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Hitman sneaks onto Linux to strengthen its library of games
By Darren Allan 17 February 2017
The latest in a long line of big-name ports
Linux is increasingly becoming a viable gaming platform, with more and more big-name titles gracing the open source ecosystem, the latest of those being Hitman.
The port of this episodic stealth action-adventure game was produced by Feral Interactive, and is available to purchase now on the developer’s own store, or on Steam.
You can get the complete first season – which incorporates episodes one through six, and a bonus episode – at half price right now, so instead of £40 (around $50, AU$65), you’re looking at an outlay of £20 (around $25, AU$32). Do note that this offer ends after the weekend, on February 20.
Buy Hitman: The Complete First Season for Linux on Steam here
Or if you prefer, you can purchase individual episodes separately, and start with the intro pack – the latter contains the prologue and episode one, and is currently half price at £5.49 (around $6.80, AU$8.90).
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If you’re not familiar with the long-running series, in Hitman the player assumes the role of an assassin who must dispatch targets across the globe.
It’s an open-world game where you get plenty of freedom to decide exactly how best to do the job, including stealthy means like donning disguises, picking locks, or making deaths look like ‘accidents’. Yes, pianos can have an unfortunate habit of rolling out of fourth-storey windows (subsidence, sloping floors… you know how it is).
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There have been plenty of high-profile games making their way onto Linux recently – we only have to look back to last week to witness the release of Civilization VI for the platform.
The heavyweight strategy affair joined the swelling ranks of other well-known recent introductions to Linux including Rocket League, Tomb Raider, XCOM 2, Dying Light: The Following, and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
Driving fans will also be pleased to hear that DiRT Rally is due to arrive at the start of next month. It’s certainly clear that Linux gaming, which used to be a barren desert compared to Windows, is going from strength to strength.
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91% of Cyber Attacks Start with a Phishy Email
Everybody has heard of hacking. Movies and tv shows like “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and “Scorpion” have glamorized it, organisations such as the National Cyber Security Centre have warned of the terrors of it and many businesses like ours, offer cybersecurity services to combat it.
But, despite all of the media attention it receives, hacking, how it is carried out, and its implications are largely unknown. With the age-old saying, “prevention is better than cure” in mind, we seek to inform you of how cyber attacks occur so that you and your business can take measures against them.
So, what exactly is hacking? Well, simply put and as defined by The Economic Times,
“Hacking is an attempt to exploit a computer system or a private network inside a computer…it is unauthorised access to or control over computer network security systems for some illicit purpose.”
Despite its frightening definition, and even more frightening impacts, hacking does not normally receive the attention it deserves. This is surprising when we consider how of the 15 largest data breaches in history, 10 took place in the last decade, according to The Business Insider.
But when we think of data breaches, it is not always hacking that comes to mind. Perhaps one of the most extensively publicized breaches in history was the Cambridge Analytica Scandal. Once a reputable and now scandal-ridden data analytics company, Cambridge Analytica harvested millions of voters data and used it to influence elections and political events across the world.
Although the devastating impacts of this scandal are indisputable, it is not a stand-alone incident.
There have been many other data breaches of a relatively similar scale that seemed to have slipped under the radar.
Even if we turn to moz.com and look at the data behind this. The phrase “Cambridge Analytica’ receives between 11,500 and 30,300 searches every month.
The word “hacking”, on the other hand, only receives between 2,900 and 4,300 searches per month.
This is shocking when we consider that hacking and cyberattacks unless specifically combated against, have the potential to target everybody from a multinational corporation to a small privately held business. This blog post aims to bring to light the hacking incidents that many companies hoped you would forget.
The Yahoo data breach of 2014 (reported in 2016), did, admittedly, garner some attention. Most people know that Yahoo’s system was compromised, that data was stolen and that if you met very specific criteria you may have even received some compensation because of it. However, very few know what exactly happened.
According to CSO Online, the FBI claim that this multi-billion dollar data breach originated from a single spear-phishing email sent to a Yahoo employee. Although it is unclear how many targeted emails were sent and to whom, it only takes one wrong click to propel a hack into motion. The detailed analysis by CSO Online revealed that the hacker required only two key tools; Yahoo’s user database and the Account Management Tool used to edit it.
Following this, the hacker installed a backdoor so that they could re-access Yahoo’s system. A couple of months later, in December of 2014, the hacker copied Yahoo’s database onto their own computer and generated cookies to target victims that were of particular interest to their deep-pocketed buyer. Source: CSO Online
But what were the impacts of this?
Well, the hacker gained access to roughly 500 million accounts, according to CSO Online, and generated cookies for approximately 6,500 accounts. Nat Law Review claims that the next day Yahoo’s stock price dropped by 3% and the company subsequently lost $1.3 billion in market capitalisation. Perhaps most pivotally, the company had to pay $35 million to the US Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to disclose the security breach in 2014, according to The Irish Times.
Although the argument can be made that the Yahoo data breach occurred in 2014, before technology was so advanced and before people really understood the value of data, such large scale data breaches are not a thing of the past. It wasn’t until 2018 that Marriott disclosed the data breach that it endured. In a detailed report by The Washington Post, it was revealed that hackers gained access to the Starwood Guest Reservation System (which merged with Marriott in 2016) in 2014. CSO Online confirmed that Marriott has not released the exact details pertaining to how the attack was carried out, however, the testimony of Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson did confirm that the attack was detected after “a query [was made] from an administrator’s account…we [then] learned that the individual whose credentials were used had not actually made the query”.
Sorenson confirmed that Remote Access Trojan (RAT) and Minikatz, a tool for “sniffing out username/password combos in system memory” (source: CSO Online) were the two key tools used. Owing to the nature of these tools, it is likely that the hack originated from a phishing email and one wrong click.
The epidemic of phishing attacks may come as a surprise to most, however, it is far more common than you may think. According to our partner VadeSecure, 71% of all emails sent in 2017 included malware, phishing, CEO fraud, and spam. Moreover, 91% of cyberattacks start with an email.
But what were the impacts of the attack?
The greatest impact that emerges from this data breach is the amount of customer data that has been stolen. The Washington Post report that everything from “familiar information — such as names, addresses, credit card numbers, and phone numbers — and also rarer prizes for hackers, such as passport numbers, travel locations, and arrival and departure dates” was accessed. This is particularly valuable for those wishing to track the movements of diplomats or business executives (source: The Washington Post). Sorenson claims that 383 million guest records were involved in the attack and that roughly 18.5 million encrypted passport numbers had been downloaded. He admits it is likely that some of the guest records are duplicates, however, because of the nature of the data, it is challenging to de-duplicate them.
This hack has not only exposed guest’s personal data, but it has also exposed Marriott to several class-action lawsuits (source: CSO Online) and a £99 million fine by The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office, according to RTE.
However, it is not just large multinationals that fall victim to cyberattacks and data breaches. In fact, the latest report by the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) Threat Landscape Report found that 61% of breaches in 2018 affected organisations with fewer than 1,000 employees. (Source: IT Governance).
While attacks on small businesses may not receive as much publicity as those on larger corporations, they are still extremely prevalent. According to Small Business Trends and Symantec’s 2016 Internet Security Threat Report, 43% of cyber attacks target small businesses.
This is unsurprising when we consider that “only 28 percent of the companies represented in this study rate their ability to mitigate threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks as highly effective.” Source: 2018 State of Cybersecurity in Small & Medium Size Businesses
However, perhaps what is most shocking about attacks on small and medium-sized businesses is the devastating impacts they can have. The aforementioned 2018 report detailed how companies spent an average of $1.43 million in 2018 in the aftermath of an attack.
As well as this, U.S National Cyber Security Alliance found that 60 percent of small companies go out of business within just 6 months of sustaining a cyberattack.
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Our CEO, Andrew Tobin, recently discussed the details of a cyberattack that targeted the CFO of a small business he knows. Andrew outlined how the company’s CFO received an email which “included all the original thread of dealing with a supplier” and simply requested that the company noted the updated IBAN on the invoice. He notes how the email had a previous trail that was legitimate and that simply, “it was intercepted…but it looked one hundred percent correct in relation to the invoice…everything was perfect”.This example illustrates how easy it is to fall victim to an attempted phishing attack.
Even private individuals are not immune to attack. Andrew also noted an attack he learned of shortly after making a presentation at an IT Security Conference. He received a call from quite a distressed woman who explained to him how she had just fallen victim to a spear-phishing attack (an email sent by cybercriminals that specifically targeted her). Andrew explained that she had been renovating her home, “she got an invoice from the builder for 22,000 euros…everything looked 100% legitimate”. She transferred the money, unaware that she had been targeted and, upon realising she had been defrauded, contacted the police. “The police say that the money [had been] transferred to a bank in Cork…it was transferred to London and then it was taken out over ATMs” Andrew explained, “There is no recourse…the money is gone”.
The impacts that hacking can have are truly devastating. They can cost everyone from wealthy multinationals to ordinary private citizens great deals of money and hardship. Unfortunately, the statistics speak for themselves and with 91% of cyberattacks starting with just an email (source: VadeSecure), it is absolutely essential to mitigate against attacks.
Find out more about how you can protect yourself and your business with improved email security or have your company’s Cyber Security Vulnerabilities Assessed.
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Post-Brexit Britain has a vital role to play in bringing Nato back together
Con Coughlin
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
23 October 2019 • 6:00am
Relations between Turkey's President Erdogan and Russia's Vladimir Putin have greatly concerned members of the alliance
These are troubling times for those of us who believe a strong Nato alliance is vital to defending the well-being of the western democracies.
On Nato’s western flank, we have an American president who, through his peremptory abandonment of the Syrian Kurds, has demonstrated that he views alliances in purely transactional terms – i.e. they are worth committing to only so long as they work to America’s advantage.
Then, to the east, we have Turkey, the alliance’s second largest military power, playing footsie with Russian President Vladimir Putin who, according to Nato’s latest assessment, constitutes the gravest threat to European security.
And, in the middle, you have a number of important European powers that do not have the slightest intention of fulfilling their basic membership obligations, such as providing adequate funding for the organisation’s defence requirements.
Small wonder that, as Nato marks its 70th anniversary this year, questions persist as to whether the alliance still has the resilience to survive the challenges that lie ahead.
Mr Putin, for one, would be delighted to see the back of Nato, an organisation he holds responsible for the West’s encroachment into Russia’s “near abroad”, with east European countries that once suffered under the yoke of Soviet oppression now prospering under the auspices of Nato membership. The Russian leader’s meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Moscow yesterday needs to be seen in the context of Mr Putin’s desire to destabilise Nato.
Turkey and Russia said they had reached an accommodation over Syria, where Mr Erdoğan is determined to create his “safe zone” at the expense of the Syrian Kurds. But on other issues, such as arms sales, the two leaders clearly have a rapport, as demonstrated by Ankara’s recent purchase of Russia’s S-400 anti-aircraft system – which, incidentally, was designed specifically to shoot down Nato warplanes.
Mr Erdogan’s insistence on persevering with the deal has drawn sharp criticism from Washington, which has responded by cancelling Turkey’s purchase of F-35 fighter jets.
There is also the small matter of Mr Erdogan announcing, on the eve of his Moscow visit, that he wants Turkey to “follow Iran” and build a nuclear weapons arsenal. The prospect of Turkey becoming a nuclear power is truly a concept that is guaranteed to give Nato leaders sleepless nights.
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At the same time the potency of the Russian threat has been underlined by the joint investigation by Britain and the US into how a Russian cyberattack unit succeeded in posing as Iranian hackers to launch attacks against 35 countries, thereby enabling them to cover their tracks.
Mr Trump’s antipathy towards Nato stems from a different set of concerns, not least the refusal of key member states, such as Germany, to meet their fair share of Nato’s financial burden. Even Britain, whose defence budget barely makes it above the minimum Nato 2 per cent of GDP spending requirement, is not immune from the Trump administration’s complaint that Europe is relying too heavily on America to defend its interests.
At one point, Mr Trump’s disaffection with Nato is even said to have prompted the president to question whether it was still in America’s interests to retain its membership of the alliance, a view that put him at odds with his former defence secretary, General James Mattis.
In other circumstances, these mounting threats to Nato’s well-being would provide Britain with an excellent opportunity to use its clout to repair the fissures in the transatlantic alliance, thereby ensuring there is a unity of purpose in acting for the greater good. Prior to Brexit, for example, Britain was instrumental in steering its European partners away from their obsession with creating a Euro-centric defence force, which was viewed in Washington as a rival to Nato.
Alas, thanks to the endless political manoeuvering at Westminster over Brexit, Britain’s ability to engage fully on any other global issue is negligible, whether it is safeguarding the Nato alliance or coming to the aid of the Syrian Kurds who, until Mr Trump’s intervention earlier this month, were among our most valued allies in the Middle East.
For Britain to reclaim its historic position as a key power-broker when disputes arise in the Western alliance, it is vital that the seemingly endless debate over Brexit is resolved at the earliest opportunity, and the Government fulfils the democratic will of the British people, as expressed in the 2016 referendum, and completes our withdrawal from the EU.
As has often been said during the Brexit debate, Britain’s departure from the EU does not mean that the country is turning its back on Europe. On the contrary, a Britain free to pursue its own destiny could prove far more valuable in safeguarding the security of Europe through important institutions like Nato.
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Henry Moore's 'Old Flo' belongs to east London council, High Court rules
New mayor of Tower Hamlets scraps disgraced predecessor's decision to sell public sculpture
Gareth Harris
9th July 2015 12:27 GMT
The legal owner of Henry Moore's sculpture Draped Seated Woman (1957-58) is Tower Hamlets Council, the High Court in London ruled yesterday, 8 July, ending a long-running legal battle with Bromley Council over the work.
The former mayor of the east London borough, Lutfur Rahman consigned the work to auction in February 2013. But the sale was postponed after the Art Fund charity and the Museum of London discovered evidence that suggested ownership of the sculpture lay with Bromley Council in south London. Rahman was removed from office in April after being found guilty of wrongdoing by the Election Commissioner.
The newly elected Labour mayor, John Biggs, says: “I want to reiterate my intention to reverse the previous mayor’s decision to sell Henry Moore’s sculpture, Draped Seated Woman.” He says that the work of public art “belongs to the people of east London and should be available locally for public enjoyment”.
The sculpture, known as "Old Flo", was bought by London County Council for £6,000 in 1962, and sited at the working class Stifford Estate in east London until 1997, when Yorkshire Sculpture Park borrowed the piece. It remains on public display at the park in the north of England.
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What a Border-Wall GoFundMe Campaign Says About America
A far-fetched online fund-raiser shows the lengths to which Americans will go to circumvent the country’s broken systems.
Amanda Mull
A fence at the United States border with Mexico in TijuanaMario Tama / Getty
The federal government has partially shut down, and Donald Trump still doesn’t have money for a border wall. Earlier this week, the president rejected a funding bill that would keep nine federal departments operational, and Congress scrambled to find a fix by a deadline of midnight on Friday—but to no avail. The rejected bill didn’t include a desired $5 billion for Trump’s long-promised wall along America’s southern border.
With control of the House of Representatives set to switch to the Democrats in the new year, the odds that Trump will secure money for the wall in the near future have been dwindling. In an effort to fill that gap, several crowdfunding campaigns have popped up to collect money for the wall directly from Trump supporters online, with the purported intent of passing that money to the White House or the Department of Homeland Security. The most successful one, a GoFundMe started by an Iraq War veteran with a background in Facebook accounts that trafficked in conspiracy theories, has raised more than $14 million. It aims to raise at least $1 billion.
Even though 10 figures in raised funds would be a new frontier, it’s the logical extreme toward which online crowdfunding has been headed. What started less than a decade ago with Kickstarter campaigns to raise money for new businesses has become a way for people to pay down medical debt or avoid eviction. During the midterms, crowdfunding allowed people to find and directly support candidates in the most contentious races across the country.
Individuals start or contribute to crowdfunding campaigs for their own reasons, but on a collective scale, Americans’ willingness to pitch in 20 bucks to a stranger online is among the defining phenomena of 2018. Its popularity is made possible by two intersecting realizations: Some of the vital structural underpinnings of life in the U.S. don’t work very well, and the ideas that end up mattering most are often those with money behind them.
Medical debt in particular helped online crowdfunding turn the corner from being mainly a project of personal desire to something both darker and more political. Debilitating health-care costs manifest as an individual problem, but they’re generally the result of flawed systems far beyond the control of the people who receive those bills. Even for those with insurance, bills can be overwhelming. And many people’s savings are running dry in general: A 2017 Federal Reserve study found that 44 percent of American adults don’t have even $400 in cash on hand in case of an emergency. That exposes a growing number of people to the sort of precariousness that can make crowdfunding attractive.
Read: The secret shame of middle-class Americans
People often think of the practical issues associated with medical problems as primarily affecting Americans who are older and, as a result, may be in worse health. But medical debt disproportionately impacts Millennials, at least in part because young people get kicked off their parents’ insurance at age 26. Young people are also more likely to be classified as independent contractors at work, and contractors rarely have access to employer-subsidized insurance. What Millennials do have, though, is a generally strong grasp of social media’s dynamics and uses, which means the best way for them to deal with the structural failures of American medical care may indeed be to leverage their online connections and cobble together the needed funds piece by piece.
Identifying who has money, who needs it, and how it can be redistributed to help the most people is also a primary project of socialism, a political ideology that has gained significant ground among young liberals in recent years. Crowdfunding, in a way, serves as a person-to-person shortcut to live those ideals in a time when structural power opposes them: People with a little extra money can give it directly to those who need a little extra, without the services of an unreliable third party.
But it isn’t just young people and the political left who have dwindling confidence in the structures that have long animated American life. The border wall, a central policy goal of Trump and his supporters, couldn’t get funded during the two years that Republicans controlled both the executive and legislative branches of the federal government. To circumvent congressional gridlock, supporters have turned to nongovernment funding alternatives, a choice that gives them potential access to a privilege previously accessible only to the very wealthy: treating large-scale government projects that will affect millions of people like personal hobbies. That’s true even if raising a significant portion of Trump’s desired $5 billion seems unlikely. (The people running the two largest border-wall crowdfunding campaigns didn’t immediately return requests for comment.)
Whether or not raising money directly from Trump supporters can fund the entire wall misses the point, though. The goals of politically motivated crowdfunding go beyond practicality. Access to funding is access to power in America, and as that access becomes increasingly unequal, demonstrating an idea’s popularity via visible, public fund-raising can be a tool of consolidating that power.
The border wall is the most recent example of this idea writ large, but a few months ago, a GoFundMe to support Christine Blasey Ford’s personal-security needs in the lead-up to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings raised nearly $650,000, more than four times its goal. Money is one of the few ways to do or say anything with impact in America, and acknowledging that may be one of the most nonpartisan ideas we have left.
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What the Strauss-Kahn Case Means for Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance
Depending on who you talk to the case is either a career-ender or a triumph
This article is from the archive of our partner .
It remains to be seen whether the New York Post's prediction that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance will drop the sexual assault charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn will come true. But whether they continue with the case or not, the fact that his prosecutors threw the accuser (who was also their primary witness) under the bus by discounting her credibility on Friday has made Vance the subject of speculation for many who say he acted inappropriately in bringing the prosecution too early. There are also those who say he acted appropriately in charging the case when he did. And plenty have posited that the Strauss-Kahn saga will be a death knell for Vance's prosecution career, one and a half years into the job, whether it was appropriate to bring the charges or not. Here's the gist of those arguments.
Vance made a mistake in bringing the case too soon. The New York Times' Michael Powell was among the first to attach the word "botch" to the Strauss-Kahn prosecution when he wrote in a column on Friday that "he might want to nail down each detail before slapping on the cuffs." On Saturday, The Times followed up with a more formal news report indicating the same thing. Gerald L. Shargel, who worked on Vance's 2009 election campaign, told The Times, "What’s most curious is hearing the line prosecutors saying early on that they had a strong case, a very strong case ... Obviously, they hadn’t looked very hard. I have enormous respect for Cy as a prosecutor, but this is like a series of bad dreams." The main criticism is that Vance failed to seal his case before he went after a very high-profile target, and that the all-but-failed prosecution is going to backfire on him because he now looks like he didn't presume innocence. In Reason, Tim Cavanaugh wrote, "Presumption of innocence is serious business, and the penumbral right not to have your reputation ruined by crusading prosecutors is also somewhat serious."
Vance did the right thing by bringing charges with the evidence he had. The Times' Joe Nocera has been the loudest and clearest to voice this point of view:
For the life of me, though, I can’t see what Vance did wrong. Quite the contrary. The woman alleged rape, for crying out loud, which was backed up by physical (and other) evidence. She had no criminal record. Her employer vouched for her. The quick decision to indict made a lot of sense, both for legal and practical reasons. Then, as the victim’s credibility crumbled, Vance didn’t try to pretend that he still had a slam dunk, something far too many prosecutors do. He acknowledged the problems.
And even as his overall story pointed out the knocks to Vance's career, Crains New York writer Shane Dixon Kavanaugh quotes Columbia University professor Dan Richman, who also suggests Vance acted appropriately:
“In a case where a quick arrest is necessary, the risk of information surfacing that radically undercuts one's case is always present for a prosecutor,” Mr. Richman said. “What we expect is not certainty from the start, but good judgment and a readiness to reassess the evidence as it comes. That seems to be happening here, and Vance should be applauded for it.”
And The Daily Beast's Peter Beinart holds up the prosecution's announcement last week as a triumph of American justice. "Even in today’s United States, prosecutors regularly withhold exculpatory evidence: it happened in the Duke Lacrosse rape case and in the prosecution of former senator Ted Stevens. That did not happen here. Which is to say, the system worked."
Whether or not it was appropriate, this case spells the end of Vance's still-young political career. In an editorial on Saturday, the New York Daily News wrote that Vance's "credibility is on the line" now that his office has publicly reversed course about the strength of its case against Strauss-Kahn. That piece, along with many others, points out the string of defeats Vance's office has suffered recently, including the acquittal of two New York City police officers on rape charges and more acquittals in prosecutions against construction supervisors at the former Deutsche Bank building, where two firefighters died in a blaze in 2007. The New York Post also took a swipe at Vance's future, comparing him to his predecessor in a scathing story on Saturday. "One thing is becoming increasingly -- and painfully -- obvious: Cy Vance is no Bob Morgenthau." And The Times noted that "Several [prosecutors] said they worried that cases were often pursued with an excessive focus on whether they would generate publicity. Some said Mr. Vance had taken away the discretion of midlevel prosecutors, sometimes to the detriment of cases." In his column for Scripps Howard News Service, Dan Thomasson made the point that the Strauss-Kahn prosecution actually damaged the reputation of U.S. justice worldwide.
By all accounts, Strauss-Kahn has engaged in prior aggressive sexual behavior toward women. That made him vulnerable. If he indeed had a consensual sexual encounter with this woman, his judgment clearly is not what it should be. But that is not enough to convict him. The rush to judgment by Vance also may have damaged America's image as a place of equal justice.
But Vance still may win this round. Almost nobody is taking this tack, but Mogulite posted an item today with an unnamed source saying that the Post story was bunk. "According to our source, prosecutors will continue on with the investigation, as they indicated on Friday when Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest." But while the Post identifies its source as "a top investigator in the case," Mogulite didn't identify its source at all. So far this morning, the case against Strauss-Kahn looks shakier than ever.
This article is from the archive of our partner The Wire.
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The Endocannabinoid System (ECS)
By Yanna Jo
The Endocannabinoid System (ECS) is an internal, biological, neuro-regulatory system that is directly related to the cannabis plant, because of the production of endocannabinoids, which are endogenous lipid-based neurotransmitters that bind to cannabinoid receptors and cannabinoid receptor proteins, expressed throughout the vertebral central and peripheral nervous system (including the brain). ECS is involved in the regulation of a variety of physiological and cognitive processes, including fertility, pregnancy, pre- and postnatal development, appetite, pain, mood and memory. It also participates in the mediation of some of the physiological and cognitive effects of volunteer physical exercise on humans and other animals, such as the contribution to euphoria caused by exercise, as well as the regulation of physical activity.
Squids, tiny nematoids and all vertebrate species all have cannabinoid systems. It is an essential part of their lives and their adaptation to environmental changes. By comparing cannabinoid genetics in different species, scientists estimate that the endocannabinoid system evolved in primitive animals 600 million years ago.
The existence of this system was discovered, within the scientific community, in the 1960s but only in 1988 its structure and operation were systematically recorded and clarified.
Two types of primary endocannabinoid receptors have been identified: CB1, discovered in 1990 and CB2, discovered in 1993.
The CB1 receptor is a G protein-coupled cannabinoid receptor that in humans is encoded by the CNR1 gene. CB1 regulates the release of neurotransmitters when activated. The CB1 receptor is expressed pre-synaptically at both glutaminergic and GABA interneurons and, in effect, acts as a neuromodulator to inhibit release of glutamate and GABA. It is activated by cannabinoids naturally produced in the body (endocannabinoids) or introduced into the body by cannabis or a related synthetic compound.
The CB2 receptor is a G protein-coupled receptor, which in humans is encoded by the CNR2 gene. Approximately 360 amino acids comprise the human CB2 receptor, making it somewhat shorter than the 473-amino-acid-long CB1 receptor. CB2 receptors are also known to be bound to a complex and highly conserved signal transport pathway, which decisively regulates a number of important cellular processes for maturity and tissue growth.
The CB1 receptors, located mainly in the brain and the nervous system, as well as in the peripheral organs and tissues, are the main molecular target of the endocannabinoid ligand Anadamide, and the phytocannabinoid mimic of it, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Another key endocannabinoid is 2-arachidylglycerol (2-AG), which acts in both receptors, along with its own mimetic phytocannabinoid, CBD. 2-AG and CBD are involved in the regulation of appetite, immune system functions and pain management.
A functional endocannabinoid system leads to homeostasis and is essential for good health. Unlike synthetic derivatives, cannabis herb may contain over a hundred different cannabinoids, including THC, all of which work collaboratively to provide better medical results.
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CBDT notice worries Mahindra Satyam staff
K.V. Kurmanath G. Naga Sridhar Hyderabad | Updated on March 26, 2011 Published on March 26, 2011
Mr Hari T, Chief People's Officer, Mahindra Satyam (file photo): K. Ramesh Babu - Business Line
The Central Board of Direct Taxes' notice on Mahindra Satyam to pay Rs 616 crore in tax arrears for the scam period of 2002-2008, and the Andhra Pradesh High Court ruling to freeze the company's accounts have come as a rude shock to the employees of the crisis-hit company.
“The amount in question is not small. It might impact the bottomline if we are to pay the amount,” Mr Srinivas Reddy (name changed), an employee, told Business Line.
The employees are also worried because the pay day is fast approaching.
On Friday, the High Court refrained Mahindra Satyam and the Income Tax Department from accessing the former's bank accounts. The company was asked to give an undertaking stating that it would not touch the accounts till March 31.
Meanwhile, the management wrote a letter to all its employees across the globe that they were on the right side of the case and there was nothing to worry. “You will read further media articles on this issue tomorrow, elaborating on the matter of frozen bank accounts. While the amount sought to be recovered is about Rs 616 crore, the balances in our bank accounts are far in excess of the tax demands,” said Mr Hari T, Chief People's Officer of Mahindra Satyam.
The letter was written a day before the court took the decision to freeze the bank accounts.
“Our decision to contest the CBDT order is based on our conviction on this issue. All these will not impair our ability to run the day-to-day operations in any way,” he said.
“This issue (tax demand from IT Department) is true and we are dealing with the same at the highest level. In principle, MSat has taken a position that the recovery order is unfair. We have decided to seek judicial remedy,” he said.
Mr Hari said the staff need not worry about their salaries. “We have funds to meet the pay day requirements,” he said.
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Astro A03 In-Ear Monitor review
The Astro A03 is a solid, inexpensive set of gaming earbuds for almost any system
By Marshall Honorof 07 December 2020
(Image: © Astro)
The Astro A03 In-Ear Monitor brings signature Astro sound to a set of stylish gaming earbuds, even if the fit could be a little better.
Good gaming sound
Bold color schemes
Compatible with almost everything
Imperfect fit
So-so music performance
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Astro A03 In-Ear Monitor specs
Compatibility: PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Switch (handheld), mobile
Drivers: 9 mm
Frequency Response: 20 Hz – 20 kHz
Wireless: No
Connection: 3.5 mm
The Astro A03 In-Ear Monitor is a pleasant reminder that while there are no perfect gaming earbuds on the market yet, there are plenty of very good ones. While full-size gaming headsets get most of the love, gaming earbuds are ideal for the player who doesn’t want to deal with bulky hardware, either at home or (especially) on the go. While the A03 doesn’t do anything radical from a design perspective, it sounds great and doesn’t cost much money.
Granted, the A03 still suffers from a number of common earbud problems. How well they fit is highly dependent on the shape of your ears, and a 3.5 mm audio jack is admittedly less useful now than it was a few years ago. The A03 also doesn’t handle music quite as well as I hoped. But while it may not be one of the best gaming headsets for everyone, at $50, it’s a good device, and one that elegantly splits the difference between a gaming peripheral and an everyday accessory. Read our full Astro A03 In-Ear Monitor review for more details.
Astro A03 In-Ear Monitor review: Design
The Astro A03 looks like a lot of other earbuds on the market. The cord is almost four feet long, making them easy to hook up to any laptop, mobile device or console controller. The earbuds themselves have a cool metallic sheen with a tasteful Astro logo on the outside. You can choose among three different tip sizes for each earbud.
(Image credit: Astro)
On the left earbud’s cord, you’ll find a control panel with three buttons: volume up, mute and volume down. It’s a straightforward design, and I especially like that you can get it in either a stylish blue-and-red or a more muted white-and-purple.
If I have one complaint about the A03, it’s that the design is already a little dated, as modern devices go. Headphone jacks are, unfortunately, a little passé in high-end smartphones, and USB-C is also now an option on most gaming desktops and laptops. Granted, a USB-C connection would have prevented the A03 from working with console controllers, but including an adapter might have helped.
Astro A03 In-Ear Monitor review: Comfort
It’s always tough to evaluate comfort for earbuds, and the Astro A03 is no exception. Unlike most gaming headsets, which slide over your ears no matter how they’re shaped, earbuds are highly dependent on your ears’ unique geometry. Generally speaking, earbuds don’t fit me well, and neither did the A03. The middle-sized tips felt like they were constantly on the verge of falling out, but the small tips did fall out, and the large ones couldn’t get inside my ears at all. I was stuck between one size that didn’t fit well, and two sizes that didn’t fit at all. This complaint isn’t unique to the A03, but still worth noting.
As such, I couldn’t wear the A03s for long; something about the fit in my left ear, in particular, made the experience nearly painful, even after short gameplay sessions. I won’t say that the fit is a dealbreaker, since I understand that my ears are unusually unreceptive to earbuds, but the A03 is simply not going to be a comfortable option for a lot of gamers.
Astro A03 In-Ear Monitor review: Performance
First off, the good news: the Astro A03 provides absolutely wonderful sound for games, regardless of platform. I tested the A03 with a PC, PS5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch (handheld mode) and Android phone just to make sure that its performance was consistent. The A03 handled every game beautifully, balancing clear treble with surprisingly rich bass. This is because each earbud contains two drivers — a rarity among cheap earbuds, although not so unusual in more expensive models.
I was especially impressed with how the A03 handled the eerie, atmospheric sound effects in PS5’s Demon’s Souls, and the deep, resonant gunfire and explosions in Gears of War: Ultimate Edition on the Xbox Series X. But whether I was controlling armies in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition on the PC or building up my team in Tales of Crestoria on Android, games sounded rich and resonant.
This is why it’s somewhat strange that the A03 doesn’t have great music performance. Even with its dual drivers, the bass sounded unimpressive when I listened to tracks from Flogging Molly, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Rolling Stones and G.F. Handel. Music had a flat, muted soundscape that stood in stark contrast to how the earbuds handled games.
Astro A03 In-Ear Monitor review: Features
Since the Astro A03 functions via a 3.5mm audio connection, it has relatively few special features. There’s no software, surround sound mode or equalization options — you can plug it in to listen, and unplug it when you’re done. That’s about it.
The one interesting feature of the A03 is its control panel on the left earbud cord. The volume and mute controls work on Windows PCs and mobile devices but not on consoles, so they’re useful only about half of the time. Not being able to see them when the earbuds are in use is also a slight problem, although the buttons are big and distinct, so it’s not as bad as on some competing models.
The mic is also fine, providing audio quality roughly on a par with a typical phone call. It’s good enough for either online play or everyday conversations.
Astro A03 In-Ear Monitor review: Verdict
Our Astro A03 In-Ear Monitor review discussed how this set of gaming earbuds provides great gaming sound at a reasonable price. However, it can be tough to get a comfortable fit – at least depending on the shape of your ears — and music performance is strangely subpar.
Still, gaming earbuds are a mixed bag in general, and it’s good to see Astro put out a product with uniformly solid performance and design. If you want games to sound great but don’t want a huge peripheral to engulf your whole head, the A03 will get the job done at a fraction of the weight. They’re also easy enough to stash in your pocket, thanks to a handy carrying case that comes in the box.
Due to its sound quality, I prefer the A03 over the Razer Hammerhead or the HyperX Cloud Earbuds, but they’re all in the same price range, and all have some pros and cons. Whichever one you choose, at least you can be sure that it won’t weigh — or cost — much.
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Home Media Releases New learning areas for Science and Art for Rivergum Christian College
New learning areas for Science and Art for Rivergum Christian College
Students and staff at Rivergum Christian College in Glossop will have full use of newly refurbished learning areas for Science and Art thanks to funding from the Coalition Government.
Member for Barker Tony Pasin officially opened the new facility yesteday on behalf of the Federal Government.
“It was great to visit Rivergum Christian College and see the new facilities firsthand and the impact they will have on students’ learning potential,” Mr Pasin said.
The Coalition Government delivered $105,000 in funding from the Capital Grants Program.
Mr Pasin said students and the whole school community would benefit from these new facilities.
“The Coalition Government is committed to putting science, technology, engineering and mathematics at the heart of school education. It’s critical to our nation’s future that more students study science and maths subjects.”
“These new learning spaces take into account the latest in educational research and will see students learn more effectively.”
“This is part of our commitment to ensuring students have the support they need to succeed in the classroom,” said Mr Pasin.
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Trump Attempts to Fire Amy Coney Barrett
By Andy Borowitz
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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—A furious Donald J. Trump attempted to fire the Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, sources report.
According to the sources, Trump was so irate about the Supreme Court’s dismissal of his election challenge on Tuesday that he phoned Barrett directly to inform her that she was “history.”
“I hired you to get a job done, and you didn’t get it done,” Trump angrily informed Barrett. “You’re out of here.”
Sources say that Barrett had the unenviable task of informing Trump that Supreme Court Justices are appointed for life and therefore cannot be fired, a revelation that left Trump “flabbergasted.”
“If I can’t fire anybody I want, maybe I don’t want to be President anymore,” he reportedly muttered.
Andy Borowitz is a Times best-selling author and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998. He writes The Borowitz Report, a satirical column on the news.
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Delbert Hill Aug. 24, 1961 – July 6, 2020
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Delbert Hill, 58, of Tehachapi, passed away on July 6. He was born on Aug. 24, 1961 in Memphis, Tenn. to Cullie Clayton Hill, Jr. and Sue Hill.
A longtime resident of Tehachapi, Del worked in the community at several local establishments over the years, including Domino's Pizza, the Hitching Post Theaters, and most recently, Walgreens. It was from his time spent with Walgreens where most of his local community will remember him. He has spent years dedicating himself to his work and making each person that he interacted with feel special.
Del was a simple man by his own recognition. He was a "work, home, and church guy." He dedicated himself to his work, his home and family, and the Lord he loved.
As a young man, Delbert battled with drug addiction, but attributed the sudden and rapid turning-around of his life to God and renewed his walk of faith. Although he was not proud of his struggles during his younger years, he never failed to use the wisdom gained from his mistakes to minister to, and positively impact those around him.
Del was a member of Summit Christian Fellowship. He was devoted to his faith and enjoyed praising the Lord and sharing the gospel through music. Del was a fantastic singer and guitar player, and proud member of the church worship team.
Preceded in passing by his sister, Mary Catherine Hill, Del is survived by his son, Michael Hill; daughter, Jennifer Stewart; sisters, Patsy Venegas, Billie Swanson, and Reina Andrews; brother, Ronald Hill; grandson, Damien Stewart; and granddaughter, Savannah Stewart.
A memorial service will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Del's name to Summit Christian Fellowship, 414 South Curry Street, Tehachapi, Calif. 93561. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to the care of Wood Family Funeral Service in Tehachapi. Condolences can be made online at http://www.woodmortuary.net. Please visit the funeral home's website for service updates as well.
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Federal Prisons Will Prioritize Staff, Not Prisoners, for COVID-19 Vaccine, Sources Say
A coronavirus vaccine is coming, and the federal prison system is among the first government entities that are set to receive it. Seeing as there have been numerous reports documenting the threat COVID-19 poses to people in prison, this should be welcome news. There’s only one problem: Sources say that prison staff will be prioritized for receiving the first batch of vaccines despite the inmate population being significantly more vulnerable to infection.
These sources—who spoke under the conditions of anonymity—told the Associated Press that the federal Bureau of Prisons has informed wardens and prison staff that they will receive the vaccine within weeks.
From AP:
The internal Bureau of Prisons documents, obtained by the AP, say initial allotments of the vaccine “will be reserved for staff.” It was not immediately clear how many doses would be made available to the Bureau of Prisons.
As of Monday, there were 3,624 federal inmates and 1,225 Bureau of Prisons staff members who have tested positive for COVID-19.
Since the first case was reported in March, 18,467 inmates and 1,736 staff have recovered from the virus. So far, 141 federal inmates and two staff members have died.
There have been more than 12 million cases in the U.S. and over 257,000 deaths. But prisons are a particular concern because social distancing is virtually nonexistent behind bars, inmates sleep in close quarters and share bathrooms with strangers. In the early days of the pandemic, prisoners and staff members said the Bureau of Prisons had run short of even the most basic supplies, like soap.
One could easily get the impression that the lives and health of those who are imprisoned aren’t regarded with much value. But even if that’s the case—which would be shameful enough—you would think that, in the interest of slowing the spread of COVID-19, the smart move would be to prioritize vaccine distribution to the part of the prison population the disease spreads among the most.
David Patton, the head of the federal defender office in New York, appears to agree.
“If true, it’s a disgrace,” Patton told AP. “Prisoners are among the very highest-risk groups for contracting COVID-19. The conditions of confinement make social distancing and proper hygiene and sanitation nearly impossible. The government should certainly prioritize prison staff, but to not also prioritize the people incarcerated is irresponsible and inhumane.”
It’s worth mentioning that no vaccine has been approved by the Trump administration yet. Pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer, along with its partner BioNTech, announced last Friday that they submitted a request to the Food and Drug Administration for emergency use of a developed vaccine that, according to the most recent analysis, is 95 percent effective, NPR reports. If approved, vaccines could become available early next month.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a “limited supply” of vaccines are expected to be available before the end of the year, but that supply is expected to “continually increase in the weeks and months that follow.”
Zack Linly is a poet, performer, freelance writer, blogger and grown man lover of cartoons
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UNILAG Postgraduate Entrance Exam Timetable for 2019/2020 Academic Session
This is to inform all applicants that applied for admission into the University of Lagos (UNILAG) 2019/2020 academic session Postgraduate Programmes that the Entrance Exam Timetable and schedule have been released.
It came as shock as the majority of the candidates were thinking the Exam will commence in August but it came sooner than expected.
(A) COMPUTER BASED TEST (CBT) EXAMINATIONS
DAY 1 – SATURDAY, 20TH JULY, 2019, 9.00am – 6.00pm, DLI e-CENTER
Master of Business Administration (MBA) (F/T & P/T)
Master of Science in Accounting (F/T & P/T)
PGD in Accounting (P/T)
Master of Science in Actuarial Science (F/T & P/T)
Master of Science in Risk Management & Insurance (F/T & P/T)
Master of Risk Management (P/T)
PGD in Risk Management (P/T)
Master of Science in Management (F/T & P/T)
Master of Science in Marketing (F/T & P/T)
Master of Science in Operations Research (F/T & P/T)
Master of Science in Organisational Behaviour (F/T & P/T)
Master of Science in Production/Operations Management (F/T& P/T)
Master of Science in Finance (F/T & P/T)
Master of Development Finance (P/T)
Master of Banking & Finance (P/T)
PGD in Finance (P/T)
Master of Industrial & Labour Relation (MILR) (P/T)
Master of Science in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management (F/T)
Master of Employment & Labour Studies (F/T & P/T)
Master of Science in Geography & Planning (F/T)
Master of Geographic Information System (MGIS) (P/T)
Master of Transportation Planning & Management (P/T)
Master of Disaster Management (P/T)
PGD in Economics (P/T)
Master of Science in Economics (F/T & P/T)
Master of Science in Public Health (F/T & P/T)
Master of Public Health (MPH) (F/T)
PGD in Education (F/T & P/T)
PGD in Educational Admin & Planning (P/T)
Master of Education in Educational Admin & Planning (F/T & P/T)
DAY 2 – SATURDAY, 27TH JULY, 2019, 11.00am – 6.00pm, DLI e – CENTER
Master of Law (F/T & P/T)
Master of International Law & Diplomacy (MILD), (P/T
PGD in Mass Communications (F/T & P/T)
Master of Science in Mass Communications (F/T & P/T)
Master of Public & International Affairs (MPIA), (P/T)
Master of Science in Political Science (F/T)
Master of Public Administration (MPA), (P/T)
Master of Science in Psychology (F/T)
Master of Managerial Psychology (P/T)
PGD in Psychology (F/T & P/T)
Master of Science in Estate Management (F/T)
Master in Facilities Management (P/T)
Master of Housing Development & Management (P/T)
Master of Environmental Management (MEM), (P/T)
PGD in Computer Science (P/T)
Master of Information Technology (MIT) (P/T)
(B) WRITTEN EXAMINATIONS
DAY 1 – TUESDAY, 23RD JULY, 2019, JELILI OMOTOLA HALLS A, B & C (Morning Session: 9.00am – 11.30am)
Master of Natural Resource Management (P/T)
Master of Science in Botany (F/T)
Master of Science in Cell Biology & Genetics (F/T)
PGD in Cell Biology & Genetics (Forensic Biology) (F/T)
PGD in Cell Biology & Genetics (Genetic Counseling) (F/T)
Master of Science in Analytical Chemistry (F/T)
Master of Science in Chemistry (F/T)
Master of Science in Environmental Chemistry (F/T)
Master of Applied Geophysics (P/T)
PGD in Applied Geophysics (P/T)
Master of Science in Geophysics (F/T)
Master of Science in Geology (F/T)
Master of Science in Mathematics (Applied Option) (F/T & P/T)
Master of Science in Mathematics (Pure Option) (F/T & P/T)
Master of Science in Statistics (F/T & P/T)
PGD in Mathematics (P/T)
Master of Science in Microbiology (F/T)
Master of Science in Physics (F/T)
Master of Aquatic Resource & Pollution Management (P/T)
Master of Science in Fisheries (Aquaculture) (F/T)
Master of Science in Fisheries Biology & Management (F/T)
Master of Science in Marine Biology (F/T)
Master of Science in Marine Pollution & Management (F/T)
Master of Science in Applied Entomology & Pest Management (F/T)
Master of Science in Environmental Toxicology & Pollution Mgt (F/T)
Master of Science in Natural Resources Conservation (F/T)
Master of Science in Parasitology & Bioinformatics (F/T)
DAY 1 – TUESDAY, 23RD JULY, 2019, DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE –E303/E304 (Morning: 9.00am–11.30am)
Master of Science in Computer Science (F/T)
DAY 1 – TUESDAY, 23RD JULY, 2019, JELILI OMOTOLA HALLS A, B & C (Afternoon Session: 12.00noon – 2.30pm)
PGD in Anaesthesia (F/T)
Master of Science in Anatomy (F/T)
Master of Science in Biochemistry (F/T)
Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering (F/T)
PGD in Biomedical Engineering (P/T)
Master of Science in Clinical Pathology (F/T)
Master of Science in Clinical Pharmacy (F/T)
Master of Science in Haematology & Blood Transfusion (F/T)
Master of Science in Medical Microbiology (F/T)
Master of Science in Medical Parasitology (F/T)
Master of Science in Pharmaceutics & Pharm. Microbiology (F/T)
Master of Science in Pharmaceutics & Pharm. Technology (F/T)
Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Chemistry (F/T)
Master of Science in Pharmacognosy (F/T)
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Master of Science in Physiology (F/T)
Master of Science in Physiotherapy (F/T & P/T)
Master of Science in Medical Physics (F/T)
Master of Science in Clinical Chemistry & Molecular Diagnosis (F/T)
Master Degree in Molecular Diagnosis (P/T)
PGD in Molecular Diagnosis (P/T)
PGD in Health Logistics & Supply Chain Management (P/T)
(B) WRITTEN EXAMINATIONS (Cont’d)
DAY 1 – TUESDAY, 23RD JULY, 2019, JELILI OMOTOLA HALLS A, B & C (Evening Session: 3.00pm – 6.00pm)
Master of Process Engineering (P/T)
Master of Science in Chemical Engineering (F/T)
PGD in Chemical Engineering (P/T)
Master of Science in Electrical/Electronics (Communications Option) (F/T & P/T)
Master of Science in Electrical/Electronics (Electrical Power Option) (F/T & P/T)
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (F/T)
Master of Science in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering (F/T)
PGD in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering (P/T)
Master of Geoinformatics Information Technology (MGIT), (F/T)
Master of Science in Surveying & Geoinformatics (F/T)
PGD in Surveying & Geoinformatics (F/T)
Master of Science in Civil & Environmental Engineering (F/T & P/T)
Master of Science in Systems Engineering (F/T)
Master of Engineering Systems Management (MESM), (P/T)
DAY 2 – WEDNESDAY, 24TH JULY, 2019, JELILI OMOTOLA HALLS A, B & C (Morning: 9.00am – 11.30am)
Master of Education in Adult Education Management (F/T)
Master of Education in Community Development & Social Work(F/T)
Master of Education in Manpower Training & Development (F/T)
Master of Education in Business Education (F/T & Sandwich)
Master of Education in Curriculum Theory (F/T)
Master of Education in Igbo Education (F/T)
Master of Education in Early Childhood Education (F/T& Sandwich)
Master of Education in Economics Education (F/T & Sandwich)
Master of Education in English Education (F/T & Sandwich)
Master of Education in French Education (F/T)
Master of Education in Geography Education (F/T)
Master of Education in Religion Education (CRS) (F/T)
Master of Education in Religion Education (IRS) (F/T)
Master of Education in Social Studies (F/T)
Master of Education in Yoruba Education (F/T)
Master of Education in Comparative Education (F/T)
Master of Education in Educational Psychology (F/T)
Master of Education in Guidance & Counselling (F/T & P/T)
Master of Education in Measurement & Evaluation (F/T & P/T)
Master of Education in Philosophy of Education (F/T)
Master of Education in Sociology of Education (F/T)
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Master of Science (Education) in Exercise Physiology (F/T)
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Master of Science (Education) in Sports Administration/Mgt. (F/T)
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Master of Education in Mathematics Education (F/T)
Master of Education in Physics Education (F/T)
Master of Education in Chemistry Education (F/T)
DAY 2 – WEDNESDAY, 24TH JULY, 2019, FACULTY OF LAW ANNEX, BEHIND FACULTY OF ARTS (Morning Session: 9.00am – 11.30am)
Master of Conflict Management (P/T)
Master of Dispute Resolution (P/T)
Master of Legal Studies (P/T)
DAY 2 – WEDNESDAY, 24TH JULY, 2019, INSTITUTE OF MARITIME STUDIES BUILDING, BEHIND UNIVERSITY MAIN LIBRARY (Morning Session: 9.00am – 11.30am)
PGD in Maritime Communications & Navigation (P/T)
PGD in Maritime Environmental Studies (P/T)
PGD in Maritime Administration & Management (P/T)
Master of Maritime Administration and Management (P/T)
Professional Master of Hydrographic Surveying (P/T)
DAY 2 – WEDNESDAY, 24TH JULY, 2019, JELILI OMOTOLA HALLS A, B & C (Afternoon: 12.00noon – 2.30pm)
Master of Research & Public Policy (MRPP), (F/T)
Master of Security & Intelligence Studies (MSIS), (P/T)
Master of International Relations & Strategic Studies (MISS), (P/T)
Master of Arts in African and Diaspora Studies (F/T & P/T)
Master of Arts in Music (F/T)
Master of Arts in Theatre Arts (F/T)
Master of Arts in Visual Arts (F/T)
PGD in Music (F/T)
PGD in Theatre Arts (F/T)
Master of Art in English Language (F/T & P/T)
Master of Art in English Literature (F/T & P/T)
PGD in English Language (P/T)
Master of Arts in French (F/T)
Master of Arts in Teaching of French as a Foreign Language (P/T)
Master in Diplomacy & Strategic Studies (MDSS), (P/T)
Master of Arts in History & Strategic Studies (F/T & P/T)
Master of Art in Igbo (Language Option) (F/T)
Master of Art in Igbo (Literature Option) (F/T)
Master of Art in Yoruba (Language Option) (F/T)
Master of Art in Yoruba (Literature Option) (F/T)
Master of Art in Philosophy (F/T)
PGD in Philosophy (P/T)
Master of Professional Ethics (P/T)
DAY 2 – WEDNESDAY, 24TH JULY, 2019, JELILI OMOTOLA HALLS A, B & C (Evening Session: 3.00pm – 6.00pm)
Master of Architecture (M.Arch)
Master of Environmental Design (F/T)
Master of Landscape Architecture (P/T)
Master of Urban Design (P/T)
PGD in Environmental Design (P/T)
Master in Project Management (P/T)
Master of Science in Construction Management (F/T)
Master of Science in Construction Technology (F/T)
Master of Science in Quantity Surveying (F/T)
Master in Urban & Regional Planning (P/T)
Master of Science in Urban & Regional Planning (F/T)
Professional Master of Urban Logistics & Transportation Policy (P/T)
Master of Science in Sociology (F/T & P/T)
Master of Criminology (F/T & P/T)
Master of Science in Budgeting & Policy Financial Management (F/T & P/T)
Master of Pension Management (P/T)
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More women in the newsroom was a smart business move for Bloomberg
Vol 6 | Issue 36
As Editor-in-Chief of Bloomberg News, Matt Winkler oversaw a dedicated strategy to increase the gender balance in both the newsroom and in the organisation’s editorial coverage.
He asked that a woman’s voice be included in every story, as a policy; allowed flexible work hours for parents; set specific targets every year for increasing women team leaders in the newsroom – doubling their numbers in just four years – and created a mentoring system.
It’s a strategy, he says, that makes business sense, and has given the network an advantage over its competitors. Winkler recently accepted a new role as Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Bloomberg, after almost 25 years as the Editor-in-Chief of Bloomberg News. In a wide-ranging interview, he reflects on how and why they pursued this transformative strategy, and its successes and challenges.
As Editor-in-Chief of Bloomberg News, Matt Winkler oversaw a dedicated strategy to increase the gender balance in both the newsroom and in the organisation’s editorial coverage (Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown)
Q: When did you come to see the need for greater gender balance in your newsroom?
A: For me, it was getting to the 20-year mark in Bloomberg News and realising just how professionally inadequate our reporting was in its gender balance for attributive sources. The preponderance of people quoted in our stories was male and I was unsettled by this awareness.
The situation converged with discussions I was having simultaneously with my colleague Lisa Kassenaar and some other executives at Bloomberg News about gender imbalance in reporting and the relative paucity of women in senior positions at Bloomberg News.
I saw the two situations as linked but they were not mutually exclusive. If we wanted to have more gender balance in our reporting, it would come more readily if the management was gender-balanced.
Thirdly, not only was the reporting in Bloomberg News sourced overwhelmingly to men, we weren’t reporting about women in all beats who were newsmakers and I thought it was a real deficiency in terms of news judgment.
Q: You’ve talked about this strategy as a smart business model. Was the motivation more economic or ideological?
A: We decided to present this issue as an economic or business necessity. The only thing I could think of was that we would be a better news organisation if we did these things.
We would be more competitive, break more news, have more exclusive reports and be in a position where we would influence other news organisations as we were growing. The biggest catalyst - to answer those who questioned it [the move] - would be if we achieved these goals simultaneously.
Q: Has the women’s initiative worked?
A: Most of our headcount reports to a woman Laura Zelenko [Senior Executive Editor for Beat Reporting] who is in charge of most of our beats…. She was really a pioneer at Bloomberg News... By the time she was appointed, she had literally been there, done that and she was equipped to deal with management so she had got there on merit.
She also got married and had children while she was at Bloomberg News, so she did all the things that men usually do on their way to the top and none of this interfered with her advancement. And the best is yet to come with Laura.
Similarly, other news executives, who are women, are in a whole variety of positions across the globe pretty much doing the same things [with female bureau chiefs in Frankfurt, London, Moscow, Paris, Sao Paulo and Toronto] …
If you look back to 2007, nothing like this existed at Bloomberg News. There were a handful of exceptions then, but most of the management was men. The middle management is much more balanced now.
Coming into Bloomberg News, probably the single-most valuable programme is the internship programme, which leads to us hiring half a dozen or a dozen people every year.
It is very selective, with a four per cent acceptance rate. Most of those people who have come into the programme in the past two years have been women and historically those who come into the programme do become leaders.
Q: You’ve said that focusing on women newsmakers has helped Bloomberg News be more competitive. Can you share an example?
A: Covering the automobile industry coming out of the crisis of 2007-08, the big story was General Motors because it had gone through a major bankruptcy and restructuring and its complete leadership was overhauled.
The event prompted us to turn our attention to the likely successor to GM’s Chief Executive. In our news judgement, the one who we thought had the most potential was Marry Barra and our reporter Tim Higgins in Detroit paid her close attention. We were the first to report that she would be the first female Chief Executive of GM and the first in the automobile industry.
We had the exclusive for a day and we had it so big that we were able to get her to pose for a picture for the cover of our magazine Bloomberg Businessweek. That’s pretty big. Bloomberg News was not even 25 years old and it was competing against the titans and we owned the story.
Q: As a man, you oversaw this change but what were the key ingredients in this change?
A: Lisa Kassenaar is right at the top of the list. We could not have done this without Lisa’s infectious enthusiasm… She is an agent for all this. For me, it has been a labour of love. There have been lots of people who have an important mandate.
The company is called Bloomberg and named after a guy called Bloomberg. Most of the people look and seem like him and, for men, there are role models who walk in and out every day.
We wanted to, in as much as we could, find role models for the women so we found coaches… Their purpose is to promote confidence, provide inspiration, provide the best kind of counsel for idiosyncratic situations that we might not otherwise be equipped to handle, people with families, understanding what we want to do globally.
We have always been able to say with conviction and accuracy: it is not about where and when you work, it is about having the best stories. I could justify that to people in a big way. News does not happen on a nine-to-five timetable or Mondays to Fridays.
To anyone who questions our news ethics, I would say news is 365 days a year and that makes it possible for families to meet their family and their professional commitments without any conflict. As we developed this, it was converging harmoniously with human resources and the trends they were following and it made it easier that we were in the news business.
Q: What challenges did you face – or does Bloomberg still face – in implementing this strategy?
A: We are still struggling with a 50/50 per cent of people quoted in stories so that there is gender balance there. Still, there are more women than ever and we track that. It’s a problem faced by most news organisations. We have developed and continue to grow an internal women’s source list on the Bloomberg terminal.
What we write about is mainly financial and for overwhelmingly male customers who are overwhelmingly led by men, so we are consciously attacking the centre, where there is the biggest resistance.
If we go to a beat like education it is easier, so general interest newspapers reporting on the education beat will have an easier time in terms of providing gender balance. We have a long way to go if we want to be 50/50.
(This article is part of U.N. Women’s Empowering Women — Empowering Humanity: Picture It! campaign in the lead-up to Beijing+20.) - Women's Feature Service
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Partnering with farmers, he built a Rs 4 crore turnover farm-to-table venture
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Afghan landslide toll 2,000, India offers help
Kabul/New Delhi
The toll in Friday's landslide in Afghanistan has been put at 2,000 by rescue officials as India Saturday offered assistance in relief and rehabilitation efforts.
Rescue officials also said that the site may become a massive grave as the enormous amount of rubble is making the recovery of bodies almost impossible.
The tragedy occurred early Friday when a hill collapsed on a remote village in Aab Bareek area of Argo district in the mountainous province of Badakhshan with Faizabad city as its capital, 315 km northeast of Afghan capital Kabul, Xinhua reported.
The disaster was triggered by the recent heavy rains.
"The latest report by the provincial governor is that at least 2,000 have died in the landslides, buried under at least 10 metres of mud and debris," the UN mission in the country said.
"The immediate focus is on approximately 700 families (4,000+ people) displaced either directly as a result of this slide or as a precautionary measure from villages assessed to be at further risk. Key needs for them are water, medical support, counselling support, food and emergency shelter," the statement said.
There were about 300 homes in the village and a number of rescuers who had rushed from adjacent villages were also reported to be killed in subsequent slides, the statement said.
"Please keep in mind that the figures will remain proximate. Fear of a third landslide has hampered the rescue team operation," it said.
"A memorial ceremony is planned for later today and the site is expected to be designated as a mass grave. Also, second vice president Mohammad Karim Khalil is visiting today," it said.
All the relevant UN agencies together with the Afghan Red Crescent Society and NGO partners are already at the site since Friday afternoon.
Meanwhile, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday expressed shock at the devastating landslide and offered India's assistance in relief and rehabilitation efforts.
"I am deeply shocked and saddened by the devastating natural disaster that has struck Badakhshan province in Afghanistan," he said in a statement in New Delhi.
"The people of India stand with their Afghan friends in grieving for those who have perished or are missing. Our thoughts and prayers are with them in this hour of pain and sorrow. We know that the Afghan people will face up to this tragedy with their unmatched courage and fortitude.
"India stands ready to provide whatever assistance and support that we can for rescue, relief and rehabilitation efforts to help the victims of this enormous disaster," the prime minister said.- IANS
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RBI to conduct another 'operational twist' on Monday
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday said it will conduct another simultaneous purchase and sale of government securities under the Open Market Operations (OMO) for Rs 10,000 crore each, on Monday.
The decision was taken on "a review of the current liquidity and market situation and an assessment of the evolving financial conditions", RBI said.
This will be the second such operation conducted by the RBI within a week, after the one on December 23, which made an immediate impact by bringing down the 10-year bond yield by 15 basis points.
The operation, likened to the US Federal Reserve's "operational twist" which involved swapping short-term treasury securities for long-term government debts.
Brickwork Ratings had earlier said that RBI has taken the decision to contain the rising yields on the longer end of the yield curve by strategically arranging this debt-to-money market swap.
"The move will improve both liquidity and bond yields as it will suck out the government bonds of long duration (10 years) and pump in short duration (about 6 months) worth Rs 10,000 crore through special OMO," it said.
"More such swaps may follow as it might prevent steepening of the yield curve (which could be on account of expectations of higher fiscal deficit) even as it improves liquidity for the long-term investors and provides flexibility to Government of India in raising long-term resources for managing the fiscal deficit," Brickwork said.ians
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Geelani's granddaughter to hold anti-India show on Jan 7
Kashmiri journalist Ruwa Shah, the grand-daughter of separatist Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, is to organise another anti-India show on next Tuesday, says officials.
Shah, who has alleged Indian government of committing atrocities against Kashmiris on many occasions in the past through her addresses in various events abroad as well as on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, will this time organise a show, which she claims, have an "exclusive and in depth conversations".
The show is being organised between 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on January 7.
It is learnt that the show would be against Indian government as like her other events, officials, requesting anonymity said.
A social media post shows the time and date of the event but the place is not mentioned. The post shows that Salaamedia will telecast the show and it will be live on Facebook.
The post shared a studio number 0108802396 and WhatsApp number: +27 61766 0355.
With the WhatsApp number posted on the social networking site, which is of South Africa, it seems that the show is being organised in South Africa.
Shah's speech in similar function organised by salaamedia in South Africa in May last year was also against the Indian government.
Shah, who worked for a short duration in some media organisations in Delhi, began talking openly against the Indian government months after her father Altaf Ahmad Shah was caught along with many Hurriyat leaders in terror funding case in the Valley registered by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in May 2017.
On July 24, 2017, the NIA arrested seven separatist leaders, including Shah's father, on charges of criminal conspiracy and waging war against India. He is in Delhi's Tihar jail since then.
The case involves Jama'at-ud-Da'wah (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. - IANS
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Indian media outlet paid hefty sum to Boris Johnson for 3-hr engagement
New Delhi/London
American-born British Prime Minister Boris Johnson charged hefty amounts from media outlets for lectures and writing articles when he was just a parliamentarian. The highest amount ever paid to him was from an Indian media outlet. This had raised eyebrows of government authorities in both the countries.
Just for a three-hour engagement, when he was a parliamentarian, he received £122,899.74 (Rs 1.13 crore) for a lecture during India Today Conclave, 2019.
According to the Register of Members' Financial Interests of UK Parliament, Boris Johnson received around Rs 1.13 crore from an Indian Media House -- Living Media India Limited. "On March 22, 2019, received £122,899.74 from Living Media India Limited, K-9, Connaught Circus, New Delhi 110001, for a speech to India Today on 2 March 2019. Hours: 3 hours. Transport and accommodation also provided," Register of Members' Financial Interests stated.
The register of UK Parliament is to provide information about any financial interest which a member has, or any benefit which he or she receives, which others might reasonably consider to influence his or her actions or words as a Member of Parliament.
The Conservative Party politician became the United Kingdom Prime Minister on July 24, 2019.
An ardent backer of Brexit, Johnson received £22,916.66 a month for writing articles for the Telegraph Media Group Ltd, based in London. He claimed he used to spend 10 hours in a month. He wrote from July 11, 2018 until July 10, 2019.
From The Spectator, based in London, he received £800 for an article on September 28, 2018. For this article he spent two hours. Again he received £350 from The Spectator for an article on December 21, 2018. He spent two hours for writing the article.
From Associated Newspapers Ltd based in London, he received £2,000 for article on October 9, 2018. He had spent two hours for writing an article.
Johnson received Rs 34,500 from an article from The Washington Post. "On 15 February 2019, received £376.05 from The Washington Post, 1301 K Street NW, Washington, DC 20071, for an article. Hours: 2 hrs," it stated.
Interestingly, Johnson was born in New York City and he gave up his US citizenship in 2016.
The British Prime Minister began his career as a journalist. He started as a reporter for The Times in 1987, but was asked to leave over some alleged reports. Thereafter he had joined The Daily Telegraph and served as correspondent covering the European Community and later as an Assistant Editor. In 1994, Johnson became a political columnist for The Spectator, and in 1999 he was named the magazine's editor.
He became a Member of Parliament in 2001, and in 2008 mounted a successful bid to become Mayor of London. He served as the two-time elected mayor of London from 2008 to 2016 and as Secretary of for Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2018 under UK Prime Minister Theresa May.IANS
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Army pays tribute to soldier killed in Kashmir
The Indian Army on Tuesday paid tributes to a soldier killed while foiling an infiltration bid from across the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
"A wreath-laying ceremony was organised today (Tuesday) at the Advanced Landing Ground in Rajouri to pay homage to Sepoy Subinesh who made the supreme sacrifice yesterday (Monday) while foiling an infiltration bid by terrorists on the LoC," a defence spokesman told IANS here.
During the infiltration bid in the early hours of November 23, Sepoy Subinesh sustained a fatal gunshot injury.
Wreaths were laid on behalf of Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda, chief of the army's Northern Command, and Lt. Gen. R.R. Nimbhorkar, general officer commanding of the 16 Corps.
Officers of the Ace of Spades division and Naushera Brigade also laid wreaths.
A guard of honour was also presented to the soldier.
The body was sent to his native village for the last rites, the spokesperson said.
At the Jammu Technical Airport, a wreath was laid by Major General Sanjeev Narain, general officer commanding of the Tiger Division, and chief administrative officer of the Air Force Station Jammu. - IANS
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Festivals in Bhutan
Each and every festival in Bhutan is the most sought after form of entertainment. The Royal Academy of Performing Arts (RAPA) in Thimphu works to preserve the unique folk dancing heritage in the country and its dancers are expert in all forms of this unique art.
Fiona McIntosh: A Spy's Wife in Berlin
The photo shows the original Reichstag of the Weimar Republic...where Parliament sat in Berlin. This is how it looked in August 1932. By the end of January 1933, Adolf Hitler was the Chancellor of Germany and once the infamous burning of the Reichstag occurred, he began to seize full power and no one was being left in doubt that there was anything democratic about Germany or anything outward-looking and free about the once fabulously liberally-minded Berlin where the seat of power was for the Weimar Republic. The rise of the Nazis changed everything and that magnificent, gothic building you see there was burned until the glass of its exquisite cupola exploded and shattered, just like the lives of the people who were about to be traumatised in the new age Reich.
Lake Macquarie NSW : #HolidayHereThisYear
There has never been a better time to spread your wings and visit one of New South Wales’ weekend getaway gems. Many of us have had to kiss our overseas travels goodbye and are now seeking local holiday options that don’t carry a ritzy price tag or the hassle of long-haul flights. Located just an hour and a half north of Sydney, you can find some sensational swaps for the world’s most stunning tourist hotspots in Lake Macquarie.
Introduction to New South Wales (1988)
The continent was first named 'Austrialia del Espiritu Santo' by Quiros in 1606, renamed 'New Holland' by Tasman in 1644 and finally Cook, in 1770, initially called the eastern half 'New Wales' and later New South Wales. Although the name 'New Holland' was used in British documents up to 1849, Macquarie officially adopted the name 'Australia' in 1817 as it was already commonly used.
Gundula Holbrook from a 1921 painting
Gundula Holbrook: I was born in Austria m the widow of the late Commander Norman Holbrook VC, the man after whom this Town of Holbrook was named. He was not an Australian, but an officer in Britain's Royal Navy.
You may not find that curious today so many of Australia's beautiful cities and towns are named after British people and places: Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, and many more - all have British origins. Most were named after senior bureaucrats, Lords, Governors and even a Queen - Britain's Queen Adelaide.
So, how did an ordinary Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, a submariner commanding an obsolete boat, get to have an Australian inland town named in his honour? The story beggars belief, as we say back home, and probably here as well.
History on the Hume: Ettamogah Pub - from cartoon to reality.
It was as a child in the Albury district that cartoonist Ken Maynard came to love the Ettamogah countryside, and he later immortalised Ettamogah in his "Australian Post" cartoons of the "Ettamogah Pub".
History in the Hunter: The historic Arnotts bakehouse, Morpeth
This historic Bakehouse was built by Richard Chapman (1827-1887) In about 1851, Chapman was a property owner, butcher and businessman of Morpeth whose residency extended from at least 1850 to his death in 1887. His butchery business and residence was next door to this site but has since been demolished.
Mario Morgano: Capri hotel pioneer
Mario Morgano was born on Capri in 1919. He moved to Genoa, where he graduated with a degree in law. Even during his university years, he was engaged in the Morgano family's hotel business. His first job was at the Hotel Miramare in Sanremo, run by his father. He moved back to Capri after the war, working first at the Hotel Morgano Tiberio, and then setting up on his own in 1959, building the Hotel 'A Pazziella. This was the island's first meuble.
Sydney's Menzies Hotel was opened on 17th October 1963, by Premier R.J. Heffron and named after Sir Archibald Menzies, a pioneer in Australian hotels.
Visiting Cowangie VIC
COWANGIE VIC 3506
Clarke's general store at the corner of Dayman and Lewis Streets is a large masonry building with splayed corner. It is a landmark building for the township. Dating from 1912 it represents the earliest stage of development in Cowangie and is a fine example of a commercial building. Of particular interest are the original timber-framed windows (R Eime)
One of the first Bush Nursing Centres in Victoria opened in Cowangie in 1918. It operated from a small stone cottage, still standing beside the Uniting Church, and brought medical help, although this might still involve a fearful wagon trip of an hour or more into town.
To the north of Cowangie, a gypsum mine was begun in the 1920s. The mineral was carted to a washing plant near the town then railed to Geelong for use in the manufacture of plasters and cement. (source: Readers Digest) Since closed.
The post office opened in 1912 when the rail link was completed but closed in 1994.
Kow Plains Homestead (R Eime 2017)
Nearby is the historic Kow Plains Homestead, restored and able to be visited on a self-guided tour.
Cowangie Precinct is of historical, aesthetic, social and architectural significance to the Rural City of Mildura.
Cowangie forms part of the Mildura City Heritage Report (2013)
Labels: Readers Digest, Victoria
Visiting Gawler, SA
In the early days, settlements were often named after governors and their relatives and South Australia was particularly punctilious in this practice; Gawler honoured George Gawler who led the colony from 1838–41. The town began in 1839 and is bounded by the South and North Para rivers and backed by hills. It was on the miners' route to the Yorke Peninsula, Burra and Kapunda, and bullock waggons and coaches rested there overnight.
Labels: South Australia
Visiting Narooma NSW
Source: Narooma Real Estate
370 KM SOUTH OF SYDNEY POPULATION: 3000
Text source:
Discover Australia by Road.
Ron & Viv Moon.
Popularly called 'Narooma' for many years, it was not until 1972 that the name was officially altered from 'Noorooma' (meaning 'blue water'), the name of an early cattle station. Narooma is a tourist resort, renowned for its big-game fishing. Sawmilling and oyster farming are important industries.
Tuross Lake and Lake Corunna are major attractions, particularly for fishing, and there are many great surfing beaches including Blackfellows Point, Mystery Bay and Bar Beach. Eight kilometres offshore is Montague Island, a flora and fauna reserve.
ACCOMMODATION: Lynch's Hotel, ph (02) 4476 2001%; Motel Narooma, ph 0244764270 ; Narooma Golfers Lodge (units), ph (02) 4476 2428; Amooran Court (B&B), ph (02) 4476 2198; Island View Beach Resort (camping/caravanning), ph 0244764600
ACTIVITIES: Fishing, scenic drives, water sports
TOURIST INFORMATION: Ph 0244762099
Discover Adelaide and the Secrets of South Australia
South Australia is a State of remarkable contrasts. Its elegant capital, Adelaide, is a city of innovation and culture. Home to one of the world’s great arts festivals, it is also a gateway to the Australian Outback and a vast array of unique tourism experiences. South Australia has grown from its traditional rural and manufacturing base into a diverse trading and advanced manufacturing region, specialising in food, wine, information technology and high-tech industries. It shines as one of the best places in the world to visit and in which to live, work, learn and do business.
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Peet's Wants Customers to Know That Coffee Can Change Lives
Alfred Peet founded Peet's Coffee and Tea back in 1966. The bespectacled Dutch immigrant worked in the coffee trade before moving to San Francisco after World War II. This was long before the haute coffee trend hit the mainstream and your friends started gushing about French presses and cold brews. In the '60s, Americans were drinking low-grade mud. Needless to say, Peet was appalled.
When he opened his first coffee shop in Berkeley, California, his brews were unlike anything patrons had ever tasted. The idea quickly took off, and Peet's became a cult favorite among what was one of America's hippest consumer groups.
Peet's now operates storefronts in eight states plus Washington, D.C. And its coffee is available in cafes across the country as well as mainstream retailers like Target, Walmart and Giant. It was acquired by JAB Holding Co., the same firm now behind Keurig Green Mountain, for $974 million in 2012. But like many in the social good space, Peet's was given autonomy to keep its operations consistent under the new parent company's umbrella.
With roots in a place and time like 1960s San Francisco, it's likely no surprise that social consciousness was a part of Peet's story from the start. Some of the same artisanal coffee growers who worked with Alfred Peet over 40 years ago are still part of the company to this day. One of those growing collectives is the Falla family in Guatemala.
"The longevity of the relationship stems from the superior quality of their beans, and also because of the care they show for the environment, their workers and the surrounding community," Doug Welsh, VP of coffee and 'Roastmaster' for Peet’s, said of the Fallas.
"As our relationship has evolved over the years, we wanted to do more than buy coffee from the Fallas," Welsh told TriplePundit. "We started donating to the school the farm sponsors as well as to the clinic the family hosts, which provides basic medical care at no cost to their workers and family members."
The company's four decades of work with the Falla family helped inspire its social mission. Its latest effort, People and Planet, features curated coffees that highlight the brand’s heritage of working collaboratively with farming communities. The line includes nine coffees, such as Guatemala San Sebastián, a sharp and sweet blend that comes from the Fallas farm in Guatemala's Antigua Valley.
Through the effort, Peet's is looking to engage consumers and connect them with the people and places behind their cup of coffee. The effort focuses on promoting three practices already near and dear to the company's heart:
Direct Trade: Peet's prides itself on personal relationships with farmers. It negotiates prices directly and collaborates with these suppliers on projects that support the people, communities, and natural environment surrounding their farms.
Farmer Assistance: The company also trains coffee farmers in agronomy and business skills -- with the aim of helping them improve product quality, obtain higher crop yields and secure premium prices.
Certification: Peet’s focuses on sourcing coffees that carry USDA Organic, Fair Trade and/or Rainforest Alliance certifications.
That all sounds great. But with the number of so-called 'sustainable' coffee labels on the market, what really sets Peet's apart? If anyone would know, it's Doug Welsh.
Welsh once worked at Peet's first store on Vine Street in Berkeley. Nearly 25 years later, he's now the third person to hold the esteemed title of Roastmaster. We spoke with him further to find out what really makes a socially-conscious cup of Joe.
Direct Trade builds on longstanding relationships
Most of Peet's People and Planet coffees bear an environmental certification, if not several. But beyond certification, Peet's introduced its Direct Trade business model to build upon its longstanding relationships with farmers.
Direct Trade was also partially inspired by the Falla family, Welsh said. "[Working] with coffee growers like the Fallas is an integral part of how we source coffee," Welsh told us of the Direct Trade model. "It’s rooted in our belief that quality is correlated to the well-being of those who produce our coffee and to the natural environment."
Through the program, Peet's invests in a project in each coffee-growing community where it does business. But the real task is directly engaging with these communities to find out what they need, Welsh said.
"Our Direct Trade producer relationships are based on constant dialogue and continuous improvement over time," he told us. "Coffee farming is hard work. And we believe we are being the most supportive when we listen to our farmers, learn what works and what does not, and work together to make improvements."
Farmer Assistance programs drive community impact
Alfred Peet opened that first shop with one goal in mind: Bring better coffee to the American market. The close-knit relationships that followed were initially based on product quality, and the company's motto is still "coffee first." But the business structure that formed around these relationships -- now called corporate social responsibility (CSR) but once known quaintly as "the right thing to do" -- helped Peet's survive where others failed.
"We want to help farmers move from producing average-quality coffee to producing high-quality coffee, and to grow more of it," Welsh said. "There is growing appetite, literally, for high-quality coffee. And we want to help farmers take advantage of this opportunity."
Through its Farmer Assistance program, the company supports smallholders with lessons in farming practices, as well as business development. As they become more empowered entrepreneurs and their quality and yield increases, coffee farmers can earn far more for their crops and give their entire families a better quality of life.
Fostering a genuine connection with suppliers
Take Peet's longstanding partnership with international nonprofit TechnoServe -- which informed another People and Planet coffee, the Uzuri African Blend.
"TechnoServe was working with coffee cooperatives across East Africa to help them improve crop quality and yield as part of a multi-year program funded by the Gates Foundation," Welsh recalled.
The java gurus at Peet’s were initially tasked with giving farmers feedback on their product. "As the coffee produced by these cooperatives increased in quality, we were inspired to create our first blend of African-only coffees and source directly from these hardworking farmers," Welsh told us. "This created a mutually beneficial and reinforcing relationship that we continue today."
The modernization of coffee farms in Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia meant a tasty new blend for Peet's and upward mobility for thousands: The company pays a premium price for the high-quality coffee, allowing farmers to improve their financial conditions and that of their entire communities. "We’ve seen many farmers — through their cooperatives — decide to build schools and install power lines, among other community improvements," Welsh said.
The company's supply chain in Nicaragua tells a similar story. There, Peet's sources coffee from a group of 200 women farmers, which its team calls Las Hermanas. "Since we started purchasing their coffee in 2003, the women of Las Hermanas have transformed their own lives, the lives of their families, and the quality of life in their communities," Welsh told us.
"Now that they are vital economic contributors in their families, the women have developed greater self-confidence, and they have been able to access financing to purchase additional land on which to grow more coffee."
The cooperative now funds medical care and youth programs in their community in the highlands of Jinotega, Nicaragua, and their coffee is included in Peet's Los Cafeteros Blend.
Are we sensing a pattern here? Each of these success stories, like so many in the sustainable business community, stems from a genuine relationship with the people that make up Peet's supply chain.
And communicating this connection to customers -- an effort it hopes to increase with the People and Planet line -- allowed the company to foster a genuinely authentic brand that continues to compete in what is now a woefully crowded marketplace.
Additional People and Planet coffees will be announced throughout the year, as well as events where Peet's will invite its customers to engage around the initiative.
Image credits: 1) Pexels 2) Courtesy of Peet's Coffee
Mary Mazzoni
Mary Mazzoni, Senior Editor, has written for TriplePundit since 2013. She is also Managing Editor of CR Magazine and the Editor of 3p’s Sponsored Series. Her recent work can be found in Conscious Company and VICE’s Motherboard. She is based in Philadelphia.
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Treece Money: “Driven” – Charisma oozes from every track!
“Driven” is an album that describes the journey of Treece Money building his career as a CPA while trying to maintain his passion for making music. In order to...
by Staff June 19, 2017
“Driven” is an album that describes the journey of Treece Money building his career as a CPA while trying to maintain his passion for making music. In order to create this album, Treece wrote the lyrics to it while sitting in traffic going to and from work. Born and raised in Fairfax, Virginia, Treece Money began rapping when he was 16 years old. He started performing in 2007 with his longtime high school friend, rap artist M.C., under the group name Syntax. After graduating in 2008, the group went on to performing regionally throughout the Washington DC metropolitan area. After several years of performing as a part of a group, Treece Money began his career as a solo artist. He has since performed alongside several major industry figures such as Rick Ross, Nas, Wale, and Jeremih. In addition, Treece is a lyricist, vocalist, and keyboardist for a local jam band, called Waiting Man.
The first thing you notice about the album “Driven”, is how organic it all sounds. It’s surprising to see that in Hip-Hop music even to this day features few uses of raw instrumentation. Computer and sampling programs can only be dependent upon so much until it starts to sound processed and stale.
To hear a Hip Hop album that uses actual drums, keyboards, and bass guitars, is refreshing to say the least. I’m not sure if that’s happening all of the time here…or even some of the time – what with all the brilliant sample machinery able to replicate any instrument perfectly today – but at least that’s my impression. I get that simply from the lack of quantization. The music feels ‘loose’ and ‘human’.
The drumming while not being overly technical or complex, fits perfectly with the mood and flow of the album’s overall sound. The songs also bring smooth and subtle hints of keyboards that work well, together with the deep rolling basslines. Everything showcases the right amount of sounds that are never really hard to catch with the first couple of listens.
This all equals to quality music that most popular bands wish they could possess, never mind a hip-hop album. Charisma oozes from every track with switchbacks from rapper to music running so smoothly that it almost seems as if Treece Money was in some technically proficient soul or rock band.
With that said, Treece is one hell of a rapper. Lyrically, he is non-stop with his metaphors and topics but for the most part, never backs down on anything that he has to say. To sum up how most of the rapping is on this album, it would be thought provoking pep talks to incite you to always better yourself.
Songs like “That’s Money”, “Coming Up”, and “I Don’t Buy It” showcase his rapping skills. But almost all of the songs give the album a sense of realism. In particular “The Longest Way”, “Time Machine” and “Come in on the Break”. Never is there a dull song or really, any hint of filler because what Treece Money has created here, is not only an exceptional Hip Hop album, but an album that is fearless of taking chances.
Hence brilliantly eclectic tracks like “My Legacy” and “It Don’t Get Better” shine in this collection. With an atmosphere that only a few handfuls of musicians can succeed in, and originality that isn’t only enlightening but also influential, Treece Money has created something with “Driven” that should not be missed by any music listener.
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Jason Miller: “Poundtown” – plenty of bang to go with the bass!
by Staff - Jun 19, 2017
King Woochi: “All Hail King Woochi 2” – his strongest most focused work in this series
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Student Veterans-California
CA Assembly Bill 13, signed in the fall of 2014, requires California public colleges to update their admission policies in order to protect veterans from losing their GI Bill benefits while attending college. AB 13 will request the University of California, California Community Colleges and California State University to come into compliance with the new federal law with the hopes of granting in-state tuition to all persons eligible for Title 38 funding (GI Bill beneficiaries), even if the student is not a current California resident.
Troops to College program
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger created the Troops to College program to attract veterans to California’s public institutions and make campuses more veteran friendly.
Under the program, veterans can — depending on their length of service — be eligible for a full ride on tuition and fees at a public college or university, which is about $3,000 at a California State University campus and $7,700 at UC Berkeley. Also, a veteran can receive up to $1,000 for books and supplies and a living stipend of up to $1,450 a month.
California State University will guarantee admission to a total of 115 military personnel each year, selected by admirals and lieutenants. Other veterans will have their applications evaluated separately from regular applicants.
http://www.troopstocollege.ca.gov/
SDSU lays out welcome mat for veterans
To welcome returning troops, San Diego State University has established a campus veterans center and a plethora of scholarship and funding available to our country’s newest veterans. Military housing might even be available on fraternity row, and the campus center will answer veterans’ financial aid questions and give them a place to relax.
Veterans who lack the course requirements or grades for admission will have their file reviewed by an administrator, a retired Army lieutenant colonel. Once enrolled, veterans get priority in selecting classes.
Last year, SDSU enrolled 805 veterans, 65 reservists, 157 active-duty personnel and 139 military dependents.
http://universe.sdsu.edu/military/
California National Guard Tuition Program:
“NG APLE” National Guard Assumption Program of Loans for Education. (Effective July 2004)
Applications can be made at local county veterans service offices.
Additional information is available from the California Department of Veterans Affairs.
Sources: Student Veterans of America, American Legion
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A Shell insider is behind LNG Canada's disputed claim about reducing carbon pollution
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Posted on March 5, 2020 | National Observer | Written on March 5, 2020
A disputed environmental claim publicized by the fossil fuel firms backing a $40-billion liquefied natural gas project in B.C. can be traced back to a lifelong industry insider, who cautioned in interviews that his underlying calculations are “theoretical.”
Rob Seeley has been held up as an independent consultant who has demonstrated the green bona fides of natural gas coming from the proposed B.C. project, LNG Canada. The Coastal GasLink pipeline being built through unceded Wet’suwet’en Nation territory is meant to transport fracked gas to this terminal, where it would be liquefied, loaded onto ships and exported to Asia.
One particular claim by Seeley has taken on a life of its own. It appeared in a piece of sponsored content, or “advertorial,” that LNG Canada paid to have published in Postmedia’s Vancouver Sun in 2018. The claim has been quoted by everyone from federal Conservative finance critic and former cabinet minister Pierre Poilievre to pro-oil and gas websites including one run by Alberta’s energy “war room,” officially known as the Canadian Energy Centre.
Seeley’s claim is that if LNG Canada can ship liquefied natural gas from B.C. to China, and the Asian nation uses it to displace its coal-generated electricity, it would reduce carbon pollution by “60 to 90 million tonnes annually” — a stunning figure that is roughly equivalent to all of B.C.’s annual emissions.
This tantalizing piece of information would seem to underpin what both the federal Liberals and Conservatives have said in support of LNG Canada: that on top of the promised jobs and economic benefits, it could also help the environment. The Trudeau government is on board, chipping in $275 million to the project, while Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has blasted Coastal GasLink opponents.
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Rennes winner Uladzimir Ignatik loses in the first round in Quimper
Ignatik had the best week of his career last week, but came back down to earth with a disappointing defeat in the Quimper first round. (Zimbio.com)
Uladzimir Ignatik may have stormed to the title in Rennes last week, but the Belorussian came undone in the opening round in Quimper. Ignatik came through qualifying to win the Rennes title, but instead he was beaten by a qualifier himself as Gleb Sakharov, ranked n0.287, scored a famous 63 63 win.
There were other shocks as sixth seed Vincent Millot also fell to a qualifier in the form of Aslan Karatsev, Karatsev the winner 63 64. Less of a shock was Teymuraz Gabashvili’s win over fourth seed Evgeny Donskoy, as the experienced Russian defeated his compatriot 75 63.
The top seed Adrian Mannarino had few problems in his first round match with French wildcard Evan Furness, winning 63 75 and saving all five break points he faced. Fifth seed Julien Benneteau also beat an eighteen year-old French wildcard, defeating Geoffrey Blancaneaux 62 64. Like Mannarino Benneteau’s serve was not broken, and the veteran served eleven aces for the win.
Third seed Sergiy Stakhovsky survived a scare against Calvin Hemery, but persevered and eventually progressed 76 46 62 in a match that finished five minutes short of two hours. Eighth seed Peter Gojowcyzk, in his first match since retiring with injury in the second round of Australian Open qualifying against Marco Trungelliti, defeated Maxime Hamou 62 64.
There were also wins for Enrique Lopez-Perez, Hugo Nys, and Tristan Lamasine respectively in other matches.
Final first round matches, including Stefanos Tsitsipas against seventh seed Andrey Rublev and Mathias Bourgue against second seed Jeremy Chardy will take place on Wednesday.
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Kevin Anderson talks about the ATP-WTA merger, the vaccine and challenges of tennis in 2021
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Former Wimbledon finalist Kevin Anderson, a long-time member of the ATP Council, gave his opinions on some of the main topics in tennis in an interview to Tennis Majors.
The South African star talked about the challenges faced by players amid the pandemic, the possible merger between the ATP and the WTA, the vaccine and the Professional Tennis Association (PTPA).
Anderson admitted that the biggest challenge for players in the coming year is to continue playing on the ATP Tour despite the challenges posed by the covid-19 pandemic.
“Navigating the virus and trying to put as much tennis on the calendar as possible is going to be the biggest challenge. We only really a calendar through Miami. It’s a waiting game. Some tournaments had to cancel, most notably Indian Wells. They are potentially trying to postpone it. I mean, who knows when or how that’s even possible. That’s going to be the biggest challenge. Then secondary, we have obviously got a lot of other things we are working on. There is new ATP management and they are trying to put in different plans and working towards their version of improvements and changes they want to make to the sport, so I guess that’s going on in the background as well”.
Anderson was asked if it is stressful to face protocols and quarantines, when he travels around the world.
“I think it affects some people more than others. The biggest one, from my standpoint, was that it was really difficult travelling with my family. Obviously, there is a big difference not playing with fans. It really was nice, the few tournaments that allowed some fans. I think from what I am understanding, Australia will have a good number of fans, so I think everybody will be looking forward to that. If you test positive, you are going to be quarantined, you are not going to be able to play, and no matter how safe you are yourself, there is always a little bit of that uknown element. That part is a little bit tough to deal with, especially, we are not in a contained bubble the whole time we are travelling. A lot of tournaments that we are playing, it’s not. They are doing a good job with a lot of safety protocols, but it’s by no means a complete and protected bubble, which is obviously very hard to pull off logistically”.
The biggest issue for the players has been the cut in prize money compared to the past tournaments.
“From the Council standpoint It has worked pretty well with the tournaments. Obviously we understand that, whether you agree with them or not, the bottom line is the big revenue producer of these tournaments is fans and not just directly fans but the amount of sponsorship on site. I think everything just comes down. I think it’s a very reasonable position to work with the tournaments. I think it’s a good negotiation for the players to understand that and accep these prize money reductions. I think it’s a good system. It’s based on what percentage of fans are in the stadium. That’s a sliding scale. It’s something that we have discussed a lot about in the Council. It’s obviously not an ideal situation for everybody but I think it’s sort of necessary for these tournaments to take place”.
Vaccines against Covid-19 are beginning to be rolled out. Anderson discussed the issue that players will have to receive the vaccine in order to play on the Tour.
“I think rightfully so, vaccines are being administered to the first responders, the people who are at risk. Hopefully, when it becomes more widespread, we will probably have more discussions about it. Initially, there was talk about if you have a vaccine, you don’t have to be subject to the testing protocols that the ATP has in place. There was something discussed that even if you get the vaccine, you could potentially spread the virus. There are still questions to be decided and we still need to get more information before we start deciding what potentially is mandated within the ATP Tour”.
There has been talks of a possible merger between the ATP and the WTA in the past two years.
“There has been no real discussion on a merger. I don’t really have too much to discuss on that because it’s not been something that’s been on the table. I mean, other than just a sort of vague notion. There would be a lot of details that everyone would have to work out. Obviously the sport is strongest when everybody works together, but I can’t really comment on what it looks like from a logistical and a business standpoint. I know that part of ATP management’s new plani s to work together with these separate entities and from an ATP perspective, the WTA is a huge partner, so that’s really needs to be looke at carefully. I don’t know if the merger talk was something that some players wanted to chat about but maybe the pandemic sidetracked people. As for now that’s not a conversation we have had internally with ATP o any conversations with the WTA either. As far as the Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA), I don’t see how we can possibly work together. I don’t know what the PTPA’s visioni s and how they see them progressing forward”.
Anderson has been plagued by a series of injury problems and was forced to withdraw from the Paris Bercy tournament with an injury.
“There is the challenge of keeping the body as healthy as possible, but I feel like I have got a good team in place. We work as hard as we can, but I really looking forward to building some momentum. It’s been a couple of years for me in terms of injuries. So hopefully, I will be able to overcome that and give myself the best possible chance. The injury in Paris Bercy was very short, fortunately that just needed a few days. I am looking forward to heading down to Australia”.
Roger Federer trains with Dominic Stricker in Dubai
Twenty-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer has been training hard with his compatriot Dominic Stricker in Dubai, where he traditionally spends his off-season. Federer published a photo on his social media with Dominic Stricker, who won the Roland Garros Junior title and current world junior number three.
Stricker made a comment on his Instagram account:
“What three weeks. I really enjoyed every single minute in Dubai. What a great start to the new season. I am looking forward to playing some tournaments. Thanks to Roger Federer and his team for these great practices”, said Dominic Stricker.
Federer will skip the Australian Open, but he may make his come-back in Rotterdam or Dubai. His main goals for the 2021 season are Wimbledon, the US Open and the Olympi Games in Tokyo. He has pulled out of the Australian Open because his wife Mirka did not approve of the quarantine conditions set out for his family.
“Roger had two options. He could come with the whole family and quarantine. The problem is that Mirka and his children could not leave the room. They would have to stay 14 days in the room”, said Australian Open director of player relations Andre Sa.
The Rotterdam ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament will be held behind closed doors
Organisers announced that the 48th edition of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament will be held behind closed doors from 1 to 7 March 2021 because of the current epidemiological situation and the measures to fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
The tickets already sold for the 2021 edition will be moved to the 49th edition in 2022. It does not mean that there will not be fans in the arena. In the event that this turns out to be possible, fans, who have already bought the tickets, will be contacted. Because the capacity is expected to be limited with the latest information regarding the situation in the Netherlands, this will be announced at a later stage. It has alreaady decided to postpone the tickets from 2021 to 2022.
“As much as we regret it, we are making the decision now to move all tickets for the coming edition to 2022. That way, every fan has the certainty that he or she can attend the tournament next year at the seat and the day he or she wants. Should it turn out last minute that we can offer tickets for 2021, we will give the people who have already tickets now the opportunity to be there”, said Rotterdam tournament Director Richard Kraijcek.
The star-studded Rotterdam already features 2020 ATP Finals champion Danil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev (winner in Doha, Adelaide, Hamburg, St. Petersburg and Vienna in 2020), three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka, former top 10 player and 2017 ATP Finals runner-up David Goffin, 2014 US Open finalist Kei Nishikori and 2019 Next Gen ATP Finals champion Jannik Sinner.
Medvedev will play in the Dutch city for the fourth time in his career. He made his debut at this tournament in 2018 as a qualifier, when he was ranked world number 57. He returned to Rotterdam in 2016 as world number 16. He reached the semifinal before losing to Gael Monfils, who went on to win the tournament.
Wawrinka will make his fifth appearance in Rotterdam. The Swiss player has won 16 ATP titles, including Rotterdam in 2015, when he beat Tomas Berdych in the final. He won the Australian Open in 2014, Roland Garros in 2015 and the US Open in 2016 and reached a career-high of world number 3. He is one of the few players besides the big three to win multiple Grand Slam titles in the last decade. Wawrinka is now ranked world number 18.
Nishikori will play in Rotterdam for the second time. The Japanese player reached the semifinal in 2019, when he was beaten by Wawrinka in three sets. Nishikori will chase the 13th title of his career. He claimed his first tournament in Delray Beach in 2008 and won five of his twelve titles in indoor court tournaments. Sinner made his debut in Rotterdam in 2019 and beat then world number 10 David Goffin in straight sets, but he lost to Pablo Carreno Busta in the tie-break of the third set. World number 37 Sinner is the youngest player in the top 100 and won his first ATP Tour title in Sofia last November.
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PRIMUM NON NOCERE
IN TODAY'S HIGHLY COMPLEX MEDICAL SETTING, OPPORTUNITIES FOR MISTAKES ABOUND. BUT BY RETOOLING INFRASTRUCTURE AND PUTTING QUALITY-CONTROL TOOLS IN PLACE, IT IS POSSIBLE FOR LARGE SYSTEMS LIKE UCLA TO CREATE THE SAFEST POSSIBLE ENVIRONMENT FOR PATIENTS.
Upon its completion in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge represented a milestone in construction – and not just because it was, at the time and for decades afterward, the world’s longest suspension bridge. When building got underway in the early 1930s, there existed a grisly rule of thumb: One worker would be killed for every million dollars spent on a high-steel construction project.
The problem was not a callous disregard for human life but reflected the newness of the technology required for such ambitious projects. “The engineers had to first figure out how to build these structures before they could figure out how to build them safely,” says Tom Rosenthal, M.D., chief medical officer for UCLA Health System.
Hospitals today face a similar problem, argues Dr. Rosenthal and others. New methodologies, from organ transplants and microneurosurgery to intensive care medicine, have been developed to save lives that previously would have been lost. But in lockstep with these miraculous techniques has come an equally staggering rise in the complexity of the practice of medicine itself – one that makes mistakes almost impossible to avoid.
“Obviously,” says Dr. Rosenthal, “everyone who goes into a healthcare fi eld does so to help people. No one wants to cause harm” – primum non nocere. But in a system with so many moving parts that touch on so many lives, even a staff of highly trained and dedicated professionals sometimes might falter. To guard against that happening and create the safest-possible environment for patients, there need to be the tools and infrastructure to control and manage the intricacies of modern medicine.
To beat the grim odds at the Golden Gate Bridge, chief engineer Joseph Strauss devised an elegantly simple solution: a giant safety net, slung under the nascent bridge 60 feet below the construction workers, at a cost of just $130,000. The net would ultimately save 19 lives.
Backed by an institutional commitment to ensure the highest levels of patient care, and aided by both innovative science and the most basic health measures, UCLA Health System is at the forefront of a national effort to create a similar kind of safety net in medicine. It has embarked on an ambitious program to enhance patient safety that touches on a variety of areas, including eliminating medication errors, improving incident reporting, enhancing surgical safety and controlling infections.
“Our hospitals are very safe,” says Dr. Rosenthal. “But we can always do more.”
EACH YEAR, half-a-million injuries occur in the United States because of medication errors. To help prevent such mistakes, UCLA Health System and its four hospitals – Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA, Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA and UCLA Health - Santa Monica Medical Center – recently rolled out its long-awaited bar-coded medication-administration system, Centricity Admin. Adding bar codes to the drugs given to patients could substantially reduce the number of medication errors, experts say, by applying an extra layer of oversight to every step in the delivery process.
In a 2008 commentary about bar-coding systems in the Journal of the American Medical Association, University of Toronto physicians David W. Cescon, M.D., and Edward Etchells, M.D., compared the bar coding of medicines to the coding systems used by delivery companies. “Just as couriers are empowered with bar codes to track their packages for safe delivery,” Drs. Cescon and Etchells wrote, so, too, can nurses be empowered with bar codes to ensure the safe administration of medication to patients.”
Unlike the bar codes on cereal boxes and milk cartons at the supermarket, medication bar codes aren’t just for inventory control but play an essential role early on in the medication-delivery process. At UCLA, after a physician sends a patient’s prescription to the hospital pharmacy, the patient’s nurse receives an electronic order for the drug, verifies it against the doctor’s orders and gathers the appropriate meds. Before administering the drug, the nurse must scan the patient’s arm band – which contains a bar code unique to that patient – then scans the bar code for each individual pill, tablet, injection or other drug to be administered. If the medication order requires that two pills be administered, the nurse must scan both before the system will advance and the medication can be administered, says Virginia Moore, a computer support pharmacist with the Department of Pharmaceutical Services, who helped to develop UCLA’s system.
Similarly, if a nurse scans a drug that’s not ordered, she cannot go forward, nor can she advance in the system if she scans a patient and the drug orders are for a different patient.
“We want to be sure we are giving the right drug, at the right dosage, through the right route, at the right time, to the right patient,” Moore says.
It sounds like it should be easy enough, but implementing the system at UCLA was no simple task, says Moore, largely because of inconsistencies among the bar codes that pharmaceutical manufacturers use on their products. Although all drugs sold to hospitals must now be labeled with bar codes per the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), “the numbers are not standardized,” Moore says.
For example, she says, some bar codes have 10 digits, and some have 11, and some have longer numbers that include information like lot numbers and expiration dates. A company might use only the National Drug Code (or NDC – the 11-digit, three-segment code with unique identifiers representing the vendor, the product and the package size), or a prefix number followed by the NDC, or the NDC followed by a suffix number. To further complicate matters, the bar codes themselves can be written in a linear format or in a two-dimensional array. And some products don’t have any bar code or only one on the outer packaging of a box that contains multiple individual doses.
Because of bar-coding variation, Moore and her colleagues had to test numerous scanning systems. “We needed to find a scanner that could read all of the various codes, in different formats, and that was quick and easy to use – you can’t have the nurse scanning the same code over and over, or it gets frustrating,” she says.
Ultimately, they found a scanner that met all of their criteria: simple, durable, reliable and able to read a variety of codes. Moore and her colleagues devised a way to program the scanner to truncate bar codes after 15 characters, to remove information like lot numbers and expiration dates. Now, 90-to-95 percent of the medications used in UCLA hospitals are bar coded and able to be read by the system.
AS IN ANY COMPLICATED SYSTEM, there are bound to be problems, even at hospitals like UCLA’s with an almost religious devotion to safety. Visitors occasionally take tumbles in hallways; equipment sometimes malfunctions; and patients may have bad reactions to their medication.
To track such mishaps, hospitals in California are now required to report any adverse events to the state’s Department of Health Services. As part of this eff ort, and to improve its own monitoring of the quality of care at its hospitals and clinics, UCLA has implemented a cutting-edge computerized event-reporting system. Before its development, individuals reporting adverse events had to fill out a lot of timeconsuming paperwork, then deliver it to a central office, a process that was not exactly conducive to producing timely updates about issues at the hospitals.
The new computerized reporting system, in contrast, can be accessed from any computer terminal within the hospitals and affiliated clinics and by virtually anyone who has involvement in patient care, from physicians and nurses to respiratory therapists and housekeeping personnel.
“One goal of the program is to see more events coming in – not because we’re producing more errors but because the system makes the process easier,” says Tod Barry, quality director for Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. “If people are comfortable in reporting, they’re more likely to report, and we are seeing increased compliance from year to year.” Currently, 500 to 600 events are reported each month, which means, Barry says, that the system is doing its job.
After logging in, reporters are guided through a series of screens that ask for information such as the reporter’s name; the names of the individuals involved; the date, time and location of the incident; and if harm occurred. Using drop-down menus, users can select one of 14 possible categories of adverse events, such as “medical treatment problem or complication,” “diagnostic/testing problem,” “falls” and “medication error,” and then, based on their characterization of the event, are provided with subcategories that further define what happened. Finally, space is provided for the reporter to write a narrative describing the incident.
Once the report is submitted, the system automatically generates e-mail reports that are delivered to the reporter’s supervisor and the hospital-wide supervisor of the particular unit where the event occurred. Notification is also sent to Barry’s quality-control office, which reviews every adverse-event report submitted from within the hospital system, typically within 24 hours, and makes sure that any necessary follow-up takes place.
That follow-up, says Barry, may be as basic as a comment added to the system by a supervisor or may require a “root-cause analysis” meeting to determine the cause of “sentinel” events – unexpected occurrences involving death or serious physical or psychological injury – and how they can be prevented in the future.
And, indeed, prevention is the goal of the event-reporting system, which exemplifi es UCLA’s effort to improve the “culture of safety” in medical care. Th is initiative, says Barry, represents a shift from the traditional tendency to affix blame when an error is made.
“Rather than a ‘blaming’ culture, we want a ‘just’ culture,” says Dr. Rosenthal, “where people aren’t afraid to report their mistakes because they fear punishment” but rather report mistakes in an effort to avoid them in the future.
EVERY PILOT learns in his or her first days of flight school that an airplane is too much machine to be operated by memory. For that reason, beginning in the mid-1930s, pilots have relied upon checklists that describe every step that must be taken before take-off , during flight, before landing, after landing, in emergencies, and so on. To a pilot, using a checklist is not an admission of fallibility but the clear-headed recognition that infallibility is impossible.
The practice of medicine – and surgery and intensive care, in particular – has reached this point. In response, standout hospitals have appropriated the wisdom of aviation experts and begun using safety tools such as surgical checklists to help reduce and prevent medical error.
A January 2009 study in the New England Journal of Medicine affirmed the benefit of these checklists. In the study, eight hospitals in eight cities from around the world adopted a 19-point surgical checklist based on the recommendations of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Safe Surgery Saves Lives program. The result? Post-surgical complications and death were reduced by nearly 40 percent.
The checklist described in the study was divided into three stages, representing three critical points – and useful stopping points – in surgical care: the “sign-in” period, before anesthesia is delivered; the “timeout,” before an incision is made; and the “sign-out” period, after the procedure is completed but before the patient leaves the operating room.
At each stage, members of the surgical team discuss information that is vital to the patient and the procedure being done. During sign-in, the team will, for example, confirm the patient’s name, surgical site and procedure; verify that pulse oximeters are functioning; note whether or not the patient’s airway and risk of aspiration have been evaluated; and confirm the availability of any necessary emergency equipment. During the time-out, the team introduces itself by name and role; again confirms the patient’s identity, surgical site and procedure; discusses the key events of the procedure and patient-related issues (such as allergies); and confirms the use of prophylactic antibiotics and the availability of instruments and imaging results. Finally, during the sign-out, the staff reviews the procedure performed; conducts needle, sponge and instrument counts; verifies that specimens are correctly labeled; and discusses the patient’s aftercare and recovery.
UCLA has developed its own modified version of the WHO model, which expands the surgical time-out that the hospital has used for nearly a decade. “Our old time-out procedure was basically to confirm that you had the right patient for the right procedure,” says Christine Pizzulli, manager of OR services. Th e new procedure addresses many other issues related to the patient (say, allergies), surgical logistics (if operating room personnel will be switching out, for example, because the procedure is particularly long), equipment and implant availability, and more.
“It’s an interactive discussion between all members of the team – surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, perfusionist and support staff. Everybody stops what they’re doing to give 100 percent of their attention to be part of the discussion, to make sure everyone knows if there are questions or concerns, or that the equipment, implants and blood that will be needed during the procedure are readily available,” she says.
“Traditionally, we’d have a surgeon who was familiar with the patient, an anesthesiologist/anesthetist who meets the patient on the planned date of care and who has reviewed the patient information in an electronic format. The OR clinical staff reviews the scheduling information, which focuses on the supplies, implant, instrument and equipment requirements for the procedure. They were all looking at the needs of the patient, but each member of the team had his or her own silo of information. The new process requires a few more minutes,” Pizzulli adds, “but it gives an opportunity to bring out all of the important issues and concerns to the attention of each member of the team.”
Everybody who goes into a healthcare field does so to help people. No one wants to cause harm," says Tom Rosenthal, M.D., chief medical officer for UCLA Health System.
LOOKING BEYOND the high-tech computerized systems, barcoded medications and other tools for promoting hospital safety, a simple fact emerges: Beating bad bugs saves lives. To that end, UCLA has developed sophisticated new protocols for tracking and controlling hospital-related infections.
Beginning in 2009, the State of California required that all hospitals report rates of particular healthcare-associated infections, such as the incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant bugs. UCLA, which has long tracked these rates, has begun to explore the use of decision-support software programs that “link lab data with existing electronic data sources to automatically detect and predict infection sources,” says David Pegues, M.D., director of the UCLA Hospital Epidemiology Program. “These programs help to identify infections and other potential problems faster. That means less time for the infection preventionists sifting through data and more time on the floor to educate and put a face to our infection-prevention efforts.”
And that time “on the floor” can be used to focus on the first line of defense against all infections: proper hygiene. “It’s important to recognize that we need to go back to the basics, and the basics start with hand hygiene,” says clinical epidemiologist Teresa Zaroda, one of three infection-control professionals on Dr. Pegues’ staff.
The leadership of UCLA Health System, for example, has made an institutional commitment to hand hygiene. Patients and their family members are told that they have the right to ask anyone, at any time, to wash his or her hands. Meanwhile, staff members are encouraged to speak up if their colleagues have forgotten to wash. To further promote the practice, hand-hygiene-product dispensers are located inside and outside of every patient room, near elevators and other access points. “They’re visible everywhere,” Zaroda says.
Infection control isn’t just about bug tracking and hand hygiene, however. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 14,000 to 28,000 deaths occur each year due to infections in central venous catheters (CVCs) – lines placed into the large veins of the neck, chest or groin to administer medications and draw blood samples, for example. To prevent these entirely preventable infections, UCLA has developed a checklist of steps – placed prominently on the trays containing CVC instruments – detailing everything from hand-hygiene etiquette to proper mask, hair-cap, gown and sterile-drape usage. The health system has also developed codified procedures for airborne precautions (to use with patients on respirators, for example), droplet precautions, contact precautions and more, all of which are displayed throughout the hospitals and serve as constant reminders of the diligence, and standard of care, expected of every employee.
“Technology may help, but it’s not the complete answer,” says Zaroda. “We need to enhance our individual commitment to quality improvement and safety.”
The results of these efforts at UCLA are enviable – infection rates have dropped to the point that UCLA Health System’s numbers are among the lowest in the country.
A novel program developed at UCLA is helping to bolster these goals and ensure positive outcomes. The Measuring to Achieve Patient Safety (MAPS) program, started in 2006, enlists student volunteers to observe hospital personnel as they perform clinical procedures and report on any violations.
The volunteers, including pre-nursing, nursing, pre-med and sometimes high school students, will, for example, watch to see if patients are correctly identified before they’re given medication or have blood drawn and look to see if syringes are labeled and attended by a nurse or M.D. And, of course, MAPS students look at hand washing: Are healthcare workers washing when they should, how they should?
“The reports are very personal, describing if a person hasn’t done what they are supposed to do,” says Catherine Walsh, MAPS director and an accreditation manager in the Department of Nursing. “The report goes to the person’s unit director – or if it is an M.D., to their attending – and they get counseled, and then we go back and make sure they’re complying.”
Far from resenting the intrusion, UCLA’s healthcare professionals seem to welcome the reminders of the MAPS team, Walsh says. And the program has had an impact: “We have seen an increase in handwashing compliance because of the program,” she says. While the hospital’s hand-washing rates were always high, now fully 90 percent of the UCLA staff correctly washes their hands, with the other 10 percent having one incident per month in which they deviate from protocol. That rate is a far cry from the 50-percent compliance seen in many hospitals.
The program – and UCLA’s overall commitment to hygiene, infection control and other safety measures – promises to have a lasting effect. “MAPS students are going to be the healthcare workers of the future,” says Walsh. “We’re helping to set a precedent for their later practices and creating a new generation with the same of commitment to safety.”
Ultimately, a safer hospital environment translates not just to healthier patients – no small measure of quality, to be sure – but also to satisfied patients and families. Says David T. Feinberg, M.D., M.B.A., chief executive officer of UCLA Hospital System: “UCLA’s hospitals are populated with brilliant and talented physicians and staff , but there is no one here who is more important than our patients. We are dedicated to delivering care to our patients that is safe and compassionate. That is both our commitment and our responsibility.”
Kathy A. Svitil is the lead science writer at the California Institute of Technology and a former writer and editor for Discover magazine.
To see detailed results of UCLA’s efforts to enhance hospital safety and patient satisfaction, go to:
www.uclahealth.org/quality
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'Border baby' boom strains S. Texas
By __Kratos__, September 25, 2006 in Other World News
RIO GRANDE CITY — First it was a trickle, now it's a flood.
Rising numbers of undocumented immigrants from Mexico and Central America are streaming into Texas to give birth, straining hospitals and costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, health officials say.
Doctors and health officials say they are overwhelmed by both the new arrivals and those immigrant mothers who already are in the state. Even Houston's feeling the pinch. An estimated 70 percent to 80 percent of the 10,587 births at Ben Taub General Hospital and Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital last year were to undocumented immigrants, administrators say.
Also feeling the strain is Starr County, an already poor South Texas county that has the region's only taxpayer-supported hospital district.
Immigrants "want a U.S.-born baby" and know that emergency room staffers don't collect any money up front, said Dr. Mario Rodriguez, an obstetrician in Starr County.
"The word is out: Come to Starr County and get delivered for free. Why pay $1,000 in Mexico when you can get it for free?" Rodriguez said.
''When we are separated only by the distance of the river, it's easy to do," Starr County hospital administrator Thalia Muñoz said. "It's gotten worse, and it's because the economy in Mexico is not good and because we provide all these benefits."
Unfortunately, doctors say, Starr County isn't alone.
''Our little snapshot is duplicated in all the municipalities between here and California," said Tony Falcon, a Rio Grande City physician who was appointed to the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission in April. ''What you see here is what is happening in Brownsville, McAllen, El Paso and San Diego."
He operates a private family clinic and delivers babies at the Starr County hospital. About a third of his deliveries are what he calls "walk-ins" — mothers in labor showing up at the ER.
''Obviously, it has a huge impact on patient health and the kind of health care that's provided," Falcon said. "You don't get the kind of prenatal care you should get."
'Anchor babies'
Immigration-control advocates regard the U.S.-born infants as "anchor babies" because they give their undocumented parents and relatives a way to petition for citizenship. They estimate that 360,000 of these babies are born in the U.S. every year and warn that the numbers are rising.
Once parents have an "anchor baby," they become more difficult to deport, said Jack Martin, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a lobby organization in Washington, D.C.
''It's a fairly big factor in complicating the removal of illegal aliens," Martin said. "Illegal aliens know that and, to some extent, we think they're being influenced into having children as soon as they get into the U.S. to complicate their removal."
Some lawmakers want to begin denying citizenship to babies born to illegal immigrants.
Birthright citizenship, as it is known, has been in force since the approval of the Constitution's 14th Amendment in 1868. But several bills under consideration in Congress would abolish the longstanding federal policy. Sponsors include U.S. Reps. Ron Paul, R-Lake Jackson, and Nathan Deal, R-Ga.
In a largely symbolic move, the Michigan House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Sept. 8 to end birthright citizenship.
Undocumented immigrants say they are being attacked unfairly and think that all children born in the U.S. should have equal rights.
Socorro Gonzalez, an undocumented immigrant who in August gave birth to her fourth child on U.S. soil, said she and her husband aren't trying to take advantage of immigration laws or abuse the health care system.
''We're not here to have a child. We are here to work," she said as she cradled her infant son, Orlando Soto.
Gonzalez, 42, said she moved to South Texas four years ago to join her husband, a cabinet maker. Two of their older children were born at a private midwife's clinic, she said, and two were delivered at taxpayer expense at hospitals in McAllen.
Gonzalez said the benefits of undocumented immigrants' labor in the U.S. more than compensate for the costs of their medical bills.
''I don't see why they should deny a medical service if we're here struggling for this country," she said. ''Because of the help of Mexican workers, whether they want us or not, this country is progressing."
Still, someone has to pay the bills, and not everyone is happy about that.
Uncollected medical bills
Starr County Memorial Hospital had $3.6 million in uncollected medical bills in 2005, up from $1.5 million in 2002. The total when fiscal 2006 ends on Sept. 30 is expected to hit $3.9 million, chief financial officer Rafael Olivarez said. Unpaid bills for the past five years will reach nearly $13 million, he said.
To make up for the shortfall, Starr County's hospital district is proposing a 25 percent tax hike.
Already, the U.S. government is pitching in, setting aside $1 billion in Medicaid funds to pay for emergency care received by undocumented migrants over the next four years.
But Olivarez said getting the reimbursements isn't easy. Federal officials ''told us at a meeting they would pay us about 20 cents on the dollar," he said. "But it's better than nothing."
No one knows for sure how many undocumented immigrants there are or what they cost the health care system. Most hospitals don't ask whether patients have papers.
Total cost unknown
''It puts them in the position of being border police," said Amanda Engler, a spokeswoman for the Texas Hospital Association in Austin.
Harris County Hospital District officials say their policy is not to question patients directly about their citizenship.
''We do not explicitly ask if our patients are illegal, but we do ask them for proof of Harris County residency," district spokeswoman Shannon Rasp said. "Often citizenship status becomes clearer when billing issues come up."
Eighty-three percent of the undocumented immigrants receiving in-patient care at the district's hospitals and clinics last year were from Mexico, officials said. Six percent were from El Salvador or Guatemala. And the remaining 11 percent were from such countries as Britain, Canada, Haiti, India, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria and Vietnam.
''Using anecdotal information provided us by our staff, statistics from other public hospital systems and our patient demographics, we believe that approximately 70 to 80 percent of our obstetrics patients are undocumented," Rasp said.
In all, 57,072 patients visited the district's hospitals, clinics and health centers last year, and nearly a fifth were undocumented, Rasp said. The cost of their treatment was $97.3 million, up from $55 million in 2002.
Jeez A serious problem that needs to be dealt with. The tax payers are suffering for this and they shouldn't have to.
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Meh its the law, once you're born here you're a citizen
It shouldn't be anymore. The law was for former slave children anyways... That's well kind of old now and it should be revised.
It's just being abused. Not to mention they like to skip out on the bill like great people.
I don't know, it opens the door to allowing the government to restrict who is a citizen, and that just gives them too much power IMO
It would redefine it more then likely for legal immigrants and citizens. Which would be good because it would stop the abuses and make it easier to deal with new illegal immigrants.
Problem is, once you redefine it once, it becomes that much easier to change it in the future (one reason why I don't like the thought of a ban on flag-burning, amendment), just by saying you have another problem with people abusing the privilage, plus it also leaves open the interpreation for "illegal" immigrants
True, but it'd help to combat the problem.
Flag burning is completely different as it's a part of free speech.
The 14th was added in, it's not even part of the founding father's plans.
Interpreation? Well to put it in simpler words because they'll go over kill on legal words, if your parent isn't a legal or citizen you're up crap creek. It's not fair to the tax payers of this country to be abused to openly by those that want to break out laws to do so.
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Wow, I learned something today!!! I am an "anchor baby"!!!
Even Free speech is an amendment added, many founding fathers didn't want it in the constitution, there was a lot of disagrement at the time over it and the other
Which is why its called an amendment, to make changes to the constitution based on the changes to society.
The good thing about amendments is that they are hard to pass, and therefore have to be something that most americans want, a bill is much easier to pass
Whose to say thay won't expand the concept of illegal at any time?
Well, what point is having an old and useless law from after the Civil War still in affect today to be abused?
Who's to say it won't stay the same term? I mean, you're either legal or illegal. Even in the law there isn't much disagreement about that.
Well not so useless, it makes sure you have due process, and the government can't ride roughshod over you, among other things
that doesn't answer my question, what's to stop them from changing their deinition of who is an illegal
It's useless from it's birth intentions. All the slaves have had their children and have died.
More then likely once revised, all of them will complain and whine so it'll be set. It could happen, but you know... A tree could fall over and kill you while you're juggling 3 dwarfs... Doesn't mean it's going to happen.
Why stand under the tree that looks like it might fall over?
A lot of trees that fall don't look like they're going to.
It's a gamble if you're soo worried that you're going to lose citizenship. But really, it's going to be against illegal immigrants and their anchor babies that rape the tax payers of billions each year and the price tag isn't getting any lower but rising each year.
Maybe it would just be used for that, but I don't like the idea of risking it, I prefer to limit the government's powers in such regards, makes me feel safer
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Get rid of them before they procreate. There, problem solved.
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The propeller isn't there to move the plane through the air. It's there to keep the pilot cool. See how much he sweats when it stops running? (!)
The law was enacted to prevent people from saying that blacks were not Americans. At thta time there was no real concern about people coming over from Mexico because we were in abuot the same boat as they were. AND we had just come out of a war!
Now it's just a loop hole that unscrupulous people take advantage of. Did you ever notice that they don't have a law like it in Mexico? Wonder why?
It's a leak that needs to be plugged. It's a threat to the nation and it's just not right. As far as the fear about the Government having the power to decide who is a citizen and who isn't, they already do that. Those that follow the immigration rules can become citizens. Those that are born here are citizens. Those rules in effect, are the governments way of deciding who is and isn't.
To be really assinign about it, we are the government, if you believe the Constitution. We have the right to say who's in and who's out.
Of course, all of this is a moot point because, we'll all be one big happy nation in a few years anyway.
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Saudi Arabia elects its first female politicians
14 December 2015 • International, News • No Comments
At least 18 women have won seats in Saudi Arabia’s municipal polls, the country’s first-ever elections open to female voters and candidates, local reports said.
The women who won hail from vastly different parts of the country, ranging from Saudi Arabia’s largest city to a small village near Islam’s holiest site.
Salma bint Hizab al-Oteibi was elected to the council of Madrakah, a region in Mecca, the official SPA news agency reported, citing election commission president Osama al-Bar.Saturday’s municipal poll, which was hailed by many as historic, saw a turnout of about 47 percent, according to Saudi officials.
Women are banned from driving and must cover themselves in public in the conservative kingdom, which was the world’s last country to give its women the right to vote.
The official results in the latest election were expected to be announced on Monday.More than 900 women ran for seats. They were up against nearly 6,000 men competing for places on 284 councils whose powers are restricted to local affairs including responsibility for streets, public gardens and rubbish collection.
“I am happy for having voted for the first time in my life,” a woman, who declined to give her name, told the DPA news agency after leaving a polling station in the capital Riyadh.
Another female voter, Najla Harir, said: “I exercised my electoral right. We are optimistic about a bright future for women in our homeland.”
Hatoon al-Fassi, a Saudi womens’ rights activist and writer, said in a tweet: “This is a new day. The day of the Saudi woman.”
Fahda al-Rwali, a female voter, explained why the election was significant for her.
“As a woman, I need some services, some needs in my neighbourhood, like nurseries. I need social centres for youth and retirement, like this. So maybe the woman can concentrate more than the man on those needs.”
Al Jazeera’s Jamal Elshayyal, reporting from Riyadh after the polls closed, described the elections as “momentous”.
“People here are hoping this is a significant step on the path towards having a more inclusive society, not only for women but also for youth because the voting age has been reduced from 21 to 18,” he said.
Landmark elections
A strict separation of the sexes in public facilities meant that female candidates could not directly meet the majority of voters – men – during their campaigns.
Women also said voter registration had been hindered by bureaucratic obstacles, a lack of awareness of the process and its significance, and the fact that women could not drive themselves to sign up.
One-third of council seats are appointed by the municipal affairs ministry, leaving women optimistic that they will be assigned some of them.
‘Not running to win’
Electioneering was low key, with rules preventing photographs of candidates applying to both men and women. But win or lose, the female contenders said they were already victorious.
“We have legal controls, which forbid the publication of women’s photos – during elections and in all our work. And if women’s photos are not allowed, it would only be right, fair and equal to ban photos of all candidates”, Jadie al-Qahtani, the head of the election’s executive committee, said.
“What’s more important are the programmes of candidates from both sexes,” he was quoted by the Okaz newspaper as saying.
Speaking to Al Jazeera hours before polls opened, several women said they felt excited and positive that women were participating, with the hope that society as a whole would benefit from more diversity in public affairs leadership.”Women here are doctors and engineers – it’s not like women aren’t there,” Lama al-Sulaiman, a candidate in Jeddah, told Al Jazeera.
“The international media sometimes has narrow views; they only report the bad stories. We have them, we have weaknesses and every citizen goes through challenges – those shouldn’t be belittled.
“But to think that 50 percent of the population is going through those challenges is also ridiculous.”
Mona Abu Suliman, a media personality and consultant in Riyadh, said that even if women don’t win many seats, just going through this process is important.
“Recognising women’s votes in decision-making is a step towards equality,” she said.
“There are people who see women voting and running in the election as another step towards Westernisation. They dislike seeing women in public-facing roles. But I don’t think they are in the majority. The majority is either neutral or accepting.”
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Meet the Donald Trumps of Europe
Anthony Faiola
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May 19, 2016 at 2:36 p.m. UTC
Europeans may be fretting about the rise of Donald Trump in the United States, but from Britain to Austria, the region is confronting its own surge of the populist right.
The new breed of nationalist in Europe is more disarming than the frothing-at-the-mouth, angry orators who once held sway over the far right in the region. Like Trump, some are drawing strength from the less educated and white working classes, tapping into a rash of fears that now span the Atlantic. Fears of migration, globalization, underemployment and the loss of influence in a fast-changing and increasingly diverse world.
Austria’s right-wing populism reflects anti-Muslim platform of Donald Trump
They may throw red meat at the masses, but these days, its better cooked and presented, their policies served up with a smile, even a joke. In the past, nationalists may have struck fear into the hearts of those who heard them. Now, they are the purveyors of reality show-like entertainment. A few even come off as charming.
The populist right has already claimed a string of national victories behind the old Iron Curtain, with the nationalist rulers in Hungary and Poland, for instance, already generating serious concern as they deploy their brand of strong-arm politics against news media and political opponents. But the allure of populism is spreading west, into the core of Europe.
Here’s a look at some of the far-right voices gunning for power in Western Europe.
Who: Norbert Hofer
Hofer, 45, is the front-runner in this Sunday’s presidential elections in Austria. His surprise win in the first round last month prompted the resignation of former chancellor Werner Faymann, whose earlier support for welcoming refugees sparked a public backlash.
In Austria, Hofer’s rise is attributed in part to his easy manner, and he’s been described by some as being just like your next-door neighbor. Although the role of president is traditionally ceremonial in Austria, he has vowed to fire the coalition government in charge if it doesn’t control migration. If it rises to full power, his Freedom Party has vowed stricter border control, faster deportations of rejected migrants and increased monitoring of Muslim institutions, such as mosques and schools.
Who: Marine Le Pen
In many respects, Marine Le Penn is Europe’s pioneer in attempting to cast the populist far right in a more respectable light. Where her biological and political father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, was overtly racist and particularly anti-Semitic in his remarks, Marine sought to sanitize the party and distance herself from such statements when she took over as leader of the National Front in 2011. She was also among the first to fully refocus far-right antipathy from Jews to Muslims — a switch now in full swing across the continent.
In December, Le Pen spectacularly lost her bid to govern the northern region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais. But her loss came only after the Socialists pulled out and begged voters to support her opponent. She is polling high enough to be a threat in the 2017 presidential elections, and she may at least make it to the second round of voting, when she would probably face a candidate from France’s political mainstream.
Who: Boris Johnson
The king of political comedy, London’s conservative former mayor with a trademark shock of straw-colored hair is known for blending his blind ambition with buffoonery. While not a card-carrying member of Europe’s far right per se, his use of populist tactics has defined his career.
Now a member of Parliament, he has positioned himself as the even more conservative alternative to Prime Minister David Cameron. He is stoking nationalist sentiments in his bid to push Britain to exit the European Union — an institution he recently compared to Adolf Hitler.
Who: Sylvi Listhaug
A rising star in her populist Progress Party, this daughter of Norwegian farmers is known for her reality-show-like aplomb, including a stunt that found her floating in a survival suit off the coast of Greece in an attempt to better understand the refugee crisis.
Since becoming Norway’s migration minister in December, she has taken a harsh stance — including deporting rejected asylum seekers to Russia in sub-zero weather in what may have been a breach of international law. Observers say she could rise to the highest ranks of her party.
Who: Kristian Thulesen Dahl
Thulesen Dahl does away with the notion that there are no soft-spoken populists, leading his Danish People’s Party to electoral gains with even-tempered finesse. Yet he has done it while stoking the fires of fear over migration. In 2013, Thulesen Dahl called on Denmark to accept fewer immigrants from Muslim countries and has suggested there is no room in his country for more Muslims. In 2015, he led his party to stunning gains that made it the second-largest party in Parliament.
Who: Geert Wilders
One of the most divisive political figures in Europe, far-right Geert Wilders has seen his popularity ebb and flow over the years. But he has seemingly capitalized on the refugee crisis, claiming allegations of rape and abuse of European women by migrants is proof of the anti-Islam warnings he’s been issuing for years.
He has compared the Koran to Hitler’s "Mein Kampf" and called for a ban on Muslim immigration. More recently, he has handed out fake cans of pepper spray to women while warning against “Islamic testosterone bombs.” A January poll showed his Freedom Party surging in popularity.
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Inside the tense, profane White House meeting on immigration
President Trump said "I am not a racist" Jan. 14, and blamed Democrats for the delay in passing a deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Josh Dawsey,
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When President Trump spoke by phone with Sen. Richard J. Durbin around 10:15 a.m. last Thursday, he expressed pleasure with Durbin's outline of a bipartisan immigration pact and praised the high-ranking Illinois Democrat's efforts, according to White House officials and congressional aides.
The president then asked if Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), his onetime foe turned ally, was on board, which Durbin affirmed. Trump invited the lawmakers to visit with him at noon, the people familiar with the call said.
But when they arrived at the Oval Office, the two senators were surprised to find that Trump was far from ready to finalize the agreement. He was "fired up" and surrounded by hard-line conservatives such as Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who seemed confident that the president was now aligned with them, according to one person with knowledge of the meeting.
Trump told the group he wasn't interested in the terms of the bipartisan deal that Durbin and Graham had been putting together. And as he shrugged off suggestions from Durbin and others, the president called nations from Africa "shithole countries," denigrated Haiti and grew angry. The meeting was short, tense and often dominated by loud cross-talk and swearing, according to Republicans and Democrats familiar with the meeting.
Trump's ping-ponging from dealmaking to feuding, from elation to fury, has come to define the contentious immigration talks between the White House and Congress, perplexing members of both parties as they navigate the president's vulgarities, his combativeness and his willingness to suddenly change his position. The blowup has derailed those negotiations yet again and increased the possibility of a government shutdown over the fate of hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants known as "dreamers."
This account of the events surrounding Thursday's explosive meeting is based on interviews with more than a dozen White House officials, Capitol Hill aides and lawmakers.
The fight has left congressional leaders unsure of whether they will eventually come to an agreement. Some remain optimistic that Trump can be walked back to the political center and will cut a deal that expands border security while protecting those under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which Trump has ordered ended.
"The president is indispensable to getting a deal," Graham said in an interview. "Time will tell."
As President Trump denied calling Haiti and African countries 'shithole countries,' Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) confirmed and condemned his language.
Last Thursday was a critical moment in the stalled negotiations, revealing the president's priorities even as the discussion fell apart.
Trump complained that there wasn't enough money included in the deal for his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. He also objected that Democratic proposals to adjust the visa lottery and federal policy for immigrants with temporary protected status were going to drive more people from countries he deemed undesirable into the United States instead of attracting immigrants from places like Norway and Asia, people familiar with the meeting said.
Attendees who were alarmed by the racial undertones of Trump's remarks were further disturbed when the topic of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) came up, these people said.
At one point, Durbin told the president that members of that caucus — an influential House group — would be more likely to agree to a deal if certain countries were included in the proposed protections, according to people familiar with the meeting.
Trump was curt and dismissive, saying he was not making immigration policy to cater to the CBC and did not particularly care about that bloc's demands, according to people briefed on the meeting. "You've got to be joking," one adviser said, describing Trump's reaction.
White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly was in the room and was largely stone-faced, not giving any visible reaction when Trump said "shithole countries" or when he said Haitians should not be part of any deal, White House advisers said.
At one point, Graham told Trump he should use different language to discuss immigration, people briefed on the meeting said.
As Trump batted back the Democrats, he was urged on by Republican lawmakers. Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) told Graham and Durbin their proposal would not fly, and he told the group they should instead embrace his more conservative bill. Durbin was not interested, White House officials said.
After Graham left, he told associates that he was disturbed by what he heard in the Oval Office, according to people who spoke with him, and that it was evident the deal's antagonists had gotten to Trump. Graham and Durbin also told allies that they were stunned that the other lawmakers were present — and that Trump's tone seemed so different than it had been days or even hours before, according to people close to them.
Graham declined to comment on the president's reported obscenity. He has told others in his circle that commenting would only hurt the chance of a deal and that he wants to keep a relationship with the president.
There had initially been hope for the Thursday meeting. Trump had told lawmakers during a partially televised session two days earlier that he was flexible. "I'll sign it," he said Tuesday of whatever bill was brought to him. He even said he would be willing to lock the door of the Cabinet room if they wanted to negotiate at the White House, according to people who heard his comments.
Trump went on to say at the earlier meeting that he wanted a deal and that even those in the conservative House Freedom Caucus should work with Durbin. In the hours and days afterward, a bipartisan group of senators — Graham, Durbin, Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), and Sens. Michael F. Bennet (D) and Cory Gardner (R) of Colorado — began meeting and broadly agreed to a proposal.
But some White House officials, including conservative adviser Stephen Miller, feared that Graham and Durbin would try to trick Trump into signing a bill that was damaging to him and would hurt him with his political base. As word trickled out Thursday morning on Capitol Hill that Durbin and Graham were heading over to the White House, legislative affairs director Marc Short began to make calls to lawmakers and shared many of Miller's concerns.
Soon, Goodlatte, one of the more conservative House members on immigration, was headed to the White House. Trump also called House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and asked him to come, McCarthy said. Sens. David Perdue (R-Ga.) and Cotton were also invited to rush over.
The Fix’s Eugene Scott explains how Trump’s “shithole countries” comment is the latest example of his history of demeaning statements on nonwhite immigrants.
In the late morning, before Durbin and Graham arrived, Kelly — who had already been briefed on the deal — talked to Trump to tell him that the proposal would probably not be good for his agenda, White House officials said. Kelly, a former secretary of homeland security, has taken an increasingly aggressive and influential role in the immigration negotiations, calling lawmakers and meeting with White House aides daily — more than he has on other topics. He has "very strong feelings," in the words of one official. But he's not a lone voice. Trump in recent weeks has also been talking more to conservatives such as Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) on immigration, these people said.
White House officials say Kelly is determined to secure a deal on dreamers and border security and has told Trump that the southwestern border is worse than it was a few years ago — and that he can be the president to change the status quo.
"Once we saw what was going on in the meeting a few days earlier, we were freaked out," said immigration hard-liner Mark Krikorian, who runs the Center for Immigration Studies. Trump, he said, "has hawkish instincts on immigration, but they aren't well-developed, and he hasn't ever been through these kind of legislative fights."
After the Thursday meeting, Trump began telling allies that the proposal was a "terrible deal for me," according to a friend he spoke with, and that Kelly and other aides and confidants were correct in advising him to back away.
"It wasn't a serious proposal. It was not viewed as a serious proposal because it did so little to address the immigration issues that the president has been vocal about," said Meadows, who leads the conservative House Freedom Caucus. "It was, if I had to put it in a 1-to-10 range, with 10 being the most conservative and 1 being the most liberal, I would give it a 2.5."
Trump was not particularly upset by the coverage of the meeting and his vulgarity after it was first reported by The Washington Post, calling friends and asking how they expected it to play with his political supporters, aides said.
"Everyone was saying it would help with the base," which would agree with his characterization, one person who spoke with the president said.
By Thursday evening, many White House aides were concerned that the story was exploding beyond the usual level for a Trump controversy, but they carried on with their plans for the night: a send-off for deputy national security adviser Dina Powell, a former Goldman Sachs executive and ally of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. Nearly every top official ducked into the exclusive Italian restaurant Cafe Milano in Georgetown to toast Powell. There was little effort to significantly push back on the story that night because aides knew that Trump had said it and that the president wasn't even too upset, according to people involved in the talks.
Then Friday morning, Trump appeared to suggest in a tweet that he had not used the objectionable word at all: "The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used."
Three White House officials said Perdue and Cotton told the White House that they heard "shithouse" rather than "shithole," allowing them to deny the president's comments on television over the weekend. The two men initially said publicly that they could not recall what the president said.
Representatives for both men declined to comment.
Going forward, a path to an immigration deal remains hazy.
"I expect that we'll get more Republican support for the proposal because it's really the only game in town. I expect there will be more negotiations — we didn't write the Bible," Graham said Monday. "We wrote a proposal that over time we can make it better."
Meadows said he and Goodlatte were working to add a merit-based immigration policy to their conservative version. He said a majority of Republicans were not going to line up behind Graham and Durbin and should instead rally behind his proposal, which is unlikely to win support from Democrats.
"Based on what they proposed originally, Durbin and Graham are running a marathon, and they're only in Mile 2," Meadows said.
Philip Rucker and Ed O'Keefe contributed to this report.
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You can't stop life. And that's maybe the most beautiful thing about it.
You don't know what's going to happen to you today, tomorrow, in a decade, or a lifetime. You might fall in love. You might discover who you really are or what you really want to do. You might get miraculous news or receive a terrible diagnosis or go on vacation to a place where you realize you want to live for the rest of your days. That's the heartbreaking beauty of being a human being, and it's what we tried to capture in our new campaign. It's called Tomorrow Begins Today, and it's about life, death, love, loss, and money. It's about the great big everything of life, and the reasons we invest for our futures.
The idea is to find those moments when our lives change, and we want to be ready — and then to turn those moments into little films. Each commercial is composed of a single shot, so they feel more like snippets extracted from real lives. Here’s one of our favorites, Dream. It’s about being the first in your family to come to this country, because you want to make a future.
The work, which is produced by Wealthsimple's in-house creative team, is the first commercial campaign directed by Jonathan Alric, who, along with his cousin Guillaume, make-up the French electronic music duo The Blaze. Maybe you know them for their sui generis music, or the gorgeous, transporting and phenomenally original music videos like Territory, which won a Grand Prix prize at the Cannes film festival. We think it's pretty clear these won't be the last films ever directed by Jonathan Alric — we like to think our choosing Alric was our own smart investment in the future.
But yes, a thirty-year-old French electronic music phenom is a pretty unconventional choice for a bunch of TV commercials made by a financial company. Which is part of the point. Maybe, when you watch one of them for the first time, you'll say to yourself, ”Wait, is this even a commercial?” Well, we hope you'll say that. Because we don't think of them as commercials as much as we do very real micro moments that actual humans can relate to. And the point is that, yes, you may not be able to stop life. And we, none of us, should try. But we can be ready for it.
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If you're helping someone you love start over.
Or you're retiring, and leaving a whole way of life — but you know that you may yet have a whole lifetime ahead of you. (After all, about one out of every four 65 year olds today will live past age 90, and one out of 10 will live past age 95.)
As human beings, we tend to put a lot of faith in our ability to adapt. If something bad, or good, or just complicated happens to us in the future we assume we'll figure it out then. We’re survivors, right?The reality is, when one of those complicated, life-jumbling tremors happens, no one has ever said, “Good thing I don’t have a financial cushion! I need this to be extra hard for me to grow.”
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Countries to Have Seen Biggest Pollution Drop Since Lockdown
Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, air pollution has been one of the major environmental problems. Though the lockdown has reduced industrial activities across the globe, some countries are still industrially active, which makes air pollution levels higher. Here are the countries that have recorded a significant drop in the level of pollution during the lockdown.
Denmark is one of the few nations that have seen low levels of pollution during the lockdown. The largest cities in the country, such as Aalborg, Copenhagen, Odense, and Aarhus, have the lowest emissions levels.
This is because there are strict regulations imposed on vehicles around the city center. In Copenhagen, more than half of the population use bikes to commute to work. This is because the government has made an effort to ensure safer cycling to reduce air pollution in the country.
According to figures released in March by the government, the level of pollution has reduced drastically in the four biggest cities during the lockdown. This makes Denmark one of the safest places to visit once the travel restrictions have been lifted.
Malta is one of the countries that have put strict regulations to ensure that the rate of pollution is checked. It has managed to control pollution from cars and power plants. Though the country still has its struggles, it has recorded an impressive improvement, especially during the lockdown.
However, in 2018, it was reported that Malta had an alarming level of air pollution, and something needed to be done. Thankfully, the government managed to come up with policies that are working, and now, it is accurate to say that the country has a good level of clean air.
According to Dealchecker in Portugal, Porto, the coastal town is one of the cleanest, and the government has confirmed that it has the best air. The bodies responsible for the country’s environment started to take their work seriously, which is why Portugal has recorded an improvement in air quality during the COVID-19 lockdown.
For instance, between 2005 and 2013, the country recorded an 18% drop in air pollution levels. Also, during the lockdown, at least 609 potential deaths were avoided in Portugal due to reduced air pollution. However, the country still has some work to do since the level of pollution should still be kept under control.
Many harmful emissions in the US have reduced. The new cars are 99% cleaner than the initial once in terms of pollutants. Though President Donald Trumps tried to revitalize coal plants by bringing back environmental protections in the previous year, they closed down at a high rate. Due to lockdown, there has been a huge reduction in air pollution levels in many states, especially in LA. However, the level of pollution is still significantly high in industrial centers, which means more effort should be put in place.
In Ecuador’s capital, Quito, the government has ensured a Transit Oriented Development (TOD) strategy to maximize the amount of space in walking distance of public transport. This was put into place to prioritize social sustainability and environmental safety. This way, the public does not have a reason to use private vehicles. The fact that the country has been locked down during the pandemic has helped improve air quality.
Australia has strong environmental regulations that have helped to improve the quality of air in the country. Though there has been recent bushfire that contributed to increased air pollution in places such as Sidney, which is the largest city in terms of population, the air quality exceeded the hazardous levels in many points amid the fires, leading to at least 10% increase in hospital admissions. This made the authority to discourage individuals from exercising outdoors because they breathe in more during exercise. It is belied that during the lockdown, the country has recorded an increase in air quality.
Though lockdown has crippled the economic development of many countries, it has somehow contributed to improved air quality, especially in the countries mentioned. Therefore, if you were planning a trip to one of the healthiest nations with quality air, you might consider any of the ones mentioned above.
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Insights from the women leading the way in academia and innovation
As a female who has worked in the worlds of industry and academia, there is much to be celebrated, alongside much to ponder when I consider the world of work today. My passion is that education, skills development and career paths are open and accessible to all.
Supporting gender balance is embedded in all of Interface’s activities, strengthening knowledge sharing between businesses and expertise from universities, research institutes and colleges. Our focus mirrors that of the Scottish Government’s themes of equality, social inclusion and environmental sustainability and the Scottish Funding Council Gender Action Plan, which helps to remove gender stereotyping of roles through education.
We support businesses every day, taking the time to understand the challenges they are facing and wish to overcome. We help match them with the right academic expertise in Scotland's universities, research institutes and colleges and by forging these partnerships, we help their businesses to grow and develop.
We are proud at Interface of the number of innovative businesswomen that we support, and by the fact that this is growing steadily through our activities reaching out to female entrepreneurs throughout the length and breadth of Scotland.
Over the last three years, we have certainly seen a growth in female entrepreneurs and innovators within the organisations we support in Scotland. In 2016-17, less than one third of the project leads in the businesses we supported were female. This figure jumped to 35% in 2017-18 and, so far, this year (2018-19) 40% of the projects we have introduced to universities, research institutes and colleges are being led by women.
Our regional-based team (who work with businesses throughout Scotland, no matter how remote they are) engage with networks designed to engage and inspire female entrepreneurs – and I think these statistics demonstrate that we are heading in the right direction. Of course, this statistic may fluctuate over time, however the upward trajectory is a good indication of what we are achieving and an encouraging sign that female-led innovation is thriving.
Yekemi Otaru, founder and Managing Director of Aberdeen-based YO! Marketing Ltd, (now Doqaru Ltd) had an innovative idea to identify the marketing activities that generate the greatest impact on business growth using a machine learning algorithm.
After issuing an industry-led challenge to relevant research teams within partner universities, Interface matched Yekemi with Dr Xavier Bellekens, Assistant Professor and Lecturer at Abertay University within the Division of Cyber-Security, where he is leading the Machine Learning Research Group.
Yekemi said: “As a business owner it’s very difficult to be good at everything, so by collaborating with Abertay University, it allowed me to focus on my business and what I am good at and I could trust Xavier and his team to develop the idea further.”
The project provided YO! Marketing Ltd with a world's first machine learning marketing algorithm and sets it apart from other marketing companies, enabling business owners with limited marketing experience to make more informed decisions about return on investment from their marketing budgets.
Yekemi is one of a growing number of real role models running many different types and size of business that are forging ahead in the thirst for new knowledge.
Another important aspect of Interface’s role is supporting female academics, from early-stage researchers to professors, who can further their research through tackling real-world challenges. This engagement with industry feeds into the wider issue of tackling gender equality in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
The recent report Tapping all our Talents 2018 by The Royal Society of Edinburgh, shows a mixed picture of progress in STEM in recent years, however one thing is clear – every institute, business and individual has a role to play.
So, whilst there are many green shoots to be celebrated, we must continue to encourage and work in partnership to make inclusive economic growth a reality for all parts of our society. Women can lead the way in making a major contribution to our economy and we will continue to promote equality in all that we do.
*A major international conference on gender studies and the status of women will be held at Queen Margaret University, one of Interface’s academic partners, in 2020. International researchers (including Women's Enterprise Scotland) and scientists from academia, industry and government will present their studies, exchange experiences, discuss proposals, and disseminate results on women’s and gender studies.
Dr. Siobhán Jordan is the Director at Interface. Established in 2005, Interface is a central hub connecting organisations from a wide variety of national and international industries to all of Scotland's universities, research institutes and colleges.
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Image : One caption on this poster is a quote from a German newspaper. It says, “The young Britons prefer to exercise their long limbs on the football ground rather than expose them to any sort of risk in the service of their country.”
On 16th December 1914, a call went out from Fulham Town Hall for the formation of England’s first ‘footballer’s battalion’. Professional players from many of England’s football league clubs, and hundreds of their fans, enlisted in the 17th Middlesex Regiment. The driving force behind the formation of this battalion was Captain Wells-Holland, Chairman of Clapton Orient F.C. He received impressive support from his club – now Leyton Orient F.C. - as 41 of his own players and staff enlisted. They were joined by the likes of Frank Buckley, an England internationalist who played for Derby County, Manchester United and Manchester City. Popular London based players such as Vivian Woodward (Chelsea), Evelyn Lintott (Queen’s Park Rangers) and Joe Webster (West Ham United) also volunteered.
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On 25th November 1914, 11 first team footballers from Heart of Midlothian F.C. enlisted in the British army. The players were on a high as they were top of the league having won all their league games to date. However their minds were on bigger issues and, in the boardroom of Tynecastle Park, they received their
From Football Field to Battlefield
Instead of a sponsor’s name, Scottish Championship club Raith Rovers will play this season with the word ‘Remember’ emblazoned across their chests. Seventeen players from the Fife club served in the British army in World War 1 with seven of them enlisting in the 16th Royal Scots alongside footballers from Hibs, Falkirk and most famously, Hearts. Instead of their traditional navy blue, the Kirkcaldy club has opted for the tones used in the Royal Scots tartan. Beneath the club crest, the name Raith Rovers has been replaced with ‘McCrae’s Battalion’ - the unofficial name given to Britain’s first ‘footballers battalion’. Three Raith players paid the ultimate sacrifice.
On This Day - 100 Years Ago - 16th December 1914
It was all down to a stray shell that set alight a barn which was being used to house German prisoners. Most of the fifty Germans were rescued but some British soldiers were killed including Dr. John Huggan. In March 1914 Huggan’s try could not help Scotland overcome England in the Calcutta Cup match at Murrayfield. The 25 year old from Jedburgh was mentioned in dispatches for his bravery and was one of thirty Scottish rugby internationalists to lose their lives in the Great War. The first was Lieutenant Ronald Simson (aged 24) of the Royal Artillery who was also killed in the Battle of the Aisne – 2 days before Huggan. Huggan and Simson are commemorated with fellow internationalists on a memorial arch at Murrayfield stadium.
Scottish Rugby Internationalist Killed in Action
On 30th November 1914, the ‘Times’ triumphanty reported that every player capped for England in 1913 had enlisted in the army. These were the men who had sealed the Grand Slam for England with a fine win in Paris. In that game the England captain, ‘Ronnie’ Poulton Palmer had scored 20 of England’s 39 points. Ironically, the ship that transported Palmer to his final international match was the same one that took him to war. He landed in France on 30th March 1915 and six weeks later he was dead – shot by a German sniper. 27 former England internationalists are listed on the R.F.U. war memorial at Twickenham.
England Rugby Does It's Duty
The first professional footballer in the English Football League thought to be killed in WW1 was the Huddersfield Town player Larrett Roebuck.
Roebuck made his debut with Huddersfield on 3 January 1914, with a 3-1 home win over Fulham. However his 19th and last appearance came on 25 April 1914, in a 1-0 victory at Leicester Fosse (renamed Leicester City in 1919). Four days previously he had signed a new contract with Town to commence at an agreed rate of £2 per week. This was to rise to £3 from 1 September 1914, the start of the 1914/15 season which he never made.
First Great Loss for English Football League
The balls used on Christmas Day 1914, and thereafter at the Battle of Loos (1915) and the Somme (1916) may have been sent to the front from Edinburgh. A recent study of the archives of Hearts F.C. has revealed that it was not just soldiers that the club sent to the Western Front. In the autumn of 1914 they acceded to requests for footballs from a variety of serving battalions and even from British prisoners of war. News of their generosity appears to have spread and the club was forced to appeal for financial assistance from the Edinburgh public and to businesses across Britain. With their help the club was able to send around 2,000 footballs to British troops in the course of the war. There is currently no evidence of any other British club supporting the forces in this way.
Balls to the Front
On This Day - 100 Years Ago - 25th November 1914
Lily Parr of Dick, Kerr Ladies earned the distinction of being the first woman to be sent off in an official football match for fighting. She also scored more than 1,000 goals during her 31-year-playing career, and of those, 34 were in her first season when she was aged just 14.
As WW1 progressed, the women's game became more formalised, with football teams emerging from the munitions factories. As more teams cropped up, people started to enjoy the matches for the skill and ability of the women, rather than the initial humorous spectacle. Thus the Munitionettes’ Cup was established in August 1917.
The Dick, Kerr Ladies were made up of 11 factory workers from Preston. They went on to become international celebrities and the biggest draw in world football. However, after the war, the female players found themselves being quietly shunted back into domestic life, with many being pushed to return to their “right and proper place” in society.
They remain the most successful women's team of all time.
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On This Day - 100 Years Ago - 16th September 1914
Image: Lionel Tennyson during the 1921 test match.
Second Lieutenant Lionel Tennyson, grandson of a poet laureate, suffered a serious injury at Ploegsteert Wood near Ypres on the night of 12th November 1914. While returning from a night patrol, the 25 year old fell into a trench breaking his leg so badly that it was feared that he would have a permanent limp. Tennyson, who was captain of the England cricket team, was not sent to a military hospital but was immediately shipped back to a top London clinic. He was able to resume his career after the war and is mostly remembered for an incident in a match v Australia in 1921. In that game Tennyson sustained a hand injury while fielding and when called upon to bat did so single handed - scoring an undefeated half century!
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medical examination and were sworn in. Next day two more enlisted and, given that three others were already in khaki, this brought the contribution from Hearts to 16 players. Within days, hundreds of fans of the Edinburgh club had also enlisted along with players from other Scottish teams including Raith Rovers, Hibernian, Falkirk and Dunfermline. The unit they joined became the 16th Battalion, Royal Scots which became known as ‘McCrae’s Battalion’.
A special commemorative strip will be worn during the coming football season by Scottish championship side Heart of Midlothian. The strip chosen by Hearts is devoid of sponsor's logo and is a modern adaptation of the one worn by the team of 1914 – 15. This group of players is regarded by some as the best ever Hearts team but out of the 16 players that enlisted with the British Army, 7 paid the ultimate price.
In 2014 McCrae’s battalion was inducted into the Scottish Football Association ‘Hall of Fame’.
On 18 October 1914, Lance-Corporal Roebuck was one of 34 men from the 2nd battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment recorded as killed or missing in action, 32 are commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing.
Interestingly the relatively recent discovery in 2009 of the remains of 15 men from the York and Lancaster Regiment has led to the identification of a number of these missing soldiers. Unfortunately, Roebuck was not among those who have been identified but it is possible that Roebuck may still have been one of those unidentified men buried in the ceremony at Y-Farm Cemetery on 22nd October 2014.
Image: The Huddersfield Team 1914, courtesy Roger Pashby. Roebuck is on the back row, second from the right.
The star of the match was 6ft tall (1.83m) and had a shot so hard that they once broke the arm of a professional male goalkeeper – her name was Lily Parr. The match was Dick, Kerr Ladies FC vs St Helen’s Ladies, played at Goodison Park and was watched by 53,000 spectators (larger than the capacity of Hampden Stadium) with another 14,000 locked outside the ground trying to get in.
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In March 1914, 30 players took to the field for the last peacetime Calcutta Cup match. Eleven of them did not return from the war, 6 from the Scotland team (shown) and 5 from England. In the course of the war, 31 Scottish international rugby players were killed while 28 England players met the same fate. This slight imbalance is typical of Great War casualty figures where across the board, Scots suffered disproportionally. One of the most famous Scottish players to be killed in the conflict was David Bedell-Sivright who was capped 22 times for Scotland and was also captain of what is now known as the British Lions.
Six Nations Special - Scotland Suffers Highest Losses
In the course of the Great War, Wales lost 13 rugby internationalists. While some football clubs endeavoured to have their stars classified as essential war workers, the Welsh Rugby Union contacted clubs to urge players to answer the call of King and Country. While football carried on until the close of the 1914-15 season, all rugby fixtures in Wales were cancelled on 4th September 1914. Clubs were also urged to hand their grounds over to the army for training purposes.
Six Nations Special - Wales Counts the Cost
On the 12th March 1915, Wyndham Halswelle was severely wounded in the head during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. The Captain of the 1st Highland Infantry was a remarkable soldier and a remarkable athlete. In 1908 he became the first Scot to win a track gold medal at the Olympic games but his victory in the 440 yards was tainted by controversy. The world record holder was
On This Day - 100 Years Ago - 12th March 1915
Olympic Hero at the Heart of the Action
Even six months into the conflict, many Brits continued to see parallels between war and sport. On the 25th September 1915 – the first day of the Battle of Loos - a battalion of Royal Welsh Fusiliers kicked 6 rugby balls into No-man’s land before they leapt ‘over the top’. Further down the line, when the whistles blew, the London Irish Rifles launched a football from their trench and charged after it. Not wishing to be left out, Johny Condon a pre-war boxing champion, enter the fray with his boxing gloves dangling from his haversack, in case he needed to use them.
Playing the Game!
Thirteen Welsh international rugby players were killed in the Great War. Pictured is "Johnnie" Williams who earned 17 caps, won three triple crowns and was only twice on a losing side. Amongst the other fatalities was Richard Garnons Williams, who had played in the very first Wales international rugby union match in 1881. At 59 years of age, he was the eldest international rugby player to be killed during the war.
Welsh Rugby Takes a Hit
In early 1915, the most celebrated rugby player in the Northern Hemisphere was shot dead by a sniper. During the last years of peace, Ronald Poulton Palmer captained England to back to back ‘Grand Slam’ successes. His final match - against France in Paris -was a personal triumph as the three quarter led England to a 39 – 13 win in which he scored four tries. This record stood for almost a century and was only equaled in 2011, when Chris Ashton scored four tries against Italy.
In 1914 he Annihilated France, in 1915 he was Dead!
On 31st March 1915, Captain Wyndham Halswelle of the 1st Highland Light Infantry was trying to rescue a brother officer when he shot through the head by a sniper. In 2003, he was posthumously inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame where his Olympic medals are on display.
blocked in the final in a pre-arranged manoeuvre and the race was declared void. The other finalists, all American, refused to take part in a re-run and the Scot had to run the race on his own. These controversial events had a number of consequences including the introduction of lanes and the establishment of an International Amateur Athletic Federation to establish a single set of rules.
On This Day - 100 Years Ago - 12th June 1915
Willie Angus was on the books of Glasgow Celtic F.C. before the outbreak of the Great War, although he never broke into the first team. On 12th June 1915, the young man from Carluke, Scotland crawled to the aid of a wounded officer who hailed from the same town. As he approached Lieutenant Martin, the first of many German grenades to be hurled at him exploded and blinded him in one eye. Both men were hit by bullets but they made it back to the safety of the British front line and Willie Angus was later awarded a Victoria Cross. The issue of remembrance divides opinion in the East End of Glasgow and on 9th November 2010 a group of Celtic fans displayed a large banner proclaiming, “No bloodstained poppy on our hoops”. There was an immediate apology from the club, some of whose fans would like Celtic to erect a war memorial to commemorate 7 players with Celtic connections who died in the Great War.
Heroic Ex-Footballer Wounded 40 Times!
100 years before Andy Murray’s Wimbledon win, Tony Wilding joined the forces. Wilding - the reigning Wimbledon champion – was killed in action on 9th May 1915 during the Battle of Aubers Ridge. Wilding is remembered as a sporting great - a Grand Slam champion who (like Murray) also won an Olympic medal. When he married Maxine Elliot - ‘the most beautiful woman in America’ - the Wildings became the glamour couple of the day.
On This Day - 100 Years Ago - 9th May 1915
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Communicable Diseases Intelligence, Volume 29, Issue number 3 - September 2005 /
Overseas briefs
This report published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 29 Issue, Number 3, contains selected reports from the World Health Organization Disease Otubreak News and ProMED-mail.
Page last updated: 15 September 2005
World Health Organization Disease Outbreak News
This material has been summarised from information provided by the World health Organization (http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/). A link to this site can be found under the 'Related communicable diseases surveillance sites' on the Communicable Diseases Australia section of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing website (www.health.gov.au/cda)
Poliomyelitis in Indonesia
On 30 June 2005, one new polio case was confirmed in Indonesia, bringing the total number of cases to 66. The new case is the first from Lampung Province on the island of Sumatra. The 3-year-old girl had onset of paralysis on 4 June.
Both this case and a previous case from Central Java are from outside the area where an emergency 'mop-up' campaign was held from 31 May to 2 June, covering the provinces of West Java, Banten and Jakarta, to reach 6.4 million children under the age of five years. A second round of vaccinations was completed on 29 June.
A large outbreak response immunisation targeting 78,000 children aged less than five years was held from 26 June around the case in Central Java. Lampung and Central Java will be included in the next phase of the large-scale immunisation campaigns which will start from August.
Avian influenza – situation in Viet Nam
At the request of the Ministry of Health, World Health Organization (WHO) sent a team of international experts to Viet Nam last week to assess laboratory and epidemiological data on recent cases and to determine whether the present level of pandemic alert should be increased. Team members were drawn from institutes in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong SAR, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America having extensive experience in the testing of avian influenza viruses in human clinical specimens.
The team completed its work and submitted its preliminary findings to the government. The team found no laboratory evidence suggesting that human infections are occurring with greater frequency or that the virus is spreading readily among humans. The current level of pandemic alert, which has been in effect since January 2004, remains unchanged.
Some reports now circulating suggest that WHO has downgraded its assessment of the pandemic threat. These reports are unfounded. The experts were specifically asked to search for evidence that could substantiate concerns raised first at a WHO consultation of international experts held in Manila at the beginning of May. That consultation considered suggestive findings, largely based on epidemiological observations, that the H5N1 virus had changed its behaviour in ways consistent with an improved, though not yet efficient, ability to spread directly from one human to another. The specific epidemiological observations considered included milder disease across a broader age spectrum and a growing number of clusters of cases, closely related in time and place.
More recently, testing of clinical specimens by international experts working in Viet Nam provided further suggestive evidence of more widespread infection with the virus, raising the possibility of community-acquired infection. These findings have not been confirmed by the present investigative team.
Firm evidence of improved transmissibility would be grounds for moving to a higher level of pandemic alert. Because of the huge consequences of such a change, WHO is following a cautious approach that combines heightened vigilance for new cases with immediate international verification of any suggestive findings.
Because the detection of H5N1 in clinical specimens is technically challenging and prone to errors, members of the investigative team took sophisticated laboratory equipment with them to Hanoi for on-site testing. Tests were performed using WHO-approved reagents and primers.
While these first results are reassuring, further retesting of clinical specimens will continue over the next few weeks to provide the most reliable possible foundation for risk assessment.
Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola
As of 5 June 2005, the Ministry of Health in Angola has reported 423 cases of Marburg haemorrhagic fever. Of these cases, 357 were fatal. The vast majority of cases have occurred in Uige Province, where 412 cases and 346 deaths have been reported.
The number of new cases being reported in Uige municipality has declined considerably, with only one new confirmed case detected in the past week. This case was a recognised contact who was under follow-up. For comparison, during the peak of the outbreak, which occurred in late March and April, 30 to 40 new cases were being reported weekly.
Alerts to potential cases continue to be received and investigated, indicating that vigilance remains high.
Ebola haemorrhagic fever in the Republic of the Congo
From 25 April to 16 June 2005, a total of 12 cases of Ebola haemorrhagic fever (1 laboratory-confirmed and 11 epidemiologically linked) including nine deaths has been reported in Etoumbi and Mbomo in Cuvette Ouest Region. The last reported death occurred on 26 May.
Eleven contacts of this last reported death have been followed for 21 days, the maximum incubation period. None of these people have been infected.
The Ministry of Health and the WHO Regional Office for Africa are continuing to strengthen infection control and raise awareness about the disease among the population in the affected districts.
Meningococcal disease in India – update 4
As of 8 June 2005, the cumulative total is now 405 cases with 48 deaths (CFR=11.9%). Three hundred and fourteen cases have been discharged from hospital.
Control measures are underway including contact tracing, chemoprophylaxis of household contacts, and immunisation of high risk groups. Serogroup A has been confirmed by the National Institute of Communicable Diseases.
Public education, surveillance, vaccination of high risk population and chemoprophylaxis for close contacts within 48 hours of case detection continues. Adjacent districts and states have been alerted on the need to be vigilant for any suspected case and to take appropriate public health actions.
WHO is working closely with the national authorities and providing technical support to the health authorities in the form of guidelines and tools on meningococcal disease. WHO is providing inputs to the technical working group to assist with surveillance, early detection, laboratory testing, case management, prevention and control. WHO is assisting with the epidemiological analysis and in improving preparedness and response.
ProMED-mail
This material has been summarised from information provided by ProMED-mail (www.fas.org/promed/). A link to this site can be found under the 'Related communicable diseases surveillance sites' on the Communicable Diseases Australia section of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing website (www.health.gov.au/cda)
Clostridium difficile, increased virulence – UK
Source: The Guardian 7 June 2005 [edited]
Public health experts are consulting hospitals in the United States of America and Canada for advice on tackling a virulent strain of bacteria that is thought to be responsible for 12 deaths at Stoke Mandeville hospital over the past two years.
Staff at the Health Protection Agency say the particular strain of Clostridium difficile appears to be similar to one found in some hospitals in North America. C. difficile is not rare, new or dangerous under most circumstances. It is carried harmlessly in the gut of half of all children under the age of two and substantial numbers of adults. The 12 deaths have to be set in the context of more than 43,000 reported infections in 2004. But the strain persisting at Stoke Mandeville hospital produces toxins which can cause problems for the very elderly and frail.
Unlike the so-called superbug MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ), C. difficile is not resistant to antibiotics. However, Mark Enright, a microbiologist and senior research fellow at Bath University said it is still the use of antibiotics that causes it to become a problem. 'It is a common component of the gut, in balance with all the other bacteria with it which are helpful—we can't digest food without them. However C. difficile forms spores like hardy seeds which are not killed when somebody has a long course of antibiotics and some strains have toxins that they excrete,' he said.
This toxin production results in diarrhoea. In very elderly people who are already weak and frail because of illness, complications from damage to the gut or the dehydration caused by diarrhoea could be a factor in their death.
The particular problem with C. difficile is that the spores are very hard to get rid of from the ward. The alcohol wipes now used by doctors and nurses to prevent the spread of most bacteria do not work. Surfaces have to be cleaned with bleach and hands should be washed with soap and water.
Influenza B virus – New Zealand
Source: Public Health Directorate, New Zealand Ministry of Health, 22 June 2005 [edited]
New Zealand is currently experiencing an epidemic of influenza B virus infection. Both influenza B Shanghai-like virus and influenza B Hong Kong-like virus have been isolated. However, influenza B Hong Kong-like virus is currently the predominant strain. Children and young people are predominantly affected with absenteeism rates in schools in some areas of greater than 20 per cent.
Currently, three deaths have been identified in association with this epidemic: a child who developed Reye syndrome, (this child was on aspirin for another condition); an otherwise fit and well adolescent who developed Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia and septicaemia; and an otherwise fit and well child who developed Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia and septicaemia.
Two of these deaths are under investigation by New Zealand coroners. The viral isolates in all three cases have been identified as an influenza B Hong Kong-like strain. The current Southern Hemisphere vaccine contains an influenza B Shanghai-like strain.
Avian influenza, human – Indonesia
Source: Washington Post Foreign Service, 15 June 2005 [edited]
A farm worker in eastern Indonesia has tested positive for avian influenza virus, making him the country's first human case of the virus infection that has already killed at least 54 people elsewhere in South East Asia, health officials in Indonesia said on 15 June 2005.
The worker from southern Sulawesi is healthy and currently shows no symptoms of illness but two tests at a Hong Kong laboratory confirmed that he had been infected by avian influenza virus, health officials said. The laboratory results make Indonesia the fourth country to register a human case of avian influenza, which international health experts warn could easily undergo genetic change, sparking a global pandemic.
Since 2003, the highly lethal disease has struck chickens, quail and other birds in 18 Indonesian provinces on seven islands, prompting the government to order a massive campaign to vaccinate poultry against the virus. Indonesian health experts, however, have sought to ease public anxiety about the outbreak over the last year by saying the local virus was slightly different from the strain in other Asian countries and had demonstrated no capability to infect people.
The farm worker was initially tested in late March after the epidemic spread to Sulawesi, killing at least 25,000 chickens. That outbreak prompted officials to limit the transfer of poultry off the island and take blood samples from labourers, veterinarians and others exposed to sick chickens. In total, 81 people were tested and all but one of the samples came back negative, officials said.
Efforts to complete a second round of testing in Hong Kong were prolonged in part because the farm worker had left his job and health investigators had to track him back to his home village elsewhere on the island. The second test, finally completed earlier this month, confirmed that the labourer had been infected by bird flu but the concentration of antibodies was relatively low, officials said. That finding meant the worker was no longer carrying the virus but it was impossible to determine how long ago he had been infected.
Since late 2003, more than 100 people have been infected by avian influenza in Viet Nam, Thailand and Cambodia. In Viet Nam, where the outbreak is most serious, government health officials have previously reported at least five cases in which people had the disease but showed no symptoms. Klaus Stohr, head of the World Health Organization's influenza program, said last month it is not unprecedented for otherwise healthy poultry workers to test positive for avian influenza. During a 1997 outbreak in Hong Kong, about 10 per cent of workers in live poultry markets tested positive for the virus, health officials said.
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease – Portugal and France
Source: Agence France Presse report, 11 June 2005 [edited]
Portugal announced its first suspected case of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), while France said it had identified its 13th case of the degenerative brain ailment.
vCJD is a human form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), caused by a rogue protein that proliferates in the brain, turning it spongy. A total of 177 people have died or been diagnosed with the fatal condition, according to official data.
So far 150 people have died of vCJD in Britain, where another six people who have contracted the disease are still alive, according to figures posted on the official British vCJD website.
There have been two cases in Ireland, with single cases reported in Canada, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and the United States of America. Britain was the epicentre of the BSE outbreak that occurred in the late 1990s. Its suspected source was cattle feed that came from cows with brain disease. Experts believe the pathogen leapt the species barrier to humans through the consumption of contaminated beef.
According to the latest figure compiled by the European Union and the OIE, Portugal ranks third in the world in terms of total number of BSE-affected cattle (949) after the UK (184,138), and Ireland (1,470). France ranks fourth with 946 cases of BSE. In the current year the UK, Ireland and Portugal reported 126, 29, and 17 cases of BSE respectively.
This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Vol 29 No 3 September 2005.
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8 festivals you need to check out if you love the great outdoors
Rob Slade·
· 19th May 2016
Author: Rob Slade
With spring in full swing and summer just around the corner, it’s about time you locked down what festivals you’ll be attending this year. While for many that means packing into a overcrowded field at the likes of Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds, look at the smaller events and you’ll often find some absolute treats.
To help you out, we’ve had a look at all of the festivals coming up this summer and picked out eight of the best ones for outdoor enthusiasts. Make it to at least one of the following festivals and you’ll be in for an unforgettable weekend.
19-22 May: Keswick Mountain Festival
With incredible scenery and easy access to some of the UK’s most incredible mountains, Keswick is a great place to host a festival.
Over the course of the weekend you can expect a huge variety of adventure activities including gorge scrambling, guided walks, via ferrata and so much more.
There will also be talks throughout the day and entertainment in the evenings, with Scouting for Girls headlining on the Saturday. Weekend tickets cost just over £48 for adults and more information can be found at www.keswickmountainfestival.co.uk.
27-30 May: The Bushcraft Show
With Ray Mears headlining, The Bushcraft Show offers visitors three jam-packed days of activities for all the family. Highlights include woodland crafts, firelighting, shelter building, tracking, foraging and woodland games.
There will also be a whole host of entertainment including talks from experts such as Ray Mears and author of The SAS Survival Handbook, Lofty Wiseman.
The event takes place in rural Derbyshire and day tickets start from £6 for a child, £16 for an adult or weekend tickets cost £40 and £95 respectively. Find out more at www.thebushcraftshow.co.uk.
17-19 June: Wildfire Adventure Camp
Returning for its second year, Wildfire Adventure Camp is set in a stunning forest location south of London which only gets revealed to ticket holders shortly before the event.
Over the course of the weekend attendees will get to try their hand at activities such as firelighting, knife throwing, foraging, slacklining, bushcraft, speed dating (yep, really), stand-up paddle boarding and much more.
Each night there will be live music and, of course, a campfire. Tickets for this adults-only festival are selling fast and start at £140 for the weekend. For more information head to www.campwildfire.co.uk.
4-7 August: Wilderness Festival
Offering a huge range of entertainment and activities, Wilderness Festival offers more for music lovers than any other festival in this list.
Robert Plant, The Flaming Lips and Crystal Fighters will all grace the stage while there will be talks from the likes of Simon Reeve and Charlotte Church. Outdoor enthusiasts will be able to get involved in wild swimming, boating and game preparation.
The festival takes place in Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire and adult tickets start at £188 for the weekend. Find out more at www.wildernessfestival.com.
12-14 August: Adventure Travel Film Festival
Held in the leafy suburbs of north London, the Adventure Travel Film Festival showcases the world’s best travel films from the past 100 years.
On top of that, the festival also plays host to a series of inspirational guest speakers, invaluable workshops and expert Q&A sessions.
Weekend tickets start from £89 and more information can be found at www.adventuretravelfilmfestival.com.
1-4 September: Base Camp Festival
Backed by the same people behind Explorers Connect, Base Camp Festival offers a bucket load of adventure in an intimate environment.
The small, friendly festival will see talks from the likes of Andy Kirkpatrick and Sarah Outen as well as countless adventure activities. Examples include bouldering, caving, packrafting, bushcraft and wild swimming to name but a few.
Weekend tickets cost £126.50 and more information can be found at www.basecampfestival.co.uk.
16-18 September: The Good Life Experience
Hosted near Chester, The Good Life Experience is marketed as a weekend of fun and discovery with music, books, food and the great outdoors.
This year you can expect to be well-entertained and well-fed with a huge range of stalls, talks, music and activities. Whether you’re there to hear from Ben Fogle, take part in some tree climbing or give abseiling a go, there’s certainly no shortage of options.
Weekend camping tickets for adults are available for £99 and more information can be found at www.thegoodlifeexperience.co.uk.
23-25 September: Big Shakeout
Alpkit’s not-for-profit festival takes place in the heart of the Peak District and has a rather simple format. Be active during the day and be entertained in the evening.
Over the course of the weekend there is a lot to get involved in such as talks and film showings, plus activities including climbing, cycling, kayaking, caving and wild swimming to name but a few.
Tickets start at £60 per person and you can find out more information at www.alpkit.com/bigshakeout.
Rob Slade
Rob was the editor of Adventure Travel magazine between 2016-2019 and is now a freelance contributor. Many weekends spent exploring the mountains and glacial valleys of the Brecon Beacons as a teenager fuelled an insatiable lust for adventure early on in his life, and ever since he has travelled the world in search of new places to explore.
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GM flips to California's side in pollution fight with President Trump
By TOM KRISHER, AP Auto Writer
Paul Sancya / AP File Photo
General Motors Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra speaks during the opening of their contract talks with the United Auto Workers in Detroit in 2019.
SOURCE: Paul Sancya / AP File Photo
General Motors says it will no longer support the Trump administration in legal efforts to end California's right to set its own clean-air standards.CEO Mary Barra said in a letter Monday to environmental groups that GM will pull out of the lawsuit, and it urges other automakers to do so.She said the company agrees with President-elect Joe Biden's plan to expand electric vehicle use. Last week, GM said it is testing a new battery chemistry that will bring electric-vehicle costs down to those of gas-powered vehicles within five years.Barra sent the letter after a call with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the company said. "We believe the ambitious electrification goals of the President-elect, California, and General Motors are aligned, to address climate change by drastically reducing automobile emissions," Barra said in the letter.Mary Nichols, the head of California's Air Resources Board, called GM's announcement "good news," saying Barra told her about it in a telephone call Monday morning. The board is the state's air pollution regulator."I was pleased to be in communication with Mary Barra again," she said. "It's been a while since we had talked."Dan Becker of the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the environmental groups Barra wrote to, said GM was wrong in trying to stop California from protecting its people from auto pollution. "Now the other automakers must follow GM and withdraw support for (President Donald) Trump's attack on clean cars," he said in an email.Related video: California to ban new gas engine car sales by 2035The White House had no immediate comment Monday.Last year General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, Toyota and 10 smaller automakers sided with the Trump administration in a lawsuit over whether California has the right to set its own standards for greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy.The companies said they would intervene in a lawsuit filed by the Environmental Defense Fund against the Trump administration, which has rolled back national pollution and gas mileage standards enacted while Barack Obama was president.The group called itself the "Coalition or Sustainable Automotive Regulation" and also included Nissan, Hyundai, Kia, Subaru, Isuzu, Suzuki, Maserati, McLaren, Aston-Martin and Ferrari."With our industry facing the possibility of multiple, overlapping and inconsistent standards that drive up costs and penalize consumers, we had an obligation to intervene," John Bozzella, CEO of Global Automakers and spokesman for the coalition, said at the time.Toyota, one of the big automakers in the coalition favoring the Trump standards, said Monday it is reconsidering its position. In a statement, the company said it has supported year-over-year increases in fuel economy standards, and it joined the coalition because most other automakers agreed there should be a single U.S. standard."Given the changing circumstances, we are assessing the situation, but remain committed to our goal of a consistent, unitary set of fuel economy standards applicable in all 50 states," Toyota said. The initial move put the coalition automakers at odds with five other companies — BMW, Ford, Volkswagen, Volvo and Honda — that backed California and endorsed stricter emissions and fuel economy standards than proposed by the Trump administration.But the coalition's stance was not so straightforward. For instance, although it opposed California, it still wanted Trump and the state to compromise on one national regulation.In September of 2019, Trump announced his administration would seek to revoke California's congressionally granted authority to set standards that are stricter than those issued by federal regulators.The move came after Ford, BMW, Honda and Volkswagen signed a deal with the California Air Resources Board, which had been at odds with the Trump administration for months.Many automakers have said in the past that they support increasing the standards, but not as much as those affirmed in the waning days of the Obama administration in 2016.Under the Obama administration requirements, the fleet of new vehicles would have to average 30 mpg in real-world driving by 2021, rising to 36 mpg in 2025. Those increases would be about 5% per year. The Trump administration's plan increased fuel economy by 1.5% per year, backing off an earlier proposal to freeze the requirements at 2021 levels.Automakers say that because buyers are switching to larger trucks and SUVs, many companies would not be able to meet the stricter standards.
DETROIT —
General Motors says it will no longer support the Trump administration in legal efforts to end California's right to set its own clean-air standards.
CEO Mary Barra said in a letter Monday to environmental groups that GM will pull out of the lawsuit, and it urges other automakers to do so.
She said the company agrees with President-elect Joe Biden's plan to expand electric vehicle use. Last week, GM said it is testing a new battery chemistry that will bring electric-vehicle costs down to those of gas-powered vehicles within five years.
Barra sent the letter after a call with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the company said.
"We believe the ambitious electrification goals of the President-elect, California, and General Motors are aligned, to address climate change by drastically reducing automobile emissions," Barra said in the letter.
Mary Nichols, the head of California's Air Resources Board, called GM's announcement "good news," saying Barra told her about it in a telephone call Monday morning. The board is the state's air pollution regulator.
"I was pleased to be in communication with Mary Barra again," she said. "It's been a while since we had talked."
Dan Becker of the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the environmental groups Barra wrote to, said GM was wrong in trying to stop California from protecting its people from auto pollution.
"Now the other automakers must follow GM and withdraw support for (President Donald) Trump's attack on clean cars," he said in an email.
Related video: California to ban new gas engine car sales by 2035
The White House had no immediate comment Monday.
Last year General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, Toyota and 10 smaller automakers sided with the Trump administration in a lawsuit over whether California has the right to set its own standards for greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy.
The companies said they would intervene in a lawsuit filed by the Environmental Defense Fund against the Trump administration, which has rolled back national pollution and gas mileage standards enacted while Barack Obama was president.
The group called itself the "Coalition or Sustainable Automotive Regulation" and also included Nissan, Hyundai, Kia, Subaru, Isuzu, Suzuki, Maserati, McLaren, Aston-Martin and Ferrari.
"With our industry facing the possibility of multiple, overlapping and inconsistent standards that drive up costs and penalize consumers, we had an obligation to intervene," John Bozzella, CEO of Global Automakers and spokesman for the coalition, said at the time.
Toyota, one of the big automakers in the coalition favoring the Trump standards, said Monday it is reconsidering its position.
In a statement, the company said it has supported year-over-year increases in fuel economy standards, and it joined the coalition because most other automakers agreed there should be a single U.S. standard.
"Given the changing circumstances, we are assessing the situation, but remain committed to our goal of a consistent, unitary set of fuel economy standards applicable in all 50 states," Toyota said.
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The initial move put the coalition automakers at odds with five other companies — BMW, Ford, Volkswagen, Volvo and Honda — that backed California and endorsed stricter emissions and fuel economy standards than proposed by the Trump administration.
But the coalition's stance was not so straightforward. For instance, although it opposed California, it still wanted Trump and the state to compromise on one national regulation.
In September of 2019, Trump announced his administration would seek to revoke California's congressionally granted authority to set standards that are stricter than those issued by federal regulators.
The move came after Ford, BMW, Honda and Volkswagen signed a deal with the California Air Resources Board, which had been at odds with the Trump administration for months.
Many automakers have said in the past that they support increasing the standards, but not as much as those affirmed in the waning days of the Obama administration in 2016.
Under the Obama administration requirements, the fleet of new vehicles would have to average 30 mpg in real-world driving by 2021, rising to 36 mpg in 2025. Those increases would be about 5% per year. The Trump administration's plan increased fuel economy by 1.5% per year, backing off an earlier proposal to freeze the requirements at 2021 levels.
Automakers say that because buyers are switching to larger trucks and SUVs, many companies would not be able to meet the stricter standards.
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Former Pearl River County Crimestoppers board member arrested for embezzlement
Posted: Jan 12, 2021 / 10:08 AM CST / Updated: Jan 12, 2021 / 12:22 PM CST
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – On Tuesday, State Auditor Shad White announced Special Agents from his office arrested a former board member and officer of the Pearl River County Crimestoppers (PRCCS), after she was indicted for embezzlement. An $82,416.37 demand letter was issued to Michelle McBride when she was arrested.
According to White, McBride allegedly used her position as Secretary/Treasurer to embezzle over $52,000 from PRCCS from January 2014 to April 2019. Investigators believe McBride used the PRCCS debit card for personal rodeo expenses and transferred PRCCS funds to fraudulent non-profit accounts she owned. Pearl River County Sheriff’s deputies assisted in the investigation.
McBride surrendered to Special Agents at the Pearl River County Sheriff’s office. Her bond was set at $20,000 by the court.
If convicted, McBride faces up to 25 years in prison and $15,000 in fines.
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Virus closures likely to push weekly jobless claims into the millions
Keisha Henry, right, and her business partner Erica Norwood pose inside their lounge and catering business in New Orleans. Henry said she lost about $10,000 in revenue last week after three big functions she was slated to cater ended up canceling. Meanwhile, she still has expenses related to launching a bar and lounge six months ago. Henry said she regrettably had to lay off several employees. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Barely a week ago, David McGraw was cooking daily for hundreds of fine diners at one of New Orleans’ illustrious restaurants.
Today, he’s cooking for himself, at home — laid off along with hundreds of thousands of people across the U.S. in a massive economic upheaval spurred by efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
U.S. Department of Labor figures to be released Thursday are expected to shatter the old record for the greatest number of new unemployment claims filed in a single week. There are more suddenly jobless Americans than during the Great Recession. And more than in the aftermath of major natural disasters such as hurricanes, fires and floods.
But McGraw, and others like him, don’t need official numbers to understand the new realities of life in one of the nation’s hot spots for the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease.
“The whole city, laid off. Everybody,” said McGraw, using an exaggeration that didn’t seem like much of one. “Everybody who worked at a restaurant is laid off.”
Restaurants, hotels, airlines, automakers and entertainment venues all have been hit hard as cities, states and entire countries have ordered the closure of non-essential businesses and directed residents to remain at home.
The goal is to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. For most people, it causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. But for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia and death.
Virus precautions have affected the worldwide economy. Companies in Europe are laying off workers at the fastest pace since the global financial crisis in 2009, according to surveys of business managers.
Official labor statistics for Europe are not yet out, but companies have been announcing tens of thousands of job cuts, both permanent and temporary. The rise in joblessness may not be as sharp as in the U.S., however, because it is harder to fire workers in Europe, where many governments are supporting companies financially to keep workers on partially paid leave.
Some economists project that the U.S. could see around 3 million new unemployment insurance claims when figures are released for the week of March 15-21. That would be around 12 times as many as the previous week.
“It’s going to be an astronomical increase,” said Constance Hunter, president of the National Association for Business Economists and chief economist at the accounting firm KPMG. “We don’t have any recorded history of anything like this.”
In Labor Department records dating to 1967, the largest seasonally adjusted one-week number of new unemployment insurance claims was 695,000 in October 1982, when the national unemployment rate was around 10%.
Before coronavirus concerns escalated this month, the U.S. unemployment rate had been at a 50-year-low of 3.5%
That is certain to rise as the number of laid-off workers soars.
In Louisiana alone, 71,000 people filed new unemployment applications last week, compared to the usual 1,400 or 1,500 people per week, said state labor secretary Ava Dejoie.
Louisiana has one of the highest per capita counts of coronavirus cases in the U.S. Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards has ordered nonessential businesses to close, limited restaurants to takeout and delivery, banned gatherings over 10 people and called on residents to remain at home.
New Orleans restaurant owner and caterer Keisha Henry said she lost $10,000 in revenue last week after three big functions she was slated to cater ended up canceling. Meanwhile, she still has expenses related to launching a bar and lounge six months ago. Henry said she had to lay off several employees.
“I wish I could just keep them on and pay them, but being a small business, I don’t have enough capital to pay for the employees when we are not putting out a product,” she said.
Workers can seek unemployment benefits from their home state immediately after losing their jobs. But it typically takes two to three weeks before they receive any money, because state agencies first have to contact their former employers to verify their work history and then calculate the amount of their weekly benefits based on their previous wages.
That wait for cash could last longer because of the sudden spike in unemployment claims. People should expect “that first benefit payments will take much longer than 21 days,” California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office warned earlier this week.
Until last week, many state unemployment agencies had been staffed to handle a comparative trickle of claims. Now they are scrambling to add workers to handle the influx.
“Nobody can ramp up that fast without a little bit of a hiccup,” said Michele Evermore, a senior policy analyst at the National Employment Law Project, a New York-based group that advocates for low-wage workers and the unemployed.
Legislation signed last week by President Donald Trump could distribute $1 billion among states to help with the administration of unemployment claims. But it could take a while for that money to reach the states.
Under legislation pending Wednesday in Congress, unemployed workers would get whatever amount a state usually provides for jobless benefits, plus a $600 per week add-on funded by the federal government.
Many recently unemployed workers have reported frustrations with jammed phone lines and overloaded internet sites as they try to apply for unemployment aid.
Corey Rickmers, of Rockville, Maryland, was furloughed last week from his job as a digital engagement manager for a publishing company. This was his first time filing for unemployment benefits, and his claim was complicated by the fact he had previously worked out of state.
Rickmers said it took several hours of phone calls on Monday before he finally reached a person who could help him at the state’s labor department.
“The process is frustrating,” he said. “I can only imagine what millions of people around the country … are having to fight for right now.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, said a recent survey of more than 6,600 businesses in his state showed more than half of them have laid off employees. Normally, the state’s Department of Economic Opportunity receives between 250 and 1,000 unemployment claims a day. But DeSantis said the agency received 21,000 claims on Monday.
“We are working on getting them the relief,” DeSantis said. “But, man, that’s not only going to have an economic cost, that will have a health cost unless we work hard to remedy that as soon as possible.”
Rene Morgan, a web developer who lives in Davie, Florida, is among those filing new claims.
He had been working for only a couple of weeks at a biotechnology startup when he was let go earlier this month after the company’s supply chain from China was disrupted by the coronavirus crisis. He is putting his collection of iconic typewriters for sale on eBay to make money to pay rent while he waits to receive unemployment benefits from the state.
“I check back every day, and it keeps saying that my application is being processed,” Morgan said.
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Ooh! Kirsty Gallacher, 42, has ‘steamy romp’ with Jack Whitehall, 29, after star-studded night out
Anna Francis
Kirsty Gallacher has reportedly enjoyed a steamy encounter with comedian Jack Whitehall after their chemistry sparked during a star-studded party.
The presenter, 42, and 29-year-old Jack – who have been friends for several years – apparently started to get close at London’s Groucho Club in London after a showbiz event before heading off to a private room together at a friend’s party afterwards.
“The chemistry between them was brewing all night,” a source says. “They had the hots for each other.
“They later went to the Groucho Club in London’s West End, then to a party at a flat, taking some friends with them.
“When they got there, they ramped things up and weren’t trying to hide it.
“They were kissing and being very touchy-feely before heading off for some privacy. Everybody there knew what was going on.”
It sounds like there’s certainly a strong spark between the pair but it’s unclear what the future holds for them.
“Jack’s always had a thing for Kirsty and thinks she’s hot,” the insider tells The Sun. “Given that they are both single, they went for it.
“Who knows if anything serious will develop? But it’s fun for the moment.”
It’s been claimed that the funnyman told his TV mates Jamie Redknapp and Freddie Flintoff about his fling with Kirsty.
Kirsty has previously appeared alongside Jack on panel show A League Of Their Own in 2014 and 2016.
The mum-of-two has been single since splitting from rugby star husband Paul Sampson four years ago.
Meanwhile Jack separated from long-term girlfriend Gemma Chan last year, though was briefly linked to singer Dua Lipa after The BRIT Awards in February.
It’s not the first time recently that Kirsty has hit the headlines – last summer the Sky Sports host was given a two-year driving ban and 100 hours of community work after being charged with drink driving.
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What Are You Doing With Your Life?
Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle and His Successors
宾夕法尼亚大学
What is philosophy? How does it differ from science, religion, and other modes of human discourse? This course traces the origins of philosophy in the Western tradition in the thinkers of Ancient Greece. We begin with the Presocratic natural philosophers who were active in Ionia in the 6th century BCE and are also credited with being the first scientists. Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximines made bold proposals about the ultimate constituents of reality, while Heraclitus insisted that there is an underlying order to the changing world. Parmenides of Elea formulated a powerful objection to all these proposals, while later Greek theorists (such as Anaxagoras and the atomist Democritus) attempted to answer that objection. In fifth-century Athens, Socrates insisted on the importance of the fundamental ethical question—“How shall I live?”—and his pupil, Plato, and Plato’s pupil, Aristotle, developed elaborate philosophical systems to explain the nature of reality, knowledge, and human happiness. After the death of Aristotle, in the Hellenistic period, Epicureans and Stoics developed and transformed that earlier tradition. We will study the major doctrines of all these thinkers. Part I will cover Plato and his predecessors. Part II will cover Aristotle and his successors.
This is an excellent course! The professor is well-timed and the resource material well-selected. In-depth treatment of Aristotle, the Stoics, and the Epicureans. Highly recommended.
I have learned a lot through this course and Coursera is very high through online education. I would like to say that it has changed the online education system. Thank you.
Aristotle's Ethics
The motion of the universe is eternal and its cause is an eternal unmoved mover, Aristotle’s god. Our goal in life is to achieve happiness, which comes in two varieties: the human happiness we achieve by exercising the virtues of character, and the godlike happiness we achieve when we grasp eternal truths.
The Goal of Life7:55
What Are You Doing With Your Life?6:41
Happiness and Living Well9:38
Pleasure and the Human Function9:19
Virtue of Character8:07
Godlike Virtue10:27
Susan Sauvé Meyer
選擇語言中文（簡體）俄語（Russian）巴西葡萄牙語法語（French）英語（English）西班牙語（Spanish）（歐洲人講的）葡萄牙語
[MUSIC] What are you doing with your life? Now what is it like to have a single end that is the goal of every action you perform? Are we supposed to choose between the various ends we pursue like music, sports, and family? And make one of those goals the one towards which we direct all our energies and attention? That doesn't sound like an obvious improvement. Suppose I want to be a musician, and a parent, and a good friend, as well as hike every segment of the Appalachian Trail. Doesn't the pursuit of a plurality of goals make for a richer life, better than the narrowly focused pursuit of a single goal? This kind of worry is misplaced, however. Since Aristotle allows that you can have a plurality of goals, like the ones I just mentioned, and still have a unique further goal that answers the question, what you are doing with your life? He can allow this plurality because as he is quick to point out, goals exist in nested hierarchies. The example he gives in chapter one of the Nicomachean Ethics, is the bridle maker, whose goal is a product, bridles, but these have a further goal. They are for horseback riding. And the point of horseback riding is to carry out the orders of the generals. Aristotle clearly has the cavalry in mind. The generals wage war, but the point of this is to serve the needs of the city. So there's a nested series of goals that are pursued in a state. Here's an example of a nested series in the life of an individual person. Consider my morning coffee ritual. A fresh cup of cafe au lait is the goal of my morning routine of boiling, grinding, and brewing, but that cup of coffee isn't the final goal of the process. I make the coffee in order to drink it. And why do I drink it? Well, for pleasure, that's one reason. But also to help me wake up and do a better job of the other things I do during the day. Like delivering this lecture, which I do in order to teach this course, which I do because I'm a professor of philosophy. A vocation I chose because I think it's really interesting and rewarding. So there's a whole series of goals, each one serving a further goal. So as far as Aristotle's concerned, there's no problem with having lots of different goals in your life, as long as each of them has a place in a nested hierarchy of goals that converges in a single goal at the top. That way, the various pursuits you follow in your life will be structured, like a well-governed city. Or at least a well-governed city as Plato and Aristotle conceive of it. Aristotle describes such a political structure in chapters one and two of the Nicomachean Ethics. Bridle making and other equipment making for riding have goals that serve the cavalry, while the cavalry, along with the infantry and the navy no doubt, are subordinate to the generals. And the generals, in turn, are subordinate to the political authorities, along with those responsible for oversight of the economy. And under the economy will be a nested hierarchy of other pursuits, for example, agriculture, manufacture, and trade. With different enterprises subordinate to these as well, for example, ship building, road construction, water works. You get the idea. Aristotle thinks that an individual life, structured then in the pursuit of a single ultimate goal, has the same kind of structure as the city. There's lots of complexity and variety, many things going on, but with everything converging on a single point at the top, the final or ultimate goal. So we may suppose that playing music, raising a family, and having a career, have a place fairly high up in this hierarchy, since they provide the point to lots of different things that one might do. But, they will be at least one level below the ultimate good, the goal of life. Now, this is not to say that we should value our music, or our family, or our career, only instrumentally, simply as means to that final goal. There are plenty of things that we value, both for their own sakes and for some other reason. Think about health, which is valuable in its own right, but also quite useful for enabling us to do other important things. Or think about walking, which I love to do, but I also do because of its health benefits. Aristotle makes a point of saying that we can value something for its own sake, and also for the sake of a final goal. So let's take stock. Aristotle thinks it's okay to have lots of different pursuits in our lives, and to value them for their own sakes, as long as we also have a single, higher goal to which these pursuits are subordinate. Now we needn't suppose that this final goal is some product that results from our other pursuits, like money in the bank or a legacy for posterity. Rather, like cycling, like playing music, or being a friend, Aristotle thinks this final goal is an activity. Something you engage in by pursuing these subordinate goals. It is what you are doing in pursuing those goals. It is what you are doing with your life. So now we can turn to the answer to Aristotle's question. What are you doing with your life? Or, more precisely, what should you be doing?
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A nurse dons protective clothing before delivering food to Ebola patients at a state hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone, in August 2014. The disease makes it impossible for loved ones to stay close. Mohammed Elshamy / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images
Mohammed Elshamy / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images
A song for the dying: Comforting Ebola patients in their final days
Despite national stigma, health care workers in Sierra Leone are proud of their work and urge others to join front lines
October 29, 2014 11:15AM ET
by Nina Devries @ninareporter
KENEMA, Sierra Leone — Birte Abild soaked a diaper in chlorine to wash a 5-year-old boy dying of Ebola. Then she held him close.
“I wrapped him in a big towel, and for a short while I held him,” said the Swedish nurse, who has been working in Sierra Leone for just over a month. “I sang a children’s song for him, and I knew he would die, but I had to go out. The next time I saw him, he was dead. He was alone.”
Abild has been a nurse for 34 years. She traveled to Kenema, in eastern Sierra Leone, to work with the International Federation for the Red Cross (IFRC), which opened the Kenema facility in mid-September. She knew how difficult treating Ebola patients would be, but that doesn’t make her job any easier.
“It’s hard to see people dying alone and that you can’t give more,” she said.
The disease, which is transmitted through contact with infected people’s bodily fluids, makes it impossible for loved ones to stay close. People who seek treatment end up in isolation units. Frontline health care workers are the last people who dying patients are in contact with.
Workers at the Kenema facility wear double-layered protective gear that includes coveralls and a hood. They can be in it no more than an hour because they get too hot and could endanger their health. With Sierra Leone’s dry season on the horizon, temperatures will only get hotter.
While international staff members rotate through Sierra Leone’s clinics frequently, local health care workers are watching their country deteriorate in the face of the hemorrhagic fever.
As patients’ conditions worsen, they vomit, have diarrhea and sometimes bleed internally and externally, releasing contagious fluids. Amara Augustine, an infection prevention and control worker from Sierra Leone, has the grueling task of cleaning up bodily fluids.
He knew he was taking on a colossal risk but felt compelled to help anyway.
“People are dying every day, and I thought it fit I should save my people at this crucial moment,” he said.
‘My family has abandoned me – and my friends – because I’m doing this job. I’m alone … I was sad at first to their reactions, but at the same time, patients here are being discharged. Some are getting better, so it’s worth it.’
Amara Augustine
infection prevention and control worker
Momoh, a patient at the Kenema facility, dances while staff members sing to cheer up patients.
Nina Devries
Augustine admits he was scared at first but trusts the personal protective equipment he is given. All workers wearing protective gear must be careful when taking it off to avoid coming into contact with any bodily fluids that could be on it.
The facility divides patients between suspected, probable and confirmed Ebola cases. Augustine works in the area with those who are confirmed to have Ebola because, he said, they need the most help.
Though he’s proud of his work, many people who are associated with Ebola — even health care workers — are stigmatized in Sierra Leone.
“My family has abandoned me — and my friends — because I’m doing this job. I’m alone,” Augustine said. “But I have decided to help my country, my people. I feel I am doing the right job. I was sad at first to their reactions, but at the same time, patients here are being discharged. Some are getting better, so it’s worth it.”
One survivor at the facility danced when she was released. Momoh, another patient, said he contracted the virus after driving Ebola patients to the hospital by ambulance. He, too, danced, as the staff sang to cheer up patients.
The Kenema area was one of the hardest hit in Sierra Leone when the outbreak appeared there in May. The facility has been operating for just over a month in a tented area several miles outside the city.
Every day the kitchen goes through 100 coconuts, more than 6,000 gallons of water, 130 pounds of chlorine and many pounds of rice.
It’s a massive operation, and it is functioning at half capacity. There are 60 beds, but staffers can care for only about 30 patients at a time.
At one point they were getting 70 cases a week, said Amanda McClelland, senior emergency health officer for the IFRC. Kenema currently has 481 Ebola cases, according to figures from the Ministry of Health and Sanitation. While the number of cases is starting to decrease, the local facility is still understaffed.
A number of new workers have arrived in recent days for training, and McClelland hopes the facility will be in full operation by next week.
She added that the international response was far too long coming.
“We were there with Médecins Sans Frontières [Doctors Without Borders] in the beginning, trying to say it’s not enough,” she said. “We don’t need money or advisers. We don’t need more people to build Ebola treatment centers. We need more people to run them.”
For Canadian Garth Tohms, who does all the maintenance at the site, the experience was not as scary as he thought it would be.
“I was expecting people lying in streets, dying bodies everywhere. That’s the way some of the media was portraying it, and it wasn’t like that at all,” he said.
He said fear is stopping other qualified workers from coming, and he’s been encouraging other IFRC staffers that they will be protected when dealing with patients.
Veronica Bull has been a nurse for three years and arrived from the country’s capital, Freetown, to work in Kenema. She admits she was scared at first to work with Ebola patients but has quickly grown comfortable and enjoys helping her country.
“I urge other nurses to come, she said. “You cannot sit with your arms folded when you’re a nurse and while people are dying from sickness.”
Africa, Sierra Leone
Disease, Ebola , Red Cross
In battling Ebola, fighting panic is as critical as containing virus
Allaying fears while urging vigilance is a unique challenge for public health officials
World Bank chief urges medics to ignore fearmongering, join Ebola fight
Dr. Jim Yong Kim says rotating personnel of 5,000 trained health care workers needed in West Africa to contain epidemic
Nurse’s ordeal reveals uncoordinated state, federal Ebola policies
CDC sets guidelines for medics returning from West Africa as NJ releases quarantined worker to Maine
Q&A: How Ebola is transmitted and fought
Ebola virus can spread in fluids and live outside the body but is treatable if doctors and facilities are available
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TJAŠA IRIS
I am interested to rent "LIGHT BLUE TENDERNESS, 90 x 76 CM and would like to find out if I can.
LIGHT BLUE TENDERNESS, 90 x 76 CM
90 x 76 cm - 1,050 USD
I took a picture of a flower in Sisophon, Cambodia. I was watching it for days before it finally exploded into a beautiful tender flower. It shined like a star in the sky.
It is a photograph, but I also hand painted over it a little bit with acrylic paint in an almost unperceivable way, but it makes the artwork more complex, powerful, original and unique.
90 x 76 cm, digitally altered photograph on textured pvc, hand painted over with acrylic paint, edition of 12, 2016
The photograph will be published in the book: TJASA IRIS, 8 MONSOONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA, A EUROPEAN UNDER THE TROPICS, PHOTOGRAPHS 2009 - 2017, will be available available at Amazon from end of April on.
The photograph is sold unframed, but can be framed at additional cost.
Medium: Photography
TJAŠA IRIS | Thailand
Tjaša Iris is a Slovenian-born artist, with Austrian and Italian ancestry living/creating in South East Asia since 2009. She is known for her photographs and large paintings painted with bright colors, vivid atmospheres of gardens with lush vegetation and bright light. Color is the main concern in her painting, exploring its emotional and expressive qualities.
Tjaša Iris is an exceptional colorist. While in her earlier work there were many landscapes and less gardens in her work of the last 10 years we see mostly gardens with lush vegetation. She dedicates most of her exhibitions to these themes. Her earlier work always had origins in Southern Europe, the Mediterranean part of Europe. She loves nothing but strong light and bright colors. Her colors came right from the tube. She is only buying most bright pigments of any brand. Her work of the last 3 years describes beautiful flowers & lush tropical gardens in bright, vivid, lush colors. Her paintings are full of a powerful unique energy. Her roots are in Expressionism, a modernist movement in Europe from the beginning of the last century. The movement's typical trait was to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality. Her work is a continuation of these concerns.
Color is the main concern in her paintings, exploring the emotional and expressive qualities. She says: "It is about how colors just come at you or move away from you." Her colors are used freely and vibrantly. The paintings vibrate with the contrasts of light and dark, bright and dull and warm and cold. She is today more than ever an avid traveler, and she captures the essence of the places she visits in vibrant sometimes more descriptive while sometimes more abstracted pictures. Gardens with lush tropical vegetation and ornaments, busy landscapes with swirling clouds, Botanic Gardens of Singapore, Thai King’s Phu Ping Palace Gardens in Chiang Mai, gardens in Bali and Kuala Lumpur, Castello di Miramare gardens in Trieste, located only about 20 km from her Slovenian residency and studio at Branik village… Through her use of color and shape she captivates the viewer with her joyful celebration of life through her art. The explosive energy of South East Asia is making her paintings even more vivid and vibrant. She is also spending much time studying physics, the new studies about what the scientists have to say about the 5th, 6th, 7th … dimension. Quantum physics. Facts about energy and matter. The fact that colors have waves moving toward us or moving away from us..
Tjaša Iris is continuing in her own research in color as well as adding the atmosphere of today’s world to it. Her paintings on paper and canvass give you the feel of the flatness of a computer screen. Her large paintings on jute add another dimension to it. She is a clear representative of the Internet Generation. Her busy complex compositions reflect the busy loud information era of the fast moving time of today.
Her photographs and paintings are a dream world of happy atmospheres, strong light and uplifting lush colors.
ORANGE STAR, 120 x 118.5 cm, edition 10 of 120
YELLOW-GREEN STAR, 120 x 118.5 cm, edition 10 of 120
MILLE FIORI, (Yellow-Purple), 120 x 120 cm - Limited Edition 10 of 130
900 USD AVAILABLE IN PRINTS
MILLE FIORI, (Red-Green), 120 x 120 cm - Limited Edition 10 of 130
MILLE FIORI, (Red-Blue), 120 x 120 cm - Limited Edition 10 of 130
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Winter Morning Light
Blue City Early Dusk
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Lady In Blue
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Latest News, Now What?
LOS BANOS, California — As Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue prepares to hold events promoting the Trump administration’s proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) revision — also called the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) — the director of the California Trade Justice Coalition, Will Wiltschko, issued the following statement:
“As written, NAFTA 2.0 would expand the privileges and profits of corporate elites, while failing to take the steps needed to protect the livelihoods of hard-working families in rural California and beyond.
“The proposed NAFTA deal fails to make the changes needed to protect jobs and raise wages for American workers and family farmers. There’s nothing in the current proposal that would prevent the outsourcing of jobs or that would reverse our high agricultural trade deficit. In fact, a recent International Monetary Fund study concluded NAFTA 2.0 would have a negative effect on both overall U.S. welfare and in agriculture specifically.
“While hundreds of corporate lobbyists had inside access to NAFTA negotiators, the voices of rural America were largely ignored throughout the NAFTA renegotiation process. For instance, American consumers are increasingly interested in knowing where and how their food is produced — and America’s farmers and ranchers want to tell them. But the repeated calls of family farmers and ranchers for a NAFTA deal to restore country-of-origin-labeling for meat products were ignored by trade negotiators.
“One call trade negotiators was sure to answer was that of the pharmaceutical lobby. At a time when many Californians struggle to afford the medicine prescribed to them by their doctors, the new NAFTA text sneaks in language that would lock in lengthy monopoly periods for pharmaceutical companies, blocking competition from lower-cost generic medicines and keeping medicines prices outrageously high.
“Instead of rubber-stamping this business-as-usual trade deal, California’s Members of Congress should continue insisting on the substantive changes necessary for a NAFTA replacement to truly benefit working families. We’re counting on our elected officials to demand stronger labor and environmental standards with swift and certain enforcement; restoration of our country-of-original-labeling program; and the removal of language that locks in high medicine prices.”
The California Trade Justice Coalition is a statewide coalition of labor, environmental, family farm, faith and consumer organizations working together to improve U.S. trade policy.
photo credit: Bob White. licensed under Creative Commons
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Accreditation, Ratings & Awards
ISO Rating
In January of 2018 the City of Danville received an award of a Class 1 rating from the Insurance Services Office. This was an improvement from the City's previous Class 2 rating.
The Insurance Services Office (ISO) is an independent organization that reviews and grades a community's ability to provide fire protection based on a set of uniform criteria and nationally recognized standards.
The rating system evaluates three primary areas: the fire department, the emergency communication and dispatch system, and the community's pressurized water and hydrant system. After a detailed evaluation, a Public Protection Classification (PPC) rating is assigned. The overall rating is then expressed as a number between 1 and 10, with 1 being the highest level of protection and 10 being unprotected or nearly so. These ratings can affect decisions that insurers make regarding the availability and price of property insurance and can often be a useful benchmark that helps fire departments and public officials measure the effectiveness of their efforts.
"This was a total team effort and a direct result of the hard work of our fire personnel, 911 dispatchers, the support of our management team and elected officials, and a great partnership with the Danville Division of Water and Gas," said Fire Chief David Eagle.
City Manager Ken Larking agreed. "We appreciate the support of City Council and the community for the fire department in making sure we have the resources needed for this reclassification," Larking said
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Nahia judge expels Salafi agent "Arabic"
Death to the Apostates
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com
An Afghan citizen named Abdul Rahman, you may recall, made international news last spring, when his conversion from Islam to Christianity led to his arrest, with the intention of putting him on trial for apostasy. At that time he was spirited away to safety in Italy.
Now jihadists in Afghanistan are demanding his return to Afghanistan in exchange for a kidnapped Italian journalist, Gabriele Torsello. “We want this issue resolved before the end of Ramadan,” his captors demanded, but no resolution seemed imminent as the holy month drew to a close.
It is safe to say that if Italian authorities agreed to turn over Abdul Rahman to the kidnappers, the convert would almost certainly be killed for his crime of apostasy from Islam. Yet at the time of Abdul Rahman’s arrest, puzzled Western analysts pointed to what they thought were guarantees of freedom of religion and of conscience in the new Afghan Constitution: after all, didn’t the document pledge “respect” for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Didn’t it say, “followers of other religions” were “free to exercise their faith and perform their religious rites within the limits of the provisions of law”? Indeed it did, but what were the “limits of the provisions of law”?
The Constitution itself made the answer abundantly clear: “In Afghanistan,” it stipulated, “no law can be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of the sacred religion of Islam.
” It mandated that the President swear an oath to “obey and safeguard the provisions of the sacred religion of Islam,” and only secondarily “to observe the Constitution and other laws of Afghanistan and supervise their implementation.
” What’s more, it stated that “the provisions of adherence to the fundamentals of the sacred religion of Islam and the regime of the Islamic Republic cannot be amended.
” Most non-Muslim observers missed the significance of these provisions, and especially the danger they posed to converts like Abdul Rahman and to the freedom of conscience in general.
This is understandable, however, since so many Muslims in the West maintained that Islam contained no provision against apostasy. Typical of this was “Leaving Islam is not a capital crime,” a Chicago Tribune article published by M. Cherif Bassiouni, a professor of Law at DePaul University and President of the International Human Rights Law Institute, when Abdul Rahman was arrested. “A Muslim’s conversion to Christianity,” Bassiouni wrote, “is not a crime punishable by death under Islamic law, contrary to the claims in the case of Abdul Rahman in Afghanistan.
” Several Muslim spokesmen have insisted the same thing to me in radio debates, excoriating me as “Islamophobic” for pointing out that many Islamic texts do indeed call for apostates to be killed. Yet the idea that the death penalty for apostasy has always been an element of the “fundamentals of the sacred religion of Islam” is something that some Muslims have made no effort to deny or conceal.
IslamOnline, a site manned by a team of Islam scholars headed by the internationally influential Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, explains, “if a sane person who has reached puberty voluntarily apostatizes from Islam, he deserves to be punished.
In such a case, it is obligatory for the caliph (or his representative) to ask him to repent and return to Islam. If he does, it is accepted from him, but if he refuses, he is immediately killed.” And if someone doesn’t wait for a caliph to appear and takes matters into his own hands? Although the killer is to be “disciplined” for “arrogating the caliph’s prerogative and encroaching upon his rights,” there is “no blood money for killing an apostate (or any expiation)” – in other words, no significant punishment for the killer.
These laws are rooted in the words and deeds of Islam’s prophet, as I explain in my new book, The Truth About Muhammad. When he “forced his entry” into Mecca, according to his ninth-century biographer Ibn Sa‘d, “the people embraced Islam willingly or unwillingly” (Ibn Sa‘d, II.168).
The Prophet of Islam ordered the Muslims to fight only those individuals or groups who resisted their advance into the city – except for a list of people who were to be killed, even if they had sought sanctuary in the Ka‘bah itself. One of those was Abdullah bin Sa‘d, a former Muslim who at one time had been employed by Muhammad to write down the Qur’anic revelations; but he had subsequently apostatized and returned to the Quraysh.
He was found and brought to Muhammad along with his brother, and pleaded with the Prophet of Islam for clemency: “Accept the allegiance of Abdullah, Apostle of Allah!” Abdullah repeated this twice, but Muhammad remained impassive.
After Abdullah repeated it a third time, Muhammad accepted. As soon as Abdullah had left, Muhammad turned to the Muslims who were in the room and asked: “Was not there a wise man among you who would stand up to him when he saw that I had withheld my hand from accepting his allegiance, and kill him?” The companions, aghast, responded: “We did not know what you had in your heart, Apostle of Allah! Why did you not give us a signal with your eye?” “It is not advisable,” said the Prophet of Islam, “for a Prophet to play deceptive tricks with the eyes.
” Apostasy from Islam had always been for Muhammad a supreme evil. When he was master of Medina, some livestock herders came to the city and accepted Islam. But they disliked Medina’s climate, so Muhammad gave them some camels and a shepherd; once away from Medina, the herders killed the shepherd, released the camels and renounced Islam. Muhammad had them pursued.
When they were caught, he ordered that their hands and feet be amputated (in accord with Qur’an 5:33, which directs that those who cause “corruption in the land” be punished by the amputation of their hands and feet on opposite sides) and their eyes put out with heated iron bars, and that they be left in the desert to die. Their pleas for water, he ordered, must be refused.
The traditions are clear that one of the main reasons that the punishment was so severe was because these men had been Muslims but had “turned renegade.” Muhammad legislated for his community that no Muslim could be put to death except for murder, unlawful sexual intercourse, and apostasy. He said flatly: “If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him.” It stains credulity, in light of all this, that Islamic apologists in the West assert that, in the words of one Ibrahim B. Syed, President of the Islamic Research Foundation International of Louisville, Kentucky, “there is no historical record, which indicates that Muhammad (pbuh) or any of his companions ever sentenced anyone to death for apostasy.” This kind of assertion may be comforting to non-Muslims who would prefer to believe that the capital charges levied against Abdul Rahman were some sort of anomaly.
Unfortunately, this claim simply does not accord with the facts of Muhammad’s life. That such assertions pass unchallenged only underscores the need for Westerners to become informed about the actual words and deeds of Muhammad – which make the actions of Islamic states and jihad groups much more intelligible than do the words of Islamic apologists in the West.
The kidnappers’ demand that Abdul Rahman be returned to Afghanistan illustrates the hollowness of the arguments we hear all the time – about how we must support self-proclaimed moderate Muslims like Bassiouni by refraining from noting the flimsiness and weakness of their presentations.
While we’re being polite to alleged “reformers,” Muslim hardliners are cheerfully implementing the elements of Islamic law that bemused non-Muslims are nodding their heads and agreeing don’t exist. It’s good that the Italian government shows no sign that it is considering returning Abdul Rahman to Afghanistan.
It would be better if the United States government, on which the Afghan regime depends for its continued survival, called upon the Afghans to drop the Sharia provisions from the nation’s Constitution, and affirm in unequivocal terms freedom of conscience and freedom of religion.
For the kidnappers’ action has placed the Afghan government in a peculiar position. What can Afghan officials say? That they don’t want the kidnappers to get hold of Abdul Rahman, because they want to kill him themselves?
The kidnappers’ demand is an unpleasant reminder that United States has deposed one Shari'a regime in Afghanistan, that of the Taliban, only to replace it with another. The State Department should call upon the Afghans to seize on the occasion of this demand to call for a searching reevaluation of the role of Islam in Afghan public life. But this, of course, is even less likely to happen than Abdul Rahman’s return to Afghanistan. One certainty is that people will continue to suffer for freedom of conscience in Afghanistan – under the indifferent eye of the U.S. military
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Puma concolor, Puma
Dr. Pamela Owen - The University of Texas at Austin
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History (LACM 85440)
Image processing: Dr. Rachel Racicot
Specimens: male | female
Puma concolor, the puma, originally ranged throughout much of North, Central, and South America in habitats ranging from the Sonoran desert to 5,800 foot elevations in the Andes. It is among the most widely ranging American mammals. The puma has been extirpated from much of its former range over the last 500 years, notably in the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada. Loss of habitat by increased human development and conflicts with humans over livestock have led to the population decline. The Florida, Central American, and eastern North American subspecies (Puma concolor coryi, P. c. costaricensis, and P. c. couguar, respectively) are listed on CITES Appendix I and the Mexican, Mayan, and Missoula subspecies (P. c. azteca, P. c. mayensis, and P. c. missoulensis, respectively) are listed on Appendix II. The U.S. and IUCN have declared P. c. coryi, P. c. costaricensis, and P. c. couguar as endangered.
The oldest fossil record of Puma concolor dates to about 400,000 years before present. The puma was widely distributed in the Americas in the late Pleistocene. Analyses of morphological and molecular data obtained from extant felids recognize Puma concolor as most closely related to Herpailurus yagouaroundi (jaguarundi) and Acinonyx jubatus (cheetah). Fossils of their most recent common ancestor have yet to be identified, but mtDNA gene divergence data suggest that this ancestor was present in North America 8.25 million years ago.
Puma concolor has a body that is "pantherine" in general form, but the cranial proportions of a "small cat" (e.g., Felis and Lynx). Florida populations (P. c. coryi) are noted for their skulls having inflated nasals and a flattened frontal region, giving them a distinctive cranial profile (i.e., "Roman-nosed").
Analyses of the body of the dentary (specifically the region behind the canines) of Puma concolor illustrate that the puma, like other felids, is able to withstand strong mandibular bending resulting from biting with the canines. Pumas primarily prey upon ungulates such as deer, and when applying the killing bite on struggling prey, generate great bite forces.
This specimen of Puma concolor, a female, was made available to The University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray CT Facility for scanning courtesy of Drs. Blaire Van Valkenburgh and Jessica Theodor, Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, University of California, Los Angeles. Funding for scanning was provided by Dr. Van Valkenburgh and by a National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative grant to Dr. Timothy Rowe of The University of Texas at Austin. The puma is one of several felid carnivorans included in ongoing research of respiratory turbinates by Drs. Van Valkenburgh and Theodor.
The specimen was scanned by Richard Ketcham on 25 October 2000 along the coronal axis for a total of 390 slices, each slice 0.50 mm thick with an interslice spacing of 0.50 mm. The dataset displayed was reduced for optimal Web delivery from the original, much higher resolution CT data.
Biknevicius, A. R. 1996. Functional discrimination in the masticatory apparatus of juvenile and adult cougars (Puma concolor) and spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta). Canadian Journal of Zoology 74:1934-1942.
Biknevicius, A. R., and C. B. Ruff. 1992. The structure of the mandibular corpus and its relationship to feeding behaviours in extant carnivorans. Journal of Zoology (London) 228:479-507.
Currier, M. J. P. 1983. Felis concolor. Mammalian Species 220:1-7.
Danz, H. P. 1999. Cougar! Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio. 310 pp.
De La Rosa, C. L., and C. C. Nocke. 2000. A guide to the carnivores of Central America. The University of Texas Press, Austin. 244 pp.
Ewer, R. F. 1973. The carnivores. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York. 494 pp.
Iriarte, J. A., W. L. Franklin, W. E. Johnson, and K. H. Redford. 1990. Biogeographic variation of food habits and body size of the American puma. Oecologia 85:185-190.
Morgan, G. S., and K. L. Seymour. 1997. Fossil history of the panther (Puma concolor) and the cheetah-like cat (Miracinonyx inexpectatus) in Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 40:177-219.
Pocock, R. I. 1917. On the external characters of the Felidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 19:113-136.
Salles, L. O. 1992. Felid phylogenetics: extant taxa and skull morphology (Felidae, Aeluroidea). American Museum Novitates 3047:1-67.
Van Valkenburgh, B., J. Theodor, A. Friscia, and T. Rowe. 2001. Respiratory turbinates of carnivorans revealed by CT scans: a quantitative comparison. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21:110A.
Werdelin, L. 1983. Morphological patterns in the skulls of cats. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 19:375-391.
Wilkins, L., J. M. Arias-Reveron, B. M. Stith, M. E. Roelke, and R. C. Belden. 1997. The Florida panther Puma concolor coryi: a morphological investigation of the subspecies with a comparison to other North and South American cougars. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 40:221-269.
Young, S. P., and E. A. Goldman. 1946. The puma, mysterious American cat. Dover Publications, Inc., New York. 358 pp.
Puma concolor on the IUCN Cat Specialist Group website
Puma concolor on The Mammals of Texas Online Edition
Puma concolor on The Animal Diversity Web (The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology)
P. c. coryi on The Animal Diversity Web (The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology)
The brain of Puma concolor (Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections website)
Wild Facts on the puma from the BBC Online website (includes video)
Florida Panther Net (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission)
Puma concolor on the Cyber Zoomobile
Felidae on the Cyber Zoomobile
Big Cats Online
To cite this page: Dr. Pamela Owen, 2002, "Puma concolor" (On-line), Digital Morphology. Accessed January 17, 2021 at http://digimorph.org/specimens/Puma_concolor/female/.
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Tachyglossus aculeatus, Short-nosed Echidna
Dr. Ted Macrini - St. Mary's University
Roll - 1mb
American Museum of Natural History (AMNH 154457)
Publication Date: 12 Jan 2004
skull | mandible
Tachyglossus aculeatus, the short-nosed echidna, is one of three extant members of Monotremata, the others being Zaglossus bruijni and Ornithorhynchus anatinus. Monotremes, or the egg-laying mammals, are named for the single common opening for the urogenital and digestive systems. Most phylogenetic analyses based on morphological and molecular data place Monotremata as the sister taxon to Theria (Placentalia + Marsupialia) among the major clades of living mammals. An alternative hypothesis based on molecular and morphological data places Monotremata as the sister taxon to Marsupialia (Gregory, 1947; Penny and Hasegawa, 1997).
Tachyglossus is native to Australia, Tasmania, and central and southern New Guinea. The fossil record of echidnas is poor only extending back to the Pleistocene of Australia and New Guinea (Murray, 1978; Griffiths et al., 1991).
The short-nosed echidna lives in a variety of terrestrial habitats and shelters in burrows or caves. Tachyglossus is nocturnal and crepuscular in activity. It rarely enters torpor during cold weather but rather uses shivering for thermoregulation. Ants and termites comprise the majority of the diet of this animal (Nowak, 1991).
Echidnas, also known as spiny anteaters, are covered by hollow spines that are essentially modified hairs. The body is rounded and dorsoventrally compressed ending in a short tail. The legs are short and stout each ending in feet with five digits that terminate in elongated claws. The most prominent feature on the head is the elongate, hairless snout. The mouth is toothless and contains a long, sticky tongue.
The skull of Tachyglossus is characterized by an elongate, rounded snout and a laterally bulging braincase. The palate extends back to the level of the ears. The ectotympanic is oriented horizontally, and the external auditory meatus is directed ventrally. The lower jaw is reduced and has poorly developed coronoid and angular processes. Internally, the most prominent features are the turbinates. They extend far posteriorly in the skull (see 3D model), underlying the olfactory and cerebral cavities of the braincase.
This specimen was collected from the Iron Range Airport, Cape York, Australia by Gordon Strip on 22 June 1948. It was made available to the University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray CT Facility for scanning by Mr. Ted Macrini of the Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin. Funding for scanning was provided by a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant (DEB-0309369) to Mr. Macrini. Funding for image processing was provided by a National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative grant to Dr. Timothy Rowe of The University of Texas at Austin.
View of specimen
This specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 31 October 2003 along the coronal axis for a total of 693 slices. Each slice is 0.15 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.15 mm and a field of reconstruction of 47.0 mm. The skull and mandible were scanned together but separated for image processing.
Augee, M. L. (ed.) 1978. Monotreme biology. The Australian Zoologist 20, part 1.
Augee, M. L. (ed.) 1992. Platypus and echidnas. Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Mosman, 296 pp.
Gregory, W. K. 1947. The monotremes and the palimpsest theory. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 88:5-52.
Griffiths, M. 1968. Echidnas. Pergamon Press, New York, 282 pp.
Griffiths, M. 1978. The biology of the monotremes. Academic Press, New York, 367 pp.
Griffiths, M., R. T. Wells, and D. J. Barrie. 1991. Observations on the skulls of fossil and extant echidnas (Monotremata: Tachyglossidae). Australian Mammalogy 14:87-101.
Jørgensen, J. M., and N. A. Locket. 1995. The inner ear of the echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus: the vestibular sensory organs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 260: 183-189.
Kuhn, H.-J. 1971. Die Entwicklung und Morphologie des Schädels von Tachyglossus aculeatus. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 528: 1-224.
Lyne, G. 1967. Marsupials and monotremes of Australia. Taplinger Publishing Company, New York, 72 pp.
Murray, P. F. 1978. Late Cenozoic monotreme anteaters; pp. 29-55 in: Monotreme biology. The Australian Zoologist 20, part 1.
Nowak, R. M. 1991. Walker’s Mammals of the World. Volume 1. Fifth edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
Penny, D., and M. Hasegawa. 1997. The platypus put in its place. Nature 387:549-550.
Watson, D. M. S. 1916. The monotreme skull: a contribution to mammalian morphogenesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 207:311-374.
Tachyglossus aculeatus on the Animal Diversity Web (University of Michigan Museum of Zoology)
The brain of Tachyglossus aculeatus on the Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections
Tachyglossus aculeatus page by Dr. Ellen K. Rudolph
Click on the thumbnail to the left for a pitch animation (1.1 mb) of the Tachyglossus cranial endocast highlighted in red within the skull, which is rendered semi-transparent.
Click on the thumbnail to the left for a pitch animation (1.1 mb) of the isolated Tachyglossus cranial endocast.
Click on the thumbnail to the left for a roll animation (1.4 mb) of the Tachyglossus cranial endocast highlighted in red within the skull, which is rendered semi-transparent.
Click on the thumbnail to the left for a roll animation (1.8 mb) of the isolated Tachyglossus cranial endocast.
To cite this page: Dr. Ted Macrini, 2004, "Tachyglossus aculeatus" (On-line), Digital Morphology. Accessed January 17, 2021 at http://digimorph.org/specimens/Tachyglossus_aculeatus/mandible/.
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Pac-10 expansion
Pac-12 football and basketball: Commissioner Larry Scott on issues of the day
Posted on June 22, 2011 by Jon Wilner
Spoke to Scott this morning about the additions of Colorado and Utah — I’m writing about the subject next week in advance of the July 1 transformation — but we briefly touched on a few other topics of interest.
* Oregon football
The NCAA has not given the Pac-10 any indication as to whether it will investigate Oregon’s relationship with Willie Lyles “to the best of my knowledge,” Scott said.
Why the ever-so-slight qualification? Scott has been attending meetings on the east coast all week, but he seemed pretty sure of the radio silence from Indianapolis.
* The Pac-12 Network details.
Scott expects to “lock into a partner” within 45 days, give or take.
(The process can’t stretch beyond the summer if the league hopes to have the TV and digital networks up and running for an Aug. 2012 launch, which would coincide with the start of the new TV deal with ESPN and Fox.)
Larry Scott, Oregon football, Pac-10 basketball, Pac-10 Conference, Pac-10 expansion, Pac-10 football, Pac-10 tournament, Pac-12 basketball, Pac-12 Conference, Pac-12 football, Pac-12 Network
Pac-12 football and basketball: Was expansion worth it?
Posted on May 11, 2011 by Jon Wilner
That’s a question I’ve been pondering all along: Would Utah and Colorado bring enough to the table to financially justify expansion?
Put in more general terms: Would the per-school split with 12 teams be greater than the per-school split with 10?
Several industry analysts I spoke to last summer and fall were skeptical , but that was 1) conjecture and 2) before the TV market for college sports went from hot to searing.
With the league having signed a reported $250 million annual deal, we can run the numbers and assess.
Now, I realize that there was more to expansion that just a pure dollar figure … but not much more. If commissioner Larry Scott had told the league presidents and chancellors last spring, “I think we should add two teams, but it will mean less money for each of you than if we stand pat” … you think they would have signed off?
(Something else I wonder about: Did the CEOs approve expansion because they thought it would mean Texas and the Pac-16? That’s not to say they were misled — Scott laid out all the scenarios for them and was confident he could make them all work. But if the superconference plan had never been raised, would they have approved? I wonder …)
I also realize that Scott has said publicly — both before and after the epic deal with ESPN and Fox was announced last week — that adding Utah and Colorado was worth it … that the league got more money per school than it would have without expansion.
Larry Scott, Pac-10 basketball, Pac-10 Conference, Pac-10 expansion, Pac-10 football, Pac-12 basketball, Pac-12 Conference, Pac-12 football, Pac-12 Network, Pat Haden
Pac-12 TV negotiations: Fox money, timeline, expansion benefits and the Comcast-NHL deal
Posted on April 20, 2011 by Jon Wilner
Need to dart over to Niners HQ for draft-related events, so this will be reasonably brief (as Pac-12 TV updates go) …
*** The asking price
Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott asked Fox for approximately $300 million annually for the league’s broadcasting rights during the just-completed exclusive negotiating window, according to sources.
(Fox turned him down, of course, which is why the league is now on the open market).
It’s a monumental, colossal figure, far beyond what the Big Ten and the SEC receive, and not all that surprising given:
1) Scott’s aggressive nature 2) the fact that the Pac-12 had nothing to lose by asking 3) the sizzling market for college sports rights and 4) the unprecedented amount of programming the conference is offering.
But there is much we don’t know about the asking price, specifically:
* Was that $300 million solely for the broadcast rights?
Comcast, Comcast SportsNet, ESPN, Larry Scott, Pac-10 Conference, Pac-10 expansion, Pac-12 basketball, Pac-12 Conference, Pac-12 football, Pac-12 Network
Pac-12 TV negotiations: International plans, potential bidders, revenue matters and more
Posted on April 8, 2011 by Jon Wilner
I gathered a fair amount of information that never made this post and wanted to add a few comments of my own. Let’s get right to it …
*** Going global
Once the media rights negotiations are completed, look for commissioner Larry Scott to take the Pac-12 show overseas.
The third phase of his plan to remake the conference … first phase: expansion; second: domestic TV deal … is to make a big push into Asia (and perhaps Europe, as well).
It makes a ton of sense (and cents) given how many Pac-12 students, athletes, fans and alums are of Asian ethnicity … and given the size of that market … and the popularity of some Olympic and women’s sports throughout the Pacific Rim.
And let’s not forget that Scott has experience in international marketing/sponsorship/TV dealings from his work as the head of the WTA, a global enterprise.
Scott wouldn’t discuss the specifics of his international plans with me other than to acknowledge he has them — but based on conversations with sources, here’s my best guess:
Starting next fall or in 2012, the league begins its international push, most likely with its soon-to-be-formed media company leading the way.
Comcast, ESPN, Fox Sports, Larry Scott, Pac-10 basketball, Pac-10 Conference, Pac-10 expansion, Pac-10 football, Pac-12 basketball, Pac-12 Conference, Pac-12 football, Pac-12 Network
Pac-12 football (and basketball): Thoughts on the TV negotiations and a Pac-12 Network
Posted on February 16, 2011 by Jon Wilner
This is a long one. Get comfortable.
Negotiations for a new Pac-12 TV deal are ongoing, and I’ll have more as the situation as it develops – it’s a huge, huge story for anyone associated with the conference (fans, athletes, administrators) given the league’s revenue and exposure issues.
But for now, here’s a quick update, overview and analysis based largely on discussions with media industry analysts.
— First, here the status: We’re in the middle of the exclusive negotiating window for the leagues existing partners, which is another way of saying it’s all about Fox right now. I’m not sure when the exclusive window closes and other networks came come to the table, but the process could take months or weeks.
It would take weeks if Fox comes with an offer the conference can’t refuse, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that happened given the early indications of Fox’ interest level.
The network paid a huge amount for the rights to the 2011 Pac-12 football title game, and several sources told me that was Fox’ way of saying: We want your business. (More in a minute.)
— One thought regarding the one-year, $25 million deal Fox signed to broadcast the title game in December and other (regular season) games that were brought about by expansion:
Yes, the total is $25 million, and the title game is about $14.5 million of that, but it’s difficult to separate the two because the only reason there’s a title game is because of expansion – the two pieces are linked.
Also, I’d caution Pac-12 fans about the dollar figure: It would not be correct to simply divide $25 million by 12 and assume each school is getting $2.08 million. The $25 million is a gross number – you have to extract expenses and sponsorship rights.
My guess is that each school will end up with about $1.5 million, and here’s the bottom line on that:
It’s $1.5 million (or so) that the schools didn’t have on their radars a year ago.
As noted in a previous Hotline post, I believe Fox is the favorite to land the Pac-12 media rights contract – perhaps the overwhelming favorite.
And if not Fox, then probably Comcast/NBC.
There is no indication whatsoever that ESPN will be willing to pay what the Pac-12 wants or provide the exposure opportunities the Pac-12 is seeking (because of all its existing contracts with other leagues).
Consider this: The Pac-12 is looking for a deal in the $140-150 million range, which, when combined with BCS and March Madness money, would push the league’s total revenue beyond the $170 million figure that was agreed upon by the schools as the benchmark for cash payments to USC and UCLA.
ESPN signed a media rights deal with the ACC last summer that was worth about $155 million per year – except it wasn’t really $155 per year. Raycom, a regional network that has partnered with the ACC for decades, is paying about $30 million of that total. So in reality ESPN paid $120 or so for the ACC. (There is no equivalent of Raycom in the Pac-12 footprint.)
Would ESPN pay $20-30 million more for the Pac-12? No chance, according to industry sources, and here’s why:
ESPN doesn’t view Pac-12 basketball as a valuable entity — I’m not sure if anyone does, frankly – and it’s certainly not as valuable as ACC basketball because of the popularity of Duke and North Carolina in the eastern half of the country.
While the Pac-12 arguably has a better football product, the time zone issues prevents it from filling the lucrative 12 p.m. Eastern time slot on Saturdays – a broadcast window that’s far more important to ESPN, I’ve been told, than the 10:30 p.m. window.
(Meanwhile, the 10:30 p.m. window has some value to Fox Sports, which is based on the west coast.)
So for a variety of reasons, I seriously doubt ESPN will swoop in with a $140+ million offer to become the Pac-12’s primary rights holder.
Meanwhile, Fox has given numerous indications that it was to continue its relationship with the Pac-12, including the $25 million pot of cash it handed over for 2011-12 broadcast rights.
Look at what the network has done elsewhere: It bid for, and won, a contract with Conference USA. It bought the rights to the Big Ten football championship. And it won the retransmission lawsuit against New York Cablevision that should put more cash in its coffers.
I’m not saying Fox wants to overtake ESPN, but industry sources believe the network is ramping up its college sports coverage – to the point, one source said, that it may consider broadcasting Pac-12 football games on the over-the-air Fox network (not FSN) to compete against ESPN/ABC in the 8 p.m. Eastern window.
I also believe commissioner Larry Scott wants to make the Pac-12 Network happen – and that the only reason it won’t happen is if Fox pays the league to not create a network, which is exactly what CBS did with the SEC.
(If Pac-12 signs with Fox and also creates the Pac-12 Network, Fox would almost assuredly be the partner.)
The network would solve two huge issues by providing supplemental revenue and exposure as a third-tier outlet – meaning:
The primary rights hold would be the first tier.
That rights holder could sell off inventory to a second-tier rights holder the way Fox has sold Pac-10 games to ESPN/ABC in the past.
The leftover inventory would be shown on the Pac-12 Network (or to local outlets).
But the Pac-12 Network would do more than provide countless increased football and men’s basketball viewing opportunities for fans inside and outside the league’s footprint.
It would also provide a broadcast outlet for the Pac-12’s Olympic sports, which are not only highly successful – the league is an Olympic medal machine — but also so important to the league’s longstanding commitment to providing broad-based athletic opportunities.
Getting the network up and running is expensive and complex, and from what I have gathered, one hurdle may stand above all others:
Time-Warner.
It’s the dominant cable system in Los Angeles County, and it is notorious stingy with what goes through its distribution system.
The Big Ten battled with TW for xxx before getting the company to agree to show the Big Ten Network.
Heck, Time-Warner Los Angeles won’t even show the NFL Network, so why would it bother with the Pac-12 Network?
And if it won’t ….
Could the league afford to spend the money and make the commitment to a network when that network isn’t available in its largest media market?
Industry analysts believe that could be Scott’s greatest challenge.
This is a long one. Get comfortable …
Negotiations for a new Pac-12 TV deal are ongoing, and I’ll have more on the situation as it develops – it’s a huge, huge story for anyone associated with the conference (fans, athletes, administrators) given the league’s revenue and exposure issues.
But for now, here’s an overview based largely on discussions with media industry analysts.
*** First, the status: We’re in the middle of an exclusive negotiating window for the league’s existing partners, which is another way of saying it’s all about Fox right now.
I’m not sure of the exact date the exclusive window closes and other networks (Comcast/NBC?) came come to the table — probably early May — but the negotiating process could take months … or it could take weeks if Fox comes with an offer the conference can’t refuse.
(I wouldn’t be surprised if that happened given the early indications of the network’s interest level in continuing its relationship with the Pac.)
Larry Scott, Pac-10 basketball, Pac-10 Conference, Pac-10 expansion, Pac-10 football, Pac-12 football, Pac-12 Network
Pac-10 football: Saturday review
Posted on November 27, 2010 by Jon Wilner
I’ll have a separate post on Stanford’s situation, because it’s too convoluted to be included here. The purpose of this item is to address a slew of topics quickly …
* I can’t be the only one who has thought of this, but:
What if Oregon and Auburn lose next weekend. Could Stanford jump into the BCS title game, ahead of the Ducks?
That would be a tough call for voters. Oregon won the head-to-head resoundingly, but Stanford would have just thumped the team (OSU) that beat Oregon.
Cal and Stanford athletics: Putting the Pac-12 dollars to work
Posted on October 27, 2010 by Jon Wilner
A slightly-delayed follow to the Pac-12 realignment news of late last week …
By my calculations, Cal’s receiving about $8.5 million in annual distributions from the conference while Stanford takes home about $7.5.
(The exact figure for each varies by the year based on the number of football TV appearances and the conference’s performance in the NCAA tournament.)
If the Pac-12 hits minimal revenue expectations with its new media rights deal and football championship game — on top of the continuing cash flow from the BCS and March Madness — then each school stands to receive at least $13 million annually.
Bob Bowlsby, Cal basketball, Cal football, Pac-10 Conference, Pac-10 expansion, Sandy Barbour, Stanford basketball, Stanford football
Pac-12 Conference: A calendar of upcoming events
Now that we’ve cleared a major milestone with realignment, I thought it would be a good time to provide an overview of upcoming off-field/court events.
The dates/windows are approximate, of course.
(Comments at bottom.)
Oct. 28: Pac-10 men’s basketball media day in Los Angeles. Look for Washington to be the preseason favorite and no major announcements by the league regarding the future of the event.
November: Completion of the 2011 football schedules, which are being reviewed by the athletic directors. (Note: Cal and Colorado are still waiting to hear whether their September date in Boulder will count as a conference game. If it does, both will have to scramble to find a non-conference opponent.)
Nov.-Dec.: Completion of the 2011-12 basketball schedules, which are in the process of being tweaked for television.
Dec.: TV arrangement for the 2011 football championship game. Remember, the mew media rights agreement won’t kick in until 2012-13, which means the ’11 event will be negotiated independently – most likely before the league begins serious negotiations on its future media deal.
Jan. – May/June: Although preliminary work is underway, the serious negotiations for a new media rights contract won’t begin until early 2012. The league will first sit down with its current partners (Fox, ESPN) before exploring other options, but my sense is that it will have a pretty good sense for the end game early in the process. During the negotiations, it will explore the possibility of forming its own TV network.
Next spring: The future of the basketball tournaments. Will the men’s and women’s events be held in the same venue? Will there be a fixed location or a rotation? The league plans to evaluate the situation after the ’11 tournaments. The league’s media partners will no doubt have a say in the matter. (The men’s tournament is under contract with FSN and Staples Center through March ’12.)
May: During its annual spring meetings, the league must finalize its summer media strategy – whether it will take the coaches on another east coast tour.
Down the road: Commissioner Larry Scott wants to take the league international, selling TV rights throughout the Pacific Rim – and possibly taking all-star teams to Asia. However, the Big Ten has submitted a proposal to the NCAA that would disallow international travel (an attempt to cut costs). If the legislation passes, we’ve got no chance to see USC play Oregon in Beijing.
*** Thoughts:
* It’s an ambitious agenda — too ambitious, in my mind, for one commissioner.
Good things the Pac-12 has two.
Chief operating officer Kevin Weiberg was the Big 12 commissioner for xx years and then served as an executive at the Big Ten Network – he knows the collegiate sports landscape as well as anyone.
(I’ve written this before but it’s worth repeating: Hiring Weiberg was the best move Scott has made in his 15 months on the job.)
With Scott and Weiberg, the conference office can take a divide-and-conquer approach to its agenda.
* The biggest issue, by far, is the mew media rights deal. There’s no question the conference will double its existing TV revenue (approx $55 million).
But Scott has raised expectations to the point that many inside and outside the conference expect to triple the current revenue. (And if that happens, they’ll be popping champagne from Pullman to Tucson.)
* The question that may not get answered — but one that many, myself included, have been asking since June — is the value of expansion.
In other words: Do Utah and Colorado bring enough to the table to make a 1/12 split of the revenues greater than a 1/10 split would have been.
* One of the most interesting components of the league’s agenda is the future of the men’s basketball tournament, which is hardly a can’t-miss event.
One problem with Staples Center as a fixed location — you can thank Fox for that — is the tournament has become dependent on USC and UCLA for its success. When the L.A. schools aren’t very good, then you get entire sections of empty seats (as we saw last March).
The benefit to rotation sites is that the event becomes, well, an event. If it’s in Portland once every four or five years, for instance, fans are more likely to attend regardless of the local teams’ prospects.
Now that we’ve cleared a major milestone with realignment, this seemed like a good time to provide an overview of upcoming off-field/court events.
The timeframes for most of the items are approximate, of course.
(My comments at bottom.)
Oct. 28: Pac-10 men’s basketball media day in Los Angeles.
Look for Washington to be the preseason favorite and no major announcements by the league regarding the future of the event.
Nov: Completion of the 2011 football schedules, which are being reviewed by the athletic directors.
Larry Scott, Pac-10 basketball, Pac-10 Conference, Pac-10 expansion, Pac-10 football
Pac-10 expansion: Thoughts on the divisions, revenue projections, CEO dynamic and more
General reaction to the news of the day (which is now yesterday):
This was about the best the league could have done. There was no way to make everybody happy; the key was to limit the amount of furor, and I think the “horse trading” of the past few days and weeks — Bob Bowlsby’s spot-on description — went a long way toward accomplishing that.
As noted in a previous post, some schools sacrificed more than others, and some (Arizonas, Mountains) did not sacrifice at all. But I’m not sure there was any other way to handle the division and revenue splits, frankly.
(I gave up hope for the Zipper weeks ago and agree with Larry Scott that North-South is easier for casual fans to follow … although Utah in the South and Cal and Stanford in the North is a tad confusing.)
Yes, the NW schools and/or their fans are probably a little dismayed at the limited number of opportunities to visit Los Angeles, the result of the league’s decision to preserve the California rivalries.
Larry Scott, Mike Riley, Oregon State football, Pac-10 Conference, Pac-10 expansion, Pac-10 football, UCLA football, USC football, Utah football, Washington State football
Pac-10 expansion: Reaction from Cal and Stanford on the division split and California rivalries
By Jon Wilner
jwilner@mercurynews.com
The Pac-10 Conference entered a new era Thursday with the unveiling of its realignment plans for football. But there was an unmistakable nod to tradition.
As expected, Cal and Stanford will be paired with the Oregon and Washington schools in the six-team North Division starting next season. But the league adopted a scheduling model that guarantees the Bay Area schools will play USC and UCLA every year – thus preserving rivalries that are nearly a century old.
“There is a deep appreciation in the conference for the historical rivalries,” Commissioner Larry Scott said. “Not just the (natural) rivalries but the Northern and Southern California rivalries.”
Scott said the division alignment was approved unanimously by the league’s 12 presidents and chancellors. (Utah and Colorado, which will join the league next summer, have voting rights.) But it came about after months of negotiations that included “a fair amount of horse trading,’’ according to Stanford athletic director Bob Bowlsby.
The California rivalries were an important piece of the puzzle. The four schools presented a united front in their desire to play each other every year – as they have, with the exception of the World War II years, since the 1930s. (USC and Stanford first played in 1905.)
Bowlsby said preserving the intra-state rivalries was “by far the piece I heard the most about” from alumni.
Cal athletic director Sandy Barbour said anything else would have been a dealbreaker: “We would not have been in favor of any scenario that didn’t provide us that opportunity.’’
The Bears and Cardinal will continue to host either USC or UCLA each year and play the other team in Los Angeles – a development that’s particularly important to Cal, which recruits heavily in Southern California. (Stanford has a national recruiting base.)
“That’s what everybody wanted, the chance to play the Southern California schools,’’ Cal coach Jeff Tedford said. “It’s positive for us as far as recruiting is concerned.”
Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh wasn’t as up-to-date on the day’s developments.
“We’re out here practicing football,’’ he said. “I didn’t even know what they decided.’’
During a four-hour meeting at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, the chief executives also approved a football championship game beginning next season.
Following the NFL model, it will be played on the home field of the team with the best conference record. The league also considered a neutral site – the model used by the Big 12 and SEC – but ultimately felt a home field would make for the best atmosphere and guarantee a sellout.
The CEOs also voted to change how the conference distributes revenue from its football television contract.
Instead of using an appearance-based model that favors the big-market Los Angeles schools, the league will split the revenue equally when the new media rights deal begins in 2012-13. But to appease USC and UCLA, the conference agreed to give each school a $2 million payout whenever the total annual revenue does not reach $170 million.
The league current generates about $95 million annually from three primary sources: football TV deals, bowl games and the NCAA basketball tournament. That figure is expected to climb significantly under the next media contract, resulting in several million dollars of added revenue for each school.
Bowlsby and Barbour plan to use the money to help fund athletic department operations.
“Any revenue will help our financial situation,’’ Barbour said.
(bullet) Scott said the Zipper Plan, which would have split the natural rivals but guaranteed they’d play each other every year, “got a lot of attention.” But he pushed for dividing the league in a North-South fashion to make it easier for fans to follow.
(bullet) The Pac-10 will become the Pac-12 on July 1, Scott said. The current logo, which debuted this fall, will be tweaked to accommodate the membership change.
(bullet) The league won’t split into divisions for any other sport. The men’s and women’s basketball teams will continue to play 18 conference games, including two **against their natural rival.
*** Here’s an early version of my story for Friday’s Mercury News, which focuses on the league’s decision to preserve the California rivalries and includes reaction from both schools. It’s designed to appeal to a general audience and, except for the comments from Bowlsby/Barbour, will be old news to many Hotline readers.
I’ll have more on the day’s developments later tonight, including thoughts on the $170 million revenue target, the evolving CEO dynamic and the potential trouble for Oregon State and Washington State.
To the story …
As expected, Cal and Stanford will be paired with the Oregon and Washington schools in the six-team North Division starting next season.
But the league adopted a scheduling model that guarantees the Bay Area schools will play USC and UCLA every year – thus preserving rivalries that are nearly a century old.
Bob Bowlsby, Cal football, Jim Harbaugh, Pac-10 Conference, Pac-10 expansion, Pac-10 football, Sandy Barbour, Stanford football
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Popular Culture – 2009-2010 Annual Theme
Popular culture is an expression of a country’s distinctive traditions, history, and language, as well as its current social, economic, and political systems and its degree of technological development. How events, institutions, and artists/performers shape popular culture and how in turn popular culture shapes the lives and identities of cultural consumers is a complex reality that defines much of contemporary life.
Globalization, multiculturalism, and diversity provide additional lenses through which to think about popular culture. Does American popular culture support a bland collection of homogenous Americans living uniform lives in gray suburbs or a rich cacophony of cultural voices that clash, “crash,” and co-mingle along lines of race, ethnicity, class, religion, and sexual orientation? To what extent do forms of popular culture express and inculcate dominant social values and support existing institutions? To what extent can popular culture provide a means for challenging such values and institutions? The degree to which the United States and other nations export their cultures produces new sources of cultural tension, resistance, and creativity. During 2009-2010, The Clarke Forum will explore these issues in a number of different contexts and from a variety of different perspectives.
Brian Haig
Bestselling Author and Former Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Fiction Explains Things Nonfiction Can’t
Stern Center, Great Room, **3:30 p.m.**
Book Sale/Signing will follow the lecture.
The Capital Game and Man in the Middle will be available for purchase.
Haig will discuss the impact of fiction on how readers understand their political and social worlds and how this understanding can shape their conduct and hence our future. For example, Tom Clancy introduced us to military technology, Dan Brown made us re-think religion, Steig Larsson made us see Sweden in a whole new way. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin helped launch a civil war to end slavery; Herman Wouk’s The Winds of War kicked off the World War Two craze; Leon Uris’s Exodus shaped how Americans see Israel; and Alex Haley’s Roots explained the black experience in America.
Brian Haig P’12 and P’13 graduated from West Point in 1975, spent 22 years on active duty, his last four as Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. After retiring from the Army, he was president of two companies before becoming a writer. Read more
Author of The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Sag Harbor and other novels
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7:00 p.m
Whitehead will provide micro-lectures on craft, style, and what we can all learn from the Donna Summer version of “MacArthur Park.”
The event is co-sponsored by the Department of English, the Office of Student Development and the Office of Institutional and Diversity Initiatives, the Department of American Studies, the Office of Diversity Initiatives and the Department of Sociology.
Colson Whitehead is the author of The Intuitionist, his accomplished debut novel that received widespread and enthusiastic critical praise for its quirky and imaginative writing and complex allegories of race. The Intuitionist won the Quality Paperback Book Club’s New Voices Award and was a finalist for the Ernest Hemingway/PEN Award for First Fiction.
Recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “genius award” given to scholars, artists, and others to free them to pursue their work, Whitehead has been praised for writing novels with inventive plots that weave American folklore and history into the stories.
His most recent work is Sag Harbor: A Novel. Before this, he wrote Apex Hides Read more
Paul Campos
Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
The Politics of Fat
America is in the grip of a moral panic about fat. The “obesity epidemic” is the “reefer madness” of our time, and the sooner we recognize this fact the sooner we will stop demonizing body diversity.
The event is co-sponsored by the Women’s Center and the Departments of Sociology and Psychology.
Topical Background (provided by the speaker)
A wide range of cultural authorities, that includes such disparate figures as First Lady Michelle Obama, leading public health officials, and the National Football League, are assuring Americans that we are in the midst of an “obesity epidemic,” that presents a major public health crisis, which requires a strong response from both the government and the private sector. In fact these claims are symptoms of a classic moral panic. Moral panics occur when social anxieties focus on a marginalized group, that is blamed for causing a serious social problem. Such panics feature responses that are disproportionate to the actual threat posed by the group (which indeed, as in the case of fat, may well be largely or completely imaginary). Professor Campos’ Read more
Ellen McLaughlin
Playwright and Actress
Readings by Ellen McLaughlin
McLaughlin will read excerpts from several of her plays, including Infinity’s House, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Tongue of a Bird, Helen, The Persians, Oedipus and Ajax in Iraq. She is most well known for having originated and developed the part of the Angel in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, having appeared in every U.S. production from its earliest workshops through its Broadway run.
The event is co-sponsored by the Departments of Classics, Theatre & Dance and English.
Ellen McLaughlin’s plays have received numerous national and international productions. They include Days and Nights Within, A Narrow Bed, Infinity’s House, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Tongue of a Bird, The Trojan Women, Helen, The Persians, Oedipus, Penelope, Kissing the Floor and Ajax in Iraq.
Producers include: Actors’ Theater of Louisville, The Actors’ Gang L.A., Classic Stage Co., N.Y., The Intiman Theater, Seattle, Almeida Theater, London, The Mark Taper Forum, L.A., the Public Theater in NYC, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The National Actors’ Theater, N.Y., Read more
Faculty Weigh-In
Friday, April 9 – 4:00 p.m.
Stern Center, Great Room
A discussion about the cultural meaning and significance of hip hop.
Participants Include:
Prof. Stephanie Gilmore (Women’s and Gender Studies)
Prof. Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy (Africana Studies)
Prof. Crispin Sartwell (Art & Art History / Philosophy)
Prof. Cotten Seiler (American Studies)
Prof. Sarah Skaggs (Dance)
Prof. Edward Webb (Middle East Studies) – Moderator
The event was organized by The Clarke Forum Student Board and The Clarke Forum Student Project Managers. Read more
Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Duke University
How You Gonna Be the King of New York?
This event of part of the two-day Hip Hop Symposium (April 8-9)
Thursday, April 8 – 7:00 p.m.
Hip-Hop culture has been a site for the promotion of black hypermasculininity. In the past decade, artist Jay Z (Shawn Carter) has challenged this logic in many of his music videos, including one in which Jay Z is symbolically killed, which creates the context for the “birth” of a cosmopolitan black masculinity within mainstream hip-hop.
Mark Anthony Neal is professor of black popular culture in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Duke University. Neal is the author of four books, What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1998), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002), Songs in the Keys of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation (2003) and New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity (2005). Neal is also the co-editor (with Murray Forman) of That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (2004).
Neal’s essays have been anthologized in a dozen Read more
Shanté Paradigm Smalls
Adjunct Professor at NYU and Adjunct Associate Professor at Pace University (New York) and Brooklyn-based singer, emcee, poet and scholar
This event is part of the two-day Hip Hop Symposium (April 8 – 9)
Lecture – “Pick Up the Mic”
Friday, April 9 – 12:30 p.m.
Ms. Smalls will discuss the documentary film “Pick Up the Mic” an award-winning documentary about the queer hip-hop scene(a.k.a. homohop. Shot over a three-year period in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Houston, and even the Ozarks, the film captures the birth of the “homohop” movement and chronicles its growth into a global community of out artists that has emerged and thrived despite improbable odds.
Performance during “Hip Hop in Action”
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
About the Speaker/Performer
Ms. Smalls is an adjunct professor at NYU and adjunct associate professor at Pace University (in New York), who teaches on representations in popular culture, performance studies, and critical race, gender, sexuality and class theory. Smalls is currently writing her dissertation, Heretics of Hip-Hop: Performing Race, Gender and Sexuality in New York City.
Shanté Paradigm Smalls is a Brooklyn-based singer, emcee, poet and scholar, working Read more
So, You Think You Can Choreograph?
Vincent Paterson ’72
Choreographer, director and producer; Metzger-Conway Fellow
COMMON HOUR
Thursday, April 1, 2010 – Noon
Weiss Center, Rubendall Recital Hall
Watch students from Professor Skaggs’ Applied Choreography class get professional feedback from professional dancer and choreographer, Vincent Paterson ’72.
Vincent Paterson is a world-renowned director and choreographer whose career spans just about every genre of the entertainment industry including film, theatre, Broadway, concert tours, opera, music videos, television and commercials.
“What I try to do with my work is to fill the audience with an energy that alters their being in a positive way. The work is the stone thrown into the pond. The ripples emanate from the audience. If the audience is affected even infinitesimally in a positive way, they might make something positive happen in the next five minutes, or tomorrow, or next week. That action will vibrate into the ether and the better the world will be.”
Vincent directed the critically acclaimed opera Manon with soprano Anna Netrebko and conducted by Placido Domingo. His direction of Anna Netrebko: The Woman, The Voice received a nomination for “Best Television Arts Program” at the Montreaux Film Festival. The DVD is the top selling classical DVD in Read more
Hip Hop Symposium
This symposium will include special speakers, student and faculty panel discussions, and live hip hop entertainment.
The event was coordinated by The Clarke Forum Student Board and The Clarke Forum Student Project Managers.
Creation of a Graffiti Wall
Britton Plaza
7:00 p.m. – Stern Center, Great Room
Mark Anthony Neal, professor of African and African American studies, Duke University
12:30 p.m. – Stern Center, Great Room
“Pick Up the Mic”
Shante Paradigm Smalls, New York University
The Culture of Hip Hop
Student Panel Discussion
Discussion about the cultural meaning and significance of hip hop.
7:00 p.m. – Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
Hip Hop in Action
Live performances by Hypnotic, REACH, open mic acts and Shanté Paradigm Smalls
Choreographer, Director and Metzger-Conway Fellow
The Man Behind the Thrones
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.
Patterson will talk about his career in the entertainment business and the challenges he confronts as he works intimately with famous performers, making them look their best, while attempting to remain fairly anonymous himself.
Vincent directed the critically acclaimed opera Manon with soprano Anna Netrebko and conducted by Placido Domingo. His direction of Anna Netrebko: The Woman, The Voice received a nomination for “Best Television Arts Read more
Neil Printz
Art Historian, co-editor of the Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné
Andy Warhol: Post-Pop or Not?
Printz considers Warhol’s work after the 1960s in light of photographs and the works of art recently donated to Dickinson College by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ Photographic Legacy Program.
This event is co-sponsored by The Trout Gallery.
Topical Background
Born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1928, Andy Warhol became one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Known mainly as a leading figure in the Pop Art movement, Warhol is also recognized for his work as an avant-garde film maker, record producer, author, and public figure. By the time of his death in 1987, Warhol coined the popular phrase “15 minutes of fame,” sold his canvas Eight Elvises for $100 million dollars, and was identified by the media as the “Prince of Pop.”
Warhol showed early artistic talent at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, known today as Carnegie Mellon University. He then worked in New York as an illustrator for various magazines including Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Glamour, and The New Yorker. As Warhol became more concerned with turning his Read more
Rebecca Skloot
Award-winning science writer; professor of English, University of Memphis
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m
Rebecca Skloot discusses her new book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a story inextricably linked to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles that could determine whether we own the stuff we are made of. A booksigning will follow the presentation.
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Biology, Sociology and Psychology
Born in 1920, Henrietta Lacks, a mother of five, was a native of rural southern Virginia whose family grew tobacco. She was diagnosed with cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital and died on October 4, 1951 at the age of thirty-one.
While at Johns Hopkins Hospital, researchers took a biopsy of her tumor without her knowledge or permission. The cells, named “HeLa” for Henrietta Lacks, multiplied outside her body at an unprecedented rate. Because they can potentially divide an unlimited number of times in a laboratory setting, HeLa cells have been described as “immortal”. “If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh Read more
Professor of English, Fordham University
What’s in a Bestselling Crime Novel?
After exploring the origins and complexities of “bestsellers,” Cassuto applies his conclusions to the way crime novels are read and understood in the U.S.
Co-sponsored by the Departments of English and American Studies
The broad genre of “crime fiction” first captured the American imagination in the mid-19th century. Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” published in 1841, told of a dark mystery based in Paris. Its protagonist, C. Auguste Duperin, appears to be one of the first characters resembling what would come to be the archetypical crime fiction detective.
Soon after Poe’s works hit the literary world, Britain’s Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned the detective novel into a phenomenon. The popularity of his Sherlock Holmes anthology transcended the Atlantic and sparked an enormous production of crime and detective novels. Crime fiction quickly became one of America’s favorite literary genres.
New categories of crime fiction are popularized with each generation of crime novelists. “Whodunits,” “hardboiled” fiction, legal thrillers, police mysteries, and spy novels are just a few of the many types of crime Read more
Art Spiegelman – "Morgan Lecturer"
Pulitzer Prize-winning artist/illustrator; author of Maus
Comix 101.1
Through a chronological tour of the evolution of comics, this Pulitzer Prize-winning artist/illustrator explains the value of this medium and why it should not be ignored.
The event is Dickinson College’s annual Morgan Lecture in honor of James Henry Morgan, professor of Greek, dean, and president of the college.
Co-sponsored by The Milton B. Asbell Center for Jewish Life, The Trout Gallery, Women’s Center, the Office of Institutional and Diversity Initiatives, and the Departments of Political Science, English, German, Judaic Studies, Art and Art History, History, Sociology, and Film Studies.
Comics are a graphic medium in which images are used to convey a sequential narrative. The term “comics” arose because the medium was at first used primarily for comedic intent. Today the term is applied to all uses of the medium, including those which are far from comic. The sequential nature of the pictures and the predominance of pictures over words distinguish comics from picture books, though there is some overlap between the two media. Different conventions have developed around the globe, from the manga of Japan to the manhua Read more
"Bah, Humbug"
Weiss Center for the Arts, Rubendall Recital Hall
We all know the story of Ebenezer Scrooge. But what don’t we know? Why did Dickens write A Christmas Carol in the first place? What can it tell us about Victorian culture, from the issue of poverty to the myth of the good death? How does it continue to shape our idea of the “traditional” Christmas? And what is a humbug, anyway? One part lecture, one part storytelling, and one part theatrical performance, “Bah, Humbug” explores the story behind one of the most popular ghost stories in English literature.
“Bah, Humbug” was developed with generous support from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Jump Street Arts Development.
About the Performer
A former English professor at Gettysburg and Elizabethtown, Steve Anderson is a professional actor and storyteller with more than twenty years of performance experience. His credits include more than one hundred stage plays, ten years with the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire, seven years as a storyteller in Gettysburg, and three years as a certified living-history interpreter with the Pennsylvania Past Players. He narrates audiobooks, writes a newspaper column on Pennsylvania history… and visits schools, theatres, libraries, Read more
Thomas Boellstorff
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California and Editor-in-Chief, American Anthropologist
Virtual Popular Culture
Monday, Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Virtual worlds represent an important new modality of human interaction. The discussion will focus on emerging forms of popular culture in virtual worlds, the promise of ethnographic methods for studying these emerging forms of popular culture, and the broad social implications of their emergence.
A virtual world is a computer-based simulated environment inhabited by avatars. Avatars are computer users’ representations of themselves or alter egos in the form of a three dimensional model, a two dimensional icon, or a text construct. Communications between users range from text, graphical icons, visual gesture, and sound. Multiplayer online games commonly represent a world very similar to the real world. However, virtual worlds are not limited to games; they can encompass computer conferencing and text-based chat rooms. Persons who interact and forge new forms of selfhood and society in virtual worlds are creating a virtual culture.
One of the earliest virtual world experiences can be traced back to 1968 when the first virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) head-mounted display system was invented at Massachusetts Institute Read more
Marilyn Wann
Author, Editor, and Activist
The Real F-Word: FAT
Marilyn Wann offers a funny and engaging discussion of what it currently means to be fat or thin, the impact of such messages, and a revolutionary new alternative for how we should live in and think about our bodies.
Marilyn Wann is a fat civil rights activist. She published a print ‘zine in the mid-90s called FAT!SO? and later wrote a book of the same name. Wann was centrally involved in successful passage of San Francisco’s height-weight anti-discrimination law in 2000 and lobbies for similar laws elsewhere. She has performed with several fat-positive groups: Marilyn splashed on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” as part of the Padded Lilies synchro swim team; shook pompoms with the Bod Squad cheerleaders who oppose weight-loss surgery; and danced with the Phat Fly Girls hip hop troupe, a Big Moves project. Read more
Sharalyn Orbaugh
Professor of Asian studies and women’s & gender studies, University of British Columbia
Why are Japanese Cyborgs Always Female?
In the robot, android or cyborg body, sex and gender are constructed and unnecessary rather than biological and functional; nonetheless, most depictions of such post-human entities retain gender and sex markers. This presentation explores the reasons behind this phenomenon in recent Japanese anime films, such as Osamu Tezuka’s Metropolis.
Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Studies
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a cyborg is “a person whose physical tolerances or capabilities are extended beyond normal human limitations by a machine or other external agency that modifies the body’s functioning.”
The idea of the technologically enhanced human has been prevalent in fiction since Edgar Allen Poe wrote of the prosthetic General John A.B.C. Smith in his 1839 short story, “The Man that was Used Up.” Darth Vader, the Terminator, and The Six Million Dollar Man are just a few of the cyborgs that have entered American popular culture. In Japan, cyborgs frequently appear in animated works.
Japanese animation usually depicts cyborgs as female. In the cyborg body, Read more
Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Cultural Historian, Actress, and Dancer
The (Black) Dancing Body as a Measure of Culture
Through dance demonstrations and visual images, Dixon Gottschild examines the pervasive Africanist presence in American culture and the sociopolitical implications of its invisibility. With dance as the focus and race the parameter, she reveals Africanisms in modern and postmodern dance and American ballet.
A book signing will follow the presentation.
Cultural appropriation is the adoption of practices and traditions from a specific culture by another group of people. This usually involves mimicking or borrowing musical techniques, dance styles, or other art forms.
The term “Africanist,” as used by Brenda Dixon Gottschild, refers to concepts, practices, attitudes, and forms that are rooted in Africa or African culture. The term originated in the works of American anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits. In Myth of the Negro Past (1941), Herskovits was one of the first to examine African influences on both African Americans and whites in the United States. Others to use the term include author Toni Morrison, who describes Africanism in her book Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992), which explores the presence Read more
Actor and Monologuist
Howard Zinn’s “Marx in Soho”
The Depot, 7:00 p.m.
Returning to earth for one hour to clear his name, Karl Marx launches into a passionate, funny and moving defense of his life and political ideas in Howard Zinn’s brilliant, timely play, Marx in Soho. The play is an excellent introduction to Marx’s life, his passion for radical change, his analysis of society, and its relevance to current events, trends, and developments.
Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818 in Trier, Germany. He studied jurisprudence and law at the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin. In 1843, the 25-year-old Marx moved to Paris, where he devoted himself primarily to studying political economy and the history of the French Revolution. In 1845, Marx moved to Brussels after the Paris authorities ordered him to leave for openly approving the assassination attempt on the King of Prussia. In 1849, Marx moved to London and remained there for the rest of his life. In London, Marx devoted himself to understanding political economy and capitalism, and to revolutionary activities. He argued that capitalism would inevitably produce internal tensions which would lead to its Read more
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Procedures for entering and exiting Russia have been set for foreign citizens taking part in international sports competitions
Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order On Procedures for Entering and Exiting the Russian Federation for Foreigners and Stateless Persons in Connection with International Sports Events.
Under the Order’s terms, foreigners and stateless persons taking part in international sports events (athletes, trainers, team officials, other members of foreign official delegations, sports judges and referees and other officials authorised by the organisers of respective international sports events) can enter and exit Russia without a visa, on the basis of ID documents recognised by the Russian Federation as such, and accreditation documents issued by the international sports event’s organisers.
Accreditation documents are issued by international sports events’ organisers after receiving the Russian Federal Security Service’s approval.
The Russian Government shall approve the list of international sports events and the length of time that foreign participants in these events can stay in Russia.
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January Jones's A-list feud
When you're on your way up the Hollywood greasy pole, it's always vital to remember to not start feuds, as they'll only be served up as anecdotes to haunt you. January Jones might do well to remember this. The star has been criticised by up-and-comer Zach Galifiniakis, star of The Hangover, for her obnoxiousness.
On being told that January had said he was one of the funniest men in Hollywood, Zach responded to Shortlist magazine, 'That's really funny because, if I remember correctly, she and I were very rude to each other. It was crazy,' he said before explaining exactly what happened. I was at a party — I'd never met her — and she was like, 'Come sit down.' So I sit at her table and talk for 10 minutes, and she goes, 'I think it's time for you to leave now.'
He continued with his story of woe, 'So I say, 'January, you are an actress in a show and everybody's going to forget about you in a few years, so f***ing be nice,' and I got up and left. And she thinks that's funny?' Yes Zach, it seems that she does...
madmen gets the green light,
series five of madmen gets the green light,
madmen gossip,
madmen,
madmen fashion
'I'm not mad, I just wanted a chat'
Bring on the dirty martinis
Channel the Mad Men aesthetic
Precocious, moi?
Irresistable
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Kieri and the Solanaceae: Nature and Culture in Huichol Mythology
by Reprinted with Permission | Feb 6, 2010 | Peoples | 2 comments
-By Peter T. Furst
In 1966 Barbara G. Myerhoff and I published an essay entitled, “Myth as History: The Jimson Weed Cycle of the Huichols of Mexico” (1966, 3-390). It introduced a myth we considered to be of considerable ethnological, ethnobotanical and literary interest. We also thought it might have historical implications for religious change in the Huichol past, specifically from a ritual focus on a solanaceous plant to the peyote cactus, Lophophora williamsii. The central theme of the narrative was a contest between the culture hero Kauyumári, who is Deer and whose ally and alter ego is peyote, and his adversary, a malevolent supernatural sorcerer named Kiéri, who in this version was thought to personify Datura innoxia, the western North American species of the genus. I say “thought to be” because an ethnologist named Robert M. Zingg had identified Kiéri as Datura meteloides (since renamed D. innoxia) and called its personification “Jimson-Weed Man” in his book, The Huichols, Primitive Artists (1938).
Zingg’s taxonomy made sense. Datura had been widely employed in divination and therapeutics in prehispanic Mexico, and the genus is still in use for similar purposes among some indigenous groups today, including Pueblo Indians of the southwestern United States. But Zingg turned out to be wrong, or at least only half-right. Early in the 1970s it was discovered that the “god-plant” Huichols identify as the “true,” or “real,” Kiéri, that is, the Kiéri supposedly possessed of supernatural powers for either good or evil, is not Datura. Instead it is a species of Solandra, a solanaceous genus that not only is closely related to Datura but is distinguished by a similar array of tropane alkaloids, notably scopolamine, hyoscyamine, and nortropine, which are capable of doing permanent physiological damage, to the point of madness and even death.
That Zingg (and, insofar as we followed Zingg, Myerhoff and I) had after all not been totally wrong in equating Kiéri with Datura was an even more recent discovery. This insight we owe to a Japanese ethnologist of religion, Prof. Masaya Yasumoto (1996, 235-63), who during several field seasons over the past ten or more years in the Sierra Madre Occidental conducted intensive studies of the botany, mythology, and ritual significance of the Kiéri phenomenon among the Huichols. Yasumoto confirmed the identification of the “true” Kiéri as Solandra. But he also found that some Huichols do not limit the name only to Solandra, but use it as well for both Datura and the more recently introduced Brugmansia (form. Datura arborea, or tree datura), with spectacular trumpet-shaped blossoms similar to those of Datura but shading more to pink than white. Brugmansia is actually a native of Amazonia that was transplanted to Mexico and Guatemala as an ornamental during the colonial era.
One of its popular Mexican names is floripondio, another, more telling one, is arbol loco, crazy tree, said to derive from the intoxicating effects of dew accidentally ingested by people who fall asleep beneath its flowers. Brugmansia does in fact have a well-documented history of use as a ritual intoxicant among some Amazonian Indians, including the Jivaro of Ecuador (Harner 1973). Mexican peasants have discovered medicinal properties in Brugmansia, but, as Schultes and Hofmann warn in their compendium of the botany and chemistry of the “hallucinogenic” flora, Plants of the Gods (1992, 69), experience with Brugmansia in South America shows that uncontrolled or uninformed use can bring on “an intoxication often so violent that physical restraint is necessary before the onset of a deep stupor, during which visions are experienced.”
We owe the corrected taxonomy of the “real” Kiéri first of all to an amateur botanist named Colette Lilly. Mrs. Lilly, who had been living for several years in the Huichol comunidad of Santa Catarina with her cinematographer-husband John C. Lilly Jr., the son of the famous dolphin specialist, was traveling with a party of Huichol women when they pointed out to her a flowering plant they identified as a “like Kiéri.” Its flowers were of the same shape as those of Datura, but they were yellow, not white.
There were other morphological differences as well, so if this was really a “Kiéri,” the Datura identification had to be wrong, for what confronted her here was a well-known viney ornamental popularly known in Mexico as copa de oro, cup of gold — that is to say, a species of Solandra. To make certain, she took samples that were subsequently identified by botanists in Mexico City as S. brevicalyx Standl. This was later revised to S. guttata, but the last word is not in. In any event, it was evidently the latter, and two of its sister species, S. guerrerensis and S. maxima, which the Aztecs had in mind when they told the Spanish of a divinatory and medicinal intoxicant known as tecomaxochitl, lit. “vase[shaped] flower.”
Kiéri as Solandra thus fits no less comfortably into the wider Mesoamerican-Southwestern use, and the mythology, of solanaceous intoxicants as would Kiéri as Datura.
Unfortunately Zingg left no clue as to how he came to identify Kiéri as Datura. As a native of the southwestern United States, with prior field experience in northern Mexico, Zingg was presumably familiar with Datura morphology. That he would mistake a Solandra for a Datura is less likely than that his chief source for Huichol mythology, a gifted narrator named Juan Reál, applied the term “Kiéri” generically to different members of the Solanaceae, much as Professor Yasumoto reported some Huichols do today. The other possibility is that Juan Reál used the adjective -tsa, like, similar to, as in Kiéri-tsa (or, in another pronunciation, xra), meaning that the plant resembles Kiéri but is not itself a real Kiéri.
However Zingg came by his taxonomy, neither he nor we should have called its personification “Jimson-Weed Man.” If his Kiéri was really a Datura, it would have had to be the western species, D. innoxia, or one of its subspecies, not the eastern, Datura stramonium. And it is the eastern variety that came to be known as Jimson Weed, Jimson being a contraction of Jamestown, the seventeenth century English colony in Virginia.
The name originated in an incident involving a party of English soldiers on their way to put down a rebellion led by a Lieutenant Bacon at Jamestown (then James Town), Virginia in the seventeenth century. Robert Beverly (ca. 1673-ca. 1722), in his History and Present State of Virginia (1705), tells the story:
The James Town Weed (which resembles the Thorny Apple of Peru, and I take to be the plant so call’d) is supposed to be one of the greatest Coolers in our World. This being an early Plant, was gather’d very young for a for a boil’d Salad, by some of the soldiers sent thither, to pacify the troubles of Bacon; and some of them eat plentifully of it, the Effect of which was a very pleasant Comedy; for they turn’d natural Fools upon it for several days; One would blow up a Feather in the air; another would dart Straws at it with much Fury; and another stark naked was sitting up in a Corner, like a Monkey, grinning and making Mows at them; a Fourth would fondly kiss, and paw his Companions, and snear in their Faces, with a Countenance more antick, than any in a Dutch Droll.
In this frantick Condition they were confined, lest they should in their Folly destroy themselves; though it was observed, that all their Actions were full of Innocence and good Nature. Indeed, they were not very cleanly; for they would have wallow’d in their own Excrements, if they had not been prevented. A Thousand such simple Tricks they play’d, and after Eleven Days, return’d to themselves again, not remembering any thing that had pass’d. (Quoted in Schleiffer 1973, 129-130).
The soldiers later claimed they picked what had turned out to have been Datura stramonium under the impression that it was a savory pat herb, but there is a good chance that they had actually learned about its intoxicating effects from local Algonquin-speaking Indians — the original inhabitants of Virginia — who had long used Datura in boys’ initiation ceremonies resembling the toloache (Datura innoxia) rites of California Indians. In any event, the incident passed into history as “Bacon’s Rebellion,” while D. stramonium became Jamestown, or Jimson, Weed.
Word that Kiéri was not Datura first reached me in the 1970s from T. J. Knab. Knab, an ethnographer then employed by the Universidad Autónoma Nacional de México as a linguistic investigator, had spent some time in the same Huichol community, Santa Catarina, where the Lillys were then living. People there, he told me, identified Kiéri not, as had Zingg and we, with Datura, but with a closely related solanaceous species, Solandra, the flowering ornamental Mexicans call copa de oro, after the shape and color of its golden blossoms.
No one who had seen a Solandra in the field, with its yellow flowers in bloom and its long, rangy branches, could mistake it for a Datura, despite its close relationship to the latter. Knab said he had written a paper on the subject that was not yet in print, but that I could use his information. I did so, in a book on which I was then working, Hallucinogens and Culture, published in 1976. I suggested that perhaps there were different Kiéris, one, the “real” Kiéri, identified as Solandra, the other an evil sorcerer whose plant form is Datura, another possibility being that Kiéri might be differentially identified in the five communities that make up the Huichol territory, or simply that there was not just one Kiéri but several (Furst 1976, 136-137).
Knab’s paper on Solandra use and mythology appeared in 1977. There was no doubt that the “real” Kiéri was a Solandra, wrote Knab, but Huichols also distinguish between it and “Kiéri-like” plants, as well as between “good” and “bad” Kiéris, or between good and bad qualities as complementary opposites in one and the same “god-plant.”
I was particularly interested in Knab’s observations on the Kiéri as a dualistic “bad shaman,” i.e. sorcerer, because the myth dictated to Myerhoff and me in 1965/66 by Ramón Medina, a gifted Huichol artist and, then, apprentice shaman, excoriated the personification of Kiéri as unremittingly evil, a dangerous sorcerer who deceives his followers not only with intoxicating words and music but also with his “juices” — or, as we would see it, his tropane alkaloids — into thinking themselves to be birds, capable of flying from the rocks, only to fall to their deaths.
According to Knab (1977, 84), “people seeking certain favors from the /kieli/ god-plant, such as better singing ability, aid on a journey to /wilikuta/ (Real Catorce) where peyote is gathered, more children for a wife, more calves for a man’s cow, skill in embroidery or weaving, and so forth…go to the nearest important /kieli/ god-plant, bearing various small offerings…Many people also bring candles – which symbolize /tatewari/, the god of fire — as well as small bowls of food, small bottle gourds, boules, filled with alcoholic beverage or small votive gourds filled with water from one of the numerous sacred springs in the area.”
That is Kiéri’s positive side. Against this, Knab reported, many Huichols, if not most, have a very real fear of Kiéri’s great powers as a capricious and dangerous sorcerer and avoid the plant and its personification (Kiéri Tewiyari, Kiéri Person) as much as possible.
Hence offerings to Kiéri are as often prophylactic, meant to ward off his nefarious capabilities, as they are petitions for benefits. In fact, much of what Knab had to say about Kiéri as sorcerer dovetailed with Ramón Medina’s myth. In any event, it was becoming clear that whatever Ramón and other Huichols might believe about the plant spirit as an evil and much-to-feared sorcerer, others — or even the same people — regarded him as a powerful, if minor, divine being from whom favors are asked — and expected — in exchange for offerings from the petitioner.
As a matter of fact, both the older literature, notably Volume II of Fernando Benítez’ five-volume Los Indios de México, and the more recent field research of Professor Yasumoto make it clear that whatever else he may be, Kiéri may bestow certain benefits, in particular exceptional skill in playing the violin, even when not directly asked for them.
We cannot be certain, but the functional association Huichols consistently make between a visionary plant that was important to the Aztecs and other Nahuatl-speaking Central Mexican and a stringed instrument that was unknown in Mexico before the Conquest and that may have first reached the Huichols via the nominally Christianized Nahuatl-speaking Central Mexicans the Spanish transplanted into the Sierra Madre Occidental, may have ethnohistorical implications.
The scene now shifts to Bandelier National Monument. The time: summer 1985. Bandelier is a particularly beautiful prehistoric pueblo site in north-central New Mexico, about five miles south of Los Alamos and just over an hour’s drive from Santa Fe, on the eastern flanks of the Jémez mountains. It is a place of considerable beauty and much history, a collection of pueblos, circular semi-subterranean kivas (the Hopi name for the ceremonial chambers of prehistoric and contemporary Pueblo peoples that also symbolize the underworld from which the ancestors emerged into the present world), residential blocks, family masonry and rock shelter dwellings and store rooms, with a continuous record of occupation that lasted a little under five hundred years between A.D. 1070 and A.D. 1550, when the site was abandoned.
Like other members of the Solanaceae, including the Nicotianas, Daturas prefer disturbed soil, and while they are scarce elsewhere in the area, they can been seen in several places adjacent to the ruins at Bandelier. We were photographing one of these spectacular white-flowered shrubs when my wife and colleague, Jill L. McKeever Furst, an art historian with a strong interest in the relationship between natural history and the formation of symbols (cf. McKeever Furst 1995), inquired whether the Huichols identified not just peyote with deer (the two are synonymous and interchangeable in Huichol symbolism), but also made some such connection between Datura and deer.
What made her think of deer? “The plant has antlers,” she said. “Take a good look at it.” Sure enough, sticking out among the new green foliage and showy flowers of the Datura innoxia before us were bleached, dry and leafless branches, dead growth from previous seasons. They did in fact look for all the world like antlers, and for Indian people as preoccupied with deer and deer symbolism as are the Huichols they could well have suggested the forked antlers of the white-tailed Virginia deer.
Her astute observation brought to mind an incident in the charter myth of the peyote pilgrimage as I had heard it from Ramón Medina: after the ancestral peyoteros, the divine kakauyárite, had shot their arrows into the sacred deer (the form in which the first peyote manifested itself to the hunters), the animal began to transform and peyotes sprouted from his body and antlers. The pilgrims ground the antlers up and drank them mixed with sacred water from the springs called Tatéi Matiniéri, Where Our Mothers Dwell. The divine beverage, said Ramón, gave them beautiful dreams.
Could this imagery have originated in pre-peyote Datura use, akin, perhaps, to that of the Pueblo peoples of New Mexico and Arizona? Could the white, antler-like dry branches at Bandelier, though long dead and degraded by exposure to the elements, still contain tropane alkaloids in sufficient strength to be psychoactive, i.e. trigger “beautiful dreams”?
With the permission of the park rangers, we collected a few samples for testing by Robert F. Raffauf, Professor of Plant Chemistry in the School of Pharmacy at Northeastern University in Boston, and a close collaborator of Richard Evans Schultes, the now retired director of Harvard’s prestigious Botanical Museum. Raffauf found the dry sticks to retain some of the compounds of the living plant, though in reduced and attenuated quantities, sufficient, probably, to trigger visions but without the often unpleasant psychic effects and potentially serious physiological damage of which tropane alkaloids are capable (Robert F. Raffauf, personal communication).
Interesting, certainly, and suggestive. But it left unanswered the question whether people ancestral to the modern Huichols actually equated Datura with deer, with or without reference to the antler-like appearance of its dead branches. And then of course there was the vexing problem of Kiéri as Datura vs. Kiéri as Solandra.
At the time of our visit to Bandelier I could think of no explicit equation between either of these two related Solanaceae and deer in any of the narratives Ramón Medina had dictated to Myerhoff or me. On the other hand, there was such a reference in the above-mentioned Huichol volume (Volume 2) of Benítez’ Los Indios de México. Benítez had engaged Ramón as guide and interpreter, as well as principal source of myths, for his travels among the Huichols in preparation for the book.
In the comunidad of San Andrés Cohamiata, Ramón and José Carrillo, a literate Huichol employed as a grade school teacher by the Instituto Nacional Indigenista, the Mexican equivalent of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, gave Benítez considerable information on Kiéri and his role in deer-hunting magic. Kiéri, they told him, could act as supernatural patron of the deer hunt, even as he might also bewitch people and hurl them from high cliffs.
Finally there was, from José Carrillo, one brief, but, as we now know, significant mention of Kiéri alternately becoming a child and a deer and flying far away on the wind to a distant mountain. But, said Carrillo, this only happens in the middle of the night, and only during the months of August and September (Benítez 1968, 282-283).
Still, the questions raised by McKeever Furst’s observation at Bandelier were not to be definitely answered, and in a most unexpected way, until the summer of 1989.
In the meantime, more was learned about Kiéri as a power source for Huichol shamans from Susana Valadez, a graduate of UCLA who, while in the field in the nineteen seventies to study Huichol women’s art for her M.A. in Latin American Studies, had met and married a talented Huichol artist, Mariano Valadez. After receiving her degree, she abandoned an academic career for practical assistance to Huichol people in health and the arts and crafts. During a two-year residence in the Huichol community of San Andrés she had also met a young shaman with the Huichol name of Ulu Temay (Arrow Man or Young Arrow Person), who was suffering from a debilitating fungus infestation that was threatening to destroy his arm and perhaps even kill him. He attributed the affliction, which had failed to respond to the ministrations of an experienced shaman, to divine retribution for having violated a vow of sexual continence during his shamanic training and appeared resigned to his fate.
Susana refused to accept this and went to the UCLA Medical School, where specialists supplied her with a powerful drug over which the victim’s shaman sang a curing song and that did in fact cure him. Together they then initiated a long-term project of recording the complicated and esoteric details of his training as a “wolf shaman,” a specialized, and evidently quite rare, form of Huichol shamanism that may have been more prevalent in the distant past than it is today.
A talented artist, Ulu Temay illustrated his narratives with hundreds of colored drawings. It was in the course of this unique collaboration that he told her about the role of Kiéri (pronounced Kiéli by him) as an ally of shamans who train to receive their power from wolves (more correctly, the “wolf people”). There has been mention also of certain mushrooms, as yet unidentified but possibly fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), wolf shamans take to aid in learning the arts of transformation.
“Kieli is used by shamans and non-shamans,” Valadez wrote (1986:380), “for a variety of reasons: to excel in the shamanic arts, to become good artists, musicians or deer hunters, and for love spells. Different Kieli plants rule over these various powers, and the mara’akámes (shamans) dream about which plants pertain to the desires of each individual.”
However, Kieli will not stand for any sexual relationship outside marriage by either partner after one of them has vowed to it (the plant), a rule that stays in effect until a person completes with the plant for a period of five or ten years. And if an unmarried Huichol pledges himself to this plant, he is obligated to forego all sex until the vow is complete — “often a difficult restriction for the Huichols to maintain, in spite of the benefits.” On Kieli’s psychoactivity Valadez quotes her Huichol friend and consultant as follows:
Many people are afraid of Kieli because it can cause great harm to someone who doesn’t complete as he should. Most people don’t ingest the plant. It’s so powerful that just carrying a piece of the branch in one’s tacuatsi [shaman’s medicine basket] is enough to gain its powers. Those who ingest it suck the milk from the branches and feel ‘drunk’ like with the peyote.
Those who violate the taboos associated with the plant, the Huichol shaman told Valadez, turn into bewitchers who cast spells on people and who soon “will cause so much harm that someone will eventually kill them for revenge.” On the positive side, she was told, a man, or woman, who wishes to become a full-fledged shaman-singer but avoid the hardships of the five or more peyote pilgrimages ordinarily required for “completion” can do so by pledging to Kiéri as his or her patron. To do so would not preclude learning also from the divine peyote cactus, but it would not be the primary teacher.
Medical specialists do, in fact, warn of the dangers of overdosing with the tropane alkaloids present in Datura, Solandra, and other members of the Solanaceae (Ott 1979:66, 68, 72). According to Andrew Weil (1980:168), these can “produce fever, delirium, convulsions, and collapse.
Death may occur in children, the elderly, the debilitated, and any person usually sensitive to the antiparasympathetic effects.” In the abovementioned essay on Kiéri, Yasumoto (1996:244) cites an authoritative Japanese source as follows: “With a large quantity, it (scopolamine) paralyzes the central nervous system” and, “in the end, causes death due to heart failure after frenzied madness” (Sekai Daiyakka Jiten 1988, vol. 28:603).
Yasumoto (ibid.) adds that the phrase “after frenzied madness” appears “to describe the psychological aspect of scopolamine. Andrew Weil, a medical doctor as well as ethnopharmacologist, believes that the psychotropic effects of solanaceous plants such as Datura is due to scopolamine rather than hyoscyamine, and that therefore these solanaceous plants should be regarded as deliriants rather than psychedelics or hallucinogens.”
Indeed, as Weil and Rosen (1983:132) characterize the effects of solanaceous plants like Kiéri and its equivalents, the worlds they take people into “can be frightening, populated by monsters and devils and filled with violent, frenzied energy.” It is also worth citing Michael Harner, an ethnologist with considerable field experience among Amazonian peoples whose shamans employ preparations of Brugmansia as well as Datura: “Solanaceous hallucinogens are so powerful that it is essentially impossible for the user to control his mind and body sufficiently to perform ritual activity at the same time…Furthermore, there is some ethnographical evidence that too frequent use of the solanaceous drugs can permanently derange the mind” (Harner 1973:146, quoted by Yasumoto 1996:250). No wonder that even people who hope for benefits from Kiéri fear the plant or its personification as a dangerous sorcerer!
Fascinating and suggestive as all this was, it still left some crucial questions unanswered. For one thing, there was the old confusion of Kiéri as Datura, dating back to Zingg; for another there were the interesting possibilities, symbolic, historical, and ethnobotanical, raised by the striking resemblance of the dead Datura branches to deer antlers. Or could that have been simply fortuitous, without meaning?
Much of this was to be resolved in August 1989. The place was again Bandelier, and the occasion a visit with friends in Santa Fe, New Mexico, by Guadalupe de la Cruz Ríos, widow of our old friend and consultant Ramón Medina, who had lost his life in 1971 in a fight during ceremonial drinking. I had reestablished contact with this redoubtable elder of a large extended family in 1988, after an interval of seventeen years, Lupe, as she is known to her friends, expressed the wish to visit one of the “old places that belonged to the Indian ancestors.” Her hostess, Ada Browne, and I offered to show her the Bandelier ruins. Lupe, dressed in her Huichol finery for the occasion, beautifully embroidered by herself in the typical Huichol style, asked for candles, cookies, chocolate and cigarettes to leave as gifts to the ancestor spirits.
This is a woman who feels a real connectedness with anything to do with ancestors and their living descendants in the Rio Grande pueblos (the year before she had been an honored guest of the governor of Cochiti Pueblo), and in a sort of spontaneous pan-Indian way unhesitatingly appropriates them as her own. And so it was at Bandelier: confronted with her first Pueblo ruin she began to speak in an awed and respectful hush, except for the times when she prayed loudly in rapid-fire Huichol, e.g. at the Shrine of the Stone Lions, and at greater length and with much emotion on the rim of the sunken circular kiva in Tyuonyi ruin.
As far as she was concerned, this was an ancient tuki, the Huichol name for the native temples in the Sierra that share with the old kivas such features as the circular floor plan, niches, location of the fire pit, and central emergence hole (the sipapu of the Hopis).
As is customary in Huichol temple ritual, Lupe’s fervent prayer was intended to summon to this archaeological kiva all her own ancestor deities, male and female, on whom the Huichol shaman customarily calls to join the ceremonial gatherings in the Huichol tuki, led by the old fire god and divine patron of shamans, Tatewarí (Our Grandfather), the old white-haired earth and creator goddess Nakawé (Lumholtz’ “Grandmother Growth”), and, of course, the culture hero and primordial trickster Kauyumári, the Deer Person who is the principal helper of Tatewarí and, by extension, earthly shamans.
Lupe was quite overcome by the aura of the whole site, and at the conclusion of our visit — made all the more memorable for her when a browsing white-tailed doe crossed the trail right in front of her, stopping briefly with its long rabbit-like ears straight up to listen to her softly singing a little song to it — acknowledged her debt to the ancient inhabitants by depositing, with an emotion-charged prayer chant and tears coursing down her worn face, a lighted candle, cookies, flowers, and cigarettes (in lieu of the customary “Indian tobacco,” Nicotiana rustica) in a little cavity overlooking one of the National Park Service trails.
It was indeed very moving, this palpable communion of an elderly Huichol woman from Mexico — she was then in her early seventies – with the ancient Pueblos for whom she felt such instant kinship.
But for me the high point was her encounter, on the trail that runs past the multi-roomed Long House ruin, with an impressive specimen of Datura innoxia in full flower. Lupe does not see all that well anymore, but when she came close and recognized it for what it was, she first stood stock still, then stepped off the trail and circled the plant to examine it from all sides, all the while speaking to it in Huichol, with respect but no obvious fear, occasionally waving her arms and gesturing to the sun, the cardinal points, and the nearby architectural remains.
Then she turned to me: “Kiéri-xra!” “Is this Kiéri?” I asked. “No, no,” she said, “I told you, Kiéri-xra.” Not Kiéri but “like Kiéri,” similar to the real Kiéri. “It is bad,” she said, “this one.” And: this is the Kiéri about which Ramón told you and Barbara so long ago. The Kiéri of sorcerers, of witchcraft, the one who once appeared to her and Ramón while they were on a pilgrimage to Wirikúta, the sacred land of the peyote in San Luis Potosí, when he tried to mislead her into tasting some of his substance instead of peyote and thereby turn her into a witch, or even kill her.
She had told me about this fearful apparition in 1970, with the pride of one who had withstood the sorcerer’s wiles. “The good shamans shun it, they have nothing to do with it,” she said. “It is only for sorcerers, sorcerers use it to do their evil, to make people ill and to make them crazy, to deceive women. Kiéri Tahuákame he is called, because he is crazy. The bad Kiéri, the drunken one.5 Good shamans use peyote, they follow the peyote. The good Kiéri, he is used to cure people who have been bewitched by the bad Kiéri.
There was to be more from this knowledgeable woman, details of the relationship between the different Kiéris, good and bad, and between Kiéri and the culture hero Kauyumári and peyote — details that, as new information so often does in this kind of research, raised as many new questions as they answered or clarified old ones.
The one question to which she lent some real illumination concerned the putative relationship between Datura and deer. Although they eventually became irreconcilable adversaries, Kauyumári and Kiéri, whatever his taxonomy, were both born as deer. As such they were, according to Lupe, primos hermanos, first cousins, except that Kauyumári was the light deer, the deer of the day, and Kiéri the dark deer, the black deer, deer of the night.
So here she had given us, without any prompting, the connection between Datura that a few years earlier had suggested itself by in the bleached “antlers” of another Datura at Bandelier.
Shaking her head and wagging her finger at the Datura in front of Long House ruin, Lupe said: “He wanted to be as great as Kauyumári. But he could not do it. All his power was for craziness, This is why bad shamans, those who are sorcerers, follow him today.” With that she walked away, stopping once to turn and call out something in Huichol that might have been an invocation or supplication against any harm that might befall her, or us, from the plant, and went on to her chance encounter with the deer and to look for a suitable place for the gifts to her temporarily adopted Pueblo ancestors.
On the drive back Lupe elaborated on the rivalry between the two deer, the deer of the day and the deer of the night, and their respective personifications. “Ramón,” she said of her late husband, “he knew all these things.” And she repeated some of the narrative that dramatized their ancient rivalry, when the culture hero “killed” his adversary with the fifth of five successive arrows, having first “copied” everything the other did and appropriated it for his own, and protecting himself with the divine peyote against the string of diseases the other spewed forth like brilliantly colored streams as he fell and, to all appearances, breathed his last.
But as Ramón had concluded his mythic dramatization of what in historic terms may have been an ancient rivalry between a peyote-based religion and a visionary shamanism focused on one or more solanaceous “entheogens,” ending in the triumph of the former, the bad Kiéri did not really die. Instead he was blown by a wind to a distant rocky place where he again took root and flourished as what Huichols call “the tree of the wind.”
What about the so-called deer of the night, the “black deer” of Lupe’s elaboration of Ramón’s myth? Is this, like the deer of different colors associated with the cardinal points, a construct of the mind? Or does it have a natural model?
The deer species with which Huichols are most familiar, and whose ceremonial hunt was for centuries the indispensable prerequisite for every ritual of consequence, the deer that figures most prominently in myth and cosmology is the white tailed, or Virginia, deer, Odocoileus virginianus.
It is this ungulate with which Huichols identify peyote and their culture hero Kauyumári. Several of its sub-species are found in their environment or in areas which they visit, e.g. on the peyote pilgrimage to the north-central high desert and other sacred places associated with the ancestors and their migrations.
The Huichols lay particular stress on the prominent tail, to the point where one of their principal male ancestor deities bears the name Maxa Kwaxí, Deer Tail, with the ritual kinship designation Tatutsi, Great-grandfather, or, alternately, Tamat(si), Elder Brother. He is also symbolized by a prayer wand made from a deer plume. The deer tail one sees most often among Huichol power objects is light-colored, probably from the subspecies O. virginianus couesi. Another local subspecies, O. virginianus miquihuanensis, has a much darker tail, often entirely black.
The latter could conceivably have served as the natural model for the black deer of Kiéri mythology, were it not for a much more dramatic phenomenon — that of melanism. Though rarer even than albinism, cases of partial melanism in Virginia deer have been reported in North America, specifically from the Adirondacks in New York State and Idaho, and there have even been sightings of bucks with all-black or blue-black coats (Kellogg 1956, 89-90).
There is no reason to suppose that, however uncommon, partially or all-black Virginia deer have not also been observed by Mexican Indians, especially the Huichols, whose visits to sacred places situated from the Pacific coast far inland to the north-central desert, as well as north and south of the Sierra Huichol, take them all over the natural range of different sub-species of Virginia deer. Nor is it insignificant that oddities such as all-white or all-black deer tend to become outcasts, perhaps, one might venture, because instinct tells their fellows that their unusual coloration might draw the attention of predators and thereby endanger the larger family group in which deer customarily move: just so is the drunken, or “crazy,” Kiéri shunned by good people.
All this underscores not only the role of natural history observation and natural modeling in the way people order, interpret and symbolize their intellectual as well as their natural universe, but also of the periodic need to reexamine and, where indicated, amend and correct earlier work in light of new data and insights.
In our original Kiéri essay of thirty years ago, Barbara Myerhoff and I proposed that the epic struggle between Kauyumári and Kiéri might tell us something of Huichol ancestry and religious history. Perhaps, we ventured, Ramón’s narrative framed in the language and imagery of myth a religious reform, during which a solanaceous species with tropane alkaloids that trigger visionary states but also pose physiological dangers, came to be replaced by the far more benign native of the north-central desert, the peyote cactus.
Mescaline is the principal agent responsible for the colorful visions characteristic of peyote ingestion, and mescaline, like the other peyote alkaloids, is structurally related to neurohormones present in the brain that “play an essential role in the biochemistry of psychic functions” (Schultes and Hofmann 1973, 20-21). In contrast, the tropane alkaloids of the Solanaceae possess no such chemical-structural relationships to compounds naturally present in the human body.
Whether the Kiéri of Zingg’s myths, collected in the mid-nineteen thirties, and Ramón’s narrative of thirty years later was the visionary deliriant the Aztecs called toloatzin or tolohuaxihuitl, in other words, Datura, or whether it was tecomaxochitl, i.e. Solandra, is essentially immaterial, for both share a similar chemistry and both have comparable drawbacks. What matters, in the end, is that they have dangerous potential, while peyote does not.
If there was such a “reformation” it would help explain why many, though admittedly by no means all, Huichols hold Kiéri to be, while sacred and one of the kakauyárite, the divine ones of the First Times, an evil sorcerer and dangerous to health and happiness, while peyote is invariably beneficent. For that is the way of the replacement of one religion by another: the sacred beings of the former become the devils of the latter.
Peyote, of course, is native not to the territory in which the Huichols have been living at least since they were first mentioned in the Spanish colonial literature, that is, the Sierra Madre Occidental. Nevertheless, a substantial body of ethnohistoric and circumstantial evidence argues in favor of a long-ago migration westward of a body of Guachichil-Chichimecs from the same high desert to which Huichols travel each year to gather peyote, finally settling in the Sierra Madre Occidental, under the leadership of a charismatic shaman chief (cf. Furst 1996).
This legendary shaman-chief’s name happens to be Maxa Kwaxí, Deer Tail. Tradition has it that this real-life Maxa Kwaxí introduced peyote to the people he found living in the Sierra Madre Occidental. And tradition has it also that the mummified corpse of this culture hero is hidden in one of the sanctified caves in Teakata, the most sacred place in the Huichol country, located in the comunidad of Santa Catarina.
“Ever since the earliest Spanish days,” wrote the well-known Americanist J. Alden Mason sixty years ago, “the Huichols have been regarded as connected with the extinct Guachichil far to the east of the present Huichol territory, and the fact that the latter make long journeys into former Guachichil territory to gather peyote that does not grow in their present habitat affords ethnological corroboration of the close relationship” (1936, 191).
There is equally good reason to make a connection between just such a historic migration and the present-day uneasy coexistence between a limited, if not yet vanishing, solanaceous “cult” in Huichol visionary shamanism, and the far more pervasive fascination with peyote, one that is so central and vital to “being Huichol” that it can be taken as THE cultural marker for this, the most genuinely “traditional,” of Mexican Indian peoples.
1. A different, earlier version of this paper appeared in the Journal of Latin American Lore 15:2 (1989), pp. 155-177.
2. Knab’s use of “god-plant” is interesting, because it fits with Jonathan Ott’s preference for “entheogen” (“god within”), originally coined by R. Gordon Wasson et al, over the value-laden “hallucinogen” for plants employed for visionary intoxication, on the grounds that their indigenous users themselves ascribe the effects to divine powers residing in these species.
3. r and l sound similar in Huichol, but are more like one or the other depending on regional dialect.
4. Valadez is speaking of Solandra, but love magic happens also to be one of the uses to which preparations of Datura are put by Mestizo curanderos and curanderas.
5. See Yasumoto 1996 for a discussion of the “drunken Kiéri”.
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Furst, Peter T.
—1976, Hallucinogens and Culture. San Francisco: Chandler and Sharp.
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—1996, Myth as History, History as Myth: A New Look at some Old Problems in Huichol Origins. (In:) Stacy B. Schaefer & Peter T. Furst (eds), People of the Peyote: Huichol Indian History, Religion, and Survival, pp. 26-60. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Furst, Peter T. & Barbara G. Myerhoff
—1966, Myth as History: The Jimson Weed Cycle of the Huichols of Mexico. Antropológica 17, pp, 3-39.
Knab, Tim
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—1995, The Natural History of the Soul in Ancient Mexico. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Ott, Jonathan
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Schleiffer, Hedwig
—1973, Sacred Narcotic Plants of the New World Indians: An Anthology of Texts from the Sixteenth Century to Date. New York: Hafner.
Schultes, Richard Evans & Albert Hofmann
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Valadez, Susana (Eger)
—1986, Mirrors of the Gods: The Huichol Shaman’s Path of Completion.Shaman’s Drum 6, pp. 29-39.
Weil, Andrew
—1980, The Marriage of the Sun and the Moon. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Weil, Andrew &Winifred Rosen
—1993, Chocolate to Morphine: Understanding Mind-Active Drugs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Zingg, Robert M.
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Yasumoto, Masaya
—1996, The Psychotropic Kiéri in Huichol Culture. (In:) Stacy B. Schaefer & Peter T. Furst (eds), People of the Peyote: Huichol Indian History, Religion, and Survival, pp. 235-263. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Reprinted with permission from Peter T. Furst, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, U. of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Jesus on February 18, 2013 at 3:31 am
This is an absolutely brilliant article; well researched and very informative. In my ignorance, I not only knew that there so many sub-species of Datura but, more importantly to my reseach, that it was a deliriant, as opposed to a hallucinogen. Please know that your efforts are very much,nnot only appreciated but, relavent at a time where so many of us are grasping for this type of information before the sources of it are no longer available. May more and more people learn to appreciate the value of, not only the wisdom of these cultures that we are decimating, but the plants that are such an important part of their culture, neither of which can be replaced once lost, and both from which we could learn and benifit so much from.
Adam "Afterlife" on May 10, 2016 at 10:16 pm
Hey I love researching this debate on Kieri and the Datura/Solandra conundrum, it was the subject of one of my posts on my site on the Nightshade plants and my study of them… check it out sometime: http://www.poisonpath.com
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Category: Ecuador
Posted on August 10, 2011 August 4, 2011
Ecuador National Day – the “Grito” of Quito
Today is Ecuador’s National Day, and the event it celebrates is considered the first cry for independence in Latin America. It took place in Quito, Ecuador, on August 10, 1809.
South America’s “Primer Grito de la Independencia” (first shout for independence) was ironically a show of fidelity to Spain. On the other side of the Atlantic, Napoleon of France had invaded Spain and installed his brother Joseph Bonaparte on the Spanish throne in 1808.
When the news spread to South America, the criollos (Spanish descendants born in the New World) initially called for independence as a show of support. On August 10, 1809, they declared their unity behind the former King Ferdinand of Spain and they refused to recognize the legitimacy of officials appointed by the Bonaparte government. Over the next several years, several similar “gritos” would be issued by Latin American assemblies all the way from Mexico to Argentina.
But when the Spanish regained control of their own country, and turned their attention back to South America, the criollos who had been fighting for their freedom had no intention of turning back.
Independence however would be a long time coming. The Wars of Independence from Spain raged throughout South America for over a decade.
With support from the armies of Simón Bolivar and José de San Martín, Ecuador’s national hero Antonio José de Sucre eventually liberated the Quito region from Spanish forces in 1822. The final Battle of Pichincha, fought atop the slopes of a towering volcano overlooking Quito, took place on May 24 of that year.
Antonio José de Sucre
In the end, the long struggle worked out, and all told, the Ecuadorians would get not just one, but four annual holidays out of the War of Independence: today’s holiday, Independence of Guayaquil (October 9, 1820), Independence of Cuenca (November 3, 1820), and the Battle of Pichincha (May 24, 1822).
Even though the region was liberated, Ecuador’s own independence as a sovereign nation wouldn’t come for another eight years, during which Quito and the surrounding provinces were considered part of Bolivar’s “Gran Colombia.” The three southern provinces of Gran Colombia became “Ecuador”—so named because it straddles the equator—in 1830.
Birthday of Simón Bolivar
Today citizens of Venezuela, Colombia and Bolivia celebrate the birth of the Libertador of northern South America: Simón Bolivar. He was born on this day in 1783 in Caracas, Venezuela.
Bolivar is one of the few people to have a country permanently named after him, and is the only person born in the New World to have been so honored.
Countries named directly after individuals
Belize – possibly from the Spanish pronunciation of “Wallace”. Captain Peter Wallace was a pirate commissioned by King James I to pillage Spanish ships in the region. He built his base at the mouth of what is now the Belize River. May also be from the Mayan “belix” meaning “muddy water”.
Bermuda – after explorer Juan de Bermudez, who arrived there in 1503.
Colombia – Christopher Columbus
Dominican Republic – after St. Domingo de Guzman, founder of the Dominican Order.
El Salvador – literally, “the Savior”, after Jesus of Nazareth.
Kiribati – from the Gilbert Islands, for Captain Thomas Gilbert.
Mozambique – possibly from sheik Mussa Ben Mbiki.
Philippines – King Philip II of Spain
San Marino – from St Marinus, an ancient stonemason who fled to the area to escape Roman persecution
Sao Tome and Principe – from St. Thomas. Portuguese explorers encountered the land on St. Thomas’s Day. (December 21)
Seychelles – for Jean Moreau de Sechelles, King Louis XV’s Finance Minister.
Amerigo Vespucci is the only person to have a continent named after him, and he got two! The explorer helped prove that the lands Christopher Columbus encountered were not in Asia, but were entirely new continents. In 1507 cartographer Martin Waldseemuller labeled the new continents after the Italian explorer when he printed 1000 copies of his famous globe of the world.
Waldseemuller's Wall Map of the World
Waldseemuller’s 1507 Globe Map
Waldseemuller’s 1507 Wall Map
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February 11, 2014 by Arch Stanton
If you’re a true blue Punisher fan, you know Steven Grant. Back in the 80s alongside Mike Baron and Carl Potts he fleshed out the modern era of the antihero we know today, but there’s another multi-million dollar franchise Steve might have had an uncredited hand in…
There are few gaming juggernauts like the Assassin’s Creed series. With 10 games released since 2007 and upwards of 50 million games sold, its one of the most lucrative franchises in modern gaming history. The story centers on a struggle between Assassins and Templars, spanning 100s of years of history, bouncing back and forth between historical recreations and modern intrigue. One of the hallmarks of the series is borrowing actual historical figures, places, and events and recreating them for the modern gamer, but did it also take some of the core concepts from a Dark Horse comic series back in 1994?
X was part of the Comics’ Greatest World revival of Dark Horse comics in the early 90s. CGW was world building on a large scale; several new heroes and books were created in a shared universe that would hopefully propel Dark Horse into the mainstream along the mega-continuities of Marvel and DC. X was a one eyed vigilante with a padlocked mask that stalked the streets of Arcadia, enforcing the rule of X: criminals got one facial slash for a warning, two and they were dead. Steven Grant was at the helm, a writer who revived the Punisher in the mid-80s into an early 90’s tentpole of the Marvel U. Steven brought a literary bent to the series, with frequent references to classics and characters that regularly quoted Shakespeare.
X – Dark Horse (Saltares)
THE MASTER OF ASSASSINS, ALAMUT, AND WILLIAM S BURROUGHS
Starting with issue #6 of X from July 1994, Grant began a 2 issue arc featuring an army of brainwashed assassin warriors led by Lord Alamout, the modern disguise for historical figure Hassan-ibn Sabbah, credited by Grant as the “Old Man of the Mountain” and the undying leader of the Persian Hashashin since the time of the crusades. The arc was based on a legend of Hassan propagated through several books and stories: that he used drugs and a fake garden of paradise to trick his disciples into believing he had special religious powers, thus acquiring their undying loyalty.
In the 1936 French book, The Master of the Assassins, Betty Bouthoul tells the story of Hassan and may originate the legend. Bouthoul was heavily championed by famous beat writer William S Burroughs, who frequently mentioned Bouthoul’s descriptions of Hassan, the assassins, and elements of their legend in interviews and his books. Burroughs often refers to “Alamout”, an alternative spelling for the name of the Assassin’s home base. According to Steven Grant, “I did crib the Lord Alamout name from Burroughs, but I’d been reading Hassan ibn Sabbah lore since I was little, which drew me to Burroughs rather than vice versa. Ibn Sabbah is in fact the villain (one of them) of the Black Knight in the Crusades mini-series I did for Marvel c. 1979 that finally saw print some decade plus later in Marvel Feature #52-54. Burroughs does the most jagged version of the legend, though, and the most entertaining.”
X #6 – Devils Cover – Dark Horse 1994
The ‘Hassan as Master Manipulator’ legend also appeared in Alamut, a 1938 Slovinian novel by Vladimir Bartol that shares some similarities with Bouthoul’s book from two years earlier. Alamut was finally released in English in 2004, and the Assassin’s Creed franchise, especially the first game, directly credits the novel for story inspiration.
“NOTHING IS TRUE, EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED”
Although sometimes attributed to Hassan ibn-Sabbah, the assassins left no written records, and Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883) is the first published reference that reads “Nothing is true, all is permitted” in German. The phrase next appears in French in Bouthoul’s The Master of the Assassins (1936), in its more common form “Nothing is true, everything is permitted”, as the last words of Hassan ibn-Sabbah. It is unclear whether Bouthoul adapted the line from Nietzsche, or they are both referencing an earlier source. 1938’s Alamut also includes a version of the maxim in Slovinian, possibly influenced by Bouthoul’s recent publishing. William S Burroughs finally translated the phrase to English in the form we recognize after he was introduced to Bouthoul’s book in 1959, and frequently used this phrase in interviews and his books.
In X #6, Steven Grant finally brings it all back together and is the first to recombine elements of modern sci-fi, the legends of Hassan, character traits of The Master of the Assassins and Alamut, and Burroughs’s translation of the famous motto: “Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted”.
X #6 – ‘Devils’ Intro – Dark Horse 1994 (Russell, Wagner, Palmiotti, Rambo, and Rosas)
Assassin’s Creed – Nothing is True…
Grant’s mashup of sinister technology and ancient Hashashin later became a massive success when Assassin’s Creed took this concept and ran with it in 2007; the phrase “Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted” famously became the “Creed” referenced in the title of the franchise, and some of Grant’s new sci-fi plot devices became pillars of the series.
The Assassin’s Creed franchise features “Apples of Eden” or “Pieces of Eden”; devices of great power left over from a previous civilization. The idea of the Apple is fundamental to the story of the Garden of Eden, this symbolism also featured in the work of Grant and team in X:
Assassin’s Creed – Al Mualim’s Apple
ANIMA / ANIMUS
Where X wildly departed from its influences was in the introduction of the Anima, a device that Lord Alamout and his technicians used to insert his assassins into a virtual reality world representing paradise. This device was a full body connection harness that transfers the user’s mind into a simulated world. It is referred to as “the Anima” in X #7, when X is captured and placed in the device in order to brainwash him to Alamout’s wishes.
X #7 – The Anima – Dark Horse 1994 (Wagner, Fosco, Palmiotti, and Rosas)
X #7 – The Anima – Dark Horse 1994 (Wagner, Fosco, Paliotti, and Rosas)
Assassin’s Creed also features a device that inserts the user in a virtual reality world created from the memories of the assassin ancestors of the user. This device is called “the Animus”.
Assassin’s Creed – The Animus
Aside from the nearly identical name and function, the Anima/Animus shows up in the stories with similar plot points as well. The X story arc begins with a young assassin’s journey into the Anima, where he is surrounded by angelic “damsels and young girls” in a paradise garden. Assassin’s Creed also opens with its character in the Animus, surrounded by a throng of beautiful women in a garden.
Also in symmetry: just as X’s first visit into the Anima ends with his body rejecting the device and panicking technicians working to quickly revive him, the protagonist of Assassin’s Creed also has to be quickly revived from the garden during his first trip into the Animus as his body rejects the machine.
BECOMING THE MASTER
X finishes the arc as he overcomes his brainwashing and turns on and defeats Lord Alamout, while in Assassin’s Creed Al Mualim is defeated as well. In each tale the hero emerges triumphant, and Lord Alamout made another appearance before X concluded in the 1996, while over in Assassin’s Creed the construct of the Animus has gone on to feature in each of the games released since.
The Assassin’s Creed Franchise shows no signs of slowing, and continues to dominate the fall video game sales charts. Recently, Dark Horse also revived the X character under a new writer, Duane Swierczynski, in a monthly series. Steven Grant was the author of the comic book 2 Guns which was adapted into a motion picture starring Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington released in 2013, and is currently releasing the sequel comic 3 Guns as well as Deceivers at BOOM! Studios.
UPDATE: The story of the Assassins and The Old Man of the Mountain can be found in the unabridged “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexander Dumas in 1844. Grant wrote an illustrated edition of “Monte Cristo” that was published in 1990, a few years before his Dark Horse Comics run on ‘X’. According to Grant, “It made so little impact on me that even now I can’t remember them even being mentioned in Count, & in fact it may not have been in any version I ever read. (Never read the French original.) I wouldn’t make the claim it had any influence on X at all. Readings about secret societies, cults, etc. in my youth were the influences on that X story, particularly Louis Pauwels & Jacques Bergier’s Morning Of The Magicians & some Colin Wilson work whose name I don’t recall of the top of my head…”
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Local company donates 3D-printed face shields to first responders in Western Suburbs
Published: Monday, April 20, 2020 03:51 PM
With face mask and shields running low across the state, local businesses and organizations are doing what they can to help first responders and health care workers in the Western Suburbs. In one example, the STEM-education company TinkRworks donated 100 3D-printed face shields to firefighters and paramedics at the Aurora Central Fire Station.
Using 3D printers and three laser cutters across three makerspaces, they have produced about 50-60 shields every day, donating them across the region to first responders. Some of these makerspaces have been set up in schools and are being operated by the school officials.
School officials at S.E. Gross Middle School in Brookfield and Avery Coonley School in Downers Grove are operating the tools to make the shields, because they are the only ones who currently have access to the tools. S.E. Gross Principal Ryan Evans and Peter Brown, chief financial officer and assistant headmaster at Avery Coonley, are working as fast as they can to get equipment out to first responders.
In their first 10 days of operation, they have produced more than 300 face shields, which have all been donated to first responders in the area.
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Downtown Redding
#downtownproud since 1872
Lessons in Bronze: Why Good History Matters
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Thank you to the many local historians, activists, and leaders, who freely shared their knowledge, gave support, and made this paper possible.
In mid-March 2018, a plaque honoring the heroics of a man during one of the deadliest periods of Shasta County’s history was proposed. The plaque, containing only a few sentences, is one of the best examples of the need for the careful study of history. Titled “Pioneer Courage,” the plaque memorializes “… the rescue and protection from vigilante revenge on this ground of twelve innocent Yana First Nation people following the Allen-Jones pioneer family murders of 1864.” The bronze plaque attributes the salvation of the individuals to a man who owned a farm near the Sacramento River. Even though the text is presented as a straightforward account of an important but less-known event from local history, conversations with community members and research reveals much more (Benda, 2018). The plaque has become an important example that can help clarify what ideals we should uphold, who we acknowledge, and what a vibrant community that values its history looks like.… Read the rest
Parking: The Perennial Complaint
Parking, like taxes and Congress, is one of those perennial complaints. It seems like no matter how much parking you have, it’s never enough. Consider the graphic on the left. A 2007 study found 2,162 spots within the dotted area. This translates to over 8 acres of parking in that area alone!
Yet another downtown parking workshop is scheduled for tonight, and a cynic can’t help but wonder if this is another case of paying for studies until you find the one that tells you want to hear.
Here are some questions I think should be answered at some point during our discussion on downtown parking:
The county currently occupies office space in at least four different buildings downtown. How much parking is currently used by public employees downtown?
Is the county paying the city at all for use of these spaces eight hours a day?
Presumably the overwhelming majority of county workers commute by single-occupant motor vehicles. Is there any plan to introduce incentives to ride-share or use alternate transportation?
There is a considerable number of under-utilized parking lots downtown. What sort of thought has been given to addressing this issue?
Right now, it is free to park downtown. However, parking is not free to provide. It costs on average $4,000 per spot for surface parking, $24,000 per stall for an above-ground structure, and $34,000 per stall in an underground structure. This means we are all paying for parking, whether or not we use it. Why should non-drivers subsidize drivers, and why should parking be exempt from free market efficiencies?
The Bell Rooms: Possibilities and Potential
Adaptive re-use, as defined by Wikipedia, is “the process of reusing an old site or building for a purpose other than which it was built or designed for” and is a cornerstone of historic preservation. Pictured below is what a potential adaptive re-use of the Bell Rooms could look like.
In this concept, the Bell Rooms houses a deli. The natural brick is exposed or perhaps painted red. The peaked roof and porches have been put back in place, the bricked-up windows have been restored, and there’s plenty of shaded outdoor seating and bike parking. (The downtown connection to the River Trail will pass right by this location.) The auto bays south of the two-story brick building could be demolished and the rest of the block could be developed according to the Downtown Specific Plan. Keep in mind this is just one possibility. It could be any number of things: coffee shop, taproom, offices.
This rendering is courtesy of local architect Ryan Russell, who has his offices in the heart of Redding’s former tenderloin.… Read the rest
“We regret much of what we’ve built; we regret much of what we’ve torn down. But we’ve never regretted preserving anything.” –Daniel Sack, board member of Campaign for Greater Buffalo… Read the rest
The History of the Bell Rooms Part II
After Redding’s red-light district was rebuilt following the fire of September 1908, things continued much as they had in previous years. There were attempts to regulate the saloons and occasional attempts to close down the cribs and bordellos, but not much came of it. In 1914, the people of California passed the Red Light Abatement Act by ballot measure, but Redding’s red-light district continued merrily along, occasionally closing briefly under state or local pressure, but rarely for long.
Accounts of thefts, fires, and violence in the red-light district were a staple in newspapers throughout the years. Interestingly, unlike many of its neighboring saloons and hotels, Chadwick & Freitas’s little two-story brick bordello kept a low profile, and rarely appeared in the papers. Perhaps that’s how it got its first known recorded name: The Q.T. [1. Courier-Free Press, 8 July 1927]
In 1919, the 18th Amendment was ratified, and prohibition went into effect in January of the following year. It was about as effective locally as Red Light Abatement Act. In July 1927, the little two-story building made the front page of both of the local daily papers for a Volstead Act violation [2. Courier-Free Press, 8 July 1927] [3. Searchlight, 8 July 1927]. According the articles, the building was occupied by a man named George Peck and his wife or housekeeper (accounts vary) and, according to the Searchlight, the building was operating as a blind pig [4. Ibid]. Two local law enforcement officers had obtained a search warrant and knocked on the door. When Peck saw the officers, he called “just a minute” and secured the heavy chain on the door.
As he did this, his female companion rushed upstairs and began to pour several gallons of liquor out of the second-story window into the alley.… Read the rest
“I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.” –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow… Read the rest
“Preservationists are the only people in the world invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.” –John Kenneth Galbraith… Read the rest
The History of the Bell Rooms, Part I
The history of the latest building threatened with demolition in Redding goes back to September 23, 1908, when a massive fire swept Redding’s red-light district, causing $70,000 in damages [1. Courier-Free Press, 24 September 1908] . Several blocks of buildings were leveled, among them warehouses, breweries, saloons, hotels, and a group of “ramshackle crib buildings” that were the property of Freitas and Chadwick [2. Searchlight, 25 September 1908].
These ramshackle cribs dated back to 1900, when the area outlined in red in the adjacent picture, known as Block 13 on Redding’s original plat, was removed from Redding’s fire district following a petition to the city board of trustees by Frank Chadwick. [3. Searchlight, 5 June 1900] Soon afterwards, it was announced that the existing red-light district and its inhabitants would be relocated from their location on the alley of the block bordered by California, Market, Shasta, and North Streets to tenements hastily constructed on Center Street [4. Searchlight, 6 July 1900]. Less than three week later, a mysterious fire leveled The Alley [5. Courier-Free Press 26 July 1900] and the few “dressmakers” that weren’t burnt out were forced to move by the city attorney [6. Searchlight, 1 Aug 1900]. Although accusations of arson and slander flew fast and furious, and property owners adjacent to the new cribs on Center Street initially objected, this arrangement continued until the fire of September 1908.
Within a day or two of the 1908 fire, the city board of trustees was talking about requiring the property owners to rebuild in brick [4. Searchlight, 25 September 1908] Insurance adjusters arrived in Redding on September 26, but the property owners could not clear their lots and start rebuilding until the adjusters’ work was done. In the meantime, Chadwick and Freitas enclosed their lot with a “high board fence” and announced their intention to rebuild in brick [5. … Read the rest
Downtown Living Essentials: Entrance Buzzers
As market-rate housing returns to Downtown Redding, we need to (re)discover amenities that further enhance urban living. In this ongoing feature, we’ll take a look at elements that we consider to be essential to quality urban life—from simple things that developers can implement in their buildings to public policies and public amenities that make downtown better for everyone.
Entrance Buzzers
We’ve all seen them in movies or TV shows set in New York: a visitor pushes a button at the building’s entrance and the tenant is notified in their apartment, where they can buzz their guest inside if they like. After all, who wants to traipse up and down a couple of flights of stairs to let in a visitor? No one! It is little things like this that can make huge differences in the quality of an urban dweller’s life.… Read the rest
“There is a widespread belief that Americans hate cities. I think it is probable that Americans hate city failure, but, from the evidence, we certainly do not hate successful and vital city areas.” –Jane Jacobs… Read the rest
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Dottie Smith on The History of the Bell Rooms, Part I
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Holly Williams
Journalist and writer
Tag: high heels
Kinky Boots: Is this a musical to fall head over heels for?
Published in The Independent on Sunday on August 16, 2015
The heels are six inches tall, the legs above them long, lean, and shapely, and the smiles are 100-watt. But if you think musical theatre is all tits’n’teeth, then the stars of Kinky Boots fail on one count at least… the show’s most glamorous performers are cross-dressing men. You see, Kinky Boots began life as an independent British film in 2005, based on the true story of a Northampton shoe factory saved from bankruptcy by diversifying into making sexy heels for transvestites. Continue reading “Kinky Boots: Is this a musical to fall head over heels for?”
August 21, 2015 October 12, 2015 by holly in Theatre Tagged Britcom, Cyndi Lauper, high heels, Jerry Mitchell, musical
Holly Williams is a freelance journalist and theatre critic. A former staff writer and arts editor for The Independent, her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, Time Out, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and ELLE.
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[Indie Film] This Thing Called Hip Hop
Posted by Tampa Mystic on August 9, 2020 at 9:26pm
THIS THING CALLED HIP HOP
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Written by Olbermann Posted in Dailies Tagged with Bill White, Billy Martin, Bob Howsam, Charlie Grimm, Cliff Floyd, Danny Murtaugh, Davey Johnson, Doug Harvey, Ewing Kauffman, Frank Pulli, Gene Autry, Gene Mauch, General Managers' Vote, Hall of Fame, Hank O'Day, Jacob Ruppert, John Fetzer, John McHale, John Shulock, Marvin Miller, Replay, Sam Breadon, Steve O'Neill, Tom Kelly, Whitey Herzog
November 11, 2009 - 1:33 am historymike
About baseball’s resistance to change: one of Bill Veeck’s endless array of innovative ideas was the kind of draft that is now used so that the Yankees wouldn’t sign every available player. He once said if owners had their way, umpires would still sit in a rocking chair by the mound and wear a top hat.
About replay: I am certain that this happened, that it was when Bart Giamatti was president of the National League in the late 1980s, and that the umpire was Paul Runge, a tremendous longtime NL umpire, son of a great AL umpire and father of a current major league umpire. If I recall correctly, Runge had a close call and happened to see it replayed on one of those big screen scoreboards. He immediately walked off the field, got on the phone to the press box, and asked to see the replay. He did and changed the call, then told both teams to protest the outcome to Giamatti, who upheld him, saying he was not going to penalize an umpire for doing his best to get a call right.
On the Hall of Fame, oh, Keith, Sam Breadon simply had Branch Rickey doing all of the work and then pushed him out when he felt Rickey was too costly and no longer necessary–and once Rickey’s farm clubs produced champions through 1946, the Cardinals were quiet for a long time. I am not buying that one.
Also, you want to exclude Hank O’Day, who spent about 40 years in the game as a player, manager, and umpire, because you disagree with ONE call? You have to do better than that. And Davey Johnson is not even close. Just no.
But kudos on both Marvin Miller and Doug Harvey. That the players on the committee did not put in Miller is not just a crime and a blunder, but utterly disgusting. Not only did he change baseball, but he stopped the idea of unrestricted free agency, which would have made things very bad, indeed. Harvey is the best umpire I have ever seen. There’s a clip on You Tube of a Dodgers-Astros game in 1980 with the Western Division championship on the line and both benches start to clear. He jumped between the two players who wanted to fight, got them separated, and cleared the two teams out. No way most umpires would have been able to do that.
November 11, 2009 - 6:10 am unpaka27@yahoo.com
Let me get this straight – *you* were threatened with ejection because one ump made a bad call, and another ump was covering for him. Charming. It’s always nice to hear about an authority figure who is more concerned about justice than cronyism. Pulli, on the other hand, did the right thing, and deserves respect for doing so. Somehow, I get the feeling that video replay will not be so well-utilized in the future, and bad calls will continue to be upheld.
@greenm1 – I must respectfully disagree with you on the Hank O’Day issue. Saying it’d be wrong to exclude him “because you disagree with ONE call” since he “spent about 40 years in the game”…that’s like saying, if a guy was a driver for 40 years, he shouldn’t be prosecuted just because he ran into ONE cop car and totaled it.
Merkle’s reputation was destroyed by that “one call”, as you put it. Adding insult to injury, the call was based on a rule that had never been enforced, until O’Day made that call. It’s Hank O’Day, not Fred Merkle, who should’ve been labeled “Bonehead”.
November 11, 2009 - 3:28 pm tribegal
Don’t forget Gabe Paul, who is also on the ‘executives’ ballot. I’d say ‘yes.’
November 11, 2009 - 6:44 pm historymike
Unpaka, I appreciate the reply, and you make a good point. Let me clarify. I’m not saying Hank O’Day should be in the Hall of Fame. I should have been clearer: that Keith should have had a better argument. Now, I follow your argument, but I wouldn’t want to use the distinction you drew.
I’d also add that one of the best umpires I have ever seen made the worst call I have ever seen–in the 1978 World Series, when Reggie Jackson was not called for interfering with the throw by Bill Russell. Frank Pulli was the umpire–not a Hall of Famer, but excellent at his job. Similarly, it’s a shame that Don Denkinger had 30 years of excellent service as a major league umpire, but he always will be remembered for blowing one call. Unfortunately, it’s the nature of the profession. Even Harvey missed one in a World Series game that turned out not to change the outcome, but he didn’t enjoy any more than the victim of the missed call did.
November 11, 2009 - 11:35 pm yorkie1974@gmail.com
Why is it that Jacob Ruppert is not in the Hall of Fame already? It’s scary to contemplate the thought that Steinbrenner could get in a few years from now, and Ruppert won’t be there.
Along with that, Danny Murtaugh ought to get in as well.
November 11, 2009 - 11:42 pm OokerDookers
I am a Twins fan, but there is no way that Tom Kelly belongs in the Hall of Fame. He had a losing record as a manager and the Twins would not have won two World Series under him had it not been for the Metrodome. Also, one could argue that Andy MacPhail rebuilt that franchise as GM, not Kelly as the manager.
November 11, 2009 - 11:58 pm gary.manis@gmail.com
I didn’t think that Bob Howsam took the GM’s job in Cincinnati until the 1967 season. I thought that Frank Robinson was traded to Baltimore after the 1965 season. If he didn’t make the Robinson trade, he should be in the Hall Of Fame. If he did, I agree with Keith. It was the worst trade the Reds ever made.
November 12, 2009 - 12:01 am dyhrdmet
That’s quite a list you compiled there. I think you left out the untitled Keith Olbermann Baseball-themed CNBC weekend show from that list. Here’s a thought on replay. Consider what tennis does as a model. I wrote something about that, mostly as a joke, earlier in the season, but I think it has some merit. Do it for all line calls, and find some way on home run calls too (you can do anything with technology these days). No long reviews. Put it up on the video screen, the electronic system says in or out, everyone sees it, and move on before the pitcher stiffens up. If the call was wrong, either replay the pitch (fair/foul) or call it a ground rule double or home run (fence calls).
http://rememberingshea.blogspot.com/2009/10/bad-call-down-line.html
April 10, 2011 - 5:15 am Starleigh
HHRr3x Good point. I hadn’t thought about it quite that way. 🙂
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November 12, 2009 - 12:04 am niki.hatzilambrou@gmail.com
I think you’re wrong about Davey Johnson, but then you don’t really appreciate the Mets and that may be influencing your decision. He was a notable player, are you forgetting his stats? And he was a great manager who more than deserves to be in. Anyway, I’d sure like to know your reasons for that “No, but close”.
Greenm1, thanks for clarifying what you meant. I understand your point about good umpires making bad calls, but here’s why I think the Hank O’Day one is so much more significant.
It’s one thing for a call to ruin the umpire’s own reputation, or even to change the outcome of an important game. Things like that happen, and they’re very unfortunate. What makes O’Day’s call so atrocious is that 1) he enforced a rule that had never been enforced before, 2) it unfairly destroyed the reputation of a rookie player, and 3) O’Day “let a similar play stand up when a base runner didn’t touch second at the conclusion of a game earlier in the month.” (Quoting from sports.espn.go.com). This makes the call hypocritical at best, deliberate at worst, and there is just no excuse for either.
As for whether Keith made a good argument, I think it’s important to point out that he’s been making good arguments about that call for decades. So it would be rather redundant for him to go into detail here, when his points are readily available on the web. 🙂
Unpaka, thanks. I appreciate your points. And I’ll add that on baseball, I agree with Keith about almost everything (Not the Yankees! Not the Yankees!), and he and I share the conviction that if God spoke, the voice would sound remarkably like Vin Scully’s. Politically, he and I agree most of the time, too.
The odd thing about Fred Merkle’s reputation is that the public associated him with the idea of committing a boner, and his fellow players always thought he was one of the brightest baseball men they ever met. Maybe we should be asking the public why they were so dumb about Merkle!
November 14, 2009 - 12:12 pm q1966
Your logic relating to Billy Martin makes no sense.
First off Martin finished 3rd in 1983 and 5th in 1982. He had 10 full seasons of manging when you include the strike years of 1981 & 1972. The teams’ seasons were shorten but Martin was there the entire year, so it’s 8-10 as far as 1-2 finishes for a full season of managing. If you don’t want to include 72 & 81, then he was 6-8 in full baseball seasons finishing 1-2.
Davey Johnson was 11-12 in 1-2 fnishes with 5 first place finishes. If Martin is a HOF manager with 8-10 in 1-2 finishes with 5 first place finishes, 1 WS, why isn’t a Johnson a HOF manager with 11-12 with 5 first place finishes and 1 WS??
And Dick Howser was 5-5 in full seasons with either 1-2 first place finishes and a WS. He even had a first place finish during the second half of 1981.
November 20, 2009 - 12:03 pm moodynd@hotmail.com
Good call on Howsam. Only off by 2 years.
November 20, 2009 - 2:21 pm bsperounis@optonline.net
Howsam did not trade Frank Robinison. He was not a member of the Reds’ organization when the Robinson trade took place. Keith has his information wrong.
December 9, 2009 - 12:08 pm jbparsons@sbcglobal.net
Re: greenm1 : ‘On the Hall of Fame…Sam Breadon simply had Branch Rickey doing all of the work and then pushed him out when he felt Rickey was too costly and no longer necessary–and once Rickey’s farm clubs produced champions through 1946, the Cardinals were quiet for a long time. I am not buying that one.’ – I will buy and think this helps the case for Sam Breadon. Cardinals were on the brink, with no previous World Series appearances, and serious financial problems before Sam Breadon’s 1917 investment and, after he sold in 1947, they were quiet for sometime as greenm1 comments. I do not think this is a coincidence. Branch Rickey was a baseball genuis and think Sam Breadon’s genius was business, along with a high appreciation for the Cardinals, and allowing Branch Rickey to do his work. And think Sam Breadon may have been more involved with the baseball operations per his role with the Rogers Hornsby trade for Frankie Frisch after the ’26 World Series (Hornsby never again had the great years that he had had with the Cardinals, and Frankie Frisch became great with the Cardinals). Think Cardinal’s legacy and tradition is great, and to understand this need to look at Sam Breadon’s role. If not for Sam Breadon very possible that the Cardinals go bankrupt and / or move, and think he made a very significant contribution to the Cardinal legacy (and to Baseball, given the Cardinals’ tradition) and, with success of the Cardinals under his tenure (9 World Series appearances 6 Championships in his 30 years), think bar must be very high for an owner if he is not elected to HOF. All the best.
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Recommended Reading: Nellie King
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The majority of bites in New Guinea are caused by the death adders, and a smaller number by the endemic small-eyed snake and other local species. The kangaroo shooting industry’s code of practice states that the animals must be killed with a single shot to the head, which would lead to a death that is instantaneous, or close to it. They are usually young children that do not get medical attention right away. Estimates of Australia's kangaroo population vary between 30 and 60 million. After the introduction in 2013 of a Pet Food Trial in Victoria (now being assessed), landholders can contract commercial shooters to kill and remove kangaroos shot under the ATCWS. But a report commissioned by the Australian government showed that at least 100,000 kangaroos die each year after shots to other parts of the body. This number is in line with the annual global average of four fatalities per year. Prior to 2013 some 40,000 to 60,000 kangaroos would be killed each year, and the majority of these kangaroo carcasses were buried or left onsite. Apart from road deaths caused by hitting or swerving to miss kangaroos, the only reliably documented case of a fatality from a kangaroo attack occurred in New South Wales in 1936. They can be spotted in the wild in most rural parts of Australia. The estimated incidence of snakebites annually in Australia is between 3 and 18 per 100,000 with an average mortality rate of 0.03 per 100,000 per year, or roughly 1 to 2 persons, down from 13 persons per year in the 1920s. The 9 deaths from tiger attacks come from a population of an estimated 7000 tigers in captivity, or about one death per year per 3900 tigers. Up to 40 per cent of shot kangaroos suffer horrific injuries rather than immediate death Indievillage The multimillion-dollar industry killing off Australia’s kangaroos There were five fatal attacks this year, two of which were confirmed to be unprovoked. Rattlesnake attacks are always defensive. Around 160 joeys are rescued by Upper Hunter Valley Wildlife Aid each year from their dead mothers’ pouches. The 2019 worldwide total of 64 confirmed unprovoked cases were lower than the most recent five-year (2014-2018) average of 82 incidents annually. Australia to cull more than a million kangaroos this year. Rattlesnakes carry venom that kill 5.5 people per year. Although the last recorded death came in 1936, there have been several kangaroo attacks in Australia in recent years, some resulting in serious injuries. Kangaroo was once limited in availability, although consumption in Australia is becoming more widespread. Most rattlesnake related deaths … Over the past five years, three people have died on average each year, while just one person died on average during the preceding 16 years, from 1995-2010. The Black Widow and Brown Recluse spiders kill 6.5 people per year. A hunter was killed when he tried to rescue his two dogs from a heated fray. And while it is true that the victims of exotic pet attacks are the owners, as in the bear and kangaroo attacks, they are not the only ones at risk. The vast majority of venomous snakebites in Australasia occur in the Australasian realm.At least 300 envenomations occur each year in Papua New Guinea, 30 in the Solomon Islands, and 10 Vanuatu. However, only 14.5% of Australians were reported in 2008 as eating kangaroo meat at least four times per year.
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Education, morality and values
By Piero Paolicchi
Since the origins of psychological and sociological theory and research in the twentieth century, two among the greatest founder fathers like Dewey and Durkheim in a period of deep social and cultural changes, saw education as the only means to create and keep alive the cohesion necessary for a shared identity and collective life. The former stated that “education , in the broadest sense, is the means of the social continuity of life” (1997, p. 2); the latter thought of the human beings as both individuals with their mental states the make up the personal life, and as social beings capable and willing to overcome the limits of their personal interests and devote themselves to the common good of the whole society; and, he stated, “to constitute that being in each of us is the end of education” (1956, p. 72).
Both scholars sensed the crisis education was undergoing for the complexity and multiplicity of problems coming from rapid social changes and the growing cultural pluralism on both sides of the Atlantic. Then both thought of education also as a process of transmitting from generation to generation an heritage not only of rational or practical knowledge, but also a set of shared values to rule the interpersonal and social-institutional life of a human group, notwithstanding the differences and the changes that characterise every modern society.
The problem of relating to differences between cultures has as long a history as humanity itself. It depends on the universally human dilemma between the acknowledgment of some features shared by all human beings as distinct from the world of non-human entities (animals, things), and each human group's cultural invention of boundaries which determine one's own identity with respect to some "human othernness" defined on the basis of the most varied features, such as the colour of skin or language, religion or political ideology. Nowadays, the contacts and reciprocal knowledge between different cultures have grown greatly, both through living together in the same territories and through the spread of communication systems. Awareness of the interdependence between individuals, groups and societies for the solution of global problems, however, stands together with hostility, exclusion, discrimination and violence towards minority or weaker groups in real life practices and in cultural patterns.
Intercultural education then is not a totally special issue or problem in modern education, but a particular expression of recurrent dilemmas between authority and autonomy, tradition and novelty, freedom and order, individual identity and belonging. Intercultural encounters, exchanges, conflicts, are much the same as those between individuals with different religious or political beliefs, or sexual orientation, when in their confrontation something important with respect to the participants' identity, such as values, is at stake. So the aims and methods of intercultural education, and of education for citizenship, tolerance, democracy, are the same as those of moral education in a context in which the function of cohesion, which education always carries out through the sharing and transmission of a common heritage of beliefs and values, has to be combined with the idea of difference and pluralism as an unrenounceable conquest.
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A person who uses technology expertise in creative and sometimes unexpected ways to produce ever more effective solutions;
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If the iPhone is "The Turn", It's Not "The Prestige".
A week ago this past Saturday, I presented at SharePoint Saturday New Hampshire on the topic of integrating Windows Phone with SharePoint in custom apps. I got sidetracked for a moment or two... chatting about why I see Windows Phone as being a viable platform. So far, it's been rough. As an anecdote, everyone I know who has a Windows Phone bought a copy of my charity-bound "Jimmy Sudoku" app. Sadly, the contribution to the charity from it is... not what I hoped.
Still, I think the cool-aid was worth sharing... To be fair, all the people I know who have a Windows Phone are relatively outspoken fans of it... and that includes a number of folks you'd never suspect of being "Smart Phone" users.
Anyway, a few days before SPSNH, I ran across a relatively insightful article on TechCrunch (I’ll post the link at the end). It opens by quoting the opening dialogue of Christopher Nolan’s 2006 film, "The Prestige":
“Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called “The Pledge”. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course…it probably isn’t. The second act is called “The Turn”. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you’re looking for the secret… but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn’t clap yet. Because making something disappear isn’t enough; you have to bring it back. That’s why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call “The Prestige”.
The TechCrunch’s MG Siegler makes a great point.: Apple’s iPhone magic is in “The Turn”. Apple has taken an “ordinary” item, the smart phone, and turned it into something “magic”.
Indeed, I agree, it is magic, and everything that goes with it.
MG’s article was a commentary of the iPhone 5, and it captured the sentiment I’ve been hearing over & over again about it. The Apple’s iPhone is starting to run a bit shy of manna. (Update 9 Feb 2013: Slashdot, Woz says iPhone Features are Behind. )
It shouldn't be a surprise though... we've seen it all before, in fact... we saw it first with the Mac. It struck again to a lesser extent with the iMac, and dug in big for the iPhone. There’s a lot to be said for the brand of magic that Apple has wielded over the past several decades, and many would argue that Steve Jobs was the one who brought focus to that magic.
Admiration aside… If Apple’s past and present magic is in “The Turn”, (and we agree that the iPhone is a hard-won magic trick) it follows that, within the market, there must have been “The Pledge” and “The Prestige” as well. That's when I started to get excited... it seems pretty clear to me where "The Prestige" is, but I'll get back to that.
So what of "The Pledge"? MG’s article points to Samsung as a weak imitator. Maybe it is (by it's association with Android), maybe it isn’t… I guess the courts, and maybe even the public, are done deciding this. In any case, Samsung never represented the promise of “The Pledge”; it only ever wanted to join in on Apple’s magic. It’s not “The Prestige” either.
The role of “The Pledge” has been played before, as well, in popular technology of days gone by. In the early PC wars, this role was played by a small number of makers. The most memorable of them were the Commodores and TRS-80’s. This cadre of early PC makers had one thing in common… the average hobbyist (aka geek) could make them do magic in fits and starts, causing loyalty that ran deep (just ask the Amiga fans), but they didn’t have much, if any, magic for the popular user.
I would argue, despite the fact that Google’s Android came at about the same time, late 2007, Android represents the promise of this magic… “The Pledge”… a Phone, integrated with a pocket computer, that anyone could have a satisfying user experience with. Open, available, and accessible, it would be… it was everything a "Smart Phone" should be, and it appealed to exactly the market that Smart Phones were made for in 2007. Despite its fits and starts of magic and a fierce geek following, it, like the Amiga (in its day), is still too immature to be the enduring solution. Any time I mention the idea that the Android might fade into the realm of the Amiga, the geeks in the room threaten to get belligerent. I remember getting the same way over my TRS-80 CoCo.
Between issues with platform versions & compatibility, components that don't integrate well, visually or functionally, and malware/spyware, Android is excellent if you're a technical person who's not intimidated by compilers and is savvy enough to avoid spyware & malware... but that's not what the popular user will go for in the long haul. (Update 9 Feb 2013: Slashdot, Fragmentation Leads to Android Insecurities)
So what does it take to become “The Prestige”? It takes that maturity… the ability to allow the average user to make magic with it, affordably, easily… commonly, and, well, normally… on some level, it restores normalcy, ushering in commoditization of the magic that once was so amazing.
If you take into account that Microsoft was the successor of the IBM compatible legacy, it starts to become clear that Microsoft holds the title to a long history of taking Apple’s “magic”, and refining it into maturity.
In some ways, it’s a bit sad: iPhone’s manna is indeed running out… there’s a little less magic in the world…
…or is there? This magic will soon be in the hands of friends and family who are just starting to get the itch for a mobile device that can play Fruit Ninja and Angry Birds on. All those late adopters who wanted maturity, affordability, reliability, and ease of use over “magic”, but now they get both. When they get their Windows Phone / Surface RT / Windows 8 device, they’ll get to see magic that geeks and power users have been using for years now… and that’s the hardest part “The Prestige”, putting "smartphone"/tablet power and flexibility in the hands of every cell phone user.
As promised, MG Seigler’s article on TechCrunch:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/13/the-iphone-5-event/
(Update 1/9/2013 clarified PoV a bit on Android)
(Update 2/9/2013, linked back to Slashdot on various posts that supporting my position)
Posted by Jim Wilcox at 7:37 PM
Labels: geeking out, historical perspective, Hobbies, hypothesis, windows phone
apple steals windows ideas that most people never bothered to realize existed. the cool factor of there ads is the only "magic" apple has ever had. it allowed idiots to see how something can help them rather than showing them truly innovative products and letting the user figure out how it can help.
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Elon Softball’s Cameron Selected SoCon Player of the Month
ELON, N.C. – Sophomore Emily Cameron of the Elon University softball was chosen as the Southern Conference’s Player of the Month for February the league office announced on Thursday, March 13.
Cameron batted .390 with six home runs, 16 RBI, and a pair of doubles in February, helping the Phoenix to a 8-5-1 record. She hit safely in 11 of the Phoenix’s 14 contests and had four multi-hit and multi-RBI games.
The Kennesaw, Ga., native started the season strong, going 6-for-11 with four home runs and 10 RBI to help the Phoenix go undefeated at its season-opening tournament at Charleston Southern on Feb. 8-9. She was 1-for-2 with a three-run home run against Maryland Eastern Shore on the first day of the season and followed that performance by going 2-for-2 with a homer and three RBI against UMES and 2-for-3 with two home runs and four RBI against Charleston Southern the next day. Her performance earned her the first SoCon Player of the Week award this season on Feb 10.
Cameron added homers against Bethune-Cookman and Iona later in the month, going 2-for-3 with two runs scored and three driven in against the Gaels on Feb. 23 at the Phoenix Opening Tournament. The day prior, Cameron was 3-for-4 with two doubles and two runs scored against UMBC. For the month, Cameron scored 12 runs and committed just one error in 18 chances while splitting time between left and right field as well as shortstop.
Elon returns to the field this weekend, March 15-16, on the road at Western Carolina for its first SoCon series of the season.
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Home Bigorski monastery
Situated about 30 km from the town of Debar, hovering over the rapids of the river Radika, the monastery dedicated to St. John the Forerunner, also known as the Bigor Monastery, built with the rock hewn from the travertine cliffs of Mt. Bistra, is one of the most impressive structures and the centre of an almost nine hundred years-long monastic life. Since 1020, when, as the legend has it, it was founded, until its large-scale renewal in the early 19th century and to the present day, it has hidden traces of its rich history. Today, we are reminded of this rich heritage with the miraculous icon of this temple’s patron dating from the17th century, the earliest surviving relic from the katholikon and the three royal icons and the Great Cross from the former iconostasis, works of the gifted descendants of Onuphrius, the renowned icon painter of the 16th century.
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Today, they are the exclusive exhibits of the monastery’s treasury situated in the former women’s refectory. After the monastery was burned down, almost two centuries elapsed before the emergence of the first information about its renewal with the arrival of hegoumen Hilarion in 1743 who, finding a small and derelict church, had it decorated with wall painting and a new iconostasis, built residential quarters and developed its property by buying land in the nearby region of Debar rich in vineyards. During the construction of the large monastery katholikon in 1800 and including into the overall architectural structure on the south side the remnants of the walls of the earlier temple, hegoumen Mitrophanus made possible the preservation of a rare painted ensemble from the last decades of the 18th century. The painters who painted it and who, in the last decades of the 18th century and the early 19th century intensively worked in Ohrid and other places in western Macedonia, also painted icons, mostly intended for monks’ cells, which survive and today are among the exhibits of the monastery’s collection. The only Mitrophanus. In addition to the customary procession of the Divine Liturgy and the half-length figure of Christ Pantocrator, it also includes the scenes from the two Christological cycles, The Great Feasts and Christ’s Passion and Suffering, characteristic of the programmers on the monumental domes of a later date.
The monastery experienced its greatest prosperity during the hegoumen and archimandrite Arsenius (1807-1838), when it acquired its present, well-known features, which include two monastery wings; on the east side, it is the three-storied “Upper Palace” (1814) in which the monks’ cells are situated and,on the west side, the two-storied monastery refectories (1820-1825). These two wings are connected with guest rooms whose wood-carving decoration was financially supported by the people from the town of Debar and the village of Selce from the region of Mala Reka, and with detached buildings for the storage of supplies needed for the monks and guests. In order to secure the monastery from the permanent attacks of bandits, Arsenius built the Seimen Tower and the southwest entrance wing, whose form changed in the fire of 1916 and which was restored in 2005/6, thus giving the monastery complex its former appearance linked with its east part.
The most impressive artwork created during Arsenius and immediately before his death are the carved iconostasis and the painted decoration in the male refectory. The renowned Mijak’ guild of wood-carvers led by Petre Filipovič – Garkata and Makarius Frčkoski frmo Galičnik finished the work on the monumental three-row iconostasis in 1835, and the episcopal and hegoumen thrones. The deep carving of floral and geometric motifs and human figures with ethnological features in the Biblical scenes, as well as the portraits of the artists themselves carved in wood, are the characteristic features of the original creative output of the Mijak wood-carvers that includes a number of major works of art which include, in addition to those from the Monastery of Bigor, the iconostases in the monastery church of the Monastery of Lesnovo (1814), the Church of the Holy Saviour in Skopje (1824) and the Church of St. George in Prizren (1829). The wall painting in the male refectory is the work of the painters from Samarin, the father and the son Michael and Demetrius (whose monastic name was Daniil) and dates form 1830s; the depictions of monks which are of a later date were painted by the famous painter Dičo Krstevič from the nearby village of Tresonče and represent a unique example of a painted ensemble in the Balkans from this period. Consistent in the nurturing of the tradition from Mt. Athos in the thematic organization of the programme, the painters from Samarina have depicted, in addition to the dominant figures of the contemporaries, Hegoumen Arsenius and Gregorius, Metropolitan of Bitola (Pelagonia), an impressive gallery of monks’ portraits of ecumenical importance.
At the same time, they replicated the customary altar, i.e., liturgical and Eucharistie repertory in the apsidal space of the refectory, refreshing it with iconographie elements that are of western provenance, among which the most specific is the depiction of the (Winged) Holy Mother of God the Empress of Heaven as an interpretation of the hymn “It’s Truly Meet to Call Thee Blessed”, as well as the Eucharistie scene, Christ Feeding the Multitude, i.e., Christ feeding 5,000 people with five loaves and two fish. This scene is obviously adequate for the space intended for taking meals. A selection of scenes was also made from Christ’s life (Nativity and Resurrection) and the church patron St. John the Forerunner (Nativity).The painting found here, together with the rich interpretation of the contents of the iconostasis icons in the katholikon of the Monastery, as well as the numerous individual and jointly done works from the monastery painting workshop, is the most expressive example of the brilliant breakthrough of the so-called Levantine Baroque in Macedonia – rich in a plush colour scheme, monumental in expression, decorative in the approach and dramatic in the dynamism of the scenes.
The later portraits of monks in the refectory painted by Dičo Zograf (the Painter), scenes from the life of St. John the Forerunner/John the Baptist painted by an unknown painter on the western dome of the katholikon and the decoration on the western façade, painted by Vasilij Ginovski from Galičnik in 1871 with scenes of the Last Judgment, Creation of the World and the lives of Adam and Eve, as well as the gallery of portraits of Balkan saints, which includes the especially venerated Ohrid saints Clement and Naum and the first Slavonic educators Cyril and Methodius, are works of great historical and documentary value, a testimony to the veneration of those who participated in the creation of the monastic life in this spiritual shrine and who hold an important place in Southern Slavonic ecclesiastical and cultural history.
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Tričkovska J., Monastery of St. John at Bigor, Christian monuments, Cultural heritage protection office, Skopje 2009, 220-225.
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"I will put enmity between you and the woman, and your seed and her seed: she shall crush your head and you shall lie in wait for her heel"
Genesis 3:15 (Douay Rheims Bible)
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This section is designed for people who are not familiar with the Catholic faith. It particularly focuses on what Catholics believe about Mary.
Mary and the hierarchy of truths
Catholics believe that God reveals the fullness of truth to Christians through the Bible and through the ongoing guidance of the Holy Spirit. They believe that a range of truths are revealed by God, some of these are accepted by nearly all Christians, and other truths, such as the importance of Mary in God’s plan for the world, are not.
Catholics believe that the teachings of the Catholic Church represent the fullness of divine truth which God has revealed through the Bible and the ongoing revelation of the Holy Spirit. However, having said that, an important observation needs to be that not all the revealed truths are equally central to the basic gospel message or equally important for salvation. This is what is meant by a ‘hierarchy of truths’.
In practice, this means that such truths as the divinity of Jesus, his dying on the cross for our salvation, the power of the Holy Spirit and so on are most important. While other truths, such as those concerning Mary, purgatory and so on are not the central points of the gospel message.
It is important for Catholics and Protestants to recognise this distinction!
Sometimes Catholics talk about Mary, purgatory and saints as if they were the most important Christian truths – which causes an unnecessary obstacle to Christian unity. Similarly Protestants may place exaggerated emphasis on Catholic beliefs about Mary etc. often rejecting them out of hand, even when they have some justification in the Bible. These extreme positions are unfortunate and divisive and should be corrected where they exist.
If during the centuries, the Holy Spirit has guided the Christian Church with the Bible and the experience of Christians, then Catholics want to acknowledge and embrace these truths, even if they are less central within the ‘hierarchy of truths’ than some others.
Catholic teaching has never considered truths about Mary as being equal in importance to truths about God. Teachings about Mary have always been related to the basic gospel message, though they are not the primary focus.
The Catholic Church has never stopped teaching about Mary and in the past 150 years has made some major pronouncements about her role in God’s plan. The Church’s understanding about Mary, as about all Christian truth, has deepened and become clearer through the guidance of the Holy Spirit. When the Catholic Church appears to teach ‘new things’ about Mary, it is usually an official clarification of things that have long been taught and believed by Christians. Such statements present truths that have been held in the church during the first centuries of Christianity.
The principle of the ‘hierarchy of truths’ points out two extremes that must be avoided in consideration about Mary: On the one hand, Marian doctrines must not be presented as equal in importance to the fundamental Christian truths about the nature of God and redemption. Mary must never be exalted, virtually to the status of a ‘goddess’ deserving the worship and adoration due only to God.
On the other hand, Mary’s role in God’s plan of salvation must not be ignored or neglected. The Catholic Church believes that God intends Mary to have a definite place and role in the life of every Christian.
The Second Vatican Council wrote:
“This Synod earnestly exhorts theologians and preachers of the divine word that in treating of the unique dignity of the Mother of God, they carefully and equally avoid the falsity of exaggeration on the one hand, and the excess of narrow-mindedness on the other … Pursuing the study of the sacred scripture, the holy Fathers, the doctors and and liturgies of the Church, and under the guidance of the church’s teaching authority, let them rightly explain the offices (roles) and privileges of the Blessed Virgin which are always related to Christ, the source of all truth, sanctity and piety”
The Dogmatic Constitution of the Church No. 67
Please Note - The Council mentions here the key principle for understanding any doctrines about Mary: they must always be related to Jesus Christ, who is the ‘source of all truth, sanctity and piety’. Catholic and Christian – An Explanation of Commonly Misunderstood Catholic Beliefs – Alan Shreck
There follows some excerpts from a report on the Hierarchy of Truths by the World Council of Churches:
“The Notion of “Hierarchy of Truths” – An Ecumenical Interpretation by the World Council of Churches 1990 :
The Catholic Church leadership in 1964 introduced the phrase ‘Hierarchy of Truths’ in its ‘Decree on Ecumenism’:
“In ecumenical dialogue, when Catholic theologians join with separated brethren in common study of the divine mysteries, they should, while standing fast to the teachings of the church, pursue the work with love for the truth, with charity and with humility. When comparing doctrines, they should remember that there exists an order or ‘hierarchy’ of truths in Catholic doctrine, since they vary in their relation to the foundation of the Christian faith."
1. During Pope John Paul II’s visit to the World Council of Churches in Geneva (12 June 1984), a former WCC general secretary suggested a study on the “hierarchy of truths”. The expression is in the Second Vatican Council’s decree on Ecumenism (1964). The concept has aroused ecumenical hopes, but the expression still needs clarification of its use in the decree and of its implications for the ecumenical dialogue. The Pope immediately favoured the suggestion.
10. “Hierarchy of truths” was a new concept at the Second Vatican council. But the phrase expresses an insight into a reality which has had different forms in the history of the church. The following serve as examples:
11. Even though the scriptures are divinely inspired as a whole and in all its parts, many have seen an order or “hierarchy” in so far as some biblical sections or passages bear witness more directly to the fulfilment of God’s promise and revelation in Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit in the Church.
12. One sees several kinds of “hierarchies” in relation to the authority of the church councils and to their contents. Most Christian traditions give special priority to the seven ecumenical councils of the early church. Some see also a “hierarchy” among these seven councils, inasmuch as those which formulated the doctrine of the mystery of Christ and of the Spirit within the communion of the Holy Trinity should as such hold a pre-eminent position in comparison with the other councils.
15. The churches of the reformation observe also a kind of “hierarchy” in dealing with the truths of the Christian faith. These churches hold that the gospel of God’s saving action in Jesus Christ, witnessed to normatively by Holy Scripture, is the supreme authority to which all Christian truths should refer. It is in relation to the gospel as the centre of the faith that these churches have summarised the truths of the faith in catechisms meant for the edification of the people of God in their faith, in new liturgical formularies and books, and in confessions of faith which are to guide the pastors in their preaching and the synods in their decisions. All this implies a “hierarchy of truths”.
Implication for the search for full communion
29. The notion of “hierarchy of truths” acknowledges that all revealed truths are related to and can be articulated around the “foundation” – the mystery of Christ – through which the love of God is manifested in the Holy Spirit. All those who accept and confess this mystery and are baptised are brought into union with each other and with the church of every time and place. This fellowship is based upon the communion of the Holy Spirit, who distributes various kinds of spiritual gifts and ministries and binds the members together in one body which is the church. Thus “the mystery of Christ”, “the centre”, “the foundation”, is not only that which Christians believe but also a life which they share and experience.
36. By better understanding the ways in which other Christians hold, express and live the faith, each confessional tradition is often led to a better understanding also of itself, and can begin to see its own formulations of doctrine in a broader perspective. This experience and discernment of each other is mutually enriching
40. In responding to the challenges of the present with an awareness of a “hierarchy of truths”, Christians are encouraged both to draw gratefully on the wisdom of their traditions and to be creative by seeking fresh responses in the light of God’s coming kingdom.”
Growth in Agreement II – World Council of Churches
Respect not Conversion
It is not our intention to convert Protestants to believe or agree with Catholic teaching, but to demonstrate and reassure any Protestant reader of the intellectual integrity of the Catholic Church’s interpretation of Holy Scripture, and particularly on these pages, the Catholic understanding of the role of the Virgin Mary – “the handmaid of the Lord “ in God’s plans for mankind.
We hope that to demonstrate that each of the respective Catholic beliefs about the Virgin Mary is rooted in the Bible and Christ-centred is a valid biblical interpretation for the Catholic Church to make, which our Protestant brothers and sisters should be able to respect.
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Tennyson nearly blundered
by Maud | February 2nd, 2004
Alfred Lord Tennyson once proposed editing out the most famous lines of his poem, “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” He would have stricken “Theirs not to reason why/Theirs but to do and die” and “Someone had blunder’d”:
Tennyson, who was so mocked by critics as a young writer that he published no poetry for nine years, wrote “Here comes the new poem” on the proofs, which he instructed his publishers to burn.
He was notoriously unwilling to let people see his revisions, and the annotated copy is the only one known.
“It’s a great literary discovery,” said Tom Lamb, manuscript specialist at Christie’s….
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New Fellows Elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh: including Stephen
by shg3 | Apr 3, 2017 | Uncategorised
Each year the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s National Academy elects new Fellows. This year a total of 60 have been included including Kirsty Ward the broadcaster the novelist Val McDermid and the Duke of Cambridge.
The strength of the RSE lies in the breadth of disciplines represented by its Fellowship. This range of expertise enables the RSE to take part in a host of activities such as providing independent and expert advice to Government and Parliament, supporting aspiring entrepreneurs through mentorship, facilitating education programmes for young people and engaging the general public through educational events.
Congratulations also to Stephen who was also elected this year and joins this distinguished group.
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Posted on January 28, 2019 August 27, 2020
Prof. Jacobs on his writing process
Prof. Steven Jacobs has worked in the Department of Religious Studies for nearly two decades now. As a professor and the Aaron Aronov Chair of Judaic Studies, Dr. Jacobs spends his time lecturing, researching, and especially reading and writing. Beyond his focus in biblical translation and interpretation, Jewish-Christian relations, the Holocaust, and historical and contemporary genocides, Prof. Jacobs has written and edited numerous books and articles across varying subject matters (with one work that was even translated into Japanese and Arabic). Continue reading “Prof. Jacobs on his writing process”
Alex Ates Wins SETC Young Scholars Award
Last semester Prof. Merinda Simmons mentored graduate student Alex Ates in an independent study — a program designed to help students earn credit while researching specific material that typically manifests into a conclusive project.
Alex, an MFA student in the Department of Theatre and Dance, compiled data on the Free Southern Theater before writing a compelling essay on the groups’ confrontation of “American moral contradictoriness”. The community theater group was founded in Mississippi in 1963 with the goal of combining art and politics on stage to promote social justice across the American South.
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Prof. Crews — Outside the classroom
Prof. Emily Crews, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Divinity School, recently joined us as an instructor in the Department of Religious Studies. After serving two years as a volunteer in Namibia, she carried out fieldwork in Chicago Pentecostal churches. Currently, she teaches REL 105 Honors Introduction to the Study of Religion and REL 360 Religion in Pop Culture while she finishes her Ph.D. dissertation.
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The Adventures of Prof. Trost
Professors Trost (Religious Studies, New College), Summers (Modern Languages and Classics, Greece Initiative), and Roach (New College) near Thessaloniki, Greece.
As the weather gets colder, reminiscing on warm adventures becomes enticing. Last week, Prof. Ted Trost sat down to do just that — Taking a minute to share stories of his European travels from this past summer.
After years of traversing the country and world for both business and pleasure, Dr. Trost settled in at The University of Alabama. Currently, he works with students in the Department of Religious Studies and New College. Before working in academia though, Trost worked as a flight attendant for Pan-American World Airlines, prompting a life-long passion for travel. After 9 years of navigating airways, Prof. Trost has continued to explore new places, even spending a year on sabbatical in England. Most recently, he combined his academic work with globetrotting as he and his family took a trip across parts of Europe. Continue reading “The Adventures of Prof. Trost”
The Book Event — as told in pictures
Last Thursday, the Religious Studies Department hosted its second annual book event at Ernest & Hadley Booksellers in downtown Tuscaloosa. The refreshments and cozy ambiance created the perfect atmosphere for any book lover to mingle and browse the store. Professors, students, and even Tuscaloosa locals joined us to discuss Prof. Ramey‘s and Prof. Loewen‘s recently published books.
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Knowing your Roots
Last week I sat down to chat with Dr. Richard Newton, a faculty member in the Department of Religious Studies who recently joined us from Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. Originally from Texas, Professor Newton lived on each coast before making his way to The University of Alabama. This semester, he’s teaching a course on Islam, advising the Religious Studies Student Association (RSSA), and, next semester, will be teaching a graduate course on this history of the field along with an intro to the New Testament.
Dr. Newton’s work is interested in evaluating how cultural texts or scriptures, can inform a sense of individual and group identity. Currently, he is working on his first book, Identifying Roots: Alex Haley and the Anthropology of Scriptures, and hopes it will be available for purchase within the next year. Continue reading “Knowing your Roots”
Posted on November 9, 2018 August 27, 2020
The Sixth Annual Day Lecture
The Department of Religious Studies hosted its 6th annual Day Lecture. The series (established, by his family, in the memory of REL grad Zachary Day) focuses on religion and popular culture, attracting students from across campus.
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The Bourne Legacy not only confused me, it bored me… a lot. I really didn’t know what this movie was doing. This was supposed to be a jumping off point based from the trilogy? Matt Damon’s face is in a picture. Talk of past secret programs was central to getting this ‘agent’. But it seemed to me Aaron Cross, the agent, had a drug addiction and through-out the movie his motivation to go places was to get his drug. The story was so chaotic and convoluted, I didn’t know what was going on. It starts off that way, making the audience try to figure things out, but by the middle of the movie where I guess things did progress more smoothly, I didn’t care.
I don’t understand the point of this movie, especially related to Bourne, where I’m actually frustrated if not mad for wasting my time. I can’t recommend this movie at all...
… except for the cool Motorcycle chase scene and the Drone attack on Aaron Cross.
This trailer should tell you all you want to know with a edit every 3 nanoseconds...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUn5UorjepU
I'm still going to check this out, but I never had any illusions that this would even be anywhere in the same ballpark as the original Trilogy.
Wow, they make those ratings BIG on the UK box... I remember when it was just a little triangle.
That creepy CGI Christmas Carol is on... not going to sit through the whole thing because it's so slick and lifeless... everything's so perfect there's no chance of surprise, you know? No one in the background to catch your eye or the camera lingering in the wrong place... and while I do love animated films, motion capture (with the exception of Avatar) sucks, because it's basically watching actors wear suits of themselves while the camera gets in unrealistically close. And the mouth movements... good god.
Where's our Mommie Dearest review! Don't hold out on us!!!!!
Neumie needs everything to be perfect first!
Actually, I forgot, I'll come up with something in a few. Hold on.
Okay, "Mommie Dearest:"
Holy cow. Holy freaking cow. This was nuts. Just over the top crazy. It's actually listed on Netflix as "campy," which I'm sure the poor woman who actually LIVED through the experience really appreciates that and the fact that one part of it ("wire hangers") became a joke. Or maybe it's a Mel Brooks thing where she gets power over it by belittling it.
And I should say while I am thinking about her, I didn't like her character. At ALL. And while they avoided the trap of her being too big of a woobie or just "pity me, my life is terrible," I wasn't exactly rooting for her, she was just the butt monkey. Seeing her get yelled at is why we payed our ticket prices, right? There was no build-up to her, or any sense of an "I will overcome this" or anything-- she's never really ABLE to shake off Joan's hold on her, nor does she win out at the end. That SUCKS. I know it's based on a real story and they did avoid falling into that trap but there wasn't any satisfying conclusion to the story.
Half of the dialogue in the movie wasn't even dialogue but insane, indecipherable cries. From BOTH main actresses. I feel like the daughter should have gone arch as well, that set should have had big gaping holes at the end from both women's insane overacting. Or maybe more of a mental chess game like "Apt Pupil."
There was a call-ahead early on about Joan being unable to have children and I'm AMAZED that they didn't slip in the line "maybe God doesn't WANT you to have children." There's also the scene after the swimming race where Joan beats her kid (before beating beating her) telling her that she'll always win because she's bigger and I SO wanted her to throw in "I'm big and you're small and I'm right and you're wrong and there's nothing you can do about it!"
And when the daughter (I can't remember her name! Which is NOT a good sign) is forced to clean the bathroom in the dead of night (which stuck in my mind because I had written a similar scene), I was first expecting Joan to make her eat off it, as the cliche goes, but when she's scrubbing, her younger brother Christopher (who disappears after that for about the ENTIRE length of the movie) steps in and she says "she'll kill you if she sees you." Why doesn't she DO something about it? And how come we don't see anything about the abuse HE suffered or enabled or anything?
We really should have seen more of the enabling that Joan gets, there was that scene where the interviewer walks in on an abuse scene... did she give them a pass in the press or call them out on it? We had all those reporters and photographers fawning over her, you could have explored that a little more, after all, the daughter wasn't just in an abusive household, she was in an Old Hollywood Abuse House which is a whole different and fascinating animal.
And I'm amazed that the daughter didn't know about Joan getting drunk until she was an adult... I'd have thought it would be the first thing she'd know about.
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Quote from: Neumatic on December 14, 2012, 06:07:38 pm
Admit it, this is your new favorite movie now!
I actually deleted it off my queue when I was done, which I very rarely do. I'm sure it's overshadowed by the fact that I'm working on my own abuse story (fiction, lemme clear that part up right away) that's so freakin' insane to me I doubt anyone would actually film it or buy the book.
It never surprises me what interests people. Ya, the tried, true and safe are gobbled up, but I think a lot of folks like me, look for the unusual
Yeah, it's interesting, but I think I take it a bit too far. Which, when *I* say it, is really saying something.
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
Mad Men (Season 2 - 2008)
Starsky & Hutch (2004)
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Apache Flink Tutorial
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Apache Flink is an open source stream processing framework developed by the Apache Software Foundation. The core of Apache Flink is a distributed streaming dataflow engine written in Java and Scala.
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Apache Pig is a high-level platform for creating programs that run on Apache Hadoop. The language for this platform is called Pig Latin. Pig can execute its Hadoop jobs in MapReduce, Apache Tez, or Apache Spark. Pig Latin abstracts the programming from the Java MapReduce idiom into a notation which makes MapReduce programming high level, similar to that of SQL for RDBMSs. Pig Latin can be extended using User Defined Functions (UDFs) which the user can write in Java, Python, JavaScript, Ruby or Groovy and then call directly from the language.
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Apache ZooKeeper is a software project of the Apache Software Foundation. It is essentially a distributed hierarchical key-value store, which is used to provide a distributed configuration service, synchronization service, and naming registry for large distributed systems. ZooKeeper was a sub-project of Hadoop but is now a top-level project in its own right.
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Apache HCatalog is a table management layer that exposes Hive metadata to other Hadoop applications. HCatalog's table abstraction presents users with a relational view of data in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and ensures that users need not worry about where or in what format their data is stored. HCatalog displays data from RCFile format, text files, or sequence files in a tabular view. It also provides REST APIs so that external systems can access these table's metadata.
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Apache Avro is a remote procedure call and data serialization framework developed within Apache's Hadoop project. It uses JSON for defining data types and protocols, and serializes data in a compact binary format. Its primary use is in Apache Hadoop, where it can provide both a serialization format for persistent data, and a wire format for communication between Hadoop nodes, and from client programs to the Hadoop services.
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Apache Mahout is a project of the Apache Software Foundation to produce free implementations of distributed or otherwise scalable machine learning algorithms focused primarily in the areas of collaborative filtering, clustering and classification. Many of the implementations use the Apache Hadoop platform. Mahout also provides Java libraries for common maths operations (focused on linear algebra and statistics) and primitive Java collections.
While Mahout's core algorithms for clustering, classification and batch based collaborative filtering are implemented on top of Apache Hadoop using the map/reduce paradigm, it does not restrict contributions to Hadoop-based implementations.
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Apache Storm is a distributed stream processing computation framework written predominantly in the Clojure programming language. Originally created by Nathan Marz and team at BackType, the project was open sourced after being acquired by Twitter. It uses custom created "spouts" and "bolts" to define information sources and manipulations to allow batch, distributed processing of streaming data. The initial release was on 17 September 2011.
A Storm application is designed as a "topology" in the shape of a directed acyclic graph (DAG) with spouts and bolts acting as the graph vertices. Edges on the graph are named streams and direct data from one node to another. Together, the topology acts as a data transformation pipeline. At a superficial level the general topology structure is similar to a MapReduce job, with the main difference being that data is processed in real time as opposed to in individual batches.
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Apache Kafka is an open-source message broker project developed by the Apache Software Foundation written in Scala. The project aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. It is, in its essence, a "massively scalable pub/sub message queue architected as a distributed transaction log," making it highly valuable for enterprise infrastructures to process streaming data.
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Apache Cassandra is a free and open-source distributed database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure. Cassandra offers robust support for clusters spanning multiple datacenters, with asynchronous masterless replication allowing low latency operations for all clients.
Cassandra also places a high value on performance. In 2012, University of Toronto researchers studying NoSQL systems concluded that "In terms of scalability, there is a clear winner throughout our experiments. Cassandra achieves the highest throughput for the maximum number of nodes in all experiments" although "this comes at the price of high write and read latencies."
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Apache Solr is an open source enterprise search platform, written in Java, from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, NoSQL features and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling. Providing distributed search and index replication, Solr is designed for scalability and fault tolerance. Solr is the second-most popular enterprise search engine after Elasticsearch.
Solr runs as a standalone full-text search server. It uses the Lucene Java search library at its core for full-text indexing and search, and has REST-like HTTP/XML and JSON APIs that make it usable from most popular programming languages. Solr's external configuration allows it to be tailored to many types of application without Java coding, and it has a plugin architecture to support more advanced customization.
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Apache Oozie Tutorial
Apache Oozie is a server-based workflow scheduling system to manage Hadoop jobs. Workflows in Oozie are defined as a collection of control flow and action nodes in a directed acyclic graph. Control flow nodes define the beginning and the end of a workflow (start, end and failure nodes) as well as a mechanism to control the workflow execution path (decision, fork and join nodes). Action nodes are the mechanism by which a workflow triggers the execution of a computation/processing task. Oozie provides support for different types of actions including Hadoop MapReduce, Hadoop distributed file system operations, Pig, SSH, and email. Oozie can also be extended to support additional types of actions.
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Apache Tomcat, often referred to as Tomcat, is an open-source Java Servlet Container developed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Tomcat implements several Java EE specifications including Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages (JSP), Java EL, and WebSocket, and provides a "pure Java" HTTP web server environment in which Java code can run.
Tomcat is developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation, released under the Apache License 2.0 license, and is open-source software.
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The MySQL development project has made its source code available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements. MySQL was owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the Swedish company MySQL AB, now owned by Oracle Corporation.
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The Queerstory Files
Lgbt (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) history for everyone. No academic gobbledigook. No deep analysis. Just queer facts. There's still a lot of bigotry around but there's also lots to celebrate.
Heritage CV
Queer Anglo-German Achievement
[Achievement – the name given in heraldry to the full pictorial representation of a coat of arms.]
For the last heraldic achievement this year I’ve chosen a woman who could have been entitled to an English and a German coat of arms. Her name is Sybille Bedford (1911-2006).
Her full maiden name was Baroness Sybille Aleid Elsa von Schoenebeck. In 1935 Sybille became a British citizen, and above is the armorial achievement she may have been entitled to use in her lifetime. There’s no indication that she petitioned the College of Arms for an official grant. It is my personal interpretation of her heraldic heritage.
First, the shield. Ignoring the little blue shield in the centre this design was used by the von Schoenebeck family since the mid-1600s, probably after the marriage of Gerhard von Schoenebeck to Sybilla von der Lippe. The von Lippe and von der Lippe families have been using a rose as their emblem since the 11th century. With this marriage came estates belonging to the von der Lippes and Gerhard may have adopted the rose to honour his wife’s family. This borrowing of emblems was common in medieval heraldry. Sybille Bedford was directly descended from Gerhard and Sybilla.
German heraldry has several different rules to English heraldry. The German states that were part of the Holy Roman Empire had no central heraldic authority like the English College of Arms. German families were free to adopt any design they wished. As a consequence there were an estimated 3 million German families who were using coats of arms by the time the Holy Roman Empire ended in 1806. There were a handful of unofficial authorities who registered coats of arms for a fee. Only around 4,000 of the 3 million German arms had been registered by 1806. I assume the von Schoenebeck arms were one of them as they appear in several German heraldry books in the 1820s. Since 1916 German arms and achievements have been registered with a number of specific authorities being licensed for the purpose.
Another difference between German and English heraldry is that German coats of arms can be used by all members of the family without alteration, whereas in England a coat of arms, specifically one displayed on a shield, must be individual and not like those of any other person (except when it appears in what is called a “quarter”, as in the arms of multiple heiresses). In England unmarried women display their coat of arms on a lozenge. In Germany Sybille Bedford she could have used the von Schoenebeck coat of arms on a shield like her father. She could also use the full achievement with helmet and crest, which she couldn’t in England. German coats of arms are also always shown with the crest. This is because there are so many coats of arms and some may be identical. A distinctive crest helps to distinguish one from the other. Before she became a British citizen her achievement would have been the one illustrated below.
In the 1920s Sybille Bedford moved to England to get away from the emerging fascist regimes in Germany and Italy. When the Nazi’s discovered her family’s Jewish ancestry all her bank accounts were frozen and she was refused a passport. Living penniless in England and unable to travel she had to find a way of obtaining a legal passport. It was suggested that she entered a marriage of convenience with a gay Englishman.
In 1936 Sybille married Walter Bedford. The marriage didn’t last long, obviously, and not a lot is known about her husband. However, there’s no record of him having a coat of arms which, at the time, would also mean that Sybille didn’t either – women were not entitled to use their father’s arms after they got married, unless they were an heiress. Fortunately, Sybille Bedford lived to see a change in English heraldry. If we assume that she applied to the College of Arms to have her German arms officially approved then her heraldic achievement would be the one at the top of this article.
In 1997 the College of Arms ruled that married women could still display their father’s coat of arms even if their husband hasn’t got one by placing them on a shield with the addition of a smaller shield. This smaller shield could be in any colour and in any position as long at it followed establish heraldic rules and can be seen clearly. That’s why I’ve chosen to put a blue shield in the centre. It would look wrong to put a yellow shield on one of the roses.
The blue bow and garland around the shield are customary for a woman, regardless of marital status (peeresses and dames can replace them with various other insignia). As far as I can tell Sybille Bedford did not divorce her husband and was still married to him when she died. This would make a difference, because on becoming a widow Sybille would have to take the shield away and show her arms on a lozenge. Until we know for sure, let’s assume her husband was still alive.
Sybille was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 1981. The gold badge of the order is shown below her shield with the ribbon tied into a bow, as it is worn by women.
Finally, I will just say that even though I finish my blog officially (full-time) at the end of the year I intend to produce another heraldic alphabet article for International Heraldry Day on 10th June 2019. By then I may also have produced a small book for sale with all the heraldry articles expanded and amended. It is one of several products I plan to produce to help finance displays and exhibitions for LGBT History Month, Pride, International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, etc.
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Labels: art and design, family history, Germany, heraldry
Around the World in Another 80 Gays : Part 30) Songs and Deadly Fires
Previously on “Another 80 Gays” : The royal pretender 60) Dmitri I (d.1606) gained his throne in one of the Russian succession conflicts that had previously seen the assassination of 61) St. Boris (590-1015) and 62) George the Hungarian (d.1015), with Boris having dragon legends built up around him, a popular Medieval folk motif which influenced an opera by Richard Wagner whose hero he named his son after – 63) Siegfried Wagner (1869-1930).
Following his father’s death 63) Siegfried Wagner became guardian of the Wagnerian legacy. The main foundation of this was the Bayreuth Festival. Siegfried, already an established composer and opera writer, was always living under his father’s shadow even though his compositions were also popular.
Even though he was named after one of the most famous heroes in German folklore Siegfried’s favourite opera of his father’s was “Tannhäuser”. Richard Wagner completed it in 1845 but was always tinkering with it because he wasn’t satisfied with the result. Siegfried was keen to produce “Tannhäuser” at the Bayreuth Festival for years but couldn’t afford to finance the extravagant production he envisaged. He finally got the chance in 1930, the year of his death.
Several of Siegfried’s gay friends were brought into the production. He chose two for the two lead male roles. Kurt Söhnlein, also gay, designed the sets. The choreographer was asked to include homoerotic elements into sections of set in the subterranean grottos of the goddess Venus. With Richard Wagner’s reputation of being right-wing, and the growing popularity of his operas in the emerging extreme right-wing politics in Germany, traditionalists objected to this aspect of the 1930 production.
Despite this Siegfried’s “Tannhäuser” was a resounding success, and it even had the great Arturo Toscanini as conductor. It was also probably the first musical production that was subsequently recorded as an “original cast” album (except for a replacement for Toscanini).
The character of Tannhäuser was a legendary knight and minstrel. During the 19th century he appeared in various collections of folk tales, with embellishments. One embellishment was his participation in a minstrel song contest, which may have been the final piece of inspiration for Richard Wagner to include that contest in his opera halfway through the second act. The contest was a very specific one. It was one that featured in folklore and is sometimes called the Sängerkreig. It is also sometimes called the Wartburgkrieg because it was held at Wartburg Castle in 1207.
Even though Tannhäuser was a man of folklore some of the songs attributed to him made it into print. The earliest of these is in a collection of medieval German minstrel songs called the Codex Manesse. This book is acclaimed as the most comprehensive source of German minstrel songs and was produced just over a hundred years after the Wartburgkrieg. The Codex contains songs composed by 140 minstrels, including kings, counts and commoners, most of them illustrated with portraits of the minstrels themselves.
Tannhäuser is illustrated with his songs (below left) as was another minstrel referred to as “Der Püller” (below right). He has been identified as Konrad Püller of Hohenburg Castle in present day French Alsace (where it is known as the Château du Hohenbourg). The castle is now in ruins but is still a very popular tourist attraction and a protected national monument.
Most of the castle has been rebuilt over the centuries. One of the last members of the family to live in Konrad’s castle was his grandson 64) Richard Püller von Hohenburg (d.1482).
Being located in the border country where France and medieval German states meet Hohenburg Castle often changed ownership during border disputes. Richard had more than territorial conflicts which threatened his possession of the castle. Several times he was accused of homosexuality. The first time was in 1463 when one of his servants was detained after being seen wearing clothes that were reserved for the aristocracy (there were laws on who could wear what in those days). Under torture the servant admitted that he bought the clothes with money he had blackmailed out of Richard Püller in return for his silence on Richard’s homosexual activity.
Richard was arrested, then released without trial after his family estates in Strasbourg were confiscated. But once accusations of homosexuality are made they are easy to be make again. In 1474 Richard was arrested again. He was stripped of Hohenburg Castle and held in custody for two years, managing to escape the death penalty because of his noble rank. He was released on condition that he signed a confession of sodomy and spent the rest of his life in a monastery. He did the former but not the latter. Instead he escaped to Switzerland where he tried to get support for his campaign to regain his Strasbourg and Hohenburg estates.
In Zurich Richard found some support. Negotiations were lengthy, mainly because Strasbourg was a Swiss ally. Then, suddenly, negotiations stopped and Richard found himself arrested yet again for homosexuality. This time the outcome was different. The Swiss didn’t recognise German titles and Richard was treated as a commoner. He was found guilty and sentenced to be burnt at the stake as a heretic.
Richard went to his death denouncing the Zurich authorities for betraying him, putting most of the blame on a man called Hans Walmann. As it happens, Hans Waldmann would meet the same fate seven years later. In between he was seen as a popular political figure. He was elected Mayor of Zurich the year after Richard Püller’s execution and was regarded as a great statesman, even beyond the borders of Switzerland.
Very soon Hans Walmann was accused of sodomy by other Zurich officials who resented his popularity and they succeeded in having him burnt at the stake just like Richard Püller von Hohenburg. Being a popular politician was no guarantee of a long career.
The present Mayor of Zurich, however, has enjoyed a long and popular career. In fact she has been nominated for the title of World Mayor 2018. Her name is 65) Corine Mauch (b.1960).
Next time : World Mayors and a return to the American Revolution.
Labels: connections, Germany, homophobia, medieval period, music
The Xtremely Queer Club
This afternoon the second LGBTQ Outdoor Summit comes to an end. As its name suggests this was a meeting of members of the lgbt community who have some involvement with the great outdoors. This could be anything from camping and hiking to climbing Everest or rowing across the Pacific. The summit was also a meeting of minds to discuss and develop outdoor activities and involvement for openly lgbt adventurers and environmentalists.
The keynote speaker was Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, an openly lesbian mountaineer whose record-breaking feats are mentioned below. Silvia is one of several lgbt climbers who have completed the Seven Summit challenge (as completed by Cason Crane here). On a side note, Cason's youngest brother, Oliver, who isn't gay as far as I know, currently hold the Guinness World Record as the youngest ever solo ocean rower. In 2017 he rowed solo across the Atlantic at the age of 19. What a family!
In recent years the activities of openly lgbt adventurers and extreme athletes have been more widely reported. Some of these have entered the record books. Below is a selection of Xtreme lgbt record-breakers, firsts and notable achievers who are proud members of an Xtremely queer club (in alphabetical order).
David Alviar (b.1986) – first (and, therefore, the fastest) to row across the Atlantic in a crew of 3, 2016. David and crewmates Mike Matson and Brian Krauskopf took part in the 2016 Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge (see also Gavan Hennigan below). They took 49 days and 14 hours to row from Tenerife to Antigua. The first thing David did when he set foot on dry land was propose to his partner Stanley (who said “yes”).
Ann Bancroft (b.1955) – first woman to reach the North Pole on foot, 1985; first woman to reach the North and South Pole, 1993; leader of the first all-female east-to-west crossing of Greenland on foot, 1992; with Liv Arnesen the first women to ski across Antarctica, 2001. More information is here.
Mike Boisvert, Bruce Gallipeau, Rob Jagnow and Jonny Rosenfield – the first all-gay team to summit Aconcagua, the highest mountain in western hemisphere, and the first all-gay team to climb one of the Seven Summits, 2005. Bruce had climbed Aconcagua before but was not openly gay at the time.
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) – member of the first expedition to climb the world’s second highest mountain, Chogo Ri (or K2), 1902; leader of the first expedition to climb the world’s third highest mountain, Kangchenjunga, 1905. Both expeditions failed. This famous occultist was an enthusiastic mountaineer in his youth, and he developed the use of crampons. You can read more about his mountaineering here.
Keith Culver (b.1947) – the first man over 60, and first openly gay man, to complete the Seven Continents marathon challenge, 2007. The Seven Continents is the running equivalent of the Seven Summits, in which athletes run in at least one official marathon on each continent. Keith completed his last Seven Continents marathon just after his 60th birthday. He also competed in the marathon at the Gay Games in San Francisco 1986 and Sydney 2002.
Marty Filipowski (b.1963) – the 100th person to swim the Cook Strait separating the north and south islands of New Zealand, 2017. The 14-mile wide Cook Strait is one of the Oceans Seven, the long-distance swimming equivalent of the Seven Summits and Seven Continents. The swims include the English Channel which Marty swam on his 50th birthday. His most recent Oceans Seven swim was across the North Channel between Scotland and Ireland last month (in honour of his father who died the week before). Marty has also competed at the Gay Games. He has only one more Oceans Seven swim to complete before he joins the exclusive club of just 11 people to have done all seven to date.
Richard Halliburton (1900-1939?) – the first person to swim the Panama Canal through the locks, 1928. Although not the first person to swim the canal he was the first to go through all the locks taking him a total of 50 swimming hours over 10 days. Most of the time was taken up waiting for the locks to operate. Even though some have questioned whether he was gay his own great-niece has said that there’s no doubt in the family that he was. A renowned traveller and adventurer, Richard disappeared with his crew during a trans-Pacific voyage in a Chinese junk in 1939.
Greg Healey – first known openly gay man to summit Everest, 2012; 20,000 mile solo cycle around the world, 2013. When Cason Crane, the second openly gay man to summit Everest, was making his bid Greg was halfway through a 20,000 mile solo cycle ride. Greg was in Peru when Cason reached the top of Everest (exactly 51 weeks after Greg was there).
Gavan Hennigan (b.1982) – fastest solo row across the Atlantic (east to west), 2016. This was the second record broken by an lgbt rower during the 2016 Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge (see David Alviar above).
Stephen Junk (b.1960) – the first Australian to complete six of the Oceans Seven swims (see Marty Filipowski above). Stephen has only to swim the North Channel from Scotland to Ireland to be the first Australian to complete the Oceans Seven. Will he beat Marty Filipowski to the title of first lgbt swimmer to join the 11-member Ocean Seven club? Steven has competed in swimming in 2 Gay Games, winning 2 golds, 2 silvers and a bronze at the 2002 Sydney games.
George Mallory (1886-1924) – member of the first expedition who intended to reach the top of Everest, 1922; the first known lgbt mountaineer on Everest, 1922; the first lgbt Olympic medallist and first lgbt gold medallist, 1924. At the closing ceremony of the first ever Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix in 1924 Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern games, awarded gold medals to all members of the 1922 Everest expedition, which included George Mallory, in recognition of their (failed) attempt. At the time of the ceremony George was heading back to Everest on the expedition that would take his life later that year. He never got to see or touch his medal.
Angela Madsen (b.1960) – (take a deep breath!) – the first woman to complete three ocean rows (Atlantic 2008 and 2011, Indian Ocean 2009); the first woman (in a mixed team of 8), the oldest woman, and first open lesbian to row across the Indian Ocean (in a record time that still stands) 2009; the first woman with a disability to row across the Atlantic Ocean, 2007; member of the fastest unsupported team (and first all-female crew) to row non-stop around the British Isles, 2010. All of these are Guinness World records. On top of all that Angela is the oldest lgbt competitor at the Paralympic Games (Rio 2016), older than any lgbt Olympian, competing in rowing (obviously) and athletics.
Diane Nyad (b.1949) – first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark protection cage, 2013; world record for the longest non-stop swim without a wet suit, 1979; world record for longest open water swim without a shark cage (102 miles), 1979. A multiple long-distance swimmer.
Sarah Outen (b.1985) – the youngest woman to row solo across the Indian Ocean (at the time also the youngest person), 2009; the first and only person to row solo across the mid-Pacific Ocean from America to Asia. Also rowing across the Indian Ocean at the same time as Sarah was Angela Madsen (above), meaning that the youngest and oldest women to row the Indian Ocean were doing so at the same time. Angela, in a team of 8, finished 5 weeks sooner in a world record time. In 2011 Sarah began her London2London challenge, which I wrote about here.
Rainbow Skydivers – largest skydiving vertical (dead-down) freefall formation, 2012. Rainbow Skydivers is probably the world’s only lgbt skydiving group. In August 2012 fifteen members of Rainbow Skydivers joined 123 others, including many of the world’s top skydivers, over Ottawa, Canada, to perform the largest vertical skydiving formation. A video of the jump is here (don’t forget, it’s head-down, so the ground is at the TOP). The record has been surpassed several times since then.
Sally Ride (1951-2012) – first American female astronaut and, retrospectively, the first lgbt person to go into space, 1983. Going into space is the ultimate adventure. Sally was openly lesbian to her family, friends and colleagues, but her sexuality was not generally known until after her death. See here for her story.
Ben Smith (b.1972) – ran 401 marathons in 401 days. Ben ran marathons all around the UK to raise awareness of bullying, something which he suffered himself while at school not far from where I was living at the time in North Nottinghamshire. The first marathon started on 1st September 2015 and the last was on 5th October 2016. He ran a marathon in North Nottinghamshire in May 2016.
Silvia Vasquez-Lavado (b.1975) – the first Peruvian woman, and the first openly lesbian woman, to reach the summit of Everest, 2016; the first Peruvian citizen, and first openly lesbian woman to complete the Seven Summits, 2017. Silvia is founder of Courageous Girls, an adventure and outdoor organisation that supports female victims of sexual abuse.
There are many, many more lgbt adventurers and endurance athletes who could have been included. All of their achievements and records are worthy of being collected together in a book, one of the dozens of projects buzzing around in my mind at the moment. I hope, at least, I’ve given you a feel of the adventurous and fearless spirit that exists in the lgbt community.
Labels: Xtreme activity
Connections 40 : It's In The Can
On this day in 1978 the BBC broadcast the first programme in a series called “Connections”. This had a remarkable effect on me. It gave me a glimpse into the way that history, culture and technology are all linked. I still have the Radio Times tv listings cover promoting the series (above). I had just left full-time education that summer, and had never been really academically minded. “Connections” changed that.
Regular readers will know I’m well into the second half of my own version of “Connections” called “Around the World in Another 80 Gays”. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of “Connections” I’ve written this separate article as a self-contained chain of links which begins with a member of the lgbt community. It's adapted from research I did over 20 years ago – before Google, and before I had internet access – all researched using books.
There’s much in the news about plastic waste. Recycling waste has always been an issue in the modern world. When I was young the materials that we were most persuaded to recycle were paper, glass and aluminium drinks cans.
Even though aluminium is the most abundant metallic element on earth’s surface it doesn’t occur naturally. Most of it is locked up in clay-earth mineral ore. Today the biggest source of aluminium ore is bauxite, a mineral first identified by Pierre Berthier (1782-1861 (below).
Berthier (who died in Paris, as mentioned here), was a leading geologist and discovered that clay minerals near the French town of Les Baux were rich in this aluminium ore, which be named after it. With other aluminium-rich clay minerals bauxite was used in the manufacture of a highly popular imitation of a luxury earthenware called fiaence.
Italian fiaence became fashionable with the French aristocracy during the reign of King Louis XIV (1638-1715) because it replaced the luxury item that was rapidly disappearing – silver tableware. The reason for this was because silver was being melted down to help King Louis pay for the War of the Spanish Succession.
The war began after the king of Spain died. His successor and nephew was also a grandson of King Louis XIV. Europe was appalled at this turn of events because between them King Louis and the new King of Spain would own the majority of the American continent. It was the source of the European economy at the time, which was run by an early example of an international currency – silver pieces of eight made in Spanish America. Europe wanted to stop the kings of France and Spain from controlling this American silver trade.
South American silver-producing colonists wanted luxury goods from Europe in return for their silver. Since most luxury goods came from the east – silver, spices and porcelain – the colonists decided to get it direct (and cheaper) from Asia and established the trans-Pacific trade routes.
Fortunately, there was a market in Asia desperate for silver, and that was the Ming dynasty in China. China was rapidly running out of their own silver because they were using it to prop up their main currency which was being devalued through inflation. What was this other currency that caused the demand for American silver in China? It was paper money.
The Chinese had invented paper money and the woodblock printing that produced it. Through the Silk Road the Europeans were introduced to both, but rather than print money the Europeans began producing highly popular manuscripts and books with woodblock illustrations. In an effort to produce finer illustrations woodblocks were replaced with metal plates and engravings.
The Italians produced the best engraved illustrations, particularly one man called Marcantonio Raimondi (c.1480-c.1534). Unfortunately, he was imprisoned for producing pornography with his illustrated book on the sex lives of the gods. A toned down version of this book was produced by Rosso Florentino (1495-1540), who founded the Fontainbleau School. This school led a renaissance of French art and influenced a group of poets called La Péiade.
La Pléiade aimed to combine poetry with music, but one of their followers, Jacques Gohory (1520-1576), wanted to include philosophy and nature. To this end he created a garden in which poets could sit for inspiration. He also used the garden to experiment into the medicinal uses of plants.
This idea was taken up by King Louis XIII of France (1601-1643), who created his own garden for medical research, the Jardin des Plantes, still a popular tourist site in Paris today. The Jardin soon became a leader in medical research. One scientist working there was Christopher Glaser (c.1615-c.1672). He was the King’s Apothecary, but he was imprisoned for supplying arsenic to the serial killer Marie, the Marquise de Brinvilliers (c.1630-1676).
Arsenic was a popular poison because it was undetectable at that time. However, a later French serial killer, Marie, Madame Lafarge (1816-1851), was sent to the guillotine because proof of arsenic in human tissue was produced at her trial by chemist Matthieu Orfila (1787-1953).
Orfila is called the Father of Forensic Toxicology. Very soon many chemists were flocking to Paris to study this new science, including Sir Robert Christison (1797-1882). He published an article in the British Medical Journal in which he described experiments with a new plant from America called Erythroxylum which he said was invigorating if eaten.
An American pharmacist, John S. Pemberton (1831-1858), read Sir Robert’s article and began making a tonic drink from Erythroxylum syrup. He sold his tonic formula to Asa Griggs Candler (1851-1929) who marketed it so well that it’s still one of the biggest-selling products in the world today.
The tonic drink was named after the plant it was made from. The plant’s full botanical name is Erythroxylum coca. Pemberton’s drink was called Coca Cola.
I hope you recycle your aluminium drinks can. If it wasn’t for a gay French geologist discovering bauxite aluminium would still be a rare precious metal and not a common waste product.
Labels: connections, France, geology, science
Tony Scupham-Bilton
Nottingham, United Kingdom
I was born during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1960 and was brought up in a village in north Nottinghamshire. I attended the sort of school which practiced “history for girls, geography for boys”, but developed a love of history none-the-less.
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New Windsor Connect / Town Press Releases
Town of New Windsor Press Releases
Please find and view the most up to date news and information regarding the Town of New Windsor listed below.
Woodlawn Cemetery Website
December 9, 2020 By Danyelle Barrett General 0
The Town of New Windsor is excited to announce the launch of our new website dedicated to Woodlawn Cemetery, https://woodlawn.newwindsor-ny.gov. Please take a moment to explore the website and learn about the beautiful cemetery grounds. Woodlawn Cemetery is owned and operated by the town, and is located at 93 Union Avenue, New Windsor, NY. If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact the Town Clerk, Kelly Allegra, at (845) 561-1249.
Town Hall closed to public; Town Hall staff available via email, phone and websites
Effective Thursday March 19 New Windsor Town Hall and Recreation Offices will be closed to the public. Employees will be available daily between 10am and 4pm to conduct business via phone, email and website. There is also a mail slot in the front door of town hall that is available for correspondence.
Online services are available 24 hours a day at newwindsor-ny.gov. These include online utility bill payments, court fines and fees payments, online FOIL requests, online mapping, and more on our website.
On Friday March 20 Town Hall and Recreation Offices will be closed for a deep cleaning and sanitization.
Monday March 23 through Friday March 27, Town Hall and Recreation offices will be closed to the public, with employees available from 10am and 4pm to conduct business via phone, email and website.
In addition, Supervisor Meyers is declaring a State of Emergency in the Town of New Windsor. THIS IS ONLY A FORMALITY, to ensure the Town is eligible for reimbursement for expenses occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it also removes restrictions on the bidding process.
Please contact Supervisor Meyers office at (845) 563-4610 or email [email protected] with any questions or concerns.
30 Day Public Notice Review and Comment Update Hazard Mitigation Plan
TOWN OF NEW WINDSOR TOWN BOARD
NOTICE OF THIRTY (30) DAY PUBLIC REVIEW AND COMMENT PERIOD FOR THE ADOPTION OF AN UPDATE TO TOWN-WIDE HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN
The Town of New Windsor is preparing an update of their previously adopted 2016 Hazard Mitigation Plan. This update to the Plan allows the Town to remain eligible for future Federal and New York State mitigation and disaster funding.
Public notice is hereby given that the Town of New Windsor Town Board is soliciting public review and comment on its Draft Hazard Mitigation Plan for a period of thirty (30) days commencing on January 15, 2021 and continuing through February 15, 2021. The Town Board has therefore directed the Town Clerk to post a complete copy of the Draft Hazard Mitigation Plan on the Town of New Windsor’s website at: www.newwindsor-ny.gov for public review and comment. In addition, a complete copy of the Draft Hazard Mitigation Plan is on file and available for inspection in the Town Clerk’s Office located at the Town of New Windsor Town Hall, 555 Union Avenue, New Windsor, New York 12553. Current Town Hall business hours are, by appointment only, Monday through Friday, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
The Town of New Windsor Town Board is holding a public hearing on the draft Plan at its March 3, 2021 Town Board Meeting at 555 Union Avenue, New Windsor, New York 12553, at 7:00 p.m.
Due to public health and safety concerns related to COVID-19 and in accordance with Executive Orders issued by the Governor of the State of New York, the Town intends to conduct this hearing remotely. Please check the Town’s website and Facebook page prior to the Public Hearing for updates, which may be necessary due to a lifting of the Governor’s Executive Order. If conducted remotely, the public can view the hearing on the Town’s official Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/NewWindsorNY/) or listen by telephone. Information on how to listen by telephone will be posted before the meeting on the Town’s website at http://newwindsor-ny.gov/New-Windsor-Connect/Online-Meetings (a link to this page can also be found on the top right hand side of the Town’s homepage at http://newwindsor-ny.gov/). Any member of the public that wants to be heard regarding the Draft Hazard Mitigation Plan may email questions or comments, before or during the hearing, to [email protected] Every effort will also be made to give the public the opportunity to participate in the hearing via videoconference. Instructions on how to participate will be posted before the hearing on the Town’s Facebook page and on the Town’s website, at the web address listed above.
The Town Board and the Hazard Mitigation Planning Committee are inviting input on the Plan from surrounding municipalities and all interested parties. All persons wishing to be heard will be given the opportunity to speak at the public hearing, in accordance with above protocols, or may submit written comments to: [email protected] on or before March 3, 2021.
Supervisor Meyers announces cancellations due to ongoing Coronavirus Pandemic
In light of recent developments with the coronavirus pandemic and the public health emergency in New York State, Supervisor George Meyers is taking the following actions to limit exposure to town employees and the public. These protective measures are being taken to assure the operation of local government in the safest manner possible for the public and our employees during this public health crisis.
All Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals meetings, public hearings and workshops are canceled until further notice.
Justice Court appearances and hearings before Justice Meyers (Tuesdays) and Justice Calderin (Thursdays) are canceled until further notice. The Court will notify you of a new appearance date once the coronavirus pandemic passes.
All Recreation programs and activities are canceled until further notice, including the town’s annual Easter Egg hunt.
Supervisor Meyers is requesting anyone having business with the Town of New Windsor use the telephone, email, online services, or US Mail to conduct business and avoid coming into Town Hall or the Recreation Offices. New Windsor offers online utility bill payments, court fines and fees payments, online FOIL requests, online mapping, and more on our website at newwindsor-ny.gov.
New Windsor Police and New Windsor Ambulance have instituted health safety protocols to protect their members and provide uninterrupted service to our residents and the general public.
Please check the Town website, Facebook page, and register for text notifications on our website at newwindsor-ny.gov for updated information.
New Windsor Community Day
Join us this year for over 180 vendors & community groups, over 20+ food vendors, and MUCH more! A fun filled day for the entire family! Free parking and free admission all day long with fireworks ending the night at 8:30pm!!
Please visit our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/NEWWINDSORCOMMUNITYDAY for the most up to date information!
For vendors,sponsors, and general information please visit the event's website: https://www.newwindsorcommunityday.com/
Notice of Public Hearing: Temporary moratorium on all development approvals
TOWN OF NEW WINDSOR
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Town Board of the Town of New Windsor will hold a public hearing on the 5th day of February, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. in Town Hall, 555 Union Avenue, New Windsor, New York, to consider a Local Law to establish a temporary moratorium on all development approvals in the Town of New Windsor.
Said Public Hearing will be held during the regularly scheduled Town Board meeting and will be part of the livestream of same on the Town’s Facebook page, which can be accessed at https://www.facebook.com/NewWindsorNY/
A copy of the proposed Local Law can be found on the homepage of the Town’s website at http://newwindsor-ny.gov/
BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD
KELLY ALLEGRA,
Update from Supervisor Meyers on New Windsor precautions in response to the Coronavirus Pandemic
Based on the recommendation of New York State that local governments have 50% of employees working remotely due to the spread of COVID-19, Supervisor Meyers is taking action for the health and safety of our employees and ensuring our government continues to function for New Windsor residents. Town Departments are having employees work from home or in split shifts where possible without affecting services to the public. The New Windsor Police and New Windsor Ambulance are taking extra precautions to protect their officers and staff. Additional precautions are being taken with our highway, water and sewer departments to ensure staff availability to run critical town infrastructure.
Town Hall is still open to the public for the time being, however the Town is encouraging the public not to come to Town Hall or our Recreation department unless it absolutely necessary. Please conduct business via phone, email, online or via US mail where possible. New Windsor offers online utility bill payments, court fines and fees payments, online FOIL requests, online mapping, and more on our website at newwindsor-ny.gov.
Above all, Supervisor Meyers would like to assure the public that even if Town Hall does close to the public, the New Windsor government will continue to function and provide all critical services to our residents. We will continue to provide residents and businesses with information as it becomes available.
Legal Notice - 6M Bond for Town Roads
Legal Notice - 275 K Bond for Town Hall Parking Lot
Supervisor Meyers contacting state and county officials regarding COVID-19 vaccine location in New Windsor
Town Hall Open by Appointment Only: Monday-Friday, 11am-3pm
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Another Associated Press Scandal: Wire Service Covers Up Black-Male-on-White-Male Rape Spree
Published 2:32 a.m., December 29, 2006.
Last updated 4:53 a.m., December 29, 2006.
What Did the AP Know, and When Did It Know It?
Imagine you were a member of a group being targeted by a serial rapist, but the media refused to provide you with this urgent information, which in the age of AIDS and resistant forms of venereal disease, could protect you from having your life destroyed or even ended, because it didn't like the way the truth looked? Or imagine you wanted to learn about the prevalence of rape but you couldn't, because the media refused to provide the public with the real story? Or you're simply a citizen who wants to be informed, as an end-in-itself?
There is nothing theoretical about the above questions. In and around Baytown, TX, since April an armed serial rapist – "a clean-shaven black man, 18-21 years old... [5'10"-6' tall] and with a shaved head" and carrying a backpack -- has been targeting small, frail, white men, 18-21 years of age, who live in their parents' houses. The last reported rape was committed on November 30. And yet, the Associated Press doesn't want potential victims, students of rape, or inquisitive citizens to know the truth.
Racial Profiling, in the Real World
In an 18 December story, Houston-based Associated Press reporter Joe Stinebaker refused to identify the race of the Baytown rapist's victims, even though they were almost surely chosen based on their race, and knowing that the black rapist attacks only smallish, frail, young white men is an essential piece of information for potential victims to protect themselves, and for residents to look out for, in preventing further rapes, and possibly helping to catch the assailant.
The rapist -- who also robs his victims -- has so far victimized at least five young white men in and around Baytown, at 30-60 day intervals; the Baytown police are sure he's raped more men than that, but surmise that other victims have so far been too ashamed to come forward. The rapist's m.o. is to pick out a victim, stalk him for a time, ensure that he is alone, and then confront him either just outside of his house, or break into the house and confront him inside, first robbing and then raping him. The rapist favors a gun, but has also used a knife; he is always armed.
(If Baytown police can be certain that the local rapist has violated more white men, is it not equally likely that there are more black rapists loose, racially profiling and violating white men?)
Baytown is an oil refinery (ExxonMobil, Chevron Phillips, and Amoco) and chemical plant-dominated (Exxon Chemical and Bayer) city of 66,430 souls (2000 census) on Texas' Coastal Plains, in Harris County, where Houston is the county seat. The city's information page puts it "on the northern shore of Galveston Bay" between Houston on its eastern flank, with Beaumont to the west, and Galveston to the north, and provides a photograph of a peninsula jutting into the bay.
News accounts of rape often hide behind euphemisms such as "sexual assault," but "homosexual rape" means just that. A man violates the anus of another man, forcing his sexual member into a place not designed to accommodate it, tearing the flesh, and ejaculating into the delicate, bloodied tissues. If the rapist is HIV+, he will almost certainly infect his victim, thus ending the latter's chance at ever having a normal sex life, and possibly, any life at all.
Unprotected homosexual intercourse is far and away the most high-risk form of sex for the transmission of HIV; no other sex act even comes close.
Since the rapist is targeting exclusively young white men, we are also talking about racist hate crimes and civil rights violations.
Since 1999, the American public has continuously been inundated, via Big Media, by phony claims of innocent black males being "racially profiled" and even murdered by the authorities. But when a real case of racial profiling arises, Big Media fall silent. Imagine the outcry, coast to coast, if a white man were targeting and raping young black men. (While I am convinced that the notion of hate crimes is unconstitutional, as long as white men are going to be charged with them, blacks who target victims based on the latter's race must also be so charged.)
AP reporter Joe Stinebaker buried victims' description of the rapist in the penultimate paragraph of his 252-word December 18 story. That was because many readers quit reading a news story early on.
Stinebaker's last paragraph read, "The victims have all been men in their late teens."
Just "men."
One police press rep (surprise, surprise!) Stinebaker quoted also was anything but helpful.
"'I wish we had a link between the victims, because we might have a better chance of catching him,' said Lt. Richard Whitaker of the police department in Baytown, where took of the attacks took place. 'We don't have any affirmative links at all.'"
Try that they were all "white, smallish, frail men, between the ages of 18 and 21, and all lived in their parents' house," Lieutenant.
That’s what police call, "fitting the profile." If Stinebaker quoted Lt. Whitaker exactly and in context, the Lieutenant was saying that there is no profile.
Lt. Whitaker did not return my telephone messages requesting comment for this story.
The socialist MSM's smearing of police as racist thugs notwithstanding, the truth is that thousands of police departments all over America are almost as politically correct as your average university sociology department.
The reader may well be wondering how I know that the AP is suppressing information. What are my sources?
In a Houston Chronicle story that was posted to the newspaper's Website on Dec. 16, 2006 at 2:51 P.M. (i.e., exactly fifty hours before Joe Stinebaker's AP story was posted around the country), Cindy Horswell reported,
But what makes this case so unusual is that women are not the target. So far the five victims have all been young, white males in their late teens or early 20s, mostly students still living at their parents' homes.
The attacker is described as a light-skinned black male, clean-cut and nicely dressed, in his late 20s. He stands 5-foot-6 to 6 feet tall and weighs about 200 pounds.
Far from burying the most essential information at the end of her article, or even suppressing it altogether, Horswell put it all in the second and third paragraphs of her 728-word story, where they belong.
"Who?" "What?" "When?" "Where?" "How?" are still the essential questions that every news story – even more so every crime story – must answer. Answering them does not mean burying the information at the end of the story, much less not publishing it at all.
Kudos to Cindy Horswell.
The AP Stonewall
I first contacted AP on December 20 to ask Joe Stinebaker why his story lacked such essential information. That contact was a mere formality; unlike every single other American press organization I know of, AP refuses to provide telephone numbers or even eddresses, where readers, journalists, and researchers may contact its writers. And if that weren't bad enough, the AP demands that anyone seeking to contact one of its staffers, write to its media relations department at info@ap.org. I provided my telephone number, in addition to my eddress, in a request to Jack Stokes, AP's director of media relations. Stokes never responded.
"Media relations" at the AP is a euphemism for institutionalized stonewalling.
This is not the first time that I sought a response for a story from the AP's corporate lords. In early September 2004, when I wrote a story on the "Boosgate" hoax that AP reporter Tom Hays had engineered, I repeatedly emailed and called AP's offices, requesting comment before going to press, but never got a response.
In my experience, AP is much worse than non-media corporations, in its refusal to respond to journalists. When I call a Fortune 500 company for a comment on a story, I often get a call-back within the hour.
Get the Story!
Having no time to waste on stonewalling operations, on 21 December I bypassed the "suits" and sought out Joe Stinebaker on my own, but was informed that he was on vacation until 2 January, using up accumulated time, as was his editor, Wendy Benjaminson. However, an AP source assured me that AP reporter John Porretto had done a follow-up to Stinebaker's story, in which Porretto had spent a full day in Baytown during the middle of last week, and had written a story on the case that would include the victims' race that would appear on news Web sites last Friday (22 December) night, for the Saturday edition.
I searched the Web for Porretto's story last Friday night, and ever since. Finally, the 762-word story was posted at, among other places, the Houston Chronicle's Web site Tuesday at 2:05 p.m. But after being held back for four days, Porretto's story still failed to mention the race of the victims. (Wouldn't you love to have been a fly on the wall at the editorial meetings during that period, when Porretto's article was discussed?)
A Half-Truth is a Whole Lie
Meanwhile, Democratic Party strategist, law professor, and rape victim Susan Estrich wrote a syndicated column based on the Baytown rapist story that went out on Christmas Eve. In "Male rapes occur, and it's time to address them," Estrich used the Baytown case to press the point that male-on-male rape is a real problem that has been swept under the rug. Estrich's column was a perfect case of "a half-truth is a whole lie," in which she swept the problem of black-on-white male rape under the rug.
Again, since the vast majority of prison rapes are perpetrated by black men, this "real problem" Estrich speaks of, has a distinctly racial dimension about which she maintains silence.
More Rapes are Committed Against Men than Against Women
As I have -- or rather, as Human Rights Watch has shown, male-on-male prison rape is a huge problem, particularly black-male-on-white-male prison rape. Indeed, in her 2001 report for Human Rights Watch, No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons lawyer-investigator Joanne Mariner revealed,
Past studies have documented the prevalence of black on white sexual aggression in prison. These findings are further confirmed by Human Rights Watch's own research. Overall, our correspondence and interviews with white, black, and Hispanic inmates convince us that white inmates are disproportionately targeted for abuse. Although many whites reported being raped by white inmates, black on white abuse appears to be more common. To a much lesser extent, non-Hispanic whites also reported being victimized by Hispanic inmates.
Based on her reading of studies by prison rape scholars, Joanne Mariner estimated that more men than women are raped each year in the U.S.
I would not be at all surprised to find that the Baytown rapist is an ex-con who developed a taste for raping white men while in prison. The victims he has targeted match almost all of the characteristics of prisoners targeted for rape that Joanne Mariner cited in her study. (Mariner cited one more characteristic -- that of seeming delicate or vulnerable or slightly feminine, which I don't see any American newspaper citing in this day and age, though Los Angeles Times reporter Lianne Hart’s quote -- see two paragraphs below -- of a Baytown police captain’s roundabout description of the relative sizes of perpetrator and victims, is close enough.)
As America’s prisons are practically laboratories for the production of HIV by violent convicts who often deliberately infect other prisoners, let us hope the Baytown rapist is not also HIV+.
Public health researchers Hammett, Harmon, and Rhodes estimated that in 1997, 7.5-10 percent (150,000-200,000) of America’s prison population was HIV+.
Honest Reporters
Another non-AP reporter who did her job on the Baytown rapist story is the Los Angeles Times' Liane Hall. In a Christmas Eve story, Hall revealed the victims' race, as well as suggesting that they were small and frail – "… 'fairly identical in stature,' [Baytown Police Capt. Roger] Clifford said. 'He's bigger and can dominate them.'"
(Hall's story also appeared on Christmas Day in the
Dallas-Forth Worth Star-Telegram, which keeps its Web stories up longer than the L.A. Times.)
Kudos to Liane Hall.
As one might expect, local news operations had been way out in front of the national organizations.
An 18 December story posted at the Web site of Houston's KHOU-TV Channel 11 looked odd. It was credited to the "Associated Press," yet included the victims’ race in its description, in the final paragraph.
Note, however, that when a news organization buys an AP article, it is not obliged to run it as is. It may cut an article for space or content considerations, or supplement it with material it has uncovered through its own staffers, and/or through other media organizations.
The KHOU staffer I spoke to, who requested anonymity, "We actually did the story before that. I guess, let's see, the police department gave us that information," as to the victims' description. "We actually did that story on December 4."
The KHOU source insisted that it was AP that had used KHOU material, not the other way around.
Kudos to KHOU.
And kudos to Houston TV's Channel 2 News, which already on 16 December ran a 256-word story, whose fourth paragraph read,
The five known victims have been white men in their late teens or early 20s, many who are students still living in their parents' homes.
I saved the Channel 2 story for last, because it too ran under an "Associated Press" byline, but it was obviously supplemented by Channel Two News staffers, who added the victims' race and an indirect quote from Sgt. Bryan Pair of the Harris County Sheriff's Office, neither of which were in any other AP version of the story.
Associated Propaganda
The AP cover-up is significant for two reasons. First, AP is, with the New York Times, one of the two most influential news organizations in America. Through its over 1,000 print, radio, and TV outlets in America and abroad, AP reaches as many as one billion people per year; Joe Stinebaker's censored male rape story was published as far away as India. The New York Times also publishes many AP stories. And across the country, newspapers large and small buy much of their non-local news from AP.
Indeed, newspapers even buy local news from AP. Thus, we were treated to the spectacle of the Houston Chronicle running Joe Stinebaker's racially censored AP story on the Baytown rapist on 18 December, two days after the newspaper had run Chronicle reporter Cindy Horswell's more informative story on the same topic. And on 26 December, the Chronicle ran John Porretto's racially censored story.
Although for years, the conventional wisdom has held that the news business is dominated by TV, and more recently, the orthodox "unconventional" wisdom has held that the Internet has made newspapers obsolete, the New York Times and AP are more powerful than ever. While local TV news focuses on fires, car accidents, bad weather and murders, national TV news organizations set up their news day according to what they read the night before in the New York Times and/or from AP.
And so, for most of the public, the revised version of the philosophical chestnut becomes, If the AP or the New York Times didn’t report an event, did it happen?
Presently, the top of AP's home page has a link to a statement of support for Pulitzer Prize-winning Iraqi AP photographer Bilal Hussein, who is in U.S. military custody. (Yet another tainted Pulitzer.) What the AP statement leaves out, is that Hussein is a terrorist suspect whom U.S. military authorities found with traces of explosives on his person. Perhaps AP's corporate chieftains deemed the reasons for Hussein's detention irrelevant. Meanwhile, AP VP for Corporate Communications Ellen Hale issued a statement in which she misrepresented the Geneva Conventions and U.S. military law, in saying that "AP is insisting that the U.S. military follow accepted due process under the law and the Geneva Conventions..."
Those charged with being unlawful combatants, of colluding with them, or of being spies or saboteurs, are specifically excluded from the protections of the Geneva Conventions, and U.S. Military law is no more generous.
Second, not content to censor and suppress the news, AP engineers hoaxes in which it publishes fake news. I already cited its "Boosgate" hoax. It has also published staged photographs shot by Bilal Hussein.
More recently, AP reporters have been exposed for piping quotes, which they attributed to a non-existent Iraqi Police spokesman named "Jamil Hussein."
A number of years before the War in Iraq, Saddam Hussein was able to plant a spy within the AP.
(The AP is also guilty of pedestrian socialist media bias, as in the cases of its reporters Tim Martin and Jennifer Loven, and a passel of AP stories analyzed by the Republican Media Research Center's Newsbusters Web site.)
AP is especially egregious in matters of interracial rape. It has suppressed reporting on black-male-on-white-female gang rapes, such as the January 21, 2006 case from Henrico County near Richmond, VA, in which four black students (some of whom had been athletes) at black Virginia Union University were charged with gang-raping a white coed from the University of Richmond's Westhampton College for women. John Patrick Cates, 21, and Brian Anthony Ridgeway, 24, were eventually convicted of rape in early November for the attack, but may serve token terms of less than five years in prison. A third attacker, Julian Dewayne Williams, 21, pleaded guilty to assault and battery, and will not spend more than four months in prison, even though he participated in a vicious gang rape, and charges against a fourth man, Sherrod Donte Jeffrey Jr., 21, were dismissed altogether.
Although the AP ran a brief local story on the arrests, its national team shunned it, and I had to find out the disposition of the case through The Collegian, a student newspaper at the University of Richmond.
Kudos to The Collegian's Sloan DeVilbiss.
And kudos, too, to the local Richmond Times-Dispatch, which ran a more detailed story on the convictions of Cates and Ridgeway, but oddly, left out the reporter's byline.
By contrast, when Duke rape-hoaxer Crystal Gail Mangum first made her false charges against Duke lacrosse team members, AP declined to report that not only is white-male-on-black-female rape a crime so rare as to be statistically non-existent (accounting for 0.0 percent of all rapes in a given year), but that white-male-on-black-female gang rape has actually been non-existent nationally in recent years. AP also declined to report that in Duke's Durham, NC home, as my Autonomist editor, Rocco DiPippo reported, black men have for years made a sport of raping white women. Meanwhile, three innocent young white men stood to spend the rest of their lives in jail for crimes that had never been committed.
AP's "reporters" and "editors" declined to inform their readers that between 2001 and 2003, blacks committed, on average, 15,400 black-male-on-white-female rapes per year, while whites committed, on average, only 900 white-male-on-black-female rapes per year. Since there are five-and-one-half as many white as black males in this country, that means that black males rape white females over ninety times as frequently as white males rape black females.
The [Department of Justice's National Crime Victimization Survey] tells us that interracial multiple-offender offenses are even more lopsidedly black than interracial crime as a whole. In fact, whereas blacks [males] committed 10,000 gang-rapes against whites [females] between 2001 and 2003, the NCVS samples did not pick up a single "white" [including Hispanic]-on-black [female] gang rape.
The material in the previous two paragraphs (and the quoted text in the latter paragraph), while all deriving from the federal Department of Justice, was published in the 2005 state-of-the-art report, The Color of Crime, which was published by the New Century Foundation, which also publishes American Renaissance magazine.
But suppressing the news wasn't enough for the folks at AP. In late April, they ran a hoax article by one of their national propagandists, New York-based Erin Texeira, in which she quoted young black women who complained of routinely suffering boorish and sexually abusive behavior from white men.
The young black women can almost finish each other's stories. They go to a party, a concert, a nightclub. Twenty-somethings of all colors are flirting and dancing. And then it happens.
Inevitably, a woman says, a white man asks her to dance erotically while he watches. Or he grabs her rear end. Or asks for sex, in graphic detail, without bothering to ask her name.
Many of Texeira's quotes, if they were quotes, were recycled lines that black racists had used to complain about Halle Berry’s Oscar win in 2002. The complaints were that in Berry’s movies she was always sleeping with white men (John Travolta in Swordfish, and Billy Bob Thornton in Monster’s Ball), and/or doing strip teases for them (Warren Beatty in Bulworth), which the blacks considered racial outrages. And Texeira made it clear that she was aware of the complaints, since she referred to them later in the story.
Anyone with any experience in such racially mixed situations in today's America knows that were a white man to mistreat a young black female in such a fashion, that the female would slap or punch him and scream, at which point, every black (and likely, Hispanic, too) male in the vicinity would immediately pummel the white. Young black women do, however, endure such lewd, crude behavior all the time -- from black boys and men.
White men are notoriously timid around black women, and with good reason. In New York, in a practice going even beyond Jim Crow, it has for many years been a pastime for black females of all social strata to casually assault white men in public. The black females know that if the white man defends himself, he will be beaten to a pulp by every nearby black and Hispanic male, while whites will either stand around and do nothing, or support the racist thugs, and the white victim may even be arrested for a racial attack. And if the white man does nothing to defend himself, the black female will at minimum enjoy having racially humiliated him.
Such is the racial power that every black female in America today possesses. I call the world that grants them such power, Jim Snow.
A reporter is guilty of journalistic fraud, whether she "pipes" fictitious quotes or uncritically quotes transparent lies. Erin Texeira was engaged in a form of journalistic jury tampering; she was seeking to predispose the jury in the Duke "rape" case to be biased against the white defendants and in favor of the hoaxer-plaintiff, and thereby to railroad three innocent young white men.
(Texeira's Duke story is but one performance from a veritable walking race hoax machine.)
In another exercise in fiction, on 1 July, Texeira "reported" that educated black men train themselves to act in a passive fashion, to try and put at ease frightened whites.
According to an influential leftist/black myth, crime is merely a "function" of poverty; blacks have a high poverty rate, and thus a high crime rate. And since poverty is due to white racism, and since the arrests, prosecutions, and convictions of black males are due to racial profiling, blacks are not at all to blame for their high crime rate.
Lies, lies, lies.
As has been proven ad nauseum, "racial profiling" is a hoax. As The Color of Crime showed, there is no correlation between poverty and crime. (And correlation isn’t causation, anyway.) And as I have previously pointed out, the 32.1 percent figure of black men aged 20-29 years old currently under criminal justice supervision (in jail or prison, or on probation or parole), is 33.2 percent higher than the black poverty rate of 24.1 percent.
The problem, as anyone living in an urban area knows, is that over the past twenty years or so, an increasing proportion of middle-class black men have adopted the thug life mentality. Although middle-class black men rage to collusive reporters, and write letters to newspapers about whites' unforgivable sin of seeing them as scary, the truth is that a substantial and ever-growing proportion of youngish, urban, black middle-class men is obsessed with intimidating whites, and becomes enraged when whites refuse to be intimidated.
So, there you have the AP's alternate universe of interracial rape, which for the wire service is in turn a microcosm of race relations, a world in which seemingly upstanding white men routinely assault and rape black women with impunity, and in which gentle, innocent black men must cope with racist white stereotypes and profiling.
(In the foregoing story, I used some material from reporter Ken Fountain of the Baytown Sun newspaper (free registration required); Fountain has been covering the Baytown Rapist story since at least 21 September. A tip o' the hat to VDARE columnist James Fulford, who blogged on this case back on 18 December.)
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James Robertson: Yet Another Federal Judge Gone Wild
Published at 5:06 p.m., Tuesday November 28, 2006.
Last revised at 11 p.m., Tuesday November 28, 2006.
When I got the FNC Alert below in my e-mail box at 4:44 p.m. today, I thought it had to be a joke. But sure enough, at Fox News, at 5 p.m., it was the headline at the top of the page, not yet linked to any stories. I checked the calendar; it isn’t April Fool’s Day.
“Breaking News >> Federal Judge Rules American Paper Money is Unfair to Blind People”
By 5:12, the headline had a story:
U.S. District Judge James Robertson said the Treasury Department has violated the law, and he ordered the government to come up with ways for the blind to tell bills apart.
Now the first thing that occurred to me was that this will make it easier to counterfeit money. And sure enough, Treasury made the same argument.
Government attorneys argued that forcing the Treasury Department to change the size of the bills or add texture would make it harder to prevent counterfeiting. Robertson was not swayed.
The good judge gave Treasury ten days to begin fixing the problem. How kind of him. I think Treasury would spend the time better, putting in its appeal.
"Of the more than 180 countries that issue paper currency, only the United States prints bills that are identical in size and color in all their denominations," Robertson wrote. "More than 100 of the other issuers vary their bills in size according to denomination, and every other issuer includes at least some features that help the visually impaired."
So, America is unique. I like that. As for Judge Robertson’s implied claim that every nation on earth has deliberately changed its currency, in order to aid the blind, if you believe that, I have a great deal for you on a slightly used bridge. His claim sounds like a sophistic hook the plaintiffs and the American Council of the Blind came up with, for friendly judges like Robertson to hang their hats on.
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, I can see changing their bills to accommodate the blind, not to mention in order to appease Moslems who see images of Mohammed everywhere, and currency cultists. But over 80 percent of the world's 200 or so nations would laugh at activists who demanded they change their currency for the blind … and then shoot them, and laugh some more. We’re talking about impoverished countries that are run by dictators, and where life is nasty, solitary, brutish, and short … but we're supposed to believe that the butcher-in-charge hops to, in order to change the currency for the sake of activists and their clients. (We’re also talking about countries whose currency is safe from counterfeiters, because it is worthless!)
What I think is going on here, is that the plaintiffs and their judge took the odd-sized foreign bills, and assumed that they had been changed to accommodate handicap activists.
"The fact that each of these features is currently used in other currencies suggests that, at least on the face of things, such accommodations are reasonable," he wrote.
He said the government was violating the Rehabilitation Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in government programs. The opinion came after a four-year legal fight.
"It's a landmark decision. I believe it will benefit millions of people," said Jeffrey A. Lovitky, attorney for plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, The Dominican Republic, Djibouti, Dominica, East Timor, Haiti, Vietnam, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, The Central African Republic, Congo I, Congo II, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Etiopía, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, India, The Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, The Maldives, Moldovo, Morocco, North Korea, Kosovo, Lesotho, Laos, Lebanon, Nigeria, Niger, Namibia, Mali, Chad, San Marino, Somalia, Somaliland, The Sudan, Swaziland, Suriname, Togo, Tanzania, Syria, Tajikistan, Russia, Latvia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Rwanda, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Red China, Palau (Palau?), Mauritania, Mauritius, Turkmenistan, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Yemen, and last but not least, good old Zimbabwe.
(I’m pretty geographically literate, as these things go, and yet a few dozen of this week’s new national names are Greek to me.)
How many of the 101 above-named nations – roughly half of those in the world today – do you see going broke, changing their currency to accommodate the blind?
This is the world we live in, not the world of Judge Robertson’s humanitarian fantasies.
The good judge’s claim that the federal government is in violation of the Rehabilitation Act is nonsense on stilts. Money is not a “government program.” If James Robertson gets away with redefining money as a government program, oh, the mischief that will ensue – on top of his own mischief, that is.
And for every person the turning upside down of American currency will benefit, it will wreak havoc for the hundred others who will have to foot the bill for the cost of printing up billions of new bills, and then foot the bill for billions of dollars in costs due to counterfeiting. Not to mention the millions of vending machines whose owners will then be sued by activists and attacked by the media as being guilty of “discrimination.” (Will Judge Robertson be around to claim ‘More than 100 of the other nations mandate that all vending machines take bills varied in size, according to denomination, and every other nation mandates that machines include at least some features that help the visually impaired”? I wouldn’t put it past him.) And the owners will get expensive new machines, whose costs will have to be borne by the 99 percent that will not benefit from them.
The Treasury has spent years and a fortune developing bills that are more difficult to counterfeit, something that Judge James Robertson evidently could care less about.
I can just hear someone say, “But what about justice?!” Yeah, what about it? This isn’t about justice, unless we redefine “justice” so that it means that certain selected groups can turn the world upside for everyone else, at everyone else’s expense, while everyone else is disenfranchised.
One other such group for whom the judge has a particular solicitude, is terrorists.
Mooks like James Robertson talk “justice,” but have contempt for the law, and for any notion of justice worthy of the name. What they have is loyalty to certain groups, enmity towards the rest of us, and a hubristic self-righteousness. Robertson and his ilk in the judiciary, the bar, and among activists and politicians are in a competition to see who can incur greater costs to the American taxpayer, and cause more damage to American society.
The Death of a President
Forty-three years ago yesterday, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States of America, was felled in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald, a communist, dishonorably discharged, ex-marine. For most of my life, November 22 was always commemorated as one of the darkest days in American history. In recent years, such commemoration seems to have been fading.
President Kennedy was riding that day in a motorcade with his wife, Jackie, Texas Gov. John Connally and the latter’s wife, Idanell (1919-2006), and Texan Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Kennedy had come to Texas to shore up a rift among Texas Democrats.
As soon as she saw her husband had been hit with gunfire, Mrs. Kennedy showed herself willing to sacrifice her own life, to save her husband’s. She threw herself across her husband, to shield his body from further gunfire with her own, as if she were a secret service agent, rather than America’s First Lady. Alas, it was too late.
Gov. Connally also was wounded, and his wife, Idanell Brill "Nellie" Connally (1919-2006), helped save his life by “pull[ing] the Governor onto her lap, and the resulting posture helped close his front chest wound (which was causing air to be sucked directly into his chest around his collapsed right lung).”
Later that day, aboard Air Force One, Vice President Johnson was sworn in as America’s 36th President.
On April 11, Oswald had attempted to assassinate rightwing Army Gen. Edwin Walker; one hour after assassinating the President, he murdered Dallas Patrolman J.W. Tippit, before being arrested in a Dallas movie theater. Two days later, Oswald was himself murdered by Jack Ruby, as lawmen sought to transfer Oswald from police headquarters to the Dallas City Jail.
Jack Kennedy has become, like his ersthwile fling, Marilyn Monroe, a Rohrschach Test, onto which people (particularly leftists) project their preoccupations. Thus do conspiracy obsessives project the notion that the President’s assassination had issued out of a conspiracy so immense, including at least two assassins, with the identity of the specific participants – the Cosa Nostra, the CIA, Fidel Castro – depending on the imaginings of the obsessive in question.
Likewise has Kennedy’s presidency been fetishized by leftwing obsessives and family retainers, who have turned him into a socialist demigod, who supported massive economic redistribution and radical “civil rights.”
The best way of summing up the real JFK versus the fantasy version propagated by the Left and Kennedy courtiers since his death, is by comparison and contrast to President Richard M. Nixon, Kennedy’s opponent in the 1960 election.
Kennedy has been portrayed as a leftwing saint and Renaissance man, who gave us or supported (or would have, had he lived) the War on Poverty, civil rights for blacks, and utopia. Nixon, by contrast, was a rightwing Mephistopheles (“Tricky Dick”), and a crude, racist, fascist warmonger.
Politically, Kennedy and Nixon actually had much in common. Both were unapologetic anti-communists in matters domestic and foreign. Nixon successfully prosecuted for perjury the traitor and Soviet spy, Alger Hiss (which inspired the Left to work tirelessly thereafter for Nixon’s destruction), while Kennedy (“Ich bin ein Berliner.”) was an unequivocal supporter of West Berlin against Soviet imperialism, and risked nuclear war, when he faced down the Soviets during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. (Due to the statute of limitations, Nixon could not prosecute Hiss for treason or espionage.) On the negative side of the ledger, Kennedy betrayed the Cuban insurgents who carried out the Bay of Pigs invasion, by withholding promised air support, thus turning the invasion into a fiasco.
Domestically, at least in fiscal matters, Kennedy was considerably to the right of Nixon. Early in Kennedy’s administration, he signed off on what was then the biggest tax cut ever, and which set the economy on fire. In light of Kennedy’s fiscal conservatism and belief in self-reliance (“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”), it is highly unlikely that he would have signed off on a program for massive government welfare programs. The War on Poverty was the idea of Lyndon Johnson, who exploited the nation’s mourning for JFK to ram his programs through Congress.
By contrast, Nixon introduced price and wage controls, a move that was far to the left economically of the Democratic Party, even after Kennedy. And it was Nixon, the hated “racist,” not Kennedy or even Johnson, who institutionalized affirmative action. Note that over 30 percent of blacks voted for Nixon for president, over three times as high a proportion than ever would vote for George W. Bush for president.
For over thirty years, leftist Democrats have sought to tar and feather Nixon as a “racist” for his “Southern Strategy” of appealing to Southern whites with promises of “law and order.” The presuppositions of the leftist critics are: 1. If one is not a leftist, one may not campaign for the votes of groups that may potentially vote for one, but rather must hopelessly chase after the votes of people who will never vote for him, thereby guaranteeing his defeat; and 2. Because the explosion in crime was primarily the fault of blacks, no politician may ever campaign on behalf of “law and order” (in other words, see #1).
Since leftists have long controlled the media and academia, no successful counter-movement has ever been waged against the Democrat Northern Strategy that continues to this day inflaming and relying on racist blacks for their votes and their violence.
If anything, Nixon was a stronger supporter of “civil rights” than Kennedy. When Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested during the 1960 presidential campaign, Nixon wanted to call King’s parents in support, but let his advisers talk him out of it. Conversely, Kennedy let his adviser, future senator Harris Wofford, talk him into calling “Daddy” King, which resulted in Kennedy winning the black vote.
In August 1963, the Poor People’s March, in which Martin Luther King Jr. would give his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, was almost shut down by the Kennedy Administration without King even getting to speak.
The march had been organized by A. Philip Randolph, the legendary socialist founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the nation’s first successful black labor union. Randolph was planning on giving a radical leftwing speech written by Stanley Levison, a communist advisor to both Randolph and King, but as historian David Garrow tells in his biography, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the President’s brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, acting in his brother’s name, threatened literally to pull the plug on the demonstration, were Randolph to deliver the planned speech. Randolph relented, and gave a considerably toned-down speech.
There is no record, to my knowledge, of Nixon ever censoring a political speech, much less one by a civil rights leader.
As for Southeast Asia, Kennedy got us involved in the War in Vietnam; Nixon got us out.
Kennedy repeatedly jeopardized national security, both as a naval intelligence officer during World War II, and while President, due to his obsessive womanizing. By contrast, even Nixon’s sworn enemies have failed to find any evidence of his cheating on his beloved wife, Pat.
And as for the two men’s intellectual status, Nixon was clearly superior. The notion that Kennedy was an intellectual the planned product of a PR campaign engineered and financed by the future president’s father, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.. The elder Kennedy got his son’s undistinguished, pro-appeasement (echoing the elder Kennedy, who was a Nazi sympathizer) Harvard senior thesis, Why England Slept, published as a book, after having it rewritten by erstwhile family retainer, New York Times columnist Arthur Krock (whom JFK would later stab in the back, using future Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee as his tool of choice); later, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Profiles in Courage, was ghostwritten for JFK by another family retainer, Theodore Sorensen, in order to give the young senator the “gravitas” necessary for a run at the White House. Working on behalf of JFK and Joe Kennedy, Arthur Krock campaigned relentlessly on behalf of the fraudulent work, and succeeded in gaining it the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for biography, yet another fraudulent Pulitzer that has never been rescinded.
Nixon, on the other hand, really did write a series of important books on politics. But although Nixon was a true Renaissance man, he was a Republican, and so while the Kennedy hagiography of the press, Hollywood, and academia would slavishly promote the myth of Kennedy as Renaissance man, in the same parties’ corresponding demonography of Nixon, the last thing they were going to do was to give Nixon due credit for his very real intellectual accomplishments.
So, where does that leave us? Must we choose between the fictional but pervasive image of JFK as Renaissance man, socialist, and compassionate civil rights supporter, or Garry Wills’ revised version, in which Kennedy appears as a ruthless, pathologically lying sociopath?
If we jettison our illusions about the political leaders we support being compassionate, kindly, fatherly (or insert your romanticized cliché of choice) types, and admit that the ruthless, pathologically lying sociopath has been a frequent Oval Office type, that still does not free us from the obligation of weighing the virtues of this sociopath against that one.
While it is ludicrous to speak of a man who inhabited the office for only two years and ten months as a “great president,” John F. Kennedy had his moments. He gave us a tax cut of historic dimensions, stood up to the Soviets, founded the Peace Corps, and started the race to the moon that culminated in 1969, with Neil Armstrong’s world historical walk.
GOP’s 50-Year Reich Collapses!
Immediately after the 2004 election, many Republicans smugly predicted that the GOP would rule – as in, both houses of Congress and the White House – for fifty years. Well, this must be the year 2054, because it’s over. Republicans were crushed in House races, losing at least 23 seats, and even in the Senate, where although the dust has not yet settled, it looks as though the Democrats have also won the Senate.
Everything worked for the Democrats – gay-baiting, in the case of Cong. Mark Foley (R-FL), and race-baiting, in the case of Sen. George Allen (R-VA), the Jewish junior senator from Virginia. (Don’t accuse me of Jew-baiting – he’s one of my people!)
The wrong conclusions are almost guaranteed to be drawn from this election. We’re not hearing about the President’s base, which stayed home. I’ve been saying for at least a year that George W. Bush holds his Christian Evangelical base in contempt. One month before the election, the Evangelical advisor who was one of the people who had initially run the White House’s faith-based initiative, came out with a book in which he told of White House aides rolling their eyes and speaking derisively of prominent Evangelical leaders as “nuts.”
The media and other politicians are going to see this election purely as a referendum on the war, while ignoring the President’s Open Borders policy.
As Fox News’ Shepherd Smith observed, “There has never been a civilization in history that has survived that hasn’t controlled its own borders.”
Smith also quipped, regarding the close Virginia senate race, in which conservative Democrat former Navy Secretary James Webb currently (2 a.m., Wednesday morning) leads neoconservative Republican Sen. George Allen by 5,700 votes, “Virginia is for Lawyers.” “There will be a recount, and then there will be lawyers.”
As far as the war is concerned, will any of our best and brightest rethink their approach to warfare? Don’t hold your breath. If our leaders continue to construe of “war” in such a vague, open-ended, utopian fashion (“nation-building,” “exporting democracy,” etc.), then no matter how many victories our side achieves, they will keep expanding the mission until we are defeated. And if we fight “multicultural” wars, in which the rules of engagement are perverted, and our troops require the permission of lawyers (female, natch), before they may fire on a terrorist leader; and our soldiers and Marines must stand by and watch while the streets erupt in chaos and looting, so that the media will not show white American men killing Arabs; if the enemy is permitted to turn mosques into ammo dumps, mustering centers, and embattlements, while our boys are handcuffed from fighting accordingly; and if we are not so much as permitted to name the enemy, or to even name our operations as we see fit, because it might offend the enemy, then we might as well all bend over for the Religion of Terror right now, because America will never win another war under those terms.
Yet another mistake was in claiming that all people, everywhere, want the same things we do (peace and democracy). Arabs will die before they’ll accept peace, and they will vote, if necessary, to end democracy.
There was a realpolitik case to be made for war, and I made it, in early 2003. But I never supported a multicultural war.
Many conservative and Republican voters stayed home over immigration. While I can’t say how many did, it was enough to tip Congress over to the Democrats. The two geniuses, George W. Bush and Karl Rove, can take credit for that, though I doubt they will.
Our Enemy is in the Sand
Originally published on March 18, 2003
Whom to Fight?
The problem with fighting our Moslem enemies, as many observers have noted, is that the terrorists never identify themselves with any particular nation. Thus, each Moslem nation – excepting the Saudis – enjoys plausible deniability regarding its role in 911. What no one, to my knowledge, has noted, however, is that deniability cuts both ways. Just as Islam could not openly declare war on America, America cannot openly declare war on Islam. But we can fight Islamic nations, while denying that we are fighting Islam.
Were America to declare war on Islam, we would instantly have one billion unified enemies, in addition to our non-Moslem enemies, the French, the Germans, the Russians, the Chinese, the Swedes, et al. Were world Islam to declare war on America, we would immediately cut off foreign aid to all Islamic nations, and pick off one Islamic nation at a time (which we may have to do, in any event). The others would then surely find the relevant passage in the Koran telling them that they are not obliged to bring about Armageddon, and sue for peace.
In the best-possible scenario, following the war on Iraq, any Islamic nation – even Saudi Arabia – we asked to cooperate with us in rooting out the terrorists in their midst, would do all it could to help. As I said, that's the best-possible scenario.
Deniability regarding 911 is least plausible in the case of Saudi Arabia. It was their men, and their money, that took down the World Trade Center towers, a section of the Pentagon, and four airliners carrying Americans. Days after 911, a friend who was teaching in Saudi Arabia wrote that a local imam had argued in the newspaper, that suicide attacks were perfectly justified within Islam, as long as the suicide part was only a means to a greater end, and not an end in itself.
But Saudi Arabia is also home to Mecca, the capital of world Islam. Attacking the Saudis, while perfectly justifiable morally, would have nightmarish consequences. And yet, if all else fails, we may someday have to invade Saudi.
Many paleoconservatives suggest we do nothing, aside from eliminating all aid to Israel. (I haven't seen their calls to eliminate the billions we give to Arab states, like Egypt. I must have missed those articles.) They insist that there is no evidence of a connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda; between Hussein and the anthrax attacks; no evidence that Hussein has weapons of mass destruction (WMDs); and no evidence that Hussein is a greater threat to us than say, North Korea.
There is evidence of al Qaeda activity out of Baghdad, in the person of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. And we know darned well, that Saddam Hussein has WMDs; even the UN inspectors have reported that he has not accounted for WMDs he had prior to kicking out the inspectors in 1998, including 2,641 gallons of anthrax and an indeterminate amount of vx and Sarin nerve gases. Now it seems that Hussein even has a drone aircraft for the dispersal of chemical and biological weapons.
Some of the President's critics have insisted that North Korea is a bigger danger than Iraq. The New York Times' columnist Paul Krugman, for instance, insists that the president is insane, comparing him to the deranged, fictional skipper in Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny , Captain Queeg. Insisting that Iraq poses no danger to us, Krugman demands that Bush simply jerk over 200,000 U.S. troops out of the Persian Gulf. What Bush should do with those troops, Krugman does not say.
For a genius like Krugman, military brinkmanship is as easy as picking up a misdirected restaurant order from one table, and setting it down in front of a different customer. "Need I point out that North Korea, not Iraq, is the clear and present danger?," lectures Krugman, at once blending an air of superiority with the unintended self-caricature of a superficial, tenured academic with no realistic sense of the difference between armchair pronouncements and the movements of an armada, just this side of a conflagration.
The Los Angeles Times' Robert Scheer, is a lifelong apologist for communist imperialism who is well to the left of Krugman. As David Horowitz observes, regarding a rigged "debate" co-sponsored by the University of California School of Journalism and the L.A. Times, to which no conservatives or Republicans were invited,
"According to Scheer there is no reason now for the United States not to 'wait four months' to give the inspections time to work, while implying that he would then support a U.S. military action (something he has not done in his entire life) if they failed. No one on the platform discussed the difficulties of keeping 250,000 troops in the desert, during the summer heat, and spending a billion dollars a week to do it, while Democrats are complaining about the budget, and bivouacking them in an area where they would be a prime target of terrorist attacks."
As Horowitz notes, Scheer and his comrades have called on the U.S. to "contain" Hussein, arguing that containment worked against the Soviet Union, without disclosing that they had fought tooth and nail against containment, and surely would once again.
If Krugman, Scheer, and the other Americans playing the North Korea card, left and right, were serious, they would be making concrete proposals for action. Like our "sophisticated, worldly," French enemies, whom the critics adore, they just want to divert us from attacking Saddam, who in two to five years will have nuclear bombs, at which point the issue will be moot. Then they'll blame George W. Bush, for having missed his historic opportunity.
The real issue for many of the President's domestic critics – including many at the New York Times – has been keeping us out of war, so that George W. Bush can lose the 2004 election. On the left, ice-cold political calculations are at work. These people are not against military adventurism, let alone a rationally defensible war. They supported Bill Clinton's military adventures, which he undertook without Congressional authorization, and now deny that George W. Bush HAS Congressional authorization to make war.
When Bill Clinton was elected, I recall how socialist Times columnist Anthony Lewis, who was opposed to all military actions by GOP presidents, immediately began chafing at the bit, for Clinton to start dropping bombs.
Note that Saddam Hussein has violated the terms of the 1991 ceasefire in every way imaginable, from kicking out weapons inspectors in 1998, to hiding WMDs, to firing hundreds of times on allied planes, and even shooting down an unmanned drone, in the no-fly zones.
Tuesday, The New York Times repeated the standard line of those who may seem to be appeasers, but who are actually using Saddam Hussein, in order to hurt America.
"This page has never wavered in the belief that Mr. Hussein must be disarmed. Our problem is with the wrongheaded way this administration has gone about it."
Similarly, when Leslie Gelb, now the president of the Council of Foreign Relations, said on the Charlie Rose show Monday night, after the President's speech, that he supports a war on Iraq, just not the way the President is doing it, what the retired Timesman was really saying, was that he wouldn't support a Republican, no matter how right he was.
A law of ethics and politics, maintained by such different thinkers as Kant and Rousseau, states that if you desire certain ends, you desire the means to attain them. A consequence of that law, is that if you think you desire a certain end, for which there is only one means, and you shun it, you really don't desire the end. There is only one means for disarming Iraq – removing Saddam Hussein from power.
The Pakistan Option
Perhaps, instead of the Iraqis or the North Koreans, we should attack Pakistan. After all, Pakistani troops have fired on our troops across the border in Afghanistan, which constituted acts of war, the Pakistanis harbor al Qaeda terrorists, and the Pakistani people are in a fierce competition with the Saudis as to who loves the late Osama bin Laden more, and hates America the most.
But the Pakistanis are our "allies." What that means is that, although in a nation of 147 million people, perhaps only one person supports the U.S., that person happens to be dictator-general Parvez Musharraf. Musharraf has given us invaluable assistance, in hunting down al Qaeda leaders. Musharraf will probably meet the same fate as another pro-U.S., Islamic dictator-general, Egypt's Anwar Sadat, but at present he is useful, and usefulness is the most America can hope for from any Islamic nation.
Note, too, that the Pakistanis also have The Bomb, which complicates matters further, a complication we seek to prevent from arising in Iraq.
HomebodiesPaleoconservatives have also argued variously that America suffers from multiple domestic crises that are not being addressed, and that a war against Iraq would merely be for Israel's sake.
The notion that we must choose between addressing our domestic sovereignty issues and going to war was made by the often brilliant Paul Craig Roberts on a bad day.
The need to resolve one issue does not preclude pursuing the other. More recently, in an otherwise excellent column on the problem of U.S. corporations that engage in the pseudo-trade of "outsourcing" (Sending materials to countries where cheap labor makes products which are then "imported" to be sold to American consumers.), out of left field, Roberts suddenly expressed opposition to a war on Iraq:
"A country devoid of high productivity jobs is a poor country. Is the United States on the outsourced path to becoming a Third World country?
"The Bush administration should think about this question before it gratuitously attacks Iraq. The consequences of war in the Middle East are unknown."
Roberts sounds a little like "Osama bin Laden" on the gag videos David Letterman periodically plays on his show: "Dave, I just wanted to wish you a happy Valentine's Day." The tape seems to be over, but Osama catches himself, and adds, as an afterthought, "Oh, and death to America."
I guess we all have a lot on our minds these days.
Was 911 Our Fault?
The most enduring paleoconservative (and libertarian) argument against war, echoes the argument made by many on the Left:
'911 was a rational response to America's meddling in every corner of the world, and expressed Islamic anger at our support of Israel. We have made the world hate us. The proper thing to do is to come home from the four corners of the Earth, and not go off to war everywhere.'
The claim that America brought 911 on itself, makes perfect sense ... if you're a Moslem.
Over the past twenty-odd years, Moslem nations have accepted billions of dollars in aid from us, and let our military fight its battles in Kosovo and Kuwait.
The Moslem world may dream of the destruction of America, and cheer on attacks on America, but it also desperately desires congress with the Great Satan. It wants our oil money, our military protection (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Kosovo), our foreign aid money, our cigarettes and alcohol (albeit on the sly), and it even lusts after our women. Moslem hypocrisy is a bottomless pit; defenses of Moslem hatred of America reflect poorly on their advocates.
The Politics of Humiliation
Nine-eleven didn't happen because of America's aggression; it happened because of years of passive-aggressive behavior on America's part, and because Moslems have decided to take over the world. (I know, not all Moslems, but the rest will follow.) It followed a series of murderous attacks and humiliations of America by Moslem terrorists, most of which the U.S. simply "took," or which it permitted our Moslem "allies" (usually the Saudis) to cover up, and add insult to injury: Beirut (241 Marines killed, in 1983), Saudi Arabia (5 U.S. military advisers killed in Riyadh in 1995); Saudi again (19 serviceman killed and 500 wounded at the Khobar towers, in 1996); Kenya and Tanzania (260 dead, 5,500 wounded) and Yemen (17 sailors killed, and 39 wounded on the U.S.S. Cole, in 2000). And those are just some of the more notorious cases. Note too that almost half of the dead cited above, and the majority of the wounded were not Americans, but were nonetheless attacked, because our enemies considered it so important to murder Americans, that they considered any number of non-Americans who got in their way, collateral damage.
My historically-minded colleague, Allan Stover, dates the beginning of the Moslem war on the West to September 6, 1970. That was when "Islamic terrorists hijacked Swissair, TWA, and Pan Am airliners and blew them up. The next day, they attacked a British airliner and destroyed it." Stover continues, "That date, September 6, 1970, marked an Islamist declaration of war against Western nations. Sadly, we´ve been either too oblivious or too much in denial to realize that we´ve been in a state of war since then. The major attacks against America alone should have made that clear."
Our inability or unwillingness to properly retaliate has not only harmed us, but continually humiliated us, as well. And in addition to all the attacks on American personnel, there is the continuing humiliation of American servicewomen by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Note that while progressive, enlightened American elites may look down on old-fashioned notions of honor (except where the honor of protected affirmative action classes is concerned), much of the world still considers causing a person, group, or nation to lose face, a grievous offense.
Granted, we have no business dressing up women who are useless in combat as senior officers, and giving them authority over men who are real troops, sailors, and airmen. But with that said, if we are going to give these women officer's rank, we have to act as though they really are officers.
For all that Arabs complain, particularly regarding Israel, of being "humiliated," the practice of humiliating non-Moslems ("dhimmis") and even lower-caste Moslems, is considered sacrosanct in the Moslem, and particularly, the Arab Moslem world. The Saudis consider us their servants. Saudis have also repeatedly been guilty of kidnapping or abusing American children, and fleeing, with the help of Saudi and U.S. State Department officials, to the corrupt, Islamic monarchy.
The issues that Paul Craig Roberts considers domestic matters have doubtless contributed to our Islam/terrorism problem. People from countries that shoot down like dogs those who breach their borders laugh at a country whose officials do not respect and enforce their own borders and sovereignty. However, foreigners also learn to hold in contempt a nation that permits its citizens to be harmed with impunity. Folks like Roberts and Pat Buchanan, above all, should appreciate this point. We need to deal with our sovereignty problems domestically AND on the world stage.
But why Iraq? Is attacking Iraq a purely arbitrary call, as in, "You're Moslem, you'll do"?
As some hawks – and even socialist dove, Michael Walzer – have pointed out, we are already at war with Iraq, and have been since 1991. Hussein violated the ceasefire agreement from the start, and so we have been involved in a "little war," limited to bombing runs, ever since "Gulf War I" ended. (More recently, Allan Stover has written a column in which he draws a tight historical analogy between Germany's violation of the 1919 Versailles strictures against re-arming after World War I, and Saddam Hussein's violations of the 1991 Gulf War sanctions against re-arming.)
However, whereas Walzer tries to make a virtue of the "little war," I believe that Hussein and the Arab world will not admit defeat, until he is crushed. The lack of a crushing, humiliating victory over Iraq has made us look weak in the eyes of the world, hence the "heroic" opposition to us in the U.N. Security Council, and in so much "world opinion." As some observers have noted, Saddam sees his mere survival since 1991 as a victory. We must show him that he has lost, in the only way he will understand. This is not about hatred, but rather about winning, and limiting the loss of life.
The "world" – i.e., socialist elites – criticizes America for its "unilateralism," but it was our playing along with the U.N. in Gulf War I that caused us to stop at the Iraqi border, rather than march on to Baghdad. The sins of multilateralism have come back to haunt us.
The New York Times' Thomas Friedman supports the war, in spite of himself, yet complains that President Bush is going about it all wrong, because he has "unilaterally" set a course for war. Aside from the fact that we do have allies, Friedman has made a fetish of multilateralism, which he and many others have converted from a means to an end, into an end in itself. At its best, multilateralism means more soldiers, firepower, and money for the war, and for the peace thereafter, and less cost in blood and treasure for any one power. At its worst, multilateralism means being subject to the treachery, manipulation, and demands for war booty of dubious "allies." Friedman, et al., mistrust American sovereignty, while naively trusting international sovereignty. That way lies ... the U.N.
The notion that passivity towards the Moslem world will result in peace for America is delusional. Politics hates a vacuum, and passivity by a supposed world power would open a vacuum that another player would look to fill. Just as Saddam Hussein cannot afford to be seen as weak by an Iraqi citizenry which would respond by quickly dispatching him, so too can America ill afford to be seen as weak by the nations of the world. It was such a perception that led to 911, and that if not soon dispelled, will lead to worse. Like it or not, an analogy holds between Iraq and world politics. In both cases, the state of nature holds, where as Thomas Hobbes observed in Leviathan in 1651, life is "solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."
The philosophical basis for the paleoconservative and libertarian call for not waging war, comes from President George Washington's call, in his farewell address, for avoiding foreign entanglements. That's certainly sound advice, but I don't think the Father of Our Country meant that we should betray our allies, or let our enemies attack us without our hitting back. By all means, we should scale back our foreign commitments (say, by exiting NATO and the UN). But developing a more sober foreign policy is a long-term plan that does not contradict meeting our enemies in the short term. Washington, whose advice was based on prudence and 18th century circumstances, would not have considered ignoring the war being waged against us prudent.
And so, we must fight back, or die the death of a thousand cuts. Or maybe just a few cuts. If we batter and humiliate enough of the Moslem world, we will succeed in putting the fear of Allah back into most Moslems, who will then give up their dreams of destroying America. And the few who cling to hopes of Armageddon will be manageable.
The war against Iraq will not be a distraction from the so-called War on Terror, it will be a continuation of the War on Islam, er, Terror.
The State of White America: A Major New Study on American Race and Ethnic Relations
Every day one reads about some new racist abomination – the lynching (aka fatal, “botched robbery”) of a white, the black race hoax du jour, the creeping Hispanic reconquest, the arrest (see also here and here) or threatened arrest, and violation of the constitutional rights of someone who has broken no laws, but who has violated multiculturalism’s racial and ethnic dogmas – but long for some sweeping, scientific and philosophic overview of what is destroying America, one town, one classroom, one workplace at a time. Your wait is over.
Any day now will see the publication of the report, The State of White America, by the National Policy Institute. Yours truly had the honor and the privilege of serving as the study’s editor, and with Edwin S. Rubenstein and Robert J. Stove, as one of its authors.
Indianapolis-based statistician Edwin S. Rubenstein is one of the top quantitative social researchers working in the U.S. today. It was his research which provided the empirical basis for Pat Buchanan’s new bestseller, State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America. Rubenstein, a columnist at VDARE, the premier source for information, analysis, and commentary on America’s ongoing immigration disaster, heads up ESR Research Economic Consultants.
Melbourne-based historian Robert J. Stove is the author of elegant essays and erudite historical studies alike. His first book was the acclaimed biography of sixteenth-century composer Palestrina, Prince of Music. Stove’s most recent work is the alternately chilling and entertaining, The Unsleeping Eye: Secret Police and Their Victims. Stove is a contributing editor at The American Conservative, and a frequent contributor to, among other periodicals, Chronicles, The New Criterion, and National Observer.
“SOWA” will honestly answer the following questions and more, cutting through the MSM’s lies, spin, and newspeak:
What is the single most important indice in predicting the quality of a school district?
What is the daily reality of urban public schools like?
How has the American workplace changed over the past 50 years?
What is the reality behind charges of “racial profiling”?
What really happened in New Orleans, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina?
How goes it with those “family values” that President Bush insists “don’t stop at the Rio Grande”?
How many Hispanic immigrants really are assimilating into American society, and how many are insisting that American society assimilate to their subculture?
What are the names of the terrorist organizations that arguably have wreaked more havoc on American society than Al Qaeda, and which the MSM refuses to honestly report on?
SOWA unflinchingly answers these questions and many more!
Mandingo: Boglerizing History and Logic
Any non-black who attempts to engage in dialogue with American blacks today, soon discovers that black race hoaxes are not merely the stuff of Big Lies, a la the Tawana Brawley Hoax, the 2000 Florida Disenfranchisement Hoax, etc., but central to the most mundane exchanges. Witness the following entry in an IMDB.com discussion of the tawdry 1975 exploitation movie Mandingo, set on an antebellum plantation, and which emphasized white racist savagery and interracial relationships, not only between the brutal old slaver’s son and a slave girl, but between the son's wife, played by blonde, professional sexpot Susan George, and the heavyweight boxing champion (and non-actor), Ken Norton Sr.
chesterrodney: “Susan George couldn't get another major role in Hollywood after ‘Mandingo’. She was reduced to ‘B’ type movies and made for TV movies after that. Hollywood didn't want to see her in any major films or major acting roles after her love scene with Ken Norton in ‘Mandingo’. Hollywood to this day is scared of showing black love. And they don't want to see a big muscular black man with a white woman!”
That is a racist black fantasy. Susan George had specialized in playing sluts before Mandingo, she played one in Mandingo, and she continued playing such roles thereafter. Since Mandingo was itself a trashy B-movie, the notion that her career went downhill thereafter, is ludicrous. Besides, you provide no evidence that she was blacklisted (or is it, whitelisted?). All you have are your racist fantasies.
Sidney Poitier had already crossed the particular color line "chesterrodney" speaks of in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner in 1967, an A-movie if ever there was one, which was nominated for ten Oscars, and won two.
Jim Brown had his famous shower scene with Raquel Welch in 100 Rifles in 1969. And Raquel Welch is white, was considered white at the time (Hispanic whites are more obsessed with their whiteness than are non-Hispanic whites), and only very recently, for opportunistic reasons, decided to publicly become a “proud Latina.”
And important independent movies, such as One Potato, Two Potato in 1964, had already explored interracial love affairs between black men and white women. Chesterrodney has invented a non-existent issue, in order to vindicate his racist fantasies. If anything, Hollywood, like the mainstream media in general, has an allergy against showing black women in the arms of white men.
chesterrodney (later): “As for Susan George, I never said she was blacklisted from ‘A’ list status in Hollywood. I said she was blacklisted from getting roles in major Hollywood movies.”
Although he never used the word “blacklisted” in his first statement, Chesterrodney obviously meant just that. But he not only uses the term in his second statement, but goes beyond simply contradicting an earlier statement, to contradicting himself from one sentence to the next! Way to go, man! You not only boglerized movie history, you boglerized logic, as well!
To boglerize – my coinage – refers to the practice of film “historian” Donald Bogle of misrepresenting movie history by recounting pictures in which blacks played minor roles, as if the blacks were the stars and the actual white stars were invisible, of ignoring dominant performances by whites in movies in which they co-starred with black performers (e.g., Rod Steiger (or “Stieger,” as Bogle calls him) and Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night), while dishonestly celebrating the black performer, and most pathetically, of routinely misspelling the names of white actors, while never doing so with the names of black performers.
Bruno Kirby Sighting!
On October 6, watching Between the Lions, an entertaining kids’ show that is one of the few (the only one?) that actually helps kids learn how to read with my son, I saw a familiar face under a lot of makeup and with a big mustache and a hammy, generic Eastern/Southern European accent. I’m sure it was a middle-aged, paunchy, Bruno Kirby, may he rest in peace.
The story was about a simpleton farmer and the Lucy-type (from Charles Schulz’ Peanuts comic strip) woman in the countryside who takes all of his money giving him obvious advice. The farmer’s house is overrun with livestock. The woman tells him to remove first this animal, then that, and ultimately all of the animals from the house, each time taking more of his money. In the end, the woman leaves for the big city in a luxurious, chauffeur-driven car, laughing at the (Charlie Brown-based?), farmer. His life is also immeasurably better without a house full of animals, though the (feminist?) writer seems to want us to look up to the scam artist and down upon the honest if dull farmer.
Unfortunately, the story was on the dumb side, certainly below Between the Lions’ usual standards, as was Kirby’s work, but all the same, it was nice to see him working during the long, dark night that Billy Crystal rang down on him, following City Slickers. (Speaking of Crystal, City Slickers II was on TV yesterday, with Jon Lovitz “replacing” Kirby. The pic was so bad that we changed the channel after about two minutes. No wonder critics panned it and audiences avoided it the plague.)
The usually reliable IMDB.com’s page for Between the Lions is worthless, and Kirby’s own IMDB.com page makes no mention of his guest gig, but I was able to find confirmation that Kirby had indeed been a guest star on the show, though without any particulars (episode name, initial broadcast date) at the show’s PBS Web page.
Domestic Terrorism: The Nation of Islam and the Zebra Murders
The three men went out hunting that night. But their prey was human. White humans, to be exact. Only they didn’t consider whites human, but rather “grafted snakes,” “white devils,” and “blue-eyed devils.”
They grabbed three children, and tried to get them into their van, but the resourceful kids ran away.
The children were Michele Denise Carrasco, 11, Marie Stewart, 12, and Marie’s 15-year-old brother, Frank.
The angry, frustrated hunters went back to their van, and sought after new quarry. They found it in the form of a happy married couple, out for an after-dinner walk near their home on Telegraph Hill. The wife ran away, but when one of the hunters put a gun to her husband’s chest and said he’d kill him, she stopped and returned. Her devotion cost her her life.
In the van, the hunters brutally assaulted the husband and wife, and two of the hunters (Cooks and Green) robbed the husband and wife, and two (Cooks and Harris) sexually molested the wife. Parking near some deserted railroad tracks in the Potrero District, the hunters had at husband and wife alike, taking turns hacking their faces with a machete, and nearly decapitating the wife, before leaving them for dead.
The couple was named Quita and Richard Hague. The date was October 20, 1973.
Quita Hague was dead, but a hideously mutilated Richard Hague miraculously survived.
The hunters that night were Jesse Lee Cooks, Larry Green, and Anthony Cornelius Harris. Cooks, Green, and Harris were members of the Black Muslims (now known as the Nation of Islam), who had been recruited, along with dozens of other Black Muslims, to randomly murder whites.
That was the official beginning of the “Zebra” Killings, which would be carried out on the streets of San Francisco, and would hold the city by the bay – one of the most beautiful in the world – in a state of terrified siege for the next six months. Or rather, would hold white San Franciscans in a state of terror. As black residents told reporters, they felt just fine, thank you.
The Zebra Killings were so called because the San Francisco Police Department reserved radio frequency “Z” (“Zebra” in military and police parlance) for all dispatches that might be related to the serial killings.
It would be months before the SFPD would connect the Quita Hague killing to the Zebra case. That is because although the Hague case had in common with the San Francisco killings and attempted murders to come, that it was a random black-on-white murder by youngish black men who stood out for being conservatively dressed and groomed, the cases that formed the profile that stood out to the detectives in the SFPD Homicide Detail were all carried out with a .32 pistol, and did not involve robbery or sexual molestation. (Youngish black men who were conservatively dressed and groomed were and are hallmarks of the Nation of Islam (NOI).)
Killers and Suspects
Between October 20, 1973 and April 16, 1974, Jesse Lee Cooks, Larry Green, and Anthony Cornelius Harris, as well as J.C. (aka J.C.X.) Simon and Manuel Moore, murdered at least 15 whites and grievously wounded at least another nine whites in failed murder attempts. In at least one case (“John Doe #169”), the devils kidnapped a homeless white man, took him to Black Self-Help Moving and Storage, the NOI-owned business where all of the above-named killers but Cooks worked, bound and gagged their victim, and began chopping off his body parts while he was still alive. (Cooks worked at the NOI-owned Shabazz Bakery; according to Anthony Harris, the NOI assassins had butchered at least one other white victim at Black Self-Help.)
One of the detectives who worked the Zebra detail told me that one of the cases in which the dismembered white murder victim could not be identified was known as “the turkey case,” since the victim, who was found on Ocean Beach minus his feet and hands (and head?), was trussed up like a Thanksgiving turkey.
Jesse Lee Cooks also raped twice and sodomized (at least) one white woman, whom he had planned on murdering, as well, but who succeeded in maneuvering him, much to his consternation, into letting her live.
Black Self-Help was managed by Tom Manney, an NOI member who, according to a different detectives from the case was a former St. Ignatius High School and City College football star. According to Clark Howard, the author of the definitive work on the Zebra killings, Zebra: The true account of the 179 days of terror in San Francisco (1979), Manney lent his black Cadillac to the murderers, who used it in several of the killings. According to Howard, an illegal .32 pistol that Manney owned was the murder weapon in several of the killings. Manney was arrested for the Zebra Killings, but released for – in the DA’s opinion – lack of evidence.
One of the detectives who worked the case told me that more recently, Manney was charged with insurance fraud. The detective recalled that in addition to serial murder, Black Self-Help was a burglary operation. So much for the NOI’s self-image as a clean-cut, racial supremacist religion preaching racial annihilation while refraining from common crimes such as robbery, burglary, and rape.
In addition to Manney, Clarence Jamerson, Dwight Stallings and a fourth man whose identity I could not determine, were also arrested in the Zebra Killings, but released for lack of evidence. The fourth man was inexplicably given the pseudonym “Jasper Childs” by Zebra author Clark Howard.
Stallings was arrested by Inspector Rotea Gilford, who was the first black promoted to the SFPD Homicide Bureau. Gilford, who had grown up with Stallings, was certain that the latter had blood on his hands, but was unable to prove it. Later, while working as a longshoreman, Stallings died in a work accident.
After Gilford retired from the SFPD, he became a close political advisor to his old friend, former California State Assembly speaker and then-San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. Gilford has since unfortunately died from diabetes. Last year, Gus Coreris remembered Gilford as “a good policeman,” the highest praise one cop will give another.
Nation of Cut-Throats
As one of the inspectors from the SFPD Homicide Detail team that ran the case told me on Thursday, investigators at the California Department of Justice’s Bureau of CII and the FBI had been quietly compiling material on similar murders up and down the state of California and the East Coast, respectively, since 1970. (A detective from the Zebra case called CII “Criminal Intelligence and Investigation,” Clark Howard called it “Criminal Investigation and Identification,” and a timeline of the California Department of Justice identifies CII as “Criminal Identification and Information.”)
One such East Coast murder was the April 14, 1972 ambush murder of Patrolman Philip W. Cardillo in Harlem’s NOI Mosque #6, by mosque members, following a false “officer in need of assistance” call one member had made.
That was Min. Louis Farrakhan’s mosque at the time, and if historian Vincent J. Cannato’s recounting of the murder in The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and the Struggle to Save New York (2001) holds up, Farrakhan was at least guilty of obstruction of justice, if not conspiracy to murder a police officer.
Retired NYPD Lt. Randy Jurgenson, who responded to the mosque ambush 34 years ago, has just finished a book on the case, Circle of Six. Two weeks ago, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who also responded to the mosque ambush that fateful day, announced that he is reopening the case. At the time, suspect Lewis 17X Dupree, was acquitted of murder charges.
Getting back to the West Coast, the retired SFPD inspector told me that the San Francisco operation was run through the NOI’s local Mosque #26.
The killers all sought membership in an elite NOI group called the “Death Angels,” which had recruiting meetings and pep rallies in the attic at Black Self-Help. In order to become a Death Angel, one had to murder four white children, five white women, or nine white men. In the NOI, cowardice is a virtue.
According to Clark Howard, the NOI had gangs of assassins up and down the state of California:
At that time, there were fifteen accredited Death Angels in California. To achieve their collective membership, they had already quietly killed throughout the state 135 white men, 75 white women, 60 white children – or enough of a combination thereof to give each of them his required four, five, or nine credits. This was October of 1973. The California attorney general’s office had already secretly compiled a list of forty-five of those killings which had taken place in the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Long Beach, Signal Hill, Santa Barbara, Palo Alto, Pacifica, San Diego, and Los Angeles; and in the counties of San Mateo, Santa Clara, Los Angeles, Contra Costa, Ventura, and Alameda. All of the victims were white. All the known suspects in the killings had been associated with the Black Muslim movement. The killings were even then continuing throughout the state.
The operation came down from the highest reaches of the NOI, making the NOI the bloodiest domestic terrorist group in American history.
During the same period, murdering whites had become quite a sport for black San Francisco criminals, a sport that did not bother black San Francisco civilians at all, who were of little help to police in solving the Zebra killings. On the bloodiest night of the killings, January 28, 1974, the NOI murderers shot five whites within two hours, leaving four dead and one crippled. In one case that night, the killers shot to death a white woman, Jane Holly, in front of eight black women in a well-lighted laundromat. Yet none of the black women would give police a useful description of the killer.
Had blacks helped police, the NOI killers could have been caught months earlier, and several of their victims spared.
As retired SFPD assistant chief and historian Kevin J. Mullen, who at the time was a veteran of over 20 years on the force, recently wrote,
By the late 1970s, San Francisco’s homicide rate was 18.5 per 100,000 population, up from 5.9 in an equivalent period in the early 1960s. Much of the increase was driven by a rise in black on white killings. It was in this climate that the Zebra killings occurred.
Note that at 13.4 percent, blacks then comprised barely more than one-eighth of the city’s population.
We still do not know how many whites the Nation of Islam murdered during the period of 1970-75, let alone how many it has since murdered, not to mention how many copycat black-on-white murders it may have inspired.
CII’s Richard Walley, who until his unfortunate death from cancer in 1974, ran the California Department of Justice’s Intelligence Analysis Unit (IAU), was convinced that during the 1970-early 1974 period alone, the NOI was responsible for 71 black-on-white racial murders in California. In Zebra, however, author Clark Howard estimated that the NOI was guilty of “just under 270” black-on-white murders in California during the same period.
What broke the seemingly hopeless case was an inspiration by Gus Coreris that went under the rubric of “bending the rules.”
Coreris sat down with SFPD sketch artist Hobart “Hoby” Nelson, and as Coreris told me last year, dictated generic sketches of two 20-something black males. Those sketches were then distributed to local newspapers, who published them on their front pages; to TV news operations, who led with them on the 6 O’Clock News; and to officers in the street, who pulled over every young black man who resembled one of the drawings.
In order to avoid constantly harassing the same innocent black men, the police gave out a special “Zebra Check” card to each black man who had already been stopped and questioned, with the time, date, and place of the stop, the driver’s license and social security numbers of the black civilian, and the name, badge number, and signature of the officer who had made the stop. If an innocent black man had already been stopped, he needed only to produce his Zebra Check card and valid ID showing that he was the card holder.
Note that a few years earlier, hundreds of young white men had been stopped and questioned in connection with the Nob Hill rapist, in which the suspect had been identified as white. Only in the Nob Hill case, no cards were issued to white men who had been stopped, and no one protested or went to court to get the practice stopped.
But this time, black San Franciscans were mad as hell! How dare the police inconvenience and “harass” them. What was the big deal, after all? And why the “Zebra” appellation? This was surely a racist dig at blacks! (You can’t make this stuff up.) Blacks of all social classes were particularly outraged that in a murder spree in which all of the suspects were black, police were stopping and questioning only black potential suspects. The term “racial profiling” had yet to be coined, but the mentality of shielding black criminals was already prevalent among blacks.
As Howard wrote, “The black organizations … were determined to interfere with the police effort in any way they could.” Some were definitely seeking, via political means, to aid and abet mass murderers. One activist preacher, the Reverend Cecil Williams, threatened a race war, if police didn’t back down. As if the race war were not already underway.
I know of only one black San Franciscan from the time, prominent or otherwise, who showed any support for the SFPD. Dr. Washington Garner, a prominent local physician and civic leader, called on the black community to cooperate with police, even emphasizing the tactics used in the Nob Hill rapist case. Unfortunately, Dr. Garner’s alternate pleading and scolding fell on deaf ears.
Jesse Byrd
The NAACP went to court to handcuff the police, and won. It was supported by, among other groups, a racist, black-dominated, counter-police organization called Officers for Justice, whose president was an SFPD officer named Jesse Byrd (spelled “Bird” in some accounts). Jesse Byrd was a Black Muslim.
(A counter-police organization is one which seeks to handcuff and destroy a police agency from within. Contemporary American counter-police organizations are typically formed by blacks or Hispanics, which, while demanding jobs, promotions, and power for unqualified and morally unfit members of their groups, often seek at the same time to aid and abet minority criminals. In addition to Officers for Justice, prominent counter-police organizations include The Black Sentinels in Cincinnati, and The Guardians, 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, and the Latino Officers Association in New York. When such groups succeed at getting unfit officer candidates from their respective groups hired, they follow up with frivolous lawsuits, charging that the incompetent minority hires suffer discrimination in promotions, no matter how rapidly those members were promoted, in order to gain them millions of dollars in extortion money.)
Gus Coreris’ bluff saved the day, in spite of Jesse Byrd and the NAACP.
One of the NOI killers was an ex-con named Anthony Harris who, as Gus Coreris told me last year, had wild imagination. Although neither of the police sketches resembled Harris in the slightest, Harris projected himself onto one of them, and convinced himself that he had been identified.
Harris came forward to gain $30,000 in reward money, immunity from prosecution, and new identities for himself, his girlfriend Debra, and her baby.
The SFPD initially secreted the family in either a Holiday Inn motel (according to Howard) or the Del Webb Hotel (as one of the detectives told me). The family was with Inspectors Gus Coreris and John Fotinos, the partners who were the SFPD’s top homicide inspectors, and who were the lead detectives in the case. However, one day while Anthony Harris was taking a shower, Debra called Sister Sarah, the wife of an NOI minister, and told her where the family was hiding.
Within minutes, an NOI assassin had appeared in the lobby, spoken with Harris on the house telephone, and called from a pay phone for reinforcements. Insp. Coreris called his partner, Insp. John Fotinos, from the house phone, to warn him of the impending arrival of the killers, and to get him to prepare Harris, his family, and attorney to escape.
Shortly thereafter, a car pulled up with four more NOI assassins. (Howard’s description of the five suggested they were from the Fruit of Islam, the NOI’s palace guard, as the FOI were much more disciplined than the Zebra killers.)
Feigning indifference to the assassins and to his witness, Inspector Coreris left the motel. The assassins then proceeded to undertake a floor-by-floor search for their prey. Presumably, they would have killed everyone present – including family, inspectors, and attorney.
Once on the street, Insp. Coreris hurried to his SFPD car, and peeling rubber, drove it up to the motel’s rooftop parking lot, where Fotinos, Harris’ lawyer, Laurence Kaufman, and Harris and family were waiting. Once everybody was in, Coreris again peeled rubber, only seconds ahead of the NOI assassins. (This story was told by Clark Howard in Zebra; Gus Coreris corroborated it to me during his telephone interview last year.)
As Howard recounts, when a San Francisco Examiner team of reporter Dexter Waugh and photographer Walt Lynott, and a later Examiner team that included reporter Hollis Wagstaff scoured the city, talking to people how they felt about the killings, not only were blacks not at all fearful – after all, they weren’t being targeted by the killers – not a single black the respective teams interviewed expressed any sympathy for the white victims.
The tenacious, brilliant, and resourceful team of Gus Coreris and John Fotinos are the heroes of the Zebra saga. They had two able younger detectives – Jeff Brosch and Carl Klotz from Robbery Detail – assisting them full-time, with every other member of the Homicide Detail working on the case on a rotating basis.
In Zebra, Clark Howard recounts an incident from a few hours after the assassination attempt at the motel. Gus Coreris returned to his office, where a message from a young black SFPD patrolman awaited him. When Coreris returned the man’s call, the latter did not want to discuss the matter over the phone. In person, the patrolman asked Coreris point blank where he was hiding Anthony Harris. Coreris asked the officer if he was acting on behalf of the NOI. As reported in Zebra, when the young officer answered in the affirmative, Coreris responded that the SFPD would protect Harris and the information he had “at any risk,” that Coreris was going to report the officer to SFPD Chief Donald Scott, Chief of Inspectors Charles Barca, and the Intelligence Division, and that the patrol officer had better stop inquiring after Harris’ whereabouts. (363)
In a telephone interview last year, Gus Coreris confirmed for me that the foregoing incident had occurred just as Clark Howard reported it. When I asked Coreris what had happened to the black officer working for the NOI, he replied, “Nothing.”
We are talking here about a police officer who, based on Coreris’ story, was guilty of conspiring to murder a government witness, conspiring to obstruct justice, and who was an accomplice after the fact in at least 15 murders, at least nine attempted murders, and various and sundry other felonies.
Last year, one of my SFPD sources who had been on the job at the time of the Zebra murders told me that the black officer who had tried to get Anthony Harris’ location for the NOI was none other than Jesse Byrd. Although one SFPD source would have been more than enough for a New York Times reporter, I wanted a source from the inner circle of detectives who ran the case.
I spoke to everyone from the Zebra team, save one, but no one could remember the identity of the black patrolman.
John Fotinos
The one inspector I didn’t reach was John Fotinos. He was the guy that got away.
The other day, Fotinos’ widow told me of the massive stroke her eighty-year-old husband had suffered on April 16 of this year, and which took him eleven days later.
John Fotinos was born on November 1, 1925. He served his nation honorably in World War II (as did his friend and partner, Gus Coreris). John Fotinos was an old-school cop who never took the job home with him. He and his wife had four children, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. One of their sons, one son-in-law, and two of their grandsons proudly wear the uniform of the San Francisco Police Department.
I never had any contact with John Fotinos, and never so much as saw his photograph. And yet, when I first read Zebra four years ago, he and Gus Coreris immediately became heroes of mine. John Fotinos will be missed anywhere people care about upholding the thin blue line that separates civilization from anarchy.
In the Zebra case, Inspectors Coreris and Fotinos were ably assisted by Inspectors Jeff Brosch and Carl Klotz, whom Coreris and Fotinos had brought over from the Robbery Detail.
Public Corroboration
[Postscript, 12:16 p.m., December 8, 2017: Actually, this was no public corroboration. All that happened was that Earl Sanders either took the Zebra Task Force files from the SFPD, either by physically removing them, or getting an accomplice to do so for him. In either case, Sanders violated SFPD Department regulations and all sense of policeman’s ethics, in order to try and make millions off of a case to which he had made no contribution whatsoever.
Since all that Sanders’ ghostwriter, Bennett Cohen, did was to repeat what he had seen in Gus Coreris’ reports from the time, the identical reports which Coreris had shared with Zebra author Clark Howard, Cohen did not provide any independent corroboration.]
So, where would I get my secondary corroboration? Hiding in plain sight, as it turned out. Hollywood screenwriter Bennett Cohen, with the assistance of retired SFPD Chief Earl Sanders, who gave Cohen’s researchers boxes and boxes of the old SFPD Zebra paper work Sanders had taken with him, wrote a just-released book on the case, The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights. Cohen, who must have found Gus Coreris’ old report complaining about Jesse Byrd’s yeoman efforts on behalf of the NOI assassins, writes that Byrd was, indeed, the NOI mole in the SFPD. Oddly enough, however, Chief Sanders argues that “all they wanted to do was ‘talk’ to [Anthony Harris].”
As crime historian and retired SFPD deputy chief Kevin J. Mullen, a peer of Gus Coreris and John Fotinos, quipped in his review of Bennett Cohen’s book, “Yes. And John Gotti had someone ask the FBI for Sammy ‘The Bull’ Gravano’s address in the Federal Witness Protection Program so that he could update his Christmas card list.”
It is impossible to overstate Jesse Byrd’s significance. We have many instances over the years of black activists and groups seeking indirectly to aid and abet black criminals and terrorists, through say, handcuffing police (e.g., prohibiting them from surveilling mosques that are known terrorist meeting places, such as San Francisco’s NOI Mosque #26). However, in all the other cases, there was always at least one degree of separation between the terrorists or criminals and their public supporters. Jesse Byrd is the only case I know of, in which there were zero degrees of separation.
Zebra Memorial Service
The 10th Annual Zebra Victims Memorial Services was held Friday at 12 noon on the steps of San Francisco City Hall. Organizers had announced that SFPD Commissioner Petra DeJesus had agreed to attend.
“New” Zebra Victims and the Zebra Project
The person who has helped me the most in studying the Zebra case is Lou Calabro, a retired SFPD lieutenant, who was a sergeant at the time of the NOI murders. Calabro encouraged me to undertake a Zebra Project, in order to determine and name all of the white victims of the NOI’s genocidal campaign. Calabro convincingly argued that the project must necessarily be a team effort, due to the massive workload, in seeking after official records and newspaper accounts from those pre-computer and pre-Internet days. Not to mention that with witnesses, survivors, and lawmen dying off, time is of the essence. I ask that anyone with information about any possible NOI racial attacks please write me at Add1dda@aol.com. All correspondence will be kept confidential.
In re-reading passages from Clark Howard’s book, I came up with one surviving non-San Francisco victim, Massachusetts native Thomas Bates, a hitchhiker who was shot three times near Emeryville. (Clark Howard cited several fatal and non-fatal non-San Francisco NOI attacks; however, Bates was the only such victim whom he named.) Howard has so far not responded to e-mails from me seeking information on his claim that “just under 270” California whites were murdered by the NOI at the time.
Since my Zebra article last year, two people have sent me information about other possible Zebra victims. In January, one reader wrote,
Richard Asbury was born on Nov. 11, 1940 and died sometime in the late summer early fall of 1970. He had brown hair and brown eyes, ht. 6'1", wt. 160 lbs. He was in Santa Rosa, CA and I believe he was found in the Russian River. I don't believe he had any tattoos or identifying marks. There is rumor of him having ties with the Hell's Angels, but it is all speculation. I will try to get more information.
And two months ago, I learned of Steve Conachy and yet another unidentified victim.
I found your article on the Zebra killings and wanted to give you some inside info. The first killings took place in Aug 3 1973. To young men were picked up (one in Pacifica in the Fairmont dist. ). One was 18 yrs the other was 21 yrs old. The 21 yrs old’s body was dumped in SF and the other in the San Bruno mountains. They are the very first 2 and forgotten victims of those sick murders done by Black Muslims in SF in 1973.
Those 2 young men did not know each other. They may have never seen each other until that night. They now rest in Colma 20 ft from each other for all eternity. How do I know this? One was my older brother….
These murders at the time were not put together, 2 different countys were investagting it. My father was a retired SF plice officer and they thought the killing was to get even with him. Which was not the case. About 6 to 8 weeks later the other murders began and my brother and the other poor soul murders were finally connected, but by that time the press was focus on the new killings and the first victims were
forgotten about. But that was the start of it in Aug 3 1973.
Thank you for you time in this matter. It is important to me to get the record right and my brother not a forgotten victim….
Four of the NOI murderers were tried and convicted for the San Francisco killings. They remain in prison today, but they come up periodically for parole:
Jesse Lee Cooks, J.C. Simon (aka J.C.X. Simon), Larry Green and Manuel Moore.
According to crime writer Julia Scheeres, Leroy Doctor was also an NOI assassin. Doctor’s intended victim, Robert Stoeckmann, turned the tables on him, and ended up shooting Doctor three times. Doctor, who lived, was ultimately imprisoned for assault with a deadly weapon. Scheeres is, to my knowledge, the only crime writer so far to list Doctor as an NOI assassin.
Known and Possible Zebra Victims
A partial list of the wounded follows, in Clark Howard’s words:
Richard Hague [Quita’s husband], his face butchered.
“Ellen Linder,” [a pseudonym Howard devised to protect her privacy], raped, ravaged, threatened with death.
Arthur Agnos [who would later be elected mayor], surviving after his insides were ripped up by bullets.
“Angela Roselli,” surviving with nerve damage in her back.
Roxanne McMillian, surviving but paralyzed from the waist down.
Linda Story, surviving with nerve damage in her back.
Ward Anderson, surviving but in serious condition after being shot down at a city bus stop.
Terry White, also surviving, also in serious condition, after being shot down at the same bus stop.
And courtesy of Julia Scheeres, at Court TV’s crimelibrary.com,
Robert Stoeckmann, grazed in the neck by a shot fired by Leroy Doctor.
A partial list of white NOI murder victims follows, as described by Clark Howard:
Quita Hague, hacked to death….
Frances Rose, her face blown apart by close-range gunshots.
Saleem Erakat, tied up and executed.
Paul Dancik, shot down at a public telephone….
Marietta DiGirolamo, thrown into a doorway and shot to death.
Ilario Bertuccio, killed while walking home from work….
Neal Moynihan, shot down while taking a teddy bear to his little sister.
Mildred Hosler, shot down while walking toward her bus stop.
John Doe #169, kidnapped, tortured, butchered, decapitated.
Tana Smith, murdered on her way to buy blouse material.
Vincent Wollin, murdered on his sixty-ninth birthday.
John Bambic, murdered while rummaging in a trash bin.
Jane Holly, murdered in a public Laundromat….
Thomas Rainwater, shot down on the street as he walked to a market….
And Nelson Shields IV, shot three times in the back as he was straightening out the cargo deck on his station wagon.
Steve Conachy
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on October 26, 2015 June 13, 2019 4 Comments on Canada Dry Barrelhead Root Beer
well, when I start to run out of sodas to review I start to get creative. I know there are a couple of canadian spruce beers on eBay that I could order but they would cost a load so I am not too into that. but maybe there are some root beers as well… lo and behold a seller with a whole stash of these sealed, full bottles of Barrelhead. honestly i have no clue how old they are, my guess is about 25-30 years old. it is a returnable bottle which has not been the norm in a long time. it is also not twist off and a very thick glass so probably a product of the 80s. but bottles were sealed much better in the past, this is a thick glass bottle and it does have preservatives so it may just be fine. let’s see…
ok, a tiny release of gas when i popped the top, that is reassuring. it is pretty flat though, which is to be expected really yet some fizzing and foaming is happening. nothing is floating in there, no residue on the bottom. for my own safety i plan to drink as little of this as possible though, just to be sure. i am surprised, this is more unusual than i expected, more herbal and not quite as run of the mill as i would have thought a root beer from that time would be. the company’s tagline used to be something like ‘a flavor so strong, it stands up to ice’ as i recall from my youth. it does indeed have a very powerful flavor, something that is often lacking from many of the brews of today. maybe that is the age corrupting the true taste. it is kind of like when i make a root beer from extract and add too much of the extract or decide it may be a good idea to just try the root beer syrup on its own without mixing it with seltzer or whatever to water it down. ok, it’s not that extreme but it is an extra strong taste. it is sweet but not crazy. so i’m not dead yet. i’ll be sure to update this if i do perish though. but i don’t advocate drinking sodas this old of course.
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Ingredients: carbonated water, sugar and/or corn syrup, caramel coloring, natural and artificial flavoring, sodium benzoate as a preservative (less than 1/20 of 1%), citric acid, propylene glycol and acacia gum
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RootBeerGourmet says:
Posted on October 26, 2015 at 1:40 pm
Lol, you’re reviewing way old brews.
As are you sir! =) Mine are 25 years old, yours 10 or so! lol
Posted on October 27, 2015 at 11:51 pm
Yes, but I drank them 10 years ago, you drank a 25 year old bottle 😛
Brian Plant says:
Posted on November 3, 2019 at 9:01 pm
I’m 62, so I go “a little way back”.
Barrelhead has always been my favorite root beer. Followed by Hires, A&W, Frosty, then Dads. Since then, around the late ’80s, Barqs & Mug came out. Now, I’d place Mug at #4 & Barqs at #5. I remember in the early 80s that Pepsi had root beer brand called On Tap. Worst root beer I’ve ever tasted. When l lived in New England from 1999 to 2002, I saw ‘Moxie’ in a store. Curious & always willing to try something new, I bought some. I’ll never buy it again.
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is a species that can accept (gain) a proton, according However, the (to the left). You can change your ad preferences anytime. of protons in aqueous solution. Other organs help enhance the homeostatic function of the buffers. the acid to the conjugate base. equilibrium constant for the acid-base reaction that is can donate a proton (H+), and a base a change in conditions ([an external] 'stress') is imposed on a can be thought of as increasing the amount of "heat" in The kidneys help control acid-base balance by excreting hydrogen ions and generating bicarbonate that helps maintain blood plasma pH within a normal range. When we exercise, our heart to the common Brønstead-Lowry definition. of a base (an OH- producer). The ways in which these three organs help As we develop a long-term habit of exercise, our left-hand side of the plot, most of the buffer is in the form of (H2O is not included in the is treated as a "reactant" (e.g., Equations 8-9 in the blue box, below), protons are dissociated WCB McGraw-Hill, Boston, 1994, p. 463-466, 492-3, 552-6. that work to maintain the blood's chemistry under normal The lungs remove excess When an acid is placed in Ideally, the pH of the blood should be maintained at 7.4. buffer system? Equation 10. The buffer systems in the human body are extremely efficient, and different systems work at different rates. metabolism. in terms of an equilibrium constant (see blue box, below) and the Zumdahl. The development of this tutorial was supported by a grant from This second process is not an acid-base reaction, This optimal buffering occurs when the pH waste products, and ions) with the external fluid surrounding below. cells, the chemical composition of the fluids outside the in Equation 11 is frequently referred to as the by the kidneys is a relatively slow process, and may take too reaction is exothermic, "heat" is treated as a purple table below. Eventually, with strenuous are produced during the breakdown of glucose, and are removed Notice that Equation 11 is in a similar form to the Henderson-Hasselbach For example, if the concentration of one of the dominant mode of exchange between these fluids (cellular fluid, burned as its energy is needed to help fuel the body's increased salt are large compared to the amount of protons or hydroxide the Body's Chemistry: Dialysis in the Kidneys") you this equation takes into account a non-acid-base reaction (i.e., due to strenuous exercise may be too great for the buffer alone in the solution until a new equilibrium is established (but the Acidosis that Henri Le Châtelier developed a rule to predict to effectively control the pH of the blood. Thus, the effect on the pH of the Human Physiology, 6th ed. Scribd will begin operating the SlideShare business on December 1, 2020 constant, known as Ka, is defined by Equation exercising are shown in Figure 1. All cells in the body continually exchange chemicals (e.g.,nutrients, equilibrium constant, K, for the buffer (Equation 12). Questions on Equilibrium Shifts: A Qualitative View. the pH of the solution. Discover and learn science today | No sign-up needed. 151.) fast as it is produced is known as respiratory acidosis. time, the amount of muscle in the body increases, and fat is 1. qualitative view is very useful for predicting how the pH will These chemical changes, species (the acid and its conjugate base) exist in and the Heme Group: Metal Complexes in the Blood for Oxygen most important way that the pH of the blood is kept relatively the ability to prevent larg… Houston, Texas: OpenStax. It takes only seconds for the chemical buffers in the blood to make adjustments to pH. The respiratory tract can adjust the blood pH upward in minutes by exhaling CO2 from the body. amount of CO2 amount of HCO3- (relative to the amount of carbonic-acid-bicarbonate buffer, Equation 1 is rewritten to show conditions are involved in blood-chemistry maintenance during equilibrium-constant expression because it is a pure the blood concentrations of CO2 and HCO3-, produces a large change in the pH of the solution. The authors thank Dewey Holten, Michelle Gilbertson, Jody Proctor and Carolyn ratio remains relatively constant, because the concentrations of 7.4), a condition known as acidosis results. Note that the pH of the When Na2 HPO4 2- comes into contact with a strong acid, such as HCl, the base picks up a second hydrogen ion to form the weak acid Na2 H2 PO4 − and sodium chloride, NaCl. buffering system, i.e., when the pH is between 5.1 and Three main buffers are present in human bodies: bicarbonate, phosphate and proteins. and OH- (Equation 8). It is possible to plot a titration curve for this buffer (Equation 6) is the same, because the equilibrium constant, K, is direction that tends to reduce that change in conditions" Buffers work because the concentrations of the weak acid and its Recall from the the plot, most of the buffer is in the form of bicarbonate ion. Law of Mass Action: Because the two equilibrium reactions in In order to maintain both buffer components (HCO3- and CO2) Equation 11 does not meet the Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. and thus help control the pH of the blood. The The buffering action of hemoglobin picks up the extra H. acid-base-equilibria experiment. the muscle cells during exercise. unless offset by other physiological functions, cause the pH of Protein Buffers in Blood Plasma and Cells. paper-bag treatment has on the pH of the blood. If, for instance, the pH of the In Equation 11, pK is equal to the negative log of the Acid-base buffers confer resistance to a and the Heme Group: Metal Complexes in the Blood for Oxygen Clipping is a handy way to collect important slides you want to go back to later. in the blood, however, because H3PO4 and H2PO4- discussed in this and in previous tutorials work together to (Recall your reduces the concentration of CO. How does hyperventilation affect the pH of the Bicarbonate ions and carbonic acid are present in the blood in a 20:1 ratio if the blood pH is within the normal range. hydroxide ions are added or removed. 7: One of the simplest applications of the Law of Mass ratio of the concentrations given in the mass action expression below. Removing HCO3- from the blood helps Your email address will not be published. Vander, A. et al. The charged regions of these molecules can bind hydrogen and hydroxyl ions, and thus function as buffers. learned about the daily maintenance required in the blood for improving their health and physical abilities. required by this increased metabolism. To more clearly show the two equilibrium reactions in the Brown, Lemay, and Bursten. blood pH of 7.4 by affecting the components of the buffers in the from some of the weak-acid molecules of the buffer, converting change in the pH of a solution when hydrogen ions (protons) or Note that as acid is added, the pH decreases and the buffer "heat" + A + B -> C + D). In red blood cells, carbonic anhydrase forces the dissociation of the acid, rendering the blood less acidic. However, the bicarbonate buffer is the primary buffering system of the IF surrounding the cells in tissues throughout the body. and 152 the definition of pH: where [H+] is the molar concentration a result of hyperventilation)?
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Jennifer Lopez Wears Very REVEALING Leggings To The Gym, Twitter Reacts!!
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Ike Turner played a profound role in shaping American music. His band’s 1951 single “Rocket 88” is often regarded as the first Rock and Roll record. As a talent scout and A&R man, he discovered or recorded many blues legends, including Elmore James, Buddy Guy and Howlin’ Wolf. Turner moved to East St. Louis in 1954, and his Kings of Rhythm became a top rhythm & blues act in St. Louis. In the 1960s the group’s sound evolved into the pulsating Rock and Roll of Ike & Tina Turner. Famous for his boogie-woogie piano and whammy-bar guitar signatures, Turner produced hits such as “A Fool in Love,” “It’s Gonna Work Out Fine” and “Proud Mary.” Ike Turner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.
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Meg Stuart Hunter / Redcat (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater) / the performance I attended, with Pablo Capra, was on Saturday, January 29, 2017.
Although she was born in New Orleans and danced with several companies in New York, choreographer and performer Meg Stuart now lives in Belgium where she has worked on over 30 productions, including Visitors Only, Built to Last, UNTIL OUR HEARTS STOP, and, with Phillipp Gehmacher, Maybe Forever, performed at Redcat in 2009.
The performance I saw the other evening at Redcat, Hunter, is like several of her other works, an exploration of her own body—both her outer physical body and the internal body of her heart and mind.
The evening began with the dancer cutting up a wide range of images and pinning them to a paper to form a loosely-composed collage, projected from the cutting table. After the audience settled into their seats, she stood briefly before taking her body to the dance floor where she explored numerous positions from shaking, rolling, and possibly, imagining herself as a child in the snow making snow angels.
From a standing position she began exploring other parts of her body, arms, legs, breasts, and, in one long comic interlude played out with a large colorful penis shaped doll, even her vagina shaking and writhing in the spasms of sex. At one point she shouted out a kind of shamanist chant, and at another, carried a large Plexiglas frame which transformed the color of her body and the surrounding space of the stage.
When one finally felt that, after all of these numerous movements, she must be exhausted, Stuart picked up a microphone and began a kind of long monologue about speaking itself, a future devoted to political marches, and aspects of her past life, including the meaning of her own name—all of these seemingly improvisatory, which helped, like the movements before it, to create a immense rapport with the audience, implicitly suggesting that if she were on the “hunt” for who she was, is, and will be, that we must, at least mentally, join her.
As Stuart seems to be constantly asking, “What, after all, is dance?” Most dances also have partners, and, as literary theorist Marjorie Perloff has reminded us, there is also a “dance of the intellect.”
Finishing her free form talk, Stuart set up a series of audio experiments and small and larger videos that projected various abstract shapes across her breast and face. Finally, she quietly begin to put her things away, while a voice called out that the most important decision one can make is to change one’s mind, hinting that the hunter might, at any moment, return to the hunt and explore other bodily surfaces.
A quiet walk off stage ended the evening, except for the long applause of the sell-out crowd and several graceful bows from the dancer.
Douglas Messerli | "Send in the Clowns" (on five short plays by Samuel Beckett: Act Without Words II, Come and Go, Catastrophe, Footfalls, and Krapp's Last Tape)
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Samuel Beckett Act Without Words II, Come and Go, Catastrophe, Footfalls, and Krapp’s Last Tape (Beckett5) / Los Angeles, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Sunday, January 29, 2017 / I attended the production with Pablo Capra and Paul Sand
The other day, upon the news of British actor John Hurt’s death, I told my occasional theater-going friend, Pablo Capra, that I had already seen two of Hurt’s performances of the great Beckett play, Krapp’s Last Tape, one in a film version of the Beckett on Film series by Atom Egoyan and a second time, live at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, California—both of which I had reviewed.
The very next day, we were planning to attend another local production of five short Beckett plays, including Krapp’s Last Tape, at Los Angeles’ Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, and he questioned me why might I want to see it again. I told him that, well, one simply could not get enough of Beckett, and that, even though I’d thought Hurt’s performance the highest pinnacle of that work, I’d probably be going back to Beckett plays, of every sort, for the rest of my life.
I still feel this, despite the fact that the Odyssey production of some of Beckett’s short plays, including Act Without Words II, Come and Go, Catastrophe, Footfalls, and, yes again, Krapp’s Last Tape was rather a mixed bag.
Let me begin by commending all of the actor’s and the theater’s abilities and enthusiasm in reviving these wonderful plays. That is, in fact, what brings me to the marvelous Odyssey many times. Their mix of classic plays and new theater works is one of the reasons why the Los Angeles theater scene is so very vibrant and unpredictable, and which allows me to see good and even excellent theater without always having to trot off to New York or to other cities.
But Beckett is difficult. First, he is so extraordinarily particularized. What you might describe as his scenarios for theater, especially—despite their seeming abstractness—demanding a kind of preciseness of sets, costumes, and actions that might only be compared to the American playwright Eugene O’Neill, who details his directions endlessly. Indeed, often there are more theatrical instructions to Beckett’s works than actual words.
The other difficulty about Beckett’s plays is that, although they are often about impossibly lost and frustrated souls, his figures are also clowns, fools, and even idiots who demand that his characters not be played with deep dramatic gestures. The very abstractness, for example, of Act Without Words II, in which two are buried in bags, each, one by one, poked into life, is a challenge to any actor who desires to create a character. In this production, Alan Abelew and Beth Hogan, each podded by Norbert Weisser into temporary being, met with varying success.
Abelew presented his figure as a kind of tragic sad-sack, a bit like Nagg in Beckett’s Endgame, dramatizing the character in a way that, alas, made him more a existentially troubled figure rather than a merely morose one. Hogan, as the kind of happy-to-be-alive-again reincarnation, was much more successful—but that just may have to do with the fact that she is a more outsized and joyful figure.
I think director Enda Hughes got this short work more precisely in his narrow framed film with Marcello Magni and Pat Kinenave, which I saw after on the internet, where the characters, moving with a kind of silent-film jitteriness, came to life in more a Butser Keatonesque manner than Abelew’s and director Ron Sossi’s exaggerated counter-hero.
Far more successful was Come and Go, a play originally dedicated to my acquaintance, the British publisher John Calder, with—in this production—the three actresses, Diana Cignoni, Sheelagh Culler, and, again, Hogan, who, a bit more sparkly dressed (particularly given their shoes, designed by Audrey Eisner), seemed to have retained some of their charming youth, which had once connected them in their early school days, despite their now gossip-mongering whispers (never heard by the audience) about what appear to be unknown failures in their life and their current marriages. I far preferred it, in fact, to the John Crow film, with the more dowdily dressed Paoli Dionisotti, Anna Massey, and Sian Phillips. For this play, Beckett even provided a drawing of how, at the end, the characters need to entwine their hands in a symbolic Celtic knot, demonstrating just how specific the playwright was with regard to the way he wanted his works to be performed.
Castrostophe, also starring Abelew, Hogan, and Weisser was also pretty loyal to Beckett’s instructions. This play, often described as one of the playwright’s most political works—and originally dedicated to the imprisoned Czech playwright and later President, Václav Havel—is even, in part, about how the playwright’s intentions are too often distorted by the directors. Here, a living emblem of sorts, a kind of figure that appears might be right out of the Holocaust, is used as the subject of a soon-to-be-performed work in which the Director’s Assistant is equally subjected to absurd instructions of how to dress and undress, to whiten and light a living human being, as if he were simply a prop. Here Abelew, with graceful agility, lifts his head in a kind of final triumph against the directorial dogmatism, demonstrating a subtle revolutionary expression that denigrates the “catastrophe” (in this meaning, “an act of defiance”) in which he finds himself. And again, this short playlet seemed far preferable to David Mament’s transformed rendition in his Beckett of Film version—even though it’s hard to imagine his better cast than Harold Pinter as the Director and John Gielgud (in his final performance) as the living statue.
Diana Cigoni performed remarkably well in Footfalls, a play about a young daughter ritualistically pacing outside her dying mother’s door. But frankly, this 1975 play is simply not one of my favorite Beckett works. Perhaps it’s simply the metronomic structure of the play, the nine steps forward and the nine creaks back that make it seem, quite literally, a kind of creaking monologue, even though the “never have done” pattern and the endless dying “viduity” of the mother has a great deal in common with the author’s Krapp’s Last Tape. Yes, it’s a musical work, and the patterns of language he uses here are often quite beautiful, but, in the end, it all seems somehow much to do about nothing. The woman, like Krapp, simply might have made more of her life out playing lacrosse, her childhood sport.
During the intermission I discussed these plays with my other theater-going companion of the evening, improvisatory comedian Paul Sand, and we both agreed that, despite the noble intentions of these productions and, my recognition of the remarkable directorial work of Sossi (I’ve now seen dozens of his productions) that Beckett was simply better with a lighter hand. And, as I mentioned at the beginning of this piece, I had seen John Hurt do Krapp twice.
I truly admire the acting of Norbert Weisser, having seen him in my friend John O’Keefe’s Nazi-period play, Times Like These. And, given the difficulties of the work, I admire him for attempting the nearly impossible Beckett monologue, indeed a brave undertaking.
But Krapp, unlike Weisser’s interpretation, is not a failed lover angry with his past, but is, like so many of Beckett’s figures, an absolute fool, a man who could only bother to gather up his love for a single night’s pleasure. And as beautiful as that may have been, he is not a conventional hero, but an absolute idiot, another clown whom Beckett even forces, temporarily, to fall upon a banana peel—the banana being, apparently, his favorite and perhaps only—other than his endless draughts of whiskey—sustenance.
Krapp, like his name, is not a secret Marlon Brando: no brutal beauty like Stanley Kowalski or even a “former contender” such as Terry Malloy of On the Waterfront, so there’s no way to act from your heart as if you were a student of Method Acting. Krapp is a figure of his own imagination, of his memory; and playing him requires a very precise precision: open a drawer, pile up the “spools,” eat a banana, and listen, respond, drink, and listen. Impulsive anger, fits of sentimentality are pointless in his world. He has already died before the play has begun.
All of this is not to say that I do not commend these actors and their valiant performances. And I truly recommend everyone run to seem them. As I’ve already stated, Beckett requires constant viewing. If I had no other plays, movies, operas, and dances to attend to in the next few weeks (as, somewhat regretfully, I do) I’d return without reservation.
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Public should have been told about Lawrence water
VALLEY PATRIOT EDITORIAL
In March and August of 2008, the City of Lawrence did not perform the states’ required monthly chlorite testing on the city’s drinking water.
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection fined the city of Lawrence $5,750 for failing to do those mandated chlorite tests and has warned the city it will face a $25,000 a day fine for any further infractions.
Chlorite testing must be done every month as water is drawn into Lawrence’s new, $26 Million water treatment facility so that engineers can treat the water with the correct level of chemicals, ensuring that the water is safe for bathing, drinking and other necessities.
In a memo to other city officials, DPW Director Frank McCann reveals for the first time that for eight days in August last year, the chlorite testing machinery was broken. For those eight days the mandated chlorite tests could not be done yet the people of Lawrence knew nothing about it.
McCann blames the private company charged with maintaining the chlorite testing system for failing to fix the machinery during those eight days and says he believes it is unfair for the city to be fined for the failure of this private company to do their job.
Assuming that McCann’s claims are true, as the DPW director he had a duty to warn residents and businesses not to consume the Lawrence water since neither he nor anyone else had a clue as to whether or not the water was safe to drink during eight days in August.
DPW Director Frank McCann owes the public an explanation.
Moreover, he and other city officials ought to be held accountable for the debacle currently going on at the facility.
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Pervert Park (Hot Docs Review)
By Michael Nazarewycz @ScribeHard on April 27, 2015
Rehabilitation and redemption are the goals for a community of registered sex offenders in this tough-to-watch film.
Registered. Sex. Offender.
It’s hard to think of three other words that together elicit a more immediate and visceral sense of ill ease. Anecdotally, it seems the Registered Sex Offender receives less contextual benefit of the doubt than any other criminal. Maybe the thief was desperate and acted out of survival. Maybe the killer took a life in self-defense. Maybe the drunk driver hasn’t gotten proper help to tackle that addiction. With a Registered Sex Offender, though, guilt is never about maybes and always about degree. This is just one facet that directors Frida Barkfors and Lasse Barkfors tackle when they examine Registered Sex Offenders—or at least a very specific group of them—in Pervert Park, their Sundance Special Jury prize-winning documentary.
More formally known as Florida Justice Transitions, “Pervert Park” is a mobile home community in St. Petersburg, FL, where 120 registered sex offenders have made their home. The Park was founded by Nancy Morais, whose son—himself a registered sex offender—struggled to find a community that would accept him after getting released from jail. Every resident of the Park is on some form of parole or probation, and most live there for the duration of that stage of their punishment. While there, each resident receives counseling for two years. Morais has since retired, but the Park is managed and maintained by former residents. The film focuses on the stories of a select group of individuals who live there.
What a group of individuals that is, and what a film this is. Tackling sex offenders—especially a collection of them whose crimes involved, or were committed against, children—is no easy task. As the film’s subjects are quick to reiterate, prejudgement of the guilty reigns supreme in our society. The Backfors deftly counter this with a shrewd 1-2 combination.
First, they present what appears to be the stark truth about each offender as told by each offender. While there might be details omitted or blurred, each person fully admits to having committed the crime for which they have been found guilty. A couple of stories suggest unfortunate circumstances or even entrapment, while others confess to having done wrong, but no one says, “It wasn’t me.” Culpability is unanimous. Because these tales are told from the perspective of the perpetrator, they carry a unique weight.
Adding to that weight are the backstories of some of the offenders. Bill Fuery, the park’s maintenance man and primary subject of the film, had a horrendous childhood, and went through an even greater tragedy into his early adult life. Another offender spotlighted is the sole female subject of the film, Tracy Hutchinson. Her backstory, which she tells in detail, is simply unthinkable, haunting the mind long after the closing credits. It’s important to note, though, that not every backstory is as dramatic as these, and none of the stories are ever framed as justification for the crimes committed. Instead, they are offered as a way to make clear the offenders aren’t monsters; they’re people. They are also working hard at becoming better.
From a storytelling perspective, the co-writers/co-directors have an excellent feel for timing. No single story is told in one large chunk. Instead, each story is broken up in at least two parts, and longer stories like Fuery’s and Hutchinson’s are doled out across most of the film. Their stories in particular work well in this format, as there are multiple “WOW” moments for each of them. It might all sound dramatic, but it’s effective.
These backstories segue to the back-end of that 1-2 combination. Critical to the film’s success is what the Backfors don’t offer: rebuttal. This is not a primetime TV news magazine looking to make viewers judge and jury; this is a film where the directors know most viewers will already have a preconceived notion of the subjects, so there is no need (in this context) to present any “case” against these people. They know what they’ve committed, they all know how wrong it was, and they all know the scope of the damage done.
The film also presents a higher-level look at the residents as a collective, the (seemingly) positive effects of therapy in both individual and group settings, and some interesting statistics about sex offenders and recidivism when measured against other crimes, and when compared to the Florida Justice Transitions program specifically.
There are times, though, when the film wants to make a statement against “the system” as a greater whole, questioning the benefit of incarceration vs. therapy. It also includes some loose comments about the perceived overeagerness of law enforcement when it comes to capturing (read: entrapping) offenders. While these points are both valid and worth examination, how they are presented in the film borders on irresponsible, as they are mostly hollow accusations that feel like they are meant to elicit a visceral “damn the man” response from the viewer as (hopeful) cheap points for its subjects. No points should be awarded.
Because of its subject matter, Pervert Park is a challenging watch, but one very much worth the effort. Over the course of the film’s lean 77-minute run time, the filmmakers find success in presenting their subjects as honestly as possible. They don’t ask for sympathy, but they do ask for consideration, and they earn it.
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Repeat performances
Posted on Monday, October 28, 2013 by WCHL Hockey
Same name likely to be on the cup
If anyone was hoping to see a new WCHL Champion, they may be disappointed.
Of the eight teams still in the hunt, five have won a championship before. Those five are the Colorado Avalanche, Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Rangers, Anaheim Ducks and Calgary Flames, and those five have combined to win the past seven WCHL Cups, with the Rangers having won the past two and still seeking the first three-peat in league history.
The Edmonton Oilers rallied from a 3-1 deficit against the Minnesota Wild to punch their ticket to the second round, while the Philadelphia Flyers and Ottawa Senators also join the ranks of teams seeking their first title.
If a Cinderella is going to emerge, this will be the round to do it. If not, it's going to be a lot of the same old, same old in store for rounds three and four.
Here are my predictions for who advances in round two:
(1) Anaheim Ducks vs. (7) Calgary Flames- Everyone expected a cakewalk in round one for the Ducks and that's exactly what the five game series against the St. Louis Blues was. Anaheim roared to a 3-0 series lead and didn't look back. The top team in the league didn't have a pause in the post-season, but that could change this round.
That's because they are facing the Flames, and the Flames aren't just any 7th seed. After stumbling through the regular season in less than stellar fashion, the Flames rebounded nicely, dropping game one to the Nashville Predators before storming to four straight wins and a second round birth.
If Calgary can get a more spread out offensive production and find a way to push the Ducks diversified attack back, then they could easily push themselves into round three. But the odds of that aren't great. Anaheim in seven games.
(5) Edmonton Oilers vs. (6) Colorado Avalanche- The Oilers looked dead and gone just a few days ago, but three straight wins pushed them past the Minnesota Wild and into round two. Led by the solid netminding of Tomas Vokoun, who well could be playing his final games in an Oilers uniform, the Oilers could have what it takes to continue their post-season surge.
Standing in their way is the Colorado Avalanche. If there is a WCHL team built for the playoffs, it's the Avalanche, who have parlayed mediocre regular seasons into lengthy playoff pushes year after year. Colorado is starting off shorthanded, with defenseman Dmitri Kulikov likely out for the series and beyond do to an injury, while fellow blueliner John Carlson is set to miss game one due to a suspension. Centre Paul Gaustad is also playing banged up, something which could factor in over a long series.
The Oilers need Vokoun to steal a game or two and rely on Jason Pominville and Brad Richards to post the numbers they have in the regular season. Failing that, the Oilers will fail to move onto round three. Colorado in five games.
(1) Pittsburgh Penguins vs. (7) Ottawa Senators- The Penguins again rolled through the regular season, and again captured the Eastern Conference crown. Yet it took a close six game series against the GM less Tampa Bay Lightning to get to round two. Is it another post-season flop for the Penguins, who haven't had a great deal of success since rolling through the league in Season 12?
Unlikely, but it's also unlikely the Penguins will cruise through these playoffs, especially against a solid team like the Senators. The Sens were one of the stingiest teams in the regular season, and they carried that over to the playoffs, where they limited the Carolina Hurricanes to just five goals in five games in the first round. Two of those games were shutouts and the Senators allowed only two goals in their four wins. Since they can't run and gun with Pittsburgh, expect the Senators to try and form a bomb shelter around netminder Cory Schneider.
If Pittsburgh's offense can peel back the Senators defense, there's only so much that Schneider can do. If not though, Ottawa has a good chance in this series. Ottawa in seven games.
(3) New York Rangers vs. (5) Philadelphia Flyers- The Rangers are one step closer to winning their third straight WCHL Cup, but they came so darn close to not getting out of round one. The Washington Capitals pushed them hard, extending the Rangers to seven games before dropping a 2-1 decision in game seven despite outshooting the Rangers 28-12. The Rangers also needed two overtime wins to advance past the Capitals.
Needless to say, the Rangers have a lot to prove.
So do the Flyers. After several seasons of coming close to cracking a WCHL final, the Flyers undertook a semi-rebuild and are just now starting to see the fruits of those labours. Knocking off the Toronto Maple Leafs in a tight seven game series was a big step forward, but afforded the Flyers no help in tangling with an equally tired Rangers team.
The Flyers will make their fan base proud, but they just don't have the guns and the goaltending to compete with the Rangers. New York Rangers in five games.
ACHL
(1) Norfolk Admirals vs. (4) Manchester Monarchs - Norfolk in six games.
(2) Chicago Wolves vs. (3) Portland Pirates - Chicago in five games.
(1) Wilkes-Barre/Scranton vs. (4) Binghamton - Wilkes-Barre/Scranton in six games
(2) Hershey Bears vs. (3) Hartford Wolfpack- Hershey in six games
The real season begins
After 82 games of hard work, the contenders have separated themselves from the pretenders. So yes, now the real work begins.
After a gruelling 82 games, all that has happened is the weak have been culled, and the elite are ready to play for their chance to hoist the WCHL Cup. Will it be the New York Rangers, on a quest to be the first ever three-peat champions in WCHL history? How about the Tampa Bay Lightning, a GM less ship that somehow floated along improbable waters to make the playoffs?
While the Rangers have better chances than the Lightning, the reality is that any team can win the cup, and there are several new contenders to the crown. Who will claim WCHL glory in Season 17?
It's too soon to know, for now let's deal with round one. Here are my predictions:
(1) Anaheim Ducks vs. (8) St. Louis Blues
For the Ducks, this series comes on the heels of a tremendous season in which GM Terry Danton put a bull's-eye squarely on the teams back. Proudly proclaiming the club would be a top three squad before the puck even dropped on the season, the Ducks did their GM even better, locking down the Presidents Trophy. Now, that will put a bull's-eye on their back as well, but it's not like the Ducks aren't used to that.
St. Louis meanwhile must try and revitalize a weak offense that has them as the lone team in the post-season that was actually outscored in the regular season. The benefits of playing in the same division as the leagues worst team -the Chicago Blackhawks- the Blues need to rely on a heavy defense and hope for some timely goals in order to knock down the powerhouse Ducks.
Prediction: Anaheim shouldn't just mow over the Blues, but they should win this series handily. Ducks in four games.
(2) Nashville Predators vs. (7) Calgary Flames
At the start of the season if you had said the Predators and Flames would be meeting in the first round, many would have expected the seedings to be reversed. But it was the Predators who rode the amazing netminding of Jonathon Quick to elite levels, rattling off the third best record in the league. Workhorses like Henrik Zetterberg and Alex Pietrangelo should keep the squad humming along as well.
Calgary however is trying to get a fresh breath in what has become a very stall year. Normally a contender for top spot in the Western Conference, the Flames were in a freefall much of the second half of the season and limp into the playoffs with a 4-11-2 record in the final 17 games. This team is filled with as much skill as anyone in the league, but for now it isn't showing and that needs to change immediately.
Prediction: The freefall will continue, and off-season changes appear in order for the Flames. Nashville in six games.
(3) San Jose Sharks vs. (6) Colorado Avalanche
Prior to the Rangers winning two straight WCHL Cups, the Avalanche did the same thing, and they are looking to get back into the winner's circle. Normally a late season upstart, the Avalanche once again awoke from their early season slumber to go 13-7-1 down the stretch and lockdown a playoff spot and only a loss in the final game of the season prevented a 100-point season. An injury to Dmitri Kulikov could cost the blueliner the entire playoffs, and could have a big impact on Colorado's post-season run.
The Sharks meanwhile are just trying to overcome a string of playoff defeats that has tarnished their once nearly flawless image. The original powerhouse in the WCHL, the Sharks have had trouble lately following up on strong regular seasons, so this is yet another chance to do so. The chance to ice forwards like Tyler Seguin, Jonathon Toews, Zach Parise and Eric Staal should make it possible to do it.
Prediction: Somehow, Colorado always gets it done and until San Jose proves they can win, I'll say they don't. Colorado in six games.
(4) Minnesota Wild vs. (5) Edmonton Oilers
A ragtag collect of "Who?" has lead the Wild into the playoffs. Largely a no name collection of solid, albeit unspectacular players has fuelled a run into the playoffs, and home ice advantage to boot. If you have to pick a star, it's not hard to look at the man between the pipes, as Antti Niemi has had a Vezina caliber season, posting a 1.82 goals against average and easily being the backbone to the team.
The Oilers have their own man between the pipes, Tomas Vokoun, who posted a sub two goals against average of his (1.99). The Oilers though will be spearheaded by Jason Pominville, who again led the Oilers in scoring with 35 goals and 80 points in 82 games, potting nearly a point per game in a season where scoring was nearly impossible. If he and Brad Richards can find a way to solve Niemi, the Oilers can prevail.
Prediction: Someone will knock of the Wild, but it won't be the Oilers. Minnesota in six games.
(1) Pittsburgh Penguins vs. (8) Tampa Bay Lightning
It's time to shut up and put up for the Penguins. Long a team that couldn't win in the playoffs, the Penguins did just that in Season 12, winning the WCHL Cup. They had a run back to the finals the next year but since then it's been a few flops, and despite having the horses to pull the cart, that cart hasn't been very close to the finals in a bit. Now another Eastern Conference regular season title is in the rear view mirror and it's time to show that it matters.
Tampa Bay couldn't be coming in any more different than Pittsburgh. While Pittsburgh has at its helm one of the longest tenured and most successful GM's, Tampa Bay has played most of the season without one, and have been rallied more by the heart of their players than anything else. Four straight wins down the stretch held off a few late challengers and gave the Lightning a shot at being the only GM less team to gain claim to a WCHL crown.
Prediction: Tampa's heart will factor in, but not enough to stop Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh in five games.
(2) Carolina Hurricanes vs. (7) Ottawa Senators
Seeding be damned, this series is much closer than it would appear. Carolina benefitted from winning their division, and as such gaining the second seed in the East, however they are only 10 points ahead of the Senators. Carolina as well is likely to be without defenseman Erik Johnson for the duration of the series, costing them a top three defenseman in the process. Carolina will need a win by committee playoff to show they are more than just a fortunate playoff participant.
This series will feature the only one where two teams that played their starting netminders for every minute of the regular season will meet up. More pressing though, Ottawa also enters as the lowest scoring playoff team from the regular season, barely scoring over two goals per game. On the positive though, they are also tied for the third lowest goals against per game average, leading to expectation that this will be a very low scoring season.
Prediction: Ottawa will bore you, but they will also beat you. Ottawa in six.
(3) New York Rangers vs. (6) Washington Capitals
Its 16 wins until a three-peat for the Rangers, and you have to know it's weighing on the players minds if their own owner is acknowledging that a three-peat is possible. But why not be open about it, the Rangers are as good a team to win it all as anyone else. After posting 119 points and leading the league in fewest goals against, the Rangers have to figure their chances are terrific to do it again.
Talk about a tough task for the Capitals. Slowly improving each of the past three seasons, the Capitals are starting to change from pretender to legitimate contender, but this year may not be the best year to capitalize on the fruits of those labours. A solid squad, talented forwards like Dany Heatley and Vinny Lecavalier may have already had their best days, but young gun Jordan Eberle hasn't. If this team can recapture some old Lecavalier magic and get some production on Rangers netminder Henrik Lundqvist, they could make a push.
Prediction: It'll be a lot closer than one might think, but the team you think will win, will win. Rangers in five games.
(4) Toronto Maple Leafs vs. (5) Philadelphia Flyers
After nearly claiming the division crown, the Maple Leafs had to settle for home ice advantage against the Flyers in round one in what should be the closest series of the first round. Toronto is led by free agent pickups Jarome Iginla and Chris Kunitz, and are hopeful Ondrej Pavelec can quell his enigmatic ways in order to perform well enough for the Maple Leafs to get through. History isn't on Toronto's side though, as only one Canadian team has ever won a WCHL Cup.
Philadelphia though is in the midst of a semi-rebuild, a retooling effort that GM Doug Van Strepen began a few years ago after the then core couldn't seem to get the Flyers over the hump. While the current group has had mixed results, it could be this is the year to shine.
Prediction: Toronto should have enough veteran leadership and drive to get over the hot and cold Flyers. Toronto in six games.
(1) Norfolk Admirals vs. (8) Utica Comets - Norfolk in five games
(2) Chicago Wolves vs. (7) Rockford IceHogs - Rockford in seven
(3) Portland Pirates vs. (6) Lake Erie Monsters - Lake Erie in six games
(4) Manchester Monarchs vs. (5) Abbotsford Heat - Abbotsford in five games
(1) Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins vs. (8) Hamilton Bulldogs - Hamilton in seven games
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The new-look Huddle Sports Bar & Grill
Citymax Hotel Bur Dubai announced the re-opening of the renovated Huddle Sports Bar & Grill. The venue got a new look and feel with latest entertainment equipment. Some of the new additions include a centrally placed stage, all-new menu, and list of promotions.
The holder of the Guinness World Record for the longest Domino Drop Shot, Huddle Sports Bar and Grill features multiple large TV screens around the outlet as well as a 100-inch HDTV and a 165-inch digital wall. Included in the new facilities is a private dining area called ‘The Keg Room’ seating up to eight people, a grill dining area and a large main bar with a seating capacity of 320 people in total. On-site is also a pool table and dartboard.
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Democrats Were Handed Down Another Federal Court Victory, Preventing President Trump from Funneling $2.5 Billion in Pentagon Money to Build US/Mexico Wall
Compelling Evidence Suggests that a. Federal Indictment for Donald Trump Jr. Could Still Be Forthcoming
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The U.S. Capitol was stormed by a pro-Trump mob and now there are calls for Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet to make the unprecedented move to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove President Donald Trump from office.
The calls for removal are coming from the National Association of Manufacturers – the nation’s largest industrial trade association, Democratic members of Congress and even some Republican politicians.
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Jay Timmons is the head of the National Association of Manufacturers and he offered a strong statement, maintaining that Pence should “seriously consider working with the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to preserve democracy.”
Former U.S. Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) has also added his voice to the support for the use of the 25th Amendment to remove Donald Trump from office and Vermont’s Republican Gov. Phil Scott said the president “should resign or be removed from office by his Cabinet.”
ON CNBC, former Defense Secretary William Cohen, a Republican who represented Maine in the Senate for 18 years, appeared and said that the Cabinet should use their position and invoke the 25th Amendment because at this point, President Trump “is no longer capable of serving the United States of America.”
Democratic lawmakers are speaking out as well, including U.S. Representatives Ted Lieu and Charlie Crist, who agreed that the 25th Amendment should be used now to take President Trump out of office.
Wednesday offered a whirlwind of shocking (or not so shocking stories to cover.) One of the headlines of the day was when President Trump turned on Vice President Pence, saying via tweet that the vice president “didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done” as Congress began the process of the Electoral College vote certification as outlined in the United States Constitution.
For a reference point, a portion of the 25th Amendment allows for the vice president, the Cabinet or another body approved by Congress to declare that “the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” but questions still remain whether it could be used at a time like this. Those who are pushing for it would like very much to try and see.
Timmons, who is now the head of the National Association of Manufacturers and served as the executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee from 2002-2004, offered this strong statement:
“Throughout this whole disgusting episode, Trump has been cheered on by members of his own party, adding fuel to the distrust that has enflamed violent anger. This is not law and order. This is chaos. It is mob rule. It is dangerous. This is sedition and should be treated as such.”
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The 34-years-old computer specialist form the city of Veliko Turnovo, Petar Petrov became the winner of the prestigious “John Atanasoff” award for 2008.
The Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov personally presented the award Friday at an official ceremony held at the Presidential building in Sofia.
The award, named after the renowned scientist from Bulgarian decent and the creator of the first computer in the world, John Atanasoff, is given for achievements in the development of the information society and has been established in 2003 by Parvanov himself.
Each year, one young Bulgarian becomes the award’s recipient for his or her significant contribution to the development of the computer and information technology and the information society in Bulgaria.
This year’s award winner – Petar Petrov, has been born in 1974 in Veliko Turnovo. Petrov has attended the professional high school of electronics in Veliko Turnovo. In 1998 he graduated with a Master’s Degree in Mathematics and Information Technology from the Sofia University “Kliment Ohridski.”
Since 2004 Petrov has been working as a college lecturer at the University of Maryland in College Park in the Washington DC suburbs.
Petrov is the author of 84 international scientific research articles. 14 have been published in prestigious science magazines and 34 have been presented at international science forums. Petrov is the founder of a multinational group working on the application of special processes and is the editor of IEEE publications in this area.
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World of Warplanes Takes Flight into Release
Philip Federico November 13, 2013 No Comments
Wargaming’s highly anticipated flight combat MMO now available
September 13, 2013 — Wargaming, the leading free-to-play MMO developer and publisher, today announced the release of its highly anticipated free-to-play MMO action game World of Warplanes.
“The release of World of Warplanes marks a great moment for Wargaming, and we are extremely excited to offer players the next great chapter in our gaming universe,” said Victor Kislyi, CEO of Wargaming. “Just as we did for World of Tanks, we’ll continue to grow and evolve World of Warplanes with new content, nations, aircraft and game modes to keep our players fully engaged and always eager to take to the skies.”
Over 4.5 million players have taken part in the game’s beta testing phase, providing the developers with invaluable feedback and input to help shape the title into the premier free-to-play aviation combat game.
World of Warplanes is becoming part of Wargaming.net universe, sharing a number of features with World of Tanks, including the launch of the Unified Premium Account system, which will allow players to share premium status benefits between the two titles.
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About World of Warplanes
World of Warplanes is a flight combat MMO action game set in the Golden Age of military aviation. Throwing players into a never-ending tussle for air dominance, the game allows aircraft enthusiasts to pursue full-scale careers as virtual pilots, earning their wings in intense 15-vs-15 battles where supremacy in the air depends not only on a fast trigger ringer, but also coordinated teamwork..
Players can choose from three main warplane classes: swift fighters capable of engaging enemies in close dogfights, heavy fighters with deadly straight attacks and formidable armor, and ground-attack planes, able to unleash bombs and other armaments against even the most fortified ground targets..
At launch World of Warplanes will feature more than 100 vehicles from Germany, the Soviet Union, USA, Japan, and Great Britain. Every warplane features multiple modular configurations, allowing for customization across weapons, ammo types, engines, and other aircraft components. These components can be mixed and matched to provide players with the ability to outfit their warbird for any combat situation or role.
Wargaming is an award-winning online game developer and publisher and one of the leaders in the free-to-play MMO market. Founded as a privately held company in 1998, Wargaming has shipped more than 15 titles and employs over 2200 people across such key regions as North America, Europe, Russia, Asia, and Australia.
Currently, Wargaming is focused on its team-based MMO war series dedicated to mid-20th century warfare that will include the company’s flagship armored MMO World of Tanks, launched in April 2011 and currently boasting 75 million players worldwide, the flight combat World of Warplanes, named one of the most anticipated MMOs, and the naval World of Warships, scheduled for release in 2014.
Wargaming is an award-winning online game developer and publisher and one of the leaders in the free-to-play MMO market. Founded as a privately held company in 1998, Wargaming has shipped more than 15 titles. Currently, Wargaming is focused on its team-based MMO war series dedicated to the mid-20th century warfare that will include the armored World of Tanks, the flight combat World of Warplanes, and the naval World of Warships. The three intertwined titles will form a common gaming universe integrated within the portal www.wargaming.net.
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UNDEFEATED CANADIAN MIDDLEWEIGHT DAVID LEMIUEX READY TO MAKE A STATEMENT IN WBC TITLE ELIMINATOR BOUT AGAINST MARCO ANTONIO RUBIO THIS FRIDAY, APRIL 8 LIVE ON ESPN'S FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS FROM THE BELL CENTRE IN MONTREAL
Montreal, Canada (April 5)...Undefeated Canadian middleweight David Lemieux (25-0, 24 KOs) is prepared to make a serious statement when he faces Marco Antonio Rubio (49-5-1, 42 KOs) in a WBC middleweight title eliminator this Friday, April 8 from the Bell Centre in Montreal. The Lemieux vs. Rubio fight, which is the final installment of Groupe Yvon Michel's highly acclaimed FAST AND THE FURIOUS fight series, will be the main event of ESPN's Friday Night Fights that evening (11:00 p.m. ET, ESPN2).
"Rubio is the best opponent I have fought to date," said Lemieux, whose list of conquests includes Hector Camacho Jr. whom he beat in a first round knockout. "It is going to be interesting to see what Rubio brings to the table. He is a big puncher and has a lot more experience than I do. I am ready to give it my all and I am preparing for war."
"We are excited to see David in a terrific fight that night from the Bell Centre in Montreal and we are delighted that the US boxing fans will have a chance to see him on ESPN's Friday Night Fights," said Yvon Michel, President of Groupe Yvon Michel. "He is a fantastic, very exciting fighter and I think this very competitive fight against Rubio will catapult him to another stage of his career. It is a terrific main event fight and a really great way to end our Fast and Furious Fight series too."
Lemieux, who has knocked out 24 of his 25 career opponents, is in a position that most fighters dream of - he is one step away from a world title. Rubio, who has an impressive resume and brings his veteran's experience to the ring, will be a sure test for the undefeated Lemieux. If victorious, Lemieux will be set to face the winner of WBC Middleweight Championship between Sebastian Zbik vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. taking place on June 4.
"I honestly feel that Rubio is tougher than either of the fighters I would face for the title if I win," Lemieux continued. "I am not looking past Rubio and taking it one step at a time, but I am really looking forward to making a statement with this fight and doing whatever I have to do to get a shot at the middleweight title."
Long before Lemieux was ranked the #2-ranked middleweight in the world by the WBC, he was a troublemaker running in the wrong circles. A self-proclaimed "Dennis the Menace," Lemieux was kicked out of school multiple times, as his family moved from house to house, and was often found fighting in the streets. At the age of nine, a neighbor caught Lemieux smoking a cigar and offered to take him to the boxing gym in order to teach him discipline.
"Boxing saved my life," said Lemieux. "Violence and drugs were all around me when I was growing up. If I hadn't discovered boxing, I don't know what I would be doing. I never would have been good at a routine desk job. I fell in love with the boxing gym, and I never wanted to leave."
Follow David Lemieux on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/lemieuxboxing.
Become a fan of Lemieux Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/David-Lemieux/105301672854587?ref=ts&sk=info.
Tickets: Tickets for Lemieux vs. Rubio are available now at the Bell Centre Box Office, evenko.ca or through GYM (514.383.0666) starting at $60.
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Natalie Dormer Plastic Surgery Before and After
Natalie Dormer was born on February 11, 1982 in Reading, Berkshire, UK. She was trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Several months after completing her studies, she landed the role of Victoria in the 2005 movie Casanova, which also marked her big screen debut. In 2007, she achieved widespread recognition for her portrayal of Anne Boleyn in The Tudors, playing the part until 2010.
Subsequently, she appeared in the superhero film Captain America: The First Avenger and went on to rise to further stardom for her role as Margaery Tyrell in Game of Thrones, a character she still plays up to present. As a movie star, she is best known for her role as Cressida in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. Her upcoming movies are The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, Patient Zero and The Forest.
Has Natalie Dormer had Plastic Surgery?
The 33-year-old Natalie Dormer is now a household name, thanks to her excellent portrayals of Anne Boleyn and Margaery Tyrell on TV’s The Tudors and Game of Thrones. Her presence on the small screen is becoming more significant that she’s now landing more roles on the big screen as well. Surely, Dormer’s acting career has nowhere to go to but up. Fans are also wondering what the English actress’ secret could be when it comes to taking care of not only her physical appearance, but her overall well-being, too.
Clearly, it’s not plastic surgery that makes Dormer so beautifully radiant. For one, she’s only in her early 30s to worry about aging and other physical concerns that women in the show business tend to be conscious about. She also doesn’t show any signs of cosmetic surgeries both on her face and body. There have been talks about the possibility of her having something done on her lips as she has this remarkably pouty mouth, but the actress herself clarified that how her mouth appears is some kind of a family trait.
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This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--An economic and political Greek roller coaster, Occupy protests heat up, and an incredible emergency airliner
Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every week we'll post a weekly recap of the top news stories of the week:
We tracked a roller coaster week for Greece as the country went back and forth on whether to hold a referendum on an EU bailout for the country that stole headlines at the G20 meetup in Cannes, France.
We watched intense Occupy protests in Denver and once again in Oakland as police in both cities used non-lethal weapons to reign in demonstrators.
We witnessed an amazing emergency landing of a Boeing 767 airliner with no landing gear and 231 passengers on board that touched down in Warsaw, Poland after taking off from Newark, New Jersey.
We noted the loss of thirteen American military personnel and three Australian soldiers in separate attacks by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
We followed Herman Cain on the US campaign trail as he defended himself against accusations of sexual harassment while he was president of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.
We observed roads turning into rivers in Bangkok, Thailand as floodwater in the city and surrounding areas steadily inundated neighborhoods in the country's worst flooding in decades.
We were amazed by the powerful, early season snowstorm in the US Northeast that was blamed for at least 29 deaths and enormous power outages.
We monitored the quick breakdown of a supposed Arab League deal with Syria for the country's security forces to stop the violent suppression of anti-government demonstrations which lead to over a dozen people killed.
And finally, we celebrated Halloween along with YouTubers around the world and saw US politicians get into the spirit too!
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The Nobel Prize for medicine (officially for discoveries in physiology or medicine) was first awarded in 1901. Many of the awards in the early years were for work that transformed medical practice, especially in relation to infectious disease: von Behring (1901) for his work on diphtheria, Ronald Ross (1902) for the discovery of the malaria parasite and its life cycle, Koch (1905), and Ehrlich (1908). The only dermatologist to have won a Nobel Prize was Finsen (1903) for his work on phototherapy in the treatment of lupus vulgaris (cutaneous tuberculosis).
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