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Zuzana Roskoványi: Life is a crazy carnival
We need to be grateful for our lives and treasure each moment of our life because we live it only once. This summers exhibition in the East Slovak’s Museum presents an artist of the younger generation (year 1979). Her own talent beats all conventions, it is her talent that makes the foundations for her artwork. That´s one of the presentions body and blood of her making. Her leitmotif is a kind of fascination. Fascination of the world. Not its scenic beauty, diversity, idyllicity or beauty, but its colorful – whether is it nature, urban areas, genre scene, female body, sea or burning saddle.
The elements of light and air. There Zuzana Roskoványi locates lyrical also to earth, life, movement, song of her paintings her art is not cumbersome and overly ornamented, rather it is intense but clear. It does not carry the burden of strong emotions or deep spirituality. Her art is defined by her senses. However, despite this, or maybe because of it can Zuzana harness her art. But nevertheless – or just therefore – she knows how to very economically stretch as far as possible to make use of her funds. This creates the manuscript, blends a system of coagulating these areas and abbreviations, structure of the very much alive, even these being immediate and its built on the element of colours and their shades.
The overall effect of Zuzana´s paintings is her very own congenial style, that blends also the modern elements of modern painting. By the way, the name of the exhibition comes from the quote of Zuzana´s father Štefan Roskoványi: “Life is just a crazy carnival, which attendants pretend, that the time of folding the mask should never have come”. Zuzana here undresses her face, to show us that the art with pose cannot be truthful. And the carnival? The carnival is in every one of us.
PhDr. Miro Procházka
Zuzana Roskovanyi came to the world on August 7, 1979 in the star sign of Leo, which gave her a sense of colour vision of the world. In addition, she was born in an artistic family, where she was a pitiful lover of art. Therefore it would not surprise anyone that after graduating from high school, the talented Zuzana decided to devote herself to fine art. However, her father, the well-known academic painter Štefan Roskoványi, the daughter’s decision to make an artistic journey was too “needless”. He knew that the sandwich artist was not easy. Eventually, He supported her and Zuzana successfully studied the humanitarian direction of art education – history at Prešov University.
The breakthrough in the life of the hopeful painter was the sudden departure of her father from this world. Feeling full of pain from the loss of a beloved man, Zuzana made into art, which is still expressed mainly through colours. Red and orange evoked her childhood, and from her early childhood she was associated with her father’s work. She is not afraid to experiment with other colours. In the painting production, especially the characters living their story, beloved horses, landscapes, the hometown of Košice, as well as modern avant-garde appear.
“Zuzana Roskovanyi was lucky to have grown up in a creative environment – between the paintings – with her father, significant Košice and Slovak painter, who undoubtedly inherited strong talent. Due to Zuzana’s dream of becoming an artist on her own has paid off thanks to her talent and her natural artistic development.
There are a lot of painters, lots of paintings, but some of them can be said to have a soul – what is the most valuable thing about art. Zuzana’s images have soul. Her paintings feature a wide and clear colour scale. Colour tuning is unrepeatable, extremely impressive, incredibly valuable, and delivers the image of the necessary artistic power and value. “
Acad. Sculptor Miroslav Bonk
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation on the issues related to COVID-19 and existing lockdown, in New Delhi
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation on the issues related to COVID-19 and existing lockdown, in New Delhi on Apr 14, 2020. The PM on Tuesday commended people of the nation for celebrating festivals by staying at home during the lockdown period. In his address to the nation, Modi announced that based on the suggestions of the state governments and experts, the nationwide lockdown has been extended till May 3. Earlier, a 21-day lockdown was imposed in the country which was in effect till today. (Photo: IANS)
Preparation for the Dr. BR Ambedkar Jayanti underway at Vidhana Soudha, in Bengaluru
BJP President JP Nadda pays tributes to the architect of the Indian Constitution B.R. Ambedkar on his birth anniversary, in New Delhi
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McKay Hyde, BS’97
by Michele Swaner
McKay Hyde (Honors B.A. Mathematics, B.A. Physics ’97) always enjoyed math and science, but it was taking a series of physics classes at the U, between his junior and senior year in high school, that changed his life. “I always enjoyed mathematics,” he said. “But physics showed me how mathematics could be used to solve real-world problems. That was tremendously exciting to me and still is.”
The Hyde Family
Today Hyde is managing director in Equities Engineering for the New York office of Goldman Sachs and is responsible for building systems to manage securities inventory and collateral, working closely with teams across Engineering, as well as the Finance, Operations and Securities divisions. “I like being part of a cross-functional team, building relationships and working together to find solutions that impact the organization and the clients we serve,” he said. “The combination of using mathematics and computer science applied to practical problems is very rewarding.”
He joined Goldman Sachs in 2006 and was named managing director in 2010. At Goldman Sachs, Hyde has had a range of responsibilities. He was head of the global Market Risk Technology team within Finance and Risk Engineering. Before that, Hyde led the Trading Strats team for Interest Rate Products in New York as well as the Core Quant Strats team, which developed models, algorithmic trading methods, and pricing infrastructure used by a number of trading desks. (“Strat” is a term that originated with Goldman Sachs to describe individuals that use tools from mathematics and computer science to build financial models In his Core Quant Strat role, Hyde led the build out of the Strat teams in Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore), India, known as “The Silicon Valley of India.”
McKay Hyde, BS'97
Roots in Utah and at the U
Hyde grew up in Salt Lake City and North Salt Lake, graduating from Woods Cross High School. He met his wife, Marie, in an “outstanding” honors class taught by Professor Emeritus Jack Newell (“Education and Identity”), who served as dean and principal architect of the U’s Liberal Education Program. In his first two years at the U Hyde was also active in the U’s music program, playing the trumpet in several university bands—Concert, Marching, Pep, and Jazz.
Hyde gives credit to the education he received at the U with helping prepare him for a career in the financial sector. “I received a tremendous education in physics and mathematics, including research experience working in the Cosmic Ray group and in probability theory. The U provides great value as an institution—a quality education at a reasonable cost,” he said.
He also has great memories of three professors who made a difference for him during his undergraduate years: Davar Khoshnevisan (professor and current chair of the Math Department), Hyde’s undergraduate research advisor in mathematics; Martha Bradley, former dean of the Honors College, and the late Professor Gale Dick, whose “physics lectures were a work of art,” said Hyde.
Using Agile Principles in Undergraduate Research
Hyde believes students should be encouraged to participate in research opportunities early in their undergraduate years, and he applauds the decision of the College of Science to focus on a new program called the Undergraduate Research Initiative. “Research is very different from coursework—it’s really a separate skill,” said Hyde. “Engaging and encouraging undergrads to work together in research opportunities provides a far richer educational experience that really pays off in preparing students for demanding careers.”
To that end, Hyde thinks the same concepts and principles that teams use in Agile software development can effectively be applied to something like the Undergraduate Research Initiative program. “Creating an Agile environment—whether in software development or research—is essentially the same,” said Hyde.
“It involves developing and supporting a culture that encourages a team of people to work toward a common goal. To that end, a large project or research problem can be broken down into smaller tasks. A scrum master or team leader evaluates the special skills and talents of each individual on the team, assigns them to specific tasks, and the team comes together frequently—typically during a daily stand up —over focused sprints—typically 2-3 weeks long—to complete those tasks yielding demonstrable progress at the end of each sprint. By repeating this process, the team improves while building confidence and trust through repeated accomplishment of its goals.”
Previous Academic Career
After earning degrees at the U in 1997 Hyde completed a Ph.D. in Applied and Computational Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 2003. Hyde worked as a postdoc in the School of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota and later joined Rice University as an assistant professor of computational and applied mathematics.
When Hyde first left academia to work at Goldman Sachs, he wondered if he would need to dress and act like a “stereotypical banker.” But he discovered it was a much easier transition. “I found smart people from technical fields applying their skills in the area of finance,” he said. “It made me realize the importance of being open to new opportunities—taking the skills and talents you have and using them in different fields or industries to build relationships with others and do meaningful work. That’s really what it’s all about.”
Hyde and his wife, Marie, enjoy living in New Jersey and are the parents of four children: a son studying music at Berklee College of Music; a daughter at Brigham Young University (currently serving a church mission in Peru); and a son and daughter in high school.
- First Published in Discover Magazine, Fall 2019
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Listen: National Football League, Andy, John And discussed on John Batchelor
"I'm John Baxter. This is John Baxter Show. I do not follow the National Basketball Association, the MBA. I do not follow much National Football League, the NFL, But I do follow a major league baseball. And these last months have been tremendous turmoil in baseball because of the virus, and then With the tragedy in Minnesota, followed by the protests, followed by the violence problem, followed by the unknowns of threats, for example against members of Congress when they were leaving the president's speech last week at the end of the Republican National Convention. I have become lost as to what the complaint is or what the complaints are by these professional organizations towards well, what are they protesting? And who is the object of the protest? Andrew McCarthy National View Online and thirties Makarov American greatness her to help me Sort this out, they know considerably more about The N B A and the N F l than I do. 30 asses Very good Detroit fan and I'm sure the Andy has his favorites in the NFL in the N B. A. But I do not. So I've I regard myself as disqualified to comment here, but In general Andy, you've written a column about the N ba getting into Paula getting involved in politics these last days. That is not the role of an actor. I mean, they aren't thes. Very fancy actors. Isn't this a stage set that they're on to entertain people? It is puzzling to me why they want to get involved in politics. Since it takes a lifetime to sort it out. And even then we're not sure why did they do this? Well, John, I think it's because they're it's fashionable to do it. They want to be seen as social justice icons. They have enough wealth now compared tto the kind of money they used to make back when that they have a wholenother existence outside the playing field, and I don't actually begrudged them. Uh or anybody else their political views, and if they can find a forum to express them, that's an appropriate one. And they have people who are interested in what they think That's fine. But I think that the game itself Ought to be sacrosanct from politics and the attraction of sports. For all of us. Follow sports is that the game is a celebration of our love of sport and competition, and it's our retreat are Oasis. Politics and if the players are going to turn it into a place where a captured audience for a brand of politics that at least half the country Reject. I think they're very quickly going to find that sports is a whole lot less popular. That is It really is a problem, isn't it? Andy? I mean, you go to go watch a play. You don't want to see politics injected into there. So part of the problem is these athletes kind of like Bruce Springsteen trying to say is blue collar and sing about blue collar. The themes of the very time you know he's rich living in a mansion out in Hollywood or wherever, and it's about the street credibility of the athletes from the community from which they came from second, understand the pressure on them to make that point. But again, don't they risk alienating people who just don't care about your politics? I want to go somewhere to get away from that Because most people understand the politics is part of life. Politics is not life. Yeah, I think that's exactly right. And it reminds me 30 if you remember when, when Michael Jordan was in his heyday as a zoo basketball store for the Chicago Bulls. Aunt. He almost single handedly turned 19 into a huge multibillion dollar international conglomerate. And he got a lot of pressure when he was the best player in basketball about why he wasn't participating in a lot of the social justice causes and political debate to the day and his simple response to that he's reportedly People who know him. He's a He's a progressive in terms of this political orientation. But his response when he was pushed on that was Republicans by shoes, too. And I think that's a good thing for all of them to bear in mind. I wonder if we if we got in trouble when Babe Ruth said he had a better year than Herbert Hoover. I wonder if that was the first moment went when politics and sports got mixed up, although I don't think anybody ever took Babe Ruth to be A political activist. The puzzle here also, though, because again I'm ignorant of the N B A in the NFL. The puzzle here also is Thies air professional organizations with franchises that are worth a great deal of money. And our monopolies. In most instances, I don't remember the law. But there's some exception that allows them to operate as if they represent the city when in fact, they're they're they're high profit centers. Don't they? Isn't that something? We're wondering into Andy that that they're no longer as they're no longer deserving of this monopoly free life they're living and that Half the electorate could turn against them. Yeah, I think that's I think that's exactly right, John And as you described that it also occurred to me that there's something about modern politics that I find unsavory that's now bleeding over into sports. And and it is that it's kind of this age of micro campaigning and micro politicking. So it used to be in politics. The idea was you. You have this big old country and you try to draw as many people as you can. To your side by appealing to them, And then somewhere along the line, somebody decided that the way to win elections was not to do that, but rather to appeal to your base. And stoke up your base and get high participation at your base at the expense of the rest of the country, and that that was the way to win elections, and I think what's happening in sports? Is these guys see themselves as kind of a social phenomenon. Of a certain distinctive part of the population rather than something that's enjoyed by everyone and the N B. A. In particular wants to appeal. I think To a particular part of the population rather than the population writ large. I mean, they obviously like to be appealing to everyone, but they want to be seen as fashionable. Within a community that is that is by defining itself as extremely progressive and, you know, having a certain a number of political and social Attitudes, and they think that's the way to be popular. I think they're wrong about that. That is the last comment to you. Does this mean that we that we're gonna have a bad NFL season? If they all go political on this? Lori always going to have a bed NFL season when But the reality is his. And he was talking about Look, the very people who claim to be the most inclusive are the most exclusive people you ever wanted me. Thatis McCotter. American greatness. Andrew McCarthy National View Online. What's left of the baseball season. We can enjoy it. I'm John."
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National Football League, Andy, John And discussed on John Batchelor
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National Football League Andy John And Andrew Mccarthy John Baxter National Basketball Association Baseball Babe Ruth National View Online Minnesota N B. A. Bruce Springsteen President Trump John Detroit Paula Basketball Michael Jordan Congress
I'm John Baxter. This is John Baxter Show. I do not follow the National Basketball Association, the MBA. I do not follow much National Football League, the NFL, But I do follow a major league baseball. And these last months have been tremendous turmoil in baseball because of the virus, and then With the tragedy in Minnesota, followed by the protests, followed by the violence problem, followed by the unknowns of threats, for example against members of Congress when they were leaving the president's speech last week at the end of the Republican National Convention. I have become lost as to what the complaint is or what the complaints are by these professional organizations towards well, what are they protesting? And who is the object of the protest? Andrew McCarthy National View Online and thirties Makarov American greatness her to help me Sort this out, they know considerably more about The N B A and the N F l than I do. 30 asses Very good Detroit fan and I'm sure the Andy has his favorites in the NFL in the N B. A. But I do not. So I've I regard myself as disqualified to comment here, but In general Andy, you've written a column about the N ba getting into Paula getting involved in politics these last days. That is not the role of an actor. I mean, they aren't thes. Very fancy actors. Isn't this a stage set that they're on to entertain people? It is puzzling to me why they want to get involved in politics. Since it takes a lifetime to sort it out. And even then we're not sure why did they do this? Well, John, I think it's because they're it's fashionable to do it. They want to be seen as social justice icons. They have enough wealth now compared tto the kind of money they used to make back when that they have a wholenother existence outside the playing field, and I don't actually begrudged them. Uh or anybody else their political views, and if they can find a forum to express them, that's an appropriate one. And they have people who are interested in what they think That's fine. But I think that the game itself Ought to be sacrosanct from politics and the attraction of sports. For all of us. Follow sports is that the game is a celebration of our love of sport and competition, and it's our retreat are Oasis. Politics and if the players are going to turn it into a place where a captured audience for a brand of politics that at least half the country Reject. I think they're very quickly going to find that sports is a whole lot less popular. That is It really is a problem, isn't it? Andy? I mean, you go to go watch a play. You don't want to see politics injected into there. So part of the problem is these athletes kind of like Bruce Springsteen trying to say is blue collar and sing about blue collar. The themes of the very time you know he's rich living in a mansion out in Hollywood or wherever, and it's about the street credibility of the athletes from the community from which they came from second, understand the pressure on them to make that point. But again, don't they risk alienating people who just don't care about your politics? I want to go somewhere to get away from that Because most people understand the politics is part of life. Politics is not life. Yeah, I think that's exactly right. And it reminds me 30 if you remember when, when Michael Jordan was in his heyday as a zoo basketball store for the Chicago Bulls. Aunt. He almost single handedly turned 19 into a huge multibillion dollar international conglomerate. And he got a lot of pressure when he was the best player in basketball about why he wasn't participating in a lot of the social justice causes and political debate to the day and his simple response to that he's reportedly People who know him. He's a He's a progressive in terms of this political orientation. But his response when he was pushed on that was Republicans by shoes, too. And I think that's a good thing for all of them to bear in mind. I wonder if we if we got in trouble when Babe Ruth said he had a better year than Herbert Hoover. I wonder if that was the first moment went when politics and sports got mixed up, although I don't think anybody ever took Babe Ruth to be A political activist. The puzzle here also, though, because again I'm ignorant of the N B A in the NFL. The puzzle here also is Thies air professional organizations with franchises that are worth a great deal of money. And our monopolies. In most instances, I don't remember the law. But there's some exception that allows them to operate as if they represent the city when in fact, they're they're they're high profit centers. Don't they? Isn't that something? We're wondering into Andy that that they're no longer as they're no longer deserving of this monopoly free life they're living and that Half the electorate could turn against them. Yeah, I think that's I think that's exactly right, John And as you described that it also occurred to me that there's something about modern politics that I find unsavory that's now bleeding over into sports. And and it is that it's kind of this age of micro campaigning and micro politicking. So it used to be in politics. The idea was you. You have this big old country and you try to draw as many people as you can. To your side by appealing to them, And then somewhere along the line, somebody decided that the way to win elections was not to do that, but rather to appeal to your base. And stoke up your base and get high participation at your base at the expense of the rest of the country, and that that was the way to win elections, and I think what's happening in sports? Is these guys see themselves as kind of a social phenomenon. Of a certain distinctive part of the population rather than something that's enjoyed by everyone and the N B. A. In particular wants to appeal. I think To a particular part of the population rather than the population writ large. I mean, they obviously like to be appealing to everyone, but they want to be seen as fashionable. Within a community that is that is by defining itself as extremely progressive and, you know, having a certain a number of political and social Attitudes, and they think that's the way to be popular. I think they're wrong about that. That is the last comment to you. Does this mean that we that we're gonna have a bad NFL season? If they all go political on this? Lori always going to have a bed NFL season when But the reality is his. And he was talking about Look, the very people who claim to be the most inclusive are the most exclusive people you ever wanted me. Thatis McCotter. American greatness. Andrew McCarthy National View Online. What's left of the baseball season. We can enjoy it. I'm John.
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Whistler Public Schools are in the Sea to Sky School District No. 48.
In Whistler there are two public K-7 elementary schools, One secondary school and one private K-10 alternative education school.
Myrtle Phillip Community School, with enrollment of about 250 students, is a Neighbourhood Learning Centre and offers Early Learning, After School Programs for youth, Continuing Education and Community Sport and Recreation activities.
Spring Creek Elementary School, with enrollment of about 290 students is also a Community Centre. Spring Creek Elementary Schools offers full French Immersion.
Whistler Secondary School, for grades 8 to 12, is also a dual track school offering English and French Immersion instruction. Whistler Secondary School has an enrollment of about 400 students.
Whistler Waldorf School, an independent school, has an enrollment of about 150 students.
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Feeding the Hungry Along the Shoreline
Meal Sites
Shoreline Resources
Planned Giving & Stocks
Shoreline Basic Needs Task Force
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The Shoreline Soup Kitchens & Pantries is an interfaith service that provides food and fellowship to those in need and educates our community on hunger and poverty.
All guests are welcome to visit one pantry site each week for curb-side delivery. Facemasks must be worn.
Due to shortened daylight hours SSKP Pantry hours November 1, 2020 - March 14, 2021will shift to:
TUESDAYS: 11:30am-2:15pm in WESTBROOK @ St. Mark’s Roman Catholic Church, 222 McVeagh Road
TUESDAYS: 1:00pm-4:00pm in OLD SAYBROOK @ First Church of Christ in Saybrook (Congregational), 366 Main Street (CLOSED Tuesday, 1/19)
WEDNESDAYS: 3:30pm-6:00pm in CLINTON @ First Church of Christ, Congregational, 55 Church Road, Clinton
THURSDAYS: 2:30pm-4:30pm in NIANTIC @ St. John’s Episcopal Church, 400 Main Street
SATURDAYS: 9:00am-11:00am in OLD LYME @ First Congregational Church, 2 Ferry Road
Locations of Open meal sites with curb-side pick-up of meals to go:
Mondays, 5:00-6:00 p.m.
First Baptist Church of Essex, 10 Prospect Street, Essex
Tuesdays, 5:00-6:00 p.m.
St. John's Episcopal Church, 23 Main Street, Essex
Wednesdays, noon-1:00 p.m.
Grace Episcopal Church, 336 Main Street, Old Saybrook
Thursdays, 5:00-6:00 p.m.
Deep River Congregational Church, 1 Church Street, Deep River
Fridays, noon-1:00 p.m.
Trinity Lutheran Church, 109 Main Street, Centerbrook
Fridays, 6:00-7:00 p.m.
Westbrook Congregational Church
1166 Boston Post Road, Westbrook
Sundays, 5:00-6:00 p.m.
United Church of Chester, 29 West Main Street, Chester
(download flyer here - English, Spanish.)
All other meal sites are temporarily closed.
Note: The food bank truck is coming to the shoreline twice every month during the "Help Day Event" - the first Monday of the month in Clinton at the Town Annex parking Lot (across from the Tourist Information Booth), 48 East Main Street, Clinton (12:00 to 1:00 p.m.) - Cheryl Church, Coordinator, Clinton Social Services; the fourth Thursday of the month in Old Saybrook at Grace Episcopal Church, Old Saybrook (1:30 to 2:30 p.m.) - Sue Consoli, Coordinator, Old Saybrook Social Services Coordinator. No sign-up - just bring your own bags.
The Shoreline Soup Kitchens & Pantries, P.O. Box 804, Essex Connecticut, USA 06426 Tel: 860-388-1988
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Newest Members at Berkeley College – New Jersey
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On March 19th, 2018, Berkeley College in Paramus, New Jersey inducted 7 new Sigma Beta Delta members. Under the guidance of their chapter advisor,... Read More
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While Diana stood admiring the replica, Bruce Wayne appeared. He proceeds to angrily confront her by grabbing Diana's arm and asking her about the information device that she had stolen. Bruce claims to see right through her "babe in the woods" act, saying that while Diana doesn't know him, he's met "a few women like [her]". Diana, however, calmly smiles and retorts that Bruce has never met any women like her. She then proceeds to tell Bruce that she was unable to obtain anything from Bruce's device, due to Lex Luthor's data having military-grade encryption. Diana explains her intention to re-obtain her photograph from Luthor, stating that she only borrowed Bruce's device, and has already returned it to him shortly beforehand (placing it into the glove compartment of his car), before calmly excusing herself and leaving.[5]
Invisible Plane: Wonder Woman possesses an airplane capable of rendering itself completely invisible to the human eye. Like her bracelets, Diana's invisible plane is forged with Eighth Metal, making it almost indestructible.[115] The Invisible Plane was originally the aircraft Steve Trevor crashed onto Themyscira; it was repaired by the Amazons and upgraded with their technology.[116][117]
To defend himself against critics, Gaines, in 1940, hired Marston as a consultant. “‘Doc’ Marston has long been an advocate of the right type of comic magazines,” he explained. Marston held three degrees from Harvard, including a PhD in psychology. He led what he called “an experimental life.” He’d been a lawyer, a scientist and a professor. He is generally credited with inventing the lie detector test: He was obsessed with uncovering other people’s secrets. He’d been a consulting psychologist for Universal Pictures. He’d written screenplays, a novel and dozens of magazine articles. Gaines had read about Marston in an article in Family Circle magazine. In the summer of 1940, Olive Richard, a staff writer for the magazine, visited Marston at his house in Rye, New York, to ask him for his expert opinion about comics.
Later, Diana, Zola and Hera had lunch while they were watched by Hermes. Orion, believing Hermes had bad intentions, attacked him before being stopped by Wonder Woman, and at the same time Strife appeared. Back at the apartment, Strife gave War's helmet to Diana, even though Diana still felt uncomfortable at becoming the new Goddess of War. In that moment, Siracca entered the apartment and told Diana that Milan had been captured by Cassandra. Wonder Woman asked Hermes to take her to Chernobyl, and he accepted to help.[38]
Suddenly, Zola and the others were attacked by Artemis, who was sent by Apollo to kill Zeke, Zola's son. While Zola and the others escaped with Zeke, Wonder Woman took on Artemis by herself. Diana defeated Artemis and went to protect Zola and the others, while Ares took the defeated Artemis back to Apollo.[33] However, the First Born and Cassandra, two of Zeus' illegitimate children, attacked Zola. Wonder Woman, Lennox and Orion worked together to fight the First Born, but he proved to be stronger than they had anticipated. Orion's Astro Harness incapacitated Cassandra, and Orion opened a Boom Tube so that Wonder Woman and her allies could escape. The First Born attempted to pry the Boom Tube open, but Lennox sacrificed himself so that the others could escape safely. Wonder Woman and her allies arrived at the other side of the Boom Tube and were greeted by Highfather, who explained that they were on New Genesis.[34]
An immortal Amazon warrior goddess who is the crown princess of Themyscira and the daughter of Queen Hippolyta and Zeus given to the Amazons to raise, and half-sister of Ares.[12] Describing Wonder Woman and her appeal, Gadot said, "She's relatable. She has the heart of a human and is very compassionate, but her experiences—or lack of them, her naivete, really—make her interested in everything around her and able to view the world in a way that we'd all like to: with a genuine curiosity."[13] On Diana's relationship with her mother, Gadot said, "Diana is a very opinionated girl. Her mother is very opinionated. Her mother is very protective as well, and they have, you know, the very natural clash that a mother has with her daughter, with their daughters, the first time they want to leave home."[14] On taking on the role as Wonder Woman, Gadot stated, "I feel very privileged that I got the opportunity to portray such an iconic, strong female character. I adore this character and everything that she stands for and everything that she symbolizes."[15] On Diana going to the world, Gadot stated, "When Diana comes to the real world she's completely oblivious about gender and society rules, that women are not equal to men."[16] Describing Diana's relationship with her mother and aunts, Jenkins said, "She is the only child they raised together. And their love for her manifests in a different way for each of them."[17] On working with Gadot, Jenkins said, "Gal quickly became the person I wanted to talk to about everything. We'd shoot together all day. And then on weekends, we'd be like, 'What do you want to do?' That's maybe not totally normal."[18]
As Hippolyta was still a clay statue, Diana was forced to take the Amazon throne, at least until she could find a way to turn her mother back to normal. At the same time, the Justice League had discovered strange environmental events that had destroyed small villages around the world, leaving only vegetation behind. Furious, Wonder Woman attacked Swamp Thing, accusing him of causing such devastation, while Swamp Thing claimed innocence. Aquaman defused the situation before it could escalate any further. Later, Wonder Woman returned to Themyscira, only to discover Hippolyta's statue had crumbled.[50] On a training session, Clark asked Diana if she wanted to talk about her recent experiences, but Diana replied that, as queen, grief is not a luxury she could afford. Later, Diana was called for a meeting by the Amazon council, which forced a choice on her: become permanent Queen or abdicate the throne. Before the discussion could continue, the island was attacked by Stymphalian Birds, Ares’ pets who were now drawn to Diana as the God of War. Accepting her new responsibilities, Diana successfully defended Themyscira.[51]
In 1944, Gaines and Marston signed an agreement for Wonder Woman to become a newspaper strip, syndicated by King Features. Busy with the newspaper strip, Marston hired an 18-year-old student, Joye Hummel, to help him write comic-book scripts. Joye Hummel, now Joye Kelly, turned 90 this April; in June, she donated her collection of never-before-seen scripts and comic books to the Smithsonian Libraries. Hiring her helped with Marston’s editorial problem, too. Her stories were more innocent than his. She’d type them and bring them to Sheldon Mayer, Marston’s editor at DC, she told me, and “He always OK’d mine faster because I didn’t make mine as sexy.” To celebrate syndication, Gaines had his artists draw a panel in which Superman and Batman, rising out of the front page of a daily newspaper, call out to Wonder Woman, who’s leaping onto the page, “Welcome, Wonder Woman!”
Wonder Woman is the most popular female comic-book superhero of all time. Aside from Superman and Batman, no other comic-book character has lasted as long. Generations of girls have carried their sandwiches to school in Wonder Woman lunchboxes. Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike every other superhero, she also has a secret history.
Storylines "American Dreams" · "Breakdown" · "Breakdowns" · "Crisis of Conscience" · "Crisis Times Five" · "Cry for Justice" · "The Dark Things" · "Divided We Fall" · Earth-2 · "Earth-Mars War" · "Extinction" · "Golden Perfect" · Justice · Identity Crisis · "In the Dark" · "Injustice League Unlimited" · JLA/Avengers · "Justice For All" · "The Lightning Saga" · "A Midsummer's Nightmare" · "A New Beginning" · "New World Order" · "The Obsidian Age" · "Omega" · "Origin" · "Pain of the Gods" · "The Queen of Fables" · "The Rise of Eclipso" · "Rock of Ages" · "Royal Pain" · "Rules of Engagement" · "Sanctuary" · "The Second Coming" · "The Signal Masters" · "Strength in Numbers" · "Syndicate Rules" · "Team History" · "The Tenth Circle" · "Terror Incognita" · "Throne of Atlantis" · "The Tornado's Path" · "Tower of Babel" · "Trial by Fire" · "The Villain's Journey" · "When Worlds Collide" · "World War III" · "World Without a Justice League" · Year One
Alfred informs Bruce that people are in danger, which Batman tells Flash that he needs to save the civilians. Diana and Arthur try to keep Steppenwolf away from Cyborg by using the Lasso of Hestia to pull him down, then Steppenwolf attacked them both before he knocks Arthur into a wall breaking the ceiling before Diana saves him. Cyborg tries to keep Steppenwolf away from him, but fails which leads with Steppenwolf pulling off one of his legs.
If you're looking for a certified God of War on a personal vendetta against a pantheon of gods, Wonder Woman has you covered. The current version of Diana hacking and slashing her way through the DC Universe, anyway. After unintentionally bringing a new collection of "Dark Gods" into the comic book universe, it falls to the daughter of Zeus to save Earth from their malice.
Later, Etta was released from hospital and Diana accompanied her to her home. She was shot by a sniper, but deflected the bullet and interrogated the attacker, who called herself Mayfly. She revealed that she had attempted to assassinate Wonder Woman in return for a bounty that had been placed on her.[86] Shortly afterwards, Diana was attacked by five more assassins: Cat Eye, Cheshire, Abolith, Baundo and Plastique, the latter of whom revealed that she had planted the bomb at the wedding. Wonder Woman was able to defeat them all with the help of Etta, and they returned to an A.R.G.U.S. facility. There, Sasha Bordeaux informed her that another scientist, Hamilton Revere, had heard of Dr. Crawford's attempts to harvest Diana's DNA, and had apparently hypothesized that it could be used for the treatment of numerous diseases. Wonder Woman was intrigued and decided to seek out Revere of her own accord and hear out his plans.[87] When she arrived, Revere informed her that in truth, he sought to use her DNA to create an army of super-soldiers. He had also used samples of Diana's blood to grant some of his goons super strength, who attacked her. Etta and Steve Trevor arrived to assist Wonder Woman, and together they bound the attackers in the Lasso of Truth, which once again removed the lie within their bodies. Revere was arrested, and Diana returned home with Steve and Etta.[88]
Jenkins disagrees with this line of critique. She has stated that she was raised by a second-wave "feminist mother",[240][241] who taught her to be "both super aware that there had been sexism but also: 'Congratulations—thank you, now I get to do whatever I want, Mom!'"[240] Jenkins thus notes that it is this upbringing which has led her to question a feminist critique of Wonder Woman's costume.[242] When she was working on her own version of Wonder Woman's "Gladiator" re-design of the outfit (in the 2016 film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice)[243] Jenkins decided that Wonder Woman (as well as the other Amazons) "shouldn't be dressed in armor like men ... It should be different ... I, as a woman, want Wonder Woman to be hot as hell, fight badass, and look great at the same time—the same way men want Superman to have huge pecs and an impractically big body."[17] Jenkins also notes that she is "frustrated" by the critique of Wonder Woman's appearance, stating "when people get super critical about her outfit, who's the one getting crazy about what a woman wears? That's who she is; that's Wonder Woman."[241] Gal Gadot concurred with Jenkins, arguing that the character "is a feminist"[244] as "feminism is about equality and choice and freedom. And the writers, Patty and myself all figured that the best way to show that is to show Diana as having no awareness of social roles. She has no gender boundaries. To her, everyone is equal."[245]
As they walked, Trevor noticed that they were being followed. He tried to lose them by taking a turn down a back alley, but instead walked straight into a German spy's gun. The man ordered Trevor to give the notebook back; he refused, instead headbutting the man. He told Diana to stay back at the man took aim and shot at them. Diana reached out her arm, blocking the bullet off her gauntlet and saving Trevor's life. Diana then fought the German spies single-handedly; her spectacles were crushed in the fight.
In order to prove her devotion to her people, the Amazons issued a challenge to Diana, one she would have to meet in two days. In the meantime, the Justice League had tracked the insectoid queen down to a remote mountain. The League journeyed deep into the mountain and encountered the queen. Diana condemned her for the lives she has taken, but the insectoid queen replied that it was Diana’s actions, namely her throwing of the First Born into the depths of the Earth, that awoke the insectoids from their slumber.[54]
A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote that it "briskly shakes off blockbuster branding imperatives and allows itself to be something relatively rare in the modern superhero cosmos. It feels less like yet another installment in an endless sequence of apocalyptic merchandising opportunities than like ... what's the word I'm looking for? A movie. A pretty good one, too."[213] Michael Phillips of Chicago Tribune compared the film to Captain America: The First Avenger, noting that as with "the first Captain America movie over in the Marvel Comics universe, DC's Wonder Woman offers the pleasures of period re-creation for a popular audience. Jenkins and her design team make 1918-era London; war-torn Belgium; the Ottoman Empire; and other locales look freshly realized, with a strong point of view. There are scenes here of dispossessed war refugees, witnessed by an astonished and heartbroken Diana, that carry unusual gravity for a comic book adaptation."[214] Katie Erbland of IndieWire commended its thematic depth, explaining that "Wonder Woman is a war movie. Patty Jenkins' first—and we hope not last—entry into the DC Expanded Universe is primarily set during World War I, but while the feature doesn't balk at war-time violence, it's the internal battles of its compelling heroine that are most vital."[215] Alonso Duralde of TheWrap similarly felt that, "Diana's scenes of action are thrilling precisely because they're meant to stop war, not to foment it; the idea of a demi-god using love to fight war might sound goofy in the abstract, but Jenkins makes the concept work."[216] Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post praised Gadot and Pine's performances as well the film's detailed plot and narrative while comparing of some slow-motion action sequences to The Matrix.[217] Stephanie Zacharek of Time magazine hailed the film as a "cut above nearly all the superhero movies that have been trotted out over the past few summers" while praising Gadot's performance as "charming" and "marvelous" and commending Jenkins's direction of the film as a step forward for women directors in directing big-budget blockbuster films in Hollywood.[218]
Wonder Woman gets a little jealous with Supergirl's arrival, believing she is trying to catch everyone's attention. When she realized that Supergirl is actually a better superhero because she looks up to Wonder Woman, they became friends and Wonder Woman helps to train Supergirl. She is among the heroes to battle against Granny Goodness and the Female Furies. She is voiced by Grey Griffin.
The demon Neron engaged Diana in battle and managed to kill her.[112] The Olympian Gods granted Diana divinity and the role of the Goddess of Truth who started to reside in Olympus; her mother Hippolyta then assumed the role of Wonder Woman and wore her own different incarnation of the costume.[112] In Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #136, Diana was banished from Olympus due to interfering in earthly matters (as Diana was unable to simply watch over people's misery on Earth).[112] She immediately returned to her duties as Wonder Woman, but ran into conflicts with her mother over her true place and role as Hippolyta seemed accustomed to her life in America.[112] Their fight remained unsolved, as Hippolyta died during an intergalactic war.[112] Themyscira was destroyed during the war, but was restored and reformed as a collection of floating islands.[112] Circe later resurrected Hippolyta in Wonder Woman Vol 3 #8.[113]
At the Louvre, Diana watched a news report showing a signal fire burning at the Shrine of the Amazons and knew that it had been sent by her mother to warn of the impending invasion. Traveling to Gotham, she breaks into Bruce's base of operations to find him tinkering with a new prototype troop carrier, the Flying Fox. It reminds her of someone she thinks of who would have loved to have flown it. Bruce tells her that he believes an invasion is imminent; she corrects him. It has already arrived.
^ Greenberger p. 175: "Journalist and feminist Gloria Steinem...was tapped in 1970 to write the introduction to Wonder Woman, a hardcover collection of older stories. Steinem later went on to edit Ms. Magazine, with the first issue published in 1972, featuring the Amazon Princess on its cover. In both publications, the heroine's powerless condition during the 1970s was pilloried. A feminist backlash began to grow, demanding that Wonder Woman regain the powers and costume that put her on a par with the Man of Steel."
Bracelets of Submission: Like all Amazons, Wonder Woman wears two nigh-indestructible gauntlets as part of her armor. They are incredibly durable, capable of deflecting even Ares' massive bolts of lightning and Doomsday's tremendously powerful and destructive thermal attack. Due to her powers as a demigoddess, she also has the ability to create a massive wave of energy outwards when she clashes them together.
Steve Trevor died at the end of Wonder Woman after sacrificing himself to ensure that a plane full of deadly gas couldn’t harm anyone on the ground. Is this Steve Trevor the same Steve Trevor that we saw in Wonder Woman who was transported to 1984 because of something like time travel, a descendant of Steve Trevor’s who is also named Steve Trevor (and looks exactly like Pine), a clone, or something else entirely? (It’s a comic book movie, so anything is possible.)
Siracca tells Diana how she and her mother were killed by the hands of the jealous goddess Hera. Although she was torn to shreds by Hera's fury, Zeus took pity on her and turned her into wind. The very same wind that spills secrets to Lennox. Wonder Woman share her encounter with Hera and how she so desperately needs to find Zola's child, stolen due to Hermes. Siracca attempts to help Diana in finding Hermes and the baby. She suggests meeting Milan, once again, another child of Zeus for advice. Diana treks off to New York to find him.
Wonder Woman was created by William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter, and has a lengthy publication history. This history has sometimes included a sidekick Wonder Girl and many villains. Since her debut she has become one of the most popular and recognizable DC Comics characters, along with Batman and Superman. She first appeared in All-Star Comics #8. (1941)
The Diana Prince alias also played an important role after the events of Infinite Crisis. Wonder Woman was broadcast worldwide killing a villain named Maxwell Lord, as he was mind controlling Superman into killing Batman. When Wonder Woman caught him in her lasso, demanding to know how to stop Superman, Maxwell revealed that the only way to stop him was to kill Lord, so as a last resort Diana snapped his neck.[63][64] To recover from the trauma of killing another person, the Amazon went into a self-imposed exile for one year.[65] On her return to public life, Diana realized that her life as a full-time celebrity superhero and ambassador had kept her removed from humanity. Because of this she assumed the persona of Diana Prince and became an agent at the Department of Metahuman Affairs. During a later battle with the witch Circe, a spell was placed on Diana leaving her powerless when not in the guise of Wonder Woman.[66]
The last issue of Wonder Woman saw very little of the Amazon. Instead, we watched her brother, Jason, launch an attack against the Dark Gods. He first tries to take on the Gods, named Karnell, Savage Fire, the Mob God, and the God with No Name. They quickly defeat him, but Jason gets the backup of Supergirl and the Justice League for round 2. The Dark Gods, however, aren’t pushovers and promptly defeat the heroes thanks to their leader, King Best. Before all seems lost, Diana returns just as King Best takes form and begins his path of destruction. Will Wonder Woman and Jason be able to contain this madness?
Wonder Woman’s appearance in the early golden age of comics made her the first prominent female superheroine. The psychologist William Moulton Marston created Wonder Woman somewhat as a counter reaction to the presence of prominent male superheroes (at this time Superman, Batman and Captain America), as well as a counterbalance to the "blood curdling masculinity" that was dominant at the time, with the hopes that the character could serve as an inspiration for young children (though in certain ways it was geared more towards female readers.) Marston had been partially motivated to create this character because of the accomplishments of his own wife, who was also an accomplished academic at a time when it was difficult for women to fulfill this role. As a result, the first Wonder Woman series contained many complementary articles and features which sought to highlight the inner power of women. There were articles for instance on the different career paths that women could pursue (according to the standards of the 1940s) as well as a series of stories on famous and accomplished women, called the Wonder Women of History. Marston introduced the character in All-Star Comics #8 in 1941. She became the lead character in Sensation Comics in 1941, and got her first solo book in 1942.
“I have the good Sergeant’s letter in which he expresses his enthusiasm over chains for women—so what?” As a practicing clinical psychologist, he said, he was unimpressed. “Some day I’ll make you a list of all the items about women that different people have been known to get passionate over—women’s hair, boots, belts, silk worn by women, gloves, stockings, garters, panties, bare backs,” he promised. “You can’t have a real woman character in any form of fiction without touching off a great many readers’ erotic fancies. Which is swell, I say.”
The Justice League uses Flying Fox to Russia to stop Steppenwolf from being the Mother Boxes together, the team plan how there going to stop Steppenwolf, Batman tells the team that he going to take out the tower while the reason of the League will separate the Mother Boxes. Batman destroys the tower, but the controls on the Flying Fox also didn't reporting, which caused it to crash, but Bruce got in the Batmobile and used a siren to get the attention of the Parademons, this allows the rest to get to the Mother Boxes without any problems.
Artemis of Bana-Mighdall briefly served as Wonder Woman during Hippolyta's trials for a new Wonder Woman. Orana, a character similar to Artemis, defeated Diana in a new contest and became Wonder Woman in pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity. Orana was killed during her first mission. Others who have donned the Wonder Woman persona include Nubia, Cassandra Sandsmark, and Donna Troy.
The next day, they decided to infiltrate Ludendorff's gala to learn more about the weapon he and Doctor Poison are creating and how to stop it. To enter the gala, Diana stole a dress from a guest where she dances with. She is prepared to kill Ludendorff, but her attempt is intervened by Steve. She hears Ludendorff release some of the gas where it kills citizens from that town.
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When she has matured into an adult, Menalippe, the Oracle of the Amazons sees a vision in which the Gods and humanity is in danger from Ares. Soon they are approached by the Gods and tasked with organizing a tournament in order to chose a champion, who will save them from impending Doom. Diana competes against her mother's wish and win. Athena then sends her a weapon, the Lasso of Truth forged by Hephaestus from the girdle of Gaea.
Following Crisis on Infinite Earths, Wonder Woman was rebooted in 1987, by writer Greg Potter, who previously created the Jemm, Son of Saturn series for DC, was hired to rework the character. He spent several months working with editor Janice Race[28] on new concepts, before being joined by writer/artist George Pérez.[29] Inspired by John Byrne and Frank Miller's work on refashioning Superman and Batman, Pérez came in as the plotter and penciler of Wonder Woman.[30] Potter dropped out of writing the series after issue #2,[31][32] and Pérez became the sole plotter. Initially, Len Wein replaced Potter but Pérez took on the scripting as of issue #18. Mindy Newell would return to the title as scripter with issue #36 (November 1989).[33] Pérez produced 62 issues of the rebooted title. His relaunch of the character was a critical and sales success.[34]
Wonder Woman was soon faced with a new threat. Some years ago, Diana saved a young girl, Vanessa Kapatelis, from death at the hands of Major Disaster. She continued to visit Vanessa for many years as she recovered from her injuries, and encouraged her to undergo experimental treatment involving nanites, which allowed Vanessa to walk again. Eventually, Wonder Woman's superheroics forced her to cease her visits. During Diana's absence, Vanessa's mother Julia died, and Vanessa was left alone and felt that Diana had abandoned her. She began to resent Wonder Woman and declared herself her enemy, using the nanites in her blood to create a metallic, winged suit of armor and adopting the name Silver Swan.[94] Silver Swan murdered a family of people that Diana had recently saved, causing Wonder Woman to fight her alongside Jason. Diana managed to drown Silver Swan until she lost consciousness, causing her to revert to her human form. She left Vanessa to recover in the care of A.R.G.U.S.[95]
After the fight with Steppenwolf, Batman meets with Gordon before Arthur shows up and say that Steppenwolf took the Mother Box from Atlantis, then Victor reveals that he is possession of the final Mother Box, which he hid from his father. The team returns to the Batcave which Barry runs around the cave and sits in the Batmobile, before Bruce call for a meeting with the team. Bruce states they should use the Mother Box to bring Superman back to life believing that they need Superman to restore hope in humanity. Diana and Arthur are hesitant about the idea, but Bruce forms a secret contingency plan. The team put Clark's body in the waters of the Kryptonian ship, using Allen's Speed Force energy to activate the Box, causing the resurrection of Superman.
In the following days, Diana soon uncovered Ares, who exposed her to be the God Killer, having been originally conceived to be the ultimate weapon against her brother. Following this revelation, a fierce battle ensued, where Diana fulfilled her purpose in freeing mankind from Ares' influence. The loss of Steve in World War I had left Diana sobered, but she vowed to protect humanity whenever she was needed, albeit in a cautious and distant way.
Following the Rebirth retcon, the "Year One" storyline explains that while put in a cell after coming to Man's World, Diana was visited by the Greek gods in animal form. Each gave her powers that would reveal themselves when she needed them to. She first displays strength when she accidentally rips the bars off her cell door when visited by Steve Trevor, Etta Candy, and Barbara Ann Minerva. Later on a trip to the mall, she discovers super speed, great durability, and the power of flight while fighting off a terrorist attack.
Wonder Woman's character was created during World War II; the character in the story was initially depicted fighting Axis military forces as well as an assortment of colorful supervillains, although over time her stories came to place greater emphasis on characters, deities, and monsters from Greek mythology. Many stories depicted Wonder Woman rescuing herself from bondage, which defeated the "damsels in distress" trope that was common in comics during the 1940s.[13][14] In the decades since her debut, Wonder Woman has gained a cast of enemies bent on eliminating the Amazon, including classic villains such as Ares, Cheetah, Doctor Poison, Circe, Doctor Psycho, and Giganta, along with more recent adversaries such as Veronica Cale and the First Born. Wonder Woman has also regularly appeared in comic books featuring the superhero teams Justice Society (from 1941) and Justice League (from 1960).[15]
It was the fall of 1985...I walked into editor Janice Race's office to find out about the fate of Diana Prince. I was curious to learn who was going to draw her. Superman had [John] Byrne and [Jerry] Ordway, Batman had [Frank] Miller and [Alan] Davis (and later [David] Mazzucchelli). Wonder Woman had...No one. A writer, Greg Potter, had been selected but no established artist wanted to handle the new series. After exhaustive searches, it seemed Wonder Woman would have to be assigned to an unknown...I thought of John Byrne and Superman. What a giant coup for DC. A top talent and fan-fave on their premier character..."Janice" I heard myself say "What if I took on Wonder Woman for the first six months – just to get her out of the starting gate?"
Born among the legendary Amazons of Greek myth Princess Diana has a fierce warrior's heart while being an emissary of peace. On a hidden island paradise she was trained in the arts of combat as well as justice and equality. Diana ventured into the 'world of men' armed with magical gifts from the Gods and a message for all men and women - that all the world can be united through compassion strength and understanding.
The I Ching era had an influence on the 1974 Wonder Woman TV movie featuring Cathy Lee Crosby, in which Wonder Woman was portrayed as a non-superpowered globe-trotting super-spy who wore an amalgam of the Wonder Woman and Diana Prince costumes. The first two issues of Allan Heinberg's run (Wonder Woman vol. 3, #1–2) include direct references to I Ching, and feature Diana wearing an outfit similar to that which she wore during the I Ching era.[9]
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During Marston's run, Diana Prince was the name of an army nurse whom Wonder Woman met. The nurse wanted to meet with her fiancé, who was transferred to South America, but was unable to arrange for money to do so. As Wonder Woman needed a secret identity to look after Steve (who was admitted to the same army hospital in which Diana Prince worked), and because both of them looked alike, Wonder Woman gave the nurse money to go to her fiancé in exchange for the nurse's credentials and took Diana Prince as her alias.[59] She started to work as an army nurse and later as an Air Force secretary.[59][60]
A stand-alone #0 issue was released in September which explored Diana's childhood and her tutelage under Ares, the God of War, now known most often as simply 'War'.[148] The issue was narrated in the style of a typical Silver Age comic book and saw Diana in her childhood years.[149] The main plot of the issue was Diana training under War as he thought of her being an extraordinary girl with immense potential. The issue ultimately concluded with Diana learning and experiencing the importance of mercy, which she first learned when War showed it to her during their sparring. This later translated into her refusal to kill the Minotaur – a task given to her by War; however, this show of mercy makes her a failure in War's eyes, which was actually his fault since he inadvertently "taught" her mercy and affection as his protege.[148][149][150] Later in the series, Wonder Woman is forced to kill War during a conflict with her evil half-brother, Zeus' son First Born, and herself becomes the God of War. After the Amazons are restored, she rules over them both as a warrior queen and God of War, as the ongoing conflict with First Born escalates. At the end of Azzarello's run, as part of a final conflict, Wonder Woman kills First Born, while Zeke is revealed to have been Zeus' plan for resurrection, with Zola revealed to have been a mortal shell for the goddess Athena, who gave birth to Zeus just as he once did to her. Wonder Woman pleads with Athena not to allow the Zola personality, whom she has grown to love as a friend, die with Athena's awakening. Athena leaves the site in animal form, leaving a stunned and confused Zola behind with Wonder Woman.[151]
Expert Social Intuit: Wonder Woman, as Diana Prince, has a high degree of social confidence (having had a century of experience living in "Man's World" after World War I), allowing her to intuitively determine how to interact with others, gain their respect and get her point across with calmness, eloquence, and charisma. Hence, Diana swiftly befriended the Wonder Men, she diplomatically greeted Bruce Wayne, matter-of-factly showing him that she can intellectually keep up with him (calmly responding to Bruce's anger at having been stolen from by her), she tactfully accepted a wine glass from the Gotham City Museum of Antiquities curator (despite seemingly disliking alcoholic beverages), she tactfully avoided correcting the curator on his claim that the fake replica of Alexander the Great's sword was the actual relic, and only when Lex Luthor insulted her father Zeus' memory did Diana have a look of visible dismay on her face (but even then she avoided making a scene), and only when Batman insulted her beloved Steve Trevor's memory did she finally lose her temper and shove Batman back. As a result, Diana remains extremely well-respected at the Louvre Museum, by fellow antique museum curators, by the Justice League, and even the extremely experienced Batman is almost instantly intrigued by her.
A fight broke out among the heroes for possession of the box and was only ended when John Constantine took the box, being the only one capable of doing so without being corrupted. Zatanna and Constantine took the box to the temple of Hephaestus, where the three Justice Leagues had converged again.[69] After yet another battle between heroes, the box went dormant and the Justice Leagues discovered a Kryptonite sliver in Superman’s nervous system, placed there by the Atomica, a traitor working for the Outsider, leader of the Secret Society. Then, the Outsider used the box to open a path across universes, allowing the Crime Syndicate to enter the Justice Leagues' world.[70]
During his greeting speech, Lex made a reference to how Zeus cruelly punished the Titan Prometheus for enlightening humankind, much to the visible dismay of Diana. Shortly thereafter, she covertly stole a hacking device of Bruce Wayne's, who is likewise investigating Lex Luthor. She exited the party with Bruce pursuing her, but manages to make it to her car and drive off just in time for Bruce to see her depart.[5]
Elise Jost of Moviepilot observed that "Gadot's take on Wonder Woman is one of those unique cases of an actor merging with their story, similar to Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark. Gal Gadot is Wonder Woman, and Wonder Woman is Gal Gadot."[202] Jost praised Gadot's interpretation of Wonder Woman as the one in which Gadot "absolutely nails the character's unwaveringly positive outlook on life. She's a force of nature who believes in the greater good; her conviction that she's meant to save the world is stronger than her bullet-deflecting shield. She's genuine, she's fun, she's the warm source of energy at the heart of the movie."[202] The Federalist suggests that Wonder Woman is "a story of Jesus". "The movie is wrapped up in faux Greek mythology, true, but there's no mistaking the Christology here."[219] "Perhaps Christ in the form of a beautiful and kick-ass Amazon is all that our contemporary society can handle right now", stated M. Hudson, a Christian feminist.[219] On HuffPost cultural critic, G. Roger Denson, who regards the superhero genre as a source of contemporary "Mainstream Mythopoetics" ("the making of new yet vitally meaningful, if not symbolic, stories filled with imagery reflecting, yet also shaping and advancing, the political, legal, moral and social practices of today"), wrote that the "No Man's Land" scene "that people are crying over in theaters and raving about afterward happens to be among the most powerfully mythopoetic scenes ever filmed at the same time it is one of the oldest myths to have been utilized by artists and writers after it had been invented by early military strategists and leaders." Specifically "used by director Patty Jenkins", the scene raises "the esteem for powerful yet compassionate women as heroes and leaders to a level equal with that of men for having won over a huge and adoring popular audience around the world".[220]
The sister of Hippolyta, general of the Amazonian army, Diana's aunt and mentor.[17] On being cast for the film, Wright said, "It's two-fold because when Patty Jenkins called me, the director, it was a three-minute long conversation. She said, 'I'm doing a movie about Wonder Woman. Do you want to be her trainer?' And I was like, 'Yes. Of course.' And the general of the Amazonian army. That was pretty cool."[25] Describing her character mentoring and training Diana to be a warrior, Wright said, "It's a sixth sense that it is coming and I think that's also in the mythological story behind Antiope and Queen Hippolyta. They know it's coming and it's her duty as the aunt to her young niece to make sure she is the fiercest warrior of all time." On the Amazons fighting style, Wright said, "It's hand combat. Yes, swords and knives and arrows, but the precision that they have, right, as these warrior women; it's so nice to see that disparity between what we had in the day of just raw fighting materials and the guns and how easy that is in comparison." The message of the film, Wright stated, "is not just female empowerment. It's about love and justice. That's what the film's about. And what a great message to spread to our little ones."[26][27] Commenting about training for the film, Wright said, "The most empowering was to get into that physical shape. So we were doing horseback riding training, weight training, martial arts, and 2,000 to 3,000 calories a day".[28]
Although created to be a positive role-model and a strong female character for girls and boys,[216] Wonder Woman has had to deal with the misogyny that was commonplace in comic book industry for decades. For example, Wonder Woman was a founding member of the Justice Society of America. This roster included the original Flash and Green Lantern. Wonder Woman was an experienced leader and easily the most powerful of them all, yet was rendered a secretary. This would also be accompanied with her losing her powers or getting captured on most Justice League adventures. During the '50s and '60s, comic writers regularly made Wonder Woman lovesick over Steve Trevor, a Major in the United States Army. Stories frequently featured Wonder Woman hoping or imagining what it would be like to marry Steve Trevor.
Wonder Woman is trained in the a variety of martial arts, making her a master of unarmed and armed combat (even proving adept with pistols). Before Flashpoint Batman considered Diana the best melee fighter on the planet, even putting her ahead of Superman, due to the combination of her power and the depth of her training. Even when depowered, she is on par with some of the best hand-to-hand combatants in the DC Universe.
^ "Superhero Makeovers: Wonder Woman, part two". The Screamsheet. Archived from the original on January 7, 2012. Retrieved February 10, 2011. Desperate to save her daughter, she claimed that Diana had failed in her role as an ambassador to Man's World and called for a do-over on the contest that had determined Diana fit to carry the Wonder Woman mantle in the first place.
Never prone to stewing in solitude, and taking more notes from Richard Donner than from Christopher Nolan, Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman provides a welcome respite from DC's house style of grim darkness—boisterous, earnest, sometimes sloppy, yet consistently entertaining—with star Gal Gadot proving an inspired choice for this avatar of truth, justice, and the Amazonian way.[209]
After the release of the 2017 film Wonder Woman, many bloggers noted what they felt made Wonder Woman a feminist icon in the film. Zoe Williams for The Guardian said, "Yes, she is sort of naked a lot of the time, but this isn't objectification so much as a cultural reset: having thighs, actual thighs you can kick things with, not thighs that look like arms, is a feminist act. The whole Diana myth, women safeguarding the world from male violence not with nurture but with better violence, is a feminist act. Casting Robin Wright as Wonder Woman's aunt, re-imagining the battle-axe as a battler with an axe, is a feminist act. A female German chemist trying to destroy humans (in the shape of Dr Poison, a proto-Mengele before Nazism existed) might be the most feminist act of all."[234] Alyssa Rosenberg for The Washington Post said, "... None of these experiences crushed me, of course, but I do wonder what it might have been like if they hadn't happened.The power of Wonder Woman, and one of the things that gives Jenkins's adaptation of the character such a lift, is in the answer to that question. Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) doesn't have any idea what women and men are — or aren't — supposed to do. Even when she does encounter other people's ideas about gender roles, she doesn't automatically accept them, and she never lets anyone stop her. And the movie goes a step further and argues that it's not merely little girls all over the world who stand to gain if they can grow up free of the distorting influence of misogyny: a world like that would be liberating and wonderful for men in lots of ways, too."[235] Emma Gray for HuffPost said, "When it comes to pop culture, we speak often about representation; the simple yet often unfulfilled idea that it matters to see someone like you fill a variety of imagined roles on screen. After awhile, these conversations almost begin to feel obvious. We know that it's good to see women and people of color and disabled people and trans people and queer people in the same numbers and variety of roles that white, cisgender, straight men have long been afforded. But what these discussions often lose is the emotional impact of finally seeing something you may have never even realized you were missing. For many women viewers, "Wonder Woman" filled a hole they didn't know they had." [236]
Gaines was troubled. Roubicek, who worked on Superman, too, had invented kryptonite. She believed superheroes ought to have vulnerabilities. She told Gaines she thought Wonder Woman ought to be more like Superman and, just as Superman couldn’t go back to the planet Krypton, Wonder Woman ought not to be able to go back to Paradise Island, where the kinkiest stuff tended to happen. Gaines then sent Roubicek to Bellevue Hospital to interview Bender. In a memo to Gaines, Roubicek reported that Bender “does not believe that Wonder Woman tends to masochism or sadism.” She also liked the way Marston was playing with feminism, Roubicek reported: “She believes that Dr. Marston is handling very cleverly this whole ‘experiment’ as she calls it. She feels that perhaps he is bringing to the public the real issue at stake in the world (and one which she feels may possibly be a direct cause of the present conflict) and that is that the difference between the sexes is not a sex problem, nor a struggle for superiority, but rather a problem of the relation of one sex to the other.” Roubicek summed up: “Dr. Bender believes that this strip should be left alone.”
Wonder Woman is one of the students nominated to be Hero of the year, with everybody believing she will actually win the prize. When Big Barda accidently breaks Wonder Woman Shield, she (With Supergirl, Batgirl and Bumble Bee) travels to Themyscira to repair it. Her friends meets her mother, Queen Hippolyta, who is overly proud of her, having rooms devoted to her daughter trophies. After rescuing a captive Hyppolita, Wonder Woman goes back to Super Hero High to fight Eclipso. When Eclipso retrieves to the moon, Supergirl and Wonder Woman travels there and together managed to defeats the enemy. After Bumble Bee win the Hero of the Year award, Wonder Woman asks Hippolyta if she is not dissapointed by her, but her mother replies that she cannot be more proud. She is voiced by Grey DeLisle.
Wonder Woman continued to use the plane for super speed, outer space, and multi-dimensional transport up until the unpowered era of Diana Prince. When Wonder Woman resumed superpowered, costumed operations in 1973, she continued to use the jet as before, but did glide on air currents for short distances. At one point, Aphrodite granted the plane the power to fly faster than the speed of light for any interstellar voyages her champion might undertake.[200] Thanks to tinkering by gremlins, the Plane even developed intelligence and the power to talk.[201] The plane proved a good friend, eager to help his "mistress" and her loved ones in any way possible. It got along especially well with Steve Trevor.[citation needed]
In the "Watchmen" sequel "Doomsday Clock," Doctor Poison attended the meeting established by the Riddler and mentioned a rumor that Wonder Woman was forcefully dragged back to Themyscira by her fellow Amazons.[163] Wonder Woman comes out of hiding to address the United Nations, hoping to defuse the metahuman arms race. However, the summit is interrupted by Black Adam, the Creeper, and Giganta, who take advantage of the absence of most of Earth's superheroes to attack the UN at the time when the superheroes were confronting Doctor Manhattan on Mars.[164]
In London, they deliver Maru's notebook to the Supreme War Council, where Sir Patrick Morgan is trying to negotiate an armistice with Germany. Diana translates Maru's notes and reveals that the Germans plan to release the deadly gas at the Western Front. Although forbidden by his commander to act, Steve, with secret funding from Morgan, recruits spy Sameer, marksman Charlie, and smuggler Chief Napi to help prevent the gas from being released. The team reaches the front in Belgium. Diana goes alone through No Man's Land and captures the enemy trench, allowing the Allied forces to help her liberate the village of Veld. The team briefly celebrates, taking a photograph in the village, while Diana and Steve begin to develop their own romance.
Wonder Woman is an Amazon warrior princess and one of the most powerful superheroes in the DC Universe. The daughter of Hippolyta, she was given power by the Gods to fight against evil in all its forms. Although she was raised entirely by women on the island of Themyscira, she was sent as an ambassador to the Man's World, spreading their idealistic message of strength and love. Wonder Woman fights crime and acts as a positive role model for women everywhere. Her equipment includes the Lasso of Truth, magic gauntlets, and an invisible jet. In the secret identity she has adopted to become closer to humanity, she is Diana Prince, a government agent for the Department of Metahuman Affairs. Wonder Woman is also a founding member of the Justice League of America. She has also been a member of the Star Sapphire Corps, the Sinestro Corps, and the Justice League Dark.
Following the 1985 Crisis on Infinite Earths series, George Pérez, Len Wein, and Greg Potter rewrote the character's origin story, depicting Wonder Woman as an emissary and ambassador from Themyscira to Patriarch's World, charged with the mission of bringing peace to the outside world. Pérez incorporated a variety of deities and concepts from Greek mythology in Wonder Woman's stories and origin. His rendition of the character acted as the foundation for the modern Wonder Woman stories, as he expanded upon the widely accepted origin of Diana being birthed out of clay. The relaunch was a critical and commercial success.[41]
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While Superman watched out for Zod, Diana visited the deserted Themyscira to speak to her mother, still a clay statue. In her absence, a demon from Tartarus had escaped from its prison and roamed free on the island. Wonder Woman destroyed the creature and sealed the gates to Tartarus with her lasso. Leaving the island, she received word from Batman that Superman was engaging Zod and Faora in battle. Reaching Superman’s side, Wonder Woman steadily overwhelmed Faora until Zod threatened Superman’s life. Wonder Woman was forced to let the criminals go.[61]
Superman begged his fellow heroes to arrest him, and while he was taken to the A.R.G.U.S. facilities, Diana expressed disapproval at Steve’s secret Justice League. Wonder Woman travelled to the Temple of Hephaestus and demanded Hephaestus tell her about what the box really was. Hephaestus answered that the box was not created by the Gods of Olympus and the truth was a mystery even to them. Wonder Woman decided to seek help from the Justice League Dark.[66] Suddenly, the three Justice Leagues converged at the House of Mystery, where the heroes were divided, one side led by Wonder Woman, the other by Batman. Zatanna, having taken Wonder Woman’s side, teleported the group away.[67] Wonder Woman’s group tracked Pandora’s box to Lex Luthor’s prison cell, where Pandora was offering the box to Luthor. Wonder Woman grabbed the box but was overwhelmed by its power.[68]
Arcane Lore Expert: Wonder Woman, as both an Amazon demigoddess and an antiquities expert, possesses immense knowledge of and skill in wielding mystical artifacts and arcane lore, notably her Sword of Athena and Lasso of Hestia. Her encyclopedic knowledge was demonstrated when Wonder Woman reacted in dismay to Lex Luthor's speech (knowing how he had twisted the Olympians' history concerning Zeus and Prometheus), when she instantly identified a Parademon in Commissioner Gordon's sketch, and when she explained the history behind Steppenwolf and the 3 Mother Boxes to the remainder of the Justice League.
In the Golden Age, Wonder Woman adhered to an Amazon code of helping any in need, even misogynistic people, and never accepting a reward for saving someone;[74] while conversely, the modern version of the character has been shown to perform lethal and fatal actions when left with no other alternative, exemplified in the killing of Maxwell Lord in order to save Superman's life.[63][64]
Gaines didn’t know any of this when he met Marston in 1940 or else he would never have hired him: He was looking to avoid controversy, not to court it. Marston and Wonder Woman were pivotal to the creation of what became DC Comics. (DC was short for Detective Comics, the comic book in which Batman debuted.) In 1940, Gaines decided to counter his critics by forming an editorial advisory board and appointing Marston to serve on it, and DC decided to stamp comic books in which Superman and Batman appeared with a logo, an assurance of quality, reading, “A DC Publication.” And, since “the comics’ worst offense was their blood-curdling masculinity,” Marston said, the best way to fend off critics would be to create a female superhero.
Wonder Woman and Hermes briefly returned to Themyscira so that Diana could pay her respects to her petrified mother. When they got back to her apartment, they found Hera crying and mourning the days when she used to be a goddess. As Diana comforted her, she realized she would need help in finding Zola and Zeke. Wonder Woman went to the Taiga, Siberia, where she asked Artemis for her help. Artemis agreed, on the condition that she and Diana have a rematch. Knowing they are in Artemis' realm, Diana threw the fight in Artemis' favor.[40]
Wonder Woman and the other heroes were finally released from the Firestorm Matrix when Batman used the Lasso of Truth on Firestorm. Superman was still infected with the Kryptonite shard inside his nervous system, but Lex Luthor was able to extract it, saving Superman's life. Luthor also assembled a group of villains that defeated the Crime Syndicate. Later, at the Batcave, Wonder Woman and the Justice League talked about the enemy that destroyed the Crime Syndicate's world and came to the conclusion that Darkseid would return.[74]
As her injuries healed, Wonder Woman and her friends spent some time on New Genesis. She spoke to Highfather, who agreed to let her return to Earth. As soon as Diana and her friends returned to Earth, Orion decided to go with them. Arriving to London, they realized the First Born had wrecked the entire city and killed Lennox. The First Born summoned an army of hyena men to kill the intruders but Ares arrived to help Wonder Woman in the fight.[35]
With Artemis' help, Wonder Woman tracked Zola down to a subway station, where they found a lock of fox fur. Realizing that Zola was with Dionysus, they went to Providence, where Dionysus was currently located. They found Dionysus captured by Cassandra's minion, the Minotaur. When Cassandra's forces were about to depart to Olympus, Wonder Woman ambushed them and hung onto their plane. When the jet arrived to Olympus, the mountain was hit by a massive explosion.[41]
After a training session, Diana happened to come across Captain Steve Trevor during his escape from the Imperial German Army. A battle soon followed, as the Germans tracked Trevor to Themyscira, where they invaded in pursuit of Doctor Poison's notes. The loss of her aunt and realization of Mankind's downfall during the absence of the amazons convinced Diana to join the war effort, recognizing Ares as the instigator of the conflict.
The Lasso of Truth forces people to tell the truth. It was forged by Hephaestus from the Golden Girdle of Gaea that Antiope had once worn. It is able to restore people's lost memories get rid of illusions or cause illusions to those it holds and heal the holder's body cure insanity and protect people who are in close proximity to it from magical attacks. In the golden age version the lasso could also take on a rigid form and hold people aloft from a great distance away. During these eras, the lasso also forced those who were bound by it to act as the holder demanded. This trait also affected Wonder Woman. A non-combat application of the lasso is that it can be used to change Diana's clothes as long as those clothes are "in the right frequency" as the lasso. Although this was a plot device used more often in the golden and silver age in has been used on occasion in modern comics as for instance one time Diana transformed into a Miss America costume. The lasso is essentially indestructible, and can be offensively used in combat to incapacitate, and even attacking their souls.
As Wonder Woman returned to her apartment, Hermes brought her to Olympus, where the gods declared her the new Goddess of War. Diana asked Apollo to restore Hera's godhood, but Apollo refused. Diana returned to London, and Apollo told her that she would not be able to ignore her responsibilities as Goddess of War for long. Diana was still angry at Hermes for his betrayal and asked him to leave, with Hermes stating that, just like she forgave Hera, perhaps in the future, she would forgive him.[37]
Steppenwolf then grabs Silas Stone, which Cyborg shots Steppenwolf and saves his father, and Wonder Woman helps out by attacking the Parademons and taking Steppenwolf to a different part of the factory. While Batman fights the Parademons, Barry goes and save one of the employees. Steppenwolf tells the Parademons that he will deal with Diana alone; meanwhile, Batman is being attacked by one of the Parademons as he tells Alfred that he needs the Knightcrawler, which he sent the machine to Bruce.
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Alcoholics Anonymous History In Your Area – Panama City, Florida – Hopeful Serenity Group
Alcoholics Anonymous History In Your Area
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HOPEFUL SERENITY GROUP
In the Fall of 1973, several AA members in the Panama City, Florida area demonstrated their natural uneasy, uncomfortable, itchy selves by deciding to take the “geographical cure” and move out to new stomping grounds for their “AA” Due to overcrowding and lack of space, there had been much talk about the need for starting another AA group in Panama City.
Having heard all this talk, with little or no action, prompted Orville L. (formerly of Maryland) to take his own action. On the afternoon of Saturday, October 6, 1973, while he and several other AA members were visiting a fellow AA member in the hospital, Orville suddenly announced that there would be a meeting of a brand-new AA group on Monday, October 8, 1973, at 8 p.m. He further announced that he had already made all of the necessary arrangements for a location, which was to be at the First Assembly of God Church, on 3rd Street in the Millville area of Panama City.
Much to the pleasant surprise of everyone, Orville L. had, indeed, made all the necessary arrangements, and the first meeting of this new group was held at 8 p.m., October 8, 1973. While Orville claimed there was no connection, it is interesting to note that the Oct 8th “Thought for the Day” contains the statement, “AA grows by the starting of new groups all the time.”
It was at this meeting, attended by some seventeen people, that the new group’s name was voted upon -it was to be known as the “Hopeful Serenity Group” of AA That name still remains.
The first members of the Hopeful Serenity Group included Orville L., Jimmie C., Bill J., David H., Bill S., Eunice S., Bill M., and Mary X. From the very start, AI-Anon members were extremely active and membership in that group flourished. The times of the first meetings were, and still are, Mondays and Fridays at 8 p.m.
As was the case with so many other AA groups, attitudes toward smoking began making its mark on this new group from the beginning. The use of its first meeting place was short-lived, and within two months David H. had made arrangements with the pastor of the Trinity United Methodist Church to utilize its facilities at 2322 East 3rd Street, Panama City (Millville).
On January 30, 1974, the Hopeful Serenity Group of AA was formally registered by the General Service Office of AA.
The Hopeful Serenity Group continued to meet at the Trinity Methodist Church until January of 1975 when it had to move to a temporary location at the Serenity Junction Club which was then located at 515 ~ast 6th street, Panama City. The group met at this location for only a few months.
In the Spring of 1975, the Hopeful Serenity Group made arrangements with the pastor of St. Dominic’s Catholic Church on East 15th Street, Panama City, to use its Parish Hall for meetings. The group remained there for about a year-and-a-half.
In the Fall of 1976, the Hopeful Serenity Group moved its meetings to the Highland Park United Methodist Church on Baldwin Road, Panama City (Highland Park).
After six years, smoking once again became an issue, along with the stigma of the alcoholic, and the Hopeful Serenity Group was looking for a new meeting place. New facilities were found in a vacant service station on Ohio Avenue in Lynn Haven, Florida.
Following considerable work and clean-up, the Hopeful Serenity Group continued to meet at this service station until the Fall of 1985 when it moved to the school annex of the First Presbyterian Church at the corner of Magnolia Avenue and East 7th Street, Panama City. The group continues to meet at this school annex with a present membership of 34.
Current meetings of the Hopeful Serenity Group follow:
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The Deputy Prime Minister (or DPM) is the second highest ranking executive officer of the government of the United Kingdom and the deputy chief of the Cabinet. The Deputy Prime Minister is normally a post held by the deputy leader of the majority party, the leader of the junior party in a coalition, or is held by a high ranking member of the government including offices such as First Secretary of State or Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Nick Clegg was the Deputy Prime Minister from 2010-2015 and is the last person to have this title
Unlike other countries, the position of Deputy Prime Minister is not always needed. Because of this there is not always a sitting Deputy Prime Minister. This means that it is up to the Prime Minister to choose whether or not he/she wants to have a deputy. The position was created in 1942 and Clement Attlee was the first Deputy Prime Minister. There has been no Deputy Prime Minister since 2015. The last person to hold this post was Nick Clegg.[1]
List of Deputy Prime MinistersEdit
Clement Attlee (1942–1945)
Herbert Morrison (1945–1951)
Anthony Eden (1951–1955)
Rab Butler (1962–1963)
Geoffrey Howe (1989–1990)
Michael Heseltine (1995–1997)
John Prescott (1997–2007)
Nick Clegg (2010–2015)
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The NBA season finally ended last night, October 11th. For some perspective on how crazy that is, I wrote an NBA season preview blog last October 16th, 2019. I had to go back and look at some of my predictions. Like anyone I had some good takes… and horrible ones. I had the Lakers winning it all, but beating the 76ers (Yikes).
But this isn’t a post analyzing play on the court this past season or what each team has to do to improve this off-season. Instead, I wanted to reflect on the absolute roller coaster of emotions this season gave us. I highly doubt we’ll ever see a season like we just did.
Leading up to January, it was what we all expected. Incredible basketball out of legends like LeBron James, and Kawhi Leonard. Rising stars somehow getting even better in Giannis and Luka Doncic. It was the great game we all love watching year in and year out.
That all changed back on January 26th. Like most of us, I don’t think I’ll ever forget where I was when I found out Kobe Bryant had died in a helicopter crash. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a death hit the sports world as hard as Kobe’s did. It was amazing to see how many people’s lives he touched. Teams honoring Kobe by taking 24 second violations and 8 second violations in games that followed the next few nights was such an awesome tribute to witness. People were even doing this in NBA 2k… a video game!
Kobe’s death had already made this past season one we’d never be able to forget.
I remember thinking back to myself on a night in early March “I don’t know what the hell I would do without sports in my life.” I was flipping back and forth between a golf tournament, Michigan St. vs. Ohio St college basketball game and a Lakers vs. Clippers game that day. Never in my wildest dreams could I had imagined I would have to learn how to cope without sports starting just a few days later.
Rudy Gobert became the first player in the NBA to test positive for COVID. He became the poster boy for not only the NBA, but the entire sports world when it came to COVID. It all went back to him mocking the virus just a few days before he tested positive and everything went off the rails…
The season was suspended indefinitely on Wednesday March 11th for at least 30 days. 30 days then turned into 2 months, 2 months turned into almost 3 months and as fans we were left sitting there asking ourselves, “are we going to be able to crown an NBA Champion this year?” I remember being a little frustrated thinking golf is back, NASCAR is back, UFC is back, NHL is talking about plans of a bubble… what the hell is holding up the NBA? Finally, in early June the NBA announced they’d be going to Disney in Orlando to finish the season.
I was very excited at the idea of the league coming up with a plan to get the season restarted and crown an eventual champion. I won’t lie though, I had my doubts. Is this really going to ensure nobody catches the virus? Does a “bubble” really work? Are guys going to test positive and then they’re going to have to cancel the bubble?
Well I was DEAD wrong for having these doubts. The bubble was a major success. Not a single positive test for any player, coach, staff member, etc while in Orlando. As basketball fans, we got to sit back on our couches and for a couple hours a day, forget (or at least try to forget) the deadly virus that’s impacting the entire world. Seeing some of the issues that the MLB went through and the NFL is now facing, really helps put this all in perspective. We didn’t have to worry about “what if LeBron gets COVID in the playoffs… What if Damian Lillard gets it while he’s trying to lead the Blazers into the last playoff spot.” Everyone was on a level playing field… something I’m not sure we can say about the MLB and definitely not the NFL right now. A major THANK YOU is owed to the people in Orlando who helped make the bubble possible.
While we were able to somewhat forget what was going on in terms of the virus while watching the NBA Bubble, the same could not be said for the social injustice black men and women continue to face everyday. There was doubt the re-start would even happen after the police killing of George Floyd. Players were debating not coming to Orlando, to instead continue to fight racial injustice. I sit here writing this as a privileged white male, but I hope LeBron, Jaylen Brown, George Hill, and all the players helped make people proud about the Black Lives Matter movement. To me, it’s evident how much these players want to use their platform to try and draw more attention to this very important issue surrounding our country. #BlackLivesMatter!!!
An NBA legend died in a tragic accident. A deadly virus interrupted the season for over 4 months. Social injustice had a huge impact on the season prior to the re-start and throughout the bubble. If even one of these things had impacted the past season, I think we’d be sitting here today thinking, “that was one of the craziest seasons emotionally in a long time.” This past season had all three. While I couldn’t be more proud to be the die-hard NBA fan I am after all the ups-and-downs this year, here’s to hoping we never have to go through a season like this again
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Author sportschattermjdPosted on October 12, 2020 October 14, 2020 Tags 76ers, black lives matter, Bubble, Disney, Giannis, Jaylen Brown, Kobe Bryant', Lakers, Lebron James, Luka, nba, nba 2k, Rudy GobertLeave a comment on An NBA Season Unlike Any Other
Whether you’re a Celtics fan, Lakers fan, casual basketball fan, or just casual sports fan, I think we can all agree the news of Kobe, Gianna, and the 7 other passengers dying on that helicopter on Sunday is the darkest news we’ve received in the sports world in years.
It was easy to root against Kobe for years as a lifelong Celtics fan. It was also easy to respect and enjoy his work ethic, achievements, and impact on the game of basketball. I think many of us felt we’d see him relish his retirement for years to come by attending Lakers games with his family, working out male and female basketball players who looked up to him, and making TV appearances to talk about the game he so very much loved.
For the longest time I saw Kobe as a cut-throat, no nonsense competitor on the basketball court. Seeing him enjoy retirement by coaching Gianna’s basketball team and acting as a mentor for so many younger players, on and off the court, really put him in a new light for me. You could tell he was just embracing life as a retired NBA legend.
We all thought Kobe was immortal and indestructible… and that’s part of what made us love him…or “hate” him depending on the team you root for in the NBA. That’s also what makes this news so hard to comprehend. Kobe… no way he’s dead. He’d overcome anything. This guy was walking and shooting free throws with a torn Achilles. He’d rehab, come back, and play 3 more seasons. This is an injury that has ended the careers of many athletes. I can easily picture Kobe somehow climbing out of that helicopter and pulling everyone to safety… because it’s KOBE BEAN BRYANT… THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND! I just can’t wrap my head around this, as I know many others can’t. Kobe’s legacy on and off the basketball court will live on forever. In my eyes he still is and always will be immortal and indestructible.
The number of athletes we call/know on a first name basis is few and far between. Kobe is one of the few and a name we won’t soon forget. Sean Grande, the Celtics radio announcer perfectly illustrated how Celtics fans like myself feel following his death…
Perfect from @SeanGrandePBP (radio voice of the Boston Celtics):
"As Celtics fans, we didn’t think Kobe Bryant could break our hearts one more time. We were wrong."
— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) January 26, 2020
Rest in Peace Kobe.
Author sportschattermjdPosted on January 28, 2020 January 28, 2020 Tags Kobe Bryant'1 Comment on Kobe Thoughts from a Celtics Fan
It feels like it was just yesterday that I wrote my 2018-2019 NBA Season Preview. So much has changed since last year. Let’s rewind through some of the biggest story-lines over the last several months…
Anthony Davis was traded to the Lakers to team up with LeBron
Kawhi Leonard won a title for the Raptors, then bolted for the Clippers in free agency
Paul George was shockingly traded to the Clippers to play Robin to Kawhi’s Batman in Hollywood
Kevin Durant tore his Achilles tendon and will miss most, if not all, of the 2019-2020 season… oh and he and Kyrie Irving are teaming up in Brooklyn
The Celtics lost Kyrie and Al Horford in free agency, but added All-Star Kemba Walker
The Rockets decided the James Harden and Chris Paul duo wasn’t working so they traded Paul in exchange for Russell Westbrook
As usual, the story-lines are endless after an incredible off-season. I think most people would agree that this is the most wide-open the league has been, going into a new season, for a long-time. For the last several years, the Heat and Warriors have been heavy favorites to win it all going back to LeBron’s first year in Miami. Let’s get into some predictions…
MVP – Steph Curry
It’s easy to forget that it was only a few years ago Steph Curry was coming off back to back MVPs. With the addition of Kevin Durant, after Curry won his second MVP, people seemed to forget how dominant and amazing Curry truly was. It’s for good reason, Kevin Durant has arguably been the best player in the NBA the last few years. Steph began to slowly remind people of his MVP days in the NBA Finals back in June against the Raptors. Although Toronto would go on to beat an undermanned Warriors team in 6 games, Curry balled out in the series averaging over 30 points a game and consistently hitting big shots.
Fast forward to the 2019-2020 season and Curry could be in line for his biggest year yet. Kevin Durant’s now in Brooklyn. Klay Thompson will be out until at least the mid-season with a torn ACL. The West is as deep as it’s ever been. This means the “load management” days, that deeper/more talented teams like the Lakers and Clippers can afford to their superstars, may not be the case for the Warriors. They’ll have to fight harder to make the playoffs.
Despite losing KD permanently and Klay for much of the upcoming season, there is some good news for Steph as they signed All-Star D’Angelo Russell. Russell tends to play a lot of isolation ball, but he will make Steph’s life easier as defenses won’t be able to focus strictly on him.
We all know Curry is probably the greatest shooter who has ever lived. He’s drastically improved his finishing ability around the rim the last several years and is still one of the best ball-handlers in the league. It’s not out of the realm of possibility for Curry to improve on his career best 30.1 PPG in 2015-2016, while almost single handily carrying the Warriors offensively to somewhere in the top 5 in the Western Conference until Klay returns. If this is the case and the Warriors finish around the top 4 or 5 in the standings at season’s end, I expect Curry to win the League MVP. It’s been awhile since we’ve seen Steph fully unleashed with no KD, so appreciate the greatness you’ll see this upcoming season!
Rookie of the Year – Zion Williamson
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Do I really have to elaborate much on this one? As much as I’d love to go out on a limb and say someone like RJ Barrett or Ja Morant wins, it’s just not logical. Zion has looked amazing in preseason. He’s averaging 23 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists while shooting 71% from the field… 71 FREAKING PERCENT! While those numbers may regress a little once the regular season starts, there’s no doubt that Zion’s freakish build and athleticism are going to translate well into the upcoming season. When you couple all this with the fact the Pelicans should have a chance to compete for a 7th or 8th seed this year, Zion coming in as a heavy favorite to win ROY at -130 (Per Bovada) makes perfect sense.
Most Improved Player – Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
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Shai was the prized player the Thunder received from the Clippers in the Paul George trade back in July. SGA just turned 21 in July and is only going into his second season in the league. Some people may argue that I’m a year early on this prediction. He also may be playing off the ball, with Chris Paul running the point for the Thunder this year, therefore taking away some usage/opportunities from him.
There is a lot to love about SGA and his situation this year though. He’s a very well-rounded player who can distribute, shoot the rock, is slippery in getting to the rim, and has a chance to be a stud defensively with his 6’11 wingspan. He’s come out of the gates hot this pre-season averaging 21 ppg., shooting 52% from the field, and 92% from the line.
A lot of people argue that the Thunder’s acquisition of Chris Paul could be bad for Shai and potentially stunt his growth. I’ll play “devil’s advocate” on this. First, I’d say there’s a 50/50 chance Chris Paul finishes the season with the Thunder. If they come out struggling in the beginning of the season, there will be more incentive for the team to trade him. For the time being, he’s going to start the season on the roster and this could be great for SGA.
Say what you want about Paul, but he’s always been one of the best defensive guards in the league. He’s a great floor general and has really improved his jumper from earlier in his career. These are traits that SGA wants to eventually master. Having Paul around to mentor him could help SGA’s game continue to grow even more dramatically this year. I also believe that Billy Donovan will do his best to stagger some of the minutes between SGA and CP3, so that SGA will have the opportunity to have the ball in his hands more often. While in the long run CP3 getting shipped out of OKC may improve SGA’s chances to win Most Improved Player, CP3’s presence (at least in the beginning of the year) will pay dividends toward the development of SGA.
NBA Finals – Lakers defeat the Sixers in 6 games
If you had asked me my prediction 2 months ago, I would have said the Clippers beat the 76ers in the NBA Finals. I cannot stress how much I love the team the Clippers have built around Kawhi and Paul George. They have the perfect blend of scoring, defense, and role players. I expect guys like Lou Williams, Pat Beverly, Montrezl Harrell, JaMychal Green, etc. to fill their roles flawlessly for this team.
On the flip side, there’s part of me that has this eerie feeling that Paul George or Kawhi won’t be fully healthy in a Western Conference Finals match-up against the Lakers. I could also see Paul George’s absence in the first month or so of the season, coupled with some “load management” days, costing the Clippers in the standings and then losing in the second round of the playoffs because they don’t have homecourt advantage.
So, I think the 1-2 combo of Anthony Davis and LeBron James will carry the Lakers to their first title since the Kobe and Pau Gasol days. The Lakers made a very smart move this off-season after acquiring Anthony Davis. Instead of using the rest of their cap space to try and bring in a 3rd star like Kemba Walker or Jimmy Butler, they spread their money out to fill their needs for the rest of the roster. They were able to re-sign solid role players like Rajon Rondo, Kentavious Caldwell Pope, and Javale McGee, while adding Avery Bradley, Danny Green, Dwight Howard, Jared Dudley, and Quinn Cook in free agency. Many of the aforementioned players are at points of their career where winning a ring is more important than getting their numbers. They’ll be able to play small or big, depending on what other teams throw at them.
Now let’s get to the 76ers. Boy it pains me so much to say this as a Celtics fan and a big hater of the 76ers… but I really think they’re getting to the finals this year (as I always say I’m nothing but fair… don’t call me biased). I believe the additions of Josh Richardson and Al Horford will make them the best defensive team in the NBA. I think that when we look back at the end of the season, one of the best signings in free agency will be Al Horford. His ability to stretch the floor as a big man who can shoot, his defensive smarts, and his leadership will go a long way for this team. He’ll also be able to take some of the weight off Joel Embiid’s back defensively, potentially keeping Embiid fresher at the end of games… and the end of the season. When I envision a potential Eastern Conference Finals of the 6ers and Bucks, I believe the 6ers ability to throw different looks at Giannis, whether it be Ben Simmons, Horford, or even Embiid, is going to be the difference. Giannis is next to unstoppable, but I think the 6ers will be his most difficult match-up in the league.
Should the Lakers and 76ers meet in the finals, I think the pure talent and best 1-2 combo in the NBA in LeBron and Anthony Davis will be too much for Philly. I believe the Lakers have the right blend of talent and experience in guys like LeBron, Rondo, and Danny Green (hell, throw Dwight Howard in there if you want) to be the difference in the series. It feels like this might be LeBron’s best chance at a title for the rest of his career. Between a wide-open league, coming into a season as fresh as he ever has, and getting a top 5 player in the league added to his team, there’s no excuse for him if they don’t compete strongly for a title. The one x-factor in this series could be if Ben Simmons has developed a jump shot. If he can at least keep defenses honest this year, it could change how I feel about this potential series. Until I consistently see it, I’m going to expect that Simmons still can’t shoot and it’ll end up coming back to haunt the 6ers if these two teams meet in the finals.
I hope everyone has their NBA league passes ordered and is ready for an amazing season. Also don’t forget if you don’t want to buy the full league pass package, you can purchase the 4th quarter of NBA games through league pass.
Author sportschattermjdPosted on October 16, 2019 October 16, 2019 Tags 76ers, Al Horford, Clippers, Joel Embiid, Kemba Walker, Kevin Durant, Klay Thompson, kyrie irving, Lakers, Lebron James, nba, NBA FInals, Paul George, Rockes, Stephen Curry, warriorsLeave a comment on 2019-2020 NBA Preview
Week 1 is finally here! It all kicks off on Thursday when the Bears host the Packers to get things started for the 100th season of the National Football League. Let’s be honest, everyone needs to get their action on Sunday one way or another. Many of us have our favorite team, fantasy teams, and DraftKings teams, but that doesn’t stop us from putting a few bucks down on some bets as well. Here are some of my favorite Week 1 bets…
Chiefs -3.5 @ Jaguars
Most people would say the Chiefs or the Patriots are the best team in the AFC. Meanwhile the Jags are coming off a 5-11 season. Back in March, they went out and signed former Super Bowl MVP Nick Foles (still makes me sick saying that as a Patriots fan). It’s important to note that they also lost former Pro Bowler Telvin Smith… and I think this is going to be a big factor in this game. Smith was one of the best coverage linebackers in the NFL. He’d constantly be matched-up with RBs and TEs. Other than throwing the deep ball to Tyreek Hill, what does Pat Mahomes love to do? He loves throwing to the best TE in the league (Travis Kelce) and he loves getting the RBs involved in quick screens and wheel routes. Andy Reid teams constantly come out of the gates hot. The Chiefs haven’t lost a game under Reid in September since 2016. They’re also 14-6 against the spread in September since he took over. The Chiefs are clearly among the Super Bowl favorites and to get them as 3.5 favorites, against a new look Jags team, feels like a steal.
Rams @ Panthers +3
The Panthers were one of the more disappointing teams in the NFL last year. They started out 6-2, and would go on to lose 7 of their last 8 games finishing 7-9. Meanwhile, the Rams are the defending NFC Champions. Vegas is giving the Rams the respect they earned last season as they come into this game as 3-point favorites. I actually like the Panthers in this battle. A big reason for the Panthers downfall last season was Cam Newton’s shoulder injury. He had surgery in the off-season and all indications out of training camp are that he looks back to 100%. The Panthers also added Gerald McCoy to pair up front with stud DT Kawann Short. The combination of Short, McCoy, and Luke Kuechly should give the Panthers one of the better rushing defenses in the league. The Rams love to run the ball and they could run into some issues with the Panthers potentially stout run D and their own offensive line changes. As we saw at times last season, you don’t want to put the game completely in Jared Goff’s hands. Lastly, for people who like trends, the previous year’s Super Bowl losers are 3-16 ATS in their last 19 season openers and an even more putrid 1-12 ATS spread on the road since 2000 (courtesy of OddsShark.com). The Panthers are my favorite under the radar team in the NFC this year. Watch out for them!
Steelers @ Patriots UNDER 50.5 total points
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As a die-hard Patriots fan, I know a lot about this team and follow them very closely. I also took a big interest in the Steelers this off-season. I’m very curious to see how they look following the departures of AB and Lev Bell. I think that these teams feature two of the most underrated defenses coming into the season… especially the Pats. They are as deep as ever in the secondary, hence the trades of Keion Crossen and Duke Dawson, two 2nd year corners they had to give up due to their depth at this position. I expect Michael Bennett to be a more than serviceable replacement for Trey Flowers. The Steelers have a lot going for them as well on the defensive side of the ball. T.J. Watt became one of the best pass-rushers in the league last year, amassing 13 sacks. They also added STUD! rookie LB Devin Bush out of Michigan to replace the gap left behind by the Ryan Shazier injury. I think T.J. Watt and crew could cause some issues for the Pats O-line. Sunday will be Patriots’ LT Isaiah Wynn’s first NFL game. They’re also dealing with the loss of C David Andrews, who will most likely be replaced by Ted Karras. I expect the Pats to try win this game on the ground and with their defense. The Pats top 3 wideouts in Edelman, Josh Gordon, and DT, all had their first pre-season action last week, so I don’t envision Bill trying to win this game on TB12’s shoulders with 3 wideouts that didn’t have many training camp reps. As I touched on earlier, the Pats have one of the most underrated defenses in the NFL, and I expect Big Ben and crew to have some struggles finding the end zone. I see this game finishing somewhere around 24-17. The Under of 50.5 is one of my favorite plays of the week.
Enjoy week 1 everybody!! FOOTBALL IS BACK!
Author sportschattermjdPosted on September 4, 2019 Tags Cam Newton, Chiefs, DraftKings, Jaguars, Mahomes, NFL, NFL Week 1, Panthers, patriots, Rams, Steelers, TB12, Travis KelceLeave a comment on My Favorite NFL Week 1 Bets
The NFL season is 2 weeks away. I know I speak for everyone when I say… IT’S ABOUT TIME! I’m sure many of you have your fantasy drafts over the next 2 weeks so let’s get into some sleepers…
Latavius Murray – Saints, RB: When people think about the Saints, they tend to think Drew Brees leading a high powered offense that wants to throw the ball vertically down the field. But times have changed in New Orleans over the last 2 years. Last season, Brees had his fewest pass attempts going back to 2004 with the Chargers. The Saints are a team that wants to win with defense and running the ball. While there’s no denying Alvin Kamara is the leader in the Saints backfield, there’s still plenty of room for another successful RB, as Mark Ingram has proved the last few years. Ingram left the Saints for the Ravens in the off-season, and has been replaced by Latavius Murray. Ingram had 18 rushing TDs combined during the 2017 and 2018 season. He only played in 12 games last year, so the TD number likely would have been even higher had he played the full slate of games. If Murray can get north of 180 carries (Ingram had 230 two years ago), he could become a solid RB2. It’s not out of the realm of possibility for him to flirt with 1100 total yards and double digit TDs. Ingram had 1500 total yards and 12 TDs two years ago, despite the emergence of Alvin Kamara. Also, it must be noted that if Kamara gets injured, Murray could be a league winner.
Donte Moncrief – Steelers, WR: Donte Moncrief has long been a favorite of mine going back to his days in Indy. He has all the tools to be a great receiver in the NFL. He has speed, athleticism, and height. He’s caught some bad breaks the last few years between injuries and bad QB play from Jacoby Brissett and Blake Bortles. He’s always been a presence in the red zone with his ability to go up and win a ball with his 6”2 height. All the stars are aligning for him this year in Pittsburgh. The Steelers threw the ball more than any other team in the NFL last year. Following the departure of Antonio Brown and Jesse James, the Steelers have a whopping 215 targets to account for. Somebody needs to step up as Big Ben’s 2nd favorite target behind JuJu Smith-Schuster. It looks like Moncrief is going to get the first crack. If he can quickly develop chemistry with Ben, Moncrief has a WR2 ceiling this year.
Devin Funchess- Colts, WR: I have to preface this by saying Andrew Luck must be healthy for Devin Funchess to succeed, but I’m going to assume for arguments sake that Luck will be ready for week 1. Funchess had a very disappointing 2018 season following his 2017 breakout season in which he had 840 yards and 8 TDs. Some of his struggles can be attributed to Cam Newton’s inconsistency last year, but there’s no denying Funchess struggled at times. Funchess has a fresh start this year after signing a 1 year deal with the Colts. I think it’s important to note that Funchess’ average annual salary of $10 million was the second highest of any WR signed this offseason (only behind Tyrell Williams). While I think the Colts may have overpaid him a little, I think the contract illustrates that they have big plans for him this upcoming season and believe in his abilities as a player. Some of his buzz was redirected when Indy drafted speedster Paris Campbell out of Ohio St. Unfortunately for Campbell, he’s now missed over 2 weeks of practice with a hamstring injury and doesn’t appear close to returning to the field. Hamstring injuries for rookie wideouts are often very debilitating. Funchess is the perfect complement to the speedy T.Y. Hilton as a possession wideout. Andrew Luck should target him often. Luck loves targeting big body receiving options in the red area (see Eric Ebron last year). I believe Funchess flirts with close to 1000 yards this year and 7 or 8 TDs, returning to his 2017 form. After all, he’s still only 25 years old.
Other Sleepers to consider:
Miles Sanders – Eagles, RB: The talent is undeniable. I expect him to be leading the Eagles backfield in carries by week 5.
Matt Brieda – 49ers, RB: Jerrick McKinnon doesn’t look like he’s going to be a factor for the 9ers this year. Tevin Coleman badly flopped in a lead back role with the Falcons last year, while Breida was 4th in the NFL with a 5.3 YPC… despite battling a high ankle sprain for most of the season.
Jameis Winston – Bucs, QB: Chris Godwin and O.J. Howard, look primed for breakout seasons. Couple that with QB Whisperer Bruce Arians as the new head coach of the Bucs, if it doesn’t happen for Winston this year, then it never will.
Marquez Valdes-Scantling – Packers, WR: MVS stands at 6″4 and runs a 4.37 40. He also has one of the best QBs of all-time throwing to him. Aaron Rodgers has praised MVS throughout the off-season. It seems as if he’s finally gaining Rodgers’ trust, something that didn’t always seem to be there in the 2018 season. He has a chance to make a big leap in his second year in the NFL.
I’m going to make it a point to do a Start ‘EM, Sit ‘Em column as much as I can throughout the season, so be on the lookout for those posts. Good luck in your drafts in the next 2 weeks!
Author sportschattermjdPosted on August 22, 2019 August 22, 2019 Tags Devin Funchess, Donte Moncrief, fantasy football, Jameis Winston, Latavius Murray, Miles Sanders, SleepersLeave a comment on 3 Sleepers to Target in your Fantasy Football Drafts
It finally feels like the Red Sox season started last week with the combination of big wins against the Rays and Yankees and the offense firing on all cylinders. There’s no denying that Chris Sale laid another egg with his chance to sweep the Yankees, but let’s not overlook the fact that the Sox dominated the Yanks. In the first 3 games of the weekend series, they outscored them 38-13. The bats came alive, Mookie Betts is starting to round into his MVP form, and they got three very solid pitching performances out of their 3 thru 5 starters, Rick Porcello, Andrew Cashner, and Eduardo Rodriguez.
As we head into yet another huge week of games against the Rays, who are .5 games ahead of Boston in the wild card standings, another 4 game set against the Bronx Bombers, and the trade deadline on Wednesday, this is a crucial stretch in determining where this team will end up at the end of the season.
As we evaluate this team moving forward, I think it’s pretty clear they don’t need to make any additions to the offense. Most people know it’s been a bit of a disappointing year for Mookie and Andrew Benintendi, but it looks like both of their bats are finally waking up. We saw Mookie put on an electric performance last Friday night when he slammed 3 dingers and went 4 for 5. Benintendi has raised his average almost 20 points over the last week or so. If these 2 can stay hot and live up to their expectations, their offense is still as good as any team in the league. Xander Bogaerts and Rafael Devers are in the midst of career seasons and have carried this offense for the most of this year. JD Martinez continues to rake and his batting average is creeping back up close to .300. Couple all this with the return of Mitch Moreland platooning at 1st and Christian Vazquez in the middle of a career year offensively and their offense will continue to carry this team in the dog days of summer.
The starting rotation while inconsistent at times seems like it’s been moving forward after the trade for Andrew Cashner back on July 13th. Eduardo Rodriguez is tied for the AL lead in wins and looks to have settled in as the 3rd starter. David Price has been mostly consistent this year despite his inability to ignore the media (read up on his ongoing feud with Dennis Eckersley if you want to know more about that). Rick Porcello, while struggling mightily at times with his 5.55 ERA, continues to eat up innings per usual. Andrew Cashner looks like a serviceable 5th starter who can be used out of the bullpen if/when they get to the post-season.
This leaves one guy yet to be mentioned, Chris Sale. If the Red Sox end up missing the post-season, much of the blame should be pointed at Sale. His current record now sits at 5-10 with an ERA of 4.26. If he sat at 10-5 like an ace of his normal caliber, the Sox would be in the running to take another AL East crown. Personally, I still believe Sale can return to his dominant form in time for the playoffs and lead the pitching rotation in September and October. There are still positive signs that he can turn the corner. He’s 2nd in the AL in strikeouts which illustrates that he still has his swing and miss stuff. He’s also 6th in the league in WHIP. If he can cut back on his HRs, and avoid the blow-up inning he seems to have every few starts, there’s no reason he can’t dominate like the past few seasons… it’s just a little scary to say this with the calendar about to flip to August.
Anybody who’s followed this team throughout the year knows adding an arm or preferably two to the bullpen is probably the key to making another run to a World Series. I look at the bullpen and hardly know who these guys are… and for good reason since they’ve been horrible for much of the season. The only guy I really believe in right now is Brandon Workman, who’s been very reliable with an ERA of 2.08 in 47.2 innings pitched. Other than Workman, it’s been a crapshoot as to what you’re going to see from the rest of the crew. I’m hopeful Matt Barnes is starting to turn a corner, as he hasn’t given up a run in July. They also just got Nathan Eovaldi back from the Injured List and have decided to put him in the bullpen (since the pickings are so slim out there). We all saw Eovaldi’s upside last October, so this move could work well in the long run. He’s been rusty so far in his 3 appearances since he was activated off the IL, throwing 2.2 innings and allowing 5 earned runs. But he hadn’t pitched since April 17th and hadn’t pitched out of the bullpen since last October, so some rust is to be expected.
The Sox still desperately need help in the ‘pen. The name they continue to be linked to is Edwin Diaz. Diaz is only 25 years old and is currently the closer for the Mets. New York traded for him in the offseason. He’s been a major disappointment to date with a 4.95 ERA and a WHIP close to 1.5. With that being said, a change in scenery could be good for Diaz. Last year he led the majors with 57 saves and had an ERA of 1.96. He constantly throws in the high 90’s and has a very effective slider. While he would still cost the Red Sox a top prospect, his down season may allow them to buy low on Edwin compared to last offseason when the Mets traded for him, coming off his 57 save season.
There are plenty of other options out there as well, such as veterans Greg Holland who recently got removed from the closer role with the D’Backs, Ken Giles who’s closed for the Blue Jays this year and has an ERA of 1.54, but hasn’t been in many high leverage situations (as the Jays are one of the worst teams in baseball), and Shane Greene who has been one of the best relievers in baseball to date and earned his first All-Star appearance with the Tigers (the worst team in baseball).
At the beginning of last week, there were some whispers that the Red Sox might be sellers at the trade deadline and take calls on studs Mookie Betts and J.D. Martinez. Or at least look to deal an arm like Rick Porcello to a team who was looking for a veteran starter. Taking 2 of 3 from the Rays, along with the dominating series against the Yankees has helped remind everyone that this team still can return to the World Series and in no way, should the front office consider selling at the trade deadline.
Buckle up Sox fans it’s going to be a wild week/ last 2 months of the season. As old friend Kevin Millar used to say, “Cowboy Up!”
Author sportschattermjdPosted on July 30, 2019 Tags Chris Sale, Red Sox, Xander Bogaerts, YankeesLeave a comment on Red Sox Rest of Season Outlook
NBA Free Agency is winding down. It’s been arguably the most entertaining Free Agency period in league history. I figured it’s time to dig into the winner and losers of the last few weeks.
LA Clippers: The biggest winner of free agency, in my opinion, is the LA Clippers. They go from a fringe playoff team to arguably the favorites to win it all next season, with the addition of Paul George and Kawhi Leonard. For anyone who wants to give them grief for the haul they gave up to get PG-13, you need to realize this wasn’t a trade just for George. It was the only way they were getting Kawhi. Essentially, they were trading for both players. They now have arguably the 2 top defensive wings in the NBA. Pair them with the re-signed stud defensive point guard Patrick Beverly and the Clippers have a chance to be the best defensive team in the NBA. They didn’t lose the best 6th man in the league (i.e. Lou Williams), or their Most Improved Finalist, Trez Harrell, in the trade for Kawhi. This should be a very scary team next season.
Brooklyn Nets:
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Anytime you land Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant in the offseason, you have to feel good about yourself. Let me set the record clear now as a Celtics fan. Over the last week I’ve heard a lot of Celtics fans calling sports talk radio saying, “Kyrie will request a trade in 2 years, I’m not afraid of the Nets. Kevin Durant will never be the same player coming off his injury”. These people are what I like to call frauds. Had the Celtics re-signed Kyrie after everything that occurred this past season and he brought KD to Boston, fans would be going crazy with excitement and for good reason. Is there a chance Kyrie’s ego acts up and causes issues? Of course, but he’s still a top 12 player in the league and at 27 years old he still has his best basketball ahead of him. Is there a chance Durant is never 100% of what he once was? Once again, of course but he’s such an amazing shooter that even if he comes back at 90% of what he was, he’s still probably a top 5 player in the NBA. Nets fans should be feeling very good right now
Philadelphia 76ers: This one might surprise people a little considering they lost Jimmy Butler and JJ Reddick, two key players from last season. In my opinion, Reddick was one of the most underrated players in the league last year. Butler was the best player for the 6ers at times in the playoffs last year. With that said, I think the additions of Al Horford (man that burns as a Celtics fan) and Josh Richardson will help the 6ers take a huge leap on the defensive end of the court next season. Most people know how versatile Horford is on both ends of the court. He should be an absolutely phenomenal fit next to Embiid in the front court. JJ Reddick is a much better shooter than Josh Richardson, but Richardson is the better all-around player. For those who haven’t seen Richardson play the last 2 years, he’s looked very good. He’s also a big upgrade over Reddick defensively. He can handle the ball at PG when Simmons is out of the game and can still shoot and score the ball a little. Combine these additions with the re-signing of Tobias Harris (who will be able to take a little more control offensively with Jimmy Butler gone) and I think the 6ers should be the favorites out of the East.
Honorable Mentions: Indiana Pacers and Utah Jazz
Toronto Raptors: Pretty easy one here. You lose arguably the best player in the league and are left with no back-up plan, you get put in the losers column. Had Kawhi returned, I don’t think any team in the East had added enough to unseat the Raptors as the favorite. Instead, Kawhi has bolted and you’re now left with a core around an aging Marc Gasol and Kyle Lowry, along with up-and coming star Pascal Siakam. The Raptors ceiling at this point is an exit in the second round… and their floor might be getting bounced quickly out of the first round. Had they not just won it all, I wouldn’t have been surprised to see them shopping around Lowry and Gasol to start to re-tool. All in all, I don’t feel that bad for Raptors fans nor fault them for going all in on Kawhi for one year. Clearly their plan worked and I think they made Kawhi’s decision to leave, much more difficult than anyone could have imagined. No one will forget their special season.
Houston Rockets:
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Let me preface this by saying that if they can find a way to get Russell Westbrook, then they would be removed from the losers column. That doesn’t mean I would love the move. We heard chat that the Rockets really wanted Jimmy Butler, and they were also linked to Celtics first team all-defensive guard Marcus Smart in trade rumors. After reports came out that there’s a huge rift between James Harden and Chris Paul (although they’ve denied it) it appeared to become clear that something needed to change with this team. Couple that with the fact that their nemesis the Golden State Warriors lost Kevin Durant and will be without Klay Thompson for much of next year, the Rockets had a chance to mix things up a little and maybe go into next season as favorites in the West. Instead their challenging salary cap situation and inability to get creative with it has pretty much left them with the same team. I think it’s been proven by now that the Mike D’Antoni ISO ball system doesn’t really work come playoff time.
New York Knicks:
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Why not save the best for last? Boy oh boy, I have to say there’s actually a part of me that feels bad for Knicks fans. Before the lottery back in May, fans were dreaming about the potential of Zion Williams, Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving all coming to New York next season. Fast forward a month and a half later and the Knicks went 0-3 in securing these players. Obviously, the lottery was out of their hands and no one can blame them for not getting Zion. Kyrie and KD on the other hand, that’s a tough hit losing them to the other team across town, the Brooklyn Nets, a team with no tradition, history, or superstars. It has to burn big-time for Knicks fans. They’re now left with no kind of back-up plan other than letting their young players Kevin Knox, Mitch Robinson, and RJ Barrett develop. These guys are good young players, but won’t make the Knicks serious title contenders anytime soon. The Free Agency class next year is very weak, so there are no superstars they can try and lure. Even if they attempt to trade a package of their young core for a superstar in the next 6-12 months (should one become available), they won’t be able to pair that guy with anyone. It’s a tough time to be a Knicks fan. On the bright side, at least they didn’t go overspend on second tier FA’s like Tobias Harris, Boogie Cousins, or Nik Vucevic. For now, all the Knicks and their fans can do is stay patient and hope their young guys develop into something special.
Honorable Mentions: Charlotte Hornets and Minnesota Timberwolves
Author sportschattermjdPosted on July 9, 2019 Leave a comment on NBA Free Agency Winners and Losers
Well well well… it’s U.S. Open week and they return to the historic venue we know as Pebble Beach in California. As some people may know, they play the “AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am” here every year in February. The winning score usually ranges between -17 and -20. In other words, the course is usually very easy. It’s a par 72 course with four par 5s, and the rough is not very difficult.
The course layout will be completely different this week for the U.S. Open. Driving the ball in the fairway will be essential. The fairways will be much narrower than we usually see at the Pro-Am. As is the case with most U.S. Opens, if you drive the ball in the rough, it’s going to be long, thick, and nasty. Although Pebble Beach is much shorter than a normal U.S. Open track, the rough can still be very penal. Many times players will have to lay up to a number they like for their 3rd shot, to try and get up and down on the longer par 4’s and par 5’s.
Short-game is also going to play a crucial role this week. The last time a U.S. Open was played at Pebble Beach, the winning score was won with an even par score by Graeme McDowell. The average percentage of greens hit in regulation by the field was 51%. To give you some perspective on just how low this number is, the worst player on the tour ranked 209 out of 209 players for greens in hit regulation, is Seamus Power who hits 59.47% of GIR. The 100th ranked player in the statistic is at 66%. In other words, people are going to miss greens this week as Pebble has some of the smallest on the PGA Tour. This course will really test your short game and this tournament will be won by someone who has a great short game and can grind out pars vs. the birdie fest we usually see at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
The most important statistic/trait a golfer needs this week is a sharp iron/approach game. This is the case at many tournaments on the tour, but it’s much more pivotal this week. As I mentioned earlier, it’s tough to hit these greens in regulation. If you’re hitting good approach shots, you’re going to relieve a lot of stress from your short game and won’t have to grind as much to save pars. On top of that, Pebble is not like a normal U.S. Open, where you really need to hit the ball far and straight. A lot of players will be clubbing down off the tee and it’s much more of a second shot course compared to places like Shinnecock Hills and Erin Hills (which put a premium on length off the tee).
One last thing I want to mention before I get into my power rankings is that wind has the potential to be a big factor this week. The course is played right along the ocean. If the winds really pick-up, it’ll make the course much more difficult and favor the guys with lower ball flight. So, if you’re into that sort of narrative, it might be worthwhile to pick some guys who play well in the wind, in your office pools, DraftKings teams, and bets (you can reach out to me for advice on what players I like in that category).
Alright let’s get into my Top 5 Power Rankings…
5. Jason Day – Day has a lot going for him going into the U.S. Open, yet is under the radar. He has good history at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am including a T4 back in February. Although the course is going to be much different, I think playing here previously with strong course history, has the chance to lead to success this year. More importantly Day is one of the best wind players on tour with his low ball flight. We know he’s one of the best short-game players and putters in the world as well. If this turns into an absolute grind fest, like it was in 2010, it would be a great benefit to Day. The concern that gives me a little pause with Day, is that he’s not the strongest iron player. I’ll choose to bet on his short game prowess and grinder mentality this week and overlook his spotty iron stats.
4. Tiger Woods – People who know me well, know that yes I like Tiger Woods, but I’m not your ultimate Tiger Woods fan who can’t look at him with an unbiased point of view. I truly think this is a great chance for him to win another major. We know Woods can win here (or anywhere) as he dominated here in the 2000 U.S. Open. Looking at the bigger picture though, out of all 156 players in the field, over the last 50 rounds, Woods ranks 4th in SG Approach, 5th in Greens in Regulation Gained, 19th in SG Around the Green, and 9th in SG on Par 4’s between 400-450 yards. He actually ranks as the number 1 overall player in my statistical model over the last 50 rounds. I see no reason why we shouldn’t see him in his Sunday red, in contention on Sunday night.
3. Jordan Spieth – It took me about 4 months but I’m finally back on the Spieth train. If you read my Masters blog back in April then you know that my number one story-line was how bad Spieth was playing and whether or not he could put it together for the Masters. He ended up finishing 21st that week and is now coming into the U.S. Open with 3 straight top 10’s. If you’ve been paying close attention the last few tournaments, Spieth has been otherworldly with his putter and short game. He’s also gained strokes off the tee in 3 consecutive tournaments. As I mentioned before, distance is not a key factor this week and Spieth will be able to club down off the tee and focus on hitting fairways. Although his iron game has still been a little off the last few months, it appears his improvement off the tee has given him utmost confidence in the 2 traits that we’ve always known him for… the putter and short game. Should that continue this week, Spieth could be in store for a great finish at Pebble. Spieth is one of the best grinders on Tour as we saw with his U.S. Open win back in 2016 at Chambers Bay and his 2017 win at The Open. I should also mention that Spieth won the Pro-Am back in 2017. Watch out folks Jordyyyy is back!
2. Hideki Matsuyama – Sick of me writing about this guy yet who has never won a major and hasn’t won a PGA event since 2017…well too bad because I’m still riding on this train. Deki’ rates out in the top 5 in pretty much any timeframe you run my statistic model, from the last 12 rounds to the last 100 rounds. Other than the PGA Championship, in which he lost 0.8 Strokes off the tee (yet still finished 16th), he has gained strokes Off The Tee, Approach, and Around the Green in every…single…tournament… he’s played in going back to January. The guy has been on absolute fire with his irons all year. His short game which had abandoned him a little back at the end of last season has been spot on all year as well. He is DUE for a major win here sooner rather than later. He’s also coming off a 6th place finish at The Memorial 2 weekends ago, his 4th top 10 of the year and second best finish of the season. He’s peaking at the right time and you know that I already hit his 38-1 odds to win the tournament pretty hard.
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1. Patrick Cantlay – People who know me well will tell you this is another guy I bet almost every week (except 2 weeks ago when his odds were as low as I’ve ever seen and of course he goes on to win). If you still haven’t heard of Patrick Cantlay, then he’s probably the best golfer on the tour you’ve never heard of. I’ve been talking him up for over 2 years now. He’s been arguably the most consistent golfer on tour this year. Take a look at his last 12 starts on tour…
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9 top 10’s in his last 12 starts… not too shabby. So we know he’s coming in with good form. Another guy who’s grading out in the top 10 of my overall statistical model, whether I sort it by the last 12 rounds or last 100. If you could build an ideal golfer, Cantlay might be your guy. He really doesn’t have any weaknesses in his game. He hits the ball straight and long, is strong around the greens and one of the best iron players in the world. Pebble is set-up perfectly for Cantlay due to his strong all-around game. If the winning score is around -10 he’ll have no issue getting there and being in contention. If it’s an absolute grind-fest with the winning score around par, that can suit Cantlay as well considering we just saw him at the PGA Championship grind to a 3rd place finish with a final score of -2. I expect him to breakthrough and win his first major.
There’s nothing like a west coast U.S. Open! You get home from work around 6 o’clock and are able to watch golf until 9 p.m. As always feel free to reach out to me for advice or if you just want to talk about the tournament in general. Good luck in your pools, DraftKings teams, and bets!
Author sportschattermjdPosted on June 11, 2019 Tags Hideki Matsuyama, Jordan Spieth, Tiger Woods
The Celtics’ season has finally come to an end. I have to say there’s a slight part of me that’s relieved. This team made me want to throw my remote through the TV numerous times throughout the season. I’ve been saying for months that quite frankly, this just hasn’t been a fun year. They weren’t a likeable team… especially after the run they had last year falling just short of the NBA Finals. It felt like every time they faced adversity, they just rolled over and tapped out. It never felt like the team was on the same page as a collective unit. I don’t want to go as far as to say they didn’t like each other, but I think it was evident that they weren’t exactly all best friends and inseparable on and off the court.
Now the questions in the coming days will begin with, “Who’s most to blame?”
Is it Kyrie Irving, who constantly threw his teammates under the bus early in the season and seemed to have had a change of heart regarding his commitment to resigning with the Celtics? Did it rub off on his teammates that he just “didn’t care”? (see his post-game conference after game 4)
Is it Brad Stevens who seemed to be unable to mesh together a team with egos and high expectations? This was a challenge he hadn’t been tasked with as yet, in his tenure as the Celtics head coach.
Is it Gordon Hayward who looked like a shell of his former All-Star days in Utah? As most people know by now, this isn’t exactly a fault of his own after his catastrophic injury back in 2017.
Is it Danny Ainge who didn’t try and cash in on the all-time high value of Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Terry Rozier by trading any of them to land a star like Kawhi Leonard or Jimmy Butler to team up with Kyrie? Was it because he didn’t try to trade a package for Anthony Davis in the middle of the season, once Davis made his trade demand?
For me the blame starts with Kyrie Irving. He wanted the challenge of being “the guy” after forcing his way out of Cleveland, so he didn’t have to play in LeBron’s shadow. Unfortunately, Kyrie displayed multiple times throughout the season that he’s just not ready to be a leader.
Whether it’s on the court, field, or office, a team is always going to feed off their leader. Back in February, when the Celtics were struggling, he was asked if he’s worried that the struggles would continue into the playoffs. He responded with, “Nah we’ll be fine, because I’m here.” What about the players surrounding him and his coaches?
He then went on to have arguably the worst 4 game stretch of his entire career in the playoffs against the Bucks, shooting 25-83 from the field, looking disengaged, and playing lazy defense.
Earlier in the season, he took the liberty in announcing to the media that he called LeBron to apologize for his antics as a young guy. “I had to call ‘Bron and tell him I apologize for being that young player that wanted everything at his fingertips,” said Irving. The funny thing is I actually don’t think he meant for his comments to come out as indirectly taking a jab at young guys like Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum and crew, but it just goes to show he doesn’t have the mental awareness to lead a team.
When your leader deflects the blame in tough situations on his or her peers, doesn’t show up in the biggest moments of adversity, and starts answering questions with “who cares” in playoff post-game press conferences, then teammates aren’t going to follow your lead.
So now the next question for Kyrie, Brad, and the Celtics is, “What’s next?” The first matter of business is whether or not Kyrie will re-sign. I know that if you currently asked most Celtics fans whether or not they want him back next year, the answer would be no. For me, I can still EMPHATICALLY say I want Kyrie back in green next year. Did he deserve a lot of blame this year? Yes, of course, but like I mentioned earlier, there were plenty of other people to pin blame on. Who knows where this season would have gone had Gordon Hayward returned to his All-Star caliber days in Utah?
Although, it feels like a long time ago (and it was), let’s not forget when Kyrie was healthy in the 2017-2018 season, the Celtics were a top 2 or 3 team in the NBA. Hell, they won 16 straight games at one point.
One thing appears clear, this Celtics team must choose a direction moving forward. Do you build around Kyrie and unload some of the young assets and draft picks for an All-Star (Anthony Davis please), or does Kyrie leave and you commit to building around Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and the young core moving forward? Time will tell and you can bet that the media will beat this story-line to death in the coming months.
Author sportschattermjdPosted on May 9, 2019 Tags Brad Stevens, celtics, kyrie irvingLeave a comment on The Nightmare is Finally Over for the Celtics
Ahhh The Masters… my favorite sporting event of the year. It’s FINALLY here! It really is a tradition unlike any other, with views of Magnolia Lane, the beautiful azaleas, Amen Corner, the classic 16th hole, and the presentation of the Green Jacket awarded to the winner on Sunday night. These are images forever ingrained in my head and sights I cannot wait to see this week. As always there are dozens of major story-lines heading into the week. Here are a few that I’m really keeping an eye on…
Can Jordan Spieth find his form?
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Personally, I think this is the most intriguing story-line headed into the 1st major of the year. We all know the affinity Jordan Spieth has for The Masters. He’s had some of the most unforgettable moments at Augusta over the last several years. From his breakthrough win at 21 years old, to his collapse on the 13th hole in 2016, and his final round 64 (-8 under par) to almost force a playoff last year. But for those who haven’t been paying attention to the tour lately, Spieth has been a disaster the last 9 months. His last top 10 came all the way back in the Open Championship last July. He didn’t finish inside the top 30 in the FedEx Cup rankings last year, meaning he didn’t make it to the Tour Championship which is the final event of the golf season. His best finish to date this year is T24 and he has fallen all the way down to 33rd in the world golf rankings, a far cry from occupying the 3rd spot after last year’s Masters. The reason for his struggles… well Spieth cannot seem to hit his driver with any accuracy anymore. He’s ranked in the 200s on the tour in strokes gained off the tee and he’s continuously missing putts from inside 5 feet. He’s had some good rounds this year but constantly has one blow up hole or round to take him out of contention.
So is Augusta the place where he turns his game around? While Spieth has never struggled with his game to this degree heading into the Masters before, he’s had questions going into the first major of the year… and always proves the doubters wrong…
Yes you’re reading that right, Spieth’s worst finish in 5 Masters appearances is a T11. I’ve made the mistake of doubting him here before… and I promised myself I won’t make it again (memo to self DON’T FADE SPIETH AT THE MASTERS!). I’m not sure we’ve ever seen a player navigate his way around Augusta like we have with Spieth. There’s something special about this course for him and I think he’s going to be in contention this week. Right now Spieth’s odds sit around 16-1 or 18-1 to win the tournament.
Is Rory ready to complete the career Grand Slam?
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Rory McIlroy is arguably the hottest golfer on the tour right now. He made a concerted effort to play in the United States earlier than he has in the past and to play more on the PGA Tour this year (he hasn’t renewed his European Tour membership yet which is a story in its own). McIlroy started the 2019 calendar year at the Tournament of Champions (the first tournament of the new calendar year), an event he’s had the chance to play in just about every year of his career. This was his first time participating in the TOC. Rory has played in 7 events since the start of the new year and has 7 top 10 finishes including a win at the Players Championship. He’s driving the ball as straight and far as he ever has, ranking 1st on tour in Strokes Gained Off the Tee. His putting has looked improved, and it can be argued that this is the best he’s ever been playing heading into his 5th chance at completing the Career Grand Slam. He’s the odds on favorite (7-1) to receive the green jacket Sunday night. He was 2nd headed into Sunday at last year’s tournament before faltering to a round of +2 and finishing a “disappointing” T5.
Rory knows he’s going to be getting questions about whether or not he can complete the Career Grand Slam all week. The real question is can he handle the pressure. I don’t care if you’re Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, or MJ DeDonato, if you’re in contention on the back 9 of any golf tournament, never mind The Masters and going for the Career Grand Slam, you’re going to feel the pressure. I expect Rory to be there on Sunday as his length off the tee and around the green game (2 of the most important traits to succeed at this tournament) have always helped him in the past at Augusta. Am I convinced he’ll be able to handle the pressure and slip-on the green jacket… well you’ll have to keep reading to find out.
Does Tiger actually have a chance to win his first major since 2008?
Now that Tiger got the monkey off his back winning the Tour Championship, his first win on the tour since 2013, his main focus is on winning majors. All the tournaments he’s played in this season, are to gear himself up to compete and win the tournament that means the most to him; The Masters. I’ve said before that I doubted his ability to really compete for a major win ever again. He obviously proved me wrong after his electric performances last year at The Open (T6) and the PGA Championship (Solo 2nd). Augusta is a ball-strikers course. Tiger’s strength these days is his iron game. He’s still one of the best iron players on tour. Woods ranks 3rd in strokes gained approach over the last 50 rounds, amongst all players in the field (87).
The biggest question for Woods since the start of last year is constantly his driver/game off the tee. It was a big issue for him last year heading into the Masters and it let him down at times as he finished the tournament at +1 and a tie for 32nd. His driver has been a little more consistent as of late. Woods has gained strokes off the tee in 7 of his last 8 tournaments, a very good sign heading into the week as Strokes Gained Off the Tee is constantly one of the best indicators for success at Augusta. Should Woods drive the ball far and straight this week, he should be in contention come Sunday. Everyone loves Tiger and wants to see him recapture his magic at The Masters. If he does falter this year, this will still be an amazing tournament, so don’t be one of those fair weather golf fans who taps out on the tournament… nothing beats The Masters!
Top 5 Predictions
5. Hideki Matsuyama – My friends know that… HIDEKIIIII is one of my favorite golfers on the tour. He’s been absolute hot fire with his irons the last several months. He has the course history, current form, and tee to green game to be in the running late Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately, he also has the entire country of Japan on his back as no Japanese golfer has ever won a major and I expect those pressures to be too much for him to actually win at Augusta this year. (Odds to win 35-1 via Westgate Las Vegas)
4. Rory McIlroy – As I mentioned above, Rory is arguably the hottest golfer on tour. He’s the best driver in the field and has the length to dominate Augusta. If Rory tees off in the final group on Sunday, this could hurt his chances to win. It adds to the pressure of trying to complete the Grand Slam. If he tees off in the penultimate twosome or 3rd to last, I think this would help lessen the pressure and give him a better chance to wear the green jacket come Sunday night. (Odds to win 7/1 via Westgate Las Vegas)
3. Francesco Molinari – The casual golf fan may not be familiar with this name, but they should be. Molinari won the Open Championship last year, becomingthe first Italian to ever win a major (making all us fellow Italians proud). He then proceeded to finish 6th at the PGA Championship last August, the final major of the year. Simply put, Molinari has been a stone-cold assassin on the golf course the last several months. He’s coming in with scorching hot form, winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational last month and finishing 3rd in the WGC Match-Play a little over a week ago. Molinari seems to never find himself in trouble off the tee and never makes a big number on a hole. He’s as consistent as a golfer you find on the tour, missing just 2 cuts over the last year. The big con against Molinari is his course history. His best finish ever at Augusta was T19 back in 2012. He also had a solid showing last year as he finished T20. I’m willing to overlook Molinari’s spotty course history because quite frankly he’s a different golfer today than he was a year ago, nevermind the last several years. Do yourself a favor and do not overlook Molinari! (odds to win 20-1 via Westgate Las Vegas)
2. Dustin Johnson – Between Rory’s hot run, Tiger being Tiger, Fan favorite Rickie Fowler winning this year, it seems as if DJ has become somewhat of a forgotten man. I’m not totally sure why, as DJ has already won once on the PGA Tour this year and once in Europe. He’s coming in with 4 straight Top 10’s and his stats check out as good as anyone in the field, ranking 4th in strokes gained off the tee, 3rd in approach, and 2nd in strokes gained tee-to green. DJ is also great in the wind due to his low ball flight. We’ve seen the wind pick up at Augusta in the past (i.e. 2016 when Danny Willett won at -5). Should the wind become a factor, DJ’s game might be best suited amongst all the big guns. (Odds to win 10-1 via Westgate Las Vegas)
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1. Justin Rose – Your 2019 Masters Champion will be none other than #TeamRose (He loves putting that in all his Instagram posts) aka Justin Rose. It’s been a long time coming for Rose. His course history at Augusta is as good as anyone without a win. He has 5 top 10’s including two 2nd place finishes. He’s never missed a cut in 13 appearances. He has 11 top 25 finishes, and has never finished worse than 39th (which was all the way back in 2003, his first start ever at Augusta). Course history has proved year in and year out to have more significance at Augusta than anywhere else on the PGA Tour. Rose has already won on tour this year and similar to Tiger, is really concerned with trying to win majors first and foremost at this point in his career. He has the length off the tee, the iron game, game around the greens, and has been rolling the ball on the green as well as he ever has over the past year. Rose also has a U.S. Open victory to his name, so we know he can deal with the pressure of the back 9 of a major on a Sunday. As I mentioned, this has been a long-time coming for Rose and he feels destined to finally breakthrough and receive his first green jacket come Sunday afternoon. (Odds to win 12-1 via Westgate Las Vegas)
Buckle up everyone it’s going to be one helluva week. Feel free to reach out to me for any advice in your pools (if I’m not in it), betting advice, and DraftKings. Hopefully you enjoy the tournament and win a little money while doing it!
Author sportschattermjdPosted on April 8, 2019 Tags Justin Rose, PGA, Rory McIlory, The Masters, Tiger Woods1 Comment on Story-Lines and Predictions headed into the Masters
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What in lord’s name does Charles Barkley have against our Celtics?
It’s crazy to think that as we sit here today on January 18th, we’re exactly one month out from the NBA All Star Game and 3 months and one day removed from the gruesome Gordon Hayward injury that occurred on opening night. The first 3 months of the NBA season have flown by!
The Celtics are sitting here just beyond the halfway point with a 34-11 record. I think I speak for all green teamers when I say that the first half of the season has been all we could ask for and more considering the Hayward injury and turnover to the roster from last year. They’ve answered just about every challenge their schedule has thrown at them. They’ve already beat the top 7 teams in the NBA in terms of win-loss record (only team to do that). They have the second best record in the league, and have played one of the most condensed schedules in the first half of the season, due to the road trip to London for a game with the 76ers last week.
Despite having the best record in the Eastern Conference, it seems that the media continues to underestimate just how good this team is. Nobody has gotten under my skin more than Charles Barkley when it comes to disrespecting the Celtics. Some of you may have heard his comments regarding his thoughts on the Celtics when they played the Warriors and Rockets. For those of you who haven’t, let me remind you.
Back in November, Barkley had this to say before the game against the Dubs.
“They’re not gonna beat the Golden State Warriors tonight, and they’re not gonna hold the Golden State Warriors to 94 points,” Chuck said. “I promise you that.”
Then at halftime, Barkley decided to chime in again with his thoughts on the Celtics as they trailed the Warriors by 5.
“I’m sitting here watching, and I’ve watched them play maybe five times. They would not be favored in the Eastern Conference,” Barkley said. “I’m not even talking about Cleveland. I’m not sure they can beat Toronto or Washington. I’m just saying. I don’t know how they’re winning these games.
“Like if I’m the Wizards or I’m Toronto, I’m like, ‘this is a toss-up series. We can beat this team.’ This team right here, they put zero fear in anyone’s heart.
The full clip is right here for those of you who want to see it.
The Celtics would go on to beat the Warriors that night and hold them to only 88 points. Well below the 94+ points Barkley suggested they would score.
A little more than a month later, with the Celtics down big at half to the Houston Rockets, Chuck felt compelled to let the national audience know that the game is “O-V-E-R. The Celtics would go on to rally from 26 points down, the largest comeback in the NBA to date and beat the Rockets that night.
Now I don’t have a problem with Charles Barkley thinking the Celtics won’t advance to the NBA Finals. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and the Celtics are by no means a lock to get all the way there.
On the other hand, to say “this team right here, they put zero fear in anyone’s heart” is a slap in the face to Kyrie, Al, Brad and the entire squad. I’m not sure there’s a single team in the NBA who plays harder or is better coached. They had won 13 games in a row and had the best record in the NBA. Then to come back a month later and once again essentially count them out and declare a game “O-V-E-R” illustrates the lack of attention Barkley has paid to the Celtics this year.
So many of you probably read Barkley’s comments and think “okay so he made a few dumb comments but has surely learned his lesson and understands the Celtics should be taken seriously.” Well believe it or not, on Monday night Chuck may have shown his biggest lack of respect yet.
I was sitting in my parents living room watching pregame for the Cavs vs. Warriors game on MLK night with my mother. For those of you wondering, Yes… I’ve brainwashed my mother to sit down and watch any big NBA game with me these days. She’s even putting in NBA DraftKings lineups on her own. But anyways, I almost fell out of my seat when I heard Charles Barkley in this pregame segment on Monday night…
The Milwaukee Bucks!!? A team that hasn’t even won a playoff series since the 2000-2001 season. I immediately lashed out in anger to my mother when I heard this.
So let’s set the record clear “Chuck”, a team that won 13 straight games at the time of your comments in November “This team right here, they put zero fear in anyone’s heart”, a team that won 16 games in a row and has the second best record in the league isn’t even mentioned when asked just a few days ago who is going to beat LeBron James to get to the NBA Finals.
Yet the 23-21 Milwaukee Bucks and Jabari Parker who’s coming off his second torn ACL in in the last 4 years and has averaged 15.8 points per game in his NBA career could “put fear in another teams heart.”
I almost hope that Barkley has just been trying to troll Celtics fans at this point because of the hate he’s recieved from them on Twitter the last few month for his comments. If he truly believes his comments and overlooks the Celtics like this, then he has lost all credibility in my eyes.
Charles Barkley isn’t the only one who still hasn’t jumped on the Celtics bandwagon. As of Tuesday night the Cleveland Cavaliers who have lost 9 of their last 12 games and sit in third place of the Eastern Conference with a 26-17 record are still the heavy odds on favorite in Las Vegas to advance to the NBA finals. The Cavs are -140 to advance, while the Celtics sit at +240.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with betting terms, this means you would have to bet $140 on the Cavs to win $100, while a $100 bet on the Celtics would win you $240 if they advanced to the NBA Finals.
I don’t disagree that the Cavs shouldn’t be the favorites to win the East. Sorry green teamers but until LeBron is knocked off in the East, he deserves to be the favorite and you should know/respect this if you’re a Patriots fan with Tom Brady’s history. LBJ has made 7 straight NBA Finals appearances, a pretty amazing stat when you take a step back to take it in.
On the other hand, -140 vs. +240 is a huge discrepancy in the betting world. It’s a clear sign that Vegas and sports books have yet to take the Celtics as a true threat to the Cavs.
To my fellow green teamers, it’s been one hellueva ride so far this season. I look forward to a long playoff run and hopefully knocking the Cavs off with home court advantage in the East Conference Finals. If you’re someone that hasn’t totally jumped on the bandwagon yet, I suggest doing so now. A lot of people have a lazy argument that they don’t watch the NBA because “there’s no defense” or that “the players don’t always try.” I can promise you that the Celtics don’t fall into either of these categories. You’ll quickly fall in love with them if you follow them night in and night out… and I promise you, you’ll understand that they are a serious threat to become the first non-Lebron led team to get to the NBA Finals since our own Celtics last did it in the 2009-2010 season.
Feel free to share any thoughts on Chucks idiocy , if the Celts can take down the Cavs in the Eastern Conference Finals, or if any other team has a chance to get to the finals instead of Boston or Cleveland in the comments section below.
Author sportschattermjdPosted on January 18, 2018 January 18, 2018 Tags boston, cavaliers, celtics, charles barkely, kyrie irving, nba
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· Published July 24, 2020
Tampa Bay Rays call for arrests in Breonna Taylor death
By Vincent Frank
A portrait of Breonna Taylor, made by local artist Jaylin Stewart, is projected onto Metro Hall during a celebration and protest of police brutality and justice on what would have been the 27th birthday of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky. June 5, 2020 Breonna Taylor portrait
The Tampa Bay Rays are set to open up their 2020 season at home Friday evening against the Toronto Blue Jays.
It’s a season in which Tampa Bay has both division title and World Series aspirations. But the team apparently has a lot more on its minds hours before first pitch.
Primarily, the Rays’ social media team took Friday morning to enlist its support for Black Lives Matter and call for the officers involved in the Breonna Taylor killing to face justice.
Today is Opening Day, which means it's a great day to arrest the killers of Breonna Taylor
— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) July 24, 2020
We have seen high-profile sports stars call for the arrests of the Louisville Metro Police Department officers involved in the killing of the 26-year-old Taylor back in March.
By now, her story is well known.
Fall out following Breonna Taylor shooting
Back on May 25, an African-American man by the name of George Floyd was killed by a then-Minneapolis police officer. Unarmed at the time, the video of Floyd’s murder caught the attention of the nation and led to widespread protests.
At about the same time, we started to hear the details of Mrs. Taylor’s killing. Three plainclothes police officers with a no-knock warrant entered her apartment. Gunfire was exchanged between Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, and the officers.
An emergency medical technician, Taylor was shot eight teams and died as officers failed to provide aid or call for help.
Taylor’s death has been a lightning rod when it comes to the Black Lives Matter protests in recent months.
For their part, the Rays also focused on the current overall protests pertaining to racial inequality and police brutality in the United States.
Systemic racism is real. Let’s unite for positive change. pic.twitter.com/4Qgv5HmM57
MLB response to Black Lives Matter movement
The 2020 season officially kicked off Thursday with the New York Yankees defeating the Washington Nationals and the San Francisco Giants falling to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The backdrop was surreal with pretty much every coach and player on all four teams taking a knee ahead of the national anthem to show their support for Black Lives Matter.
It’s something we’re likely going to see a whole lot of with a full slate of games around the baseball world on Friday.
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Canadian Built Dextre Passes Final Exam on the International Space Station
Marc Boucher December 24, 2010 News, Technology Leave a comment
After several delays Canada’s robotic handyman named Dextre aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has passed its final exam and is now ready for full duties. Dextre, short for Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, was designed and built by MacDonald Dettwiler (MDA) for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). Dextre along with Canadarm-2 on the ISS are known as the Mobile Servicing System (MSS).
Dextre arrived at the International Space Station on NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-123) after it was launched on March 11, 2008. Since it arrived on the station Dextre has completed a series of planned tasks to certify the robot for duty, culminating with this final exam.
The idea for Mobile Servicing System was conceived by Savi Sachdev who was an engineer at Spar Aerospace in the 1980’s. He envisioned the concept of a relocatable arm for the International Space Station. The idea evolved and later became the Mobile Servicing System. Sachdev is now the Director General of Space Utilization for the Canadian Space Agency
In its final exam, which took two days, Dextre performed a series of steps to remove a 442-kg storage box known as a cargo transport carrier and relocate it to another work site a short distance away. The move was necessary to free up the work site for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer which is scheduled for delivery by the Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-134) in early April, 2011.
Dexter’s final exam would seem like a relatively simple exercise. However for a robot it takes a series of precise moves to accomplish the task. Working in weightlessness makes the task harder as everything not properly anchored down could float away and possibly even becoming a danger to the ISS.
To start the exam Dextre first unbolted the cargo transport carrier, lifted it up and then fastened it onto its workbench. The workbench acts as a temporary storage platform that allows the Dextre to carry equipment while keeping his manipulators free. According the CSA setting the cargo transport carrier down onto the workbench requires extreme precision and delicacy as Dextre’s human operators on the ground need to align the carrier within one degree in order to lock down the interfaces properly, all while ensuring that the mechanical parts were not crushed in the process by applying too much force.
“When astronauts train to do this type of task during a spacewalk, they get to practice again and again until they are comfortable with the procedure,” says Tim Braithwaite, the Canadian Space Agency’s representative at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. “We’re operating a new robot via remote control, doing a task that has never been done robotically, with precision levels that have to be near-perfect. So this test is also about gaining experience for the ground team and learning how to operate Dextre’s complicated systems.”
Operations on the first day wrapped up when Dextre successfully locked the cargo transport carrier down onto his workbench, where it sat throughout the night. Day 2’s tasks consisted of removing the carrier from the workbench, and latching it down to its new location on the ISS.
Dextre will perform routine tasks which otherwise astronauts would have to do thus allowing astronauts more time to perform science experiments on the space station.
Dextre’s first official task will be to unload the External Pallet from Japan’s HTV-2 cargo spacecraft which is set to bring supplies to the space station in early February 2011.
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Full 383/620 0:52:53 175 COCHRAN, Ashley Vancouver, BC F2534 42/120 15/39 0:51:08
Full 384/620 0:52:32 226 FITZPATRICK, Peter Vancouver, BC M2534 341/499 72/94 0:51:17
Full 385/620 0:53:45 440 RUDELSHEIM, Lancelot North Vancouver, BC M4554 342/499 97/135 0:51:17
Full 386/620 0:52:26 624 SCHAARSCHMER, Phillip Vancouver, BC M4554 343/499 98/135 0:51:18
Full 387/620 0:53:26 283 JOHNSON-LEE, Liz Vancouver, BC F4554 43/120 11/27 0:51:18
Full 388/620 0:53:49 42 HIGGS, Nicholas Richmond, BC M4554 344/499 99/135 0:51:18
Full 389/620 0:53:50 622 VIN, Wen Chieh Vancouver, BC M2534 345/499 73/94 0:51:21
Full 390/620 0:54:12 11 MASSIE, James Chilliwack, BC M2534 346/499 74/94 0:51:23
Full 391/620 0:52:24 580 LOW, Darian Vancouver, BC M2534 347/499 75/94 0:51:25
Full 392/620 0:53:36 400 O'REILLY, Trevor Vancouver, BC M2534 348/499 76/94 0:51:26
Full 393/620 0:53:54 341 MACKAY, Doug North Vancouver, BC M5564 349/499 55/93 0:51:29
Full 394/620 0:53:38 109 BALFOUR, Paul West Vancouver, BC M4554 350/499 100/135 0:51:29
Full 395/620 0:53:45 388 MYARA, Simon Vancouver, BC M4554 351/499 101/135 0:51:32
Full 396/620 0:54:00 442 RUPERT, Jim Vancouver, BC M5564 352/499 56/93 0:51:46
Full 397/620 0:53:58 480 SWEENEY, Andrew Vancouver, BC M4554 353/499 102/135 0:51:50
Full 398/620 0:53:56 583 CAMPBELL, Bob Vancouver, BC M5564 354/499 57/93 0:51:53
Full 399/620 0:54:44 107 BAILEY, Ian Denman Island, BC M4554 355/499 103/135 0:52:04
Full 400/620 0:54:33 370 MILNE, Rob Vancouver, BC M5564 356/499 58/93 0:52:15
Full 401/620 0:54:20 438 ROSS, Alan Vancouver, BC M6574 357/499 7/18 0:52:16
Full 402/620 0:54:19 439 ROSS, Jonathan Vancouver, BC M3544 358/499 95/135 0:52:18
Full 403/620 0:53:12 297 KERSEY, Jeremy Vancouver, BC M3544 359/499 96/135 0:52:18
Full 404/620 0:55:31 112 BARR, Andrew Vancouver, BC M4554 360/499 104/135 0:52:20
Full 405/620 0:53:48 545 ZWEIG, Ian West Vancouver, BC M4554 361/499 105/135 0:52:21
Full 406/620 0:54:45 75 YIP, Gunther Vancouver, BC M4554 362/499 106/135 0:52:30
Full 407/620 0:53:22 202 D'ARCY, Thomas Vancouver, BC M6574 363/499 8/18 0:52:30
Full 408/620 0:54:38 538 YOUNG, David Vancouver, BC M3544 364/499 97/135 0:52:31
Full 409/620 0:53:31 662 ROBINSON, David Vancouver, BC M4554 365/499 107/135 0:52:33
Full 410/620 0:56:02 259 HEMSLEY, Paul Burnaby, BC M4554 366/499 108/135 0:52:36
Full 411/620 0:54:35 237 GAGNON, Julie White Rock, BC F3544 44/120 9/28 0:52:37
Full 412/620 0:54:30 557 ABRAMOWICH, Andrew Vancouver, BC M4554 367/499 109/135 0:52:42
Full 413/620 0:53:24 563 NG, Keith Vancouver, BC M2534 368/499 77/94 0:52:46
Full 414/620 0:54:11 17 CARRIE, Okano Vancouver, BC F5564 45/120 7/21 0:52:48
Full 415/620 0:56:10 138 BOUCHER, Jay West Vancouver, BC M4554 369/499 110/135 0:53:05
Full 416/620 0:54:02 453 SHARIAT, Keyvan Vancouver, BC M3544 370/499 98/135 0:53:05
Full 417/620 0:54:20 34 GUETRE, Lori Delta, BC F4554 46/120 12/27 0:53:12
Full 418/620 0:55:28 352 MARTIN, Paul West Vancouver, BC M3544 371/499 99/135 0:53:18
Full 419/620 0:55:15 209 DIEM, Alan Vancouver, BC M6574 372/499 9/18 0:53:18
Full 420/620 0:55:10 170 CHRISTOPHERSON, Meg Burnaby, BC F2534 47/120 16/39 0:53:20
Full 421/620 0:55:27 338 MACDONALD, Jennifer Vancouver, BC F2534 48/120 17/39 0:53:20
Full 422/620 0:56:35 93 ANGELES, Mark Vancouver, BC M3544 373/499 100/135 0:53:21
Full 423/620 0:54:46 590 OLIVER, Candice Vancouver, BC F3544 49/120 10/28 0:53:22
Full 424/620 0:56:37 222 FAHRMANN, Peter Vancouver, BC M3544 374/499 101/135 0:53:29
Full 425/620 0:54:43 508 WALKER, Brett Vancouver, BC M4554 375/499 111/135 0:53:30
Full 426/620 0:56:26 8 OWENS, Tegan Maple Ridge, BC F2534 50/120 18/39 0:53:32
Full 427/620 0:55:23 195 CUCCIONE, Colin Coquitlam, BC M2534 376/499 78/94 0:53:33
Full 428/620 0:56:46 249 GRIFFITHS, Geoff North Vancouver, BC M3544 377/499 102/135 0:53:34
Full 429/620 0:55:11 727 DEGRAAF, Paul Vancouver, BC M6574 378/499 10/18 0:53:38
Full 430/620 0:54:50 33 FISHER, Iona North Vancouver, BC F5564 51/120 8/21 0:53:41
Full 431/620 0:54:50 35 RAE, Tamara Vancouver, BC F4554 52/120 13/27 0:53:41
Full 432/620 0:54:55 142 BROWN, James Vancouver, BC M4554 379/499 112/135 0:53:41
Full 433/620 0:55:19 383 MUNETON, Rafael Vancouver, BC M3544 380/499 103/135 0:53:42
Full 434/620 0:55:59 559 CHO, Edwin Vancouver, BC M4554 381/499 113/135 0:53:47
Full 435/620 0:56:45 541 ZHANG, Ellis Vancouver, BC M1824 382/499 16/18 0:53:48
Full 436/620 0:55:21 64 CRAWFORD, Terry North Vancouver, BC M3544 383/499 104/135 0:53:48
Full 437/620 0:55:31 280 JANSONIUS, Brandon Vancouver, BC M2534 384/499 79/94 0:53:48
Full 438/620 0:55:20 114 BARTEL, Mario New Westminster, BC M4554 385/499 114/135 0:53:49
Full 439/620 0:54:29 631 COYLE, Joe Vancouver, BC M3544 386/499 105/135 0:53:50
Full 440/620 0:55:25 136 BONETTI, Ross Vancouver, BC M5564 387/499 59/93 0:53:56
Full 441/620 0:56:25 689 MACDAVID, Wayne Vancouver, BC M5564 388/499 60/93 0:53:57
Full 442/620 0:56:25 220 ERGAS, Marcos Vancouver, BC M4554 389/499 115/135 0:54:01
Full 443/620 0:55:11 576 LE COUTEUR, Leo Vancouver, BC M6574 390/499 11/18 0:54:11
Full 444/620 0:56:09 510 WALLACE, Alan West Vancouver, BC M5564 391/499 61/93 0:54:15
Full 445/620 0:56:32 227 FLIPSE, Robert West Vancouver, BC M4554 392/499 116/135 0:54:16
Full 446/620 0:55:53 562 LEEMHEER, Chris Vancouver, BC M4554 393/499 117/135 0:54:16
Full 447/620 0:57:32 71 TRUONG, Patrick Vancouver, BC M3544 394/499 106/135 0:54:21
Full 448/620 0:55:57 65 KRZYWICKI, Henry Nanoose Bay, BC M75+ 395/499 1/1 0:54:22
Full 449/620 0:56:45 59 ZARGARAN, Eiman North Vancouver, BC M2534 396/499 80/94 0:54:26
Full 450/620 0:56:45 60 CHUNG, Stephen Vancouver, BC M5564 397/499 62/93 0:54:27
Full 451/620 0:56:41 428 REID, Elaine Vancouver, BC F4554 53/120 14/27 0:54:28
Full 452/620 0:57:02 40 HERBERT, Chris Burnaby, BC M3544 398/499 107/135 0:54:31
Full 453/620 0:57:50 547 MOON, Junho Vancouver, BC M2534 399/499 81/94 0:54:32
Full 454/620 0:56:30 561 BOWEN, Meryn Vancouver, BC F2534 54/120 19/39 0:54:33
Full 455/620 0:55:43 285 JONES, Bradley Vancouver, BC M3544 400/499 108/135 0:54:34
Full 456/620 0:56:10 189 COUTSINOS, Dimitrios Vancouver, BC M2534 401/499 82/94 0:54:36
Full 457/620 0:55:58 252 HAEBLER, Thomas Vancouver, BC M1824 402/499 17/18 0:54:37
Full 458/620 0:55:35 245 GLIER, Melissa Vancouver, BC F2534 55/120 20/39 0:54:39
Full 459/620 0:56:14 309 KOUWENHOVEN, Richard Burnaby, BC M3544 403/499 109/135 0:54:42
Full 460/620 0:56:11 430 RESURRECCION, Leandro Surrey, BC M3544 404/499 110/135 0:54:43
Full 461/620 0:55:43 472 STEWARD, Jodi North Vancouver, BC F3544 56/120 11/28 0:54:45
Full 462/620 0:57:19 32 DIELEMAN, Michael Richmond, BC M2534 405/499 83/94 0:54:48
Full 463/620 0:57:41 534 WYLIE, Andrew Vancouver, BC M3544 406/499 111/135 0:55:04
Full 464/620 0:55:41 200 DALIDA, Alain Vancouver, BC M3544 407/499 112/135 0:55:05
Full 465/620 0:58:10 104 AU-YEUNG, Glenda Richmond, BC F5564 57/120 9/21 0:55:07
Full 466/620 0:57:09 25 NAST, Everett Coquitlam, BC M2534 408/499 84/94 0:55:09
Full 467/620 0:56:46 294 KENNING, Caroline Vancouver, BC F2534 58/120 21/39 0:55:10
Full 468/620 0:57:09 573 BROUWER, Tom Vancouver, BC M6574 409/499 12/18 0:55:11
Full 469/620 0:57:30 417 POWELL, Matt Vancouver, BC M4554 410/499 118/135 0:55:16
Full 470/620 0:57:18 594 LANGAWI, Derek Vancouver, BC M4554 411/499 119/135 0:55:17
Full 471/620 0:57:44 182 COOK, Deb Cowichan Bay, BC F5564 59/120 10/21 0:55:19
Full 472/620 0:57:15 221 ERICKSON, Graeme Vancouver, BC M6574 412/499 13/18 0:55:20
Full 473/620 0:58:46 129 BJARNASON, Harmony North Vancouver, BC F3544 60/120 12/28 0:55:23
Full 474/620 0:56:48 663 BLANK, Myles Vancouver, BC M5564 413/499 63/93 0:55:28
Full 475/620 0:57:57 272 HUNG, Stacy Vancouver, BC F2534 61/120 22/39 0:55:31
Full 476/620 0:58:43 625 PARRY, David Vancouver, BC M5564 414/499 64/93 0:55:35
Full 477/620 0:57:18 61 NEILSON, Quinn Vancouver, BC M3544 415/499 113/135 0:55:36
Full 478/620 0:56:11 618 NABI, Sherwin Vancouver, BC M3544 416/499 114/135 0:55:45
Full 479/620 0:58:55 274 IRVINE, Kevin Vancouver, BC M4554 417/499 120/135 0:55:48
Full 480/620 0:58:15 253 HANSON, Lyndon Belcarra, BC M5564 418/499 65/93 0:55:51
Full 481/620 0:59:14 232 FRAME, Gidon Vancouver, BC M4554 419/499 121/135 0:55:55
Full 482/620 0:56:31 409 PELLETIER, Michel Vancouver, BC M4554 420/499 122/135 0:56:05
Full 483/620 0:58:06 448 SCHIER, Jan West Vancouver, BC M6574 421/499 14/18 0:56:11
Full 484/620 0:59:11 423 RATHBONE, Sean Vancouver, BC M3544 422/499 115/135 0:56:28
Full 485/620 0:59:09 568 MEHRA, Neeraj Vancouver, BC M3544 423/499 116/135 0:56:31
Full 486/620 0:59:42 731 MATTHEWS, Krista Vancouver, BC F2534 62/120 23/39 0:56:32
Full 487/620 0:58:23 164 CHANG, Mark Vancouver, BC M2534 424/499 85/94 0:56:40
Full 488/620 0:58:56 672 CARTWRIGHT, Van Vancouver, BC F4554 63/120 15/27 0:56:45
Full 489/620 0:58:33 4 LOMAS, Ryan Vancouver, BC M3544 425/499 117/135 0:56:46
Full 490/620 0:59:17 577 LOBU, Jorge Vancouver, BC M3544 426/499 118/135 0:56:50
Full 491/620 0:59:53 466 SOMERS, Moira-Anne Victoria, BC F5564 64/120 11/21 0:56:51
Full 492/620 0:58:59 137 BORDEN, Laura Vancouver, BC F2534 65/120 24/39 0:56:54
Full 493/620 0:59:32 177 COCHRAN, Katie Vancouver, BC F2534 66/120 25/39 0:57:00
Full 494/620 0:59:01 295 KER, Hugh Vancouver, BC M5564 427/499 66/93 0:57:04
Full 495/620 0:59:18 481 SYRNYK, Alex Vancouver, BC F2534 67/120 26/39 0:57:12
Full 496/620 1:00:15 53 CONN, Patrick North Vancouver, BC M2534 428/499 86/94 0:57:14
Full 497/620 0:58:29 219 EMBURY, Deanna Vancouver, BC F3544 68/120 13/28 0:57:14
Full 498/620 0:58:53 317 LACHMAN, William Vancouver, BC M5564 429/499 67/93 0:57:21
Full 499/620 0:58:48 147 BRULOTTE, Leah Vancouver, BC F3544 69/120 14/28 0:57:23
Full 500/620 0:59:55 723 MEYLER, Joseph Vancouver, BC M3544 430/499 119/135 0:57:28
Full 501/620 1:00:11 520 WILSON, Jannah Vancouver, BC F3544 70/120 15/28 0:57:35
Full 502/620 0:59:48 156 CAMERON, Chris Vancouver, BC M4554 431/499 123/135 0:57:51
Full 503/620 0:59:17 235 FUGMAN, Michael Vancouver, BC M5564 432/499 68/93 0:58:02
Full 504/620 1:01:16 421 QUAN, Vincent Surrey, BC M3544 433/499 120/135 0:58:04
Full 505/620 0:59:16 542 ZLOTNIK, Garry Vancouver, BC M5564 434/499 69/93 0:58:05
Full 506/620 0:59:23 656 BIRMINGHAM, Michael Vancouver, BC M2534 435/499 87/94 0:58:06
Full 507/620 1:00:50 725 FERGUSSON, Daniella Vancouver, BC F2534 71/120 27/39 0:58:06
Full 508/620 1:00:35 67 DIMAYUGA, Kimberley Vancouver, BC F2534 72/120 28/39 0:58:13
Full 509/620 1:01:41 212 DRON, Margaret Vancouver, BC F3544 73/120 16/28 0:58:17
Full 510/620 0:59:52 63 BARKER, Laurell Vancouver, BC F3544 74/120 17/28 0:58:18
Full 511/620 1:00:26 43 ROSE, Ross Vancouver, BC M5564 436/499 70/93 0:58:22
Full 512/620 1:01:43 730 SCHROEDER, Eric Vancouver, BC M5564 437/499 71/93 0:58:23
Full 513/620 1:01:14 55 RAY, Alexander Vancouver, BC M2534 438/499 88/94 0:58:30
Full 514/620 1:00:31 27 ZIMMERMAN, Joshua Vancouver, BC M2534 439/499 89/94 0:58:31
Full 515/620 1:01:15 410 PHILLIPS, Roderick West Vancouver, BC M4554 440/499 124/135 0:58:35
Full 516/620 1:01:56 619 SHEIKH, Azadh Vancouver, BC F2534 75/120 29/39 0:58:38
Full 517/620 1:00:57 315 KWOK, Aron Vancouver, BC M2534 441/499 90/94 0:58:51
Full 518/620 1:01:12 287 JONES, Ryan Vancouver, BC M3544 442/499 121/135 0:58:56
Full 519/620 1:01:13 267 HOLDEN, Craig Vancouver, BC M3544 443/499 122/135 0:58:57
Full 520/620 1:00:27 225 FIGUEROA, Terence Surrey, BC M3544 444/499 123/135 0:59:00
Full 521/620 1:01:02 26 SEETON, Andrew Vancouver, BC M3544 445/499 124/135 0:59:02
Full 522/620 1:01:26 66 KRZYWICKI, Paul Anmore, BC M3544 446/499 125/135 0:59:10
Full 523/620 1:00:38 459 SKOCZYK, Damian Surrey, BC M3544 447/499 126/135 0:59:20
Full 524/620 1:01:49 70 TOWNSEND, Lindsey Vancouver, BC F4554 76/120 16/27 0:59:26
Full 525/620 1:01:52 74 LOUGHEED, Andrea Vancouver, BC F2534 77/120 30/39 0:59:37
Full 526/620 1:01:55 313 KUNTZE-OLEKSYN, Jacquelyn Vancouver, BC F4554 78/120 17/27 0:59:44
Full 527/620 1:01:39 79 BAKER, Laura Calgary, AB F2534 79/120 31/39 0:59:47
Full 528/620 1:01:38 467 SPEAKMAN, James North Vancouver, BC M5564 448/499 72/93 0:59:48
Full 529/620 1:02:48 12 OOMS, Barry Chilliwack, BC M2534 449/499 91/94 0:59:58
Full 530/620 1:02:21 564 CHAN, Molly Vancouver, BC F4554 80/120 18/27 1:00:15
Full 531/620 1:03:22 636 ORLING, Fredrik Vancouver, BC M3544 450/499 127/135 1:00:19
Full 532/620 1:03:18 103 AU-YEUNG, Francis Richmond, BC M5564 451/499 73/93 1:00:21
Full 533/620 1:02:20 115 BARTON, Bruce Vancouver, BC M5564 452/499 74/93 1:00:21
Full 534/620 1:02:00 269 HOULE, Lynn Vancouver, BC F4554 81/120 19/27 1:00:25
Full 535/620 1:02:33 478 SU, Jorge Vancouver, BC M2534 453/499 92/94 1:00:34
Full 536/620 1:03:59 58 RENOUF, Dan Vancouver, BC M3544 454/499 128/135 1:01:06
Full 537/620 1:05:04 367 MENARD, Gabrielle Vancouver, BC F2534 82/120 32/39 1:01:43
Full 538/620 1:05:03 666 FUNG, Justin Vancouver, BC M3544 455/499 129/135 1:01:50
Full 539/620 1:05:00 106 BAIER, Michael Burnaby, BC M2534 456/499 93/94 1:01:56
Full 540/620 1:04:57 77 BAKER, Gwendolyn Calgary, AB F4554 83/120 20/27 1:02:14
Full 541/620 1:04:50 31 ROSEN, Joshua Vancouver, BC M5564 457/499 75/93 1:02:34
Full 542/620 1:05:27 14 NEUFELD, Christoph Langley, BC M3544 458/499 130/135 1:02:34
Full 543/620 1:05:20 597 POOELBARSKI, Steve Vancouver, BC M5564 459/499 76/93 1:02:39
Full 544/620 1:04:59 637 MCCONKEY, Jennifer Vancouver, BC F2534 84/120 33/39 1:02:43
Full 545/620 1:04:39 128 BILLEY, Jim Surrey, BC M4554 460/499 125/135 1:02:49
Full 546/620 1:03:08 95 AREVALO, Fabiola Vancouver, BC F3544 85/120 18/28 1:02:56
Full 547/620 1:05:51 44 ALONSO, Carlos Surrey, BC M5564 461/499 77/93 1:03:06
Full 548/620 1:06:23 47 STEYN, Joe Vancouver, BC M5564 462/499 78/93 1:03:09
Full 549/620 1:04:39 18 MEYER, Nicholas Vancouver, BC M5564 463/499 79/93 1:03:13
Full 550/620 1:05:40 324 LANGLOIS, Jordan Vancouver, BC M2534 464/499 94/94 1:03:17
Full 551/620 1:06:31 229 FOLKA, John Surrey, BC M3544 465/499 131/135 1:03:22
Full 552/620 1:05:30 726 CLARK, Graham Vancouver, BC M5564 466/499 80/93 1:03:28
Full 553/620 1:03:58 408 PAULINO, Antonio Vancouver, BC M4554 467/499 126/135 1:03:46
Full 554/620 1:05:53 386 MUROI, Ken Coquitlam, BC M5564 468/499 81/93 1:03:54
Full 555/620 1:06:49 420 PUTKEY, Theresa Burnaby, BC F3544 86/120 19/28 1:03:56
Full 556/620 1:06:12 390 NAUDE, Rene North Vancouver, BC M4554 469/499 127/135 1:03:58
Full 557/620 1:06:13 581 TURCHAN, Andy Vancouver, BC M4554 470/499 128/135 1:03:59
Full 558/620 1:07:34 621 JESSON, Peter Vancouver, BC M6574 471/499 15/18 1:04:11
Full 559/620 1:07:43 122 BELTON, Susan Vancouver, BC F4554 87/120 21/27 1:04:18
Full 560/620 1:07:26 198 CUTBILL, Jennifer Vancouver, BC F3544 88/120 20/28 1:04:18
Full 561/620 1:07:30 536 XUE, Ethan Burnaby, BC M-U18 472/499 1/1 1:04:21
Full 562/620 1:07:36 535 XUE, Dong Burnaby, BC M4554 473/499 129/135 1:04:28
Full 563/620 1:07:51 205 DERKSEN, Jennifer Vancouver, BC F3544 89/120 21/28 1:04:33
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Full 565/620 1:07:07 337 MABBERLEY, Rhiannon Vancouver, BC F3544 90/120 22/28 1:04:44
Full 566/620 1:07:33 693 OWEN, Heather Vancouver, BC F3544 91/120 23/28 1:04:55
Full 567/620 1:07:41 351 MARKHAM, Sharon Vancouver, BC F6574 92/120 1/1 1:05:02
Full 568/620 1:08:00 213 DUGGAN, Christopher West Vancouver, BC M5564 475/499 82/93 1:05:20
Full 569/620 1:08:17 498 TURNER, Joanne Vancouver, BC F4554 93/120 22/27 1:05:36
Full 570/620 1:07:24 623 SWAIN, Joan Vancouver, BC F9999 94/120 1/1 1:05:46
Full 571/620 1:07:25 444 SABISTON, Cathie West Vancouver, BC F5564 95/120 12/21 1:05:46
Full 572/620 1:07:25 354 MARZBAN, Pam West Vancouver, BC F5564 96/120 13/21 1:05:46
Full 573/620 1:07:46 385 MUROI, Elisa Coquitlam, BC F4554 97/120 23/27 1:05:46
Full 574/620 1:08:18 372 MITAMURA, Christine Vancouver, BC F4554 98/120 24/27 1:06:29
Full 575/620 1:09:28 503 VERA, Layla Vancouver, BC F2534 99/120 34/39 1:06:34
Full 576/620 1:09:56 266 HOFMANN, Tim Gibsons, BC M5564 476/499 83/93 1:06:36
Full 577/620 1:07:47 380 MORA, Emiliano Port Moody, BC M4554 477/499 130/135 1:06:36
Full 578/620 1:10:51 387 MUSTAKLIM, Bill West Vancouver, BC M6574 478/499 16/18 1:07:23
Full 579/620 1:10:51 336 LOWE, John Vancouver, BC M5564 479/499 84/93 1:07:36
Full 580/620 1:09:53 303 KILBURN, Alan West Vancouver, BC M5564 480/499 85/93 1:08:09
Full 581/620 1:09:52 241 GENEST, Marie West Vancouver, BC F5564 100/120 14/21 1:08:09
Full 582/620 1:11:14 186 COOPERBERG, Peter Vancouver, BC M6574 481/499 17/18 1:08:09
Full 583/620 1:11:27 169 CHOW, Jason Vancouver, BC M4554 482/499 131/135 1:08:13
Full 584/620 1:10:52 578 PETTIGREW, Bruce Vancouver, BC M5564 483/499 86/93 1:08:51
Full 585/620 1:12:06 45 HEMPHILL, Ian New Westminster, BC M5564 484/499 87/93 1:09:22
Full 586/620 1:12:18 434 ROBERTSON, Ashley Vancouver, BC F2534 101/120 35/39 1:09:28
Full 587/620 1:12:18 667 SAMPSON, Lia Vancouver, BC F2534 102/120 36/39 1:09:30
Full 588/620 1:12:27 569 FINNEGAN, Gormlaith Vancouver, BC F5564 103/120 15/21 1:09:42
Full 589/620 1:12:17 116 BAUMET, Richard West Vancouver, BC M3544 485/499 133/135 1:10:07
Full 590/620 1:12:16 312 KREUTZER, Sharon West Vancouver, BC F5564 104/120 16/21 1:10:34
Full 591/620 1:12:17 119 BEGG, Donna West Vancouver, BC F5564 105/120 17/21 1:10:34
Full 592/620 1:14:06 468 SPENCER, Joan Burnaby, BC F5564 106/120 18/21 1:11:01
Full 593/620 1:15:04 363 MCMURRAY, Ken Maple Ridge, BC M5564 486/499 88/93 1:11:36
Full 594/620 1:14:43 402 PADIDAR, Tara Vancouver, BC F2534 107/120 37/39 1:11:37
Full 595/620 1:13:30 251 HA, Amelie Vancouver, BC F3544 108/120 24/28 1:11:55
Full 596/620 1:14:19 157 CANNON, Kelly Vancouver, BC F3544 109/120 25/28 1:12:01
Full 597/620 1:15:35 586 ROBSON, Mart Vancouver, BC M5564 487/499 89/93 1:12:06
Full 598/620 1:16:09 62 WIEGAND, Kim Vancouver, BC F3544 110/120 26/28 1:12:17
Full 599/620 1:15:51 375 MOFFAT, Pamela Vancouver, BC F4554 111/120 25/27 1:12:35
Full 600/620 1:16:19 56 KLASSEN, Carolyn Vancouver, BC F2534 112/120 38/39 1:14:34
Full 601/620 1:17:39 141 BROWN, Carolyn Vancouver, BC F4554 113/120 26/27 1:14:50
Full 602/620 1:17:37 371 MINCH, Scott Sechelt, BC M4554 488/499 132/135 1:16:34
Full 603/620 1:19:41 471 STEVENS, Peter New Westminster, BC M5564 489/499 90/93 1:16:46
Full 604/620 1:21:31 168 CHIU, Eddie Vancouver, BC M6574 490/499 18/18 1:18:14
Full 605/620 1:21:36 233 FRAME, Nadine Vancouver, BC F4554 114/120 27/27 1:18:17
Full 606/620 1:21:40 250 GULATI, Sumeet Vancouver, BC M3544 491/499 134/135 1:18:19
Full 607/620 1:23:16 425 REDA, Vince Burnaby, BC M4554 492/499 133/135 1:19:52
Full 608/620 1:23:04 355 MASON, Jim Vancouver, BC M4554 493/499 134/135 1:19:53
Full 609/620 1:23:25 13 BOKOR, Christie Bellingham, WA F3544 115/120 27/28 1:20:32
Full 610/620 1:23:51 163 CHAN, George Vancouver, BC M5564 494/499 91/93 1:20:35
Full 611/620 1:24:05 316 KWOK, Daniel Vancouver, BC M4554 495/499 135/135 1:20:38
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ST PAUL’S MONASTERY IN JARROW AND THE OLDEST STAINED GLASS WINDOW IN THE WORLD
Posted on August 22, 2018 by Stephen Liddell
Recently when I was in the area for my Hadrians Wall walk, I took a detour to a place I had long wanted to visited. Not too many miles from the ancestral home of George Washington which I visited on the same trip.
Whilst sights such as the Holy Island of Lindisfarne and Durham Cathedral are renowned throughout Christendom, what is less known is that the area is also home to the oldest stained glass window in the world, albeit with a caveat attached.
The story starts 1400 years ago with Northumbrian nobleman Benedict Biscop (about 628–90), who visited Rome and was inspired by the Christian life he saw there.
In 674 he approached King Ecgfrith of Northumbria for land for a monastery. He was first given a large estate to found St Peter’s, Wearmouth, and then in 681 received land at Jarrow to found St Paul’s. The twin monastery probably once owned much of the land between the rivers Tyne and Wear.
Biscop brought stonemasons and glaziers from France, who created some of the first stone buildings in Northumbria since the Roman period. Excavations have revealed that the earliest monastery had two churches, lying parallel to two large buildings, with a guesthouse close to the river.
It was not uncommon for Anglo-Saxon monasteries to have more than one church. The larger one may have served local people as well as the monks. The smaller church was perhaps reserved exclusively for monks, or may have been used as a funerary chapel.
Of the two other large buildings, one had settings in the floor that might have supported seating. Food debris such as fish bones was also found, suggesting that this was a refectory.
The other building contained a large, finely decorated room, probably used as a communal hall. In it was a central stone seat from which the abbot may have presided over meetings of the monks. Each building may have had an upper floor containing dormitories.
At the far left of this building was a suite of two rooms divided by a low screen. The finer room was perhaps an oratory, with an altar, and the other a living room.
The guesthouse by the riverside was finely decorated with painted plaster and coloured glass windows. Craft and industrial activity (such as metal- and glass-working) also took place on the riverside. There is evidence for terraced gardens on the south-facing slope towards the river, where vegetables and herbs were likely to have been grown.
The monastery’s reputation spread throughout Europe, chiefly because of the scholarly writings of the Venerable Bede. Bede entered St Peter’s in about 680 at the age of seven, and spent his life in the twin monastery of Wearmouth–Jarrow, which he described as ‘one monastery in two places’.
The Venerable Bede translating the Gospel of John on his deathbed. Painting by James Doyle Penrose in 1902.
Inspired by the scholarship and new style of monastic life here, he dedicated his life to study. He wrote more than 60 works, most notably the first history of the English, the Ecclesiastical History of the English People. He died in 735.
During the 9th century monastic life here declined, although the site may have remained a place of pilgrimage because of its association with Bede. In the 1020s some bones, thought to be Bede’s remains, were taken from here to Durham Cathedral.
The monastery was re-established in the 1070s by Aldwin, prior of Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, who was inspired by reading Bede’s Ecclesiastical History to visit the holy places of Northumbria.
With the permission of the Bishop of Durham, Aldwin began to rebuild the monastery. He introduced a Benedictine-style layout for the monastic buildings, based on a central cloister with an enclosed walkway where members of the community could spend time in prayer and contemplation.
Aldwin’s monastery was never completed, although it was used until the Suppression of the Monasteries on a much smaller scale than before.
The east range of the monastery was finished, but the south and west ranges were still being built when construction was interrupted in 1083. Aldwin was invited to become prior of Durham and the Wearmouth–Jarrow monks were relocated there to become the centre of the newly reformed monastic community.
By the 12th century, however, monastic life was re-established here as one of nine dependent cells of Durham. The religious community was very small: a master in charge of one or two monks, who were based here for only about three years before returning to Durham. At that time Jarrow was one of Durham’s poorest dependent cells.
The main monastic buildings were altered in the 13th and 14th centuries – new buildings were added in the south range and the cloister arcades were removed. The community functioned much like a manor house, supported by a home farm and lay servants. The wider estate included a barn, granary, buildings to house animals, and a windmill.
After the priory was suppressed in 1537, the eastern part of the church remained in use as the parish church. The larger church was demolished and replaced in the 18th century, and was then rebuilt by George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s.
Between 1963 and 1978 the monastery was excavated extensively, and it is now one of the best understood Anglo-Saxon sites in England.
Bede Metro station on the Tyne and Wear Metro.
It was a bit of a trek to find I can tell you without the use of a car and with no smartphone or maps, I sought out the site from memory and best-guesses that involved two metro trains a boat and a rather long walk through an industrial estate.
It was in the midst of the longest and hottest spell since at least 1976 as could be seen by the rather sorry looking river I crossed.
The River Don, reduced to a slow moving trickle.
I don’t think I have ever been lost, enjoying some pigeon brain sense of direction. I didn’t think I was lost now but I was almost ready to give up given I was mean’t to be on a week long hike when suddenly through the trees I had found what I was looking for.
St Paul’s church with the ruined monastery to the right.
As can be seen from the photos below, I had the whole place to myself… which seems to be a habit of mine whether out exploring on my own or giving tours for other people.
It was nice to wander around the ruins of the monastery which were no doubt located here as they were right next to the River Don and larger Tyne. In fact there was once a larger harbour area nearby which over the 1500 years or so has now been filled in and currently has thousands of Nissan cars from the nearby factory, waiting to be exported around the world.
Bede Station at the bottom with the many thousands of Nissans laying in reclaimed land.
As much as the ruins were fascinating to see and well worth the visit alone, they were just a little aperitif before the main course. For though the monastery itself is no longer anything but ruins, St Paul’s Church is still here and inside amongst several other treasures, is the oldest stained glass window in the world.
Inside, the church was as beautiful and ancient as could be hoped and the staff inside there were effusive with their greetings and artefacts. People visit from all around the world just because of the connection with the Venerable Bede.
Towards the back of the main church you can find the oldest remaining section and it is in here that the window I was looking for would be found.
The chancel is a direct survival from the 7th century in which Bede worshipped when it was a free-standing chapel of the monastery. Cemented into the wall of the tower, is the original stone slab which records in a Latin inscription the dedication of the church on 23 April AD 685, which is the oldest church dedication stone in England.
The church dedication stone dated 23rd April 685 AD.
The inscription reads:
DEDICATIO BASILICAE
SCI PAUL VIIII KL MAI
ANNO XV EFRIDI REG
CEOLFRIDI ABB EIUSDEM
Q ECCLES DO AVCTORE
CONDITORIS ANNO IIII
This translates as:
The dedication of the basilica
of St. Paul on the 9th day before the Kalends of May
in the 15th year of King Ecgfrith
and in the fourth year of Abbot Ceolfrith founder,
by God’s guidance, of the same church.
Alas my dedication was not deemed sufficient to be able to see the stained glass window in all its glory. I had obviously come a precisely the wrong time of day/year and with a very bright sun shining through, it was impossible to make out any detail whatsoever, I was a little disappointed but could at least see the funny side.
Anyway, a quick delve on the internet shows exactly how the window looks like when it isn’t the hottest, driest and sunniest summer in over 40 years.
Oldest Stained Glass Window in the world
You might be wondering what exactly the ancient craftsmen of aeons ago were hoping to tell the world with their newly invented stained glass window. Well the truth is these are fragments of an ancient stained glass window that was long since destroyed with various parts of it being uncovered by archealogist Professor Rosemary Cramp in the 1973 and put together into this random mosaic.
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Wouldn’t St. Paul be amazed at how many churches have his name!? In April 2019, my husband and I are taking a group of people on “The Footsteps of St. Paul” in Greece and Turkey. We are definitely looking forward to going for St. Paul’s life was most difficult as he tried to share his own conversion from a hater of the Christians to their leader. (Book of Acts). Perhaps some of your readers who share this philosophy will find this testimony of a great man interesting. I’m glad you take these wonderful walks to find special places. Cooler weather is coming!
I’m so glad that you like it. I often think that despite his many churches, St. Paul is somewhat forgotten about in comparison to other early saints. Doubly so as his life was so incredible and all the more relateable given his conversion. I remember visiting his cave in Malta where he was shipwrecked. It was incredibly evocative. I think cooler weather is going to arrive in London on Friday (at least temporarily)!
Margaret Mayell says:
My husband and I visited Jarriw last year. What a wonderful church and area. We were up there for two talks by Dr.Janina Ramirez. Having read her book “The Private life of the Saints” we were keen to visit some of the areas mentioned in it.
There were wonderful volunteers on hand to make our experience even more memorable.
Thanks for this article and fabulous photos.
Those must have been good talks. She Dr. Ramirez is quite good. Yes, the volunteers there were so friendly and helpful. I’m glad that you enjoyed my post.
John Williams says:
You arrived exactly at the time you were supposed to. You saw God’s light shine over the works of the hands of man. There’s no such thing as a coincidence.
You were never lost, you were guided by the Spirit. I’m glad Jesus Christ put it in your heart to do this.
Thank-you John. Yes it was a wonderful place to find, an oasis of faith in a mass of industry. I have a feeling in another 1500 years time it will be the church that remains long after car factories and ship yards have gone.
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Professor David Hill Byron, Italy December 17, 2020 January 1, 2021 6 Minutes
This is the thirteenth instalment of a tour through the Illustrations to the Life and Works of Lord Byron published between 1832 and 1834. Here we turn to plate ten which brings us into the Mediterranean at the outset of an extensive tour to the East.
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, 1832
Engraved by Edward Finden after a watercolour by William Westall
Etching and line engraving on steel, image 3 5/8 x 5 1/2 in (91 x 141 mm) on plate 7 x 9 ¼ ins (178 x 236 mm) on medium-weight, slightly textured [?machine-made] wove etching paper, slightly reddened with age, 11 ½ x 9 ins (291 x 229 mm).
Inscribed in lower margin, immediately below image left in small italic; ‘Drawn by W.Westall, A.R.A.’ and right, ‘Engraved by E. Finden.’ Titled in small open caps lower centre, ‘CAGLIARI, SARDINIA’. Publication line in small italics below, ‘London. Published July 1832 by J.Murray and Sold by C.Tilt, 86 Fleet Street.’
Published as plate 10 of volume 1 (1833) of the three-volume bound edition of ‘Finden’s Landscape and Portrait Illustrations of Lord Byron’s Life and Works’ and issued to subscribers in Part 7, no.3, 1832.
In the last instalment we left Byron in Cadiz in southern Spain. After a week there he took passage for Gibraltar on a naval frigate, HMS Hyperion. We have already heard about his stay there (see title-page vignette: Gibraltar) and on Wednesday 16 August 1809 he embarked on the packet boat Townshend for Malta.
On board, Byron was joined by John Galt, who had sailed on the packet from England. His memoirs of Byron add to the already rich documentation of the trip.
The most vivid and direct report is that given in the diary of Bryon’s travelling companion, John Cam Hobhouse, transcribed in an excellent online scholarly edition by Peter Cochran and Byron’s correspondence is also transcribed by Peter Cochran.
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They were at sea for three full days to reach Cagliari, about half-way to Malta, arriving on Saturday night. They spent the whole day Sunday in port giving time to explore a little and see something of its society.
The engraving shows the view of the city and citadel of Cagliari from the harbour. Despite a very great deal of subsequent development, the scene is recognisable in character and in some detail today.
In the centre of the composition is the slender fourteenth-century tower of the Church of Sant Eulalia.
Di Giova81 – foto personale, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2523943
To the left of that, at about the same height as the tower, is a square tower surmounted by a pyramidal roof.
This is a very reductive rendition of the octagonal tower and dome of the eighteenth-century Church of Sant Antonio. Higher and further left is the still well-preserved fourteenth-century Torre dell’ Elefante,
CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1316782
named after its famous sculpture of an elephant. Directly above San Antonio on the crest of the hill is the early fourteenth-century Torre di San Pancrazio.
By trolvag, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54857054
This is well-rendered and distinctly recognisable today. Finally, along the crest of the hill to the right, is the west tower and central cupola of the Duomo. There is a splendid guidebook to the cathedral by Anna Palmieri Lallai including some wonderful photographs.
As this shows, the relative positions of the towers are recognisable in the engraving, but the details are, again, very poor.
I have never been to Sardinia or Cagliari. It is a sustaining thought to look forward to the possibility of travel returning. In the meantime I did find beautiful photograph by Stefano Marrocu taken from almost exactly the same spot. I hope he will not mind my linking to it here:
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This illustration is the first of only two contributions by William Westall to the series. Westall was a slightly younger contemporary of Turner, but in terms of wider travel experience by far the most senior contributor to the series. He had travelled as landscape artist on Matthew Flinders’ voyage to Australia, and took in China and India, before heading off to Jamaica, all before his thirtieth birthday. A Mediterranean subject for him seems almost domestic. Westall became an important artistic contributor to expanding Global consciousness. It is frustrating that I have been unable to locate his original watercolour so that we might see whether the inaccuracy in the details is the fault of the artist or the engraver. Edward Finden, we might observe, however, was frequently happy to sub-contract the labour of his engraving to younger and less experienced craftsmen.
Cagliari was the capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia. For centuries, it was part of the Spanish empire. It became possessed of the lands of Savoy in 1720 and at its peak encompassed mainland Italy and the major territories of Savoy stretching from Turin north of the Alps as far as Chambery and almost to the gates of Geneva. The regal base was Turin, but by 1809, as a result of Napoleonic conquests, the kingdom had shrunk back to its Sardinian redoubt. The kingdom was, however, courting the support of Britain and its allies against Napoleon and could offer an important secure naval base to the British, one of a chain across the Mediterranean, and was rewarded at the conclusion of the war by the restitution of its Italian territories, augmented by the state of Genoa.
The current monarch was Victor Emmanuel I. For those impressed by such things, he was the grandson of the King of Spain and his ancestry stretched back to courts in every corner of Europe, including that of Phillip II of Spain and Queen Mary of England. Grand History coursed through his blood, and despite the shrunken state of his Kingdom, encourage in him the most imposing hauteur. In 1809 his court surrounded himself and his consort, together with three daughters,. The eldest was seventeen, and the youngest, twins aged just six. They all married to grand titles, the eldest as the Duchesses of Modena and the twins as Duchess of Parma and Empress of Austria. A fourth was born in 1812 and became Queen of the Two Sicilies. We can see the family together except for the eldest daughter who had married a few months previously, in a portrait of 1813..
By Luigi Bernero – http://www.jacobite.ca/gazetteer/Italy/Racconigi.htmoriginally uploaded on nl.wikipedia by Känsterle (talk · contribs) at 28 July 2004, 20:16. Filename was Portrait of King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia and his family by Luigi Bernero.jpg., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8727554
Byron was certainly impressed by all this. In a letter to his mother from Gibraltar he anticipated: ‘My next stage is Cagliari in Sardinia where I shall be presented to his {S} Majesty, I have a most superb uniform {as a court dress,} indispensable in travelling. –‘
As soon as they arrived they presented their credentials to the English ambassador, and received an immediate invitation for the evening. They dressed up in their uniforms on board the packet and went out for dinner at the Residence and then on to the theatre. The Royal family were there, but the King did not take his seat until the second act. The nearest Byron came to an audience was to be taken by the Ambassador to a private box where he might be better seen. Afterwards, by John Galt’s report, whilst making their way back to the ship, Byron was troubled by his limp, and seemed more than a little piqued.
So what might the reader in the 1830s have made of this subject, particularly in terms of European consciousness. Perhaps the most obvious thing to say is that it would have been an unfamiliar subject. This engraving is certainly one of the first [if not the first] to represent the subject of Cagliari to a British audience, and one of the earliest of any kind, except for a couple of seventeenth century Dutch engravings. Even today, Sardinia hardly figures on the radar of UK travellers in Europe. And when travellers visit the Savoy Alps or Turin and hear that these were once the territories of the King of Sardinia, the whole story seems alien and preposterous. Of course all this tells us is how little we know about the history of Europe, and present events seem to suggest that we will be happy to persist in our ignorance. Lord preserve us that an interest in the workings of Europe might draw us into feeling that we ought to belong to it more firmly. So for all that, it came as a pleasant surprise to discover that Victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia, whom Byron would so like to have met in 1809, was a great-great grandson of Henrietta of England, the daughter of Charles 1 of England and so when Byron saw him, heir to the throne of the United Kingdom in the Jacobite line of succession.
Even better; apparently the current heir is Duke of Bavaria. Imagine the headlines in The Sun!
Next: Sicily, maybe.
Published by Professor David Hill
Professor Emeritus David Hill, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, View all posts by Professor David Hill
Published December 17, 2020 January 1, 2021
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Havelock Island, Andaman Islands, India
Away from the hustle and bustle of India's crowded cities, Havelock Island lures travellers to the Andaman Islands with its blonde beaches dotted with elephants and a desert-island feel.
Olivia Morelli
Havelock Island, Andaman Islands, India.
Beyond the hustle and bustle of India's crowded cities, Havelock Island provides a tranquil haven of peace and quiet. Despite being one of the few Andaman and Nicobar Islands that are populated, only 80 per cent of the island is inhabited. Sat in the Bay of Bengal, its dense forests, verdant rainforest and active volcanoes line empty, blonde beaches stretching for miles, luring travellers from the mainland. Those willing to make the long trip are rewarded with a desert-island feel; beachfront properties are prohibited and there is no nightlife on the island.
Spend days hopping between beaches - there are seven tropical beaches, each individually numbered. Radhanagar Beach (also known as Number Seven) is the most popular, frequently voted one of Asia's best beaches. Laze on golden sand and paddle in crystal waters before heading back beyond the treeline to explore the few market stalls selling refreshing coconut drinks and nibbles.
Elephant Beach is perfect for snorkelling - the shore is dotted with vibrant coral and teeming with colourful fish - but is most famous for its namesake. Come early in the morning to watch elephants gleefully splashing in the shallows, and keep an eye out for Rajan, the eldest swimming elephant at almost 70 years old.
Trekking through the jungle. Hidden waterfalls cascade amid palm and coconut trees, and hiking tours can be curated to include birdwatching and other wildlife spotting.
Who to take with you
Someone interested in Indian history. Named after British general Sir Henry Havelock, the island was once used as a prison by the British for Indian freedom fighters. Today the Cellular Jail serves as a national monument; visit the cell blocks to get a glimpse into the island's brutal history.
The island's rainy season is during the summer months, so go in December for some winter sun and temperatures in the mid-20s.
Stay at Barefoot resort, an eco-village perched among the trees near Radhanagar Beach. Rooms are built using regenerable materials such as bamboo, wood and palm leaves, and you can choose between a room facing out to the ocean or one with views over the lively treetops. Alternatively, opt for Jalakara Hotel for a digital detox (there is no WiFi) and soaking up sunsets from a glittering infinity pool.
Most likely to bump into…
Rajan heading out for a dip.
Essentials to bring with you
Near-deserted beaches mean you'll never have to change out of your swimsuit. This cut-out halterneck swimsuit, aptly named On The Island by Marios Schwab, is the perfect choice.
Havelock Island is notoriously difficult to get to, so start with a flight into Delhi or Chennai airports, where there are daily flights into the capital of the Andaman Islands, Port Blair. From there, catch a ferry or a catamaran to reach Havelock Island in an hour and a half.
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Justia › US Law › US Case Law › US Supreme Court › Volume 421 › S. S. & W., INC. v. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
S. S. & W., INC. v. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, 421 U.S. 925 (1975)
S. S. & W., INC. v. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI , 421 U.S. 925 (1975)
S. S. & W., INC., et al.
CITY OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, et al.
The appeal is dismissed for want of a substantial federal question.
Mr. Justice BRENNAN, with whom Mr. Justice STEWART and Mr. Justice MARSHALL join, dissenting.
Appellants, operators of adult theaters and book stores, commenced this action in the Circuit Court of Missouri, Sixteenth Judicial District, for a declaratory judgment that Kansas City's obscenity ordinance, 26. 141 to 26.144, is unconstitutional. Section 26.142 provides in pertinent part as follows:
'No person shall knowingly:
'(a) Sell, deliver or provide, or offer or agree to sell, deliver or provide, any obscene writing, picture, record or other representation or embodiment of the obscene; or
'(c) Publish, exhibit or otherwise make available any obscene material; or
'(d) Possess any obscene material for the purpose of sale or other commercial dissemination . . ..'
'Obscene' is defined in 26.141, which provides:
'Material is obscene if, considered as a whole, its predominant appeal is to prurient interest, that is, a shameful or morbid interest, in nudity, sex, or excretion, and if in addition it goes beyond customary limits of candor in describing or representing such matters.'
The Circuit Court found the ordinance valid and denied relief. The Supreme Court of Missouri affirmed.
Page 421 U.S. 925 , 926
It is my view that 'at least in the absence of distribution to juveniles or obtrusive exposure to unconsenting adults, the First and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the State and Federal Governments from attempting wholly to suppress sexually oriented materials on the basis of their allegedly 'obscene' contents.' Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton, 413 U.S. 49, 113 (1973) (Brennan, J., dissenting). It is clear that, tested by that constitutional standard, 26.142, as it incorporates the definition of 'obscene' in 26.141, is unconstitutionally overbroad and therefore invalid on its face. For the reasons stated in my dissent in Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, 47 (1973), I would therefore not probable jurisdiction, and, since the judgment of the Supreme Court of Missouri was rendered after Miller, reverse. In that circumstance, I have no occasion to consider whether the other questions presented merit plenary review. See Heller v. New York, 413 U.S. 483, 494-495 (1973) (Brennan, J., dissenting).
Mr. Justice DOUGLAS took no part in the consideration or decision of this appeal.
Joseph J. REY, Sr., appellant, v. TEXAS. No. 74-1070. April 21, 1975 The appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Treating the papers whereon the appeal was taken as a petition for writ of certiorari, certiorari denied. [95SCt1651,421US926,44LEd2d83] Hyman COHEN, appellant, v. Henry MARSH et al. No. 74-5898. April 21, 1975 Motion of appellant for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Judgment vacated and case remanded to the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut for consideration of the question of mootness. Mr. Justice DOUGLAS took no part in the consideration or decision of this motion and appeal. [ 95SCt1651,421US926,44LEd2d 84] Richard M. HARDEN, etc., petitioner, v. Ruth PARKS, etc. No. 74-877. April 21, 1975 On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari granted, judgment vacated and case remanded to the Court of Appeals for further consideration in light of Burns v. Alcala, 420 U.S. 575 (1975). [ 95SCt1651,421US926,44LEd2d84]
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Benin Kingdom: The Fall and Rise of an Empire
The original name of the Benin Kingdom, at its creation sometime in the first millennium CE, was Igodomigodo, as its inhabitants called it. Their ruler was called Ogiso (Ruler of the sky). Nearly 36 known Ogiso are accounted for as rulers of this initial incarnation of the state.
By the 1st century BCE, the Benin territory was partially agricultural; and it became primarily agricultural by around 500 CE, but hunting and gathering still remained important. Also by 500 CE, iron was in use by the inhabitants of the Benin territory.
Benin City sprang up by around 1000 CE, in a forest that could be easily defended. The dense vegetation and narrow paths made the city easy to defend against attacks. The rainforest, which Benin City is situated in, helped in the development of the city because of its vast resources; fish from rivers and creeks, animals to hunt, leaves for roofing, plants for medicine, ivory for carving and trading, and wood for boat building; that could be exploited. However, domesticated animals, from the forest and surrounding areas, could not survive, due to a disease spread by tsetse flies; after centuries of exposure, some animals, such as cattle and goat, developed a resistance to the disease.
Excavations at Benin City have revealed that it was already flourishing around 1200-1300 CE. In 1440, Oba Ewuare, also known as Ewuare the Great, came to power and expanded the borders of the former city-state. It was only at this time that the administrative centre of the kingdom began to be referred to as Ubinu after the Portuguese word and corrupted to Bini by the Itsekhiri, Urhobo and Edo who all lived together in the royal administrative centre of the kingdom. The Portuguese who arrived in an expedition led by Joao Afonso de Aveiro in 1485 would refer to it as Benin and the centre would become known as Benin City.
The Kingdom of Benin eventually gained political strength and ascendancy over much of what is now mid-western Nigeria. By the seventeenth century CE, the Kingdom began to decline. Multiple civil wars broke out and disputes over the kingship took place.
THE MILITARY OF BENIN IN HER GRACE
Military operations relied on a well-trained disciplined force. At the head of the host stood the Oba of Benin. The monarch of the realm served as supreme military commander. Beneath him were subordinate generalissimos, the Ezomo, the Iyase, and others who supervised a Metropolitan Regiment based in the capital, and a Royal Regiment made up of hand-picked warriors that also served as bodyguards. Benin’s queen mother, the Iyoba, also retained her own regiment – the “Queen’s Own”. The Metropolitan and Royal regiments were relatively stable semi-permanent or permanent formations. The Village Regiments provided the bulk of the fighting force and were mobilized as needed, sending contingents of warriors upon the command of the king and his generals. Formations were broken down into sub-units under designated commanders. Foreign observers often commented favorably on Benin’s discipline and organization as “better disciplined than any other Guinea nation”, contrasting them with the slacker troops from the Gold Coast.
Until the introduction of guns in the 15th century, traditional weapons like the spear, short sword, and bow held sway. Efforts were made to reorganize a local guild of blacksmiths in the 18th century to manufacture light firearms, but dependence on imports was still heavy. Before the coming of the gun, guilds of blacksmiths were charged with war production—particularly swords and iron spearheads.
Benin’s tactics were well organized, with preliminary plans weighed by the Oba and his sub-commanders. Logistics were organized to support missions from the usual porter forces, water transport via canoe, and requisitioning from localities the army passed through. Movement of troops via canoes was critically important in the lagoons, creeks and rivers of the Niger Delta, a key area of Benin’s domination. Tactics in the field seem to have evolved over time. While the head-on clash was well known, documentation from the 18th century shows greater emphasis on avoiding continuous battle lines, and more effort to encircle an enemy (ifianyako).
Fortifications were important in the region and numerous military campaigns fought by Benin’s soldiers revolved around sieges. As noted above, Benin’s military earthworks are the largest of such structures in the world, and Benin’s rivals also built extensively. Barring a successful assault, most sieges were resolved by a strategy of attrition, slowly cutting off and starving out the enemy fortification until it capitulated. On occasion, however, European mercenaries were called on to aid with these sieges. In 1603–04 for example, European cannon helped batter and destroy the gates of a town near present-day Lagos, allowing 10,000 warriors of Benin to enter and conquer it. As payment, the Europeans received items, such as palm oil and bundles of pepper. The example of Benin shows the power of indigenous military systems, but also the role outside influences and new technologies brought to bear. This is a normal pattern among many nations
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE EUROPEANS
Benin began to decline after 1700. Benin’s power and wealth was continuously flourishing in the 19th century with the development of the trade in palm oil, textiles, ivory, slaves, and other resources. To preserve the kingdom’s independence, bit by bit the Oba banned the export of goods from Benin, until the trade was exclusively in palm oil.
By the last half of the 19th century Great Britain had come to want a closer relationship with the Kingdom of Benin; for British officials were increasingly interested in controlling trade in the area and in accessing the kingdom’s rubber resources to support their own growing tire market.
Several attempts were made to achieve this end beginning with the official visit of Richard Francis Burton in 1862 when he was consul at Fernando Pó. Following that came attempts to establish a treaty between Benin and the United Kingdom by Hewtt, Blair and Annesley in 1884, 1885 and 1886 respectively. However, these efforts did not yield any results. The kingdom resisted becoming a British protectorate throughout the 1880s, but the British remained persistent. Progress was made finally in 1892 during the visit of Vice-Consul Henry Galway. This mission was the first official visit after Burton’s. Moreover, it would also set in motion the events to come that would lead to Oba Ovonramwen’s demise.
At the end of the 19th century, the Kingdom of Benin had managed to retain its independence and the Oba exercised a monopoly over trade which the British found irksome. The territory was coveted by an influential group of investors for its rich natural resources such as palm-oil, rubber and ivory. After British consul Richard Burton visited Benin in 1862 he wrote of Benin’s as a place of “gratuitous barbarity which stinks of death”, a narrative which was widely publicized in Britain and increased pressure for the territory’s subjugation. In spite of this pressure, the kingdom maintained independence and was not visited by another representative of Britain until 1892 when Henry Gallwey, the British Vice-Consul of Oil Rivers Protectorate (later Niger Coast Protectorate), visited Benin City hoping to open up trade and ultimately annex Benin Kingdom and make it a British protectorate. Gallwey was able to get Omo n’Oba (Ovonramwen) and his chiefs to sign a treaty which gave Britain legal justification for exerting greater influence over the Empire. While the treaty itself contains text suggesting Ovonramwen actively sought Britain’s protection, this appears to be a fiction. Gallway’s own account suggests the Oba was hesitant to sign the treaty. Although some suggest that humanitarian motivations were driving Britain’s actions, letters written between administrators suggest that economic motivations were predominant. The treaty itself does not explicitly mention anything about Benin’s “bloody customs” that Burton had written about, and instead only includes a vague clause about ensuring “the general progress of civilization”.
An unidentified West African flag allegedly brought to Britain by Admiral F. W. Kennedy after the expedition.
When people in Benin discovered Britain’s true intentions were an invasion to depose the king of Benin, without approval from the king his generals ordered a preemptive attack on the British party approaching Benin City, including eight unknowing British representatives, who were killed. A punitive expedition was launched in 1897. The British force, under the command of Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, razed and burned the city, destroying much of the country’s treasured art and dispersing nearly all that remained. The stolen portrait figures, busts, and groups created in iron, carved ivory, and especially in brass (conventionally called the “Benin Bronzes”) are now displayed in museums around the world.
THE BENIN BRONZES
The Benin Bronzes are a group of more than a thousand metal plaques and sculptures that decorated the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin in what is now modern-day Nigeria. Collectively, the objects form the best known examples of Benin art, created from the thirteenth century onwards, by the Edo people, which also included other sculptures in brass or bronze, including some famous portrait heads and smaller pieces.
In 1897 most of the plaques and other objects were looted by British forces during a punitive expedition to the area as imperial control was being consolidated in Southern Nigeria. Two hundred of the pieces were taken to the British Museum, London, while the rest were purchased by other European museums. Today, a large number are held by the British Museum. Other notable collections are in Germany and the USA.
The Benin Bronzes led to a greater appreciation in Europe of African culture and art. Initially, it appeared incredible to the discoverers that people “supposedly so primitive and savage” were responsible for such highly developed objects. Some even wrongly concluded that Benin knowledge of metallurgy came from the Portuguese traders who were in contact with Benin in the early modern period. In actual fact the Benin Empire was a hub of African civilization before the Portuguese traders visited and it is clear that the bronzes were made in Benin from an indigenous culture. Many of these dramatic sculptures date to the thirteenth century, centuries before contact with Portuguese traders, and a large part of the collection dates to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is believed that two “golden ages” in Benin metal workmanship occurred during the reigns of Esigie (fl. 1550) and of Eresoyen (1735–50), when their workmanship achieved its highest qualities.
While the collection is known as the Benin Bronzes, like most West African “bronzes” the pieces are mostly made of brass of variable composition. There are also pieces made of mixtures of bronze and brass, of wood, of ceramic, and of ivory, among other materials.
The metal pieces were made using lost-wax casting and are considered among the best sculptures made using this technique.
RITUAL KILLINGS
Forty-one female skeletons thrown into a pit were discovered by the archaeologist Graham Connah. These findings indicate that human sacrifice took place in Benin City since the thirteenth century CE. From the early days, human sacrifices were a part of the state religion. But many of the sensationalist accounts of the sacrifices, says historian J.D. Graham, are largely exaggerated or based on rumour and speculation. He says that all of the evidence “points to a limited, ritual custom of human sacrifice.” Graham also notes that many of the written accounts referring to the human sacrifices describe them as actually being executed criminals.
Humans were sacrificed in an annual ritual in honour of the god of iron, where warriors from Benin City would perform an acrobatic dance while suspended from the trees. The ritual recalled a mythical war against the sky.
Sacrifices of a man, a woman, a goat, a cow and a ram were also made to a god quite literally called “the king of death.” The god, named Ogiuwu, was worshipped at a special altar in the centre of Benin City.
There were two separate annual series of rites that honoured past Obas. Sacrifices were performed every fifth day. At the end of each series of rites, the current Oba’s own father was honoured with a public festival. During the festival, twelve criminals, chosen from a prison where the worst criminals were held, were sacrificed.
By the end of the eighteenth century, three to four people were sacrificed at the mouth of the Benin River annually, to attract European trade.
At the burial rituals of Obas, human sacrifice was present; bodyguards of the Oba include those sacrificed. Additionally, wives and slaves of the Oba committed suicide, so that they could continue serving him in the afterlife.
BENIN MOAT SUNGBO’S EREDO
The Walls of Benin are a series of earthworks made up of banks and ditches, called Iya in the Edo language in the area around present-day Benin City, the capital of present-day Edo, Nigeria. They consist of 15 kilometres (9.3 miles) of city iya and an estimated 16,000 kilometres (9,900 miles) in the rural area around Benin. Some estimates suggest that the walls of Benin may have been constructed between the thirteenth and mid-fifteenth century CE and others suggest that the walls of Benin (in the Esan region) may have been constructed during the first millennium CE. The Benin City walls have been known to Westerners since around 1500. Around 1500, the Portuguese explorer Duarte Pacheco Pereira, briefly described the walls during his travels. Another description given around 1600, one hundred years after Pereira’s description, is by the Dutch explorer Dierick Ruiters.
Estimates for the initial construction of the walls range from the first millennium CE to the mid-fifteenth century CE. According to Connah, oral tradition and travelers’ accounts suggest a construction date of 1450-1500 CE.[12] It has been estimated that, assuming a 10 hour work day, a labour force of 5,000 men could have completed the walls within 97 days, or by 2,421 men in 200 days. However, these estimates have been criticized for not taking into account the time it would have taken to extract earth from an ever deepening hole and the time it would have taken to heap the earth into a high bank. It is unknown whether slavery or some other type of labour was used in the construction of the walls.
The walls were built of a ditch and dike structure; the ditch dug to form an inner moat with the excavated earth used to form the exterior rampart. The Benin Walls were ravaged by the British in 1897 during what has come to be called the Punitive expedition. Scattered pieces of the structure remain in Edo, with the vast majority of them being used by the locals for building purposes. What remains of the wall itself continues to be torn down for real estate developments. Fred Pearce wrote in New Scientist: They extend for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They cover 2,510 sq. miles (6,500 square kilometres) and were all dug by the Edo people. In all, they are four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops. They took an estimated 150 million hours of digging to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet.
Ethnomathematician Ron Eglash has discussed the planned layout of the city using fractals as the basis, not only in the city itself and the villages but even in the rooms of houses. He commented that “When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.”
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Perfecting Issue Preservation
Response - by Daniel Epps Online Edition - Volume 98
John Langbein famously observed that Americans “live under a criminal procedure for which we have no adequate theory.”[1] If any more evidence for that point is needed, Darryl Brown provides it in his article, Does It Matter Who Objects? Rethinking the Burden to Prevent Errors in Criminal Process.[2] In particular, Brown’s target is the venerable rule that a defendant must preserve objections to erroneous rulings at trial in order to perfect them for later appeal. Trial lawyers ignore this rule at their—or, more accurately, their clients’—peril. And it is the bane of appellate criminal lawyers, who all too often discover errors that escaped trial counsel’s notice when combing the record for grounds for appeal. Brown convincingly argues that the traditional forfeiture rule, despite its long lineage, deserves closer examination and reconsideration.
As someone who has made the mistake of repeatedly writing about error in criminal justice,[3] I read Brown’s argument with great interest. And Brown ably convinced me that conventional wisdom about who should bear the burden of bringing errors to a court’s attention is woefully undertheorized. In particular, Brown’s move to analyze adjudicative error from the perspective of accident prevention in other legal contexts is both clever and generative of insights. Moreover, Brown made a persuasive case that normative judgments about fairness, rather than a careful cost–benefit analysis, may better explain the status quo.
What I am less certain of, though, is whether Brown has met his burden of persuading us that we should adopt his proposed rule: that the law should “plac[e] the duty to prevent errors on the party who commits the error (or who benefits from the judge’s error), through the use of a de facto reverse-forfeiture penalty.”[4] In this short Response, I explain why I am not fully persuaded. In Part I, I discuss why Brown’s rule may not necessarily prevent errors as much as he hopes, and may instead significantly increase reversals and retrials. In Part II, I question whether that cost is worth bearing, by interrogating the concept of “error” and its multiple possible meanings. That inquiry leads me to a limited defense of our system’s current approach to forfeited legal errors. I conclude by suggesting more modest reforms that, in my view, follow from Brown’s significant insights.
I. The Dynamics of Reform
Brown’s argument for changing which side bears the risk of error proceeds in a consequentialist framework, using the language of cost–benefit analysis. That is, Brown starts from the premise that “the justification for forfeiture rules is fundamentally instrumental” and that “[t]heir overriding purpose is to optimize parties’ error-preventing behavior by encouraging care in preventing errors and deterring delays in raising claims of error.”[5] I find this consequentialist framework sensible in this context and will evaluate Brown’s proposal by considering its possible costs and benefits.
That said, we should be clear at the outset what the relevant universe of costs and benefits includes. In particular, I would stress that the goal is not merely to minimize or eliminate errors at the trial court level. If that were the goal, the best rule would be one that required mandatory reversal on appeal for any error, regardless of whether it was objected to, and no matter how small its possible effect on the judgment. That, of course, is not the way things work[6] nor is it the rule for which Brown is arguing.[7] Why don’t we structure the rules that way? For one, it is because reversals are costly.[8] Trials take time and impose significant burdens on victims and other witnesses; starting over from scratch may increase the risk of incorrect outcomes given that evidence may dissipate over time.
At the same time, not all trial court errors are created equal. The errors Brown is concerned with include trial court rulings or actions by a party opponent that conflict with governing law in some way. Some such errors—say, the trial court instructing the jury incorrectly on the reasonable-doubt standard[9] or perhaps the court denying the defendant the right to a jury trial altogether[10]—are quite troubling and seriously call the fairness and reliability of a trial into question. But other errors—such as a prosecutor inadvertently introducing a small piece of largely immaterial hearsay testimony during direct examination of a government witness—may be significantly less consequential. Indeed, it is important to stress that only some trial court errors (in the sense Brown is talking about, and which I will call “legal errors”) implicate the more important kind of error we are concerned with in criminal justice: what I will call “outcome errors,” such as when an innocent person (or, at least, a person who should have been acquitted had governing law been followed) is convicted. Although some legal errors have a strong tendency to produce outcome errors, many do not.
Given this calculus—reversals are always costly but errors are not necessarily so—we should not necessarily design the the adjudicative system to minimize legal errors vel non. Instead—and with apologies to Adrian Vermeule[11]—the goal should be to optimize, not minimize, legal errors. I do not think Brown would disagree with me on this point, but I emphasize it because at various points Brown uses language that suggests that error minimization should indeed be the goal of adjudicative rules.[12] In doing so, I wonder whether Brown is subtly substituting intuitions about outcome errors in a situation when we are really talking about legal errors. But more on this later.
The point of all this, for now, is simply to establish something that I think should not be terribly controversial: Brown’s rule has the potential to increase, perhaps significantly, the number of appellate reversals in criminal cases. If so, we would need to think hard about whether that is a price worth paying for a possible reduction in a number of legal errors experienced in the system. In the next Part, I will suggest how we might feel about that cost–benefit inquiry. Here, though, I would like to consider the possibility that Brown’s proposal represents a kind of free lunch. If he is right that the party benefiting from an error is the “least cost avoider,” then perhaps putting the burden to guard against error on that party will significantly deter legal errors without actually requiring any more reversals; the threat alone might be enough to change behavior and thus to produce benefits.
Perhaps, but I’m skeptical. Let’s consider how Brown thinks his rule will work. He argues that under the current regime, “forfeiture rules encourage parties to attempt rule violations in their own tactical actions.”[13] He contends that changing the burden would reduce this incentive by “encourag[ing] parties to use greater care to prevent their own errors (or judicial errors in their favor).”[14] At some level this has to be right; any rule that increases the perceived consequences for failing to prevent errors should have some effect on error-prevention behavior. But what would the likely magnitude of this change be?
There is some reason to suspect that it will not be significant. I think Brown is surely right that both sides have some incentive to introduce, or at least not studiously to prevent, errors at trial. Focusing just on the prosecution for the moment, a zealous prosecutor may try to push the envelope as much as she can in the hopes of getting a conviction. Certainly the pages of appellate reporters are full of many examples where a prosecutor benefited by convincing a trial court to accept a dubious legal argument.
But is Brown right that forfeiture rules play a significant role in this dynamic? I am not so sure. In most instances, a prosecutor must attempt to introduce a legal error before knowing whether the defense will object. That means that the prosecutor is taking the risk that (1) the other side will object and (2) that the trial court will overrule the objection, thus introducing possible grounds for appeal that could result in a victory being overturned on appeal. Yet prosecutors choose to take that gamble and introduce the error nonetheless. Why? Brown might argue that the forfeiture rule introduces some possibility that the error will be immunized from appeal, thus increasing the expected value of error-producing conduct.[15] And such a conscious cost–benefit calculation may well explain this dynamic in some number of situations.
But I think that in many cases, the explanation for the prosecutor’s behavior is simpler: the prosecutor does not believe she is introducing an error. Motivated reasoning and other cognitive biases are powerful forces,[16] and they can play a major role in shaping lawyers’ perceptions of what is the correct answer to a disputed legal question. As Christopher Schroeder puts it:
[A]ny lawyer who has litigated a case at some time has had an experience that speaks to the explanatory power of motivated reasoning. Lawyers are trained to advocate vigorously for their clients, a task that involves presenting the best legal arguments to advance their clients’ interests. Finding the best argument for a client does not mean, of course, that one has found the best argument in the case—the best argument of the other side might be better. This is not, however, how lawyers experience the process of analyzing facts, researching arguments, testing theories, and developing their eventual legal position. Because lawyers are motivated to find persuasive arguments to support their clients’ positions, the theory of motivated reasoning suggests that they will find arguments, evaluative techniques, and evidence that vindicate their clients’ positions to be the most persuasive.[17]
There is no reason to think prosecutors are immune from these forces. Indeed, there is a great deal of evidence that prosecutors suffer from significant cognitive biases that cause them to believe in the righteousness of their prosecutions even in the face of overwhelming evidence of a defendant’s innocence;[18] it is no large leap to think that a similar dynamic would apply to prosecutors’ evaluations of legal arguments.
This observation leads to my biggest objection to Brown’s view of prosecutors as the “least cost avoider” for errors at trial. In our adversarial system, the party harmed by a possible error will, in my view, always be better positioned to take note of the error precisely because that party is much more likely to perceive it as an error. Brown may be right that “the acting party likely would be more knowledgeable about the specifics of their tactics,”[19] but motivated reasoning may significantly undercut any knowledge advantage.
A further problem that I don’t think Brown sufficiently grapples with is the asymmetry of incentives created by the Double Jeopardy Clause. Because of that clause, an acquittal at trial will be final and unappealable—even if it was produced by a manifest legal error for which the defendant’s attorney strenuously argued, and even if the prosecution pointedly and persuasively objected to that error at trial. Thus, while both prosecutors and defense attorneys have some incentive to seek legal errors at trial in order to obtain trial victories, the defense’s incentives are unmitigated by any cross-cutting incentives created by the risk of reversal on appeal (other than the rare situations where the government can obtain an interlocutory appeal).
Defense lawyers thus must keep an eye out for the other side’s errors, but they need not care at all about their own. Prosecutors, by contrast, must pay careful attention to potential defense errors (since the defense need not care about them at all) but must also police their own errors to some degree, so as to make sure that any victory will not be subject to appellate reversal. Prosecutors, then, already have a greater responsibility for monitoring errors at trial as compared to the defense. Brown’s proposal would enhance that asymmetry further, giving prosecutors more to worry about and defense attorneys less reason to care about the other side’s errors (since any errors the defense misses will still be potential grounds for appeal later on).
It is possible that prosecutors would be better positioned to take account of trial errors relative to defense attorneys, notwithstanding the significantly greater burden that Brown’s rule would place on them. But that could be true only under certain assumptions. First, prosecutors on average could be more effective lawyers than defense attorneys, perhaps as a result of higher pay or other selection effects.[20] Brown, however, explicitly rejects this assumption.[21] Perhaps prosecutors, even if equally skilled, are better positioned to take note of errors because they have fewer demands on their time. And indeed, defense attorneys—at least those who provide defense for the indigent—often face crushing caseloads.[22] But whether a general workload disparity is sufficient to make prosecutors better positioned to keep track of errors during a criminal trial, when attorneys’ attention may be totally consumed by the trial, is at least highly uncertain. That is especially true once we factor in the asymmetrical incentives created by double-jeopardy protections, which mean we are starting from a baseline in which prosecutors already have to be more attentive to errors during trial than are defense attorneys.
For these reasons, it is hard for me to be confident that the prosecution really is the least cost avoider in the error-avoidance context. At the least, it is hard to confidently assert that prosecutors are going to be so much better at avoiding errors that Brown’s proposal will have no costs in terms of additional reversals. Brown’s proposal may be worth adopting even if it requires paying those costs, of course, and I do not take Brown as contending that his proposal will be perfectly reversal-neutral. But if the proposal will have costs, we must then squarely determine whether we think those costs are worth paying in light of the benefits of the proposal. It is to that inquiry that I now turn.
II. The Price of Reform
Let us assume that Brown’s proposal will entail some costs in terms of reversals of additional convictions—although we cannot know exactly how many. The reform will thus come at a price. Is it a price we should be comfortable paying? To answer this question, we need a better sense of what our goals are, or should be, when designing the rules of the adversarial criminal process.
Here is what Brown says: “[E]rrors in the adjudication process are no different from accidents in tort law. . . . The law of procedure, like tort law, is focused on minimizing the cost of errors (or, in tort terminology, accidents).”[23] This assumption is, in my view, critical to Brown’s argument. If we agree that the overriding purpose of procedure is to reduce error, then we may be comfortable purchasing a reduction in errors at the price of some number of additional reversals.
But is he right? Here, I think much turns on what we mean by “error.” Earlier, I distinguished between legal errors and outcome errors. I think we might well conclude that the goal of procedure is to minimize outcome errors: factually incorrect outcomes (an innocent person being convicted or a guilty person going free), or at least legally unjust results (such as someone being convicted when under governing law they should have been acquitted). But I do not think the goal is necessarily to minimize legal errors, at least across the board.
Let me use one of Brown’s own formulations to explain why. He says that “one of the core ambitions for any public litigation system” is “minimizing inaccurate or unfair judgments that are the products of rule-violating procedures.”[24] I don’t disagree with this formulation, but it requires us to determine which rule violations actually create “inaccurate or unfair” results. Brown’s analysis treats all errors similarly, but I am not sure all are created equal. When we consider some kinds of criminal-procedure rights that are enforced at trial, we will find that some of them might present a lower risk of leading to “inaccurate or unfair” results than others, at least when applied to situations where a defendant made no objection at trial. Much depends, I think, on how exactly we conceptualize the right in question.
Consider the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause, which provides that “[i]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right . . . to be confronted with the witnesses against him.”[25] In some instances—such as in a trial that motivated the rule in which Sir Walter Raleigh was condemned on the basis of questionable ex parte accusation that Raleigh was not able to cross-examine[26]—the confrontation right may guard against false convictions. But in other cases, the rule operates to keep highly probative evidence away from the jury simply because the declarant is unavailable. In Crawford v. Washington, for example, the rule barred the government from introducing statements by the defendant’s wife that cast doubt on the defendant’s claim of self-defense—not because the government refused to call her as a witness but because the defendant barred her from testifying under the state’s marital privilege evidentiary rule.[27] Had Crawford’s attorney not thought to invoke the Confrontation Clause, would we think there was any inaccuracy or unfairness in the resulting conviction, simply because there was a potential procedural argument that the defendant did not think to invoke?
How much unfairness is involved turns, I think, on how we think of the confrontation rule. It is partly about giving the defendant a certain satisfaction in getting to face his accusers before being condemned, and avoiding the outrage one might feel at being denied that privilege (as Raleigh was[28]). If one accepts that conception, however, one might not feel there is any great unfairness involved when a defendant does not even ask to confront his accusers. Put another way, whether the defendant invokes the right at trial might tell us a great deal about how much unfairness is actually resulting from the error. Indeed, some might even conclude that it is a good thing when a defendant does not seek to confront her accusers in this situation, since that failure might lead the finder of fact to make a more accurate judgment.
Consider another example. The Sixth Amendment also guarantees that “the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy . . . trial.”[29] In Barker v. Wingo,[30] the Supreme Court concluded that whether the defendant asserted her right to a speedy trial would be “entitled to strong evidentiary weight in determining whether the defendant is being deprived of the right.”[31] Although the Court rejected a rule that would always require the defendant’s assertion of the right, it concluded that “failure to assert the right will make it difficult for a defendant to prove that he was denied a speedy trial.”[32] The Court so concluded because it recognized that in some instances, defendants might not want speedy trials for strategic reasons,[33] and also that the defendant’s contemporaneous assertion of her rights would provide significant information about whether the defendant was actually being harmed by the deprivation of the right.[34] Again, the defendant’s assertion of her rights is key to helping us figure out whether the result below was indeed unfair, and thus whether reversal seems justified.[35]
One need not totally agree with my conclusions about these examples to accept the larger point that they are meant to illustrate: not all legal errors are created equal. Some legal errors do create a significant risk of an erroneous, or at least unfair, outcome. But others do not. Some number of putative “errors” may be thought of simply as situations where the defendant was given a certain legal entitlement that she could have, but chose not to, exercise. Even if a trial court’s admission of unconfronted testimonial hearsay without objection is technically an “error,” the mere fact that a defendant could have, but not did not seek to, confront an accuser at trial does not mean that we should conclude the result is erroneous or unjust. The goal of the design of adjudicative rules may be to prevent errors defined unfair or erroneous outcomes, but that is not the same thing as concluding that adjudicative rules should be designed to minimize or prevent “errors” defined as all instances where a defendant failed to exercise some legal right she conceivably could have exercised at trial.
What I am left with, then, is the conclusion that the procedural rules should not necessarily care about providing remedies for every error that passes without objection in the trial court. Instead, perhaps, the right approach is for appellate courts to provide relief only for those forfeited errors that create a meaningful risk of erroneous or unjust outcomes. What this regime sounds very much like, of course, is the status quo. Under existing law, appellate courts may notice a “plain error” that was not objected to at trial—but only if it “affects substantial rights”[36] and also “seriously affect[s] the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings,”[37] a category that includes, but is explicitly not limited to, convictions of actually innocent defendants.[38] That is, the law allows courts to ignore a defendant’s failure to object to a legal error in precisely those circumstances where we think that error contributed to an outcome error.
For these reasons, assuming that Brown—as the party seeking to change the status quo—bears the burden of proof, I am not yet ready to conclude that he has discharged his burden by convincing me that we should be willing to accept some significant number of additional reversals in order to prevent some number of legal errors in criminal trials. Nonetheless, his analysis contains a great number of insights, and they provide grounds for at least some modest reforms of existing procedural rules, a point to which I now turn.
Conclusion: Toward Modest Reforms
Even if I am not ready to adopt Brown’s reforms wholesale, his insights have persuaded me that certain more modest reforms are advisable. First, I found particularly important and valuable Brown’s observation that “because they apply to bilateral activity, forfeiture rules create incentives for both parties, and those incentives conflict.”[39] As Brown ably explains, prior evaluation of forfeiture rules have inappropriately focused only on one side of the adversarial process, and any accounting of the desirability of the rule needs to consider the possible incentives for both sides of any potential rule. Moreover, any reforms that reduce the incentive of one side to introduce errors are worth considering.
Here is one potential reform that could do that: rules could somewhat relax the demanding plain-error standard for situations where the error represented a prosecutor’s potentially deliberate attempt to introduce an error. Rules could provide that if an appellate court determines that (1) a forfeited error was plain at the time of trial (and thus should have been plain to the prosecutor) and (2) the error was largely caused by the prosecutor (rather than by the trial court erring on its own initiative[40]), a less onerous plain error test would govern. By providing a greater likelihood of appellate review, such a rule change might discourage prosecutors from seeking to introduce obvious errors in the hopes that the other side would fail to object. Like Brown’s proposal, it would mean that the government would “lose[] immunity from appellate review for errors it caused.”[41]
In addition, Brown’s insights about the incentives to introduce error extend beyond the context of forfeited errors. In some instances, defendants will object to errors that prosecutors introduce, but they will not be able to persuade the trial court. In this domain of preserved error, Brown’s analysis helps us realize how the law could do more to penalize prosecutors for leading the trial court astray.
Consider one simple change: what if every time the defendant objected to a prosecutor’s tactics, the rules required the prosecutor to explain on the record, while responding to the objection, the effect his tactics would likely have on the jury? Such a change might put the prosecutor in a difficult position. If she says that the tactic should have no effect on the jury whatsoever, the trial court might conclude that there is no harm to the prosecutor in sustaining the defendant’s objection. If, though, the prosecutor acknowledges how the tactic is designed to persuade the jury, it may be harder for the government to argue later that the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, as the government would normally be expected to do if the defendant is convicted and then appeals.
I do not know for certain whether these reforms are worth adopting, though I suspect they are. What I do know is that they, like Brown’s more ambitious proposal, merit consideration. Whether or not Brown has met his burden of persuasion in convincing us to go ahead and adopt his reforms, he has certainly convinced me—and, I hope, others—that we need to think much more deeply about the incentives and effects of our rules about forfeiture and issue preservation. Here, as with far too many of our other procedural practices in criminal justice, adherence to longstanding practices and pithy, oft-repeated slogans appear to substitute for meaningful justification for the status quo. By showing us the need to rethink our settled practices in this area, Brown’s article is an important step in the right direction.
.John H. Langbein, The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial 9 (2003). ↑
.See generally Darryl K. Brown, Does It Matter Who Objects? Rethinking the Burden to Prevent Errors in Criminal Process, 98 Texas L. Rev. 625 (2020). ↑
.See generally Daniel Epps, Harmless Errors and Substantial Rights, 131 Harv. L. Rev. 2117 (2018); Daniel Epps, One Last Word on the Blackstone Principle, 102 Va. L. Rev. Online 34 (2016); Daniel Epps, The Consequences of Error in Criminal Justice, 128 Harv. L. Rev. 1065 (2015); Daniel Epps, The Right Approach to Harmless Error, 120 Colum. L. Rev. F. 1 (2020). ↑
.Brown, supra note 2, at 632. ↑
.Id. at 631 (footnote omitted). ↑
.See, e.g., Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(a); Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18, 22 (1967); see generally Epps, Harmless Errors and Substantial Rights, supra note 3. ↑
.See Brown, supra note 2, at 658–59 (arguing that “the harmless error standard . . . reinforces the right incentives for litigants for error prevention in the trial stage” (footnote omitted)). ↑
.The Supreme Court explained the “substantial social costs” of reversal of a criminal conviction in United States v. Mechanik, 475 U.S. 66 (1986):
[I]t forces jurors, witnesses, courts, the prosecution, and the defendants to expend further time, energy, and other resources to repeat a trial that has already once taken place; victims may be asked to relive their disturbing experiences . . . . Thus, while reversal “may, in theory, entitle the defendant only to retrial, in practice it may reward the accused with complete freedom from prosecution,” and thereby “cost society the right to punish admitted offenders.” Even if a defendant is convicted in a second trial, the intervening delay may compromise society’s “interest in the prompt administration of justice,” and impede accomplishment of the objectives of deterrence and rehabilitation.
Id. at 72 (citations omitted). ↑
.See, e.g., Sullivan v. Louisiana, 508 U.S. 275, 277 (1993). ↑
.See, e.g., Duncan v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145, 146 (1968). ↑
.See, e.g., Adrian Vermeule, Optimal Abuse of Power, 109 N.W. U. L. Rev. 673, 676 (2015) (arguing that abuse of power should not be “minimized, but rather optimized”). ↑
.E.g., Brown, supra note 2, at 645 (“[P]rocedural law seeks to minimize these errors . . . .”). ↑
.Id. at 644 (emphasis omitted). ↑
.Brown argues that a prosecutor who has chosen to introduce an error “faces one of two outcomes: either the defense will object, in which case the prosecutor will have to play by the rules, or the defense won’t object, in which case the prosecutor gains whatever advantage the rule-violating tactic provides because the error is immune to appellate review (or at worst faces review under the highly favorable plain error standard).” Id. at 645. Yet this analysis ignores the possibility, discussed above, that the district court will agree with the prosecutor even in the face of an objection. ↑
.For a fascinating discussion of the problem of motivated reasoning in the legal context, see Dan M. Kahan, Foreword: Neutral Principles, Motivated Cognition, and Some Problems for Constitutional Law, 125 Harv. L. Rev. 1, 26 (2011). ↑
.Christopher H. Schroeder, Causes of the Recent Turn in Constitutional Interpretation, 51 Duke L.J. 307, 356–57 (2001). ↑
.See, e.g., Barry C. Scheck, Conviction Integrity Units Revisited, 14 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 705, 715–17 & nn.37–44 (2017). ↑
.For an account of this disparity, see Bryan Furst, Brennan Ctr. for Justice, A Fair Fight: Achieving Indigent Defense Resource Parity 8–9 (2019), https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/publications/2019_09_Defender%20Parity%20AnalysisV7.pdf [https://perma.cc/27NF-6KS8]. Senator Kamala Harris recently introduced legislation aimed at eliminating this compensation gap. See Jacqueline Alemany, Power Up: Kamala Harris, Seeking to Change Her Narrative, Proposes Relief for Public Defenders, Wash. Post (May 8, 2019), https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/powerup/2019/05/08/powerup-kamala-harris-seeking-to-change-her-narrative-proposes-relief-for-public-defenders/5cd1bf0d1ad2e506550b2f97/ [https://perma.cc/3SSN-CDXX]. ↑
.See Brown, supra note 2, at 648 (“On average, the parties should have lawyers who are equally skilled in recognizing rule violations.”). ↑
.See, e.g., Furst, supra note 20, at 7–8. ↑
.U.S. Const. amend. VI. ↑
.See Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36, 44 (2004) (discussing Raleigh’s trial). ↑
.See id. at 44 (“Suspecting that Cobham would recant, Raleigh demanded that the judges call him to appear . . . .”). ↑
.407 U.S. 514 (1972). ↑
.See id. at 521. ↑
.See id. at 531–32. ↑
.In the speedy trial context, reversal means that the charges against the defendant must be dismissed with prejudice. See Strunk v. United States, 412 U.S. 434, 439–40 (1973). ↑
.Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b). ↑
.United States v. Olano, 507 U.S. 725, 736 (1993) (quoting United States v. Atkinson, 297 U.S. 157, 160 (1936)) (alteration in original). ↑
.See id. at 736–37 (“An error may ‘seriously affect the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings’ independent of the defendant’s innocence.”). ↑
.Brown, supra note 2, at 643 (emphasis omitted). ↑
.While Brown’s rule would apply to errors introduced by a judge, I am less confident that this is desirable, given that courts—unlike prosecutors—lack the incentive to introduce errors that Brown identifies. ↑
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Back when I was teaching at Bard College, I used to drop by the writers colony at Ledig House from time to time because there were often German writers in residence. I wound up translating poetry by Matthias Göritz after hearing him read his work there. Writers Omi also has a long history of offering residencies to literary translators, and now they are announcing a very special program for Fall 2012 that will allow translators and their authors to spend a week working together in the beautiful Hudson Valley countryside. Translation Lab – as the program is called – will be held between Nov. 9 – 16, 2012. This special residency comes with a full fellowship that includes international airfare and local transport from New York City to the Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, NY.
Here’s the scoop:
Writers Omi will host five English language translators to the Omi International Arts Center for one week. These translators will be invited along with the writers whose work is being translated. This focused residency will provide an integral stage of refinement, allowing translators to dialogue with the writers about text-specific questions. It will also serve as an essential community-builder for English-language translators who are working to increase the amount of international literature available to American readers.
Writers Omi will be accepting proposals for participation until July 1, 2012. Translators, writers, editors, or agents can submit proposals. Each proposal should be no more than three pages in length and provide the following information:
➢ Brief biographical sketches for the translator and writer associated with each project
➢ Publishing status for proposed projects (projects that do not yet have a publisher are still eligible)
➢ A description of the proposed project
➢ Contact information (physical address, email, and phone)
Proposals should be submitted only once availability for residency participation of the translator and writer has been confirmed. All proposals and inquiries should be sent directly to DW Gibson, director of Writers Omi at Ledig House.
Keep an eye on the Omi International Arts Center website for further details.
Photo: Robert Melee on the grounds of Ledig House with his sculpture It Up (Bronze, 2008)
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Did you know that the word “chapbook” derives from the “chapmen” (merchants – it’s a cognate with the German word Kaufman) who in days of yore peddled pamphlets containing popular ballads, religious tracts and the like to literate villagers? Nowadays these little books play a very different role: they making it easier (read: cheaper) to bring together writers and readers of particularly challenging work – poetry mostly, in its many forms. And of course the next logical step in the evolution of the chapbook is adding translation into the mix. What better way to introduce a foreign- language author to an English-reading pubilc than through a brief, handsome best-of? Many of our classiest smaller presses have been producing gorgeously designed chapbooks of translated work (like this one), and now for the first time the yearly festival that celebrates the work of these presses is celebrating translation as well, with a panel discussion this coming Thursday, March 29, entitled “State of Translation: Trends in Innovative Publishing,” to be held in the Martin E. Segal Theater at the CUNY Graduate Center. I’ll be on the panel, as will an illustrious cast of characters including, alphabetically: Ammiel Alcalay, Esther Allen, Ivan Herceg, Anna Moschovakis, Damir Šodan, and Eliot Weinberger. The Graduate Center’s Ana Božičević, herself a poet and translator, will moderate. If I weren’t on the panel, I’d be in the audience; come watch me try to be both places at once!
You’ll also want to check out the book exhibits. The Chapbook Festival (now in its fourth year) always includes a book fair, at which some of the most beautiful little books you could ever hope to see – many hand-printed and hand-bound – are on display. That show alone is worth the price of admission. (Actually the whole thing is free.) The festival will be taking place this Wednesday through Friday (March 28 – 30) at the Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th St., and other nearby locations. Click here for the complete program.
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Goodness knows there are more chapbook contests out there than you can shake several sticks at. But how many of these contests welcome works of translation as well as work in other genres? Anomalous Press has just announced such a one, and you can apply for it until May 15 for a $15 fee. The work selected will be published in a paper edition (possibly letterpress) as well as online, and will receive a $500 prize.
I asked Erica Mena of Anomalous to comment on the goals of the project. Here’s her response:
Part of starting Anomalous Press was to eventually provide a home, in chapbook form, for literary works that fall outside of the norm. The kinds of things that most contests specifically exclude: translations, collaborative, and hybrid works for example. We were encouraged by the launch of the journal Telephone, by the appearance of several amazing works of innovative translation last year (false friends; engulf — enkindle), and by the enthusiasm of our judge for the translation category, Christian Hawkey. We are creating both a contest and a context. A context in which the creative visibility of the translator is brought into focus.
For more information, visit the Anomalous Press website, where you can also read and download various issues of the journal that have been published since its launch in May 2011.
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The HotINK Festival – which brings 10 international playwrights and their plays to New York each spring, presenting them in English translation – has been around for a good decade now. At first it was located at NYU, but then NYU decided to slash the program’s budget, so now it’s at the Lark Theater/Play Development Center, a venue that provides excellent support to local playwrights as well, as I know from following the work of Chiori Miyagawa and Gary Winter. This year’s festival is scheduled for March 22 – March 26.
Over the years, the festival has brought us plays from 50 different countries. This year’s offerings include works from Scotland, Ireland, Latvia, Israel/Palestine, Canada, Bulgaria, Belarus, Singapore, and Cyprus. Each is assigned to a team of actors and a director who prepare a professional-quality reading that is then presented exactly once in the course of the festival. Most of these readings are followed by a brief moderated conversation with the playwright, and sometimes the translator as well. This year I will be moderating one of these discussions, with Cypriot playwright Giorgos Neophytou, following the presentation of his play DNA at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 24.
This year the festival has begun a new partnership with the Translation Committee of the PEN American Center to draw public attention to the crucial contribution translators make in the presentation of international theater. The Translation Committee’s own Cobina Gillitt, who recently blogged about the festival for the PEN website and is herself a translator from the Indonesian specializing in theater, has organized and will moderate a panel discussion featuring playwright Aleksey Scherbak (Latvia); John J. Hanlon, the translator of Mr. Scherbak’s play Colonel Pilate; translator and author Judith Miller; and translator Laurent Muhlheisen. The panel will be held at 5:00 p.m. on March 24.
The Lark Play Development Center is located at 311 West 43rd Street, 4th and 5th Floors. For the complete schedule of the festival click here. All programs are free and open to the public, but note that reservations are required – and some shows are beginning to sell out, so if you’d like to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to check out theater from around the world, I suggest you reserve your seats soonest.
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It’s traditional for every visiting faculty member in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College to organize some sort of major project during her year on campus, and for mine I decided to put together a symposium along with some of my colleagues in the program. We picked the literature of the Middle East as a topic because we wanted to tie in with the college-wide “Year of Turkey” theme (there’s a different national focus on campus every year), but we also wanted our topic to be broad enough to appeal to a wider audience. Then it turned out that Archipelago Books was interested in collaborating with us, and that Lebanese star author Elias Khoury, who is published in English by Archipelago, was now teaching at NYU – and then all the cards began rapidly falling into place. We invited Sinan Antoon, an Iraqi-born novelist and poet who also happens to teach at NYU and translates the work of the great Palestinian writer Mahmoud Darwish, who until his death in 2008 was a frequent collaborator of Khoury’s. We decided to spend a chunk of our budget flying in Aron Aji, who won the 2004 National Translation Award for his translation, from the Turkish, of Bilge Karasu’s Garden of Departed Cats. We invited Barbara Harshav, a distinguished translator from the Hebrew who just stepped down as President of the American Literary Translators Association and teaches at Yale. We invited some favorite local colleagues: poet and translator (from the Turkish) Murat Nemet-Nejat, and translator (from the Persian) and editor Sara Khalili; CUNY colleague Ammiel Alcalay, a poet and scholar who translates from the Bosnian and Hebrew; and two distinguished editors of translations, Edwin Frank of New York Review Books Classics and Jill Schoolman of Archipelago. In all, we will be featuring writers and translators working in the literatures of Turkey, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Palestine and Israel.
The symposium will begin with a reading by graduate students and culminate with a keynote address by Elias Khoury. I just finished reading Khoury’s enormous novel Gate of the Sun, and am still reeling. What a masterful book. In these 550 pages, Khoury relates the story of the Palestinian struggle, but the novel is anything but a history book, even though it contains a huge amount of history. Khoury weaves a complex web of interconnected stories ostensibly being told by a generally somewhat befuddled doctor-who-isn’t-really-a-doctor at the bedside of a hero of the Palestinian resistance, who is now old and in a coma after having had a stroke. Telling story after story in the hope of effecting a “talking cure,” our almost-doctor patches together a portrait of a people and their homeland that is constructed of fragments, rumors and legends. The book is set in a very specific historical milieu, and filled with the sights, sounds and smells of Galilee, but at the same time there is something about the writing that transcends time and place; parts of it, in Humphrey Davies’s translation, read like snippets of fairytale, and yet there is nothing coy, fanciful or twee about a single sentence anywhere in the book. Khoury has a sharp imagination and vision of the world, and he manages to portray the beauty of a lost Palestine (the olive trees, the worms in the ice atop Mount Meron) without succumbing to cliches of nostalgic mournfulness. His characters mourn their homeland matter-of-factly.
Khoury has written over a dozen other books besides this one, and several of them exist in English translation. I look forward to reading them and to hearing him speak about his work at our symposium, which will be held on Wednesday, March 28. I am posting the schedule below. The full program and notes on the participants can be found on the blog of the Queens College MFA Program’s website.
Interwoven Worlds: A Symposium Celebrating the Literature of the Middle East
(All panels prior to 6:30pm keynote address located in
President’s Conference Room #2)
Reading by MFA Students, introduced by Nicole Cooley
12:00 p.m. – l:00 p.m.
Workshop: Editing Translations, introduced by Susan Bernofsky
Jill Schoolman (Archipelago Books)
Edwin Frank (New York Review Books Classics)
The Politics of Translation – On Navigating Cultural (Mis)understandings
Aron Aji (Turkish)
Sara Khalili (Persian)
Barbara Harshav (Hebrew)
Roger Sedarat, moderator
The Writer as Translator – Multilingual Writer/Translators on Cross-Pollinations in Their Work
Sinan Antoon (Arabic/Iraq)
Murat Nemet-Nejat (Turkish)
Ammiel Alcalay (Hebrew)
Susan Bernofsky, moderator
Rosenthal Library 230 (2nd floor auditorium)
Keynote Presentation: Elias Khoury (Arabic/Lebanon): A Writer’s Journey
To be followed by light reception and book signing.
And here’s how to get here:
Queens College is located at 65-30 Kissena Blvd. in Queens, and is best reached by taking the E/F trains to Forest Hills (exit near the center of the platform) and transferring to bus Q64, which picks up right in front of the subway exit. This bus stops at Kissena Blvd.; cross the street and walk two blocks down Kissena to the main gate of the college. The trip from midtown Manhattan takes around an hour. All events will be held in Rosenthal Library on the main quadrangle (easy to find because it has a very large clock tower attached to it).
I hope you’ll join us for some or all of these events.
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Readers of this blog know all about the Bridge Series, which presents readings and conversations with outstanding literary translators to audiences in the NYC area. This month’s Bridge features two outstanding translators from the Japanese, Ted Goossen (you may know him as the English- language voice of Haruki Murakami) and Michael Emmerich (ditto for Banana Yoshimoto), but both of them have translated a large range of authors from the contemporary to classics of Japanese literature (Mishima for Goossen, Kawabata for Emmerich) and are highly knowledgable in the field. Both of them will also be featured in a new anthology (In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means) that Esther Allen and I have co-edited for Columbia University Press; it’ll be coming out in 2013 and, yes, we’ll be throwing a big party when the time comes. Meanwhile, why not celebrate in advance by coming to hear Goossen and Emmerich strut their stuff? It’s pretty much guaranteed to be a stunning evening. Monday, March 19, 7:00 p.m., at McNally Jackson Books at 52 Prince Street in Soho.
Oh, and speaking of celebrations: The Bridge is now one year old. Happy birthday Bridge!
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Last year, I reported on the trial of Turkish publisher İrfan Sancı and translator Süha Sertabiboğlu for their January 2011 publication of William S. Burroughs’s 1961 novel The Soft Machine (Yumuşak Makine), which received international notice, including in The Guardian, which both reported on the trial and published an editorial by Elif Shafak. After various postponements, the trial is set to continue tomorrow, March 13, 2012, at 9:30 a.m. at the courthouse Çağlayan Adliyesi 2. The publisher (Hasan Basri Çiplak of Ayrinti Publishing) and translator (Funda Uncu) of Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk are also set to appear in court on similar charges. If convicted, all parties face prison terms of six months to three years under Turkish law.
The International Publishers Association issued a statement last October calling for all charges to be dropped, as did PEN International. Nonetheless, oppressive legal action against these publishing professionals continues.
To protest the trial, write to:
Mr Sadullah Ergin
06669 Kizilay
Fax: 00 90 312 419 3370
You may also contact Turkish Ambassador Namık Tan:
Turkish Embassy
2525 Massachusetts Avenue,
N.W Washington, D.C. 20008
Telephone:+1 202 612 67 00
Fax:+1 202 612 67 44
P.S. When I called the Ambassador’s office just now I was instructed to send an e-mail to ambassador@turkishembassy.org.
Update March 14: One of the expert witnesses failed to submit a report, so the trial has been postponed until May 8, 2012. That gives you more time to send letters of protest.
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Antietam Field Guide
The Antietam Field Guide includes 2 components:
Battlefield driving tour (audio CD + mobile version)
Illustrated guidebook (Paperback, 78 pages)
FAQ: What is the difference between the Antietam Field Guide and Expedition Guide?
The Expedition Guide and Field Guide contain the same audio tour and book pages. However, the Expedition Guide is a hardcover book and also includes a multimedia computer CD-ROM. The Field Guide is a paperback book and does not include the multimedia computer CD-ROM.
The Battlefield Tour
This is the official audio tour of the Antietam National Battlefield Park. Explore at your own pace, using either the two audio CDs included in the book, or you can download the tour to your smartphone and explore the battlefield with the additional features found in the mobile version of the tour (available for iPhone and Android ). When you purchase the Antietam Expedition Guide, you also get access to the virtual tour version of the tour.
Illustrated Guidebook
The illustrated guidebook complements the audio tour, helping you to visualize the battlefield as it appeared in 1862. It also includes a bonus section on the campaign leading up to the battle, helping you follow Lee's army as it marched through Maryland. Packed with information about Civil War tactics, weaponry, and trivia, the book is a keepsake that will be used many times after you return home.
Photo Scavenger Hunt
Download the Antietam photo scavenger hunt album and fill it in with your family photos that tell your Antietam battlefield journey.
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Activists of Color Lead Charge Against Surveillance, NSA
Rania Khalek,
Protesters march against NSA mass surveillance in Washington, DC, on Saturday, October 26, 2013. (Photo: Rania Khalek)
“We been exposed to this type of surveillance since we got here,” declared Kymone Freeman, director of the National Black LUV Fest as he emceed the historic rally against NSA surveillance in Washington, DC. He continued, “Drones is a form of surveillance. Racial profiling is a form of surveillance. Stop-and-frisk is a form of surveillance. We all black today!”
This was the mood that characterized the atmosphere of the Stop Watching Us rally on October 26, 2013, organized by broad coalition of more than 100 public advocacy groups from across the political spectrum, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundations and Color of Change, and attended by thousands. The purpose of the rally, which began as a march from Union Station to the reflecting pool outside Capitol Hill, was to deliver a petition to Congress demanding an end to NSA mass spying.
A White-Centric Movement? Not Even Close
Attendees of Stop Watching Us rally hold up “Thank You Edward Snowden” sign. (Photo: Rania Khalek).Throughout the day, Freeman’s voice could be heard praising whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning or reminding the crowd of the racial significance of surveillance history. As a result, the intersection of surveillance and race remained at the forefront of the day’s event, which the crowd happily welcomed with applause. Yet somehow this was lost on most journalists in attendance.
Despite the crowd’s diversity and repeated acknowledgements of America’s sordid history of aggressive spying on communities of color, the few outlets to cover the rally portrayed it and the movement against NSA surveillance as one dominated almost exclusively by privileged white people.
USA Today managed to interview white men only and failed to quote a single speaker of color. Neither the Huffington Post nor The Guardian fared any better. To be fair, big-name speakers, such as Jesselyn Radack, director of the Government Accountability Project, and Thomas Drake, former NSA senior executive turned whistleblower, were featured prominently in news reports most likely because they are well-known. But that still doesn’t explain why almost all the attendees interviewed were white when the crowd was far from homogenous.
Not a single media outlet bothered to mention the moving and powerful performance of Malachi “Malpractice” Byrd, a member of the DC Youth Poetry Slam Team whose piece began, “I pledge civil disobedience to the flag of the hypocritical tyrants that expect us to assimilate and to the republic, which somehow stands, as one nation, under many gods, of individuals stripped of their liberties and in need of justice for all.”
But it was Slate political reporter Dave Weigel who seemed to have attended a different rally altogether. “Among the attendees: More than a few Tea Partiers and young, small-l libertarians, possibly equaling those who could be put on the left,” Weigel reported.
While there’s certainly nothing wrong with recognizing the presence of right-leaning civil libertarians who value privacy, this portrayal is inaccurate and ignores the voices of those who suffer the most from the NSA dragnet.
Surveillance State Was Built on Targeting Communities of Color
Two days prior to the Stop Watching Us rally, Busboys & Poets, a progressive DC restaurant, hosted “Enemies of the State? Government Surveillance of Communities of Color,” a panel discussion organized by Free Press, the Center for Media Justice and Voices for Internet Freedom. The room was packed mostly with activists of color concerned about the implications of NSA surveillance on already-marginalized and increasingly surveilled communities.
Enemy of the state panel from left to right: Fahd Ahmed, Adwoa Masozi, Alfredo Lopez, Seema Sadanandan, Dhoruba Bin-Wahad, Jared Ball. The panel took place at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC, on October 24, 2013. (Photo: Rania Khalek)
Steven Renderos, national organizer for the Center for Media Justice, who helped put together the panel, told Truthout that examining the legacy of surveillance in communities of color could help lead to solutions. “It’s critical to understand the history so we can learn how to dismantle it,” Renderos said.
“Those of us from marginalized communities grew up in environments very much shaped by surveillance, which has been utilized to ramp up the criminal justice system and increase deportations,” Renderos said. “It’s having real consequences in our communities where children are growing up without parents in the home and families are being torn apart through raids and deportations, a lot of which is facilitated through the use of surveillance.”
Panelist Fahd Ahmed, legal and policy director for the South Asian-led social justice organization Desis Rising Up and Moving, argued that mass surveillance is the predictable outgrowth of programs that have targeted marginalized communities for decades.
“Just by the very nature of [the United States] being a settler-colonialist and capitalist nation, race and social control are central to its project,” Ahmed said. “Anytime we see any levels of policing – whether it’s day-to-day policing in the streets, surveillance by the police or internet surveillance – social control, particularly of those that resist the existing system, becomes an inherent part of that system.”
But, he warned, “These policies are not going to be limited to one particular community. They’re going to continue to expand further and further” because “the surveillance has a purpose, which is to exert the power of the state and control the potential for dissent.”
Seema Sadanandan, program director for ACLU DC, acknowledged the collective resentment felt by people of color who are understandably frustrated that privacy violations are only now eliciting mass public outrage when communities of color have been under aggressive surveillance for decades.
“The Snowden revelations represent a terrifying moment for white, middle-class and upper-middle-class people in this country, who on some level believe that the Bill of Rights and Constitution were protecting their everyday lives,” Sadanandan said. “For people of color from communities with a history of discrimination and economic oppression that prevents one from realizing any of those rights on a day-to-day basis, it wasn’t a huge surprise.”
But Sadanandan argued that NSA surveillance still “has particular concerns for communities of color because of their unique relationship to the criminal justice or social control system, a billion-dollar industry with regard to, for example, border patrol or data mining as it’s applied to racially profile.” Sadanandan warned that NSA surveillance more than likely would strengthen that system of control.
Former political prisoner and Black Panther Party leader Dhoruba Bin-Wahad declared that “the United States has moved into a full garrison police state,” which “has been exported and institutionalized all over the globe.” His antidote? “We have to put together an international movement to check the development evolution of the modern national security state,” which requires linking globalized labor exploitation to the prison industry to the war on terror to institutionalized white supremacy rooted in the “European-settler state.” Bin-Wahad was skeptical about the ability of “legal” remedies to reform the system. “You cannot make the police state better. You cannot reform white supremacy. We need to abolish the system as it now stands,” Bin-Wahad said.
Disappointed With Obama
Bin-Wahad’s most scathing indictment was of African-Americans in positions of power. He referred to Barack Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus as “black enemies of black people” for sanctioning drone strikes and NSA spying” and called Obama “the worst thing to happen to black people since Reconstruction.”
At the rally, Steve, who traveled from Philadelphia and declined to give a last name, said that growing up as a black man in South Africa instilled in him a desire to speak out against rights abuses. “I feel sensitive when I see here in America people having their rights infringed upon,” he told Truthout. “The US government must act consistently with what it preaches around the world. They can’t preach to the world about human rights if they’re not providing them to the people over here.”
Anthony Wilson, who traveled by bus from Philadelphia with the software company ThoughtWorks, told Truthout at the rally that despite being an enthusiastic Obama voter, he is disappointed in the president. “I believed that when Obama was elected things would be more open, but to my surprise it went in the other direction.” Wilson also expressed frustration with his own community, saying, “A lot of black people give Obama a pass.” “When I voted for him, I thought I was voting for a Martin Luther King or a Malcolm X. But he is not progressive enough. He has no intention of changing anything. And if he hasn’t done it by now, then he never will.”
Renderos expressed similar sentiments. “A lot of communities of color are deferring to the president with very blanketed support for his policies.”
Demonstrators rally against mass surveillance outside Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on Saturday, October 26. (Photo: Rania Khalek).
Renderos said organizing and educating can help combat this. “When the framing around surveillance is posited around the first and fourth amendment, that’s unfortunately a reality that doesn’t necessarily resonate with communities of color. The fourth amendment has been eroded through programs like stop-and-frisk and Secure Communities,” he said. “We need to build a consensus around the increase in deportations and the jail population by communities of color and how this is intrinsically connected with the increase of a surveillance state here in the US.”
Learning From History
Ignoring activists of color does more than just rob marginalized communities of having a voice in the NSA surveillance conversation. It also overlooks potential strategies for fighting it.
Renderos put it best: “We need to learn from history about how movements like the Black Panther Party, American Indian Movement and the Brown Berets responded to living under a surveillance state.”
Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is an independent journalist reporting on the underclass and marginalized. In addition to her work for Truthout, she’s written for Extra, The Nation, Al Jazeera America, the Electronic Intifada and more. For more of her work, check out her website Dispatches from the Underclass and follow her on Twitter @RaniaKhalek.
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The R&A AND USGA WORK WITH HANDICAP AUTHORITIES TO DEVELOP A SINGLE WORLD HANDICAP SYSTEM
The USGA and The R&A are working with golf’s handicapping authorities to develop a single World Handicap System for the sport.
More than 15 million golfers in over 80 countries presently have a handicap, a numerical index long used as a reference to gauge a golfer’s potential skill level. Handicaps are currently delivered through six different systems around the world.
The aim of the proposed handicap system is to adopt a universal set of principles and procedures that will apply all over the world.
An extensive review of existing handicap systems administered by Golf Australia, the Council of National Golf Unions (CONGU) in Great Britain and Ireland, the European Golf Association (EGA), the South African Golf Association (SAGA), the Argentine Golf Association (AAG) and the United States Golf Association (USGA) has been undertaken.
Golf organisations from different parts of the world have also been engaged with the current handicap authorities for the past two years to help shape the proposed system, which takes into account the many different golf cultures and most common formats of play. Research conducted to date has also reviewed systems and best practices inherent to handicapping, such as course rating and administration.
A joint committee led by the USGA and The R&A has been formed, including representatives from each handicap authority as well as the Japan Golf Association and Golf Canada. The joint committee plans to announce its proposals later this year.
Martin Slumbers, Chief Executive of The R&A, said, “We have been concerned for some time that many golfers find the handicapping landscape to be complicated and can be frustrated when it is not always applied in the same way in different parts of the world.
“We are working closely with the existing handicapping bodies to benefit from their insights as we try to formulate a system that will be easy to understand and can be applied consistently on a global basis. We very much appreciate their support for this initiative.”
Mike Davis, Executive Director and CEO of the USGA, said: “One wonderful aspect of golf that separates it from other sports is the ability of players of differing abilities to play on an equitable basis through handicapping.
“With one global system, golf courses will be rated and handicaps calculated in a like manner everywhere in the world. Reducing borders or barriers to provide an easy way for all to play together is great for the game and golfers everywhere.”
Key quotes:
John Hopkins (Chairman, Golf Australia) said “Golf Australia believes that significant benefits will flow to players around the world by having a global handicap platform. We are already very encouraged by how the World Handicap System is coming together.”
Bob Carrick (Acting Chairman of CONGU) said, ““The Council of National Golf Unions (CONGU) welcomes the R&A / USGA’s initiative to develop a single Worldwide Handicapping System for the sport. We think that this is an exciting opportunity for standardising the system and for more players to obtain an official handicap. We will be delighted to work closely with other handicap authorities to ensure a smooth implementation.”
Jean-Marc Mommer, President of the EGA declared: “It has been acknowledged that the European Golf Association (EGA), comprising 47 member national golf federations representing over four million registered golfers, has achieved considerable success to date in bridging a culturally diverse membership, and assisting the development of emerging golfing nations, with the EGA Handicap System. We are looking forward to contributing our knowledge, expertise and experience in working with The R&A, USGA and golf’s other handicapping authorities in pursuing this most worthwhile task of uniting the golfing world under a single handicap system.”
Geoff Taylor, President of the South African Golf Association said “The SAGA welcomes this initiative to standardise the handicap system methodology globally and which will in turn improve our local handicapping system. In anticipation of this implementation, a programme to re-rate all the golf courses in South Africa was embarked upon in 2016. While this programme presents a number of significant challenges, we believe that the benefits to golf globally and locally will be beyond measure in years to come. We shall continue to work closely with the R&A and USGA governing bodies to ensure a smooth and rapid transition.”
Paul Feeney, Board Member of the AAG said: “The AAG is committed to assisting the development of a World Handicap System. We understand that golf has become a global sport and we are very enthusiastic about working together with many other associations in the development of WHS. A lot of work needs to be done; course ratings are one of the most significant challenges for Argentina, which we are trying to address.”
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The voice of unity - Part IV: The methods of obtaining knowledge and eradicating dispute
Nov 2, 2012, 11:22 AM
As the fourth in a series of talks regarding the subject of unity, the present article focuses on differences and disputes. At the outset, two types of difference are mentioned: 1) differences that are condemned: 2) those that are considered beneficial, or at the least, tolerated by the faith. This talk focuses on the second of the two. In delving into this second category, the author speaks of the different methods of seeking knowledge. He defines ijtihad from the perspective of the Quran and shows how this definition can be used explain and excuse the apparent differences amongst the Islamic schools of thought and their followers.
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
In the previous atricles I spoke about the unity of the Islamic Ummah and Islamic brotherhood. It was stated that, unfortunately, due the various factors, Muslims have not protected their unity. Therefore, the roots of dispute must be examined. Coincidentally, the Quran gives importance to this point. If one reviews the number of verses about unity and compares them to the number of verses about dispute, he would find that the verses about dispute are two or three times more than those about unity. In addition to the fact that different people see things in different ways, the substantial reason for this is that man is rebellious and tumultuous by nature.
After the initial two lectures that covered the unity of the Ummah and Islamic brotherhood, I examined the issue of ‘differences’ and ‘dispute’ from the viewpoint of the Quran and Islam.
The conclusion of the previous discussion was that the Quran severely rejected one from of dispute. This was evidenced by a number of verses from the Quran and was discussed under a number of titles. We said that if man continues to dispute after a religious argument is proven for him, he will be completely rejected. The reason for this is that when one continues in dispute after he finds path of knowledge and authority, it is certain that he does not have positive intentions. The Quran states:
But they did not differ expect after knowledge had come to them, out of envy among themselves. (45:17)
In one case, division is prohibited as well as disputes that lead to division:
Hold fast, all together, to Allah’s cord, and do not be divided. (3:103)
Arguing is prohibited in some places:
And do not dispute, or you will lose heart and your power will be gone (8:46)
The Arabic term ‘tanazu’ stems from the root naza’a which means digging and pulling; both sides start to pull at each other during religious discussion.
This type of dispute, which causes Muslims to divide into sects are rebuked. The Quran states:
But the factions differed among themselves. (43:65)
Whenever the Quran uses the term ‘factions’ in the plural it is rebuking partisan activity.
Another phrase that is used in a number of verses is:
So leave them in their stupor. (23:54)
The Arabic term ‘taqatta’ means severely tearing. The unified Islamic society and Ummah has been, and is being severely torn. The Israelites tore their society apart. These are various phrases used for the division which has been rebuked; the division that the Quran forbids.
TWO CATEGORIES OF DISPUTE
There are two categories or types of dispute that are found in the words of Islamic scholars. One of these categories is rebuked and the other is not. The category of dispute that has rebuked is that which was mentioned. But, there is another category which has not been rebuked; we are in need of it and we must accept it.
The following categories have been presented in some articles composed in Cairo (taken from the journal Message of Islam)
Religious issues are of two types. One type of religious issue are categorized as ‘certainties’ while the other are labelled ‘not-certain’ or ‘doubtful’. Religious certainties are just what we had stated was the criterion for the unity of the Ummah: tawhid, the hereafter, biding the right and forbidding the wrong, jihad on the path of Allah, positive ethical traits, piety, and refraining from committing sins. The principle of the necessity of leadership and an Islamic government in the general sense, prayer, fasting, qiblah, Quran, hajj and the kabah are unanimously agreed upon. They are the criterion of being a Muslim and the scale of Islamic unity. Muslims must protect these commonalities; they must hold to them. The Quran states:
Hold fast, all together, to Allah’s cord, and do not divided. (3:103)
We stated that the divine cord is compose of these very same certain doctrines of Islam; the doctrines that are unanimously agreed upon.
But there are other issue in religions that are not as clear. Or, if they were clear at the beginning, over time their clarity has been lost and Muslims have disputed over them. The universals of theological and jurisprudential concepts are unanimously agreed upon. But, the particulars are disputed about. Ijtihid, as well be stipulated, applies to these non-certain issues.
Jurisprudents and religious authorities (maraji’ taqlid) write at the beginning if their books on practical Islamic laws: taqlid is impermissible in the necessities of religion, i.e., in the certainties of religion.
Taqlid pertains to issues other than these. Taqlid pertains to theoretical issues which are not unanimously accepted and not considered to be of the necessities of Islam.
This matter is in complete congruence with the division that we presented. The differences that Muslims have in issues which are certain or in the universal principles and doctrines of religion are not accepted. For instance, a Muslim who is in the Muslim world [and hence exposed to the fundaments of Islam] but who does not accept prayer, cannot be consider-differs in the particulars, then these differences are not given the same ruling and in fact they cannot be decisively condemned. These latter types of differences do not result in one leaving the fold of Islam.
Now the above division was with regards to religious issues. These issues were divided into issues that are certain and issues that are not certain; issues that are necessities and issues that are not necessities. Differences and dispute is not accepted in the first category while it is accepted in the second. And sometimes there is no choice but to fall into these types of disputes.
The late prominent professor, ‘Allamah Tabataba’i, provided a different division. He stated that disputes before one obtains knowledge are not problematic; rather positive. But disputes after one has obtained knowledge are rejected. These categories are in complete congruence with the verses of the Quran. Man is naturally in a state of doubt before he reaches knowledge and certainty about a religious issue. In such a state, if he were to speak to others, he would differ with them.
These differences must be there because all religious issues are not certain or part of the necessities of religion; hence it is only appropriate that they debated. As long as one has not obtained knowledge, and as long as he is trying to obtain knowledge, there will be differences of opinions. There is no way around this. But, for a person in such a conundrum, what is important is that he tries to take these disputes to such a place where the opinions could be supported with proofs. While it is possible that those who are searching for the truth will not reach the same conclusions, nevertheless, if their seeking and enquiry is carried out correctly, then their reaching varying conclusions is valid and differences are accepted by religion. This subject will be discussed at a later time.
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By The Record Archdiocesan News November 6, 2020
Holy Cross High School honors six
Holy Cross High School will hold its annual Hall of Fame induction through an online platform this year.
Six individuals will be inducted into the hall of fame. A week-long online celebration will begin Nov. 6 with each inductee being honored with a “virtual acceptance” video on the school’s Facebook page throughout the week.
The event celebrates the school’s distinguished alumni from Angela Merici, Bishop David and Holy Cross high schools “based on their commitment to Holy Cross,” according to a press release from the school.
The honorees and their awards are:
Leadership award — Ray Daub, a 1982 graduate of Bishop David High School.
Innovator Award — Jennifer Baird McClinton, a 1990 graduate of Holy Cross High School.
Service Award — Kathy Mathison Neuner, a 1973 graduate of Angela Merici High School.
Next Generation Award — Dr. Jason Ford, a 2003 graduate of Holy Cross High School.
Excellence in Athletics Award — Don Weber, a 1968 graduate of Bishop David High School.
Honorary Alumnus Award — Terry Crawley, who serves in the Archdiocese of Louisville’s Catholic Schools office.
To see the “virtual acceptance” video, visit https://www.facebook.com/HolyCrossCougars.
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The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth will host a Watershed Watch workshop on July 10 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Watershed Watch is…
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Best Christmas pop song: 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' or 'Last Christmas'? | The Tylt
Best Christmas pop song: 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' or 'Last Christmas'?
Critics focus on the worst of the worst of Christmas music, but what about the best of the best? There are still plenty of us who get into the holiday spirit with joyous Christmas pop music. Mariah Carey is regarded as the Queen of Christmas due to her mega-smash "All I Want for Christmas Is You." But Wham!'s '80s pop hit "Last Christmas" won our "Best Xmas song" debate in 2016 and 2017, but Mariah's Lambs defeated Wham's smash in 2018. Which Christmas pop song is going to win this year? 🎅🎄🎁🎶
By Deron Dalton
Published 12/2/19
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Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is revered as the greatest Christmas song ever. According to Billboard, it's also the best-selling Christmas song ever. But does that make it the best? Watch the music video for "All I Want for Christmas Is You" below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQViqx6GMY
"Last Christmas" is also one of the top 10 greatest-selling Christmas songs, but has a completely different sound than the perky "All I Want for Christmas Is You."
The Wham! single has a smooth, soft rock feel to it. And it's more than a Christmas song—it's both a love song and a slow jam. And let's not forget, many artists have covered the 1984 hit over the years. Watch the music video for "Last Christmas" below.
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One Killed, Another Injured in Hutchinson County Accident
May 24th, 2016 by thomasjhenry
One man from Borger was killed in an accident that happened in Hutchinson County on Sunday.
Details about the Fatal Accident
Multiple sources are reporting that a one-vehicle accident happened on Sunday that resulted in the death of one man in Hutchinson County, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The Department of Public Safety stated that at about 9:15 p.m., 38-year-old Jeremy McClellan, of Borger was driving his 2005 Ford pickup truck heading east on SH 152, about five miles east of Borger. McClellan was unable to properly negotiate a curve and lost control of the vehicle, causing the truck to rollover. Both McClellan and his passenger, 37-year-old Gregory Morrissey, from Amarillo, were both ejected from the vehicle.
McClellan was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. Morrissey was taken to the hospital where he is currently being treated for his injuries. Neither of the passengers were wearing seatbelts at the time of the accident. No other vehicles were involved in the accident.
Important Information about Motor Vehicle Accidents
According to the Texas Department of Transportation, there are thousands of wrongful deaths of people involved in motor vehicle accidents every year in the state of Texas:
In 2014, there was an average of one person killed every two hours and 29 minutes on Texas roadways.
During the same year, there were 237,941 people who were non-fatally injured in motor vehicle accidents.
In 2014, there were 3,534 people who were killed in motor vehicle accidents.
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New solar and lighting technology could propel a renewable energy transformation
This article was published in The Conversation on September 1, 2020 and written by Simon Stranks, a lecturer in Energy and Royal Society and University Research Fellow, University of Cambridge. He is also a co-founder of Swift Solar Inc.
https://theconversation.com/how-a-new-solar-and-lighting-technology-could-propel-a-renewable-energy-transformation-133658
The demand for cheaper, greener electricity means that the energy landscape is changing faster than at any other point in history. This is particularly true of solar-powered electricity and battery storage. The cost of both has dropped at unprecedented rates over the past decade and energy efficient technologies such as LED lighting have also expanded.
Access to cheap and ubiquitous solar power and storage will transform the way we produce and use power, allowing electrification of the transport sector. There is potential for new chemical-based economies in which we store renewable energy as fuels, and support new devices making up an “internet of things”.
But our current energy technologies won’t lead us to this future: we will soon hit efficiency and cost limits. The potential for future reductions in the cost of electricity from silicon solar, for example, is limited. The manufacture of each panel demands a fair amount of energy and factories are expensive to build. And although the cost of production can be squeezed a little further, the costs of a solar installation are now dominated by the extras – installation, wiring, the electronics and so on.
This means that current solar power systems are unlikely to meet the required fraction of our 30 TeraWatt (TW) global power requirements (they produce less than 1 TW today) fast enough to address issues such as climate change.
Likewise, our current LED lighting and display technologies are too expensive and not of good enough colour quality to realistically replace traditional lighting in a short enough time frame. This is a problem, as lighting currently accounts for 5% of the world’s carbon emissions. New technologies are needed to fill this gap, and quickly.
The article then goes on to describe a new family of materials being developed in a laboratory in Cambridge. These are called Halide Perovskites, which are semi-conductors, which conduct charges when stimulated with light.
Coloured perovskite light-emitting inks that can be cast down into thin films
There are still challenges to developing this technology commercially but the author sets out the way forward. Please see the article for a full description.
Categories: clean energy, climate change, solar power | Tags: carbon emissions, Halide perovskites, new solar technology, Renewable Energy | Permalink.
European Environmental Agency’s report shows EU greenhouse gas emissions continue to fall
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/29/eus-greenhouse-gas-emissions-continue-to-fall-as-coal-ditched
Greenhouse gas emissions in the EU continued their fall in 2018, the latest year for which comprehensive data is available, according to a new report from Europe’s environment watchdog.
Emissions fell by 2.1% compared with 2017, to a level 23% lower than in 1990, the baseline for the bloc’s emission cuts under the UN’s climate agreements. If the UK is excluded, the decline since 1990 was smaller, standing at 20.7%.
However, emissions must be brought down much further and faster to satisfy the EU’s obligations under the Paris agreement, campaigners said. Annual falls of about 7% are estimated to be needed to keep global heating within the Paris upper limit of 2C above pre-industrial levels.
The economic turmoil and disruption caused by the coronavirus is likely to result in a short-term drop in emissions, as it has so far this year across the world, but the longer-term impact is unknown.
Green groups urged governments to link the recovery from the coronavirus with the need to reduce carbon, ahead of the Cop26 talks, and said the year’s delay must not be allowed to slow down action on the climate crisis.
“A 2.1% emissions drop isn’t nearly enough to avert massive climate breakdown, and we absolutely cannot lose sight of the urgency of this task,” said Aaron Kiely, a campaigner at Friends of the Earth. “Postponement of the climate talks cannot come at the cost of international climate action – it doesn’t give governments a get-out clause from their international responsibilities. There is a way out of both [the climate and coronavirus] crises if we collaborate, listen to the science, and stop losing time.”
Categories: climate change, fossil fuel companies, Paris COP21 and its targets | Tags: coronavirus, European environmental agency, greenhouse gases, Paris 2015 targets, Renewable Energy, UK | Permalink.
“Planet of the Humans” removed from youtube
This controversial film, produced by Michael Moore, argues that green energy sources, including biomass energy, wind power, and solar energy, are not truly renewable or sustainable. The film has been criticized as outdated and misleading. The film was removed from YouTube on 25 May 2020.
Here is a critique of the film by George Monbiot and published in The Guardian, 8th May 2020:
“How did the radical film maker Michael Moore become a hero of the far right?”
Denial never dies; it just goes quiet and waits. Today, after years of irrelevance, the climate science deniers are triumphant. Long after their last, desperate claims had collapsed, when they had traction only on alt-right conspiracy sites, a hero of the left turns up and gives them more than they could have dreamt of.
Planet of the Humans, whose executive producer and promoter is Michael Moore, has now been watched 6 million times on YouTube. The film does not deny climate science. But it promotes the discredited myths that deniers have used for years to justify their position. It claims that environmentalism is a self-seeking scam, doing immense harm to the living world while enriching a group of con artists. This has long been the most effective means by which denial – most of which has been funded by the fossil fuel industry – has been spread. Everyone hates a scammer.
And yes, there are scammers. There are real issues and real conflicts to be explored in seeking to prevent the collapse of our life support systems. But they are handled so clumsily and incoherently by this film that watching it is like watching someone starting a drunken brawl over a spilled pint, then lamping his friends when they try to restrain him. It stumbles so blindly into toxic issues that Michael Moore, former champion of the underdog, unwittingly aligns himself with white supremacists and the extreme right.
Occasionally, the film lands a punch on the right nose. It is right to attack the burning of trees to make electricity. But when the presenter and director, Jeff Gibbs, claims that “I found only one environmental leader willing to reject biomass and biofuels”, he can’t have been looking very far. Some of us have been speaking out against them ever since they became a serious proposition (since 2004 in my case). Almost every environmental leader I know opposes the burning of fresh materials to generate power.
There are also some genuine and difficult problems with renewable energy, particularly the mining of the necessary materials. But the film’s attacks on solar and wind power rely on a series of blatant falsehoods. It claims that, in producing electricity from renewables, “You use more fossil fuels to do this than you’re getting benefit from it. You would have been better off just burning fossil fuels in the first place”. This is flat wrong. On average, a solar panel generates 26 units of solar energy for every unit of fossil energy required to build and install it. For wind turbines the ratio is 44 to 1.
Planet of the Humans also claims that you can’t reduce fossil fuel use through renewable energy: coal is instead being replaced by gas. Well, in the third quarter of 2019, renewables in the UK generated more electricity than coal, oil and gas plants put together. As a result of the switch to renewables in this country, the amount of fossil fuel used for power generation has halved since 2010. By 2025, the government forecasts, roughly half our electricity will come from renewables, while gas burning will drop by a further 40%. To hammer home its point, the film shows footage of a “large terminal to import natural gas from the United States” that “Germany just built”. Germany has no such terminal. The footage was shot in Turkey.
There is also a real story to be told about the co-option and capture of some environmental groups by the industries they should hold to account. A remarkable number of large conservation organisations take money from fossil fuel companies. This is a disgrace. But rather than pinning the blame where it lies, Planet of the Humans concentrates its attacks on Bill McKibben, the co-founder of 350.org, who takes no money from any of his campaigning work. It’s an almost comic exercise in misdirection, but unfortunately it has horrible, real-world consequences, as McKibben now faces even more threats and attacks than he confronted before.
But this is by no means the worst of it. The film offers only one concrete solution to our predicament: the most toxic of all possible answers. “We really have got to start dealing with the issue of population … without seeing some sort of major die off in population, there’s no turning back.”
Yes, population growth does contribute to the pressures on the natural world. But while the global population is rising by 1% a year, consumption, until the pandemic, was rising at a steady 3%. High consumption is concentrated in countries where population growth is low. Where population growth is highest, consumption tends to be extremely low. Almost all the growth in numbers is in poor countries largely inhabited by black and brown people. When very rich people, such as Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs, point to this issue without the necessary caveats, they are saying, in effect, “it’s not us consuming, it’s Them breeding.” It’s not hard to see why the alt-right loves this film.
Population is where you go when you haven’t thought it through. Population is where you go when you don’t have the guts to face the structural, systemic causes of our predicament: inequality, oligarchic power, capitalism. Population is where you go when you want to kick down.
We have been here many times before. Dozens of films have spread falsehoods about environmental activists and ripped into green technologies, while letting fossil fuels off the hook. But never before have these attacks come from a famous campaigner for social justice, rubbing our faces in the dirt.”
www.monbiot.com
Categories: clean energy, climate change, fossil fuel companies | Tags: capitalism, falsehoods, George Monbiot, population increase, Renewable Energy, solar panels | Permalink.
Actions politicians and public could take to reduce UK carbon emissions
This a youtube presentation by Prof. Keith Barnham (Imperial College, London) to help campaigners to know which issues to raise during the 2019 General Election.
It focuses on renewable energy and whether non-renewables are needed as a back-up. He concludes that solar power and Anaerobic Digestion (AD), of farm animal and crop waste and food waste, which can generate biomethane for electricity and and gas grids are perfectly adequate to provide back-up, so that non-renewables no longer need to be used or developed.
He suggests that a new government should adopt this strategy.
Categories: Campaigning Groups, carbon emissions, clean energy, Political Issues, solar power | Tags: anaerobic digestion, crop and food waste, Renewable Energy, solar power | Permalink.
How a Green New Deal will benefit us all
Taken from the Labour Party’s manifesto and written by Paul Halas, with acknowledgements also to:
https://watershed2015.wordpress.com/2019/10/18/how-a-green-new-deal-will-benefit-us-all-paul-halas/
There’s been a lot of excitement about Labour’s Green New Deal, but what does it involve and how will it affect us?
Burning up carbon deposits – in the form of oil, coal and gas – which were laid down over hundreds of millions of years, is pushing us to the brink of extinction. To avoid this we need to take some pretty drastic action and we’ll have to be prepared for major changes in the way we live, work, travel and even eat.
As part of its Green New Deal, Labour has undertaken to make the UK carbon neutral by 2030. This is how –
Some of the biggest changes will have to take place at the top, starting with the major international corporations – which carry the biggest responsibility for carbon emissions. They produce and sell both the fossil fuels and the machines and gadgets that cause climate change. By increasing tax on products and services that release more carbon, and reducing it on ones that cause less damage, big business can be made to do the right thing.
Greener energy will be a priority. Renewable energy sources now account for half our electricity, but to reach carbon neutrality by 2030 green energy must still be increased vastly. Labour plans to double offshore wind-powered generation, and will encourage local energy production – whether it’s from sun, wind or water, or a combination of them.
Transport and travel are major contributors to climate change. The Green New Deal will encourage greener ways of travelling, more sustainable technologies and better ways of making use of the resources we have. While they’re only a partial solution, the development and ownership of cars running on electricity from renewable sources will be helped, public transport will be improved and bus and rail networks widened. In the areas still not well served by public transport, vehicle-sharing schemes will be created.
Energy saving begins at home, and the Green New Deal proposes both a massive scheme of building new, energy-efficient homes and finding ways of improving existing buildings. There will be a major drive to insulate homes better, and the Conservatives’ tax increases on solar heating will be reversed.
Over time we’ll have to adapt our eating habits. Clearly, flying in foodstuffs from the four corners of the globe produces an unacceptable carbon footprint; equally, industrial-scale meat production releases an incredible amount of methane, another greenhouse gas. Producing more of our food closer to home will reduce our carbon output and help our economy, and a more plant-based diet will be less wasteful and in the end healthier.
Old systems will have to go as new technologies are developed. Much of our economy depends on technology and services that are no longer sustainable and will have no place in our greener future. Old systems will have to go as new technologies are developed. This will inevitably mean that some jobs disappear, but an expanding green economy will mean that more and better jobs will be created, and training will be provided for those who fill them. The green technological revolution will be funded by a £250 billion national investment scheme.
As well as a greener future, Labour’s Green New Deal aims to bring about a more equal future too. The excesses of the super-rich corporations will be curbed; tax avoidance will at last be tackled. The multimillionaire class have taken more and more, while the rest of us – the many – have been left with less and less. One way to tackle the problem is through taxation, and another is through localism – also known as Community Wealth Building. Many communities throughout the world are already benefiting from these schemes, and an increasing number of towns and cities in the UK are adopting them.
The idea is that communities and councils always give priority to local suppliers and services. For instance when building a new school, or hospital, or sports complex, etc, local firms will always be preferred to the big players to carry out the work. The same goes for services. Under the Labour Green New Deal local energy suppliers will be encouraged, especially if they are publicly-owned, or run by people’s co-operatives. Local credit unions will be created, house-building schemes, housing associations, food co-operatives – all manner of local enterprises – all creating fairly-paid, unionised jobs. That way money earned in the locality stays in the locality and benefits local people. It cuts down our carbon output by reducing transport of both people and goods, and encourages green technologies. It also creates a greater degree of equality and reduces our dependence on the big corporations. What’s not to like?
To prevent catastrophic climate change we’re all going to have to adapt to major changes. But they needn’t be daunting. We’re not going to go back to a pre-industrial age. We won’t have to cycle everywhere unless we want to, and we won’t have to live on a diet of turnips and pottage.
Many of the changes will be beneficial and will bring about a more equitable and contented society. They should be embraced.
These policies were mentioned in Jeremy Corbyn’s address to the 2019 Labour Party Conference and the Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union Group is campaigning on the Green New Deal as part of the Campaign against Climate Change which set up the One Million Climate Jobs campaign.
Categories: carbon emissions, clean energy, climate change, economy, endangered species, environment, heat waves, Political Issues | Tags: climate change, economy, Green new deal, Localisation, new technologies, Renewable Energy, tax avoidance, Transport, travel | Permalink.
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Forest Green Rovers football club goes green
This story is from the Financial Times:
https://www.ft.com/content/d66ba036-763a-11e9-be7d-6d846537acab?accessToken=zwAAAWrvAwJokdPWa6A2djoR6dO-fW2EZTesqw.MEUCIDcuKj_Zv-m_cQyY3cchi6pdngx7mG2VVnl0685tqNrQAiEAvhOM4ThGqbRuLj8yAFIF2M6BTgAqsVPOkDKMwewIIRQ&sharetype=gift?token=1bc4775c-e348-4f02-9c36-4c6172949925
Above the leafy Gloucestershire town of Nailsworth, is a football stadium: “The New Lawn”. It has solar panels on the stands, electric charging points in the car park, and a green Union Jack flag outside the ground. This is the home of Forest Green Rovers, the first football club certified by the United Nations as carbon neutral.
The team, in League Two, the fourth tier of English professional football, plays on an organic pitch in a stadium powered by renewable energy. And fans eat from an all-vegan menu. Dale Vince, the club’s chairman, is the founder of green energy company, Ecotricity, based in nearby Stroud, Gloucestershire. It is a business that has turned him into a multi-millionaire.
He acquired the 130-year-old football club in 2010, when it was on brink of bankruptcy, and began transforming it along environmental principles. Forest Green Rovers’ green credentials have created a unique selling point that has gained the attention of businesses. The club made half of its nearly £5m in revenues last year through sponsorship from like-minded companies, such as Quorn, the makers of vegan food, and Grundon, a waste management and recycling group.
Vince said: “Businesses are trying to get with the new agenda. They see the need to green themselves up, to green their products up, because they see that’s what people want.” This agenda has transformed Forest Green Rovers into one of the best resourced clubs in League Two. Its cash has allowed it to fund a team representing a town with a population of 5,000 — the smallest place to host an English professional league team — that can punch far above its weight. According to the consultancy Deloitte, League Two clubs on average make £3.8m in revenue, far less than Forest Green Rovers, meaning rival teams have less to spend on players. However, this month, the club lost to Tranmere Rovers in the end-of-season playoffs, missing out on being promoted to League One for another year.
Still, Mr Vince’s ambition is for Forest Green Rovers to steadily rise up the divisions and reach the Championship, the tier below the Premier League. As part of plans to achieve that goal, the club will learn in the coming weeks if it has received planning permission for a new 5,000-seater stadium made entirely from timber. “Wood is the most sustainable material that you can build with and concrete is possibly the least,” said Mr Vince. “It will be the lowest carbon footprint stadium anywhere in the world, probably since the Romans invented concrete.”
In the meantime, the club wants to set a green example for others to follow. Mr Vince has been advising the English Football League, and Uefa, European football’s governing body, to develop sustainability plans for clubs based on the innovations brought to Forest Green Rovers in recent years. These include renewable energy for football facilities. About 20 per cent of The New Lawn’s power is supplied by the solar panels installed on its stands, with the remainder coming from other renewable sources, such as wind power. The club’s groundsman uses an automatic, solar-powered electric lawnmower which each day cuts a pitch fed with Scottish seaweed rather than artificial fertilisers. Drains under the turf gather rainwater which is then reused around the grounds.
Mr Vince faced initial outcry from fans after he removed red meat from the club’s match-day stalls but said supporters have come to appreciate its vegan menu, which has also attracted a new breed of fans. One favourite is the Q-Pie, a Quorn and leek pastry with soya béchamel white sauce. The club chef’s latest creation is a vegan sausage roll, which Mr Vince insists is far superior to the version recently introduced by Greggs, the high street bakery.
From next season, the club will further add to its environmental credentials with a plan to “carbon offset” every fan’s travel to the ground by slightly increasing ticket prices and using the additional money to fund projects that reduce carbon dioxide emissions. “Everything we’ve done is really easy to do,” said Mr Vince. “Put solar panels on your roof . . . take meat and dairy out of menus, even just occasionally, it’s not hard to do. Organic pitches, low-energy lightbulbs, banning single-use plastics . . . everything we’ve done here is scalable.”
Categories: carbon emissions | Tags: carbon neutral, climate change, football, Renewable Energy, vegan | Permalink.
The transition to a sustainable world: a call on scientists etc to work together
Transition Lab calls on scientists, engineers, data experts and volunteers of all ages to work together to address climate change and ecological collapse.
Transition Lab was created to give people the opportunity to address climate change and ecological collapse in the absence of adequate national or international government policy. With modern communication technology they will organise millions of volunteers to support the important work that must begin immediately.
Their job is to scale the response to this challenge, and support the organisations already on the front lines with much needed expertise.
To create a voluntary project on the scale of CERN or the International Space Station
Transition Lab’s core mission is to place a range of people – willing scientists, engineers, highly skilled people and volunteers – directly with projects seeking to mitigate climate change, ecosystem collapse and climate change adaptation. We hope that highly trained experts will take paid or unpaid leave, take a sabbatical, take up fellowships or simply show up to help address this urgent crisis.
This work can happen independently with our own planned projects or with existing NGOs projects, corporations, local authorities, communities or any organisation that has declared a climate emergency. Our first task is to create models of how a major transition of energy, transportation and natural system management might significantly improve with large scale volunteer support.
Phase 1: Immediate objectives
• Find technology partnerships to implement the placement/fellowship system.
• Lobby Universities UK to declare climate emergency and support academics willing to join Transition Lab.
• Form core working groups (ecological restoration, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, renewable energy scaling, electric transport scaling, economic transition).
• Build models for how our plans might impact current efforts.
Further details are on the Transition Lab website:
Contact details for those wishing to be involved or to receive a newsletter:
Mr Richard Dent: Project director, communications strategy
richard@transitionlab.earth
Dr Alison Green: Academic outreach, curriculum development
alison@transitionlab.earth
Categories: climate change | Tags: climate change, ecological collapse, engineers, fellowships, models, Renewable Energy, scientists, Transition Lab, volunteers, working groups | Permalink.
Heat stress in the Global South
https://www.scidev.net/global/energy/news/billions-at-risk-from-heat-stress-at-home.html
Some 1.8–4.1 billion people living in the developing countries of South Asia, South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are vulnerable to heat-related stress, and lack access to technology to cool their living spaces, according to new estimates.
“Addressing the lack of access to thermal comfort has important implications for reducing the risk of heat-related deaths and dysfunction and improving the well-being of billions of people in the Global South,” Alessio Mastrucci, an author of the study and researcher at the Vienna-based International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), tells SciDev.Net.
The authors note that as health risks rise with global temperatures, the need for air conditioning is expected to add to global energy demands.
Universal access to electricity and adequate and affordable housing are prerequisites to accessing cooling technologies, and are closely linked to meeting several of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) mandated by the UN, the study notes. According to Mastrucci, filling this “cooling gap” links with the SDGs on affordable and clean energy, poverty reduction, health and wellbeing, and sustainable cities and communities.
Clinton Andrews, professor of urban planning at Rutgers University in the United States, says that the study shows that “even after accounting for longstanding adaptations that people living in hot climates have made to local conditions, the poor who lack access to electricity, and therefore air conditioning, are at increasing risk of health problems due to heat stress”.
Although previous studies have estimated demands for cooling on a global scale, few have focused on developing countries, and more specifically where adverse climate conditions and poverty converge.
The researchers looked at the energy needed to meet cooling needs of populations exposed to heat stress by taking into account climatic conditions, type of housing, access to electricity and ownership of air conditioners.
“We estimate that between 1.8 and 4.1 billion people in the Global South — with a median of 3.7 billion for 26 degrees Celsius set point threshold and at least five days of annual exposure — are potentially exposed to heat stress in their homes,” says Narasimha Rao, co-author of the study and assistant professor of energy systems at Yale University in the United States.
Closing the cooling gap would mean a rise in energy demand of 14 per cent above current global consumption of electricity in homes, their model suggests. This demand is expected to be met mainly by using air conditioning, which is costly and environmentally damaging.
“The implication of this study is that the current SDG for energy (SDG7) understates the extent of energy poverty, when considering that several billion people in the Global South lack affordable cooling technologies and face the risk of heat stress-related health impacts,” Rao points out. SDG7 calls for providing universal access to modern, affordable and reliable energy by 2030, including both electricity and clean cooking stoves and fuels.
The authors note that timely policies to make air conditioning technologies efficient and affordable, and to improve the design of residential areas in order to reduce heat island effects, would benefit both the climate and development.
With acknowledgements
Categories: air pollution, health, heat waves | Tags: air conditioning, energy poverty, greenhouse gases, heat stress, indoor air pollution, Renewable Energy | Permalink.
Tracking progress of the climate turning point: Mission2020
Mission2020, a global coalition of several climate analysis organisations, headed by Christiana Figueres, the former UN climate chief who negotiated the Paris accord. Mission 2020 has calculated that if these milestones are achieved by 2020, it will make the longer-term Paris goals possible – because progress now on reducing emissions will make it easier and cheaper to reduce them in the longer term – and wants to spur sufficient progress on climate change to bring that about. It was set up by the World Resources Institute.
Mission2020 has set milestones, to track whether climate targets are being reached, and tracked progress on each of them. The milestones are:
Energy – renewables out-compete fossil fuels as new electricity sources worldwide.
Infrastructure – cities and states are implementing policies and regulations, with the aim to fully decarbonize buildings and infrastructure by 2050;
Transport – zero emission transport is the preferred form of all new mobility in the world’s major cities and transport routes;
Land use – large scale deforestation is replaced with large-scale land restoration and agriculture shifts to earth-friendly practices;
Industry – heavy industry, including iron and steel, cement, chemicals and oil & gas commits to being Paris compliant;
Finance – investment in climate action is beyond USD $1 trillion per year and all financial institutions have a disclosed transition strategy.
Now, it is reporting that insufficient progress has been made in the milestones to comply with the Paris 2015 target of keeping global warming within 1.5°C.
Removing coal from the global energy mix is taking too long, too many forests are still being destroyed, and fossil fuel subsidies are ongoing despite their distorting effect on the market, the study has found. Coal-fired generation is still increasing, with coal-fired power plants continuing to be built in some areas, while existing plants are not being removed from service fast enough. Electric vehicles, meanwhile, comprise 1.4% of overall sales, making a 2020 milestone of 15% of new car sales hard to reach.
There has also been insufficient progress in agriculture to stop harmful practices that increase carbon dioxide production, and heavy industry is not doing enough to use energy more efficiently.
But the analysis has found important steps forward, on renewable energy, curtailing greenhouse gas emissions from shipping, and public sector investment in reducing emissions. These suggest progress in other aspects of tackling climate change is also possible, with greater effort from the public and private sectors.
The Mission2020 website has produced a simple diagram to demonstrate what the targets are (or have been), in order to keep within 1.5°C and to monitor progress with them:
The most important one is 2020, as carbon emissions need to peak (i.e. not get any higher) by then if we are to keep within 1.5°C. If emissions continue to rise after 2020, then it will be too late to keep within 1.5 degrees, as carbon dioxide will have built up in the atmosphere and will take thousands of years to remove.
Further details about the Mission2020 analysis are reported in the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/22/analysis-warns-lack-progress-2020-global-emissions-target
An earlier blog I wrote on this website is also relevant to view in this context. It is entitled “Three generations left – or is it only three years? New report published in Nature.”
Categories: Campaigning Groups, climate change, Paris COP21 and its targets, UNFCCC | Tags: 2020:The Climate Turning Point, climate change, coal, deforestation, milestones, Mission2020, monitoring, net zero emissions, Renewable Energy | Permalink.
Open Letter to Party Leaders on Climate Change and the UK Economy – from Scientists for Global Responsibility
Open letter sent to the eight political party leaders at the UK parliament on 13 June 2017:
Dear Madam/ Sir
In the wake of the inconclusive general election result and bearing in mind the forthcoming Brexit negotiations, we are writing to leaders of UK parliamentary parties to urge you to unite around a common cause – tackling climate change – as a way of helping to provide major economic, social and environmental benefits at this time of uncertainty. Not only does there continue to be there very strong scientific evidence on the urgency of this global threat, but measures to tackle it offer major opportunities to exploit science and technology to create jobs, tackle fuel poverty, reduce local air pollution and provide many other co-benefits for British society. The UK could capitalise on the renewed international commitment to tackling climate change in the wake of the ill-informed decision of President Trump to withdraw the USA from the Paris Agreement.
We have noted the widespread commitment to tackling climate change in the party manifestos. While there is some diversity in the approaches, there are many common factors. Hence, as a priority, we urge strong support for:
Home energy conservation programmes. These will both reduce carbon emissions and help to tackle fuel poverty, which is estimated to be responsible for nearly 8,000 UK deaths a year.1
Renewable energy projects – especially wind, solar, marine and biogas technologies and community-led projects. With costs for many of these falling rapidly, the potential economic and employment benefits are very large2 – and government opinion polling shows these technologies are especially popular.3
Energy storage technologies, including batteries, power-to-gas systems, and pumped hydro storage. Many of these technologies are already rapidly falling in cost, and they have high potential to complement the variable renewable energy sources.4 Electric vehicles will play a key role here, and their widespread adoption will help to reduce the number of UK deaths attributable to outdoor air pollution, currently estimated at 40,000 per year.5
We further recommend the following additional actions, which we strongly believe will complement those above:
End subsidies for fossil fuels, especially for unconventional sources like shale gas. The growth of a large-scale shale gas industry in this country is likely to seriously undermine Britain’s climate targets, as the Committee on Climate Change has warned.6 Furthermore, the technique of hydraulic fracturing (or ‘fracking’) is not popular with the British public,7 partly as it creates significant risks for the local environment.
End new commitments to nuclear power stations. These create unique and unresolved economic, security, environmental and safety risks.
Finally, we urge you to use any political influence you have in the USA to try to convince President Trump that climate change is a serious threat to his country as well as the world, and that his government needs to change course. Indeed, his failure to support cleaner industries in his own country is very likely to have a negative impact on the economy there.
We would be interested to hear your thoughts on our recommendations.
Dr Stuart Parkinson
Dr Philip Webber
1. Energy Bill Revolution (2015). Fuel poverty. http://www.energybillrevolution.org/fuel-poverty/
2. REN21 (2017). Renewables 2017 Global Status Report. http://www.ren21.net/gsr-2017/
3. BEIS (2017). Energy and Climate Change Public Attitudes Tracker. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/public-attitudes-tracking-survey
4. Goodall C (2016). The Switch: How solar, storage and new tech means cheap power for all. Profile Books.
5. Royal College of Physicians et al (2016). Every breath we take: the lifelong impact of air pollution. https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/every-breath-we-take-lifelong-impact-air-pollution
6. Committee on Climate Change (2016). The compatibility of UK onshore petroleum with meeting the UK’s carbon budgets. https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/onshore-petroleum-the-compatibility-of-uk-onshore-petroleum-with-meeting-carbon-budgets/
7. As note 3.
This letter has also been published in The Ecologist:
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2989043/open_letter_to_party_leaders_on_climate_change_and_the_uk_economy.html
Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Britain's climate targets, carbon emissions, climate change, electric vehicles, energy storage, fossil fuels, home energy conservation, nuclear power, Renewable Energy, Scientists for Global Responsibility, shale gas | Permalink.
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Man in Black Is a Good Guy in ‘Westworld’ Season 2?
Man in Black Is a Good Guy in Westworld Season 2?
Ed Harris reveals that his Man in Black character is more of a protagonist in Westworld Season 2.
Kevin Burwick
Season 2 of Westworld premieres on HBO this Sunday, and Ed Harris reveals that we're going to see a different version of the Man in Black than the one we saw in Season 1. The actor said as much as he could about the new season of the wildly popular show without spoiling anything, which has been a big deal with show creators Lisa Joy and Jonathon Nolan. Nolan recently thought about spoiling the whole second season online for fans desperate enough to learn the new storyline.
Reviews have started to pile in since the first 5 episodes are available for press, but they've all generally been pretty much spoiler-free. However, Ed Harris has decided to share some more in-depth information about the Man in Black and his motives in Westworld Season 2. The Man in Black was a menacing character in the first season, a mysterious villain amongst many villains in the show with alternating timelines adding to the confusion but making for a satisfying viewing of the season as a whole.
RELATED: How Luke Hemsworth's Arm Injury Changed Epic Westworld Season 3 Fight
After taking a bullet at the end of the first season of Westworld, Ed Harris is back as the Man in Black. But this time, he's on a different sort of mission than the first time around. Harris reveals that the character is more of a good guy in these latest episodes, which will be interesting to see. He had this to say.
"I see him as a protagonist actually, yes. Particularly this season. The maze is... history. He's on a whole other track this year, and I think the track that he's on definitely makes him a protagonist. I'm worried about Season 3, to tell you the truth."
While the Man in Black is very much a mysterious character in the first season of Westworld, the character is fleshed out more in the second season. We start to see his motivations and why he feels so strongly about the park and the company. Ed Harris promises that the Man in Black "becomes less mysterious" this time around. Harris adds that, "We learn more about him," and that the Season 2 goal is, to "Make amends." This is a far cry from the character that we saw in the debut season of the hit HBO show.
Westworld Season 2 has a lot of explaining to do, which it does a pretty good job of in the first few episodes. Ed Harris was pretty careful about not spoiling anything, but revealing the intentions of the Man in Black this time around is pretty big news. Which begs the question: who's the real antagonist this time around? That will be solved within the first half of the debut episode, which airs on this Sunday, April 22nd on HBO. You can read the rest of the interview with Ed Harris and his thoughts on the Man in Black's story at Indiewire.
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Video Games of the Oppressed
How video games can be used for empowerment, activism, conservation and scientific communication. Also some silly personal crap.
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Conflict Minerals and Games
Posted on August 22, 2014 by joffeorama
Trigger Warning: Rape and sexual slavery
“The DRC’s greatest curse is its wealth.” – Jean-Bertin, Congolese activist, 2012
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the most resource rich places in the world. It is home to massive reserves of gold, tungsten, tin, cobalt, copper and diamonds. Its forests are full of precious woods and rubber. It is home to 64% of the worldwide reserves of coltan, an ore from which tantalum, a metal used to make capacitors for electronic equipment, can be extracted from. Tantalum and cassiterite (a tin ore used in circuitry) in particular are currently in high demand and are extremely valuable. 18% of the world’s production of tantalum comes from the DRC.
Yet despite all this natural wealth, the DRC was ranked last place in the 2011 Human Development index. The resources are being extracted and sold, but no one in the DRC are seeing the benefit. What is happening here?
The history of exploitation in the DRC goes back to the Congo Free State of 1877 to 1908. It was then that Belgium ran a genocidal campaign of ivory and rubber production that led to the brutal deaths of around 10 million Congolese. The horrors of the Belgium occupation are legendary, the most infamous being the practice of cutting off limbs to enforce rubber quotas. This pattern of violent exploitation and corruption would unfortunately follow the region from then on, no matter who was in charge.
Today the region is wracked by ongoing civil war. Millions have died in the conflict, even more have been displaced from their homes. Children are kidnapped and forced to fight as soldiers. Sexual slavery and violence is rampant, with a recent study estimating that as many as 400,000 women are raped in the DRC every year. The warlords and armies fund their war with those valuable minerals, and many of the bloodiest battles are waged over the mines.
The miners are kept in semi-slavery conditions, offering barely enough to live on and no safety. Child labor is exceedingly common, and millions suffer from health problems as a result of mining. Many of the mining companies utilize debt-bondage slavery, loaning food and supplies to the miners at a price they can’t hope to afford from mining. Other mines are more overt slavery operations, with entire villages being forced to extract minerals at gunpoint. On an environmental level, mining is also catastrophic. It destroys local ecosystems, renders land unusable for farming or living, facilitates the spread of disease, and destroys local water supplies.
As previously mentioned, tantalum is used in almost every modern electronic device, from mobile phones to game consoles. There is a demonstrable link between the price of tantalum and violence in the DRC.1 In 2000, the release of the Playstation 2 and subsequent demand for the system sent the price of tantalum skyrocketing, causing the proportion of mines attacked to jump from 13% to 40%.2
This conflict and connection has largely been invisible to us in the West until recently. An early attempt at raising awareness between consumer habits and exploitation was the “Dona tu movil” campaign, started in 2004 by Congolese activists in Spain. The purpose of the campaign was to encourage people to recycle old phones and become more aware of the conditions in the DRC. As of 2012 the campaign has recycled 732,025 devices and raised a million euro. Sadly, the demand for tantalum outstrips what little recycling can offer. The current climate of phone consumption encourages people to upgrade and replace phones as often as possible. This is mirrored in the video game industry, where the lifespan of consoles is ever shrinking in favor of increasingly incremental upgrades. Even activist groups admit that recycling, even on a colossal scale, can not approach meeting the current demand.
A more recent campaign targeted specific companies and pressured them to address the issue of conflict minerals. In response, Apple and Intel both announced that they would no longer buy tantalum from the DRC in 2011, with Nokia and Samsung vowing to phase out DRC tantalum shortly after. These promises are good, but it is very easy for corporations to make such a promise without actually accomplishing anything. Tantalum is produced by smelting coltan ore, and as long as companies claim that they asked the smelters if the coltan was purchased legally they can claim it is not their responsibility. In fact, coltan smuggling is so rampant that it is difficult to prove that codes of conduct are followed. Neighboring countries facilitate the smuggling of resources out of the DRC in order to benefit from the demand, and corporations aren’t particularly willing to investigate too deeply where their cheap tantalum is coming from.
A prime example of the lackluster response to this issue can be found in Nintendo. In 2012, the Enough Project ranked the major electronic companies on their commitment to phasing out conflict minerals and to the creation of a clean mineral trade. Nintendo was ranked dead last3, with the report stating “Nintendo has made no known effort to trace or audit its supply chain.” In response, a number of viral campaigns directly targeting Nintendo launched and were picked up by the wider media, eventually forcing Nintendo to respond. In the fall of 2012, Nintendo announced it had made progress in removing conflict minerals from its Wii and 3DS products, and they addressed the conflict mineral policy directly on their website.4 However, activists were not terribly impressed, as Nintendo made a lot of promises to investigate and audit without actually promising anything concrete or showing any specific plan. Suppliers would be given a questionnaire, but otherwise Nintendo was not requiring its suppliers to use conflict-free smelters. The Enough Project responded, “Nintendo’s statement is a meaningless piece of paper without concrete steps behind it … Without that bare minimum, Nintendo is only putting a fig leaf over serious issues of war and slavery.”5
Nintendo is certainly not the only company talking more than acting. While there has been some demonstrable progress (Intel is currently developing a new conflict-free microchip and several companies have come together to form the Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade), there is still a lot of resistance from corporations against deeper auditing of supply chains. Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act directly addressed the issue of conflict minerals, requiring all national and international companies to report annually to the SEC with supply chain analysis on where their minerals come from. This measure has been under constant attack by corporations who consider it too bothersome and difficult to investigate. The companies argue that after decades of no one keeping track, investigating the supply chains is expensive and time consuming.
The first of these supply chain audits were released this past spring, with several electronic companies such as Google admitting that there was a “potential presence” of DRC conflict minerals in their suppliers.6 Other companies such as Disney and Sony reported that they were unable to determine if any of their suppliers used conflict minerals. Like Nintendo, many companies elected only to send their suppliers a questionnaire, and either accepted the responses at face value or shrugged their shoulders if their suppliers elected not to report back.
Section 1502 originally required companies to label whether their products were “conflict free” or not. However, this part was struck down by the US Court of Appeals in March, 2014. The court declared that requiring corporations to display this information violated their freedom of speech. Without this label, there is no real consequence for doing a half-assed audit. The information is technically available, but consumers who want to learn if their product contains conflict minerals have to instead wade through long legal documents or wait for another source to do it for them.
It should be noted that there are legal mines in the DRC and attempts by the local government to reform mining conditions. Companies could quite easily support these mines without any huge cost. Tantalum is also found in other parts of the world, in fact until recently Australia was the world’s largest tantalum producer. It shouldn’t be difficult to create a conflict-mineral free device, and despite corporate claims it would not be prohibitively complicated or expensive.
Honestly, this is subject that games journalism could be talking about more. Apple, Nintendo, Sony, Google and Microsoft all use minerals in the production of their gaming products that could be coming from the DRC. Video games are a huge economic force, and we’ve already seen how the demand for one system directly led to more violence. But other than short reports on the campaigns against Nintendo, there has been very little investigation into this issue by the game press. Why is that? I don’t think its entirely because people don’t care (although there is certainly a great degree of “who cares, just give me games” entitlement to be found). Rather, I believe the main problem lies in how removed we are from the products we buy.
When you go and buy a phone or a 3DS or a PS4, you don’t know who built it. There are no “game console artisans” or anything like that. You may know the name of a few game developers, but you won’t know the factory it was made, or the materials that went into its creation. Most of us have no idea how any of these products work on a technical level beyond the abstract. We don’t know the names of the factory workers who put the pieces together, or the names of the workers who smelted the ore into the metals, or the names of the miners who extracted the metals. It might as well be magic to us. A nebulous corporate brand simply made a magic box appear in our stores and we exchange paper or the electronic promise of paper for them. Then we go home and play and don’t think further. This applies to us designers as well, the games we make are made on devices built from slavery-derived minerals, even if all we do is produce digital content. Even the corporations are caught in this commodity fetishism, with no one working at the companies knowing where the materials and products they use come from either. If Sony and Nintendo don’t know where their magic boxes come from, what hope do we have?
But that doesn’t change the fact that we are complicit in the suffering of the DRC. I want to take a moment to comment on what I mean when I say “complicit” because I think many people tend to bristle at what they think this means. No one is claiming that you, average Joe and Jane consumer, are intentionally trying to hurt anyone, or that you alone can undo over a century of war and exploitation, or that you specifically are guilty of murder, rape or slavery. But regardless of our intentions and beliefs, we all have contributed and take part in a society that enables atrocities to happen in the name of convenience. Electronic companies and our demand for electronic goods are the driving force behind mineral production. All video games are made and played on these electronic devices, making it not merely an industry or consumer problem. As things currently stand, the entire medium has become complicit.
As of this post, it is not possible to buy a guaranteed conflict-free phone or game device. No matter how much you want to, you can’t play a video game without increasing the demand for conflict-minerals. This isn’t just a game problem, complicity cannot be avoided because of our very day-to-day life. How can you participate in our society without a phone? So then how do we work toward change if we have no meaningful choices other than buy a blood-phone or not be able to get a job or socialize? The crisis in the DRC is complicated and fueled by many sources. Cutting armed groups from the supply chain and helping promote safer alternatives helps, but won’t magically solve the problem. The idea that the electronics industry alone could end the human rights abuses in the DRC is naive (and pretty white-savior-y). Likewise a complete boycott of all Congolese minerals doesn’t help any of the miners there who need the little they get from trade to survive. But the idea that we should do nothing if we can’t do everything is a rather shallow deflection of responsibility.
Complicity does not innately mean fault, but it does mean responsibility. We have a responsibility to demand more information on what we buy. We have a responsibility to understand how our lives impact other lives. We have a responsibility to question how important our consumption really is. We have a responsibility to help build more open supply chains. We have a responsibility to insure the people we depend on for our goods are being treated fairly. We have a responsibility to demand that our companies live up to their commitment.
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Update: Above I mentioned Intel’s work on creating a conflict-free microchip. Intel has announced that all their smelters are using conflict-free minerals and that they have stopped working with any that refused to change or allow an audit. This is currently being verified by 3rd parties, so it isn’t EXACTLY a guarantee yet, but it is still good news and proof that creating a conflict-free device is nowhere near out of the realm of possibility.
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“This is mirrored in the video game industry, where the lifespan of consoles is ever shrinking in favor of increasingly incremental upgrades.”
Um, not really. Per whining by Ubisoft and others, the last generation of console hardware was actually the *longest* to date, so unless you’re talking about faulty hardware, I’m not sure this claim is justified.
joffeorama says:
I should be clear that I’m including hardware revisions such as the Vita > Vita Slim or the 3DS > 3DSXL > 2DS. It’s nowhere NEAR the shrinking lifespan and culture of replacement in phones, but as we’ve seen with the PS2, it does drive up the price of minerals.
racarate says:
“How can you participate in our society without a phone?”
it’s actually not that bad, i made a conscious choice to ditch cellphones nine years ago… in fact, i run into more cellphone-less people at gdc and indiecade than day-to-day life. it’s illegal to not hire somebody because they don’t have a cell phone. it’s rude to ostracize somebody because they don’t have a cellphone. ignore those two groups and you’ll be fine. when in doubt try to figure out how people got by in the 90s.
Its not impossible to live without a smart phone… if you have other options. Obviously you have some other way of accessing the internet, so that alone makes it easier to go without a smart phone.
I’m not talking about overt “you don’t have a phone, you can’t be my friend/employee” ostracization. I mean not having access to the internet means its hard to be reached and hard to look up and apply for jobs. Not having a phone or internet just makes things HARDER unless you’re already established, or have other kinds of connections. People got by in the 90s because, to be honest, there was a completely different culture of expectations. Smart phones and fancy pdas were a luxury good. They’re really not anymore, not by default anyways. Anyone can get a fancy phone that is essentially magic for free in exchange for a pretty cheap monthly contract.
That isn’t to say that people who do have the luxury to go without a phone shouldn’t if they want to. More power to anyone who can get off the grid, I say. But we’re not yet at a point where anyone can drop off, or even at the point where enough people could to make a difference..
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This year has brought many social and environmental injustices out of the shadows. The University of West Florida is hosting critical discussions of racial equality and the impact it has on our community,
Throughout the month of October, a weekly virtual community course called Race and the Community: Past Present and our Future will be offered for free to the community as a part of the Global Diversity and Awareness month at UWF.
Each week, local African American leaders are coming together to discuss a variety of topics to educate the community. The Kugleman Honors Program is sponsoring the weekly discussions and Scott Satterwhite, from the English department, is serving as the moderator for the discussions.
The next discussion will feature Jackie Olive, who will lead participants through the topic of Black Voices in the Media on October 15.
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Her discussion enlightened those in attendance about some of the history found right here in Pensacola. “Black history is an untapped field,” Broughton said.
Broughton is working to open a museum in Pensacola that will feature our community’s African American history. Her goal is to make African American history more readily available to the community.
Hull is a local poet and activist who spoke on the second week of the series. He talked about the struggles he faced growing up in Gary, Indiana. “I went to 14 funerals in one year,” Hull said.
He further discussed how his life as a poet and the challenges he faced as an African American man. Hull gave those in attendance insight into where he draws his inspirations from and how his writing process works. “I try to write when the city sleeps,” Hull said.
Hull often writes poetry on controversial topics such as police brutality. “I’m trying my best to be the voice for the people who don’t feel that they have one,” Hull said.
According to a poll taken during the discussion, the majority of those in attendance claimed that they could only name one African American poet off the top of their head.
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Why 1620 — Not 1619 — Is A Better Representation Of The American Way
Ultimately, it is the landing of the Mayflower — far more than the landing of the first slave ship — that has largely defined America.
By Newt Gingrich
The following essay is part of The Federalist’s 1620 Project, a symposium exploring the connections and contributions of the early Pilgrim and Puritan settlers in New England to the uniquely American synthesis of faith, family, freedom, and self-government.
After decades of left-wing academics attacking America, the left finally decided the time had come to simply replace the American story with a new anti-American story. The centerpiece of this new anti-American frenzy is The New York Times’s 1619 Project.
If the 1619 Project had been an argument that slavery, and then segregation, played the defining part of the African-American experience — and an important if often indirect part of the experiences of all Americans — it would be a worthy addition to our nation’s conversation and historical record.
It is fair and accurate to suggest that every American should better understand the effects of slavery and segregation. Furthermore, every American should understand the degree to which his fellow citizens who are African American have had their lives shaped by these realities and the legacy ideas, institutions, and attitudes that grew out of them.
Yet this is not the argument the Times makes. According to its current description, the 1619 Project “aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.”
In fact, the original description (which was quietly edited after the project endured much criticism from serious academics and historians) was even more explicit. It claimed that the 400th anniversary of the landing of the first ship carrying African slaves to Jamestown, Virginia, was “our true founding.” In other words, the Times insists that every aspect of American history — good, bad, and benign — is defined by, and evolved from, this first instance of African slavery in what was then a British colony.
Both as a politician concerned for America’s future and as a professional historian concerned about America’s past, I deeply disagree with the Times’s version of America.
If left unchallenged, the Times’s 1619 Project would both distort our understanding of the America that has been and worse, it would warp and cripple our sense of the future America that could be. An American past, present, and future defined by an obsession with slavery as the key definer would be a much poorer and sadder country, filled with guilt, and bereft of hope. This is why The Federalist’s 1620 Project is so important — a timely and necessary counterbalance to the left’s efforts to rewrite American history by eliminating the exceptional and emphasizing the harmful and the negative.
As a point of history, America was founded on July 4, 1776 — the date that Congress designated for our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, which Congress had decided upon two days earlier.
America was not founded over the slave trade, which was a global institution at the time. It came about during a bitter struggle by a new American people who sought to break free from an oppressive British monarch and live in freedom — with a government that was elected by the people rather than claimed by divine right (or might). These people were ultimately victorious, and the Great Experiment in American self-governance began.
Now, without question, the early American experiment did not guarantee freedom for everyone. There is no doubt that early America failed to immediately live up to its creed that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Further, efforts to subjugate or enslave African Americans, Native Americans, and — at a smaller scale — European, South American, Central American, and Asian immigrants are indelible stains in our nation’s past.
While some states began to abolish slavery during the colonial period, partially or gradually, most of early America went along with a world that had been deeply invested in the African slave trade and the institution of slavery itself. This deserves to be studied as an example of the profound shortcomings of humankind. It also reminds us that true freedom requires constant vigilance and self-reflection. But it does not mean, as the 1619 Project asserts, “our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written.”
If the ideals enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and other founding documents were false, then it would have had no meaning when President Abraham Lincoln, on Nov. 19, 1863, at the battlefield of Gettysburg, invoked the effort of the Founders to create “a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
In a way, the 1619 Project’s insistence that our founding ideals were false is a repudiation of Lincoln’s address at Gettysburg, where he urged those who had just survived a brutal battle in opposition to slavery:
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. also understood perfectly that our ideals were true, but they had been unjustly withheld — first through slavery, and later through segregation and discrimination:
When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the ‘unalienable Rights’ of ‘Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.’ It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds.’
… But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice …
… And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
… I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’
Now, I am open to accepting arguments that America as we know it began before our official founding on a practical level. For instance, I would accept that America’s de facto start could be when local militiamen battled hundreds of trained British soldiers who were coming to disarm them at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775.
I can accept points of view that there are other instances of our history that serve as a sort of spiritual beginnings for America. In some ways, Benjamin Franklin’s assignment to lobby Parliament for the colony of Pennsylvania convinced him that he would never be accepted by the British aristocracy. It has been said Franklin left America as an English subject and returned as an American.
In other words, they were in pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.
Another plausible date for beginning the move toward independence was March 5, 1770, the date of the Boston Massacre, in which British troops killed five colonists including Crispus Attucks, an African American who became a key figure for abolitionists in the 19th century.
Before the political and military events, there was more than a century of cultural development which was leading Americans to grow more and more distant from their British overlords. It is this cultural evolution that is at the heart of the argument over whether 1619 or 1620 did more to shape America.
For African Americans who are the descendants of African slaves, the landing of the first British-controlled slave ship in British-controlled Virginia perhaps qualifies as a spiritual beginning for the American experience. There was another ship landing one year later, however, that had a far larger impact on many more future Americans — including African Americans. Its passengers brought with them the glimmerings of the principles which have helped make America the freest, strongest, most prosperous county the world has ever seen.
The Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620 because religious pilgrims and other British citizens had fled to the New World. The pilgrims as we know them (41 of the 102 passengers on the Mayflower) had come to escape the rule of the Church of England so they could practice their faith without intervention. The remaining passengers were people looking to find better, more prosperous lives in the colonies — and some were trying to leave old lives behind. In other words, they were in pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.
Having landed in Plymouth, far from their intended destination of Virginia, these people landed in an unknown, largely untamed wilderness. There was no colonial governor or magistrate to report to and no other colonists to help them acclimate. They had to learn to survive or they would simply perish — indeed, about half of them did not survive the first winter. Those who survived did so only because they were helped by the native people who lived there.
So these English colonists had to decide what to do. In the absence of the rule of King James — or any other royal agent — as they awaited permission from the crown to remain there, they agreed:
[to] Covenant and Combine ourselves together in a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Offices from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
The Mayflower Compact was less than 200 words long. It may seem minor to the modern perspective, but at the time it was vitally important. It was unheard of for a group of people (without the rule of a king or monarch) to organize, create a government, and agree upon a rule of law.
Ultimately, it is the landing of the Mayflower, far more than the landing of the first slave ship, that has largely defined America.
Roughly 156 years before the American Revolution, this small group of settlers laid a foundation of governance by the consent of the governed, in what would become the United States of America, which has permeated all of our history and affected every American, and the world. This agreement provided a framework of authority for the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and indeed the entire notion of an elected government of, by, and for the people.
A few decades after America’s founding, John Quincy Adams referred to the compact as “perhaps the only instance, in human history, of that positive, original social compact, which speculative philosophers have imagined as the only legitimate source of government.” Ultimately, it is the landing of the Mayflower — far more than the landing of the first slave ship — that has largely defined America.
The pilgrim’s quiet act of peaceful assembly and self-governance combined with a religiously inspired sense of reformism helped lead to America’s freedom from England, the freeing of American slaves, the success of the Civil Rights Act, and the continued prosperity of the American people.
The New York Times’s 1619 Project has only helped to divide us, undermine the sincere progress of freedom, sever our sacred social compacts, and replace our founding ideals with something truly false.
Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich is the host of the "Newt’s World" podcast and author of the New York Times bestseller "Trump and the American Future." More of his commentary can be found at www.Gingrich360.com
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General Electric's Announced Transportation Unit Merger Brings Added IoT Connected Equipment Opportunity
Posted by ferrariadmin | May 22, 2018 | Industrial and diversified industry supply chain, Internet of Things, Service Lifecycle Management, Service-centered Supply Chains, Supply Chain Technology, Transportation and Logistics | 0 |
This week, one of the more significant business headlines that may be of interest to the Supply Chain Matters reading audience is the announcement by General Electric indicating that it will merge its locomotive focused transportation business with Wabtec Corp.
For us, the looking glass is focused on potential impacts and/or added opportunities related to GE’s ongoing Industrial Internet and Connected Things strategies.
In terms of details, the GE announcement indicates that the company will merge its railroad locomotive manufacturing business with Wabtec in a deal valued at approximately $11 billion. When the merger is completed, GE and its shareholders will own 50.1 percent of combined operations and will receive an up-front payment of $2.9 billion. GE is reportedly required to sell its stake in the combined company within three years.
Wall Street has applauded this strategic move, characterizing it as the first in probably other moves to-come. CEO John Flannery has openly indicated that in the midst of an ongoing strategic review, GE will have no “sacred cows” in order to revive the company’s growth and profitability. The company has pledged to sell at least $20 billion in assets while focusing on key markets.
GE Transportation itself has been challenged with falling revenues due to an ongoing cyclical decline in North America rail-shipping volumes. Despite such challenges, the division has routinely delivered profitability, amounting to $824 million last year with a reported profit margin of 20 percent. According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal, GE had explored a possible sale of GE Transportation to private-equity interests, but instead elected to go with Wabtec due to business model synergies.
Wabtec designs and manufactures equipment for transit systems and freight railroads. The company’s stated goal is to become one of the world’s largest public rail equipment companies. With this merger with GE Transportation, Wabtec stands to double its revenues.
In relation to railroad locomotive design and manufacturing, MotivePower, Inc. (MPI), based in Boise, Idaho, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wabtec Corporation which was formed in November 1999 when Westinghouse Air Brake Company merged with MotivePower Industries, Inc. According to its web site, Wabtec Corporation claims to be North America’s largest provider of value-added, technology-based products and services for the rail industry. Products extend to a wide variety of train control and hardware control systems.
Of further note is that Wabtec, in the notions of MPI, is deep into delivery of service management, spanning routine maintenance and repair to complete locomotive rebuilds. Thus, the company has the basis and opportunity to be able to leverage an Internet-of-Things (IoT) enabled service management models that links operational performance data and information with timely maintenance and service parts delivery.
Many readers may recall the GE television commercials depicting a locomotive communicating operational and train status. Both GE Transportation and GE Aviation have been the foundation of GE’s IoT enabled Industrial Internet and connected equipment strategies. They represented the notions of the Brilliant Machines marketing campaign. As a result of the current ongoing strategic review of GE, there remains speculation as to what will become of the GE Digital business unit along with its ongoing strategies and plans for broadened technology deployments.
Supply Chain Matters would suggest that this merger could well provide a broader opportunity, the ability to demonstrate all of the capabilities of a digitally-enabled service management supply network related to transportation capital equipment. All of the elements of locomotive and controls equipment are present along with actual physical service management services.
This opportunity window is now focused on Wabtec, since in the post-merger, it will own both the assets and services management capabilities to deliver on the vision of virtually connected equipment delivering added services and reduced operational costs for private and public rail customers. GE will eventually have to transition away from train transportation but can deliver the inherent connected machine technology capabilities.
While the rail industry is in a current cyclical downturn in terms of volume loads, global supply chain activity is on the increase and trucking capacity in the U.S. is considerably capacity-constrained. The opportunity in the next equipment-buying cycle may well be inter-modal train transport of containers and where the ability to report on train status, train composition as well as maintain optimal operational up-time may well be a new attraction for train operators.
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The Jaded Gamer
For the gamer who has played it all…TWICE
March 27, 2008 / Fatsquatch / Portable Gaming
“God of War” Special Edition PSP Available In June
With the system redesign and cool titles that have come out since I dumped my original launch PSP on eBay oh so long ago, I have been toying with the idea of picking up another one. The recent Daxter and Star Wars: Battlefront bundles were almost attractive enough to make me bite the bullet, but not quite.
Available sometime in June, a new God of War Special Edition PSP bundle will make its way to stores, and I’m thinking that if I don’t get a PSP before it launches, I’ll most likely do the deed when it arrives.
The unit itself is of a deep red color, with a white silkscreen print of Kratos on the back. The already much-ballyhooed God of War: Chains of Olympus game will (of course) be included, as will a UMD copy of Superbad (they still put movies on these things?) and a voucher for a free copy of Syphon Filter: Combat Ops (to be downloaded from the PlayStation Store). The MSRP will be $199.99.
If I pick up a PSP Lite before the God of War bundle is available, it will only be because of the color. The silver and white colors of the Daxter and Star Wars units didn’t really impress me, and I’m not sure how I feel about this red one. (In a way it looks really cool to me, but then it also seems perhaps a bit too feminine or toy-like. I’m just not sure.) As with the silver and white PSPs, the red unit will surely cut down on the appearance of fingerprints and smudges that’s so prominent with the black one, but I’m just not sure how I would feel about toting it around in public. After all, while I really like the God of War series, I’m not an over-the-top, slobbering fan or anything.
Here’s a picture of the retail box, as well as some shots of the front and back of the unit itself. Thoughts?
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Top 5 Cyber-crimes of the Millennium …So Far
reminesjoseph October 13, 2016 Education
Cybercrime has become a huge business in today’s world. With increased regularity we are seeing headlines related to mass malware injections, cyber heists, and identity theft. While some are not out of the ordinary as far as cybercrime goes, there are some that went above and beyond the traditional cybercrime limits to make our top 5 list of the biggest cybercrimes.
MafiaBoy
Michael “MafiaBoy” Calce, a 15-year-old Canadian boy is given credit for using the first major Distributed Denial of Service Attack. Before this, DdoS attacks were mainly used by hackers to knock their rivals out of Internet Rely Chats. Calce used a botnet to flood CNN, Yahoo, Amazon, Ebay, Dell and eTrade with fake traffic, causing them to buckle under the weight, and be knocked offline. Calce is also given credit for moving cybercrimes into the national spotlight with his massive attack.
The California Payroll Database Breach
In early 2002, a hacker, who has yet to be identified, hacked into a sever in California that was home to the State Government’s Payroll Database. The hacker was able to steal the personal information of over 260,000 state employees starting with the Governor of California. The breach itself isn’t considered major. It’s the actions that followed that place this cybercrime at number two on the list. It was reported that the California Controller’s Office waited 14 days before warning potential identity theft victims! This sparked lawmakers to pass the U.S.’s first breach of disclosure law, SB1386. Due to the new law, 45 states have followed suit, passing similar laws.
In 2003, another unknown cybercriminal used what is known as a Slammer Worm to target a weakness in Microsoft’s SQL servers. Six months prior to the attack, Microsoft had stated that the weakness found in its SQL servers had been fixed. It turns out that they were wrong; the worm was able to crack upwards of 75,000 unpatched servers in a matter of hours. Washington Mutual and Bank of America ATM servers were brought down. Continental Airlines was forced to delay and even cancel flights due to its ticketing system being bogged down. Seattle’s 911 emergency network was also brought down, as well as the safety monitoring system of an Ohio nuclear power plant. This particular Slammer isn’t noted as being the biggest on record, but it is undoubtedly the fastest and most aggressive ever recorded. It also brought to light the foolishly interconnected private networks of major corporations.
RBS Worldpay Heist
When RBS Worldpay had been hacked, it was referred to as no big deal. Reports said that only 100 of the 1.5 million payroll and gift card accounts that were hacked had fraud activity. However, later reports stated that hackers were able to successfully raise the limits on 44 cards to more than $500,000. Then, with the help of what seemed like a global army of people cashing the cards out, over 130 ATM’s in 49 cities spanning from Moscow to Atlanta were used simultaneously (a few minutes after midnight, Eastern Time) to collect $9.5 million in cash. Since then, the U.S. has indicted four members of the cyber gang who hail from Estonia, Russia and Moldova.
Los Angeles Traffic Light Hack
When, in August 2006, traffic engineers went on strike, the city decided to block access to the system that controlled 3,200 traffic signals around the city. Two of the engineers on strike decided to hack in anyway. Kartik Patel and Gabriel Murillo changed the timing of four traffic lights. The hack managed to cripple areas of the city including the Los Angeles International Airport, Glendale Freeway, Little Tokyo, and the Civic Center. It took days for managers to figure out what was going on. The two were caught, and in 2009, both were sentenced to probation.
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Tag: Harlequin Mills and Boon
Congratulations to Melissa Oliver – winner of the Joan Hessayon Award 2020!
Published on September 8, 2020 by valerieholmesauthorLeave a comment
Have you stopped celebrating yet?
I’m thrilled and utterly elated to be the winner of the 2020 RNA Joan Hessayon award for The Rebel Heiress and the Knight.
I had a wonderful time celebrating over the weekend with my husband, Jack, our three daughters, and lots of lovely messages from family and friends. There was lots of bubbles, cake, a lovely pub lunch, and even a family game of Cluedo!
Going back to the beginning of your desire to write – when did you realise that you needed/wanted to write fiction?
It probably started as a child. I had a fervent imagination and loved nothing better than to escape into the wilds of make believe. The writing bug really caught when I was a little older but to be honest, a lack of confidence and self- belief held me back from pursuing my dream. It wasn’t until I was in my thirties with young children at home, and working part- time, that I began to question what it was that I really wanted to do in life. That itch to be a writer had never gone away and so I decided to do something about it. I have to add, however, that it has taken many, many years to realise that dream!
Were you always in love with writing romance?
I enjoy many genres from thrillers, whodunit, classics, to every kind of historical fiction but I LOVE romance, especially historical romance more than any other and have done so ever since I was a teenager. From Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, Anya Seyton, to Daphne du Maurier and many, many others.
How helpful has being a member of the New Writers’ Scheme been to you developing your talent?
The New Writer’s Scheme and the RNA have been amazingly supportive in my writing. The detailed feedback that you get back from an anonymously assigned reader has been incredibly valuable to develop and hone my writing skills.
Was The Rebel Heiress and the Knight your first completed novel?
Yes, The Rebel Heiress and the Knight was my first fully completed novel. Previously, I had written screen & radio plays, and I once started a YA thriller that never went anywhere. I do believe that it’s good to try different things creatively until you find your voice, so nothing is wasted – at least, that’s what I tell myself.
What drew you to the C13?
I love anything historical and once I had created the general outline of my story, it was a question of working out which era would work best. Eventually, I felt that the early 13th century with King John’s turbulent reign was the perfect foil for my story.
Your heroine has a dramatic backstory, did this give her character more depth?
Absolutely. I knew that I wanted my characters to feel ‘real’ within the context of the story, and whilst there was a huge amount of external conflict, I knew I had to explore why they behaved in the way they did, to make the story work. This is especially true of Eleanor, who is a quite extraordinary character for the times she lived in.
Few will know who Fulk FitsWarin lll is – how did the link happen to the legend of Robin Hood?
The life and times of Fulk FitzWarin III ( Foulke le FitzWaryn) was intriguing, romantic, dangerous and pretty incredible. The parallels between what happened to him and Robin Hood are strikingly familiar. FitzWarin was forced to become a rebel and later an outlaw after Whittington Castle and his hereditary lands were confiscated by King John. He lived for many years in woods & forests with his band of outlaws and even his right-hand man was apparently called John. He never gave up the claim of his birth right and did eventually win it back, but only after much heartache and strife. He also won the hand of the heiress Maud le Vavasour, who some believe to be the inspiration behind Maid Marian. There were other real-life inspirations for the legend of Robin Hood such as Herewerd the Wake and Eustace the Monk but in my opinion, no one epitomised Robin as well as Fulk did.
What has working with Harlequin Mills and Boon been like?
It has been amazing working with Harlequin Mills and Boon. They have a wonderful, collaborative team who are very supportive and insightful. In particular, my editor, Charlotte Ellis, who has been a pleasure to work with.
What is next for Melissa Oliver?
The Rebel Heiress and the Knight is part of a linked series, The Notorious Knights. The next book, Her Banished Knight’s Redemption, is William Geraint’s story (he’s a secondary character in the first book) and is due to be published Jan/ Feb 2021. I’ve also signed another two- book deal with Harlequin Mills and Boon, so I’m currently writing the next Notorious Knights book.
I wish you every success in your writing career.
What a great start!
Categories Interviews•Tags C13, Creative Writing, Fiction, Harlequin, Harlequin Mills and Boon, Histfic, Historical, Joan Hessayon Award, Mills & Boon, RNA, Romance, Romance Readers
Nicola Cornick, chair of The Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA), an historian and award winning novelist, explains what the organisation offers both published and unpublished writers of romance.
Published on January 19, 2018 January 19, 2018 by valerieholmesauthorLeave a comment
I am delighted to welcome back Nicola as chair of the RNA.
What can the organisation offer romance writers in 2018?
‘The RNA is the professional organisation that supports and promotes romantic fiction in the UK. Membership of the RNA offers authors the chance to strengthen their career through developing their craft at our workshops and conferences and to build a network with other authors who understand the challenges we face and can offer advice and support. We are also building strong links with the industry and our events give authors the chance to meet a wide range of agents, publishers, booksellers, librarians and other professionals.’
That seems to present a broad spectrum of activities and opportunities to support your members.
‘In addition, members receive Romance Matters, our quarterly journal covering all aspects of writing romantic fiction from the craft to industry issues, discounted tickets to all our events and the opportunity to join regional groups. So the benefits are both professional and social.’
Nicola stresses that although the emphasis is on the professional advice, events and networking a friendly and welcoming atmosphere is nurtured. So how does a writer become a member?
‘The RNA welcomes traditionally and independently published authors. Membership is in different bands: A full or independent Author Member is currently £50 (£57 for non EU based) and £60 for Associate Members (£67 for non EU based). All the details can be found online at or by contacting the membership secretary, Gill Stewart, on info@romanticnovelistsassociation.org.
The organisation also welcomes and encourages as yet unpublished writers into its ranks. The New Writers’ Scheme is unique as Nicola explains.
‘We’re very proud of the New Writers’ Scheme (NWS), which provides the opportunity for aspiring authors to submit a manuscript for critique by an experienced writer in the genre. Not only is it a great way for new writers to improve their craft, it also gives encouragement and support. As the RNA has close links with publishers and agents the NWS can provide a route for them to make those connections. Unsurprisingly it is hugely popular and each year a number of NWS members go on to achieve publishing contracts.’
The scheme is open to writers interested in submitting an unpublished romantic novel (or partial) and this year the membership fee cost was £135 (£145 for members outside the EU). This also allows unpublished authors to take part in all RNA activities as well as submitting a manuscript of a full-length novel for appraisal. More details are available by email to: NWS@romanticnovelistsassociation.org There is a cap on the number of submissions that can be accepted each year and acceptance into the scheme is therefore on a ‘first come first served’ basis. The entry slot for submissions closes at the end of August each year.
Today’s publishing environment seems to be becoming more challenging, but Nicola is very optimistic about the present market for the romance genre.
‘I think the romantic fiction genre is changing all the time to reflect both modern life and the changing publishing world. The genre is a broad one. You can find strong romantic elements in many different sorts of novels where people are writing about relationships, whether this is contemporary fiction or epic historicals or books for young adults. Our membership reflects all of these different threads. We also see the books reflecting the concerns of contemporary society, whether it is issues such as work life balance, infidelity or health. The recent return to popularity of Gothic romance perhaps reflects the idea that spooky stories resonate in uncertain times. And of course romantic fiction also continues to provide its readership with the wonderful feel-good stories that readers love.’
Looking forward, I asked Niocla if she thought that the scope for romantic fiction will narrow as lines in the market place are redefined, or do she saw it flourishing as it has done in the past?
‘I see a lot in the press about how the genre is being more and more tightly defined and categorised into sub-genres, but actually at the genre level, in the UK at least, I see it continuing to broaden out. There are romantic relationships represented in a whole range of novels from crime and sci fi to literary fiction. The RNA’s membership reflects that and our awards and events will continue to embrace that wider focus.’
How would Nicola like to see the organisation evolve under your tenure?
‘I’d like to see the RNA continue to provide great support for its membership whilst looking outward a bit more in our promotion of excellence within the genre. We would particularly like to build our relationships within the industry, with booksellers and librarians as well as with publishers and agents. We’d also like to put romantic fiction even more firmly on the map by reminding people what a very successful and dynamic genre it is in business terms.’
Nicola’s natural energy and enthusiasm for the genre shines through her vision, but can romance remain genre specific if there is a need or desire for a more open working relationship within the industry?
‘I think we can do both if we don’t constrain the genre too tightly. Our core role is to support our membership and as this is drawn from a broad range of romantic fiction this fits with the idea of needing a more open working relationship within the industry. With this in mind we are planning a series of joint events with the Crime Writers’ Association and the Historical Writers’ Association, amongst others, where we can explore the things we have in common and the support we give each other as writers more generally.’
Nicola Cornick is the author of dual-time gothic novels House of Shadows and The Phantom Tree (HQ) and also forty plus Regency romances. She is a former trustee of the Wantage Literary Festival and a historian and speaker specialising in public history.
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VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow writes: Like other participants, I’m furious with National Policy Institute President Richard Spencer for undercutting NPI’s D.C. conference triumph with his “Hail Victory” final words (see his defense here). This inevitably detracted from the important things the rest of us had to say, such as my own address, which follows.
Thank you, Richard. And thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
I’ve been here a lot longer than most of you! [Richard had just established that most attendees were under 30]. I came to the U.S. in 1970 to go to the Graduate School of Business at Stanford. But I’ve learned from bitter experience that I must give up any hope of people understanding my accent! So if you can’t understand me, or if you think I should speak more directly into the microphone or anything helpful like that, please raise a fiery cross or some other cultural symbol, and I will redouble my efforts to assimilate acoustically.
Of course, I can’t claim to be a member, really, of the Alt-Right. I’m too damned old! I’m actually the same age as Hillary, within a few days. (But I’m not quite as old as Trump!)
And the second reason I can’t really claim to be a member of the Alt-Right is: I don’t like haircuts!
But I do think I can claim to be, not a godfather of the Alt Right, but sort of a god-uncle or something like that—for reasons I will go into in a minute.
Now, I pried the the subject of my talk out of Richard about 36 hours ago and he subsequently changed it, but the subject he gave me was “Trump’s America.” So that’s what he’s going to get.
It’s an appropriate subject because Trump and Steve Bannon are not Alt-Right people, they’re certainly not white nationalists. Trump, in particular, is endlessly going on about how much he loves minorities and tacos and so on. White nationalists tend not to do that!
But Trump has, and Bannon with him, opportunistically grabbed powerful issues that the Alt-Right and white nationalists are interested in—and no one else is interested in them, certainly no one in the Republican Establishment: for example, immigration and Political Correctness.
And with those issues, he slaughtered his way to the Presidency. He’s left a trail of bodies behind him extending back 17 months now. It’s the most extraordinary thing that I’ve ever seen. You’ll never see another election like this.
What Trump has done, what he has assembled, his America, is a civic nationalist coalition. But it does have a white core that is implicitly ethno-nationalist. And I’m going to say, this is just the beginning.
Kevin Macdonald has this concept of an implicit community, communities that get together for reasons that they do not articulate and probably do not fully understand. The granddaddy of implicit communities, of course, is the Republican Party, which is fundamentally a white organization. Whites have been gravitating to it, even though it makes no explicit appeal to them, and actually didn’t do anything to deserve their support.
At VDare.com, we have this concept of GAP, the Generic American Party, instead of GOP, Grand Old Party. It’s the party that the Historic American Nation votes for in default mode, without it making any particular attempt to appeal to them.
But this is what Trump has done: his party and his coalition is still only implicitly white, but he has discussed issues that come close to being explicit—above all, immigration and Political Correctness, which is intrinsically anti-white.
A few days ago, a bunch of House Democrats sent a helpful letter to Trump about Steve Bannon. It said:
Disturbingly, leading white supremacists, like the former KKK Grand Dragon David Duke, American Nazi Party Chairman Rocky J. Suhadya, Richard Spencer, Peter Brimelow, and Brad Griffin [Editor of the Southern Nationalist site Occidental Dissent] have praised the news of Mr. Bannon’s appointment. We believe it should concern you that civil rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center, are widely opposed to Mr. Bannon’s appointment. [Links added]
One hundred and sixtynine Congress-things, including my own Congress-cow, Elizabeth Esty (right) from the whitopian 5th District of Connecticut, up on the Massachusetts border in the Litchfield Hills, signed this thing.
Now, I’ve never met David Duke. Or, for that matter, Brad Griffin. And I’m ashamed to say that I’ve never even heard of Rocky Suhadya—whom I assume is an FBI agent.
But I’m quite sure that none of us have ever had any significant contact with Bannon or Trump. I met Bannon once, earlier this summer, before he was translated onto Olympus. I spoke to him for 30 seconds, I told him he was doing a great job with Breitbart. He agreed. That was the extent of our conversation.
As for Trump—I’ve actually always had a soft spot for him. My only contact was about 30 years ago. Tom Bolan, who was Roy Cohn’s law partner, used to have a conservative affinity group meeting in Manhattan. This was way back in the 1980s, when the conservatives just stumbled out of their catacomb into the light after the election of Reagan and they hadn’t had enough time to degenerate into cuckservatives. We used to go to this thing. One year, we were there and for some reason they had the comedian and New York Post columnist Joey Adams doing the warm-up.
Now, unlike Richard (but like Jared Taylor), I’m a prude. I don’t like off-color humor, probably because I never get the punchlines. I found Adam’s Borscht Belt routine excruciating. But after a few minutes of grimly studying the tablecloth, which I seem to recall was actually paper, I glanced up and saw Donald Trump, at the head table, laughing at me.
Well, he wasn’t actually laughing at me. He was radiating good humor, amusement and discreet sympathy. He seemed to be saying that he thought Adams was awful too.
George Will described Donald Trump last year as “incorrigibly vulgar.” But on the basis of that simple human contact, I don’t believe it.
By the way, this story is also evidence that Trump was already, 30 years ago, active in the conservative movement, in a discreet way, which was a dangerous thing to do in Manhattan, particularly in the world that he lived in.
Well, I’m sure there are enough people in this room who would be happy, and indeed eager, to testify that VDARE.com, far from being “white supremacist,” is really positively wimpish about race.
(I don’t have any takers? How polite of you!)
On our Frequently Asked Questions page on the site, I wrote this statement:
VDARE.COM flowed out of a best-selling book I wrote back in 1995 (!), Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster (It was the subject of a long interview in that well-known white nationalist rag, the Rocky Mountain News [where this was first published] —Immigrant's Book Helping Reshape Immigration Debate, June 18, 1995). Like the immigration reform movement in general, it is a coalition, agreed only on the need for immigration reduction. We have published writers of all races, and most political tendencies—including self-identified "progressives." Much of VDARE.COM is devoted to technical analyses of immigration's economic impact—for example Edwin S. Rubenstein's demonstration that jobs in the post-2002 recovery have gone disproportionately to immigrants, while black unemployment has actually risen. (See The Employment Bus: Immigrants Drive, Blacks Sit in the Back, June 22, 2006). We are certainly Politically Incorrect—but the merest glance would show that we are not "white nationalist."[Is VDARE.com "White Nationalist", July 23, 2006]
Immigrant displacement of American workers has actually accelerated under Obama. Ed Rubenstein tracks it every month. And black unemployment has also risen under Obama.
I went on:
We also publish on VDARE.COM a few writers, for example Jared Taylor, whom I would regard as ‘white nationalist”…
I should say that Jared has now abandoned this term because he thinks it is hopelessly contaminated. And I should also say that, because we publish people across the spectrum on the immigration issue, we do have people on the site who I would regard as Alt Right, for example, James Kirkpatrick, Alexander Hart, and Ellison Lodge.
So I went on further:
…in the sense that they aim to defend the interests of American whites. They are not white supremacists. They do not advocate violence. They are rational and civil. They brush their teeth. But they unashamedly work for their people—exactly as La Raza works for Latinos and the Anti-Defamation League works for Jews.
That’s the ADL that the Democratic congressthings described as a “civil rights organization” when they denounced Bannon.
So maybe we should describe ourselves as a “civil rights organization”!
And then I went on:
Get used to it. As immigration policy drives whites into a minority, this type of interest-group ‘white nationalism’ will inexorably increase. You read it first on VDARE.COM—and if you don't like it, let's have an immigration moratorium now.
Well, I have the distinct impression that these 169 Democrats didn’t read this Frequently Asked Question statement.
I wrote it originally in 2006. It was part of a column I did for the late lamented Rocky Mountain News. But it is, of course, a description of what elected Donald Trump in 2016.
Whites—who of course before 1965 Immigration Act were just known as “Americans”— are simply beginning to vote as an interest group.
A few years ago, on VDARE.com, we actually had a debate on the issue of Citizenism vs. White Nationalism. This was in the days when Jared accepted the term “white nationalist.” He debated Steve Sailer. Sailer made the argument that a nation is an ethno-cultural entity and the cultural aspect means that you can assimilate people who are not of the same race into the nation-state. Jared was more pessimistic.
Now, my heart belongs to Steve Sailer on this issue—because I’m a wimp. But my head belongs to Jared. Because of the Poltical Class’s fanatical determination to Elect A New People, I do think that politics will precipitate out on racial lines.
But the point is that all of this nuance was totally lost on these 169 Democratic idiots. They just think that anyone who disagrees with them is a White Supremacist.
Now, this attack on Steve Bannon was quite obviously coordinated. It’s an Alinskyite thing, they’re trying to “personalize, freeze, and isolate” part of the Trump Administration.
But, you know, they actually do think this. They really do believe their own propaganda. They really do think that there are Klaverns out there of white supremacists conspiring with Trump and they think the disorder in the country is entirely caused by militant Trump supporters beating up Muslims. That’s what they actually think; they’ve convinced themselves of this stuff.
There’s a famous saying from the old movie Love Story: “Being in love means never having to say you’re sorry.” I don’t understand what that means, actually, because I spend quite a lot of my married life saying I’m sorry.
But, if you’re on the Left, you never have to confront opposition. We get it all the time; you just have to open USA Today or switch on the television; we see it all the time. But they live in a warm bath of total support. And they’re horrified and deeply shocked when they are finally confronted with dissent.
In other words, these 169 Democrats are stupid.
And that’s another reason why the Democrats are going to lose this war.
And I think you see that, by the way, in the Clinton campaign. She made no effort to maneuver on the subject of immigration. I don’t think that Trump used the immigration issue enough (but of course I wouldn’t). But the fact is that Hillary openly said that she was going to go for Amnesty in the first 100 days, even though Amnesty was defeated three times in the last 15 years by massive popular opposition. That didn’t make any difference to her: She still said she was going to do it.
I think Mitt Romney would have done it too, but he at least pretended that he wasn’t going to; she said that she was going to. She’s just a fool.
So much for white nationalism.
When we look at the coalition that Trump assembled, it’s been 16 years since Steve Sailer wrote for VDARE.com an article called “GOP Future Depends on Winning Larger Share of the White Vote” that flew directly in the face of the Karl Rove dogma that animated George Bush’s campaign in 2000, which damn near lost. And in it he argued that inreach to the GOP’s white base is, as a matter of simple arithmetic, more important than outreach to Democratic dependent minorities. I was immediately fascinated by this article because it extended the static analysis of immigration-driven impending GOP doom that Ed Rubenstein and I had developed in our 1997 National Review cover story, “The Emerging Democratic Majority.”
We had argued that extrapolating immigration-driving demographic changes forward and assuming that ethnic voting patterns, the GOP was doomed to go into opposition in three to four election cycles. It varies a bit because voting shares sway back a bit and forth in tandem according to whether it’s a good GOP year or a good Democratic year, but the major trend was inexorable.
In a day before the internet, we absolutely got no reaction to this article, unless you count the fact that a couple of months later, Bill Buckley suddenly fired the editor John O’Sullivan and purged the magazine of immigration patriots.
Steve added a dynamic dimension. He said that if the GOP increased its share of the white vote by even a small amount, just a couple of points more, to the level that George W. Bush's father had gotten in 1988, that would have easily swamped any inconceivable increase in the GOP share of the minority vote. Now the contemporary debate was so bizarre in those days, 16 years ago, that Steve’s making this simple arithmetical point caused us to be banned from the cuckservative site Free Republic, which back then was a big deal.
The owner, Jim Robinson, claimed that simply making this argument was “divisive” and “promoting racism.”
I have a very close friend who worked on Senator Jesse Helms’ staff. I talked to him about this matter back in late 2001. I explained to him what Steve’s argument was and he said: “Peter, if you made that argument in this town, you would not only have been denounced, you would have been shunned from all parts of the political spectrum.”
The Republicans were afraid to appeal to their own base!
Well, nevertheless, Steve continued exploring the issue. We named it “The Sailer Strategy.” There are many articles on VDARE.com with that tag. After the last election in 2012, he posted an article that we headlined ‘Slippery Six’ Mid-West States Doom Romney—Because Of Low White Share. That was after the Romney loss in 2012. There, Steve outlined exactly the Rust Belt strategy which has brought Trump to victory. Quite astonishing.
Even more astonishing was that Steve then got bored with the argument and wandered off to other things like disproving the University of Virginia Rape Hoax. But I’m trying to get him back on track!
So, anyway, it’s really a matter of whether the glass half-full or half-empty. This is a civic nationalist coalition, but it does have a white ethnic core.
It’s easy to miss how extraordinary Trump’s triumph was among whites. He got about 58% of the white vote, which is roughly about what Romney got. But there’s a paradox that masks Trump’s true effect.
For one thing, you have to consider the effect of Third Parties. Quite often you hear people say that Reagan got 59% in 1980 and he won in a landslide and Romney got 59% and was defeated, and that this is a measure to the extent to which the country has changed.
Well, that’s not exactly true—because there was a Third Party candidate in 1980, John Anderson, who got 6.6% of the vote, all of it white. So the Democrats were more damaged by John Anderson and by Reagan in terms of the white vote,
And that’s exactly what happened here. [Green Party candidate Jill] Stein and [Libertarian Party candidate Gary] Johnson, between them, got close to 5%, There were several states where that was would have tipped the balance.
The second reason Trump’s achievement is masked: he’s a Scotch skinflint. He made no effort to campaign or advertise or do anything at all to run up the vote in heavily white states where he was far ahead—for example in Texas. He didn’t campaign at all in California. All this would have increased his white share.
And the third reason for why Trump’s triumph is masked: the effect of the #NeverTrumpers, particularly in California.
In California, Trump only got 45% of the white vote. Now, that’s not as bad as it sounds, because there’s no recent Republican candidate for state-wide office has carried the white vote in California, with the exception of Romney who got about 51-52%, as far as I can tell.
In other words, the problem with California is not that it has too many Third World immigrants and Hispanics (many of them can’t vote anyway). It’s that the GOP is not mobilizing the white vote.
California was the center of #NeverTrumpism. Look at Meg Whitman, who ran for California governor in 2010—she was actually part of the real Republican War On Women, which consists of Republican consultants going to wealthy women and persuading them to run for office when they can’t win, spending millions on ads, which they get commissions on, and then abandoning them. And that’s what they did with Meg Whitman. She spent over $100 million on her gubernatorial race in 2010—that’s about half of what Trump spent on his entire presidential campaign—and she lost.
Meg Whitman campaigned for Hillary. And that has to have some effect. There are respectable Republicans who feel they couldn’t vote for Trump.
So, what we see with the Trump vote is a sort of rotation among whites. He lost ground among the upper class, but he gained it among the lower classes.
In my area of Connecticut, for example, there was a great emergence of blue-collar workers wearing Trump shirts. The guy who gets ice off our roof, mows our lawn, and stuff like that appeared wearing a Trump shirt. He said he’d never voted in a presidential election. He’s a Colonial stock Yankee blue-collar worker (there’s still a lot of them up there in that part of New England). He’s in his 50s, but never voted in a presidential election. So there’s a rotation.
Trump got 63% of white men, a good number, but he also carried 53% of white women, despite all the propaganda. He carried all age groups, including the millennials. The only group that I can see that he didn’t carry is college-educated white women. But even there, he got within six points; he got 45% versus 51%.
And in terms of Trump’s coalition, the other aspect of his campaign, which is truly amazing, is that he actually did better among blacks and Hispanics than Romney did. There’s some dispute about Hispanics, but I’m persuaded that he did get about 29% of the Hispanic vote. Romney got 27%. Now that’s especially astonishing because, first of all, Trump was running against illegal immigration, which all the Wise Men said would destroy any Republican, and secondly he spent not one red cent on Spanish language advertising. He didn’t even have a Spanish language website.
So, he slaughtered, among others, the entire profession of Hispanic Republican consultants. Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people!
So my analysis is that it is very possible that the next shoe may drop in 2020. In 2020, we could see a real landslide to parallel Roosevelt’s victory in 1936 when he consolidated the New Deal in what I believe was the second-greatest electoral victory in American history.
And I think I can see where this is going to come from. Where is the next big Rust Belt? It’s basically Greater New England, from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon. These are areas that are heavily white, and yet they are still substantially controlled by Democrats.
If you look at the case of Oregon, there was one of these spontaneous uprisings of the electorate in 2014 that, in the face of intense Establishment opposition, put an initiative on the ballot to reverse the Democratic governor’s attempt to give illegal immigrants driver’s licenses. And this thing carried 2 to 1. It swept Democratic areas.
There was a Republican candidate, Monica Wehby, running for Senate that year. She ran away from it; she didn’t mention it. She lost.
The potential is there on these National Question issues if you can mobilize it. Another example, by the way, is when Mitt Romney won the governorship in Massachusetts. Everyone forgets that there was an English for the Children initiative, which basically banned bilingual education, on the ballot that year, and it carried overwhelmingly. There was a brief period when I thought that Romney might have actually learned a lesson from that. But he hadn’t.
And then, of course, there is the great prize of California. Ed Rubenstein and I have done an analysis of California and we’re about to do another one. The demographics of California are actually no worse than the demographics of Texas. The numbers of Hispanics are very similar. The difference is that, in Texas, up to something like 70% of the white vote will vote for the Republican candidate. They don’t do that in California.
You may think that you could never get these Californians to vote so heavily Republican. But Arnold Schwarzenegger did. He won the gubernatorial race both times, getting over 60% of the white vote in 2006. Of course, he did absolutely nothing when he got in, but that’s another story.
So, my conclusion: what is happening here is the parties are tipping. The Democrats are becoming the Minority Party and the Republicans are becoming the Majority—white—party. And that tipping process is driven by immigration, by public policy causing the immigration influx. And it’s most obvious for Republicans on the state and local level, where they are now at a level of unprecedented dominance.
Now, maybe, eventually, with continued immigration, a Democratic majority will emerge. But it’s got some time to go.
Steve Sailer did a calculation for us at VDARE.com showing that even without any immigration cutoff at all, the GOP—or more accurately the GAP—could continue to win national elections until 2050, just by increasing its white share within conceivable limits.
But that leaves us with the interim. And I think we have a real problem here. We have “two nations warring in the bosom of a single state.” There’s America on the one hand and Anti-America on the other.
If you look at Hillary’s coalition, it’s barely half white now. If you take out the Jews and homosexuals (maybe 3-4% each), less than half the party is what we might call generic Americans. Trump appears to have lost Jews by about 70% and homosexuals by 70%, despite having Jewish grandchildren and despite pandering to gay marriage. It did him no good at all, but that, too, is another story.
So I think what we are going to see in the next few years is an intensified Reign Of Terror. We’ll see more things like that anarcho-tyranny at the restaurant last night.
We’re facing what was called in the case of the Civil War an irrepressible conflict.
One issue that I think will come up very soon: I think the Democrats are very hungry to impeach Trump. When Obama put through his Executive Amnesty, stopped enforcing the law at the border, and virtually invited Central Americans to come as long as they brought children with them, we posted a whole series of articles at VDARE.com saying that this was treason and the answer was impeachment. That’s the answer when the President refuses to uphold the law: impeach him.
We got all kinds of counter-arguments: “No, no, he’s got to commit an actual felony,” which is quite untrue. Well now, suddenly, we’re going to find that impeachment is very possible. and that in fact they want to do it.
Of course, had the Republicans actually impeached Obama before the last mid-term and made it a political issue, they wouldn’t be facing complete dispossession by Donald Trump. They deserve him.
I have a kind of note to myself saying: Don’t be totally apocalyptical.
The reason I say this: in the mid-1970s after the fall of Vietnam, the Republican Party, the conservative movement, was incredibly depressed. They really did think that all was lost.
I had National Review publisher Bill Rusher tell me in early 1976 that he really thought that all was lost and the red flag would wave over the world. But he said: “We keep on going because you never know what is going to happen next and there are theological injunctions against despair.” Four years later, Reagan was elected.
So miracles happen quite frequently in politics. Maybe something will happen now. In fact, it just did with Donald Trump.
But, if I had to guess, I would say that we’re in for a hard landing.
Some of you may have seen the news this morning that Vice President Pence, a complete wimp, went to this show Hamilton in New York last night. This Hamilton show, under different circumstances, would be called “cultural appropriation” because they have taken the achievements of the Founding Fathers and acted them out with a completely minority cast.
Well, anyway, Pence was booed repeatedly by the audience and at the end the cast got up and read a statement denouncing him and denouncing Trump. They said:
We, sir, we are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights, sir. But we truly hope this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and work on behalf of all of us. All of us.
Apparently, Pence just stood still for this.
Now the arrogance and insolence of this is completely insufferable. If anyone had done anything like this to Barack Obama, the Main Stream Media would have lynched them. (We can use that word now, “lynch,” because we don’t have to worry about political correctness).
There is no “diverse America.” There’s only white America—the people who voted for Trump. They are America. Everyone else is just along for the ride.
So in conclusion, I want to say—Merry Christmas!
One of my few claims to fame is that I was an early actor in the War Against Christmas. I actually started a competition in the National Review in the mid-90s to find the most egregious attempt to abolish Christmas. Of course it was dropped as soon as Buckley fired O’Sullivan, along with the immigration issue, not coincidentally.
The reason I am in Wikipedia is basically because a few years ago Max Blumenthal, the son of Sidney Blumenthal, then writing for The Daily Beast, called me up and talked to me about it because he wanted to smear the War on Christmas with white nationalist connections, just as they want to smear Steve Bannon now.
So I guess I’m quite useful!
Trump, and no other Republican candidate, has been using that Christmas issue. He has repeatedly said that we’ll be saying, “Merry Christmas” again. I think that’s a key reason why he got an overwhelming majority support among white evangelicals, to everyone's great amazement given to his distinctly unevangelical lifestyle.
Well for me, for all of you, and for America, Christmas came early this year.
Peter Brimelow [Email him] is the editor of VDARE.com. His best-selling book, Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster, is now available in Kindle format.
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Tone Glow
026: Derek Baron
An interview with Derek Baron and an accompanying mix + album downloads and our writers panel on Ellen Fullman & Theresa Wong's 'Harbors' and Matmos's 'The Consuming Flame'
Derek Baron
Derek Baron is a writer and musician from Chicago who currently lives in New York. They have released music both solo and in groups such as Cop Tears and Permanent Six Flags. Baron’s most recent solo album, Curtain, is out on Recital and features chamber music, field recordings, and diaristic sound collages that feel at once homey and sacred. Joshua Minsoo Kim and Derek Baron spoke on the phone on August 7th, 2020 to discuss art that is “permission-granting,” the notion of sacredness, living a life of research, and David Wojnarowicz. All photos by Emily Martin.
Joshua Minsoo Kim: Hello!
Derek Baron: Hey!
I’m doing good, how are you?
It was Bandcamp Day today, and with every Bandcamp Day I spend like three to four hours making a Twitter thread of things people should hear. I did that and then got some other work done and now I’m here.
When your phone call came in, it said it was from Des Plaines, Illinois. I’m from Chicago—Oak Park—and whenever I get spam calls now they’re always numbers that are really close to my own number. It told me it was a “Spam Risk” call just now, but I’m really glad that it wasn’t (laughter).
It’s a little hard to hear you right now, I just wanna make sure that this conversation is going to work.
I’m outside and I was gonna be in this nice, quiet spot but it rained so I’m on my way back to my apartment.
How far away is your apartment?
It’s like thirty minutes away.
I just found out about your album a couple days ago, and it makes a ton of sense that it’s on Recital both with what your music sounds like and the aesthetic that the label strives for on a visual level. I wanted to ask you about one of the writing prompts that are listed inside the booklet for the album. It asks you to “Remember a recent dream or memorable/recurring dream.” Can you do that for me right now?
That’s really interesting, do you have the booklet right now already?
No, there’s just a photo of it already on the Bandcamp page.
[the sound of rain obscuring Baron’s voice]
Oh wait, hold on. I can’t hear what you’re saying, the rain and the sound of cars passing by is louder than your own voice right now.
Oh no! I’m looking for the quietest possible route home but in New York it’s kind of hard to find that.
Would you be able to talk a little bit later? When’s the latest you could do an interview?
Whenever, really. I usually go to sleep around 1 or 2, so if you wanna call any time that would work.
Okay cool, let’s do that. Let’s do 8:30 my time, 9:30 your time.
That’s good. Sorry about the sound!
You have no control over that, it’s all good.
(laughs). Yeah, totally. Just give me a ring whenever you’re around!
Sweet, I’ll send you a text right before I call too.
Sounds great.
[hours pass]
Joshua Minsoo Kim: Hey, hey! How are you?
Derek Baron: Hey, I’m good, how are you?
Just ate some food and now I’m here. You doing okay?
Yeah, I had some food too. I ran home in the rain and then I was just kind of sitting around doing… not much!
Let’s start off with the question I was asking earlier. In the booklet to Curtain, there’s a collage of different images and texts. One of the things included is a writing prompt about a recent or memorable dream that you’ve had. Do you have one you can share?
When you asked it before, I was trying to remember the situation that led to that question being included in the collage. It’s funny that that’s coming up now because last night I had this dream where somebody was talking to me about the history of the English language and was talking about—and I don’t know if this is gonna make any sense because this is the first I’ve thought about it since this morning—how the English language has evolved and there are all these political implications for why we use the words that we use. And that’s totally true and everything.
He was like, the reason we use certain grammar is because of the government controlling the language and whatever. And he was like, “Take an example, that’s why sports commentators are the most creative speakers of the language because they can say whatever they want.” He was imitating an announcer for a dog race and started talking, like, you know those auction criers who talk really fast and speak their own language? He started talking like that but narrated this fake greyhound dog race to me and I was really, really taken aback. I woke up and started to turn on a sports channel (laughter).
Wait, this was all in a dream?
This was all in a dream last night, yeah.
Oh wow. Do you think there’s truth to sports commentators being freer than most people with the way in which they approach language?
You know, I wouldn’t think that sports commentators are at the top of the list. I would think poets or something like that (laughter) but, I don’t know, I guess there’s only a difference in degree between a really passionate sports commentator and a poet, so I’m down for the baseball commentator to be up there with the real avant-garde leaders of the English language.
When you’re a sports commentator you have to be familiar with this specific language—you’re confined to the way in which you can speak in that there are certain rules and expectations there, and dynamics employed.
Yeah, within the confines of the lingo of the sport, you can make really interesting terms up to describe different things that people would intuitively understand because it’s such a perfect phrase for something. I wouldn’t be able to do that because I don’t know the ins and outs of the language, but if you live inside that, you can really do something with that.
This is a total aside, but there’s not a lot of music I think about that’s related to sports. The things that come to mind right now don’t really have to deal with language though… there's the Taku Unami & Éric La Casa collaboration Parazoan Mapping, if I recall correctly there are a few tracks where there’s a tennis match and a basketball game that they record. But they’re like chopping it up and magnifying the different sounds that are present. And then also there’s that album on Every Contact Leaves a Trace.
The golf one?
Yeah! The Masters. I love that one.
It’s amazing. Is that Henry who did that?
Yeah, Henry Collins. It’s a hilarious album.
Isn’t there the Devin [Disanto] and Nick [Hoffmann] album that’s recorded in like a high school gym?
Yeah, that’s Three Exercises. I think they use golf balls, or ping pong balls.
Yeah, ping pong balls.
Weren’t they using a bingo cage at one point on that? I haven’t heard it in a while. I wrote a review of it back in the day.
I love that one. I love Devin’s whole “office ambiance” sort of sound palette. Staplers and stuff.
I was talking about this recently with someone about how sound sources can be familiar—we know what a ping pong ball bouncing around might sound like—but an ambiguity can still be present such that you’re wanting to figure out what’s happening. Devin Disanto really knows how to find that balance. I like how you said “office ambiance” because I never really thought of it like that. I always think of his music as him conducting very procedural exercises. There's transparency there because specific steps are being taken, but because there’s no visual component it’s automatically rendered acousmatic.
Right, right. I’m even just thinking… I saw a show of his in New York that Jon Abbey [of Erstwhile Records]. It’s really procedural but there’s a different kind of procedural than what you get with a Marginal Consort show where the procedure is absurd or surrealist in a way. To me, Devin’s procedures—and there are others who work sort of like this—it looks like it sort of makes sense because there are objects you understand: a stapler, a projector, a stack of paper, a roll of duct tape. But nothing really adds up so that really sparks my imagination.
This is interesting to me. Obviously your music and Devin’s music are very different, and a lot of your work is sound collage stuff, though I’m reminded of this “midpoint” that’s found. There’s field recordings mixed with chamber music on your albums and when I think about your music, there’s always a domestic and familiar and intimate atmosphere, but there’s also a peculiarity present due to how it all comes together. What makes you approach music in this manner? What appeals to you about it, and how do you approach any piece that you make?
It’s interesting to compare it to that sort of procedural thing because I feel recently, in the last couple of years, I’m much more zoomed out in a way from the images that I’m putting together. A lot of the stuff that I’m working with was recorded from really far away. It’s similar to a Shots thing, almost, where there’s a certain flatness of the canvas. Maybe Shots is somewhere in the middle. I talk with a lot of people who are working in this vein but recently I was having a conversation with Matthew Sullivan and there’s something really similar in a lot of his recent work.
Oh yeah, for sure.
There’s distance and things are put on this really wide canvas, is how I see it. Where they’re domestic sounds or musical things coming up or field recordings from outside or whatever, to me it’s a marked difference because my first handful of records I would try to do a little more of the up-in-your-ear or grating—and not necessarily noisy—style, the close-mic’d and lowercase thing.
I remember on Palmillas, I think, there are certain sounds that are clipping because they’re so closely recorded.
Yeah, totally. I still listen to a lot of music that’s like that but the way I’m approaching things now is much more zoomed out.
I love this. When I listen to a lot of Matthew Sullivan’s works, it feels like I’m peering into someone’s space. It’s not like I’m directly next to them but maybe that I’m down the hall or just there in spirit, but more tangibly so or something. The zoomed out aspect of your music makes sense because each part in any given composition has their own distinct presence and every element can be appreciated for what it is and for what it’s contributing to the whole.
I was thinking today that with the second side of Curtain, which is more of the collage-y type of thing, and with this piece i did for ISSUE [Project Room] in May, these are two examples of me trying to experiment with letting things be what they are. This is instead of doing these microscopic edits where I have these perfect little seams and these five-second clips of ten thousand different field recordings. It was about letting things go, about letting a seam just happen for a few minutes.
The musical time of a 20-minute side invites a little bit more impatience for me. I may be like, “Oh, I’ve got to get so much more in” but I’m learning it’s okay to let things go and to go inside of a moment. I feel like I knew that when I was younger, or when I started to be really taken with field recording music or different kinds of non-music things but I had forgotten it. I’m letting things be just a little bit more.
Do you feel like there’s any particular reason why you’re in this zone now? Where you don’t feel like you constantly need to stimulate the listener or have a bunch of stuff going on?
I feel like at least one thing that’s changed with my approach in the five or six years is that for the past three years, I’ve been really busy in school. That’s fine and nice and everything but before that, I was doing music pretty much full time and working at a bar, so I was spending the vast majority of my time doing music and thinking about music. Recently, I have this day job so I don’t necessarily spend 40 hours a week digging into a record or making a record. I don’t want to say that music is my hobby now even though that’s fine and it’s true, but I want something different from it. I don’t want to be assaulted by it. It’s doing a different thing to me psychically or therapeutically now that the shape of my life has changed so much. It makes me realize, also, that everyone comes to the music that they’re interested in based on how it works for them. It’s so obvious, but my relationship with the music that I love is so idiosyncratic to my routine and the time I carve out for it. That must be true in general, and it’s cool.
You never know what people are gonna fucking think about what you make, you know? I used to obsess about that a little bit more, I was a little bit of a perfectionist because I wanted the message to land on the other side, but now I’m just like, I’m gonna make the message land for myself and people are gonna have their own message if they check it out no matter what. I’m a lot happier now.
What are the messages that you want relayed through your music?
That’s a good question.
I guess not necessarily messages per se, but what do you want people to take away?
The things have been really eye-opening or exciting or permission-granting, at least in terms of the music that I love or have loved in the past, are things that shake the frame just enough that I realize that anything is possible. I don’t necessarily mean to say that that’s what I want people to get from my music, but I’m thinking of how deeply moved and disturbed I have been in hearing music that’s changed my shit. It’s this weird sense of bearing witness to somebody doing whatever the fuck they want and letting people in on that process for them.
A great example of this, obviously, would be Gabi Losoncy’s music when I first started to hear it, which was a very long time ago now. It was just, like, “What you believe you want to do is worth doing” in terms of the music you want to make, and you should just do that. It’s a sacred feeling, and it doesn’t happen very much to me. I felt like I was able to work out a process to make sense of my life and it’s been such a gift I’ve been given by the music I’ve surrounded myself with in the past. That would be an extraordinary privilege to feel like everyone could have that sense when listening to my music. That’s how I’ve thought about it in the past, of just making people think about their shit.
When you make your own music, are you wanting to model the sacredness of music-making for others? For others to be encouraged?
It is partly that I want others to be encouraged to do their own thing, but it’s not so much music-making in particular—for me that’s just been the easiest form it takes for whatever reason. I saw this quote the other day and I think it was Anthony Braxton that said it, but I’m not actually positive. He was like, “There’s something that I’ve been interested in researching my whole life, and there’s not really a word for it, but music is the closest thing that I can say that describes what it is, so I guess we can call what I’m interested in as being music.”
Anthony Braxton is another huge inspiration for me, as different as our output might sounds like on the surface, but there’s something about that—it’s not really the music that’s the point, it’s about a life of research, it’s about giving yourself the gift of doing your project and making sense of such a cruel world, of putting your mind to what a meaningful world could look like. And that could take any number of forms—an infinite number of forms—but I feel like doing music or art is one very available form that I’ve appreciated.
How would you say you’re doing right now with regards to your own life? Do you find a lot of meaning in it?
It’s a wild time and it’s an intense period for so many people in so many ways. I’m in the midst of processing a bunch of shit that’s going on, as so many people in the world are. At the same time, it’s taking a considerable amount of mental capacity to get through the day sometimes. The strain is on the very surface level day-to-day but it’s also on a deeper level, like seeing all the ways in which the world is ending or the massive suffering and injustice.
Part of the point of what a lot of this madness is about is that it’s not necessarily new. One of the things that I’ve been really interested in, in terms of how people are interpreting the coronavirus pandemic in light of the racial justice uprising is that the coronavirus has made visible what we were not supposed to see—the way power works was supposed to remain hidden in certain ways.
I’m just thinking at my workplace recently how there’s an emergency lock box full of money that we can use to help people if they’re in emergency situations like this global pandemic. We’ve all assumed this lock box was something we could tap into if someone was in a medical emergency and needed some sort of help. Because the virus made it so people were in actual emergencies, we were like, “Cool, we’ll get some of this emergency money that’s set aside for us,” but we were told that it was empty, that there was no money in there. They were just telling us it was full of money so we would think we had a safety net.
Yeah, it’s like this new level of reality is being unveiled to people (laughs). That’s how it feels to be going through the world right now. It's a surreal and absolutely terrible and traumatizing moment, but there’s also such fascinating and joyful things that are emerging from it as well.
What’s something joyful that’s been occurring for you as a result of all this?
Part of what I’m seeing in this moment is that the story of persistence and liberation is not gonna be one of simply suffering. It’s on this insistence of the joy and radical possibility, and that’s the real foundation. I haven’t totally put this into words yet but there’s this beauty in the insistence of life’s beauty and that it’s worth defending. That is coming out so strongly and it’s so holy to bear witness to.
That makes a lot of sense. There’s a growing sentiment of embracing one’s imagination for what the world can actually be, we see that with abolitionist ideas gaining a more mainstream platform. And we’re seeing that because of what you’re saying right now, with the truths about the world and various power dynamics being laid bare.
Sometimes the popular response to these uprisings or these public, traumatic moments is to affirm the terribleness of the situation. Obviously that’s important and it’s an extremely hard-fought truth for more people to say that the whole nation is actually rooted in racism and anti-Blackness. There’s this other side, though, of this moment that’s appearing really powerfully to me, and it’s this insistence that it’s not just that.
It’s so easy to just be like, “Oh, all this is about is revealing suffering.” But it’s just as much, if not more, about revealing joy and possibility and the imagination of abolitionist frameworks like you’re mentioning. I’m so humbled by that every day.
It’s interesting to me that you’re using words like “sacred” and “holy.” Across your music, on The Dress of the Century you have “Down in the River to Pray” playing at one point, in your AMPLIFY 2020 piece you have a church organ playing, on “Chancel” from your new album, you have someone talking about going to church. What’s your relationship with spirituality and religion and why do these things show up in your work?
Yeah, that’s a really good question and I’m trying to ask myself the same thing right now. “Chancel” from the new record is interesting because after I had finished it, I realized that it was totally about these religious themes in certain ways. On the A-side, which is the piece with Ordinary Affects and called “Curtain,” there’s an extended section in the middle that’s an arrangement I did of a mass by Arvo Pärt. There’s a sacred music thing all over it. That’s my mom who’s talking about going to church when she was a kid on “Chancel.” We were driving around and listening to the radio and talking, and after that there’s a recording of a rabbinical incantation.
There’s something resonant about why those particular musical signifiers are coming up to me in such a strong way. It’s not necessarily a conscious intention to bring sacred music back to the avant-garde, or to bring the avant-garde back to sacred music (laughs) but I wasn’t raised religious in any way. I’m Jewish, Eastern European, and the piece that I did for the ISSUE Project Room thing I mentioned earlier was in some ways more deeply rooted in the Jewish mystical tradition, if not musically then thematically. Those themes just keep presenting themselves as things I want to throw into the mix.
I do consider the practice of making music, as well as the practice of imagining abolition, to be sacred. I don’t even know what organized religion considers what sacred means, but those practices feel really sacred to me. It’s probably underneath the surface to me as to why, but it’s a really good question.
Let’s answer this for yourself then: What does it mean to you for something to be sacred?
Do you consider your own music to be sacred?
Wow, great question. No, I don’t think so. Well, I don’t know. Recently, I’ve been learning about these traditions either in England in the 17th century—or in the early United States or in Europe at a similar time—of these religious groups that broke off from the religious organization of the normal society of the time and their political vision was totally bound up with the sacredness of their community, with their religious vision.
Even for me, a 21st century secular Jew who has no interest in practice in that normal way—and I don’t even really know what that would mean—there’s something that I’m learning where the inextricable link between the imagination of the world that you want and need and deserve… that’s like the sacredness in the everyday. These are the roots of radical anti-capitalist, radically egalitarian communal experiments that had to set themselves against the predatory powers of the property-owning classes and church leadership of the time. There’s something in that that really connects to me.
There’s Bach peppered throughout my work just because I’ve studied his music so much. I don’t think his music is necessarily radically anti-capitalist (laughter)—he was a cool guy and everything but I don’t think I’d go that far (laughter). But there’s something weird that’s sort of connected with that Lutheran tradition and these radical abolitionists. There’s Anabaptists and the Shakers. These are just connections that appear to me.
Rather than try to pin them down with my music and saying, “I’m doing sacred music in the tradition of so-and-so group from 400 years ago,” I’m just interested in putting those pieces next to each other and letting something arise from that.
So sacredness for you has to do with exhibiting this bold imagination for what the world can be. Do you want your music to be sacred?
I think what I really want, as much out of my music as with my life and everything that I do, is to do shit with my friends (laughs). What I want is the world to be a place where people can have all of their thoughts and ambitions and differences and ideas and desires and work all of it out by yourself and with your friends. So much of the evil force that the world exerts on people is a prevention of people from just being people. If my work, even in the most minimal possible way, can join the chorus of people wanting to hang out with their friends and make alternatives to environmental collapse and racial capitalism in the present—just to be in the world of people who want to think about how we’re going to get out of this shit alive, and together, and with dignity—then that’s way more than I could ever dream of.
And of course we’re taught and conditioned to not have to rely on each other.
That’s the trap that’s so easy to fall into. That’s part of the trap when a piece of music comes out that only has my name on it, which Curtain does. And that’s more so a matter of convention than anything else. Not only is all of that music, especially on the A-side, performed by other people, even the B-side… that’s just the sound of me going through the world. I want to highlight the aspect of that B-side, as well as all of my work in general, as being a collaboration with my mom as much as it is a solo project. I’m in awe of how people collaborating with others is more than just the sum of its parts, even if it’s just a conversation with my mom about how she had gone to church when she was a kid.
Part of why it’s so apparent to me, or why it sticks out in my mind so much is because my music-making practice can be lonely. My job can be quite lonely.
I’m in graduate school so I’m just in the writing phase of it. I teach a lot—I’ve taught the last two years but won’t be teaching this coming semester—but a lot of it is just me alone with my books and making music is sometimes me alone with my tapes and my recordings. I feel the urge towards collaboration in a particularly heightened way because of that.
I think that’s part of the impulse behind the label work too [with Reading Group]. It’s about having collaborations with people puts me in a slightly different position than I’m used to and it’s really satisfying to put people’s work into the world like that. It feels like a way of collaborating that I feel really tuned into in the past couple of years.
You run Reading Group with your partner Emily Martin. And Emily is a significant person in your life who makes you feel less lonely.
Definitely.
Can you talk about Emily—what do you love about her?
That’s a great question. It’s what we were talking about earlier with this permission-granting of believing you can and should do whatever the fuck it is you want to do with your work or art or output. In a very real way, I learned that from her. If I didn’t learn it from her then it’s just by observing how she works that I learned that that was possible.
Earlier we were talking about that and I mentioned my relationship with Gabi’s music and that’s totally true, but I think talking to Emily and observing her process over the past six or so years has been permission-granting in ways that I can’t totally calculate because I’m still in the world that she’s shown me.
Can you provide a specific example of how her actions or words or demeanor or anything allowed for this permission-granting for you to be who you want to be or for you to do what you want to do?
She’s mostly a writer, and she and I collaborate in the group Permanent Six Flags and we do the label together, but most of her private practice is writing words. It’s mostly just me seeing this unselfconscious and fearless commitment to the project at hand. The writing practice she’s been developing for her whole life opened up a space for possibility for me that this is less about music than about researching your life. I learned that from the six years of observing her practice and from long conversations about how our life research is going and developing. I’m curious what she’ll say when she reads that (laughter). She’s gonna be like, “What the fuck are you talking about?” (laughter). No, she probably won’t say that. Or I don’t know, she might.
So music is about this life research, does that mean understanding and knowing things about your own life?
Sometimes it’s me realizing things about myself that I only did so from doing music—that happens all the time. But it’s also about having some frame to catch a life of thinking as it changes. It’s not so much research in terms of looking for an answer, but almost just like refining whatever the question is, or giving yourself time to ask the questions. It’s about having time to reflect and spending time with other people’s reflections through their art and being in conversation with people in that way.
When you revisit your past works, do you see yourself and where you were at those points in your life, and do yourself as being less “refined” than who you are now?
That’s a good question. I haven’t gone back and listened to a lot of my old work in a very long time, but I kind of have a sense that if I did, I would… (pauses). What I try to avoid doing is going back to old albums of mine, things that are quasi-finished pieces, but one thing that I have been doing that actually feels like a fruitful process is that over the past 15 or so years, I’ve accumulated 100 or 120 hours of just recordings of me fucking around on various pianos either in Chicago or in New York.
I never studied piano and my relationship to it feels really idiosyncratic and personal, and one thing I’ve been doing specifically with that aspect of my archive is combing through it and listening for very, very short moments where something comes out that must’ve been an accident, a slip of my hand. As I’m listening back, my ear can catch things in 2020 that my hand was doing in 2010 that my ear in 2010 didn’t even know was happening.
There is a sense that I’ve been thinking about the same shit my entire life, which is true. But it’s really interesting to be going back and finding microscopic moments and finding these strange turns of phrase that give me pause. I feel like isolating those and pulling them out and it feels like a way of thinking about how my relationship with music has been throughout my entire life. That feels like a mode of musical research that’s folding back in on itself. It’s research about research in a way. That’s a particular kind of navel-gazing I feel I can spend the rest of my life doing and be perfectly happy.
I was just reading the most recent interview that you put out with Chris [David] and you were talking about your relationship with listening to and making music. I’m so interested in people who have such a personal and what seems like such an encyclopedic knowledge and relationship to music which I imagine you having. Do you think of what you do as research, in a way? What’s the sort of process whereby you proceed. There’s so much music in the world—how do you find your way through it?
Good question, hmm. There are two questions there so let me answer them one at time. There are personal reasons that I do all the music writing I do. Part of it is “for the culture” because of how homogenous the music writing industry is in terms of what gets covered. I feel like I know at least a decent amount about music, I have the ability and access to write for music publications, and it’s something I enjoy doing—it consequently feels imperative that I do these things. Part of it is about documentation because I often get sad about how much is not getting written about—there’s so much music that hasn’t been documented, even in our recent past, and there’s a chance that it’ll never be written about.
I don’t know if I consider a lot of what I do research. When I interview people, that’s first and foremost about me having a love for talking with people, about knowing people, about understanding an artist as a human. You can’t really know an artist from just their music. Well, you can in some sense. When I listen to Joni Mitchell’s music I feel like I know something about her and who she is, but there’s so much there that you don’t get that can only come from a conversation—and that’s also why I try to do Q&A interviews. And with that, there’s an enrichment of the artist’s music because all art is an overflow of one’s life and experiences and thoughts.
If I consider something to be research it’s only if I’m exploring a new genre or reading books or something. I suppose in my mind research has this connotation of seriousness, or maybe I don’t equate research with something that can be fun (laughter).
You’re not the only one.
There are elements of it, though, that are very clearly research, though. What was your other question again?
That’s really helpful. But also, like, how do you—
Oh, like how do I listen to everything that I do? Is that a question about how I listen to it all and process everything?
It’s a combination of that, but also about how you make your way through a world where there’s such an oversaturation of music. Or do you even think there’s a lot of music? There appears to be.
I mean, if you only think about the stuff that’s getting covered, it seems like an incredibly small world. It seems so small. If anyone’s only access to information about music was from these publications, they wouldn’t really think that there’s that much music coming out. But I guess I don’t feel overwhelmed about the amount of music that gets released. I suppose I’m content with the thing that I do care about and I make time for all these sectors of music that I like. And periodically there will be this whole new world of music that I didn’t know about prior, but that’ll just be another addition to everything that I want to spend time with moving forward.
Perhaps this is egotistical, but I’m very sure of myself in my first reaction to any piece of music, which is ultimately just me being at a point where I have identified what I like and can like. But with that, there’s also this thing I learned from a friend where if I hear something and think it’s bad, the first assumption I make—or want to make—is that I’m wrong. The goal is for me to broaden my perspectives such that I can appreciate it. It’s a way I’ve come to terms with the amount of music I listen to, it’s this idea that I want to appreciate any given thing as much as I can, as much as possible. And sometimes that’s just me appreciating it on an intellectual level or in context.
There are so many times where I’ve written about a song that I may not like, but I’ll like the act of writing about it because it forces me to think. And that in and of itself is a process that I find rewarding. I said that writing about music is about documentation, but it’s also about documentation of myself. I look at the writing I’ve done in the past and everything I’ve done captures me at that stage in my life, and it goes beyond just my tastes or whatever. A lot of times I feel the need to write about music because I know I’ll want to remember what I’m thinking about—and how I’m thinking about it—in the future.
That makes a lot of sense to me. What you’re describing feels like a description of what I mean by a “life of research.” Having documentation of the stuff that you’re thinking and coming into contact with as it’s happening. I get so much out of people doing that for themselves. I learn about people and the stuff that they’re thinking about and it’s super rewarding.
Thanks for asking me a question. I think that’s the first time in an interview where someone’s asked me a question and I’ve responded at length. It’s cool. Speaking of artists and getting into their world, one of the big releases on your label is the David Wojnarowicz triple LP, Cross Country. What specifically drew you to him and why did you wanna release those tapes?
That was a really fortuitous project because I was researching him, in a narrower sense of the word—I was actually at his archives in New York. I was checking out his writings and photography and found that he had this huge tape archive of these tape journals from throughout his life, mostly from the last 10 or 12 years of his life—it started in ’81 I think.
I came upon these three tapes that were bound together with this yellow masking tape and had “Cross Country” written on them. I had read essays of his in the past—Close to the Knives—and had read his biography and was really fascinated by him as a person and felt close to him. There was just something about discovering these tapes in the archive, I felt like my brain was on fire for the next week. I remember hearing the third of the three tapes and calling Emily and just sobbing for how moved I was with this story that was unfolding before me. It’s an amazing story, he’s an amazing person, and it’s extremely heartbreaking.
The last tape in this series is also the last tape he recorded, at least for a while, and has him being like, “I’m really lonely and shit’s really”—this is in like 1989, he’s just been diagnosed with AIDS, his best friend Peter Hujar has died, and he’s alone in Arizona. He finds this one beautiful perfect moment where he’s alone in the desert, basically, and has a moment to reflect on the perfect stillness of this scene he’s watching. There’s something about how those tapes were already laid out—I was deeply disturbed and moved by them when I first heard them, and sort of started pulling out some of the layers.
At the very same time, a writer named Lisa Darms was working on a book about his tape journals, so she and I talked a bunch. And then I talked a lot with Wojnarowicz’s last boyfriend [Tom Rauffenbart] before he died, and it ended up becoming this thing where I had this super deep connection with these tapes and felt really called to it. It happened really fast. When I was interested in his work initially, I didn’t even know he had this whole tape archive, and it was really like a punch to the gut to come into contact with that. His voice in the tape recorder really affected me.
The opportunity was there and Tom, who was the executor of his estate, signed off on it and I worked with some of the archivists and threw it together without any idea if people would notice it or be interested or be bothered to deal with it at all. I think that was the first LP we did on Reading Group too and it was this massive project where our living room was just filled with boxes of these LPs (laughter). To me it was, both creatively and historically, really meaningful and satisfying thing to be able to do. The story is so relevant and important to me, it touches me so personally, so I was really pleased that people found their way to it despite me being really bad at press stuff (laughter).
I’m really happy that the release is out in the world. I imagine most people who know about him don’t know about the tapes either, I mean I definitely didn’t for sure. And this is sort of what I was saying about doing interviews—there’s something humanizing about this release. Obviously you get a sense of who he is from his work, but maybe there’s just something about hearing a human voice.
Yeah, it really does something. Lisa’s book came out around the same time as the LPs and while there’s an extended introduction, it’s basically a transcription of everything he says on those tapes. It’s really awesome and an amazing resource to have, but there’s so much that’s going on that you can’t really transcribe. There’s ways that the pacing changes when he’s really getting fired up, and there are long moments of silences.
At the end of that moment I was describing, which is transcribed in Lisa’s book, the tape cuts out and when it cuts back in he’s at SeaWorld in San Diego and he’s not saying anything. He’s just in the bleachers watching the Shamu show and it’s just the sound of super intense Americana, of these whale trainers giving this show to all these families.
That runs for like 20 minutes at the end of the last tape and 18 months later he dies in New York and there’s just something about the movement from this amazing moment he has privately in the desert and then he’s at fucking SeaWorld and there’s no other speaking. It’s like, oh my God. There’s something about the format of him going around the country with a cassette tape recorder that made that scene possible, and I really wanted to transmit that.
Every medium has its pros and cons and I suppose if you can get to know someone through as many mediums as possible, then that’s the best thing to do.
Yeah, definitely.
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Tone Glow Mix
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Here’s a mix of some music and talking that I’ve been taken by recently and not so recently. There’s a lot of Chicago stuff, excerpts from talks and poetry, as well as some stuff I didn't realize I still had. In the Linebaugh excerpt, when he’s referring to the clown, Bottom, acting as the wall, he steps back from the podium and holds two fingers out like an open scissors just below his navel—that’s the hole in the wall that the lovers look through. The whole thing is on YouTube.
The tracklist for Derek Baron’s mix is as follows:
Town & Country - “Garden” from C’mon
Sue Tompkins - “Country Grammer” (excerpt)
Stefan Wolpe - Chamber 2
Eric Schmid - “+2122545428_20131014103158” from a channel, dedicated to Michael
Matthew Schneider - Track 01 from Roanne
Charles Ives - “Study No. 9 - the Anti-Abolitionist Riots”
Delia Derbyshire - “Land” (excerpt) from Dreams
Frank Rosaly - “Babies” from Cicada Music
Peter Roehr - “Morgens die Familie Versorgen
Liz Durette - “Angel Bell’s” from Delight
“Dialect Survey”
Waza trumpet ensemble - “Aba Musa ladoiya (1983)”
Erik Satie - Messe des Pauvres (excerpt)
Michael Jackson - “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough” (Home Demo Recording 1978)
Olivia WB - Track 2 from Round Tuit
Norman H. Pritchard - “Gyre’s Galax”
Nouthong Phimvilayphone - “Khangdeuk”
Peter Linebaugh - “Magna Carta and the Commons” (excerpt)
Korea Undok Group - “Continent”
Fred Moten - “I Lay With Francis in the Margin”
Olivier Messiaen - “I: Regard du père” from Vingts Regards sur l’énfant Jesus
Four Thing - “6” from Four Thing
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Download Corner
Every issue, Tone Glow provides download links to older, obscure albums that we believe deserve highlighting. Each download will be accompanied by a brief description of the album. Artists and labels can contact Tone Glow if you would like to see download links removed.
Danceries - Danceries (Denon, 1981)
Established in 1972 by conductor and multi-instrumentalist Ichiro Okamoto, Danceries was conceptualized as an ensemble that would play medieval and Renaissance-era music on period correct instruments. A group of skilled, classically trained Japanese musicians, they toured European venues and played medieval compositions with the goal of providing audiences a period-accurate experience. In 1974, according to Okamoto, the group was asked to incorporate some traditional Japanese music into their set while on a concert stop in France. The idea seemed antithetical to what Danceries was about and they were trepidatious at first, but they agreed. “To our surprise,” Okamoto recalls in the liner notes, “the European instruments imbued it with a rich, new color.” From that point on they would play a mix of European and Asian traditional music in all of their sets, and what Danceries was about became something new: providing a period-accurate experience sometimes, and providing the experience of Japanese musicians playing the part of European time travellers at others—in other words, being themselves.
This album—only their second, following a more strictly Renaissance-focused record in 1977—can be seen as the culmination of what they learned about themselves following that fateful tour of France. Foregoing the traditional wisdom of sequencing an album of period music by date of composition or grouping by their geographic provenance, they instead sequenced the tracks with the goal of creating “some kind of balance and bond between the pieces.” That’s significant, because it makes the difference between a museum exhibit and a creative endeavor. Not only did they include two Okinawan folk songs and one from Tsugaru (not played with a shamisen, notably, as music from the area is famously known for), they also had contemporary composer Yuji Takahashi create new pieces for them to perform with their instruments of choice in mind; the old and the new are presented together, with no divider to separate them.
Danceries would push this concept much further the very next year in a collaboration with the venerable Ryuichi Sakamoto called The End of Asia—a release that would see the ensemble performing stripped-down acoustic versions of sparkling electronic pop songs from Sakamoto’s Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto alongside the early music that they became known for—but this 1981 record marked the first of only a handful of times they would commit this intersection of east, west, past and present to a recording. The two styles of music contained within this album inform one another: the Japanese music influences the European by way of the performers’ lived experience as Japanese people, and the European music in turn influences the Japanese as Danceries bring back home what they’ve learned from their journey through the ages; Okamoto says of the two that they are “so different and yet so similar.” —Shy Thompson
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10LEC6 - Join Us! (Mollicut Records / Rock On Fiat Lux, 2005)
A few years ago I was flipping through records and found this chillingly rendered portrait of a child staring back at me. To be frank, the sleeve that houses Join Us! has been a major factor towards the staying power of this quick EP in my own collection. While the four songs are incisive and enjoyable, Jerome Zonder’s front and back cover art (included here in the download) surround the work loudly, sitting somewhere between work by Raymond Pettibon, Henry Darger, Heather Benjamin, and Junji Ito.
Eyes carved out and cells vibrating, the toothy child on the front only gives a hint towards the horror on back (cw for this paragraph and images in folder: body horror, sexuality, children). Scratched out between agitated text is a rapid-fire display of several baby-faced figures: toddler twins dressed like Men-in-Black, chuckling; a boy and girl cackling, feasting upon severed human limbs; a cybertronic child whose jaw has dropped so fully as to expose a small tower of circuitry and mechanisms; and two horrifically hypersexualized, cherubic figures, both with melon-sized tits and one with a visible and strangely non-anatomical cock. The entire layout is so filled to the brim with dissonance and detail (a small Coca-Cola logo tattoo-ed on one child’s arm, two children with similar insignia on their wrinkled shirts) amidst an effectively animative display of the EP’s lyrics that it should stand as a true watermark for a certain approach to album packaging.
All that said, the music on Join Us! isn’t without its charm and delight. This 2005 debut EP has the French punk outfit zanily ripping through four tracks of disco-tinged anarcho-punk with colorful interludes. While each of these four songs would find a later home on 10LEC6’s 2006 debut full-length Counselling Orientation, their sequencing here makes for a more concise and punchy statement to a degree that none of the band's later full-lengths would really get around to. By drawing a stop-and-go style-changing sensibility with d-beat and no wave influences towards the stripped-down bass-and-drum sound that characterized many Load Records releases of the time (e.g. Lightning Bolt, The Body, OvO, and Olneyville Sound System), 10LEC6 introduce a propulsive sound still fresh today (oddly reminiscent at times of earlier art school electro like Chicks On Speed as well as more recent deconstructionist punk bands Woolf and P22). Each side of the EP begins with a spoken intro appropriately reminiscent of the dry monologues that began each Crass full-length. On the A-side however those blasphemous monologues are devolved into a stream of incoherent babbling akin to the vocalizations of Phil Minton and Jaap Blonk; on the B-side, it’s the similarly incoherent speech of an auctioneer, the sound of capital moving. Unlike Crass, however, each song here is politically understated and obscure in its messaging.
The band’s later output—which includes a restructuring in 2018 that followed a decade-long hiatus—hasn’t stuck for me the way this EP has. Nonetheless, my recent rediscovery of this lost nugget in my own record collection has me sentimental about the particularities of any collection. It reminds me of the value we each place in items that another might find completely mediocre and the way a creative artifact often branches out with tendrils into the world, infecting others far away, unbeknownst to its creator. Thus, when Emy Rojas shouts “Join us / We want U,” on “Intestinal Skirmish,” I’m inclined to accept, even after the signal has faded over the years. —Leah B. Levinson
Portland Bike Ensemble - Live In Japan 2006 (Olde English Spelling Bee, 2009)
It’s often the case that albums produced with what might be considered novelty items or other typically non-musical objects have a goal of achieving something more conventional and rhythmic than totally abstract. I’ve heard music made with children’s toys (Toygopop, Elementary, etc.), vegetables (ONIONOISE), and even pure field recordings (Of Water, Land, & Sky), all of the unusual “instruments” played or otherwise manipulated to yield largely accessible rhythms and structure. In relation to a somewhat opposite approach of producing formless, textural soundscapes, I wouldn’t say the aforementioned is more or less difficult or rewarding, just different. Mining both the musical and the purely auditory properties of the things that surround us every day are equally rewarding pursuits, but it’s still true that I encounter the former much more often than the latter.
So, needless to say, when a friend randomly gave me a copy of the Portland Bike Ensemble’s self-titled debut on Olde English Spelling Bee (only $8, apparently), I did not assume its contents would be freely improvised music using amplified bicycles—an obliviousness that made my first listen of the 2004 LP even more memorable. The expositorily-named ensemble gathers in groups of two to three bicyclists (a new definition, if you will—not one who rides bicycles, but one who plays bicycles) in studios, art spaces, churches, and a variety of other environments with a motley, Voice Crack-esque arsenal of custom-built bikes and parts. The absolutely enthralling success of this approach, no doubt bolstered by the skill and technical knowledge of the improvisers, led me to purchase a copy of Live in Japan 2006, also released by OESB. It documents a city-hopping tour through the famously avant-garde-accommodating country, with recordings that capture the band’s clattering, metallic “discrete cacophonies,”[1] scratching bow strokes, and other unidentifiable sonic coaxes in anything from the solemn silence of a Tokyo Buddhist temple to a small, crowded, stuffy underground venue in Kyoto.
PBE are one of those acts whose intrigue or “novelty” is not at all tied to their music itself, let alone its quality; isolated from their origins (which could conceivably be unknown if the group had chosen a less illustrative moniker) these are lush, considered industrial improvisations, often echoing the best of beloved standbys like Morphogenesis or The New Blockaders... but the fact that it’s all made with fuckin’ bikes makes them that much more interesting to witness, hear, and talk about. —Jack Davidson
[1] Phrase used in the description of Taw’s recent release Truce Terms on Bezirk, another excellent abstract novelty excursion (in this case, with children’s toys).
Writers Panel
Every issue, Tone Glow has a panel of writers share brief thoughts on an album and assign it a score between 0 and 10. This section of the website is inspired by The Singles Jukebox.
Ellen Fullman & Theresa Wong - Harbors (Room40, 2020)
Press Release info: Harbors is a collaboration of composers Ellen Fullman (Long String Instrument) and Theresa Wong (cello), which draws inspiration from the soundscapes, stories and atmospheres that manifest around bodies of water that propagate exchange. Structured around the extended harmonics of the open strings of the cello, Wong and Fullman utilize subsets of these tonal areas to create distinct sonic environments within the piece.
Fullman’s Long String Instrument, a stunning installation of over forty strings spanning seventy feet in length, places the performers and audience inside the actual resonating body, transforming the architecture itself into the musical instrument. Wong has developed techniques that take the cello beyond tradition into a vocabulary more closely rooted in the sounds of the natural world. She captures material electronically, layering textures amplified throughout the space which form an immersive field where figure and ground are in constant flux.
The piece reveals an orchestration of shifting drones, aberrant melodies and glistening atmospheres. Harbors has reverberated many spaces around the world, including: Click Festival, Helsingør, Denmark; Transformer Station, Cleveland; MONA FOMA, Tasmania; Centennial Hall, Sydney Festival; The Lab, San Francisco; and Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
Purchase Harbors at Bandcamp.
Vanessa Ague: Ellen Fullman’s Long String Instrument, a project more than 30 years in the making, is a marvel. Its forty 70-foot long strings lay taught across a room; to play the instrument, Fullman walks between the strings, fingering them with rosin-coated hands. The sound is resonant and crisp, with a hint of nasal crunch. On Harbors, we’re unable to see the massive installation, but its electrifying reverberations make up the backbone of each of the album’s mystical pieces. It works in combination with a textural cello—performed by Theresa Wong—to create immediately entrancing music that garners poignant reflection through gradual change and melancholy harmony.
Harbors transports us to the quietude of a foggy port, where it’s easy to imagine travelers walking across slippery wooden slats, shrouded in mist. It’s an album made of austere drones, rooting itself in the subtle exploration of string instrument performance techniques. This type of instrumental music makes its grandest statements through the channeling of aura rather than explicit statements, and Fullman and Wong choose to create an eerie sensation with each of the works they present.
The most enchanting of the three pieces on Harbors is “Part 1,” which opens the record with a thin drone that gradually blooms. Wong enters the placid atmosphere that Fullman makes with a punch, quickly exposing the contrast of the cello’s full-bodied warmth with the Long Instrument’s electrified tranquility. The piece’s focus on harmony and long-held chords is reminiscent of Éliane Radigue’s Occam V, or the all-cello version of John Luther Adams’s Canticles of the Sky. But instead of solely centering serene harmony, Fullman and Wong play with grainy and airy textures, blending the cello’s complex, folky melody of harmonics with the continual motion of the Long Instrument.
As a duo, Fullman and Wong lean into textural exploration to drive their droning music out of stagnation. In “Part 2” and “Part 3,” Wong introduces other techniques into her performance, like echoey plucks, bouncy ricochets, and airy glissandi. The result is gripping: there is always a new timbre to notice, even as the harmonies remain in seemingly similar areas. After listening, it’s hard to shake the sense of ethereal energy Fullman and Wong are able to create; they truly achieve the aspirational inner pensivity of deep listening.
Gil Sansón: One knows what to expect when confronted with an Ellen Fullman record. Her Long String Instrument, blurring the lines between musical instrument and sound installation, will yield variations and shades seemingly without end, and will also always remain the same. By turning a performing space into the resonance box of her instrument, Fullman finds and exploits the particularities of a site for aesthetic ends. The technique and the overall form remains the same, with “drone” being the keyword. The resulting music has a shimmering quality and seems to exist out of time: the slow, shifting sounds don’t have edges, making her music relate superficially to Eliane Radigue or Phill Niblock, while remaining immediately identifiable in its character.
Theresa Wong’s cello adds darker hues, highlighting the bright colors of the LSI. Wong avoids the typical tropes of the instrument, putting the cello on the same path as Fullman’s enormous sound maker by focusing on intonation, natural harmonics and the dynamics of bowing. As such, the music has no evident structure and seems improvised, and the rich harmonic spectra of the cello, especially on the low strings, adds a welcome gravitas that enhances the timeless aspect of the music. The moments in which Wong employs other resources apart from bowing, like the glissandi and knocks on the body of the instrument, are particularly striking in a very subdued manner, making Fullman respond in kind and turning the LSI into a sort of giant banjo to great effect.
Harbors is leisurely paced, meditative but not deliberately so. Each of the three pieces have a distinctive character and tone, the first being rich in low and mid range, the shorter middle piece with their plucked sounds offering a lovely contrast in texture and pace, and the third with their bright and buzzing colors: they form a satisfying triptych.
Marshall Gu: Fullman’s creation is certainly a unique sound. As best as I can describe it, the Long String Instrument sounds like the cheap drone of a hurdy-gurdy turned expansive, stretched for miles. Played loudly and in short bursts, it can be powerful and even cleansing. But the thing is, it’s not meant to be played in short bursts. Harbors is a 43-minute album made up of only three movements, and the major failing here is that I’m not picturing the San Francisco bay that influenced its creation. No images of water, lighthouses, or other aqua-paraphernalia. Fog, maybe. Package these same sounds under the title ‘Wind’ or ‘Desert’ or ‘Tectonic Plates,’ and no one would be any the wiser. Collaborator and cellist Ellen Wong ought to have helped distinguish Harbors from any of Fullman’s other albums—and certainly, there’s the odd rhythmic burst, lingering in the air until the next—but it’s not enough.
Shy Thompson: Harbors is an album that, conceptually, is really exciting to me. Ellen Fullman’s Long String Instrument, a thing that is itself a piece of art as much as something used to create art, is probably quite a sight to behold; I would certainly love to see it and feel it in action as it takes complete command of the space it inhabits by fully arresting two of your senses at once. It’s hard not to be fascinated by such an ambitious instrument and daydream about what this fantastical thing is capable of. It’s also difficult for me not to be thrilled by what Harbors draws its inspiration from; I love the sounds of water. Field recordings from the shores of France, Rio de Janeiro, Robinson Crusoe’s Island, and countless other places on this big ball of water remain in my listening rotation despite being functionally all very similar, because the subtleties in the way the water meets the earth in each of these places is deeply fascinating to me. I haven’t even bothered to call maintenance and have them fix my leaky bathtub faucet—admittedly, primarily because my cat likes to drink running water and whatever she wants, she gets, but also because I find it to be a pleasant and interesting sound.
This record was set up to be an easy layup for someone so easy to please, but there’s a problem: the sound just doesn’t nail the imagery at all. Despite the romantic allure of a unique instrument that fills a room—both literally and figuratively—and the promise of soundscapes that invoke the feeling of bodies of water, all I come away feeling is that I’ve just listened to a drone album that I’ve heard plenty of times before. I won’t deny my disappointment is due in equal parts to a matter of taste and lofty expectations, but I am nonetheless crestfallen. I sat in the bathroom after listening to Harbors to confirm that the art installation I actually wanted to hear has been in my shower the whole time.
Joshua Minsoo Kim: “Never Gets Out of Me,” the opening track on Through Glass Panes, features Theresa Wong’s cello and Ellen Fullman’s Long String Instrument in an elegant pas de deux. While beautiful and sinuous, it’s a bit too easy to get lost in. Harbors is more invigorating: there’s persistent intrigue resulting from varying disruptions of continuous drones. Compared to The Air Around Her, Fullman’s album with Okkyung Lee, these tracks don’t feature a distinct foreground/background or lead/accompaniment dynamic. Compared to the Sean Meehan collaboration, I’m not spending the runtime tracing how individual tones evolve and align. Harbors is all about immersion and re-immersion: Wong’s cello regularly irrupts the space and Fullman readily adapts, and the act of listening becomes one of fighting to remain in this enveloping space. While Harbors is not the most kaleidoscopic of Fullman’s works, it is one that allows for my own participation, and that’s invaluable for a piece of music that’s best experienced in person.
Samuel McLemore: When I saw that Ellen Fullman had a new duo album with cellist Theresa Wong coming out on Room40 named Harbors, I felt I knew exactly what it would sound like before I even pressed play—and I was basically right! It’s an album of darkly romantic and immaculately recorded acoustic drone, featuring the Long String Instrument’s characteristic wall of harmonic reverberations setting the stage for Wong’s cello.
Instead of being disappointed that my expectations were merely being met instead of exceeded, I found myself pleased at how fully realized and sincerely gorgeous Harbors is. Wong and Fullman have collaborated together for over a decade now, and Harbors has been in the works since at least 2015; the amount of time and effort that has gone into practicing and refining the piece is clear in how elegantly Fullman and Wong compliment each other. Drone for me is often best when it sounds rough and unpolished—when it takes the form of naively ecstatic explorations in sound—but the music on Harbors is clearly as well-rehearsed and well-developed as most modern classical and suffers nothing for it.
Instead, it serves as an excellent reminder of how drone and ambient genres are more capable than expected of controlling and refining their expressiveness without losing the essential spark that brings most to the genre in the first place. This spark is hard to define, but it may be described as a certain attitude towards sound and the act of listening, a combination of humble awe and reverent patience that can make other, flashier approaches sound hollow and empty. Fullman and Wong keep the core of their work emotionally expressive and tastefully restrained—no one should complain.
Mark Cutler: There is an optical experience one sometimes has looking at a calm body of water, when the sun and a light breeze hit it just right. Under those circumstances, the water’s surface breaks into thousands of tiny, white-streaked peaks, colliding, disappearing and reforming faster than the eye can focus. It’s an effect which cannot be captured on camera, one which overloads the feeble visual system with its thousands of glimmering phantasms, moving, morphing, suggesting a shape which never quite resolves.
This is the kind of water I imagine Fullman and Wong had in mind when composing Harbors. The music certainly does not invoke the rhythms of waves against a beach, or the persistent flow of a river. Rather, placid drones dominate all three pieces, with snatches of melody sometimes forming, flickering by and dissolving again. This sense is amplified by Fullman’s extraordinary instrument, which often sounds like a massive cello but can take on a stunning variety of tones. Halfway through the first track, it starts to sound airy and tubular, somewhat reminiscent of Godfried-Willem Raes’s pneumaphones. On the second, it sounds varying like a guitar, a harpsichord, and even a koto.
Like the shimmering surface of an agitated sea, with its whirling heads of foam and silver dollars of light and fallen, floating stars, it is difficult here to focus on any one element in particular. The effect is pleasantly somniferous. Were I not tasked to review the album, I would have taken my laptop to bed, and drifted off to sleep.
Matthew Blackwell: Some months ago, a video of this guy was making the rounds on social media. In the interview, William Close breathlessly tells us how he invented his “earth harp” by attaching very long strings to two distant bases, smirking as he recounts his discovery that by using violin rosin on his hands and rubbing them up and down the strings, he could create compression waves that would resonate within the room that the strings, performer, and audience occupy. What he doesn’t mention is that Ellen Fullman beat him to the punch by nearly two decades, inventing her Long String Instrument in 1981. The difference is that she’s not corny enough to go on America’s Got Talent or play the Game of Thrones theme.
Fullman’s playing the long Long String game, though, producing a series of recordings with collaborators like Konrad Sprenger, Okkyung Lee, and now Theresa Wong that will, if there is any justice in the world, outlast Close’s viral YouTube fodder. For this outing, Wong’s cello often inhabits the low registers, leaving Fullman to create sustained high notes that provide atmosphere for her improvisations. I made the mistake of listening for the first time on headphones, which makes these notes thin and piercing. Switch to surround sound, though, and they lift each composition up, creating partials and harmonics that sweep across the room and sound slightly different based on the listener’s position. Even if this doesn’t exactly replicate the live experience, which is how this piece is surely meant to be heard, the difference is enough to make or break the recording.
Where the long stretches of drone, as in “Part 1,” make for pleasant background music, the appeal of this collaboration is in how the LSI and cello interact when they are at their most distinct. Wong’s skill at improvising with low plucked, bowed, and scraped notes makes those sections where she wanders with the most freedom, throughout “Part 2” and in the second half of “Part 3,” stand out. As her silences are filled with the subtle ringing from Fullman’s Instrument, she is able to briefly disrupt the tension only to set it up again, as if appearing briefly in the fog. This makes for satisfying repeated listens, as their interplay stays tantalizingly unpredictable even as patterns suggest themselves. If harbors are places of transfer and exchange in Fullman and Wong’s imagination, then this is a successful, if abstract, representation thereof, evoking the San Francisco Bay that inspired it.
Average: [6.75]
Matmos - The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form (Thrill Jockey, 2020)
Press Release info: The Consuming Flame was composed through the social act of invitation, and the album’s 99 participants are, even for Matmos, wildly eclectic. Some are collaborators that have worked with Matmos for many years (J. Lesser, Jon “Wobbly” Leidecker, Mark Lightcap, Josh Quillen of So Percussion, Vicki Bennett) and some are near total strangers found through open calls on internet forums for contributions at 99 beats per minute.
There are players from the conservatory-trained world of “new music” (Kate Soper, Bonnie Lander, Ashot Sarkissjan, Jennifer Walshe) and figures from the extreme music underground (Blake Harrison of Pig Destroyer, Kevin Gan Yuen of Sutekh Hexen, Terence Hannum of Locrian), as well as auteurs from the world of “noise” music (Twig Harper, Moth Cock, Bromp Treb, Id M Theft Able) as well as writers (Douglas Rushkoff, Colin Dickey) and conceptual artists (Heather Kapplow). There are distinguished alumni and contemporary luminaries of electronic music (Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma of Mouse on Mars, Daniel Lopatin, DeForrest Brown Jr., J. G. Thirlwell, Matthew Herbert, Rabit, Robin Stewart and Harry Wright of Giant Swan) and artists associated with indie rock and folk traditions (Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew of Yo La Tengo, Marisa Anderson). There are undergraduates who took M.C. Schmidt’s “Sound As Music” course during the final year of The San Francisco Art Institute’s existence. In honor of its fiercely independent tradition of outsider creativity, the album is dedicated to the memory of the now closed art school.
Submissions from artists were subsequently layered onto each other, prompting later recording sessions which then built upon the first wave of contributions. These discrete zones were then collaged into larger and larger units and more contributors were invited to join until, gradually, the “group form” of three distinct hour-long movements emerged. Part exquisite-corpse and part virtual festival, the results retain Matmos’ distinct and unique voice despite the promiscuously open nature of these collaborations.
Purchase The Consuming Flame at Bandcamp or the Thrill Jockey website.
Nick Zanca: I have learned to love the longform as certain listening practices of mine have evolved. Back when my commute still existed, I would often occupy the hour spent on the M train from my outer-borough apartment to my desk job in midtown Manhattan with whatever record by The Necks fit my frame of mind. I’d press play before heading down the stairs and out the door, following the trio’s motif du jour slowly develop while walking to the subway—the denouement would almost always align with the moment I’d pay for a cup of coffee at my spot outside the office and take the elevator up. As someone who struggles in a corporate context, it should go without saying that this was often the highlight of my morning. Contrary to popular opinion, inhabiting these sonic spaces is all about pace over patience; simply pair your daily activities with the right stretched-out soundtrack and sooner or later your life’s commotions will settle to a bearable and breathable speed.
I have likewise long admired Drew Daniel and MC Schmidt’s power-coupling and their constant commitment to self-imposed limitations; whether those constraints are curbed to surgical instruments or Whirlpool washing machines, the duo has always managed to cultivate a rare strain of curious concrète that pushes past the idiom’s prototypical self-seriousness and pursues interdisciplinary influence in its place. I could take this space to namedrop several recorded examples of extended group energy that came to mind throughout these three hours but there are already plenty laid out in the press copy. For me, the superimposed pluralities at play here actually reminded me most of the maximal mechanics of Altman films and Gaddis novels. The latter’s doorstopper-length book JR takes the form of a chapterless capitalist critique almost exclusively written in unattributed dialogue, luring readers into the process of parsing speech patterns and creating relationships for what feels like hundreds of characters; unless you have a guide on hand similar to the graphic Thrill Jockey has graciously provided mapping out a timeline of when contributors appear, chances are you will struggle to find your footing until halfway through. In the act of reading, a narrative can at least function as a glue; in The Consuming Flame, the fixed pulse and the occasional slip outside the grid rarely feels like enough to ascertain cohesion.
That’s not to say the freedom Matmos offers their collaborators never leads to flashes of brilliance—the highlights that come to mind are scattered almost to evade skimming: the spliced voices of Colin Self and Daveed Diggs offer an ideal illegible adjunct to Lower Dens drummer Nate Nelson’s brushed grooves; the absurd speech-synthesis cocktail party atmosphere staged by plunderphonists People Like Us and Porest is comedic gold; the amorphous tectonic shift in textures between our leaders and Yo La Tengo serve as a fleeting ambient respite; the kosmische cosplay between Daniel and Emeralds synthesist John Elliott is actually quite convincing to the point of authenticity. The breadth of substance and style here clearly embodies a crate-digger’s cornucopia at its highs, almost tantamount to the sample-based stratagems of Endtroducing or Since I Left You replaced with organic performances and electroacoustic flexes—really, what’s missing here is a durational backbone.
Sam Tornow: I’ve never wanted to listen to a three-hour-plus album more than once, no matter how good it is. The pacing is never quite right, and the length always comes off as a show of strength wrapped around a weak concept. Matmos’s Consuming Flame: An Exercise in Group Form, comprised of 99 collaborators whose only guideline was to submit something that’s 99 BPM, is an exception.
Consuming Flame is three hours of gorgeous, hideous, and satisfying sounds masterfully blended to create a feeling of propulsion. One-half of the Matmos duo, M.C. Schmidt, nails the feeling of the record in the press materials by comparing the pacing to that of a train—this feels like riding one and passing through Pendleton Ward-inspired villages, the journey filled with joys, horrors, and plenty of psychedelia.
It’s as much of an exercise in group form as it is a celebration of Matmos’s career. Few other experimental artists could pull together such a massive roster of musicians from diverse backgrounds—Yo La Tengo, Moth Cock, Oneohtrix Point Never, Clipping., and 95 others—and even fewer could mix it all into a cohesive, enjoyable record.
I’ve also never written about a record and been afraid of spoiling its content. There’s so many 10- to 15-second gems buried in Consuming Flame: some sections have such satisfying sounds that it’s like watching ASMR, other parts feel so out of left-field that you’ll wonder how the duo pulled it off, and several moments are hilarious. For Matmos, a group that thrives under constraints and themes, Consuming Flame is another notch in their belt. Enter the record open-minded, and you’ll likely leave open-mouthed.
Evan Welsh: It took roughly 15-minutes to reboot my brain after first glimpsing the contributors chart for The Consuming Flame, which gives off an intense chaotic-energy—the designation of good or bad will depend on the viewer and what level of color intensity their retinas can withstand.
That energy continues into the music as well, as an immensely protean experiment of mass collaboration, which is its greatest asset and detriment. The only direction here is forward—zipping through landscapes of dynamic rhythm, light, and density at constantly shifting speeds between glitchy, claustrophobic environments and open, atmospheric ones. Each moment and section itself is inviting. I kept waiting for boredom to creep in through my headphones but the bastard never came. The diversity of sounds brought forth from all of these creators are mixed into this wonderfully linear musical trajectory. The only problem is, by the time even 15-20 minutes of music passes, the previous sections have completely fallen away beyond my periphery and even beyond my recollection. After three full listens, only a few select moments stuck with me: a hilarious streaming-platform related surprise and the opening of the third CD, which is impenetrably gorgeous.
Perhaps when this album is available in a more compartmentalized form, I’ll be able to linger in each portion more, investigating and establishing a more longstanding appreciation for them, but as is, there is no lingering. Flames do not stagnate, and even though The Consuming Flame is fragmentary and irregular, one principle ties all of its collaborators and unruliness together: propulsion.
Gil Sansón: Epithets like self indulgent mean little with a project like Matmos. It’s what they do, they take often absurd ideas and run with them. They do have a distinct sonic imprint, though, and this gargantuan new record does seem like an attempt to go beyond their signature sound as far as they can possibly take it. At the same time, the massive amount of collaborators hints at both a pun on one of the typical tropes in contemporary pop and hip-hop and to an actual representation of a network, one that's as wide, stylistically speaking, as humanly possible. Three hours long, with no discernible center, no climaxes, no dramatic arc. Every style imaginable, from druggy krautrock to glitchy electronica and noise, field recordings to avant-garde metal, everything united by a fixed tempo of 99 beats per minute. In a way, it sounds like a year’s worth of The Wire magazine in a blender, as exciting or annoying as it sounds. It also appears like a challenge to people who claim to have a wide ranging taste in music, while at the same time highlighting the influence that Matmos has on many practitioners of today’s music. Periodically, one hears the type of sound pioneered by the duo before a new window of weirdness takes its place:it’s a party and it’s utopia, decentralized and without hierarchy.
But what about the actual music? Unsurprisingly, it’s entertaining and engaging. Active listening for three hours straight is unlikely, and so the listening experience feels akin to aimless internet browsing (or browsing through record shelves, for that matter). Left-field electronica predominates, though, along with some of the tropes of their contemporaries, as if to remind people that this is a Matmos party after all. Does it make any sense to highlight individual moments or contributions? Not for this listener. No doubt some will feel otherwise, and the duo gives them convenient breaks in something of an index. For me, this somehow undermines the strength of the whole, which amounts to a rich stew with many flavors to be savored at leisure.
It’s a success in the sense that it sounds and feels like a Matmos record, and it works on several levels, from off-center lounge music to Stockhausen-like extravaganza (for some reason I'm reminded of Hymnen), it truly doesn’t sound as daunting as it may seem on paper. Of course, one can listen to half an hour and get the same effect—music shouldn’t be an endurance contest—but you’ll be surprised at how fast an hour elapses with this record.
Rebecca Jones: Stargate Universe is a pretty bad sci-fi show, and a great example of the way 90s-00s-10s sci-fi sensationalizes militance and reinforces negative tropes about women and people of color. In SGU, scientists, sociologists, human resources officials, and members of the US military are stranded on a spaceship, the Destiny, with the ability to jump to different parts of various galaxies using a Faster Than Light (FTL) engine, taking the crew further and further from Earth. The end goal is to reach some sort of primordial launching point for the Universe, a place (or time?) that contains information about the beginning of everything and the Answer To It All.
The travelers of the Destiny begrudgingly succumb to automated jumps in and out of FTL based on reconnaissance of scouts the Ancients built eons ago to determine which planets along their journey could offer sustenance or reprieve from space-time-travel life. These scouts built Stargates on habitable, or at least survivable, planets, so when the travelers drop out of FTL they simply activate the Stargate on the ship, walk into the goopy glowy wormhole medium, and step out onto the planet of the ship’s choosing. Passengers grow frustrated as the ship delivers them to hostile planets, but have to remember that despite their trials they serve some Bigger Purpose.
Listening to Matmos’s The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form feels like watching Stargate Universe, but it sounds better. I relate to the characters who yearn so deeply for Earth-like atmospheres as I grasp at sonic grounding, plagued by nostalgia for Ultimate Care II, and I stare at the collaborator citation, waiting for a familiar artist to cross my path. The Consuming Flame and SGU are adequate metaphors for These Days. We’re jumping around trying to ground our feelings of anxiety, elation, depressions, the cycles we move through, holding out our hands for something familiar. I’m constantly torn between acting or letting a leader guide me, but Matmos, as usual, leave space for whichever feels best at the time of listening.
The Consuming Flame’s a good one for pandemic emotive cycles, doing things around the house, active or passive listening, and it sounds so so good. “A DOUGHNUT IN THE SKY” would be a better soundtrack for dining at the Rainforest Cafe, “ON THE TEAM” would be a better soundtrack for dining at Mars 2112 (a restaurant I was fortunate enough to enjoy when I was eight years old), and “EXTRATERRESTRIAL MASTERS” is great for watching Stargate Universe with the volume off.
A chart mapping all 99 contributors’ parts within The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form
Samuel McLemore: For their latest conceptual exercise, long-running duo Matmos have apparently taken it upon themselves to disprove Willie Nelson’s dictum that “you can’t make a record if you ain’t got nothing to say, you can’t play music if you don’t know nothing to play” by asking 99 other artists to decide what to say and play for them.
I was provided a poster detailing the basics of how each contribution lined up with the others, and squinting at its schematics did little to help make sense of the overall structure of the piece. Matmos’s comments on viewing the composition as being like a train ride at an amusement park are probably helpful here. (Why Matmos wants their train ride so slow it takes three hours to ride, they never explain.) The way the players and sounds shift rigidly every few minutes mirror the plastic artificial worlds that amusement parks rapidly shuttle you through, and the lack of engagement or care that amusement parks evince in their very being is on full display here. The goal for this concept seems to have been just a means to an end, another way for them to build a composition, and this is clear in how the concept added nothing to the finished product.
The lengthy list of contributors gives no meaning to the mix by their presence alone, and the way they are layered and sequenced is never used as adventurously as it could be. So much artistic potential here is left on the table here! Imagine the possibilities that are opened if you view combining artists with an eye to how these choices can affect the listener politically, nostalgically, culturally, or in literally any manner other than the scrubbed clean “purely sonic” method Matmos have chosen here. The similarity, both sonically and compositionally, of this album to the average mix on Blowing Up The Workshop is notable, except the average Blowing Up The Workshop mix is more adventurous, more concise, more thoughtful, and more pleasurable than what Matmos were capable of making, and with far less pretentious effort and fuss involved.
After writing the above I went back and reread their press release, noticing this time that they explain how they built this album up organically, by layering their own material with that of their collaborators and then seeking out new collaborators to extend the piece from there. That the choices of collaborators and their sequencing in the mix don’t build up in any meaningful way is doubly baffling in light of this apparent care they put into each step of their process. Though perhaps this does explain why the album is such a slog to listen to front-to-back—caught up in fixing each moment’s collaborator with the next, Matmos lose sight of the whole.
Mark Cutler: What’s frustrating is that there is good material here. The first track opens with some springy, electronic funk à la Mouse on Mars (the actual Mouse on Mars will show up later, but not for a couple of hours), which evolves into a genuinely compelling, krauty jam. But fast forward ten minutes, and the momentum is already gone. There are ups and downs which sometimes correlate to the appearance or disappearance of certain contributors—the limp cameo by Clipping. is a noticeable, early low-point, while Jennifer Walshe’s always-amusing, psuedo-operatic vocals came as a welcome surprise early on disc two—but the cumulative impression isn’t really good or bad. It just kind of keeps going on.
Fairly early into this slog, I found myself wanting to listen to Keiji Haino’s In The World, one of his epic, galaxy-brain DJ sets combining kebyar and grindcore, rap and gagaku, scratchy old blues 45s and wuxia film soundtracks, dub techno and a speech by Trotsky—yes, Trotsky. That album, like this one, is a three-hour, three-CD, near-continuous mix that combines and juxtaposes contributions from innumerable artists. However, what makes Haino’s album more pleasurable to listen to is an overall sense of control, of intention. Haino’s juxtapositions are frequently unexpected, but always feel purposeful, whereas Matmos don’t seem to be wrangling the considerable talent they’ve enlisted to any meaningful effect. Too often, this supposed ‘journey’ veers off course, on long digressions which are neither viscerally enjoyable nor conceptually interesting.
Joshua Minsoo Kim: Gimmicks in music are fine, really. Any good gimmick will allow for a specific foundation or framework with which artists can work with, allowing self-imposed limitations and specific ideas to foster creativity. The problem with The Consuming Flame is that its gimmick feels wholly about spectacle. There is nothing innately incredible about collaborating with 99 artists, and there’s also nothing interesting about an album that’s 3 hours long. This isn’t to say that such notions are being put forth by Matmos, but these are things people will mention whenever talking about this album: it’s big, it’s ambitious, it’s an album for these times.
More than anything, listening to The Consuming Flame reminds me of this poke bowl I had last night. All the individual ingredients are fine, but the overwhelming feeling is that it’s just a big mush of flavors that coalesce into something without nuance or depth. In my multiple listens to this album, I didn’t find myself surprised by anything sonically, either—individual albums from every artist here are more ambitious and invigorating, if only by the very nature of the passages here being incredibly short. The Consuming Flame is consequently about the stitching together of different elements more than the elements themselves, which means it’s more interesting on paper than anything else.
Really, The Consuming Flame provides an experience that’s more banal, more dreary, more exhausting than checking samples from every new album listed on Boomkat. Maybe I’d have enjoyed this more if there was an interactive element, like a website where I could pick and choose the contributions I wanted and then make my own album. Of course, the idea here is that Matmos have provided some excellent curation, sequencing, and music themselves. I’m impressed by the logistics, but that’s really it. The result is that The Consuming Flame is the most depressing album I’ve heard all year; it points to how stale experimental music can truly seem, how various ideas can be flattened into a hodgepodge of sonic signifiers, how every artist can be reduced to a shtick.
Marshall Gu: Matmos’s new album comes from a rich lineage of albums that do not care about you, your preconceived notions about ‘structure’ and ‘convenience,’ your listening habits. It’s 3 hours long and asks you to listen to it from one end to the other. The album comes with a map of its 99 collaborators that simply raises more questions than it answers: a Where’s Waldo of your favourite electronic auteurs. The second song opens with the briefest chuckle that reaffirms that this is evil music. Listen-at-your-own-peril music. Never-ending hallways with doors that are locked, doors that lead to dead-ends, doors that never open again. Moments of tender respite are filled with the same unease as the sections of cult ritual rhythms, for example, the docile percussion at the 8:30 mark of “On the Team” off-set by the typewriter and the foreign language teacher, or “A Doughnut in the Sky” around the 40-minute mark when it goes into new age ambient as made by Autechre. Or else, these quieter sections come with the realization that something is lurking behind the corner. You’d think that, given the sheer number of collaborators and the length of these compositions, that sections would simply end and the next would begin without thought given to the transitions, but that’d be folly: the bluesy guitar of “Extraterrestrial Masters” folds into straight-up rave territory and becomes blues at the end of the galaxy. All told, The Consuming Flame is evil and unforgiving and intensely rewarding: a treasure trove waiting anyone willing to journey there.
Sunik Kim: Self-indulgent, tedious gimmick. Not sure how anyone could sit through three minutes of this—let alone three hours—let alone three hours at 99BPM (???). This is the perfect encapsulation of the unchecked, unwarranted self-obsession and self-mythologizing of the popularly accepted and institutionalized ‘Experimental Music Scene’—a hermetic trend literal decades behind the true cutting edge of 21st century music, but one that somehow still positions itself as some kind of cultural and intellectual vanguard because of the dead weight of its most impressive forebears.
The most disappointing and blatantly misleading aspect of this trend is its supposed identity with ‘experimentation’ in itself, the very act of pushing musical boundaries—when in reality it’s a totally ossified micro-sect that endlessly recycles the same handful of outdated, rigid ideas and sounds (The Consuming Flame is a kind of ‘A to Z’ of every ‘Experimental Music’ trope), picks through the bones of long-dead ‘pioneers,’ and engages with the real forward-thinking, truly experimental currents in contemporary music—if at all—as a kind of tongue-in-cheek novelty act, a way of distinguishing oneself from one’s peers, a self-aware dip into the ‘lowbrow.’ The timeline chart of every artist on The Consuming Flame says it all; it’s an exact replica of the ‘band members timelines’ on Wikipedia, usually reserved for groups far past their sell-by date.
I’m fully aware that there are many talented artists involved here that aren’t positioned among the ‘Experimental Music’ clique—representatives of the “outsider creativity” (press copy’s words) that the album is dedicated to. But doesn’t the presence of ‘outsiders’ imply the presence of ‘insiders’? Who gets to draw these boundaries, and who benefits from the results? Who was allowed to submit music to The Consuming Flame, and through what avenues?
I’m also aware that many members of that clique worked their way ‘up’ from total obscurity, and are still largely unknown outside small circles. But what are they working ‘up’ towards, and into? All talk of “democracy,” “bringing diverse people together” and “a relay race across the gaps in genre and experience that divide us” (press copy, again) will not convince me that The Consuming Flame is anything but a self-congratulatory victory lap by the ‘Experimental Music’ ‘inner circle’—one that allows a handful of heterodox voices ‘in’ to preserve the illusion of democracy, both on this album and in the broader ‘Scene’ as a whole. The timeline chart and the overwhelming glut of artists involved here expose the true colors of ‘Experimental Music’ as it exists today: first, artists become baseball cards to be traded, swapped, rearranged, a totally surface-level gimmick that puts proximity to institutions and centers of power first and musical ideas and innovation last. Second, the musical ideas of ‘Experimental Music’ as displayed on here are so limited and indistinguishable that artists can actually be freely exchanged and rearranged—the only thing separating this snippet of 99BPM bloopy, aimless tedium from that one is the name behind it (please consult timeline chart for reference).
Rather than fight for more ‘outsiders’ to become ‘insiders’—a dynamic perfectly exemplified by The Consuming Flame—we should just stand back and let this whole outdated mess collapse under the weight of its own self-importance.
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Christina Aguilera Struts Her Stuff In Sexy Jumpsuit To Celebrate Turning 40 — Watch
Age is nothing but a number for Christina Aguilera! On the eve of her 40th birthday, the singer proved she’s looking better than ever with a sexy new Instagram video.
Christina Aguilera turned 40 on Dec. 18, and she posted a video on social media to celebrate. In honor of the big day, Christina got glammed up in a black jumpsuit, which featured gold patterns throughout the fabric. In the video, she strutted down the hallway of her home with her back to the camera while rocking the skintight look, which showed off her incredible figure.
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With Megan Thee Stallion’s “Body” playing in the background, Christina put her best runway walk on display. Her hair was styled in a sleek ponytail, with long extensions so that the blonde locks cascaded all the way down her back. At the end of the clip, she turned to the camera to show her face, as well. Christina’s look was complete with open-toed heels, and fans filled the comments section with praise for how incredible the outfit was.
Clearly, the pop star is exuding major confidence in this video, but that wasn’t always the case throughout her career. Earlier this year, she opened up about her struggles to try and achieve the ‘perfect body,’ and vowed to no longer put that pressure on herself. “I’m not going on a diet — get over it,” she said. “Each of us is an individual and people judge you based on your differences, what makes you unique. You have to accept that beauty and to hell with everything else.”
During the sit down, she also urged fans to “be kind” to themselves and not “waste time” looking over their shoulders to see what everyone else is doing. “True beauty to me is the ability to know you and project what you are in an unmistakable light,” she explained.
Christina has had an illustrious career since bursting on the scene as a teenager with her debut album in 1999. She’s won five Grammy Awards, and was even nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 2011. Christina’s personal life also thrived in the public eye. She had a son, Max, with her first husband, Jordan Bratman, in 2008. Then, she got engaged to her current fiance, Matthew Rutler, in 2010, and they had their daughter, Summer, in 2014.
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Powers and Rivera win big in City Council race
Council Member-elect Keith Powers, pictured outside Peter Cooper Village on Tuesday morning with his mother Barbara and Council Member Dan Garodnick (Photo courtesy of Dan Garodnick)
Council Member-elect Carlina Rivera (center) with Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer on Tuesday (Photo courtesy of Gale Brewer)
After a citywide general election that proved to be hotly contested in local City Council races but somewhat lackluster in the mayoral department, the results were in on Tuesday night, with all sought after positions remaining solidly Democrat.
Based on unofficial results provided by the New York City Board of Elections, Keith Powers and Carlina Rivera will be the next City Council members, replacing the term-limited Dan Garodnick and Rosie Mendez, respectively.
Democrat Rivera won with wide margins in District 2, receiving 82.86 percent of the vote. Republican and Rent is 2 Damn High Party’s Jimmy McMillan got 11.58 percent of the vote. Liberal Party’s Jasmin Sanchez got 2.02 percent. Libertarian Party’s Don Garrity got 1.73 percent. Green Party’s Manny Cavaco got 1.56 percent. There were also 59 write-ins (0.26 percent) out of 23,047 people voting in the race.
Democrat Powers also won easily with 57.09 percent of the vote in District 4. Republican Rebecca Harary came in second with 30.75 percent. The tally also includes votes for the candidate through the other lines she ran on, Women’s Equality, Reform and Stop de Blasio. Liberal Party’s Rachel Honig got 12.06 percent. There were also 26 write-ins (0.1 percent) out of 27,511 people voting.
Assembly Member Brian Kavanagh, as was widely predicted, got Daniel Squadron’s abandoned downtown Senate seat, receiving 84.86 percent of the vote. Republican candidate Analicia Alexander got 14.68 percent. This means Kavanagh’s District 74 Assembly seat, which includes Stuyvesant Town and Waterside, is now vacant. A few local Democrats have already expressed interest.
Mayor de Blasio sailed to re-election with 66.16 percent of the vote. His closest competitor proved to be Republican Nicole Malliotakis with 27.67 percent. Those on alternative party lines fared miserably with single digit percentages of the votes or worse. The Reform Party’s Sal Albanese got 2.09 percent, Green Party’s Akeem Browder got 1.44 percent, Smart Cities Party’s Michael Tolkin got 0.98 percent, Dump the Mayor Party’s Bo Dietl got 0.96 percent and Libertarian Aaron Commey got 0.24 percent. Write-in candidates accounted for 0.46 percent. De Blasio got 13,443 votes in Assembly District 74 alone. This appeared to be average for Manhattan polling places.
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer also clobbered her competitors, who ran minimal campaigns, with the Democrat incumbent getting 83.21 percent. Republican Frank Scala took second place with 11.94 percent, The Green Party’s Daniel Vila Rivera got 2.93 percent and Reform and Libertarian Parties’ Brian Waddell (who was running to eliminate the position of borough president) came in last place with 1.82 percent. Write-ins accounted for 0.11 percent.
Voters also overwhelmingly said no to a Constitutional Convention (78.60 percent). They said yes to a second proposal to force public officials to forfeit their pensions when convicted of a felony (64.11 percent), and no on a third proposal to authorize use of preserved forest land for specified purposes (54.80 percent).
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, a Town & Village reporter spoke with voters on the street about their choices, including in Peter Cooper Village, where Powers, a resident, appeared to have locked in much of the vote by 11 a.m.
One married couple, Anne Kelley and Rich Scolnik, gave their support to Powers, though not to the mayor, and they voted no on whether there should be a Constitutional Convention.
Explaining their choices, Kelley said, “We voted because it’s important to do. People came out in wheelchairs, a ton of them.” Scolnik picked Powers because he was endorsed by Garodnick. Kelley added, “I think he will be effective for us here in this community. He was the establishment person and maybe that’s not a completely good thing, but I think he will be good.” That said she also said Honig “campaigned very effectively.”
They decided not to pick a particular candidate for mayor though. “I left it blank,” Scolnik said. “I couldn’t bring myself to vote for him but I didn’t vote for anyone else,” Kelley said.
De Blasio had a bigger fan in Stuy Town resident Pam, who didn’t want to give her last name. “I like the things he’s doing with pre-school,” she said. However, not being a citizen, she couldn’t vote, instead waiting outside the polling place at 360 First Avenue for a friend. After voting, the other woman apologized for the wait due to long lines.
That friend, Nikki, said she voted for Powers “because he’s local” and de Blasio, saying he’s done a “really good job” and “he seems really New York.”
Retired teacher Martin Ballon said he voted straight down the Democrat line, although he felt uneasy about the fact that his union, which had suggested members vote for certain candidates, didn’t give him information about everyone on the ballot. “I voted for de Blasio, I voted for Gale Brewer and a couple of people I can’t remember,” he said.
In Stuyvesant Town, Geraldine Levy said she gave her Council vote to Honig. “She’s new and she’s very fresh. I mostly voted for her because I don’t like Keith Powers’ background. He’s been a lobbyist and I talked to Rachel a few times and I was very impressed,” Levy said.
She added she voted yes on the Con-Con, “because I like the organizations that are backing it and I trust them.” As for mayor, “I did not vote for de Blasio. I think he’s been a big disappointment about housing and there are a lot of questions he hasn’t answered about his fundraising.”
Stuyvesant Town Republican Diane Leech said she voted for Malliotakis for mayor as well as Harary, who she also campaigned for, for Council.
Leech, a retiree from the world of publishing, said of the Upper East Side Council candidate, “I love her. She’s honest. She’s straight, and I don’t mean in terms of her sexuality. I don’t care if she’s gay, which she’s not. She’s straight. She reminds me of Dan Garodnick, who I happen to like even though he’s a Democrat. He gets things done and I like people who get things done.”
As for her choice for mayor, it appeared to be motivated more by hatred for the incumbent.
“I do not want four more years of corruption and the system that’s in place now with pay-for-play,” Leech said. “I’m disgusted with de Blasio. I’m getting forced out, all the seniors are.” However, she added, this wasn’t about the rent being too high, but because of quality of life issues. “A man peed right in front of me the other day, which is not unusual,” said Leech. “I’m disgusted with the way (de Blasio) treats police and that Council and all the corrupt people he surrounds himself with. He pimped out his wife, he pimped out his son, he pimped out his daughter. I have no use for him.”
At a polling place at Baruch College on East 22nd Street, Gramercy resident Nancy Leib said she has always voted, including small elections, since she was old enough to do so. She voted straight down the Democrat line this time, except for district attorney, leaving that one blank. On her other choices, she explained, “I will never vote for another Republican as long as I live.” She added that no City Council member however stood out to her.
As for mayor, “I think de Blasio’s doing a pretty good job with (universal) pre-k,” Leib, a retired teacher, said. “To me that’s one of the most important things.” On the Con-Con, she was “very much opposed.”
Also voting at that site was Louise Dankberg, district leader for the 74th Assembly District with the Tilden Democratic Club and Samuel Alpert, vice president of the Gramercy Stuyvesant Independent Democrats Club. Both noted that voter turnout seemed high, by 11:30 a.m. more so than the primary, at least judging from the number of votes logged at the machine Alpert voted at (150). Both clubs had endorsed De Blasio for mayor and Powers and Rivera for Council. However, Alpert noted that when doing petitioning, some people wouldn’t even sign the documents so candidates could run because de Blasio’s name was on them, and those people were Democrats. On this, he guessed that some people “don’t understand the process,” and that signing a petition for a candidate isn’t necessarily a commitment to vote for the person. But despite a lighting round of recent headlines surrounding de Blasio and a donor who’s accused him of pay-to-play politics, Dankberg said she didn’t think this would affect voter turnout.
“I think people who are determined to vote will come out and vote their conscience,” she said.
UPDATE: Following the election, Powers told T&V he was ready to get to work.
“I am excited to roll up my sleeves and get to work for the people of the 4th Council District,” said Powers, in a written statement. “For over a year, I’ve connected with East Siders, from Stuyvesant Town to the Upper East Side. I want to deeply thank them for their support and I look forward to working with them to vigorously advocate for the new ideas this campaign was built on.”
Rivera also issued the following statement:
“It’s a tremendous honor to receive the support of so many friends and neighbors throughout this election,” she said. “I was born and raised on the East Side and have dedicated my life to making our community a better place. As our Council member-elect, I will continue to work every day to ensure that every family has the resources they need and a representative they can count on.”
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5 thoughts on “Powers and Rivera win big in City Council race”
T-Mac says:
“…Dan Garodnick, who I happen to like even though he’s a Democrat. He gets things done and I like people who get things done.”
WTF? What has three term Dan ever got done? Press conferences?
He sold out his community to Blackstone, does that count? Ever since the press conference announcing them as owner, he has been 100% MIA.
In all seriousness, congrats to Powers. We will all be watching him very closely.
William Pearlman says:
Constantinople & Vallone certainly won big
Slash says:
Corruption continues to rule NYC/NYS politics.
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THE 2021 GAUNTLET OF POLO® LAUNCHES FEBRUARY 17, LIVE ON GLOBAL POLO TV
The Pinnacle Competition with $1 Million in Prize Money Features the Most Skilled Athletes and Finest Horses in the World
PALM BEACH, Fla., January 7, 2021 (Newswire.com) – Jointly hosting the GAUNTLET OF POLO® for the third consecutive season, the United States Polo Association (USPA), USPA Global Licensing (USPAGL) and International Polo Club Palm Beach (IPC) are pleased to announce the launch of the GAUNTLET OF POLO® for 2021 on Feb. 17. The GAUNTLET OF POLO® is the pinnacle of American high-goal competition, featuring the most skilled athletes and finest horses in the world. The GAUNTLET OF POLO® is sponsored by U.S. Polo Assn. and the finals of each tournament will be played on the official U.S. Polo Assn. Field.
An “invitation only” Virtual Media Day on Jan. 6 provided updates on the upcoming polo season, the safety restrictions for on-site fans, the teams that are competing, how to watch, and an overview of travel to Palm Beach County during these unprecedented times. Video from the event can be watched here: https://we.tl/t-IRo9cDxSNv
The 2021 GAUNTLET OF POLO® will begin with the C.V. Whitney Cup from Feb. 17 – March 7, continue with the USPA Gold Cup®, March 10 – 28, and conclude with the illustrious U.S. Open Polo Championship® March 31 – April 18. Reigning 2019 GAUNTLET OF POLO® Champions Pilot are among the nine teams, seeking to inscribe their name on the trophy for the second time and secure the prize money purse in 2021.
Revising the prize money distribution for the 2021 season, the new format still guarantees a total of $1 million in prize money, however, runners-up in each tournament will also receive a portion of the earnings. $100,000 will be awarded to each of the winning teams of the C.V. Whitney Cup and USPA Gold Cup® and $25,000 to each runner up. Similarly, $200,000 in prize money will be presented to the winner of the U.S. Open Polo Championship® and $50,000 awarded to the runner up. Additionally, any team who wins all three tournaments consecutively will receive a $500,000 bonus and be crowned as the GAUNTLET Champion. Another exciting change from prior years will be a donation made by USPAGL to the final two teams’ polo charity of their choice.
“I’m grateful we can bring polo back to the players, members and fans and I anticipate a highly competitive and exciting season that is not to be missed,” said Robert Puetz, CEO of the USPA. “Featuring the world’s greatest players and equine partners, the 2021 GAUNTLET OF POLO® would not be possible without the outstanding efforts from all the Team Organizations to persevere through the challenging times and return to vie for the coveted title and largest prize money purse in the sport.”
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November 2020 marked the beginning of GPTV’s transition to pay-to-view live game packages for non-USPA members consisting of three package options: the Polo Pass, the GAUNTLET OF POLO® Pass and the Premium Polo Pass. The Polo Pass is the only one of the three passes which excludes the 2021 GAUNTLET OF POLO®. Special offers are available at www.globalpolo.com.
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Data, Data, Everywhere Data!
By Dan Fergus
Who among us has ever written an application that didn't consume or save data? If we had a show of hands, I doubt the number would be very high. Except for some UI libraries I wrote about 18 years ago, I can't recall a single application that didn't require me to read data from some source or write data back to some storage system. Agreed, it wasn't always a true relational database like SQL Server, but it was data storage nonetheless.
Device applications -- whether kiosk-based or mobile handheld devices -- are typically used as data-collection devices. A handheld device might scan products on a store shelf, and a kiosk could collect data about the interests of users responding to a survey -- or even provide information about the area around the kiosk, from a database of information.
To write a useful device application, you'll need to understand how to collect and store data and then how to move it to another location -- a server, for example -- where the data can be used and viewed by others. To accomplish this, we'll use SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition.
One of the benefits of using SQL Server Compact Edition is that we can use the same application code in a device application or desktop application. The resulting database file can also be migrated from a mobile application scenario to a desktop scenario that may include a server or multiple users.
Earlier versions of mobile SQL database limited the database to a single connection for use only on a device. Theses limitations have since been eliminated; the database can start on a mobile device and used to collect data, and then the entire database file can be moved to the desktop for analysis and sharing on other systems.
Another problem with some older versions of SQL mobile databases was that there was no easy way to create and edit the physical database file. You either had to do it via code or by using the query analyzer on the device. Neither of those was a very good option. SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition databases can now be created and managed using the SQL Server Management Studio.
But enough background. Open Visual Studio and create a new Windows Mobile 6 Professional application. Once the solution has been built, open SQL Server Management Studio and create a new SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition database.
Notice in Figure 1, below, that you have a choice to encrypt the database or to password-protect the data file. If you protect your database with a password, your connection string must include the password in order for a connection to be made. However, data inside the file itself could still be viewed if the file was opened in a text editor. The encrypt option applies 128-bit encryption to the contents of the file, preventing anyone who may get a copy of the file from viewing any of the data. We won't cover how to create the individual field of the database in this article, but a completed database is in the sample code that accompanies this one.
The first thing you need to do when using SQL Compact Edition is to build the connection string and then open the connection. The connection string is very simple for an unprotected database; it's no more than the path to the database file, as shown in Listing 1.
It might be tempting to hardcode the connection string to a particular location, but that's just looking for trouble. In this code, we get the location of the executing application and append the database name.
Now, here's a common question: Do we leave the connection open or do we close it after each call to the database? Previously, due to the single connection limit, it was always best to open a connection, use it and immediately close it so that any other thread could then access the file. With the new multiple connections allowed in Compact Edition, it's possible to leave the connection open for the duration of an application, or at least for more than a single-execute operation. If you wanted to use the connection and immediately close it, the code would look as shown in Listing 2.
This is one of those "personal choices" that each developer or company must make. You might even choose to do it differently from application to application. Once the connection has been made and opened, data is retrieved from the database as shown in Listing 3.
The SqlServerCe namespace provides a SqlCeResultSet which is the best of both the DataSet and the DataReader. It has the speed of a DataReader, as well as the update and scroll capabilities of the DataSet.
Now that you see how easy it is to retrieve data from the database, let's see about putting data back into the database. The first technique uses the SqlCeResultSet class. The class has a CreateRecord method that creates a new, blank record in the recordset which is filled in using a series of Set methods, as shown in Listing 4.
If you prefer the more tried-and-true method of T-SQL code, you also have that option, as shown in Listing 5.
Those are the basics of using SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition. Of course, there's much more to learn; this article covers only a very small portion of data stored on a device. There are still more details regarding the use of SQL CE on the device, as well as how to implement the Client Factory Data namespace (Patterns and Practices). And once we get data onto the device, how do we, other than copying the database file directly, get the data back to a full SQL Server -- or anywhere else, for that matter? We'll answer these questions and more in the coming weeks.
Dan Fergus is the chief architect at Forest Software Group, developing .NET applications, including Pocket PC sports team applications. He speaks at major conferences, does consulting, and teaches Compact Framework, VB.NET, and ASP.NET courses. He coauthored The Definitive Guide to the .NET Compact Framework (Apress). Reach him at [email protected].
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Garret Wassermann for State Representative
Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit and No War On Iran
Posted on January 28, 2020 · 5 mins read
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE · Contact: hello@votegarret.org
On Saturday, Garret participated in two separate events: the Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit, and the No War On Iran Global Day of Action which was endorsed and co-sponsored by the Green Party of Allegheny County.
The Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit was held all day at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and was an opportunity for the greater Pittsburgh community to come together and issues impacted by racial injustice. The opening ceremony featured a panel of speakers that talked about the legacy of colonialism in the US. The theme for this year’s summit was chosen to be “From 1492-2020: Decolonize Our History to Reclaim Our Humanity”, the years symbolizing the year Columbus colonized America, not simply “discovered” it. Columbus colonized the continent via violence inflicted on the indigenous peoples of the continent, and then African slaves were brought to build what eventually become the United States. Confronting this brutal history head-on is vital for understanding how we got here and how we’re going to fix injustice. A later panel focused on the theme of Reclaiming Our Humanity by speaking about the racial stereotypes people of color face, and the need to stand up to those stereotypes. Much injustice is perpetrated because a group of people is made to be “others” and dehumanized; fighting back means humanizing people and understanding their culture. There was also a consistent theme through the event that modern politics via the Republican and Democratic Parties has largely failed black and brown communities, with several speakers calling for independent political movements that restore power to the people outside of the failed two-party system. A video of the Reclaiming Our Humanity panel discussion is available on Facebook.
Workshops at the Summit also covered a large variety of topics that touch on racial justice. Garret participated in workshops including one on climate justice and racism. That workshop shared some of the science behind understanding the climate crisis, and how racism and imperialism is leaving the poor to face the worst effects of the crisis including pollution, increased flooding and storms, and more.
At lunch time, across the street from the Summit near the Obama Academy, the No War on Iran rally called on the Trump administration and Congress to say no to more war. Aside from the horrible human cost of war, military spending takes precious resources away from other important goals like healthcare and education for everyone here in the US. The US military is also one of the biggest polluters in the world, contributing heavily to the climate crisis. Garret joined activists from several organization in opposing war. The Green Party’s Green New Deal calls for a 75% reduction in national military spending and a closure of foreign military bases, with that funding instead going into social and economic programs here at home to eliminate poverty and injustice. A photo album from the rally is also available on Facebook.
Social justice, including racial justice, and peace are two of the pillars of the Green Party. However, all four of the pillars – social justice and peace along with ecology and democracy – are inseparable from each other. Martin Luther King, Jr., recognized a similar relationship when he spoke about the “triple evils”: poverty, racism, and militarism – throw in environmental destruction, and you have the “quad evils” that the Green Party’s pillars seek to address. It is easier to make war against people that have been dehumanized; it is easier to turn your back on people suffering in poverty or dying of pollution when they have been dehumanized. Demanding social justice also means demanding democracy, an ecological economy, and peace with people all across the world – basically, recognizing that all people around the world deserve the same human rights that we do to self-determination and pursue happiness.
These issues are inseparable, and must be addressed simultaneously. Garret supports the Green Party’s Green New Deal precisely because it is the only plan designed to address these issues together. The Green New Deal is not simply about the climate crisis, but about empowering communities to make their own economic decisions and resist colonialist attitudes that threaten justice, peace, and democracy.
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Statewide Presidential primary poll: Trump strong, Clinton rising
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Two new public opinion surveys by Brown University’s Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy find that Democrat Hillary Clinton has a newly established 9-point lead over Bernie Sanders, and Republican Donald Trump leads his opponents by at least an 18-point margin. The two polls show a shift in support toward Hillary Clinton in the days following the Nevada Caucus.
Both polls surveyed random samples of 600 registered Rhode Island voters who are likely to vote in the primary. The first poll was conducted February 17-20, 2016 and has an overall margin of error of 4 percent. The second poll was conducted February 22-23, 2016, after the Democratic Caucus in Nevada and Republican Primary in South Carolina, and has an overall margin of error of 4 percent.
The Democratic primary – a shift in support toward Clinton
Clinton benefited from an 8-point swing in support between the two polls.
Clinton received 49 percent of the likely vote in the second poll, while Bernie Sanders received 40 percent. Eleven percent of voters remain undecided. In the first poll, Clinton received 41 percent while Sanders received 48 percent. Eleven percent were undecided.
Despite these numbers, Sanders continued to receive higher favorability scores. In the second poll, Sanders had the edge with a 56/37 percent favorable/unfavorable rating while Clinton received a 49/46 percent favorable/unfavorable rating. In the first poll, Sanders received a 59/32 percent favorable/unfavorable rating and Clinton a 47/49 percent favorable/unfavorable rating.
Between the two polls, Clinton strengthened her support among African Americans with a 24-point gain, while Sanders lost 10 points. In terms of income, Clinton gained 10 points for voters making less than $75,000, while Sanders lost 9 points. The numbers remain consistent for those with higher incomes. Sanders maintains a strong lead among voters under 30, however Clinton cuts into that lead between the two polls gaining 17 points.
The Republican primary – a growing stronghold for Trump
Trump continued to widen his lead between the two polls. In the second poll, Trump received 43 percent of the likely vote (41 percent in the first poll), maintaining an 18-point lead over Marco Rubio, and an even greater lead over the remaining Republicans in the race: Marco Rubio received 25 percent (14 percent in the first poll); John Kasich 14 percent (12 percent in the first poll); Ted Cruz 10 percent (8 percent in the first poll); and Ben Carson 3 percent (4 percent in the first poll). Five percent of likely Republican voters remain undecided (13 percent were undecided in the first poll). Jeb Bush, who suspended his campaign on February 20, 2016, received 7 percent in the first poll, and was not included in the second poll.
Voters asked about the favorability of Republican presidential candidates had the most favorable opinion of Kasich. Those results from the second poll follow: Kasich (37 percent favorable/36 percent unfavorable); Rubio (36 percent favorable/51 percent unfavorable); Trump (32 percent favorable/63 percent unfavorable); Carson (29 percent favorable/57 percent unfavorable); and Ted Cruz (23 percent favorable/66 percent unfavorable).
Trump has a strong edge over the other candidates among voters who are very likely to vote (voters who voted in the last 10-12 elections). He also has strong non-partisan support with 47 percent of the vote. Rubio follows with 25 percent. In terms of Republican voters, Trump leads by 35 percent to 24 percent (Rubio). Trump also has a significant edge for voters under 30 with 47 percent, while Rubio follows at 18 percent.
In addition, voters were also asked if things are going in the right or wrong direction in Rhode Island. Fifty percent of voters in both polls said the state is moving in the wrong direction.
Questions and answers for polls conducted February 17-23, 2016
Results from both polls are based on a telephone survey of random samples of 600 registered, likely voters in Rhode Island. Each poll had a margin of error of 4 percent. Note that totals may not add up to 100 percent due to rounding. Likely voters were defined as anyone who voted in November 2014, September 2014, April 2012, or registered since November 2014.
Researchers from the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy’s John Hazen White Public Opinion Laboratory designed the survey instrument and conducted the analysis. The Taubman Center contracted David Binder Research Inc. to conduct interviews.
Second poll, February 22-23, 2016
The gender distribution of voters in the sample was 47 percent male and 53 percent female. The age distribution was 23 percent ages 18-39; 47 percent ages 40-64; 28 percent ages 65 and older. Party affiliation was 265 Democrats, 71 Republicans, and 264 with no party preference (129 lean Democrat/135 lean Republican). Interviews were conducted on landlines (65 percent) and cell phones (35 percent) Feb. 22-23, 2016.
I am going to read you the names of presidential candidates. For each I read, please tell me if you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the person. If you have not heard of the name, just say so and we will move on. Hillary Clinton (49% favorable, 46% unfavorable), Bernie Sanders (56% favorable, 37% unfavorable), John Kasich (37% favorable, 36% unfavorable), Marco Rubio (36% favorable, 51% unfavorable), Donald Trump (32% favorable, 63% unfavorable), Ben Carson (29% favorable, 57% unfavorable), and Ted Cruz (23% favorable, 66% unfavorable).
If the Democratic Primary Election were today, for whom would you vote? Hillary Clinton 45% (with 4% leaning toward Clinton); Bernie Sanders 38% (with 2% leaning toward Sanders); Undecided 11%.
If the Republican Primary Election were today, for whom would you vote? Donald Trump 42% (with 1% leaning toward Trump); Marco Rubio 23% (with 2% leading toward Rubio); John Kasich 12% (with 2% leaning toward Kasich); Ted Cruz 10% (with less than 1% leaning toward Cruz); Ben Carson 3% (with 0% leaning toward Carson); Undecided 5%.
First poll, February 17-20, 2016
The gender distribution of voters in the sample was 47 percent male and 53 percent female. The age distribution was 22 percent ages 18-39; 49 percent ages 40-64; 25 percent ages 65 and older. Party affiliation was 44 percent Democrats, 13 percent Republicans, and 43 percent no party preference. Interviews were conducted on landlines (61 percent) and cell phones (39 percent) Feb. 17-20, 2016.
I am going to read you the names of presidential candidates. For each I read, please tell me if you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the person. If you have not heard of the name, just say so and we will move on. Hillary Clinton (47% favorable, 49% unfavorable), Bernie Sanders (59% favorable, 32% unfavorable), John Kasich (36% favorable, 31% unfavorable), Marco Rubio (33% favorable, 51% unfavorable), Donald Trump (32% favorable, 63% unfavorable), Ben Carson (25% favorable, 56% unfavorable), Jeb Bush (24% favorable, 67% unfavorable), and Ted Cruz (22% favorable, 63% unfavorable).
If the Republican Primary Election were today, for whom would you vote? Donald Trump 40% (with 1% leaning toward Trump); Marco Rubio 13% (with 1% leading toward Rubio); John Kasich 11% (with 1% leaning toward Kasich); Ted Cruz 8% (with less than 1% leaning toward Cruz); Jeb Bush 6% (with 1% leaning toward Bush); Ben Carson 4% (with 0% leaning toward Carson); Undecided 13%.
James Morone
Rhode Island Public Radio: Clinton & Trump Top New Brown University Presidential Poll
WJAR: Brown U. poll: RI voters back Trump, Clinton
Brown University Press Release
February 2016 Polls Crosstabs Summary
Statewide Feb. 17-20_2016 Complete Crosstabs
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Singapore: ASEAN Insights: The Direction Of Transparency And Corrupt Practices In The Region
by Clyde & Co LLP
In most of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries, corruption remains endemic and deep rooted, steeped in a tradition of political and business patronage.
Singapore and Malaysia are the only two ASEAN nations to score higher than 50 out of 100 (where 100 is very clean and 0 highly corrupt) in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), coming in 6th and 62nd out of 180 countries in terms of transparency, respectively.
Not only is ASEAN's record on corruption relatively poor, Transparency International's annual CPI suggests it may be getting worse. A number of anti-corruption initiatives are underway but most are underfunded, limited in scope and generally insufficient to tackle the problem. Among the main ASEAN economies, only Singapore has achieved any improvement in its CPI corruption scorecard since 2015.
ASEAN's slow but steady progress toward regional economic integration could work to increase transparency and reduce corruption. In theory, economic openness should promote a level playing field that drives bribery and corruption out of the system.
New anti-corruption legislation and gradual efforts to improve enforcement in an environment of rampant bribery and corruption will increase the risks facing multinationals operating in ASEAN.
Although Malaysia enjoys a relatively clean reputation in the ASEAN context, the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) sovereign wealth fund scandal has dramatically elevated the issue of bribery, corruption and transparency. Political interference in the 1MDB investigation tarnished the image of Malaysia's key regulatory bodies, including the primary anti-corruption enforcement agency, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).
1MBD contributed significantly to the fall of the ruling coalition and resulted in numerous charges against the former Malaysian prime minister, Najib Razak and other senior politicians. The scandal continues to generate intense media scrutiny and drew in investigative and recovery efforts by several foreign regulators, including those from the US, UK, Singapore, Switzerland, Hong Kong and Australia.
In order to help ensure organisations across all industries employ fundamental measures to minimising the risk of corruption, Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad recently launched guidelines under the Adequate Procedures Pursuant to Sub-section (5) of Section 17A of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act 2009. The guidelines have been drafted to assist organisations understand what the "adequate procedures" are to prevent the occurrence of corrupt practices. The enforcement of Section 17A will begin from 1 June 2020.
In addition, following the country's implementation of the ISO 370001Anti-Bribery Management System, companies and organisations have been encouraged to run a Corruption Risk Management exercise. Other anti-corruption initiatives are also in the pipeline, such as the National Anti-Corruption Plan, which is scheduled to be launched in January 2019. The five-year plan aims to clearly set out practical targets and initiatives to tackle corruption domestically from 2019 to 2023.
In neighbouring Indonesia corruption remains endemic, reflected in the country's low CPI ranking. Bribery, especially prevalent in the extractive and infrastructure sectors, is perhaps the most egregious aspect of the business culture in Indonesia, at least in terms of the number of cases brought by the Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK) or Corruption Eradication Commission. Public procurement is also plagued by corruption, causing a haemorrhaging of public funds.
Meanwhile, Vietnam is implementing new laws to strengthen its anti-corruption enforcement framework to bring the country's regime more in line with international law. A wide-ranging New Penal Code came into force in Vietnam on 1 January 2018. The new code substantially expands the scope of offences, including bribery in the private sector and corporate criminal liability for tax evasion and money laundering. Like some other ASEAN jurisdictions such as Indonesia and the Philippines, Vietnam did not historically prohibit the bribery of foreign public officials. This has now changed. Despite limited resources, there have been genuine efforts to improve anti-corruption enforcement. Execution by lethal injection following a conviction for corruption remains the ultimate deterrent.
To find out more about transparency developments and trends in ASEAN please see ' ASEAN Insights – a report for business on the regional policy and regulatory environment'.
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Does financial security influence judgements of female physical attractiveness?
Swami, V., Tovee, M.J. and Furnham, A. 2008. Does financial security influence judgements of female physical attractiveness? Journal of Socio-Economics. 37 (4), pp. 1363-1370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2007.03.006
Swami, V., Tovee, M.J. and Furnham, A.
To account for male preferences for female body weight following a consistent socio-economic pattern [Nelson, L.D., Morrison, E.L. (2005). The symptoms of resource scarcity: judgements of food and finances influence preferences for potential partners. Psychological Science 16, 167–173] proposed a social-cognitive model based on the individual experience of resource scarcity. We replicated their studies showing that financial dissatisfaction can influence preference for female body weight using a different dependent variable, namely photographic stimuli of women with known body weight and shape. Using this revised methodology, we found that operationalised intra-individual resource scarcity does not affect preferences for body weight: 25 financially dissatisfied males showed no difference in body weight preferences from 22 financially satisfied males. These findings contradict those of Nelson and Morrison (2005) and possible reasons for this are discussed in conclusion.
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Swami, V., Furnham, A., Smyth, N., Weis, L., Ley, A. and Clow, A. 2016. Putting the stress on conspiracy theories: examing associations between psychosocial stress, anxiety, and belief in conspiracy theories. Personality and Individual Differences . 99, pp. 72-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.04.084
Bodies in Nature: Associations between Exposure to Nature, Connectedness to Nature, and Body Image
Swami, V., Barron, D., Weis, L. and Furnham, A. 2016. Bodies in Nature: Associations between Exposure to Nature, Connectedness to Nature, and Body Image. Body Image: An International Journal of Research. 18, pp. 153-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2016.07.002
Translation and Psychometric Evaluation of a Standard Chinese Version of the Body Appreciation Scale-2
Swami, V., Ng S-K and Barron, D. 2016. Translation and Psychometric Evaluation of a Standard Chinese Version of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 . Body Image. 18, pp. 23-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2016.04.005
Psychometric properties of the Drive for Muscularity Scale in Malay men
Swami, V., Barron, D., Lau, P.L. and Jaafar, J.L. 2016. Psychometric properties of the Drive for Muscularity Scale in Malay men. Body Image. 17, p. 111–116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2016.03.004
Associations between Belief in Conspiracy Theories and the Maladaptive Personality Traits of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5
Swami, V., Weis, L., Ley, A., Barron, D. and Furnham, A. 2016. Associations between Belief in Conspiracy Theories and the Maladaptive Personality Traits of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5. Psychiatry Research. 236, pp. 86-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2015.12.027
Self-esteem mediates the relationship between connectedness to nature and body appreciation in women, but not men
Swami, V., von Nordheim, L. and Barron, D. 2016. Self-esteem mediates the relationship between connectedness to nature and body appreciation in women, but not men. Body Image. 16, pp. 41-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2015.11.001
Factor structure and psychometric properties of the body appreciation scale-2 in university students in Hong Kong
Swami, V. and Ng S-K 2015. Factor structure and psychometric properties of the body appreciation scale-2 in university students in Hong Kong. Body Image. 15, pp. 68-71. https://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.bodyim.2015.06.004
Associations between women’s body image and happiness: Results of the YouBeauty.com Body Image Survey
Swami, V., Tran, U.S., Stieger, S., Voracek, M. and The YouBeauty.com Team 2015. Associations between women’s body image and happiness: Results of the YouBeauty.com Body Image Survey . Journal of Happiness Studies. 16 (3), pp. 705-718. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-014-9530-7
What’s in a surname? Physique, aptitude, and sports type comparisons between Tailors and Smiths
Voracek, M., Reider, S., Stieger, S., Swami, V. and Rieder, S. 2015. What’s in a surname? Physique, aptitude, and sports type comparisons between Tailors and Smiths. PLoS ONE. 10 (7) e0131795. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131795
Development and validation of the Sociocultural Attitudes Toward Appearance Questionnaire-4 (SATAQ-4)
Schaefer L, M., Burke N, L., Thompson J, K., Dedrick R, F., Heinberg L, J., Bardone-Cone A, M., Higgins M, K., Frederick D, A., Kelly, M., Anderson D, A., Schaumberg, K., Dittmar, H., Clark, L., Adams, Z., Macwana, S., Klump K, L., Vercellone A, C., Paxton S, J. and Swami, V. 2015. Development and validation of the Sociocultural Attitudes Toward Appearance Questionnaire-4 (SATAQ-4). Psychological Assessment. 27 (1), pp. 54-67. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037917
The Breast Size Rating Scale: Development and psychometric evaluation
Swami, V., Cavelti, S., Taylor, D.A. and Tovee, M.J. 2015. The Breast Size Rating Scale: Development and psychometric evaluation. Body Image. 14, pp. 29-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2015.02.004
Time to let go? No automatic aesthetic preference for the golden ratio
Swami, V. and Stieger, S. 2015. Time to let go? No automatic aesthetic preference for the golden ratio. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 9 (1), pp. 91-100. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038506
Cultural influences on body size ideals: unpacking the impact of westernisation and modernisation
Swami, V. 2015. Cultural influences on body size ideals: unpacking the impact of westernisation and modernisation. European Psychologist. 20, pp. 44-51. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000150
Are the scope and nature of psychology properly understood? An examination of belief in myths of popular psychology among university students
Swami, V., Thorn, L., Husbands, D., Tran, U.S., Nader, I.W., von Nordheim, L., Pietschnig, J., Stieger, S. and Voracek, M. 2015. Are the scope and nature of psychology properly understood? An examination of belief in myths of popular psychology among university students. in: Columbus, A.M. (ed.) Advances in Psychology Research. Volume 101 Hauppage, NY Nova Science Publishers. pp. 9-32
Factor structure and psychometric properties of the body appreciation scale among adults in Hong Kong
Ng S-K, Barron, D. and Swami, V. 2015. Factor structure and psychometric properties of the body appreciation scale among adults in Hong Kong. Body Image. 13, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2014.10.009
Examination of the factor structure of the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (SPQ) among British and Trinidadian adults
Barron, D., Towell, A., Swami, V. and Morgan, K.D. 2015. Examination of the factor structure of the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (SPQ) among British and Trinidadian adults. BioMed Research International. 2015 258275. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/258275
Mental health literacy of negative body image: symptom recognition and beliefs about body image in a British community sample
Swami, V. and Knowles, V. 2014. Mental health literacy of negative body image: symptom recognition and beliefs about body image in a British community sample. International Journal of Culture and Mental Health. 7 (2), pp. 199-215. https://doi.org/10.1080/17542863.2013.769611
Political paranoia and conspiracy theories
Swami, V. and Furnham, A. 2014. Political paranoia and conspiracy theories. in: van Prooijen, J.W. and van Lange, P.A.M. (ed.) Power politics, and paranoia: why people are suspicious about their leaders Cambridge Cambridge University Press. pp. 218-236
Personality and aesthetics preferences
Swami, V. and Furnham, A. 2014. Personality and aesthetics preferences. in: Smith, J.K. and Tinio, P.P.L. (ed.) The Cambridge handbook of the psychology of aesthetics and the arts Cambridge Cambridge University Press.
Mental health literacy of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Swami, V. 2014. Mental health literacy of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). in: Moore, R. and Perry, D. (ed.) Health literacy: developments, issues, and outcomes Hauppauge, NY Nova Science Publishers.
German and Tagalog happiness scales
Swami, V. 2014. German and Tagalog happiness scales. in: Michalos, A.C. (ed.) Encyclopedia of quality of life research Amsterdam Elsevier. pp. 2536-2537
Twitter users’ interest in asteroid 2012 DA14 mirrored the asteroid’s trajectory during it’s Earth flyby
Stieger, S. and Swami, V. 2014. Twitter users’ interest in asteroid 2012 DA14 mirrored the asteroid’s trajectory during it’s Earth flyby. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 65 (7), pp. 1409-1415. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23097
Human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces may be evolutionarily novel
Scott, I.M., Clark, A.P., Josephson, S.C., Boyette, A.H., Cuthill, I.C., Fried, R.L., Gibson, M.A., Hewlett, B.S., Jamieson, M., Jankowiak, W., Honey, P.L., Huang, Z., Liebert, M.A., Purzycki, B.G., Shaver, J.H., Snodgrass, J.J., Sosis, R., Sugiyama, L.S., Swami, V., Yu, D.W., Zhao, Y. and Penton-Voak, I.S. 2014. Human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces may be evolutionarily novel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111 (40), pp. 14388-14393. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1409643111
Is the hijab protective? An investigation of body image and related constructs among British Muslim women
Swami, V., Miah, J., Noorani, N. and Taylor, D.A. 2014. Is the hijab protective? An investigation of body image and related constructs among British Muslim women. British Journal of Psychology. 105 (3), pp. 352-363. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12045
Sexuality and the drive for muscularity: evidence of associations among British men
Swami, V., Diwell, R. and McCreary, D.R. 2014. Sexuality and the drive for muscularity: evidence of associations among British men. Body Image. 11 (4), pp. 543-546. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2014.08.008
Body image and personality among British men: associations between the big five domains, drive for muscularity, and body appreciation
Swami, V. and Benford, K. 2014. Body image and personality among British men: associations between the big five domains, drive for muscularity, and body appreciation. Body Image. 11 (4), pp. 454-457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2014.07.004
Associations between schizotypy and belief in conspiracist ideation
Barron, D., Morgan, K.D., Towell, A., Altemeyer, B. and Swami, V. 2014. Associations between schizotypy and belief in conspiracist ideation. Personality and Individual Differences. 70, pp. 156-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.06.040
Analytic thinking reduces belief in conspiracy theories
Swami, V., Voracek, M., Stieger, S., Tran, U.S. and Furnham, A. 2014. Analytic thinking reduces belief in conspiracy theories. Cognition. 133 (3), pp. 572-585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.08.006
Metalheads: the influence of personality and individual differences on preference for heavy metal
Swami, V., Malpass, F., Havard, D., Benford, K., Costescu, A., Sofitiki, A. and Taylor, D.A. 2013. Metalheads: the influence of personality and individual differences on preference for heavy metal. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 7 (4), pp. 377-383. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034493
The brief body avoidance and checking scale for physically active men: development and initial validation
Campana, A.N.N.B., Swami, V., Morgado, F.F.R., Campana, M.B., Morgado, J.J., Ferreira, L. and Tavares, M.D.C.G.C.F. 2013. The brief body avoidance and checking scale for physically active men: development and initial validation. International Journal of Sport Psychology. 44 (6), pp. 531-545. https://doi.org/10.7352/IJSP2013.44.531
Men’s oppressive beliefs predict their breast size preferences in women
Swami, V. and Tovee, M.J. 2013. Men’s oppressive beliefs predict their breast size preferences in women. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 42 (7), pp. 1199-1207. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-013-0081-5
“Mirror, mirror…” A preliminary investigation of skin tone dissatisfaction and its impact among British adults
Swami, V., Henry, A., Peacock, N., Roberts-Dunn, A. and Porter, A. 2013. “Mirror, mirror…” A preliminary investigation of skin tone dissatisfaction and its impact among British adults. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology. 19 (4), pp. 468-476. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0032904
An examination of the psychometric properties of Brazilian Portuguese translations of the Drive for Muscularity Scale, the Swansea Muscularity Attitudes Questionnaire, and the Masculine Body Ideal Distress Scale
Campana, A.N.N.B., Tavares, M.D.C.G.C.F., Swami, V. and da Silva, D. 2013. An examination of the psychometric properties of Brazilian Portuguese translations of the Drive for Muscularity Scale, the Swansea Muscularity Attitudes Questionnaire, and the Masculine Body Ideal Distress Scale. Psychology of Men & Masculinity. 14 (4), pp. 376-388. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030087
Weight discrepancy and body appreciation among women in Poland and Britain
Taylor, D.A., Szpakowska, I. and Swami, V. 2013. Weight discrepancy and body appreciation among women in Poland and Britain. Body Image. 10 (4), pp. 628-631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2013.07.008
Social dominance orientation predicts drive for muscularity among British men
Swami, V., Neofytou, R.V., Jablonska, J., Thirlwell, H., Taylor, D.A. and McCreary, D.R. 2013. Social dominance orientation predicts drive for muscularity among British men. Body Image. 10 (4), pp. 653-656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2013.07.007
Context matters: investigating the impact of contextual information on aesthetic appreciation of paintings by Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso
Swami, V. 2013. Context matters: investigating the impact of contextual information on aesthetic appreciation of paintings by Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 7 (3), pp. 285-295. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030965
Girl in the cellar: a repeated cross-sectional investigation of belief in conspiracy theories about the kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch
Stieger, S., Gumhalter, N., Tran, U.S., Voracek, M. and Swami, V. 2013. Girl in the cellar: a repeated cross-sectional investigation of belief in conspiracy theories about the kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch. Frontiers in Psychology. 4 297. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00297
Associations among men's sexist attitudes, objectification of women, and their own drive for muscularity
Swami, V. and Voracek, M. 2013. Associations among men's sexist attitudes, objectification of women, and their own drive for muscularity. Psychology of Men & Masculinity. 14 (2), pp. 168-174. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0028437
Body image and personality: associations between the big five personality factors, actual-ideal weight discrepancy, and body appreciation
Swami, V., Tran, U.S., Hoffmann Brooks, L., Kanaan, L., Luesse, E.M., Nader, I.W., Pietschnig, J., Stieger, S. and Voracek, M. 2013. Body image and personality: associations between the big five personality factors, actual-ideal weight discrepancy, and body appreciation. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 54 (2), pp. 146-151. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12014
An examination of ethnic differences in actual-ideal body weight discrepancy and its correlates in a sample of Malaysian women
Swami, V., Tovee, M.J. and Harris, A.S. 2013. An examination of ethnic differences in actual-ideal body weight discrepancy and its correlates in a sample of Malaysian women. International Journal of Culture and Mental Health. 6 (2), pp. 96-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/17542863.2011.643315
Resource security impacts men’s female breast size preferences
Swami, V. and Tovee, M.J. 2013. Resource security impacts men’s female breast size preferences. PLoS ONE. 8 (3) e57623. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0057623
Body image concerns in professional fashion models: are they really an at-risk group?
Swami, V. and Szmigielska, E. 2013. Body image concerns in professional fashion models: are they really an at-risk group? Psychiatry Research. 207 (1-2), pp. 113-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2012.09.009
Lunar lies: the impact of informational framing and individual differences in shaping conspiracist beliefs about the moon landings
Swami, V., Pietschnig, J., Tran, U.S., Nader, I.W., Stieger, S. and Voracek, M. 2013. Lunar lies: the impact of informational framing and individual differences in shaping conspiracist beliefs about the moon landings. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 27 (1), pp. 71-80. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.2873
Blame it on patriarchy: greater sexist attitudes are associated with stronger consideration of cosmetic surgery for one’s self and partner
Swami, V., Pietschnig, J., Stewart, N., Nader, I.W., Stieger, S., Shannon, S. and Voracek, M. 2013. Blame it on patriarchy: greater sexist attitudes are associated with stronger consideration of cosmetic surgery for one’s self and partner. International Journal of Psychology. 48 (6), pp. 1221-1229. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207594.2012.740566
Weight bias against women in a university acceptance scenario
Swami, V. and Monk, R. 2013. Weight bias against women in a university acceptance scenario. Journal of General Psychology. 140 (1), pp. 45-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221309.2012.726288
Attitudes toward cosmetic surgery among ethnic minority groups in Britain: cultural mistrust, adherence to traditional cultural values, and ethnic identity salience as protective factors
Swami, V. and Hendrikse, S. 2013. Attitudes toward cosmetic surgery among ethnic minority groups in Britain: cultural mistrust, adherence to traditional cultural values, and ethnic identity salience as protective factors. International Journal of Psychology. 48 (3), pp. 300-307. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207594.2011.645480
The influence of the hijab (Islamic head-cover) on interpersonal judgments of women: a replication and extension
Swami, V. 2013. The influence of the hijab (Islamic head-cover) on interpersonal judgments of women: a replication and extension. in: Marich, J. (ed.) The psychology of women: diverse perspectives from the modern world Hauppauge, NY Nova Science Publishers. pp. 128-140
Feminism and body image: a qualitative investigation
Coles, R. and Swami, V. 2013. Feminism and body image: a qualitative investigation. in: Sams, L.B. and Keels, J.A. (ed.) Handbook on body image: gender differences, sociocultural influences, and heath implications Hauppauge, NY Nova Science Publishers. pp. 317-336
An initial psychometric evaluation and exploratory cross-sectional study of the Body Checking Questionnaire among Brazilian women
Campana, A.N.N.B., Swami, V., Onodera, C.M.K., Tavares, M.D.C.G.C.F. and da Silva, D. 2013. An initial psychometric evaluation and exploratory cross-sectional study of the Body Checking Questionnaire among Brazilian women. PLoS ONE. 8 (9) e74649. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0074649
Positive body image: inter-ethnic and rural-urban differences among an indigenous sample from Malaysian Borneo
Swami, V., Kannan, K. and Furnham, A. 2012. Positive body image: inter-ethnic and rural-urban differences among an indigenous sample from Malaysian Borneo. International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 58 (6), pp. 568-576. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020764011415208
A dark side of positive illusions? Associations between the love-is-blind bias and the experience of jealousy
Swami, V., Inamdar, S., Stieger, S., Nader, I.W., Pietschnig, J., Tran, U.S. and Voracek, M. 2012. A dark side of positive illusions? Associations between the love-is-blind bias and the experience of jealousy. Personality and Individual Differences. 53 (6), pp. 796-800. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.06.004
Selecting your boss: sex, age, IQ and EQ factors
Furnham, A., McClelland, A. and Mansi, A. 2012. Selecting your boss: sex, age, IQ and EQ factors. Personality and Individual Differences. 53 (5), pp. 552-556. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.04.005
Personality and individual difference correlates of attitudes toward human rights and civil liberties
Swami, V., Nader, I.W., Pietschnig, J., Stieger, S., Tran, U.S. and Voracek, M. 2012. Personality and individual difference correlates of attitudes toward human rights and civil liberties. Personality and Individual Differences. 53 (4), pp. 443-447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.04.015
Weight discrepancy and body appreciation of Zimbabwean women in Zimbabwe and Britain
Swami, V., Mada, R. and Tovee, M.J. 2012. Weight discrepancy and body appreciation of Zimbabwean women in Zimbabwe and Britain. Body Image. 9 (4), pp. 559-562. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2012.05.006
Factor structure of the body appreciation scale among Indonesian women and men: further evidence of a two-factor solution in a non-Western population
Swami, V. and Jaafar, J.L. 2012. Factor structure of the body appreciation scale among Indonesian women and men: further evidence of a two-factor solution in a non-Western population. Body Image. 9 (4), pp. 539-542. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2012.06.002
Social psychological origins of conspiracy theories: the case of the Jewish conspiracy theory in Malaysia
Swami, V. 2012. Social psychological origins of conspiracy theories: the case of the Jewish conspiracy theory in Malaysia. Frontiers in Psychology. 3 280. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00280
Personality differences between tattooed and non-tattooed individuals
Swami, V., Pietschnig, J., Bertl, B., Nader, I.W., Stieger, S. and Voracek, M. 2012. Personality differences between tattooed and non-tattooed individuals. Psychological Reports. 111 (1), pp. 97-106.
An investigation of self-rated cues believed to influence the judgment of intelligence in a zero-acquaintance context
Swami, V. and Furnham, A. 2012. An investigation of self-rated cues believed to influence the judgment of intelligence in a zero-acquaintance context. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 42 (8), pp. 2064-2076. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2012.00942.x
Using more than 10% of our brains: examining belief in science-related myths from an individual differences perspective
Swami, V., Stieger, S., Pietschnig, J., Nader, I.W. and Voracek, M. 2012. Using more than 10% of our brains: examining belief in science-related myths from an individual differences perspective. Learning and Individual Differences. 22 (3), pp. 404-408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2011.12.005
The sociocultural adjustment trajectory of international university students and the role of university structures: a qualitative investigation
Coles, R. and Swami, V. 2012. The sociocultural adjustment trajectory of international university students and the role of university structures: a qualitative investigation. Journal of Research in International Education. 11 (1), pp. 87-100. https://doi.org/10.1177/1475240911435867
Beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella! Individual differences and preference for surrealist literature
Swami, V., Pietschnig, J., Stieger, S., Nader, I.W. and Voracek, M. 2012. Beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella! Individual differences and preference for surrealist literature. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 6 (1), pp. 35-42. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024750
Factor structure and correlates of the acceptance of cosmetic surgery scale among South Korean university students
Swami, V., Hwang, C.S. and Jung, J. 2012. Factor structure and correlates of the acceptance of cosmetic surgery scale among South Korean university students. Aesthetic Surgery Journal. 32 (2), pp. 220-229. https://doi.org/10.1177/1090820X11431577
The impact of psychological stress on men's judgements of female body size
Swami, V. and Tovee, M.J. 2012. The impact of psychological stress on men's judgements of female body size. PLoS ONE. 7 (8) e42593. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042593
The influence of facial piercings and observer personality on perceptions of physical attractiveness and intelligence
Swami, V., Stieger, S., Pietschnig, J., Voracek, M., Furnham, A. and Tovee, M.J. 2012. The influence of facial piercings and observer personality on perceptions of physical attractiveness and intelligence. European Psychologist. 17 (3), pp. 213-221. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000080
Further investigation of the validity and reliability of the photographic figure rating scale for body image assessment
Swami, V., Stieger, S., Harris, A.S., Nader, I.W., Pietschnig, J., Voracek, M. and Tovee, M.J. 2012. Further investigation of the validity and reliability of the photographic figure rating scale for body image assessment. Journal of Personality Assessment. 94 (4), pp. 404-409. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2012.660293
How not to feel good naked? The effects of television programmes that use 'real women' on female viewers' body image and mood
Swami, V. and Smith, J.M. 2012. How not to feel good naked? The effects of television programmes that use 'real women' on female viewers' body image and mood. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. 31 (2), pp. 151-168.
Associations between consideration of cosmetic surgery, perfectionism dimensions, appearance schemas, relationship satisfaction, excessive reassurance-seeking, and love styles
Swami, V. and Mammadova, A. 2012. Associations between consideration of cosmetic surgery, perfectionism dimensions, appearance schemas, relationship satisfaction, excessive reassurance-seeking, and love styles. Individual Differences Research. 10 (2), pp. 81-94.
The effects of striped clothing on perceptions of body size
Swami, V. and Harris, A.S. 2012. The effects of striped clothing on perceptions of body size. Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal. 40 (8), pp. 1239-1244. https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2012.40.8.1239
Dancing toward positive body image? Examining body-related constructs with ballet and contemporary dancers at different levels
Swami, V. and Harris, A.S. 2012. Dancing toward positive body image? Examining body-related constructs with ballet and contemporary dancers at different levels. American Journal of Dance Therapy. 34 (1), pp. 39-52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10465-012-9129-7
The effects of symmetry and personality on aesthetic preferences
Swami, V. and Furnham, A. 2012. The effects of symmetry and personality on aesthetic preferences. Imagination, Cognition and Personality. 32 (1), pp. 41-57. https://doi.org/10.2190/IC.32.1.d
Examining conspiracist beliefs about the disappearance of Amelia Earhart
Swami, V. and Furnham, A. 2012. Examining conspiracist beliefs about the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. Journal of General Psychology. 139 (4), pp. 244-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221309.2012.697932
Perceptions of the physical attractiveness of the self, current romantic partners, and former partners
Swami, V. and Allum, L. 2012. Perceptions of the physical attractiveness of the self, current romantic partners, and former partners. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 53 (1), pp. 89-95. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2011.00922.x
An examination of the temporal stability of self-assessed intelligence
Swami, V. 2012. An examination of the temporal stability of self-assessed intelligence. Individual Differences Research. 10, pp. 176-181.
Physical attractiveness and personality
Swami, V. 2012. Physical attractiveness and personality. in: Cash, T.F. (ed.) Encyclopedia of body image and human appearance Oxford Elsevier. pp. 622-628
Further examination of the psychometric properties of a Malay version of the Rosenberg self-esteem scale
Swami, V. 2012. Further examination of the psychometric properties of a Malay version of the Rosenberg self-esteem scale. in: De Wals, S. and Meszaros, K. (ed.) Handbook on psychology of self-esteem Hauppauge, NY Nova Science Publishers. pp. 371-380
Evolutionary perspectives on physical appearance
Swami, V. 2012. Evolutionary perspectives on physical appearance. in: Cash, T.F. (ed.) Encyclopedia of body image and human appearance Oxford Elsevier. pp. 404-411
Body art: tattooing and piercing
Swami, V. 2012. Body art: tattooing and piercing. in: Cash, T.F. (ed.) Encyclopedia of body image and human appearance Oxford Elsevier. pp. 58-65
Cross-cultural differences in self-assessed intelligence: a comparison of British and Chinese undergraduates
Furnham, A., Tu, B.L. and Swami, V. 2012. Cross-cultural differences in self-assessed intelligence: a comparison of British and Chinese undergraduates. Psychologia: an International Journal of Psychological Sciences. 55 (1).
Occupational and economic consequences of physical attractiveness
Furnham, A. and Swami, V. 2012. Occupational and economic consequences of physical attractiveness. in: Cash, T.F. (ed.) Encyclopedia of body image and human appearance Oxford Elsevier. pp. 581-587
The influence of person traits on lawyer selection among British adults
Furnham, A., McClelland, A. and Swami, V. 2012. The influence of person traits on lawyer selection among British adults. Journal of General Psychology. 139 (4), pp. 217-229. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221309.2012.693974
Estimates of self, parental and partner multiple intelligences in Iran: a replication and extension
Furnham, A., Kosari, A. and Swami, V. 2012. Estimates of self, parental and partner multiple intelligences in Iran: a replication and extension. Iranian Journal of Psychiatry. 7 (2), pp. 22-29.
Individual differences in music consumption are predicted by uses of music and age rather than emotional intelligence, neuroticism, extraversion or openness
Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Swami, V. and Cermakova, B. 2012. Individual differences in music consumption are predicted by uses of music and age rather than emotional intelligence, neuroticism, extraversion or openness. Psychology of Music. 40 (3), pp. 285-300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735610381591
Predictors of job satisfaction among general practitioners of South Asian descent in Britain
Bedi, R., Furnham, A. and Swami, V. 2012. Predictors of job satisfaction among general practitioners of South Asian descent in Britain. in: Bedi, R., Davidson, E. and Liu, J. (ed.) Indian health professionals around the world: a common agenda New Delhi Global Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (GAPIO). pp. 121-127
Do women prefer “nice guys”? The effect of male dominance behavior on women’s ratings of sexual attractiveness
Ahmetoglu, G. and Swami, V. 2012. Do women prefer “nice guys”? The effect of male dominance behavior on women’s ratings of sexual attractiveness. Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal. 40 (4).
Mental health literacy of depression: gender differences and attitudinal antecedents in a representative British sample
Swami, V. 2012. Mental health literacy of depression: gender differences and attitudinal antecedents in a representative British sample. PLoS ONE. 7 (11) e49779. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049779
Perceptions and meta-perceptions of self and partner physical attractiveness
Swami, V., Waters, L. and Furnham, A. 2011. Perceptions and meta-perceptions of self and partner physical attractiveness. Personality and Individual Differences. 49 (7), pp. 811-814. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2010.06.011
Further examination of the psychometric properties of the Malay Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale
Swami, V. 2012. Further examination of the psychometric properties of the Malay Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. in: de Wals, S. and Meszaros, K. (ed.) Handbook on psychology of self-esteem Hauppauge, NY Nova Science Publishers. pp. 371-380
Correlates of self-rated business competencies
Furnham, A. and Mansi, A. 2011. Correlates of self-rated business competencies. International Journal of Business and Management. 6 (9), pp. 3-13. https://doi.org/10.5539/ijbm.v6n9p3
Examining mental health literacy and its correlates using the overclaiming technique
Swami, V., Papanicolaou, A. and Furnham, A. 2011. Examining mental health literacy and its correlates using the overclaiming technique. British Journal of Psychology. 102 (3), pp. 662-675. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8295.2011.02036.x
The influence of practitioner nationality, experience, and sex in shaping patient preferences for dentists
Swami, V., McClelland, A., Bedi, R. and Furnham, A. 2011. The influence of practitioner nationality, experience, and sex in shaping patient preferences for dentists. International Dental Journal. 61 (4), pp. 193-198. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1875-595X.2011.00056.x
Preliminary examination of the psychometric properties of the Psychiatric Scepticism Scale
Swami, V. and Furnham, A. 2011. Preliminary examination of the psychometric properties of the Psychiatric Scepticism Scale. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 52 (4), pp. 399-403. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2011.00881.x
Conspiracist ideation in Britain and Austria: Evidence of a monological belief system and associations between individual psychological differences and real-world and fictitious conspiracy theories
Swami, V., Coles, R., Stieger, S., Pietschnig, J., Furnham, A., Rehim, S. and Voracek, M. 2011. Conspiracist ideation in Britain and Austria: Evidence of a monological belief system and associations between individual psychological differences and real-world and fictitious conspiracy theories. British Journal of Psychology. 102 (3), pp. 443-463. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8295.2010.02004.x
An assessment of positive illusions of the physical attractiveness of romantic partners
Barelds, D.P.H., Dijkstra, P., Koudenburg, N. and Swami, V. 2011. An assessment of positive illusions of the physical attractiveness of romantic partners. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. 28 (5), pp. 706-719. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407510385492
Alien psychology: associations between extraterrestrial beliefs and paranormal ideation, superstitious beliefs, schizotypy, and the Big Five personality factors
Swami, V., Pietschnig, J., Stieger, S. and Voracek, M. 2011. Alien psychology: associations between extraterrestrial beliefs and paranormal ideation, superstitious beliefs, schizotypy, and the Big Five personality factors. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 25 (4), pp. 647-653. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.1736
Factors influencing attitudes towards seeking professional psychological help among South Asian students in Britain
Soorkia, R., Snelgar, R.S. and Swami, V. 2011. Factors influencing attitudes towards seeking professional psychological help among South Asian students in Britain. Mental Health, Religion & Culture. 14 (6), pp. 613-623. https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2010.494176
Marked for life? A prospective study of tattoos on appearance anxiety and dissatisfaction, perceptions of uniqueness, and self-esteem
Swami, V. 2011. Marked for life? A prospective study of tattoos on appearance anxiety and dissatisfaction, perceptions of uniqueness, and self-esteem. Body Image. 8 (3), pp. 237-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2011.04.005
The recognition of mental health disorders and its association with psychiatric scepticism, knowledge of psychiatry, and the Big Five personality factors: an investigation using the overclaiming technique
Swami, V., Persaud, R. and Furnham, A. 2011. The recognition of mental health disorders and its association with psychiatric scepticism, knowledge of psychiatry, and the Big Five personality factors: an investigation using the overclaiming technique. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 46 (3), pp. 181-189. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-010-0193-3
Personality, individual difference, and demographic antecedents of household waste management behaviours
Swami, V., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Snelgar, R.S. and Furnham, A. 2011. Personality, individual difference, and demographic antecedents of household waste management behaviours. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 31 (1), pp. 21-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2010.08.001
The Acceptance of Cosmetic Surgery Scale: initial examination of its factor structure and correlates among Brazilian adults
Swami, V., Campana, A.N.N.B., Ferreira, L., Barrett, S., Harris, A.S. and Tavares, M.D.C.G.C.F. 2011. The Acceptance of Cosmetic Surgery Scale: initial examination of its factor structure and correlates among Brazilian adults. Body Image. 8 (2), pp. 179-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2011.01.001
Body dissatisfaction assessed by the Photographic Figure Rating Scale is associated with sociocultural, personality, and media influences
Swami, V., Taylor, R. and Carvalho, C. 2011. Body dissatisfaction assessed by the Photographic Figure Rating Scale is associated with sociocultural, personality, and media influences. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 52 (1), pp. 57-63. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2010.00836.x
The evolutionary psychology of human beauty
Swami, V. and Salem, N. 2011. The evolutionary psychology of human beauty. in: Swami, V. (ed.) Evolutionary psychology: a critical introduction Oxford Wiley. pp. 131-182
Celebrity worship among university students in Malaysia: a methodological contribution to the Celebrity Attitude Scale
Swami, V., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Mastor, K., Siran, F.H., Mohsein, M., Said, M., Jaafar, J.L., Sinniah, D. and Pillai, S.K. 2011. Celebrity worship among university students in Malaysia: a methodological contribution to the Celebrity Attitude Scale. European Psychologist. 16 (4), pp. 334-342. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000029
Acceptance of cosmetic surgery among British female university students: are there ethnic differences?
Swami, V., Campana, A.N.N.B. and Coles, R. 2011. Acceptance of cosmetic surgery among British female university students: are there ethnic differences? European Psychologist. 17 (1), pp. 55-62. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000049
British men’s hair color preferences: An assessment of courtship solicitation and stimulus ratings
Swami, V. and Barrett, S. 2011. British men’s hair color preferences: An assessment of courtship solicitation and stimulus ratings. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 52 (6), pp. 595-600. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2011.00911.x
Love at first sight? Individual differences and the psychology of initial romantic attraction
Swami, V. 2011. Love at first sight? Individual differences and the psychology of initial romantic attraction. in: Chamorro-Premuzic, T., von Stumm, S. and Furnham, A. (ed.) The Wiley-Blackwell handbook of individual differences Oxford Wiley. pp. 747-772
Evolutionary perspectives on human appearance and body image
Swami, V. 2011. Evolutionary perspectives on human appearance and body image. in: Cash, T.F. and Smolak, L. (ed.) Body image: a handbook of science, practice, and prevention. 2nd edition New York Guilford Press. pp. 20-28
A comparison of the trait emotional intelligence profiles of individuals with and without Asperger syndrome
Petrides, K.V., Hudry, K., Michalaria, G., Swami, V. and Sevdalis, N. 2011. A comparison of the trait emotional intelligence profiles of individuals with and without Asperger syndrome. Autism. 15 (6), pp. 671-682. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361310397217
A cross-cultural investigation of men's judgements of female body weight in Britain and Indonesia
Swami, V., Henderson, G., Custance, D. and Tovee, M.J. 2011. A cross-cultural investigation of men's judgements of female body weight in Britain and Indonesia. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 42 (1), pp. 140-145. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022110383319
Religious beliefs, coping skills and responsibility to family as factors protecting against deliberate self-harm
Kannan, K., Pillai, S.K., Gill, J.S., Hui, K.O. and Swami, V. 2010. Religious beliefs, coping skills and responsibility to family as factors protecting against deliberate self-harm. South African Journal of Psychiatry. 16 (4), pp. 138-146.
Multi-method personality assessment of butchers and hunters: beliefs and reality
Voracek, M., Gabler, D., Kreutzer, C., Stieger, S., Swami, V. and Formann, A.K. 2010. Multi-method personality assessment of butchers and hunters: beliefs and reality. Personality and Individual Differences. 49 (7), pp. 819-822. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2010.06.028
More than just skin deep? Personality information influences men's ratings of the attractiveness of women's body sizes
Swami, V., Furnham, A., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Akbar, K., Gordon, N., Harris, T., Finch, J. and Tovee, M.J. 2010. More than just skin deep? Personality information influences men's ratings of the attractiveness of women's body sizes. Journal of Social Psychology. 150 (6), pp. 628-647. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224540903365497
What men really want: a qualitative investigation of men's health needs from the Halton and St Helens Primary Care Trust men's health promotion project
Coles, R., Watkins, F., Swami, V., Jones, S., Woolf, S. and Stanistreet, D. 2010. What men really want: a qualitative investigation of men's health needs from the Halton and St Helens Primary Care Trust men's health promotion project. British Journal of Health Psychology. 15 (4), pp. 921-939. https://doi.org/10.1348/135910710X494583
Personality predictors of artistic preferences as a function of the emotional valence and perceived complexity of paintings
Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Burke, C., Hsu, A. and Swami, V. 2010. Personality predictors of artistic preferences as a function of the emotional valence and perceived complexity of paintings. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 4 (4), pp. 196-204. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0019211
Associations between trait emotional intelligence, actual–ideal weight discrepancy, and positive body image
Swami, V., Begum, S. and Petrides, K.V. 2010. Associations between trait emotional intelligence, actual–ideal weight discrepancy, and positive body image. Personality and Individual Differences. 49 (5), pp. 485-489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2010.05.009
The relationship between dimensions of love, personality, and relationship length
Ahmetoglu, G., Swami, V. and Chamorro-Premuzic, T. 2010. The relationship between dimensions of love, personality, and relationship length. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 39 (5), pp. 1181-1190. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-009-9515-5
Public knowledge and beliefs about depression among urban and rural Malays in Malaysia
Swami, V., Loo, P.W. and Furnham, A. 2010. Public knowledge and beliefs about depression among urban and rural Malays in Malaysia. International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 56 (5), pp. 480-496. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020764008101639
Oppressive beliefs at play: associations among beauty ideals and practices and individual differences in sexism, objectification of others, and media exposure
Swami, V., Coles, R., Wilson, E., Salem, N., Wyrozumska, K. and Furnham, A. 2010. Oppressive beliefs at play: associations among beauty ideals and practices and individual differences in sexism, objectification of others, and media exposure. Psychology of Women Quarterly. 34 (3), pp. 365-379. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.2010.01582.x
Unanswered questions: A preliminary investigation of personality and individual difference predictors of 9/11 conspiracist beliefs
Swami, V., Chamorro-Premuzic, T. and Furnham, A. 2010. Unanswered questions: A preliminary investigation of personality and individual difference predictors of 9/11 conspiracist beliefs. Applied Cognitive Pschology. 24 (6), pp. 749-761. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.1583
Translation and validation of the Malay Acceptance of Cosmetic Surgery Scale
Swami, V. 2010. Translation and validation of the Malay Acceptance of Cosmetic Surgery Scale. Body Image. 7 (4), pp. 372-375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2010.07.005
The truth is out there: belief in conspiracy theories
Swami, V. and Coles, R. 2010. The truth is out there: belief in conspiracy theories. The Psychologist. 23 (7), pp. 560-563.
An investigation of weight bias against women and its associations with individual difference factors
Swami, V., Pietschnig, J., Stieger, S., Tovee, M.J. and Voracek, M. 2010. An investigation of weight bias against women and its associations with individual difference factors. Body Image. 7 (3), pp. 194-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2010.03.003
Prevalence and acceptance of tattoos and piercings: a survey of adults from the Southern German-speaking area of Central Europe
Stieger, S., Pietschnig, J., Kastner, C.K., Voracek, M. and Swami, V. 2010. Prevalence and acceptance of tattoos and piercings: a survey of adults from the Southern German-speaking area of Central Europe. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 110 (3C), pp. 1065-1074. https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.110.C.1065-1074
The disinterested play of thought: Individual differences and preference for surrealist motion pictures
Swami, V., Stieger, S., Pietschnig, J. and Voracek, M. 2010. The disinterested play of thought: Individual differences and preference for surrealist motion pictures. Personality and Individual Differences. 48 (7), pp. 855-859. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2010.02.013
Egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric environmental concerns: a path analytic investigation of their determinants.
Swami, V., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Snelgar, R.S. and Furnham, A. 2010. Egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric environmental concerns: a path analytic investigation of their determinants. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 51 (2), pp. 139-145. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2009.00760.x
Associations between femininity ideology and body appreciation among British female undergraduates
Swami, V. and Abbasnejad, A. 2010. Associations between femininity ideology and body appreciation among British female undergraduates. Personality and Individual Differences. 48 (5), pp. 685-687. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.12.017
The attractive female body weight and female body dissatisfaction in 26 countries across 10 world regions: results of the International Body Project I
Swami, V., Frederick, D.A., Aavik, T., Alcalay, L., Allik, J., Anderson, D., Andrianto, S., Arora, A., Brännström, Å., Cunningham, J., Danel, D., Doroszewicz, K., Forbes, G.B., Furnham, A., Greven, C.U., Halberstadt, J., Hao, S., Haubner, T., Hwang, C.S., Inman, M., Jaafar, J.L., Johansson, J., Jung, J., Keser, A., Kretzschmar, U., Lachenicht, L., Li, N.P., Locke, K., Lönnqvist, J.E., Lopez, C., Loutzenhiser, L., Maisel, N.C., McCabe, M.P., McCreary, D.R., McKibbin, W.F., Mussap, A., Neto, F., Nowell, C., Peña Alampay, L., Pillai, S.K., Pokrajac-Bulian, A., Proyer, R.T., Quintelier, K., Ricciardelli, L.A., Rozmus-Wrzesinska, M., Ruch, W., Russo, T., Schütz, A., Shackelford, T.K., Shashidharan, S., Simonetti, F., Sinniah, D., Swami, M., Vandermassen, G., van Duynslaeger, M., Verkasalo, M., Voracek, M., Yee, C.K., Zhang, E.X., Zhang, X. and Zivcic-Becirevic, I. 2010. The attractive female body weight and female body dissatisfaction in 26 countries across 10 world regions: results of the International Body Project I. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 36 (3), pp. 309-325. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167209359702
Self-assessed intelligence: inter-ethnic, rural–urban, and sex differences in Malaysia
Swami, V. and Furnham, A. 2010. Self-assessed intelligence: inter-ethnic, rural–urban, and sex differences in Malaysia. Learning and Individual Differences. 20 (1), pp. 51-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2009.11.002
Psychology in outerspace: personality, individual difference, and demographic predictors of beliefs about extraterrestrial life
Swami, V., Chamorro-Premuzic, T. and Shafi, M. 2010. Psychology in outerspace: personality, individual difference, and demographic predictors of beliefs about extraterrestrial life. European Psychologist. 15 (3), pp. 220-228. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000023
The influence of the hijab (Islamic head-cover) on perceptions of women's attractiveness and intelligence
Mahmud, Y. and Swami, V. 2010. The influence of the hijab (Islamic head-cover) on perceptions of women's attractiveness and intelligence. Body Image. 7 (1), pp. 90-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2009.09.003
The influence of social class salience on self-assessed intelligence
Kudrna, L., Furnham, A. and Swami, V. 2010. The influence of social class salience on self-assessed intelligence. Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal. 38, pp. 861-866.
The correspondence of public perceptions of graduates’ life chances and university departmental funding
Swami, V., Furnham, A., Haubner, T., Stieger, S. and Voracek, M. 2010. The correspondence of public perceptions of graduates’ life chances and university departmental funding. Higher Education. 59 (1), pp. 105-113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-009-9237-6
Sociocultural adjustment among sojourning Malaysian students in Britain: a replication and path analytic extension
Swami, V., Arteche, A., Chamorro-Premuzic, T. and Furnham, A. 2010. Sociocultural adjustment among sojourning Malaysian students in Britain: a replication and path analytic extension. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 45 (1), pp. 57-65. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-009-0042-4
The influence of leg-to-body ratio (LBR) on judgments of female physical attractiveness: assessments of computer-generated images varying in LBR
Frederick, D.A., Hadji-Michael, M., Furnham, A. and Swami, V. 2010. The influence of leg-to-body ratio (LBR) on judgments of female physical attractiveness: assessments of computer-generated images varying in LBR. Body Image. 7 (1), pp. 51-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2009.09.001
An investigation into assessment centre validity, fairness, and selection drivers
Petrides, K.V., Weinstein, Y., Chou, J., Furnham, A. and Swami, V. 2010. An investigation into assessment centre validity, fairness, and selection drivers. Australian Journal of Psychology. 62 (4), pp. 227-235. https://doi.org/10.1080/00049531003667380
Acceptance of cosmetic surgery and celebrity worship: evidence of associations among female undergraduates
Swami, V., Taylor, R. and Carvalho, C. 2009. Acceptance of cosmetic surgery and celebrity worship: evidence of associations among female undergraduates. Personality and Individual Differences. 47 (8), pp. 869-872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.07.006
A fair day's wage? Perceptions of public sector pay
Furnham, A., Stieger, S., Haubner, T., Voracek, M. and Swami, V. 2009. A fair day's wage? Perceptions of public sector pay. Psychological Reports. 105 (3), pp. 957-969. https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.105.3.957-969
Demographic correlates of just world and unjust beliefs in an Austian sample
Furnham, A., Swami, V., Voracek, M. and Stieger, S. 2009. Demographic correlates of just world and unjust beliefs in an Austian sample. Psychological Reports. 105 (3), pp. 989-994. https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.105.3.989-994
A comparison of body size ideals, body dissatisfaction, and media influence between female track athletes, martial artists, and non-athletes
Swami, V., Steadman, L. and Tovee, M.J. 2009. A comparison of body size ideals, body dissatisfaction, and media influence between female track athletes, martial artists, and non-athletes. Psychology of Sport and Exercise. 10 (6), pp. 609-614. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2009.03.003
Estimates of self, parental, and partner multiple intelligence and their relationship with personality, values, and demographic variables: a study in Britain and France
Swami, V., Furnham, A. and Zilkha, S. 2009. Estimates of self, parental, and partner multiple intelligence and their relationship with personality, values, and demographic variables: a study in Britain and France. Spanish Journal of Psychology. 12 (2), pp. 528-539.
Faking it: personality and individual difference predictors of willingness to buy counterfeit goods
Swami, V., Chamorro-Premuzic, T. and Furnham, A. 2009. Faking it: personality and individual difference predictors of willingness to buy counterfeit goods. Journal of Socio-Economics. 38 (5), pp. 820-825. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2009.03.014
A comparison of actual-ideal weight discrepancy, body appreciation, and media influence between street-dancers and non-dancers
Swami, V. and Tovee, M.J. 2009. A comparison of actual-ideal weight discrepancy, body appreciation, and media influence between street-dancers and non-dancers. Body Image. 6 (4), pp. 304-307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2009.07.006
Psychometric evaluation of the Tagalog and German subjective happiness scales and a cross-cultural comparison
Swami, V., Stieger, S., Voracek, M., Dressler, S.G., Eisma, L. and Furnham, A. 2009. Psychometric evaluation of the Tagalog and German subjective happiness scales and a cross-cultural comparison. Social Indicators Research. 93 (2), pp. 393-406. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-008-9331-7
Men's ratings of physical attractiveness, health, and partner suitability simultaneously versus separately: Does it matter whether within- or between-subjects designs are used?
Swami, V. and Hull, C. 2009. Men's ratings of physical attractiveness, health, and partner suitability simultaneously versus separately: Does it matter whether within- or between-subjects designs are used? Body Image. 6 (4), pp. 330-333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2009.05.004
Lay perceptions of current and future health, the causes of illness, and the nature of recovery: explaining health and illness in Malaysia
Swami, V., Arteche, A., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Maakip, I., Stanistreet, D. and Furnham, A. 2009. Lay perceptions of current and future health, the causes of illness, and the nature of recovery: explaining health and illness in Malaysia. British Journal of Health Psychology. 14 (3), pp. 519-540. https://doi.org/10.1348/135910708X370781
Body appreciation, media influence, and weight status predict consideration of cosmetic surgery among female undergraduates
Swami, V. 2009. Body appreciation, media influence, and weight status predict consideration of cosmetic surgery among female undergraduates. Body Image. 6 (4), pp. 315-317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2009.07.001
"How to spot a psychopath": lay theories of psychopathy
Furnham, A., Daoud, Y. and Swami, V. 2009. "How to spot a psychopath": lay theories of psychopathy. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 44 (6), pp. 464-472. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-008-0459-1
Men's preferences for women's profile waist-to-hip ratio, breast size, and ethnic group in Britain and South Africa
Swami, V., Jones, J., Einon, D. and Furnham, A. 2009. Men's preferences for women's profile waist-to-hip ratio, breast size, and ethnic group in Britain and South Africa. British Journal of Psychology. 100 (2), pp. 313-325. https://doi.org/10.1348/000712608X329525
Psychometric evaluation of the Malay satisfaction with life scale
Swami, V. and Chamorro-Premuzic, T. 2009. Psychometric evaluation of the Malay satisfaction with life scale. Social Indicators Research. 92 (1), pp. 25-33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-008-9295-7
Big and beautiful: attractiveness and health ratings of the female body by male "fat admirers"
Swami, V. and Furnham, A. 2009. Big and beautiful: attractiveness and health ratings of the female body by male "fat admirers". Archives of Sexual Behavior. 38 (2), pp. 201-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-007-9200-5
An examination of the love-is-blind bias among gay men and lesbians
Swami, V. 2009. An examination of the love-is-blind bias among gay men and lesbians. Body Image. 6 (2), pp. 149-151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2008.11.002
An examination of the factor structure of the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3 in Malaysia
Swami, V. 2009. An examination of the factor structure of the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3 in Malaysia. Body Image. 6 (2), pp. 129 -132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2009.01.003
Patient preferences for dentists
Furnham, A. and Swami, V. 2009. Patient preferences for dentists. Psychology, Health and Medicine. 14 (2), pp. 143-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548500802282690
The truth is out there: the structure of beliefs about extraterrestrial life among Austrian and British respondents
Swami, V., Furnham, A., Haubner, T., Stieger, S. and Voracek, M. 2009. The truth is out there: the structure of beliefs about extraterrestrial life among Austrian and British respondents. Journal of Social Psychology. 149 (1), pp. 29-43.
Acceptance of cosmetic surgery: personality and individual difference predictors.
Swami, V., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Bridges, S. and Furnham, A. 2009. Acceptance of cosmetic surgery: personality and individual difference predictors. Body Image. 6 (1), pp. 7-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2008.09.004
Evaluating the physical attractiveness of oneself and one's romantic partner
Swami, V., Stieger, S., Haubner, T., Voracek, M. and Furnham, A. 2009. Evaluating the physical attractiveness of oneself and one's romantic partner. Journal of Individual Differences. 30 (1), pp. 35-43. https://doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001.30.1.35
Are there ethnic differences in positive body image among female British undergraduates?
Swami, V., Airs, N., Chouhan, B., Padilla Leon, M.A. and Towell, A. 2009. Are there ethnic differences in positive body image among female British undergraduates? European Psychologist. 14 (4), pp. 288-296. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040.14.4.288
The effect of shape and color symmetry on the aesthetic value of Dayak masks from Borneo
Swami, V. 2009. The effect of shape and color symmetry on the aesthetic value of Dayak masks from Borneo. Imagination, Cognition and Personality. 28 (3), pp. 283-294. https://doi.org/10.2190/IC.28.3.f
Psychometric analysis of the Malay version of the UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-8) and a comparison of loneliness among sojourning and non-sojourning Malaysian students
Swami, V. 2009. Psychometric analysis of the Malay version of the UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-8) and a comparison of loneliness among sojourning and non-sojourning Malaysian students. International Journal of Culture and Mental Health. 2 (1), pp. 38-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/17542860802560397
Predictors of sociocultural adjustment among sojourning Malaysian students in Britain
Swami, V. 2009. Predictors of sociocultural adjustment among sojourning Malaysian students in Britain. International Journal of Psychology. 44 (4), pp. 266-273. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207590801888745
Abstract reasoning and Big Five personality correlates of creativity in a British occupational sample
Furnham, A., Crump, J. and Swami, V. 2009. Abstract reasoning and Big Five personality correlates of creativity in a British occupational sample. Imagination, Cognition and Personality. 28 (4), pp. 361-370. https://doi.org/10.2190/IC.28.4.f
Self and other estimates of multiple abilities in Britain and Turkey: a cross-cultural comparison of subjective ratings of intelligence
Furnham, A., Arteche, A., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Keser, A. and Swami, V. 2009. Self and other estimates of multiple abilities in Britain and Turkey: a cross-cultural comparison of subjective ratings of intelligence. International Journal of Psychology. 44 (6), pp. 434-442. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207590802644766
The effects of background auditory interference and extraversion on creative and cognitive task performance
Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Swami, V., Terrado, A. and Furnham, A. 2009. The effects of background auditory interference and extraversion on creative and cognitive task performance. International Journal of Psychological Studies. 1 (2), pp. 18-24.
The big five personality traits and uses of music: a replication in Malaysia using structural equation modelling
Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Swami, V., Furnham, A. and Maakip, I. 2009. The big five personality traits and uses of music: a replication in Malaysia using structural equation modelling. Journal of Individual Differences. 30 (1), pp. 20-27. https://doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001.30.1.20
Big beautiful women: the body size preferences of male fat admirers
Swami, V. and Tovee, M.J. 2009. Big beautiful women: the body size preferences of male fat admirers. Journal of Sex Research. 46 (1), pp. 89-96. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224490802645302
Gender, health inequalities and welfare state regimes: a cross-national study of 13 European countries
Bambra, C., Pope, D., Swami, V., Stanistreet, D., Roskam, A., Kunst, A. and Scott-Samuel, A. 2009. Gender, health inequalities and welfare state regimes: a cross-national study of 13 European countries. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 63 (1), pp. 38-44. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2007.070292
The beliefs in the inheritance of risk factors for suicide ccale (BIRFSS): cross-cultural validation in Estonia, Malaysia, Romania, the United Kingdom, and the United States
Voracek, M., Loibl, L.M., Swami, V., Vintilă, M., Kõlves, K., Sinniah, D., Pillai, S.K., Ponnusamy, S., Sonneck, G., Furnham, A. and Lester, D. 2008. The beliefs in the inheritance of risk factors for suicide ccale (BIRFSS): cross-cultural validation in Estonia, Malaysia, Romania, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 38 (6), pp. 688-698. https://doi.org/10.1521/suli.2008.38.6.688
The influence of skin tone, body weight, and hair colour on perceptions of women's attractiveness and health: a cross-cultural investigation
Swami, V., Rozmus-Wrzesinska, M., Voracek, M., Haubner, T., Danel, D., Pawlowski, B., Stanistreet, D., Chaplin, F., Chaudhri, J., Sheth, P., Shostak, A., Zhang, E.X. and Furnham, A. 2008. The influence of skin tone, body weight, and hair colour on perceptions of women's attractiveness and health: a cross-cultural investigation. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology. 6 (4), pp. 321-341. https://doi.org/10.1556/JEP.6.2008.4.4
Factor structure of the Body Appreciation Scale among Malaysian women
Swami, V. and Chamorro-Premuzic, T. 2008. Factor structure of the Body Appreciation Scale among Malaysian women. Body Image. 5 (4), pp. 409-413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2008.04.005
Patient preferences for psychological counsellors: evidence of a similarity effect
Furnham, A. and Swami, V. 2008. Patient preferences for psychological counsellors: evidence of a similarity effect. Counselling Psychology Quarterly. 21 (4), pp. 361-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515070802602146
Five-factor personality correlates of perceptions of women's body sizes
Swami, V., Buchanan, T., Furnham, A. and Tovee, M.J. 2008. Five-factor personality correlates of perceptions of women's body sizes. Personality and Individual Differences. 45 (7), pp. 697-699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.07.007
A beauty-map of London: ratings of the physical attractiveness of women and men in London’s boroughs
Swami, V. and Hernandez, E.G. 2008. A beauty-map of London: ratings of the physical attractiveness of women and men in London’s boroughs. Personality and Individual Differences. 45 (5), pp. 361-366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.05.005
The influence of skin tone, hair length, and hair colour on ratings of women's physical attractiveness, health and fertility
Swami, V., Furnham, A. and Joshi, K. 2008. The influence of skin tone, hair length, and hair colour on ratings of women's physical attractiveness, health and fertility. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 49 (5), pp. 429-437. https://doi.org/1111/j.1467-9450.2008.00651.x
Factors influencing preferences for height: a replication and extension
Swami, V., Furnham, A., Balakumar, N., Williams, C., Canaway, K. and Stanistreet, D. 2008. Factors influencing preferences for height: a replication and extension. Personality and Individual Differences. 45 (5), pp. 395-400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.05.012
Lonelier, lazier, and teased: the stigmatizing effect of body size
Swami, V., Furnham, A., Amin, R., Chaudhri, J., Joshi, K., Jundi, S., Miller, R., Mirza-Begum, J., Begum, F.N., Sheth, P. and Tovee, M.J. 2008. Lonelier, lazier, and teased: the stigmatizing effect of body size. Journal of Social Psychology. 148 (5), pp. 577-593.
Personality and individual difference correlates of positive body image
Swami, V., Hadji-Michael, M. and Furnham, A. 2008. Personality and individual difference correlates of positive body image. Body Image. 5 (3), pp. 322-325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2008.03.007
Translation and validation of the Malay subjective happiness scale
Swami, V. 2008. Translation and validation of the Malay subjective happiness scale. Social Indicators Research. 88 (2), pp. 247-353. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-007-9195-2
'If Michael Owen drinks it, why can't I?' - 9 and 10 year olds' perceptions of physical activity and healthy eating
Gosling, R., Stanistreet, D. and Swami, V. 2008. 'If Michael Owen drinks it, why can't I?' - 9 and 10 year olds' perceptions of physical activity and healthy eating. Health Education Journal. 67 (3), pp. 167-181. https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896908094635
Preferences for body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio do not vary with observer age
George, H.R., Swami, V., Cornelissen, P.L. and Tovee, M.J. 2008. Preferences for body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio do not vary with observer age. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology. 6 (3), pp. 207-218. https://doi.org/10.1556/JEP.6.2008.3.4
Running out of time: a qualitative investigation of homeless men's access to health services
Stanistreet, D., Watkins, F., Bromley, H. and Swami, V. 2008. Running out of time: a qualitative investigation of homeless men's access to health services. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless. 17 (3), pp. 190-212.
Context-dependent preferences for facial dimorphism in a rural Malaysian population
Scott, I.M., Swami, V., Josephson, S.C. and Penton-Voak, I.S. 2008. Context-dependent preferences for facial dimorphism in a rural Malaysian population. Evolution and Human Behavior. 29 (4), pp. 289-296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2008.02.004
Cognitive ability, learning approaches and personality correlates of general knowledge
Furnham, A., Swami, V., Arteche, A. and Chamorro-Premuzic, T. 2008. Cognitive ability, learning approaches and personality correlates of general knowledge. Educational Psychology. 28 (4), pp. 427-437. https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410701727376
The influence of feminist ascription on judgements of women's physical attractiveness
Swami, V., Salem, N., Furnham, A. and Tovee, M.J. 2008. The influence of feminist ascription on judgements of women's physical attractiveness. Body Image. 5 (2), pp. 224 -229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2007.10.003
Initial examination of the validity and reliability of the female photographic figure rating scale for body image assessment
Swami, V., Salem, N., Furnham, A. and Tovee, M.J. 2008. Initial examination of the validity and reliability of the female photographic figure rating scale for body image assessment. Personality and Individual Differences. 44 (8), pp. 1752 -1761. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.02.002
Attitudes toward the use and role of mobile telephony: a comparison of East and West Malaysia
Swami, V., Maakip, I., Sinniah, D., Pillai, S.K., Subramaniam, P., Kannan, K. and Furnham, A. 2008. Attitudes toward the use and role of mobile telephony: a comparison of East and West Malaysia. Journal of Mobile Multimedia. 4 (2), pp. 149-162.
Free the animals? Investigating attitudes toward animal testing in Britain and the United States
Swami, V., Furnham, A. and Christopher, A.N. 2008. Free the animals? Investigating attitudes toward animal testing in Britain and the United States. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 49 (3), pp. 269-276. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2008.00636.x
An exploration of the indecisiveness scale in multiethnic Malaysia
Swami, V., Sinniah, D., Subramaniam, P., Pillai, S.K., Kannan, K. and Chamorro-Premuzic, T. 2008. An exploration of the indecisiveness scale in multiethnic Malaysia. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 39 (3), pp. 309-316. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022108315544
Masculinities and suicide
Swami, V., Stanistreet, D. and Payne, S. 2008. Masculinities and suicide. The Psychologist. 21 (4), pp. 308-311.
Weight-based discrimination in occupational hiring and helping behavior
Swami, V., Chan, F., Wong, V., Furnham, A. and Tovee, M.J. 2008. Weight-based discrimination in occupational hiring and helping behavior. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 38 (4), pp. 968-981. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2008.00334.x
German translation and psychometric evaluation of the Body Appreciation Scale
Swami, V., Stieger, S., Haubner, T. and Voracek, M. 2008. German translation and psychometric evaluation of the Body Appreciation Scale. Body Image. 5 (1), pp. 122-127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2007.10.002
Beliefs about the meaning and measurement of intelligence: a cross-cultural comparison of American, British and Malaysian undergraduates
Swami, V., Furnham, A., Maakip, I., Ahmad, M.S., Nawi, N.H.M., Voo, P.S.K., Christopher, A.N. and Garwood, J. 2008. Beliefs about the meaning and measurement of intelligence: a cross-cultural comparison of American, British and Malaysian undergraduates. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 22 (2), pp. 235-246. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.1356
Beliefs about schizophrenia and its treatment in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
Swami, V., Furnham, A., Kannan, K. and Sinniah, D. 2008. Beliefs about schizophrenia and its treatment in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 54 (2), pp. 164-179. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020764007084665
The social construction of gender and its influence on suicide: a review of the literature
Payne, S., Swami, V. and Stanistreet, D. 2008. The social construction of gender and its influence on suicide: a review of the literature. Journal of Men's Health. 5 (1), pp. 23-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jomh.2007.11.002
Is love really so blind?
Swami, V. and Furnham, A. 2008. Is love really so blind? The Psychologist. 21 (2), pp. 108-111.
Looking good: factors affecting the likelihood of having cosmetic surgery
Swami, V., Arteche, A., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Furnham, A., Stieger, S., Haubner, T. and Voracek, M. 2008. Looking good: factors affecting the likelihood of having cosmetic surgery. European Journal of Plastic Surgery. 30 (5), pp. 211-218. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00238-007-0185-z
The muscular male: a comparison of the physical attractiveness preferences of gay and heterosexual men
Swami, V. and Tovee, M.J. 2008. The muscular male: a comparison of the physical attractiveness preferences of gay and heterosexual men. International Journal of Men’s Health. 7 (1), pp. 59-71. https://doi.org/10.3149/jmh.0701.59
Perfectly formed? The effect of manipulating the waist-to-hip ratios of famous paintings and sculptures
Swami, V., Grant, N., Furnham, A. and McManus, I.C. 2008. Perfectly formed? The effect of manipulating the waist-to-hip ratios of famous paintings and sculptures. Imagination, Cognition and Personality. 27 (1), pp. 47-62.
Methodological and conceptual issues in the science of physical attraction
Swami, V. 2008. Methodological and conceptual issues in the science of physical attraction. in: Nilsson, I.L. and Lindberg, W.V. (ed.) Visual perception: new research Hauppauge, New York Nova Science Publishers. pp. 232-256
The influence of men's sexual strategies on perceptions of women's bodily attractiveness, health and fertility
Swami, V., Miller, R., Furnham, A., Penke, L. and Tovee, M.J. 2008. The influence of men's sexual strategies on perceptions of women's bodily attractiveness, health and fertility. Personality and Individual Differences. 44 (1), pp. 98-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2007.07.017
Beliefs in genetic determinism and attitudes towards psychiatric genetic research: psychometric scale properties, construct associations, demographic correlates, and cross-cultural comparisons
Voracek, M., Swami, V., Loibl, L.M. and Furnham, A. 2007. Beliefs in genetic determinism and attitudes towards psychiatric genetic research: psychometric scale properties, construct associations, demographic correlates, and cross-cultural comparisons. Psychological Reports. 101 ((3 Pt 1)), pp. 979-986. https://doi.org/10.2466/PRO.101.3.979-986
The relative contribution of profile body shape and weight to judgements of women's physical attractiveness in Britain and Malaysia
Swami, V. and Tovee, M.J. 2007. The relative contribution of profile body shape and weight to judgements of women's physical attractiveness in Britain and Malaysia. Body Image. 4 (4), pp. 391-396. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2007.07.002
Unattractive, promiscuous and heavy drinkers: perceptions of women with tattoos
Swami, V. and Furnham, A. 2007. Unattractive, promiscuous and heavy drinkers: perceptions of women with tattoos. Body Image. 4 (4), pp. 343-352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2007.06.005
Cultural significance of leg-to-body ratio preferences? Evidence from Britain and rural Malaysia
Swami, V., Einon, D. and Furnham, A. 2007. Cultural significance of leg-to-body ratio preferences? Evidence from Britain and rural Malaysia. Asian Journal of Social Psychology. 10 (4), pp. 265-269. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-839X.2007.00235.x
Women's empowerment and violent death among women and men in Europe: an ecological study
Stanistreet, D., Swami, V., Pope, D., Bambra, C. and Scott-Samuel, A. 2007. Women's empowerment and violent death among women and men in Europe: an ecological study. Journal of Men's Health & Gender. 4 (3), pp. 257-265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmhg.2007.05.003
Factors that affect the likelihood of undergoing cosmetic surgery
Brown, A., Furnham, A., Glanville, L. and Swami, V. 2007. Factors that affect the likelihood of undergoing cosmetic surgery. Aesthetic Surgery Journal. 27 (5), pp. 501-508. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asj.2007.06.004
Preferences for female body size in Britain and the South Pacific
Swami, V., Knight, D., Tovee, M.J., Davies, P. and Furnham, A. 2007. Preferences for female body size in Britain and the South Pacific. Body Image. 4 (3), pp. 219-223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2007.01.002
Differences in attractiveness preferences between observers in low- and high-resource environments in Thailand
Swami, V. and Tovee, M.J. 2007. Differences in attractiveness preferences between observers in low- and high-resource environments in Thailand. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology. 5 (1-4), pp. 149-160. https://doi.org/10.1556/JEP.2007.1005
Evaluating self and partner physical attractiveness
Swami, V., Furnham, A., Georgiades, C. and Pang, L. 2007. Evaluating self and partner physical attractiveness. Body Image. 4 (1), pp. 97-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2006.10.003
Perceptions of female body weight and shape among indigenous and urban Europeans
Swami, V. and Tovee, M.J. 2007. Perceptions of female body weight and shape among indigenous and urban Europeans. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 48 (1), pp. 43-50. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2006.00526.x
Male physical attractiveness in Britain and Greece: a cross-cultural study
Swami, V., Smith, J., Tsiokris, A., Georgiades, C., Sangareau, Y., Tovee, M.J. and Furnham, A. 2007. Male physical attractiveness in Britain and Greece: a cross-cultural study. Journal of Social Psychology. 147 (1), pp. 15-26. https://doi.org/10.3200/SOCP.147.1.15-26
More than just skin-deep? A pilot study integrating physical and non-physical factors in the perception of physical attractiveness
Swami, V., Greven, C.U. and Furnham, A. 2007. More than just skin-deep? A pilot study integrating physical and non-physical factors in the perception of physical attractiveness. Personality and Individual Differences. 42 (3), pp. 563-572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2006.08.004
General health mediates the relationship between loneliness, life satisfaction and depression
Swami, V., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Sinniah, D., Maniam, T., Kannan, K., Stanistreet, D. and Furnham, A. 2007. General health mediates the relationship between loneliness, life satisfaction and depression. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 42 (2), pp. 161-166. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-006-0140-5
Perception of female buttocks and breast size in profile
Furnham, A. and Swami, V. 2007. Perception of female buttocks and breast size in profile. Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal. 35 (1), pp. 1-8.
Healthy body equals beautiful body? Changing perceptions of health and attractiveness with shifting socioeconomic status
Tovee, M.J., Furnham, A. and Swami, V. 2007. Healthy body equals beautiful body? Changing perceptions of health and attractiveness with shifting socioeconomic status. in: Furnham, A. and Swami, V. (ed.) The body beautiful: evolutionary and socio-cultural perspectives Basingstoke, UK Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 108-128
Differences in attractiveness preferences between observers in low and high resource environments in Thailand
Swami, V. and Tovee, M.J. 2007. Differences in attractiveness preferences between observers in low and high resource environments in Thailand. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology. 5 (1), pp. 149-160. https://doi.org/10.1556/JEP.2007.1005
Preferences for female body weight and shape in three European countries
Swami, V., Neto, F., Tovee, M.J. and Furnham, A. 2007. Preferences for female body weight and shape in three European countries. European Psychologist. 12 (3), pp. 220-228. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040.12.3.220
The female nude in Rubens: disconfirmatory evidence of the waist-to-hip ratio hypothesis of female physical attractivenes
Swami, V., Gray, M. and Furnham, A. 2007. The female nude in Rubens: disconfirmatory evidence of the waist-to-hip ratio hypothesis of female physical attractivenes. Imagination, Cognition and Personality. 26 (1-2), pp. 139-147. https://doi.org/10.2190/R11X-5752-V164-4240
A cross-cultural investigation of students’ preferences for lecturers’ personalities in Britain, Malaysia and the United States
Swami, V., Furnham, A., Maakip, I., Ahmad, S., Hudanic, N., Voo, P.S.K., Christopher, A.N. and Garwood, J. 2007. A cross-cultural investigation of students’ preferences for lecturers’ personalities in Britain, Malaysia and the United States. Learning and Individual Differences. 17 (4), pp. 307-315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2007.03.006
The psychology of physical attraction
Swami, V. and Furnham, A. 2007. The psychology of physical attraction. London, UK Routledge.
The missing arms of Venus de Milo: reflections on the science of attractiveness
Swami, V. 2007. The missing arms of Venus de Milo: reflections on the science of attractiveness. Brighton, UK Book Guild Publishing.
The influence of body weight and shape in dertermining female and male physical attractiveness
Swami, V. 2007. The influence of body weight and shape in dertermining female and male physical attractiveness. in: Johansen, M.D. (ed.) Exercise and health research Hauppauge, New York Nova Science Publishers.
Evolutionary psychology: 'new science of the mind' or 'Darwinian fundamentalism'?
Swami, V. 2007. Evolutionary psychology: 'new science of the mind' or 'Darwinian fundamentalism'? Historical Materialism. 15 (4), pp. 105-136. https://doi.org/10.1163/156920607X245850
Mutual and partaken bliss: an introduction to the science of bodily beauty
Furnham, A. and Swami, V. 2007. Mutual and partaken bliss: an introduction to the science of bodily beauty. in: Furnham, A. and Swami, V. (ed.) The body beautiful: evolutionary and socio-cultural perspectives Basingstoke, UK Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 3-12
Gender and health inequality in welfare state regimes: a cross-national study of twelve European countries
Bambra, C., Pope, D., Stanistreet, D., Swami, V., Kunst, A. and Scott-Samuel, A. 2007. Gender and health inequality in welfare state regimes: a cross-national study of twelve European countries. in: Mackenbach, J., Kunst, A., Stirbu, I., Roskam, A. and Schaap, M. (ed.) Tackling health inequalities In Europe: an integrated approach Rotterdam, Netherlands Erasmus Medical Centre. pp. 230-246
Estimating self, parental, and partner multiple intelligences: a replication in Malaysia
Swami, V., Furnham, A. and Kannan, K. 2006. Estimating self, parental, and partner multiple intelligences: a replication in Malaysia. Journal of Social Psychology. 146 (6), pp. 645-655. https://doi.org/10.3200/SOCP.146.6.645-655
The leg-to-body ratio as a human aesthetic criterion
Swami, V., Einon, D. and Furnham, A. 2006. The leg-to-body ratio as a human aesthetic criterion. Body Image. 3 (4), pp. 317-323. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2006.08.003
Bipolar mood disorder secondary to mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS): a case study
Kannan, K., Tan, S.M.K., Pillai, S.K., Sinniah, D., Raymond, A.A., Hamzaini, A.H., Foong, L.S., Ismail, W.S., Ruzyanie, N. and Swami, V. 2006. Bipolar mood disorder secondary to mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS): a case study. Hong Kong Journal of Psychiatry. 16 (4), pp. 150-153.
Changing perceptions of attractiveness as observers are exposed to a different culture
Tovee, M.J., Swami, V., Furnham, A. and Mangalparsad, R. 2006. Changing perceptions of attractiveness as observers are exposed to a different culture. Evolution and Human Behavior. 27 (6), pp. 443-456. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2006.05.004
The influence of body mass index on the physical attractiveness preferences of feminist and nonfeminist heterosexual women and lesbians
Swami, V. and Tovee, M.J. 2006. The influence of body mass index on the physical attractiveness preferences of feminist and nonfeminist heterosexual women and lesbians. Psychology of Women Quarterly. 30 (3), pp. 252-257. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.2006.00293.x
The influence of resource availability on preferences for human body weight and non-human objects
Swami, V., Poulogianni, K. and Furnham, A. 2006. The influence of resource availability on preferences for human body weight and non-human objects. Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis. 4 (1), pp. 17-28.
Does hunger influence judgments of female physical attractiveness?
Swami, V. and Tovee, M.J. 2006. Does hunger influence judgments of female physical attractiveness? British Journal of Psychology. 97 (3), pp. 353-363. https://doi.org/10.1348/000712605X80713
Body weight, waist-to-hip ratio and breast size correlates of ratings of attractiveness and health
Furnham, A., Swami, V. and Shah, K. 2006. Body weight, waist-to-hip ratio and breast size correlates of ratings of attractiveness and health. Personality and Individual Differences. 41 (3), pp. 443-454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2006.02.007
The science of body metrics
Treleaven, P., Furnham, A. and Swami, V. 2006. The science of body metrics. The Psychologist. 19 (7), pp. 416-419.
A critical test of the waist-to-hip ratio hypothesis of women's physical attractiveness in Britain and Greece
Swami, V., Antonakopoulos, N., Tovee, M.J. and Furnham, A. 2006. A critical test of the waist-to-hip ratio hypothesis of women's physical attractiveness in Britain and Greece. Sex Roles. 54 (3-4), pp. 201-211. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-006-9338-3
The science of attraction
Swami, V. and Furnham, A. 2006. The science of attraction. The Psychologist. 19, pp. 362-365.
The influence of body weight and shape in determining female and male physical attractiveness
Swami, V. 2006. The influence of body weight and shape in determining female and male physical attractiveness. in: Ferrera, L.A. (ed.) Focus on body mass index and health research New York Nova Science Publishers. pp. 1-28
Swami, V. 2006. The influence of body weight and shape in determining female and male physical attractiveness. in: Kindes, M.V. (ed.) Body image: new research New York, USA Nova Science Publishers. pp. 35-61
Female physical attractiveness and body image disorders in Malaysia
Swami, V. 2006. Female physical attractiveness and body image disorders in Malaysia. Malaysian Journal of Psychiatry. 14, pp. 3-7.
Female physical attractiveness in Britain and Japan: a cross-cultural study
Swami, V., Caprario, C., Tovee, M.J. and Furnham, A. 2006. Female physical attractiveness in Britain and Japan: a cross-cultural study. European Journal of Personality. 20 (1), pp. 69-81. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.568
Male physical attractiveness in Britain and Malaysia: a cross-cultural study
Swami, V. and Tovee, M.J. 2005. Male physical attractiveness in Britain and Malaysia: a cross-cultural study. Body Image. 2 (4), pp. 383-393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2005.08.001
Personality, gender and self-perceived intelligence
Furnham, A. and Buchanan, T. 2005. Personality, gender and self-perceived intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences. 39 (3), pp. 543-555. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2005.02.011
Female physical attractiveness in Britain and Malaysia: a cross-cultural study
Swami, V. and Tovee, M.J. 2005. Female physical attractiveness in Britain and Malaysia: a cross-cultural study. Body Image. 2 (2), pp. 115-128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2005.02.002
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LAN is facing a possible mechanics strike on June 26 in Lima, LAN Cargo breaks ground on a new hangar at Miami
LAN Airlines (Santiago) may be somewhat impacted by a possible strike by 70 percent of its LAN Peru (Lima) mechanics maintaining LAN and TAM aircraft. The mechanics are based in Lima, Peru.
The International Transport Workers’ Federation-ITF has issued this statement:
The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) LATAM network reports that it is hearing of concerns from passengers due to fly on LAN and TAM planes during a strike expected to begin in Peru on June 26. Unions report that more than 200 mechanics – over 70 percent of all LAN Peru mechanics – will not be certifying airplane flights during the strike, which is expected to affect operations across Latin America, including during the World Cup.
LAN Peru aviation mechanics are responsible for the security of the flights of LAN and TAM Airlines (the LATAM Airline Group), and their function is fundamental to the maintenance of the aircraft and the safety of flights.
On June 26-27 a strike is likely to take place, called by the SITALANPE trade union, which represents 70 per cent of all those mechanics. This is expected to result in cancellations and delays across the region. The mechanics are unequivocal: their labor is not replaceable because they are certified to work on the aircraft. “We are the ones that review the planes each time that they land and if we do not sign the logbook of the aircraft, they do not leave. Without our approval, no plane will be able to fly and therefore the whole company will stop,” explained Juan Carlos Talavera, a LAN Peru aviation mechanic and press secretary of SITALANPE.
Lima, Peru, is the central hub for maintenance work in the holding company that includes both the LAN and TAM Airlines. The Peruvian mechanics maintain the cargo and passenger aircraft for LAN Argentina, LAN Chile, LAN Ecuador, LAN Peru, and TAM and LAN Cargo.
Dario Castillo Alfaro, the leader of the LAN Chile mechanics’ union, commented: “Our mechanics’ union is supporting the Peruvian workers and is ready to express its solidarity and support. As Chileans, we are depending on our Peruvian co-workers to protect the aviation sector in Latin America from the kind of cost cutting in operations that threatens the security of our passengers. As LAN and TAM workers we know that on behalf of passengers and aviation workers, it is our obligation to inform customers of potential problems and risks. The future of aviation in South America is being threatened by the company’s refusal to negotiate in Peru and Argentina.”
In other news, LAN Cargo (Santiago), an affiliate of LATAM Airlines Group, S.A. and part of South America’s largest airline group comprised of LAN Airlines and its affiliates and TAM Airlines, officially broke ground on a new 98,242-square-foot state of the art maintenance hangar facility at Miami International Airport. The hangar will be LATAM Airlines Group’s first maintenance hangar in the United States. The project represents an investment of more than $15 million dollars and is estimated to create more than 300 new direct and indirect jobs in the first five years, further increasing LATAM Airline Group’s participation and commitment to economic growth in Miami-Dade County and the State of Florida.
The new facility includes state of the art design, technology, and meets the highest standards of environmental compliance. The innovative roof design with the tail cupola will accommodate Boeing 777-300 and Airbus A350 size aircraft, and still meet the applicable structure height requirements.
On June 23 ITF issued this subsequent announcement:
This week, the aviation unions of the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) Network of LATAM Unions in Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru and Colombia will be taking action to support the mechanics of LAN Peru and the flight attendants of LAN Argentina. The workers will inform passengers in the airport about the actions.
The passengers need to know that the demands of the LAN and TAM Airline workers are fair and that the company has the resources to resolve the conflicts. Aviation labour conditions impact the quality of life of workers and potentially the high standards of service on flights.
LAN Peru Mechanics
On June 26th and 27th, a planned strike of the mechanics union (SITALANPE), who represent 70 percent of the workforce, would affect flights in the country and the region. Licensed aviation mechanics are required to certify all aircraft.
LAN Argentina Flight Attendants
In Argentina, the flight attendants have suffered time and again delays in their collective rights. Since 2005, when the company began operations in Argentina, LAN has refused to sign a collective agreement to regulate the flight attendants’ working conditions.
LAN Peru union leader reports detention and threats in the Lima Airport
Juan Carlos Talavera Flores, the press secretary of the SITALANPE union of Peru, has reported that he was detained on Friday, June 20th. He reports that during his detention he was threatened by a security staff from the airport. The security staff introduced himself as being sent by LAN Peru. Mr. Talavera explained that this security staff member told him that LAN Peru was going to bring a legal notary to verify his assumed illegal actions.
Mr. Talvera explains that it was a confusing, frightening and strange action by LAN Peru to intervene with his detention. The leader of the mechanics union states that the police, and the security personnel of the airport sent by LAN Peru, detained him while he was distributing information to the passengers about delays and cancellations which would occur during the upcoming LAN Peru strike of June 26 and 27.
At the police station, the union leader reports that he was searched unfairly for drugs and incriminatory evidence. At the jail, he was threatened. Hours later he was released without charges.
Juan Carlos Talavera Flores, is a leader in the international solidarity campaign to protect aviation standards in South America. His detention was made while he was distributing information in the Jorge Chavez Airport in Lima and answering questions from passengers about the upcoming industrial actions and strikes in LAN and TAM airlines.
Copyright Photo: Bruce Drum/AirlinersGallery.com. LAN Cargo’s Boeing 767-316F ER CC-CZZ (msn 25756) approaches the runway at Miami International Airport (MIA).
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News14 Jul 2012
Strachan sizzles down the home straight for second gold
Anthonique Strachan of Bahamas wins the Women's 200 metres Final on the day four of the 14th IAAF World Junior Championships in Barcelona on 13 July 2012 (© Getty Images)
Anthonique Strachan followed up her 100m win on Wednesday by blazing her way around 200m of the Montjuic Olympic Stadium on Friday night in a Championships record of 22.53.
“I thought I might have 22.60 in me but I'm amazed I was able to go even faster. I'm really tired after seven races in four days, I would have loved to have also been contesting the 4x100m relay final but we didn't get the baton round in the heats so that's the Championships finished for me,” reflected Strachan, who moves up to ninth on the World junior all-time list after the fastest outing over what American writers like to call 'the furlong' for four years.
“I knew (the American sprinter) Dezerea Bryant was a very fast starter and she was in the lane outside me so I decided to feed off her start, which I did for a while, but I had to control my speed on the bend so that I could come home strong. I had to work the bend, letting my momentum drive me along,” added the 18-year-old from the Caribbean.
Her strength saw her pull away from any potential rivals for the gold medal in the final quarter of the race to come home over half-a-second clear of another member of the United States' team, eventual silver medallist Olivia Ekpone, who clocked 23.15.
The quickest woman out of her blocks, Bryant, was given the same time as her compatriot but eventually had to settle for the bronze medal after the judges had studied the photo-finish.
More battles between the trio now look to be staged in the coming years as Strachan looks set to move away from her Caribbean home and follow a well-trodden path to study at an American university in the near future.
College company
It would be indiscreet to mention where she has in mind as the formal paperwork has apparently yet to be done but astute observers of US college system will have little problem whittling down her potential destinations to a very short list.
“It's a place where there are already a lot Bahamian athletes and also Trinidad athletes, and it's a place where there are also some professional athletes still based like (her compatriot and 2008 Olympic Games Triple Jump bronze medallist) Leevan Sands and a lot more. There will be a lot of people I know there, I will not be lonely or short of company.”
She has not been lonely in Barcelona either. The Bahamian team and its supporters sitting in the stands have been one of the most colourful and noisy of all the 178 nations represented in the Catalan city, cheering on their athletes to the sound of what most Europeans would describe as Swiss cow bells.
Strachan has deservedly been their heroine over the past few days, doubling the number of gold medals won by Bahamas athletes in the history of Championships with only Shenique Ferguson 200m win in 2008 and Shaunae Miller's victory over 400m two years ago having provided a trip to the top of the podium before Strachan stretched out her long legs.
Miller messages
The quietly spoken but erudite Strachan benefited from Miller's experience in Moncton, Canada, two years ago, despite the fact the latter is almost a year younger than her team-mate.
“Shaunae told me just to stay calm and that the crowd was going to make a lot of noise. Usually I have a few problems hearing things with large crowds but Shaunae's advice worked.”
Every cloud has a silver lining and with the Bahamas' 4x100m relay team having been eliminated in the heats on Friday, Strachan can finally relax.
“I'm going to now be a tourist, I hope to see everything in the city now I'm done, but even if I didn't do anything away from the track, I can say I've enjoyed it so far. Even just looking out of the bus on the way to the track was fun.
However, everything is a little more fun when you have had two gold medals around your neck as Strachan became just the third person to do the sprint double at the IAAF World Junior Championships.
Phil Minshull for the IAAF
Anthonique STRACHAN
World Athletics U20 Championships
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Israeli Style
Carrie Hart
Israeli fusion food, photo by Dana Erlich
Travelers to Israel often comment about the special gastronomical Israeli breakfasts, lavished upon them by their hosts at B & B’s, and in hotel dining rooms across the country. At the breakfast buffets you can find a full display of fresh fruits and vegetables, hard and soft cheeses, eggs cooked and served to meet your personal tastes, smoked salmon and white fish. You can cut your own bread and smother it with a variety of Middle Eastern dips.
Today, despite strict kosher laws separating Israeli cuisine into two choices (dairy-based or meat-based), visitors to Israel are flocking to restaurants, exploring the Middle Eastern-Mediterranean food styles. The buzz going around is that some of the best chefs in the world are cooking Israeli food in a new way. Tourists, artists, businessmen, and government leaders are all tasting the splendor of Israeli delicacies in what is becoming an internationally known food culture, uniquely connected to fresh produce in the shuk market… a trademark of this region.
At the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), diplomats are finding ways to promote the Israeli food brand as a means of sharing the good things Israel has to offer on a global scale, emphasizing culinary diplomacy. Dana Erlich, Director of the Cadet Course at the MFA, defines herself as a culinary diplomat. Born in Israel to an Argentinian immigrant family with Eastern European roots, Erlich says her family life is typical of other immigrants who contribute to the mix in Israel of cultural diversity. “I grew up in a family where the table always had a combination of empanadas and herring. Russian Polish food combined with Argentinian meat. When you look at Argentinian food it has influences of Italy. There are a lot of immigrants from Italy to Argentina. So, you have a lot of pizza and pasta. Every 29th of the month you eat gnocchi.”
For Erlich, that kind of food fusion was part of her household. Her family moved to Israel with some traditions and adapted others. “Every Friday we would eat hummus. That was our family tradition. And, for me, that evolution is something natural that I see in the Israeli kitchen every day.” According to Erlich, when the modern state of Israel was established in 1948, new immigrants adopted the local foods of the region in order to create a new Jewish Israeli cuisine. This helped new immigrants not to look back at their heritage, but to look forward to their shared future. They ate falafel, hummus, and accessible Middle Eastern food that was kosher and inexpensive. “And, it didn’t belong to any one of the different groups that came here. It was something new; new for them.”
Years later what evolved was a Mediterranean food style. The Mediterranean diet has remained one of the most popular in Israel and throughout the world. That’s because of a focus on healthy eating, and also because of the diversity and variety that it offers. For a time, Israelis decided to go back to their roots and explore their grandmother’s food traditions in the home. After awhile, Jewish citizens wanted to then move forward and seek out other kinds of foods in regional culinary kitchens. Israeli chefs today, who understand both the immigrant and the native-born Israeli food interests, know how to combine ingredients for a unique local fare – including heritage and international trends.
Erlich explains, “We used to say in Israel that it is a melting pot. We call it now the Israeli salad. The important thing about an Israeli salad is that each ingredient keeps its taste, its flavor, its value, but still, together, it creates something better. You still remember where each ingredient came from.” The new fusion food term being used to explain Israeli cuisine, today, focuses on that unique community blend. In this era of globalization, some might be concerned that food traditions are disappearing. But, Erlich says, “It doesn’t erase identity. It actually embraces the different identities. And, for me, all of that fusion of bringing all of the culture and heritage together to create something new; that for me is the Israeli kitchen.”
As Erlich explores how to broaden Israeli culinary diplomacy, she reflects on the fresh foods found in the produce markets of Israel, especially the Carmel market in Tel Aviv and the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. It is there that she sees all the different immigrants that are eating and shopping; and, it is there where she experiences all the flavors side by side or together. Meanwhile, Israeli chefs who are perfecting the art of food integration are being recognized and receiving international acclaim and fame. “It’s because they are good, and because of their flexibility and their innovative mentality that allows them to explore other things.”
Flexibility and innovative mentality are diplomatic terms used in a variety of ways at the Israeli Foreign Ministry when speaking of soft diplomacy – a way of bringing Israel and the nations together in a common bond. Sitting and eating a meal together is one way that government leaders can relax and talk about issues of mutual concern.
Erlich’s work experience has not always been based on culinary diplomacy. She studied at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, and realized she was not good at selling her art. However, she was passionate about sharing Israel with others. But, Erlich became frustrated by the way Israel was being presented internationally. She felt she could help with the message, and make a difference in the way people perceived the values of the Jewish State.
Eventually, she began working abroad. She served in Israeli diplomatic missions in New York, Los Angeles, and Costa Rica. Her experience in media, digital and public diplomacy, culture and economics has been a valuable asset in her diplomatic field of interest. Throughout her work efforts, she has realized that food connects people together. Wherever Erlich is stationed abroad, she holds Israeli food related events. By talking about Israeli culinary cuisine, she connects people to the Jewish State. This helps others to gain a better understanding of the history of the land, as well as the process that Israel is going through as a modern nation. Food has been Erlich’s way of sharing Israel with the world. She has become well-known for bringing a sense of the Israeli mentality to those living abroad.“You create a certain culture. You get to know the chefs and the people of the media who are interested in those events. A target audience can be relevant; people who will come and attend who are interested in good food. Then, you start creating a tour. You make a connection between an Israeli chef and a local chef.”
Erlich brings the chefs together on an international adventure that usually lasts from a few days to a week, keeping it non-competitive so they can freely share their ideas. “Generally, as a diplomat, when you go to a new place, you try to map the country with ‘What’s the conversation?’ And, then, you look at different aspects of it.” For Erlich this includes researching public opinion while talking to opinion makers, members of the media, and politicians. She examines the variety of interests. “For me, that is one of the greatest benefits of food, because it connects all of those target audiences.”
Wherever Erlich goes, she observes the street culture of food, and contributes her culinary disciplines to the efforts of others. She helps Israeli missions in different capitals, providing diplomatic initiatives in addition to her work in Israel. “I mapped out, within one year, 60 Israeli missions around the world in food related events! So, it’s being done. It can be explored. There is such great potential. I don’t think we have reached the peak yet.” Diplomats like Erlich bring in experienced leaders from the culinary food industry. Popular chefs that have a public following are invited, as are journalists who write about food and lifestyle. “It’s not just the restaurants. It’s understanding the culture and the mentality; going to the markets; seeing different food initiatives.”
In July 2016, after working abroad, Erlich came back to head up a new diplomatic course at the MFA. But, culinary diplomacy continues to be a big part of her life. “It is something I keep on doing regardless of what my official position is. It connects because it is my job as a diplomat. I never clock out. I am always, ‘Dana the Diplomat.’ ” Erlich continues to collaborate with foodies, worldwide, observing various trends. “My main goal is to build some kind of a tool box of ‘How To’. So, if you go to a certain mission, it doesn’t matter where you are, but you know that there are certain tools of how to start thinking and planning – a culinary diplomacy event or program or initiative. Who do you need to know in that area? What is relevant and what is not?” These are questions that she hopes Israeli diplomats will consider as she prepares a paper for the MFA before taking up her next posting overseas.
Erlich’s challenge is to establish an Israeli policy about culinary diplomacy, as a cultural way of bringing countries together. Her proposal will include objectives to help the Foreign Ministry understand the potential of this important field. Her greatest interest is in reaching people who don’t know about Israel; who don’t care or understand Israel’s relevancy. “They are people who watch cooking shows, food competitions, and who are interested in food and love food; who consider themselves gourmet.”
The people that Erlich continues to meet, who are fascinated by different aspects of culinary diplomacy will learn, soon enough, that Israel has a lot to offer. As her passion grows to share Israeli cuisine on a global level, Israel, itself, is already becoming a well-known hotspot. Each year, curiosity about the new Israeli food is drawing thousands of people here to experience the fine tastes that this amazing immigrant culture has to offer.
Carrie Hart is an accredited Jerusalem-based news analyst and correspondent. She reports for media outlets on political, diplomatic, and military issues as they relate to Israel and the nations.
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“Not as good as your grandmother used to make it, but I still do alright,” I brag about my baked ziti.
“Yeah it was pretty good grandpa, why didn’t you teach dad to cook,” PJ asks with a mouth full.
The honest truth is I love moments like this. Not the dinner or anything. The moments when I can just be with family and let my guard down. Even after all these years, these moments are the only ones when I’m not looking over my shoulder. PJ is just like his dad. I thought Preston could eat, but PJ might have him beat. Still not sure why neither of them put on weight like I do. Must be Helen’s genetics, because it isn’t mine.
“Grandpa, can you tell me a story about your hero days,” Preston asks after clearing his plate.
I motion to the living room and he follows. I take a seat in my favorite recliner and kick up my feet. The perfect story telling position. I already know which story he’s going to ask about. Still I pretend I’m thinking of a good one. It’s always the same story with PJ. He’s infatuated with the stories of capes and crooks in big battles. I wouldn’t force myself to recall these stories if he didn’t ask for them. His father was never one to believe my stories but, PJ, he hangs on every word.
“What do you want to hear about PJ,” I ask if I can’t think of a story.
“Tell me a story about Prime Squad grandpa,” he sits cross legged across from me.
“Well, there was the time we took on Professor Hammer for the last time. It was a big battle and we lost a very good friend that day. But the world was saved.”
“No, tell it right! From the very start,” PJ yells out while pouting. I just love when he makes that silly face.
“Alright, from the start. Well, The Prime Squad was made up of four of us. We had all met at a hardware store. We just all happened to be there when a monster attacked not far away. We decided to be a team. There was Dr. Magnificent, he didn’t have any super powers. He was just magnificent, and could do all kinds of things. He was a real favorite of the ladies and some of the fellas too. It’s okay if you like fellas PJ,” it’s important for kids to hear that today according to the news.
“Grandpa, just tell the story,” PJ says. Clearly, he isn’t here for my jokes, just my stories and ziti.
“Alright, there was Serenade. She could sing, I mean really sing and her voice could do some damage. I once saw her sing all the windows out of a big sky scraper then yell a man into a car. She was pretty too. She was almost your grandmother, but love had other plans. Next was The Hypnotist. He could hypnotize people with just a look into his eyes. He wasn’t a nice person to look at, but those eyes were something else. He hypnotized me once before. I ended up dancing naked in the rain. So that was The Prime Squad…”
“Wait,” PJ interrupts again. You left yourself out.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I play dumb.
“You were the Midnight Marauder. You were the best sword fighter on all of the continents. You could cut bullets in half right out of the air and almost nobody could beat you with a knife in your hand, nobody could beat you with a sword,” PJ introduces part of me that I like to forget.
To be Continued in Super Shorts
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14-18 NOW / Artists / Artists / Robb Johnson
Robb Johnson
Having set up his own label Johnson released his first album in 1985, and has since released over 30 albums.
Widely recognised as one of the finest songwriters working in the UK today, Tony Benn said Johnson’s Winter Turns To Spring was his favourite song. Robb has recently revisited his song cycle Gentle Men, based on the experiences of his grandfathers in the First World War.
Curated by Billy BraggThe Opening Act
25 – 29 June 2014 LEFTFIELD STAGE, GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL
The musician-activist invited five fellow singers to join him at the Glastonbury Festival and premiere a selection of new songs inspired by the conflict.
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Sly compares our crime rate..
Sly compares our crime rate with Denmark’s, says the ‘get-tough’ approach always fails
sly of the underworld
Sly Of The Underworld says the “tough on crime” approach is a proven failure and it’ll fail again in Victoria.
With Ross and John in Copenhagen, Sly decided to take a look at how Victoria’s crime rate compared with Denmark, given the similar populations.
There are 6.2 million in Victoria, with 5.7 million people living in Denmark.
Some of the things Sly found…
3400 people are in prison in Denmark (7600 people are in prison in Victoria).
The re-offending rate for prisoners in Denmark once they’re released is 27 per cent (it’s 44 per cent in Victoria).
Just 14 (yes, 14) children and teens are in juvenile detention in Denmark. There are more than 500 in Victoria.
There are four times as many women in prison in Victoria than there is in Denmark.
Are the Danes simply better people than us? Sly doesn’t think so.
He pointed out the differences in what the Danish justice system aimed to achieve.
“Prisoners wear their own clothes, cook their own meals and aren’t routinely strip searched,” Sly said on 3AW Breakfast.
“The aim is to get the people back into the system.
“Are we going to learn from that? Of course not.
“We’re going down the “get tough” policies path – all politicians are doing that.
“It’s a proven vote-winner, but it’s also a proven failure.
“No politician would have the guts to say let’s have a look at Denmark.
“Why would they? It’s clear there’s a great thirst from the public for this “get tough” approach, but it will fail.
“We’re going down the path of the American model and it will fail. History has shown that.”
Click PLAY below to hear more on 3AW Breakfast
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Our Commitment to You -
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The History of 907 Main
907 Main is an integral part of the unique history of Cambridge, Massachusetts and the Central Square landscape. The area has witnessed several surges of immigration from multiple different cultures. The square’s original population consisted of people of English and Canadian descent, and between 1850 and 1890, it attracted Irish immigrants. Following this, in the late nineteenth century and beyond, the area brought waves of immigration from Europe, the West Indies, South America and Africa.
907 Main Street began with the Whitney, Lucretia and Henry Building, built by Henry Augustus Whitney in 1870. On the ground floor of the building, which had always been used for commercial space, there were once eight stores. The building was then transformed into townhouses and eventually office spaces. In the 1920s, 907 Main was a part of an area known as “Confectioner’s Row,” placed alongside such businesses as the Necco factory, Nabisco and James O. Welch, now known as Tootsie Roll and the makers of Junior Mints. Throughout the years, tenants of the building were held by various businesses, including Patty Chen’s Dumpling Room, Cinderella’s Pizza, Kinkos, and a telecommunications company.
Today, 907 Main is boutique hotel that gives a nod to the Transcendentalist Movement, with numerous elements and references to this period spread throughout the building. The movement focused on ideology geared towards self-expression rather than organized religion or government. It promoted free thinking and individuality. Pioneers of the movement included Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson who each met in Cambridge to share ideas on Transcendentalism. The city’s substantial relation to this progressive movement is the reason for the hotel’s inspiration towards it, with experiences and design elements that highlight a sophisticated, 1920s style.
The Dial, 907 Main’s kitchen and bar, with patio included, gets its name from The Dial, a magazine edited and co-founded by Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1840. The Dial published ideas and conversations of the Transcendentalist Movement, spreading its message across America. The restaurant is a direct ode to this publication, with vibrant colors, playful graphics and textures aimed at paying homage to Cambridge’s progressive roots. At the hotel’s upstairs bar and rooftop terrace, Blue Owl, modern day free thinking is encouraged in an industrial stylistic setting with stunning views of the city.
907 Main – A Historic Timeline
Building Name Whitney, Lucretia and Henry Building
Henry Augustus Whitney
His wife was Lucretia Whitney (Fall)
Bay Windows were added in 1871
There used to be eight stores in the ground floor of the building, which was always commercial space
Built as townhouses
Converted to Office Spaces
After a period, the offices were converted back to residences
In the early 20’s the building was part of the area nicknamed “Confectioners Row”
Squirrel Brand CO.
Daggett Chocolates
James O. Welch, now Tootsie Roll, makers of Junior Mints
Fox Cross Co. known for the Charleston Chew
Previous Tenants
Patty Chen’s Dumpling Room
Cinderella’s (Pizza)
Kinkos
A telecom Company
1982 Toscanini’s Ice Cream moved in
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ACIS accredits, supports, and advances the interests of Colorado independent schools.
Strategic Recruitment and Community Engagement Officer
August 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022
Under the leadership of the Director of Inclusivity, and in close coordination with the Director of Admission & Financial Aid, the Strategic Recruitment and Community Engagement Officer is responsible for building relationships with community partners, organizations, and professional networks for the purposes of yielding mission appropriate applicants to Colorado Academy from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. This position is integral to CA’s efforts to advance diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the school community, specifically as they relate to the needs of diverse students and families, both during the admission process and while participating in all aspects of school life. Candidates who are goal oriented and energized by taking initiative are encouraged to apply.
Represent CA to prospective families and students including, where appropriate, touring and interviewing of parents and students.
Lead recruitment efforts to increase the number of applications and heighten the yield of mission appropriate students from diverse backgrounds. This will require ensuring that families know that CA is a community for families from all backgrounds.
Assist with admission marketing strategy and office of inclusivity initiatives.
Coordinate with parent affinity groups to host outreach events throughout the admission process.
Implement student retention strategies for families from diverse backgrounds and coordinate these efforts with principals, counselors, coaches, director of inclusivity, director of financial aid, and others throughout the school year.
Represent the Admission Office at community events and collaborate with the Advancement Office to create events to bring more diverse community groups to campus.
Network and act as a liaison between the school and local communities of color to support the school’s initiatives.
Participate in feeder school events that include public speaking on behalf of the school.
Serve as an advocate for diverse applicants during Admission Committee review and during Financial Aid Committee review.
Assist with and support school related efforts to recruit a diverse faculty and staff.
Plan and host August onboarding programs and/or multicultural meetups for new families from diverse backgrounds.
Maintain relationships with key alumni to enlist them as mentors for current students of color.
Utilize research to inform best practices and participate in reflective, self-directed, on-going professional development.
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Three Consigli Projects Receive National Copper in Architecture Awards
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MILFORD, MA Three projects constructed by Consigli Construction Co., Inc. were awarded 2015 North American Copper in Architecture Awards at this year's American Institute of Architects Convention. The Maine State House Dome Restoration in Augusta, Maine, Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology Roof Restoration in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the new addition at Harvard University's Tozzer Library, also in Cambridge, all received awards at the ceremony held at the FUSE Art Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
The national award program, sponsored by The Copper Alliance, a regional organization of the International Copper Association, Ltd., recognizes outstanding craftsmanship, attention to detail, architectural vision, and use of architectural copper and copper alloys.
The Maine State House Dome Restoration, the first for the 100-year-old dome, included repairs to prevent water infiltration, replacement of more than 7,000 square feet of copper, and restoration of the cupola and a gold-clad copper statue located atop the domeresulting in the restoration of one of Maine's most significant historic landmark buildings. Consigli completed the project in collaboration with The Heritage Co., EverGreene Architectural Arts, E.S. Boulos Company, and ACE Corporation, with architects LEO A DALY.
Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology, founded in 1859, required the full removal and the duplication of the existing 34,000 square-foot copper roof. Nearly 10,000 copper panels were used to match the historical roof layout. Working together with Perry and Radford Architects, sheet metal contractor Gilbert & Becker Co., Inc., and Revere Copper, Consigli' s team of craftsmen soldered nearly 6.6 miles of hook strip and used more than 70,000 square feet of copper to cover the roof area, all while the building was fully occupied.
At Harvard University's Tozzer Library, in collaboration with Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Gilbert & Becker Co., Inc., and Revere Copper, Consigli renovated the existing building designed by Johnson and Hodvelt in 1973 and built a 10,000-square-foot vertical addition. Copper was selected for the roof because of its unique shape and random panel widths, as well as for its durability and malleability. The building now houses a new consolidated center for the Department of Anthropology.
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Work Made For Hire Clauses: Independent Contractor or Statutory Employee Under California Law?
Erica Bristol, Esq.
"Work Made For Hire" Clauses: Independent Contractor or "Statutory Employee" Under California Law?
Technology companies, startups and sole proprietors often include a "work made for hire" clause in agreements with independent contractors, such as programmers and graphic artists, to ensure that any copyrightable aspects of work created by the independent contractor are owned by the company/sole proprietor who contracted the work. But did you know that under California law, if an agreement with an independent contractor contains a "work made for hire" clause and that the contracting party owns all copyrights in the work, the independent contractor may be deemed a "statutory employee" for workers compensation, unemployment insurance and other California employment law purposes? Companies working with independent contractors should understand the significance of "work made for hire" clauses, and consider certain issues before including (or excluding) such language in independent contractor agreements, at least in California.
"Work Made For Hire" is a concept found in Section 101 of Title 17 of the Copyright Act of 1976. It establishes an exception to the general rule that the person who creates a work protected by copyright law is the "author" and owner of the copyrights in the work. Under "work made for hire," a third party, rather than the creator, is deemed the author and owner of the copyrights in the work. For example, if an employee creates a copyrighted work during the course and scope of employment, the employer owns the work rather than the employee. Similarly, if a work falls under the list of specially commissioned works in the Copyright Act and the parties have a written agreement stating the work is a "work made for hire," the person or entity that commissioned the work will be deemed the author and owner of the copyrights in the work, rather than the person or entity who actually created it.
Technology companies typically include "work made for hire" language in independent contractor agreements to ensure the company is deemed the author and owner of copyrights in works such as software, graphics and programs, created by individuals who are hired as independent contractors.
However, California Labor Code section 3351.5(c), and 621(d) and 686 of the California Unemployment Insurance Code, basically state that if a contract with an individual contains a "work made for hire" clause and the contracting party retains ownership of all copyrights, the individual will be deemed a "statutory employee" for California workers compensation, unemployment insurance and other California employment law purposes, even if the parties intended or agreed in writing that the person is an independent contractor. If the individual is deemed a "statutory employee", the contracting party may be subject to penalties and fines for not complying with workers compensation, unemployment and other California employment law requirements.
Many companies believe that including an assignment of copyright, rather than a "work made for hire" clause, will solve the problem of ownership. However, there are issues to consider before excluding a "work made for hire" clause. The Copyright Act of 1976 allows certain "authors" who have transferred copyrights by contract or otherwise, to regain those transferred rights after 35 years under certain circumstances. If a company does not include a "work made for hire" clause in the agreement, the independent contractor, rather than the company, may be deemed the "author," and the independent contractor may be able to regain the copyrights in the work later on, which could serve a severe blow to companies with highly profitable works.
The list of specially commissioned works in the "work made for hire" section of the Copyright Act is very limited. There is some argument that any works falling outside the specific list in the Copyright Act are therefore excluded and not subject to the "statutory employee" laws in California. However, there haven't been any published court opinions addressing the matter, so the issue remains unclear.
Until there are answers, some possible ways to avoid the problem are to work with an individual who has created a corporation, LLC or other business entity (other than sole proprietor) and contract with the entity rather than the individual (entities are not considered employees under California employment law), and to evaluate the importance of the work and try to predict how valuable the copyrights in the work will be after 35 years, should the individual be deemed the "author" and try to regain the copyrights.
Perhaps the best piece of advice, however, is to consult with an employment or intellectual property attorney before including or excluding a "work made for hire" clause with an independent contractor, to ensure the contracting party is making a fully informed decision.
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Disobedient Nigerian teenager shot dead at UK cinema
Kelvin Odunuyi, a Nigerian teenager who lives in the United Kingdom, has been shot dead in front of a cinema in the United Kingdom. He is suspected to have been killed in an ongoing gang war.
The mother of the deceased, 19, has expressed devastation over the death of her child who disobeyed an instruction prohibiting him from visiting Wood Green, an environment known for widespread violence.
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Odunuyi met his end at the Vue Cinema located in the area on Thursday, March 8, 2018, shortly after his refusal to follow parental guidance.
"He was a lovely jovial boy. He was clever and loved by all who knew him. He had everything going for him.
"I have always lived in London but when we moved to Wood Green for a short time I got scared for my family. We now live in Harrow and I told him not to go back to Wood Green to see friends.
"But he did and now he is dead after being shot dead in a random attack. Police said it was wrong place at wrong time. I am devastated. I knew he would be safe at home with me but he went there and now he is dead.
"Another mother is grieving, enough is enough, the government needs to act to stop the bloodshed," says Afishetu Oniru, the mom of the departed youngster.
According to reports, no arrest has been made in connection to the killing of Kelvin Odunuyi who had aspired to become an expert in oil services.
To help him achieve this goal, his parents reportedly enrolled him at the Fulneck School situated in Pudsey, West Yorkshire, a prestigious school where a sum of N12m was paid as tuition fees.
This adds to a list of incidents involving the deaths of a Nigerian citizen in the UK due to hateful violence.
London police investigate killing of Nigerian teenager, Oluwadamilola Odeyingbo
Policemen in the south-east of London, England have launched an investigation into the murder of a Nigerian teenager, Oluwadamilola Odeyingbo, who was murdered in Chislehurst, Kent.
The Evening Standard News confirmed that the deceased died in a fight which occurred at Empress Drive, on Tuesday, January 9, 2018, but his killers are yet to be identified.
Police are looking to indulge in the assistance of the witnesses in a bid to uncover those responsible for the death of the teen who died at a hospital a day after the attack.
"We understand that neighbours and people passing through the area witnessed the incident on Tuesday evening.
“We are keen to speak to all witnesses and would encourage them to come forward as soon as possible.
"A young man has lost his life and we are doing everything we can to piece together what took place," says Detective Chief Inspector Tim Wright.
While the law enforcement officers are working on apprehending those connecting with the murder, the family are the victim Oluwadamilola Odeyingbo, are dealing with the loss in an angry way.
A Twitter user, identified as Femo of London, who described himself as a cousin to the deceased has lamented the passing of the latter.
He expressed his grief in a series of tweets, while intensely hoping that the murders are arrested.
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Nigeria: Respect for human rights essential during and after elections
13 Mar 2003, 12:00am
Amnesty International's plea comes in the aftermath of what seems yet another politically motivated killing during the electoral period in Nigeria, that of Harry Mashall, a leading member of the All Nigeria People's Party.
In two open letters to candidates for the federal executive and legislature and to candidates for state governorship and houses of assembly, Irene Khan, the Secretary General of Amnesty International stressed that protection and promotion of human rights should be central to their program for the post election period.
She pointed out that it is during electoral periods in the past that Nigeria has most suffered violence resulting, on many occasions, in the military seizing power.
'Respect for human rights during the electoral process is essential, even more so when political stability might depend on it,' Amnesty International said.
However, the organisation has received reports of numerous cases of political violence at the federal, state and local levels in the run-up to the elections, resulting in the death of some candidates and several supporters.
Allegations are rife across Nigeria of the use of groups of civilians armed by political leaders, including vigilante groups, to foment political violence at local and state levels.
'Unless immediate and sustained action is taken to prevent human rights violations by vigilante and other armed groups, further human rights abuses are inevitable,' Irene Khan added.
'All candidates to the federal executive and legislature as well as candidates to state governorship and houses of assembly must do their utmost in preventing political violence whether it is generated by leaders or supporters of their own political parties in internal disputes or against other political party leaders or sympathisers,' the organisation urged.
Candidates must also avoid the instigation of ethnic or religious tensions among the electorate.
Post-election human rights agenda
In its open letter, Amnesty International urges candidates to both federal and state executive and legislature to give priority to human rights in their post-election agenda.
New state authorities should ensure that existing legislation in their various states complies with international human rights law and with the Nigerian Constitution. Several northern states have introduced new Sharia Penal Legislation which provides for mandatory use of the death penalty and other cruel, inhuman and degrading punishments despite Nigeria's ratification of many international human rights instruments
Furthermore, new authorities of those states that have tacitly or openly endorsed vigilante groups should ensure that these groups do not violate the fundamental human rights of any individual.
At the federal level, Amnesty International is calling on all candidates for the federal executive and legislature to commit themselves to making public the report of the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission (Oputa Panel), and to produce a plan to implement its recommendations.
In the past four years of civilian rule, the Nigerian Police and the armed forces have been responsible for large numbers of extrajudicial executions, deaths in custody, torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of alleged criminals in custody.
'Newly elected federal officials should give priority to the establishment of training programs for the federal police and the armed forces that include specific training on the use of force according to international standards,' Amnesty International urged.
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Australian Imports: Increase Of Plastics In 2020
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The new normal which is 2020 has altered the mix of import commodities. Compared to the previous years, ANL has seen a change in the top import commodities; in particular, the increase of plastic imports.
Within the first half of 2020, ANL has imported 29,278 TEUs of plastic products into Australia. Of these various types of plastic, Poly vinyl chloride plastic (also known as PVC), in its primary form, takes top spot as the most plastic type to be imported in Australia thus far with volumes of more than 2,3000 TEUs.
This type of plastic is used to create multiple items ranging from pipes and hoses, to medical devices, raincoats, toys and shoes (1). Over 85% of the PVC that has been imported in Australia so far this year has come from Taiwan, which is unsurprising as Taiwan is one of the leading manufacturers of plastic in the world. While the idea of importing plastic in such high volumes seems less sustainable than other options, this is not the case. Unlike some of its other plastic counterparts PVC tend to be a cheap but long-standing alternative to single use plastic which aligns with consumer trends here in Australia. Furthermore, research has shown that PVC is effective in protecting the environment in terms of low greenhouse gas emission and the conservation of resources and energy (1).
Plastic boxes, cases and crates are the second highest type of imported plastic with a recorded volume of more than 2,000 TEU so far this year. Ranging from plastic boxes used for storage purposes, to crates used to carry beverages, ANL imports mostly from China, accounting for almost 70% of the imports. Additionally, data has shown that Melbourne is highest importer of these plastics.
Finally, plates, sheets, film and foil are the third highest type of imported plastic into Australia with a recorded volume of almost 1,800 TEU within the first six months of the year. These plastics can be defined as every day house hold items, outlining the reason for such a high volume of imports. The country of Malaysia has taken the top supplier spot for plastic imports of this kind, accounting for roughly 60% of Australia’s imports so far.
In conclusion, while it can be said that there is an increase of plastic imports into Australia so far this year, it can be seen that the ‘top’ plastics that are used are not for single use, but rather they are plastics that allow consumers to make use of them for a longer amount of time, without having an effect on the environment.
Shane Walden, Managing Director has outlined “ANL and the Group have placed environmental sustainability at the forefront of all of our goals. With this in mind, it is good to see that the importing of single-use plastics has declined and plastics that are long-lasting, beneficial and have less of a negative impact on the environment are what consumers want. Obviously, in a perfect world, there will be no need for plastics, however, we must look at what can be done in this current moment in time and take the necessary steps to ensure that the plastic used, has less of a detrimental impact on the environment.”
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Patent Case Summaries August 28, 2019
Patent Case Summaries | Week Ending August 23, 2019
Kirk T. Bradley
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A weekly summary of the precedential patent-related opinions issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the opinions designated precedential or informative by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al., No. 2018-1584 (Fed. Cir. (PTAB) Aug. 21, 2019). Opinion by Stoll, joined by Dyk and Chen.
In a final written decision in an IPR, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board concluded that two claims of Arthrex’s patent were invalid as obvious. In discussing a motivation to combine the cited references, the Board used different language than that advanced in the IPR petition. Specifically, the Board referred to a disclosed embodiment in the prior art as “preferred,” which differed from the petitioner’s characterization of the embodiment as “well-known,” “accepted,” and “simple.”
Arthrex appealed, arguing that the Board’s variation in wording violates the Administrative Procedure Act by crafting new grounds of unpatentability not advanced by the petitioner, without affording Arthrex an opportunity to be heard. Arthrex also argued that the Board incorrectly construed a claim term and that the IPR process is unconstitutional as applied to patents filed before the America Invents Act.
The Federal Circuit rejected each of Arthrex’s arguments. First, the Federal Circuit held that the Board’s use of different language “did not introduce new issues or theories into the proceeding.” The Board had relied on the same portions of the cited reference, considered the same proposed combination, and “ruled on the same theory of obviousness presented in the petition.” Next, the Federal Circuit upheld the Board’s claim construction as well as its substantive finding of a motivation to combine. Regarding motivation, the court acknowledged that “some evidence arguably cuts against the Board’s conclusion,” but reminded that “the presence of evidence supporting the opposite outcome does not preclude substantial evidence from supporting the Board’s fact finding.” Finally, the Federal Circuit rejected Arthrex’s argument that IPR is unconstitutional when applied retroactively to pre-AIA patents. The court did not need to reach the issue since Arthrex’s patent issued after passage of the AIA. The court noted that, in any event, it “recently rejected arguments similar to Arthrex’s in Celgene Corp. v. Peter, No. 18-1167.”
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The Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Techtronic Industries Co., et al., Nos. 2018-2103, -2228 (Fed. Cir. (N.D. Ill.) Aug. 21, 2019). Opinion by Chen, joined by Lourie and O’Malley.
Techtronic appealed from a district court order denying a motion for judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) that the asserted claims of Chamberlain Group, Inc.’s (CGI) ’275 patent were ineligible for patenting under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Techtronic also appealed a jury verdict that the claims of CGI’s ’966 patent were not anticipated by the prior art.
CGI’s ’275 patent relates to an apparatus and method for communicating information about the status of a movable barrier, for example, a garage door. The Federal Circuit noted that wireless transmission “is the only aspect of the claims that CGI points to as allegedly inventive over the prior art.” Applying the Supreme Court’s two-step Alice framework, the Federal Circuit concluded that representative Claim 1 “is directed to wirelessly communicating status information about a system,” and “the broad concept of communicating information wirelessly, without more, is an abstract idea.” The court also ruled that the physical nature of certain claim elements, such as a controller and transmitter, “is not enough to save the claims from abstractness.” At Alice step two, the Federal Circuit explained that the stated advance of “wireless communication cannot be an inventive concept, because it is the abstract idea that the claims are directed to.” Thus, the Federal Circuit reversed the district court’s JMOL decision.
Next, the Federal Circuit affirmed the jury’s verdict that certain claims of the ’966 patent were not anticipated. At the outset, the Federal Circuit rejected the notion “that two embodiments in a reference can never be considered in combination to make a finding of anticipation,” explaining that the district court was incorrect to the extent it suggested such a blanket rule. But Techtronic did not appeal any jury instruction or other issue on that topic, prompting the Federal Circuit to conclude that any error was “harmless under the circumstances.” On the merits, the Federal Circuit agreed with the district court that the jury’s finding of no anticipation was supported by substantial evidence. Thus, the court affirmed the verdict.
GoPro, Inc. v. 360Heros, Inc., No. IPR2018-01754 (PTAB POP Aug. 23, 2019). Opinion by Boalick, joined by Iancu and Hirshfeld.
The PTAB Precedential Opinion Panel (POP) held that “service of a pleading asserting a claim alleging infringement triggers the one-year time period for a petitioner to file a petition under 35 U.S.C. § 315(b), even where the serving party lacks standing to sue or where the pleading is otherwise deficient.”
GoPro filed a complaint in a California district court seeking a declaration of noninfringement of a patent held by 360Heros. 360Heros filed a counterclaim for infringement. GoPro then filed a motion for summary judgment, alleging that 360Heros lacked standing to sue. The district court granted the motion, concluding that 360Heros lacked standing. More than one year after GoPro was served with the counterclaim, GoPro filed a petition for IPR challenging the patent.
The POP held that GoPro’s petition for IPR was time-barred under § 315(b), explaining: “if service of a pleading asserting infringement occurred ‘in a manner prescribed by law,’ then the one-year time period for a petitioner to file a petition under § 315(b) is triggered on the date of service. The one-year time period is triggered regardless of whether the serving party lacked standing to sue or the pleading was otherwise deficient.” In so ruling, the POP specifically distinguished “a circumstance in which a party serves a complaint in bad faith, e.g., with knowledge that it lacks standing to pursue its claims of patent infringement or the intent to frustrate a petitioner’s ability to file an IPR.” If that circumstance arises, the POP “may revisit the question of the availability of an equitable tolling of the application of the time bar.”
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Knocking down barriers to health equity
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The AMA’s House of Delegates adopted policy that set “health equity”—defined as optimal health for all—as a goal for the U.S. health system, but the concepts of health equity and health equality can be tough to visualize.
Fortunately, artist Angus Maguire did just that for a Boston-based organization, the Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC) with his widely shared cartoon showing three boys of different heights trying to watch a ballgame from behind a fence with each standing on a box.
The tallest doesn’t need the box to see the game but just having one box to stand on is not enough for the shortest to look over the fence. But, since each kid has a box, that defines “equality.”
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In the illustration defining “equity,” the tallest—who doesn’t need a box—doesn’t have one, the medium-sized boy has the one box he needs, and the shortest gets two, finally allowing him to see the game.
“I love that one,” says Mary T. Bassett, MD, director of the Harvard School of Public Health’s Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. “An equal share does not always advance equity—which is an important point to make.”
The cartoon was mentioned by AMA President Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA, in her “fireside chat” with AMA staff. The IISC reports that there are now hundreds of variations of the highly illustrative illustration—including one used by Aletha Maybank MD, MPH, who has taken on the task of leading the AMA’s new Center for Health Equity.
In presentations, Dr. Maybank shows a third frame labeled “Reality,” which shows the tallest boy standing on seven boxes and the shortest standing in a hole with his shoulders just above the ground. A fourth frame, used by Dr. Maybank and others, is labeled “Liberation.” This one shows the view without a fence and all three figures standing on equal ground.
Image “Reality, Equality, Equity, Liberation,” courtesy Interaction Institute for Social Change (interactioninstitute.org), Artist: Angus Maguire (madewithangus.com), Facebook.
“The reality is that inequities are so great,” Dr. Maybank says. “Our goal is to remove the structural barriers, so we have liberation.”
Dr. Maybank has personal experience with the power a cartoon can have. She said she still gets recognized from a six-year-old video associated with “Doc McStuffins,” a Disney character portraying a young African American girl who is the daughter of a physician and who runs a “clinic” for her stuffed animals and toys.
“This is my claim to fame for me with 4-year-olds—and their parents,” Dr. Maybank said, adding that it’s important for girls to have role models and real-life illustrations that show it is possible for them to become doctors. She’s received letters from girls who say they want to be a doctor just like her.
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“As former Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders said: ‘You can’t be what you don’t see,’” Dr. Maybank says. “Those are the moments when you realize people are paying attention.”
One person who was paying attention to Dr. Maybank was Harvard’s Dr. Bassett, who served as New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene deputy commissioner from 2002 to 2009 before being appointed commissioner in 2014. (She joined Harvard last year.)
In 2009, she lured Dr. Maybank from Long Island’s Suffolk County—where she had launched the Department of Health Services’ Office of Minority Health—to become medical director of the Brooklyn District Public Health Office. Then, in 2014, she appointed Dr. Maybank as the founding director of the city’s Center for Health Equity.
“I was very young,” Dr. Maybank says. “But Dr. Bassett brought me in and she believed in something beyond what was on paper at that time.”
Dr. Bassett says she was impressed by Dr. Maybank’s pediatrics and public health training and how she established the minority health office in Suffolk County while still a resident.
“To be honest, I didn’t feel like I was taking a chance on her,” Dr. Bassett says. “Although she was young, she was already accomplished and she had already displayed initiative and was willing to do whatever it takes to start doing something that’s being done for the first time.
“She already was a national figure and I feel very proud that she has moved from New York City to a national role,” Dr. Bassett adds.
In his address to delegates at the 2019 AMA Annual Meeting, AMA Executive Vice President and CEO James L. Madara, MD, described Dr. Maybank as “a prominent national figure in health equity.” He said her first task would be to lead the planning phase of the AMA’s health equity work, which he said will take time, patience and perseverance.
One manifestation of health inequity is that African Americans and patients from other marginalized communities have higher rates of chronic diseases, such as diabetes, asthma and hypertension, and are likelier to report only “fair” or “poor” overall health status.
“What has become clear is that the inequities that persist throughout health care present obstacles to achieving our goals,” Dr. Madara said in his address. “As a nation, and as an association, we need to ensure that when solutions to improve health care are identified, that positive impacts are recognized by all—that one shared characteristic of such solutions is that they also bend toward health equity.”
Dr. Maybank says the experience of launching new health equity operations inside of established organizations has helped her develop a valuable skill set.
“I’ve had these unique opportunities to be an entrepreneur in the health equity and health disparities space within the context of institutions,” she says. This has helped her learn political strategy, the need to “have an inside strategy to do the outside strategy,” and the importance of transparency and being responsive.
“Because I wasn’t an elected official, it gave me more room—or at least, I thought it did—to be transparent about things that didn’t work and were not working to advance equity with community members who usually have some tension with government,” she recalls.
Taking on a position in New York City that had never existed before took entrepreneurship, says Dr. Bassett, who adds that Dr. Maybank arrived with new people and new ideas.
“As part of a younger generation, she is much more media savvy about the uses of other forms of communication than our traditional subway advertisements,” Dr. Bassett recalls. “First in Brooklyn and then citywide, they really did things that—as someone coming from another generation—I wouldn’t have thought to do.”
One example of that forward-thinking approach involved Dr. Maybank’s team taking on childhood obesity and diabetes by highlighting the health hazards created by the empty calories contained in sugar-sweetened drinks. They rented a double-decker bus that played music and was decorated with banners saying “#SodaKills.” The bus stopped in neighborhoods and T-shirts were given to kids with the intent of countering soft-drink company marketing.
“That was something that had never been thought of,” Dr. Bassett says. “That was their charge in the health department—to take an entrepreneurial and innovative route, and she led that charge.”
She adds that Dr. Maybank’s work that may transfer to the AMA could be divided into four categories:
Internal reforms. This included the transformation of three local public health offices into “neighborhood health action” centers, and rebranding an internal education effort as the “Race to Justice.”
“This included ensuring that all employees of the public health department—regardless of their role—be educated about health equity and the impact of racism on health,” Dr. Bassett says, explaining that this included the effects of department hiring, contracts and budgeting.
“Every neighborhood a healthy neighborhood.” This effort identified health disparities among neighborhoods, promoted healthier food and drink choices, and offered physical activities with street dance parties, 5K runs, fitness classes and neighborhood bicycle tours.
Focus on using data and stories. People need to know the numbers but, often, what people respond to are the stories,” Dr. Bassett says. She recalls one data-collection effort that led to a major paper on structural racism being published in The Lancet. Meanwhile, telling the stories behind maternal mortality rates bolstered support for using doulas. “Dr. Maybank was pivotal in promoting a doula program,” Dr. Bassett says. The state Medicaid program launched a doula pilot program this year in Erie County.
Promoting community engagement. “That was a big transformation of the health department,” Dr. Bassett says. “The health department used to say: ‘We’re the experts, we’ll tell you what to do.’ And that doesn’t go over well in communities that have experienced bad treatment disproportionally.”
“If she could do just some of this in her new role at the AMA, that’ll be fabulous,” Dr. Bassett says.
Dr. Maybank earned her medical degree at Philadelphia’s Temple University School of Medicine in 2000 and went on to train as a pediatrician—an experience that initially soured her on a health care career. She had studied public health as an undergrad at Johns Hopkins University and earning her master’s in public health from Columbia University in 2006 helped rekindle her spirit and her interest in the healing arts.
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What had discouraged her was the disconnect she saw between treating the patient’s illness and attending to those social determinants that may be causing or exacerbating the problem.
“I was very disheartened—and amazed really—at how the medical culture told you that the social worker should take care of social issues related to the person’s life and we shouldn’t be bothered or worry about it as a physician,” Dr. Maybank says. “But so much about pediatrics is about prevention. You can’t prevent problems unless you have a sense of their context in somebody’s life: where they live, where their parents work—if they work—and what do they have access to in terms of supporting wellness and health. All those things are very important.”
She took a class in Native American health that taught her how health and humanity intersect—something that wasn’t recognized in medical culture at the time.
“The experience in public health awakened me, excited me,” Dr. Maybank says. “It was really affirming to me that, yeah, public health is what I wanted to do. It became pretty clear—but I did not anticipate it would be in government, but I’m glad it was.”
Working with the county and city health departments offered practical, hands-on experiences. It also taught her about who has the power to make decisions, who influences those decisions and who doesn’t have any power at all.
She also learned about the power of data, that the scientific community unjustly undervalues the “data of lived experiences,” and the need to look at historical context.
Dr. Maybank recommends that AMA members read The Philadelphia Negro first published in 1899. The extensive survey of Philadelphia’s 7th ward by W.E.B. DuBois, PhD.
DuBois’ work addressed black Philadelphia’s employment, housing, churches, crime and family composition and was ahead of its time in combining ethnography, survey methods, mapping and statistical analysis.
What it also did, Dr. Maybank says, was show how the common perception about the poor conditions that existed in black neighborhoods was wrong.
“We have to first say that there are inequities and explain why they exist,” she says. “Why were the conditions where they lived worse than where white people lived? Before, people thought that blacks were responsible for their own bad condition. But DuBois demonstrated that where folks lived—and the disinvestment and lack of resources—created those differences.”
The nation is on “a pathway to better understand why these differences exist,” Dr. Maybank says, with another key publication being the report, Black and Minority Health, issued by Ronald Reagan’s Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler in1985.
The report started the examination of why there is such disparity between black and white health and mortality rates. Despite this and much subsequent research on health disparities, the U.S. is one of only three countries where the maternal mortality rate is rising.
Dr. Harris addressed this issue before the U.S. House Ways & Means Committee this past spring, and she highlighted the following factors affecting black, Native American and Alaska Native women:
Lack of insurance or inadequate coverage prior to, during and after pregnancy.
Increased closures of maternity units in rural and urban communities.
Lack of interprofessional teams trained in best practices.
Structural determinants of health, such as public policies, laws and racism that produce inequities in the social determinants of health, such as education, employment, housing and transportation.
Stress exacerbated by discrimination that can result in hypertension, heart disease and gestational diabetes during pregnancy.
Clinicians not listening to black women, resulting in missed warning signs and delayed diagnosis.
Dr. Maybank agrees.
“Women have been saying it for a long time. The data have been saying it for a long time,” she said. “It was very clear that folks have not been paying attention. Maternal mortality is definitely a symbol and a signal that something is not right with the system of health care.”
The historical link to many of today’s health inequities dictates that teaching will play a large role in Dr. Maybank’s new position at the AMA as she works to educate staff and others about the context of today’s disparities and why they are so hard to eradicate.
“The question will be how do you teach it so it resonates with folks and creates and spurs action among staff—and among all the folks we work with and our partners as well?” she asks, adding that she believes the strategy will have to be different in each institution and be dependent on the commitment of their leadership.
She said another task of the center will be to look at who in health care is being successful in working toward health equity with success defined as “naming and framing” issues and taking effective action that advances equity.
Right now, she is more familiar with local health departments, and she cites Los Angeles County and Seattle’s King County as departments that are “operationalizing health equity.”
In addition to adjusting to a new job, Dr. Maybank is also becoming accustomed to a new city, as she has moved from New York to Chicago. While she worries about how cold it may get this winter, the warm welcome she has received is encouraging.
“Chicago’s been an activist city and there is a history of organizing here,” Dr. Maybank says. “There’s a health equity community here and people have reached out. Some I already know, many I didn’t. So, personally and professionally, it’s been a great expansion of my own network.”
While Dr. Maybanks is adjusting to the new geography, she has the reassurance of knowing where the AMA stands. The creation of the Center for Health Equity was directed by the AMA House of Delegates as part of sweeping policy on health equity adopted at the 2018 AMA Annual Meeting.
“From my interview and from talking to folks, it was clear that the members and the board wanted to go in this direction,” Dr. Maybank says. “And, talking to Jim [Madara], he’s definitely committed to ensuring that I have what I need to do my job.”
It matters that organizations such as the AMA are putting health equity front and center, Dr. Bassett says.
“The enduring gaps in health by race in the United States are unacceptable, they are unjust, avoidable and can be changed,” she says, adding: “You couldn’t have found a better person to be founding director.”
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Qantas to Launch Sydney-Dallas/Fort Worth Service in May
AirlinesAirports January 14, 2011 Staff
Australia's Qantas Airways will begin nonstop service from Sydney to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) with four flights a week starting on May...
Australia’s Qantas Airways will begin nonstop service from Sydney to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) with four flights a week starting on May 16, 2011.
The Qantas direct flight from DFW to Sydney will include a stop in Brisbane, Australia, giving DFW passengers direct access to Australia and the South Pacific. Qantas Airways will operate the new service to Dallas/Fort Worth with Boeing 747-400s.
“We are truly excited to have this new Qantas service to Australia as part of DFW’s growing global network,” says Jeff Fegan, chief executive officer of DFW International Airport. “This new service is a testament to the strength of the Dallas-Fort Worth business environment and the airport’s dedication to a world-class travel experience. We look forward to demonstrating our outstanding Texas hospitality to Qantas passengers from our internationally renowned Terminal D.”
“This new service is great news for both Australian and American travellers,” says Alan Joyce, Qantas chief executive officer. “It will connect Qantas customers to one of the USA’s major hub airports, benefitting both business and leisure travellers. Flying to DFW is an important step for Qantas as we expand and improve our international services.”
Qantas Airways operates 20 Boeing 747-400s and six 747-400ERs, but these will gradually be replaced by Airbus A380s and Boeing 787-9s
As a member of the oneworld alliance, Qantas will offer codeshare benefits with passengers of American Airlines and other oneworld partners.
“We welcome the addition of services to Australia at DFW by our valued oneworld partner, Qantas,” says Gerard Arpey, American Airlines’ chairman and chief executive officer. “An expanded relationship and deeper commercial cooperation with the premier Australian carrier will benefit consumers, the employees, shareholders and financial supporters of both airlines and will greatly enhance the services offered to passengers by oneworld carriers.”
Qantas operates its main hub in Sydney. It serves 18 destinations in Australia and 21 international destinations worldwide, in addition to DFW.
“Clearly this is terrific news for all of North Texas,” says Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert. “Having a premier international carrier like Qantas offer service to Australia from DFW is a major boost to both tourism and commerce. We all look forward to the launch of these new flights.”
The Qantas service to Sydney and Brisbane will bring an estimated annual economic impact of $130 million to the North Texas region.
“News of flights between DFW and Australia is a great way to start 2011,” says Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief. “We believe the Qantas service will be a tremendous boon for the people of our region. It will be more efficient for passengers who want to visit Australia and for local companies that want to do business there.”
The additions of Sydney and Brisbane bring the total number of destinations served or announced from DFW to 188 cities, including 144 domestic and 44 international destinations.
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Home Khareem Sudlow Tech NSF offers a closer look at how the Arecibo Observatory collapsed
NSF offers a closer look at how the Arecibo Observatory collapsed
BruceDayne 6:44 AM Khareem Sudlow, Tech,
The scientific community is still reeling from the collapse of the world's second largest radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico two days ago, and the National Science Foundation is starting to share more about what happened that day. In a briefing with reporters this morning, Arecibo Program Director Ashley Zauderer and Ralph Gaume, director of NSF's Division of Astronomical Sciences, offered the most detailed account to date of the events leading up to — and including — the December 1st collapse.
The trouble at Arecibo began this August, when one of the auxiliary cables supporting the receiver platform slipped out of its socket atop Tower 4, one of the telescope's main support struts. Once free, the cable struck Arecibo's reflector dish, leaving behind a gash about 100 feet long. About three months later, one of that same tower's main support cables -- each comprised of about 170 district metal wires — also failed, placing substantial additional strain on the three remaining cables.
Engineers on-site began working to reduce the load placed on those cables, in part by trying to relax a series of "backstay" cables that helped the tower itself remain upright. According to Zauderer, other options involved using a crew tethered to a helicopter to remove weight from the support tower, but safety concerns eventually grounded that idea. Regardless, it soon became all too clear that the Arecibo complex was living on borrowed time.
"After the November 6th cable failure, the [remaining] cables could have failed at any time," said Gaume. "We were unable to predict when it would happen, [but] we knew it would happen." Gaume later noted that, no matter what the Arecibo ground crew tried, they "would have never been able to relieve enough load to get the cables back to the condition before November 6th."
The team's worst fears came to pass on December 1st, when — after monitoring individual wires snapping under the strain -- the second main cable stretching from Tower 4 to the receiver platform failed. The receiver's weight was then being borne at one end by just two cables, both of which failed fractions of a second after the first one did, sending the platform careening down into the massive reflector dish. Meanwhile, Tower 4 was suddenly free of weight to carry to support, but was still being pulled by seven backstay cables — that pressure sent the top 65 feet of the tower tumbling backwards. And across the dish, the same thing was happening to Tower 12; its top section was sent rolling down a hill near the Arecibo operations building. Fortunately, no one was injured.
Now, the only thing left to do is pick up the pieces — quite literally. Gaume said the NSF expects to have a “full assessment” of the damage caused by the collapse and its environmental impact by the end of this week. And while the NSF hasn’t ruled out the possibility of restoring or rebuilding the facility, it can’t happen without significant input from other parties.
“NSF has a very well-defined process for building major research equipment and facilities,” he said. “It involves Congress appropriating funding, along with assessment and input by the scientific community, including research and other stakeholders. That process would need to play out.”
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Five Heroic Dogs Honored with 2019 AKC Humane Fund Awards for Canine Excellence (ACE)
By Samantha Seymour
Sep 23, 2019 | 6 Minutes
The AKC® Humane Fund is proud to announce the winners of the 20th annual AKC Humane Fund Awards for Canine Excellence (ACE). These awards celebrate five loyal, hard-working dogs that have significantly improved the lives of their owners and communities.
One award is presented in each of the following five categories: Uniformed Service K-9, Therapy, Service, Search and Rescue and Exemplary Companion dog. This year’s winners range from a family pet who teaches fire safety to children throughout the country to a Doberman Pinscher who dedicates his life to search & rescue work despite his own physical disability.
“The extraordinary stories of the 2019 ACE Award winners illustrate how dogs touch our hearts and lives every day,” said Doug Ljungren, President of the AKC Humane Fund. “Each of these five dogs have changed the life of a person, and in some cases an entire community and deserve to be celebrated. The ACE Awards give us an opportunity to show our appreciation for all that dogs do in the service of humankind.”
Each ACE recipient will receive $1,000 to be awarded to a pet-related charity of their choice, a one-year pet insurance policy from AKC Pet Insurance, a one-year supply of Eukanuba dog food and an engraved sterling silver medallion, which will be presented at the AKC National Championship presented by Royal Canin in Orlando, Florida held on Saturday and Sunday, December 14-15, 2019. The 2019 AKC Humane Fund Awards for Canine Excellence are proudly sponsored by EUKANUBA™ Pet Food.
This year’s ACE winners are:
Uniformed Service K-9: “Summer,” a Labrador Retriever handled by Sergeant Micah Jones of Washington D.C.
“K-9 Summer” is a nine-year-old Labrador Retriever serving the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) as an Explosive Detection Dog (EDD) with the Amtrak Police Department in Washington D.C. With her handler, Sergeant Micah Jones, Summer is responsible for the protection and safety of passengers and personnel onboard trains as well as at the stations and infrastructure. She conducts K9 sweeps for VIP’s, Dignitaries, special and national athletic competitions, provides mutual aid to surrounding police departments and much more.
In addition to the incredible work K9 Summer does with the Amtrak Police, she is also a retired Military Working Dog. While deployed to Afghanistan with the Marine Corp in March 2012, Summer put her life on the line to keep the troops safe and comfort warriors on the battlefield. She conducted routine patrols, swept and cleared routes for the troops, and was even involved in fire fights with insurgents. Summer is credited with positively identifying countless weapons caches and improvised explosive devices. While on duty with the Amtrak Police, K9 Summer wears several ribbons, proudly displaying her time served with the United States Armed Force.
When K9 Summer is not busy protecting her community, she conducts several educational demonstrations for local schools, summer camps and for other Law Enforcement Agencies that are creating a canine program. K9 Summer and handler Sgt. Micah Jones have dedicated their lives to protecting their community.
Therapy Dog: “Gunther,” a Rottweiler owned by John Hunt of Blackwood, New Jersey
“Gunther,” officially known as Bang’s Aleutian Sky CD RE THDD CGCA CGCU, is a six-year-old Rottweiler, certified by the Alliance of Therapy Dogs and owned by John Hunt. In 2016, John Hunt and Gunther deployed as a therapy dog team to Orlando, FL to provide comfort to the grieving victims and families of the Pulse Nightclub shooting.
Since then, they have deployed to: Las Vegas, NV in the wake of the Mandalay Bay Hotel/Route 91 Harvest Festival-mass shooting, Sutherland Springs, TX after the First Baptist Church-mass shooting, Parkland, FL following the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School-mass shooting, Pittsburgh, PA after the Tree of Life Synagogue-mass shooting, and most recently the incident at the municipal building in Virginia Beach, VA. During deployments, John and Gunther spend long days working with the victims and their families and spend their nights comforting the EMTs, Police, Firefighters, and on-site support crews.
When they are not busy traveling the country supporting victims of our nation’s tragedies, John and Gunther can be found working within the AtlantiCare health system and Regional Medical Center providing smiles and love to patients and their care-givers. They also provide local visits throughout NJ supporting celebrations of life at high-schools and colleges and giving educational presentations to a range of organizations on the deployment management of active shooter cases.
In December 2018, Gunther’s owner, John co-founded the non-profit group, Crisis Response Canines, to provide training and organization to build a nationwide network of highly-trained crisis response canines who would be ready to deploy for support and assistance when other mass tragedies occur. Gunther’s work as a therapy dog has helped victims across the nation, and the bond that John and Gunther share brings smiles to faces in the most difficult of times.
Service Dog: “Polly,” a Labrador Retriever owned by Rachel Husband of Sparks, Nevada
“Polly” is a five-year-old Labrador Retriever owned by Rachel Husband of Sparks, Nevada. Rachel has a rare health condition called Dysautonomia, a disorder of the autonomic nervous system which causes fainting, leaving her wheelchair-bound.
When Rachel got Polly as a 9-month-old puppy, she already knew how to stack for the Conformation ring, but she wasn’t quite tall enough to keep showing. Polly and Rachel have ventured across the dog sport world, competing in various AKC Sports including: Rally, Obedience, Fast CAT, Barn Hunt, and some Hunt Test training, but her most important role is being Rachel’s service dog.
As a service dog, Polly picks up dropped objects, retrieves items, helps pull Rachel’s wheelchair and is even able to use a K-9 button to call 911 in an emergency. The duo has achieved so many things that Rachel never imagined she’d be able to accomplish before Polly. They’ve snowmobiled in Alaska, road-tripped from Virginia to California, and competed in Rally in 18 states so far. The pair is working to achieve their goal of competing in Rally in all 50 states. Polly enables Rachel to be able to work full-time and helped Rachel regain her independence. She has transformed Rachel’s life for the better and is a fine example of how service dogs improve the lives of their people.
Search and Rescue Dog: “JoePete,” a Doberman Pinscher owned and handled by Cris Bean of Eaton Rapids, Michigan
“JoePete,” also known as “JP” is an eight-year-old Doberman Pinscher owned and handled by Cris Bean. Together they volunteer with the Michigan Search and Rescue.
Cris rescued JoePete in 2010 and he progressed rapidly through the human remains training program. However, just prior to achieving certification, JoePete received a very early diagnosis of Wobbler’s disease, a catchall term referring to several possible malformations of the cervical vertebrae that cause an unsteady (wobbly) gait and weakness in dogs and horses. Despite his diagnosis, JoePete achieved certification with Michigan Search and Rescue and went on to achieve certification with two national organizations as well. He has since participated in 29 missing person searches, helping to bring closure to many grieving families. He has also aided in local graveyard reconstruction projects by Historical Societies and landowners by helping to locate burial sites in forgotten cemeteries in and around the state of Michigan.
In addition to his search & rescue work, JoePete has participated in countless educational demonstrations with children, adults, and individuals with special needs. He earned his AKC Canine Good Citizen certification and has become a certified therapy dog through Alliance of Therapy Dogs. Despite JP’s battle with Wobblers, his strength, work ethic, determination and loving spirit shine through every single day in his search & rescue work.
Exemplary Companion Dog: “Molly,” a Dalmatian owned by Dayna Hilton of Clarksville, Arkansas
“Molly,” a seven-year-old Dalmatian owned by Dayna Hilton is more than just a family pet – she is a Fire Safety Dog, the mascot of the Keep Kids Fire Safe Foundation (KKFSF). KKFSF is a public charity dedicated to reducing fire related deaths and injuries among children and their families. Since just nine weeks old, Molly has been working tirelessly to help educate children about fire safety.
As the KKFSF mascot, Molly helps make fire safety presentations, and travels over 25,000 miles a year to appear at educational events across the United States. During the fire safety program, Molly demonstrates many of the tricks she has learned, including how to “test” a smoke alarm with her nose and how to crawl low under smoke. Molly also helps her owner and local Firefighter, Dayna by turning pages of a children’s fire safety book and raising her paw to help make children Jr. Firefighters.
For the children Molly can’t reach physically, she actively participates in the KKFSF’s popular fire safety Skype program, “Learning about Fire Safety is Fun.” She has Skyped almost 500 times with more than 17,000 children and 1,800 adults. In addition to serving as the official mascot for KKFSF, Molly is also the honorary fire dog for the Little Rock Fire Department.
Losing one child to fire is one too many, and Dayna and Molly hope to continue their mission to keep more children fire safe. Molly’s loyalty and dedication to her work and community are an inspiration to children and dog lovers everywhere.
MEDIA NOTE: ACE Winners are available for interviews. Please contact Samantha Seymour at 212-696-8343 or sns@akc.org to schedule an interview or request photos.
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The Auction Life's Terrible Toll
December 17, 2009 by Marion Maneker
The New York Times profiles a former Sotheby’s business-getter, Peter Hathaway, who has turned a failed antiques business into a upscale rehab facility. Deep inside the story is Hathaway’s bittersweet description of what his work life was like:
Credit: Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times
Mr. Hathaway, born Phillips Hathaway, a scion of an old Maryland family, was also emblematic of a time and place in Manhattan’s cultural history, a gatekeeper, as William Norwich, a contributing editor at Vogue, described him, to New York’s halls of power. “ ‘Everything discreetly for sale’ was how Pete operated when he became a big star at Sotheby’s,” said Mr. Norwich, who covered society news for The Daily News in the 1980s.
Back then, he said: “New York was a much smaller town, and social life really revolved around the connoisseurs. There were the patrons of the arts, the patrons of fashion, and their activities drove social life. It’s also the time when the big auction houses, Sotheby’s and Christie’s, both of which had newly exciting headquarters, were like the new discos, the driving social centers. Experts like Pete were the gatekeepers.”
It was exhausting work, and relentless. “As I was pushing a lady around a dance floor, I was checking out her diamond necklace and thinking about getting it on consignment,” Mr. Hathaway said. “All the good specialists did that.”
Mr. Hathaway’s department at Sotheby’s was responsible for four or five huge sales each year, bringing in at least $20 million annually, he said, from blockbusters like the Versace sale in 2001 (which brought $10 million for the contents of the murdered designer’s South Beach mansion) to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor sale in 1998 (which brought over $23 million for the contents of their Paris villa, which had been bought by Mohamed al-Fayed in 1986).
In a downstairs bathroom here, you can see a relic: a framed scarf printed with the Duke’s letter of abdication, a Sotheby’s give-away. “Typical Sotheby’s,” Mr. Hathaway said. “We bring in the sale of the century, and all we got was a scarf!”
By 2002, he’d had it. “It’s very draining to never get away from society, and society’s chatter,” he said. In any case, Sotheby’s had come to pieces in the wake of the price-fixing scandal. That was the year Mr. Hathaway, then 47, bought this house, a derelict former inn, with the idea of turning it into a high-end antiques store that looked like a private home — and, indeed, would be his home — but, as before, everything would be “discreetly for sale.”
It was also the turning point, Mr. Hathaway said, when he went from being a hardy social drinker to an epic one, when “the tsunami of alcoholism,” as he put it, “finally caught up with me. It had been following me all my life, but it hit me here.”
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Sotheby’s to Sell Orpen Portraits
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Roosevelt and the Revolutionary New Deal
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Prompt: How “revolutionary” was the New Deal? Evaluate the significant changes that it brought and determine how different the nation became because of it.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” was the ultimate reform movement, providing bold reform without bloodshed or revolution. Although many Americans criticized President Roosevelt for his “try anything” approach and wasteful spending, Roosevelt saved the American system of free enterprise by stepping in and actually doing something to help the unemployed, starving masses during the Great Depression. Before Roosevelt was elected, the gap between the haves and have-nots was ever-widening and the country probably would have experienced a revolution if another laissez-faire president like Hoover had been elected in 1932. When Roosevelt was elected, he created a series of reforms to deal with the countless problems in American society; many failed, though some achieved long-lasting success and exist to this day. The New Deal was the ultimate “revolution” providing lasting reforms like Social Security and the Fair Labor Standards Act, and establishing precedents that continue to shape the lives of millions of Americans to this day.
Roosevelt was a radical president in many ways, expanding Federal power and establishing numerous precedents that have served to empower the federal government ever since. Unlike previous presidents, Roosevelt believed that the American government had an obligation to help its citizens in a crisis. Roosevelt also felt that doing anything was better than doing nothing and he was criticized frequently for this. Nonetheless, most of his “alphabet agencies” served their purposes and provided immediate rather than long-term relief to over nine million desperate Americans. He started by creating the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, which provided employment in government camps for three million young men. These men served doing useful, but (some would say) unnecessary tasks like reforesting, firefighting, draining swamps, and controlling floods. The Works Progress Administration, or WPA, was another extremely helpful agency during the Depression, putting $11 million dollars into public buildings, bridges, and hard-surfaced roads, creating millions of new jobs. To the American people who were used to coming into contact with the government only at the post office and on other infrequent occasions, Roosevelt’s system was ground-breaking; never before had the government intervened to help farmers in need (AAA), or homeowners struggling with mortgages (HOLC), or families starving during the winter (CWA). Roosevelt had no uncertainties or misgivings about the use of Federal money to help Americans. If the U.S. government would not help its own citizens, then who would? Roosevelt also made other revolutionary changes with his New Deal.
The plight of the worker had always been of concern to Roosevelt, and he did much during his time as president to improve overall working conditions. Firstly, Roosevelt set up the National Recovery Administration, or NRA, to assist labor unions in their struggle against greedy corporations. The NRA, for the first time in American history, guaranteed the right for labor union members to choose their own representatives in bargaining. The Fair Labor Standards Act, or “Wages and Hours Bill”, established maximum hours of labor, minimum wages, and forbid children under the age of sixteen from working. By limiting the number of hours a single worker could work, Roosevelt created new jobs and improved the working conditions for existing workers. Roosevelt was one of the first Presidents to earnestly fight for the rights of the average worker. The Fair Labor Standards Act is still in use today (though the monetary values have been increased to account for seventy years of inflation), and unions still have the rights that Roosevelt guaranteed to them with the NRA. Roosevelt, it seemed, went out of his way to ensure that workers were treated fairly and given their due rights. Roosevelt’s crowning achievement to Americans was the Social Security Act, which he signed in 1935, creating the pension, insurance for the old-aged, the blind, the physically handicapped, delinquent, and other dependents by taxing employees and employers; in essence, Americans were providing for their own futures. Social Security still exists today, and though some people oppose it, it no doubt provides a valuable service to people unable to care for themselves—which was Roosevelt’s strong point: appealing to the “forgotten man”. However, he had yet another lasting achievement that truly revolutionized America.
After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, it became apparent that speculation and overselling stocks and bonds were key causes of the crash. Roosevelt passed the Federal Securities Act to encourage honesty during the sale of stocks and bonds; promoters were required to transmit to the investor sworn information regarding the soundness of their investments. While many crooked businessmen hated Roosevelt for this, many historians argue that his wise actions saved the American system from untimely demise. With the passage of this Act, Roosevelt encouraged fairer trading and less speculation, which ultimately revitalized the American economy.
Roosevelt was a revolutionary for his time. He challenged the accepted role of government in society by intervening to improve the quality of life for countless Americans. Though his actions were controversial, it is clear that they had a positive effect on American society. Ultimately, though, it would take World War II to lift the American economy out of the Great Depression; Roosevelt’s New Deal served to satisfy the American people’s demands for action until America joined the war in 1941.
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Egyptian Cooperative Ins.’s premiums surge 2% in 9m
Egypt’s Cooperative Insurance Society (CIS) says its premiums increased two percent year-on-year to 134 million Egyptian pounds ($8.2 million) during the first nine months of the 2019/2020 financial year.
Earlier, premiums recorded 131.8 million pounds during the first nine months of the 2018/2019 financial year.
CIS paid compensation of 26.4 million pounds to its clients during the first nine months of the current financial year from 38.5 million pounds a year earlier, chairman Hossam Abdel Aziz told Amwal Al Ghad on Sunday.
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Free, Virtual Office Hours with Melissa Orlov
During the COVID-19 crisis I will be offering free office hours for individuals and couples with questions about how to navigate their relationship issues during our upended times. It's a difficult period for many, and it is my hope that I can provide meaningful support for those with relationship questions.
This service will work like college office hours, on a 'drop-in' basis. There are no specific appointments made. Rather, you call in and I take questions as they come up. Sometimes there will be others on the call, sometimes there won't be. No one knows who you are, so it is anonymous.
The hours are held by audio call (no video). If you wish to participate, please use this special office hours contact form. You will then receive the phone number in an automated email - please look for it. NOTE: By requesting the phone number you will be giving me permission to add your email to my announcements and marriage tips lists. I don't mail often, and the tips are fun and enjoyed by many...and you can turn them off at any time.
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NASCAR putting its safety plan to test as racing restarts
FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2015, file photo, Aric Almirola heads for the track during a NASCAR Sprint Cup auto racing practice session at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, S.C. NASCAR will resume its season without fans starting May 17 at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina. As NASCAR speeds back to the race track during the coronavirus pandemic the series has a heavy responsibility to set a safety standard that doesn't slow the return of other sports. (AP Photo/Terry Renna, File)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Crew chief Chad Knaus won’t get a look at the car Hendrick Motorsports built for Darlington Raceway until he gets to the track Sunday morning, a few hours before the race.
Kurt Busch? He’s already sat in his Chip Ganassi Racing car and met with his crew chief.
The return to racing for NASCAR has brought with it a set of safety protocols that will be strictly enforced at the track Sunday when the Cup Series goes racing for the first time in more than two months after a pandemic-forced hiatus. The stock car series can only trust competitors to follow the guidelines away from the track — and teams appear to have different interpretations.
“No face-to-face or contact with these guys whatsoever. Everything has been on (Zoom) team meetings,” said Knaus, a seven-time championship winning crew chief. “That’s the recommendation by NASCAR for the traveling teams to stay as isolated as they can and try to keep everybody at the race track as healthy as we can. That’s the protocol we put into place and that’s what we’ve been abiding by.”
Not others.
Busch dropped by the Ganassi shop Thursday. He wanted a face-to-face meeting with crew chief Matt McCall before Darlington after two months of communicating via phone or computer.
“Just him and I, separated from the group,” Busch said. “There’s a shift change where the shop is empty for an hour, so it will be just him and I following (social) distancing.”
Xfinity Series driver Ryan Sieg posted a video of an Atlanta news station visiting his Georgia-based team Thursday that showed three crew members standing side-by-side. None wore face masks or other protective equipment.
NASCAR reiterated its guidelines when asked for clarification.
“For a team to submit a participant to a roster, they must be symptom free for five days and not have been directly exposed to anyone with COVID-19,” NASCAR said. “We have made strong recommendations about operations in shops and responsible travel to the event.”
Teams are limited to 16 employees per car Sunday and that includes the driver, spotter and owner. More than half the team owners at the Cup Series level are over 65 years old and aren’t expected to attend because they are considered at risk for the coronavirus.
Hall of Famer Richard Petty told his son, Kyle, in an NBC Sports interview he will miss a Darlington race for the first time since 1950 when “my dad wouldn’t let me off school; school was starting the same day.”
Drivers were told to be at the track four hours ahead of the green flag Sunday. They will undergo a heath check including a temperature check, but no COVID-19 testing — a decision reached to ensure tests go elsehwere, not to NASCAR. The timing allows a backup driver to make the two-hour trip from the Charlotte area to Darlington if needed.
Once inside, drivers will be isolated in their motorhomes, away from their team, and wait to be called to the cars. Everyone will be required to wear a face mask, crews must maintain social distancing and high-fives, hugs and human contact are barred.
NASCAR has warned of fines as high as $50,000 for not following the rules at the track, where competitors are subject to random health screenings.
NASCAR has recommended anyone that travels to the track not return to their shop to work and not interact with other groups. It is designed to help NASCAR track details in the potential case of a positive test.
UFC, which returned last weekend in Florida without spectators, tested every fighter, judge, referee and other employees. One fighter and his two cornermen tested positive.
UFC prior to the fights put all the fighters and employees in one hotel in an attempt to quarantine them, but NASCAR does not have that ability.
Series points leader Kevin Harvick owns a management company that represents UFC fighter Donald Cerronne, who competed in Florida last week. Harvick is comfortable going back to the track, where drivers will be isolated in their cockpits and crews are already clad in firesuits, gloves, helmets and now a required face sock.
“Well, I’m not going to get punched in the face by anybody else or be put in a headlock or be directly in contact with any of my other competitors,” Harvick said. “When you look at the guidelines of entry and exit and temperature checks during the week and all the logs and things of where people are and who they have interaction with, I think we have done what we need to do from what fits our sport the best.”
NASCAR will use both of Darlington’s garages and and an infield that will be missing thousands of fans to spread teams out and still create a tight footprint for essential personnel. NASCAR said representatives from IndyCar, the NFL’s Carolina Panthers and possibly other teams planned to observe some of the procedures.
NASCAR cannot afford a misstep as it starts up its three series, with 20 races scheduled through June, all in Southern states and all without spectators. The industry is desperate to restart its revenue flow, but does not want to jeopardize the return of other professional leagues.
“We’ve been really transparent with what we’re doing with the other leagues, and by the same token the other leagues have been the same,” NASCAR executive Steve O’Donnell told NBC Sports. “We all want to be back. We all want to be back in a way that’s safe, so if we can share and learn from each other, I think that’s what we’ve done.”
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Future Speeding Enforcement Tools
By Bigger & Harman
Up until about 1990, the automobile had not really changed too much, in terms of the car's technology, from the Old Tin Lizzie. But consumer technology has taken a giant leap forward in the past few decades, and tomorrow's car may only resemble today's car in the fact that both have four wheels.
Intelligent Transportation Systems has already changed the way some people drive in Lamont and Shafter, with such things as steering assistance and driver alerts. ITS may soon also change the face of speeding enforcement.
Nearly all drivers in developed countries have at least one mobile device with them at almost all times. Technology already exists that can find a person's location by measuring and analyzing network data.
That same principle could be applied to speeding enforcement. Not unlike VASCAR, triangulation could pinpoint a motorist's location at Point A and again at Point B, and use the time difference to calculate the vehicle's speed.
Vehicle re-identification is essentially LIDAR enforcement without the LIDAR hardware. A roadside sensor in Bakersfield would identify a vehicle based on a unique number, similar to a toll-tag. Another sensor further down the road would record the vehicle's passing, and the elapsed time between the two sensors could calculate the vehicle's speed.
Our society currently values security more highly than privacy, so ITS enforcement is not just an outside possibility. One concern with ITS enforcement is the nature of speeding tickets, and there should be a definitive answer to the question of whether speeding tickets really make travel safer.
There are some Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment concerns as well. The flip side of the privacy argument is that motorists do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy on a public roadway with regards to their speed; privacy concerns may also be dissipated by providing fair notice - e.g., a road sign that says the speed limit is ITS-enforced.
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Of Time and Tide: The Windhover Saga
by James Haydock
On a Darkling Plain
James Haydock
Portraits in Charcoal
Beacon's River
A Tinker in Blue Anchor
Searching in Shadow
Mose in Bondage
The Woman Question and George Gissing
I, Jonathan Blue
But Not Without Hope
One glance at the contents of this book will tell any lover of sea stories that an exciting saga of danger and adventure aboard a three-masted sailing ship named the Windhover is about to unfold. She leaves Bermuda in the summer of 1871 to cross the Atlantic and the Mediterranean en route to Naples, Italy. By no means will it be a journey without incident. On the high seas, sour provisions bring crew and captain into conflict. As the squabble becomes incendiary, the second mate, who narrates the story, must find a way to overcome a mutinous crew, regain control of the ship, and bring her to safe haven.
After active duty in the Air Force and graduate studies at Baylor University and the University of California at Los Angeles, James Haydock earned a Ph.D. in English language and literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In the years that followed he researched, wrote about, and taught every aspect of Victorian literature. While teaching the novel year after year, he began to write historical novels of his own. Now retired, he lives with his wife in Wisconsin.
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Grim Choice: Turkmen Warned Of Food Cutoffs Over Unpaid Utility Bills
TURKMENABAT, Turkmenistan -- As daily temperatures creep below freezing with the onset of winter, authorities in eastern Turkmenistan have warned families that they risk losing access to subsidized food if they don't catch up on their utilities payments.
The verbal warnings were issued to households in Lebap province in early December as the government launched a campaign to help state-run utilities collect unpaid bills, according to dozens of local residents who spoke to RFE/RL's Turkmen Service.
"Authorities have given people in our region until the end of December to pay any debts they have in utility bills,' said a resident of Darganata district. 'But people can barely afford to buy bread, let alone to pay for gas and electricity.'
Authorities in the Lebap region of Turkmenistan have given some residents until the end of December to pay any debts they have in utility bills.
The man and others who spoke to RFE/RL requested anonymity, saying that authorities punish those who speak to independent media.
The outstanding debts are new to many Turkmen residents, as the former Soviet republic only ended government subsidies for gas, electricity, and drinking water a year ago.
They also threaten to compound the effects of food shortages and economic malaise amid a coronavirus pandemic that Turkmen officials, almost uniquely in the world, still insist hasn't caused any local infections.
Villagers complain that, while they understand the need to pay for the energy they consume, many families spend almost all of their income on food and simply don't have the resources to settle their debts.
Income Struggles
Many rural residents struggle to earn income outside of seasonal farming work, making it harder to catch up with bills in the off-season.
Some rely on odd jobs they find in nearby cities or the remittances from family members working abroad in places like Turkey.
But travel to cities, especially the capital, Ashgabat, has been restricted to combat the COVID-19 threat that is officially raging everywhere except Turkmenistan. (World Health Organization and other international officials have unsuccessfully urged Turkmen officials to be more forthcoming with coronavirus statistics.)
Remittances have dried up, too, as nearby economies are hard-hit and supply chains interrupted by the ongoing pandemic.
RFE/RL correspondents in Lebap's Darganata and Farap districts were aware of at least 10 families who said they were unable to raise the money before the end-of-December deadline.
Turkmen saw electricity and gas meters first installed in their homes in 2018, when the government announced it was going to end decades of major subsidies for electricity, gas, and drinking water as of the following year.
SEE ALSO: The Gas Man Cometh: Free Energy No More In Turkmenistan
Under a subsidies system introduced in 1993, every registered household member was entitled to 35 kilowatt-hours of electricity and 50 cubic meters of natural gas each month. The subsidies also included 250 liters of potable water per day per person.
Turkmenistan's economic woes caught up with it in 2014, after declining global fuel prices took a toll on the gas-rich Central Asian state's budget.
Many of its 6 million people have faced food price hikes and a shortage of foodstuffs for much of the past four years, although the authoritarian government in Ashgabat doesn't acknowledge the existence of such hardship.
The situation deteriorated further in 2020 after borders were closed and food imports were disrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The retail price of flour has gone up by 50 percent and cooking oil by 130 percent in the past year.
It is unclear whether authorities plan to act on their verbal warnings to deny access to subsidized food for those who don't meet the deadline to settle their utility debts.
Doing so could leave thousands of residents in the rural communities that were targeted facing acute hunger in the middle of winter.
Loading up on supplies outside a state grocery store in Ashgabat. (file photo)
Many Turkmen buy staples including flour, bread, cooking oil, rice, sugar, and potatoes from state grocery shops where prices are sometimes one-sixth of what they are in private stores and bazaars.
But the choice of goods in state-owned shops has become increasingly sparse, and supplies arrive in limited amounts.
People often wait hours in long lines outside state stores that operate on a first come, first served basis. Many people go home empty-handed as limited supplies run out before their turn.
In November, Ashgabat residents told RFE/RL that people in some neighborhoods were standing in line overnight to be at the front of the line when state-run shops opened at 7:00 the following morning.
Food shortages have even sparked small public protests in Turkmenistan, where the government shows little tolerance for dissent and brutally clamps down on critics and opponents.
On November 10, dozens of people gathered near the Garagum district government building in Mary Province to complain of a shortage of flour in local state shops.
However, after a brief meeting with the crowd, district officials ordered the police to disperse the gathering. The authorities made no promise that they would try to resolve the problem.
It was the second such protest in Mary Province this year. About 30 women briefly blocked a highway on April 3 before gathering in front of the Mary region's government headquarters to protest food shortages.
That rally ended when authorities promised the protesters two kilograms of flour each.
Authorities haven't publicly announced any plans for tackling the long-running food crisis in Turkmenistan, which has never held an election deemed fair and competitive by Western observers.
Written by Farangis Najibullah with reporting by RFE/RL Turkmen Service correspondents in Lebap Province, Turkmenistan
Copyright (c) 2018. RFE/RL, Inc. Republished with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 400, Washington DC 20036
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Will the new proportionality rule in federal discovery help plaintiffs or defendants? O’Connor v. Uber may be the first test.
Author: Michael S. Dorsi
Effective December 1, 2015, new amendments to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26 took effect. Notably, Rule 26(b)(1) now requires that discovery be “proportional to the needs of the case, considering the importance of the issues at stake in the action, the amount in controversy, . . . and whether the burden or expense of the proposed discovery outweighs its likely benefit.”
Initial published responses viewed this rule as pro-defendant.[1] Some suggested that this was a rule designed to address large company versus company disputes not appropriate for other types of cases.[2] Plaintiff-side employment lawyers were particularly concerned because their cases often require defendants to disclose far more in discovery than their clients disclose.
However, it seems that the first high profile test of this new rule came out in favor of employment class action plaintiffs—at least at the magistrate judge level. In O’Connor v. Uber Technologies, Inc. (N.D. Cal. Case No. 13-cv-03826-EMC (DMR)), Uber propounded an interrogatory and five requests for production of documents concerning all communications with over 1,700 of the putative class members.[3]
Invoking the new proportionality requirement in Rule 26(b), Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu held that “ Uber’s wildly overbroad discovery requests fail Rule 26(b)’s proportionality requirements.”[4] Judge Ryu continued, “While Uber may be entitled to conduct discovery that is probative of the Borello factors, it may do so through appropriately targeted means, rather than calling for information about every class member contact with class counsel. Again, Uber fails to meet Rule 26(b)’s proportionality test.”[5]
Concerned employee-side plaintiffs lawyers should of course remain vigilant, but there is a lesson from O’Connor v. Uber concerning discovery. Deep-pocketed defendants will often try to outspend a plaintiff. The new proportionality requirement in Rule 26 can help individuals and less deep-pocketed litigants fight back.
[1] See, e.g., Henry J. Kelston, FRCP Discovery Amendments Prove Highly Controversial, Law360.com, available at www.law360.com/articles/512821/frcp-discovery-amendments-prove-highly-controversial (discussing comments by Prof’s Paul Carrington and Arthur Miller)
[2] See, e.g., id. (“To the extent that excessive discovery costs are a problem, the problem exists in a very small percentage of high-stakes and, often, highly contentious cases.”)
[3] See O’Connor v. Uber Technologies, Inc. (N.D. Cal. Case No. 13-cv-03826-EMC (DMR)) (Dkt. No. 458.),
[4] Id. at p. 6:10–11.
[5] Id. at p. 7:8–11.
Author Scripta Ad Astra StaffPosted on January 12, 2016 February 1, 2019 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Will the new proportionality rule in federal discovery help plaintiffs or defendants? O’Connor v. Uber may be the first test.
Four Key Ways Attorneys Can Help an Expert Witness Perform their Best
Scripta Ad Astra is extremely pleased to present a guest post by Michal Longfelder, Esq. Ms. Longfelder is an expert witness in the field of HR law and workplace investigations.
Author: Michal Longfelder, Esq.
We, as expert witnesses, often provide a necessary and critical part of your litigation strategy. By speaking to unique questions or facts, we can be a significant element of a successful outcome.
1. Know why you want me as your expert witness and for what purpose
Like most expert witnesses, while I can opine on a range of subject matters; I need to know exactly how I can be most helpful. Take the time to learn about and understand my background so you are sure that I am best suited for this case. For example, many attorneys do not realize that the HR function has evolved into specific areas of specialization and, as a result, many HR professionals no longer have a broad generalist background but rather, a narrow, expertise in a particular HR function such as organizational development. If your case requires expertise in disability accommodations, make sure that the expert has substantial experience in that particular sphere of the HR function.
2. Retain me as a consultant in advance of retaining me as an expert
Many attorneys, in an earnest effort to keep litigation costs down, do not retain an expert until shortly before depositions begin. By retaining me as a consultant early on and under your direction, earlier, we will both know how I view your case’s relative strengths and weaknesses without being subject to discovery. Questions such as whether there are enough “good facts” to make it worth litigating are better answered sooner than later. Retaining me early as a consultant also affords you the opportunity to consider the settlement value of your case or whether my opinions have implications for other aspects of your litigation strategy.
When carefully selected and utilized, expert witnesses can strengthen your case to opposing counsel and a jury. By planning in advance why, when and how to make the best use of my expertise and experience, you and your client will have confidence in the expert witness you have selected.
3. Take the time to prepare me for deposition
I am also an attorney, so counsel often assumes I do not require much, if any, prepping for deposition. Here, you are the expert on the case and I need to learn from you. Tell me about the weaknesses you perceive will be a challenge. Most importantly, tell me what questions I should expect from opposing counsel so I can think about how I will respond.
4. Think about my role at trial
Will you want me in the role of “storyteller” who summarizes the relevant information and provides guidance as to how the jury should assess and interpret the information presented by others? Or would I be more useful testifying on a discrete but critical issue in the case? Perhaps I will be part of building the facts necessary to effectively try or defend the case? Finally, consider whether I will be more effective testifying for a shorter or extended period of time.
Michal Longfelder, founder and principal of Employment Matters, is an employment attorney with an exclusive focus on workplace investigations, internal mediations and executive coaching. She may be reached at WWW.EMPLOYMENTMATTERS-ML.COM michal@employmentmatters-ml.com
Author Scripta Ad Astra StaffPosted on January 14, 2016 Categories BlogLeave a comment on Four Key Ways Attorneys Can Help an Expert Witness Perform their Best
The Legislature’s (Temporary) Overhaul of the Demurrer Procedure
Author: Scripta Ad Astra Staff
A party in a civil action may object to a complaint, cross-complaint, or answer by demurrer. (See Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 430.10.) Demurrers are typically filed when the responding party alleges the pleading fails to state a cause of action. Unless the complaint fails to state a claim based on any legal theory, and the defect cannot reasonably be cured by amendment, the court will give the responding party leave to amend. Subsequent amended pleadings are vulnerable to subsequent demurrers, and extend the time the case is pending. This motion work is expensive to litigants, and clogs the already over-burdened court system.
The Legislature passed amendments to the demurrer procedure effective January 1, 2016 through January 1, 2021, at which point the statute will self-repeal its provisions. (See Cal. Code Civ. Proc. §§ 430.41, 472, and 472a.) In most civil actions,[1][1] the parties are now required to engage in a specific meet and confer process before filing a demurrer. The court has the authority to order the parties to a conference to continue the meet and confer process. The amendments also create a “three-strikes-and-you’re-out” limit to the number of times a party can amend its complaint in response to a demurrer filed before the case is at issue, and place a new time limit on the responding party’s ability to file an amended pleading prior to the hearing on demurrer. Now, the amended pleading must be filed and served before the date for filing an opposition to the demurrer. The amendments also limit the grounds upon which a party demurrers to an amended pleading following a sustained demurrer to issues that could not have been raised by the prior demurrer.
Time will tell whether these amendments will provide a substantive filter to the demurrer process, and help decrease the court backlog in Law and Motion Departments.
[1][1] This section does not apply to the following civil actions: (1) An action in which a party not represented by counsel is incarcerated in a local, state, or federal correctional institution; and (2) A proceeding in forcible entry, forcible detainer, or unlawful detainer
Author Scripta Ad Astra StaffPosted on January 20, 2016 Categories BlogLeave a comment on The Legislature’s (Temporary) Overhaul of the Demurrer Procedure
A Case of Mistaken Identity
Author: Katy M. Young
Nearly every entrepreneur has fretted over selecting a name for her business. Once selected, enormous amounts of resources are dedicated to building a brand behind that carefully selected name. Some savvy business owners even go so far as to obtain trademark protection for the name of their business and the goods or services they offer. But what happens when even the most conscientious entrepreneur is faced with unscrupulous competition in the marketplace in the form of a similar business that insists upon using your name? Trademark lawyers can add another real risk to the parade of horribles that can occur when there is marketplace confusion over a business name: wrongfully being named in a lawsuit. Behold the story of mistaken identity, and how Ad Astra took care of the problem quickly and inexpensively.
Ad Astra’s client is a consulting business in Oakland, we’ll call them ABC, Inc. for the purpose of this story. ABC, Inc. registered a trademark for its name for the provision of consulting services. After some time, another business called ABC Partners, which sometimes went by the name ABC Brokerage, started offering similar services, but in Southern California instead of Northern California. ABC, Inc. sometimes gets phone calls for people trying to reach ABC Partners/Brokerage, and at one point, ABC Partners/Brokerage copied ABC, Inc.’s website and used it as their own! ABC, Inc.’s trademark lawyers have written letters to ABC Partners/ABC Brokerage demanding that they stop using the name “ABC,” but they haven’t had the money to bring a trademark infringement lawsuit.
As if the confusion in the marketplace weren’t bad enough (i.e. phone calls for one business going to the other), ABC Partners/ABC Brokerage became involved in an allegedly illegal medical cannabis dispensary in Upland, California and when the City of Upland sued to shut down the dispensary, it named ABC, Inc. as a defendant right along with ABC Partners and ABC Brokerage! Even being named in a lawsuit that you had nothing to do with can be devastating to a business because of the high cost of participating in litigation.
As ABC, Inc.’s General Counsel, Katy Young called the City Attorney for the City of Upland within 15 minutes of the complaint being served and gently explained that this is a case of mistaken identity, and ABC, Inc. has nothing whatsoever to do with the matter—except that ABC, Inc. also had a cause of action against ABC Partners/ABC Brokerage. When the City Attorney became obstinate and insisted on keeping ABC, Inc. in the litigation, forcing them to prove a negative, Ms. Young declared her intention to file a motion under California Code of Civil Procedure Section 128.7, which would have told the Judge that ABC, Inc. felt the litigation was frivolous. It also would have forced the City plaintiff to come forward with affirmative evidence showing why it thought that ABC, Inc. was a proper defendant even after being faced with the information that ABC, Inc. was a competitor of ABC Partners/Brokerage. No such information existed. The City had simply been lazy about the investigation and cast too wide a net.
Ms. Young also reached out to the other defendants named in the matter, including ABC Partners/Brokerage, and politely asked them to call the City’s attorney to explain that ABC, Inc. was not involved, else ABC Partners/Brokerage would face a cross-complaint for trademark infringement and equitable indemnity. Recognizing the danger of fighting a two-front war, ABC Partners/Brokerage’s attorney contacted the City Attorney and averred that ABC, Inc. is not affiliated with ABC Partners/Brokerage in any way. Within 10 days from service, the City’s attorney dismissed the complaint against ABC, Inc., thereby saving Ad Astra’s client countless thousands of dollars in litigation expenses. The tactic here was Teddy Roosevelt style foreign policy: speak softly but carry a big stick.
Author Scripta Ad Astra StaffPosted on January 28, 2016 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on A Case of Mistaken Identity
Tips to Help Your Organization Become Data Breach Ready in 2016
Author: Meaghan Zore
Are you ready for a data breach? At least 222 data breaches occurred in 2015 affecting at least 159,436,735 records, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a California nonprofit corporation that tracks trends in data privacy. There’s little reason to believe that 2016 is going to see a downtrend in these numbers. Already this year, Time Warner Cable reported a data breach that affected 320,000 of its customers’ records.[1] Given these numbers, it’s no longer a question of “if” a system will be breached, but “when.”
January 28th is Data Privacy Day. Here are 3 steps to becoming data breach ready in 2016:
Establish a Privacy Training and Awareness Program
When we hear of data breaches, often, the image of a nefarious hacker comes to mind. However, 91 of the 222 data breaches in 2015 were caused by unintentional actions, such as misdirecting emails containing sensitive information, lost laptops or smartphones, and improper disposal of non-electronic data. These poor data handling practices resulted in a minimum of 6,090,152 breached records. Having a world-class privacy policy is useless if your organization’s employees are unable to put the policy into practice. When employees understand your organization’s data handling expectations, including how to effectively implement your company’s privacy policy into their day-to-day work practices, data breach incidents decrease.
Conduct a Privacy Impact Assessment
A Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is an analysis of how personally identifiable information is collected, used, shared, and maintained within an organization. Examples of various PIAs can be found on the Federal Trade Commission’s website. You can use a PIA to manage data risks and assess the benefit of engaging in certain data handling practices. Conducting a PIA will help you to better understand and address your company’s vulnerabilities.
Develop a Data Breach Response Plan
A data breach response plan is a course of action intended to reduce the risk of unauthorized data access and to mitigate the damage caused if a breach does occur. At a minimum your data breach response plan should consist of the following: (1) a point person to take charge in the event of a data breach and act as a liaison between various stakeholders and partners; (2) contact information for relevant stakeholders and third-party service providers; (3) procedures for analyzing and containing the damage caused by a suspected data breach; (4) measures to mitigate the damage done and prevent future breaches; and (5) relevant insurance and credit bureau information.
In 2015, companies incurred an average cost of $154 per breached record and were exposed to a consolidated total cost of $3.8 million per data breach.[2] Breaches are going to happen, but preparation will be key to minimizing the damage done to your organization and your clients in 2016 and beyond.
About the author: Meaghan Zore, founder and principal of Zore Law, advises entrepreneurs and emerging companies on a wide range of legal matters such as business formations, intellectual property issues, commercial agreements and data and privacy considerations. In addition to her practice, she teaches Advanced Civil Procedure: Electronic Discovery and Information Privacy law at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. She may be reached at www.zorelaw.com meaghan@zorelaw.com. Tel: 415-347-0004
[1] http://www.privacyrights.org/data-breach
[2] http://www-03.ibm.com/security/data-breach/
Author Scripta Ad Astra StaffPosted on January 28, 2016 Categories Blog1 Comment on Tips to Help Your Organization Become Data Breach Ready in 2016
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Federal Judge Holds California’s Death Penalty Unconstitutional
Demurrers to Answers: Changing the Practice of Drafting Defenses
Opinion Roundup: California District Courts and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act – January 2014 through June 2014 – Part One
Back to School Special on Estate Plans
Opinion Roundup: California District Courts and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act – January 2014 through June 2014 – Part Two
Opinion Roundup: California District Courts and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act – January 2014 through June 2014 – Part Three
2014 ABC Desk Guide
NSF Funds New UCLA Cybersecurity Research Center and Other News
Congressman Darrell Issa Not Happy With The Federal Trade Commission Taking Action Against LabMD For Data Security Breaches
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Wake gives Virginia 1-2 punch ACC TOURNAMENT
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Nothing seems to be stopping Randolph Childress at the Greensboro Coliseum these days. Not Duke in Friday's ACC tournament quarterfinal. Not Virginia yesterday in the semifinals.
Not even a dislocation of the pinky on his shooting hand.
Childress suffered the injury with a little less than four minutes left in the first half and the Cavaliers on their way to building a 10-point lead. But the Wake Forest senior guard made Virginia share in his pain.
"The pain was bad, but it wasn't as bad as when I hurt my shoulder last year," Childress said later, after his 30 points and seven assists led the top-seeded, seventh-ranked Demon Deacons to a 77-68 victory and a place in today's final against second-seeded North Carolina. "I would have played even if it was broken."
X-rays revealed there was no fracture, but they might have showed the ice that runs through Childress' veins. Though he wasn't as unstoppable as in his 40-point performance against the Blue Devils, he was his unflappable self.
So was his teammate, center Tim Duncan. While Childress scored 21 of his points in the second half, it was Duncan's dominance inside that enabled Wake Forest (23-5) to overcome its 36-28 halftime deficit. The Demon Deacons pulled away down the stretch against the once-again cold-shooting Cavaliers, who after shooting 50 percent in the first half made only 10 of 42 shots in the second half.
"We wanted to take it inside and establish Timmy Duncan and build up the fouls on Virginia," said Wake Forest coach Dave Odom, whose Demon Deacons won their ninth straight game to advance to the school's first ACC tournament final since 1978. "We wanted to get it inside on the dribble with Childress or the pass with Timmy."
They accomplished both. After a sluggish first half in which Duncan had six points, six rebounds and only one blocked shot, the 6-foot-11 sophomore finished with 20 points, 14 rebounds and six blocked shots. Junior Burrough, who had a career-high 36 against Georgia Tech on Friday, led Virginia (22-8) with 31 points and 11 rebounds.
With the scored tied at 61, the Demon Deacons went on a 12-2 run that featured a 25-foot jumper by Childress, a three-point play by Duncan and a pair of free throws by Childress after Burrough was called for an offensive foul. The Cavaliers closed to within five, 73-68, but Childress hit two free throws with 48.2 seconds left to seal the win.
"We're disappointed, obviously, with losing but we lost to a very good basketball team," said Virginia coach Jeff Jones, whose 11th-ranked Cavaliers lost for the third straight time this year to the Demon Deacons. "I think it ultimately came down to discipline, and the bottom line was that they were more disciplined. They did what they needed to do every time down. They stuck with their bread and butter."
Said Burrough, "Wake Forest did a great job in the second half going inside and establishing themselves as a team that wanted to win an ACC championship."
A victory over North Carolina -- Wake Forest upset the then top-ranked Tar Heels in Chapel Hill on Feb. 28 -- would give the Demon Deacons their first ACC tournament championship since the guard-center combination of Len Chappell and a fellow named Billy Packer led them to back-to-back titles in 1961 and 1962.
"Our goal is to come out tomorrow and win it," said Childress. "We're not going to use fatigue as an excuse."
Or something as trivial as a dislocated finger.
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John Dattilo
John Dattilo joined BHI in 2003, when he became executive director of Four Seasons. During his five-year tenure there, Dattilo delivered excellent financial performance and occupancy levels, and maintained high standards of regulatory compliance and patient care. John was promoted to director of operations for BHI in Indianapolis in 2008 and, three years later, was promoted to vice president of operations. Dattilo has spent his career in the senior living industry, including serving in various capacities at senior communities in Rising Sun and Frankfort before working in Columbus. He teaches classes in long-term care management as an adjunct professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He also serves on the board of LeadingAge Indiana and has been a surveyor for CARF-CCAC, the national accreditation organization for senior living providers. A Madison, Indiana, native, Dattilo earned his bachelor’s degree from Indiana University Southeast and his M.B.A. with a focus in healthcare from Indiana Wesleyan University. He lives with his wife, Janda, and their four children in Zionsville.
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Roger E. Weideman II, CPA, joined BHI Senior Living in May 2010 as Vice-President and CFO, In June 2010, he was appointed a director on the Board of Directors. In January 2018, Roger was named Senior Vice-President and CFO. Prior to joining BHI, Roger served five years as a managing consultant with BKD LLP (Thomas Healthcare Consulting Inc.) in Indianapolis. Previous professional experience also includes 12 years in public accounting — five years as a manager with Katz, Sapper & Miller LLP, and seven years with Bradley & Associates Inc., where he began as a staff accountant and was then promoted to a manager position. He also currently serves as treasurer of the LeadingAge Indiana board. Weideman earned a bachelor of science degree in accounting (with “High Distinction”) from Indiana University. He was a recipient of the Indiana High Grade Award and the Elijah Watt Sells National Award for his scores on the CPA exam. Professional affiliations include the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Indiana CPA Society and the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Weideman lives in Fishers with his wife, Rachel, and their three children.
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Nancy Jones Vice-President, Sales and Marketing
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MLB submits plan to Canadian government to play in Toronto
by: ROB GILLIES, Associated Press
TORONTO (AP) — Major League Baseball has submitted a plan to the Canadian government to play in Toronto this year and health authorities are examining it.
Anna Maddison, a spokeswoman for the Public Health Agency of Canada, said Wednesday the restart plan is being reviewed.
“The resumption of activities in Canada must be undertaken in adherence to Canada’s plan to mitigate the importation and spread of COVID-19,” Maddison told The Associated Press.
“The Public Health Agency of Canada has received, and is currently assessing, a restart plan from Major League Baseball,” she said.
Maddison also said big league baseball requires the formal support of health authorities in Ontario.
Anyone entering Canada for nonessential reasons must quarantine for 14 days, and the U.S.-Canada border remains closed to nonessential travel until at least July 21.
On Tuesday, the Canadian government said it was open to MLB playing in Toronto this summer, but the league had not submitted the required plan to health authorities. A senior federal government official said if MLB submitted an acceptable restart plan to the government, an exemption letter similar to the one provided to the National Hockey League could be provided. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
MLB announced Tuesday night it will have a 60-game regular season that will start July 23 or 24 in ballparks without fans.
There has been talk the Blue Jays could play at their training facility in Dunedin, Florida, but the facility was shuttered after one player showed possible COVID-19 symptoms.
A person familiar with the situation told the AP that several players and staff members of the Blue Jays have since tested positive for the coronavirus. The person confirmed the test results to the AP on condition of anonymity Wednesday because there was no official announcement, but did not specify a number.
The virus upended plans of many clubs to resume training at their Florida facilities due to a rise in cases in the state. Most teams intend to work out in their regular-season ballparks.
Dr. Andrew Morris, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Toronto and the medical director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Sinai-University Health Network, said he does not see how the government can approve MLB playing in Canada.
“The current situation in the U.S. right now is a disaster. It’s a total disaster and it’s most of a disaster in the South and West. Baseball players are included in that disaster,” Morris said. “There’s no way that having people coming and going from the U.S. is in anyway a good idea because you are going to be bringing in people with COVID into the country.”
Morris said the Canadian government should say no.
“It’s not a good idea,” Morris said. “I can’t see them allowing this. It’s based on public health principles. When I last checked, pro sports isn’t in the category of essential services. And I’m a big sports fan. It’s a hard sell.”
Federal and local health authorities in Canada have approved a plan for the NHL to play in either Toronto, Edmonton, Alberta, or Vancouver, British Columbia, but the plan does not involve travel back and forth between the U.S. and Canada. That decision last week comes as the NHL enters the advanced stages of selecting its hub cities — most likely two — from a list of seven in the U.S. and three in Canada.
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Akon Opens Up About His Comeback, Ozuna Collab and Special Connection With Latin Urban Music
By Jessica Roiz
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Akon might have been in the midst of an eight-year hiatus, but little did we know that he was whipping up his highly awaited comeback, which comes in a new video with Ozuna.
The St. Louis-born artist, known for his timeless hits such as “I Wanna Love You” and “Lonely,” returned to the music scene in a collaboration with “El Negrito de Ojos Claros,” dropping the sensual Spanglish single “Comentale.” The colorful music video was filmed in the Dominican Republic by Nuno Gomes and currently amasses over 22 million video views on YouTube.
“Ozuna reminded me of myself when I was starting my career,” he tells Billboard in an exclusive interview of working with the Puerto Rican artist. The two singers met thanks to Hiro Oshima, Sr. VP of Konvict Muzik.
Ozuna Surprises Fans with New Video 'Cometale' Featuring Akon: Watch
“I wasn’t familiar with him but I started doing my research and realized that he was like the Latino version of me. When we met, we connected instantly, it’s like we’ve known each other for years,” he says, adding that the duo has four more records up their sleeves.
Although this is the first time we've heard Akon singing in Spanish in a Latin urban song, Akon admits he’s always vouched for the genre because he’s always been surrounded by Dominicans and Puerto Ricans, who he says, are like family to him.
“It’s their time now. I’ve seen how they’ve been working for a long time to compete with a major market when they were considered underground to a domestic audience,” he says of old-school reggaeton artists in the Latin urban scene. “Reggaeton has always been big -- only that no one knew what it was and didn’t understand it. But people liked it. The same thing happened with reggae and house/techno music. This is time for Latin American artists to take advantage, and the younger generation is doing the job.”
It’s also the perfect time for Akon, who, even though he’s worked with artists such as Aventura, Tego Calderon, and Don Omar in the past, he’s exploring a new side of him in the Hispanic market.
“I’m going to work with everyone. I love collaborating,” he says, fessing that an all-Spanish album is in the works featuring collabs with Farruko, Zion & Lennox, Nacho, and Anuel AA to name a few. “I embrace the culture to the point that my nickname is ‘El Negreeto’... I’m loving this!”
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But Akon is never not working, and few might know that when he was not making music, he was doing humanitarian work in Africa -- providing 17 countries with solar power energy in less than three years. “‘Akon Lighting Africa’ is another amazing project in my life,” he says. “I wanted to give back to my people in Africa, who are my biggest supporters. I give credit to them for my fame.”
With the success of his viable business, Akon also tells Billboard that he had the wholehearted intention to help Puerto Ricans after the disastrous Hurricane Maria left almost the entire island without power in September 2017. “We put out a proposal to provide solar power to Puerto Rico,” he says. “We were going to have the whole place lit up in three months but it was denied by the government.”
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While fulfilling his dream of helping others, Akon promises fans that his comeback to the music biz will be better than ever now that he treats it as a passion and not a career.
“Music is fun. I don’t want to take it so seriously,” he says. “I just want to be in a peaceful and happy space. Working with the Latin market has allowed me to be creative and has opened many doors for me, musically.”
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High Egoslavian Holy Day. Earthgirl and me saw a show in Harrisburg a decade or so ago, not Thompson solo but Richard Thompson Band, they encored with Crawl Back, a fifteen minute version that morphed into The Israelites then back out, one of the best nights of my life.
Earthgirl and me and Hamster saw a Richard Thompson Band concert at the Senator Theater in Govans in 1996, closed the second set with Shoot Out the Lights, one of the best nights of my life.
Another one of the best nights of my life, I was there for this, serendipitously my relationship with Blondie was falling apart as Richard and Linda screamed at each other between songs:
And if Richard Thompson's music doesn't sing to me like it once did, that's on me.
Digital grab.
Plutocracy.
The actuality of a successful capitalist offensive.
Foodopoly.
What Americans believe.
Police state.
You have the right to go home to your family.
Stupid ass.
Aspen Hill!
Ashbery.
Download a Richard & Linda Thompson concert from 1977!
Can you imagine Bach without religion?
Easier to spot.
McNew of Knox's Seizure.
Tastemaking.
Beethoven Dada.
Wolff.
Sciarrino/Bussotti/Berio/Xenakis.
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Charter of the Forest
The Charter of the Forest (Carta Foresta) was first signed on this date in 1217 at St Paul’s Cathedral in London. It is a charter that re-established for free men rights of access to the royal forest that had been eroded by William the Conqueror and his heirs. Many of its provisions were in force for centuries afterwards. It was originally sealed in England by the young king Henry III, acting under the regency of William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke. It was in many ways a companion document to the Magna Carta, and redressed some applications of the Anglo-Norman Forest Law that had been extended and abused by William Rufus and thereafter.
To the Normans, “forest” meant an enclosed area where the monarch (or sometimes another aristocrat) had exclusive rights to animals of the chase and the greenery (“vert”) on which they fed. It did not consist only of trees, but included large areas of heathland, grassland and wetlands, productive of food, grazing and other resources. Lands became more and more restricted as king Richard and king John designated greater and greater areas as royal forest. At its widest extent, royal forest covered about one-third of the land of southern England. Thus, it became an increasing hardship on the common people to try to farm, forage, and otherwise use the land they lived on.
The Charter of the Forest was a complementary charter to the Magna Carta from which it had evolved. It was reissued in 1225 with a number of minor changes to wording, and then was joined with Magna Carta in the Confirmation of Charters in 1297.
At a time when royal forests were the most important potential source of fuel for cooking, heating and industries such as charcoal burning, and of such hotly defended rights as pannage (pasture for their pigs), estover (collecting firewood), agistment (grazing), or turbary (cutting of turf for fuel), this charter was exceptional in providing a degree of economic protection for free men (women had no rights) who used the forest to forage for food and to graze their animals. In contrast to Magna Carta, which dealt with the rights of barons, it restored to the common man some real rights, privileges and protections against the abuses of an encroaching aristocracy. For many years it was regarded as a development of great significance in England’s constitutional history, with the great seventeenth-century jurist Sir Edward Coke referring to it along with Magna Carta as the Charters of England’s Liberties, and Sir William Blackstone remarking in the eighteenth century that “There is no transaction in the antient part of our english history more interesting and important, than . . . the charters of liberties, emphatically stiled THE GREAT CHARTER and CHARTER OF THE FOREST . . . .”
The first chapter of the Charter protected common pasture in the forest for all those “accustomed to it”, and chapter nine provided for “every man to agist his wood in the forest as he wishes”. It added “Henceforth every freeman, in his wood or on his land that he has in the forest, may with impunity make a mill, fish-preserve, pond, marl-pit, ditch, or arable in cultivated land outside coverts, provided that no injury is thereby given to any neighbour.”. The Charter restored the area classified as “forest” to that of Henry II’s time.
Clause 10 repealed the death penalty (and mutilation as a lesser punishment) for capturing deer (venison), though transgressors were still subject to fines or imprisonment. Special Verderers’ Courts were set up within the forests to enforce the laws of the Charter.
By Tudor times, most of the laws served mainly to protect the timber in royal forests. However, some clauses in the Laws of Forests remained in force until the 1970s, and the special courts still exist in the New Forest and the Forest of Dean. In this respect, the Charter was the statute that remained longest in force in England (from 1217 to 1971), being finally superseded by the Wild Creatures and Forest Laws Act 1971.
To mark 800 years of the Charter of the Forest, in 2017 the Woodland Trust and more than 50 other cross-sector organizations joined forces to create and launch a Charter for Trees, Woods and People, reflecting the modern relationship with trees and woods in the landscape for people in the UK.
Here is a 13th-century recipe (sort of) from Henry of Huntingdon (c. 1088 – c. 1157). It is from Anglicanus ortus, eight books of poems and epigrams on herbs, spices, and gems united by a medical theme.
Parsley is the best herb for mutton, the best for pork.
If you ask the method, I will tell you. I’ll indicate for you
the first meats in the first place, the second in the second.
Take Pennyroyal, Cress, and Parsley;
yet if that herb which the crowd is apt to call ius danna
should be present, use it and not the Cress.
Add Cost to these and mix in a bit of Pepper;
you can now mix these with the mutton drippings.
There will be no other flavor better suited to mutton,
or so they relate who are devoted to these arts.
Take Basil and Savory and Parsley
and Cress, unless ius danna is near to you.
Mix together Pepper and Cumin with these juices.
In such a way, if you are eating cold pork,
no other flavor would be made more pleasing than this.
Henry was a big fan of parsley, and in this poem he extols its virtues for making gravy with mutton fat. I presume he added broth, cream, or verjuice as well because fat and herbs alone would not make a particularly appetizing sauce, even for a Medieval Norman.
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Who Is Heidi Gardner? The New 'SNL' Addition Is A Comic To Know
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By Nina Bradley
As news breaks surrounding the new Saturday Night Live cast members, fans are wondering: who exactly is SNL's Heidi Gardner? The actor and writer is definitely someone you're going to want to know more about in the near future. Gardner, the only woman among the recent additions tapped to appear in the upcoming season, will make her debut alongside other new hires, Luke Null and Chris Redd during the Sept. 30 Season 43 premiere, which is slated to air just four days away from today's announcement, according to Deadline.
As far as her background is concerned, Gardner is currently a performer with The Groundlings improvisational and sketch comedy troupe based in Los Angeles, which features an alumni association that boasts the likes of big name comedic performers such as: Kathy Griffin, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Will Ferrell and Lisa Kudrow – just to name a few. In addition to her work with The Groundlings, Gardner's bio notes that she is a Kansas City, Missouri native who currently writes and performs on the Bryan Cranston produced animated comedy series, SuperMansion. She has written several episodes during her tenure on the show, according to her IMDb profile, and has also lent her talents to the voice of Yasmin from the 2015 animated series, Bratz.
In terms of upcoming projects, Gardner will also be appearing in the film Life of the Party, written by and starring fellow Groundlings alum, Melissa McCarthy in 2018.
Gardner and her recently hired SNL cohorts will fill the vacancies which were left empty by the departures of Bobby Moynihan, Vanessa Bayer and Sasheer Zamata, all whom left the long running seres after Season 42. The trio of Gardner, Null, and Redd were awarded the position following a month of auditions and tests, according to Deadline. In what appears to be a game time decision by show runners, the selections were reportedly made official during Emmy weekend just a week ago.
Gardner is certainly in good company alongside her newly-minted costars. The Hollywood Reporter indicates that Luke Null is a musician, comedian and improviser from Chicago whose credits include a role in the 2011 film The Heart: The Final Pulse. While Chris Redd is described as an actor and comedian who once notably starred alongside former SNL stars, Andy Samberg, Joan Cusack, Bill Hader, Tim Meadows and Maya Rudolph in the mockumentary Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. He also has a recurring role in the Netflix series, Disjointed and has been feature in Comedy Central's Stand-Up Presents series. With both sketch and improv experience under his belt, Redd sounds like he'll be a huge contribution to the cast.
In addition to the cast expansion, Saturday Night Live seems to be getting somewhat of an overhaul behind the scenes as well. Deadline indicates that the late night comedy has also picked up seven new writers for the forthcoming season, perhaps, signaling the notion that the show is looking to get a fresh perspective for its future episodes.
SNL saw a major uptick in viewership during Season 42, thanks in part to the Emmy Award winning performances of Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump and Melissa McCarthy's as former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer. The season became the series' biggest in 23 years, according to CNN.
As SNL presses forward in hopes to keep last season's ratings momentum going, Gardner's talents could prove to be a great asset to the live sketch series. With the world now her stage amid her new gig at SNL, it's safe to say that Heidi Gardner could become household name in no time flat.
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Mediterranean fever (pathology)
Brucellosis, infectious disease of humans and domestic animals characterized by an insidious onset of fever, chills, sweats, weakness, pains, and aches, all of which resolve within three to six months. The disease is named after the British army physician David Bruce, who in 1887 first isolated and
Mediterranean flour moth (insect)
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Mediterranean fruit fly (insect)
Mediterranean fruit fly, particularly destructive and costly insect pest, a species of fruit fly
Mediterranean gecko (reptile, Hemidactylus mabouia)
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Mediterranean gull (bird)
Ukraine: Plant and animal life: …of the Mediterranean gull (Larus melanocephalus). Also located on the Black Sea, the Danube Water Meadows Reserve protects the Danube River’s tidewater biota. Other reserves in Ukraine preserve segments of the forest-steppe woodland, the marshes and forests of the Polissya, and the mountains and rocky coast of Crimea.
Mediterranean hackberry (plant)
hackberry: The Mediterranean hackberry, or European nettle tree (C. australis), is an ornamental that has lance-shaped, gray-green leaves and larger edible fruit. Some West African species produce valuable timber.
Mediterranean ling (fish)
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Mediterranean low (meteorology)
Europe: Air pressure belts: …a high-pressure ridge; the (winter) Mediterranean low; the Siberian high, centred over Central Asia in winter but extending westward; and the Asiatic low, a low-pressure summertime system over southwestern Asia. Given those pressure conditions, westerly winds prevail in northwestern Europe, becoming especially strong in winter. The winter westerlies, often from…
Mediterranean macchia (vegetation)
Maquis, a scrubland vegetation of the Mediterranean region, composed primarily of leathery, broad-leaved evergreen shrubs or small trees. Garigue, or garrigue, a poorer version of this vegetation, is found in areas with a thin, rocky soil. Maquis occurs primarily on the lower slopes of mountains
Mediterranean macchie (vegetation)
Mediterranean maquis (vegetation)
Mediterranean monk seal (mammal)
monk seal: …danger of extinction, are the Mediterranean monk seal (M. monachus) and the Hawaiian, or Laysan, monk seal (M. schauinslandi). The seals are threatened by human disturbance of their coastal habitats, disease, and continued hunting. By the 1990s there were only about 1,400 Hawaiian monk seals and 300 to 600 Mediterranean…
Mediterranean pearlfish (fish)
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Mediterranean Pyrenees (mountain range, Europe)
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Mediterranean region (region, Eastern Hemisphere)
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Mediterranean Sea, an intercontinental sea that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean on the west to Asia on the east and separates Europe from Africa. It has often been called the incubator of Western civilization. This ancient “sea between the lands” occupies a deep, elongated, and almost landlocked
Mediterranean soil
Andisol: …and in volcanic regions of Mediterranean countries.
Mediterranean Union (international organization)
Nicolas Sarkozy: Presidency: …oversaw the launch of the Mediterranean Union, an international organization made up of Mediterranean rim countries in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
Mediterranean vegetation
Mediterranean vegetation, any scrubby, dense vegetation composed of broad-leaved evergreen shrubs, bushes, and small trees usually less than 2.5 m (about 8 feet) tall and growing in regions lying between 30° and 40° north and south latitudes. These regions have a climate similar to that of the
Mediterranean, Union for the (international organization)
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mountain: The Alpine-Himalayan, or Tethyan, System: The interconnected system of mountain ranges and intermontane plateaus that lies between the stable areas of Africa, Arabia, and India on the south and Europe and Asia on the north owes its existence to the collisions of different continental fragments during the past…
Méditerranée et le monde méditerranéen à l’époque de Philippe II, La (work by Braudel)
Fernand Braudel: …l’époque de Philippe II (1949; The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II). First submitted as a doctoral thesis to the Sorbonne in 1947 and subsequently published as a two-volume book, this geohistorical study centred not only on the conflict between Spain and the Ottoman Empire…
Mediterraneo (film by Salvatores [1991])
medium (occultism)
Medium, in occultism, a person reputedly able to make contact with the world of spirits, especially while in a state of trance. A spiritualist medium is the central figure during a séance (q.v.) and sometimes requires the assistance of an invisible go-between, or control. During a séance,
Medium (American television series)
Patricia Arquette: …crime-solving psychic on the show Medium (2005–11) earned her a 2005 Emmy Award for best lead actress in a drama series, and she had a recurring part (2013–14) as the owner of a Florida speakeasy in the series Boardwalk Empire. Arquette later starred in the short-lived CSI: Crime Scene Investigation…
medium (art)
musical criticism: Medium: Another question is why a composition expresses itself through its particular medium? Why that medium rather than another?
Medium A (tank)
tank: World War I: …and in 1918 the 14-ton Medium A appeared with a speed of 8 miles (13 km) per hour and a range of 80 miles (130 km). After 1918, however, the most widely used tank was the French Renault F.T., a light six-ton vehicle designed for close infantry support.
medium aevium (historical era)
Middle Ages, the period in European history from the collapse of Roman civilization in the 5th century ce to the period of the Renaissance (variously interpreted as beginning in the 13th, 14th, or 15th century, depending on the region of Europe and other factors). A brief treatment of the Middle
Medium Cool (film by Wexler [1969])
Medium Cool, American film drama, released in 1969, that captured the fractious spirit of its day and highlighted the many social and ethical issues of the late 1960s. Medium Cool follows television news cameraman John Cassellis (played by Robert Forster) as he shoots hard-to-get footage of
medium earth orbit (communication)
satellite communication: How satellites work: …orbits: low Earth orbit (LEO), medium Earth orbit (MEO), and geostationary or geosynchronous orbit (GEO). LEO satellites are positioned at an altitude between 160 km and 1,600 km (100 and 1,000 miles) above Earth. MEO satellites operate from 10,000 to 20,000 km (6,300 to 12,500 miles) from Earth. (Satellites do…
Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, The (work by McLuhan)
Marshall McLuhan: …The Extensions of Man (1964), The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects (with Quentin Fiore; 1967), From Cliché to Archetype (with Wilfred Watson; 1970), and City as Classroom (with Kathryn Hutchon and Eric McLuhan; 1977). McLuhan’s critical view of 20th-century society’s self-transformation made him one of the popular…
medium machine gun (weapon)
machine gun: The medium machine gun, or general-purpose machine gun, is belt-fed, mounted on a bipod or tripod, and fires full-power rifle ammunition. Through World War II the term “heavy machine gun” designated a water-cooled machine gun that was belt-fed, handled by a special squad of several soldiers,…
medium of exchange (economics)
money: …that sustains money as a medium of exchange breaks down, people will then seek substitutes—like the cigarettes and cognac that for a time served as the medium of exchange in Germany after World War II. New money may substitute for old under less extreme conditions. In many countries with a…
Medium, The (opera by Menotti)
Gian Carlo Menotti: …first opera of this type, The Medium (1946), was a tragedy about a medium who becomes a victim of her own fraudulent voices. It was followed by a one-act comic opera, The Telephone (1946). In 1947 the two operas were paired in an unprecedented Broadway run. In 1951 The Medium…
medium-bypass turbofan (engine)
jet engine: Medium-bypass turbofans, high-bypass turbofans, and ultrahigh-bypass engines: Moving up in the spectrum of flight speeds to the transonic regime—Mach numbers from 0.75 to 0.9—the most common engine configurations are turbofan engines, such as those shown in Figures 4 and 5. In a turbofan, only a…
medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (pathology)
metabolic disease: Fatty acid oxidation defects: Children with medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MCAD) appear completely normal, unless they fast for a prolonged period or are faced by other metabolically stressful conditions, such as a severe viral illness. During periods of metabolic stress, affected individuals may develop hypoglycemia, lethargy, vomiting, seizures, and liver dysfunction.…
medium-range ballistic missile (military technology)
missile: Types: …most often categorized as short-range, medium-range, intermediate-range, and intercontinental ballistic missiles (SRBMs, MRBMs, IRBMs, and ICBMs). SRBMs are effective to 300 miles (480 km), MRBMs from 300 to 600 miles (480 to 965 km), IRBMs from 600 to 3,300 miles (965 to 5,310 km), and ICBMs more than 3,300 miles…
medium-range weather forecasting (meteorology)
weather forecasting: Meteorological measurements from satellites and aircraft: Medium-range forecasts that provide information five to seven days in advance were impossible before satellites began making global observations—particularly over the ocean waters of the Southern Hemisphere—routinely available in real time. Global forecasting models developed at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the…
medium-security prison (penology)
prison: Types of prisons: For the majority there are medium-security prisons, where prisoners are expected to work, attend educational programs, or participate in other activities that prepare them for release. Finally, there are prisons that have a very low level of security for those who present no threat to public safety.
medium-size camera (photography)
technology of photography: The medium-size hand camera: This type of camera takes sheet film (typical formats of from 2 1 2 × 3 1 2 inches to 4 × 5 inches), roll film, or 70-mm film in interchangeable magazines; it has interchangeable lenses and may have a coupled rangefinder.…
medium-speed engine (diesel engine)
ship: Diesel: …in two distinct types, the medium-speed engine and the low-speed engine. Both operate on the same principles, but each has its own attractions for the ship designer.
medium-term warning system (military science)
warning system: Medium-term, or strategic, warning, usually involving a time span of a few days or weeks, is a notification or judgment that hostilities may be imminent. Short-term, or tactical, warning, often hours or minutes in advance, is a notification that the enemy has initiated hostilities.
Medizinische Reform, Die (periodical by Virchow)
Rudolf Virchow: Early career: …he published a weekly paper, Die Medizinische Reform (“Medical Reform”) much of which he wrote himself. His liberal views led the government, on March 31, 1849, to suspend him from his post at the Charité, but a fortnight later he was reinstated, with the loss of certain privileges.
Medjerda valley (valley, Tunisia)
Jendouba: …alluvial plain of the middle Majardah valley, a hot, dry region conducive to the cultivation of grains. Pop. (2004) 43,997.
Medjerda, Oued (river, North Africa)
Wadi Majardah, main river of Tunisia and the country’s only perennially flowing stream. Wadi Majardah rises in northeastern Algeria in the Majardah (Mejerda) Mountains and flows northeastward for 290 miles (460 km) to the Gulf of Tunis, draining an area of about 8,880 square miles (23,000 square
medlar (plant)
Medlar, (genus Mespilus), either of two species of the genus Mespilus of the rose family (Rosaceae). The common medlar (M. germanica) is a small, much-branched, deciduous, spinous tree known for its edible fruits. The plant is native to Europe, from the Netherlands southward, and to southwestern
medley (swimming)
Yana Klochkova: …events—the 200-metre and 400-metre individual medleys. Known as the “Medley Queen,” she lost only one medley race in international competition between 2000 and 2004.
Medley Queen, the (Ukrainian athlete)
Yana Klochkova, Ukrainian swimmer who in 2004 became the first woman to win consecutive pairs of Olympic gold medals in the same events—the 200-metre and 400-metre individual medleys. Known as the “Medley Queen,” she lost only one medley race in international competition between 2000 and 2004.
Medley, Bill (American singer)
blue-eyed soul: …were the Righteous Brothers, comprising Bill Medley (b. September 19, 1940, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) and Bobby Hatfield (b. August 10, 1940, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, U.S.—November 5, 2003, Kalamazoo, Michigan), and the Rascals (known for a time as the Young Rascals), whose principal members were Felix Cavaliere (b. November 29,…
Medny vsadnik (poem by Pushkin)
The Bronze Horseman, poem by Aleksandr Pushkin, published in 1837 as Medny vsadnik. It poses the problem of the “little man” whose happiness is destroyed by the great leader in pursuit of
Mednyj Aleut (language)
North American Indian languages: Language contact: Mednyj Aleut (Copper Island Aleut) has its origin in the mixed population of Aleuts and Russian seal hunters who settled on Copper Island. Most of the vocabulary of Mednyj Aleut is Aleut but the grammar of verbs is mostly Russian.
Medobory-Toltry ridge (ridge, Moldova)
Moldova: Relief: …uplands include the strikingly eroded Medobory-Toltry limestone ridges, which border the Prut River.
Médoc (district, France)
Médoc, wine-producing district, southwestern France, on the left bank of the Gironde River estuary, northwest of Bordeaux. An undulating plain extending for about 50 miles (80 km) to Grave Point, the Médoc is renowned for its crus (vineyards). The grapes are grown especially along a strip of
Medrano (work by Archipenko)
Alexander Archipenko: …in sculpture in his famous Medrano series, depictions of circus figures in multicoloured glass, wood, and metal that defy traditional use of materials and definitions of sculpture. During that same period he further defied tradition in his “sculpto-paintings,” works in which he introduced painted colour to the intersecting planes of…
Medraut (British legendary figure)
Arthurian legend: …home led by his nephew Mordred. Some features of Geoffrey’s story were marvelous fabrications, and certain features of the Celtic stories were adapted to suit feudal times. The concept of Arthur as a world conqueror was clearly inspired by legends surrounding great leaders such as Alexander the Great and Charlemagne.…
medrese (Muslim educational institution)
Madrasah, (Arabic: “school”) institution of higher education in the Islamic sciences (ʿulūm; singular, ʿilm). In Arabic-speaking countries, the word in modern times refers to any institution of education, especially primary or secondary education. The early madrasahs developed out of occasional
MEDS (technology)
history of flight: Avionics, passenger support, and safety: …in cockpit management is the Multifunction Electronic Display Subsystem (MEDS), which allows pilots to call up desired information on a liquid crystal display (LCD). Besides being more easily understood by a computer-literate generation of pilots, MEDS is less expensive to maintain and more easily updated than conventional instrumentation.
Medtner, Nikolay (Russian composer)
concerto: Romantic innovations: And the Russian Nikolay Medtner’s Piano Concerto in G Minor is a single, experimental variation of “sonata form.” It consists, as he himself explains,
Medúlla (work by Bjork)
Björk: Medúlla (2004) was an all-vocals and vocal samples-based album that featured beatboxers (vocal-percussion artists), Icelandic and British choirs, and traditional Inuit vocalists, while the similarly eclectic Volta (2007) boasted sombre brass arrangements, African rhythms, and guest production from Timbaland. For the ethereal Biophilia (2011), Björk…
medulla (lichen)
fungus: Form and function of lichens: The medulla, located below the algal layer, is the widest layer of a heteromerous thallus. It has a cottony appearance and consists of interlaced hyphae. The loosely structured nature of the medulla provides it with numerous air spaces and allows it to hold large amounts of…
medulla (anatomy)
adrenal gland: Adrenal medulla: The adrenal medulla is embedded in the centre of the cortex of each adrenal gland. It is small, making up only about 10 percent of the total adrenal weight. The adrenal medulla is composed of chromaffin cells that are named for the granules within…
medulla oblongata (anatomy)
Medulla oblongata, the lowest part of the brain and the lowest portion of the brainstem. The medulla oblongata is connected by the pons to the midbrain and is continuous posteriorly with the spinal cord, with which it merges at the opening (foramen magnum) at the base of the skull. The medulla
Medulla Theologiae Moralis, Facili ac Perspicua Methodo Resolvens Casus Conscientiae ex Variis Probatisque Authoribus Concinnata (work by Busenbaum)
Hermann Busenbaum: His celebrated book Medulla Theologiae Moralis, Facili ac Perspicua Methodo Resolvens Casus Conscientiae ex Variis Probatisque Authoribus Concinnata (1650; “The Heart of Moral Theology, an Easy and Perspicacious Method Resolving the Claims of Conscience Compiled from Various and Worthy Authors”) was published in more than 200 editions before…
medullary cell (anatomy)
integument: Hair: The medullary cells tend to be grouped along the central axis of the hair as a core, continuous or interrupted, of single, double, or multiple columns.
medullary cystic disease (pathology)
renal cyst: In medullary cystic diseases, also thought to be congenital in origin, cysts form in the small collecting tubules that transport urine from the nephrons, the urine-producing units of the kidney. The disease generally does not have warning symptoms, but affected persons become anemic and have low…
medullary pyramid (anatomy)
human nervous system: Corticospinal tract: …the medulla, known as the medullary pyramids. In the lower medulla about 90 percent of the fibres of the corticospinal tract decussate and descend in the dorsolateral funiculus of the spinal cord. Of the fibres that do not cross in the medulla, approximately 8 percent cross in cervical spinal segments.…
medullary reticulospinal tract (anatomy)
human nervous system: Reticulospinal tract: The medullary reticulospinal tract, originating from reticular neurons on both sides of the median raphe, descends in the ventral part of the lateral funiculus and terminates at all spinal levels upon cells in laminae VII and IX. The medullary reticulospinal tract inhibits the same motor activities…
medullary thyroid carcinoma (pathology)
Medullary thyroid carcinoma, tumour of the parafollicular cells (C cells) of the thyroid gland. It occurs both sporadically and predictably, affecting multiple members of families who carry gene mutations associated with the disease. In some families medullary thyroid carcinomas are the only
Medum (ancient site, Egypt)
Maydūm, ancient Egyptian site near Memphis on the west bank of the Nile River in Banī Suwayf muḥāfaẓah (governorate). It is the location of the earliest-known pyramid complex with all the parts of a normal Old Kingdom (c. 2575–c. 2130 bc) funerary monument. These parts included the pyramid itself,
Medusa (Greek mythology)
Medusa, in Greek mythology, the most famous of the monster figures known as Gorgons. She was usually represented as a winged female creature having a head of hair consisting of snakes; unlike the Gorgons, she was sometimes represented as very beautiful. Medusa was the only Gorgon who was mortal;
medusa (invertebrate body type)
Medusa, in zoology, one of two principal body types occurring in members of the invertebrate animal phylum Cnidaria. It is the typical form of the jellyfish. The medusoid body is bell- or umbrella-shaped. Hanging downward from the centre is a stalklike structure, the manubrium, bearing the mouth
Medusa Frequency, The (novel by Hoban)
Russell Hoban: …include the novels Pilgermann (1983); The Medusa Frequency (1987), the story of an author who deals with his writer’s block by electrifying his brain, which produces a series of imagined interlocutors, including the disembodied head of Orpheus; The Moment Under the Moment (1992); Fremder (1996); Amaryllis Night and Day (2001);…
medusafish (fish)
perciform: Annotated classification: Families Stromateidae, Centrolophidae, Nomeidae, Ariommidae, Amarsipidae, and Tetragonuridae Eocene to present; slender to ovate, deep-bodied fishes; dorsal fin continuous or spinous portion set off from soft portion by deep notch; in the most generalized species, which resemble Kyphosidae, the soft dorsal is preceded by about 6 low,
Medusagyne oppositifolia (plant)
Malpighiales: Ochnaceae, Medusagynaceae, and Quiinaceae: Medusagynaceae includes only Medusagyne oppositifolia, a rare species growing in the Seychelles. It is an evergreen with distinctive fibrous bark like that of Juniperus. The leaves are opposite, toothed, and with strongly reticulate venation. The flowers have many stamens, and the styles are on the edges of the…
Medved, Aleksandr Vasilyevich (Russian wrestler)
Aleksandr Vasilyevich Medved, Russian wrestler who is considered one of the greatest freestyle wrestlers of all time. He won gold medals in three consecutive Olympics (1964–72), a feat never matched by any other wrestler. Medved developed much of his strength as a boy working in the woods with his
Medvedev, Dmitry (president of Russia)
Dmitry Medvedev, Russian lawyer and politician who served as president (2008–12) and prime minister (2012–20) of Russia. Medvedev was born into a middle-class family in suburban Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). He attended Leningrad State University (now St. Petersburg State University), receiving a
Medvedev, Dmitry Anatolyevich (president of Russia)
Medvedev, Roy Aleksandrovich (Soviet historian and dissident)
Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev, Soviet historian and dissident who was one of his country’s foremost historiographers in the late 20th century. Roy was the identical twin brother of the biologist Zhores Medvedev. Their father was arrested in 1938 during one of Joseph Stalin’s purges, and he died in a
Medvedev, S. P. (Soviet official)
Workers' Opposition: Medvedev, and later Aleksandra Kollontay, not only objected to the subordination of the trade unions but also insisted that the unions, as the institutions most directly representing the proletariat, should control the national economy and individual enterprises. Although the group received substantial support from the…
Medvedev, Zhores (Soviet biologist and dissident)
Zhores Medvedev, Soviet biologist who became an important dissident historian in the second half of the 20th century. Zhores was the identical twin brother of the Soviet historian Roy Medvedev. He graduated from the Timiriazev Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Moscow in 1950 and received a
Medvedev, Zhores Aleksandrovich (Soviet biologist and dissident)
Medwall, Henry (English author)
Henry Medwall, author remembered for his Fulgens and Lucrece, the first known secular play in English. Medwall was educated at Eton College and the University of Cambridge and participated in dramatic performances there. After 1485 he worked as a lawyer and administrator in London, eventually
Medway (unitary authority, England, United Kingdom)
Medway, unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Kent, southeastern England. It is named for, and lies around the mouth of, the River Medway where it flows into the estuary of the Thames. The unitary authority comprises the ports of Chatham (the administrative centre) and Gillingham and
Medway of Hemsted Park, Baron (British politician)
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st earl of Cranbrook, English Conservative politician who was a strong proponent of British intervention in the Russo-Turkish conflict of 1877–78. Called to the bar in 1840, Hardy entered Parliament in 1856, earning a reputation as a skilled debater and a staunch
Medway, Battle of (English history [43 ce])
Battle of Medway, (43 ce). The first major recorded battle of the Roman invasion of Britain under the orders of the emperor Claudius, the battle is thought to have been fought at a crossing of the River Medway, near the modernday city of Rochester in Kent, England, and it raged for nearly two days.
Medway, Raid on the (European history [1667])
Raid on the Medway, (12–14 June 1667). The Dutch raid on the dockyards in the Medway in 1667 was one of the deepest humiliations ever visited upon England and the Royal Navy. Although the material losses inflicted were grave, even more painful was the public proof that the English were powerless to
Medway, River (river, England, United Kingdom)
River Medway, river, southeastern England, rising in the heart of The Weald region and flowing 70 miles (110 km) to its North Sea mouth in the Thames at Sheerness, county of Kent. It makes a gap through the ridge south of Maidstone and a larger one through the North Downs between Maidstone and
Mee, Arthur (English writer and editor)
encyclopaedia: Children’s encyclopaedias: …the English writer and editor Arthur Mee, it was called The Children’s Encyclopaedia (1910) in Great Britain and The Book of Knowledge (1912) in the United States. The contents comprised vividly written and profusely illustrated articles; because the system of article arrangement was obscure, much of the success of the…
Meech Lake Accord (Canada [1987])
Bloc Québécois: …after the defeat of the Meech Lake Accord, which would have formally recognized Quebec as a distinct society and would have given it veto power over most constitutional changes. Although the party did not run candidates outside Quebec, it won 54 seats in the federal House of Commons in 1993,…
Meech, Karen (American astronomer)
Chiron: In 1989 American astronomers Karen Meech and Michael Belton detected a fuzzy luminous cloud around Chiron. Such a cloud, termed a coma, is a distinguishing feature of comets and consists of gases and entrained dust escaping from the cometary nucleus when sunlight causes its ices to sublimate. Given Chiron’s…
Meegeren, Han van (Dutch painter)
Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter, best known for his successful and complex scheme of forging and selling paintings attributed to Dutch masters. Van Meegeren’s activities as a forger came to light after World War II when an Allied art commission was established to identify and restore to their
Meegeren, Henricus Antonius van (Dutch painter)
Meehan, Daniel Joseph Anthony (British musician)
the Shadows: …2011, Winchester, Hampshire), and drummer Tony Meehan (byname of Daniel Meehan; b. March 2, 1943, London—d. November 28, 2005, London). Later members included drummer Brian Bennett (b. February 9, 1940, London) and bassist John Rostill (b. June 16, 1942, Birmingham, West Midlands—d. November 26, 1973, England).
Meehan, John (American art director)
Meehan, Tony (British musician)
Meehl, Paul E. (American psychologist)
learning theory: Intervening variables and hypothetical constructs: Psychologists Paul E. Meehl and Kenneth MacCorquodale proposed a distinction between the abstractions advocated by some and the physiological mechanisms sought by others. Meehl and MacCorquodale recommended using the term intervening variable for the abstraction and hypothetical construct for the physiological foundation. To illustrate: Hull treated…
Meek Heritage (work by Sillanpää)
Frans Eemil Sillanpää: …substantial novel, Hurskas kurjuus (1919; Meek Heritage), describing how a humble cottager becomes involved with the Red Guards without clearly realizing the ideological implications. The novelette Hiltu ja Ragnar (1923) is the tragic love story of a city boy and a country servant-girl. After several collections of short stories in…
Meek v. Pittenger (law case)
Meek v. Pittenger, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on May 19, 1975, ruled (6–3) that two Pennsylvania laws violated the First Amendment’s establishment clause by authorizing the use of state-purchased materials and equipment in nonpublic schools and by providing auxiliary services to children
Meek’s Cutoff (film by Reichardt [2010])
Michelle Williams: …starred in the bleak western Meek’s Cutoff (2010), also directed by Reichardt, and as Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn (2011), which depicted events behind the scenes of the 1957 film The Prince and the Showgirl. Her nuanced personification of the iconic starlet was rewarded with a Golden Globe…
Meek, Donald (American actor)
Stagecoach: …from town; Samuel Peacock (Donald Meek), a milquetoast whiskey salesman; Henry Gatewood (Berton Churchill), a corrupt banker attempting to abscond with stolen funds; Hatfield (John Carradine), a professional gambler and self-proclaimed southern gentleman who seeks to protect fellow passenger Lucy Mallory (Louise Platt), who is pregnant and hopes to…
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religious dress
Religious dress, any attire, accoutrements, and markings used in religious rituals that may be corporate, domestic, or personal in nature. Such dress may comprise types of coverings all the way from the highly symbolic and ornamented eucharistic vestments of Eastern Orthodox Christianity to
religious dualism (philosophy)
Dualism, in philosophy, the use of two irreducible, heterogeneous principles (sometimes in conflict, sometimes complementary) to analyze the knowing process (epistemological dualism) or to explain all of reality or some broad aspect of it (metaphysical dualism). Examples of epistemological dualism
Martin Buber: From Vienna to Jerusalem: Buber as an educator tried to refute these ideological “prejudices of youth,” who, he asserted, rightly criticize outworn images of God but wrongly identify them with the imageless living God himself.
Religious experience, specific experience such as wonder at the infinity of the cosmos, the sense of awe and mystery in the presence of the sacred or holy, feeling of dependence on a divine power or an unseen order, the sense of guilt and anxiety accompanying belief in a divine judgment, or the
Religious Experience of the Roman People (work by Fowler)
religious experience: Objective intention, or reference: …historian, showed in his classic Religious Experience of the Roman People (1911), the task of elucidating the role of religion in Roman society can be accomplished without settling the question of the validity or cognitive import of the religious feelings, ideas, and beliefs in question. The empirical investigator, as such,…
Religious Freedom Restoration Act (United States [1993])
Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), (1993), U.S. legislation that originally prohibited the federal government and the states from “substantially burden[ing] a person’s exercise of religion” unless “application of the burden…is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest” and “is the
Religious symbolism and iconography, respectively, the basic and often complex artistic forms and gestures used as a kind of key to convey religious concepts and the visual, auditory, and kinetic representations of religious ideas and events. Symbolism and iconography have been utilized by all the
religious institution (religion)
Eastern Orthodoxy: The episcopate: …theology also emphasizes that the office of bishop is the highest among the sacramental ministries and that there is therefore no divinely established authority over that of the bishop in his own community, or diocese. Neither the local churches nor the bishops, however, can or should live in isolation. The…
Islam: Social service: …idea of a closely knit community of the faithful who are declared to be “brothers unto each other.” Muslims are described as “the middle community bearing witness on humankind,” “the best community produced for humankind,” whose function it is “to enjoin good and forbid evil” (Qurʾān). Cooperation and “good advice”…
religious language
study of religion: Empiricism and pragmatism: …to exhibit the nature of religious language could have been a chiefly descriptive task, but, in fact, most analyses have occurred in the context of questions of truth. Thus, some scholars have been concerned with exhibiting how it is possible to hold religious beliefs in an empiricist framework, others with…
religious law
family law: Religion: Religion has had a strong influence on marriage law, often providing the main basis of its authority. Hindu family law, which goes back at least 4,000 years (and may be the oldest known system), is a branch of dharma—that is, the aggregate of religious,…
religious literature
fable, parable, and allegory: Diversity of media: …time immemorial men have carved religious monuments and have drawn and painted sacred icons. Triumphal arches and chariots have symbolized glory and victory. Religious art makes wide use of allegory, both in its subject matter and in its imagery (such as the cross, the fish, the lamb). Even in poetry…
religious meditation (mental exercise)
Meditation, private devotion or mental exercise encompassing various techniques of concentration, contemplation, and abstraction, regarded as conducive to heightened self-awareness, spiritual enlightenment, and physical and mental health. Meditation has been practiced throughout history by
religious movement
study of religion: Other sociological studies: An extensive literature on religious sects and similar groups has also developed. To some extent this has been influenced by the German theologian Ernst Troeltsch in his distinction between church and sect (see below Theological studies). Notable among modern investigators of sectarianism is the British scholar Bryan Wilson. Church organizations…
choral music: Sacred music:
Religious of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, The (Roman Catholic order)
Good Shepherd Sister, a Roman Catholic order of religious devoted particularly to the care, rehabilitation, and education of girls and young women who have demonstrated delinquent behaviour. The congregation traces its history to an order founded by St. John Eudes in 1641 at Caen, Fr. This order,
Religious of Our Lady of Charity of the Refuge, The (Roman Catholic order)
Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Roman Catholic congregation)
Society of the Sacred Heart, Roman Catholic religious congregation of women devoted to the education of girls. The Society of the Sacred Heart was founded in France in 1800 by St. Madeleine Sophie Barat. In the late 1700s Joseph Varin, a leader in the religious renewal in France following the
religious order (monasticism)
Hinduism: Religious orders and holy men: Members of the various denominations who abandon all worldly attachment enter an “inner circle” or “order” that, seeking a life of devotion, adopts or develops particular vows and observances, a common cult, and some form of initiation.
Egypt: Religious life: …rulers of Egypt had seldom interfered with the lives of their Christian and Jewish subjects so long as these groups paid the special taxes (known as jizyah) levied on them in exchange for state protection. Indeed, both Copts and Jews had always served in the Muslim bureaucracy, sometimes in the…
religious rationalism (philosophy)
rationalism: Religious rationalism: Stirrings of religious rationalism were already felt in the Middle Ages regarding the Christian revelation. Thus, the skeptical mind of Peter Abelard (1079–1142) raised doubts by showing in his Sic et non (“Yes and No”) many contradictions among beliefs handed down as revealed…
religious revivalism (Christianity)
Revivalism, generally, renewed religious fervour within a Christian group, church, or community, but primarily a movement in some Protestant churches to revitalize the spiritual ardour of their members and to win new adherents. Revivalism in its modern form can be attributed to that shared emphasis
religious ritual
Ritual, the performance of ceremonial acts prescribed by tradition or by sacerdotal decree. Ritual is a specific, observable mode of behaviour exhibited by all known societies. It is thus possible to view ritual as a way of defining or describing humans. Human beings are sometimes described or
religious rule (religion)
St. Benedict: Rule of St. Benedict: …among all the monastic and religious rules of the Middle Ages. Benedict’s advice to the abbot and to the cellarer, and his instructions on humility, silence, and obedience have become part of the spiritual treasury of the church, from which not only monastic bodies but also legislators of various institutions…
Religious Science (American religious movement)
Religious Science, religious movement founded in the United States by Ernest Holmes (1887–1960). Holmes and his brother Fenwicke were drawn to New Thought teachings and to a belief in the power of the mind for healing and fulfillment of life. In 1926 Holmes’s major work, The Science of Mind, was
Religious Society of Friends (General Conference) (American religious organization)
Friends General Conference, continental association of several yearly and monthly meetings of Friends (Quakers) in the United States. It developed from the divisions among the Friends that began in 1827, when the Philadelphia yearly meeting separated into two groups because of theological and
Religious Society of Friends, The (religion)
Society of Friends, Christian group that arose in mid-17th-century England, dedicated to living in accordance with the “Inward Light,” or direct inward apprehension of God, without creeds, clergy, or other ecclesiastical forms. As most powerfully expressed by George Fox (1624–91), Friends felt that
religious syncretism
Religious syncretism, the fusion of diverse religious beliefs and practices. Instances of religious syncretism—as, for example, Gnosticism (a religious dualistic system that incorporated elements from the Oriental mystery religions), Judaism, Christianity, and Greek religious philosophical
Religious Technology Center (American organization)
Scientology: Organization of the church: The Religious Technology Center (RTC) has ultimate ecclesiastical authority for the teachings of Scientology, owns all the movement’s trademarks, and grants the churches and organizations their licenses. The RTC is also charged with ensuring that the church’s procedures are followed fully and that its “spiritual technology”…
Czechoslovak history: Re-Catholicization and absolutist rule: …the peasants, and he granted religious toleration. After the long period of oppression, these were hailed as beacons of light, although they did not go as far as enlightened minds expected. In fact, Joseph’s Edict of Toleration was not followed by a mass defection from the Roman Catholic Church in…
religious toleration
Religious Toleration, Act of (United States history)
Maryland: The colony: …Religion, later famous as the Act of Religious Toleration. It granted freedom of worship, though only within the bounds of Trinitarian Christianity. One of the earliest laws of religious liberty, it was limited to Christians and repealed in 1692. Commercial disputes with Anglican Virginia and boundary quarrels with Quaker Pennsylvania…
religious transformation, ceremony of (sociology)
rite of passage: Ceremonies of religious transformation: Religious transformation ceremonies signal changes in religious status, which may be matters of the greatest importance to the people. Making sacrifices and offerings are rituals that may be required in the normal course of life; further, these acts may be regarded…
religious vocation (religion)
Christianity: Freedom and responsibility: …expressed the theme of Christian vocation developed by Luther and Calvin, which they applied to all Christians and to everyday responsibility for the neighbour and for the world. The reformers emphasized that Christian service is not limited to a narrow religious sphere of life but extends to the everyday relationships…
religious year (religion)
worship: Sacred seasons: Worship takes place at appointed seasons and places. The religious calendar is thus of great importance for the worshipping community, since communities associate worship with critical times in the life of the society. The hunting, planting, and harvesting seasons are of special importance.…
religious Zionism (religious movement)
fundamentalism: Religious Zionism: Despite the hostility of most Orthodox rabbis, Zionism aroused considerable enthusiasm among many Orthodox Jews who saw in it the promise of the long-awaited messianic redemption. Some Orthodox rabbis, therefore, sought to legitimate Orthodox participation in the Zionist movement. Rabbi Yitzḥaq Yaʿaqov Reines…
Religulous (film by Charles [2003])
Bill Maher: …and produced the irreverent documentary Religulous (2008), in which he interviewed people of various faiths, including Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.
relining (art restoration)
art conservation and restoration: Paintings on canvas: …also referred to as “relining.” A number of techniques and adhesives have been employed for lining, but with all methods there is a risk of altering the surface texture of the painting if the procedure is not carried out with the utmost care and skill. The most frequently used…
reliquary (religious shrine)
ceremonial object: Relics: …as is the production of reliquaries, or shrines that contain relics. The size, form, and materials of reliquaries vary greatly and often depend on the nature of the relic being exhibited. They may be fixed but are generally portable so that they can be carried in processions or on pilgrimages.…
Reliquary Hall (hall, Engaku Temple, China)
Chinese architecture: The Song (960–1279), Liao (907–1125), and Jin (1115–1234) dynasties: …be seen in the 13th-century Reliquary Hall of the Engaku Temple. It features unpainted wood siding with multilevel paneled walls (no plaster wall or lacquered columns) and much attention to elaborative detail. The effect is rich and dynamic and displays none of the simplicity one might expect of Chan architecture,…
Reliquary of the Holy Thorn (enamelwork)
enamelwork: 15th century to the present: European: …earliest surviving examples is the Reliquary of the Holy Thorn (in the Waddesdon bequest in the British Museum): the Holy Thorn, set in a gem, is surrounded by the Last Judgment scene, in which all the figures (20) are enamelled, many of them being executed wholly in the round. The…
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (work by Percy)
ballad revival: …the publication of Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, a collection of English and Scottish traditional ballads. The Reliques and a flood of subsequent collections, including Sir Walter Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802), had great impact and provided the English Romantic poets with an alternative to outworn…
Reliquiae Baxterianae (work by Baxter)
Richard Baxter: His autobiographical Reliquiae Baxterianae, or Mr. Richard Baxter’s Narrative of the Most Memorable Passages of His Life and Times (1696), still of interest, gives an account of his inner spiritual struggles.
relish (food)
Relish, vegetable side dish that is eaten in small quantities with a blander main dish to pique the appetite by its contrasting texture and spicy or piquant taste. Relishes are frequently finely cut vegetables or fruit in sour, sweet-sour, or spicy sauce. The Indonesian and Malaysian sambal, Indian
Relizane (Algeria)
Relizane, town, northwestern Algeria, near Wadi Mîna, which is a tributary of the Chelif River. Built near the ruined Roman settlement of Mina, modern Relizane is a typical French-style town of wide streets and parks. It is surrounded by orchards and gardens, and a large area of cropland is
Relizian Stage (geology)
Relizian Stage, major division of Miocene rocks and time on the Pacific coast of North America (the Miocene epoch began 23.7 million years ago and ended 5.3 million years ago). The Relizian Stage, which overlies the Saucesian Stage and precedes the Luisian Stage, was named for exposures studied in
Relly, James (Welsh minister and revivalist)
James Relly, Welsh Methodist minister and revivalist who influenced the development of Universalism, a theological position held by some Christians, according to which all human souls will achieve salvation. Relly argued that Jesus Christ’s unity with all human beings, his assumption of their
relocatable over-the-horizon radar (radar technology)
radar: Over-the-horizon radar: …OTH radars known as relocatable over-the-horizon radar (ROTHR), or AN/TPS-71, have been redirected for use in drug interdiction. Such radars, located in Virginia, Texas, and Puerto Rico, provide multiple coverage of drug-traffic regions in Central America and the northern part of South America. An ROTHR can cover a 64-degree…
Reloj de príncipes o libro aureo del emperador Marco Aurelio (work by Guevara)
Antonio de Guevara: by Lord Berners, The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius, 1535, and by Sir Thomas North, The Diall of Princes, 1557, frequently reprinted through the 20th century), an attempt to invent a model for rulers, became one of the most influential books of the 16th century. Well received outside…
reluctance (magnetism)
electromagnet: …rϕ, where r is the reluctance of the magnetic circuit and is equivalent to resistance in the electric circuit. Reluctance is obtained by dividing the length of the magnetic path l by the permeability times the cross-sectional area A; thus r = l/μA, the Greek letter mu, μ, symbolizing the…
reluctance motor (motor)
electric motor: Reluctance motors: Reluctance motors operate on the principle that forces are established that tend to cause iron poles carrying a magnetic flux to align with each. One form of reluctance motor is shown in cross section in the figure. The rotor consists of four iron…
Reluctant Debutante, The (film by Minnelli [1958])
Vincente Minnelli: Films of the later 1950s: Lust for Life, Gigi, and Some Came Running: The class satire The Reluctant Debutante (1958) seemed humble compared with the lavish Gigi, but this English comedy of manners was a fairly expensive production. An American teenager (Sandra Dee) visiting her father (Rex Harrison) and stepmother (Kay Kendall) in London is hurled into the debutante season. Some…
reluctor (engineering)
ignition system: …a magnetic device, called a reluctor, that is operated by the distributor shaft to produce timed electric signals, which are amplified and used to control the current to the induction coil. These newer ignition systems are more reliable than the old, permit better control of the engine, and produce higher-voltage…
reluctor ring (engineering)
ignition system: The reluctor ring is mounted on the crankshaft so that as the crankshaft rotates the magnetic sensor is triggered by notches in the reluctor ring. The magnetic sensor provides position information to the electronic control module, which governs ignition timing.
rem (unit of measurement)
Rem, unit of radiation dosage (such as from X rays) applied to humans. Derived from the phrase Roentgen equivalent man, the rem is now defined as the dosage in rads that will cause the same amount of biological injury as one rad of X rays or gamma rays. Formerly poorly defined, the rem was
REM sleep
sleep: REM sleep: Rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep is a state of diffuse bodily activation. Its EEG patterns (tracings of faster frequency and lower amplitude than in NREM stages 2 and 3) are superficially similar to those of drowsiness (stage 1 of NREM sleep). Whereas…
REM sleep behaviour disorder (pathology)
sleep: Parasomnias: REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) is a disease in which the sleeper acts out the dream content. The main characteristic of the disorder is a lack of the typical muscle paralysis seen during REM sleep. The consequence is that the sleeper is no longer able…
Rema (Jewish scholar)
Moses ben Israel Isserles, Polish-Jewish rabbi and codifier who, by adding notes on Ashkenazic customs to the great legal digest Shulḥan ʿarukh of the Sephardic codifier Joseph Karo, made it an authoritative guide for Orthodox Jews down to the present day. A precocious scholar, Isserles became the
Remain in Light (album by Talking Heads)
Angélique Kidjo: …covered the Talking Heads album Remain in Light (1980), and the following year she paid homage to Cuban American singer Celia Cruz with Celia.
remainder (mathematics)
arithmetic: Fundamental theory: …and r is called the remainder. Using a process known as the Euclidean algorithm, which works because the GCD of a and b is equal to the GCD of b and r, the GCD can be obtained without first factoring the numbers a and b into prime factors. The Euclidean…
remainder (property law)
Remainder, in Anglo-American law, a future interest held by one person in the property of another, which, upon the happening of a certain event, will become his own. The holder of this interest is known in legal terms as a remainderman. The law recognizes two types of remainder interests: the
remainder theorem (mathematics)
synthetic division: Based on the remainder theorem, it is sometimes called the method of detached coefficients.
Remains (work by Froude)
St. John Henry Newman: Association with the Oxford movement: …Newman and Keble published Froude’s Remains, in which the Reformation was violently denounced, moderate men began to suspect their leader. Their worst fears were confirmed in 1841 by Newman’s Tract 90, which, in reconciling the Church of England’s doctrinal Thirty-nine Articles with the teaching of the ancient and undivided church,…
Remains of the Day, The (film by Ivory [1993])
Merchant and Ivory: By the time The Remains of the Day was released in 1993, the filmmaking team was well established. The movie, an adaptation of Ishiguro’s novel, received an Oscar nomination for best picture, and Ivory was nominated a third time for his directing. Their 1996 film, Surviving Picasso, continued…
Remains of the Day, The (novel by Ishiguro)
Kazuo Ishiguro: Ishiguro’s Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day (1989; film 1993) is a first-person narrative, the reminiscences of Stevens, an elderly English butler whose prim mask of formality has shut him off from understanding and intimacy. With the publication of The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro became one…
Remak (European scholar)
Moses Kimhi, European author of an influential Hebrew grammar, Mahalakh shevile ha-daʿat (“Journey on the Paths of Knowledge”). The elder son of the grammarian and biblical exegete Joseph Kimhi and teacher of his more renowned brother, David Kimhi, he shared with them the accomplishment of
Remak, Robert (German scientist)
Robert Remak, German embryologist and neurologist who discovered and named (1842) the three germ layers of the early embryo: the ectoderm, the mesoderm, and the endoderm. He also discovered nonmedullated nerve fibres (1838) and the nerve cells in the heart (1844) called Remak’s ganglia, and he was
remanence (religion)
Jan Hus: Leader of Czech reform movement: …teaching was his tenet of remanence—i.e., that the bread and wine in the Eucharist retain their material substance. Wycliffe also declared the Scriptures to be the sole source of Christian doctrine. Hus did not share all of Wycliffe’s radical views, such as that on remanence, but several members of the…
remanence (magnetism)
magnet: Magnetization process: Br is the remanent flux density and is the residual, permanent magnetization left after the magnetizing field is removed; this latter is obviously a measure of quality for a permanent magnet. It is usually measured in webers per square metre. In order to demagnetize the specimen from its…
remanent magnetism (geology)
Remanent magnetism, the permanent magnetism in rocks, resulting from the orientation of the Earth’s magnetic field at the time of rock formation in a past geological age. It is the source of information for the paleomagnetic studies of polar wandering and continental drift. Remanent magnetism can
remanent magnetization (geology)
remanet (law)
parole: …his sentence (known as the remanet).
remanufacturing (manufacturing process)
aerospace industry: Remanufacture and upgrading: The most elaborate type of program under the general heading of maintenance is the remanufacturing process. Performed at aircraft-manufacturing facilities, remanufacture is a measure that combines a general overhaul with an upgrade of some of the aircraft’s systems. The latter process often…
remapping (biology)
spatial memory: Place cells, head-direction cells, and grid cells: …at all, a property called remapping. Sensory information from the environment, such as colours and textures, plays an important role in remapping, while a place cell’s preferred firing location often reflects information concerning the distance and direction to environmental boundaries. Boundary cells, which are found in brain areas that provide…
Remark, Erich Paul (German writer)
Erich Maria Remarque, novelist who is chiefly remembered as the author of Im Westen nichts Neues (1929; All Quiet on the Western Front), which became perhaps the best-known and most representative novel dealing with World War I. Remarque was drafted into the German army at the age of 18 and was
Remarkable Andrew, The (film by Heisler [1942])
Stuart Heisler: Films of the 1940s: The Remarkable Andrew, from a fanciful Dalton Trumbo script, featured Brian Donlevy as the ghost of Andrew Jackson, back to aid a do-gooder (played by William Holden). Arguably better was The Glass Key (1942), a terse adaptation of the 1930 Dashiell Hammett novel, which had…
Remarkables (mountain range, New Zealand)
Otago: Wanaka, and Hawea; the Remarkables (rising to 6,798 feet [2,072 metres]) and other inland ranges; and the Clutha River, New Zealand’s largest river by volume, which empties into the Pacific near the towns of Balclutha and Kaitangata.
Remarks on Several Parts of Italy (work by Addison)
Joseph Addison: Early life: …which he wrote the prose Remarks on Several Parts of Italy (1705; rev. ed. 1718) and the poetic epistle A Letter from Italy (1704). From Italy Addison crossed into Switzerland, where, in Geneva, he learned in March 1702 of the death of William III and the consequent loss of power…
Remarks on the History of England (work by Bolingbroke)
Henry Saint John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke: Return to England.: …an opposition journal, were the “Remarks on the History of England” (1730–31) and “A Dissertation upon Parties” (1733–34), both of which sought to end the old Whig–Tory disputes and to weld the disparate elements of the opposition to Walpole into a new Country Party, which would protect the independence of…
Remarque, Erich Maria (German writer)
Remarque, Paulette (American actress)
Paulette Goddard, American actress known for her spirited persona and for her association with Charlie Chaplin. Goddard worked as a fashion model in her early teens, and at age 16 she appeared as a chorus girl in the Broadway revue No Foolin’. Within the next four years, she married, divorced, and
Remarques critiques (work by Marbot)
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, baron de Marbot: …period, whose book on war, Remarques critiques, prompted Napoleon to leave him a legacy.
Remarques sur la langue françoise, utiles à ceux qui veulent bien parler et bien escrire (work by Vaugelas)
Claude Favre, seigneur de Vaugelas: In his Remarques sur la langue françoise, utiles à ceux qui veulent bien parler et bien escrire (1647; “Remarks on the French Language, Useful for Those Who Wish to Speak Well and Write Well”), Vaugelas recorded what he considered good usage: the speech of the “soundest” elements…
Rembang (Indonesia)
Rembang, city, Central Java (Jawa Tengah) propinsi (province), Java, Indonesia. It is located about 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Surabaya. A major port on the Java Sea, it is linked by road and railway with Kudus and Semarang to the southwest and with Cepu and Surabaya to the southeast. Exports
Rember (chemical compound)
Methylene blue, a bright greenish blue organic dye belonging to the phenothiazine family. It is mainly used on bast (soft vegetable fibres such as jute, flax, and hemp) and to a lesser extent on paper, leather, and mordanted cotton. It dyes silk and wool but has very poor lightfastness on these
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Dutch artist)
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favoured an
Rembrandt House Museum (museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Rembrandt House Museum, museum in Amsterdam dedicated to the life and work of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. The Rembrandt House Museum is located in the house where Rembrandt lived from 1639 to 1658. The building was constructed in 1606–07, and Rembrandt purchased it in 1639. Financial troubles
Rembrandt Research Project (Dutch art history)
Rembrandt Research Project (RRP), an interdisciplinary collaboration by a group of Dutch art historians to produce a comprehensive catalog of Rembrandt van Rijn’s paintings. Its initial aim was to free Rembrandt’s oeuvre of the attributions that were thought to have harmed the image of Rembrandt as
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch artist)
Rembrant van Rijn (Dutch artist)
Remedia amoris (work by Ovid)
Ovid: Works: …by a mock recantation, the Remedia amoris, also a burlesque of an established genre, which can have done little to make amends for the Ars. The possibilities for exploiting love-elegy were now effectively exhausted, and Ovid turned to new types of poetry in which he could use his supreme narrative…
remedial education
adult education: Types of adult education: Remedial education: fundamental and literacy education. (Such education is obviously a prerequisite for all other kinds of adult education and thus, as a category, stands somewhat apart from the other types of adult education.)
Remedies for Love (work by Ovid)
Remedy for Greek Maladies (work by Theodoret of Cyrrhus)
patristic literature: The school of Antioch: …most memorable perhaps are his Remedy for Greek Maladies, the last of ancient apologies against paganism, and his Ecclesiastical History, continuing Eusebius’s work down to 428. His controversial treatises are also important, for he skillfully defended the Antiochene Christology against the orthodox bishop Cyril of Alexandria and was instrumental in…
Remek, Vladimír (Czech pilot and cosmonaut)
Vladimír Remek, Czech pilot and cosmonaut, the first person in space who was not from the Soviet Union or the United States and the first Czech citizen in space. After graduating from aviation school as a lieutenant in 1970, Remek began active service for the Czechoslovak air force. From 1972 to
Remember (work by Morrison)
Toni Morrison: She also penned Remember (2004), which chronicles the hardships of Black students during the integration of the American public school system; aimed at children, it uses archival photographs juxtaposed with captions speculating on the thoughts of their subjects. For that work, Morrison won the Coretta Scott King Award…
Remember (film by Egoyan [2015])
Atom Egoyan: …the West Memphis Three, and Remember (2015), in which an Auschwitz survivor suffering from dementia searches for a former Nazi official. Guest of Honour (2019) centres on the relationship between a woman wrongly convicted of sexual misconduct and her father. Egoyan also directed the documentary Citadel (2006), which follows his…
Remember (Walking in the Sand) (song by Morton)
the Shangri-Las: …to perform his song “Remember (Walking in the Sand).” The label promptly hired Morton and signed the Shangri-Las to a recording contract. With Mary in the lead, and the others providing backing vocals, a reworked version of “Remember (Walking in the Sand)” reached the Top Five in the summer…
Remember Ruben (work by Beti)
Mongo Beti: …the Habit of Unhappiness) and Remember Ruben (1974). Perpetua is a mystery story of the murder of a promising young woman by the combined forces of backward traditions and neocolonial evils. Remember Ruben and its sequel, La Ruine presque cocasse d’un polichinelle (1979; “The Nearly Comical Ruin of a Puppet”),…
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Kenneth Feld and Family Net Worth: Kenneth Feld is an American entrepreneur who has a net worth of $1.8 billion together with his family. The Felds own and run Feld Entertainment, one of the largest live entertainment companies in the world. Actually, it's the parent company of such popular entertainment brands as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus, Disney On Ice and Monster Jam truck shows, Feld Entertainment. As of 2012, they all made $1 billion in revenues. Ringling Bros, originally acquired by his father Irvin for $8 million, was later sold by Irvin and his brother Ken for $50 million. However, they bought it back once again for an estimated $23 million. While Ken was the one to fill in their father's shoes after he died from a heart attack in 1984, Feld still serves as chairman and CEO of the empire that that puts on some 5,000 shows annually for 30 million people worldwide.
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Published: February 20, 2020, 12:08 am
S. Korea reports 1st virus death; 2.5M urged to stay home
People walk under banners about precautions against a new coronavirus at the Yeonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020. China reported a rise in new virus cases on Monday, possibly denting optimism that its disease control measures like isolating major cities might be working, while Japan reported dozens of new cases aboard a quarantined cruise ship.The signs read: " How to prevent a new coronavirus." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
SEOUL – South Korea reported its first death from the new virus on Thursday while the mayor of a southeastern city urged its 2.5 million people to stay inside as infections linked to a church congregation spiked.
The death was the ninth confirmed from the virus outside mainland China. Other deaths have occurred in France, Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines and Taiwan.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the South Korean man, believed to be about 63 years old, died at a hospital on Wednesday and posthumously tested positive for the virus. Officials said he had been hospitalized due to schizophrenia for an extended period and recently suffered pneumonia symptoms.
The center also confirmed 22 additional cases of the virus, raising the total in South Korea to 104.
Twenty-one of those new cases were in and around the city of Daegu, where the mayor urged citizens earlier Thursday to stay home and wear masks even indoors if possible.
In a televised news conference, Mayor Kwon Young-jin expressed fears that rising infections in the region will soon overwhelm the city’s health system and called for urgent help from the central government.
“National quarantine efforts that are currently focused on blocking the inflow of the virus (from China) and stemming its spread are inadequate for preventing the illness from circulating in local communities,” Kwon said.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 49 of 73 new patients confirmed in the city's region in the past two days went to services at a Daegu church attended by a previously confirmed virus patient or contacted her elsewhere. That patient is a South Korean woman in her early 60s who has no recent record of overseas travel, according to center officials. She tested positive for the virus on Tuesday.
The center's director, Jung Eun-kyeong, told reporters that it's still unclear whether she was a “super spreader” of the disease or merely the first patient detected in the area. Jung said officials were screening some 1,000 people who attended services at the Shincheonji Church of Jesus with the woman on Feb. 9 and Feb. 16 and were placing them under home isolation.
The church, which claims about 200,000 followers in South Korea, said it has closed all of its 74 sanctuaries around the nation and told followers to instead watch its worship services on YouTube. It said in a statement that health officials were disinfecting its church in Daegu and were tracing the woman's contacts. The Daegu church has about 8,000 followers.
It said church officials have advised followers since late January to stay at home if they had recently traveled overseas or were experiencing even mild cold-like symptoms. But the woman assumed she had a common cold and kept coming to the church because she hadn't traveled overseas, church officials said.
“We think it’s deeply regrettable ... for causing concerns to the local community,” the statement said.
Shincheonji, which translates as “New heaven and new Earth,” is a controversial new religious movement established in 1984 by Lee Man-hee. The church describes him as an angel of Jesus sent to testify about the fulfilled prophecies of the Book of Revelation.
The explosion of infections in Daegu and the neighboring region, as well as some new cases in the Seoul metropolitan area where the sources of infection are unclear, have raised concern that health authorities are losing track of the virus as it spreads more broadly in the country.
Kwon spoke shortly before South Korea’s government acknowledged for the first time that the country was beginning to see “community transmission” of the illness, albeit at a “limited range.”
“We are seeing infections in some areas like Seoul and Daegu where it’s difficult to confirm the cause or routes of the infections,” Vice Health Minister Kim Gang-lip said, adding that the government would need to change its quarantine strategy that has focused on tracing contacts.
In a telephone conversation with Kwon later Thursday, President Moon Jae-in said the central government will provide all available assistance to help Daegu fight the virus, according to the presidential Blue House.
Separately, Moon also talked on the phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss cooperation in combating the virus. During the 30-minute call, they agreed to facilitate the sharing of information gained from infection treatments and strengthen cooperation between quarantine authorities, his office said.
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$1,090,000 $1,100,000 $1,110,000 $1,120,000 $1,130,000 $1,140,000 $1,150,000 $1,160,000 $1,170,000 $1,180,000 $1,190,000 $1,200,000 $1,210,000 $1,220,000 $1,230,000 $1,240,000 $1,250,000 $1,260,000 $1,270,000 $1,280,000 $1,290,000 $1,300,000 $1,310,000 $1,320,000 $1,330,000 $1,340,000 $1,350,000 $1,360,000 $1,370,000 $1,380,000 $1,390,000 $1,400,000 $1,410,000 $1,420,000 $1,430,000 $1,440,000 $1,450,000 $1,460,000 $1,470,000 $1,480,000 $1,490,000 $1,500,000 $1,510,000 $1,520,000 $1,530,000 $1,540,000 $1,550,000 $1,560,000 $1,570,000 $1,580,000 $1,590,000 $1,600,000 $1,610,000 $1,620,000 $1,630,000 $1,640,000 $1,650,000 $1,660,000 $1,670,000 $1,680,000 $1,690,000 $1,700,000 $1,710,000 $1,720,000 $1,730,000 $1,740,000 $1,750,000 $1,760,000 $1,770,000 $1,780,000 $1,790,000 $1,800,000 $1,810,000 $1,820,000 $1,830,000 $1,840,000 $1,850,000 $1,860,000 $1,870,000 $1,880,000 $1,890,000 $1,900,000 $1,910,000 $1,920,000 $1,930,000 $1,940,000 $1,950,000 $1,960,000 $1,970,000 $1,980,000 $1,990,000 $2,000,000 $2,010,000 $2,020,000 $2,030,000 $2,040,000 $2,050,000 $2,060,000 $2,070,000 $2,080,000 $2,090,000 $2,100,000 $2,110,000 $2,120,000 $2,130,000 $2,140,000 $2,150,000 $2,160,000 $2,170,000 $2,180,000 $2,190,000 $2,200,000 $2,210,000 $2,220,000 $2,230,000 $2,240,000 $2,250,000 $2,260,000 $2,270,000 $2,280,000 $2,290,000 $2,300,000 $2,310,000 $2,320,000 $2,330,000 $2,340,000 $2,350,000 $2,360,000 $2,370,000 $2,380,000 $2,390,000 $2,400,000 $2,410,000 $2,420,000 $2,430,000 $2,440,000 $2,450,000 $2,460,000 $2,470,000 $2,480,000 $2,490,000 $2,500,000 $2,510,000 $2,520,000 $2,530,000 $2,540,000 $2,550,000 $2,560,000 $2,570,000 $2,580,000 $2,590,000 $2,600,000 $2,610,000 $2,620,000 $2,630,000 $2,640,000 $2,650,000 $2,660,000 $2,670,000 $2,680,000 $2,690,000 $2,700,000 $2,710,000 $2,720,000 $2,730,000 $2,740,000 $2,750,000 $2,760,000 $2,770,000 $2,780,000 $2,790,000 $2,800,000 $2,810,000 $2,820,000 $2,830,000 $2,840,000 $2,850,000 $2,860,000 $2,870,000 $2,880,000 $2,890,000 $2,900,000 $2,910,000 $2,920,000 $2,930,000 $2,940,000 $2,950,000 $2,960,000 $2,970,000 $2,980,000 $2,990,000 $3,000,000 $3,010,000 $3,020,000 $3,030,000 $3,040,000 $3,050,000 $3,060,000 $3,070,000 $3,080,000 $3,090,000 $3,100,000 $3,110,000 $3,120,000 $3,130,000 $3,140,000 $3,150,000 $3,160,000 $3,170,000 $3,180,000 $3,190,000 $3,200,000 $3,210,000 $3,220,000 $3,230,000 $3,240,000 $3,250,000 $3,260,000 $3,270,000 $3,280,000 $3,290,000 $3,300,000 $3,310,000 $3,320,000 $3,330,000 $3,340,000 $3,350,000 $3,360,000 $3,370,000 $3,380,000 $3,390,000 $3,400,000 $3,410,000 $3,420,000 $3,430,000 $3,440,000 $3,450,000 $3,460,000 $3,470,000 $3,480,000 $3,490,000 $3,500,000 $3,510,000 $3,520,000 $3,530,000 $3,540,000 $3,550,000 $3,560,000 $3,570,000 $3,580,000 $3,590,000 $3,600,000 $3,610,000 $3,620,000 $3,630,000 $3,640,000 $3,650,000 $3,660,000 $3,670,000 $3,680,000 $3,690,000 $3,700,000 $3,710,000 $3,720,000 $3,730,000 $3,740,000 $3,750,000 $3,760,000 $3,770,000 $3,780,000 $3,790,000 $3,800,000 $3,810,000 $3,820,000 $3,830,000 $3,840,000 $3,850,000 $3,860,000 $3,870,000 $3,880,000 $3,890,000 $3,900,000 $3,910,000 $3,920,000 $3,930,000 $3,940,000 $3,950,000 $3,960,000 $3,970,000 $3,980,000 $3,990,000 $4,000,000 $4,010,000 $4,020,000 $4,030,000 $4,040,000 $4,050,000 $4,060,000 $4,070,000 $4,080,000 $4,090,000 $4,100,000 $4,110,000 $4,120,000 $4,130,000 $4,140,000 $4,150,000 $4,160,000 $4,170,000 $4,180,000 $4,190,000 $4,200,000 $4,210,000 $4,220,000 $4,230,000 $4,240,000 $4,250,000 $4,260,000 $4,270,000 $4,280,000 $4,290,000 $4,300,000 $4,310,000 $4,320,000 $4,330,000 $4,340,000 $4,350,000 $4,360,000 $4,370,000 $4,380,000 $4,390,000 $4,400,000 $4,410,000 $4,420,000 $4,430,000 $4,440,000 $4,450,000 $4,460,000 $4,470,000 $4,480,000 $4,490,000 $4,500,000 $4,510,000 $4,520,000 $4,530,000 $4,540,000 $4,550,000 $4,560,000 $4,570,000 $4,580,000 $4,590,000 $4,600,000 $4,610,000 $4,620,000 $4,630,000 $4,640,000 $4,650,000 $4,660,000 $4,670,000 $4,680,000 $4,690,000 $4,700,000 $4,710,000 $4,720,000 $4,730,000 $4,740,000 $4,750,000 $4,760,000 $4,770,000 $4,780,000 $4,790,000 $4,800,000 $4,810,000 $4,820,000 $4,830,000 $4,840,000 $4,850,000 $4,860,000 $4,870,000 $4,880,000 $4,890,000 $4,900,000 $4,910,000 $4,920,000 $4,930,000 $4,940,000 $4,950,000 $4,960,000 $4,970,000 $4,980,000 $4,990,000 $5,000,000 $5,010,000 $5,020,000 $5,030,000 $5,040,000 $5,050,000 $5,060,000 $5,070,000 $5,080,000 $5,090,000 $5,100,000 $5,110,000 $5,120,000 $5,130,000 $5,140,000 $5,150,000 $5,160,000 $5,170,000 $5,180,000 $5,190,000 $5,200,000 $5,210,000 $5,220,000 $5,230,000 $5,240,000 $5,250,000 $5,260,000 $5,270,000 $5,280,000 $5,290,000 $5,300,000 $5,310,000 $5,320,000 $5,330,000 $5,340,000 $5,350,000 $5,360,000 $5,370,000 $5,380,000 $5,390,000 $5,400,000 $5,410,000 $5,420,000 $5,430,000 $5,440,000 $5,450,000 $5,460,000 $5,470,000 $5,480,000 $5,490,000 $5,500,000 $5,510,000 $5,520,000 $5,530,000 $5,540,000 $5,550,000 $5,560,000 $5,570,000 $5,580,000 $5,590,000 $5,600,000 $5,610,000 $5,620,000 $5,630,000 $5,640,000 $5,650,000 $5,660,000 $5,670,000 $5,680,000 $5,690,000 $5,700,000 $5,710,000 $5,720,000 $5,730,000 $5,740,000 $5,750,000 $5,760,000 $5,770,000 $5,780,000 $5,790,000 $5,800,000 $5,810,000 $5,820,000 $5,830,000 $5,840,000 $5,850,000 $5,860,000 $5,870,000 $5,880,000 $5,890,000 $5,900,000 $5,910,000 $5,920,000 $5,930,000 $5,940,000 $5,950,000 $5,960,000 $5,970,000 $5,980,000 $5,990,000 $6,000,000 $6,010,000 $6,020,000 $6,030,000 $6,040,000 $6,050,000 $6,060,000 $6,070,000 $6,080,000 $6,090,000 $6,100,000 $6,110,000 $6,120,000 $6,130,000 $6,140,000 $6,150,000 $6,160,000 $6,170,000 $6,180,000 $6,190,000 $6,200,000 $6,210,000 $6,220,000 $6,230,000 $6,240,000 $6,250,000 $6,260,000 $6,270,000 $6,280,000 $6,290,000 $6,300,000 $6,310,000 $6,320,000 $6,330,000 $6,340,000 $6,350,000 $6,360,000 $6,370,000 $6,380,000 $6,390,000 $6,400,000 $6,410,000 $6,420,000 $6,430,000 $6,440,000 $6,450,000 $6,460,000 $6,470,000 $6,480,000 $6,490,000 $6,500,000 $6,510,000 $6,520,000 $6,530,000 $6,540,000 $6,550,000 $6,560,000 $6,570,000 $6,580,000 $6,590,000 $6,600,000 $6,610,000 $6,620,000 $6,630,000 $6,640,000 $6,650,000 $6,660,000 $6,670,000 $6,680,000 $6,690,000 $6,700,000 $6,710,000 $6,720,000 $6,730,000 $6,740,000 $6,750,000 $6,760,000 $6,770,000 $6,780,000 $6,790,000 $6,800,000 $6,810,000 $6,820,000 $6,830,000 $6,840,000 $6,850,000 $6,860,000 $6,870,000 $6,880,000 $6,890,000 $6,900,000 $6,910,000 $6,920,000 $6,930,000 $6,940,000 $6,950,000 $6,960,000 $6,970,000 $6,980,000 $6,990,000 $7,000,000
Max Price $0 $10,000 $20,000 $30,000 $40,000 $50,000 $60,000 $70,000 $80,000 $90,000 $100,000 $110,000 $120,000 $130,000 $140,000 $150,000 $160,000 $170,000 $180,000 $190,000 $200,000 $210,000 $220,000 $230,000 $240,000 $250,000 $260,000 $270,000 $280,000 $290,000 $300,000 $310,000 $320,000 $330,000 $340,000 $350,000 $360,000 $370,000 $380,000 $390,000 $400,000 $410,000 $420,000 $430,000 $440,000 $450,000 $460,000 $470,000 $480,000 $490,000 $500,000 $510,000 $520,000 $530,000 $540,000 $550,000 $560,000 $570,000 $580,000 $590,000 $600,000 $610,000 $620,000 $630,000 $640,000 $650,000 $660,000 $670,000 $680,000 $690,000 $700,000 $710,000 $720,000 $730,000 $740,000 $750,000 $760,000 $770,000 $780,000 $790,000 $800,000 $810,000 $820,000 $830,000 $840,000 $850,000 $860,000 $870,000 $880,000 $890,000 $900,000 $910,000 $920,000 $930,000 $940,000 $950,000 $960,000 $970,000 $980,000 $990,000 $1,000,000 $1,010,000 $1,020,000 $1,030,000 $1,040,000 $1,050,000 $1,060,000 $1,070,000 $1,080,000 $1,090,000 $1,100,000 $1,110,000 $1,120,000 $1,130,000 $1,140,000 $1,150,000 $1,160,000 $1,170,000 $1,180,000 $1,190,000 $1,200,000 $1,210,000 $1,220,000 $1,230,000 $1,240,000 $1,250,000 $1,260,000 $1,270,000 $1,280,000 $1,290,000 $1,300,000 $1,310,000 $1,320,000 $1,330,000 $1,340,000 $1,350,000 $1,360,000 $1,370,000 $1,380,000 $1,390,000 $1,400,000 $1,410,000 $1,420,000 $1,430,000 $1,440,000 $1,450,000 $1,460,000 $1,470,000 $1,480,000 $1,490,000 $1,500,000 $1,510,000 $1,520,000 $1,530,000 $1,540,000 $1,550,000 $1,560,000 $1,570,000 $1,580,000 $1,590,000 $1,600,000 $1,610,000 $1,620,000 $1,630,000 $1,640,000 $1,650,000 $1,660,000 $1,670,000 $1,680,000 $1,690,000 $1,700,000 $1,710,000 $1,720,000 $1,730,000 $1,740,000 $1,750,000 $1,760,000 $1,770,000 $1,780,000 $1,790,000 $1,800,000 $1,810,000 $1,820,000 $1,830,000 $1,840,000 $1,850,000 $1,860,000 $1,870,000 $1,880,000 $1,890,000 $1,900,000 $1,910,000 $1,920,000 $1,930,000 $1,940,000 $1,950,000 $1,960,000 $1,970,000 $1,980,000 $1,990,000 $2,000,000 $2,010,000 $2,020,000 $2,030,000 $2,040,000 $2,050,000 $2,060,000 $2,070,000 $2,080,000 $2,090,000 $2,100,000 $2,110,000 $2,120,000 $2,130,000 $2,140,000 $2,150,000 $2,160,000 $2,170,000 $2,180,000 $2,190,000 $2,200,000 $2,210,000 $2,220,000 $2,230,000 $2,240,000 $2,250,000 $2,260,000 $2,270,000 $2,280,000 $2,290,000 $2,300,000 $2,310,000 $2,320,000 $2,330,000 $2,340,000 $2,350,000 $2,360,000 $2,370,000 $2,380,000 $2,390,000 $2,400,000 $2,410,000 $2,420,000 $2,430,000 $2,440,000 $2,450,000 $2,460,000 $2,470,000 $2,480,000 $2,490,000 $2,500,000 $2,510,000 $2,520,000 $2,530,000 $2,540,000 $2,550,000 $2,560,000 $2,570,000 $2,580,000 $2,590,000 $2,600,000 $2,610,000 $2,620,000 $2,630,000 $2,640,000 $2,650,000 $2,660,000 $2,670,000 $2,680,000 $2,690,000 $2,700,000 $2,710,000 $2,720,000 $2,730,000 $2,740,000 $2,750,000 $2,760,000 $2,770,000 $2,780,000 $2,790,000 $2,800,000 $2,810,000 $2,820,000 $2,830,000 $2,840,000 $2,850,000 $2,860,000 $2,870,000 $2,880,000 $2,890,000 $2,900,000 $2,910,000 $2,920,000 $2,930,000 $2,940,000 $2,950,000 $2,960,000 $2,970,000 $2,980,000 $2,990,000 $3,000,000 $3,010,000 $3,020,000 $3,030,000 $3,040,000 $3,050,000 $3,060,000 $3,070,000 $3,080,000 $3,090,000 $3,100,000 $3,110,000 $3,120,000 $3,130,000 $3,140,000 $3,150,000 $3,160,000 $3,170,000 $3,180,000 $3,190,000 $3,200,000 $3,210,000 $3,220,000 $3,230,000 $3,240,000 $3,250,000 $3,260,000 $3,270,000 $3,280,000 $3,290,000 $3,300,000 $3,310,000 $3,320,000 $3,330,000 $3,340,000 $3,350,000 $3,360,000 $3,370,000 $3,380,000 $3,390,000 $3,400,000 $3,410,000 $3,420,000 $3,430,000 $3,440,000 $3,450,000 $3,460,000 $3,470,000 $3,480,000 $3,490,000 $3,500,000 $3,510,000 $3,520,000 $3,530,000 $3,540,000 $3,550,000 $3,560,000 $3,570,000 $3,580,000 $3,590,000 $3,600,000 $3,610,000 $3,620,000 $3,630,000 $3,640,000 $3,650,000 $3,660,000 $3,670,000 $3,680,000 $3,690,000 $3,700,000 $3,710,000 $3,720,000 $3,730,000 $3,740,000 $3,750,000 $3,760,000 $3,770,000 $3,780,000 $3,790,000 $3,800,000 $3,810,000 $3,820,000 $3,830,000 $3,840,000 $3,850,000 $3,860,000 $3,870,000 $3,880,000 $3,890,000 $3,900,000 $3,910,000 $3,920,000 $3,930,000 $3,940,000 $3,950,000 $3,960,000 $3,970,000 $3,980,000 $3,990,000 $4,000,000 $4,010,000 $4,020,000 $4,030,000 $4,040,000 $4,050,000 $4,060,000 $4,070,000 $4,080,000 $4,090,000 $4,100,000 $4,110,000 $4,120,000 $4,130,000 $4,140,000 $4,150,000 $4,160,000 $4,170,000 $4,180,000 $4,190,000 $4,200,000 $4,210,000 $4,220,000 $4,230,000 $4,240,000 $4,250,000 $4,260,000 $4,270,000 $4,280,000 $4,290,000 $4,300,000 $4,310,000 $4,320,000 $4,330,000 $4,340,000 $4,350,000 $4,360,000 $4,370,000 $4,380,000 $4,390,000 $4,400,000 $4,410,000 $4,420,000 $4,430,000 $4,440,000 $4,450,000 $4,460,000 $4,470,000 $4,480,000 $4,490,000 $4,500,000 $4,510,000 $4,520,000 $4,530,000 $4,540,000 $4,550,000 $4,560,000 $4,570,000 $4,580,000 $4,590,000 $4,600,000 $4,610,000 $4,620,000 $4,630,000 $4,640,000 $4,650,000 $4,660,000 $4,670,000 $4,680,000 $4,690,000 $4,700,000 $4,710,000 $4,720,000 $4,730,000 $4,740,000 $4,750,000 $4,760,000 $4,770,000 $4,780,000 $4,790,000 $4,800,000 $4,810,000 $4,820,000 $4,830,000 $4,840,000 $4,850,000 $4,860,000 $4,870,000 $4,880,000 $4,890,000 $4,900,000 $4,910,000 $4,920,000 $4,930,000 $4,940,000 $4,950,000 $4,960,000 $4,970,000 $4,980,000 $4,990,000 $5,000,000 $5,010,000 $5,020,000 $5,030,000 $5,040,000 $5,050,000 $5,060,000 $5,070,000 $5,080,000 $5,090,000 $5,100,000 $5,110,000 $5,120,000 $5,130,000 $5,140,000 $5,150,000 $5,160,000 $5,170,000 $5,180,000 $5,190,000 $5,200,000 $5,210,000 $5,220,000 $5,230,000 $5,240,000 $5,250,000 $5,260,000 $5,270,000 $5,280,000 $5,290,000 $5,300,000 $5,310,000 $5,320,000 $5,330,000 $5,340,000 $5,350,000 $5,360,000 $5,370,000 $5,380,000 $5,390,000 $5,400,000 $5,410,000 $5,420,000 $5,430,000 $5,440,000 $5,450,000 $5,460,000 $5,470,000 $5,480,000 $5,490,000 $5,500,000 $5,510,000 $5,520,000 $5,530,000 $5,540,000 $5,550,000 $5,560,000 $5,570,000 $5,580,000 $5,590,000 $5,600,000 $5,610,000 $5,620,000 $5,630,000 $5,640,000 $5,650,000 $5,660,000 $5,670,000 $5,680,000 $5,690,000 $5,700,000 $5,710,000 $5,720,000 $5,730,000 $5,740,000 $5,750,000 $5,760,000 $5,770,000 $5,780,000 $5,790,000 $5,800,000 $5,810,000 $5,820,000 $5,830,000 $5,840,000 $5,850,000 $5,860,000 $5,870,000 $5,880,000 $5,890,000 $5,900,000 $5,910,000 $5,920,000 $5,930,000 $5,940,000 $5,950,000 $5,960,000 $5,970,000 $5,980,000 $5,990,000 $6,000,000 $6,010,000 $6,020,000 $6,030,000 $6,040,000 $6,050,000 $6,060,000 $6,070,000 $6,080,000 $6,090,000 $6,100,000 $6,110,000 $6,120,000 $6,130,000 $6,140,000 $6,150,000 $6,160,000 $6,170,000 $6,180,000 $6,190,000 $6,200,000 $6,210,000 $6,220,000 $6,230,000 $6,240,000 $6,250,000 $6,260,000 $6,270,000 $6,280,000 $6,290,000 $6,300,000 $6,310,000 $6,320,000 $6,330,000 $6,340,000 $6,350,000 $6,360,000 $6,370,000 $6,380,000 $6,390,000 $6,400,000 $6,410,000 $6,420,000 $6,430,000 $6,440,000 $6,450,000 $6,460,000 $6,470,000 $6,480,000 $6,490,000 $6,500,000 $6,510,000 $6,520,000 $6,530,000 $6,540,000 $6,550,000 $6,560,000 $6,570,000 $6,580,000 $6,590,000 $6,600,000 $6,610,000 $6,620,000 $6,630,000 $6,640,000 $6,650,000 $6,660,000 $6,670,000 $6,680,000 $6,690,000 $6,700,000 $6,710,000 $6,720,000 $6,730,000 $6,740,000 $6,750,000 $6,760,000 $6,770,000 $6,780,000 $6,790,000 $6,800,000 $6,810,000 $6,820,000 $6,830,000 $6,840,000 $6,850,000 $6,860,000 $6,870,000 $6,880,000 $6,890,000 $6,900,000 $6,910,000 $6,920,000 $6,930,000 $6,940,000 $6,950,000 $6,960,000 $6,970,000 $6,980,000 $6,990,000 $7,000,000
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Iain Duncan Smith: My personal journey to Brexit
By Iain Duncan Smith
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Iain Duncan Smith is a former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, founded the Centre for Social Justice, and is MP for Chingford and Woodford Green.
After the argument and division of the referendum, the Supreme Court case and long-winded debates in Parliament, tomorrow, when Theresa May sends Donald Tusk the letter triggering Article 50, the clock on our remaining two years in the EU will start counting down.
Ironically, this letter follows the muted ‘celebrations’ on Saturday, when 27 EU leaders met to mark the 60 years ago of European integration. For it was in Rome that the first European treaty came into force, signed by the six founding members. As I watched the pictures of this gathering, without our Prime Minister, I thought back over the last 44 years of our membership and to what degree my own opinions had changed over the years on this issue.
I was 21 and at Sandhurst, completing my officer training for the Scots Guards, when the Common Market first caught my attention. Even though I had two parents and two sisters living and working in Rome, the subject of our membership of the EEC never really came up. Although I didn’t get much involved with the referendum, like many of my colleagues I was aware of the arguments about sovereignty but paid them little heed, believing what we were told – that this was simply about being a member of a ‘Common’ market place and I felt we should stay in.
Then, 25 years ago, I was elected to Parliament to serve the people of Chingford (later Chingford and Woodford Green). Since being a candidate in the 1987 election in Bradford West, I had watched the toppling of Margaret Thatcher with horror, particularly after it was brought on by the strong disagreements in the Parliamentary Party over the European issue and the proposed new treaty of Maastricht (officially, The Treaty of European Union). Later, uneasy with what I read about the treaty and just before John Major signed, some of us parliamentary candidates cheekily signed a letter to The Times, urging him not to sign it. However, once elected in 1992 – with the ratification of the treaty being rushed at us – I made a point of studying the treaty in greater detail. I particularly focused on the role of the ECJ, learning how it had become the ratchet and engine of ‘ever closer union’ through its interpretations of the treaties.
My opposition, coming some weeks after my arrival, wasn’t easy but I became convinced that the treaty would be a step too far and would create the momentum within the newly named European Union to carefully but methodically eradicate the power of the nation state. This seemed a far cry from what we had been told at the time of the referendum by our leaders. Even at this stage, I didn’t want to leave but hoped we could turn it around.
This was no accident, as reading back I began to realise what had been going on. For the Single European Act and the Maastricht treaty was in effect the same treaty, divided into two parts. When seen together they represent the largest shift of power to the EU institutions including the Commission. It was hidden under the veneer of the market place, but in fact this was an enormously powerful political power grab. The designer of this process was Altiero Spinell, the little known (in the UK) one-time Italian Communist and arch-believer in the creation of a supranational state called the European Union.
At the heart of his project was the belief that the problem in Europe was competing nation states. Such competition, he believed, resulted in war. This chimed with a number of those engaged in this European project and lay at the heart of the two treaties. I don’t blame him and others for taking that view, having lived under Mussolini and other dictators, but I have always believed he was wrong to blame nation states. Competing nation states, as evidenced by much of the English-speaking world during and after the Great Depression, didn’t turn to extremism. The problem in Europe was the absence of robust democracy underpinned by strong democratic institutions. Democratic nation states governed by the rule of law, in which the citizen has inalienable rights, withstood the worst the depression could throw at them.
After years of trying, Spinelli’s supranational project provided the impetus for the negotiations which led to the Single European Act of 1986 and the Maastricht Treaty of 1992. French President François Mitterrand reversed Charles De Gaulle’s previous hostility to anything but an intergovernmental approach to Europe after meeting Spinelli, and even spoke in favour of Spinelli’s approach in the European Parliament. Mitterrand’s decision to reverse French policy ensured the support of a majority of national governments to trigger the treaty revision procedure.
I came to believe that, no matter what had been said before about the European project, this was the critical moment when the EU’s destination became clear. It was not about a market place, for that was only a device to create this wider and far deeper concept. I said at the time that if the UK ratified the treaty, then more would follow and in time it would become impossible for the UK to remain in this growing supranational state. What followed was a series of treaty revisions including a de facto constitution, governed by the overarching supremacy of European law.
From this flowed so much, including our exit from the ERM and avoidance of the Single Currency. I recall how often we were warned that we couldn’t afford leave the ERM, yet when we did the economy boomed. Similarly, when I became leader I determined to change William Hague’s policy on the Euro and say simply that we would never join. Again, we were told it would be a big mistake and that the Euro was bound to be a success. Now imagine what would have happened at the time of the crash had we been in the Euro; for that, you need only look at France, Italy and Spain, with their high unemployment and financial crisis.
Throughout, in the UK this reality has hardly dared raise its name, with successive Prime Ministers fighting fruitless ‘rearguard actions’ in negotiations and then claiming at home that we were winning in Europe. Remember Douglas Hurd saying that Maastricht marked the high water of European federalism and John Major saying it was ‘game set and match’ to the UK after Maastricht. These words sound hollow now and found echoes twenty-four years later in David Cameron’s claim to have negotiated a special deal for the UK. They were wrong then and he was wrong last year. What both showed was that the European Project brooks no real exceptionalism, and its destination – a United States of Europe – is believed and understood throughout the EU.
It was this refusal to admit what the project was all about which led to Vote Leave winning the referendum. In a recent Centre for Social Justice/Legatum review of the vote, it found that those who voted to leave cited regaining sovereignty as their number one reason for voting, more than migration and money.
Twenty-five years ago, with the passing of the Maastricht treaty, the EU decided to leave the UK. We are now bound on a course to formalise that decision. We do so with political leaders in the EU beginning to use common sense terms as they now speak of needing good arrangements with the UK to protect their markets and their access to financial services. Whilst there is much to be done and plenty of hard work ahead, I am confident that Theresa May and her team can deliver an arrangement that suits both the UK and the members of the EU. After all it must be in everyone’s interest, as President Juncker said the other day, for the UK and the EU to part as friends, co-operating and trading.
Imagine that: a Prime Minister of the UK no longer forced to describe their activities as ‘winning in Europe’ but, instead, able to show that we are instead winning outside of the EU.
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Ontario now in direct talks with COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers as it ramps up efforts to plan for distribution
Health Minister Christine Elliott speaks with reporters following a tour of a Brampton warehouse belonging to the pharmaceutical distribution company McKesson on Tuesday.
Officials planning for the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in Ontario are now speaking directly with the manufacturers of seven different candidate vaccines as they prepare for what Health Minister Christine Elliott says will be “the largest logistical undertaking” the province has faced “in a generation.”
Several of the companies, including Pfizer and Moderna Inc., have already applied for emergency use authorization in the United States but they will need to have their vaccines approved by Health Canada before they can be distributed.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did say last week that the first doses of the vaccines would arrive in Canada in the first quarter of 2021 and that the majority of Canadians would likely be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus by next September.
But it remains unclear when the first Canadians in line to receive the vaccines will get to roll up their sleeves.
Speaking with reporters after touring a Brampton warehouse belonging to the pharmaceutical distribution company McKesson on Tuesday, Health Minister Christine Elliott said that efforts are nonetheless underway to make sure that Ontario will be in a position to distribute vaccines as of Dec. 31.
“As of yesterday we started speaking with vaccine manufacturers, including AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, Jansen, Moderna, GSK and Sanofi. This is absolutely critical for planning,” she said. “We are also working with distribution experts like McKesson and Shoppers Drug Mart who not only have the warehouse capacity for vaccines like this but also know how to get these vaccines to their networks, including hospitals and other frontline care providers.”
Elliott has previously said that Ontario expects to receive a combined 2.4 million doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines by March, which would be enough to vaccinate 1.2 million Ontarians.
The federal government, however, has not publicly confirmed that number.
On Tuesday, Elliott said that it is “critical” that the province has confirmation as soon as possible on when vaccines will begin arriving but she said that right now officials are willing to take “the Prime Minister at his word that we will have the vaccine very early in January.”
Meanwhile, she said that work is continuing under the direction of retired General Rick Hillier to ensure that Ontario will be able to quickly distribute the vaccine as soon as it starts arriving at warehouses.
“We know this is going to be the largest logistical undertaking that we have had in Ontario in a generation,” she said. “We have to get this vaccine to every corner of this province. It is no small feat and we know we cannot do it alone. We need the help of businesses and people with the necessary expertise in logistics, technology, patient care and pharmaceuticals.”
The federal Liberal government has signed deals with a total of seven different vaccine manufacturers and will be in line to eventually receive 414 million doses.
That said the country may ultimately trail behind the U.S. and the United Kingdom, which have both unveiled plans to begin vaccinating some citizens this month.
“We would all like the vaccine to be here tomorrow and to be 100 per cent effective and for everybody to have it the day after but we know that is not going to occur,” Hillier said on Tuesday, as he urged people to continue following public health advice in the interim. “People are tired and say ‘oh my goodness, we can’t carry on.’ Well guess what you can. This is not the first time in our history Canadians have faced incredible challenges and gotten through them.”
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Ferguson Report: Justice Dept. Says Wilson Won’t Face Civil Rights Charges
Darren Wilson, the former Ferguson, Mo., police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown last August, will not face federal civil rights charges over the killing. That’s according to the Justice Department, which has now released its reviews of both the shooting and the local police department.
While Wilson will avoid federal charges, the Justice Department review found that the Ferguson Police Department engages in “a pattern of unconstitutional policing.”
In November, a grand jury decided not to indict Wilson in the death of Brown, who was unarmed when he was killed on a street around noon on Aug. 9, 2014. That decision was accompanied by a rare release of grand jury documents; it also sparked a new round of protests in Ferguson, a community whose residents had long complained of police abuses of power.
The two documents were released around mid-day today; we’ll update this post with more details and analysis.
The report on the shooting concludes that Wilson’s actions aren’t “prosecutable violations” under the relevant criminal civil rights statute,” stating that evidence in the case “does not support the conclusion that Wilson’s uses of deadly force were ‘objectively unreasonable’ under the Supreme Court’s definition.
“This is true for all six to eight shots that struck Brown,” the report states. It says that witness accounts that portrayed Brown as standing still with his hands raised in surrender “are inconsistent with the physical evidence” or lack other credibility.
In contrast, the report says, Wilson’s account of Brown’s actions, “if true, would establish that the shootings were not objectively unreasonable under the relevant Constitutional standards governing an officer’s use of deadly force.”
It adds that “multiple credible witnesses corroborate virtually every material aspect of Wilson’s account and are consistent with the physical evidence.”
The Justice Department report on Ferguson’s police department says that its practices “are shaped by the City’s focus on revenue rather than by public safety needs.”
That finding jibes with previous reports, including one by NPR that said, “In 2013, the municipal court in Ferguson — a city of 21,135 people — issued 32,975 arrest warrants for nonviolent offenses, mostly driving violations.”
The report adds, “Ferguson’s police and municipal court practices both reflect and exacerbate existing racial bias, including racial stereotypes. Ferguson’s own data establish clear racial disparities that adversely impact African Americans. The evidence shows that discriminatory intent is part of the reason for these disparities.”
The Justice Department also states that as a city, Ferguson “has the capacity to reform its approach to law enforcement.”
In that effort, the report says, the city could be helped by its relatively small size, which “may offer greater potential for officers to form partnerships and have frequent, positive interactions with Ferguson residents, repairing and maintaining police-community relationships.”
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Today in Apple history: The Byte Shop, Apple’s first retailer, opens
By Luke Dormehl • 5:00 am, December 8, 2020
Paul Terrell founded The Byte Shop on his birthday.
Photo: NextShark/Paul Terrell
December 8, 1975: San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneur Paul Terrell opens The Byte Shop, one of the world’s first computer stores — and the first to sell an Apple computer.
Years before Apple would open its own retail outlets, the Byte Shop stocks the first 50 Apple-1 computers built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
Today, the idea of selling computers in a store makes perfect sense. Add some eye-catching architecture and a clean, luxury goods-inspired layout, and you have the template that allowed Apple stores to become the most profitable retail outlets on a square-foot basis.
But back in the 1970s, things certainly weren’t so straightforward. This was a time when personal computers were geeky hobbyist projects and came in kit form. Apple co-founder Wozniak seriously considered giving away blueprints for his nascent Apple computer so anyone with enough patience could build one for themselves.
The Byte Shop: A stroke of genius
Paul Terrell thought different. Modeling his business on Radio Shack, he opened his first Byte Shop in Mountain View, California, in 1975. By the end of 1976, he successfully expanded to 58 stores.
Unfortunately, he ran into problems that year. The most popular personal computer at the time was the Altair 8800. It kick-started the boom in personal computers and inspired a generation of techies. Terrell’s success pushing the Altair as an independent salesman convinced him to open a physical store in the first place. However, his decision to stock other products in addition to the Altair resulted in MITS (the company behind the computer) pulling Terrell’s dealership status for the machines.
The Byte Shop takes a chance on Apple-1
A working Apple-1 is worth a small fortune these days.
Photo: Auction Team Breker
Looking around for a computer he could sell, Terrell met with Jobs, who came into the store trying to sell him on the Apple-1. Terrell knew of Jobs through the Homebrew Computer Club, a local hobbyist group that met regularly, but had never spoken with him.
At first, Terrell wasn’t convinced. He found Jobs very intense. And while the Apple-1 was certainly a functional computer, it was one of numerous functional machines making the rounds.
The retailer rejected Jobs’ suggestion that he sell Apple-1 computers in kit form. Instead, Terrell told Jobs that — with computers becoming more mainstream — people wanted to buy fully assembled machines.
Jobs listened and agreed. Terrell said he would buy 50 Apple-1 computers for $500 each, although cash would only be paid on delivery.
Terrell marked up the computers to $666.66, or the equivalent of $2,800 today. Anyone who bought and kept one, however, is in luck: Surviving Apple-1 units routinely sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars today. (Or at least they do as routinely as is possible for a computer with only a handful of existing units.)
Paul Terrell: A big influence on Apple
Like so much about tech history, it seems obvious now that not everyone wants to build their own computer. Terrell’s insistence on selling the Apple-1 fully assembled shaped the direction of Apple and the PC industry as a whole.
However, the Apple-1 was an assembled computer in little more than name. (It needed a power supply, keyboard and monitor, so wasn’t exactly usable right out of the box.) But Terrell’s guidance clearly influenced the creation of the Apple II. That resulted in the world’s first all-in-one personal computer targeting general consumers as well as techies.
Due to Terrell’s important role in Apple history, Wozniak referred to him as the “fourth Apple founder,” after himself, Jobs and early investor Ron Wayne.
Terrell wound up selling his Byte Shop chain in 1977. His influence on the personal computer industry wasn’t over, though. Later on, he helped pioneer the personal computer software and hardware rental business model with a new company called ComputerMania.
You might need to squint to see the connection. But to my mind, that doesn’t seem a million miles from the subscription-based “rental” model of distribution we now see with services like Apple Music.
Where did you buy your first personal computer? Leave your comments below.
Posted in: News, Top stories Tagged: Altair 8800, Apple 1, Byte Shop, Paul Terrell, Ron Wayne, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, TIAH: 1970s, Today in Apple history
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