment did George and I question the will of God for Gino.
The hospital was immediately filled with classmates, friends, and family. It was his friends that took Gino’s sudden death hard. The mother of Carlos Regner, a teenager who died in a car accident, was also there. Her children were friends with my sons. I said to her, “You feel that Gino is still around?” I could really feel his presence. She said, “You have to let him go.”
Yuri, Jet (my eldest), and my brother, Lito, drove that night to Mt. Banahaw to pick up George. It was a dangerous place to be driving at night but they had to get him. I told my two sons to tell Dad these exact words, “Tell him I love him very much. That I did the best I could for Gino, but he is now with the Lord.” Our prayer was now focused on getting George safely and getting him home without incident.
George said that the moment he saw Jet and Yuri, he knew something was wrong. When he arrived, we went straight to the funeral parlor. There George prayed so hard as he had never prayed in his whole life. He knelt down and as he was wiping off the sweat from Gino’s brows (for Gino’s forehead still bore the perspiration caused by his struggle to breathe and live), he prayed, “Lord, you know how much I love you. If it is Your will, please make my son live again.”
It was actually Gino who inspired George to love and become closer to God. Gino was the first to attend the Life in the Spirit Seminar and George, out of curiosity at what Gino was doing, began to attend the meetings as well. It gradually progressed to other religious events, like daily Mass, praying the Rosary, being a member of the DEO, and doing the 40-day fasting and retreat at Mt. Banahaw.
Although George and I looked like we were taking the death of Gino well, it took a toll on me physically in the weeks and months that followed. It felt as if my flesh were pounded with a “dos por dos” piece of wood. I had my period two weeks earlier, but the night of Gino’s death, I bled again. I could not sit, stand, or do anything without my heart pounding violently. I could hear Gino’s friends telling Gamby not to leave me alone (for Jet and Yuri were picking up George).
My blood pressure was at 60/40. I told my father I wasn’t going to last one year. I also had made up my mind that life had ended for me, that I would just stay at home and go to the cemetery every day, that there would be no more social life for me from then on.
The Mass the morning after was very significant for me. In that part of the Mass where the priest says, “Let us give thanks and praise to the Lord,” and we answer, “It is right to give Him thanks and praise” I gave my thanks to God for taking Gino. This is what made us accept his passing.
I do not remember if George and I cried during the wake. His friends and classmates did all the crying for us. My heart was torn into pieces but I could not cry. An aunt told me to let it out, to cry. She said that when God banished Adam and Eve, He gave them the gift of tears.
Gino’s death made me aware of a Powerful Being. My consolation is that now I have an angel in heaven who is watching over us and who is preparing a place for us. That was what Gino said to us a few months before he died. That he would be the one among our five sons, who would take care of us when we were old, that we didn’t have to worry about our old age, that he would build us a house right next to his house and that he would give us a driver, a maid, and whatever else we would need.
In all these twenty-one years that he had been gone, God was kind enough to send him to me in my dreams about four to five times. In one dream, I hugged him and said to him, “Ay naku, anak, ang tagal na natin hindi nagkikita (My son, it’s been a long time since we’ve seen each other).” The dream was so real that when I woke up, I thanked God that I had my son even if it was only in a dream. I could actually feel him in my arms and on my chest as I hugged him.
I was surprised that I continued to live for I was sure that I, too, would die after losing Gino. Did my spiritual life change then? Did God become the center of my life then? I’m afraid, the answer is no. Although God called me three times, (through my Mom, Gino, Dad’s passing) my heart, my mind, and my body still belonged to the world. I had not learned how to really have a relationship with God. My prayers were limited to Masses on Sundays and holidays of obligation, short morning offertory and an act of contrition at night, if I remembered to recite it. No Rosary at all, and sometimes even the required once-a-year Sacrament of Reconciliation I also did not do.
Fast forward to February 2006. After reading the pamphlet How to Avoid Purgatory, I was determined not to ever, ever commit even the slightest venial sin. I also developed a devotion to the poor souls in purgatory, constantly remembering them and praying for them. I felt such great pity for those souls who could no longer help themselves. “Kawawa naman sila,” I would say to myself.
I guess I started with the fear of going to Purgatory and from a statement I read that St. Therese of the Little Flower said, “I guarantee you I’m not going to Purgatory.” I was very fearful of committing the littlest infraction; I could not possibly commit the big ones. Oh, how wrong I was! God had to teach me humility by giving me big, big temptations.
I had also started to read St. Teresa of Avila who became a nun because she wanted to make sure that her soul would be saved. Salvation was her main goal. Her conversion to become one with the Lord came after nineteen years of being in the convent, when she saw the crucified Christ in a different light. “The much wounded Christ” was how she described Him.
I also read Thomas Merton’s Ascent, then St. Francis Xavier’s Introduction to a Devout Life, St. Catherine of Siena, and the autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux. These first four books fanned the “fire within” me.
I had no other desire but to know God. I started buying books from Amazon.com and borrowing from the library books on God and everything that could help me to know Him more. I followed what I call my “S to the 4th”, which is: I Seek our Savior in Silence and Solitude.
I stopped dyeing my hair because to my mind, dyeing one’s hair is vanity, to make one self look young. And I said to myself, there is no vanity in heaven, so I stopped wearing jewelry. I only wore the Benedictine crucifix hanging on a brown string. I also started to wear the Rosary Scapular handmade by the DEO Missionaries.
More obvious were the socials and the parties I stayed away from. I noticed that if I was in a party for three hours, I wasn’t thinking of God. And I missed thinking of Him. I found the parties loud. I was happier alone at home reading books.
One of the things I read that really struck me was the line, “God has called us to holiness.” My reaction was that if He did, then it must be doable. WE CAN BE HOLY. I had not realized then that Christ stated this in the Bible, “Be holy as my Father in heaven is holy.” St. Jose Maria Escriva’s teachings focus on how to achieve holiness at home and at the workplace. Also one of the major documents that came out after the Vatican II, Lumen Gentium, explicitly stated the same thing: the
universal call to holiness.
I started going to the 8:30 a.m. daily Mass at Immaculate Conception Church. When I would come early, I noticed that they would do the Benediction. So I started coming earlier as this was something I was familiar with from St. Scholastica’s and St. Theresa’s College. Coming even earlier than Benediction, I noticed that they were reading a book. I had no idea what it was.
It was the Morning Prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours. It’s the required prayer for all religious. After Vatican II, lay people were encouraged to pray it, too. I fell in love with it.
I had to sit beside Joe Reyes, who was the friendliest-looking person in church, for me to follow the flipping of the pages. George had sent me his old one and I tried to analyze the contents. The Biblical readings, the non-Biblical readings for the different seasons were like food for my soul. I was determined then that I would encourage other people to do the Liturgy of the Hours and that I would go out of my way to teach it.
Before the Benediction was the praying of the Rosary. So I came to church earlier and earlier so I could do all four: the Rosary, the Benediction, the Liturgy of the Hours, and the Holy Mass. On Sundays, when I would go to the 7:30 Mass, I would so much want to go again to the 11:30 Mass. But I was afraid that people might think I was beginning to be a fanatic.
Eventually, I was asked to lead the Reading for the day of the Liturgy of the Hours. I then found myself serving at Mass during weekdays.When I was asked by a few people to become a Eucharistic Minister, I said I was not worthy to be one. I felt that I was only worthy to clean the bathroom in the church.
I also started to do the evening prayer in the Adoration Room with the exposed Eucharist which concluded with the Benediction. It eventually became a Holy Hour for me spending time with the Lord. The first thing I would always say is Thank You Lord for calling me. No matter what my problems and heartaches would be during the day, just saying Thank You, and by the grace of God I am here, lifts everything, making me realize that those things really don’t matter. How true are the words to the song, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you, allelu-alleluia.”
There were nights when I would enter the church and it would be so dark inside. I had to grope for the light switches to turn on the altar lights. And when I would enter the Adoration Room and nobody would be there, oh how my heart would break. I would say, “I am here. I’m so sorry You’re all alone.” Later on I read that where the Eucharist is exposed in Adoration, the room would be filled with all the angels and saints adoring and worshipping God. So I would enter the room and say, “Excuse me, excuse me” to all the saints and angels so I could squeeze myself among them.
Aside from the many books that my mind was devouring, I would have long telephone calls with George who was guiding my spiritual growth. Coming home again in October of 2006 was so exciting for me because George and I could have endless conversations about God. It was going to be a prayer trip for me being with George, going to Mass with him, praying the Rosary, looking at all his books, and shopping at the Pauline store for more religious books.
My eldest sister, Linda, was very happy for me. We talked long hours on the phone. She would tell me to go to the Sacrament of Reconciliation once a month. She also told me to say to myself often that GOD LOVES ME. She also told me to remind myself that God is the Creator and we are the creatures.
Lent was starting and the Immaculate Conception Church invited several priests to hear our confessions. I cried buckets and buckets of tears recalling all my sins. Never again would I offend my Beloved, He who has loved me and cared for me all those sinful years. I would follow Him to the ends of the earth. And if I ever feel Him “going away,” I will put my arms around His waist and tell Him, I go where You go. You cannot leave me now. You have invested too much in me already.
I turned, too, to the Virgin Mary. I used to pray that if her whole life was a life of prayer, she could help make this day be a day of prayer for me. Each morning, I would say the same line, “Please, make this day be a day of prayer for me.”
As I continued to grow in spirituality and love for Jesus, I found myself drawn more and more to the Blessed Sacrament. How I wanted to keep Him company. Often, even at work, I would feel Him so alone in the Tabernacle, calling out for us to spend even just a little time in prayer with Him. I found myself wanting so much to serve Him through my fellow parishioners. I began to wish I could become a Special Minister of Holy Communion. In spite of initial imagined rebuffs, I persisted. Silently praying and asking Him for His grace to make me one of His servants. Then it happened. Just as I prayed for, I received my commissioning as an SMHC when George was visiting! It was during Mass and with everyone watching. I felt as though I was reliving my own wedding day.
I was so looking forward to serving as an SMHC, when someone else walked toward the altar. I could barely hide my disappointment, but I said to myself, “In His time, in His time.” I knew someday, I would be able to serve Him and I would be ready when He called. Then it came. Quietly and gently, but nevertheless so dramatically. George and I were able to join a pilgrimage tour to Turkey with other couples from St. Therese’s and other parishes, under the guidance of Monsignor Lofton. I could hardly believe it. I had the opportunity to serve at Mass right in the Shrine of the house of the Blessed Mother in Ephesus. Throughout the trip itself, I acted as Liturgical coordinator for the group, organizing readers, Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, and servers at the daily Mass. I was
certain the trip was a gift from God, His way of telling me of His love for me.
I also joined the RCIA (Rites of Christian Initiation in Adults) so I could learn my Catechism all over again. I later on became a core team member and on my second year, last year, 2007, I handled the talk on Prayer. I prepared for months. I was so nervous but my prayer was that the Holy Spirit would touch their hearts, all of their hearts. I wanted everybody to have a transformation. Not one but all. Father Liam, whom I call my sparring twin soul because we also exchanged ideas on spiritual growth and other things, was gracious enough to bring his guitar and we sang, guess what? “Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God.”
My process of detachment from the world has filtered into even my television viewing habits, which have now been channeled to watching only the news and EWTN (The Eternal Word Television Network of Mother Angelica), which I feel helps to deepen and mature my spirituality. Even my son, Rallee (the youngest), notices. “Ma, are you watching Catholic TV again?” I only smile.
Soon, God willing, I will be enrolled as Carmelite Tertiary, the first of six years before I become professed. I used to have to travel an hour and a half just to attend meetings. I feel so blessed with the organization of a Carmelite Tertiary group right here in Charleston. I draw so much inspiration from St. Teresa of Avila’s writings. She is definitely one of my role models.
In grade school, we had to memorize answers to questions like: “Why did God make us?” And we would answer: “God made us to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him so that we may be happy with Him in Heaven.” Faith and religion meant memorizing all the prayers and the answers to the Catechism questions. In high school, our religion textbooks were entitled Quest for Happiness 1 to 4. I don’t remember very much about them. I will assume that what they basically teach is that we, humans, will always look for happiness but that true happiness can only be found in God. I must add NOW, at my stage of spiritual growth, that we can have a taste of that true happiness in this life if we learn to follow the will of God.
And what is the will of God? The will of God is to love Him with all our minds, all of hearts, and with all of our strength, and to love our neighbor as well. In the process of loving our neighbor, sometimes we have to die to ourselves. As Christ said, “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it will not bear fruit.”
I have died many, many times, but with grace from God, and through deep prayers, I have begun to taste unexplainable joy here on earth, in the “land of the living.”
BIO: Raquel Villavicencio Balagtas attended St. Scholastica’s College and
St. Theresa’s College. She earned a degree in BS Education, major in English and minor in Library Science from the Philippine Women’s University, and a master’s degree in Education, major in English from De La Salle University.
She and George M. Balagtas have five sons: Geoffrey (Jet), Gregory (Yuri), George Jr. (Gino, deceased at age 17), Gabriel (Gamby), and Geraldo (Rallee). They currently have seven grandchildren.
Although she has deviated into the business world, she has always considered herself a teacher, born a teacher, trained as a teacher, and will most probably die as a teacher. She currently teaches theology classes to adults in her parish in Goose Creek, SC.
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Gender and treatment effects of a boot-camp program on inmates' attitudes towards substance abuse
Berdine, Ruby L. (Pacific University)
The current study compared male and female participants of a co-educational boot camp program on attitude change measures. Participants were 106 males and 39 females from Oregon's "Success Using Motivation, Morale, Intensity, and Treatment," or SUMMlT, program located in Shutter Creek-Correctional Facility in South Bend,Oregon. Pre- and post treatment responses from male and female participants' were compared on measures of attitudes towards substance use, antisocial attitudes, and experiential avoidance. Program participants completed the Action and Acceptance Questionnaire-Revised (AAQ-R),the Assertive Interactions Questionnaire (AIQ), and three subscales of the Drug Attitudes Scale (DAS) at program admission, at the program mid-point, and at program completion. It was hypothesized that significant differences between males and females in level of overall change would be found on all three measures, but no direction for the change was predicted. Exploration with independent sample t-tests revealed significant differences only on the AAQ-R (p < .001). Generally, the results did not support the hypothesis that men and women experienced different levels of attitude change while participating in co-ed boot camp treatment. Further exploration of the data set gathered for female participants (n = 39) comparing first half of treatment to second half of treatment revealed that women show consistent levels of change in a prosocial direction throughout the entire boot camp period on the AAQ-R and on the AIQ, but show a significant decrease in attitude change on the DAS in the last three months of treatment. These findings may have implications for co-educational boot camp programming, but further research with a more comparable female to male sample size ratio is needed to determine whether failure to find differences between men and women was due to true lack of differences or a function of the attitude measures used.
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Faculty Position - Biomedical Engineering
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The Department of Engineering in the School of Science, Engineering and Health at Messiah University invites applications for a faculty position in Biomedical Engineering beginning August 1, 2021.
Responsibilities: The position includes teaching introductory to advanced undergraduate engineering classes in Biomedical Engineering as well as foundational engineering courses. The department has particular need for support in teaching subject areas such as Biomedical Instrumentation, Design of Medical Devices, BME Lab Techniques, and Biomechanics. In addition to these traditional teaching responsibilities the successful candidate will be expected to pursue scholarship in collaboration with undergraduate students on projects consistent with the mission of the Collaboratory at Messiah University (www.messiah.edu/collaboratory). This scholarship involves working with students to pursue applied research and engineering design with an emphasis on supporting internationally diverse underserved communities. The successful candidate will also provide leadership and administrative support to the Biomedical Engineering degree program.
Qualifications: Successful candidates for hire into a Term-Tenure Track position are expected to have a PhD in Biomedical Engineering or related field. A Master’s degree with suitable experience would qualify candidates for a Lecturer appointment. Candidates must evidence the potential for strong classroom teaching and a commitment to pursuing their ongoing scholarship in partnership with students within the Collaboratory at Messiah University.
The Program: Messiah University’s Engineering department offers an ABET accredited Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree with concentrations in Biomedical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Environmental, Mechanical and General Engineering. The University is presently offering discipline-specific majors in Biomedical, Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering with the initial accreditation review anticipated during the 2022-2023 academic year.
The Department: Our eleven faculty, three full time technicians and over 240 students work on projects related to clean water access, alternative energy, technical resources for people living with disability, transportation, communications and biomedical instruments and processes in over eight developing countries in Africa, Central and South America.
The University: Messiah University is a Christian university of the liberal and applied arts and sciences and has a student body of over 2,700 undergraduate students including 14.4% under-represented and 4.1% international students from 28 countries and over 600 graduate students including 16.4% of students from under-represented populations.
The University is committed to an embracing evangelical spirit rooted in the Anabaptist, Pietist and Wesleyan traditions of the Christian Church. Our mission is to educate men and women toward maturity of intellect, character and Christian faith in preparation for lives of service, leadership and reconciliation in church and society. Messiah University is a teaching institution that emphasizes instruction but values research and public service. Strong support is given to faculty development in teaching and scholarship.
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Google and Carlson Bring TV White Space Internet to South African Schools
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South Africa’s first-ever TV White Space trial looks to establish the framework for Internet connectivity in emergent nations
March 25, 2013 – Arcata, CA– Carlson Wireless today announces the launch of the first TV White Space (TVWS) trial in South Africa.
Led by Google, the trial will test TVWS wireless broadband in ten schools across the Cape Town area. Carlson, the project’s equipment vendor, Google and other project partners will attempt to show that broadband can be offered over white spaces without interfering with licensed spectrum holders.
To prevent interference with other channels, the network utilizes Google’s spectrum database to determine white space availability. Carlson’s RuralConnect Broadband Solution, enabled by the Neul Horizon software, provides the communications backbone for the trial; outputting broadband Internet while interacting with the Google database to ensure proper channel assignment.
Moreover, TVWS offers the potential to improve Internet connectivity where it is most needed – in the developing world. TV White Spaces’ lower frequencies can travel longer distances, making the technology well suited to provide low cost connectivity to rural communities with poor telecommunications infrastructure. It is also used for expanding coverage of wireless broadband in densely populated urban areas.
Jim Carlson, President of Carlson Wireless, stated, “‘This is a small example of TVWS spectrum overcoming a need that exists all over the world…providing connectivity to underserved areas is more than an interest to us, it’s specifically what got us into the game. We are overjoyed to participate in such a project, helping to provide schools with a fundamental service.”
As equipment vendor, Carlson was pleased to be involved with Google and other project partners since the trials’ preliminary research and network-engineering phase. Carlson, along with Neul, provided installation assistance and will continue to provide remote support throughout the trial.
Luke Mckend, Google South Africa Country Manager, commented, “We are pleased to be part of this exciting new development – the first of its kind in South Africa – and look forward to opening discussions with policy makers around a regulatory framework that will support the wider use of TVWS to deliver wireless broadband Internet across the country.”
Arno Hart, Project Manager at TENET, said, “This TVWS technology trial brings South Africa to the cutting edge of innovation in terms of improving Internet connectivity, and is a very positive step towards bringing many more South Africans online. This trial will also be used to inform the regulatory process in South Africa.”
White Space technology is gaining momentum around the world, and Carlson Wireless has been at the forefront of the TVWS revolution. Carlson continues to play a key role in shaping the industry, regulations and rollout of TVWS technology. This is particularly true in the U.S., where Carlson’s RuralConnect TVWS Broadband Radio has been implemented and tested under an FCC experimental license. Carlson, Google and the project partners hope the results of the trial will drive similar regulatory developments in South Africa and other African countries.
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For more than a decade, Carlson has led the way in engineering high-speed wireless communication solutions for a broad spectrum of applications by using RF technology to deliver full voice and data connections, no matter how rugged the terrain. Today, Carlson is considered a pioneer of the revolutionary new TV White Space broadband technology. More than 20 million people in nearly 200 communities worldwide rely on Carlson radios for their public safety communications and broadband needs.
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Which Chicago Neighborhoods Have Been Most Changed By Gentrification?
By Samantha Abernethy in News on Jul 31, 2012 8:21PM
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According to home and garden blog Networx.com, four of Chicago's neighborhoods make their list of those that have been most redefined nationwide by gentrification: Andersonville, Boystown, Pilsen and Wicker Park. Aside from the arguments of what gentrification does and whether it ruins a neighborhood's identity, let's focus on how it happens and what are the tell-tale characteristics of a neighborhood on its way to gentrification.
Earlier this year, Humboldt Park residents weren't so keen on the idea of adding bike lanes to its neighborhood because the plan was perceived to be a form of gentrification coming from outside of the neighborhood, forced in by whites. Grid Chicago writes:
Bicycling doesn’t discriminate. It’s good for people of all ethnicities and income levels because it’s a cheap, convenient, healthy way to get around, and a positive activity for youth and families. So it’s a shame that cycling, especially for transportation, is often seen as something that only privileged white people would want to do.
Or maybe coffeeshops are the harbinger of gentrification. The quantity of coffee shops has an interesting relationship to crime rates in a study covering Chicago neighborhoods from 1991 to 2005. It found that as there were more coffee shops in white and Latino gentrifying neighborhoods, crime declined. However, as there were more coffee shops in gentrifying majority black neighborhoods, crime actually went up. Chicago Magazine writes:
The authors argue that it's because of differing intra-racial gentrification patterns: "Black gentrifying neighborhoods in Chicago tend to be spatially proximate to other high-crime Black communities and, thus, do not receive the same ecological benefits of White/Hispanic gentrifying neighborhoods." Not to mention that more people with money next to high-crime areas means more appealing and practical targets for robbers. It's a limited piece of data, but it does suggest some of the difficulties in maintaining stability in black neighborhoods versus white and Hispanic neighborhoods.
The Networx post looks at the evolution of each neighborhood, but it focuses on that old trope about gays and artists and real estate agents changing the city's landscape. No one neighborhood gentrified in the same manner, though, and a couple of those have twice redefined themselves.
When I first moved to Chicago, I went to Big Joe's 2 & 6 Pub at the intersection of Ravenswood and Foster. I didn't really know my way around, and I asked a bartender which neighborhood I was in. He said it depends: It's really Bowmanville to those who live here, but to the rest of the city it's Ravenswood. But if you're trying to sell real estate, it's called West Andersonville.
The once-Swedish neighborhood of Andersonville barely shows signs of its European heritage anymore, and one expert told Networx it even changed the boundaries of the North Side in more than one neighborhood when it started pulling parts of Uptown, Edgewater and Ravenswood into its web:
First lesbians had moved in and participated in the gentrification of the neighborhood in the late 1970's early 1980's. After that the neighborhood started to become attractive to others. Artists moved in around the same time. Later more white, middle class families moved in and by the time that I was studying the neighborhood a lot of gay men had moved in and it was becoming quite expensive and more and more of a destination, whether it be for tourists or people within the city looking for a place to shop or go to dinner.
Boystown's change was a little different. While it was also an influx of gay residents, the gay enclave stuck to the same strip of Halsted without changing other parts of Lakeview, like Wrigleyville. Now "it's not a necessarily a residential gay enclave, it's more like a gay motif that gave identity to that strip."
Yes, Pilsen is a Mexican neighborhood, but before that it was Czech. It was artists that redefined the east side of Pilsen. As one expert put it, "It became a cultural enclave destination within a Mexican neighborhood, carved out at the expense of Mexicans; now it's predominantly white. It didn't take the whole neighborhood, it took a corner of it."
Wicker Park was so redefined that the name is a whole brand created by the real estate industry. That chunk of West Town has been changed twice over. "It is undergoing regentrification which means that the early gentrifiers (principally artists who developed a Bohemian style destination around the intersection of Milwaukee, North and Damen Avenues) could not afford to stay there and higher-income gentrifiers are replacing them," one expert said.
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President Piñera unveils new measures to support the middle class, including a bonus, solidarity loan, and housing and education benefits: “Our administration’s mission is to protect Chilean families in these times of adversity.”
The President announced a bonus of Ch$500,000 that does not need to be repaid, a government solidarity loan for up to Ch$1.95 million, increases to the rental subsidy and deferred university loan payments.
On Tuesday, President Sebastián Piñera announced new measures to support middle-class families impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The measures include a bond of Ch$500,000, which does not need to be repaid and will be paid to all middle-class workers whose pre-pandemic formal monthly income was between Ch$500,000 and Ch$1.5 million, but has fallen significantly. Ten days after this law is enacted, this aid will be paid to middle-class workers whose formal income has fallen 30% or more, including those who are employed, on suspended contracts, unemployed, working on contract or self-employed.
The bonus will also be paid in decreasing amounts to workers with monthly income between Ch$1.5 and Ch$2 million who have experienced a reduction in their purchasing power.
“The middle class is the pride of our country. They have made progress based on their own merit and effort. Today, given these times of adversity, they are facing major threats and fears. We must and we can change this situation,” said the President at an event at the La Moneda Palace where he was accompanied by the First Lady, ministers, party leaders and parliamentarians.
The President also announced a government solidarity loan for the middle class. Three monthly disbursements, for a maximum of Ch$650,000 each and a maximum total of Ch$1.95 million, are available to offset up to 70% of the drop in income. The loan will have a year grace period and three-year repayment term, with payments capped at 5% of income.
“The State will forgive the loan if a family has been unable to repay the full amount by the end of that four-year period,” the President said.
To protect middle-class housing, the President signed the 6-month deferral of mortgage loans through a state guarantee, and increased the three-month rental subsidy to up to Ch$250,000 applicable to rents up to Ch$600,000, which will cover up to 70% of rent payments for families whose income has fallen 30% or more.
Furthermore, property tax payments for the second half of the year have been postponed for families whose income has fallen for all primary residences with a taxation value below 5,000 UF.
Likewise, the President announced a new deadline to give students in higher education the opportunity to apply for preferential State financing and deferral of up to three months of state-guaranteed loans.
“Our administration’s mission is to protect Chilean families in these times of adversity,” said the President.
These measures come in addition to the US$30 billion social protection network created by the administration to protect the income and employment of 12 million Chileans.
“It is only by acting very sensibly and urgently to address the shortfalls and needs of Chilean families and with great responsibility and vision in terms of solutions that we will be able to reconcile the protection that families need during this emergency with the equally necessary boost and ongoing protection that they require,” said the President.
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by Manasi Swamy
The government projected India’s real GDP to contract by 7.7 per cent in 2020-21 in its First Advance Estimates of National Income released on Friday. This would be the worst annual contraction seen by the Indian economy since independence. But, the rather extraordinary takeaway from this estimate is that the economy is seen to be returning to normalcy in the second half of the year.
The advance estimates for 2020-21 when seen in conjunction with the estimates for the first two quarters of the year imply that real GDP would amount to Rs.74.36 trillion in the second half, nearly the same as its year-ago level of Rs.74.46 trillion. India’s real GDP had contracted by 23.9 per cent in the June 2020 quarter amid the strictest lockdown in the world observed to arrest Covid-19 spread. It continued to fall in the September 2020 quarter, by 7.5 per cent, due to slow removal of restrictions. Restrictions remained in most transport, hospitality, tourism and education sectors in the third quarter and many of these are likely to remain in the fourth quarter. However, the government’s GDP forecasts assume that the economy will come back to pre-lockdown levels during this period.
The government projects itself to lead the economic recovery in the second half of 2020-21 by scaling up its final consumption expenditure by 17 per cent over its year-ago level. The Central Government had adopted a conservative approach towards spending in the first half. It had concentrated only on the minimum spending required for providing healthcare facilities and subsistence to the poor amid the lockdown. In real terms, its consumption expenditure declined y-o-y by 3.9 per cent. In nominal terms it was down by 0.1 per cent. This was against most expectations. Governments are generally expected to step up their spending during a recession to kick-start the economy.
Data released by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) shows that the Central Government started loosening its purse strings from October 2020 as its tax collections picked up. Its revenue expenditure excluding interest payments grew by 17 per cent during October-November 2020. In real terms, the growth would have been in the range of 10 to 13 per cent. This means that the government will have to scale up its revenue expenditure significantly in the remaining months of the year if it has to achieve its own advance estimate of GDP for 2020-21.
The advance estimates imply that all components of the economy other than government’s consumption expenditure would fall y-o-y in the second half of 2020-21, albeit at a much slower pace than in the first half.
The government has projected gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) to contract by 14.5 per cent in 2020-21. After having slumped by 28.1 per cent in the first half of the year, its y-o-y fall is projected to alleviate to 0.8 per cent in the second half. While the expectation is that investment demand would improve substantially in the second half compared to the first half, the low base of last year would also play a role in this. Last year, GFCF had risen by 0.3 per cent in the first half. But, its performance had deteriorated with a 5.8 per cent contraction in the second half.
The government’s assumption seems to be that it would lead the show of improvement in GFCF too. The Central Government scaled up its capital expenditure to Rs.753.2 billion during October-November 2020 as compared to Rs.263 billion during the same period a year ago. Fund raising by private corporates, on the other hand, remained subdued during this period, suggesting that the animal spirits of corporates are yet to reignite. Fresh loan disbursals by scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) to industry and services, after adjusting for repayments, remained in the negative zone of Rs.280 billion during October-November 2020. Fund raising via bond issuances did rise by 13.7 per cent in the December 2020 quarter, but equity issuances were down by 13.7 per cent despite booming stock market.
Nonetheless, some signs of improvement in investment activity in the country are visible in performance of real sector indicators steel and cement. These key inputs in industrial & infrastructural construction activity saw y-o-y contraction in their production reduce to 0-2 per cent during October-November 2020 from around 25 per cent fall witnessed by each in the first half of the year.
The first advance estimates imply a sharp reduction in y-o-y contraction of private final consumption expenditure (PFCE) to 0.6 per cent in the second half of 2020-21 from an 18.9 per cent contraction suffered in the first half of the year. For the year as a whole, the government projects PFCE to contract by 9.5 per cent.
The improvement projected in private consumption in the second half looks quite likely because of three reasons. Firstly, food products account for large chunk of PFCE, 25-30 per cent. The NSO derives its estimate for food products consumption from the supply side. And, agricultural output during the current kharif season is expected to touch a record high. Secondly, consumer product manufacturers and sellers had a bumper festive season this year due to release of pent up demand and fresh festive spending. And finally, the recovery in demand seems to have sustained beyond the festive season as collections of Goods & Services Tax (GST), which is levied at each stage of consumption chain, climbed to Rs.1.15 trillion in December 2020, the highest since its implementation in July 2017. Besides, e-way bills, railway traffic and electricity consumption also rose y-o-y in December 2020.
The government projects y-o-y fall in imports to come down substantially to 11.3 per cent in the second half of 2020-21 from 29.1 per cent in the first half, in line with the recovery in both consumption and investment demand in the domestic market. The fall in exports is also projected to moderate to 5.8 per cent from 10.7 per cent. However, the consequent deterioration in trade balance from a surplus of Rs.1.2 trillion in the first half to a deficit of Rs.143.5 billion is likely to eat into 0.2 per cent of GDP in the second half.
While the economy is showing good signs of improvement across segments, the government’s projections seem a bit aggressive. Interestingly, the economy’s full recovery to the year-ago level in the second half of 2020-21 as envisaged in these projections hinges largely upon the government’s ability and willingness to spend.
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Mother kills her 22-year-old daughter in Ekiti state
December 18, 2014 by Kelly Davies Leave a Comment
What do you think would make a mother kill her own daughter, a girl she gave birth to and nurtured till 22?
That’s the question every sane people who came across this incident have been asking.
Mrs. Victoria Aina, a middle aged woman in Ekiti state has allegedly killed her own daughter, Miss. Oluwafunmilayo Rosaline Abosede Adanikin, a 300 level student of the Federal College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti.
The woman, who until the alleged killing of her daughter, lived in their compound besides Baba Ewenla house in Idamodu area of Emure-Ekiti, Local Government Area of Ekiti State.
She was said to have put an end to the life of her 22-year-old daughter on the night of December 7th at their apartment.
Trouble started a few days earlier when the victim began to confess of committing some evil deeds through diabolic means. She was said to have allegedly confessed to causing havoc in her family by killing relatives and spoiling others fortunes with fetish powers she got from her mother.
A neighbor who craved anonymity, (an old woman) told reporter: “Abosede had confessed to killing a relative of her mum as well as causing the misfortune that befell her father, Pa Titus Folorunso Adanikin, among other things before we heard that she had died that night.
The incident caused a stir in the community, as the girl actually made the confessions in the full glare of the public. “She was taken to some churches for prayers and spiritual deliverance where she spent days confessing and disrupting the peace of everyone there. She was even said to have confessed to be in a spiritual cult in which she already had two babies. She said she would return to her home in the occult world whenever she lost her virginity here on earth. She also revealed that she had lost her virginity recently.” Another resident, informed that the last church that Abosede was taken to rejected her and asked her mum to take her home.
The old woman continued: “Abosede’s confessions were reported to our traditional ruler, Oba Emmanuel Adebayo (a former Commissioner of Police) who immediately ordered that the girl and her mum should report at the palace so the matter could be looked into according to the traditions of the land. The Oba sent his messenger with the royal staff, but Mrs. Adanikin lied to the bearers of the king’s message that the girl didn’t confess to committing anything. They said she only had some mental problems. But as soon as the king’s messenger left, she tied the hands and legs of the girl so as to tame her. Her neighbors said when it was late in the night, she began to beat the girl in the room where she had her locked up and eventually pushed her against some planks earlier kept there by her late father to make doors for his uncompleted building.
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The main aim of this research was to investigate metacognitive strategies through reading comprehension practice by first year students of engineering departments. The students of four engineering departments were selected as the participants in this research work. The qualitative instrument based on focus group interview was used for collecting data from first year students of four engineering departments to know the perceptions and their needs to develop reading comprehension through metacognitive strategies. The researchers developed interview questions for this study. These questions were validated by two experts of faculty of cognitive science and human development at university Malaysia Sarawak. The researchers obtained permission from the chairmen of four departments at a university in Pakistan. Almost 8 groups consisting of 5 informants in each participated in this research. The data was documented by using audio-tape; NVivo software, version 8 was used to organize data for obtaining main themes of the study. This research generated the most important themes for the interpretation of the results. The study contributed the most promising results which revealed that more than half of these groups used metacognitive strategies in classroom reading practice while less than half of groups did not use strategies and remained poor in reading comprehension. This research suggested administrators, teachers, and curriculum designers to design and implement reading comprehension courses and syllabus for first year engineering students.
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For the past 15 years or so, Jewish-Canadian accordion player/singer-songwriter/novelist Geoff Berner has travelled the world. He’s played in bars, cafes, festivals, and the occasional stadium. He’s performed in 17 countries, on national radio in 7 of them.
All over Canada, Europe, and America, Berner has garnered a sizable, passionate following of odd, bookish people who like to drink. He packs venues in places like Berlin, London, Oslo, Zurich, Seattle, Toronto, Edmonton and his home city of Vancouver.
In October 2017, Dundurn Press published Geoff Berner’s 2nd novel, The Fiddler Is a Good Woman. The book comes with a free download code for his new album, Canadiana Grotesquica. The album is also available on LP, CD and the usual digital sites, through COAX Records in North America, and 9pm Records in Europe.
Clever and literate, Berner’s songs can make you want to weep, laugh, grind your teeth, or kick out a window–often all at the same time. His writing can be overtly political, overtly left wing, leaning towards anarchy, but free of easy slogans or cliches. His peers consider him a “songwriter’s songwriter” and many artists have taken the time to learn and play his songs, including Corb Lund, the Be Good Tanyas, RotFront and Rae Spoon.
It’s rare for a musician to be as good at writing prose as making music. Berner can credibly make that claim. Maclean’s, Canada’s national magazine, praised his first novel, Festival Man, for its “hilarity and razor-sharp, Mordecai Richler-esque satire.”
The Fiddler Is A Good Woman might be even better. Sean Michaels, Giller Prize-winning author of Us Conductors, says it’s “a heartfelt, imaginary oral history about the beauty and power of music and art. Sharp with wit and alive with wonder, full of noise and fun. The only criticism I can offer is that it left me wanting another one.”
As a musician, Berner is mainly known as a practitioner of the “klezmer-punk” style, which combines the traditional folk music of Eastern European Jews with punk’s aggressive energy and disdain for slick perfection. The new album Canadiana Grotesquica is a brief departure. Berner describes it as a “country-tinged singer-songwriter affair.” It was produced by Paul Rigby, a brilliant arranger and guitarist, nominated for a Grammy for his work with Neko Case.
The Fiddler Is a Good Woman is set mostly in the knockabout world of travelling independent Canadian “roots” musicians, and that world is also the source material for the music of Canadiana Grotesquica.
With a new album, new book and tours of Canada, continental Europe, the Pacific northwest of the U.S., and Scandinavia, Berner is officially on a roll.
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Early voting in Franklin County, Ohio: quick, easy, and confidence-inspiring
October 19, 2020 October 19, 2020 by Craig Calcaterra
A couple of months ago, as the early summer optimism that the Pandemic was easing off was replaced by massive spikes in infections, I ordered an absentee ballot. Despite fears that the post office would trash them or something, my ballot arrived promptly after the state released them. Then it sat on my desk for a week or two. After looking at it long enough I decided that I’d rather vote in person.
I consulted the rules about that and determined that (a) yes, I could do so; and (b) yes, my vote would be counted before election day as opposed to falling into some provisional ballot twilight zone. Then, this morning, I went to vote.
Franklin County, Ohio has only one early voting site, but it’s in a big strip center in a pretty easily accessible location on Morse Road, just off of Interstate 71. There’s a lot of free parking and reliable bus service to that part of town. It’s far more accessible for people — especially people without reliable transportation — than almost any other location would be and it does not present the “aw, I have to deal with all that downtown hassle” that would likely put off a lot of potential voters.
I chose to go this morning because it was pouring rain and I figured that there would be fewer people. I was wrong about that.
That’s the building to the west of the Board of Elections. The line wrapped around its far side, like so:
It seemed kind of daunting at first, but I was already there and wanted to vote, so I walked back to the end of the line.
Thankfully, the line moved fast. Like, really fast. As in, I didn’t really stand still even once. it was like a constantly walking, quickly-moving thing. As in, this quickly-moving:
Long and socially distanced line at Franklin County Board of Elections. Rain isn’t stopping these early voters.About 47,000 people have cast ballots here in person this year. About 18,000 more than in 2016 election at this time. #2020 #vote pic.twitter.com/cXC07AXLD1
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That reporter interviewed me while I was in line, by the way — if I can find it when it airs I’ll include it here — but she and her cameraman had to walk and talk with me as I went through the line, as there was no stopping. Her questions were mostly about voter enthusiasm and whether the rain or the lines were discouraging. I told her that the past four years are enough to make anyone determined to vote and that, if I had to guess, most of the people waiting in the rain to do so were not doing so because they were happy with how the past four years have gone.
As I approached the door, I passed the absentee ballot drop box. My wife chose to stick with her absentee, so I dropped it off for her:
I got in the line at 10:42AM. I was here, at the entrance of the building, in 17 minutes:
Once inside things moved even more quickly.
If you were just a regular voter showing up there were at least 20 people seated at intake stations to check you in and give you your ballot, and they raised their hand for you to go to them almost the moment you walked in the door. From there you were sent to the voting machines and you were done. It was far quicker than what I’ve experienced at my local precinct on Election Day. Partially because the people inside were not one-day volunteers and they knew what they were doing. Partially because there were so many intake stations and voting machines.
For me it took a tad longer since I had already been issued an absentee ballot and thus had to go to a separate room for “replacement ballots.” Per those rules I linked above, I merely needed to tell them that I wasn’t voting absentee. Again, the place where I was sent presented almost no wait, as there were several poll workers there who knew what they were doing. I was not required to bring my absentee ballot with me, but I did anyway. The woman there marked it with a big red “X” to render it a spoiled ballot, issued me a new one, showed me the printout on their system which tracked them both and which assured me that I was properly voting. Though I did not ask, she said “with this ballot your vote will be counted today and tabulated the same as in-person votes on Election Day.” From the time I had gotten in line until the time she handed me my replacement ballot was only 22 minutes.
I went to a little table, filled out my paper ballot by hand with a pen, and fed it into a little scanner/printer/fax machine thingie. A little green light came on and the screen displayed a message saying “your ballot has been counted.” Right next to the machine was a stack of “I voted” stickers, to which I helped myself:
I could not be happier with how things went this morning. Despite a massive spike in early voting the Franklin County Board of Elections had the man-and-woman power, the resources, and the technology in place to deal with it. Despite the rain and the lines things moved quickly and easily. Despite all of the anxiety floating around about barriers to voting and uncertainty regarding whether ballots would be counted and when I have complete confidence that the system worked the way it is supposed to and that my vote counted.
All of these describe how the system should always work, everywhere. That it all came as a pleasant surprise to me is a damning indictment of the state of today’s voting infrastructure, undercut and under attack as it is by Republicans, to whose ethos voting and even democracy is increasingly and shamefully antithetical.
Today, at least, I feel confident in the way the Franklin County Board of Elections is running things. Here’s hoping that this results in an election which ushers people into office who have the will to make all voting this easy all over the country, always.
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His King’s Traveler and Johanne McKaryll
In by George Bakerson July 19, 2019 4 Comments
Q: As DJ Khaled would say, “Another One.” Just like that, we bring on our latest author, Johanne McKaryll. Welcome to the show. Please give an introduction of yourself.
A: Hello, my name is Johanne McKaryll, I’m a student, 16 years old, and a new member of this team. Usually, I’m an action, mystery, thriller, supernatural, adventure, and slice of life type of a writer. But something inspired me to open up a new genre for the story, and I believe the result will be satisfying.
Q: Now you’re here for your novel His King’s Avatar. I hear the MC is a woman, which is a bit of a rarity, but I’ll let you have the honor of talking about the plot yourself.
A: The plot was about the woman who used to live an average type of life and doesn’t believe in any fairy tales or form of miracles. But her life changed when she got in an accident which brought her to another world full of anthropomorphic creatures, without a single bit of her memory about herself and her past. She thought she might pick up a clue someday if she just lives on and goes with the flow to any situation. But she didn’t expect she would meet someone who would become an important person in her life.
Q: So a bit of mystery, slice of life and drama, right?
A: Yes, there are still mysteries, slice of life and drama to the story. But I added a romance element which I thought would capture the heart of every female reader, especially those who envision an excitement in their lives.
Q: I see. Did you have any troubles while writing it?
A: Yes, I have had troubles while writing. Thinking how to construct the plot into effective words isn’t easy. Especially if you don’t have any editors and only rely on the beta reader’s views and opinions.
Q: Any quirk or habit you may have picked up along the way?
A: The habit of researching. Every time I write a story, doing research will always be compulsory. It might be funny but even concerning small details, I would search for that topic thinking I might give an information which is false to the fact.
Q: Well, everyone has been pretty unique with this next question. However, it might be a simple question in your case. What is the origin of your pen name? Is it just your real name or something you made up?
A: My pen name was actually made up. “Johanne” came from my real name “Johanna”, but changed the end from “a” to “e”. And since I like names that sounded British, I took a name “Mc” which from a name “Mcnell” and “Karyll” from the actual “Karyll” and combined them together to be “McKaryll”.
Q: Interesting. We’re almost done, so let’s end with this: Do you have any advice for aspiring authors in the future?
A: I guess we all experience this self-doubt about our own story. It’s normal. Don’t think of changing the whole plot if your beta reader says it’s good. Just think of what words you might change to make it more effective and entertaining to read.
Q: Tell us a joke.
A: A teacher once asked her student if a World War III happens, what will happen. Then one of her students answered, “There will be another chapter in history to study.”
That’s it for the interview. Thank you very much for joining us and I hope you all the best!
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Ecological effects on the evolution of cooperative behaviors
Connelly, Brian Dale
Cooperative behaviors abound in nature and can be observed across the spectrum of life, from humans and primates to bacteria and other microorganisms. A deeper understanding of the forces that shape cooperation can offer key insights into how groups of organisms form and co-exist, how life transitioned to multicellularity, and account for the vast diversity present in ecosystems. This knowledge lends itself to a number of applications, such as understanding animal behavior and engineering...
Show moreCooperative behaviors abound in nature and can be observed across the spectrum of life, from humans and primates to bacteria and other microorganisms. A deeper understanding of the forces that shape cooperation can offer key insights into how groups of organisms form and co-exist, how life transitioned to multicellularity, and account for the vast diversity present in ecosystems. This knowledge lends itself to a number of applications, such as understanding animal behavior and engineering cooperative multi-agent systems, and may further help provide a fundamental basis for new industrial and medical treatments targeting communities of cooperating microorganisms.Although these behaviors are common, how evolution selected for and maintained them remains a difficult question for which several theories have been introduced. These theories, such as inclusive fitness and group selection, generally focus on the fitness costs and benefits of the behavior in question, and are often invoked to examine whether a trait with some predetermined costs and benefits could be maintained as an evolutionarily-stable strategy. Populations, however, do not exist and evolve in a vacuum. The environment in which they find themselves can play a critical role in shaping the types of adaptations that organisms accumulate, since one behavior may be highly beneficial in one environment, yet a hindrance in another. Ever-changing environments further complicate this picture, as maintaining a repertoire of behaviors for surviving in different environments is often costly. In addition to these environmental forces, the number and composition of other organisms with which individuals interact impose additional constraints. The combination of these factors results in significantly more complex dynamics.Using computational models and microbial populations, this dissertation examines several ways in which ecological factors can affect the evolution of cooperative behaviors. First, environmental disturbance is examined, in which a cooperative act enables organisms and their surrounding neighbors to survive a periodic kill event (population bottleneck) of varying severity. Resource availability is then studied, where populations must determine how much resource to allocate to cooperation. Finally, the effect that social structure, which define the patterns of interactions among the individuals in a population, is investigated.
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This Is Why You Grieve The Ending Of Your Favorite TV Show
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When a beloved TV series comes to a finish, it's common to hear fans say they're "grieving" the ending of a story they've watched and kept up with, sometimes for years. But what is the reasoning behind these intense, and often immediate, emotions?
Grieving the ending of a series
There are varying degrees of grief (the end of a movie or show is obviously not the same as the death of a person), but many people do experience feelings of loss around different forms of media, such as the ending of a favorite show.
Connecting to stories and characters
We are genuinely invested in the outcome of a story and the state of the various characters.
These connections to fictional stories and characters are why many people share their opinions about the plots and characters’ actions. People feel so connected, and in some cases, they feel like they have ownership over something.
TV series as a form of detachment
For many people, watching a show regularly can be a form of temporarily checking out of what’s going on in the real world.
It’s a way we detach from our own issues, our own problems. And the thought of giving that up and coming back to our own world is a little frightening for people.
A form to look back at life
The length of the series is a way of looking back on our life: It reminds us of the passage of time and where we were and who we watched it with.
A collective experience
The actual experience of watching a show ― whether it involves the same group of people, centers around a certain meal, or focuses on another viewing party tradition ― can also add to those feelings of loss once that series ends.
It becomes a ritual for people. And it's a form of shared collective experience.
The philosophical ethics of Game Of Thrones
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George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series is one of those series that, as someone who has worked in a bookshop, seemed to saunter off the shelves. In the wake of the television series, small boys' mothers told me that their offspring loved the telly programme but were concerned that the books might be a bit beyond them.
Thomas Hobbes explained
Hobbes, an English philosopher, believes mankind's nature to be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short as described in his book, The Leviathan.
This is why people adhere to social c...
Moral issues
The 'Show, don't tell' rule is especially pertinent when it comes to immoral acts.
Until a book becomes moving pictures, any moral issue with it doesn't seem to reach national press levels, because it shows these contentious issues to a wider audience. If you show the act, but don't tell anyone what to think about it, the fact that an author or film-maker hasn't clanged down a big sign saying 'And this is bad' is tantamount to advocation.
GoT's similarities with the Leviathan
A Song of Ice and Fire might very well deliberately echo Leviathan. The notion that, without protection from the Iron Throne, the land falls into an every-man-for-himself struggle does echo the ideas laid down in Leviathan.
Game of Throne's Daenerys is Machiavelli's Perfect Princ[ess] - PopMatters
Too often mislabeled the counselor of evil par excellence, Niccolò Machiavelli ends his treatise De principatibus-The Prince-invoking a "redeemer" who shall save enslaved Italy from the domination of foreign powers that have left her gravely wounded and "almost without life".
Niccolò Machiavelli's Prince
Machiavelli ends his treatise The Prince invoking a "redeemer" who shall save enslaved Italy from the domination of foreign powers that have left her gravely wounded and "almost without...
Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen
Her character development throughout the seasons unfolds within a dynamic that probes fundamental questions of politics and leadership.
Machiavelli examined the same questions in the 16th century in his treatise, The Prince. Daenerys may be a version of the redeemer he talk about in his treaty.
Machiavelli's First instruction
First instruction to maintain power and preserve order: The prince does not have free range to conduct evil, but must strive for goodness as the primary measure of actions.
Daenerys gives conquered soldiers a choice: "Bend the knee and join me. Together, we will leave the world a better place than we found it. Or refuse and die."
The Zeigarnik Effect Is Why You Keep Thinking of Unfinished Work
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Have you ever found yourself interrupted by intrusive thoughts about unfinished work? Perhaps they were about a partially finished work project keeping you up at night or the plot of a half-read novel that keeps circling your thoughts. There is a reason why it's so hard to stop thinking about uncompleted and interrupted tasks.
The Zeigarnik Effect
Unfinished work continues to exert an influence, even when we try to move on to other things.
When you start working on something but do not finish it, thoughts of the unfinished work ...
The Zeigarnik effect and memory
It reveals a great deal about how memory works. Zeigarnik suggested that failing to complete a task creates underlying cognitive tension. This results in greater mental effort and rehearsal in order to keep the task at the forefront of awareness. Once completed, the mind is then able to let go of these efforts.
You can even use this psychological phenomenon to your advantage.
Get More Out of Your Study Sessions
Break up your study sessions rather than try to cram it all in the night before the test. By studying information in increments, you will be more likely to remember it until test day.
If you are struggling to memorize something important, momentary interruptions might actually work to your advantage. While you are focusing on other things, you will find yourself mentally returning to the information you were studying.
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Centers of Progress: Florence (Art)
Historical Significance Of Florence, Italy
Known as the ‘Jewel Of Italian Renaissance’, the city of Florence has countless groundbreaking developments, seeing advances in politics, finance, business, engineering, philosophy, science, architecture, and artistic creativity. The 15th century CE, the golden age of Florence saw many historic art projects, even after a pandemic killed half of the city’s population.
Currently, Florence is the capital of Tuscany, Italy, and its most populous. The breathtaking scenery and long history make it one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
The Story Of Florence: The Renaissance City
Now a fashion city, Florence was initially well-known for woollen cloth, creating a central marketplace for the best-quality wool, cleaned to perfection.
The success of the fabric business made the Florentines rich, leading to new financial breakthroughs and innovations, like bank loan facilities, which further enhanced the city’s wealth.
Wealthiest City In Europe
Innovative banking practices like bills of exchange (to facilitate-out-of-city payments) and double-entry bookkeeping, along with the flourishing cloth industry made Florence the wealthiest city in Europe.
The city, flush with wealth, started to focus on art, humanism, creation, enjoyment of life’s pleasures, and intellectual pursuits. It framed itself as ‘The New Rome’ and was a true Renaissance city due to it’s elevated and classist thinking that offered freedom, prosperity and knowledge.
Literature And Art In Florence
Some of the most influential educational treatises like ‘On the Manners Of A Gentleman And Liberal Studies’ was written in Florence in the 15th century. Many other literary masterpieces like ‘The Human Comedy’ (by Giovanni Boccaccio) or ‘The Divine Comedy’ by the greatest poet of the city, Dante Alighieri made the city an intellectually rich place.
The celebrated artist Michelangelo was also in Florence in his early days as a painter.
Florence During The Plague
In 1348, the bubonic plague swept through Italy, and killed almost half of the city’s population, creating widespread loss and disruption.
Yet the city bounced back and entered its golden age in the next century. Many wealthy families understood art and supported Renaissance artists during difficult times.
The People Of Florence
Around the 15th Century, Florence was fortunate to have:
Polymath Leonardo Da Vinci, the quintessential Renaissance Man.
The artists Raphael and Michelangelo.
The sculptor Donatello.
The writer of ‘The Prince’, Niccolò Machiavelli.
The explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
The artist Andrea del Verrocchio, mentor of Da Vinci.
Sandro Botticelli, another great artist.
The first modern engineer and father of Renaissance architecture, Filippo Brunelleschi.
The Iconic Paintings Created In Florence
The advanced methods used by creators and artists of Florence(like the four canonical techniques of drawing to produce depth and 3D effects) gave birth to the following masterpieces:
Birth of Venus, Primavera and Venus and Mars by Botticelli.
Creation of Adam by Michelangelo.
The School of Athens by Raphael.
The Last Supper and The Virgin of the Rocks by Da Vinci.
Not to mention Da Vinci’s The Mona Lisa, a portrait of a Florentine merchant’s wife, which is the most famous painting in the world.
Centers of Progress: Hangzhou (Paper Money)
Hangzhou in 12th century CE China
During the late Song Dynasty, with the innovation of printing and manufacturing, the Song came closer to initiating an industrial revolution than any other premodern state.
Living during the Song era in Hangzhou
The average Chinese person had increased growth in their income level as the economy expanded.
The economy grew due to new technological and agricultural advances and efficient trade routes.
The era saw an increase in international trade, as Chinese merchants expanded their trade networks up to East Africa. Using paper money helped motivate people to deal with larger transactions than before.
During a visit in the 13th century CE, Italian explorer Marco Polo described Hangzhou as the most magnificent city in the world.
Innovations in Hangzhou
Hangzhou has been an important city since the 7th century CE, when its Grand Canal was built to connect the urban centre to Beijing. It is the world's longest artificial river.
Woodblock printing developed in Buddhist monasteries to reproduce spiritual texts. During the Song era, it was widely adopted for non-religious purposes and supercharged intellectual life in the Song dynasty.
Hangzhou was a place of great creativity. In the 11th century CE, polymath Shen Kuo (1031 - 1095 CE) invented the magnetic compass, drew the world's first topographical map, and recorded the process of sedimentation.
Other technological breakthroughs includes the compass, the first mechanical clocks, and the invention of forensic science.
The economic and technological advancements of the Song era translated into improving living conditions for the average person.
Centers of Progress: Mohenjo-Daro (Sanitation)
Urban sanitation
Mohenjo-Daro is a city in today's Pakistan that pioneered new standards of urban sanitation. Mohenjo-Daro was the earliest and largest urban center of the ancient Indus Valley civilization, con...
Advances in sanitation
Humanity has been vulnerable to rapidly spread illnesses because disease propagates more easily in concentrated populations without adequate sanitation.
Advances in sanitation have allowed people to live near one another in cities with less risk to their health, in particular, safe disposal of effluent to spare the water supply from contamination.
The public bathhouse
The Indus Valley civilization arose in the floodplains of the Indus and Sarasvati rivers around 5000 years ago.
In the largest structure in the city Mohenjo-Dar was an immense, elevated public bathhouse, measuring almost 900 square feet. The status of the bathhouse as the city's largest structure suggests that the people highly valued cleanliness.
Centers of Progress: Athens (Philosophy)
Athens during the Classical era
The city-state of Athens (5th and 4th centuries BCE) valued intellectual pursuits and open inquiry. That lead to the development of philosophy (the love of wisdom).
The an...
The Acropolis of Athens
The Acropolis is a distinctive feature of today's Athens that was built in the 5th century BCE. It is a cluster of buildings on a rocky outcrop. The famous Parthenon temple on the Acropolis was built to honor Athena and to serve the city's treasury.
Athens during the 5th century BCE was lively. The heart of Athens was its marketplace, or Agora (a place where people gather.) The structures surrounding the Agora's market stalls included stone benches, various altars, and temples, a building named the Aiakeion where laws and legal decisions were displayed, and various stoas or covered porticos.
Athens: An open society
Athens was an unusually open society. It was open to foreign goods, foreigners that were able to attain high-status roles, and the exchange of strange ideas.
Athens borrowed many ideas, such as the Phoenician alphabet, Egyptian medicine and sculpture techniques, Babylonia mathematics, and Sumerian literature, and then improved upon it.
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Some players may use word solver tools like Words with Friends Cheat, but I believe that if you master these strategies it will be easier for you to dominate the game. Who knows you may end up forming a bingo word which will give you an additional 35 points. Let your bingo games make the money while your concession keeps them well-nourished and happy. As a free physics game that is playable in your browser the production values aren't quite as high as what Angry Birds offers but it does provide solid gameplay and some upbeat music to make it a great (albeit simple) browser game like Angry Birds. The first one is to make the game as realistic as possible so that students can learn in a near-real life environment; the second one is to inject motivational elements so that students can sustain to learn and acquire various knowledge and skills with the game; and the third one is to make easy for teachers to conduct various VISOLE facilitation tasks.
Addictive behavior in online gaming has been an important research topic since it has been one of the most popular activities in entertaining for younger people in Korea. Contrary to the concern of most game companies, by implementing the tax and rebate policy while the total revenue of the online gaming industry increases slightly, the social image of gaming improves and the number of addicted game users decreases. This clearly demonstrates that restricting excessive use of games actually benefits online game companies as well as society in general, and that the system can be more efficiently implemented by the tax and rebate policy. The most interesting case is when the prize is more than the odds of winning x ticket price (in the UK, a jackpot of £13 million or more). You can be a part of more than one syndicate, which will also increase your chances of winning in the lotto. Lord of The Rings Online sticks closely to the winning formula that is the MMORPG game genre. To address online game addiction problems and pursue the steady growth of the online gaming industry, we propose and evaluate two policies using a system dynamics approach: a self-regulation policy and a tax and rebate policy.
Through our analysis, we demonstrate that the tax and rebate policy can be a very effective policy measure. It is concluded that online research methods can be a useful way of examining the psychosocial aspects of video game playing. The paper examines a number of areas, including recruiting and utilizing participants, validity, suitable methods of data collection (i.e., questionnaire studies, online tests, participant observation, online interviews), and ethical issues. Drawing from experience of a number of studies carried out online by the authors and by reviewing the available literature, the authors discuss the main issues concerning data collected from video game players. Every year, MHADA launches housing lottery for the sale of flats and houses in different parts of the state such as Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Konkan etc. this area are always on the priority for launching the housing units in MHADA Lottery 2017. This lottery always come out in the month of July of every year but last time, the authority more than one lottery at various location. Some people would pick numbers that have been drawn more often believing that it will appear again soon. Special attention is paid to China and its efforts to reduce the number of hours that young people can play online.
A chance to win a big amount from this game is always there and this was first introduced by the lucky people of Ireland. They often win small amounts and important insight into the games while playing the lottery. Among the game genres, RPG, simulation and casual games were positively associated with addictive behavior. Here we report on a complete data set of an entire society, consisting of over 350,000 human players of a massive multiplayer online game. Exploring such virtual "social laboratories" in the light of Agen BandarQ complexity science has the potential to lead to the discovery of systemic properties of human societies, with unforeseen impact on managing human-induced crises. This new data-driven approach to social science allows to study socio-economic behavior of humans and human groups in specific environments with unprecedented precision. During the past two decades, the popularity of computer and video games has prompted games to become a source of study for educational researchers and instructional designers investigating how various aspects of game design might be appropriated, borrowed, and re-purposed for the design of educational materials. The design and implementation of FARMTASIA pursue three vital principles.
The analysis revealed 10 motivation subcomponents that grouped into three overarching components (achievement, social, and immersion). The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of how the structure in massively multiple online role-playing games (MMORPGs) might inform the design of interactive learning and game-based learning environments by looking at the elements which support intrinsic motivation. In our analysis of large-scale multirelational networks we discover systematic deviations between positive and negative tie networks. According to our exploratory educational study, we show evidentially that positive perceptions and an advancement of subject-specific and interdisciplinary knowledge appeared among the students who participated in VISOLE learning with FARMTASIA. Results show that both presence and flow play significant roles in online game addiction, however, flow mediates the relationship between presence and online game addiction. The KBC show is constructed on an international quiz show "Who wants to be a millionaire" was hosted by renowned actor Amitabh Buchan, and started in 2000. It is a show which delivers entertainment and also supports ornamental knowledge.
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Kat Hunt on March 5, 2018 February 6, 2018
Kat Hunt: #MeToo, revenge, and trusting ourselves to tell the truth
A guest post by filmmaker Kat Hunt.
Back in 2012, I launched a Kickstarter campaign for a film about two friends “getting revenge” on men and documenting the process.
This was apparently a very controversial thing to do. Some people loved the idea, while many people thought I was insane, immature, or just stupid. They seemed to assume the worst, that I would be pranking people and filming it. Rare feedback considered that my project was to examine our emotional responses to a taboo yet universally-felt desire: revenge.
It surprised me, over and over again, how few people trusted me to make a smart piece of art about this timeless and topical human experience.
I met two other female filmmakers who were doing a similar thing—making a documentary about a neighborhood man they had befriended who they later found out was accused of rape. They told me that people close to them had discouraged them from doing the project, suggesting it might be too “big” a topic to work on, that it might not be the type of film they should make.
I made my film anyway. And as a first-time director I struggled with internalizing the criticism, and wondered often if I wasn’t up to it. In the end, years of work led to a complex and funny film that I am very proud of.
The next surprise came when I began submitting the film to festivals. I noticed that programmers of woman-centered film festivals were responding negatively to my film. I was told that my main character “wasn’t positive,” or that What’s Revenge didn’t pass the Bechdel Test (which was first depicted in a comic strip as satire of how pathetic representation in mainstream films was).
Another response was that the actions of men we were “avenging” in the film weren’t “bad enough.” That we should be talking about rape, not the Dehumanization Lite that we deal with daily. The implication was that only certain experiences were worthy of anger and revenge, of drawing cinematic attention to.
Of course, we all know that’s not true. It’s 2018, and we’ve seen the birth of the #MeToo Movement in which people all over the world have shared their first-hand and wide-ranging experiences of abuse by men in power.
Many critical reactions to #MeToo have been similar to the reactions to my film—that people sharing #MeToo stories were oblivious to the complexities and the grey area of implication, that many of the stories shared weren’t that bad, or that the whole business of sharing stories was really about drawing attention to one’s self… essentially, that it was irresponsible for women to be talking about this stuff publicly.
Again, I saw a lack of trust in women to examine our lives, to make our own conclusions about what constitutes misconduct and abuse, and take action as we feel necessary. It was the same mistrust that I experienced when I began examining the desire for revenge in my film.
My hope is that the #MeToo movement will build a world in which we trust each other to share our truths, for women have kept secrets for far too long. When we share information and perspective with each other, we empower each other. When we listen to each other with compassion, we create new networks of trust that will grow into cultural mores, and eventually institutions.
When we react with outrage, we externalize our power. I believe this movement can do the opposite: that it can feed our integration, with ourselves and with everyone around us, building trust. This isn’t to say we shouldn’t get mad, or that we should shame anger, but that we can use our anger as a map. The map shows us what must change, and who we trust to make those changes. As women, let’s work to make a world where all women are able to speak their truth in safety.
It’s been a thrill to stream my film free online, finding new audiences through NoBudge and #DirectedbyWomen, and hearing from people who resonated with its truths. My hope is that its “controversial” content inspires us to trust each other—and ourselves—enough to keep sharing.
Engage with Kat Hunt on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Vimeo and her website.
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Kat Hunt is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist living in New York. CANDIED VIOLETS, a comedic doc about a roadside stand selling flowers to end the patriarchy, is forthcoming. View all posts by Kat Hunt
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Georgia State Parks & Historic Sites releases 2021 travel guide
By MARIE NESMITH
Encouraging area residents to “keep a copy in your glovebox for road trips,” Kim Hatcher is promoting the release of the “2021 Guide to Georgia State Parks & Historic Sites.”“Parks all …
The complimentary “2021 Guide to Georgia State Parks & Historic Sites” is available online and at park offices.
Posted Tuesday, January 12, 2021 4:19 pm
Encouraging area residents to “keep a copy in your glovebox for road trips,” Kim Hatcher is promoting the release of the “2021 Guide to Georgia State Parks & Historic Sites.”
“Parks all across the country saw attendance soar in 2020 when people were looking to get outdoors,” said the public affairs coordinator for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Parks, Recreation and Historic Sites Division. “One silver lining from this has been sharing our parks with people who had never visited before.
“That’s why I’m excited to have the 2021 available now. People can flip through and find new places to explore.”
Along with maps of the state’s venues, the booklet highlights fishing spots, golf courses, cabins, campsites and hiking trails.
“A map shows the location of all 64 state parks and historic sites, and a detailed chart makes it easy to find which sites have specific activities,” Hatcher said. “We also included many photos from visitors who gave us permission to share their Instagram photos. Both Red Top Mountain and Etowah Indian Mounds have photos taken by visitors.”
The complimentary travel guide can be obtained at park offices or viewed online at GaStateParks.org.
According to a Georgia State Parks’ news release, “Frequent visitors may also want to purchase new 2021 passes. A $50 Annual ParkPass provides free parking at more than 40 destinations, including Fort Yargo, Tallulah Gorge and Providence Canyon.
“The separate Historic Site Pass covers admission fees at 15 sites, including Etowah Indian Mounds, Dahlonega Gold Museum and Fort King George. The Historic Site Pass is $25 for students and $50 for families.”
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FEATURES Tangents’ Collaborative, Improvisational Post-Rock By Sasha Geffen · June 19, 2018
To listen to Tangents is to hear a conversation flittering among five friends at once. The Australian improvisational quintet has no concrete power structure, no clear bandleader, and so its impromptu, decentralized pieces play more like musical environments than traditional songs. Instead of hearing a songwriter relay an individual narrative to a band, you get to hear the whole band build narratives from the ground up, wordlessly and in real time. Electronic loops tangle with gentle guitar leads and punctuative string figures and big, quaking drums; five skilled, adventurous musicians egg one another on to the next urgent moment.
New Bodies Tangents .
For their third full-length album, New Bodies, Tangents took on a new approach to recording and producing their music. Their 2016 LP Stateless was assembled by Ollie Bown, the band’s in-house producer and electronics wizard, who took the lead on sculpting discrete jam sessions into an LP. To make New Bodies, the band jammed together in a room for eight hours in late 2016, and then, over the next six months, worked to pare those eight hours down to 50 minutes. The recordings of the session were stored on a cloud drive that each band member had access to, and could edit at their convenience. The band’s methods remained collaborative to the end. It was, guitarist Shoeb Ahmad tells us over Skype, “a very 21st century process.”
Currently based in Sydney and Canberra, two Australian cities about three hours apart, the members of Tangents mostly met through the previous generation of the social web. Instead of Facebook and Twitter, they were active on LiveJournal and Myspace, and slowly reached out to each other in the 2000s out of mutual appreciation for one another’s music. Speaking from Canberra, where she grew up and still lives, Ahmad tells me how she first played music with drummer Evan Dorrian when they were both in high school together, how she met pianist Adrian Lim-Klumpes via Myspace, and how she asked cellist Peter Hollo to perform with her at her first-ever show.
Tangents was born when all five members decided to turn their musical friendships into musical collaboration, and got together for an improvisational show. “We’ve all managed to cross paths over and over and over again, and then we just decided to turn that into one gig,” Ahmad says. They released their first album, I, in 2013, and three years later, hearing Stateless in its final form pushed the band in a more rhythmic direction. “We decided to keep playing, to do some rhythm-heavy energy and find middle ground between interesting rhythms and cool textures and great melodies.”
The result of that focus can be heard on New Bodies, which ripples with a fresh clarity and curiosity. Its 10-minute centerpiece “Gone to Ground” sees skittering drums intertwine with lilting strings and looped electronics, culminating in an effect that aligns with some of Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s more cerebral moments. On “Swells Under Tito,” Ahmad’s bright guitar lines play off asymmetric percussion patterns and steady slashes of cello, all of which recall a Grizzly Bear interlude. With influences that range from Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin to Ahmad’s favorites Bikini Kill and The Slits, Tangents can be hard to pin down. “On our bio, there’s this tag ‘post-everything,'” Ahmad says. “We’re not really big fans of being called a ‘post-everything’ band, but it’s really hard to describe what is intrinsically just our music. It’s Tangents. It’s the sum of the five of us together.”
Because the band’s members have been friends for so long, the music they make together also documents their passage through time. They’re not the same people they were at their first gig, but their musical connection remains strong. Ahmad, for her part, began to explore her true gender identity while the band was in the process of making New Bodies. “I started my transition process during the mixing process, but I was not completely open to the rest of the band until everything had been made,” she notes. Around the same time that she was working on New Bodies, Ahmad was also putting together her most recent solo album, quiver, which documents her transition journey in a more direct, lyrical way.
Working on both musical projects at once has enabled Ahmad to be more forthright with her art, both as a solo musician and as a member of Tangents. “Putting myself out there and being vulnerable onstage is really great for me,” she says. “We tend to look at vulnerability as weakness, but there’s a lot of strength in being vulnerable.” Finding power in her vulnerability allowed Ahmad to better articulate her role within Tangents, and to take pride in her work with the band. “In Tangents, I go onstage with musicians who I admire, and I feel personally like they’re way better than me, technically. I still feel like maybe I’m a bit of an imposter,” she says. “But at the same time, I have confidence that I’m a valuable member of Tangents for what I bring to the band, which is a certain attitude and vulnerability—and my ability to enable others to come to the fore.”
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Envoy to Albania
Sarah Cahalan '14 | October 23, 2018
On a sunny Sunday morning at the edge of the Adriatic, Archbishop Charles Brown ’81 and I are at an impasse. The dirt road we’ve followed for miles has narrowed into nonexistence, and our driver decides we’ll have to try a different route if we’re ever going to make it to Mass. So he jerks the car back in the opposite direction, and now we are faced with the rear end of a bus.
Its double doors swing open, and out pour 10, 20, 30 children dressed head-to-toe in the traditional garb of the Western Balkans, clutching tiny string instruments and felt hats and completely blocking our path.
The bishop laughs.
“I love Albania.”
“I love Albania” is a declaration you’ll hear a lot if you make a habit of hanging out with Archbishop Brown. So is shumë mirë, Albanian for “very good” and one of few easy phrases in the language Brown has been learning since Pope Francis appointed him apostolic nuncio to Albania in March 2017.
So, too, is the story of Francis’s trip to Albania back in September 2014.
“Pope Francis has a great love for Albania,” Brown told me more than once during my visit to the country in May. In fact, aside from Italy, Albania was the first European nation Francis visited as pope. It was one of the first nations he visited anywhere.
Why Albania? It’s close — barely 50 miles across the Adriatic from Italy’s bootheel — but Brown insists that’s not the reason his boss chose the country for an early visit. Nor did he select Albania for its robust Catholicity — the country is majority Muslim and for much of the 20th century was an officially atheist state. But as the pontiff said during his 11-hour stop in the capital, Tirana, “There is a rather beautiful characteristic of Albania, one which gives me great joy: I am referring to the peaceful coexistence and collaboration that exists among followers of different religions.”
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At least 30 injured in grenade attack in Pakistan at Kashmir rally
KARACHI, Pakistan: At least 30 people were injured in a grenade attack on a rally in Karachi on Wednesday (Aug 5), as Pakistan marked the first anniversary of India’s revocation of Kashmir’s semi-autonomy.
The wounded were rushed to different hospitals, where one was in a critical condition, an official from the provincial health department said.
“A grenade was lobbed in the rally, causing several casualties,” Karachi police chief Ghulam Nabi Memon told Reuters.
The attack was claimed by Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army, a separatist outfit that has become active in the past months.
In June, four people were killed including two soldiers in three consecutive explosions claimed by the SRA.
The group wants Sindh province, of which Karachi is the capital, to break from the Pakistani federation. It has also announced its alliance with the Balochistan Liberation Army, a militant group fighting for greater autonomy for the Balochistan region in southwestern Pakistan.
The attack took place as similar rallies were held across the country. The Karachi rally, organised by Jamaat-e-Islami, a religious right party, was called off after the attack.
Last August, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government stripped Jammu and Kashmir – India’s only Muslim-majority state – of its special rights and split it into two federally administered territories.
The government said the change was necessary to develop the revolt-torn region and integrate it with the rest of India, but it infuriated many Kashmiris as well as neighbouring Pakistan.
Kashmir is claimed in full by India and Pakistan, which have gone to war twice over it, and both rule parts of it.
Indian authorities deployed troops and curbed public movement on Wednesday to stop potential protests in Kashmir.
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Hackett, Rosanna ('Rosie')
by Lawrence William White and Maeve Casserly
Hackett, Rosanna ('Rosie') (1893–1976), trade unionist, was born 25 July 1893 at 14 Prebend Street, off Constitution Hill in the Dublin north city centre, elder of two daughters of John Hackett, described as a labourer at his marriage (October 1891) but working by Rosie's birth as a barber, and his wife Rosanna (née Dunne). Her mother, who was widowed by 1901 and worked as a housekeeper, married secondly (1903) Patrick Gray, a labourer and latterly a warehouse caretaker, with whom she had three sons by 1911. Documentation of Rosie Hackett's early working life and trade-union activism is sketchy, and accounts in secondary sources vary considerably. In April 1911 she was living with her family in a five-room cottage on Old Abbey Street and working as a packer in a paper stores. By August 1913 she was employed in Jacob's biscuit factory on Bishop Street and was probably a member of the Irish Women Workers' Union (IWWU), which had been launched in September 1911 (on foot of a successful strike over pay by Jacob's male and female workers) as an auxiliary to the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU), owing to the reluctance of James Larkin (qv) to recruit women directly into the latter union; Big Jim's sister Delia Larkin (qv) was the IWWU general secretary.
In the early days of the 1913–14 lockout, Hackett was among the 303 Jacob's women workers (mostly IWWU members, and representing fourteen per cent of the factory's female workforce; two-thirds of the factory's 3,000 employees were women) who on 1 September 1913 joined 670 male colleagues in striking in support of three men who had been dismissed for refusing to handle flour from a mill that was blacked by the ITGWU for locking out its unionised workers, and to protest a recently promulgated prohibition against wearing union badges in the workplace (regarded by Jacob's management as intimidation of non-union employees). Since most of the strikers worked in the factory's bakehouse, production was severely disrupted, and Jacob's closed the factory for two weeks, reopening in mid September with imported and newly hired replacement labour. Hackett never returned to her job in Jacob's. The great majority of Jacob's women strikers remained out for the duration of the long, bitter dispute, applying for reinstatement in their jobs only in March 1914, among the last of the city's striking and locked-out workers to do so. Jacob's was one of the most reluctant of the city's employers to reinstate their striking employees, and stringently vetted the suitability of applicants. Some sources attest to Hackett's militancy and to her leadership role among the Jacob's women strikers, factors that would have been detrimental to her reinstatement. (The 1901 and 1911 censuses document that several male members of her extended family were carmen, an occupation highly organised by the ITGWU, thus suggesting the possibility of a trade-union tradition in her family.)
Hackett secured alternative work in the women workers' co-operative started by Delia Larkin in the ITGWU headquarters in Liberty Hall to provide employment for women who were victimised as a result of the lockout. The co-operative comprised a small workroom and shop for the manufacture and sale of various items, especially textiles, specialising in a stout workman's shirt called the 'red hand' (after the ITGWU insignia); the shop also stocked labour and separatist literature. Though working at times in the workroom, Hackett seems to have borne the primary responsibility for overseeing the shop. She also oversaw a refreshments stand at the frequent entertainments (concerts, dances, theatricals) held in Liberty Hall. Along with the other co-operative workers (who numbered eight to ten in 1915–16), Hackett also joined the Irish Citizen Army (ICA), therein participating in route marches and taking lessons in first aid from Dr Kathleen Lynn (qv); she assisted as part of her instruction in the treatment of minor cases in Lynn's regular Liberty Hall clinic.
When Delia Larkin resigned in 1915 as IWWU secretary owing to tensions with the ITGWU leadership, James Connolly (qv), who was ITGWU acting secretary during James Larkin's absence in the USA, replaced her with Helena Molony (qv). In the early months of 1916, Hackett and her fellow workers assisted in the intensive preparations for the Easter rising that were conducted within Liberty Hall. Molony described the women's co-operative as a 'tigress in kitten's fur' (quoted in Jones, 15) for its role as a cover for insurrectionist activities. The workroom produced clothing, haversacks, first-aid satchels, cartridge belts, flags (including that which flew over the GPO), armlets and badges, while also functioning as a reception depot for small caches of arms and ammunition. From her post in the shop, Hackett was Connolly's receptionist when other members of the IRB military council arrived for meetings.
A month before the rising (24 March 1916), Hackett was alone in the shop when police arrived to seize seditious literature; she instructed the men in the adjoining print shop to notify Connolly of the intrusion. On observing the policemen behind the shop counter with bundles of papers in their arms, Connolly drew a revolver and commanded: 'Drop them, or I will drop you.' Molony also arrived, and covered Connolly with her own firearm. The police withdrew on Connolly's insistence that a warrant was required to search the premises. During their absence, Hackett cleared the shop of any incriminating material. When the police returned, Connolly insisted that their warrant allowed them to search the shop, but was insufficient to permit entry to Liberty Hall itself. The incident induced the necessity of maintaining a permanent armed guard in the Hall over the ensuing weeks, owing to the presence on the premises of much material and activity related to the coming insurrection.
Hackett participated in the final, feverish preparatory activity during Holy Week, equipping haversacks and first-aid kits, and preparing food rations. On Easter Sunday, she took part in the last ICA route march, along which a bugle was sounded outside every building that was to be seized by the insurgents on the following day. That evening she conveyed messages between Connolly and the Liberty Hall print shop, where the type was being set to print the proclamation of the republic.
During Easter Week, Hackett was assigned to the first-aid unit of the ICA's St Stephen's Green garrison under the supervision of Madeleine ffrench-Mullen (qv). A slight, diminutive woman, beneath five feet in height, Hackett recounted the amusement of onlookers when she first donned her white medic's coat which came down to her heels, necessitating hasty alterations. The first-aid post, located in a summerhouse on the Green, came under heavy fire on the Tuesday morning, notwithstanding the display of a red-cross insignia. When later that day the garrison evacuated to the Royal College of Surgeons, Hackett and several other nurses took temporary shelter from the withering rifle fire in the caretaker's lodge before making a run for the college building. On the garrison's surrender (Sunday 30 April), she was marched with her fellow prisoners through a hostile crowd to Dublin Castle, where the women were separated from the men and sent briefly to Richmond Barracks before transfer to Kilmainham jail. Along with most of the women prisoners, she was released ten days thereafter.
Hackett participated in the post-rising reorganisation of the separatist and trade-union movements. Amid a restructuring of IWWU offices in February 1917, she was appointed clerk, under Molony's general secretaryship. By year's end, the union claimed some 2,300 members, situated in printing, box-making, laundries and textiles. On the first anniversary of Connolly's execution, a banner proclaiming 'James Connolly Murdered May 12th 1916' was displayed on the façade of Liberty Hall, but was quickly removed on police order, whereupon Hackett, Molony and two other women ascended to the building's roof, barricaded the approaches, and unfurled a similar banner; they remained thus situated for several hours, attracting a large assemblage of onlookers, before some 400 police broke through the barriers and removed the banner. The episode aggravated tensions between the ICA and ITGWU, which feared the repercussions to union activity occasioned by close association with such provocative separatist demonstrations.
In 1918 the IWWU formally separated from the ITGWU and registered as a separate union, while the ITGWU revised its rules to allow the admission of women as full members. Hackett served for some time as official in charge of a women's section of the ITGWU no. 1 branch, based in Liberty Hall. During the troubles of 1919–21, her office was an IRA message centre and meeting place, and a safe house for volunteers on the run. For many years she ran the ITGWU news agency and tobacconist shop on Eden Quay around the corner from the main entrance to Liberty Hall. In this conspicuous situation, she was widely known and esteemed throughout the ITGWU and the trade-union movement generally; the shop was especially popular as a gathering place for busmen whose routes terminated in the vicinity. In her memoir of working in Liberty Hall as a young clerk in 1947, May O'Brien relates vignettes of Hackett's warm, spirited and engaging personality, describing her physically as 'a little wispy woman … the image of the little spinster teacher in the cowboy films: small, slight, grey hair in a bun with stray bits falling to her face, wire-rimmed glasses … and a rather prim expression' (pp 50–51). Hackett retired when the shop closed in 1957 in advance of the demolition of the building to make way for the new Liberty Hall.
Hackett was presented a gold medal by the ITGWU in 1970 in recognition of her long service and commitment. Unmarried, she lived with her half-brother Tommy Gray at 115 Brian Road, Marino. She died 4 July 1976 at St Vincent's hospital, Fairview, Dublin. After a funeral from the Roman catholic Church of the Visitation, Fairview, she was buried with full military honours (owing to her ICA service) in Glasnevin cemetery. In September 2013, during the centenary of the great lockout, the new light-rail bridge in Dublin, linking Marlborough Street and Hawkins Street, and close to Liberty Hall, was named after Rosie Hackett. Opened in May 2014, it is the first of the twenty-one Liffey bridges within the city boundaries to be named for a woman.
GRO (birth, death certs.; mother's marriage certs. (1891, 1903); sister's birth cert. (1894)); Census of Ireland, 1901, 1911, www.census.nationalarchives.ie; Helena Molony, witness statement (19 May 1950), BMH (WS 391); Rose Hackett, witness statement (26 May 1951), BMH (WS 546); Petronella O'Flanagan, 'The story of Rosie Hackett', Liberty Magazine, xii, no. 3 (Mar. 1957), 25, 32; Fifty years of Liberty Hall: the golden jubilee of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union 1909–1959 (1959), passim, esp. photos between pp 40–41 and 84–5; C. Desmond Greaves, The life and time of James Connolly (1972 ed.); Ir. Independent, 5, 6, 16 July 1976; Liberty, xxxi, no. 1 (Aug. 1976), 1, 12; C. Desmond Greaves, The Irish Transport and General Workers' Union: the formative years 1909–1923 (1982); Mary Jones, These obstreperous lassies: a history of the Irish Women Workers' Union (1988); Patricia McCaffrey, 'Jacob's women workers during the 1913 lock-out', Saothar, xvi (1991), 118–29; Ruth Taillon, The women of 1916: when history was made (1996); May O'Brien, Clouds on my windows: a Dublin memoir (2004), 23–4, 50–51, 125, 128–30, 146–8, 189–90; Francis Devine and Manus O'Riordan, James Connolly, Liberty Hall and the 1916 rising (2006), 48, 52, 75–84 (includes annotated reprint of Hackett's BMH witness statement); Ir. Times, 2, 3 Sept. 2013; 20 May 2014
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Uber makes confidential filing for long-awaited IPO
By Reuters  December 8, 2018 | 09:01 pm GMT+7
The Uber application is seen on a mobile phone in London, Britain, September 14, 2018. Photo by Reuters/Hannah McKay
Uber Technologies Inc has filed paperwork for an initial public offering, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
The move means Uber takes a step closer to a key milestone for one of the most closely watched and controversial companies in Silicon Valley.
The ride-hailing company filed the confidential paperwork on Thursday, one of the sources said, in lock-step with its smaller U.S. rival, Lyft Inc, which also announced on Thursday it had filed for an IPO.
The simultaneous filings extend the protracted battle between Uber and Lyft, which as fierce rivals have often rolled out identical services and matched each other’s prices. Uber is eager to beat Lyft to Wall Street, according to sources familiar with the matter, a sign of the company’s entrenched competitiveness.
Its filing sets the stage for one of the biggest technology listings ever. Uber’s valuation in its most recent private financing was $76 billion, and it could be worth $120 billion in an IPO.
Its listing next year would be the largest in what is expected to be a string of public debuts by highly valued Silicon Valley companies, including apartment-renting company Airbnb Inc and workplace messaging firm Slack. Ongoing market volatility, however, could alter companies’ plans.
The IPO will be a test of public market investor tolerance for Uber’s legal and workplace controversies, which embroiled the company for most of last year, and on Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi’s progress in turning around the company.
Khosrowshahi took over just over than a year ago, and has repeatedly stated publicly he would take Uber public in 2019. In August, he hired the company’s first chief financial officer in more than three years.
Together, Uber and Lyft will test public market investor appetitive for the ride-hailing business, which emerged less than a decade ago and has proven wildly popular, but also unprofitable.
Uber in the third quarter lost $1.07 billion and is struggling with slowing growth, although its gross bookings, at $12.7 billion, reflect the company’s enormous scale. Its revenue for the quarter was $2.95 billion, a 5 percent boost from the previous quarter. Its bookings grew just six percent for the quarter.
Uber has raised about $18 billion from an array of investors since 2010, and it now faces a deadline to go public.
An investment by SoftBank that closed in January, which gave the Japanese investor a 15 percent stake in Uber, included a provision that requires Uber to file for an IPO by Sept. 30 of next year or the company risks allowing restrictions on shareholder stock transfers to expire.
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Meraas has announced that Dubai Harbour will have a second cruise terminal in addition to the one already revealed in January 2017. Dubai Harbour will be the first cruise destination to build two terminals simultaneously which when completed will accommodate 1,200,000 passengers annually.
The announcement was made during Cityscape Global 2017, where visitors have been able to see the upcoming destination for the first time through a model at the Meraas stand located at S2F10 in Saeed Hall 2. The addition of a second terminal is intended to build on Dubai’s reputation as a leading tourism destination, while capitalising on strong growth in the cruise industry globally. Industry data suggest that over 40 million people will travel by cruise annually by 2030, up 40 percent from 24 million in 2017.
Dubai Harbour was officially unveiled by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai in January 2017, and will be developed by Meraas. The masterplan for the unique waterfront destination extends over 20 million square feet and includes an 875,000 square-foot shopping mall, an events arena, luxury residences, restaurants, cafes, hotels and a yacht club. It will also feature the Dubai Lighthouse, an architectural marvel stretching 135 metres into the sky with an observation deck offering stunning panoramic views.
His Excellency Abdulla Al Habbai, Group Chairman at Meraas, said: “Dubai Harbour connects some of Dubai’s most vibrant neighbourhoods and reflects a culture of innovation envisioned by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, for the emirate. The project also reaffirms our commitment to expanding on Dubai’s rich maritime heritage and tourism profile, while supporting the continued diversification of the national economy.
Each terminal will be approximately 14,000 square metres in size with one single apron of 900-metres. While other ports have multiple terminals, none have so far built more than one at any given time. Meanwhile, in addition to serving the cruise ship industry, Dubai Harbour will feature the largest marina in the MENA region. Once complete, the marina will have 1,100-berths capable of accommodating some of the world’s biggest private yachts.
Dubai Harbour will also integrate Skydive Dubai, Dubai International Marine Club (DIMC) and Logo Island into a single integrated community. Ground has been broken and 130,000 square metres of land has been reclaimed. The contractor for the cruise terminal will be appointed once the land for the terminal is ready, with Dubai Habour being constructed in phases.
Located on King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Street, between Jumeirah Beach Residence and Palm Jumeirah in an area also known as Mina Al Seyahi, Dubai Harbour will boast an advanced multi-modal transport infrastructure comprising an excellent road network in addition to air and sea connectivity. There will also be a futuristic public transport system, water stations, pedestrian bridge, jogging and cycling tracks.
The new development will offer unparalleled views of Dubai’s skyline, the clear waters of the Arabian Gulf and ‘Ain Dubai’, the world’s tallest and largest observation wheel.
The project will create synergies with some of Dubai’s other iconic projects located in the area, including Palm Jumeirah and Meraas’ modern, family-oriented island neighbourhood at Bluewaters.
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September 04, 2020 Updated 10:28 GMT
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UN chief calls for closure of Libya migrant detention centres
A picture taken in 2019 shows a child at a detention centre in Libya [AFP/Getty]
Date of publication: 4 September, 2020
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres denounced the 'horrendous conditions' at migrant detention centres in Libya.
Libya, migrant, centre, detention, rights violations, refugees, UN.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for the closure of migrant detention centres in Libya, denouncing what he called rights violations committed there.
In a report submitted Thursday to the UN Security Council, Guterres said: "Nothing can justify the horrendous conditions under which refugees and migrants are detained in Libya."
"I renew my appeal to the Libyan authorities... to fulfill their obligations under international law and to close all detention centers, in close coordination with United Nations entities," he said.
According to the secretary-general's report, more than 2,780 people were being detained as of July 31 in centers across Libya. Twenty-two percent of the detainees were children.
"Children should never be detained, particularly when they are unaccompanied or separated from their parents," Guterres said, calling on Libyan authorities to ensure the children are protected until "long-term solutions" are found.
The UN chief cited reports of torture, enforced disappearances, and sexual and gender-based violence in the centers, committed by those running the facilities.
He also mentioned a reported lack of food and health care.
"Men and boys are routinely threatened with violence when they are calling their families, to pressure them to send ransom money," he wrote.
"Migrants and refugees have been shot at when they attempted to escape, resulting in injuries and deaths," the report said, alleging that some are even "left on the streets or bushes to die" when they are deemed too weak to survive.
In centres where arms and munitions are stored, some refugees and migrants are recruited by force, while others are forced to repair or reload firearms for armed groups, it said.
More than a year after a July 2019 air strike killed more than 50 refugees and migrants and wounded dozens more at a detention center near Tripoli, no one has been forced to account for the deaths, Guterres said.
Libya has been in chaos ever since the 2011 overthrow and killing of dictator Muammar Gaddafi in a NATO-backed uprising, with warring rival administrations battling for power.
Since the downfall of Gaddafi, Libya also has become a key route for irregular migration from Africa into Europe, across the Mediterranean Sea.
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Homechevron_rightKeralachevron_rightFilm director escapes...
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Film director escapes from kidnappers
Thrissur (Kerala): Kerala film director Nishad Hassan, who was kidnapped by three mask-wearing unidentified people, has escaped from captivity and was presently undergoing medical treatment near here, police said on Thursday.
Hassan was kidnapped on Wednesday.
Speaking to IANS, a police official said that Hassan has suffered injuries and was undergoing treatment.
"Hassan miraculously managed to escape from his kidnappers after spending almost a day in their captivity. Since he had suffered injuries he was taken to a hospital and is likely to be shifted to a state-run medical college," said the official on the condition of anonymity.
"At the moment we believe what he has said. However, we are going forward with the probe. The injury marks on his body show that he has been tortured," added the official.
Hassan's wife was injured during the scuffle with the kidnappers when she tried to save her husband.
She said that the incident occurred when they were on the way to pray for the success of the film "Viplavam Jayikkanullathanu", which was released last week.
According to her, a car overtook their vehicle and blocked the way. Three people alighted from the car and forcefully took Hassan away.
Initial probe reports have indicated that this could be the result of issues between Hassan and some producers.
The film "Viplavam Jayikkanullathanu" had raised eyebrows, even before its release, as it is said to be the longest uncut movie. The nearly two-hour-long film was made in a single shot.
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The Widespread Controversy Sparked by a Commercial Continues in China
On May 4th, bilibili, the most well-known young people's internet community in China, released a commercial video, which sparked a big debate among Chinese Internet users.
Bilibili is currently the most representative young community in China, whose daily active users exceeded 50 million. It started with the ACG(Anime, Comics, Games) content and gradually became the most popular online video website in mainland China (similar to YouTube). It recently released a sharply controversial comercial to Generation Z, which triggered a fierce confrontation of people with different values in China.
The content of the short film is a speech, performed by a famous Chinese actor He Bing. Combined with the original video clips of many well-known Z generation uppers (similar to YouTuber) on bilibili, the comercial shapes a grand and open Chinese young people's cultural circle. The actor He Bing, a representative of middle-aged people, pays tribute to the lifestyle and values of the young people of Generation Z in China, and expresses that Generation Z is the future of China and the hopeful attitude of the nation.
Opponents believe that the commercial is nothing more but propaganda, taking gen-z as a hostage to advocate the contemporary Chinese system. The life of the young blogger in the video does not represent the status quo of life in China's gen-z. A sentence in the speech has especially caused widespread controversy: "What you process, is what we used to yearn for: the right to choose freely."
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Catherine Kellner
Catherine Kellner (born October 2, 1970) is an American character actress, perhaps best known for appearing in Daft Punk's music-video for their song Da Funk.
(1970-10-02) October 2, 1970 (age 50)
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
New York University (MFA)
Reuben Avery
Kellner was born in Manhattan, New York to a psychologist/photographer mother and a squash player/Greek classics scholar father who was a Hungarian immigrant. She attended Vassar College, then New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1995.[1]
Kellner lives in New York City.[2] and is married to Reuben Avery, a photographer and computer programmer, and has a son Ewen Joseph Avery. Her parents are George and Martha Kellner, who, in May 1970, survived the crash of ALM Flight 980 in the Caribbean. Martha Kellner was pregnant with Catherine at the time.
Tully (2000)
The Weight of Water (2000)
30 Days (1999)
Rosewood (1997)
No Way Home (1996)
High Incident (1996) (TV series)
Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
^ "NYU Graduate Acting Alumni". Graduate Acting Program. 2011. Archived from the original on 26 September 2011. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
^ Béhar, Henri. "Catherine Kellner on "Rosewood"". Film Scouts Interviews. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
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For the place in Australia, see Rhine Falls, New South Wales.
The Rhine Falls (German: Rheinfall, pronounced [ˈʁaɪ̯nˌfal] ( listen), singular) is a waterfall located in Switzerland and the most powerful waterfall in Europe.[2][3][1] The falls are located on the High Rhine on the border between the cantons of Schaffhausen (SH) and Zürich (ZH), between the municipalities of Neuhausen am Rheinfall (SH) and Laufen-Uhwiesen/Dachsen (ZH), next to the town of Schaffhausen in northern Switzerland.
German: Rheinfall
Aerial view of Rheinfall in 2008
On the border between the cantons of Schaffhausen and Zürich next to Schaffhausen, in northern Switzerland
Segmented Block
23 metres (75 ft)[1]
Number of drops
150 metres (490 ft)[1]
250 m3/s (8,800 cu ft/s) during winter,
600 m3/s (21,000 cu ft/s) during summer [1]
They are 150 metres (490 ft) wide and 23 metres (75 ft) high. In the winter months, the average water flow is 250 m3/s (8,800 cu ft/s), while in the summer, the average water flow is 600 m3/s (21,000 cu ft/s). The highest flow ever measured was 1,250 cubic metres per second (44,000 cu ft/s) in 1965; and the lowest, 95 cubic metres per second (3,400 cu ft/s) in 1921.[1] The falls cannot be climbed by fish, except by eels that are able to worm their way up over the rocks.[citation needed]
1 Geology
2 Economics
GeologyEdit
The Rhine Falls seen from the Rhine
The Rhine Falls were formed in the last ice age, approximately 14,000 to 17,000 years ago, by erosion-resistant rocks narrowing the riverbed. The first glacial advances created today's landforms approximately 500,000 years ago. Up to the end of the Wolstonian Stage approximately 132,000 years ago, the Rhine flowed westwards from Schaffhausen past Klettgau. This earlier riverbed later filled up with gravel.
About 132,000 years ago the course of the river changed southwards at Schaffhausen and formed a new channel, which also filled up with gravel. Part of the Rhine today includes this ancient riverbed.
During the Würm glaciation, the Rhine was pushed far to the south to its present course, over a hard Late Jurassic limestone bed. As the river flowed over both the hard limestone and the easily eroded gravel from previous glaciations, the current waterfall formed about 14,000 to 17,000 years ago. The Rheinfallfelsen, a large rock, is the remnant of the original limestone cliff flanking the former channel. The rock has eroded very little over the years because relatively little sediment comes down the Rhine from Lake Constance.
EconomicsEdit
The north side of the falls is a millsite. In the 17th century, a blast furnace for smelting iron ore found in the limestone was built. It was in operation until the first half of the 19th century.
In 1887 the ironworks applied for permission to divert between one fifth to one half of the river's flow for electricity generation. The Swiss Alpine Club, the Schweizerische Naturforschende Gesellschaft (a nature group) and several scientific societies opposed the plan.
In 1913 an international competition was held for the best plan for a shipping route between Basel and Lake Constance.
In 1919, a company wanting to build power stations in northern Switzerland were told that any such station at the Rhine Falls "must serve the economic interest of the public".[4]
In 1944, the Swiss Council of States granted permission to build the proposed power station. The permission was to become effective on 1 February 1948, with construction to begin in 1952. But in 1951, the Neuen Helvetischen Gesellschaft (New Swiss Society), under the leadership of Emil Egli, got 150,000 Swiss citizens to sign a petition protesting the project; among the signatories were 49 famous citizens, including Hermann Hesse and Carl Jacob Burckhardt. The petition not only scuttled the power station project, but effectively prevented all future hydropower and navigation engineering projects on the upper Rhine to the present day.[5]
Today, the falls are still under consideration for hydropower projects. If the full water flow were used, the power generated would average approximately 50 MW. The economic value of the falls as a tourist attraction may be greater.
The nearest community is Neuhausen am Rheinfall, where tourists can also view the Wörth Castle.[6] Boat trips can be taken up the Rhine to the falls and the Rheinfallfelsen. There are also viewing platforms with views of the falls built on both sides of the Rhine. These are reached via steep and narrow stairs (access by fee on the Schloss Laufen side). Guided tours of various lengths start from Schloss Laufen on the Zürich side of the falls – a youth hostel is also located in Schloss Laufen. Various restaurants are located in Schloss Laufen, Schloss Wörth and the Rheinfall park.
The Rhine Falls are easily accessible by car, bicycle and public transport (SBB railway station "Neuhausen am Rheinfall" on the northern side of the falls and SBB railway station "Schloss Laufen am Rheinfall" on the southern banks of the river). Large pay-parking lots are located on both sides of the falls.
Tourists have been awed by the Rhine Falls for centuries. In the 19th century, the painter J. M. W. Turner made several studies and larger paintings of the falls,[7] and the lyrical poet Eduard Mörike wrote of the falls:
Halte dein Herz, o Wanderer, fest in gewaltigen Händen!
Mir entstürzte vor Lust zitternd das meinige fast.
Rastlos donnernde Massen auf donnernde Massen geworfen,
Ohr und Auge, wohin retten sie sich im Tumult?
(Hold your heart, oh traveller, tightly in mighty hands!
Mine nearly collapsed, shivering with pleasure.
Restlessly thundering masses thrown upon thundering masses,
Ear and eye, whither can they save themselves in such an uproar?)
In 1840, author Mary Shelley visited the Falls while on a tour of Europe with her son. She described her visit in a travel narrative that she published in 1844, Rambles in Germany and Italy. She says: "A portion of the cataract arches over the lowest platform, and the spray fell thickly on us, as standing on it and looking up, we saw wave, and rock, and cloud, and the clear heavens through its glittering ever-moving veil. This was a new sight, exceeding anything I had ever before seen; however, not to be wet through, I was obliged quickly to tear myself away.".[8]
GalleryEdit
Panorama of the Rheinfall in April 2010.
A tourist boat near the falls.
Wörth Castle
Observation deck on the Zürich side.
Rheinfall Panorama.
Long exposure photograph of the Rhein falls with the Laufen castle on the background.
Rhine Falls with Rheinfall Bridge and Laufen Castle (Switzerland)
List of waterfalls by flow rate
^ a b c d e "Facts & figures". Schaffhausen, Switzerland: Interessensgemeinschaft Rheinfall. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
^ "Northeast Switzerland". Berlitz:Switzerland Pocket Guide. Princeton, NJ: Berlitz Publishing Company. April 1999. p. 39. ISBN 2-8315-7159-6.
^ "Lakes and Rivers" (official site). Berne, Switzerland: Presence Switzerland. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
^ Uehlinger, A. (1941): Die Naturschutzbestrebungen am Rheinfall. In: Schweizer Naturschutz 7:95–102.
^ Alfred Barthelmeß (1988): Landschaft-Lebensraum des Menschen S. 165 ff. Verlag Alber.
^ http://www.planetware.com/schaffhausen/rhine-falls-schloss-worth-ch-sh-sw.htm
^ Turner painting at nationalgalleries.org
^ Shelley, Mary (1996). Travel Writing. London: Pickering. p. 102. ISBN 1-85196-084-8.
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The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Harris, Townsend
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774840The Encyclopedia Americana — Harris, Townsend
HARRIS, Townsend, American merchant and diplomatist, of Welsh descent and of Revolutionary stock, the youngest of five children: b. Sandy Hill, N. Y., 4 Oct 1804; d. New York city, 25 Feb, 1878. He received his education at the village school and academy. From 1817 to 1848 he was in business in New York city, continuing his self-culture by continuous and critical reading of the best literature, learning also the French, Spanish and Italian languages; was member of the board of education and in 1846-47 its president. He was the practical founder of the New York Free Academy, now the College of the City of New York, and in many ways was a typically useful citizen. He never married. In 1848 he went to California and during the following six years made trading voyages to China and the Dutch and English Indies, becoming thoroughly acquainted with the manifold Oriental varieties of human nature. He acted for a time as American vice-consul at Ningpo. He was appointed consul-general to Japan and on the United States steamship San Jacinto arrived at Shimoda, his future dwelling place (and now noted for its stone quarries), where the flag of the United States was hoisted 4 Sept 1856. From the first Mr. Harris spoke the truth as against the constant deceit and prevarication of the corrupt officials of the Yedo Shogunate, demanding the courtesies due to an accredited envoy of a civilized power and refusing to deliver the President's letter to any one but the Shogun in Yedo and to him personally. Unbacked by a single ship or man, and with his secretary only, after prolonged negotiations lasting 18 months, he made a triumphal progress to Yedo, and standing erect received personal audience of the Shogun in the palace. Then began four months' instruction of these political hermits in the methods of modern international law and procedure. He concluded the treaty and received the promise of signature by the Premier, without regard to anything happening in China. Nevertheless the arrival of Commodore Tatnall with two American men-of-war, bringing news of the humiliation of the Chinese emperor and court, undoubtedly had its influence on the Japanese. Mr. Harris urged the importance of having the treaty signed without a moment's delay, and the Premier Ii dispatched commissioners to affix their signatures, and soon after an embassy to the United States, for which reason, chiefly, Ii was assassinated in Yedo, 23 March 1860. The Harris treaty secured the right of trade, residence and of missionary operations and teachings. He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N, Y. One of the important buildings of the College of the City of New York, the ‘Townsend Harris Hall,’ is named after him. In Japan, the name of no foreigner is more highly honored. In 1918, the cornerstone of a monument in his honor was laid at Kanagawa. Mr. Harris has always been very highly thought of by the Japanese, and is still the subject of much praise and appreciative writings by Japanese authors. His journals with comment and biography were published in 1896.
William Elliot Griffis,
Author of ‘Townsend Harris, First American Envoy in Japan’.
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Nutraloaf
Food served as a punishment in prisons
Meal Loaf, prison loaf, disciplinary loaf, food loaf, lockup loaf, confinement loaf, seg loaf, grue, special management meal, vomit loaf, punishment loaf
Nutraloaf (also known as Meal Loaf, prison loaf, disciplinary loaf, food loaf, lockup loaf, confinement loaf, seg loaf, grue or special management meal)[1] is a food served in prisons in the United States and formerly Canada[2] to inmates who have misbehaved, for example by assaulting prison guards or fellow prisoners.[3] It is similar to meatloaf in texture, but has a wider variety of ingredients. Prison loaf is usually bland, perhaps even unpleasant, but prison wardens argue that nutraloaf provides enough nutrition to keep prisoners healthy without requiring utensils to be issued.[4]
2 Legal challenges
Preparation[edit]
There are many recipes that include a range of food, from vegetables, fruit, meat, and bread or other grains. The ingredients are blended and baked into a solid loaf. In one version, it is made from a mixture of ingredients that include ground beef, vegetables, beans, and bread crumbs. Other versions include mechanically separated poultry and "dairy blend".[5]
Legal challenges[edit]
Although nutraloaf can be found in many United States prisons, its use is controversial. It was mentioned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1978 in Hutto v. Finney while ruling that conditions in the Arkansas penal system constituted cruel and unusual punishment. Prisoners were fed "grue", described as "a substance created by mashing meat, potatoes, oleo [margarine], syrup, vegetables, eggs, and seasoning into a paste and baking the mixture in a pan". The majority decision delivered by Justice Stevens upheld an order from the 8th Circuit Court that the grue diet be discontinued.[6]
The standards of the American Correctional Association, which accredits prisons, discourage the use of food as a disciplinary measure, but adherence to the organization's food standards is voluntary.[7][8] Denying inmates food as punishment has been found to be unconstitutional by the courts,[9] but because the loaf is generally nutritionally complete, it is sometimes justified as a "dietary adjustment" rather than a denial of proper meals.[7]
Lawsuits regarding nutraloaf have taken place in several states, including Illinois,[10] Maryland, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, and West Virginia.[3][11] In March 2008, prisoners brought their case before the Vermont Supreme Court, arguing that since Vermont state law does not allow food to be used as punishment, nutraloaf must be removed from the menu.[12] The Vermont Supreme Court held that nutraloaf and water diet constitutes punishment as it was designed to be unappetizing and as such compelled their conclusion.[13] In April 2010, sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona won a federal judgment in favor of the constitutionality of nutraloaf.[11][14] In December 2015, New York State decided to discontinue the use of nutraloaf throughout prisons statewide.[15] In Gordon v. Barnett, the District Court for the Western District of Washington ruled that although it was not cruel and unusual, nutraloaf is a punishment and that prisoners are entitled to a due process hearing before being subjected to it.[11]
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^ "33-602.223 : Special Management Meal - Florida Administrative Rules". www.flrules.org. Florida State Department of Corrections. June 30, 2013. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
^ "Food in hospitals and prisons is terrible – but it doesn't have to be that way". Globe and Mail. May 10, 2016.
^ a b Greenwood, Arin (June 24, 2008). "Taste-Testing Nutraloaf: The prison food that just might be unconstitutionally bad". Slate.
^ "Food for Thought: Is Nutraloaf Punishment?". WCAX-TV News. Retrieved March 26, 2008.
^ "ARNETT, CARPENTER (CARTER), JOHNSON, SMALLEY, WILLIAMS, and WUEBBELS v. SNYDER". APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS FOURTH DISTRICT. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
^ Hutto v. Finney , 437 U.S. 678, 10 (U.S. 1978) ("A filthy, overcrowded cell and a diet of 'grue' might be tolerable for a few days and intolerably cruel for weeks or months.").
^ a b Purdy, Matthew (August 4, 2002). "What's Worse Than Solitary Confinement? Just Taste This". The New York Times. Retrieved March 24, 2008.
^ Gay, Malcolm (March 19, 2008). "Cruel and unusual punishment: Malcolm sentences himself to Prison Loaf". Riverfront Times. Archived from the original on March 25, 2008. Retrieved March 24, 2008.
^ "Prisoner Diet Legal Issues" (PDF). AELE (Americans for Effective Law Enforcement) Law Journal. July 2007.
^ Arnett v. Snyder, 331 Ill. App. 3d 518 (2001)
^ a b c Greenwood, Arin (July 2010). "It's What's for Dinner". ABA Journal. Retrieved August 21, 2018.
^ "Vermont inmates call food foul, sue over it". NBC News. Retrieved March 26, 2008.
^ "Vermont Supreme Court: 'Nutraloaf' Diet Is Punishment That Requires Hearing". Prison Legal News. Retrieved August 15, 2009.
^ "Arpaio Wins Summary Judgment in Federal Court" (PDF) (Press release). MCSO. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 12, 2010. Retrieved April 13, 2010.
^ McKinley, Jesse (December 17, 2015). "New York Prisons Take an Unsavory Punishment Off the Table". The New York Times.
Chicago magazine dining critic tries Nutraloaf, September 2010
Clark County jail's recipe
"Loaf Without Parole". Slate.com. December 23, 2002. Contains a recipe for "the Loaf".
Cohen, Adam. "Can Food Be Cruel and Unusual Punishment?" TIME. April 2, 2012.
Greenwood, Arin. "Taste-Testing Nutraloaf." Slate. Tuesday June 24, 2008.
"Arkansas Department of Correction's recipe for disciplinary meatloaf " (Archive). Arkansas Times. February 25, 2016.
Fuchs, Erin. "NUTRALOAF: This Revolting Food Is Used As Punishment In Prison." Business Insider. June 25, 2013.
The Food So Bad That It's Banned In Prison Half As Interesting. January 7, 2021
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Saint Lawrence Seaway: translation
The St. Lawrence Seaway is the common name for a system of canals that permits ocean-going vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, as far as Lake Superior. Legally it extends from Montreal to Lake Erie, including the Welland Canal and the Great Lakes Waterway. The seaway is named after the Saint Lawrence River, which it follows from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean.
The Saint Lawrence Seaway was preceded by a number of other canals. In 1862, locks on the St Lawrence allowed transit of vessels 186 feet (57 m) long, 44½ feet (13.6 m) wide, and 9 feet (2.7 m) deep. The Welland Canal at that time allowed transit of vessels 142 feet (43 m) long, 26 feet (7.9 m) wide, and 10 feet (3.0 m) deep, but was generally too small to allow passage of larger ocean-going ships.
Proposals for the Seaway started in 1909, but was met with resistance from railway and port lobbyists inthe US. In addition to replacing the canal system, generation of hydroelectricity also drove the project. After rejecting numerous agreements to construct a Seaway, construction was approved in 1954 when Canada declared it was ready to proceed unilaterally. The Seaway opened in 1959 and cost $470 million US dollars, $336.2 million of whichwas paid by the Canadian government. [cite web
url=http://www.infrastructure.gc.ca/research-recherche/result/alt_formats/pdf/hm05_e.pdf
title=History of the Saint Lawrence Seaway
work=Infrastructure Canada
publisher=www.infrastructure.gc.ca
accessdate=2008-05-30] Queen Elizabeth II and President Dwight Eisenhower formally opened the Seaway with a short cruise aboard Royal Yacht "Britannia" after addressing the crowds in St. Lambert, Quebec.
The seaway's opening is often credited with making the Erie Canal obsolete, thus setting off the severe economic decline of several cities in upstate New York.
Lock and channel dimensions
The size of vessels that can traverse the seaway is limited by the size of locks. Locks on the St Lawrence and on the Welland Canal are 766 feet (233.5 m) long, 80 feet (24 m) wide, and 30 feet (9.1 m) deep. The maximum allowed vessel size is slightly smaller: 740 feet (225.6 m) long, 78 feet (23.8 m) wide, and 26 feet (7.9 m) deep; many vessels designed for use on the Great Lakes following the opening of the seaway were built to the maximum size permissible by the locks, known informally as "Seaway-Max". Large vessels of the lake freighter fleet are built on the Lakes and cannot travel down the seaway to the ocean. The only lock on the Great Lakes Waterway is 1,200 feet (357 m) long, 110 feet (33.5 m) wide and 32 feet (9.8 m) deep, but the channels are not kept that deep.
Water depth is another obstacle to vessels, particularly in connecting waterways such as the St Lawrence River. The depth in the channels of the seaway is 41 feet (12.5 m) (panamax depth) downstream of Quebec City, 35 feet (10.7 m) between Quebec City and Deschaillons, 37 feet (11.3 m) to Montreal, and 28 feet (8.2 m ) upstream of Montreal. Channels in the Great Lakes Waterway are slightly shallower: 25 to 27 feet (7.62 to 8.2 m). In the late 1990s the seaway has been deepened and widened increasing near panamax sized ship access upstream from the Atlantic ocean to Montreal.
Channel depths and limited lock sizes mean that only 10% of ocean-going ships can traverse the entire seaway. Proposals to expand the seaway, dating from as early as the 1960s, have been rejected as too costly, and environmentally and economically unsound. Lower water levels in the Great Lakes have also posed problems for some vessels in recent years.
To create a navigable channel through the Long Sault rapids and to allow hydroelectric stations to be established immediately upriver from Cornwall, Ontario and Massena, New York, an artificial lake had to be created. Called Lake St. Lawrence, it required the flooding on July 1, 1958 of ten villages in Ontario, now collectively known as "The Lost Villages". There was also inundation on the New York side, but no communities were affected.
The creation of the seaway also led to the introduction of foreign species of aquatic animals, including the sea lamprey and the zebra mussel, into the Great Lakes Basin. These organisms were introduced via ballast water from oceanic vessels.
The seaway provides significant entertainment and recreation such as boating, camping, fishing, and scuba diving. Of particular note is that the seaway provides a number of divable wrecks within recreational scuba limits (shallower than 130 ft.). Surprisingly, the water temperature can be as warm as 70°F with little or no thermocline during the mid to late summer months.
* [http://www.greatlakes-seaway.com/en/commercial/seaway-handbook/index.html Seaway Handbook] issued by the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation, (Head Office, 202 Pitt Street, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada K6J 3P7) 2006.
* (Worldcat link: [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/932877] )
* [http://www.greatlakes-seaway.com/en/index.html Great Lakes St Lawrence Seaway System web site]
* [http://www.seaway.dot.gov/ The St Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation]
* [http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/dl/StLawrenceSeaway/StLawrenceSeawaydocuments.html Documents and Photographs relating to the Saint Lawrence Seaway, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library]
* [http://lostvillages.ca The Lost Villages Historical Society]
* Excerpt from the "Illustrated London News, January 11, 1862" [http://www.theshipslist.com/1862/canals.html describing the "Canals of Canada".]
* [http://www.lexum.umontreal.ca/ca_us/en/cts.1993.25.en.html Exchange of Notes, amending 1959 Agreement of Application of Tolls]
* [http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-69-637/life_society/seaway/ CBC Digital Archives — The St Lawrence Seaway: Gateway to the world]
* [http://www.ppl.nl/bibliographies/all/?bibliography=water Bibliography on Water Resources and International Law] See Great Lakes; St. Lawrence River and Seaway. Peace Palace Libray
* [http://www.qc.ec.gc.ca/csl/inf/inf045_e.html Channel Depth and Width information]
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Having ordered a “tea con leche” and a cheese toastie, Jeremy Corbyn sparks into life on his specialist subject: unilateral disarmament. “My views on nuclear weapons are well known and not changing,” he says. “I want to see us move to a nuclear-free world.” But there is a significant softening in his stance. Speaking exclusively to The Independent on Sunday, he says he now “recognises” that the Labour Party’s existing policy explicitly supports Trident and promises to “accommodate” those who want to vote for its renewal.
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Jeremy Corbyn, the U.K.’s left wing opposition leader, has been urged not to support scrapping Britain’s nuclear deterrent. Britain’s parliament will vote this year on whether it should renew its Trident nuclear weapon, which consists of four Vanguard-class submarines armed with Trident II D5 nuclear missiles, when it expires in the late 2020s. Labour currently supports renewing the weapon, but is reviewing that position. Corbyn, who has spent much of his political life in Britain’s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), would like the party to advocate dropping the weapon. Michael Dugher, who lost his job as shadow culture secretary in Corbyn’s top team this month, said in a speech to party group Labour First on Saturday: “We tried unilateralism before. It ended in electoral disaster then. There is no evidence to suggest that it won’t end in disaster again,” The Guardian reports.
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Jeremy Corbyn has said he will try to “accommodate” the different views within the Labour Party over the future of Britain’s Trident nuclear deterrent. In an interview with The Independent on Sunday, the Labour leader acknowledged that while he was committed to getting rid of it, current party policy was to go ahead with the renewal of the submarine fleet which carries the Trident missiles. While shadow defence secretary Emily Thornberry has launched a review of Labour’s entire defence policy, he also accepted that there could be no change in the current position until the party conference in September.
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The leader of the main opposition Labour Party says a reshuffle of his top team has brought the unity needed to “win elections and change our country for the better” – but he faces a struggle to convince his own lawmakers. Some Labour MPs say this month’s changes by Jeremy Corbyn have merely deepened divisions and herald the start of a battle over national security that could tear the party apart and leave it out of power for more than a decade.
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New York Giants: Eli Manning’s agent thinks he’ll be back in 2019
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New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning’s agent believes the 15-year man will be back with Big Blue for the 2019 season.
It looks like someone close to New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning believes he’ll be back in blue next season.
On Monday, Manning’s agent Tom Condon spoke at the site of this week’s Senior Bowl. While speaking on his client, Condon mentioned that he believes Manning will be back with the Giants in 2019.
“Shoot, yeah, I think so,” Condon said, per Paul Schwartz of the New York Post. “I think he’d love to come back. Guys love to play their whole careers with one team, if they have a good experience with that team.”
Manning just turned 38-years old this month. If he were to play for the Giants next year, it would be his 16th season with the franchise.
He’s slated to make $23.2 million in 2019, and Big Blue does have the option to restructure his contract.
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Many thought this past season could be Manning’s last as a Giant.
In his 15th season in the NFL, the two-time Super Bowl MVP threw for 4,299 yards and 21 touchdowns. He also only threw 11 interceptions and achieved a 66 percent completion rate. The latter was the highest of his career.
Although he could be the Giants starting quarterback next year, this won’t stop the organization from searching for his successor. New York has the No. 6 overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft and could select Ohio State QB Dwayne Haskins or Oklahoma QB Kyler Murray.
Either one could have the opportunity to sit behind Eli for a year and learn. It’s an opportunity that could prove to be the best one for the organization. As many know, it did work for Pat Mahomes and the Chiefs.
Regardless of what happens, having Manning back in blue next year would give the Giants the best opportunity to win games. Haskins and Murray are good and flashy, but 15 years of experience from Manning may overcome that.
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Allied Forces, Supreme Headquarters, G-5, US Group Control Council. Inspection of the German Concentration Camp for political prisoners and located at Buchenwald on the north edge of Weimar.
Inspection made by Gen Eric F. Wood, Col Chas H. Ott, and CWO S. M. Dye, on the morning of Apr 16, 1945. PW & DP Division, US Group Control Council APO 742, Annex to Recon Report of Apr 21, 1945. In addition to an American Officer guide, the party was also accompanied by Commandant René l’Hopital, the former ADC to Maréchal Foch, DSM, Officer of the Legion of Honor, MVO, etc; a personal friend of many Americans including Gen Handford McNider, the late Theodore Roosevelt, Gen Frank Parker, Franklin D’Olier, Admiral Byrd, who had been a prisoner in the camp during the two months prior its capture. He weighed 95 lbs as against a normal weight of 175 lbs, but was in far better physical condition than the average of his fellow prisoners (due to his having been in this camp only 2 months).
History of the Camp
The Concentration Camp in Buchenwald (literally Beech Forest) was a Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg Hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest concentration camps within Germany’s 1937 borders. Many actual or suspected communists were among the first internees. The Camp was founded when the Nazi Party first came into power in 1933 and has been in continuous operation ever since, although its largest populations date from the beginning of the present war. US Armored Force of the 9th Armored Infantry Battalion (6th Armored Division) overran the general area in which the camp was located on Apr 12, 1945. It’s SS guards had decamped by the evening of Apr 11, 1945. Some US Administration personnel and supplies reached the camp on Friday Apr 13, a red-letter day for the surviving inmates. (Note that US 89th Infantry Division overran Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald on Apr 4, 1945).
Surviving population, April 16, 1945
Austrians 550, Belgians 622, Czechs 2105, Dutch 584, French 2900, Germans 1800, Hungarians 1240, Italians 242, Yugoslavs 570, Polish 3800, Russians 4380, Anti-Franco Spanish and Misc 1207, for an estimated total of 20.000.
Character of the Surviving Population
Males only, including 1000 boys under 14 years old. Intelligentsia and leadership personnel from all of Europe; anyone and every one of outstanding intellectual or moral qualifications, or of democratic or anti-Nazi inclinations or their relatives. For instance, as the French inmates, they included 4 anti-Vichy members of parliament; professors of Pasteur Institute, University of Paris, University of Caen, etc; 8 high-ranking anti-Vichy generals (including Gen Vermeau who was at one time the Chief of Staff), and the son of one of them; and French engineers, lawyers, editors and other professional men of the higher brackets. A particular inclination of incarcerating prominent
Jews were manifest, there were 4.000 of them among the 20.000 survivors (these are inclusive in the nationalities listed in the preceding paragraph). Jews were given even worse treatment than the others. For instance, no Jews were ever promoted from the Little Camp (see below). A few inmates were from time to time ransomed by their families by personal payments to SS officers and liberated to spread the word, among other leadership or intellectual anti-Nazi personnel throughout Europe, as to the penalties (internment in this camp and similar ones) for anti-Nazism.
Mission of the Camp
An extermination factory. Were death was not bad enough for anti-Nazis. Means of extermination, starvation, complicated by hard work, abuse, beatings and tortures, incredibly crowded sleeping conditions (see below), and sickness (for instance, typhus was rampant in the camp; and many inmates tubercular). By these means, many tens of thousands of the best leadership personnel of Europe (including German democrats and anti-Nazis) have been exterminated. For instance, 6 of the 8 French generals originally committed to the camp, and the son of one of them had died there (and the 2 surviving French generals appear to be beyond rehabilitation). The recent death rate was about 200 a day. 5.700 had died or been killed in February, 5.900 in March, and about 2.000 in the first 10 days of April. The main elements of the installation included: The Little Camp, The Regular Barracks, The Hospital, The Medical Experimentation Building, The Body Disposal Plant, and The Ammunition Factory which was immediately adjacent to the camp and separated from it only by a wire fence.
The Little Camp
Prisoners here slept on triple-decked shelves, on each shelf about 12′ x 12′, 16 prisoners to as shelf, the clearance height between shelves being a little over 2′. Cubage figured out about 35 cu. ft. per man; as against the minimum for the health of 600 cu. ft. prescribed by US Army Regulations. All arriving new prisoners were initiated by sending at least 6 weeks here before being graduated to the Regular Barracks. During this initiation prisoners were expected to lose about 40% in weight, Jews, however, seldom if ever graduated to the Regular Barracks. Camp disciplinary measures included transferring recalcitrant prisoners back to the Little Camp. As persons became too feeble to work, they were also sent back to this camp, or to the ‘Hospital’. Rations were less than at Regular Camps, and the death rate was very high here; recently 2% to 4% a day.
The Regular Barracks
The dormitory rooms were approximately 42′ x 23′, about 10′ high; or a content of less 9500 cu. ft. In such a room there were installed, triple-deck, 38 stacks of 3 cots each, or a total of 114 cots, each cot 30′ x 72′ outside measurement. Most of these cots were double (i.e. 2 parallel cotes occupying a space 60′ x 72′). Airless were too narrow (less than 24′) to permit movement except with body edgewise. 114 cots into 9500 make less than 85 cu. ft. per person. But since the war 250 persons have been made to sleep in each such room (5 persons on each 60′ x 72′ double cot, and 2 persons on each 30′ by 72′ single cot); or less than 40 cu. ft. per person. There was less than one blanket per prisoner. Blankets were thin and shoddy, and undersized. There was no heat in these dormitories.
The ‘Hospital’
A building where moribund persons were sent to die. No medication is available, hence no therapy was possible. Typhus and tuberculosis were rampant in the camp. About half the ward in the hospital was about 15′ deep with one window at the outside end, by 5.5′ wide. From 6 to 9 ‘patients’ occupied such a ward, lying crosswise on the floor, shoulder to shoulder. Room too narrow for most of them to extend their legs. The death rate in the ‘Hospital’ 5% to 20% a day.
Medical Experiment Building
Block 41 was used for medical experiments and vivisection, with prisoners as guinea pigs. Medical ‘scientists’ came from Berlin periodically to reinforce the ‘experimental staff’. Few prisoners who entered this experimental building emerged alive. Die Hexe von Buchenwald (Witch of Buchenwald) was the wife of Karl Koch, the commanding officer of Buchenwald from 1937 to 1941, and Majdanek from 1941 to 1943. Drunk on the absolute power rendered by her husband, she reveled in torture and obscenity. Infamous for her souvenirs; tattoos were taken away from the murdered inmates, her reputation for debauchery was well earned. After building an indoor sports arena in 1940 with 250.000 marks stolen from inmates, Ilsa was promoted to Oberaufseherin or ‘chief overseer’ of the few female guards at Buchenwald. She committed suicide by hanging herself at Aichach women’s prison on Sept 1, 1967. Another Schlampe was also a product of the Nazi’s final solution, Irma Grese, or the Bitch of Belsen. She was a guard at concentration camps Ravensbrück, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen. Transferred to Auschwitz in 1943, (she must have shown particular enthusiasm and dedication to the job), she was promoted to Senior Supervisor, the 2nd highest-ranking female in camp, by the end of the year. In charge of over 30.000 Jewish female prisoners, she reveled in her work. Her work included; savaging of prisoners by her trained and half-starved dogs, sexual excesses, arbitrary shootings, sadistic beatings with a plaited whip, and selecting prisoners for the gas chamber. She enjoyed both physical and emotional torture and habitually wore heavy boots and carried a pistol to facilitate both.
Body Disposal Plant
The design of this installation was a striking example of German industrial efficiency. It had a maximum disposal capacity of about 400 bodies per 10-hour day. All bodies were reduced to bone ash, thus destroying all evidence. All gold-filled teeth were extracted from the bodies before incineration.
This plant was entirely enclosed with a high board fence. No one except the small operating force of SS personnel was allowed even to look inside this fence, and no prisoner who passed within in (as member of a fatigue party, or for any other reason) ever came out alive. Inside this fence, a large front yard on the left, a small back yard on the right, and the incinerator building centrally located between the two yards. This building was of substantial brick construction with cement floors, one story, with a full size 12′ high basement beneath. The main floor contained an ‘Administration’ office at the front end, a locker and washroom for SS personnel at the far end, and the incinerator room in the center. The later contained, in line, 2 batteries of 3 fire-brick incinerators each, each incinerator having a capacity of 3 bodies; or a total charge of 18 bodies (adults).
20 minutes were required for the incineration of a ‘charge’. The floor of each incinerator consisted of a coarse grate through which the bone ash fell into an ash pit about 16′ deep, having a separate front door through which the day’s accumulation of bone ash was extracted at the end of the operation. The fire came from a furnace-room occupying the rear two-thirds of the basement, the flames being deflected downwards onto the bodies by baffle plates in the roofs of the furnace. The front end of the basement was occupied by the Strangulation Room. The method of collecting bodies was as follows. Roll-call was held every evening, outdoors outside the dormitory buildings. Internees were required to strip, and bring to roll-call, the naked bodies of all comrades who had died during the previous 24 hours. After roll-call, a motor truck drove around the camp, picked up the bodies, and was driven into the front yard of the incinerator plant to await the next day’s operation.
But this was not the only source of bodies. Emaciated prisoners who had been around long enough, who committed infractions of discipline, who ‘knew too much’, or who refused to be broken in mind, were arbitrarily condemned to death. For instance, in the Little Barracks where prisoners slept 16 on a shelf, and infraction of discipline (and particularly an attempt to escape) not frequently resulted in all 16 being condemned.
Such persons were immediately marched on foot to a small door into the fence of the back yard, at a point immediately adjacent to the right-hand front corner of the incinerator building. This door opened inwards until it hit a door-stop which help it at a position parallel to the building’s wall thus creating a corridor about 4′ wide and 3′ deep. At the far end was an opening about 4′ x 4′ flush with the ground, the head of a concrete shaft about 13′ deep, the bottom floor of which was the continuation of the concrete floor to the room at the front end of the basement. The condemned prisoners, on being hurried and pushed through the door in the fence, inevitably felt into this shaft and crashed 13′ down to the cement cellar floor. This room, on the floor at one end of which they now found themselves, was the Strangling Room.
As they hit the floor they were garroted, with a short double-ended noose, by big SS guards; and hung on hooks along the sidewall, about 6.5′ above the floor, the row of being 45 in number. When a consignment had been all hung up, any who were still struggling were stunned with a wooden mallet. The bodies were left on the hooks until called for by the incinerator crew.
An electric elevator, with an estimated capacity of 18 bodies, ran up to the incinerator room, which was directly above the Strangling Room. The day’s quota of approximately 200 bodies was made up from 120 to 140 prisoners who had died mostly in the ‘Hospital’ in the ‘Medical Experiment Building’ or in the ‘Little Camp’, and of from 60 to 80 supplied by the Strangulation Room.
For a period of about ten days in March, the coal supply for the incinerator ran out. Awaiting the arrival of new supply, bodies to the number of about 1800 were allowed to collect in the front yard, stacked up like cord-wood. To the annoyance of the SS this over-crowded the yard with indisposed ‘evidence’, and the smell of warm weather created a sanitary problem. Moreover, burial was a good deal more troublesome than incineration and was out of the customary routine. But something had to be done. So a truck detachment, and a fatigue detail of internees, was organized. The bodies were loaded in the trucks and hauled out of camp. The fatigue detail dug one huge burial pit, threw the bodies into it filling it except for one end, and covered the bodies. Then the SS shot all the members of the fatigue detail, threw their bodies into the vacant end, and covered them up.
Shortly afterward a new supply of coal having been received, the process of incineration was resumed. This process was so abruptly interrupted by the arrival of US Armor in the area that the SS had no time to ‘tidy up’ so that the cycle of operation could be plainly examined and understood.
The previous day’s quota of upwards of 120 corpses of prisoners who had died in the camp was parked in a truck in the front yard. The incinerator furnace grates had not yet been cleared of un-consumed hip-bone joints and parts of skulls. In addition, the bodies of about 40 inmates who had died since US arrival, in spite of prompt medical and ration attention, were stacked up like cord-wood against the wall of the yard. American surgeons stated that the adult corpses weighed only 60 to 80 lbs, having in practically all cases lost 50 to 60% of their normal weight, and also having shrunken in height.
Rations, 600 to 700 calories per day for the regular camp, 500 for the Little Camp, both of an unbalanced ration, as against 3000 to 3600 calories required for adult health. Black bread, potatoes twice a week, and beet-root twice a week served as a weak soup, soybean (or other vegetables) ‘sausage’, jam twice a week, margarine about once a week. Never any greens or fresh vegetables. Heavy deficiency in animal fats and vitamins. No meats. Red Cross packages almost entirely appropriated by the SS Camp Commander and distributed to suit himself to SS Personnel, to citizens of Weimar, even to Nordic German Camp Prisoners. In two months Commander L’Hopital received 1/10, 1/14, and 1/7 of a one-person, weekly French Red Cross parcel. Meals were prepared and ‘served’ by prisoner personnel under SS supervision.
Attempted evacuation, as the American Army approached, the SS attempted to evacuate some of the ‘valuable’ prisoners. A column of 2000 was formed on April 8, 1945, and another similar on April 10, 1945. (SS guards fled precipitously on April 11, 1945, because American armor was heard firing in the area). All prisoners of these columns who fell were shot by the roadside. It is alleged, by the US personnel now operating the camp, that about 3000 where killed in this manner. The remainder escaped and are being rounded up. Commandant L’Hopital stated that orders had been given to kill all remaining persons in the camp on April 11, 1945, when further evacuation became impossible, but that this big job was left undone, and the remaining prisoners saved when the nearby presence of American tanks stampeded the SS personnel.
Commandant L’Hopital stated that the wife of one of the SS officers started the fad, that any prisoner who happened to have extensive tattooing of any sort on his body was brought to her; that if she found the tattooing satisfactory the prisoner was killed and skinned; that the skin with the tattooing was then tanned and made into souvenirs such as lampshades, wall pictures, bookends, etc; that about 40 examples of this artistry were found on SS officers and quarters in the camps. This statement was confirmed by Lt Walter F. Emmons. We saw 6 examples at the Camp HQ, including a lampshade.
This concentration camp was by no means unique, nor were its methods different from similar camps which were (or are still) operated at Dachau (near Berlin). Kleine Glattbach (E of Karlsruhe), and at other points. When the French 1-A over-ran Kleine Glattbach on April 10, 1945, they found only 700 emaciated survivors, 80% of whom are beyond rehabilitation and about half of whom are in advanced stages of tuberculosis of various types according to the considered opinion of the Army Surgeon.
On March 10, 1945, the camp’s incinerator plan ran out of coal. A long trench was thereupon dug, with a unit of mechanical equipment, and then, starting at one end, the daily quota of dead were stacked into it progressively down the length of the trench. The number thus interred for approximately one month was 1200. This information was supplied by French Gen de Lattre de Tassigny, Commandant William Bullitt, and the Army Surgeon; all of whom had inspected the camp. The strategical implications of the above procedure appear to be far-reaching. Namely that Continental Europe (including Germany) has been systematically deprived of hundred of thousands of its best liberal or democratic leadership personnel.
Buchenwald, April 16, 1945.
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EU NAVFOR celebrates Europe Day in Mogadishu
The Force Commander of EU NAVFOR’s Op Atalanta, Rear Admiral Simone Malvagna, joined EU delegates and the Somali Prime Minister H.E. Hassan Ali Khaire in Mogadishu to celebrate Europe Day.
The Europe Day event, organised by the European Delegation in Somalia (EU Del), took place on 9th May at the EU Compound in the International Airport of Mogadishu. Sister missions EUCAP Somalia and EUTM Somalia based in Mogadishu joined EU NAVFOR, highlighting the integrated approach to operations in Somalia adopted by the EU as part of the Common Security and Defence Policy. This is based on the sharing of intent and objectives to develop capacity and security and reach a lasting regional solution.
May 9th is the anniversary of the Schuman declaration, which laid the foundations of the EU. In 1950, Robert Schuman set out his idea for a new form of political cooperation in Europe, which would make war between Europe’s nations unthinkable. On this day in Europe and across the EU’s many operations and missions around the world, Europeans celebrate what makes the EU a great place in which to live, work and prosper. Each year thousands of people, take part in visits, debates, concerts and other events to mark the day.
Officers of EU NAVFOR talked with and displayed its activities to the people of Mogadishu to improve awareness of the continuing mission to deter piracy and maintain the freedom of maritime navigation around the Horn of Africa and off the coast of Somalia.
Close to the coast of Mogadishu, the ship’s company of EU NAVFOR’s Flagship ITS Carlo Margottini conducted Local Maritime Capacity Building activities with the Somali Police Force Maritime Police Unit (SPF-MPU), whilst also continuing her counter-piracy duties on Op Atalanta.
On 8th May the Force Commander had hosted an important meeting on board the Margottini off the Somali Coast between the heads of EU missions and the Somali Deputy Prime Minister H.E. Mahdi Mohammed Gulaid. General issues concerning the development of the country were addressed, in particular the urgent need for a maritime security force able to perform the traditional tasks of a Coast Guard to deal with maritime crime and enable Somalia to develop its ‘blue economy.’
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Document 52020XC0117(02)
Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009 of 5 May 2009 setting up a Community regime for the control of exports, transfer, brokering and transit of dual-use itemsOJ L 134, 29.5.2009, p. 1.: Information on measures adopted by Member States in conformity with Articles 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 17 and 222020/C 16/04
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Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009 of 5 May 2009 setting up a Community regime for the control of exports, transfer, brokering and transit of dual-use items (1): Information on measures adopted by Member States in conformity with Articles 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 17 and 22
Articles 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 17 and 22 of Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009 (hereunder "the Regulation") set out that measures taken by Member States in implementation of the Regulation should be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Furthermore, the Commission and the Member States have decided to also publish additional information on measures imposed by Member States under Article 4 in order to ensure that exporters have access to comprehensive information on the controls applicable throughout the EU.
1. INFORMATION PROVIDED BY MEMBER STATES IN CONFORMITY WITH ARTICLE 4(5) OF THE REGULATION (AUTHORISATION REQUIREMENT ON THE EXPORT OF DUAL-USE ITEMS NOT LISTED IN ANNEX I)
A Member State may, in application of Article 4(5), extend the application of Article 4(1) to non-listed dual-use items, if the exporter has grounds for suspecting that those items are or may be intended for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1).
Article 4(6) of the Regulation requires Member States which impose an authorisation requirement, in application of Article 4(5), on the export of dual-use items not listed in Annex I, to inform, where appropriate, the other Member States and the Commission. The table below provides an overview of the measures taken by Member States that have been notified to the Commission. The detailed measures as notified to the Commission are set out immediately thereafter.
Member State
Has the Member State adopted national legislation imposing authorisation requirements in application of Article 4(5)?
Partially YES
1.1. Belgium
An export authorisation shall be required, in the Flemish Region and the Walloon Region, for the export of non-listed dual-use items where an exporter has grounds for suspecting that those items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1).
(Article 5 of the Flemish Government Decree of 14 March 2014 regulating export, transit and transfer of dual-use items and the delivery of technical assistance (Belgian Official Gazette of 2 May 2014); Article 4 of the Walloon Government Decree of 6 February 2014 regulating export, transit and transfer of dual-use items and technology (Belgian Official Gazette of 19.02.2014)).
1.2. Ireland
An export authorisation shall be required for the export of non-listed dual-use items where an exporter has grounds for suspecting that those items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1).
(Regulation 7 of the Control of Exports (Dual Use Items) Order 2009 (S.I. No. 443 of 2009)).
1.3. Luxembourg
(Law of 27 June 2018 on export control, Article 45(1)).
1.4. Hungary
(Para. 7. of Government Decree No 13 of 2011 on ‘the foreign trade authorisation of dual-use items’)
1.5. Austria
(Article 5 of the 2011 First Foreign Trade Regulation (Erste Außenwirtschaftsverordnung 2011), BGBl. II Nr. 343/2011, published on 28 October 2011).
1.6. Finland
(Par. 4(4) of law 562/1996)
1.7. United Kingdom
An export authorisation shall be required for the export of non-listed dual-use items where an exporter has grounds for suspicion that those items are or may be intended, in their entirety or part, for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1).
(Article 6(1), 6(2) and 26 of The Export Control Order 2008 (S.I.2008/3231)).
2. INFORMATION PROVIDED BY MEMBER STATES IN CONFORMITY WITH ARTICLE 5(2) OF THE REGULATION (EXTENSION OF BROKERING CONTROLS)
Article 5(2) in conjunction with Article 5(4) of the Regulation requires the Commission to publish measures taken by Member States to extend the application of Article 5(1) to non-listed dual-use items for uses referred to in Article 4(1) and to dual-use items for military end use and destinations referred to in Article 4(2).
The table below provides an overview of the measures taken by Member States that have been notified to the Commission. The detailed measures as notified to the Commission are set out immediately thereafter.
Has the application of brokering controls set out in Article 5(1) been extended in relation with Article 5(2)?
2.1. Bulgaria
An authorisation shall be required for the brokering of dual-use items listed in Annex I of the Regulation, when the items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(2) of the Regulation, and not listed in Annex I of the Regulation, when the items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1) of the Regulation.
(Article 34, par. 4 of the Defence-Related Products and Dual-Use Items and Technologies Export Control Act, State Gazette No. 26/29.03.2011, effective 30.06.2012).
2.2. Czech Republic
An authorisation shall be required for the brokering of dual-use items if the competent authority informs the broker that dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1) of the Regulation, or that dual-use items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for military end-uses referred to in Article 4(2) of the Regulation.
(Paragraph 3 of Act No 594/2004 Coll. ‘Implementing the European Community Regime for the Control of Exports, Transfer, Brokering, and Transit of Dual-Use Items (as amended)).
2.3. Estonia
An authorisation shall be required for the brokering of dual-use items which have characteristics of strategic goods because of their end-use or end-user, public security or human rights consideration, although they have not been entered in the list of strategic goods.
(Paragraph 6 (7) of the Strategic Good Act).
An authorisation shall be required for the brokering of dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation, when the items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1) of the Regulation and for dual-use items for military end-uses and destinations referred to in Article 4(2) of the Regulation,
(Sections 8 (a) and (b) of Statutory Instrument 443 of 2009, Control of Exports (Dual-Use Items) Order 2009, as amended).
2.5. Greece
An authorisation shall be required for the brokering of dual-use items, when the items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for military end-uses and destinations referred to in Article 4(2) of the Regulation.
(Paragraph 3.2.3 of ‘Ministerial Decision No 121837/e3/21837/28-9-2009’).
2.6. Spain
An authorisation shall be required for the brokering of dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the regulation, when the items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for any of the uses and destinations referred to in Article 4(1) and 4(2) of the Regulation.
(Article 2.3.a).6 and 2.3.b) of the Royal Decree 679/2014, of 1 August 2014 on the control of external trade in defence material, other material and dual-use goods and technologies).
2.7. Croatia
An authorisation shall be required for the brokering of dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation, if the competent authority informs the broker that dual-use items are or may be, in their entirety or in part, intended for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1) and 4(2) of the Regulation.
(Act on Control of dual-use items (OG 80/11 i 68/2013)).
2.8. Italy
An authorisation shall be required for the brokering of dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation, when the items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1) or 4(2) of the Regulation;
(Article 9 of Legislative Decree n° 221/2017 of 15 December 2017, in force since 1 February 2018).
2.9. Latvia
In accordance with the Latvian Law on the Circulation of Strategic Goods, all brokering transactions for dual-use items are controlled, regardless of their use.
(Art 5 (7) of the Law on the Circulation of Strategic Goods of 21 June 2007)
2.10. Luxembourg
An authorisation shall be required for the brokering of dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation, when the items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for any of the uses referred to in Article 4 (1) of the Regulation, and for military end-uses and destinations as referred to in Article 4 (2) of the Regulation.
2.11. Hungary
An authorisation shall be required for the brokering of dual-use items listed in Annex I of the Regulation, when the items are or may be intended for military end use and destinations referred to in Article 4(2) of the Regulation, and for dual use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation, when the items are or may be intended for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1) and (2) of the Regulation.
(Par. 17.1 of Government Decree No 13 of 2011 on ‘the foreign trade authorisation of dual-use items’).
2.12. Netherlands
An authorisation shall be required for the brokering of dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation, when the items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1) of the Regulation and for dual-use items, when the items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for military end use and destinations referred to in Article 4(2) of the Regulation.
(Strategic Services Act - Wet strategische diensten).
An authorisation shall also be required for the brokering of 37 chemical substances when the destination is Iraq, regardless of the specific consignee or end-user.
(Decree Goods for Dual-Use Iraq - Regeling goederen voor tweeërlei gebruik Irak).
2.13. Austria
An authorisation shall be required for the brokering of dual-use items if the competent authority notifies the broker that the items in question are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1) and 4(2) of the Regulation.
(Article 15.1 of the Foreign Trade Act (Außenwirtschaftsgesetz 2011, BGBl. I Nr. 26/2011)).
2.14. Romania
An authorisation shall be required for the brokering of dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation if the items in question are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1) and 4(2) of the Regulation.
(Article 14(2) of the Emergency Order No 119 of 23 December 2010 (GEO No 119/2010) on the ‘control regime for operations concerning dual-use items’).
2.15. Finland
An authorisation shall be required for the brokering of dual-use items listed in Annex I of the Regulation, if the broker has been notified by the competent authority that the items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(2) of the Regulation, and for the brokering of dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation, if the broker has been notified by the competent authority that the items are or may be intended in their entirety or in part, for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1) of that Regulation
(Paragraphs 3(2) and 4(1) of Law 562/1996).
Article 5(3) in conjunction with Article 5(4) of the Regulation requires the Commission to publish measures taken by Member States imposing an authorisation requirement on the brokering of dual-use items, if the broker has grounds for suspecting that these items are or may be intended for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1).
The table below provides an overview of the measures taken by Member States and that have been notified to the Commission. The detailed measures as notified to the Commission are set out immediately thereafter.
Have brokering controls been extended in relation with Article 5(3)?
An authorisation shall be required for the brokering of dual-use items if the broker has grounds for suspecting that the items are or may be intended for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1) of the Regulation.
(Article 47 of the Defence-Related Products and Dual-Use Items and Technologies Export Control Act (Promulgated, State Gazette No. 26/29.03.2011)).
If a broker has grounds for suspecting that dual-use items are or may be intended for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1) of the Regulation, the broker shall notify the competent authority, which may decide to impose an authorisation requirement.
(Par. 3(4) of the Act No 594/2004 Coll. ‘Implementing the European Community Regime for the Control of Exports, Transfer, Brokering, and Transit of Dual-Use Items’).
If a broker has grounds for suspecting that dual-use items are or may be intended for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1) of the Regulation, the broker shall notify the Strategic Goods Commission (SGC), police authorities or security authorities immediately thereof. After such notification, the SGC may decide to impose an authorisation requirement.
(Par. 77 of the Strategic Goods Act).
(Section 9 of Statutory Instrument 443 of 2009, Control of Exports (Dual-Use Items) Order 2009).
(Par. 3.2.2 of the Ministerial Decision No 121837/e3/21837/28-9-2009).
If a broker has grounds for suspecting that the dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation, for which he proposes brokering services, are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for any of the uses and destinations referred to in Article 4(1) and 4(2), he must notify the competent authority, which will decide whether or not such brokering services are subject to authorisation.
(Article 2.3.c) of the Royal Decree 679/2014, of 1 August 2014 on the control of external trade in defence material, other material and dual-use goods and technologies).
If a broker has grounds for suspecting that dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation, are or may be intended for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1) and 4(2) of the Regulation, the broker shall notify the competent authority, which may decide to impose an authorisation requirement.
(Par. 3 of the Act on Control of dual-use items (OG 80/11 i 68/2013)).
An authorisation shall be required for the brokering of dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation if the broker has grounds for suspecting that the items are or may be intended for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1) of the Regulation.
In accordance with the Latvian Law on the Circulation of Strategic Goods, all brokering transactions for dual-use items are controlled regardless of their use.
(Par. 17 (2) of Government Decree No 13 of 2011 ‘on the foreign trade authorisation of dual-use items).
An authorisation shall be required for the brokering of listed dual-use items when the items are or may be intended for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1) of the Regulation.
(Article 4a(5) of the Strategic Services Act - Wet strategische diensten).
If a broker has grounds for suspecting that dual-use items, are or may be intended for any of the uses referred to in Article 4(1) of the Regulation, the broker shall notify the competent authority, which may decide to impose an authorisation requirement.
(Par. 3 of Article 14 of the Emergency Order No 119 of 23 December 2010 (GEO No 119/2010) on the control regime for operations concerning dual-use items).
(Par.3.2, 4.4 of law 562/1996).
4. INFORMATION PROVIDED BY MEMBER STATES IN CONFORMITY WITH ARTICLE 6(2) OF THE REGULATION (EXTENSION OF TRANSIT CONTROLS)
Article 6(2) in conjunction with Article 6(4) of the Regulation requires the Commission to publish measures taken by Member States empowering their competent authorities to impose in individual cases an authorisation requirement for the specific transit of dual-use items listed in Annex I if the items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for uses referred to in Article 4(1).
The table below provides an overview of the measures taken by Member States, as notified to the Commission. Details on the measures are provided thereafter.
Have the transit control provisions of Article 6(1) been extended in relation with Article 6(2)?
Partly YES
An authorisation for transit of listed dual-use items may be required, in the Flemish Region and the Walloon Region, when the authority informs the intermediary or when the intermediary has reasonable grounds to suspect that the items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for uses referred to in Article 4(1) of the Regulation.
(Article 6 and 7 of the Flemish Government Decree of 14 March 2014 regulating export, transit and transfer of dual-use and the delivery of technical assistance (Belgian Official Gazette of 02.05.2014); Article 5 and 6 of the Walloon Government Decree of 6 February 2014 regulating export, transit and transfer of dual-use items and technology (Belgian Official Gazette of 19.02.2014)).
An authorisation for transit of listed dual-use items may be required when the items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for uses referred to in Article 4(1) of the Regulation.
(Articles 48-50 of the ‘Defence-Related Products and Dual-Use Items and Technologies Export Control Act’, State Gazette No. 26/29.03.2011).
4.3. Germany
(Section 44 of the German Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation - Aussenwirtschaftsverordnung — AWV).
(Par. 3, 6 and 7 of the Strategic Goods Act (SGA)).
(Section 10 of Statutory Instrument 443 of 2009, Control of Exports (Dual-Use Items) Order 2009).
An authorisation for transit of listed dual-use items - also called Special Transit Licence - may be required when the items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for uses referred to in Article 4(1) of the Regulation.
(Act on Control of dual-use items (OG 80/11 i 68/2013).
An authorisation for transit of listed dual-use items may be required when the items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for uses referred to in Article 4(1) and (2) of the Regulation.
(Law of 27 June 2018 on export control, Article 43(1))
(Par.18 of Government Decree No 13 of 2011 on the foreign trade authorisation of dual-use items).
(Article 15 of the 2011 Foreign Trade Act - Außenwirtschaftsgesetz 2011, BGBl. I Nr. 26/2011).
(Par. 1 of Article 15 of the Emergency Order No 119 of 23 December 2010 (GEO No 119/2010) ‘on the control regime for operations concerning dual-use items’).
(Par.3.3 of law 562/1996).
4.14. United Kingdom
(Article 8(1), 17 and 26 of the Export Control Order 2008, as amended by The Export Control (Amendment) (No 3) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2151)).
Article 6(3) in conjunction with Article 6(4) of the Regulation requires the Commission to publish measures taken by Member States extending the application of Article 6(1) to non-listed dual-use items for uses referred to in Article 4(1) and to dual-use items for military end use and destinations referred to in Article 4(2).
Have the transit control provisions set out in Article 6(1) been extended in relation with Article 6(3)?
The transit of non-Union non-listed dual-use items may be prohibited by the competent authorities, in the Flemish Region and the Walloon Region, if the items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for uses referred to in Article 4(1).
The transit of non-Union dual-use items may be prohibited by the competent authorities, in the Flemish Region and the Walloon Region, if the items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for military end use and destinations referred to in Article 4(2).
(Article 6 and 7 of the Flemish Government Decree of 14 March 2014 regulating export, transit and transfer of dual-use items and the delivery of technical assistance (Belgian Official Gazette of 02.05.2014); Article 5 and 6 of the Walloon Government Decree of 6 February 2014 regulating export, transit and transfer of dual-use items and technology (Belgian Official Gazette of 19.02.2014).
The transit of non-Union non-listed dual-use items may be prohibited by the competent authority if the items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for uses referred to in Article 4(1).
The transit of non-Union dual-use items may be prohibited by the competent authority if the items are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for military end use and destinations referred to in Article 4(2).
(Par. 13b of the Act No 594/2004 Coll. ‘Implementing the European Community Regime for the Control of Exports, Transfer, Brokering, and Transit of Dual-Use Items' (1)).
(Par. 3.3.3. of the Ministerial Decision No 121837/e3/21837/28-9-2009).
(Article 11 of Act 53/2007).
5.9. Cyprus
(Article 5(3) of Ministerial Order 312/2009).
(Law of 27 June 2018 on export control, Article 43 (2))
These provisions shall not apply to the transit of dual-use goods dispatched without transhipment or change of means of transport (no transhipment or change of conveyance shall be deemed to be the discharge, for the purpose of securing the cargo, of goods in a ship or aircraft, provided that such goods are re-embarked on the same ship or aircraft), and to the transit of dual-use items for which there is already a general export authorization from the European Union.
(Law of 27 June 2018 on export control, Article 43 (3)).
(Par. 18 of the Government Decree No 13 of 2011 ‘on foreign trade authorisation of dual-use items’).
5.12. The Netherlands
(Article 4a(1) and (2) of the Decree for Strategic Goods - Besluit strategische goederen).
(Article 15 of the 2011 Foreign Trade Act (Außenwirtschaftsgesetz 2011, BGBl. I Nr. 26/2011).
(Article 15(2) of the Emergency Order No 119 of 23 December 2010 (GEO No 119/2010).
(Par. 3.3 and 4.1 of law 562/1996)
(Article 8(2), 17(3) and 26 of The Export Control Order 2008, as amended by the Export Control (Amendment) (No 3) Order 2009 (S.I.2009/2151)).
6. INFORMATION PROVIDED BY MEMBER STATES IN CONFORMITY WITH ARTICLE 8 OF THE REGULATION (EXTENSION OF CONTROLS TO NON-LISTED ITEMS FOR REASONS OF PUBLIC SECURITY OR HUMAN RIGHTS CONSIDERATIONS)
Article 8(4) of the Regulation requires the Commission to publish measures taken by Member States prohibiting or imposing an authorisation requirement on the export of dual-use items not listed in Annex I for reasons of public security or human rights considerations.
Have additional controls been implemented concerning non-listed goods for reasons of public security or human rights considerations in relation with Article 8(1)?
The export of dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation may be subject to authorisation or prohibited, by an act of the Council of Ministers, for reasons of public security or human rights considerations.
(Article 34(1), рar. 3 of the Defence-Related Products and Dual-Use Items and Technologies Export Control Act, State Gazette No. 26/29.03.2011).
The export of dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation may be subject to authorisation or prohibited, by Government Order, for reasons of public security or human rights considerations.
(Par. 3(1)(d) of the Act No 594/2004 Coll).
The export of dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation may be subject to authorisation or prohibited for reasons of public security or human rights consideration.
(Section 8 (1) Nr. 2 of the Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation (Aussenwirtschaftsverordnung - AWV)).
This national measure applies to the following items on the German Export Control List:
– 2B909
Flow forming machines and machines with combined flow forming and spin-forming functions, other than those controlled by 2B009, 2B109 or 2B209 in the framework of Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009 as amended, having all of the following characteristics, and specially designed components therefor:
which, according to the manufacturer's technical specification, can be equipped with numerical control units, computer control or play-back control; and
a roller force of more than 60 kN, if the purchasing country or country of destination is Syria.
Equipment capable of use in handling biological substances, other than that controlled by 2B352 in the framework of Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009 as amended, if the purchasing country or country of destination is Iran, North Korea or Syria:
fermenters, capable of cultivation of pathogenic 'micro-organisms' or viruses, or capable of toxin production, without the propagation of aerosols and having a total capacity of 10 l or more;
agitators for fermenters controlled by 2B352(a) in the framework of Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009 as amended.
Technical note:
Fermenters include bioreactors, chemostats and continuous-flow systems.
Equipment for the deposition of metallic overlays for non-electronic substrates as follows, and specially designed components and accessories therefor, if the purchasing country or country of destination is Iran:
chemical vapour deposition (CVD) production equipment;
electron beam physical vapour deposition (EB-PVD) production equipment;
production equipment for deposition by means of inductive or resistance heating.
– 5A902
Surveillance systems, equipment and components for ICT (Information and Communication Technology) for public networks, where the destination lies outside the customs territory of the European Union and outside the areas listed in Annex IIa Part 2 of Regulation (EC) No 428/2009, as follows:
Monitoring centres (Law Enforcement Monitoring Facilities) for Lawful Interception Systems (LI, for example according to ETSI ES 201 158, ETSI ES 201 671 or equivalent standards, specifications or standards) and specially designed components therefor,
Retention systems or devices for call data (Intercept Related Information IRI, for example, according to ETSI TS 102 656 or equivalent standards, specifications or standards) and specially designed components therefor.
Call data includes signalling information, origin and destination (e.g. phone numbers, IP or MAC addresses, etc.), date and time and geographical origin of communication.
5A902 does not control systems, or devices that are specially designed for any the following purposes:
data collection functions within network elements (e.g., Exchange or HLR)
quality of service of the network (Quality of Service - QoS) or
user satisfaction (Quality of Experience - QoE)
operation at telecommunications companies (service providers).
Base stations for digital 'trunked radio' if the purchasing country or country of destination is Sudan or South Sudan.
Trunked radio' is a cellular radio communications procedure with mobile subscribers who are assigned frequency trunks for communication. Digital 'trunked radio' (e.g. TETRA, terrestrial trunked radio) uses digital modulation.
– 5D902
'Software', where the destination lies outside the customs territory of the European Union and outside the areas listed in Annex IIa Part 2 of Regulation (EC) No 428/2009, as follows:
'software' specifically designed or modified for the 'development', 'production' or 'use' of installations, functions or performance parameters controlled by entry 5A902;
'software' specifically designed or modified for the achievement of characteristics, functions or performance parameters controlled by entry 5A902.
'Software' specially designed or modified for the 'use' of equipment, which is controlled by item 5 A911, if the purchasing country or country of destination is Sudan or South Sudan.
– 5E902
'Technology' according to the General Technology Note for the 'development', 'production' and 'use' of installations, functions or performance characteristics controlled by entry 5A902, or 'software' controlled by entry 5D902, where the destination lies outside the customs territory of the European Union and outside the areas listed in Annex IIa Part 2 of Regulation (EC) No 428/2009.
Radar-based navigation or surveillance systems for vessel or airborne traffic control, not controlled by items 6A008 or 6A108 in the framework of Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009 as amended, and specially designed components therefor, if the purchasing country or country of destination is Iran.
'Software', specially developed or modified for the 'development', 'production' or 'use' of the equipment controlled by 6A908, if the purchasing country or country of destination is Iran.
Ground vehicles not covered by Part I A of the Export Control List, as follows:
flatbed trailers and semitrailers with a payload exceeding 25 000 kg and less than 70 000 kg, or having one or more military features and being capable of transporting vehicles controlled by 0006 in Part I A as well as traction vehicles capable of their transportation and having one or more military features if the purchasing country or country of destination is Iran, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, Somalia or Syria;
Traction vehicles within the meaning of 9A991a comprise all vehicles with primary traction function;
other trucks and off-road vehicles having one or more military features, if the purchasing country or country of destination is Iran, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Somalia or Syria.
Note 1: Military features as defined by 9A991 include:
fording capability of 1,2 m or more;
mountings for guns and weapons;
mountings for camouflage netting;
roof lights, round with sliding or swinging cover;
military enamelling;
hook coupling for trailers in conjunction with a so-called NATO-socket.
Note 2: 9A991 does not control ground vehicles when accompanying their users for their own personal use.
Trucks, as follows:
all-wheel-drive trucks with a payload exceeding 1 000 kg, if the purchasing country or country of destination is North Korea;
trucks with three or more axles and a maximum permissible gross laden weight of more than 20 000 kg, if the purchasing country or country of destination is Iran or Syria.
Helicopters, helicopter power transfer systems, gas turbine engines and auxiliary power units (APUs) for use in helicopters, and specially designed components therefor, if the purchasing country or country of destination is Cuba, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Somalia or Syria.
Air-cooled power units (aero-engines) with a cubic capacity of 100 cm3 or more and 600 cm3 or less, capable of use in unmanned 'air vehicles', and specially designed components therefor, if the purchasing country or country of destination is Iran.
'Technology' according to the General Technology Note for the 'development' or 'production' of equipment controlled by 9A993, if the purchasing country or country of destination is Cuba, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, or Syria.
‘Technology’ according to the General Technology Note, other than controlled by 9E101b in the framework of Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009 as amended, for the ‘production’ of ‘unmanned aerial vehicles’ (‘UAVs’), if the destination is outside the customs territory of the European Union and outside the areas listed in Annex IIa Part 2 of Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009.
The export authorisation requirement under Section 5(d) AWV for non-listed goods continues to apply in section 9 AWV.
Under Section 6 of the Foreign Trade and Payments Act (Aussenwirtschaftsgesetz - AWG), transactions, legal transactions and actions can be restricted, or obligations to act can be imposed by administrative act, in order to avert a danger pertaining in an individual case to the interests e.g. the essential security interests of the Federal Republic of Germany, the peaceful coexistence of nations, the foreign relations of the Federal Republic of Germany, the public order or security of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The export of dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation may be subject to authorisation or prohibited, by decision of the Strategic Goods Commission, for reasons of public security or human rights considerations.
(Par. 2 (11) and 6 (2) of the Strategic Goods Act).
The export of dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation may be subject to authorisation or prohibited for reasons of public security or human rights considerations.
(Section 12(2) of Statutory Instrument 443 of 2009, Control of Exports (Dual-Use Items) Order 2009, as amended).
6.6. France
The export of dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation may be subject to authorisation or prohibited for reasons of public security or human rights considerations. (Decree No 2010-292).
National controls on exports of dual-use items have been adopted, as set out in following orders: Ministerial Order of 31 July 2014 concerning the export of certain helicopters and their spare parts to third countries (Published in the French Official Gazette of 8 August 2014) and Ministerial Order of 31 July 2014 on the export of tear gas and riot control agents to third countries (Published in the French Official Gazette of 8 August 2014).
The export of dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation may be subject to authorisation or prohibited by the Ministry of Energy, Commerce, Industry and Tourism for reasons of public security or human rights considerations.
(Articles 5(3) and 10(c) of Ministerial Order 312/2009).
The export of dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation may be subject to authorisation or prohibited by the Control Committee for Strategic Goods for reasons of public security or human rights considerations.
(Regulation of the Cabinet of Ministers No 645 of 25 September 2007 - 'Regulation on the National List of Strategic Goods and Services' - issued in accordance with the 'Law on the Handling of Strategic Goods', Article 3, Part One).
National controls on exports of dual-use items apply to the National List of Strategic Goods and Services (Annex to Regulation No 645), available at the following website:
https://likumi.lv/doc.php?id=163892.
The exporter who knows or suspects that such export or these products affect or are likely to affect the national or foreign security of the country of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg or the safeguarding of human rights, shall inform the Ministers responsible for Foreign Trade and Foreign Affairs who inform the exporter or his authorized representative of the need or not to request the authorization.
(Law of 27 June 2018, Article 45 (2)).
The export of dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation may be subject to authorisation or prohibited by the Minister of Foreign Affairs for reasons of public security or human rights considerations.
(Article 4 of the Decree for Strategic Goods - Besluit strategische goederen).
National controls for the export of items for internal repression and brokering services to Syria and for the export of items for internal repression to Egypt and Ukraine have been adopted.
(Decree Goods for Dual-Use - Regeling goederen voor tweeërlei gebruik).
Authorisation requirements have been imposed for the export of 37 chemical substances to Iraq, regardless of the specific consignee or end-user.
(Decree Goods for Dual-Use Iraq – Regeling goederen voor tweeërlei gebruik Irak).
The export or transit of dual-use items not listed in Annex I of the Regulation may be subject to authorisation or prohibited for reasons of public security or human rights considerations.
(Article 20 of the 2011 Foreign Trade Act (Außenwirtschaftsgesetz 2011, BGBl. I Nr. 26/2011)).
(Article 7 of the Emergency Order No 119 of 23 December 2010 (GEO No 119/2010) on the control regime for operations concerning dual-use items).
(Export Control Order 2008).
The list of UK controlled dual-use items is set out in Schedule 3 of the Export Control Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/3231) as amended by the Export Control (Amendment) (No 2) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2007) and by The Export Control (Amendement) (No. 2) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1159), as follows:
Schedule referred to in Articles 2 and 4 of the Export Control Order 2008 UK CONTROLLED DUAL-USE GOODS, SOFTWARE AND TECHNOLOGY
Note: In this Schedule, defined terms are printed in quotation marks.
In this Schedule:
'development' means all stages prior to 'production' (e.g. design, design research, design analyses, design concepts, assembly and testing of prototypes, pilot production schemes, design data, process of transforming design data into goods, configuration design, integration design, layouts);
'energetic materials' means substances or mixtures that react chemically to release energy required for their intended application; 'explosives', 'pyrotechnics' and 'propellants' are subclasses of energetic materials;
'explosive signatures' are features which are characteristic of explosives in any form prior to their initiation, as detected using technology including, but not limited to, ion mobility spectrometry, chemiluminescence, fluorescence, nuclear, acoustic or electromagnetic techniques;
'explosives' means solid, liquid or gaseous substances or mixtures of substances which, in their application as primary, booster, or main charges in warheads, demolition and other applications, are required to detonate;
'improvised explosive devices' means devices fabricated or intended to be placed in an improvised manner incorporating destructive, lethal, noxious, 'pyrotechnic' or incendiary chemicals designed to destroy, disfigure or harass; they may incorporate military stores, but are normally devised from non-military components;
'lighter-than-air vehicles' means balloons and airships that rely on hot air or on lighter-than-air gases such as helium or hydrogen for their lift;
'previously separated' means the application of any process intended to increase the concentration of the controlled isotope;
'production' means all production stages (e.g. product engineering, manufacture, integration, assembly (mounting), inspection, testing, quality assurance);
'propellants' means substances or mixtures that react chemically to produce large volumes of hot gases at controlled rates to perform mechanical work;
'pyrotechnic(s)' means mixtures of solid or liquid fuels and oxidisers which, when ignited, undergo an energetic chemical reaction at a controlled rate intended to produce specific time delays, or quantities of heat, noise, smoke, visible light or infrared radiation; pyrophorics are a subclass of pyrotechnics, which contain no oxidisers but ignite spontaneously on contact with air;
'required' as applied to 'technology', refers to only that portion of 'technology' which is peculiarly responsible for achieving or exceeding the controlled performance levels, characteristics or functions. Such 'required' 'technology' may be shared by different goods and the intended use of 'technology' is irrelevant to whether it is 'required';
'technology' means specific 'information' necessary for the 'development', 'production' or 'use' of goods or 'software';
'Information' may take forms including, but not limited to: blueprints, plans, diagrams, models, formulae, tables, 'source code', engineering designs and specifications, manuals and instructions written or recorded on other media or devices (e.g. disk, tape, read-only memories);
'source code' (or source language) is a convenient expression of one or more processes which may be turned by a programming system into equipment executable form.
'use' means operation, installation (e.g. on-site installation), maintenance, checking, repair, overhaul and refurbishing;
'vaccines' are medicinal products in a pharmaceutical formulation licensed by, or having marketing or clinical trial authorisation from, the regulatory authorities of either the country of manufacture or of use, which is intended to stimulate a protective immunological response in humans or animals in order to prevent disease in those to whom or to which it is administered.
Explosive-related goods and technology
The export or 'transfer by electronic means' of the following goods or 'technology' is prohibited to any destination outside all of the following: 'the customs territory', Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Norway, Switzerland, United States of America and Japan:
Equipment and devices, other than those in Schedule 2 or in 1A004.d, 1A005, 1A006, 1A007, 1A008, 3A229, 3A232 or 5A001.h in Annex I to 'the dual-use Regulation', for detection of or use with 'explosives' or for dealing with or protecting against 'improvised explosive devices', as follows, and specially designed components therefor:
Electronic equipment designed to detect 'explosives' or 'explosive signatures';
NB: See also 1A004.d in Annex I to 'the dual-use Regulation'.
Note: PL8001.a.1 does not control equipment requiring operator judgement to establish the presence of 'explosives' or 'explosive signatures'.
Electronic jamming equipment specially designed to prevent the detonation by radio remote control of 'improvised explosive devices';
NB: See also 5A001.h. in Annex I to 'the dual-use Regulation'.
Equipment and devices specially designed to initiate explosions by electrical or nonelectrical means, (e.g., firing sets, detonators and igniters);
NB: See also 1A007, 1A008, 3A229 and 3A232 in Annex I to 'the dual-use Regulation'.
Note: PL8001.a.3 does not control:
Equipment and devices specially designed for a specific commercial use consisting of the actuation or operation by explosive means of other equipment or devices the function of which is not the initiation or creation of explosions;
pressure controlled equipment specially designed for down-hole oilfield equipment applications and which are incapable of use at atmospheric pressure; and
detonating cord.
Equipment and devices, including, but not limited to: shields and helmets, specially designed for the disposal of 'improvised explosive devices';
N.B.: See also 1A005, 1A006 and 5A001.h. in Annex I to 'the dual-use Regulation'. Note: PL8001.a.4 does not control bomb blankets, mechanical handling equipment for manoeuvring or exposing 'improvised explosive devices', containers designed for holding 'improvised explosive devices' or objects suspected of being such devices or other equipment specially designed to temporarily protect against 'improvised explosive devices' or objects suspected of being such devices.
Linear cutting explosive charges other than those listed at entry 1A008 of Annex I to 'the dual-use Regulation';
'Technology' 'required' for the 'use' of goods in PL8001.a and PL8001.b.
NB: See Article 18 of this Order (Export Control Order 2008) for exceptions from the controls on 'technology'.
Materials, chemicals, micro-organisms and toxins
The export of the following goods is prohibited to any destination:
'Energetic materials', as follows, and mixtures containing one or more thereof:
Nitrocellulose (containing more than 12,5 % nitrogen);
Nitroglycol;
Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN);
Picryl chloride;
Trinitrophenylmethylnitramine (tetryl);
2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene (TNT).
Note: PL9002 does not control single, double and triple base 'propellants'.
'Vaccines' for protection against:
bacillus anthracis;
botulinum toxin.
'Previously separated' americium-241, -242m or -243 in any form.
Note: PL9004 does not control goods with an amerícium content of 10 grams or less.
Telecommunications and related technology
The export or 'transfer by electronic means' of the following goods or 'technology' is prohibited to any destinations in Iran:
Tropospheric scatter communication equipment using analogue or digital modulation techniques and specially designed components therefor;
Technology for the 'development', 'production' or 'use' of goods specified in PL9005.a.
The export of 'electro-statically powered' equipment for detecting 'explosives', other than detection equipment specified in Schedule 2, PL8001.a.1 or in 1A004.d. in Annex I to 'the dual-use Regulation', is prohibited to any destination in Afghanistan or Iraq.
'Electro-statically powered' means using electro-statically generated charge.
Vessels and related software and technology
The export or 'transfer by electronic means' of the following goods, 'software' or 'technology', is prohibited to any destination in Iran:
'Vessels', inflatable craft and 'submersible vehicles', and related equipment and components, as follows, other than those specified in Schedule 2 to this Order (Export Control Order 2008) or Annex I to 'the dual-use Regulation':
Marine 'vessels' (surface or underwater), inflatable craft and 'submersible vehicles';
Equipment and components designed for 'vessels', inflatable craft and 'submersible vehicles' as follows:
Hull and keel structures and components;
Propulsive engines designed or modified for marine use and specially designed components therefor;
Marine radar, sonar and speed log equipment, and specially designed components therefor;
'Software' designed for the 'development', 'production' or 'use' of goods specified in PL9008.a;
'Technology' for the 'development', 'production' or 'use' of goods or 'software' specified in PL9008.a or PL9008.b.
'Submersible vehicles' include manned, unmanned, tethered or untethered vehicles.
Aircraft and related technology
The export or 'transfer by electronic means' of the following goods or 'technology' is prohibited to any destination in Iran:
'Aircraft', 'lighter-than-air vehicles' and steerable parachutes, and related equipment and components, as follows, other than those specified in Schedule 2 to this Order (Export Control Order 2008) or Annex I to 'the dual-use Regulation':
'Aircraft', 'lighter-than-air vehicles' and steerable parachutes;
Equipment and components designed for 'aircraft' and 'lighter-than-air vehicles', as follows:
Airframe structures and components;
Aero-engines and auxiliary power units (APU)s and specially designed components therefor;
Avionics and navigation equipment and specially designed components therefor;
Landing gear and specially designed components therefor, and aircraft tyres;
Propellers and rotors;
Transmissions and gearboxes, and specially designed components therefor;
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) recovery systems;
Not used;
'Technology/ for the 'development', 'production' or 'use' of goods specified in PL9009.a.
N.B.: See Article 18 of this Order (Export Control Order 2008) for exceptions from the controls on 'technology'.
Note: PL9009.c. does not control technical data, drawings or documentation for maintenance activities directly associated with calibration, removal or replacement of damaged or unserviceable goods that are necessary for the continuing airworthiness and safe operation of civil 'aircraft'.
N.B. Military firearms and ammunition are controlled in ML1, ML2 and ML3 in Schedule 2.
Where the “Firearm Regulation” does not apply, the export of “firearms”, their “parts” and “essential components” and “ammunition”, as follows, is prohibited to any destination outside the European Union:
N.B.: See also the “Firearm Regulation” for the export of “firearms” to non-EU Member States.
“Firearms” other than those specified in ML1 or ML2 of Schedule 2;
Note: PL9010.a. includes pre-1938 “firearms”, post 1937 smooth-bore “firearms” that are not fully automatic or specially designed for military use and post 1937 “firearms” using non-centre fire (e.g. rimfire) cased “ammunition” and which are not of the fully automatic firing type.
“Parts” (including sound suppressors or moderators) or “essential components” specially designed for “firearms” specified in PL9010.a. above;
“Ammunition” specially designed for “firearms” specified in PL9010.a. above;
“Software” designed for “development” or “production” of semi-automatic or pump action type smooth-bore “firearms” manufactured in 1938 or later;
“Technology” for the “development” or “production” of semi-automatic or pump action type smooth-bore “firearms” manufactured in 1938 or later.
N.B.: See article 18 of this Order (Export Control Order 2008) for exceptions from the controls on “technology”.
Note: PL9010 does not control:
“Firearms” manufactured earlier than 1890 and reproductions thereof;
“Parts” (including sound suppressors or moderators), “essential components” or “ammunition”, specially designed for “firearms” specified in Note 1 above;
“Firearms” to which the “Deactivation Regulation” applies which have been deactivated and marked in accordance with the technical specifications set out in Annex I and II to the Deactivation Regulation;
“Firearms” to which the “Deactivation Regulation” does not apply which bear a mark and are certified as having been rendered incapable of discharging any shot, bullet or other missile in accordance with section 8 of the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988
Where the “Firearm Regulation” does not apply, the export of “firearms”, devices, “essential components”, sound suppressors or moderators and “ammunition”, as follows, is prohibited to any destination inside the European Union:
N.B.: See also the Firearm Regulation and PL9010 for exports of “firearms” to non-EU Member States.
“Software” designed for the “development” or “production” of semi-automatic or pump action type smooth-bore “firearms” manufactured in 1938 or later;
“Technology” for the “development” or “production” of semi-automatic or pump action type smooth-bore “firearms” manufactured in 1938 or later;
Devices for firing blanks, irritants, other active substances or pyrotechnic rounds that are capable of being converted to a “firearm”;
Devices for salute or acoustic applications that are capable of being converted to a “firearm”.
“Firearms” manufactured earlier than 1890;
“Firearms” to which the “Deactivation Regulation” applies which have been deactivated and marked in accordance with the technical specifications set out in Annexes I and II to the Deactivation Regulation”.
Submersible Vessels and related goods, software and technology
The export or “transfer by electronic means” of the following goods, “software” or “technology” is prohibited to any destination in Russia:
‘submersible vehicles’, and related systems, equipment and components, as follows, other than those specified in Schedule 2 to this Order or Annex I to “the dual-use Regulation”:
‘submersible vehicles’ and specially designed components therefor;
Subsea ploughs and specially designed components therefor;
Systems, equipment and components for use with ‘submersible vehicles’ and subsea ploughs, as follows:
Marine acoustic systems and equipment, as follows:
sonar equipment;
velocity log equipment;
underwater altimeters;
Navigation equipment specially designed for ‘submersible vehicles’;
Acoustic systems and equipment designed to determine the position of ‘submersible vehicles’ including via surface vessels;
Propulsion motors or thrusters for ‘submersible vehicles’;
Umbilical cables and connectors therefor, specially designed or modified for ‘submersible vehicles’;
Umbilical winches, tow winches and lifting winches;
Tethers and tether systems, for ‘submersible vehicles’;
Lighting systems specially designed or modified for underwater use;
Underwater vision systems;
Underwater communication systems;
Pressure sensors specially designed for underwater use;
Launch and recovery systems and equipment for deploying ‘submersible vehicles’ and specially designed components therefor;
Trenching tools and jetting tools, specially designed or modified for use with ‘submersible vehicles’;
Control systems and equipment specially designed or modified for the remote operation of ‘submersible vehicles’;
Remotely controlled articulated manipulators specially designed or modified for use with ‘submersible vehicles’;
Subsea cable detection systems;
Cable cutting, clamping and handling equipment, specially designed or modified for use with ‘submersible vehicles’;
Subsea telecoms handling systems and equipment;
Tools specially designed or modified to be operated by ‘submersible vehicles’ or articulated manipulators;
Syntactic foam;
Pressure housings specially designed or modified for use on ‘submersible vehicles’;
Biological, chemical or physical environmental sensors designed or modified to be used underwater;
Azimuth adjustable propulsion systems for use in surface vessels with a propeller diameter of greater than 2m;
“Software” designed for the “development”, “production” or “use” of goods specified in PL9012.a. and PL9012.b.
“Technology” for the “development”, “production” or “use” of goods or “software” specified in PL9012.a., PL9012.b. or PL9012.c.
‘Submersible vehicles’ include manned, unmanned, tethered or untethered vehicles.”.
7. INFORMATION PROVIDED BY MEMBER STATES IN CONFORMITY WITH ARTICLE 9(4)(B) OF THE REGULATION (NATIONAL GENERAL EXPORT AUTHORISATIONS)
Article 9(4)(b) of the Regulation requires the Commission to publish measures taken by Member States with regard to any national general export authorisations issued or modified.
Has your Member State issued or modified any national general export authorisation in relation with Article 9?
YES (but NOT in use)
There are five National General Export Authorisations in force in Germany:
General Authorisation No 12 for the export of certain dual-use goods below a certain value threshold;
General Authorisation No 13 for the export of certain dual-use goods in certain circumstances;
General Authorisation No 14 for valves and pumps;
General Authorisation No 16 for telecommunications and data security;
General Authorisation No 17 for frequency changers.
A National General Export Authorisation applies for export of certain dual-use items to the following destinations: Argentina, Croatia, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Turkey and South Africa.
(Ministerial Decision No 125263/e3/25263/6-2-2007).
There are seven National General Export Authorisations in force in France:
National General Export Authorisation for industrial goods, as defined in the decree of 18 July 2002 concerning the export of industrial goods subject to strategic control in the European Community [as published in the Official Journal of the French Republic No 176 of 30 July 2002 (text 11) and as amended by the decree of 21 June 2004 concerning the enlargement of the European Union as published in the Official Journal of the French Republic of 31 July 2004 (text 5)];
National General Export Authorisation for chemical products, as defined in the decree of 18 July 2002 concerning the export of dual-use chemical products [as published in the Official Journal of the French Republic No 176 of 30 July 2002 (text 12) and as amended by the decree of 21 June 2004 concerning the enlargement of the European Union as published in the Official Journal of the French Republic of 31 July 2004 (text 6)];
National General Export Authorisation for graphite, as defined in the decree of 18 July 2002 concerning the export of nuclear quality graphite [as published in the Official Journal of the French Republic No 176 of 30 July 2002 (text 13) and as amended by the decree of 21 June 2004 concerning the enlargement of the European Union as published in the Official Journal of the French Republic of 31 July 2004 (text 7)];
National General Export Authorisation for biological products, as defined in the decree of 14 May 2007 and amended by the decree of 18 march 2010 concerning the export of certain genetic elements and genetically modified organisms [as published in the Official Journal of the French Republic of 20 march 2010];
National General Export Authorisation for certain dual-use items for French armed forces in third countries (Ministerial Order of 31 July 2014, published in the French Official Gazette of 8 August 2014);
National General Authorisation for the export or transfer within the EU of certain dual-use items for exhibition or fair (Ministerial Order of 31 July 2014 published in the French Official Gazette of 8 August 2014).
National General Authorization for the export of dual-use items for the repair of civil aircraft, also named National General Authorization for “aeronautical equipment” (Ministerial Order of 14 January 2019 published in the Official Journal of the French Republic of 18 January 2019 (text 19).
The specific items covered by the authorisations are set out in the relevant decrees.
A National General Export Authorisation for the export of dual-use items in accordance with Article 9(4) of the Regulation may be issued by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (Act on Control of Dual-Use Items (OG 80/11 i 68/2013)).
A National General Export Authorisation applies for export of certain dual-use items to the following destinations: Antarctica (Italian bases), Argentina, Republic of Korea, Turkey.
(Decree of 4 August 2003 published in the Official Journal No 202 of 1 September 2003).
7.6. The Netherlands
There are two National General Export Authorisations in force in the Netherlands:
A National General Export Authorisation applies for export of certain dual-use items to all destinations, with the exception of:
Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zeeland, Norway, USA, Switzerland (which are covered already by Annex II Part 3 to the Regulation);
Afghanistan, Burma/Myanmar, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Lebanon, North Korea, Pakistan, Sudan, Somalia and Syria.
(National General Authorisation NL002 - Nationale Algemene Uitvoervergunning NL002)
A National General Export Authorisation for the export of items for information security to all destinations, with the exception of:
Countries that are subject to an arms embargo, according to article 4(2);
Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrein, Bangladesh, Burundi, China (including Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau), Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial-Guinea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinee(-Conakry), Guinee-Bissau, India, Yemen, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Laos, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Rwanda, Saudi-Arabia, Swaziland, Syria, Tadzhikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam.
(National General Authorisation NL010 – Nationale Uitvoervergunningen NL 010 (items voor informatiebeveiliging))
There are four National General Export Authorisations in force in Austria:
AT001 for certain dual use items where they are re-exported to the originating country without modification, or where items of the same quantity and quality are exported to the originating country, or where technology is re-exported with minor additions, all within three months after their import into the European Union;
AT002 for the export of certain dual-use goods below a certain value threshold;
AT003 for valves and pumps specified in entries 2B350g and 2B350i to certain destinations;
AT004 for frequency changers specified in entry 3A225 and related software and technology.
The details of these authorisations are set out in Articles 3 through 3c of the First Foreign Trade Ordinance, BGBl. II No 343/2011 of 28 October 2011 as amended by Ordinance BGBl. II No 430/2015 of 17 December 2015. The conditions for their use (registration and notification requirements) can be found in Article 16 of the same Ordinance.
A National General Export Authorisation for the export of dual-use items in accordance with Article 9(4) of the Regulation may be issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs pursuant to Section 3, Paragraph 1 of Dual Use Act No. 562/1996 (as amended).
There are fifteen National General Authorisations (OGELs) in force in the United Kingdom:
OGEL (Chemicals)
OGEL (Cryptographic Development)
OGEL (Export After Exhibition Dual-Use Items
OGEL (Export After Repair/Replacement Under Warranty: Dual-Use Items)
OGEL ( Export For Repair/Replacement Under Warranty: Dual-Use Items)
OGEL (Dual-Use Items: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region)
OGEL (Low Value Shipments)
OGEL ( OIL and GAS Exploration Dual-Items)
OGEL ( Technology for Dual-Use Items)
OGEL (Turkey)
OGEL (X)
OGEL (Military and Dual-Use Goods: UK forces deployed in embargoed destinations)
OGEL (Military and Dual-Use Goods: UK forces deployed in non-embargoed destinations)
OGEL (Exports of Non-Lethal Military and Dual-Use goods: To Diplomatic Missions or Consular Posts)
OGEL (Information Security Items)
OGEL (PCB’s and Components for Dual-Use Items)
All UK National General Authorisations for dual-use items, including the lists of permitted items and destinations and the terms and conditions attached to each, are available to view and download from https://www.gov.uk/dual-use-open-general-export-licences-explained .
8. INFORMATION PROVIDED BY MEMBER STATES IN CONFORMITY WITH ARTICLES 9(6)(A), 9(6)(B) and 10(4) OF THE REGULATION (NATIONAL AUTHORITIES EMPOWERED TO GRANT EXPORT LICENCES IN THE MEMBER STATES NATIONAL AUTHORITIES EMPOWERED TO PROHIBIT THE TRANSIT OF NON¬COMMUNITY DUAL-USE ITEMS AND NATIONAL AUTHORITIES EMPOWERED TO GRANT AUTHORISATIONS FOR THE PROVISION OF BROKERING SERVICES – RESPECTIVELY)
Article 9(6)(a) of the Regulation requires the Commission to publish the list of authorities empowered to grant export authorisations for dual-use items.
Article 9(6)(b) of the Regulation requires the Commission to publish the list of authorities empowered to prohibit the transit of non-Community dual-use items.
Article 10(4) of the Regulation requires the Commission to publish the list of authorities empowered to grant authorisation for the provision of brokering services.
For the Brussels Capital Region (localities with postal codes 1000 to 1299)
Service Public Régional de Bruxelles Brussels International -
Cellule licences - Cel vergunningen
Mr Cataldo ALU
City-Center
Boulevard du Jardin Botanique 20
1035 Bruxelles/Brussel
BELGIQUE/BELGIË
Tel. +32 28003727
Email: calu@sprb.brussels
Website: http://international.brussels/qui-sommes-nous/#permits-unit
For the Walloon Region (localities with postal codes 1300 to 1499 and 4000 to 7999)
Service public de Wallonie
Direction Générale de l'Économie, de l'Emploi et de la Recherche
Direction des Licences d'Armes
Mr Michel Moreels
Chaussée de Louvain 14
Fax +32 81649759/60
Email: licences.dgo6@spw.wallonie.be
Website: http://economie.wallonie.be/Licences_armes/Accueil.html
For the Flanders Region (localities with postal codes 1500 to 3999 and 8000 to 9999)
Flemish Department of Foreign Affairs
Strategic Goods Control Unit
Mr Michael Peeters
Havenlaan 88, bus 80
Email: csg@buza.vlaanderen
Website: www.fdfa.be/csg
Interministerial Commission for Export Control and Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction with the Minister for Economy
8 Slavyanska Str.
Tel. +359 29407771, +359 29407786
Email: ivan.penchev@mi.government.bg and n.grahovska@mi.government.bg
Website: www.exportcontrol.bg; http://www.mi.government.bg
Ministry of Industry and Trade Licensing Office
Na Františku 32 110 15 Prague 1
Tel. +420 224907638
Fax +420 224214558 or +420 224221811
Email: leitgeb@mpo.cz or dual@mpo.cz
Website: www.mpo.cz
8.4. Denmark
Exportcontrols
Danish Business Authority
Email: eksportkontrol@erst.dk
Website: in English: www.exportcontrols.dk; in Danish: www.eksportkontrol.dk
Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (Bundesamt für Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle)
Frankfurter Strasse 29-35 65760 Eschborn
Tel. +49 6196908-0
Fax +49 6196908-1800
Email: ausfuhrkontrolle@bafa.bund.de
Website: http://www.ausfuhrkontrolle.info
Strategic Goods Commission, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Islandi väljak 1 15049 Tallinn
Tel. +372 6377192
Fax +372 6377199
Email: stratkom@vm.ee
Website: in English: http://www.vm.ee/?q=en/taxonomy/term/58;
in Estonian: http://www.vm.ee/?q=taxonomy/term/50
Trade Licensing and Control Unit
Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation
Earlsfort Centre
Lower Hatch Street
Contact: David Martin, Niamh Guihen
Email: david.martin@dbei.gov.ie - niamh.guihen@dbei.gov.ie -
exportcontrol@dbei.gov.ie
Website: https://www.djei.ie/en/What-We-Do/Trade-Investment/Export-Licences/
Ministry of Development, Competitiveness
General Directorate for International Economic Policy
Directorate of Import-Export Regimes and Trade Defence Instruments
Export Regimes and Procedures Unit
Kornarou 1 str
Contact point: O.Papageorgiou
Tel. +30 2103286047/56/22/21
Email: opapageorgiou@mnec.gr
The General Secretariat for Foreign Trade (Secretaría General de Comercio Exterior), the Customs Department (Agencia Tributaria - Aduanas) and the Foreign Office Ministry (Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación) are the authorities empowered to grant licences and to decide to prohibit the transit of non-Community dual-use items.
Contact point in the Licensing Office: Mr. Ramón Muro Martínez. Subdirector General.
Ministerio de Industria, Comercio y Turismo
Paseo de la Castellana, 162, 7a 28046 Madrid
Email: rmuro@mincotur.es; sgdefensa.sscc@comercio.mineco.es
Website: http://www.comercio.gob.es/es-ES/comercio-exterior/informacion-sectorial/material-de-defensa-y-de-doble-uso/Paginas/conceptos.aspx
8.10. France
Ministère de l'Économie et des Finances
Direction Générale des Enterprises
Service des biens à double usage (SBDU)
67, rue Barbès – BP 80001
94201 Ivry-sur-Seine Cedex
Email: doublusage@finances.gouv.fr
Website: https://www.entreprises.gouv.fr/biens-double-usage
8.11. Croatia
Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
Directorate for Economic Affairs and Development Coordination
Export Control Division
Trg N. Š. Zrinskog 7-8
Tel. +385 14598135, 137, 110
Email: kontrola.izvoza@mvep.hr
Website: http://gd.mvep.hr/hr/kontrola-izvoza/
8.12. Italy
Directorate - General for International Trade Policy
Export Control Unit
Viale Boston, 25
Email: polcom4@mise.gov.it ; massimo.cipolletti@mise.gov.it
Website: http://www.mise.gov.it/index.php/it/commercio-internazionale/import-export/dual-use
8.13. Cyprus
Ministry of Energy, Commerce, Industry and Tourism 6, Andrea Araouzou 1421 Nicosia
Tel. +357 22867100, 22867332, 22867197
Fax +357 22375120, 22375443
Email: perm.sec@mcit.gov.cy ; pevgeniou@mcit.gov.cy ; xxenopoulos@mcit.gov.cy
Website: http://www.mcit.gov.cy/ts
8.14. Latvia
Control Committee for Strategic Goods
Chairman of the Committee: Mr Andris Pelšs
Executive Secretary: Mr Renārs Danelsons
3, K. Valdemara street
Riga, LV-1395
Email: renars.danelsons@mfa.gov.lv
Website: https://www.mfa.gov.lv/tautiesiem-arzemes/aktualitates-tautiesiem/20440-strategiskas-nozimes-precu-kontrole?lang=lv-LV
8.15. Lithuania
Authority empowered to grant export authorisations for dual-use items and authorities empowered to grant authorisations for the provision of brokering services:
Ministry of Economy and Innovation of the Republic of Lithuania
Gedimino ave. 38/Vasario 16 st.2 LT-01104 Vilnius
Export Policy Division
Email: vienaslangelis@eimin.lt
Website: http://eimin.lrv.lt/lt/veiklos-sritys/eksportas/strateginiu-prekiu-kontrole
Authority empowered to prohibit the transit of non-Community dual-use items:
Customs Department under the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania
A. Jaksto str. 1/25 LT-01105 Vilnius
Customs Criminal Service
Email: budetmd@lrmuitine.lt
Minister responsible for Foreign Trade
Minister responsible for Foreign Affairs
Ministère de l’Economie
Office du contrôle des exportations, importations et du transit (OCEIT)
19-21 Boulevard Royal
Tel. +352 226162
Email oceit@eco.etat.lu
Government Office of the Capital City Budapest
Department of Trade, Defence Industry, Export Control and Precious Metal Assay
Németvölgyi út 37-39.
Email: exportcontrol@bfkh.gov.hu
Website: http://mkeh.gov.hu/haditechnika/kettos_felhasznalasu
8.18. Malta
Commerce Department Mr Brian Montebello Trade Services
Email: brian.montebello@gov.mt
Website: https://commerce.gov.mt/en/Trade_Services/Imports%20and%20Exports/Pages/DUAL%20USE/DUAL-USE-TRADE-CONTROLS.aspx
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Directorate-General for International Relations
Department for Trade Policy and Economic Governance
PO Box 20061 2500 EB The Hague
Dutch Customs/Central Office for Import and Export PO Box 30003 9700 RD Groningen,
Email: DRN-CDIU.groningen@belastingdienst.nl
Website: www.rijksoverheid.nl/exportcontrole
Federal Ministry of Digital and Economic Affairs
Division for Foreign Trade Administration
Stubenring 1 1010 Vienna
Tel. +43 1 71100802335
Fax +43 1 71100808366
Email: POST.III2_19@bmdw.gv.at
Website: http://www.bmdw.gv.at/pawa
8.21. Poland
Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology
Department for Trade in Strategic Goods and Technical Safety
Pl. Trzech Krzyzy 3/5 00-507 Warszawa
Email: SekretariatDOT@mpit.gov.pl
Website: https://www.gov.pl/web/przedsiebiorczosc-technologia/zezwolenia-na-obrot-produktami-podwojnego-zastosowania
8.22. Portugal
Autoridade Tributária e Aduaneira
Customs and Taxes Authority
Rua da Alfândega, 5
Director: Luísa Nobre; Licence Officer: Maria Oliveira
Email: dsl@at.gov..pt
Website: http://www.dgaiec.min-financas.pt/pt/licenciamento/bens_tecnologias_duplo_uso/bens_tecnologias_duplo_uso.htm
Department for Export Controls — ANCEX
Str. Polonă nr. 8, sector 1
010501, Bucureşti
Email: dancex@mae.ro ; dan.marian@mae.ro
Website: www.ancex.ro
8.24. Slovenia
Ministry of Economic Development and Technology
Kotnikova ulica 5
Email: gp.mgrt@gov.si
Website: https://www.gov.si/podrocja/podjetnistvo-in-gospodarstvo/mednarodno-gospodarsko-sodelovanje/
8.25. Slovakia
For the purposes of Article 9(6) (a) and Article 10(4) of the Regulation:
Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic
Department of Trade Measures
827 15 Bratislava 212
Email: jan.krocka@economy.gov.sk
Website: www.economy.gov.sk
For the purpose of Article 9(6)(b) of the Regulation:
Criminal Office of the Financial Administration
Department of Drugs and Hazardous materials
Coordination Unit
Bajkalská 24
Tel. +421 2 58251221
Email: Jozef.Pullmann@financnasprava.sk
Eteläesplanadi 4
FI - 00130 HELSINKI
FI-00023 GOVERNMENT
Email: vientivalvonta.um@formin.fi
Website: http://formin.finland.fi/vientivalvonta
8.27. Sweden
Inspectorate of Strategic Products (ISP) Inspektionen för strategiska produkter
Gullfossgatan 6, Kista
Email: registrator@isp.se.
Website: http://www.isp.se/
ISP is empowered to grant authorisations in all cases except those listed under 2 below
Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten) Section of Nuclear Non-proliferation and Security.
EMail: registrator@ssm.se
Website: http://www.ssm.se
The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority is empowered to grant authorisations on and prohibit transit of products in Annex 1, Category 0, to the Regulation (EC) No 428/2009.
Department for International Trade (DIT)
Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU)
3 Whitehall Place
London SW1A 2AW
EMail: eco.help@trade.gov.uk
Website https://www.gov.uk/export-control-licence
9. INFORMATION PROVIDED BY MEMBER STATES IN CONFORMITY WITH ARTICLE 17 OF THE REGULATION (SPECIALLY EMPOWERED CUSTOMS OFFICES)
Article 17 requires Member States to inform the Commission if they have availed themselves of the option to have customs formalities for the export of dual-use items completed only at customs offices empowered to that end.
Have specific customs offices been designated, in relation with Article 17(1), in which customs formalities for the export of dual-use items may be completed?
The territorial customs offices of the Republic of Bulgaria for strategic goods have been approved by the General Director of the Customs Agency under Ministry of Finance Order No 55/32-11385 of 14 January 2016 (Official Gazette 9/2016). The list of customs offices in Bulgaria through which dual-use items and technologies may leave or enter the EU customs territory can be found on the following website:
http://www.mi.government.bg/en/themes/evropeisko-i-nacionalno-zakonodatelstvo-v-oblastta-na-eksportniya-kontrol-i-nerazprostranenieto-na-or-225-338.html
The list of customs offices in Estonia through which dual-use items and technologies may leave or enter the EU customs territory can be found on the following website:
http://www.emta.ee/index.php?id=24795
The list of customs offices in Latvia through which dual-use items and technologies may leave or enter the EU customs territory can be found on the following website:
https://www.vid.gov.lv/lv/muitas-kontroles-un-robezkontroles-punkti
9.4. Lithuania
The list of customs offices in Lithuania through which dual-use items and technologies may leave or enter the EU customs territory can be found on the following website:
https://www.lrmuitine.lt/web/guest/verslui/apribojimai/bendra#en
9.5. Poland
The list of customs offices in Poland through which dual-use items and technologies may leave or enter the EU customs territory can be found on the following website: http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/DetailsServlet?id=WDU20150000136&min=1
9.6. Romania
The list of customs offices in Romania through which dual-use items and technologies may leave or enter the EU customs territory can be found on the following website: https://www.customs.ro/agenti-economici/instruirea-operatorilor-economici/vamuirea-marfurilor/produse-strategice
10. INFORMATION PROVIDED BY MEMBER STATES IN CONFORMITY WITH ARTICLE 22(5) OF THE REGULATION (INTRA-COMMUNITY TRANSFERS)
Article 22(5) stipulates that Member States imposing an authorisation requirement for the transfer from their territory to another Member State of items not listed in Annex IV to the Regulation (Annex IV lists items which do not benefit from freedom of movement in the single market) must inform the Commission, which must in turn publish this information in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Have specific measures been taken to extend intra-EU transfer controls in relation with Article 22(2)?
10.1. Bulgaria
Bulgaria has extended intra-EU transfer controls as set out in Article 22(2) of the Regulation and has introduced a requirement for additional information to be provided to the competent authorities concerning certain intra-EU transfers as set out in Article 22(9) of the Regulation.
(Article 51, par. 8 and par. 9 of the Defence-Related Products and Dual-Use Items and Technologies Export Control Act, State Gazette No. 26/29.03.2011, effective 30.06.2012).
10.2. Czech Republic
Act No 594/2004 Coll. extends controls with regard to intra-EU transfers from the Czech Republic as set out in Article 22(2) of the Regulation.
10.3. Germany
Section 11 of the Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation of 2 August 2013(Aussenwirtschaftsverordnung - AWV) extends controls with regard to intra-EU transfers from Germany as set out in Article 22(2) of the Regulation.
10.4. Estonia
The Strategic Goods Act §3(6) extends controls with regard to intra-EU transfers as stipulated in Article 22(2) of the Regulation.
10.5. Greece
Section 3.4 of Ministerial Decision No 121837/E3/21837 of 28 September 2009 extends controls with regard to intra-EU transfers from Greece as set out in Article 22(2) of the Regulation.
10.6. Luxembourg
An authorization requirement may be imposed for the transfer of dual-use items, other than those listed in Annex IV to the Regulation, from the territory of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to another Member State in the cases provided for in Article 22 (2) of the Regulation.
(Law of 27 June 2018 on export control, Article 44).
10.7. Hungary
Par. 16 of the Government Decree No 13 of 2011 ‘on the foreign trade authorisation of dual-use items’ adopts licensing requirement on listed dual-use items for transfers within the EU if the conditions stipulated in Article 22(2) of the Regulation apply.
10.8. The Netherlands
An authorisation requirement for intra-EU transfers may be imposed in individual cases with regard to dual-use items.
(Article 4a(3) of the Decree for Strategic Goods - Besluit strategische goederen).
10.9. Slovakia
Par. 23(2) of the Act No 39/2011 Coll. extends controls with regard to intra-EU transfers from the Slovak Republic, as set out in Article 22(2) of the Regulation.
10.10. United Kingdom
Article 7 of the Export Control Order 2008 extends controls with regard to intra-EU transfer from the UK, as set out in Article 22(2) of Regulation (EC) No 428/2009.
Article 22(9) stipulates that a Member States may require that, for the transfer from their territory to another Member State of items listed in Category 5, Part 2 of Annex I, which are not listed in Annex IV to the Regulation, additional information concerning those items shall be provided to the competent authorities of that Member State.
For the transfer from the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria to the territory of another Member State of dual-use items listed in Category 5, Part 2 of Annex I and which are not listed in Annex IV to the Regulation, the Interministerial Commission may require, from the person making the transfer, additional information on the items.
(Article 51 (9) of the Defence-Related Products and Dual-Use Items and Technologies Export Control Act, State Gazette No. 26/29.03.2011, effective 30.06.2012).
For the transfer from the territory of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to the territory of another Member State of dual-use items listed in Category 5, Part 2 of Annex I and which are not listed in Annex IV to the Regulation, the following additional information shall be provided in the frame of the authorization application:
Indication of the commercial reference of the item, its general description and features;
Presentation of the cryptology services to be provided;
Presentation of the implementation of the algorithms;
Presentation of security norms or standards;
Presentation of the type of data concerned by the service;
Document relating to the technical specifications of the item (in 12 points)
(Grand Duke Regulation of 14 December 2018, Article 10(1), paragraph 1 sub 2° and paragraph 2 sub 4°, and Annex 15).
(1) OJ L 134, 29.5.2009, p. 1.
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Custom «Europe’s Greatest Blunder: the Loss of Appreciation for Beauty» Essay Paper
Custom «Europe’s Greatest Blunder: the Loss of Appreciation for Beauty» Essay Paper essay
Albert Camus’ “Helen’s Exile” is an essay, which is a part of “The Myth of Sisyphus.” In “Helen’s Exile,” Camus brings to light the important role of beauty, specifically the view of the Greeks on beauty, in providing a solution for the European blunder – Modern Europe’s detachment from beauty and attachment to things that demean it. Camus utilized “Helen’s Exile” as a means to show how the Greeks valued beauty and how they let it guide and influence their way of life allowing them to achieve a sense of measure and realize the golden mean (Kassoul & Maougal, 2006). In the Ancient Greek mythology of Helen of Troy, the Greeks took arms for Helen, and Camus emphasizes that being driven and motivated by beauty means having the right reasons to struggle and fight for. According to Camus (1948), “Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.” Based on the essay and arguments of Camus, his concept of beauty and his belief of its important role in society will be used to study the modern Europe’s greatest blunder.
Modern Europe’s Greatest Blunder
The modern Europe’s greatest blunder is that it has lost its appreciation of beauty. The modern Europe’s culture greatly differs from that of the Greeks when it comes to their views on beauty. European nihilism reflects the differences between the modern European and Greek culture. Modern Europe denigrates history, such that society views all disciplines as they are detached to history. “The connection between metaphysics, the inquiry into the ground of being, and historical consciousness had been made… through the philosophy of history, and subsequent metaphysical inquiry into the ground of being” (Nishitani, 1990, p. 6). During this era, the modern Europe also questioned the basis of religion and beliefs based on the standards of historical consciousness. Consequently, European nihilism was dubbed as liberating because it enabled people in the European society to be freed from their bounds to Christian-Platonic heritage (Elbe, 2003). Essentially, European nihilism allowed the society to view life free from bounds and proscriptions of their history. Therefore, society nihilates the idea of history dictating whom an individual should be, and instead, viewing oneself as a blank page and thinking, acting, and making decisions as one would think, act and decide without external influences. “To disclose the nihility of the ground of the self is to live in sincerity, and within such sincerity, the self becomes truly itself” (Nishitani, 1990, p. 7). Aside from European nihilism’s stand for liberation, the modern Europe also prides itself for its value of knowledge. Modern Europe has become an intellectualized society where people value education above anything else. Moreover, people prioritize learning through various means like apprenticeship, over passion. Power, courage, and independence were also associated with an individual’s intellectual capacity, such that modern European society believes that people can function physically, socially, emotionally, and cognitively if they are learned and taught by masters or scholars (Campbell, 2004).
Camus and other philosophers, however, criticized the modern European culture, calling it their society’s greatest blunder. According to Camus, European nihilism exiles beauty and praises everything that demeans it. As a result, society has lost its grasp of what is real. Greek culture, which understands beauty, also understands that people will find beauty in everything, so they view things with balance. Unlike the modern European society that is quick to dismiss anything that does not match their standards for knowledge and detachment to beauty, the Greeks do not deny anything. For instance, Greeks attempt to understand science and religion; therefore, there is balance between what they see and what they feel. Similarly, this kind of thinking among the Greeks enables them to set limits for every thought and every discipline (Malpas, 2007). The ability of the Greeks to appreciate beauty also enables them to perceive everything in moderation, establish equilibrium and implement a sense of measure where everything can be controlled. For Camus, the sense of measure inherent in Greek culture is most valuable when it comes to conflict because during conflict, having a sense of measure means having the ability to debate, negotiate, and compromise, while the modern European culture, which values knowledge, sees modern Europeans as more knowledgeable, more superior, and thus, aggravating conflict. This, according to Camus, is modern European’s greatest blunder – that in their inability to appreciate beauty, their actions increase conflict.
Camus’ thoughts and ideas in “Helen’s Exile” prove why the appreciation of beauty is important and should be acknowledged in modern culture. The mythology of Helen of Troy show how two opposing cultures – Greeks and modern Europeans – highlight the importance of beauty. Modern Europeans denigrate beauty and value liberation and mastery of knowledge while Greeks, on the other hand, value beauty and balance. Modern Europe’s greatest blunder is its inability to appreciate beauty, because, without it, people would not be able to see the beauty in everything. People would lose sight of balance and control, which is inherent in the Greek culture; as a consequence, they would not be able to control their actions and decisions. The Greek’s sense of measure establishes equilibrium, while modern European culture creates chaos.
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FOOD, DRINKS, MUSIC
TRAVELING / England / London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium.
London is as much about high-density, sight-packed exploration (the West End, South Bank, the City) and urban dynamism as it is about wide-open spaces and leafy escapes. Central London is where you will find all the major museums, galleries and most iconic sights, but escape to Hampstead Heath or Greenwich Park to flee the crowds and put the city’s greener hues into gorgeous perspective. Or venture even further out to Kew Gardens, Richmond or Hampton Court Palace for effortlessly good-looking panoramas of riverside London.
English may be the national tongue, but over 300 languages shape London’s linguistic soundscape. These languages also represent cultures that season the culinary aromas on London’s streets, the clothing you glimpse and the music you hear. It can seem like the whole world has come to town. Museums, such as the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum, have collections as diverse as they are magnificent, while flavours at markets such as Notting Hill and Maltby Street range across the gourmet spectrum. London’s diverse cultural dynamism makes it quite possibly the world’s most international city, while still being somehow intrinsically British.
London is immersed in history. Not so much that it’s intimidating, but there’s sufficient antiquity and historic splendour (Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Hampton Court) to blow you away. London’s buildings are eye-catching milestones in the city’s unique and compelling biography. There’s more than enough funky innovation (the Shard, the Aquatics Centre, the Gherkin) to put a crackle in the air, but it never drowns out London’s well-preserved, centuries-old narrative. Architectural grandeur rises up all around you in the West End, ancient remains dot the City and charming pubs punctuate the Thames riverside. Take your pick.
A tireless innovator of art and culture, London is a city of ideas and the imagination. British people are fiercely independent thinkers (and critics), so London’s creative milieu is naturally streaked with leftfield attitude, from theatrical innovation to contemporary art, pioneering music, writing and design. And that’s even truer in these testing recessionary times. The 2012 Olympic Games, and their attendant opening and closing ceremonies, have also inspired new artistic vigour and confidence.
Some Sightseeings:
Visit the official London residence of the Queen during the Buckingham Palace summer opening. Explore the extravagant State Rooms and don't miss this year's special exhibition, celebrating the 70th birthday of the Prince of Wales.
The London Eye is a major feature of London's skyline. It boasts some of London's best views from its 32 capsules, each weighing 10 tonnes and holding up to 25 people. Climb aboard for a breathtaking experience, with an unforgettable perspective of more than 55 of London's most famous landmarks – all in just 30 minutes.
At Madame Tussauds, you'll come face-to-face with some of the world's most famous faces. From Shakespeare to Lady Gaga you'll meet influential figures from showbiz, sport, politics and even royalty. Strike a pose with Usain Bolt, get close to One Direction or receive a once-in-a-lifetime audience with Her Majesty the Queen.
Take a tour with one of the Yeoman Warders around the Tower of London, one of the world's most famous buildings. Discover its 900-year history as a royal palace, prison and place of execution, arsenal, jewel house and zoo! Gaze up at the White Tower, tiptoe through a medieval king's bedchamber and marvel at the Crown Jewels.
It offers a glimpse into the lives of its past royal residents. Discover stories from Queen Victoria's life in the Victoria Revealed exhibition; master courtly games in the King's State Apartments; glimpse a modern princess in an exhibition of Diana's dresses; and uncover the secrets of a fragile dynasty in the Queen's State Apartments.
The Big Ben, tower clock, famous for its accuracy and for its massive bell. Strictly speaking, the name refers to only the great hour bell, which weighs 15.1 tons (13.7 metric tons), but it is commonly associated with the whole clock tower at the northern end of the Houses of Parliament, in the London borough of Westminster. The tower itself was formally known as St. Stephen’s Tower until 2012, when it was renamed Elizabeth Tower on the occasion of Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee, celebrating 60 years on the British throne. The hands of the clock are 9 and 14 feet (2.7 and 4.3 metres) long, respectively, and the clock tower rises about 320 feet (97.5 metres). Originally in coordination with the Royal Greenwich Observatory, the chimes of Big Ben have been broadcast—with a few interruptions—since 1924 as a daily time signal by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Food in London
For some, this is the only way to start your day. A full English, or a fry up, is the heartiest, highest-carb breakfast you’ll find anywhere, but it is truly delicious. A full English breakfast can also work as brunch and is the perfect way to kickstart the morning after the night before. Created by the affluent classes of the 18th century, it typically includes fried or scrambled eggs, bacon, sausages, baked beans, fried bread (yes, bread fried in oil), fried potatoes, chips or hash browns, black pudding, mushrooms and tomatoes. Naturally, this is accompanied by a cup of tea, or perhaps coffee and juice. But there are many variations on the theme and you can add or exclude any items you would like.
Pie and mash
It's an East End favourite – a meat pie with mashed potato and liquor. The liquor is a non-alcoholic green sauce made from parsley and the water used to cook another Cockney dish, served alongside pie and mash – stewed eels.
A serious British comfort food. It’s usually a white fish – the most popular being cod and haddock deep fried in batter and served with chips and likely a side order of mushy (or pureed) peas, onion rings and tartar sauce. It is thought to have been brought to Britain by Jewish refugees from Portugal and Spain in the 17th century. The first fish and chip shop opened in London in 1860.
Sunday Roast in London
Prepare for a feast – a roast dinner, most commonly served at Sunday lunchtimes, is a meal of grand proportions. Be it roast beef, chicken, pork or lamb, you’ll find meat served with roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding (a batter-based accompaniment), various vegetables and gravy.
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October 2020 in Summary: Suspense
November 8, 2020 November 7, 2020 / Red Metal
Yes, it’s been yet another busy month for me. Writing that editorial was a lot of fun, but next month, I’ll try to get some actual game reviews out. Hope you all are doing well!
Films watched in October 2020:
In theaters:
The Great Escape (John Sturges, 1963)
The Fortune Cookie (Billy Wilder, 1966)
High Noon (Fred Zinnemann, 1952)
Boyz n the Hood (John Singleton, 1991)
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
I suspect I’m one of the very few people in this day and age outside of film buffs who ended up seeing La Grande Illusion before The Great Escape. I say this because I could definitely see a lot of parallels between the two films in how they both treat soldiers on both sides of the conflict as ordinary people. The early-to-mid 1960s was a rough time for films, as it was when Hollywood’s golden age was coming to an end, but I have little doubt that The Great Escape was one of the era’s last classics.
In The Fortune Cookie, Luther “Boom Boom” Jackson of the Cleveland Browns injures cameraman Harry Hinkle. Harry’s brother-in-law, a crooked attorney named William H. Gingrich, considers a scheme to get a large indemnity from the insurance company.
Making this the third-worst thing to ever happen to the Cleveland Browns.
The Fortune Cookie isn’t the first film that springs to mind when discussing Billy Wilder, but I would go as far as saying it’s one of his best films along with Sunset Boulevard. By 1966, the Hays Code was about to expire, and the New Hollywood movement had, depending on your point of view, just begun or was just around the corner. It’s easy to conclude that, based on its release date, that The Fortune Cookie was behind the curve, but it’s not true. In fact, it’s a testament to how legitimately progressive the talent in Hollywood was at the time that they were able to cast an African American man in a major role without coming across as heavy-handed. Otherwise, The Fortune Cookie is Billy Wilder-style black comedy at its best, and that doubtlessly makes it worth watching.
100 years before he wrote The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller terrorized an Old West settlement in New Mexico by going after Sheriff Gary Cooper. I think even if you haven’t seen a Western, most of the people reading this knows vaguely what they entail given the genre’s influence on other mediums. I say this because it turns out Fred Zinnemann was subverting expectations way before the likes of Rian Johnson or Neil Druckmann made it uncool. It’s seriously difficult to believe that a film this gritty was made in the squeaky-clean classic Hollywood era. In that regard, it has a lot in common with Ace in the Hole, and it is that quality that has allowed it to stand the test of time.
The definitive hood film. In Boyz n the Hood, Laurence Fishburne plays who is perhaps the single coolest father character in the history of cinema (with one of the single coolest names for any character in the history of cinema – Furious Styles) as he raises his son in the neighborhood of Crenshaw, Los Angeles. The problem I have with a lot of slice-of-life films (i.e. Gloria Bell and Eighth Grade) is their directionless nature, but that is absolutely not a problem with Boyz n the Hood; it knows exactly what it wants to convey to the audience, and is all the more effective for it. It’s a bit of a shame John Singleton was never able to follow up on the critical success of his debut, but Boyz n the Hood remains a classic film worthy of the praise critics have given it over the years. Also, Ice Cube is in it. If that doesn’t motivate you to see it, nothing will.
And finally, while on the subject of Billy Wilder, I ended the month by seeing one of his early classics. While I didn’t like it quite as much as The Fortune Cookie, it too is a classic well worth seeing. One may criticize Mr. Wilder for making two films about indemnity, but the truth is that the films are quite a bit different from each other. One involves insurance fraud while the other involves murder. Its conclusion is also a little more predictable when you consider the filmmaking standards at the time, but it remains one of Mr. Wilder’s definitive works.
My Spooky Annoying Journey Trough an Asylum: Outlast Review – In this review, Pinkie decides to grab the bull by the horn by diving into what is frequently considered one of the scariest games of all time in the form of Outlast.
Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time Review –Scott of the Wizard Dojo takes a look at a game Naughty Dog probably wishes they could make in the form of Crash Bandicoot’s fourth mainline outing. The game looks like a breath of fresh air in the face of the overly cinematic games dominating the American AAA industry.
Battenberg Cake: Pretty in Pink British Patriotic Glory – Have you ever noticed those confections that often show up in Yoshi games that have a checkerboard pattern? Those are Battenberg cakes – a British classic, which Mr. Wapojif has written about in his article.
Mommy’s not here, gotta fight! The Persona 3 Retrospective, Part 6(b) – Characters: Yukari and Junpei – In the latest installment of his Persona 3 Retrospective, Aether discusses the central characters Yukari and Junpei, continuing tie them to the intriguing tarot motifs that run throughout the game.
A Miasma of Mediocrity: Mulan Synopsis – Let’s play a word-association game. Disney. Stagnation. Yes, Disney, having shot themselves in the foot repeatedly over the past few years, have followed in Mike Love’s footsteps in the last few years by remaking their classic animated films in live-action. Mulan appears to have gone over like a lead balloon, and Amanda Hurych explains why she believes it to be quite the mediocre experience.
I Always Feel Like SOMA is Watching Me… And There’s Some Philosophy (First Impressions Post) – Delving into the psychological aspects of horror in gaming, Athena takes a look at SOMA, one of the many such games to emerge from the indie scene.
Am I the only one disliking LIMBO? – It’s interesting that the gaming press, as it is now, tends to ignore indie efforts because back when Limbo was released, I would say their biggest fault is that they tended to grade on a curve. Sure, these efforts were praised, but the vibe I got from many assessments was “It was good… for an indie game”. Considering quality efforts such as Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom, Undertale, and OneShot have managed to exceed AAA efforts either through stellar gameplay or a legitimately great story (and in some cases, both), “Good for an indie game” is no longer a meaningful qualifier. Limbo is still considered a hallmark of the indie scene, but Quietschisto makes the case that it hasn’t stood the test of time – a sentiment I fully agree with considering its rather backwards-looking approach to game design.
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I kept thinking Disney would end up dropping their live-action projects, since they seem to be so widely either ignored or hated. I guess they must be making the company money, though, otherwise what would be the point? It’s certainly a sign of total stagnation, anyway.
Looking at the numbers, it appears that Mulan bombed big time, so this could end up being a case where their tactics receive diminishing returns on investment. Goes to show why getting complacent doesn’t work out well in the long term, though to be completely fair, the pandemic likely butchered the box office numbers quite a bit. That said, I have heard the remake of Pete’s Dragon is pretty good, though if what I heard is true, it’s because the original is something of a mixed bag. Personally, I think that makes more sense than remaking a film that is already good.
Either way, I guess it goes to show why soaking up all the IPs wasn’t such a good long term strategy; it turns out having such a monolithic entertainment studio wreaks havoc on creativity. Who knew?
Yeah, movie remakes are kind of a weird bag anyways, and the Disney live action remakes seem especially weird. Normally, I’d gather that since they’re able to keep them going the way they have they must not be that expensive to make so they don’t need to get that successful on them to be worthwhile, but they’re using a fair bit of name-level talent and wide ranging CGI in them, so I can’t actually imagine they’re that cheap. In any case, I’d only watched one, the Beauty and the Beast, which was the epitome of OK, and all I really got from that was an urge to watch the animated movie because it’s so much better. Artistically, it just makes me wonder what the point of the live-action remakes are.
And this is kind of apropos of nothing but I don’t have anywhere else to talk about it so I’ll put it here. Back when I worked with a film commission, we had helped out with a Disney movie but were never acknowledge in the credits because of internal political reasons. So I find it really ironically humourous the hot water Disney got into because of the external political reasons with their acknowledgements in the credits of Mulan.
Seems extremely shitty not to get credited for your work, no matter what kind it is. Though I did hear about those acknowledgments at the end of Mulan — they would be enough for me to never watch the movie, even if I had any interest in the first place.
I know, right? I know the anti-capitalist message in The Last Jedi was insincere, but their acknowledgements in the Mulan have upgraded (?) them to moral cowards in addition to hypocrites. Maybe it’s for the best the film bombed horribly; I’m pretty sure they managed to enrage both sides of the political spectrum with their antics, which is admittedly an impressive feat, but not one they should be proud of.
Yeah, it turns out that monopolizing the entertainment industry wasn’t such a hot idea in the long term, huh? When you just crush or absorb all of your rivals, it just means you have to fall back on your old ideas when nobody is creating anything new. And it also turns out such an approach eventually results in diminishing returns on investment.
A lot of people say The Invisible Man remake managed to be successful, but not having seen any other version, I can only speculate as to why that is. I get the feeling the live-action Disney remakes fall short because they have the insurmountable task of attempting to surpass things people know are already good without brining anything new to the table. It’s probably why Pete’s Dragon tends to get a pass; it’s because it was an attempt to improve on a work that wasn’t considered one of Disney’s better efforts (that, and they apparently went in a different direction with the premise). So yeah, from a financial standpoint, the live-action remakes make sense, but from an artistic one? Not so much.
Disney sure is a company of contradictions, aren’t they? The anti-capitalist allegory in The Last Jedi was hard to take seriously back in 2017, but seeing them bend their knee to the almighty dollar – even when it means (indirectly) enabling human-rights violations – makes their sentiments ring even more hollow. With their actions, they are very much guilty of moral cowardice – they can only be counted on to do the right thing and act progressive when it doesn’t affect their bottom line.
Aww thank you so much for featuring my post again!
Those are some interesting movies you watched. I think I only saw Boyz In The Hood and I could not get to far into that. It wasn’t really my sort of flick. I do agree that it had a lot of direction and sense of purpose though. I just could not really get into the atmosphere.. I did watch it when I was super tired though so perhaps I should give it another shot!
As far as Disney’s Mulan Remake is concerned.. I really think that Disney is trying to enforce modern messages on old tales that do not meet. Mulan never had super powers before that was the entire point.. That did not make her a weak woman it is something she overcame.. but for some reason Disney lost any sense of that a character can develop over time.. so Mulan has to have super powers from the get go.. I would place this a fair bit below a mediocre movie! .. Well at least as a below Mediocre remake. To me with these movies Disney above all has shown an inability to recognise their own stories.. .which might be in part because they already .. did not create unique stories ot begin with.. so these are copies of copies.
Samuel Cordova
I have a term for these copies of copy movies, I just refer to it as adaptation inbreeding.
Oh yeah, I’ve heard people using that term before. It’s not a very good long-term strategy, is it? You do eventually have to change up your game or else you’re on the fast (?) track to stagnation.
Indeed, it’s because I try to consume a large variety of media. It’s to the point where on multiple occasions, I have gotten clerks to comment on my bizarre purchase combinations. Almost without exception, I’m going to favor the slice-of-life stories that have an actual purpose to them than the ones that take the genre too literally by having no plot to speak of, and Boyz n the Hood is a perfect example of the former. I do recommend giving it another shot because I’d say the results are worth it.
And I do get this sense of Disney attempting to course-correct whenever they make these kinds of films. I think filmmakers tend to underestimate their audiences because a normal person is going to realize that not every piece of art is going to age perfectly, and I find these attempts at forcing contemporary sensibilities into old stories make them go from “kind of dated” to “instadated”. Whoever is writing these films needs to remember that characters need to undergo arcs in order to be compelling; having everything handed to them makes them unrelatable. It’s why I generally prefer old classics over the ones praised within the last few years; the quality of the writers decreased dramatically throughout the 2010s. There are still good stories being written, but they’re not coming out of Hollywood.
ManInBlack
I’ve seen La Grande Illusion but not The Great Escape…. 😉
If there was anyone who had a similar trejectory, I knew it was going to be you. I have some other weird instances – such as seeing Nostalghia and the Three Colors trilogy before Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Happy to oblige – except I saw “Raiders” in the cinema back in 1981 (showing my age) so you’re on your own on that one! 😛
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Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019)
November 22, 2020 November 23, 2020 / Red Metal
On his 85th birthday, mystery novelist Harlan Thrombey invites his family to his mansion in the state of Massachusetts. Things take a turn for the worse when the wealthy novelist is found dead with his throat slit. The police believe it to have been suicide, but in order to get to the bottom of things, an anonymous person hires a private eye by the name of Benoit Blanc to investigate. As the mystery unfolds, a picture will be painted of a dysfunctional family, and in the middle of this strife stands a nurse named Marta Cabrera.
After the 2017 release of The Last Jedi, the eighth numbered Star Wars installment, Director Rian Johnson became a controversial figure. He had always believed in subverting audience expectations as early as the episodes he directed for the hit HBO show Breaking Bad. As such, his fans considered him one of the greatest writer-directors to emerge in the 2010s. Detractors, on the other hand, saw him as nothing more than a pretentious hack with delusions of grandeur, which were exacerbated by his sophomoric outbursts on social media. It was through his tendency to constantly pull the rug out from under his audience that “subverting expectations” became shorthand in certain circles for whenever an author goes completely off the rails.
With this context in mind, I actually have to say that making his follow-up to The Last Jedi a murder mystery film was a smart move. After all, if people are criticizing you for your misbegotten attempts to subvert audience expectations, what would be the best move? Delve into a genre where constant subversions are not only commonplace, but outright expected. After all, a murder mystery plot with no twists whatsoever is like crafting a science-fiction piece with no science whatsoever.
And I will say that superficially, Mr. Johnson succeeded in his goal. While the film does sell itself as a typical whodunnit plot, this is quickly tossed aside by handing the audience a painstakingly obvious culprit: Marta Cabrera. The nurse inadvertently administered a lethal amount of morphine into Harlan’s bloodstream. Unable to find the antidote, Harlan only had minutes to live. Marta’s mother is an undocumented immigrant. Harlan, sympathetic to their plight, prevented Marta from calling for help, gave her instructions for a false alibi to save her family, and slit his own throat.
What follows is a suspenseful second act that brings to mind The Fugitive in how the protagonist must evade an antagonistic private eye determined to get to the bottom of things – the key difference being that the audience is led to believe Marta is guilty of the central crime. Hugh Ransom Drysdale, disillusioned with his family, forces Marta to confess to her crime. As Marta turns out to be the sole inheritor of Harlan’s fortune, he asks for a portion in exchange for his services.
The best part about Knives Out is that it leads its audience to assume that the mystery has already been solved before eventually taking a step back and revealing it never ended at all. Marta eventually receives an email from an anonymous blackmailer, who eventually demands she meets them personally. At the rendezvous point, Fran, Harlan’s housekeeper, appears to yell “You did this!” before slipping into unconsciousness. Marta is quickly apprehended by Blanc, whereupon she confesses to her crime.
When the major players meet back at the mansion, Blanc makes a series of deductions based on everything he has seen. Marta did not, in fact, kill Harlan. Ransom had swapped the contents of Harlan’s medication to get her to kill her boss. As per the slayer rule, Marta would not gain the inheritance if she were found guilty of Harlan’s murder. However, Marta actually administered the correct dosage of morphine. Through muscle memory, she recognized the viscosity of the medicines and foiled Ransom’s plan. It was only after she read the labels that she suspected she may have committed an error. Ransom hired Blanc in order to expose Marta, but Fran observed his tampering, so he had to make her disappear. He overdosed Fran with morphine, intending Marta to take the blame for Fran’s murder. He also made sure to burn the medical examiner’s office down, which would provide evidence of Marta’s innocence.
In the end, Marta, receiving a call from the hospital, informs Ransom that Fran will survive. A smug Ransom basks in his victory before it is revealed that Marta tricked him. Fran is dead, and Blanc has all the evidence he needs to convict him of the crime. Furious, Ransom tries to take Marta down with him, but attacks her with a retractable stage knife, therefore only succeeding in adding an attempted murder charge to his list of transgressions. He is soon carted off to prison and Marta watches the Thrombeys from the balcony of her new mansion.
So, with Rian Johnson choosing a genre that thrives off of subverting expectations and pulling twist after twist in the final act, he must have created a true classic, right? Unfortunately, it’s not quite that simple. Although I think the twists in Knives Out feel far more naturalistic than those of The Last Jedi, it is easy to tell that both films were written and directed by the same person.
Mr. Johnson’s defining flaw as a writer was that whenever he came up with an interesting idea, he tended to discard it once it served its stylistic purposes, not bothering to explore its underlying implications or take things to their logical conclusions. This could be seen as early as Looper, which featured a character who outright told the protagonist – and by proxy, the audience – not to think about the film’s central time-travel premise too hard, but it was even more obvious in The Last Jedi. You would get these scenes that looked incredible in the moment but either had no buildup or directly contradicted the series’ canon.
In the end, it was easy to get the impression that Mr. Johnson discouraged audiences from thinking too hard about his work because doing so would completely destroy his script’s integrity. Sadly, that continues to be the case with Knives Out. There was no reason for Harlan to sacrifice himself to save Marta. Six minutes had passed between the time Marta administered the morphine and when she discovered the missing labels. A morphine overdose leaves its victim unintelligible, so if Harlan is still capable of talking six minutes after the fact, he is perfectly fine. From there, they could have called the police, allowing them to discover Ransom’s tampering without Harlan or Fran needing to die.
While this may seem to serve a dramatic purpose, it does ruin the suspension of disbelief regarding Marta somewhat. A nurse should know the effects of morphine, so it is strange that she would go along with Harlan’s convoluted plan. It’s easy to mount the defense that she was in a panic, but if she performs so poorly under pressure, one wonders how she managed to get her license in the first place.
Fran’s arc manages to be its own can of worms. Knowing that Ransom is up to no good, she attempts to blackmail him only to get murdered for her efforts. She thought it would be a great idea to meet someone she knew was capable of murder in a dark, secluded room with no witnesses. She is shown to have a secret stash of marijuana, but nothing else in the narrative suggests she is this foolhardy. That she is a fan of Hallmark murder mysteries might have given her a false impression about how these stories pan out, but such a conclusion is far too large of a leap in logic for anyone not named Rian Johnson to make.
Indeed, what really sinks the film is that it operates on a very passive premise. What I mean is that certain elements are in place in order for the story to maintain its integrity and not because of any reason based in diegesis. Marta vomits every time she lies. This does result in a spectacular payoff when she reveals Fran’s fate, but it otherwise comes across as unnecessary – a subtler tell would have sufficed. Ransom’s first name being Hugh is solely to resemble the word “you”. That way, when Fran yells “Hugh did this!” at Marta, it sounds like an accusatory “You did this!” To put things in perspective, one of the Ace Attorney games featured a similar extrapolation – even involving a character with the same exact given name. One difference – the line of thinking in that game turned out to be a red herring. In other words, something that is rightly considered contrived in one story is suddenly perfectly serviceable in this one. While her mind was addled, if Fran yelled “Ransom did this!” or something similar, the plot would have been shattered into a million pieces. Then, of course, there’s the fact that she isn’t shown to be unintelligent yet has to make a spectacular blunder in order for her to end up as the real murder victim. I say it’s passive because it feels as though Mr. Johnson hardcoded the plot points into his narrative and forced himself to write around them – even as they were demonstrably proven to be unworkable.
Not helping matters is that Knives Out shares a key weakness with The Last Jedi. The eighth episode of Star Wars was intended to be a progressive, liberal piece, yet it had a very real undercurrent of chauvinism to it. It was especially sharp in how its protagonist inexplicably fell for a bad boy, but through another character, the narrative implored its audience to blindly submit to authority figures. Knives Out follows this example in how it handles Marta herself. Although the film was praised, certain critics drew umbrage in how it leaned into the “good immigrant” myth. The reasoning was that her rich, white employers bequeaths to her his entire fortune. This implies that immigrants deserve rights because they work hard, and not because they’re human. Just like in The Last Jedi, Mr. Johnson clearly wants to be progressive, but his was a perspective that lacked the context required to do a story such as Marta’s justice.
Otherwise, what I find to be the worst aspect of the film lies in its cast. While Daniel Craig’s portrayal of Benoit Blanc is gloriously hammy and Ana de Armas is very charming as Marta, everyone else is either forgettable or memorable for the wrong reasons. The Thrombeys in particular receive very little in the way of characterization. Ben “Yahtzee” Crowshaw of Zero Punctuation fame claimed that the cheater’s guide to characterization involves giving each cast member one exaggerated trait and referring to it as often as possible. I say this because that is exactly the impression I get from the cast of Knives Out.
However, this film goes a step further in that every member of the cast can be summed up in one word: unpleasant. A majority of the Thrombeys are self-absorbed, xenophobic dullards who hate that Harlan is closer to Marta than any of them. Considering what horrible people they are, one could hardly blame him. Two characters stand out as especially grating: Meg and Jacob. The former is frequently called a Social Justice Warrior and the latter is an alt-right troll. Older writers in the 2010s had immense difficulties writing characters intended to represent Generation Z, and Mr. Johnson was no exception. The dialogue of both characters come across like amalgamations of various social medias posts engaging in a contemporary culture war in cyberspace rather than things real humans would say. Considering how unusually active Mr. Johnson was on social media himself, this does make sense, but it doesn’t make the error any less egregious.
Jacob himself could be seen as a major red flag regarding Mr. Johnson’s headspace at the time. The backlash to The Last Jedi was such that Mr. Johnson felt the need to defend it even when he was supposed to be promoting this film. While I can sympathize with him wanting to put the alt-right in their place, it’s difficult not to conclude, based on Jacob’s presence, that the criticism of The Last Jedi struck a raw nerve. With Mr. Johnson labeling his critics manbabies, it soon became a common conclusion that if you didn’t like The Last Jedi, you were indeed an alt-right troll. Never mind the fact that a staunch liberal critic by the name of Owen Gleiberman was among those correctly calling out The Last Jedi for its many, many unfortunate implications. With Jacob’s dialogue mirroring what Mr. Johnson felt his most vocal detractors were saying, it demonstrated that, for all of his posturing, he was remarkably thin-skinned.
Then again, said posturing should’ve been your first clue.
As one needs the capacity to accept criticism to grow as an artist, it stands to reason that one who shuns guidance will stagnate. While hearing the same criticisms lodged toward you hundred – or thousands – of times would be draining, I don’t feel it to be a coincidence, based on Mr. Johnson’s behavior, that seven years after the release of Looper, he had improved not one iota.
The latter half of the 2010s saw an uptick in films attempting to appeal to the viewers’ emotions regarding important social issues. There are many factors that contributed to this trend, but the worst effect it had on film criticism was it encouraged people to seek emotional payoffs in lieu of something intellectually satisfying. In extreme cases, critics would outright strawman people for taking issue with plot holes or even just plot contrivances. With directors able to get away with misbegotten scripts so long as it reflected the critics’ viewpoints back at them, the level of talent among American screenwriters plummeted like a stone.
As it so happens, this was the perfect environment for a director such as Rian Johnson. Between Looper and The Last Jedi, Mr. Johnson firmly established himself as a style-over-substance director who could command an audience’s attention in the moment, but if they took a step back and actually thought critically, they would realize a majority of his ideas made no sense whatsoever. Experiencing his work often brought to mind the legendary Johnny Rotten quote “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” Knives Out unfortunately continues that trend; it’s entertaining when you watch it yet manages to find a mortal enemy in the form of logic. Indeed, just the idea of logic is enough to make the story’s integrity crumble into dust.
While Knives Out is a better film than The Last Jedi if for no other reason than because it has the courtesy to limit the damage it inflicts to only itself, there is no getting around that it is rather convoluted. Moreover, while I do have an easier time appreciating his positive social messages than I did in The Last Jedi where they had even less of a reason to exist, they still date his film to the exact year it came out. This was a time in which writers were expected to hammer progressive ideas into their audience’s head with all of the subtlety of a bull in a china shop. Critics frequently praised these films, but it’s a damning commentary on the state of their community how techniques that would have been considered bad storytelling in previous eras suddenly became the ideal standard. It got to the point where filmmakers were occasionally criticized for having the audacity to think highly of their audience.
Despite its missteps, I don’t think Knives Out is a bad film. It’s not for the thinkers in the audience, so if you’re looking for something mindlessly entertaining, it can tide you over for an afternoon. I can even see murder mystery fans getting something out of it, and Mr. Johnson’s weaknesses as a writer are mitigated somewhat by the genre itself. That being said, other than attempting to be a countercultural force mounted against a contemporarily conservative zeitgeist, Knives Out doesn’t really bring anything new to the table. In fact, it lags behind what Capcom accomplished with the Ace Attorney franchise. If you want intricate murder mystery plots starring great characters, those are the works you should check out; you don’t even need to be a gamer to enjoy them. Knives Out may have been acclaimed, but I find it to be further proof that filmmakers lost their claim to the artistic high ground to game creators in the 2010s.
Final Score: 5/10
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23 thoughts on “Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019)”
theexiledexhorter
Great review!🙏♒️🐕
Thanks! I think Knives Out can charitably be described as an accidental step up from The Last Jedi in how the only reason it manages to be a material improvement is because Rian Johnson benefited from crafting his work in a genre that happened to mitigate his weaknesses somewhat. Unfortunately, they were not completely mitigated, and his inability to think things through ended up costing him once more.
I liked Knives Out more than Last Jedi (which is not saying much I’m aware) but I think they seriously needed to flesh out the relationship between Harlan and Marta considering the decision he makes. (I spent the whole movie thinking oh Harlan must have set them all up for a book or something.) She’s nicer than his family just doesn’t cut it but I get the feeling it’s more about the social commentary for Johnson even here.
A big part of this film to seemed like it was made to appeal to mainstream critics so it will be interesting to see how he actually writes the sequel that’s not just another repeat of this one.
I definitely agree that, for what little it is worth, Knives Out is a much better film. It helps that Rian Johnson chose a genre that better suits his strengths, but as you noticed, it didn’t completely mitigate his weaknesses.
And you’re right; not expanding upon Harlan and Marta’s relationship was a missed opportunity. I have seen countless authors make the mistake of failing to develop a sacrificial lamb before they die (both The Last of Us and its sequel made this exact mistake). That approach can work, but you shouldn’t make the audience feel as though they are missing an important story beat or two. I sort of get it considering how badly his family sucks, but as you say, that doesn’t cut it. I think what makes Mr. Johnson’s unsubtle approach to storytelling so jarring is that he is unusually quiet when it comes to things that actually require an explanation. Consistency does count for a lot.
And if I were making a sequel to this film, I think I would actually just want to shift genres entirely because unless it features a brand new cast, it runs the risk of being a retread. You can always count on Mr. Johnson to run the length of a football field with whatever harebrained idea he comes up with next, though, so you can continue to expect him to go the subversive route – even when it’s a bad idea.
seanarchy
Excellent movie!
As I said, I think Rian Johnson’s material is pretty cool in the moment, but it has a knack of completely falling apart the moment you begin thinking about it. The problem is that he doesn’t really have that luxury, as he clearly wants his audience to think about the social issues he raises, but like many directors of his ilk, there’s no room for leeway or nuance; to enjoy Knives Out is to enjoy it on his terms – not yours. Even just one year later, it is extremely dated.
Hey! A film review! It’s been a while since we had one of those, good to see them back.
As for the film itself… yeah. I had a lot of fun with Looper as a mindless action movie, but as you said it, it didn’t really stand up to thought if you tried to put it together in your mind. Which is particularly harsh for it, as it calls attention to the functions of time travel, the same thing it doesn’t want you thinking about and the same thing that it really doesn’t make internally consistent. And the Last Jedi is a mess, and this movie, although I haven’t seen it, it still sounds a mess just from your summary, even before you start getting into the issues with it. So, I guess he’s not getting any better at that.
Hey, glad you liked it! I thought it would make for a nice change of pace.
Yeah, across his body of work, Rian Johnson has the Naughty Dog problem in that he doesn’t want his audience to acknowledge his weaknesses, yet constantly puts himself in situations where they’re on full display. Looper was pretty bad in that regard because he was trying to be cerebral, but it’s clear he didn’t think things through and hoped the cool factor would be enough to carry him to the end (spoiler: it wasn’t). You can’t tell your audience not to think too hard while also encouraging them to think; that’s not how it works.
I will say that Knives Out isn’t the unmitigated disaster that The Last Jedi was if for no other reason than because it really only hurt itself in the end, but it is a textbook “turn your brain off and enjoy” film just like Looper or The Last Jedi. There is little in the way of internal logic here; things are the way they are because the plot demands it. Except for the Nazi kid – he’s there because Rian Johnson handles criticism about as well as Neil Druckmann does.
ospreyshire
Very good review. Some people recommended this movie to me, but I figured it wasn’t all that it was cracked up to be.
Well, it was written and directed by Rian Johnson, so that’s kind of a foregone conclusion. He’s one of those figures who is hailed as a genius by his fans, but I find his following vastly exceeds his level of talent.
Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed this review. I wrote it in one day, so I like that it turned out well.
Understood. Haha! I was never a fan of Rian Johnson even before I knew about his immature online behavior.
No problem, Red Metal. I would’ve never guessed that it was only made in a day.
I think critics adore Mr. Johnson because he has demonstrated that, despite his artistic pretensions, he has no ambitions higher than dancing to their tune. It’s the only explanation as to why he managed to rise to the upper echelons despite having such crippling weaknesses. Looper, on the other hand, managed to get a pass because critics tend to grade on a curve when it comes to indie efforts – to a fault, I would argue. While I can appreciate trying to promote new talent, indie efforts need to stand on their own; after the rise of Quentin Tarantino and his ilk, “good for an indie effort” should no longer be a meaningful qualifier.
So, while his work has had little trouble amassing acclaim, there is always an extenuating circumstance that makes taking said acclaim at face value extremely difficult. In the case of Breaking Bad, it’s the fact that he was under heavy supervision, in the case of Looper, it’s the fact that critics aren’t tough enough on indies, and in the case of both The Last Jedi and Knives Out, confirmation bias is to blame. It’s possible that somewhere down the line, he’ll make something genuinely good without all of those outside factors to help him along, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if he eventually wipes out Shyamalan style.
And don’t get me wrong; I am totally onboard with the progressive social messages of the latter two films, but there’s no getting around that their implementation was appallingly handled. I tend to be much harsher on works whose viewpoints I agree with because I don’t want them associated with a work of average/subpar quality.
I haven’t thought of it that way, but that makes a ton of sense. As someone who watches and reviews a ton of indie movies on one of my other blogs, I can’t stand that excuse. That just annoys me when people say it.
I wasn’t aware he did work with Breaking Bad. Yeah, I doubt AMC would give him free reign with that particular show. Confirmation bias can be so annoying and I call out that stuff when it happens and not just with people who get way too happy with Disney movies (my favorite target to rip on for multiple reasons). We’ll see if Johnson is able to sink or swim with future projects.
Definitely. There’s a difference between aim and target and I heard about how poorly things were handled. Very fascinating. I feel some similar ways when it comes to certain movies where even if I agree with the message, I will dock points if it’s handled poorly.
Yeah, it’s especially unhelpful because that propensity to surround oneself with yes-men was precisely what led to the downfall of creators such as George Lucas and M. Night Shyamalan. If someone with a lot of promise is making rudimentary errors, it’s better to let them know early on so they can eventually make something that actually lives up to the hype. As it stands, I don’t envision a lot of the 2010s indie darlings standing the test of time.
As far as I know, he directed a few episodes of that show. While many cite said episodes as the best in the series, I think it just reinforces my point; that he’s the kind of creator who needs to be kept on a tight leash in order to succeed. If he is to improve, he really needs to let other people write scripts for him because, while I think he’s a competent director, his directorial skills far outpace his writing ability. Also, his diehard supporters are pretty cringe – just saying.
Confirmation bias isn’t easy to overcome, but doing so is absolutely essential to being a credible critic. And I have to say that, while I still think there is a large amount of people who hate on Disney for highly unsympathetic reasons (that is to say, their own backwards-looking beliefs aren’t being validated), I really lost almost all respect for them in how they handled the Mulan acknowledgements. It retroactively makes the progressive-sounding pieces they’ve issued in the past ten years hollow with the knowledge that they are very much guilty of moral cowardice. They can only be counted on to be progressive when their bottom line isn’t at stake.
Sure thing. That can certainly be a downfall for so many others. I agree with that especially as an author. There were times where I had to ask people if something was working like a storyline or character. Interesting observation with 2010 indie darlings. I could see a few international directors who haven’t went Hollywood (yet?) lasting, but not everyone.
Okay. I was just wondering. He should get some good writers, producers, and possibly even a co-director to give him some needed restrictions for the right reasons. Wow, those Johnson Stans are something else.
I agree and there were times that I needed to challenge myself. I recently saw the latest film from an anime director that I’ve known since the 00s that I’ve enjoyed, but I found said film to be overrated and dated for the wrong reasons given current events. That live action Mulan situation from what I’ve heard was insane. I think I’ll stick to the Chinese live action remake Mulan: Rise of a Warrior, thank you. That’s sadly true about that sect of people who bash on Disney for backwards-reasons. Very good point about the House of Mouse being progressive when it’s convenient because they still have a long way to go. Don’t even get me started on that one rant piece I did last year or when I reviewed a certain Netflix documentary on Iridium Eye that gave me more ammunition to bash a certain property let alone the company’s business practices. Critics and the average viewers needn’t be so accepting of everything they watch.
Honestly, given how artistically conservative Hollywood has become in the past decade, it’s best that said international directors stay far, far away from Tinseltown. I think the fact that a majority of the Best Director winners in the past ten years have hailed from abroad speaks for itself – that whatever the United States filmmaking circles are doing, they’re not producing visionaries (or if they are, they aren’t producing visionaries actually worth listening to). The fact that the Academy is just now beginning to recognize international talent by awarding an international effort the Best Picture award demonstrates that, in that regard, they’re only just now catching up with video games in that regard.
Indeed, they are. One would expect freaking out in CAPS LOCK and calling people who don’t like what they like dweebs is something most people grow out of before the age of eighteen, but Dana Schwartz evidently never got the memo. The cringe is strong with that one.
That is, incidentally, how I felt about Weathering with You. Your Name was reasonably timeless and told an interesting story whereas Weathering with You wound up being too dated to take seriously as a standalone artistic statement. It also failed in the same way as the original The Last of Us in that its ending had a real “screw you, got mine” vibe to it that made me wholly unsympathetic to the protagonist.
While their detractors go way too far in the other direction in how they are overly negative about everything and lose their minds when anything is remotely progressive, I also believe that mainstream critics have demonstrated an unwillingness to have definable standards. This is only going to harm the art of storytelling in the long term once directors realize they can get away with gaping plot holes or other contrivances as long as their narrative successfully pays lip service to the critics’ beliefs.
Sure. I should’ve said that I wish these international directors would stay away from Hollywood. Good point about the Best Director awards at the Oscars. I have certainly been more enthralled with foreign films more often than American ones and most of the American films I’ve liked over the past few years have been documentaries of all things. It took the Academy long enough even though they still have a ways to go.
I know, right? If there wasn’t a picture of Dana or an actual name, I would’ve thought this would’ve been some teenage troll trying to be anonymous. Sure, I may have said some stupid and immature things online when I was younger, but someone like her should really know better.
I was actually talking about that movie and director! Hahaha! I’ve known about Shinkai since the 00s just before The Place Promised In Our Early Days came out (great movie, by the way). Weathering With You looks amazing, but Shinkai rehashed so many things from his older movies and got complacent.
That certainly makes sense. I’ve noticed double standards with bigger critics or having no standards at all. I haven’t thought about the implications about harming storytelling. Thanks for the insight about how insidious it can be.
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Great review! I was pleasantly surprised with how much I enjoyed this considering how I felt about the The Last Jedi but I think I might fall into that group who like a murder mystery regardless of it’s depth. I totally agree with the points you make though… there really are some flaws when you sit back and take a harder look at it. I do wish he tried to work on making the family a little more than one dimensional. Seemed a waste of the actors involved.
Honestly, that’s fair enough. I would argue that Knives Out was only an improvement over The Last Jedi inasmuch that Rian Johnson is slightly behind where he started with Looper, but it definitely is serviceable as a mindless thriller. Otherwise, yeah, I found the flaws to be rather severe. And I didn’t even really notice the fact that Jamie Lee Curtis or Toni Collette were in this film because they play such bland characters. It’s actually kind of amazing that Rian Johnson was able to make such distinguished actors so boring and forgettable. I don’t know how he did that, but it’s not exactly the talent I wish to endorse. I feel Rian Johnson needs to hire someone to write the scripts for his films because, while I don’t think he’s a bad writer, he has not improved in the seven years between Looper and Knives Out.
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Thanks! To be honest, I thought it was pretty good when I saw it, but there’s no getting around that it hasn’t held up upon a second viewing. If Mr. Johnson thought things through more, he would be far more talented than what he demonstrated with this film. What a pity.
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What is the weird whistle voice we hear on the naval ships?
As we pass near a naval ship, we hear a shrill voice echoing in the air sometimes. Like many of the naval customs, this is a curious issue for civilians. Because a well-dressed sailor, which is expected to carry a gun or a rifle, holding a small whistle and blowing it when a high-rank officer is on board. What is that whistle? Why is it used? Let’s answer these questions to quench your curiosity.
A bosun’s whistle is a pipe or a non-diaphragm type whistle used on naval ships by a boatswain. It’s also called as boatswain’s call, boatswain’s pipe or bosun’s pipe.
It was first used in the time of the Crusaders (1262) and Romans, in the navies of the Mediterranean countries in the 13th and 14th centuries to inform the rowers about the sudden attacks that may come to their ships. Voice orders could not be heard over the sounds of the sea, wind noise and the sounds of battle, so, bosun’s whistle had been used to help the crew understand the orders. It is now used in traditional bugle calls such as Evening Colors/Sunset, and in other ceremonies in most modern navies. It is sometimes accompanied by other auditive features such as ruffles and flourishes, voice commands and announcements, or even a gun salute.
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Due to the special angled structure of the bosun’s whistle, the high-pitched sound can be heard easily among many noise that occurs on the deck, even in stormy weather.
According to British maritime standards, the current form of bosun’s whistle was designed in 1870, it was patented and started to be used in ships to announce standard orders to personnel. The bosun’s whistle made of brass or lead is used with 99 cm (39 inches) long-chain / chain knitted hand finer. Dimensions of standard whistle; Its length is 12.7 cm (5 inches) and its weight is 45 grams with chain.
Brass-made bosun’s pipe
What is it used for currently?
Pipe aboard: Flag-rank officers or an important guest is boarding a Navy ship. This is part of a ceremony called “manning the side” which includes a party of sailors known as “side boys”. It has its origins in the need to hoist visiting senior officers aboard using a bosun’s chair when the weather was too rough for the use of ladders.
Funerals: When the body of a person entitled to honours in their lifetime is taken aboard a Navy ship, the same ceremony is observed.
Flag Ceremony: While making flag hoisting up and down ceremony bosun’s whistle is used.
Announcements: Before making and important announcement aboard the ship it’s used to take attention of the crew.
A female sailor with bosun’s pipe
Here are some of the commands that are passed with the help of a bosun’s pipe in different countries’ navies.
Haul: The most basic of calls. Crews of warships were not allowed to sing work songs or shanties, so the pipe coordinated the sailors. The low note was for the pause and preparatory; the high for pulling on the line.
The Side or Away Galley: Descends from the tradition of hoisting officers aboard ship in a chair. It is a combination of haul, and then a command to lower. This call remains in use as an honour given to officers when embarking or disembarking.
Away Boats: Used to order a ship’s boats to leave the ship’s side.
Call the Boatswain’s Mates: The boatswain’s gang to report.
All Hands on Deck: Crews were split into three (or earlier, two) rotating watches that stood for two to four hours at a time. This call signals the entire crew to assemble on deck.
Word to be Passed: Command for silence, an order to follow.
Pipe Down: Dismissal of all the crew not on watch.
Sweepers. End of the workday. Ostensibly sailors would “sweep up” prior to departure in preparation for the following day.
Pipe to any meal: Pipe All Hands, followed by long Heave Around (Mess gear), and long Pipe Down.
Still: Used to call the crew to attention. This would be done, for example, when two warships meet, the still being piped as the junior ship salutes the senior ship (the seniority of a warship is the seniority of her captain); a less common alternative to the still being piped is a bugle call.
Carry On: Used after the still, to dismiss the crew back to their duties.
General Call: Piped before an announcement.
Officer of the Day: Call the Officer of the Day to the Gangway.
The general explanation of the bosun’s whistle and the examples of different commands are shown at the video below.
If you are a member of a navy, you are a member of a universal community. Though having different flags hoisted up, many customs are the same at the naval ships. Bosun’s whistle is one of those old-school customs used in the normal life-cycle. Because navies live with the customs, maybe that makes navies special.
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Game Of Thrones' Carice Van Houten Addresses 'Ungrateful' Fan Backlash To Show's Final Season
Former Game of Thrones star Carice van Houten has hit back at the backlash the show’s divisive finale received.
It was well-documented that the show’s final series, which concluded around this time last year, wasn’t especially pleasing to a lot of fans, with the events of the last episode proving especially controversial.
Some disgruntled fans even set up a petition calling for the last season to be rewritten and reshot, which Carice – who played Melisandre in the hit show – has admitted she was less than impressed by.In an interview with Insider, she insisted she was a big fan of the finale, explaining: “I loved the ending. I loved the randomness of just picking a king.
“That’s why I loved the first season, the guy who actually was king [Robert Baratheon], didn’t want to be king, so we already got a lesson in the beginning: ‘Why are you striving for that sort of power when, obviously, it doesn’t make you happy?’”
Addressing the backlash, Carice continued: “The fact that some people were so disappointed is because everything before that was so good.
“So it feels a bit ungrateful. You’ve had such great times and then yeah, you’re going to be disappointed because it’s not going to go exactly how you anticipated. Of course, you’re going to have all sorts of criticisms and I just thought it was a sign of how good the show was.
“People sometimes take it too far and get too personal, but I can’t take that seriously... It just always amazes me how people can go behind their computer and just type ‘die bitch die,’ I’m fascinated by that human psyche.” And of the infamous petition, she added: “That’s beyond fandom. That’s extremism. That’s scary. Knowing the writers and knowing how fucking great they are, they don’t deserve that.
“I think they are probably cool enough to deal with that but still, they are human beings, they are trying to make a good product.”
Carice recently spoke about how the Me Too movement led her to question the many nude scenes depicted in the early seasons of Game Of Thrones, including those she appeared in herself.
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TAAT Launch in Ohio Continues with Over 3.7 Million Ad Engagements and Strong Conversion Rate on TryTAAT; Final TAAT Pack Designs Revealed Featuring BOGO Promotion
With the launch of TAAT™ in Ohio currently underway, the Company is pleased to announce that the digital marketing campaign for its TryTAAT landing page has distributed approximately 13 million advertisements, with over 3.7 million ad engagements and visits to TryTAAT originating from more than 90 countries internationally despite no current advertising outside of the United States. The Company has also released new TAAT™ pack designs featuring a “Buy one, get one free” offer which will be incorporated into the Company’s rollout strategy for selling TAAT™ at retail in Ohio in its early stages.
LAS VEGAS and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TAAT™LIFESTYLE & WELLNESS LTD. (CSE: TAAT) (OTCQB: TOBAF) (FRANKFURT: 2TP2) (the “Company” or “TAAT™”) is pleased to announce that the launch of its flagship product TAAT™ continues in Ohio, with positive performance of digital marketing initiatives, a sustained production rate of both Beyond Tobacco™ and TAAT™, and further growth of interest in TAAT™ from both legal aged smokers as well as Ohio-based tobacco retailers. TAAT™ remains on schedule to be available for purchase in Ohio in Q4 2020. In its September 29, 2020 press release, the Company released mockups of provisional packaging designs for TAAT™ which were designed to align the product line’s appearance with incumbent brands of tobacco cigarettes. The Company has finalized the TAAT™ packaging designs for each of the Original, Smooth, and Menthol varieties for the launch, which will feature a “Buy one, get one free” offer (commonly referred to as “BOGO”) to provide greater value to legal aged smokers who are early-stage purchasers of TAAT™ and encourage lengthier trials of the product at no additional cost.
The Company has developed Beyond Tobacco™, which is the base material of TAAT™, containing no nicotine or tobacco. Beyond Tobacco™ is characterized by its similar properties to actual tobacco such as the volume of smoke and “crackling” sound resulting from combustion, as well as a tobacco-like taste and smell created by a patent-pending refinement technique for the material. By offering legal aged smokers the choice to continue the experiences they enjoy while leaving nicotine behind, the Company is positioning TAAT™ as a direct competitor to leading brands of tobacco cigarettes.
On October 30, 2020, the Company launched a digital marketing campaign to attract traffic to TryTAAT (http://trytaat.com), a landing page that provides information about TAAT™ and allows legal aged smokers in the United States to request a free sample of TAAT™ in any of its varieties. As of this writing, approximately 13 million advertisements have been distributed and there have been over 3.7 million engagements with TAAT™ advertisements in this campaign. These engagements have yielded several thousand confirmed requests for mailed samples of TAAT™ to addresses in the United States. The Company intends to upwardly scale digital advertising initiatives for TAAT™ following its availability in Ohio tobacco retailers this quarter to build upon its current momentum.
Daniel A. Pasco, Chief Executive Officer of Adfuel Media Inc., a digital media service provider to the Company commented, “We have not seen consumer engagement and traction for a new product like what we have seen for TAAT™ with any other company for whom we have administered online advertising campaigns. Despite targeting advertisements for TAAT™ to strategically chosen market segments, much of the web traffic to TryTAATappears to originate from sources other than our ads, including many direct type-ins. This suggests that the campaign is already benefiting from organic growth through personal referrals, which is one of the most powerful metrics in this industry. Although our campaigns for TAAT™ are being conducted solely in the United States at this time, we have detected traffic from more than 90 countries internationally. We are very encouraged by the results thus far and look forward to rolling out the campaign on a larger scale.”
As a result of the Company’s decision to provide a BOGO offer as part of the current TAAT™ launch, new pack designs have been created to include a voucher that can be redeemed for a complimentary pack of TAAT™ from any tobacco retailer who carries TAAT™ products. Packs with the new designs, as pictured below, are currently in production and are set to arrive at the facility of the Company’s contract manufacturing partner within the next ten days. Finished TAAT™ sticks will then be placed into the BOGO offer packs and corresponding cartons, loaded onto 1,440-carton pallets, and stored in the warehouse of the Company’s contract manufacturing partner from which the pallets will be shipped to Ohio.
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Pat Bell, Chief Operating Officer of the Company’s first distribution partner ADCO Distributors, Inc. commented, “Interest in TAAT™ has grown tremendously over the past couple of weeks. Our retail customers have been very intrigued and we are processing orders from both chain and independent tobacco retailer accounts in Ohio. Additionally, despite making no outbound efforts to solicit orders of TAAT™ outside of Ohio, several retailers from Ohio border states have sought us out and enthusiastically expressed interest in ordering TAAT™ from us. Interest in TAAT™ from tobacco retailer accounts has been unprecedented in comparison to other newly launched products that we have helped bring to market. This is evidenced by our customers’ receptiveness to place advance orders for TAAT™ and their confidence in the product to be well-received by the legal aged smokers that shop in their stores. I can say that TAAT™ is the first new product that I can remember that has had this much interest before it has even hit the store shelves.”
TAAT™ Chief Executive Officer Setti Coscarella said, “For any launch in the consumer packaged goods category, it is always an exciting time to concurrently build interest in the product with both your target market and the retailers from whom they will purchase the product. Because this involves a combination of B2C marketing and B2B relationship building on top of behind-the-scenes activities such as establishing a supply chain, it is important to emphasize that this process is a marathon and not a race. As our objective is to capture market share in one of the most ruthlessly competitive industries in the world, nothing can be rushed in our launch strategy because it is very important to make a compelling first impression. We have already secured purchase orders from several chain and independent tobacco retailers in Ohio, which will comprise our initial batch of retail partners for when TAAT™ will first be available at retail this quarter. From there, the focus is on growing our roster of retail partners, which will be an integral part of our KPIs going forward. At all levels, we have felt very welcomed in Ohio so far, which is something we are eager to reciprocate by offering smokers in Ohio a better product than traditional tobacco cigarettes.”
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The Company has developed TAAT™, which is a tobacco-free and nicotine-free alternative to traditional cigarettes offered in “Original”, “Smooth”, and “Menthol” varieties. TAAT™’s base material is Beyond Tobacco™, a proprietary blend which undergoes a patent-pending refinement technique causing its scent and taste to resemble tobacco. Under executive leadership with “Big Tobacco” pedigree, TAAT™ is launching in the United States in Q4 2020 as the Company seeks to position itself in the $814 billion1 global tobacco industry.
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Ukraine Transfers Drones to Donbass in Preparation for WAR
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By Paul Antonopoulos On Dec 9, 2018
DONETSK, Novorussiya – The Ukrainian forces have transferred to Donbass a significant number of aerial drones capable of carrying up to 70 kilos, the military operative command spokesman of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic Daniil Bezsonov said on Sunday.
“Our intelligence has received reliable data on the arrival in Horlivka of a train with Warmate-1 and Bayraktar TB2 drones. The latter is a product of Ukraine and Turkey that can carry up to 70 kilos of cargo,” said Bezsonov.
Bezsonov also explained that these attack drones can be used for provocations with the use of chemical weapons and attacks on important sites in the region.
Earlier, the country’s defense minister said Ukrainian forces have repeatedly conducted drone attacks, resulting in damage to the infrastructure built on the fronts. The issue was also brought to the negotiating rounds in Minsk.
The conflict in Donbass began in 2014 when Ukrainian authorities launched a military operation against the self-proclaimed popular republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, which refused to recognize the new government of Kiev. The new government was sworn in after what was considered a coup by the two republics.
In February 2015, the sides of the conflict agreed to end the hostilities in the region through a peace treaty. But the situation remained tense with mutual accusations of breach of the ceasefire.
Meanwhile, a statement released by the US embassy in Kiev on Sunday emphasized the need to establish an anti-corruption court in Ukraine.
“On International Anti-Corruption Day, we stress the need to establish an effective High-Corruption Court and to ensure anti-corruption institutions work together in fostering rule of law, and transparent and accountable government. # UnitedAgainstCorruption,” the US embassy tweeted.
On International Anti-Corruption Day, we stress the need to establish an effective High Anti-Corruption Court and to ensure anti-corruption institutions work together in fostering rule of law, and transparent and accountable government. #UnitedAgainstCorruption pic.twitter.com/nevUQ6PYJ3
— U.S. Embassy Kyiv (@USEmbassyKyiv) December 9, 2018
In June, the Ukrainian parliament approved a bill to create the anti-corruption court as one of the key conditions for the IMF’s financial assistance to Ukraine.
Kiev has received loans totaling $17.5 billion. The loans, part of a four-year program aimed at reviving the Ukrainian economy, were approved by the IMF in 2015. So far, Kiev has received four tranches of the agreement, amassing a total of $8.7 billion.
The IMF froze aid payments in April and the fifth payment was never made because Ukraine did not meet all fund requirements.
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I graduated as a medical doctor in Pakistan in 1988 and was awarded an MMBS and from the onset of my studies I chose to specialise in psychiatry as a clinical specialisation following a period of residency in surgery and medicine. I came to Switzerland to re-join my parents towards the end of 1989 and was awarded an equivalent medical certification, by the faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva for my Pakistani medical degree. Initially I began my career in Switzerland as a locum in psychiatry and finally started my postgraduate and specialisation in psychiatry and psychotherapy. In 1998 I was awarded a doctorate in medicine and my specialisation in psychiatry and psychotherapy in 2000.
Several years later, in 2004, I was awarded an MBA in Healthcare Management while simultaneously working towards a Masters in Analytical Group Psychotherapy and a Masters in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
In my first post I was appointed the interim head of addiction psychiatry for one year and then deputy head of addiction psychiatry for 10 years and worked as an addiction psychiatry specialist, all of these posts in the Department of Mental Health and psychiatry at Geneva University Hospital where I continue to this day.
In 2012 I was the Chair of the 14th annual meeting of the International Society of Addiction Medicine, (ISAM) held in Geneva, Switzerland. I have worked as a consultant psychiatrist in the anxiety disorders programme with University Hospitals of Geneva, where I have developed an expertise in the various anxiety disorders and Obsessive Compulsive disorder spectrum.
In 2013, I was appointed full professor of psychiatry at Frontier Medical College, affiliated with Bharia University, Islamabad, Pakistan. I was awarded the International Affiliate Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, MRCPsych in 2015 and became Fellow of the International Society of Addiction Medicine, FISAM in 2016.
With a focus mainly on clinical activities and teaching, I pursued my clinical research in the university hospital for validation of screening instruments and brief interventions in Geneva. I was the psychiatry departmental and divisional representative from the University Hospitals of Geneva for the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the field of addiction. I’m currently the head of the Emergency Psychiatry Unit at the Geneva University Hospital.
From an academic perspective, I’m finishing my post-doctoral thesis, Privat Docent, where my research highlights the role of emergency psychiatry in the prevention of suicide.
I am an Executive Board Member and Treasurer of the International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM). Currently I am working on establishing the Pakistan Society of Addiction Medicine and also working towards the creation of a Chair of Addiction Medicine in Pakistan.
My professional, personal and human experiences have been enriched through my various clinical activities with my patients to whom I will ever be thankful for allowing me to help them in their recovery journey as they once more achieve a functional societal role.
My hobbies are cycling, tennis and walking.
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Home/Sci-Tech/75 percent of previous year’s revenue: Altmaier and Scholz agree on VAT return details – economy
75 percent of previous year’s revenue: Altmaier and Scholz agree on VAT return details – economy
ga November 5, 2020
Federal Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Federal Economy Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) have agreed on the details of the emergency economic aid for November 2020. The Federal Ministry of Economy announced it on Thursday evening. This means that nothing stands in the way of returning 75 percent of revenues to companies directly affected by partial locking (such as restaurants, hotels, fitness studios).
The value from November 2019 is used as a reference value. The self-employed can also use the average weekly turnover for 2019; Companies under one year, average weekly sales for the last October. “I want the aid to hit the victims quickly,” Scholz said. Altmaier added: “Advances should be made by the end of November 2020 if possible.”
Sales outside the house do not count
So far, the question of how to deal with sales that are generated despite closures, such as sales away from home in restaurants, has not been answered. The Minister has now announced that the refund will be limited to sales at full VAT rate. The sale of “To Go” is therefore excluded as they are subject to a reduced VAT rate.
This means: On the one hand, restaurateurs have to deduct off-home sales from November 2019 when determining reference sales. On the other hand, sales of “To Go” in the current month are not included in the refund. The goal is to “support the expansion of this business,” say ministries. In addition, sales in excess of 25 percent of sales in the previous year should be offset by aid.
According to the contribution, companies indirectly affected by the lock-in may also hope to be reimbursed. However, they must prove that 80 percent of their sales depend directly on cooperation with companies, which in turn are directly affected by the ordered closures. For example, this rule could apply to laundries, which run most of their business in restaurants and hotels. The application must be requested on the website ueberbrueckungshilfe-unternehmen.de. It is still unclear when this will be possible.
The German Association of Hotels and Restaurants (Dehoga) welcomed the details of the federal government’s crown co-operation for industry in the locked month of November. “This is good and encouraging news for our emergencies,” Dehoga President Guido Zöllick said in Berlin on Thursday.
Corona aid has been announced for some time
The federal government has already announced that the companies affected by the corona measures they decided last week will quickly provide financial support. “It is ensured that we can provide support as soon as possible,” said Berlin Mayor Michael Müller (SPD) after talks between Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and the Prime Ministers.
“We will build on existing systems, application procedures and payment schemes,” he continued. It will certainly take a few days, but there will be no new bureaucracy.
The total financial assistance should amount to up to ten billion euros. This should allow small companies to refund up to 75 percent of the revenue they generated in the same month last year, in November 2019. For larger companies, it was possible to pay up to 70 percent of the previous year’s revenue. According to reports, companies with up to 50 employees are considered small. The amount of funding for larger companies should be calculated according to the requirements of the State Aid Act.
[Was Peter Altmaier und Olaf Scholz am vergangenen Donnerstag zu neuen Coronahilfen gesagt haben, finden Sie hier.]
Companies that have to close due to measures decided on Monday – and which is at least one year old – can apply; after all, they must be able to refer to the value from the previous year.
Söder thinks this is a “uniquely good offer”
Söder praised the help after the meeting as a “uniquely good offer”. In most cases, sales in November last year are even higher than in October, he speculated. Moreover, it is not as if “theaters are currently overcrowded.”
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No decision of the Bundestag is required for the funds. Much more should be taken from other aid programs already adopted and already approved. From a political point of view, they have already been decided, according to BMW, and this step is to be taken formally in the next few days.
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Apple and Other Tech Companies Want to Preserve Security for Encrypted Phone Data
In a recent letter that was set to be delivered to President Barack Obama, Apple and other tech companies formed a group of signatories that are requesting that the White House reject incoming government proposals that would modify current policies to allow law enforcement access to encrypted user data. The group of signatories currently consists of over 140 tech companies, security experts and interested civil groups concerned with upcoming legislation that could force access to consumer data, even if it is encrypted.
The letter read the following regarding the matter:
Strong encryption is the cornerstone of the modern information economy's security. [Further, signatories unanimously recommend that government agencies should] "fully support and not undermine efforts to create encryption standards.
What makes the whole issue even more pressuring was that three signatories were on a five-member presidential review team formed to investigate US technology policy back in 2013. This was just after NSA contractor, Edward Snowden sparked public outrage by leaking information regarding secret government surveillance programs. Among the many things that Snowden blurted out was the existence of mass data collection initiatives that were targeting everything from phone calls to social networks and other high-traffic consumer products.
What sparked more controversy to the issue as a whole though was when law enforcement officials claimed that tech companies such as Apple, made their job increasingly difficult by rolling out opaque encryption techniques that make data and other forms of communication inaccessible. Some agencies were requesting so-called “backdoors” to be built into otherwise secure software with the sole purpose of accessing data that was deemed vital to criminal investigations. For those of you who didn’t know, with iOS 8, Apple ended up building an encryption system so secure that it technically was incapable of decrypting a user’s device even with the appropriate documentation. The lockout method wasn’t well received by officials that wanted to access user data, which was a procedure that was previously allowed through proper warrants.
We’ll have to wait and see what is ultimately decided but as of right now, it could go either way as both sides of the argument have compelling cases. How do you feel about the whole issue?
This article was originally published in forum thread: Apple and Other Tech Companies Want to Preserve Security for Encrypted Phone Data started by Akshay Masand View original post
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Salcido set to join Tigres on loan
by Dan | Aug 15, 2011 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
Carlos Salcido looks set to join Mexican side Tigres on a year’s loan.
A statement from Tigres says that Fulham have agreed to allow Salcido to travel to Monterrey to conclude personal negotiations with the club. The loan deal will include an option to make the transfer permanent.
Salcido has endured a disappointing year with Fulham since signing from PSV Eindhoven for £1.6m last August. He struggled to adapt to the pace of the Premier League and was dropped midway through the season, before regaining his place towards the end of the campaign. The Mexican international made 26 appearances for the club, but his departure from Craven Cottage was expected after his family left for their homeland following a break-in at his London home. The recent arrival of John Arne Riise has increased the likelihood of Salcido leaving.
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Sorabji: 100 Transcendental Studies, Nos. 84-100
Label: BIS
Catalog: BIS-2433
Ullén, Fredrik
By far the largest collection of concert études in the known repertoire, Kaikhosru Sorabji’s set of 100 Transcendental Studies, composed between 1940 and 1944, has a total duration of more than eight hours. On five previous discs, the Swedish pianist (and neuroscientist) Fredrik Ullén has introduced the first 83 études to a wider audience, the large majority of them appearing on disc for the first time. Now, 15 years after the release of the first volume comes the final instalment, a 2-disc set with the last 17 studies. In his own liner notes, Ullén describes the experience of learning and recording the collection: ‘From the F sharp minor of Study 1 to the F sharp minor chord concluding Study 100: traversing Sorabji’s Transcendental Studies has been somewhat like joining a comet following a long eccentric orbit through pianistic outer space, and finally returning back to mother earth.’ Most of the studies are typical concert études in the sense that they essentially explore a single technical or structural idea. But especially towards the end of the cycle Sorabji includes pieces that are on a much larger scale, a tendency that culminates with the two final études. Quasi fantasia (No. 99) is a hugely expanded elaboration of J.S. Bach’s Chromatic Fantasia and is followed by the almost hour-long Coda-Finale, a quintuple fugue of staggering complexity. Besides the programme notes by Fredrik Ullén, the booklet includes texts by Kenneth Derus and Alistair Hinton who both knew the composer.
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Social Media by Tiffany & Co
According to an awesome article on http://econsultancy.com/, Tiffany & Co is ruling social media as a brand!
On average, Tiffany & Co racks up almost 30,000 interactions per post, some 10,000 more than Victoria’s Secret in second place.
To find out whether it is equally popular across other social networks, here’s a look at how Tiffany & Co. uses Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and Google+.
This follows on from similar posts focusing on brands such as H&M, Nike, Ikea, Coca-Cola and Starbucks…
Tiffany & Co. has more than four million fans and generally posts one update per day or fewer. A vast majority of posts are simple product images or albums complete with links to its ecommerce page.
These are interspersed with product videos, images of celebs wearing Tiffany jewelry and various content promoting the brand’s tie in with the recent Great Gatsby remake.
All of the updates achieve an extraordinarily high level of interactions, with product images generally being the most popular. It’s common for simple product-related updates to achieve upwards of 50,000 ‘likes’, thousands of shares and hundreds of comments, while in comparison videos tend to get only a few thousand ‘likes’.
This high number of interactions is probably due to the fact that Tiffany & Co. is an iconic, aspirational brand that people want to be associated with, therefore they’re happy to give a $10,000 necklace a digital thumbs-up.
Tiffany is also quite good at responding to user comments, though in keeping with its luxury image it avoids entering into chatty conversations with fans and customers. Instead the social team just responds to product questions by supplying relevant links to its ecommerce site or the number for customer services.
It’s also worth noting Tiffany’s recent social campaign to promote the launch of its new Blue Book Collection, which incorporated Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram.
A few days before the official launch on April 18, Tiffany began sharing images and details of the collection exclusively through its social channels. This included a dedicated Facebook tab that users had to access using a special password.
It culminated in a special event in New York attended by various celebrities and models, photos of which were published on Facebook.
Rewarding Facebook fans with access to exclusive content and using them to build excitement around a new product launch is a tried and tested marketing tactic, and one that Cadbury has used to good effect several times in the past few years.
It’s a cost effective way of building buzz among your existing fan base prior to a big launch, though it’s interesting that Tiffany hasn’t gone down the route of creating a hashtag for the campaign, no doubt because it doesn’t quite fit with the idea of it being an exclusive sneak peak if there’s a hashtag splashed around everywhere.
While many of the brands I’ve looked at have numerous Twitter feeds for different departments and international markets, Tiffany & Co. appears to only have two official accounts – one for the US and one for Brazil.
The US account tweets between five and 10 times per day, and is generally a mix of product suggestions, images, promos for its engagement ring finder app and links to other social accounts.
In fact quite a lot of the recent tweets have been promotions for the Tiffany & Co. Tumblr, which basically hosts a load of the brand’s products and adverts.
Tiffany & Co. also occasionally responds to tweets from other users, however never more than one or two per day.
It also seems to have a very limited repertoire of minimalist responses, which include “lovely,” “perfect,” “indeed,” and “cheers to you on your birthday.”
The only time it gets close to using 140 characters is when responding to customer queries and complaints: “Please email us at [email protected] with the best way to reach you, so we may address your comments. Thank you.”
Overall the emphasis is more on broadcasting marketing messages rather than actually engaging with other users, however the content that Tiffany & Co. posts is probably quite interesting for a certain demographic and as such it has almost 600,000 followers.
In theory Pinterest is the ideal social network for Tiffany & Co. as people often use it to collate product wish lists and wedding ideas, so images of engagement rings and jewelry are in high demand.
And though its follower count of 28,000 is higher than most of the businesses I’ve looked at, it’s still surprisingly low for such an iconic jewelry brand.
It could be down to the fact that Tiffany hasn’t exactly made a huge effort with Pinterest, pinning just 350 images across nine boards, despite establishing an account several months ago.
But as mentioned, Tiffany & Co. used Pinterest as part of its promotional campaign for its new Blue Book range and often cross-promotes its account on Twitter, so it could be that it plans to make more of the network going forward.
Many major retailers remain indifferent to Google+ and either post infrequently or never at all, but Tiffany & Co. is among a very small minority that haven’t even bothered to establish an account at all.
The benefits of G+ to a brand with Tiffany & Co.’s target audience are debatable, particularly asa majority of agencies believe the network doesn’t even have an SEO value, but even so it’s unusual that the company hasn’t even bothered to register an account.
David Moth is Deputy Editor at Econsultancy. You can follow him on Twitter or connect via Google+ and LinkedIn.
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Best in Painting – Daphne Hobsen – La Belle
Best in Photography – Bob Dowd – I Walk Alone
Best in Sculpture – Alexandra Martin – The Captain
Mitchell Award for Acrylic – Wayne Lerman – Happy Hour
Barbaba Shieldkret Memorial Award for Abstract Painting – Dawn DiCicco – Wave
Caivano Award for Watercolor – Frank Colaguori – Size Ten
Caivano Award for Oil – Minako Toyonaga – Morning Sun
Pastellists’ Salon of New Jersey Award – Lee Jamieson – On the Rocks
Friedlander Award for Abstract Photography– Linda Relyea – The Tempest
Guild Award for Artistic Innovation Photography – Bonnie Kamhi – Reflecting
Evinrude Nature Photography Award – Robert Novak – Skating Egret
Bronze Achievement Award – Frank Colaguori – Paper Mill
Bronze Achievement Award -Kenneth Pisile – A Walk in the Clouds
Bronze Achievement Award -Mary ODonnell – Hope
Bronze Achievement Award – MaryAnn Goodwin – Blue Plate Special
Bronze Achievement Award – Stephen Gale – Son of Frankenstein
Bronze Achievement Award – Stephen Gale – Hobbit Crossing
Bronze Achievement Award – Angela Previte – Fading Away
Bronze Achievement Award – Dana Cohoon – Twin Lights
Bronze Achievement Award – Richard Huff – Ready for Service
Bronze Achievement Award – Stephen Ravner – Shadow People
Laura Mandile has been making art her whole life. After winning awards for her artwork in High School, she went on to receive a BFA at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude, and received the Founders Award for Media Arts. Intending to pursue a career as a freelance illustrator, her studies focused on classical drawing and painting, with classes in graphic design. Opportunities led her instead to a successful career as an art director in the fashion and cosmetic industry in NY. Looking back, she credits those years with expanding her creative skills. She designed both print and commercial advertising and marketing programs, as well as packaging and product displays, for top fashion and cosmetic lines, and worked with leading fashion and still life photographers.
After starting a family, she found that long hours in the field were taking her away from important milestones, and she quit to be a stay at home mom, still taking on freelance design jobs and substitute teaching. Once her three children were in school full time, she earned her NJ teaching certification from Monmouth University, and began a new career as an art teacher, teaching both middle and high school Fine Art, Art Appreciation and Photography. Her students inspired her to begin painting again, and her work has since been shown in several art galleries and shows near the New Jersey Shoreline, where she lives.
Laura Mandile’s paintings focus mainly on nature, florals and landscape, inspired by her surroundings and travels. Fascinated by light and shadow, she seeks to achieve depth using multiple layers of colors. Small details, like a refection in water, or a tiny bug on a leaf, find a bigger part in her compositions. She works mostly in oil and watercolor, but loves to experiment, and has completed work in acrylics, pastels and enamel on glass. Currently retired from public school teaching, she continues to take on private students and has taught classes for adults and teens, through the Monmouth County Public Library, the Galleria in Ocean Grove, and the Middletown Arts Center.
Affiliations: Middletown Arts Center, Art Alliance of Monmouth County, Monmouth Arts, and the Guild of Creative Art
He attended the Academy of Arts in Newark, New Jersey, where he studied advertising art and illustration. He had a career as a technical illustrator in New York City.
Retirement allowed Frank time to pursue his art. Wildfowl carving became his first artistic endeavor. Song birds and birds of prey were his main focus. Frank was awarded ribbons for his carvings at the World Wildfowl Championship held in Ocean City, Maryland. After several years of bird carving, his artistic interest turned to watercolor painting, and Frank became an Exhibiting Member at the Guild of Creative Art.
Frank Colaguori received awards in the Open Juried Shows at the Guild of Creative Art. He received the Mary Waclewicz award at the Garden State Watercolor Society’s thirty-Fifth Annual Juried Show. Frank had exhibited his paintings in various shows in New Jersey, as well as one-man shows in Monmouth County. His paintings can be found in private collections.
Laura Angress, born and raised in Monmouth County and owner of Murals by Laura, has been a full time artist since 2006. After graduating with a Fine Arts degree, with honors, from Rowan University in 1996 she continued her education at the Illustration Academy. She then went on to work for Nordstrom as a Visual Designer for more than a decade.
Inspired by seeing the Sistine Chapel in Rome in person in 2006, Laura decided to start her leave of the corporate world and become an artist full time. Laura’s commissioned works include murals, fine art canvases and decorative wall finishes for doctor’s offices and homes.
She has created 7 commissioned canvases for Karen Lozner, Fashion Designer and owner of Karen’s School of Fashion (KSOF). Laura’s first 5 beach series paintings were purchased by Dr. Jennifer Morrison of Morrison Orthodontics. Her themes vary from beach, lakes, fashion, dog portraits, sports, animals, cityscapes and underwater seascapes.
Laura also worked as an Art Instructor at Pinot’s Palette, Manalapan from 2017 – 2020. She has won various awards for her work including the Nordstrom Corporate Visual Award, and various awards from the Freehold Art Society with her lake paintings. Laura has been commissioned to paint over 90 murals and canvases for various businesses and residences all over New Jersey.
She is a member of the Freehold Art Society and an Exhibiting Artist at the Guild Of Creative Art in Shrewsbury, NJ. She prefers to paint large canvases with acrylic as her medium. Laura currently resides in Freehold, NJ with her husband, two children and dog.
The Beach and Lake Series
Growing up on a lake and spending her summers on Long Beach Island with her family had a profound effect on her life.
“My whole life, I have always been drawn to the water. Whether watching the sunset on LBI, the calming beauty of the sparkling water of Lake Matawan reflecting off Little Street Bridge, or view from Keyport Bay of New York City in the distance broken only by the gentle rocking of the anchored sailboats. But the peaceful serenity of the sun rising and setting on the water is what I love most.”
“The goal for my beach and lake series is for each piece to create a feeling of calm and happiness in the viewer. I feel these days we live in a highly stressful world. So if my paintings can take you that away from the chaos, even temporarily, then I have done my job.”
Amy discovered her love of painting at Westtown High School where she was able to major in art. She received her BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts.
After a brief move to California, she returned east and continued to take classes at the Academy of Art in New York. She went on to receive her Masters in education from Rutgers and has been teaching art for the past 20 years. Teaching hundreds of students in a single year has allowed her to keep learning about new materials, techniques, and approaches to art making.
Although she has worked in digital art, mixed media, and encaustics she continues to return to painting. She finds painting to be a soothing way to forget everything but the imagery she is focused on. She is able to lose herself in the process of choosing colors and applying paint. Her subject matter usually includes figures or water. She feels both have a transient, complex nature that she enjoys trying to capture.
Her latest water series focuses on the duality of water. How it can be constant and changing. It can be rhythmic and yet erratic. Even if the surface is smooth, there is a life force below. She wants the viewer to be able to lose themselves in the work as well. To have the feeling of going beneath the surface where all the surrounding sounds disappear. To enjoy how the colors interact and to notice the beauty of its flows, eddies, and swirls.
2020 October Juried Show
Best in Painting – Ellen Orrego – Death Row
Best in Photography – Larry Ross – Dominoes
Best in Sculpture – Ella Hilsenrath – my my my my my
Mitchell Award for Acrylic Painting – Karen Marten – B Side 45s
Barbara Shieldkret Memorial Award for Oil Painting – Helene Condouris – Windy Meadow
Caivano Memorial Award for Watercolor Painting – Stephen Gale – Tauber of der Rothernburg
Caivano Memorial Award for Mixed Media – Cecilia Swatton – Happy
Pastellists’ Salon of New Jersey Award in Memory of Marge Levine – Susan Rickman – Water Lilies
Friedlander Award for Abstract – Jodi DiLiberto – Semiprecious Secret
Fred N. Biello Memorial Award for Abstract Painting – Sheila Grabarsky – Bloom Where You’re Planted
Lorraine Ravner Memorial Award for Monochrome Photography – Elizabeth Schultz – Old Porch
Bob Warwick Memorial Award for Pet Photography – Vince Matulewich – Riley and Friend
Milo Memorial Award for Action Photography – Eva Krause – Progression
Sara Stern Memorial Award for Artistic Innovation – Bob Dowd – Abstract in Blue
David MacNeill Memorial Award for Wit & Whimsy – Ellen Rubinstein – Love My Mudbath
Bronze Achievement Award – Annette Margulies – Make a Splash (2)
Bronze Achievement Award – Dana McKay – Back Door
Bronze Achievement Award – Carole Rogers – Egyptian Street Scene
Bronze Achievement Award – Holly Lund – Ice Doll
Bronze Achievement Award – Donald Robinson – Utrecht #5
Bronze Achievement Award – John Regan – Angels and Demons
Bronze Achievement Award – Ellen Orrego – Afternoon Confab on the Lake
Bronze Achievement Award – Kristopher Schoenleber – This Way and That
Bronze Achievement Award – Randy Mayer – Marcia
Bronze Achievement Award – Peter Smejkal – She is a Brick House
2020 EyeSights Gallery
2020 EyeSights Juried Photography Show
Best in Color – Vince Matulewich ‐ Decorative Mum ‐ Indian Summer
Best in Monochrome – Marilyn Baldi ‐ Solo Shot II
Alice Tendler Award for Artistic Innovation – Rob Rielly ‐ Inner Self
Al Goldstein Memorial Award for Landscape – Angela Previte ‐ In the Clouds
H. Jeffrey Leonard Memorial Award for Action – Bob Dowd ‐ On the run
Bob Grunke Memorial Award for Street Shooting (Urban) – Edward Deverell ‐ Lunch to Go
Silver Award for Animals – Steven Meko ‐ Changing Directions
Silver Award for Botanical – Pat Rubin ‐ Winter’s Chill
Silver Award for People – Cheryl Bomba ‐ Determined
Silver Award for Places – Thomas Camal ‐ Brooklyn New YORK
Bronze Achievement Award – Nicholas Bello ‐ The Clean Up
Bronze Achievement Award – Cheryl Bomba ‐ Annabel Lee
Bronze Achievement Award – Denise Cosentino ‐ Pig and Dogs
Bronze Achievement Award – Denise Cosentino ‐ Sunset Meadow
Bronze Achievement Award – Chris Deverell ‐ A Better View
Bronze Achievement Award – Mary Fenton ‐ Eyes Wide Open
Bronze Achievement Award – Frank Gelormini ‐ Polaroid of Heather
Bronze Achievement Award – Michael Greco ‐ Sailor’s Dismay
Bronze Achievement Award– Michael Menendez ‐ Reenactor
Bronze Achievement Award – Terry Pilitzer ‐ A Night in Honolulu
Born in New York City, Regina Guarino studied art and design at Parsons School of Design and at FIT before earning a Masters in Education at Fordham University.
After a successful career as a designer for Navel Architects Gibbs and Cox and as a teacher at both Brookdale College and Monmouth University, she began painting in the studio of Portrait Artist Scott Nickerson. She has also studied with artists Steven Assael, Max Ginsburg, Cheryl Griesbach and Mario Robinson.
Her technique of oil painting reflects the classic style of the 17th and 18th Century Old Masters.
Regina is a member of The Portrait Society of America, Allied Artists of America and is a member of The Salmagundi Club in New York City.
Stephanie Bello is an abstract multi-media artist. She readily explores with media such as acrylics, watercolors, and alcohol ink and she’s actively refining a papier colles technique consisting of up-cycled paper. She enjoys creating pieces that are colorful, layered and expressive and infused with movement.
Stephanie loves working with her hands and is passionate about curating a creative, joyful and healthy life for herself and for others. A storyteller at heart, Stephanie tells stories with words, art, objects, and food – anything she can get her hands on. Stephanie also facilitates creative workshops and retreats encouraging others to tapinto their imagination and be inspired to move beyond traditional thinking processes.
Stephanie creates out of her home-based workshop, S2B Studios. She is an exhibiting member of the Monmouth County Art Alliance and Local Arts Space.
Aside from being an artist, Stephanie is a published author, licensed massage therapist, yoga teacher and reiki practitioner. She lives in Asbury Park with her husband and two invisible dogs.
Emily Gilman Beezley is a New Jersey based oil painter, printmaker and mixed-media artist specializing in one of a kind vibrant dreamscapes, ballet and travel-inspired artwork. Growing up in Jackson Heights NY, she developed a rich fantasy world that fueled her creativity and which sustains her to this day. Many of her recent paintings feature iconography from recurring dreams which add intrigue and unexpected elements to her subject matter. Always drawing from personal experience, Emily’s goal is to create a lasting image of the joy she feels when embracing the beauty and wonder of the world and to provide an emotional connection to anyone who sees her art.
“What I like most about Emily‘s art is her versatility. I have purchased four pieces from her, and each one is so unique and different in style you would hardly even guess they were from the same artist.” – Amy P., Denville
Curator: Glen Rock Public Library Art Gallery 2014 to Present
Founder: Springboard, an artist mentoring community
Memberships: Studio Montclair; Monmouth County Arts Council; Belmar Art Council; The Art of Tuesday Night; The Art Center of Northern NJ, Shrewsbury Guild of Creative Art
Gallery Representation: Timothy Smith & Sons LLC; Onancock VA
Education: She studied watercolor, printmaking and oil painting at the H.S. of Art & Design, Colgate University, the École des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, France, the Art Student’s League of New York and Parsons School of Design.
Recent Awards:
Best in Show: “32nd Skylands Juried Exhibition”, Sussex County Arts & Heritage Council
1st Place Printmaking: “Focus New Jersey”, Art Center of Northern NJ
2nd Place Oils & Acrylics: “The Bergen County 55th Annual Art in the Park Show and Concert”
3rd Place Mixed Media & 3rd Place Oils: “19th Anniversary Celebration of the Arts”, St. Catherine’s of Bologna
Debora Santiago Bruno has a selection of photographs that incorporates different styles from black-white to infrared to traditional color film and to digital images. She enjoys the theme of Beauty, which she finds in the daily subjects of flowers, sunrises, seascapes, etc. She also explores and discovers amazingly gorgeous images through simple subjects, such as the textured elements of old leaves, architecture, snap shots from friends, still life objects, cups, apples, and the list goes on. She wants to share her conception with the viewers and hopes they can travel thought her interesting subjects.
Debora appreciates art in general styles. Her love for photography is one of the most important aspects of her life. Her work includes portrait, still life, nature, and scenery, black and white, infrared, color and computer enhanced photography, though landscapes and architecture subjects are her favorites. When she is shooting these elements, she tries to capture the best quality of light as possible to produce a result that is remarkable.
Debora has exhibited in many places, such as the Middletown Public Library, Brookdale Community College, Guild of Creative Art, Art Alliance, Freehold Art Society, Count Clerk’s Office of Freehold, Monmouth Museum, Sea Bright Library, Manalapan Senior Center, Freehold Library, and the Law Offices of Lomuro, Davidson, Eastman & Munoz.
She also had her work published in the Collage Magazine and received honorable mentions in the MCAC Juried Art Show in 2003 and the Student Art Show at Brookdale Community College in 2005 and 2006. She was awarded First Place for best alternative category for her piece entitled “Empire State Building” at the EyeSights Open Juried Photography Juried Show in March 2007, and First Place in the 15th Annual Open Juried Art Show at the Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ, in October 2007. She also won Honorable mention at the Guild in 2009. She has also display her work in the Libraries in different locations in NJ such as Eastern Branch Library in Shrewsbury and Monmouth County Library Branch in Atlantic Highlands.
Best in Painting – Sandy Taylor – Impression Floral II
Best in Photography – Kristopher Schoenleber – Space Invaders
Best in Sculpture – Linda Colaguori – Brainstorm
Mitchell Award for Acrylic Painting – Christopher Mac Kinnon – Winter Rentals
Barbara Shieldkret Memorial Award for Oil Painting – Patricia Meko – Hudson View
Caivano Award for Watercolor Painting – Frank Colaguori – Blue Door Lock
Caivano Award for Mixed Media – Helene Condouris – Tidal Blues
Pastellists’ Salon of New Jersey Award in Memory of Marge Levine – Mozelle Forman – Rushing
Friedlander Award for Abstract Painting– Donald Robinson – Big Red
Fred N. Biello Memorial Award for Abstract Painting – Cecilia Swatton – Earth Be Glad
Bitsy Photography Award for Macro – Marilyn Baldi – Enlightened
Sara Stern Memorial Award for Artistic Innovation – Irena Shoyhet – Sunrise and the Beast
David MacNeill Memorial Award for Wit & Whimsy – Siobhan Smith – Sunday Paper
Bronze Achievement Award – Randy Mayer – Whiskered and Wooly!
Bronze Achievement Award – Stephen Gale – Like Thee
Bronze Achievement Award – Siobhan Smith – The Last Cookie
Bronze Achievement Award – Tyler Nunnally-Duck – Colorful Condos
Bronze Achievement Award – Ron Flannery – Spiria
Bronze Achievement Award – Melanie Beckerman – The Journey Begins
Bronze Achievement Award – Michael Greco – Passage
Bronze Achievement Award – Guido Guazzoni – Slide Mountain, Catskill, NY
Bronze Achievement Award – Pam Malone – Sylvester At The Winter Window
Bronze Achievement Award – Ken DeBlieu – Blieux in Morning
Bob Novak is a nature and landscape artist photographer, who was born and raised in southern Union County, NJ. His photographic origins began with an early ‘60s Kodak Brownie camera gift, for the taking of family and vacation pictures. As Bob advanced to a 35mm camera in the early ‘70s, he developed a greater preference for outdoors images, that were influenced by the photography of Eliot Porter and writings of Henry David Thoreau.
Creating this imagery seemed to change with time, and Bob evolved to digital photography in late 2002, with its greater ability to make adjustments at the photo site, and experiment, in processing, and printing. His photographs have covered a wide range of animals, plants, and sceneries, to man-made artifacts and architecture; along with an occasional unusual view of the commonplace. It is the nature of modern digital technology that all photos receive a degree of processing before they are printed. Some images are only slightly adjusted, while others have additional enhancements, using various techniques to create unique prints.
Bob has resided in Howell, NJ for the past 35 years, from which quick trips to different areas of the state, made easy the attempts to portray the uniqueness, individuality, and history, found within this often urban state.
After retiring from a career in manufacturing quality control, Bob focused more intently on expanding his previous photographic hobby interest, by traveling beyond New Jersey for obtaining some of his images. Additionally, he has often exhibited through variously themed shows at his affiliations, and other nature art venues. Bob can also be found at different art, and craft, shows throughout New Jersey, and through his website.
Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury – exhibiting member since May 2019
BAC (Belmar Arts Council) – member
After reading many of the biographies of the incredible artists at the Art Guild, Marilyn Fahrer sees her background as a bit different.
She is self-taught for the most part and hasn’t had any formal art education. She is one of those known as a “doodler”, practiced her penmanship with flourishes until she got it right. Those were her lessons.
Somewhere in her late 20’s, by necessity, she started painting (with paint pens) of children’s subject matter on wood boards and sold them at what was then called flea markets. After moving to New Jersey in the early 80’s she expanded her “inventory” and creativity and continued her children’s subjects as well as gift baskets. Hence, “The Basket Case”, a gift business for all ages and for home. This afforded Marilyn the opportunity to expand her painting skills and also her artistic sense in arranging and packaging beautiful gifts.
Marilyn’s next chapter was an Accounts Receivable position. After retirement, she began to explore her artistic background and was encouraged to take some classes and hone her skills. Since she had never studied art in school her only resource was “to go right to the canvas”. Of course with instruction she learned there are steps to take before that. She had wonderful teachers and enjoyed it so much. Her problem was which media does she like the most. At this time, it’s pastels, acrylics, pencil, pen and any combination of those. She always want to try something new, which has led her to new techniques. Last year her painting of “Jeffrey’s Apples” in acrylic came in third in a juried show.
There are other challenges ahead that Marilyn will pursue because she thinks of herself as a work in progress… although she is very proud of her accomplishments.
She is also very appreciative of being selected an Exhibiting Artist at the Guild of Creative Art.
The foundation of the artist’s photographic skills is derived from an eclectic series of volunteer assignments – his high school yearbook photography (1967), (first camera – Speed Graphix); freelance photojournalism in high school sports; (1984-1990) and team photographer for Harrah’s Polo Team (1985-1990).
The artist is a graduate architect – Catholic University’ 72; he also pursued environmental engineering studies at the University of Pennsylvania before selecting the field of city planning as a career. He was licensed by the state New Jersey as a professional planner and accepted for membership in the American Institute of certified planners. He recently retired from the city of Maryland Heights (St. Louis) Missouri after serving 20 years as the Director of Community Development, he was recognized for his lifetime achievements in community planning, mentoring and education by the Gateway Council of Governments.
In his free time, he traveled extensively within the USA visiting and photographing urban spaces architectural form in most of the major cities in the country. This focus was a consequence of his education and professional practice where he sought to capture architecture and urban forms. This led to a self-published book “Reflections On Architecture.”
His participation in the St. Louis photographic community as a member of the St. Louis Camera Club achieving Salon status in Photojournalism and Color and Monochrome Prints. He was also recognized for his photo essays; one of his favorite means of presenting his work especially on architectural form.
His central tenant of architectural photography is that architecture evolves from idea to paper to the assembly of parts to create a solid monument to either need or ego. In final form it becomes an object that the photographer can relate to in a multitude of ways in attempts to capture the moment in time that the interaction of light, air move the building to interact with its environs. In his opinion, the most excellent building is one that moves and participates with its surroundings in a delightful manner, dancing with the light.
Betty Lee Taylor has pursued a passion for art because, in her words: “We rush through life and often don’t take time to say, Look at that sky! I have tried, since childhood to capture a small segment of that beauty. I hope that my work will help others to see the wonder in the world around us.”
Her life has included motherhood and business. She has also pursued art study in NY, NJ, MA, VT and CT and the Lyme Academy College of Fine Art.
She has had one-person shows in New York City, Connecticut and New Jersey.
She was honored to be ‘Artist in Residence’ in Dinan, Brittany, France. (Each month, one artist was chosen from somewhere in the world to be their guest in a cottage on their museum property for one month.)
Luczay, basically a self taught artist, learned by going to workshops, and Museums. Working as a representational realist her paintings are equal to other professionals in the field. Luczay strives to express the beauty and power of nature. Her works are filled with light, motion and a sense of feeling of the location. Luczay has been painting for thirty five years. She is a member of the Guild of Creative Art at Shrewsbury, NJ, The New Hope Art League, the Center of Contemporary Art, Hunterdon County Watercolor Society, and the Clinton Museum. Luczay has exhibited in various shows in New Jersey and in Pennsylvania, both solo and group exhibits. She has received many awards for her works through the years. She has also taught children as well as adults, in her studio and by invitation at other locations. Although basically an oil painter she is adept in pastels as well as watercolors. Her works are displayed in private collections in Europe, Canada and USA.
She is a New Jersey native who has always been involved in some art form. Attending weekend classes at the Art Students League as a youngster with her artist mother, she worked in oils, pastels, and charcoal. During her adulthood she has done original needlepoint designs, mosaic tile works, clay sculptures, and fabric montages. During the past ten years, her emphasis has been on watercolors.
Influenced in her youth by Winslow Homer’s tropical paintings, Linda always wanted to try her hand at watercolor. The opportunity came in 1995 when she began weekly watercolor classes near her Key Largo winter home. She has subsequently studied regularly with several New Jersey and Florida instructors and attended a variety of watercolor workshops with master artists. Her education also includes a B.A. from Douglass College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University.
Many of her watercolors reflect the more than six months each year Linda spends in the Florida Keys. Inspiration stems from the pastel hues of island vistas to vivid colors of exotic tropical flowers. She often experiments with different watercolor papers and techniques. Graceful Florida birds provide favorite subjects, including great white herons, ibises, pelicans, parrots, and egrets. She has won the Purple Isles Art Guild’s coveted Joe Cella Memorial Award for Birds in Nature in 2000, 2003, and 2005 and their Best Florida Keys Representation award in 2002 and 2004, as well as several watercolor awards at the Ocean Reef Art League.
Linda is currently an exhibiting member of the Guild of Creative Art and holds the offices of secretary and art show chairman for the Ocean Reef Art League. In addition, she maintains membership in the Monmouth County Art Society, the Ocean County Artists’ Guild, and the Purple Isles Art Guild.
She has exhibited at the Guild of Creative Art, the Key Largo Public Library, the Ocean Reef Art League, the Sea Bright Cultural Center, and the Monmouth Beach Cultural Center.
Best in Color – Tom Lynch – Angry Sea
Best in Monochrome – Robert Campbell – Snowy Egret
Alice Tendler Award for Artistic Innovation – Ellen Rubinstein – Where Am I?
Al Goldstein Memorial Award for Landscape – John Regan – Bench
H. Jeffery Leonard Memorial Award for Action – Stephen Ravner – Five Photos of ManhattanHenge
Bob Grunke Memorial Award for Street Shooting (Urban) – Eric Silvergold – Born to be Wild
Silver Award for Animals – Jeanne Schneider – Here’s Looking at You Kid
Silver Award for Botanical – Richard Rappleyea – Milkweed
Silver Award for Macro – Rosemarie Reinman – Close-up!
Silver Award for People – Ron Pearl – In the Corner Stands a Boxer
Silver Award for Places – Rich Despins – School Holiday
Bronze Achievement Award – Vicki DeVico – Back Porch
Bronze Achievement Award – Bob Dowd – Seeking Shelter
Bronze Achievement Award – Richard Huff – Ryan
Bronze Achievement Award – Estelle Knize – En Plein Air
Bronze Achievement Award – Helen McAndrew – Moonlight Mystery
Bronze Achievement Award – Elisabeth McKay – Homage to Heady – Self Portrait
Bronze Achievement Award – John Mottolal – Field of Dreams
Bronze Achievement Award – Lucille Reilly – Bethlehem Stacks
Bronze Achievement Award – Lucille Reilly – Burma Shave
Bronze Achievement Award – Louis Rissland – Alone on a Hill
Best in Color – Darlene Foster – Groundhog Day
Best in Monochrome – Joel Goldberg – Hanging Out
Guild Award for Artistic Innovation – Ron Pearl – The History Book (Battle of Monmouth)
Al Goldstein Award for Landscape – Colin Seitz (EXM) – Schoodic Point
Frame to Please Award for Best Pet Image – Corinne Cavallo (GEM) – Into the Darkness
Silver Award for Animals – Joseph DiFiglia – Icelandic Friends
Silver Award for Botanical – Bill Unger – Tulip
Silver Award for Landscape – Laury Egan (EXM) Holmdel Lake Circles
Silver Award for Macro – Dena DZio (GEM) – The Power Of One – Number Three
Silver Award for People – Ron Pearl – The Man Wearing a Newsboy Cap
Silver Award for Places – Rich Despins – Walking into the Fog
Silver Award for Still Life – Jenifer Rutherford – Twig and Spoon Still Life
Bronze Achievement Award – Vicki DeVico (EXM) – Grasses
Bronze Achievement Award – Mary Fenton (GEM) – Morning has broken
Bronze Achievement Award – Darlene Foster – All the Pretty Little Horses
Bronze Achievement Award – Joan Myers (EXM) – Apple Sorbet
Bronze Achievement Award – Monte Pellmar (ASM) – Grazing on the Maasai Mara
Bronze Achievement Award – Lucille Rielly – Fish for Sale
Bronze Achievement Award – Rob Rielly – Stults
Bronze Achievement Award – Bill Unger – Frozen
Bronze Achievement Award – Eric Williams – The Passage Home
Best in Painting – Frank Colaguori – Rusted Roller
Best in Photography – Michael Menendez – Sunrise Storm
Best in Sculpture – Mitsu – Love Story
Caivano Memorial Award for Oil – Miguel Figueras – Autumn in Paris
Caivano Memorial Award for Watercolor – Mike Scherfen – Dom
Mitchell Award for Acrylic – Pat Hutchinson – Green Dancer
Friedlander Award for Abstract – Christina Sanes – New York Island
Barbara Shieldkret Memorial Award for Abstract Painting – Leona Tenebruso-Shultes – Park Life
Guild Award for Artistic Innovation – Crystal Hover – Cookies and Cream
Willy Memorial Award for Photography – Beverly Burke – Ebb and Flow
Bronze Achievement Award – Beverly Hertler – Red Sails
Bronze Achievement Award – Buren Gilpin – At the Shore
Bronze Achievement Award – Christina Sanes – Naked
Bronze Achievement Award – David Levy – Diptych: Music is in the Eye of the Beholder #3 & #4
Bronze Achievement Award – Deborah Redden – Streetscape
Bronze Achievement Award – Helene Condouris – Provincetown Marina
Bronze Achievement Award – William Rackin – I Will Remember
Bronze Achievement Award – Frank Parisi – Cuban Butcher
Bronze Achievement Award – Marilyn Baldi – Novice #4
Bronze Achievement Award – Wayne Londregan – Beneath Convention Hall, Asbury Park
Best in Color – Louis Rissland (ASM) – A Windows View
Best in Monochrome – Helen McAndrew (GEM) – Lab Coats
Alice Tendler Award for Artistic Innovation – Vicky Culver (EXM) – Where’s Zero?
Al Goldstein Memorial Award for Landscape – Audrey Vasey – Room with a View
Toni Wilczewski Memorial Award for Excellence in Color & Composition – Marilyn Baldi (EXM) – Stairwell #2
Silver Award for Action – Marc F (EXM) – Carmen!
Silver Award for Animals – Vince Matelewich (EXM) – No Habit Here
Silver Award for Botanical – Stephen Ravner (EXM) – Three Sisters
Silver Award for Macro – Jeff Sayre –The Better to See You!
Silver Award for People – Hal Kahn (EXM) – Tears at Midnight
Bronze Achievement Award – Susan Boston – Snowing in Navesink
Bronze Achievement Award – Joan Bruno (GEM) – Awaiting Sunrise
Bronze Achievement Award – Ed Deverell (EXM) –Counting Humans
Bronze Achievement Award – Michael Hynes –Deal Lake Reflections
Bronze Achievement Award – Hal Kahn (EXM) – Angle of Repose
Bronze Achievement Award – Louis Rissland (ASM) – Alone By The Sea
Bronze Achievement Award – Louis Rissland (ASM) – Fallen
Bronze Achievement Award – Peter Smejkal (GEM) – Castles in the Sky: 56 Leonard Street, New York City
Best in Painting – Donald Robinson – Island Regatta
Best in Photography – Kathy Watso – Industrial Lightbulb
Best in Sculpture – Linda Colaguori – Whirlwind
Caivano Memorial Award for Oil – Sandy Taylor – Autumn
Caivano Memorial Award for Watercolor – Tera Yoshimura – House in the Mist
Mitchell Award for Acrylic – Lorraine Madsen – Awesome
Friedlander Award for Abstract – Will Rackin – Love What Is True
Guild Award for Artistic Innovation – Arthur Futernik – Clementine
Technical Excellence Award – Bill Ross – Reliquary
Reilly Memorial Award for Photography – Ellen Martin – Abandoned #58 – My Reflection
Painting Honorable Mention – Anthony Migliaccio – Anthony’s Nose
Painting Honorable Mention – Deborah Redden – Second Story
Painting Honorable Mention – Harvey Rogosin – On the Path to Chatham Harbor
Photography Honorable Mention – Joseph Imbesi – Lifeboat
Photography Honorable Mention – Kristopher Schoenleb – Descent
Best in Color – Hal Kahn (EXM) – The Drawing Class
Best in Monochrome – Bruce Himelman – Court House Station-Wash DC
Alice Tendler Award for Artistic Innovation – Geri Gray (GEM) – Morning Dew
Al Goldstein Award for Landscape – Joan Myers (EXM) – Misty
Anna Hew Memorial Award for Architectural Photograph – Joel Goldberg – Going Up
Silver Award for Action – Peter Smejkal – Morning Bath
Silver Award for Animals – Edward Deverell (GEM) – Rescued Me
Silver Award for Botanical – Mark Schwartz (EXM) – Late Afternoon Walk in the Woods
Silver Award for Macro – Marc F (EXM) – Mr. Moonlight
Silver Award for People – Cathy Mumford (ASM) – Hope and Pride
Bronze Achievement Award – Diane Ali (GEM) – Possibilities
Bronze Achievement Award – Mary Fenton (GEM) – Morning in Yellowstone
Bronze Achievement Award – Estelle Knize – Painted Lady
Bronze Achievement Award – Dana McKay (GEM) – Just Hangin’ Out
Bronze Achievement Award – Lucille Rielly – Climbers
Bronze Achievement Award – Rob Rielly – Mask
Bronze Achievement Award – Robert Siliato (GEM) – Conjoined Opposites
Bronze Achievement Award – William Unger – Rose Petals with Lace
He has an operational career background in mechanical engineering, strategic marketing, and art. The art sector includes oil and watercolor painting, charcoal, pen & ink, pastels, photography, and sculpture. He has taken art-related courses at various schools and universities. His latest showings have been photographs in color, black & white, and sepia. Sandy is associated with many art organizations and his work has been exhibited in numerous juried art shows, galleries, exhibits, commercial establishments, professional institutions, private art collections, and museums as well as being published in local and national media.
In addition to national and regional exhibits, Sandy’s photographs were recently and or presently exhibited locally at Gaetano’s Restaurant, McKay Studio, Asher Neiman Gallery (included in a slide show), Art Alliance (all in Red Bank), The Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury, restaurants and galleries in Westfield, NJ, Monmouth Festival of the Arts, MCAC Art Show at the Monmouth Museum, Brookdale Juried Art Shows, the Twisted Tree Café, ‘Squan Custom Frame Shop, the Turner House Gallery, Ocean Twp, the Belmar Arts Council, and the Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts (SICA). A six-week exhibit, one-man show, of thirty-eight photos was held at the Terner House Gallery in Ocean Twp. In addition photos are being displayed in exhibits and publications in Alaska.
Sandy has led and taught classes in photographic uses of color, b&w, sepia, and “scenic versus historic/journalistic art.” He has also taught digital camera functions, digitalization of various art forms and techniques as well as Art Philosophy workshops.
She paints in a representational style that reflects her personal vision of an idyllic world where serenity, beauty, and harmony merge with the history of art to created a visual symbolic language of refuge in today’s often chaotic world.
Ilene has been in numerous shows across the United States, including exhibits in California, Michigan, Illinois, and Missouri.
She accepts commission work and home portrait commissions.
She writes, “…what I paint is a direct response to what I see. For me, the appreciation comes first, immediately followed by a zest and enthusiasm about the subject. I use whatever medium I find necessary to get my first impression down on paper.”
Sandra Kunz trained at Lyman Allyn Art Museum, received an Associate of Arts Degree at Principia College, and studied at the Art Students League and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
She has traveled abroad and painted at Montmartre and the Tuileries, Paris, France.
Best in Painting – Elizabeth Schippert – Birch Woods
Best in Photography – Marilyn Baldi – Marina Bay
Best in Sculpture – Alexandra Martin – Colin
Mitchell Award for Acrylic – Donald Robinson – Potting Bench
Friedlander Award for Abstract – Annette Margulies – Someday
Barbara Shieldkret Memorial Award for Abstract Painting – Helene Condouris – Midsummer Light
Guild Award for Artistic Innovation – Linda Colaguori – Born of the Forest Floor
Caivano Memorial Award for Oil – Yelena Snovsky – Ready to Sail
Caivano Memorial Award for Watercolor – Frank Colaguori – Rusted Lock
Hoggie Memorial Award for Photography – John Regan – Lake of the Lost Boys
Bronze Achievement Award – Alexandra Martin – Tom
Bronze Achievement Award – Anthony Migliaccio – Sand Dunes
Bronze Achievement Award – Christopher MacKinnon – Awaiting Davy
Bronze Achievement Award – Dorie Dahlberg – Make Women Great Again
Bronze Achievement Award – Eileen Kennedy – Circus Summer
Bronze Achievement Award – Frank Parisi – Rusty Bow
Bronze Achievement Award – Guido Guazzoni – Winter in the City
Bronze Achievement Award – Helene Condouris – Haze After Rain
Bronze Achievement Award – Kristopher Schoenleber – Chandelier
Bronze Achievement Award – Michael Scherfen – Fontana del Pantheon
Best in Color – Ed Deverell – Courtney’s Corner
Best in Monochrome – Dorie Dahlberg – Off-Season Asbury Park
Alice Tendler Award for Artistic Innovation – John Mottola – Proud
Al Goldstein Memorial Award for Landscape – Alan Bogard – Ethereal
Toni Wilczewski Memorial Award for Whimsey – Marilyn Baldi – Geisha
Silver Award for Action – Joe Matxerath – Dance Partners
Silver Award for Animals – Joan Bruno – Eyes on You
Silver Award for Botanical – Beverly Burke – Unfolding
Silver Award for Macro – Jeff Sayre – Flamingo!
Silver Award for People – Hal Kahn – In The Wee Small Hours
Bronze Achievement Award – Alan Bogard – Le Grand Plie
Bronze Achievement Award – Vicki DeVico – Antique Dress
Bronze Achievement Award – Marc F – Forever Young
Bronze Achievement Award – Vince Matulewich – Newark Penn Station Serendipity
Bronze Achievement Award – Helen McAndrew – The Worker
Bronze Achievement Award – Michael Menendez – Misty Harbor, Portland, Maine
Bronze Achievement Award – Ron Pearl – Sunday at Nathan’s
Bronze Achievement Award – Khristofher Schoenleber – McDonald’s Milky Way
Bronze Achievement Award – Mark Schwartz – IRing of Trees
Bronze Achievement Award – Peter Smejkal – Waiting for Happiness, Lower East Side
Andree Benoist, lifelong resident of Monmouth County, began painting with watercolor later in life. She has studied with local artist Donald Voorhees, and more recently with Charles Reid and Alvaro Castagnet through their workshops. Andree finds inspiration for her work along the Jersey shore and in the foothills of the White Mountains of Maine where she has a summer home. Her paintings reflect her feelings about her experiences and observations and strive to show what it was like at a particular moment.
She has been an exhibiting member of the Guild since October 2017.
Yelena Snovsky is a nationally recognized award winning artist. Her work has been juried into events around the country, including the Oil Painters of America 21st National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils, American Artists Profession League Grand National Exhibition as well as National Invitational Plein Air Events, such as “Easels at Fredericks”, “Paint Annapolis” and others. Her work received numerous awards and publications, including recent second prize from the Salmagundi Club in Manhattan, Caivano Memorial Award from the Guild of Creative Art, publication in the book “ 100 painters of Mid-Atlantic “, “2012 Mountain Plein Air calendar” and others.
Yelena worked as a technical illustrator after graduating university with degrees in engineering and graphic art. She also worked as an advertising illustrator for many years, creating images for various local businesses throughout the New Jersey area. Yelena enjoys painting in oil on canvas. Her art work includes landscapes, seascapes, still life and portraits. Yelena is especially interested in plein air painting and the idea of sharing her instant impression of the moment, in the moment. Most of her landscapes are painted entirely outdoors, in natural light.
She has worked as a graphic designer and art director for over 30 years and is retired from the commercial business world of computer based education. In addition to graphic arts, her preferred specialties are fine arts, photography, and crafts. For Barbara, art is a way of telling a story, expressing feelings, and recording fragments of thoughts. She uses her skills as a watercolorist and graphic designer as tools to create art that is both real and abstract. She is very passionate about the visual arts and promoting art. She likes to teach art to children and adults; she feels it is a means of giving back to the community. She has a BFA from Kean University and a certified docent.
Jill grew up in Manhattan, and even as a little girl loved to draw. In grade school, she loved drawing the covers on her book reports; she enjoyed that far more than writing the report itself.
In high school she studied at Art Students League. At the University of Maryland, she majored in Art Education and minored in Art and Art History. Then she enrolled at New York University, where she earned her Masters in Occupational Therapy.
As a professional therapist, she continued to incorporate her art into therapeutic activities for hand rehabilitation and later geriatric population. She has illustrated manuals for joint conservation and designed a hand prosthetic.
After she moved to Middletown, New Jersey, to raise her twin daughters, she taught drawing and painting to children at the Art Connection.
Upon her retirement from from occupational therapy, Jill decided to take her passion for art to a higher level. She began studying with Ken Stetz. Her love of Shetland Sheepdogs (she has had four) led her to focus on drawing animals.
Her art is now focused on animal portraits, and her pet portraits can be found in many homes in the area and beyond.
She is an Exhibiting Member of the Guild of Creative Arts, in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, and is still a resident of Middletown, New Jersey, where she has her studio.
Helene began as a textile artist in New York City. She has also created flags for different organizations throughout the United States. Helene has exhibited in various shows throughout the United States. In her last two gallery exhibits she placed both second and third for the finest pictures in the shows.
Helene creates her paintings using either pastels, oil or watercolors. Her work is putting images to people’s various emotions. She also enjoys creating pictures of flowers. In all her works she uses strong colors as she prefers a colorful palate.
– Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, Associate Degree
– Kean University Elizabeth New Jersey, Bachelor of Fine Arts
– Kean University Elizabeth New Jersey, Master of Fine Arts
Marino was born in Livorno, Italy, migrating to the USA as a child and settling in Hoboken, N.J. with his family.
Marino was drafted in the U.S. Army and served in Vietnam. The military’s GI bill offered him an opportunity to attend the School of Visual Arts in N.Y. for several years. He studied art, taking classes in drawing, sculpture and mixed media. He built a solid client base, solely by word of mouth, doing pet portraits using pastels.
Marino took time off to raise a family while working on Wall Street. Now retired and residing in Red Bank for the past 30 years, photography has become his passion and path chosen for the creativity it offers. It allows him to search for and capture the unique shots found all around him with favorites being flowers, classic cars and buildings. From bold to subtle colors, from nature to man-made, he embraces them all.
Marino became an Exhibiting member on November 2018 at The Guild of Creative Arts. He is also a member of The Monmouth Museum and The Art Alliance of Monmouth County.
His photographs have been selected and exhibited in juried and non-juried shows at the Monmouth Museum, the Guild of Creative Arts, St. George’s–by-the-River (The Canterbury Art Show) and The Art Alliance of Monmouth County.
She comes to the art of abstract painting with a naiveté and purity of heart, always exploring how to push against technicalities but trusting in the beauty of this world and what she knows will manifest in a piece.For Jane, works of art are borne of an inexplicable paradox of time and space. Materials that are ancient and honored may be juxtaposed with those that are contemporary and experimental. Bits of reality may wander amid the illogical; a whole might contain many disparate yet carefully placed parts and yet, when things go right, it all works. Then there is the silence that art making engenders. There is a certain seductive and meditative quality that accompanies this work. It’s hard to attend to composing in a meaningful way if one’s mind is cluttered or chattering. The work has a way of forcing the artist to attend to the careful placement of each bit of paint or texture in relationship to the last and to the next and to the whole. Finally, Jane finds the element of surprise so intriguing. When a piece is just right it is cause for quiet jubilation.
Her first conscious memories of loving to create were ignited by the encouragement of her family and those treasured art kits that allowed her to play with materials like charcoal, poster paint and plastic figures that she could pose and draw. Paint-by-number sets were an invitation to explore what happens if you mix colors together and go beyond the lines. In high school, she was elected art editor of the school newspaper. Later, she ventured into the world of clay by setting up a pottery studio with her sister, which they eventually expanded to include work in the complex and highly technical field of mosaic art.
Jane’s undergraduate work focused on Fine Arts and Arts Education, and she enjoyed many years as an art educator until earning advanced degrees in Educational Psychology and Educational Leadership. During her public school career as a visual arts teacher, teacher of the gifted, and curriculum specialist, she was a driving force in initiating and developing programs that brought the arts to children at all levels. Jane was a key member of a collegial team that envisioned and built a series of interdisciplinary environments with students, artists-in-residence and other relevant experts, integrating the arts with other disciplines. Some of these included production of an Evening of the Arts, an Egyptian Tomb, a Japanese Tea House, and a Tropical Rainforest. After earning a Masters Degree in Education of the Gifted and Talented, Jane commenced creating programs and curricula that were cross curricular and thematic. Later, Jane worked in higher education with aspiring teachers on how to integrate the arts with other subjects.
Jane enjoys learning from the creative productivity of well-established and developing artists. Currently, she spends much of her time in her studio living out the creative process amid the evolution of each work-in-progress.
Action, impact, strong outlines, color, and textures are among the qualities that link the diverse photographic art of Frank Parisi. His work captures many colorful scenes on local waters, especially sailboats racing. The interplay of light and water in the morning and late afternoon, and the dynamic contrast between sails and sky, are featured in Frank’s art. He also frequently photographs the serenity and drama of sunsets and sunrises. Frank enjoys candid photography and capturing the abstract shapes found among every-day objects. Also of interest are the dramatic delineations achievable in strong black and white images.
Frank’s work has been displayed many times and won many accolades. The exhibits in which he has participated include “Island Heights and Beyond” at the John F. Peto Studio Museum in Island Heights, “Down the Shore: Before and After Sandy,” at Ocean County College in Toms River, “Eyesights” at the Guild for Creative Arts in Shrewsbury. He has participated in many shows including at the Ocean County Artists’ Guild in Island Heights, Arts Guild New Jersey in Rahway, the Monmouth Museum, the Watchung Arts Center, and the TRAC Gallery in Toms River. From May through July 2014, Frank’s solo show, “Rhapsody,” hung at the Virginia Perle Art Gallery in Toms River, and during February 2016, his solo show “Great Faces: Informal Portraits from Near and Far,” was featured in the main galleries of the Ocean County Artists Guild. In 2017, he curated or co-curated two shows at the Grunin Center for the Arts of Ocean County College and one at the Belmar Arts Center. Frank became an Associate member of the Guild in May, 2017.
She is a life-long resident of Monmouth County, New Jersey. She received her education at Brookdale Community College and Katharine Gibbs, and began her art studies with Lorraine Niemela. Linné has continued with lessons from other local artists and has had art instruction while on trips to France.
Linné is a detail-oriented watercolorist whose main theme is portraying older buildings with character in Monmouth County, “places where we have all been.” Her subjects include older buildings and notable, everyday monuments found throughout the county that the local viewer may have visited or stumbled upon during his or her lifetime. Linné loves to capture the tone of a particular building and then enjoys watching people’s faces and hearing their stories about each place she’s painted. Some stories are funny and add an even deeper connection with her goal to paint something from every town in Monmouth County.
Some of her most remembered pieces of artwork include the Sandy Hook Light House, the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, Ice Boating on the Navesink, and the Middletown Clown seen on Route 35. Her work has been displayed in exhibitions held at the Monmouth Beach Cultural Center in Monmouth Beach and at the Oceanic Free Library in Rumson.
Linné is a member of the Art Alliance, the Monmouth County Art Council, the New Jersey Water Color Society, and is an associate member of the Guild of Creative Art.
She believes in the lemon tree growing in her living room, and in the art of kindness. She does not believe in umbrellas or iPhones. Her unique vision of the world was borne the moment she took her first photo with her yellow Cabbage Patch camera.
She has a husband, two daughters and two Master’s degrees. Her life experiences honed her ability to relate to people and still believe in the greater good.
She thrives when working on various projects, whether business or humanitarian-focused. Tyler’s mission statement is simple: Leave every customer feeling as excited as she is!
She is a self-taught artist who has been creating art her whole life. She has been exhibiting various forms of her artwork at art shows and galleries throughout New Jersey since 1983. Hillary’s acrylic paintings have been accepted into exhibits at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences on Long Beach Island, the Art Alliance of Monmouth County in Red Bank and the Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury, and the Monmouth Museum and Brookdale College, both in Lincroft. One of her paintings was also accepted into the “Alumnae Artists Exhibit” which was part of the Mary H. Dana Artists Series at Douglass College, Rutgers University in New Brunswick.
Hillary’s paintings are about the fleeting moments in nature that most people see, but rarely stop what they are doing to appreciate. These are the moments when color is the brightest or most beautiful and silence is the loudest. Hillary captures the second or two when perfection or serenity exists and nothing is as important as what is happening or not happening at all.
According to Hillary, “The moments depicted in my work are the ones that make me catch my breath, stop and really absorb the beauty nature bestows upon us. I carry these images with me for a while in my memory where I revisit them when I need a break from the day-to-day ‘stuff.’ Then there comes a time when I feel the need to sit down, pick up a paintbrush and recreate what I have seen. While I am painting, I am reliving those moments in my mind and trying to depict what was special about them.”
It is Hillary’s hope that when others see her paintings, they will see and feel what she did and they will remember a point in time when they stopped and thought about nothing else but the beauty nature was showing them.
As a child growing up in Brooklyn New York, her favorite pastime was drawing and designing. Her interest in art was encouraged and at age 10 she attended Pratt Institute weekend classes, where her imagination and creative urges were encouraged. That experience set her goal and eventually she did attend Pratt Institute as a full time undergraduate. When her interest turned to fashion illustration and advertising design she continued her education at the Fashion Institute of Technology where she earned an Associate Degree.
Post graduation, she became Art Editor for a Bridal Fashion Industry publication with national subscribers. In addition to layout, she personally illustrated many of the editorial material and some of the paid advertising. Ultimately, she joined a major cosmetic company as a director of Promotions, following and setting the design trends for promotional vehicles.
Retirement from commercial art has allowed her to turn her attention to the pursuit of her artistic ideals and the expression of her creative voice.
As a painter, her goal is to express the essence of the subject, by capturing the mood and emotional energy. In style, she is a Contemporary Realist: although some of her work has a decidedly more subjective approach. That is because she believes the artistic voice should flow as a natural response to the subject: always in pursuit of a continuous progression forward.
Her Inspiration
She is inspired by the land and seascapes of her travels. Oceans and beaches are her particular passion. The sea and its environs offer an endless opportunity for creative expression. She is fascinated as well by the radiant light of the Tuscan countryside. Vineyards, sunflowers, ancient poplars under wide open skies all make for endless exploration of color and light.
Winner of first, second and third place awards/Monmouth County Senior art exhibit.
Twice featured artist at the Freehold Art Gallery
– Associate member of the Guild of Creative Art at Shrewsbury
– Art Alliance, Red Bank
– Freehold Art Society
She knew she was destined to become an artist at five years old. She discovered the melting abilities of crayons on a radiator in the formal dining room and was fascinated by the beautiful color patterns…Her mother of course, was not so passionate about art.
Maryann graduated from Caldwell College with a BFA in Painting/Graphic Design. In senior year she attended the Women’s Interart Center in New York City, where she studied with Alice Baber, Dorothy Gillespie, and Alice Neel in an internship. She has continued to take classes at School of the Visual Arts, Fashion Institute of Technology, Brookdale Community College in various media. Maryann has had a one person show at Eastern Branch Library; exhibited at the Trenton State Museum State-wide show, several local State-wide exhibits including: Brookdale College, The Guild of Creative Art, Arts Alliance of Monmouth County, Artworks at Boatworks, a co-op of the Belmar Arts Council. She is a member of Arts Alliance, ArtsCap, BAC, Monmouth Arts Council, MRGA, and is an Associate Artist at The Guild.
MaryAnn’s painting “Laird’s in Winter” has been featured in “The Hub,” The Independent” and the “News Transcript.” Her paintings are in collections throughout the tri-state area and Florida.
For the past twenty-five years Maryann has been employed by the Monmouth County Park System as a Graphic Artist; currently as Supervisor of the Graphics department. She has won several awards from the Jersey Shore Public Relations Association for annual report designs and other promotional material used by the park system. For over 5 years Maryann taught calligraphy at adult education classes for MONOC and The Monmouth County Park System’s Creative Arts Center.
Maryann resides in Neptune with her husband, son, daughter and two lovely spaniels.
He became interested in photography through his music business. When they couldn’t find a photographer to take the type of photo’s they were looking for, he started to take them. He enjoyed it and decided to pursue his interest.
Ben was self-taught until his introduction to Dennis Simonetti, a Master Photographer instructor at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Dennis reviewed his work and asked him to join the New School. Ben stayed with Dennis for four years, assisting and attending his Master Printing course. In 1981, Ben founded the Brick Photo Workshop. He then turned to photojournalism and became a contributing photographer for the Newark Star Ledger, Asbury Park Press, and a few smaller publications. He also contributed to a variety of magazines, tabletop, events and sports photography. He was an associate producer for ABC Circle Films’ production of “Baby M.”
Aside from his own workshop, Ben has instructed photography at Toms River North and Point Pleasant Borough High School adult programs for ten years. His photo career has spanned thirty years. Now retired, Ben still does selective work of a varied nature. He is a member of the Ocean County Artist Guild in Island Heights, the Belmar Arts Council, and the Guild of Creative Arts in Shrewsbury.
She creates digital artwork as well as three-dimensional mixed-media art that ranges from large wall hangings to small tabletop decorations.
Artwork by Cecilia has been published in Cloth Paper Scissors, Expression, Scrap ‘n Stamp, Altered Arts, Somerset Studio Galleria, The Spring Hill Review, Stampers Sampler and Inspirations.Until its 2007 demise, she was one of the Contributing Designers for The Rubber Stamper magazine, where her work was often published and once highlighted as the cover illustration. One of her digital artworks will appear in the Summer 2009 issue of Somerset Digital Studio and her three-dimensional artwork will appear in The Latest Trends in Mixed Media Arts, Volume II, a book scheduled for fall 2009 publication.
An independent designer of images for rubber stamps, Cecilia has created designs now sold as rubber stamps through Another Stamp Company, Third Coast Art Rubber Stamps, and Bon Ton Rubber Stamps.
She is a Design Team Member at Crafters Cafe, an on-line store selling art supplies including Golden paints and media.
Cecilia’s artwork is often displayed in local venues, including the 2009 Monmouth Festival of the Arts, where her art was accepted into three categories: fine art (for her mixed-media wall hangings), fine crafts (for her altered cigar boxes and trays), and photography (for her digital art.)
She is from Manalapan, NJ and is an exhibiting member of the Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury, New Jersey. She minored in art in college and continues to attend classes and workshops to hone her skills and to constantly explore the past, present, and future of art. Her work has been accepted and shown in juried exhibits and art shows through the years.
Barbara’s paintings hang in restaurants, corporations, and private collections. She works in many medias including watercolors, pastels, photography, pencil, pen and ink, and oil.
Barbara works closely with many not-for-profit organizations, creating colorful greeting cards for these organizations to sell for fundraising, or as invitations and thank-you notes for their events. Clients include: Boy Scouts of America, Prevent Child Abuse NJ, Special Strides, Red Mountain Therapeutic Riding Center, and Congregation Sons of Israel.
Barbara is often inspired and ceaselessly supported by her loving family.
Personal technique: “Once I’ve determined the subject of the painting, I proceed to layout the theme for composition. The array of colors usually depends upon the mood of the topic to be painted. The fun is watching the colors shine through one another as I paint by layering. For the moment, watercolors are my main focus. Working with them is incredibly exciting. Whether I’m painting landscapes, still lifes, florals, or people, I try to let the watercolor retain it’s own life and movement. My favorite subject is people. I can experience their moods through their body language, dress, and interaction with each other. They swirl by me and I take those that touch me and paint them. Having danced for many years of my life, I’ve become wonderfully aware of movement and line. The choreography of life and the celebration of its colors are the challenges I take with each new picture I venture to paint.”
He (XiaoYao Yao) was born in 1942 in ZheJiang Province, China. He had a passion for painting since his childhood days. His formal training includes Chinese brush painting lessons from Hu, Nian-Zu, oil paintings from Doug L. Mcllvain, Ozzie A. Arnts, and Connelle Gaynor. Over the past couple of years, he has become more interested in portrait paintings.
Shan-Shun Yao is an exhibiting artist with the Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury, New Jersey.
– 2010 Best in Show
– N.J. Chapter – American Artists Professional League, Inc., 2010
– Open State Juried Exhibition of Representational Art
– 2010 Kojola Award for Realism (painting),
– Guild of Creative Art 18th Annual Open Juried Show
– 2009 Honorable Mention in painting,
He works in most media, with an emphasis on watercolor in which he employs a variety of classical and experimental techniques. Over the years, he has practiced an extensive repertoire of printmaking techniques, including advanced stone lithography and simultaneous color contrast in intaglio. Sven has always been inspired by Nature’s shapes and colors and deals with this in the expression of Light.
Sven was born in the town of Vastervik, on Sweden’s east coast, about 180 miles south of Stockholm. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Lund, Sweden. Many of his art studies took place in Gothenburg; the School for Industrial Art & Design, Kursverksamheten at Goteborg University; Gustavus Primus Art School; Hovedskou Art School; and Studio Litografik. Sven also received scholarships to several juried invitational courses held at Artists’ Collective Studios in Hamburgsund, Goteborg, and Vasteras, Sweden, where he studied advanced lithography and intaglio printmaking. In the early 1990s, he moved to the United States after meeting artist Lizzi Schippert. They married in 1990 and reside in Island Heights, NJ.
A career professional artist, Sven’s work was avidly collected in Sweden by private and corporate collectors and hangs in many regional governmental collections (landsting) and town cultural departmental collections in various parts of Sweden. In the United States, Sven has added to his list of one-man exhibitions, as well as exhibiting widely in group and invitational shows. His work hangs in many private and corporate collections.
His lithograph, “Norse God,” was used as the cover image for Chrysalis magazine, November 1991; and Jersey Shore Vacation Magazine and Map included Sven’s watercolor, “Going to the Beach,” in their Summer 2005 publication.
In March 2007, Sven served as an Adjudicator at the Teen Arts Festival, sponsored by the Monmouth County Arts Council, held at Brookdale Community College.
Sven and his wife, Lizzi Schippert, established Open Your Eyes in 1993 to provide art instruction and international art workshops. As a teaching team, Sven and Lizzi have offered art instruction and inspiration in Red Bank since 1995; during the warm months, Sven and Lizzi regularly offer Plein Air Workshops in New Jersey. Together, they have led travel art workshops in Maine; Monhegan Island, ME; Vermont; Florida; France; and Japan. In 2007, they led cultural and art trips to Classic Florence and Venice, and in spring 2008, a Cherry Blossom Tour to Japan, both trips sponsored by Classic Travel, Inc. (including Michelangelo Tours of Italy) of Oakhurst, NJ.
– Ocean County Artists Guild, Island Heights, NJ, instructor and member
– Art Alliance, Red Bank, NJ, instructor and member
– Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ, instructor and exhibiting member
– Arts Partner as Open Your Eyes with the Monmouth County Art Council, Red Bank, NJ
He pursued photography all through high school and college. He took photographs while he was with the occupying forces in Germany and Czechoslovakia in World War II. He has photographed in China, Spain, Italy, Greece, and the American West. Warner has studied photography with Laury Egan for several years. He had extensively explored the many photographic opportunities within Monmouth County and was especially interested in architectural subjects.
Warner won first place (color) in the 2007 EyeSights Show at the Guild and second place in the 2008 show. He had exhibited at the Monmouth Festival of the Arts, the Frederick Gallery, and in the Monmouth County and Middletown libraries. His photographs have been shown by the Monmouth County Parks System, where they are part of their permanent collection. He was represented by the Evelyn Dunn Gallery in Westfield, NJ, and was an Exhibiting Member of the Guild of Creative Art.
He has been a metal sculptor/welder/ironworker since 1981. He was born in Bronx, NY, in 1963 and lived in Brooklyn from 1964 to 1979. He now resides in Leonardo, NJ.
Richard says, “I began welding at the age of 17 and continue today to fabricate stainless steel and steel products which over the years developed my skills as an ironworker. Having also been a graffiti writer on the subways of New York, I refined my artistic edge at an early age. The desire to work with fire and molten steel drives the life and creativity of my pieces.”
– Monmouth Museum
– Sea Bright Library
– Kingsley Art Gallery in Red Bank
– Kwiecinski & Zero Architects, Millstone Township
– Guild of Creative Art
– Art Alliance Studio and Gallery
– Evolve Designer Arts Gallery
– Oakland Street Shops and Gallery
– Joyce’s Golden Palette Art Gallery
– Studio 259 Art Gallery
– Exhibiting Member, Guild of Creative Art
– Exhibiting Member, Sculptors Association of NJ
He is a New Jersey artist whose primary media is watercolor. His subjects aim to capture the simple nature of everyday life and characters observed during his travels in the United States and abroad. Although his formal education & career was in engineering, he is primarily a self-taught artist, and has studied with several New Jersey artists including Santo Pezzutti and the late Pat Lafferty. Bob has received several awards & exhibited throughout New Jersey , performed commissioned portrait work for a number of families and clients, and completed commercial illustrations for technical publications. He is an Exhibiting Artist at the Guild of Creative Art , and a member of the Manasquan River Group of Artists, Belmar Arts Council, Art Alliance of Monmouth County, and the New Jersey Watercolor Society.
Awards/Exhibits
– New Jersey Watercolor Society- Associate Member Annual Show- Award of Excellence – 2008 and 2012.
– Belmar Arts Council – “Painters Works” Juried Show -2nd Place – Watercolor.
– Art in the Park – Long Branch – 3rd Place –Overall Show.
– Croydon Hall – Middletown Art Show- 1st Place- Watercolor.
– Monmouth Festival of the Arts – Annual Juried Show.
– Art Alliance of Monmouth County – Annual Juried Show.
– The Rotunda of Metuchen – Featured Exhibitor.
– Monmouth Beach Cultural Center – Solo Exhibit.
– Jay Ross Memorial Library/SeaBright – Solo Exhibit.
– Eatontown Public Library – Solo Exhibit.
– Oceanic Free Library – Exhibitor.
– Monmouth County library-Wall Township -Exhibitor.
Commissioned Portraits/Paintings
References are available on request.
– New Jersey Watercolor Society
– Manasquan River Group of Artists
– Belmar Arts Council
– Art Alliance of Monmouth County
– Guild of Creative Art-Exhibiting Member
She received her BA and MS degrees from City University of New York and her ED.D from Nova Southeastern University. In undergraduate school, Diane’s art classes included painting, intaglio graphics, photography, wood sculpture and art history classes. Throughout the past twenty plus years, she has taken classes through the Monmouth County Park System with Grace Graupe Pillard and also enjoyed painting classes with nationally known artists at workshops offered in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. These experiences have broadened her knowledge of many varied and interesting painting techniques and styles.
She enjoys painting the roses in her large rose garden as well as portraits, landscapes, still life and really anything that she is attracted to for its uniqueness or inherent beauty. With each painting she produces, she further realizes the important role of natural light. Light is what creates the contour and depth of her painting subjects—the “ah” feeling that causes her to go to her easel. As an artist, Diane hopes that viewers of her work will get that “ah” feeling too.
She has always been fortunate to receive accolades for her paintings from family members and friends. Their encouragement prompted her to have two one woman shows in which she sold several paintings. One was held in 2012 and the other in 2014—both at the Monmouth Beach Cultural Center. She has also exhibited in several local shows sponsored through the Art Society of Monmouth County. She is proud to say that pieces of her work were selected to be in the Monmouth Museum and Monmouth County Arts Council 31st Art Show in 2010 and again in the 2015 Monmouth Museum Members Miniature Show: Big Art in Small Packages. She is extremely proud of having been selected as an Exhibiting Member of the Guild of Creative Art in 2014.
A native of Prague, he lived in Munich and New York City before moving to Monmouth County in 1982, and since then has enjoyed the shore’s wealth of cultural, educational and recreational opportunities.
After a 30+ years business career in downtown Manhattan, Peter returned to school for a Digital Imaging and Photography professional certification at New York University’s Center for Design, Digital Arts, and Film. His graduation project was a self-published photo book “Empty Sky No More,” and his photography was profiled at NYU’s Literary Arts and Visual Festival in 2013.
Currently, Peter chairs the Nikon Users Group of the Monmouth Camera Club in Colts Neck, NJ, where he is a salon member. He received awards in both the 2016 and 2017 EyeSights Open Juried Photography Show at the Guild of Creative Art, where he is an Exhibiting Member. He also exhibited and is a member of the Belmar Arts Council.
Peter loves photographing cityscapes to capture their shapes, colors, textures, and patterns, and the contrast between new and old, especially in New York City—a perfect venue for urban photography with its dense network of buildings, designed by the world’s best architects to reach ever higher into the sky. “I love pointing my camera up and capturing the light of the sky reflecting off such iconic buildings. My images are difficult to compose—given the extreme vertical scale—and difficult to expose—given the harsh contrast of bright and dark light. Overcoming these challenges to capture the bold and proud spirit of the city gives me tremendous satisfaction,” says Peter.
She lives in the historic shore town of Ocean Grove, NJ. She owns a 2 family home which she shares with her sister, niece and several cats. Her practice with watercolor started as a child and eventually led her to art school.
In 1987, she received a BFA in illustration from Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia. Her love for the medium was nurtured through Moore’s teachings of Chinese watercolor and traditional realism. As an illustration major, MaryLou landed an internship with the Philadelphia Zoo Graphic Art Department.
Since graduating from Moore, she has worked as a freelance illustrator while keeping full time positions in advertising, graphic design and technical publications. Not only has her work been published in Victoria and New Jersey Monthly magazines, her illustrations have been seen on the labels of Sorrell Ridge Preserves as well as other name-brand products. She also had the pleasure of designing menus for TropWorld and Foxwoods Resort Casinos.
In 1994, MaryLou had her own one woman exhibit entitled “Victorian Watercolors” at The Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury, N.J. She has also exhibited and sold her work through the Goldie Paley Gallery in Philadelphia as well as several galleries throughout N.J. For over 17 years, her custom designed artwork and murals were commissioned through Kidegories, a specialty children’s furniture and gift boutique in Shrewsbury until the store’s closing in January of 2016. Presently, MaryLou continues to enjoy painting, exhibiting, and designing artwork on a personal as well as freelance basis.
Elected member of The NJ Watercolor Society
• Canterbury Art Show, Rumson, NJ “ Honorable Mention” 2001
• N.J. Watercolor Society, Middletown, NJ “The Ridgewood Art Institute Award” 2012
• 2nd Annual Jersey Shore Art Show, Belmar, NJ “Best in Show” 2006
• Graphics 4, Philadelphia, PA “Honorable Mention” 1987
Her works in several media: drawing, painting, collage, pochoir, and lithography and intaglio printmaking. Her preferred subjects emphasize the essential structure of a thing, a place, figure, or concept; often she employs imagination to distill interactions of form, value, and color in a succinct and meaningful composition. Lizzi also does illustrations and accepts commissions.
After studying art and biology at Emmanuel College in Boston, Lizzi went on to study at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; at the School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston; and the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. She focused on classical techniques in printmaking, figure and portrait drawing and painting, Japanese and Chinese calligraphy, to mention some disciplines. She developed a unique printmaking technique out of the classic hand-coloring medium, pochoir, which utilizes stencils and airbrush. This technique is included in the 1990 edition of the Secrets of Buying Art, by Wenniger and Wenniger, Betterway Press.
A professional artist since 1973, Lizzi has exhibited her work in over 35 solo exhibitions nationwide, in Sweden, Japan, and the Caribbean, with five shows in Manhattan. An award-winning artist in several media, Lizzi has exhibited in group and invitational events stretching from Hawaii to Sweden. These venues range from a solo invitational billboard in Columbus, Ohio, to Art Expo in New York. Her work is held in museum and public venues in Sweden and in many public, corporate, and private collections nationally and internationally.
Lizzi has taught self-portraiture at the Teen Arts Festival, Brookdale Community College, sponsored by MCAC, in March 2007. In 1993, Lizzi and her husband, artist Sven Widen, established Open Your Eyes to provide art instruction and international art workshops. As a teaching team, Lizzi and Sven have offered art instruction and inspiration in Red Bank since 1995 and regularly hold Plein Air workshops in New Jersey during the warm months. Together, they have led travel art workshops in Maine; Monhegan Island, ME; Vermont; Florida; France; and Japan. In September 2007, they led cultural and art trips to Classic Florence and Venice, and in spring 2008, a Cherry Blossom Tour to Japan, both sponsored by Classic Travel, Inc. (including Michelangelo Tours of Italy) of Oakhurst, NJ.
– New Jersey Watercolor Society, juried member
He was born in Portland, Oregon and grew up in San Francisco. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA. He is a 27 year veteran Advertising Art Director, NYC. He retired and started painting in 2008, studying under the renowned watercolor artist Donald Voorhees, AWAS, NJWS. His paintings range from portraits to landscapes and seascapes.
– Audubon Artists 68th Annual Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, NYC
– The 2010 Middletown Township Cultural & Arts Council Juried Exhibition
– Garden State Watercolor Society 41st Annual Juried Exhibition
– NJWCS 68th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, GSWS 41st Annual Juried Exhibition
– Art Alliance of Monmouth County 24th Annual State-Wide Juried Exhibition
– The 2010 Bayonet Farm Arts & Music Festival Juried Art Exhibition
– NJWCS Associate Exhibit, Morris County Library
He creates his provocative images in black and white charcoal on toned paper. He believes that in a world consumed by technology there is an almost primal honesty to the simple act of drawing.
As a young man, Bill studied art at Ocean County College and the Art Students League in New York. After finishing his studies he, like most artists, found the need for regular income and Bill started his own successful irrigation business. Now he has renewed his passion for drawing.
Although his subject matter is ever changing and can elicit many different reactions, his dedication to detailed draftsmanship is always consistent. Asked what reaction he desires most from his drawings, he paraphrases Marion Boddy-Evans: “I believe art is foremost for the artist who creates it. You do it for your soul, and if anybody else gets something out of it, that’s a bonus.”
In May 2011 Bill became an Exhibiting Member of the Guild of Creative Art.
In October 2011 He was awarded an Honorable Mention at the Guild’s Annual Juried Show for his Drawing entitled “FLOCK”. The judge commented, “I admire the virtuoso technique and love the unexpected mix of traditional handling of the background with the modern subject matter.”
Bill Ross does portraiture and welcomes commissions. Please contact the Guild for more information.
He has drawn and painted from an early age. He received his first art training from his father who was a professional artist and a college art professor. Later, Don won an art scholarship to the Art Students League of New York. Further education in painting and drawing was achieved while on an art scholarship to the University of Georgia (BFA). He completed his studies in painting and sculpture at Columbia University (MFA). Although professionally schooled in the field of fine art, Don also trained in educational administration (Ed.D), becoming a secondary school principal. Now retired, he devotes himself full time to his art.
Don and his wife, Dolores, who is also a retired educator, have a grown son who has followed in the family’s footsteps by pursuing a career in the field of education.
Besides his involvement with the Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast, Don belongs to the Guild of Creative Art (where he is an exhibiting member), the Art Students League of New York (life member), and the New Jersey branch of the American Artists Professional League, the Printmaking Council of New Jersey, the Art Alliance, and the American Impressionists Society. In addition, Don holds associate membership in the Oil Painters of America and the Allied Artists of America. He has exhibited both nationally and regionally, most recently exhibiting with the Hudson Valley Artists Association in their 75th Annual National Show in New York City. Don has had one of his coastal scenes displayed in Plein Air Magazine (January, 2005).
Additional biographical data on the artist can be found in current editions of Marquis’ Who’s Who in America as well as in Who’s Who in the East and Who’s Who in American Education.
She recently retired from a forty-year career as a Paralegal. She lives at the Jersey Shore, and is a self-taught photographer drawn to the moods of nature and wildlife. The extra time since her retirement is giving her the ability to further develop her great passion of watching, learning and photographing animal behavior in their natural environments. If her photos have a mission, Angela says this: “To quietly capture that moment in time that others may not see which brings an emotional response to the viewer.” Capturing those moments through the lens of her camera is not only what Angela sees, but what her heart feels. Angela is inspired by photographing the beauty that surrounds us, and she is reminded over and over again how blessed we are to have these surroundings which must be protected and ethically respected.
Angela and her husband enjoy traveling with a special interest in National Parks. Angela is currently studying with Laury Egan, and hopes to expand her passion for photography from a fine art perspective.
Angela is an exhibiting artist at the Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury and a member of the Ocean County Artists’ Guild in Island Heights. Her work has been exhibited in numerous juried art shows.
Ocean County Artists’ Guild Juried Photography Shows
– 2013 – Looking Through the Mist
– 2014 – Stately Egret
– 2015 – Lizard Lunch (Sold)
– 2016 – Egret Balancing Act
– 2016 – The Taste of Freedom
Guild of Creative Art – EyeSights Open Juried Photography Show
– 2014 – Special Merit Award for Animals – Eyes on You (Sold)
– 2016 – Puffin Portrait (Sold)
He became fascinated by photography as a teenager when he began learning his craft with a twin-lens reflex camera. His mentors were the writings and work of Ansel Adams and Andreas Fenninger.
College, career, and family responsibilities intervened for many years. With retirement imminent, he returned to his earliest interests: photography and the outdoors. Although his current work is primarily with a digital camera, he still reverts to medium-format film from time to time.
His work is characterized by simple composition, a vivid color palette, and a wide diversity of subject matter. “Shapes, colors, and the quality of light are what first attract me to a subject,.” Jim says.
Jim has taken photography courses at Brookdale Community College and has been a student of Laury Egan’s for many years. His work has been on display on the State of New Jersey’s Official web site, local galleries and libraries, He most frequently exhibits at the Guild of Creative Art.
About the pictures from the link below, Jim says: “These photos are part of a series I think of as “One Alone”. I don’t know the people in these photographs – they are strangers, not models. I’ve tried to create a balance between the person and his or her environment to give you , the viewer, a sense of place and to reinforce their solitude. These folks are very much in the moment – and alone. I can’t help wondering what they are thinking about. There are two exceptions to their being strictly alone – in one case there are two people but they are alone,, and in the other, the person is implied rather than seen. Enjoy!”
He was born and raised in New Jersey. He has always been interested in the arts including theatre, which, as a young man, he studied at The New Theatre School in New York City. His main interest now is in sculpture and creative stained glass. He learned basic stained glass techniques from the best stained glass artist in the country. As far as sculpture goes, Bob is completely self-taught and still learning and developing his technique.
His favorite medium is driftwood found on the local New Jersey beaches. He takes the basic shape and fashions it into something meaningful, finishing it using various techniques such as sandblasting. Recently, Bob has created windows and lamps of various sizes and shapes in stained glass, many on commission.
Bob’s work has been displayed at the Art Alliance, Red Bank, NJ; Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ; and the Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ.
She received a M.A. in Human Development from Farleigh Dickinson University in 1987.She has also completed the photography option in film (color, black and white, darkroom) as well as digital photography at Brookdale Community College where she received an AAS. Her passion for photography continues as she explores composition and design with Laury Egan. In 2009 Joan was accepted as an Exhibiting Member at the Guild of Creative Art.
Joan’s work focuses on pristine composition, vivid color, shapes, patterns, and altered perceptions. For Joan, creating a visual image is not only serene but at the same time exhilarating because it increases her sense of being alive. She takes great delight in surprising the viewer with unusual images that are thought provoking and sometimes humorous. She believes that the presentation of her art should also be meticulous.
Joan has exhibited her art in a variety of prestigious juried shows. To date her work has been displayed at the Art Alliance, the Guild of Creative Art, Brookdale Alumni Association, Bayonet Farm Art Show, Center for Visual Arts at Brookdale College, Monmouth Festival of the Arts, 2nd Saturday in Long Branch, and Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences.
– Guild of Creative Art: Marty Connelly Memorial Landscape Award, “Snowy Excitement”;
– Brookdale Alumini Assoication: Honorable Mention, “Snowy Excitement”;
– Bayonet Farm Art Show: People’s Choice, “Snowy Excitement”;
– Guild of Creative Art: Honorable Mention, “I like Your Coat,” for Sense of Humor
She was fortunate to love and study both art and music in childhood. After high school, she elected to pursue visual arts studies at Kent State University, Ohio, where she earned her B.F.A. Having also discovered the world of theatre design, she went on to receive her M.A. (with an emphasis in costume design) in theatre at Montclair State University, NJ.
During the thirty-three years she taught high school art for the Middletown, NJ, school district, Nessa helped develop and teach a wide range of art programs which included fine arts, crafts, art history, and computer art. She received teaching awards at the local, state, and national levels. She also spent many of those years freelancing as a costume designer for college theatre departments and for professional summer stock companies. For over ten years, she has been an adjunct instructor of art at Brookdale Community College. She is currently teaching computer painting and drawing for interior design for the BCC art department. Nessa received the 2005-2006 adjunct of the year award for the Fine Arts and Communications Division at Brookdale.
Grateful for the early encouragement of art teachers Lois Eben and Douglas McIlvain, for over twenty five years, Nessa has pursued her painting studies with many wonderful artists. Those who have influenced her the most include Tony Ventura, Roberta Carter Clark, Frank Csulak, Lee Boynton, Stan Sperlak, and Joe Hing Lowe. Most of Nessa’s work is created in watercolors or pastels. She has received awards for both media. Her work is included in private and public collections throughout the country, particularly in the northeast. She is a member of the Guild of Creative Art, Pine Shores Art Association, the NJ Pastel Painters Society, and the Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast (for which group she currently serves as secretary and webmaster).
Nessa sums up her feelings about her artwork in this statement: “Finding the special moments and moods of everyday places and trying to capture their essence in my work is my challenge and delight. Sharing them through my paintings is my pleasure.”
He has been an established artist since 1970. A New Jersey native, he has exhibited extensively on the state and national level. His works are in numerous collections throughout the U.S. Migliaccio’s stylized rural and urban environments evolve from his plein air paintings, and have taken him to scenic locations throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Europe.
– The August Mosca Award for Oils, Audubon Artists 66th National Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club, NYC 2008
– A Lifetime Achievement Award from the Count Basie Theater, Red Bank, NJ 2008
– Selected as a Signature Artist at the Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ 2007
– Achievement Award for Oils at the Guild of Creative Art State Juried Show 2007
– Honorable Mention for Oils at the MCAC 28th Juried Exhibition in 2007
– Selected for Who’s Who in American Art in 2007
– Four solo shows in 2005 and 2006
– A Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship to paint in Italy and France in 2002
– Selection of landscape painting, Sandy Hook, for the EPA Building, Washington D.C. in 2001 by Governor Christie Todd Whitman
– A New Jersey Governor’s Award in Arts Education in 2001
– State Senate Citation for contributions to the Arts in New Jersey in 2001
Migliaccio’s work has been exhibited at prestigious venues such as the Salmagundi Club, The National Art Club, and the Milk Gallery, all in New York City, and at Monmouth University, Kean University, The College of NJ, and Brookdale Community College, all in New Jersey. He has been a guest on NJN and News 12 NJ discussing the arts and has been the featured speaker and host at many arts events including the Audubon Artists Receptions in 2007 and 2008 and the NJ Governor’s Awards in Arts Education in 2001.
“My influences in painting are varied and diverse, including such favorites as Cezanne, Matisse, Sargent, and Diebenkorn, to name a few. Like most artists, I am constantly being influenced by the masters and contemporary artists that work in the same genre. Plein air painting is one of the most challenging art forms I’ve ever experienced. I believe that once composition and value are achieved, then it’s all about color. Learning color theory is probably the most critical aspect of this kind of work. Plein air painting in oil offers those challenges in addition to a peaceful, meditative experience while on location. Painting from life is also an excellent exercise in maintaining the integrity of the subject matter in the studio,” says Migliaccio.
Migliaccio earned a Bachelor’s Degree from the College of NJ and a Master’s Degree in Art Education from Kean University. Along with his professional art career, he has been an art educator and arts administrator in NJ public schools in addition to having taught as an adjunct at Monmouth University. He has become well known in the state for his demonstrations and workshops on various art topics including painting en plein air. Migliaccio resides in Long Branch, NJ, with his wife Dee Dee, where he maintains his studio. He is currently represented by the Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ.
She offered a bold new approach to watercolor artwork. Her painting combines watercolor, acrylics, and paper collage to create exciting new visual effects. Fran’s subject matter came from varying motivations. Extensive world travel had supplied inspiration, but her everyday visualizations also influenced what she paints. At times, the paint itself can be the impetus, a kind of spontaneous reaction. Creating a watercolor, acrylic, and paper collage requires a great deal of concentration and a thorough understanding of those mediums. Using many innovative combinations, she conveyed new freedom of expression in both color and design.
Fran received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Science in Education at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. She continued her scholastic pursuit of the arts in Europe and the United States, working at symposiums and studying with Nicholas Reale, Frank Webb, and Louise Cadillac; Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Mounts Bay Art Center, Cornwall, UK; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; Monmouth University, Long Branch, NJ; and Friends of Arts & Science, Sarasota, FL.
Fran worked as a staff artist for Halsted & Van Vechten Advertising Agency. She is listed in Who’s Who in American Art and Who’s Who of American Women.
Fran is represented by The Hang-Up Gallery in Sarasota, Florida, and by The Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, New Jersey.
– American Watercolor Society, Signature Member
– New Jersey Watercolor Society, Past President
– Garden State Watercolor Society, Elected Member
– Guild of Creative Art, Founding Member
– National Collage Society, Inc., Associate
– International Society of Experimental Artists, Associate
– Hilton Leech Studio, Member
– Longboat Key Art Center, Member
Fran’s work has been published in: Best of Watercolor – Painting Color by Betty Lou Schlenm, Rockport Publishers, Gloucester, MA, 1997; SPLASH 3, edited by Rachael Wolf, North Light Books, Cincinnati, OH, 1994; and Portraits/2, edited by Shirley Boyden Maxwell, NJWCS, Clark, NJ, April 1998.
She has been creating original designs in a wide variety of media for most of her life. As a child she drew anything and everything with a special passion for portraits and people. Teen idols and family members were her favorite subjects. At the age of 15, she won a scholarship to study with Lee Gaskins for a summer.
Later, Randy studied Fashion Illustration and Advertising Design at F.I.T., S.U.N.Y. As a graduate, Randy pursued a career in advertising and illustration. She illustrated and designed for many nationally known products and businesses.
Always a student as well as a teacher, she enjoys sharing her love of all things creative. For years she taught classes in her studio called “The Art Room” in Rumson, and later, in Monmouth Beach. There she shared her talents in drawing, painting and sculpture.
Randy has studied with Ted Seth Jacobs, Jerry McDaniel, Sharon Gainsburg, Ken Stetz, Roberta Carter Clark, Mel Stabin, Marie Natale, as well as Tom Lynch and many others.
She is an Exhibiting Member of The Guild of Creative Arts, in Shrewsbury, NJ, as well as the Ocean County Artists Guild, where she recently won First Place in Watercolor. She is also a member of the American Watercolor Society.
Currently, Randy is working on several book illustration projects, in addition to her watercolor portraits. Randy lives in Monmouth Beach where she has her studio and accepts commissions.
She was trained in classical music as a child in Europe and believes painting is an extension of her love for creating and expressing.
Music (classical, jazz, rock) and the grandeur of nature’s gifts have always inspired her. She writes: “Our passions, dreams, and hopes are such an integral part of the human experience that expressing a wide range of emotions on canvas is irresistible—it’s why I paint. To me, painting is a spiritual and intuitive journey. When I paint, I lose track of time and feel the pleasure—it sustains me and completes me. Sometimes I will work on a painting until it tells ME a story. Other times I will start with something in mind, but in the end, I respond to what is on the canvas and work on it until I feel it is resolved. To quote Georgia O’Keefe, ‘I found I could say things with colors that I couldn’t say in any other way—things that I had no words for.’”
Annette’s work has been accepted at various juried art exhibits including, in Orlando, FL: at the Grand Bohemian Gallery in the Grand Bohemian Hotel, The City Arts Factory, the Gallery at Metro, COMMA Gallery, and the Seminole Community College; in Sarasota, FL: the Art Center at Sarasota; and in NJ: SICA in Long Branch, the Monmouth Art Center, and the Guild for Creative Art. She has also mounted a solo show at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD. Her paintings and commissions are in private collections throughout the U.S. and Canada.
She was born in 1924, a life-long resident of Red Bank. Her first solo show was in 1952 at the Old Mill Gallery, Tinton Falls, known then for the introduction of Alice Neel and Martha Graham. In 1958, a book of her drawings, Boswells’ Life of Boswell, was published by Simon & Schuster and became #2 on the New York Times’ children’s best-seller list that year.
She received two fellowships from the NJ State Council of the Arts and was included in the 1977 NJ Arts Council biennial at the Trenton State Museum. Her work has been shown, notably, at City Without Wall, Aljira, Tweeds, Summit Art Center, and the Morris State Museum. Primarily self-taught, she attended the Vermont Studio Center in 1987 where she studied with Malcolm Morley, Archie Rand, and Neil Welliver.
Evelyn had exhibited throughout the area and was a well-known art teacher, both at the Guild of Creative Art and also as a private instructor.
She studied Sumi-e (Oriental Watercolor) with Anne Kobayashi and pastels and oils with Mary Sheean at the Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury, NJ. She has also taken workshops in pastel and oils with Bob Gerbracht and Alan Flatttnan. Previously, Caroline studied art in Nashville, TN, and at the Kunste Akademe in Munich, Germany. Caroline has exhibited with the Japan America Sumi-e Club. She has received awards for some of her Sumi-e paintings both in New York and New Jersey. Mrs. Klein has also exhibited her pastels, oils, and Oriental Watercolors in the Middlesex County Museum, Thompson Park, Guild of Creative Art, Monmouth Festival of the Arts, and many other locations in New Jersey.
Caroline is a past president of the Guild of Creative Art, where she teaches Oriental Watercolor classes. She also conducts workshops and gives demonstrations of Sumi-e for various organizations.
He was born in Brooklyn, NY, and attended Far Rockaway High School in New York City where he received the Saint-Gaudens medal for Art upon graduation in June of 1968.
Mr. Isaacoff graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky in 1972 with a BA in Fine Art Education with a minor in Psychology.
He received his MS from Adelphi University in Art Special Education in 1976.
For the next 30 years he worked in the retail industry as an Operations Executive and raised a family with his wife Nancy.
Upon retirement at age 59, Mr. Isaacoff decided to return to the arts and resumed his passion as a potter and photographer.
She is a self-taught artist who began her artistic career working in oils. From 1973 until her retirement in 1998, she was a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In 1997, Lisa became interested in watercolors and now works solely in that medium. She has studied under Nita Engle, AWS, internationally known landscape artist, and attended the workshops of several well-known artists, including Ted Mitchen, AWS, and Cheng-Khee Chee, AWS. In addition, she attended various art courses at the Du Cret School of Art in North Plainfield, NJ, and the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, VA. Lisa is the New Jersey editor of Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine.
– 2006 NJ Chapter, American Artist Professional League (Pauline Wick Award)
– 2006 American Artist Professional League, All Members Show (Honorable Mention)
– 2004 Guild of Creative Art Annual Open Juried Show, Shrewsbury, NJ (Honorable Mention)
– 2003 Historic Chester Annual Fine Arts Show, Chester, NJ (Best Watercolor in Show)
– 1999 The Artist’s Magazine Annual International Art Competition (Honorable Mention)
– 2007 Monmouth Beach Cultural Center, Monmouth Beach, NJ; Johnson and Johnson Corporate Headquarters, New Brunswick, NJ (solo show); West Long Branch Library, West Long Branch, NJ (solo show)
– 006 New Jersey Watercolor Society Open Juried Show, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ; NJ Chapter, American Artist Professional League Juried Show; Monmouth Beach Cultural Center, Monmouth Beach, NJ; Plein Air Artists of the Jersey Coast show, Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ
– 2005 The New American Gallery; New Jersey Watercolor Artist Show, group show; NJ chapter American Artist Professional League Juried Show; Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ (group shows)
-2004 Educational Testing Services, Princeton, NJ (solo show); Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ (group shows); New Jersey Watercolor Society Open Juried Show
– 2003 New American Gallery Show (group show)
– 2003 Swerdlow Gallery, Bound Brook, NJ (group show)
– 2003 Historic Chester Annual Fine Arts Show, Chester, NJ (group show)
– 2001 Artsbridge, Stockton, NJ (group show)
– 2000 Massabesic Audubon Center, Massabesic, NH (three-artist show).
Lisa’s painting, “Quiet Falls,” was used to promote the show in the Derry News.
Lisa’s painting, “Point Pleasant Fleet,” has been featured in the Jersey Shore Publication, 2006 Holiday Issue; “Sunday Morning” was used to promote the Guild of Creative Art’s May 2006 show in the Atlanticville Press; and “The Rising” was used to promote the Guild of Creative Art’s 2004 open juried show in the Asbury Park Press.
– American Watercolor Society
– National Watercolor Society
– Garden State Watercolor Society
– The Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ, Exhibiting Member
– NJ Chapter, American Artist Professional League, Exhibiting Member
– The Plein Air Artists of the Jersey Coast
– Originals and prints of Lisa’s work, as well as commissioned pieces have been purchased by private and corporate clients.
She grew up in Long Island City, New York and studied art at Newtown High School, in Jackson Heights Queens. Her father and maternal grandfather who were fantastic artists influenced her. After high school she was pushed in many directions, working a few years in photography and commercial art.
In the early 70’s she received a Fine Arts Certificate from the Washington University of Art in Chicago, Illinois and later studied Communication Design at Brookdale College in New Jersey.
She had numerous shows including one woman shows at the Guild of Creative Art, The Ocean County Artist Guild, The Little Silver Borough Hall and Georgian Court College. Barbara has exhibited at the Lever House Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, The Pastel Society of America (P.S.A.), and Salmagundi Club, all in New York City. Her art works have been included in juried exhibitions including the Monmouth Museum the Monmouth Festival of the Arts the Pastel Society of America. In July 2004, her pastel ‘In Honor of All the Heroes’ was accepted for the exhibition entitled ‘American Dreams Post 9/11’ at the Salmagundi Club .She also received letters from former Mayor Giuliani and Mayor Bloomberg thanking her for the moving depiction of the September 11th tragedy. Her art is also included in many private and corporate collections
Throughout her career, she received many awards and was featured in news papers, including the Asbury Park Press, Two River Times, The Middletown Independent, The Star Ledger and others.
Memberships include the Pastel Society of America, the Monmouth Art Society, the Monmouth Arts Council, The Ocean County Artist Guild, Guild of Creative Art and Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast.
Barbara appears in the Marquis publication, Who’s Who in the East, Who’s Who in American Women and Who’s Who in American Art.
Her latest accomplishment was inclusion in the Best of Worldwide Landscape Artist Publication.
She is a graduate of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia where she received her BFA and art teacher certification. There she taught Saturday classes in drawing and painting as well as exhibited her work. Upon graduation, she began a career designing painted and woven fabrics as well as custom carpets for New York firms such as Scalamandre Silks, Edward Fields, and Dan River. A working artist, Anne enjoys painting local scenes of the shore area. She is an exhibiting member of the Guild of Creative Art as well as the Art Alliance of Monmouth County. She has shown her work each year at the annual Monmouth Festival of the Arts, Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, The Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury, The Art Alliance in Red Bank, The Sheraton Hotel in Eatontown, The Hall of Records in Freehold, The Ocean Hilton in Long Branch, Sealfons in the Grove, The Monmouth Museum in Lincroft, and Beauregard Fine Art Gallery in Rumson. She has been a teacher at the Guild of Creative Art since 1995.
He is a native of New Jersey and finds most of his subjects in the local area. He has been studying photographic composition for several years with prominent photographer and author Laury Egan and credits her with developing his skills. Since 2002, Bob has exhibited his images at the Guild of Creative Art, The Belmar Arts Council, the Grounds for Sculpture and has received several awards for his images.
In his work, Bob tries to create strong compositions by empowering negative spaces, searching for dynamic positive shapes, and by the use of bold colors. His favorite subject matter is found in the common things around us that we see and interact with on a regular basis but because of their familiarity they become blurred and near invisible. Yet, in their own way they can provide us with beauty, utility and order. He enjoys photographing these subjects in an effort to encourage viewers to recognize and appreciate their elegance and beauty.
All of his work is shot using digital raw format and is finalized in Photoshop. Bob does not make major changes to his images but instead tries to shoot the initial photograph as finished as possible, applying only minor corrections such as slight shifts in color saturation or cropping post production. All of his images are printed using archival pigment ink on Epson paper.
– 2004: New Jersey Federation of Camera Clubs, Tops in New Jersey Medal
– Award 2005: A Portrait of Thompson Park, Thompson Park Gallery, Lincroft
– 2005: Monmouth Museum Juried Art Show. Honorable Mention. 2006:
– Anniversary Show, Frederick Gallery, Allenhurst 2007: First Look, Frederick
– Gallery, Allenhurst 2007: Divergent View Point, Brookdale Community Collage
– 2007: Monmouth County Fair. Best in Show Award, Monochrome 2010-2015
– Focus on Sculpture, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton. Best in Show 2015, HM
– 2012 2010-2015: EyeSights, Juried Photography Show, Guild of Creative Art.
– Honorable Mention, 2012 2014, 2015 Juried Art Show, Belmar Arts Council
– 2015 Open Juried Art Show, Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury 2015 Juried
– Summer Art Exhibit, Torché Gallerie, Juried Summer Art Exhibit 2015: Focus on
– Sculpture, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton. Best in Show
– Guild of Creative Art, exhibiting member
– Grounds for Sculpture
– Monmouth Arts Council
– Monmouth Camera Club, Salon Member
She was born in Liverpool, England, and attained a B.Sc. in Graphic Design and Photography from Manchester College of Art & Design in 1969. She designed publicity material and books for Longman Company, a publisher, until she moved to Canada in 1974.Continuing to work as a Designer for New Designs, Ottawa; various departments of the Canadian Government, and Banfield Advertising, Vicky then established her own freelance partnership in 1982.
EXHIBITIONS/AWARDS
Solo shows include the Art & Attic, Red Bank; the PNC Bank Howell; the Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury; Little Silver Borough Hall; and Poricy Park, Middletown, New Jersey. She has won awards in Red Bank, Howell, Freehold, and Atlantic Highlands.
Since residing in New Jersey, Vicky has become an exhibiting member of the Guild of Creative Art; the Art Alliance of Monmouth County; the Freehold Art Society; City Without Walls Gallery in Newark, and is also affiliated with the Printmaking Council of New Jersey.
She grew up in Atlantic Highlands and Rumson, NJ. Her initial art instruction was from her mother, Agnes Ricks Egan, a charter member of the Guild of Creative Art. Laury received a BFA in graphic design/photography from Carnegie Mellon University and later studied with Sam Abell, a National Geographic photographer. In 1985, she set up a color darkroom and began a freelance photography/book design business after working for Princeton University Press. During the next years, her photographs appeared on numerous book jackets and covers, magazines, and as book illustrations, including her solo outing in The Wines and Wineries of the Hudson River Valley and as participating photographer in Princeton Reflections. She expanded her business into live theatre and opera photography, working for the Opera Company of Philadelphia, most Lincoln Center venues, McCarter Theatre, Two River Theater Company, and for Plácido Domingo’s organization at the Met and Kennedy Center on behalf of disabled children. In 1992, Laury photographed the world premiere of Philip Glass’ The Voyage at the Met and sold to Mr. Glass for his archives.
After mastering darkroom technique, Laury began exhibiting fine arts photographs throughout the tri-state area at Alkit Digital in New York City; the Williams Gallery, Stuart Country Day School, Tucker Anthony in Princeton, NJ; Art Forms in Red Bank, NJ, and Woodstock, NY; the Chamot Gallery in Jersey City; the Sea Holly Gallery in Brielle, NJ; the Book Gallery in New Hope, PA; the Frederick Gallery in Allenhurst, NJ; McKay Studio, Red Bank; and at the Guild of Creative Art, where, in 1982, she beame one of the first photographic exhibiting members. Her images are in the permanent collection of the Montclair Art Museum, Graphic Arts Library of Princeton University, Southern Methodist University, and the Monmouth County Historical Association.
Laury has created portfolios on Greece and Venice, countries she has visited at length, as well as on historic American buildings and houses, photographed to emphasize geometry, shapes, and atmospheric lighting. Recently, she has been creating land and seascapes of Sandy Hook and the Monmouth County area.
As an instructor, Laury has taught composition courses and offered portfolio reviews at Brookdale Community College, the photography group of the Princeton Garden Club, and the Guild of Creative Art as well as teaching several location workshops such as a two-week course in Venice, Italy. She currently holds ongoing private classes for photographers at her home. She has worked as a lecturer on photography and a judge for competitions.
In 2009, a large land/seascape was chosen as “Best in Show” at the Guild’s EyeSights Show and Laury received an HM in the October Open Juried Show and HM in b+w at the 2010 EyeSights Show. She has been included in Who’s Who of American Women and Who’s Who in American Art and served as Vice President and President on the Board of Directors of the Guild of Creative Art.
Exhibitions (group shows unless indicated; curated*)
– * 2010: 23 Photographers, Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury
– * 2009: Land and Sea, McKay Studio, Red Bank
– *2009, 2010: A Photographic Portrait of Sandy Hook, Lighthouse Keeper’s Gallery
– *2008: Focal Point, Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury
– 2008: The Vanishing Beauty of Land and Sea, Frederick Gallery, Allenhurst
– 2007: First Look, Frederick Gallery, Allenhurst
– 2006: Venice Revisited, Solo Show, Frederick Gallery, Allenhurst
– 2006: Anniversary Show, Frederick Gallery, Allenhurst
– 2006: A 10-Year Retrospective with New Work, Solo Show, Frederick Gallery, Allenhurst
– *2005: A Portrait of Thompson Park, Thompson Park Gallery, Holmdel
– *2005: Photographic Show, Middletown Library, Middletown
– 2005: Studies of Princeton, Williams Gallery, Princeton
– 2002: Annual Summer Salon Show, Chamot Gallery, Jersey City
– *2002: Perfect Exposure, Sea Holly Gallery, Brielle
– *2002: A Portrait of Historic Walnford, Walnford
– 2000: Alkit Digital Gallery Show, New York City
– 1999: Greece, Solo Show, State of the Art Gallery, Atlantic Highlands
– 1998: Bermuda and British Columbia, Solo mini-show, Guild of Creative Art
She attended Art History course at NYU. She studied with local artist Ken Stetz and attended watercolor workshop at the Cooper Union School of Art. She worked as a docent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She chose watercolor as her medium of artistic expression because it “so brilliantly captures light and atmosphere in nature.” Yan Cao became an exhibiting member of the Guild on May 11th, 2017.
– The Atlantic Highlands Yacht Club
– The Second Story Art Gallery
– The Atlantic Highlands Library
– ArtSea Gallery in Sea Bright
– The Blue Bay Inn
– The Art Alliance of Monmouth County
She is a national award-winning artist from Holmdel, New Jersey. She has been juried several times into prestigious national plein air events such as ‘Paint Annapolis’ and “Wayne Plein air festival”. She has been involved with plein air painting in the US and abroad during trips to Hawaii, Puerto Rico, India, and Europe.
Pratima’s oil paintings are representational land and seascapes, light-filled and color harmonious, capturing the atmosphere and feel of the place with her unmistakable style. The final paintings are exciting and colorful conveying her unique point of view. While she is primarily a Plein Air artist creating most of her work outdoors on location she frequently uses her plein air work to create larger studio works. Her works have been included in a number of shows and are collected by patrons across the country.
Pratima enjoys teaching and is involved with classes and workshops for both studio and plein air landscape oil painting in Monmouth County.
She is an exhibiting member at the Guild of Creative art, a member of the Plein air painters of the Jersey Coast (PAPJC), an associate member of Oil Painters of America (OPA) and the American Impressionist Society (AIS). Pratima is also a resident member at the Salmagundi Arts Club in New York City.
She was born in Poland. She graduated with the Master of Arts degree from the Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. Additionally, she graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan, studying drawing and painting there, with a focus on various techniques of painting with dyes and acrylic paints.
She became interested in different surface textures like yarn and fabric, and she began weaving. Her weaving designs are based on colors and texture and employ different media. This has confirmed her artistic vision as a way she should follow.
Surrealist Cheryl Perry, whose artist name is Sherry Blossom, is a self-taught artist with an interesting imagination. Born in New York City she found inspiration everywhere.
She won her first art award at the tender age of seven. She then went on to study at the Art Students League and then with internationally known artist Franco The Great. Her work has been shown at the Art Alliance, Henry Street Settlement Arts for Living Center, Monmouth College, Brookdale College, Long Branch Public Library, Fort Monmouth and the Guild of Creative Art.
A New Jersey native, she moved to Colts Neck in 1986. Since childhood, she has been involved in the visual and performing arts. She incorporated these early interests into her teaching programs for Matawan’s gifted and talented students.
Various venues throughout the state have displayed her watercolors, oils, and sumi paintings. In 2006-2007, for Brookdale’s “History of Art” murals in the visual arts building, Marilyn painted two 8 x 8 foot panels: the “Hall of Bulls” and Cezanne’s “Still Life with Basket of Apples.” In 2008 she assisted in painting the exterior murals at the Belmar Arts Council Gallery.
In 2008 Marilyn began studying photography with Laury Egan at the Guild of Creative Art. Her photographs have been exhibited at the Guild, Belmar Arts Council Gallery, Monmouth Festival of the Arts, Art Alliance of Monmouth County, Monmouth County Library, Colts Neck Library, Brookdale Community College, NJ Flower and Garden Show, Freehold Municipal Buildings, and local businesses. She has received several awards for her work.
Artist Statement: “Until 2009, photography had been the means of recording my travels and my life’s journeys. Now, however, photography itself is becoming my inspirational and educational journey. As a photographer, I am learning to appreciate nature’s changing choreography of light, color, texture, and form during the rhythms of time and seasons.”
He was a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology School of Photographic Imaging. During his studies there, he learned the importance of composition, perspective, values, and treatment of subject matter—all necessary in the construction of a successful painting.
After graduating, he was employed by Cornell University for their Photographic Science Department. In 1959, Ozzie purchased a portrait studio in Allenhurst, which he operated for many years. Following in the footsteps of some relatives, he became interested in painting and studied with Anthony Ventura.
He was an artist member of the Salmagundi Club, the American Artist Professional Leagues of New York of New Jersey, and the Guild of Creative Art, where he taught a class in oil painting and served as president.
She was born in Mexico City. She studied art at the Painting and Sculpture Academy of Fine Arts La Esmeralda, and at present, she continues her studies in the sculpture workshop of Master Marcela Arvida Eduardo Nasta. Laura works the mud to finish it in bronze, wood, marble, or terracotta. Her personality emerges strongly in her works that reflect the family union, maternity, and woman in the world of music, as well as portraits.
– First Urban Sculpture Symposium in Mexico.
– Casa de la Cultura de Bellas Artes in the city of Aguascalientes, Mex.
– Urban Sculpture Competition in Naucalpan in Mexico.
– Solo exhibition of painting and sculpture at the PRI’s Dr. Atl Gallery.
– Solo exhibition of painting · Form, Color and Symbol ¨ at Pedro Gerson Gallery in the CDI
– First show of the foundry workshop at the La Esmeralda Gallery.
– Solo exhibition of sculptures · reflexes ¨ at Pedro Gerson Gallery in the CDI.
– Group exhibition of painting and sculpture at The Museum of the Palace of Cortez in Cuernavaca,
– Mor.Exhibition “Seven Women”.
– “Multifaceted Women” Exhibition.
– “Rhythms and Beats” Exhibition.
And many other diverse collectives.
She was born in St. Louis and grew up in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. She has been interested in painting people since her teens, when she attended classes at The Detroit Institute of Art. After more years of study with many fine painters, she is comfortable working in oils, pastels, and watercolors and enjoys imparting whatever she has learned to others. As a busy portrait painter, Roberta has been with Portraits, Inc. in New York City since 1974 and her commissioned portraits are in the private collections of hundreds of families throughout the United States and in England. More portraits are in public and corporate collections, including universities, hospitals, and banks.
She has juried both state and national exhibitions and has become a popular demonstrator, teaching portrait and figure painting workshops from California to Texas, Hilton Head to Florida, and many points between. Her paintings have received awards at national exhibitions, including The American Watercolor Society, Allied Artists, Midwest Watercolor Society, and the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors.
The first art book Roberta wrote and illustrated, How to Paint Living Portraits, was published in 1990 by North Light Books, and the newest book, Painting Vibrant Children’s Portraits, was released in July of 1993. Both books have been well received and have proven to be valuable additions to the literature on how to proceed in this challenging occupation. This second book on painting children has been published in a French edition in 1995 and is titled Portraits D’Enfants.
Her work is also included in several other books: Splash One (1991), Splash Two (1993), Basic Drawing Techniques, Basic Oil Painting Techniques, Basic Portrait Techniques, all North Light Books; Exploring Painting (1988) and Understanding Transparent Watercolor (1993), both by Gerald Brommer, Davis Publications, Inc.; and Watermedia Techniques for Releasing the Creative Spirit (1992) by Marilyn Hughey Phillis, Watson Guptill Publications. Roberta’s watercolor figure work was featured in an American Artist Magazine article in August 1993, in the January 1994 The Artist’s Magazine, and in Watercolor Magic, the Winter 1995 special watercolor issue of this magazine. She has recently been invited to serve as a member of the Advisory Board of the special American Artist publication Watercolor 95, which will be published quarterly this year for the first time. One of Roberta’s watercolors is included in Splash Four, a book in the Splash series published by North Light, which is now available.
Roberta is an exhibiting member of Allied Artists, the American Watercolor Society, the Garden State Watercolor Society, Midwest Watercolor Society, New Jersey Watercolor Society, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, and the Rockport Art Association.
Among the honors Roberta’s long career has brought her are inclusion in Who’s Who in American Art and Who’s Who in American Women.
He has been a long-time resident of Monmouth County, NJ, who has always taken an interest in photography. He started quite modestly, keeping a photo journal of his travels, both here and abroad. Family and friends appreciated his photos and encouraged him to pursue photography more seriously. In retirement, Peter has found the time to follow this advice and make photography his avocation.
In the past six or so years, he has made acquaintances with like-minded photo artists and gained membership to a number of local organizations: The Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ; The Raritan Photographic Society, East Brunswick, NJ; and the Art Alliance of Monmouth County, Red Bank, NJ. Peter’s work has appeared in these venues as well as The Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton Township, NJ; Monmouth County Fair, East Freehold, NJ; Princeton Alliance Church, Plainsboro, NJ; Central Jersey Blood Center, Shrewsbury, NJ; Monmouth Festival of the Arts, Tinton Falls, NJ; Monmouth County Arts Council at the Monmouth Museum on the campus of Brookdale Community College; Monmouth County Clerks Office & Monmouth County Agricultural Center, East Freehold, NJ; and the Monmouth County Camera Club, Colts Neck, NJ.
Peter first started out by photographing nature, seascapes, and landscapes. More recently, he has taken up digital photography and used Photo Shop, the computer program, to polish his work. His photographic subjects have varied over this same time, and his images now trend more towards architectural and historical artifacts, often at a macro scale.
As a result of his membership in the organizations listed above and the help of experienced individuals who have given him encouragement, Peter has been developing his artistic expression and is pleased that his efforts have been increasingly fruitful. He has met with success in recent art and photo competitions. Even so, he believes an artist will see positive qualities in his work that he does not see, demonstrating that he has yet to reach a full understanding of his artistic vision.
Peter invites you to look at and enjoy his work, taking pleasure in it, and perhaps finding elements in it that even he has not yet been able to conceptualize.
He hasn’t stopped photographing his world since he received his first camera as a child, a Kodak Brownie. Over the years he’s progressed to 35mm, followed by 4×5 view camera, and currently digital imaging. Mike has spent many years fine tuning his skills with 35mm cameras and his black & white darkroom. When he took up the challenge of using a view camera, he started to work more with color.
Since he’s been working exclusively with digital cameras and the digital darkroom, his work has focused even more on the world in color.
His passion for recording images of all kinds takes him on all-day excursions to places such as Longwood Gardens and the Bronx Zoo, as well as to many local sites. Favorites are the Point Pleasant Beach area and the Manasquan Reservoir. He also loves to take rides to nowhere in particular in his search for just the right image.
Beauty is all around us. My goal is to create images that invoke a positive emotional response in the viewer. In striving for that, I pay close attention to the three elements of subject, design, and color.
Because he values the lasting quality of his finished images, Michael uses only archival pigment inks and paper.
Paul Hansen grew up in New Jersey and became interested in art at an early age. As children, Paul and his brother, Steven, spent countless hours trying to emulate artists like Mort Drucker, Jack Davis, Don Martin, and artists from Marvel and D.C. comics. Paul was also heavily influenced by album-cover artists such as H. R.Giger, Stanley Mouse, and Rick Griffen, to name a few.
During his early twenties, Paul entered the house-painting trade and was exposed to Trompe l’oeil and various decorative painting techniques. He was fascinated with wood graining and marbleizing and learned these finishes by hands-on experience. Paul made a conscious decision to apply his knowledge and love of art to canvas and board in the year 2000.
Paul feels that art already exists before it is created, that it’s a matter of channeling it, becoming a conduit of a collective spirit, tapping into something primal and inherent. He is influenced by art from many cultures: Native American, Celtic, Aztec, and African as well as prehistoric cave paintings. Each piece of art is meant to evoke a deep sense of emotion in the viewer. Paul believes this connection to his artwork proves the spiritual axiom true: that we are all somehow connected.
He has been involved with photography for as long as he can remember. His father was an avid photographer and movie maker, and he got Steve started as soon as he was able to “point and shoot” his original Kodak Brownie box camera. Steve began his black & white darkroom work at around ten years of age, and progressed to a full-color darkroom in the mid-1960s. As an Electrical Engineer by training, Steve was quick to adapt to the digital imaging era and started using Photoshop version 3 in the mid-1990s. The combination of his artistic photographic style and the limitless means of expression that can be achieved with digital image processing, became the basis for where he is today—retired from his former technology career and now running his own commercial photography business, enjoying the satisfaction obtained from creating photographic works of art, and being actively involved in camera club and art guild activities.
Steve especially likes nature photography, including landscapes, sunsets, flowers, and animals. He also enjoys creating artistic abstract “modifications” to some of these photographs with Photoshop. Steve does all of his own archival digital color and black & white printing with a variety of Epson pigment inkjet printers.
Steve is an Exhibiting Member of The Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ, and an Advanced Member of the Monmouth Camera Club, Colts Neck, NJ, where he was awarded the 2007 Photograph of the Year for his photograph “Land & Air Race.” This year he won First Place in the Monmouth County Senior Art Exhibit and Competition for his digitally modified photograph “Twin Reflections.” He then won another First Place award at the New Jersey (state level) Senior Art Exhibit and Competition for “Twin Reflections.
”In his business—Action Foto, Inc.—Steve provides photography, design, and production of advertising and marketing materials for his commercial clients. He also designs, creates and hosts several of their websites. Additionally, Steve has designed and prepared full page ads for his clients for publication in Architectural Digest, The Robb Report, and many other magazines.
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How Taxpayers Fund Anti-Trump Protests
March 9, 2017, 6:23 am by Cliff Kincaid Leave a Comment
On “Fox & Friends,” President Donald Trump declared, in regard to the protests against him, “I think that President Obama’s behind it because his people are certainly behind it.” Once again, Trump has struck gold. It’s “gold” in the form of taxpayer money. In addition to funding from billionaire hedge fund operator George Soros, we find a federal financial connection to some of the anti-Trump protests.
The good news for Trump in this case is that his administration, supported by Republicans in Congress, can cut off the federal money.
One anti-Trump organizer, Dan Nejfelt of the George Soros-funded faux Catholic group, Faith in Public Life (FPL), serves as a case study of how a modern-day “community organizer” is made and paid. As the training director of FPL, he previously served as the “policy and messaging adviser” to the chair of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
Faith in Public Life was exposed in documents obtained and released by DCLeaks as a conduit for Soros money designed to move the Catholic Church in a left-wing direction. The “We Stand with Pope Francis” on climate change ad was an example of what this group did in 2016. The pope has been critical of capitalism, embraced the “climate change” agenda of deindustrialization, and opposed strong measures to assure border security for the United States.
FPL has informed its members in recent emails that President Trump’s new executive order “banning refugees from Muslim-majority countries” will have to be countered in the media. The response was designated as “Standing with Refugees in Word and Deed,” rather than focusing on their possible terrorist connections.
We are told that Nejfelt has been part of the FPL’s “most exciting achievements,” including involvement in “passing the Affordable Care Act,” otherwise known as Obamacare, and “defeating discriminatory religious exemptions bills in Georgia.” Despite the reference to “discriminatory,” the bills in question were designed to protect the religious liberty of conservative Christians who object to being forced by the government to condone or approve of homosexual behavior and conduct.
Earlier this year I reported on how Faith in Public Life held a “special briefing” on “Faithful Resistance to Rising White Nationalism,” with a left-wing operative from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“Before FPL,” his bio says, “Dan taught remedial literacy in rural Arkansas as a Teach For America corps member, then studied investigative reporting, magazine editing and strategic communications at the Missouri School of Journalism. A long time ago, he got a B.A. in history at the College of William & Mary.”
The connection to Teach For America is significant. We are finding it in a growing number of cases of “community organizers” working in the “progressive” movement.
Teach For America is one of several charter programs of the federal government’s AmeriCorps, a project of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). Obama’s fiscal year 2017 budget requested $1.1 billion for CNCS.
But the Trump administration does not seem to agree. “Popular Domestic Programs Face Ax Under First Trump Budget” was the scare headline in The New York Times regarding proposed cuts affecting the CNCS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and others.
During the main event of Teach For America’s 25th Anniversary Summit, President Barack Obama sent a special message to the 50,000 plus TFA corps members, alumni, and partners who were “working for educational equity in our country.” This includes, according to their own website, support for “a pathway to citizenship” for illegal aliens.
An alumnus of the group featured on the website is Michael Johnston, a former Democratic state senator in Colorado now running for governor. “During the two terms I served in the Senate,” he says, “I helped pass major progressive legislation, like the Dream Act, so undocumented students who had spent most of their lives in Colorado could get a fair shot at college…” He previously served as a senior education advisor to President Obama.
Teach For America’s official policy positions include support for:
Protection of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and passage of the DREAM Act and pathways to citizenship for individuals brought to our country as children.
SAFE classrooms for LGBTQ youth and teachers
Safe classrooms for Muslim students and teachers
According to its 2015 annual report, 12 percent of the funding for Teach For America comes from the federal government. Government grants and contracts were listed in the amount of $69,756,254. So-called “federal partners” were listed as AmeriCorps, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Education.
Nejfelt, the Teach For America alumnus now at Faith in Public Life, was trained at the Missouri School of Journalism but also served as a research assistant and copy editor at Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), where he “edited and fact-checked articles for the IRE Journal, a bimonthly publication providing resources and professional development for more than 6,000 investigative journalists worldwide.”
His bio also lists work at an organization called the New Organizing Institute, a “progressive grassroots organization” located in Washington, D.C. which “has suspended operations” and has “passed the torch” to Wellstone Action, a group named after the former Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone (D). It is dedicated to “building progressive power coast to coast.”
Over the past 14 years, Wellstone Action says, “we’ve propelled over 850 alumni into elected office and guided over 3,500 winning campaigns.”
Through federal programs like the Corporation for National and Community Service, taxpayers are helping to make it possible.
Cliff Kincaid is the Director of the AIM Center for Investigative Journalism and can be contacted at cliff.kincaid@aim.org. View the complete archives from Cliff Kincaid.
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Self-Appointed Arbiters of Fair and Balanced News
March 17, 2017, 7:15 am by Roger Aronoff Leave a Comment
A recent Washington Post article by media reporter Paul Farhi raises the alarm that the White House Correspondents’ Association has not once, but twice, assigned a Daily Signal employee, Fred Lucas, to be the pool reporter, i.e., the reporter who serves as the “proxy for the rest of the press corps.” The Daily Signal is the “news and commentary site” founded by the conservative Heritage Foundation, he reports, labeling it an “advocacy organization.”
“In other words,” writes Farhi, “the news that reporters received about the vice president came from a journalist employed by an organization with a vested interest in the direction of White House and federal policy.”
The idea that the so-called mainstream press somehow stands above its own vested interests, or, put another way, against their own agenda, is laughable at best. The distinction between biased advocacy news organizations and the supposedly independent press has not only blurred—it has become obsolete. Organizations such as The Daily Signal and Breitbart are just as capable of speaking truth to power as media outlets such as The New York Times, the Post, ABC, CBS, NBC and MSNBC.
In fact, it is these supposedly impartial news organizations that have continued to lobby for the leftist agenda. When President Obama was in office, they not only worked to legitimize and enhance the Obama legacy, ignoring scandal after scandal, but they even tried to influence the Supreme Court to uphold Obama’s signature legislation, Obamacare.
The deceit of the media didn’t stop there. Under Obama, the media consistently portrayed the economy as recovering even though the labor participation rate remained at abominable levels. A vast number of the jobs supposedly created in the Obama years were part-time, many lasting for just weeks at a time. The unemployment rate dropped to under five percent only because millions of people gave up looking for work, not because the economy was booming. Moreover, Obamacare prevented millions of people from getting a full-time job based on the disincentives built into Obama’s signature program.
A case in point is the coverage of the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) report scoring the proposed Republican legislation intended to replace Obamacare. The headlines and stories focused on the “24 million” people who would “lose health insurance coverage by 2026.” But as The Weekly Standard pointed out, the CBO report doesn’t actually say that. What it does say is that “the total number of individuals insured under the Republican plan would eventually be 24 million fewer than the total insured under Obamacare” by that time.
Ironically, it was just a year ago that The Weekly Standard reported that the CBO had been off on another one of its projections on Obamacare by, you guessed it, 24 million people. That error was the average number of people who would have private insurance during any month in 2016, and it took just three years from the 2013 projection to show that the CBO overestimated it by 24 million. In addition, more than six years after the passage of Obamacare, there were still 29 million people who had no health insurance at all, even though the law required it. The price for not buying insurance is a fine, later re-defined as a tax, in order to have it ruled constitutional.
The point is that the so-called mainstream media will grab onto whatever they can to put Republicans and conservatives on the defensive, so they are forced to explain how they can be so cruel as to cause 24 million people to “lose their insurance.” They rarely offer anything close to the proper context to help people understand what the Republicans are trying to do. How many tens of millions of people have seen their premiums and deductibles skyrocket, or lost their ability to keep their doctors or their policies, or have been unable to find a full-time job because of the employer mandates imposed by Obamacare? Do those numbers matter? Apparently not.
The conservative media also have an agenda, but at least they are generally transparent about it. The leftist, mainstream media pretend to be neutral, biased only for a good story. But they rarely acknowledge that they deceitfully work to cover for the policies and scandals of the Democrats, while working to destroy conservatives and their policies, treating them as cruel and venal.
And in the heat of the 2016 campaign season, WikiLeaks and Guccifer 2.0 revealed the Democrat Media Complex, where reporters would have cocktails with the Hillary Clinton campaign. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos previously worked for the Clintons and later gave donations to their foundation without properly disclosing his actions. This is par for the course with the complicit media. The idea that “independent” news organizations somehow lack conflicts of interest is absurd.
Farhi expresses concern that “The Daily Signal’s inclusion in the pool could set a precedent for other advocacy organizations…” He even goes so far as to suggest that the “slope could become even more slippery if extremist or racist organizations sought similar status.”
It seems preposterous to assume that allowing a foundation’s publication to communicate with other reporters will somehow result in rampant racism and extremism. This is the same type of inflammatory rhetoric used against President Donald Trump and his senior advisor Steve Bannon.
Yet, even Farhi tacitly admits that there is no real need for concern when he writes that “there were no objections to Lucas’s pool reports on [Vice President Mike] Pence” and that Lucas’ reporting merely crossed a “symbolic” line.
The Post isn’t the only paper spewing vitriol about conservative’s newfound influence over the White House press corps. The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz claims that the press sees the rising influence of conservative reporters, or “far-right sites,” as an “existential threat.”
Marantz writes, “Outlets that have become newly visible under the Trump Administration include One America News Network, which was founded in 2013 as a right-wing alternative to Fox News; LifeZette, a Web tabloid founded in 2015 by Laura Ingraham, the radio commentator and Trump ally; Townhall, a conservative blog started by the Heritage Foundation; the Daily Caller, co-founded in 2010 by Tucker Carlson, now a Fox News host; and the enormously popular and openly pro-Trump Breitbart News Network.” He goes on to quote an anonymous “radio correspondent” as saying, “At best, they don’t know what they’re doing…At worst, you wonder whether someone is actually feeding them softball questions…You can’t just have a parade of people asking, ‘When and how do you plan to make America great again?’”
Under Obama, the press consistently used administration statistics and reports in its friendly, fawning reporting designed to further the Obama legacy. Now that President Trump has taken office, the press has reinvested in oppositional journalism, fact-checking minutiae and claiming that Trump has colluded with Russia. This is a blatant double standard.
Roger Aronoff
Roger Aronoff is the Editor of Accuracy in Media, and a member of the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi. He can be contacted at roger.aronoff@aim.org. View the complete archives from Roger Aronoff.
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You are here: Home / Resources / HFFI Blog & Articles / Modern Fredericksburg / John J. Ballentine, Jr., Fredericksburg Architect
January 6, 2016 /in Modern Fredericksburg /by HFFI Staff
John Jennings Ballentine, Jr., Fredericksburg Architect
By Michael Spencer, Assistant Professor University of Mary Washington, Department of Historic Preservation
Early design for the Fredericksburg Post Office, Princess Anne Street-John Ballentine, Jr.
John Jennings Ballentine Jr. was born August 5, 1923 in Baltimore, Maryland to John and Catherine Ballentine. Ballentine’s father worked as an early aviator for the U.S. Navy and his position often required that the family move.[1] By high school Ballentine had lived in Yorktown, Dalgren, Newport News and Washington, D.C. Upon graduating high school, John Jr. enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania where he studied architecture.[2] There Ballentine would study under some of the best modernists of the era including Arthur F. Deam, Harry Parker, John E. Screet, Edward Wigham and Harry Sternfeld who combined art deco and international style design in many of his projects.[3] Upon receiving his degree Ballentine enlisted with the U.S. Navy, following in his father’s footsteps.[4] Upon completion of his service he moved to Fredericksburg where he began to practice architecture.[5]
One of Ballentine’s early successes was the shopping center he designed in 1956 for George and Francis King at 320-324 William Street, on the site of the 19th century Chancellor building, today known as Castiglia’s. The design utilized modern materials like steel and concrete block for the structural system, but used brick, stone veneer, and cast stone for exterior cladding to blend sympathetically with surrounding 19th century buildings. However, not all the exterior material used was based on local historic context. Ceramic tiles were installed around the bottom of the building and large, canted, plate-glass windows, with anodized aluminum surrounds, were installed along the primary elevations giving the building a “light” appearance. The elevations also echoed midcentury modern architecture with a strong horizontal emphasis created by the flat roof and projecting linear marquee. Two stone veneer stacks, reminiscent of nearby chimneys interrupt this horizontality and denote the changing of store spaces.[6] At the time, the newspaper remarked that the building was a “combination of colonial and modern architecture,”—attesting to Ballentine’s sympathetic, yet contemporary design.[7] Later local art and architectural critic Pauline G. King, Chairman of the Art Department at Mary Washington College, referred to the building as an example of “excellent design.” Her evaluation noted that the scale and materials were in keeping with the downtown but the overall design was “unmistakably of the twentieth century.”[8]
Another one of Ballentine’s designs, the Fredericksburg Public Health Center, was built in 1959 and also displays a well-contextualized midcentury modern appearance with large windows and a flat roof. Initial schematics for the building, however, show a more progressive design that was somewhat diminished over the course of a series of reviews, perhaps reflecting Fredericksburg’s conservative architectural tastes, left over from the late-19th and early-20th centuries.[9]
Ballentine continued to practice architecture in Fredericksburg during the 1960s but also took on another role in 1965 as the President of Historic Fredericksburg Foundation Inc. There he implemented a revolving fund program that purchased properties beginning with the 500 block of Caroline Street with the intent to preserve them. During a later interview Ballentine recalls that they “never really pulled it off”, however other preservation efforts by Ballentine were successful.[10] One notable success was his time as chairman on the Board of Historic Buildings, the precursor to today’s Architectural Review Board (ARB). Not only was he the first chairman beginning in 1967 but would continue to serve well into the 1970s taken on controversial projects like the Post Office building on Princess Anne Street.[11]
After years of service to Fredericksburg’s design and preservation communities, Ballentine passed away in 2007 leaving behind a significant community legacy.[12]
[1] U.S. Social Security Death Records Index, 1935-2014
[2] Free Lance-Star, John Ballentine Jr. Obituary, June 12, 2007
[3] University of Pennsylvania 1940-1950 Yearbooks
[5] Examination of Ballentine drawings, HFFI collection, stored at UMW, 2015-16
[6] John J. Ballentine Jr., “Shopping Center Drawings, Street Elevations, Sheet No. 5”, July 20, 1956.
[7] “Old Landmark’s Future Awaits Bid Opening,” Free Lance-Star, August 23, 1956, 1.
[8] Pauline G. King, “Plan is Called ‘Aesthetic Prostitution’”, Free Lance-Star, December 11, 1973, 4.
[9] John J. Ballentine Jr., “Conceptual Designs for the Fredericksburg Public Health Center” (1958-1959)
[10] Free Lance-Star, “HFFIs 15 Years Old”, September 12, 1970, pg. A-13
[11] Free Lance-Star, “Council Names Six to Panels”, December 13, 1967
[12] Free Lance-Star, John Ballentine Jr. Obituary, June 12, 2007
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Broadway’s Lee Roy Reams in Depot Theatre Benefit on May 31
Lee Roy Reams
Lee Roy Reams will be at the center of a celebration of the days when the Depot Theatre was featured in Hello Dolly! Reams, who played Cornelius Hackl in the original production, recently directed the revival of the show on Broadway. He has also appeared in The Producers, 42nd Street and La Cage Aux Folles.
This celebration is the centerpiece of a benefit to support the refurbishment — interior and exterior — of the Depot Theatre. The evening will take place on Friday, May 31, at The Garrison, beginning at 7:30 p.m. For more information on reserving tickets, visit the theater’s website, email [email protected] or call 845-424-3900.
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The Wharrie family & Hamilton’s surgeon’s through the early 1800s. By Garry McCallum – Historic Hamilton.
I love it when I stumble across an old Hamilton family that is from a generation or two gone past and are out of common knowledge or memory to people, and this one was a highly respected family who in their day, would have been known by many. I found this family by chance when I was asked to look in to the history of a house on Muir Street.
On the 5th of January 2017 Gordon Duncan sent me a document that he had found in the attic of his Muir Street home. He asked if I would consider looking in to the history of the building.
I love to take on these challenges and do the research for Historic Hamilton and must mention that I have particularly enjoyed this one!
When I looked at the document, I first noticed that it was written in 1813, and it was hard to transcribe, so to make the most of this little snapshot in time, I consulted an old colleague of mine from Edinburgh who used to work at the records office on Princess Street and is also a fantastic transcriber.
Linda Gordon transcribed this document over a couple of days and as I had suspected it was the deeds to the house. Why they were hidden in an attic for so many years will remain a mystery, however it is possible that the owner who was called Dr Thomas Wharrie could have placed the deeds here for safekeeping in the year 1813 and they could have lay hidden and undisturbed for 204 years, which I think is a fantastic find for Gordon Duncan and of course for Hamilton.
This property on Muir Street was probably built by Dr Thomas Wharrie, and it was even built before the reconstruction and upgrade of the Hamilton Palace, which was compete in the year 1842. When you take a wee drive past the house at Muir Street, then think of this, apart from the museum which is on the opposite side of the road and on the same street, you are looking at one of Hamilton’s oldest and inhabited buildings.
The document was written in ‘Old Scots’ and when transcribed it stated that the house was purchased or built by Dr Thomas Wharrie on the 17th of September 1813. The document was proof of ownership of the house and it laid out the boundaries of the land and garden. The great thing I find about this 204-year-old land certificate is, when this was written, it also takes in to account other people who lived in houses surrounding this building. The document stated that in 1813 the house had attached offices with a yard.
On the east side of the house the closest neighbour was a man named George Ward and there was a hedge separating both houses, and to the south of the garden was Common Green. On the west of the house, the next property was owned by a man named Roger Croft.
The annual payments on the house in 1813 was seventeen shillings and three pence Sterling. The local town clerk in 1813 was Archibald Hamilton and he stamped the document, while a man named John Reid also witnessed the signing.
So, as I have stated, I found that the house was once owned by a prominent family in Hamilton that went by the name of Wharrie. This family were a very well-known one in the town, and they had many friends in many high places, Dr Dykes of Woodhead was an example of this upper-class Hamilton Hierarchy. I had never heard of the Wharrie family and even the name is not a common one in the area. This was when I decided that I was going to research this family.
Thomas Wharrie was not originally from Hamilton, he was a man from Lesmahagow and he married Isabel or Isabella Brown on the 13th of March 1788 and nine months later the family’s first-born child arrived. Thomas James Wharrie was born on the 8th of December 1788 at Lesmahagow. I believe that there may possibly still to this day be family connections to the Wharrie family in Lesmahagow, as Thomas Wharrie had come from a very large, educated and well-off family in this area.
Thomas and Isabella moved to Hamilton between 1789 and 1796, and 3 more children were born, James 23/08/1796, Rachel 19/07/1799 and Jane 13/03/1808. Thomas would probably have come to Hamilton as a doctor where he could have more opportunities in a much bigger town.
What becomes of Thomas and his wife is unknown to me, as I can’t find any other relevant information on Thomas Wharrie or his wife Isabella Brown and the trail stops here. What I can tell you is that Thomas Wharrie died on the 30th of September 1839 and I have this information from his Will and Testament which I discovered.
Thomas Wharrie was a surgeon in Hamilton, and he states in his Will that James Brown Wharrie was his only son, so his first son Thomas has died at some point before his father and yet once more I can’t find any information stating the place of death, and apart from James Wharrie the only other family member that I have come across is his sister Rachel Wharrie, who married a man named Alexander Murdoch on the 2/01/1837 in Hamilton and yet again, there is no information on her or her husband and all that I could find was her death certificate. Jane died on the 26th of March 1872 in Dumfries.
Dr James Brown Wharrie was born on the 23rd of August 1796 in Hamilton and he was the second son of Dr Thomas Wharrie and Isabella Brown. He was to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a Surgeon and Dr of Medicine in Hamilton.
He studied to be a surgeon in Glasgow and as well as being a doctor, Dr Wharrie also owned a lot of properties in the town, and one of his legacies that James Wharrie left for Hamilton, was the beautiful house that he built, and lived in. It was the grand handsome house called Avongrange at Castlehill, and this big house still stands to this day, and we all know it now to be called, ‘The Avonbridge Hotel’ this was Dr Wharrie’s main residence.
Castlehill Crescent which is now called Castlehill Gardens, was at the time Hamilton’s affluent street and on this part of Hamilton you would find a Crescent, having on the west side a few fine villas occupied by respectable families. Dr Wharrie’s house was the largest on the street.
He married a lady named Eliza Croil on the 08/01/1837 and I assume that this lady died shortly after they were married, because he re-marries, and as the usual family pattern continues, this lady, like the rest of his family, do not appear on any Old Parish Records and I can’t find a death or any evidence of her re-marrying. He continues to live at his father’s property on Muir Street which he inherited and is still here in 1841, this is at a time when he would probably be thinking about building his mansion at Castlehill Crescent.
James Wharrie re-married, to a girl called Margert Morley Drysdale who was the daughter of Major James Drysdale and Mary Watson Pew. Margaret was born on the 17th of August 1816 in Bothwell, and she was the eldest of her four sisters and two brothers. Margaret was 20 years younger than James.
Dr Wharrie started a family late in life and he was 55 years old before his first child had come along – I am assuming that due to his work commitments, starting a family was an after-thought and not high up on his list until he met Margaret Drysdale.
Avongrange House was built between 1855 and 1858 and the country mansion consisted of one Public Room, a separate Dining Room, six bedrooms, a large Kitchen and Offices which were presumably used for Dr Wharrie’s work.
Things were going well for Dr Wharrie, he was the Surgeon at the Hamilton prison (the prison was situated roughly where the roundabout is at ASDA) and not only did he have a highly paid job as a Doctor, he also had other income in the form of rents, raised from his properties that he owned around Hamilton. He owned two houses and four shop premises on Cadzow Street. He was happily married and now had his very own family which consisted of Thomas, James and John with another baby due to be born in October 1856.
The happiness of the new house at Avongrange on Castlehill Crescent was about to take a turn for the worse! His wife was due to have their fourth child and when little Margaret was born at 8:00am on the 26th of October 1856, sadly James’s wife Margaret died three hours later with complications during the birth. On a sadder note, James was the person who was present during the birth of his daughter, as he was the family doctor and he was also the doctor who certified his wife’s death.
When the 1861 census was taken, Dr Wharrie was living at Castlehill, and he had an adequate amount of staff living here, thus telling us a bit about his wealth. Living with Dr Wharrie were his three sons, Thomas JM Wharrie (10) James D Wharrie (8) and John B Wharrie (7) and his daughter Margaret Wharrie (4). He had a lady named Marion Williamson who was the children’s Nanny, he had a cook named Elizabeth Crawford, and finally he had a house maid that went by the name of Agnes Dobbie.
In 1864 Dr Wharrie was renting his house and shops at Cadzow Street to the following people:
• George Cooper, who was from Cumnock in Ayrshire, rented 58 Cadzow Street and he ran the shop as Tailor and Clothier business, he paid a total annual sum, of £24 and 7 shillings for the house and shop.
•James Keith, a Provost, and famous grocer and spirit merchant of Hamilton, was born in Edinburgh and rented the House and shop at 78 Cadzow Street. James Keith was using this premises as a grocer’s shop and was paying an annual sum of £45 & 5 Shillings. James Keith later became a councillor and his son Sir Henry Keith, followed in his father’s footsteps.
•The third premises consisted of a house and shop which was rented by J&T Thorburn who were confectioners and they were renting these premises for £17 & 3 Shillings.
•The fourth premises on Cadzow Street was a shop, which John Wilson was renting for £15 per annum, this shop may have been rented for a short space of time, as I am unable to find any records for this man.
•The fifth premises that was rented, was his family home that his father built on Muir Street, and the house which still stands today was rented by an Alex Henderson for the sum of £20 per annum. In today’s money, he would have a combined income of £14,616 or £1,218 per month, this in turn would have paid his mortgage at Avongrange, which was set at £95.00 per annum, or in today’s money £11,020 per year or £918.33 per month, this would have been a substantial amount of income as back then in 1864, when you think that the average coal miner earned 2/6 – 3/- per day.
Dr James Wharrie continued to work up until his death, he worked with the local judges of the Hamilton JP court which has been documented in many newspapers of the time. It was reported in the Glasgow Herald on the 2nd of November 1869, that he was present alongside John Meek Esq at the trial of a local man called Bernard Gourley, who was charged with keeping a dog without a licence and who was fined 25s. So, he was in fact a very well-known person in Hamilton.
Dr James Wharrie died at the age of 73 on the 1st of January 1871, at his house at Avongrange. He died at 6:00pm, the cause of death was recorded as Apoplexy or commonly now known as a Stroke. His oldest son Thomas was the person who registered the death.
After Dr James Wharrie died, all his children were still living at Avongrange House and Thomas was the head of the family at 20 years old. Thomas would have inherited a great deal of wealth from his father, as well as Avongrange and in 1871, he studied Law. Marion Williamson who was the children’s Nanny ten years before is still employed by the Wharrie’s and her title in the house now is a domestic servant, they also have one other domestic servant called Elizabeth Crawford living with them.
In 1881, Thomas and Margaret have both moved to Edinburgh, where Thomas is still studying Law and interestingly, they have Marion Williamson also living with them, she was their Nanny and is now their cook and Domestic Servant, this says a lot about the relationship that Marion had with the children, maybe she had taken on the role of their mother, as she was the only woman in the house, that had been there since their mother had died.
John Wharrie, is listed as the head of the house at Avongrange, he doesn’t seem to have a job, but is receiving an income from houses and interests in Hamilton. It would appear, that he is now solely benefiting from his father’s many years of hard work. The house is very large for just one person to be residing in, even though he does have a servant living there with him called Elizabeth Smellie, it wouldn’t be long now until the house at Avongrange leaves the ownership of the Wharrie family.
An advert appeared in the Glasgow Herald Wednesday the 9th of April 1879, and the house was up for let. It is unknown if this went ahead as John Wharrie is still living here in the year 1881. Avongrange remained in the ownership of Thomas Wharrie and it was leased out to various people throughout the years, one of the tenants being the Provost James Moffat. The house was eventually sold off between 1915 and 1920 to Sir Thomas Munro the County Clerk.
After their father’s death, the children of Dr James Wharrie all seem to leave the memories of Hamilton behind them, and when Avongrange is eventually let out they also leave everything behind. They were all born at Avongrange and lived in Hamilton their whole lives, but their father was the only person in the family who was respected, and it was all down to him for giving the Wharrie family the good and respected name that it held in Hamilton.
When Dr James Wharrie died, so did the respected family name and as the new generations of Hamiltonian’s had come and gone, the name Wharrie which was associated with Hamilton, was also gone and forgotten about. All that now stands as a reminder to this family, are the two grand houses, the first one built by Thomas Wharrie on Muir Street and the second house formerly known as Avongrange, where many Hamiltonian’s now enjoy a good Sunday dinner or Christmas and New Year party, which we now call ‘The Avonbridge Hotel’.
So, what happened to the rest of the Wharrie Family?
The Wharrie children all seem to have moved to Edinburgh, this may have been due to the eldest son Thomas studying Law and everyone going with him.
John Wharrie, after being the last to move out of Avongrange in 1881, moved to the house of his brother Thomas at 26 Inverleith Row. There he becomes unwell and dies of pneumonia. He died on the 26th of October 1884. His brother James is the person who registers his death.
James Wharrie also moves to Edinburgh and his occupation is a fund holder and living on his own means. He is still living off his inheritance and seems to have invested his money either in property or stocks and shares, and is receiving an income from this. In 1901, James is renting a room at 15 Atholl Crescent, which is also a few streets away from his brother Thomas, at Edinburgh’s West End. I have concluded that he moved to Edinburgh to look after his brother Thomas, as he is having mental health problems. Later, James pops up again, and I find him living his final days at 7 Castle Terrace which is also St. Marks Church, opposite Edinburgh Castle. He dies here, a single man on the 7th of May 1904. The cause of death is Pneumonia.
Thomas Wharrie the eldest son of James and as I mentioned moved to Edinburgh, residing at 26 Inverleith Row, which was a substantial family home in a very upper-class area of Edinburgh. He is having a tough time after his father’s death and is a frequent guest at various Lunatic Asylums. In 1891, he is an inmate at the Edinburgh Royal Asylum for the insane, this institute around this time was a private paying one, so he may have admitted himself and I must mention that he has an income and is living on his own means, so he is also like his brother James still living off the money that was left to him by his father. Sadly, Thomas like his brother, dies a single man on the 22nd of February 1915 at the Sunnyside Asylum for the insane in Montrose. It is unknown why he ended up over in Montrose.
I also found Thomas’s Obituary in the Hamilton Advertiser which was printed on the 27th of February 1915 it read:
“Obituary. —By the death on Monday at Montrose Mr Thomas J. Drysdale Wharrie. there has passed away and the last of the sons of the late Dr. Wharrie, who was well-known to a former generation of Hamiltonians. Dr. Wharrie was prison doctor in Hamilton up till the discontinuance of that institution in our midst. He built and occupied Avon Grange, presently the residence of Provost Moffat. Another link of the Hamilton bygone days has been surrendered.”
I had told you previously Margaret had moved with her brother Thomas to 26 Inverleith Row where she is living here in the year 1881. She then re-appears in the 1911 Census and is living at a place called Wallacehall in Glencairn, Dumfries. She is living with a family called McClelland and she is boarding with them. It is unclear as to why she is living with this family in such a far-away place from the likes of Edinburgh where her brothers were living, but one thing that is listed on the 1911 census is she is recorded as being of “Feeble Minded”.
There does seem to be a pattern evolving with the Wharrie children, but this could also be due to the complications of childbirth that killed her mother.
Again, another death close to her brothers, Margaret died on the 22nd of April 1916 at the house of the McClelland’s at Wallacehall. She died of heart failure and the person who registered her death was the owner of the house a Mr Thomas McClelland, his relation to her on the death certificate is ‘A Friend’.
Margaret’s obituary was printed in the Hamilton Advertiser on Sat 29th April 1916.
“The Late Miss Wharrie, the last we believe of a family well known to Hamiltonians of a generation ago has passed away in the death, on 22nd inst., Wallace Hall, Dunscore, of Miss Margaret Morley Drysdale Wharrie. She was the daughter of the late Dr. James B. Wharrie, who was prison doctor in Hamilton up till the discontinuance of that institution in our midst, and resided at Avon Grange, which he built. The funeral took place on Wednesday from Hamilton Central C.R. Station to the cemetery in Bent Road. Mr Thomas J. Drysdale Wharrie, who died at Montrose in February a year ago, was the last of the sons of the late Dr. Wharrie.”
It is still unknown to me as to why Margaret ended up living with this family in Glencairn, Dumfries, or what the connection to her was. There possibly was a connection to her aunty Rachel, who died here in 1872 so maybe a cousin? Margaret was the last of this well-known Wharrie family from Hamilton and when she died it was the end of an era.
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48 – Goals and Systems
by Ryan DeBell | Aug 15, 2017 | podcast | 0 comments
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PODCAST TRANSCRIPT
Ryan: I’m Dr. Ryan Debell. This is the Health Fit Business podcast. I turned your mic off. That’s going to show up though because it’ll echo. That’s going to be funny. This is the Health Fit Business podcast. In this episode what we talked about is goals and then systems and how your goal should help you figure out the how’s not the daily quota. So, without further ado, let’s get into it.
Anthony: Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome!
Ryan: To the Health Fit…
Anthony: Business..
Ryan and Anthony: Podcast.
Anthony: I’m Anthony Gustin.
Ryan: And Im Dr. Ryan Debell… Dr. Anthony Gustin!
Anthony: Yeah, kind of.
Ryan: Whatever!
Anthony: Anyways, this episode is about goals, systems, and goals and systems.
Ryan: Yes and why just having a goal… Having a goal is great but having a goal also does not show you how to get to the goal.
Anthony: Yeah. You need to break that sucker down.
Ryan: And not just for example, let’s say you have this goal of “I want to make a million dollar this year.”
Anthony: One million?
Ryan: So, I need to make… Oh what is that? $800 something thousand a month?
Anthony: $83,300
Ryan: $800000 a month! 8, what is it?
Anthony: 8-3-333 and 33 cents.
Ryan: Oh! Someone’s done this calculation. And then per day, that’s around $23/ $27,000.
Anthony: 28-23.
Ryan: Is it 28-23? Okay! Wow! We did not talk about this before before we recorded.
Anthony: No, we did not!
Ryan: So, rather than… Okay. So, the goal is “I’m going to make million dollars this year.” So, monthly it is whatever and then daily it’s 2333. So, today I have to figure out “How am I going to make $2800 today?”
Anthony: You have to think about that every single day. Good luck!
Ryan: That is not what the goal should do but that’s where it goes. People are like “Oh! I set this goal so I know that I have figure out how to make $2800 a day.”
Anthony: Break that down and then every hour I need to make this much money.
Ryan: Yeah! Like every minute. So then it is like, “Well, if I am not making that right now this minute. I am not hitting my goal.” So, there is always this weird sense of pressure. That really does not need to be there. The goal helps you figure out what are the steps, what are the systems, or the processes that need to be in placed to meet that goal not “How do I make sure I make $2800 today?” Like that’s a different, that is a switch in mindsets.
Anthony: So, the way I think about it is have the goal then use the goal to figure out and ask several times why and how and then once you have why and how then build a system around that and then like we talked about in the previous episode, then evaluate that constantly if that is the right system and right how.
Ryan: So, let’s give some practical examples.
Anthony: So, example that I will give. Let us say we have a revenue target for Perfect Keto. I wasn’t just going to go sell random amount of units every single day because that was my goal. It just doesn’t work that way. And so, one of the things that we’re investing a lot in is… There’s not a lot of space in the Keto market for consolidated resource for information and that was what bugged me a lot about it is that people just ask a lot of questions that should be answered in that consolidated space. There’s nothing like that that’s online. The goal was to, for an SEO purpose and for a usability purpose, for people to be able to have a place where people could go online and learn everything that they want to know and make keto is easy, and frictionless and successful for them as possible. So, goals-revenue break that down to “Okay. Hmmm… What is useful?” “Okay, content.” Maybe we should invest in content. If we publish content we can get ranking. Have a usable site. People get value out of it. They find value in information and then use the products to supplement their ketosis journey.
Ryan: So, then your system is like certain amount of content.
Anthony: And so, then, then I say “Oh! Okay. So, that could be… Break this down even more.” What goes on to making content? We need to come up with an idea. We need to come up with a blog post. Then, we need to come up with, some graphics, we post it, and then we need to promote it. What are the every single steps? All the steps that go into actually producing that content that leads to this exposure, that leads to this people coming to the website, that leads to increase revenue. And this is just one hypothesis. They could have a lot of this different steps running in simultaneous fashion. But then, I say “Okay! All these steps I try it two or three times. Found a system that I thought was really efficient and effective then I had team built around that.” I have now someone who does the generation of the content- keywords and so he says “Hey! We should… People are searching a lot for this… There is not a lot of good information on it. We should write an article on this.” We have a whole list of those things. And we have content writer, she’s great! She pulls us information. There’s a lot of research on it then creates a content. We have a graphic designer who then creates all the infographics we need for it, all of the featured images and then that goes to another person on the team who then formats it and then puts in online and that goes to another person on the team who then post it. And so now, there is this system that three times a week just happens as a playbook like that because that’s the way that we have done it and then as we have gone back and reevaluated and kind of looked back, it has been a very very very effective way to reach our goal.
Ryan: So, then you know rather than like “Oh! This one minute and this one hour we did not meet the number of sales we needed.”
Anthony: Right!
Ryan: “Now, we are not hitting our goal.” That is not what we are trying to do.
Anthony: You don’t break down your goals into manageable chunks. Like you use the goal to ask the question of how and why and then you build a system around that and then spin that up.
Ryan: And then you go “Today… This week we need to make sure that we make three pieces of content.”
Anthony: Right.
Ryan: Not worrying about like scrambling to figure out how do we sell x amount of units.
Anthony: Right and so then I could look every month, my monthly check in and say, “Okay. Content is working but our goal is this and it is producing this much revenue.” You could track all these stuff in google analytics and see what’s coming per month and then I can say “Okay. Instead of three, let’s do four and see if that.” It is just a linear thing where we do from three or four, we should do revenue from x to y. Does that work? Or like “Oh! Everything is going great. No need to change that. Let’s move into another thing that could lead to improving this tool.”
Ryan: Maybe it is not content, it is something else and then tweak that. Because you know the content is doing what it needs to do. Now, we have a new goal so let us find another avenue to increase revenue.
Anthony: Right. This is a good example of also kind of go a bit off tangent here but a lot of people are shocked when I told them we don’t spend any money on ads. The thing is it is so easy to like “Oh! You spent money on Facebook ads and get customers that way.” We are still figuring out and testing and refining a lot of processes around free ways to improve our brands so affiliate marketing, content marketing. So that’s like the big place we are really investing in a lot of right now. We are still grading ourselves in how that is going and we are haven’t perfected those things yet. So, I am not going to start spending money on ads until I get these processes and systems really refined and going in the direction that I want.They are going very well but I think they can always be improved so until you kind of plateau on those, I am not going to keep adding things in.
Ryan: Yeah, that is why I think you know it becomes too sporadic. So, this really place in well with our episode on monthly evaluations. If you don’t stick with something for the whole month or multiple months and slightly tweak it everything you do is so random. You go “I try this and I try this and I try this and I try this.” It does seem like anything and it’s really working and it’s like calm down.
Anthony: Settle down son.
Ryan: Settle down. Give this method, it’s due diligence and then evaluate how you can do it better rather than like “I have to hit these goals so I have to go from all these different places to try to get these done.” It does not have to be that way. If you don’t hit your goal, it doesn’t mean you’re failing, it just means you’re learning.
Anthony: That’s wise.
Ryan: Ooohh.. Wow! Where did that come from?
Anthony: Deep.
Ryan: Let’s ask Margot to make that into a quote.
Anthony: Margot is a graphic designer who makes these posts for us. She’s a phenomenal person.
Ryan: She is incredible. I wouldn’t be able to do so many things without her.
Anthony: No.
Ryan: Those skills. So, think about. What is the challenge of the… Are we ready for the Challenge of the Week?
Anthony: Do you have any example? Feel like I have taken…
Ryan: Yes. I have an example. So, I have been doing this with affiliate marketing. Testing affiliates for some of my digital products and saying “What process works best for affiliates?” And then tweaking that. What is the best way to launch affiliate? What is the best way to partner with affiliates? What is the best way to do that whether in terms of like a bundle or some sort of discount for the affiliates? Email list.
Anthony: Hold on doc. You went straight to affiliate marketing?
Ryan: Yeah.
Anthony: Was there a goal behind that that led you to think “Hmmm… how can I reach that goal?” and then on the list, affiliate marketing was one of those things.
Ryan: Yes, yes.
Anthony: So, you didn’t just think of the goal and then break the goal down in manageable chunks like everyone online told you to do.
Ryan: No, no, no. I said what I want by the end of the year is 1000 people to be signed up for my online workshops.
Anthony: If you wrote that down it is like “Okay. Today I need 15 people signed up. Manageable chunks of a goal.”
Ryan: And then, how do I, I have to go find and scurry around and find 15 people. What I’ve decided was… Alright there’s probably like a lot of ways for me to get a thousand people signed up for my online workshop by the end of the year. I just have to pick one and try it and milk that and then if it doesn’t produce results then I will try something else.
Anthony: The great thing about systems is that if you get affiliate marketing down and let’s say that’s even fifty people a month that you have a system on, that you can hand up to somebody else.
Ryan: Then I can focus on the next goal.
Anthony: Now you go to the next one and then have somebody else.
Ryan: Right.
Anthony: And then the next one so like you can break off chunks of your goal not in breaking down your goal but breaking down how and why you can use the specific things to reach that goal and then systemizing it is a way that you can layer it one on top of another so you can actually reach the goal. That’s how you reach goals.
Ryan: If I did like one affiliate launch and for those of you who aren’t familiar with affiliate marketing which may be a lot of people… Shall we explain a little bit about affiliate marketing?
Anthony: Yeah! It’s a win – win – win scenario.
Ryan: Yeah. Triple win!
Anthony: Yeah. Trip win.
Ryan: W…
Anthony: So, let’s say someone has an audience. Instagram, email list, or website and then somebody else has a product or a service that they think is valuable and solve a problem, they say to the influencer or affiliate “Hey! I have the solution to your audience’s problem.” So, in your case it’s how to move better. You find people who have audiences like people who like to move. And then they say “Hey! Am partnering up with Movement Fix and we are having a special.” Usually you can share the revenue with the affiliates so that’s a win. You get the revenue and people are learning how to move which is a win for you. Then the person learns a new valuable skill and how how to move so win for them.
Ryan: So, that is a win as well. So, then if there was like let’s say another blogger who had 15 or 20,000 people on their email list and then we do an affiliate launch then a percentage of their following they go “Hey! That is a solution to a problem I have.” They will buy it, they didn’t know who I was before or they weren’t aware of the product or a solution, now they are so that is the triple win. So, I could do that, I could do Facebook marketing, I could do all sorts of other thing but I’m going “I’m going to focus on that and I’m going to evaluate how it’s going. I’m going to learn how to do it better. I’m going to really hone that.” And then, once it is honed pass that off and then find the next one. Anthony: Yeah. So, in summary it goes – get a goal, come up with a ton of reasons of how you can reach that goal. Don’t just break it up into daily thing. Say literally “This goal is revenue” whatever. Break it up in to how you can get it done. Then from that, don’t try to do all those things. Pick one, test it out and try to make a system out of it. Not everyone is going to work so that’s failing over and over and over and over again, just scrap that. If it’s something that very easily works, refine that system first before you try other stuff. That’s why we are not doing paid ads because content and affiliate are working or getting better and better and better system. I can see improvement over time.
Ryan: Yeah. If you went to those other ways, you’re going to lose your ability to hone those.
Anthony: Until we perfect those systems, we’re doing those things and then we are going to pass that off and have it run completely in the background when it’s the point where it gets to really stable point. And then after that, then we go “Okay. What’s another how we can pick from?” Let’s go back to the how list and pick something. Break it down, systemize it, practice it, refine it, and then pass it of. There is no other way to reach that goal.
Ryan: I always think like having daily sales goals isn’t really the best way to do it.
Anthony: Well, this just comes from the assembly line mentality. It’s like it’s baked into human manufacturing.
Ryan: What was yesterday? Saturday?
Anthony: I don’t know.
Ryan: Saturday was yesterday! I think for both you and I, online sales freaking sucked.
Anthony: Every Saturday.
Ryan: But it’s because it’s Saturday and Monday. Well, maybe not this Monday because it’s holiday, but like there are just days that are better. So, if you have these like daily goal, you focus on the wrong thing I think.
Anthony: Daily quota of a manufacturing line says…
Anthony: “We need to like produce these much stuff off the line today.”
Ryan: Because you may have days where you do really like many many thousands or tens of thousands of dollars and then other days where it’s half that but it evens out over the month. So, if you’re worried about daily, then you start do things that don’t actually help monthly.
Anthony: Or yearly.
Ryan: Or yearly. Like this is the whole problem with current corporations focusing on quarterly profits rather than like longer term things because…
Anthony: Nightmare!
Ryan: The things that you have to do to scrounge up daily sales quota probably aren’t necessarily the things that are going to make you successful for the year.
Anthony: Right. So, to put that into a COW, Challenge of the Week, what I would recommend is look at a goal. You have a longer term goal maybe monthly or yearly, get a list of how’s. How you could potentially achieve that. Pick one or two and stop there and then refine it and create a system around it. Go listen to the other episode that we had one year ago about doing a monthly check in and use that system on top of making a system. And then, work back up and see if that is affecting that goal or not.
Ryan: So…
Anthony: That’s get it done.
Ryan: That’s get it done?
Anthony and Ryan: Get after it.
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SOUTH KOREA: COVID-19 cannot be an excuse to demonise and stigmatise a religious minority
by admin_HRWF | Apr 8, 2020 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
International Policy Digest (08.04.2020) – https://bit.ly/2wtRyn6 – The terrible death toll wrought by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has naturally hogged international headlines as of late.
But another facet of the tragedy – the dissemination of fake news – has not gone unnoticed.
The European Union has, in recent days, ratcheted up its efforts to counter disinformation during the still unfolding pandemic.
The European Commission launched a special website where people can fact check information, while the European External Action Service, the EU’s foreign policy body, has warned of the “proliferation of significant quantities of news, myths, and disinformation” about coronavirus.
Evidence of such proliferation is not confined to Europe, though, with concerns currently being raised about disinformation being spread on the other side of the world in South Korea about the Shincheonji Church. This religious movement dating back from the 1990s has its roots in Protestantism. It accounts for over 200,000 members, most of them coming from mainline fundamentalist churches which combat it for allegedly being “heretical.”
The pandemic, as the world now knows, originated in China but it quickly expanded to South Korea where Shincheonji Church was demonized for allegedly spreading the virus throughout the country.
The motive for this might, at first, appear unclear until you consider that South Korea is on the eve of legislative elections (15 April) and the fear is that scapegoating the Shincheonji Church is an act of blatant political opportunism.
While the South Korean authorities have, generally, been lauded for keeping the death toll caused by the disease to a manageable level (as this article went to press, there were just over 10,000 cases and 174 deaths), the country’s record on religious tolerance is rather less commendable.
A 30-page White Paper that reviews the management of the COVID-19 crisis by the South Korean authorities has just been published in several languages by a scholar in religious studies, human rights activists, a lawyer, and a journalist, all from various European countries.
In February, the South Korean media were enraged about the alleged role played by the Shincheonji Church in the acceleration of the spread of COVID-19.
The authors of the White Paper “de-construct” about 20 of what they insist are biased and false stories and, instead, present the facts.
Their report contains a whole list of “debunked myths” about the Shincheonji Church and COVID-19 in South Korea.
Shincheonji was accused of not being concerned about the epidemic and of delaying the closure of its religious services.
The fact is that on 25 January 2020, and again three days later, Shincheonji’s leadership issued orders that no Shincheonji members who had recently arrived from China could attend church services.
Another example is that it is claimed that sitting next to each other on the floor during religious services is unhygienic and more conducive to spreading bacteria and viruses.
But, says the report, it is simply not true to suggest that Shincheonji’s religious services are uniquely unhygienic because participants sit on the floor rather than on chairs or benches. In fact, this is common in many religions, such as mosques and Buddhist places of worship.
It has also been claimed (wrongly) that Shincheonji teaches its members to reject any medical treatment, which the White Paper denies.
So, why is the Shincheonji Church apparently being scapegoated during a global public health emergency?
Well, one clue is that legislative elections in South Korea are scheduled for 15 April and, as one would expect, politicians are currently embroiled in a competition for voters.
In this context, it is argued that members of the government and ruling coalition have found an easy way to thwart opposition candidates who heavily criticise their management of the health crisis: they scapegoat an unpopular movement and then use the media to strengthen this position.
According to several rights groups, including the respected Brussels-based NGO Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF), another factor is at play. Shincheonji has been targeted because it is a fast-growing movement that threatens their membership and many of the false stories and biased news have primarily been created and circulated by fundamentalist Protestant churches that now use them to call for the banning of Shincheonji.
The problem for Shincheonji is that, while those same fundamentalist churches may be regarded as conservative and anti-liberal, they represent a powerful majority in South Korea.
In the meantime, hundreds of Protestant churches across Korea went on holding services on the last Sundays of March in spite of government orders against large public gatherings.
No politician demonised those fundamentalist churches or called for them to be banned. Politically, this makes sense considering that the votes from the Protestant Churches, the majority religion in Korea, are vital for the political parties.
On 6 February 2020, the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent, bipartisan federal government entity, issued a declaration stating: “USCIRF is concerned by reports that Shincheonji church members have been blamed for the spread of #coronavirus. We urge the South Korean government to condemn scapegoating and to respect religious freedom as it responds to the outbreak.”
International rights organisations are now appealing to the South Korean authorities not to use COVID-19 as an excuse to violate the human rights and religious liberty of hundreds of thousands of believers.
Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers, declared “COVID-19 cannot be an excuse to demonise and stigmatise a religious minority and its members.”
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Luxury fashion brands not immune to pandemic
Kim Ho
on September 22, 2020, 12:23 p.m.
Decline in luxury fashion consumers, but demand holds steady
The pandemic has undoubtedly had an impact on businesses and consumer spending, and luxury brands are no exception. Latest YouGov Plan & Track data delves into how luxury brands have fared in Hong Kong as of late, how different ‘categories’ of luxury brands have been impacted, and what the average luxury brand buyer looks like in Hong Kong.
Examining the luxury sector as a whole, YouGov BrandIndex looks at the Current Customer score, which measures which brands consumers purchased from in the past three months. Comparing the luxury sector’s Current Customer score in 2019 and 2020, there is a clear decline in Hong Kong consumers buying luxury goods as a whole. In 2019, its lowest score was 2.9, but this year its highest score is 2.8. However, though data suggest that less people are purchasing from luxury brands, the intent to purchase holds steady. The luxury sector’s Purchase Intent score – which asks which brands people are most likely to purchase, has remained largely unchanged from the year prior.
While there has been an overall decline in luxury brand consumers as a whole, not all brands performed the same. In this survey, they have been categorised by ‘Affordable Luxury’ (i.e. Coach, Michael Kors), ‘Accessible Core Luxury’ (i.e. Gucci, Prada) and ‘Premium Luxury’ (i.e. Cartier, Hermes). They have also been categorised under ‘Jewellery’ (i.e. Tiffany, Pandora) and Watch (i.e. Tag Heuer and Rolex).
The overall decline in customers for luxury brands is notable across all categories with the exception of ‘Premium Luxury’. It is the only category that doesn’t show a significant drop from the year prior.
The two categories that were most noticably hit by the pandemic however, are ‘Affordable Luxury’ and ‘Accessible Core Luxury’ brands. On 12 March 2020, when the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the Affordable Luxury sector recorded a Current Customer score of 3.2 and for Accessible Core Luxury its score was 2.8. Since then both have been on a decline and fallen to 2.3 and 2.4 respectively.
What does the average luxury fashion consumer look like? YouGov Profiles reveals this by comparing demographics between the national population (nat rep) against a luxury fashion consumer. For example, though only 53% of the Hong Kong population are female, 54% of luxury fashion consumers are female – making them more likely to be female than male. They are most likely to have a personal income between HKD 15,000 and 29,000 (41% vs. 35% nat rep). Luxury fashion consumers are also very likely to be over the age of 45 (58% vs. 30% nat rep).
It is not all doom and gloom for luxury brands however. For one luxury brand, they actually saw an increase in their Purchase Intent score during the pandemic. Early on when the pandemic broke in Europe, Louis Vuitton were the first luxury fashion house to announce that they would be re-opening production sites to make PPE (personal protective equipment). This decision by the brand coincides with a rise in their Purchase Intent score, which has been on an upward trend since. This means that now more Hong Kong consumers are looking to purchase from the brand. Though other luxury brands followed suit, they did not enjoy the same uptick in scores.
Ervin Ha, Head of Data Products for YouGov APAC commented: “Many businesses have been hit hard by the pandemic, and the luxury fashion sector is no exception. There has been a notable decline in Hong Kong consumers buying from luxury brands this year, with the exception of ‘premium luxury’ brands. It’ll be interesting to monitor if this changes in the following year, and if it will be the same profile of luxury fashion consumers post-pandemic.”
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Recovery ministries struggle with damage caused by pandemic
October 16, 2020 - by: Annette Spence - COVID-19 Addiction
Seth Charles leads Celebrate Recovery North in Knoxville on Oct. 13.
ALCOA, Tenn. -- Checking the latest number of coronavirus cases has become a new routine for some people, but not for Seth Charles and Matt Hall. Their routine is to check the latest number of overdose deaths.
“That’s our people. That could be me,” said Charles, leader of the recovery ministry at Fountain City United Methodist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee. “Numbers represent people. We always say, ‘Don’t be a statistic.’”
While congregations throughout Holston Conference have resumed in-person gatherings in the last few weeks, some recovery leaders are still agonizing over damage caused when the pandemic closed United Methodist church buildings to support groups and people fighting addiction.
In March 2020, Holston Conference suspended in-person worship and other activities for its 853 churches to help keep people safe from COVID-19. The building closures continued in areas where coronavirus cases were high for many months, until Bishop Dindy Taylor permitted indoor, in-person activities again beginning Sept. 20.
For people in recovery, community and relationships are crucial, says the Rev. Matt Hall, recovery pastor at First United Methodist Church in Maryville, Tennessee. Participants in recovery ministries are told repeatedly how important it is to stay connected in order to stay sober.
It was “heartbreaking” to tell people their worship and group meetings were canceled, especially when other non-United Methodist churches and organizations were still meeting, said Hall. “Everything I said got devalued in one swift move.”
Matt Hall (right) prays at Celebrate Recovery on Oct. 14.
“Recovery is community-based,” Charles explained. “One of the purposes of recovery is to not be isolated.”
Data and media reports confirm the pandemic has been damaging for people dealing with addiction. Earlier this month, the American Medical Association urged legislators and governors to take action after more than 40 states reported spikes in overdose fatalities since March 2020.
In Knox County, Charles is concerned that 280 overdose deaths have occurred so far this year, compared to 259 total in 2019, according to statistics from the district attorney general's office.
Meanwhile, 80 people have died of COVID-19 in Knox County, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
“I have a resentment toward COVID and these guidelines,” said Charles, referring to safety measures that protected people from contracting the virus at church while at the same time leaving recovery communities stranded. “My call is to shepherd these people into both recovery and safety.”
In Blount County where Hall’s church is located, 176 people died from overdoses between January and September 1, according to Be Aware Blount Anti-Drug Coalition. Twenty-seven people in Blount County have died from COVID-19 so far.
“There are by far more overdoses than COVID deaths,” Hall said. “I don’t say that to take away from COVID, but it’s a reality. People were drowning at home in isolation, and we remained tunnel-focused.”
Hall said he struggled with reaching his recovery congregation through online gatherings, especially since some members are homeless or live in halfway houses.
“We just assume everyone has access to the internet at this point in time, and that’s not the case,” he said.
Relapses are common in recovery communities, but recovery leaders say relapses have increased along with isolation, unemployment, and other hardships caused by the pandemic. The same is true at Lebanon Memorial United Methodist Church in Lebanon, Virginia, said the Rev. Jeff Tallent.
“The loss of the community had a lot of people falling back into alcohol and drugs and feeling a sense of desperation,” he said.
In April, the recovery ministry at Lebanon Memorial lost a long-time participant to suicide. Tallent believes the pandemic was a factor in the man’s death.
At Out of the Box United Methodist Church in Hillsville, Virginia, Kevin Harrod noticed not only more relapses but also "substitution using" during the pandemic. Instead of relapsing back to using drugs, for instance, some addicts turned to drinking alcohol.
“There was a real hole in their support system, since we were not having recovery on Wednesday nights but we also weren’t having church on Sunday,” said Harrod.
In Carroll County, even the Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings were conducted online over Zoom for weeks, while high-speed internet is unavailable or unaffordable especially in rural areas, Harrod said.
“There was a lot of depression and fear, because at first we didn’t know as much as we do now about COVID,” he said. “People have expressed relief that we could meet again in small groups beginning three weeks ago.”
Recovery pastors coped with suspension of in-person gatherings in the last several months by creating new ways of reaching out to their congregation members, sometimes with new and positive outcomes. Harrod said he regularly made phone calls to check on his members and visited them on their porches. A new weekly Facebook Live message is reaching people outside Carroll County, including people Harrod knew and used drugs with in his past.
Kevin Harrod reaches out through Facebook on Sept. 23.
“They watched the videos and have expressed the desire to get clean and have a relationship with Jesus Christ,” Harrod said.
At Celebrate Recovery North at Fountain City, Charles and his crew shared regular social-media messages on where to find hope during the church closures. “The pandemic pushed us into livestream and recording, which we needed to do,” he said. “We’ve tried to focus on what is positive about what we’re doing and not on what is negative about what we’re doing.”
Since recovery ministries have been allowed to resume in-person gatherings, attendance has been well below pre-COVID numbers, just as attendance has typically been lower at regular worship services in Holston Conference.
Recovery at Lebanon on Wednesday nights has welcomed 10 participants in recent weeks, down from 20 to 40 before March 2020, Tallent said.
Celebrate Recovery at First United Methodist in Maryville is logging in about 50 people for Wednesday night worship and small groups, down from 150 to 200 before the pandemic. Hall says he’s seen two to three new faces at every recent in-person gathering, but he’s doubtful most of his former regular attenders will ever return.
“I feel like recovery is so much of a routine for people. Once the routine of meeting on Wednesday night got thrown out, it’s not going to be corrected,” said Hall. “They went and found another community that shared their values and desperation.”
To keep people safe from the virus and to meet Holston Conference reopening guidelines, the format of in-person recovery ministries has changed dramatically, requiring additional major adjustments for participants.
Hugging is out of the question even though many people struggling with addiction are starved for touch, recovery pastors say. Eating together had to be eliminated, even though the free meals “draw people in, give them incentive to come, because most are well below poverty level or transient or homeless,” Harrod said.
The loss of free child care keeps many parents from attending recovery meetings, Charles said. In small groups, participants have to keep their social distance and wear face masks, making it even harder for older people and veterans with hearing difficulties to communicate, Hall has noticed.
However, recovery leaders say they’re so desperate to keep their congregations connected while meeting in person, they’re working through the restrictions necessary to prevent virus spread.
“I want people to know we’re here,” Charles said. “We haven’t gone anywhere. Our doors are open for people sick with addiction. God is bigger than a pandemic and addiction. When we put our hope in God, he gives us the victory.”
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by persistent impairments in social communication and social interaction, as well as restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior, leading to difficulty in developing, maintaining, and understanding relationships with others. Recent research suggests that, using brain imaging techniques, differences in development indicative of ASD may be observed as early as 6 months of age. However, overt signs and traits of ASD usually emerge between 1 and 2 years of age. Because ASD is a lifelong condition and the combination and severity of characteristics can differ greatly from one individual to another, its associated challenges and support needs can range widely from modest to very extensive. Services and supports are available to help maximize health and wellbeing among children and adults on the autism spectrum, but the needs for earlier identification, improved interventions, and broadly available access to services remain a challenge. ASD continues to be a top national health priority, engaging the collaborative efforts of federal agencies, academic institutions, and private organizations to advance research and improve services and support systems. This report describes the efforts supported by federal departments and agencies to address research, health, education, and other related service and support needs that will improve the quality of life among children, adolescents, and adults on the autism spectrum.
Legislative Background
The Combating Autism Act (CAA) of 2006 (P.L. 109-416) was enacted on December 19, 2006 to address public concerns about ASD and to strengthen federal efforts around this issue. The CAA amended the Public Health Service Act to authorize the expansion and enhancement of federal activities related to ASD research, surveillance, early detection, prevention, treatment, education, and disability programs. The law also reconstituted the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), originally created under the Children's Health Act of 2000, as a federal advisory body with specific membership requirements and a charge to provide federal coordination of ASD-related activities, as well as a venue for public input on issues related to ASD. The CAA authorized $945 million in federal funds to support ASD-related federal efforts through September 30, 2011. Additionally, the CAA required the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in conjunction with the Department of Education (ED), to submit, no later than 4 years after the enactment of the CAA, a Report to Congress on the progress made in implementing provisions of the CAA. The Report to Congress on Activities Related to Autism Spectrum Disorder and Other Developmental Disabilities under the Combating Autism Act of 2006 (FY 2006 - FY 2009) was submitted in accordance with the requirement.
On September 30, 2011, Congress enacted the Combating Autism Reauthorization Act (CARA) of 2011 (P.L. 112-32), which extended the authorizations of the CAA past its sunset date of September 30, 2011 to September 30, 2014. The CARA also authorized $693 million in federal funds to support ASD-related federal efforts through 2014. The CARA again required HHS, in conjunction with ED, to submit a Report to Congress on the progress made in implementing provisions of the CARA, no later than 2 years after the law's enactment. This report, the Report to Congress on Activities Related to Autism Spectrum Disorder and Other Developmental Disabilities under the Combating Autism Act of 2006 and Combating Autism Reauthorization Act of 2011 (FY 2010 - FY 2012), was submitted in accordance with this requirement.
The Autism CARES Act
The Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act (Autism CARES Act) of 2014 (P.L. 113-157) was signed into law on August 8, 2014. The Autism CARES Act reauthorized the ASD-related activities that began in 2006 under the CAA, and continued in 2011 under CARA, thus sustaining support for these activities related to ASD research and services through 2019. The Autism CARES Act states, "Not later than 4 years after August 8, 2014, the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of Education and the Secretary of Defense, shall prepare and submit to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee of the Senate and the Energy and Commerce Committee of the House of Representatives, and make publicly available, including through posting on the Internet Web site of the Department of Health and Human Services, a progress report on activities related to autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities." Additionally, the Autism CARES Act required the preparation of a second report "concerning young adults with autism spectrum disorder and the challenges related to the transition from existing school-based services to those services available during adulthood." This report, the 2017 Report to Congress: Young Adults and Transitioning Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder, was submitted in accordance with this second requirement. The Autism CARES Act also authorized $1.3 billion in federal funds to support ASD-related efforts through 2019.
Provisions of the Autism CARES Act of 2014
Continues efforts in autism surveillance, research, education/awareness, early detection, and intervention, including efforts to increase cultural competency and provider training across several federal departments/agencies.
Reauthorizes the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee to coordinate federal agencies in ASD-related efforts, serve as a forum for public input, and provide advice to the HHS Secretary on matters pertaining to ASD.
Requires the appointment of a National Autism Coordinator within HHS to ensure implementation and accountability of activities detailed in the Autism CARES Act.
Requires a report to Congress on federal activities related to youth and young adults with ASD and the challenges they face regarding the transition from school-based to adult service systems.
Requires a Report to Congress on progress made in implementing the provisions of the Autism CARES Act.
Authorizes $1.3 billion in appropriations for federal ASD-related efforts through September 30, 2019.
Requirements for the Autism CARES Act Report to Congress
As with the CAA and CARA, the Autism CARES Act requires a report on federal ASD activities to be submitted to Congress. The following elements are required for this report:
"A description of the progress made in implementing the provisions of the Autism CARES Act of 2014"
"A description of the amounts expended on the implementation of the amendments made by the Autism CARES Act of 2014"
"Information on the incidence and prevalence of autism spectrum disorder, including available information on the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder among children and adults, and identification of any changes over time with respect to the incidence and prevalence of autism spectrum disorder"
"Information on the average age of diagnosis for children with autism spectrum disorder and other disabilities, including how that age may have changed over the 4-year period beginning on August 8, 2014, and, as appropriate, how this age varies across population subgroups"
"Information on the average age for intervention for individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities, including how that age may have changed over the 4-year period beginning on August 8, 2014, and, as appropriate, how this age varies across population subgroups"
"Information on the average time between initial screening and then diagnosis or rule out for individuals with autism spectrum disorder or other developmental disabilities, as well as information on the average time between diagnosis and evidence-based intervention for individuals with autism spectrum disorder or other developmental disabilities and, as appropriate, on how such average time varies across population subgroups"
"Information on the effectiveness and outcomes of interventions for individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, including by severity level as practicable, and other developmental disabilities and how the age of the child or other factors, such as demographic characteristics, may affect such effectiveness"
"Information on the effectiveness and outcomes of innovative and newly developed intervention strategies for individuals with autism spectrum disorder or other developmental disabilities"
"A description of the actions taken to implement and the progress made on implementation of the strategic plan developed by the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee"
Report to Congress (FY 2014 – FY 2018)
This Report to Congress on Activities Related to Autism Spectrum Disorder and Other Developmental Disabilities Under the Autism CARES Act of 2014 (FY 2014 – FY 2018) describes ASD-related activities and coordination efforts that span multiple federal agencies and departments. The report includes updates from the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, Departments of Defense and Education, and agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services, as required by the Autism CARES Act. It also contains updates from the Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, Social Security Administration, and the Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Justice, Labor, and Transportation, which also conduct activities related to autism or individuals with disabilities. The report covers all elements required in the Autism CARES Act for the period of fiscal years 2014-2017. Some information regarding federal programs and projects in FY 2018 is included in this report, but it should be noted that the information pertaining to FY 2018 may not be complete, as FY 2018 was still underway as this report was being prepared.
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IACC Home > Publications > Strategic Plan 2013
For Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
Question 1: When Should I Be Concerned?
When originally framed, Question 1 was directed toward identifying at-risk children by the age of 24 months to facilitate the greatest chance of successful early intervention. Scientific advances since then have shown that, in infants at high genetic risk for ASD due to having an older sibling with autism, symptoms of autism begin to emerge as young as 6 months of age in those who later develop ASD. Read more.
Question 2: How Can I Understand What Is Happening?
Over the course of the last several years, a great deal has been learned about altered neurodevelopment in ASD and a few interventions are in the early phases of testing. The knowledge base, however, is still not sufficient to support the long-term goal of personalized interventions. Objectives within Question 2 have also evolved as the science has provided more insight into the complexity of ASD. Read more.
Question 3: What Caused This to Happen and Can It Be Prevented?
The original version of the IACC Strategic Plan, published in 2009, identified nine objectives focused on research to identify and deepen the understanding of genetic and environmental causes of ASD. In 2010 and 2011, several new objectives were added. Read more.
Question 4: Which Treatments and Interventions Will Help?
A review of the state of the science in 2009 noted that many treatments were in use, but little rigorous evidence existed to support their safety or efficacy.1 At that point, the Committee identified intervention research needs from two quite different approaches. One approach, dependent on progress in the basic and translational research areas covered under Questions 2 and 3, called for novel, targeted interventions based on an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of ASD. Read more.
Question 5: Where Can I Turn for Services?
The 2009 IACC Strategic Plan, which was revised in 2010 and 2011, delineated nine objectives related to Question 5, which include four short-term objectives and five long-term objectives to address gaps in current policy and services research that will benefit the autism community. Read more.
Question 6: What Does the Future Hold, Particularly for Adults?
Positive, early childhood experiences can help increase the likelihood of better outcomes in adulthood. However, gains that were hard-won in childhood are at risk of losing traction during the period of new challenges associated with the transition to adulthood. The nature and availability of supportive services change dramatically as youth age out of eligibility for special education. Read more.
Question 7: What Other Infrastructure and Surveillance Needs Must Be Met?
The original IACC Strategic Plan, launched in 2009, was structured around only six Questions. In 2010, the IACC recognized that grouping the topics of research infrastructure, workforce, and ASD surveillance into a separate chapter would highlight these issues that are critically important to research success and help the Committee track investments and evaluate progress in this area in the same organized, rigorous manner that is used in the rest of the IACC Strategic Plan. Read more.
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Quick Answer: What Is An Example Of Rate Of Change?
What is an example of constant rate of change?
What is rate of change on a graph?
What is a change in math?
How do you know if the rate of change is constant?
What is the rate constant?
Is the rate of change constant?
What is the rate of change?
How do you find the rate of change Example?
What is the formula for average rate of change?
What is constant rate of change?
What is the difference between rate of change and slope?
When something has a constant rate of change, one quantity changes in relation to the other.
For example, for every half hour the pigeon flies, he can cover a distance of 25 miles.
We can write this constant rate as a ratio..
A rate of change relates a change in an output quantity to a change in an input quantity. The average rate of change is determined using only the beginning and ending data. See (Figure). Identifying points that mark the interval on a graph can be used to find the average rate of change. See (Figure).
Change: subtract old value from new value. Example: You had 5 books, but now have 7. The change is: 7−5 = 2.
If the rate of change is constant, a graph of the measured quantity vs. time will be a straight line, and you can find the rate of change by calculating the slope of the line. If the rate of change is not constant, a graph of the measured quantity vs. time will be curved instead of straight.
Definition 2 (Constant rates of change) The (constant) rate of change with respect to the variable x of a linear function y = f(x) is the slope of its graph. If x and f have units in Definition 2, then the units of the rate of change are those of f divided by those of x.
For straight lines, the rate of change (slope) is constant (always the same). For such lines, the rate of change is constant.
A rate of change is a rate that describes how one quantity changes in relation to another quantity. If x is the independent variable and y is the dependent variable, then. rate of change=change in ychange in x. Rates of change can be positive or negative.
When you calculate the average rate of change of a function, you are finding the slope of the secant line between the two points. f(x) = x2 and f(x + h) = (x + h)2 Therefore, the slope of the secant line between any two points on this function is 2x + h.
To find the average rate of change, we divide the change in the output value by the change in the input value.
Answer and Explanation: In mathematics, a constant rate of change is a rate of change that stays the same and does not change. That is, if quantity a has a constant rate of…
The vertical change between two points is called the rise, and the horizontal change is called the run. The slope equals the rise divided by the run: . … If coordinates of any two points of a line are given, then the rate of change is the ratio of the change in the y-coordinates to the change in the x-coordinates.
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Sprinklers Could Have Saved UK Fire Station
The absence of a sprinkler system is being blamed for the destruction of an English fire station in Downham Market in the county of Norfolk. Also, while the fire station was equipped with an alarm, this was apparently not connected to an alarm receiving centre.
According to local news reports, deputy chief fire officer, Roy Harold, is on record as saying that the brigade should have followed its own advice and installed sprinklers. He is quoted as saying that had there been such a system, the flames would have been put out very quickly and automatically. As a result of this incident, the brigade will now ask all building developments to seriously consider installing sprinklers, to prevent fire damage.
Eight firefighting appliances were called from across Norfolk and the neighbouring county of Cambridgeshire after flames were seen coming from a window. The blaze is believed to have started in a bay where the station’s fire engine was housed. Nobody was injured and an investigation has been launched into the cause of the fire.
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Rise of the Machines • 2013 • episode "5/12" • Mankind Decoded
Tools and machines have allowed us to overcome our physical limitations, and become the most successful species on Earth. But tools are also transforming what it means to be human.
Mankind Decoded • 2013 • 12 episodes •
Arms Race
About 10,000 years ago we discover farming. But when crops fail, early farming communities face a new threat. War. It's the birth of the arms race.
2013 • History
Lust for Luxury
When ordinary people desire the luxuries of the rich, ingenuity and innovation come together to take history in a new direction. From the obsession with silk to the fall of Constantinople, our desire for luxury has shaped our history and evolution.
Violent Planet
Over millions of years, mankind has evolved from a puny, vulnerable creature to become a dominant force on the planet. Occasionally the planet bites back--with terrifying consequences that have shaped our evolution.
The world is linked like never before. Modern transport and communications have resulted in a world that is wealthier, healthier, more mobile and better informed than ever before.
Eat It, Drink It, Smoke It
Man uses plants to feed, heal and clothe himself, to build his world and even to alter how he feels. The use of plants like corn, tobacco and cotton become such an important part of our lives that they play a central role in our evolution.
Fire, Coal and Oil
Early man rubbed two sticks together and created fire. We learn to cook our food, saving vital energy. As a result, our brains expand--making us the most intelligent species on the planet.
Man and Metals
Five thousand years ago man first throws a handful of rocks into a campfire and stumbles upon a discovery that changes the world: Metal. Copper, Tin and Bronze empower the ancient world and allow empires to expand, armed with sharp, hard-wearing weapons.
15,000 years ago man and the wolf form a partnership that shapes the future of Mankind. With the help of man's new best friend we domesticate more animals, sowing the first seeds of farming and civilization.
Information is Power
Communication is the vital ingredient in the building of civilization. The ability to share complicated ideas allowed early man to hunt, farm and build communities.
Building Earth
Mankind is a building species. Inspired by the divine we create monuments to its power (Stonehenge, the Great Pyramid). New challenges create new sciences and when the Romans mixed volcanic ash with water they created a new super-material: concrete.
No prizes for second place! In this episode we learn how being the fastest enabled empires to be born and capitalism to thrive.
Columbus has no idea that because of Earth’s geology and geography he won't get to his destination…or how that epic failure will make his voyage one of the most influential expeditions in the history of humankind. Let's add an asteroid hitting the earth billions of years ago and connect the dots...
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Dr Helen Castor explores the life - and death - of Joan of Arc. Joan was an extraordinary figure - a female warrior in an age that believed women couldn't fight, let alone lead an army. But Joan was driven by faith, and today more than ever we are acutely aware of the power of faith to drive actions for good or ill. Since her death, Joan has become an icon for almost everyone - the left and the right, Catholics and Protestants, traditionalists and feminists. But where in all of this is the real Joan - the experiences of a teenage peasant girl who achieved the seemingly impossible? Through an astonishing manuscript, we can hear Joan's own words at her trial, and as Helen unpicks Joan's story and places her back in the world that she inhabited, the real human Joan emerges.
10/12 • Mankind Decoded • 2013 • History
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Illiteracy Has Downsides
Game design. Straight-forward, even-handed, and in-depth.
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July 27, 2019 July 27, 2019 illiteracyhasdownsides
Remembering iNcontroL
I’m brownbear. Today I’ll be writing a few words on the recent passing of Geoff “iNcontroL” Robinson.
I did not know Geoff well. We were, at best, acquaintances. Nevertheless he made a big impact on me, something for which I’ll always be grateful. Geoff sits prominently in my memories of playing competitive RTS in the late 2000s. In honor of his memory, I wanted to write a bit about that time.
I first met Geoff around twelve years ago, as we both competed to become members of Team USA at the 2007 World Cyber Games. The US National Finals were held in Universal Orlando Resort, and they were structured almost like a rideable attraction. Park guests could line up outside to walk through the dimly lit, tightly-packed LAN arena in which competitors from Age of Empires, StarCraft, WarCraft, Gears of War, Project Gotham Racing, and a few other games furiously played through their brackets. In the background blared a near-exclusive blend of Linkin Park and Mr. Brightside. The entire venue was smaller than the press room at Blizzcon.
I met the Brood War folks through Artosis, whom I knew from our time playing top-level Age of Empires 3 together. Geoff was a massive bear of a man, wearing a skin-tight t-shirt from Oregon State University. People said he was a powerlifter. I remember watching him play and wondering how he could even navigate the mouse and keyboard in the tiny, cramped desk space we were each given.
Now, the Brood War players in 2007 were probably the only real pro-gamers at the entire tournament. Given that the most famous western RTS player at the time was either Grubby or the guy from Pure Pwnage, you can interpret that in whatever way you’d like and you’d probably be correct. They could discuss their game at any depth; they were a tightly-knit community forged in part through mutual practice time; and they followed real training schedules. They were proactive in creating opportunities for themselves – Artosis and I at one point collaborated on a website called “RTS Professional”, which sought to teach newer players how to learn RTS games. He and another guy named Gentho were the brains of the operation, as well as the producers of a lot of the content; I just made a handful of videos with my kitschy FRAPS setup, and got paid $30 a pop. At the time I thought I was seriously making bank.
With pro-gaming comes a respect for one’s own discipline, a philosophy that I first learned from Geoff. The Brood War players were goofy guys with some fairly rambunctious after-hours activities, but they took their craft seriously. By contrast, no one in Age of Empires viewed the game as their livelihood or career path, at least in 2007. We took the game seriously, and it featured a high-enough skill ceiling to be enjoyable at the highest of levels, but ultimately it was just a hobby to us. The idea of playing in a high-stakes tournament was just an extension to that – the ability to take a time-consuming hobby and actually get some cool prizes and vacations out of it. Gaming was a means to an end, not a discipline in and of itself.
This came to a head near the end of the tournament. I recall sitting and watching the finals of several other games with the other RTS folks, having finished all of our matches. The spectacle at the time was Project Gotham Racing, an exclusive to Xbox 360 and a darling of Microsoft, who just so-happened to be one of WCG’s main sponsors.
PGR was an interesting competitive title to watch. Two players raced against one another on the same track. They each selected exactly the same car, presumably because that’s what the competitive meta demanded. The players’ efficiency in moving through the map meant that you could barely register the environmental details. In order to ensure purity of competition, the cars also did not collide with one another. It was almost like racing your own ghost in Mario Kart, except the ghost was another player, and winning put $3,000 in your pocket. All of this was rendered on what I swear-to-God was a 32” TV that sat more than 50 feet away.
To put it bluntly, it was baffling, nigh unwatchable. I don’t think any of us understood how this was a compelling competitive game. But to be honest, we also didn’t think very carefully about what a compelling competitive game should look like. Maybe this was the future – taking pre-existing popular games and latching on a competitive mode.
The Brood War folks – the consummate professionals that they were – took the lead in mocking this display. It was hilarious, to be sure. But what I found interesting was not the jokes, because anyone can make fun of a game whose competitive scene lives and dies on the whims of a marketing manager somewhere in Redmond. Tearing things down is easy. What’s hard – what few people could do back then – is articulating an actual vision for what professional gaming should be, and talking about why it should be that way, and trying to logically build a case for a sustainable competitive scene. And that was something that I had never really come across in my time in competitive gaming.
Over the years I would go on to have several such conversations with Geoff. At one point we both participated in the 2008 Pan-American Championship in Monterrey, Mexico. WCG fucked up Geoff’s hotel booking, because of course they did, and he ended up staying with myself and SonKiE from Warcraft III. As we watched shitty reality TV and collectively worried over our upcoming tournament games, we talked about what pro-gaming was and what it should be and what it might become.
Geoff was the first person I ever met who lived his life consciously. What I mean to say is that the things he did and the words he said were rarely accidental. Every belief he held was based on something, something he could explain to you if you challenged him on it. He thought about the way he wanted to live his life and then he lived it that way. He talked about the team house he wanted to start (in Arizona, I want to say?) and why it made sense to have a team house and why I should live there if I was serious about taking gaming to the next level. He talked about practice schedules and tournament anxiety. He talked about anything – at one point I spoiled the upcoming episode of the TV show we were watching, and he patiently explained why that was an utterly stupid thing to do.
This was new to me. I think, as a socially awkward sixteen-year old who spent most of his time gaming, my go-to social defense mechanism was to “be chill”. Don’t rock the boat, don’t judge other people, don’t be assertive: just go with the flow and hope you collect some friends along the way, because of the ever-present fear that you would say the wrong thing and people would stop talking to you.
It was through Geoff that I learned that this was a bullshit way of going through life. Life is too short to waste our time and energy on things that we don’t believe in. If you’re doing something, understand why. If you’re saying something, be ready to defend it and back it up. If you see someone doing good, tell ’em that they’re doing good – and if you see nonsense, call it out as nonsense. Geoff was always very opinionated, but that’s not what really struck me about him; what struck me was his genuine desire for truth-seeking. He voiced his opinions because he really believed in them, he had thought about them, he had considered the alternatives, and he had landed on something he believed to be right. He wasn’t stubborn, at least the way I remember him: he was just smart and he held himself to a high standard.
He was the first person I met in gaming who really made me think, damn: I’d like to be more like that guy.
The mid-2000’s were an interesting time for competitive real-time strategy. At times it felt like the genre had never been bigger. Command and Conquer, Age of Empires, and Dawn of War all featured strong competitive scenes, and all would go on to appear in multiple WCG tournaments. StarCraft, while mostly dead in the Western world, continued on gloriously in South Korea. On top of it all was Warcraft III, the absolute titan of the genre and a constant point of comparison in the Age community.
Into this environment came the announcement of StarCraft II. To label it earth-shaking would be an understatement; many of us suspected (correctly) that the title would completely upend the competitive RTS scene. Something similar happened with Warcraft III, though at a smaller scale because the games industry wasn’t as big back then. Now every mom and dad on the block was buying an Xbox 360 just so they could have a good DVD player at home.
I think everyone who played competitive RTS at the time had the same conversation, probably many times: Are you going to switch over when StarCraft II comes out? Do you think our game can survive? Do you think it could really be as big as people say it will be?
The answers for most players, with the benefit of hindsight, turned out to be yes, yes, and yes.
For my part, StarCraft II was never something that I genuinely considered as an option. I didn’t even play the game until Legacy of the Void, and that was only because a good friend bought it for me when I was in China. The issue for me was the sense that, somehow, the game wouldn’t work out for me; that I would end up playing it all day every day, only to fail to make any inroads competitively and simultaneously torpedo any chance of success on a more traditional path through life.
I think people really don’t understand that there was no path in esports in 2007. I don’t even recall the term being widely used, though that’s likely just my own ignorance. There were no guidelines – take these courses, study for this interview, work for these companies, etc. No one had any idea what StarCraft II would be or what esports would become. The notion of being a professional caster was fantastical, like telling people you wanted to become Pat Sajak. Even today – where the path is ill-defined and many people struggle to have their breakout moment – the logical progression is surprisingly clear, at least within StarCraft: work your way up from your own stream to small tournaments to co-casting to community casting to trying to find work at a real WCS tournament.
Back then none of this existed. The headline-grabbing league at the time (in the West, at least) was the CGS, which boasted that it had signed its players to $30,000 a year contracts. $30,000 a year was not a lot of money, and even this was before factoring in the exclusivity terms of the player agreements and the extensive hours required of professional gaming. There was also WCG, and ESWC, and QuakeCon, and CPL, and a few other tournaments and organizations – but the industry was fragmented, and the money was lackluster.
As I told Artosis last year when we caught up at Blizzcon, his choice to move to Korea demonstrated some serious courage. It was like embarking on the Oregon Trail, perhaps with less dysentery. If anyone can say they pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps, it’s folks like Dan and Geoff: in some ways they created an entire job category, in Dan’s case in a foreign country where he didn’t even speak the language. It’s one of the reasons I respect him so much, not just as a commentator but also as a person. He sacrificed everything to genuinely build something from nothing.
It’s not to say that I admire Geoff and Dan and a handful of other folks from back then because they built successful careers. Many people have successful careers; *I* have a successful career. What impresses me is the way they invented their own path through life. And what really strikes me about it is the way they built real, whole lives for themselves – careers, families, friends, hobbies, personal maturity, a well-adjusted outlook. They didn’t grow up to be hollow, as I feared I would become; they lived full, complete lives.
Over the years, I would occasionally tune into Geoff’s stream to see what he was up to. He was the first person I ever subscribed to on the platform, and at the time he would make up a fortune for each new subscriber. I can still remember pressing the subscribe button, eagerly waiting for the notification to appear on screen to hear what fortune I would receive. I remember marveling at this guy that I used to know, who had built this whole life for himself. And I remembered that he rarely did things by accident; and that if this was the life he was leading, then it was certain to be the life that he had chosen to lead.
I’ll always be grateful for the impact Geoff had on my life. He showed me how to live consciously, to live proactively, to live with purpose. And he showed me that this could be done in the service of a good life, and in his case, a great life.
I remember when Fox News wanted to run a story on World Cyber Games, and Paul Brewer was looking for volunteers from Team USA to do interviews, and Geoff happily signed up. I remember when WCG arranged a reality TV show for competitive gamers, and Geoff pushed to be included. I remember when we played heads up poker and I actually beat him, and he explained that there were two types of poker players who would have made the move I did: experts and idiots. He didn’t specify which category he thought I was in.
Each time I would ask him: how are you so confident about these things? Why do you believe this and not that? And each time he would look at me, and shake his head, and explain why he lived his life the way he did. And that’s what I’ll always remember about him.
I’ll miss you, Geoff.
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Dahita says:
Thank you so much for sharing your experience. We will all miss him.
Awesome article. Thoughtful,well-written. Geoff would be proud.
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Fernandinho enjoying his best season since joining Manchester City
By Mikey Richardson
Fernandinho of Manchester City vs Tottenham Hotspur at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, TN
The 2013/14 Premier League season saw the arrival of Brazilian midfielder Fernandinho at the Etihad stadium.
Four and a half years later, he finds himself with 153 Premier League appearances and one Premier League trophy to his name – and currently on his way to a second.
Back in November, City manager Pep Guardiola lavished praise on his holding midfielder as one of the very best in the world.
“Fernandinho is one of the best, best, best holding midfielders in the world,” Guardiola said ahead of City’s game against Arsenal.
“With his positivity and his mentality – he gives us a lot – with and without the ball, in terms of many things we need to compete.
“Last season we can’t forget he played in full back many times and had no complaints – he tried it and he asked what he had done and how he can improve.
“When that happens and you have a lot of players in the squad with mentality like that you can dream of winning games.”
It isn’t just Fernandinho that Guardiola appears to be having quite the impact on. Some of his previously under-achieving players such as Raheem Sterling and Kevin De Bruyne have also flourished since his arrival at the Etihad.
Speaking to City TV, Fernadinho said he thought he is having his best season so far and feels much of that can be attributed to the manager’s philosophy and guidance.
“The consistency I have had this season for me is very important. I try to play at the same level every game.
“Pep Guardiola played in the same position as me. He knows very well the right way.
“You could see it last season when he joined us. He helped me to improve a lot, especially talking about small details to improve myself.
“This helped me a lot and I am enjoying being part of this team and working under him.”
Over the last few seasons there has been much talk among City fans about Fernandinho being one of the most underrated players in the Premier League.
Although reluctant to be drawn on talking about himself, it’s not only the fans who are talking. Players such as De Bruyne, Aguero and Silva have all stated they wouldn’t have the same effect on a game without the Brazilian midfielder in the team.
City completed 2017 undefeated at the Etihad stadium with the midfielder’s tireless work rate and ability to retrieve the ball back playing a pivotal role – and allowing the attacking players to rack up 114 goals in 2017.
Despite all his recent plaudits it still wasn’t enough to earn him a nomination for November’s player of the month award alongside Nicolas Otamendi, Kevin De Bruyne and the previous month’s winner Raheem Sterling.
During the interview he also touched on what he claims is his obligation as a player who has been at the club nearly five years to help newer players such as Gabriel Jesus and Ederson who may struggle with the language.
Asked about his young daughter set to be a native Manc, he claims his seven-year old son has already begun to get a Mancunian accent and expects his daughter to do the same.
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Socially Italian dining.
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How to get FREE travel to see Manchester United v Chelsea in the FA Cup Final
Unless you’ve spent the last few weeks in a soundproof room or deep in the Amazon rainforest, you’ll know that United are playing Chelsea in the FA Cup Final at Wembley on Saturday, May 19. Kick-off is 5.30 or something ridiculous like that.
This will be United’s 20th appearance in an FA Cup Final. It’s not the first time the teams will have played each other in the final. In 1994, United beat pre-lottery win Chelsea in the pouring rain to complete the double. In 2007, the new, improved Chelsea owned by Roman Abramovich and managed by Jose Mourinho, won 1-0.
A repeat of either final – a big win for United or a victory for the team managed by Jose Mourinho’s – would be an acceptable result.
The late kick-off is for the benefit of a global TV audience and makes getting back home after the match a bit more difficult.
If you don’t fancy the long drive down to Wembley or staying overnight in London, and haven’t managed to book train tickets, how about going by coach?
On-demand coach service Zeelo will take you direct to Wembley where you can enjoy all the action and, hopefully, the trophy presentation because, unlike the train, the return departure time will be delayed so you don’t have to worry about the game going to extra-time or penalties.
Tickets are sent straight to your phone and the direct trip means that you won’t need to worry about parking or crowded public transport after the game.
Zeelo will be organising pick up points for United fans from various locations in the Greater Manchester region including Sale (Washday Road), Stratford (Chester Road), Altrincham (Station House), and Manchester Metropolitan University.
A full list of pick up points for the fixture can be found here.
Zeelo uses data to pop-up coach routes that aim to cut travel times by 30% and keep fares low. All services are run on executive coaches with air-con and a guaranteed seat. Zeelo transports thousands of fans to games every week and also run services for fans across the country.
Early bird tickets for the FA Cup Final start from only £27.99 return. If you are travelling in a large group, get in touch for a discount.
And United fans living in Manchester can travel free direct to Wembley Stadium if they are one of the first 50 people to book by entering the promo code “MANUNITED” on its website here.
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Hold out an olive branch
Government today again holds upper hand vis a vis Naxals. It’s the best time to make peace
Written by Prakash Singh | Updated: August 24, 2018 12:30:50 am
The trajectory of Maoist violence has been showing a downward trend (Express Photo/Praveen Khanna/File)
The Home Minister of India recently claimed that the challenge of Naxalism in the country is on its “last legs”. His assessment stems from the fact that the security forces have been achieving signal successes against the Maoists. Fifteen Maoists were killed in an encounter in the Konta area of Sukma district in Chhattisgarh on August 6. According to the South Asia Terrorism Portal, at least 122 Maoists have been killed across the country in the first six months of 2018. This is the highest number of fatalities suffered by Maoists over the same period during the last eight years. It is also a fact that the total area affected by Naxalism has shrunk to 90 districts of the country. The trajectory of Maoist violence has been showing a downward trend. A number of central committee and politburo members have been neutralised.
The government of India’s National Policy and Action Plan, with its emphasis on security and development, is definitely making an impact. Apart from the construction of roads, mobile towers, setting up of banks, post offices, Kendriya Vidyalayas, etc, the most significant achievement has been in poverty reduction. A recent study published in a Brookings blog says that by 2022, less than 3 per cent of Indians will be poor and that extreme poverty could be eliminated altogether by 2030.
The above trends are, no doubt, positive. It would, however, be naïve to think that we are about to see the end of Naxalism/Maoism in the country. If a historical overview were taken of the movement during the last more than 50 years, there were two occasions in the past when the government of India thought that the Naxal movement had been disintegrated. The split in the party, the joint army-police operations — ‘Operation Steeplechase’, as it was called — from July 1 to August 15, 1971 followed by the arrest and subsequent death of Charu Majumdar on July 28, 1972, gave, what then appeared to be a coup de grace to the movement.
The formation of the People’s War Group in Andhra Pradesh in 1980, however, marked the revival of the movement and the beginning of its second phase. It soon spread to the adjoining states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa and extended to Bihar, West Bengal, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Naxal violence touched a peak in 1991. The movement was again hit hard by coordinated operations undertaken by the security forces in the affected states. Internal dissensions leading to the expulsion of Kondapalli Seetharamaiah weakened it further. The government was lulled into believing that the movement had run its course.
The third phase of the movement began when the left-wing extremists decided, on December 2, 2000, to set up a People’s Guerilla Army. In a comprehensive document Strategy and Tactics of the Indian Revolution, it was said: “We cannot conceive a people’s war without a people’s army”. The merger of the People’s War and the Maoist Communist Centre in 2004 and the resultant formation of the CPI (Maoist) consolidated the left-wing extremists and augmented their strength. The prime minister (Manmohan Singh) said on September 15, 2009, while addressing the police chiefs of the country, that “left-wing extremism is, perhaps, the greatest threat our country faces.” The home minister (P Chidambaram), speaking at the same gathering, stated that Maoist groups had pockets of influence in 20 states across the country and 223 districts in these states were partially or substantially affected.
The government today again holds the upper hand. However, the fact remains that the basic problems which gave rise to the Naxal problem continue to haunt us. It was rightly pointed out by the Expert Group of the Planning Commission back in 2008 that “the development paradigm pursued since Independence has aggravated the prevailing discontent among marginalised sections of society” because “the benefits of this paradigm have been disproportionately cornered by the dominant section at the expense of the poor, who have borne most of the costs”.
It has been said that India has moved from British Raj to Billionaire Raj. India has 119 dollar billionaires, behind only the US and China. At the same time, according to the World Inequality Report, 22 per cent of India’s national income is cornered by the top one per cent. Inequalities have sharpened over the years. Such disparities always have seeds of discontent, which have the potential to explode into a rebellion. It is also a fact that on corruption, according to Transparency International, we have slipped by two positions. Corruption is at the root of several factors which cause popular dissatisfaction. Agrarian unrest continues to cause serious concern. We saw in the month of March this year, the kisan long march from Nashik to Mumbai. There are also reports that the Maoists have made a dent in the Northeast and that they are active at the tri-junction of Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. All these are dangerous portents.
The government of India has two options before it. One, that it goes ahead and crushes the Maoist movement. The possibility, in that case, is that the movement would resurrect again, maybe in a new avtar, which could be even more lethal and devastating than what we have seen so far. The other option is to offer the olive branch to the Maoist leaders and carry out sincere measures to redress grievances, particularly those relating to tribals.
Any offer of peace from a position of strength is always credible and has greater chance of success. Perhaps the present situation offers an ideal opportunity to solve the problem and save the future generations from the anger and frustrations of a disgruntled and disaffected group of people. The government will, of course, have to be careful that the Maoists do not use the peace period to gain time and regroup their forces.
The writer, chairman of India Police Foundation, was member of Planning Commission’s Expert Group to study ‘Development Challenges in Extremist Affected Areas’
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