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Benefit trips
Vineland First Church of the Nazarene (Ramoth Church) will sponsor a trip to Tanger and Rockvale Outlets in Lancaster, Pa., on Nov. 22. Bus leaves the church parking lot at 8 a.m. and will return at 7 p.m. Cost: $37, including transportation, coffee, water, doughnuts, coupon books and driver gratuity. (856) 358-9124. Vineland First Church of the Nazarene, 2725 N. Delsea Drive, Vineland.
Millville Army Air Field Museum will sponsor a trip to Baltimore Inner Harbor on Sept. 6. Area attractions include shops, restaurants, aquarium, USS Constellation, Science Center, U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Taney, Lightship Chesapeake, USS Submarine Torsk, Fells Point, Little Italy and more. Cost $40, including transportation. Additional fee to tour Fort McHenry and/or for water taxi ticket to various attractions. Bus leaves the museum at 7:30 a.m. and returns about 8 p.m. (856) 327-2347.
Rutgers Master Gardeners Program of Cumberland County will host a bus trip to Bartram’s Gardens on Sept. 12. Bus leaves at 8:30 a.m. from the Rutgers Cooperative Extension Center, 291 Morton Ave., Rosenhayn, and will return to the center about 3:30 pm. Cost: $65, including transportation, a behind-the-scenes tour with the head gardener and a boxed lunch. Nonrefundable payment due with reservation. (856) 451-2800, ext. 4.
Central Baptist Church of Millville/Vineland will sponsor a three-day, two-night trip to St. Michael’s and Maryland’s Eastern Shore from Sept. 16 to 18. The trip includes transportation, two nights lodging, two breakfasts, lunch and tour at Country Creamery, dinner at the Crab Claw restaurant, Chesapeake Maritime Museum, narrated cruise aboard The Patriot, free time in St. Michael’s, visit to a Buffalo Ranch and the Dreams Alpaca Farm and driver’s tip. Cost: $380 per person for double occupancy and $464 for a single room. $150 deposit required. (856) 825-5204. Central Baptist Church, 9 N. 2nd St., Millville.
Woodland Country Day School will sponsor a trip to New York City on Oct. 4. Bus leaves at 9:30 a.m. from the school at 1216 Roadstown Road in Bridgeton and also stops at Holding Hands Family Center in Mullica Hill. Bus will depart from New York City at 7:30 pm. Cost: $149, including transportation and ticket for a mezzanine seat for the 2 p.m. performance of the Broadway production of Disney’s “Aladdin.” (856) 453-8499, ext. 112. Email: reesed@wcdsnj.org.
Millville Army Air Field Museum will host a bus trip to Amish Country in Lancaster, Pa., on Oct. 25. Places to visit will be Strasburg Railroad and Kitchen Kettle Village, plus shops at Intercourse and Rockvale Outlet Shopping Center. Cost $40, including transportation. Admission and meal costs are not included. Bus leaves at 7:30 a.m. from the museum at 1 Leddon St. at Millville Airport and returns about 8:30 p.m. (856) 327-2347.
St. Padre Pio Parish Senior Club in Vineland will sponsor a trip to Hershey Lodge in Pennsylvania from Dec. 10 to 11. Cost: $265 per person for double occupancy, including lodging at Hershey Lodge, buffet breakfast, holiday dinner and musical, and Hershey “Sweet Lights” tour; cancellation insurance available. (856) 226-3451.
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Delsea Regional schools host 5K event
FRANKLIN – Delsea Regional School District will host the SHAPE Shamrock 5K Walk/Run on March 21 on the cross country course at the high school, 242 Fries Mill Road, Franklinville.
Registration is at 11 a.m. and the Walk/Run begins at noon. A post-event party begins at 2 p.m. at Lake House Restaurant, 611 Taylor Road.
There will be T-shirts and snack bags for all participants, and awards for the top male and female finishers. Refreshments will be available for purchase.
The entry fee is $25 for adults and $15 for children through 4 p.m. March 20. The race-day registration fee is $30 for adults and $20 for children.
Proceeds will benefit the Delsea Regional Middle School SHAPE scholarship and enrichment program. SHAPE stands for School and Home Achievement with a Partnership for Education. The program is designed to address the achievement gap in education and assist students in making the transition to the next grade level.
The rain date is March 22.
To register or for information, visit www.shape.delsearegional.us.
Dessert auction at Vineland school
VINELAND – The community is invited to attend a dessert auction Friday at Cumberland Christian School, 1100 W. Sherman Ave.
The event will feature a silent auction at 6:30 p.m. and a live auction at 8. The auction items will include a baseball autographed by Mike Trout, an American Girl Doll, tickets to Sight and Sound Theatre, a Big Bird autographed picture, a timeshare for Brigantine Beach, a trip to Lancaster, Pa., lunch with Rep. Frank LoBiondo, “Stampin Up” accessories, front row seating at school events except graduations, a membership to the Cumberland Cape/Atlantic YMCA, a Pete Rose autographed game bat and two admission tickets to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Tickets are $10 for ages 13 and older and $5 for ages 12 and younger, or $75 for a table of eight. A variety of sponsorship options are available.
For information, contact Pam Anderson at (856) 696-1600, ext 304, or panderson@cccrusader.org.
Auctions, chocolate, wine at St. Mary School
BUENA VISTA – St. Mary School PTA, 735 Union Road, East Vineland, will host its sixth annual Wine, Chocolate and Dinner Social at 6 p.m. Saturday.
The event will include an Italian-style dinner presented by chef Rob Buono, fine wines and microbrews to sample, handmade chocolates by Barbera’s Chocolate on Occasion and entertainment by Hotsy Totsy. There will be live, silent and basket auctions.
Tickets, available in advance, are $50. For tickets or information, call (856) 692-8537, ext. 330.
Ellison School hosts beef-and-beer event
VINELAND – The Ellison School will host a beef-and-beer fundraiser from 6 to 10 p.m. March 13 at the school, 1017 S. Spring Road. Dinner will begin at 6 p.m., followed by entertainment by Sound Productions.
Tickets are $35. Admission includes dinner, draft beer, wine and soda, and a beer mug or wine glass.
For information, call Heather Cappuccio at (856) 691-1734 or Tarah Tobolski at (856) 691-1734.
Schalick High PTO collects used items
PITTSGROVE – The new Schalick High School PTO will hold a fundraiser to collect used items, including clothing, from 8 a.m. to noon March 14 in the school parking lot at 718 Centerton Road. The PTO will receive a donation for the total weight of the items collected.
Items being collected are: clothing and shoes, handbags and purses, children’s and baby’s backpacks, hats, gloves, pillows, blankets, quilts, sheets, curtains, table linens, hard and soft toys, and bicycles.
Items should be placed in securely tied garbage bags. Shoes must be placed in a separate bag.
For information, call Cheryl Lowe at (609) 381-0271.
Woodland School to host bingo night
STOW CREEK – Woodland Country Day School will host Designer Basket & Bag Bingo on Saturday. Prizes include Coach, Michael Kors, Kate Spade, and Vera Bradley bags.
Doors will open at 6 p.m. and games will begin at 7. Food and refreshments will be available for purchase. There also will be raffles, including a 50/50.
Tickets are $20 if purchased by March 6 or $25 at the door, including 20 games and a door prize ticket for a Coach item.
The school is at 1216 Roadstown Road. For information, call (856) 453-8499, ext. 112, or email reesed@wcdsnj.org.
Craft fair planned at Memorial High
MILLVILLE – Memorial High School will host its fourth annual craft fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 14 in its gymnasium, 504 E. Broad St.
Available items will include handmade crafts, wood items, candles, primitives, baskets, cards, handbags, hair bows, feathers, hair extensions, doll clothes, chocolate, sport memorabilia, scarves and jewelry. Vendors will include Tastefully Simple, Mary Kay, Thirty-One, PartyLite, At Home America, Premier Jewelry, Gold Canyon Candles, MiaBella Candles, Longaberger, Avon and Scentsy.
There also will be games, face painting and crafts for kids. Admission is $1 for ages 12 and older.
Crafters and vendors are still being accepted.
For information, call (856) 327-6072.
Edgarton Academy to hold fundraisers
NEWFIELD – Edgarton Christian Academy will host the following fundraisers:
•Scrapbooking fundraiser from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday. Cost: $45, including drinks, breakfast, lunch and dinner. The event will include vendors, a basket auction, make-and-takes, card making and an exchange box. A massage therapist will be on site for an additional charge. For reservations, email Marita Cifaloglio at Mrs.Cif@aol.com. Checks should be made payable to ECA and mailed to: P.O. Box 646, Newfield, NJ 08344.
•Super Bingo Extravaganza on March 8 at the Millville Elks Lodge No. 580, 1815 E. Broad St., Millville. Doors open at 11 a.m. Games will begin at 1 p.m. The event offers $6,000 in prizes and a $1,000 jackpot. Call (856) 629-7811 or (856) 697-7300, ext. 304.
•Annual Super 50/50 at 6 p.m. March 28 at Our Lady of Mercy Academy in Franklin. Only 400 tickets will be sold, with $20,000 in prizes paid to 10 winners. The grand-prize winner will be awarded $10,000, and $5,000 will go to the second-place winner. The event will include a basket and upscale auction with prizes valued at more than $250. Tickets are $100, including dinner for two to the drawing party. Call Melissa Knapp at (856) 697-7300, ext. 304.
Bingo night to help Mennies School
BUENA VISTA – A Designer Bag Bingo event, for ages 21 and older, will be held Friday in the dining hall at St. Augustine College Preparatory School, 611 Cedar Ave., Richland.
The fundraiser will benefit Mennies School in Vineland.
Doors will open at 6 p.m. and bingo will begin at 7. Guests may bring snacks and beverages. Coffee and desserts will be served.
Reservations are required. Tickets are $25, including a 10-game bingo packet and door prize ticket. Additional bingo sheets will be available for $5. For tickets or information, call Kristen Speakman or Lisa Arena at (856) 794-6957 or email kspeakman@vineland.org or larena@vineland.org.
Marching band sells Wawa sandwiches
VINELAND – Vineland High School’s Marching Clan is selling Wawa Shorti tickets for $4.
The Marching Clan also accepts monetary and in kind contributions in any amount. Fundraising projects assist with equipment repairs and replacement to help keep the band marching.
For information, call (856) 794-6800, ext. 2539, or visit www.vhsmarchingband.org.
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Hodgson ignoring Smith comparisons as he prepares for biggest game
After such an incredible year for Josh Hodgson in the NRL with Canberra, it’s not hard to see why so many people are drawing some comparisons that would have seemed far-fetched a couple of years ago.
It’s fair to say Hodgson’s move to the Raiders two years prior didn’t ruffle too many feathers – but how he has made an impact since.
He’s established himself as potentially the best hooker in the competition – in fact, only recently, Raiders legend – and current Australia coach – Mal Meninga said Hodgson was undoubtedly in the top two hookers in the world: alongside Kangaroos skipper Cameron Smith.
So how does Hodgson react to such high praise?
“It’s always nice to play against the best players in the world in the best competition, but I don’t really like to look at individual battles,” he says.
“I just worry about myself and what I need to do for the team and my role on day. As long as I’m doing that, great – but it’s always good to play in these games and this type of competition against that type of calibre of player.
“I just don’t like to compare myself to people. I want to be my own player and not compare myself to anyone. I have my own values, my own beliefs and my own expectations of myself and I try live up to them rather than compare to anyone.”
But even if Hodgson is coy on comparisons with Smith, he is far more open about where England’s must-win clash against the Kangaroos on Sunday ranks in terms of his career.
“It’s definitely up there,” Hodgson admits. “It’s a massive game; we all know it’s a pressure game but we just have to go out there and do our own job, and if we have the belief and we all play our best 1 to 17, we can get the job done. Club and country are two totally different feelings for me – club is a bit unexplainable but pulling on the jumper for country is always a proud honour whoever you’re playing, especially in the big games.”
And what would a victory for England symbolise this weekend?
“It would give us a massive boost,” Hodgson says. “In any sport – football, rugby union and rugby league, if you’re playing the top team in the world and you get a win, it will always be a boost for your sport or your nation.
“However, we’re not worried about that too much – we’re just worried about us.”
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Annual Impact Report and Accounts 2019-2020
Trends in Defence & Security Corruption Arising from COVID-19
The COVID-19 crisis has significantly affected the role and expectations of defence and security forces, and shifted the trajectory of key global defence and security trends while simultaneously contributing to the emergence of new trends within the defence and security sector. Transparency International’s Defence and Security programme has worked to identify these trends as they relate to corruption, crisis, and conflict, and to make recommendations to limit their impact on the effectiveness of response efforts and wider peace and stability.
Fighting Corruption Worldwide 2020
The Covid-19 Pandemic has turned the world on its head. It has exposed fault lines we did not know were there, and underscored others that we did. Looking forward, government, business and civil society around the world will have to decide how we can do things differently – and better. Fighting corruption must remain a priority. Sadly, no global crisis will eradicate corruption. In reality, it can make things worse – increasing opportunities for those with entrusted power to abuse their position for personal gain.
Embedding Impact Assessment in Advocacy Projects
Since 2017, the Promise to Practice project has been tracking around 170 anti-corruption pledges from over 20 countries around the world through the use of a digital tracking tool, The Global Anti-Corruption Pledge Tracker, and eight national pledge trackers. These were developed to support national advocacy efforts of Mexico, United Kingdom, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Jordan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.
To maintain the relevance of the important pledges made at the 2016 London Anti-Corruption Summit, and make sure there is accountability, for the past three years Transparency International’s global movement has been tracking the progress of anti-corruption commitments made at the Summit through Transparency International UK’s Promise to Practice Project.
Tackling Corruption: Making Progress, Learning Lessons and Building Capacity
In September 2016 Transparency International (TI), The B Team, the Open Contracting Partnership and Wilton Park organised a conference, bringing together government and civil society representatives to develop an understanding of how they would advance implementation of the commitments made at the 2016 Anti-Corruption Summit.
More than two years later, TI and Wilton Park re-convened stakeholders from even more countries to take stock of progress made since the Summit, recognise implementation to-date and identify where there was more work to be done.
The Ignored Pandemic
Universal health coverage, meaning that all individuals and communities can access essential quality health services without suffering financial hardship, has become the top priority of the World Health Organisation. Achieving the ambitious goal of universal health coverage will require more resources, and the better use of existing resources.
Accountability in Action: The Impact of Monitoring the Implementation of the...
Transparency is central to tackling corruption – access, participation and collaboration depend on it – and if transparency is the first step towards progress, accountability is the next. Yet holding governments accountable for the things they said they would do is the piece of the puzzle that all too often gets forgotten.
Accountable Asset Return: UK Country Level Civil Society Report
In December 2017, the USA and UK co-host the Global Forum on Asset Recovery (GFAR) – a meeting of practitioners and policy experts focusing on assistance to Nigeria, Ukraine, Tunisia, and Sri Lanka. This paper sets out the strengths and weaknesses of the UK asset recovery system, analyses cases relevant to GFAR countries, and makes recommendations for improvement.
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The Kashmir Monitor·
The ‘future’ of Pakistan’s new boss
By TOM HUSSAIN
Some 106 million Pakistanis are eligible to cast their votes on July 25 in what has been billed as the country’s most significant general election since the military ceded power back to civilians a decade ago. But it is a landmark poll for all the wrong reasons.
Rather than reflecting the will of the people, the result is expected to yield an ungainly coalition engineered by army generals, with the support of a clearly partisan judiciary and a thoroughly manipulated media.
So further instability beckons for one of China’s closest allies, and with it the threats to Beijing’s showpiece Belt and Road Initiative and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) – despite reassurances extended by Pakistan’s military to worried diplomats.
Under intense pressure, dozens of candidates have switched loyalties to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party of former cricket star and playboy Imran Khan, the prospective prime minister favoured by the army bosses.
Many other politicians have disowned nominations from political parties ruled by the dynasties that have resisted the overbearing military for decades. Some have formed new regional political parties and pressure groups.
Militant Islamists are also active ingredients in this potent mix. They are all expected to converge around Khan after the results are tallied, even if the PTI fails to emerge as the largest party, to form an administration which would unquestioningly advance the political agenda of the military, even though the military insists that it has no favourites.
This anticipated outcome hinges on efforts to dissuade voters from backing the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the party of ousted former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. He has tried to reinvigorate the campaign by playing the victim and returning home from London to serve a 10-year prison sentence on a corruption case, but he is unlikely to succeed. Candidates who have remained loyal to Sharif have barely been able to mount campaigns in their respective constituencies and have been subjected to persistent intimidation by intelligence operatives.
But much would depend on what happens on polling day itself. If Sharif’s supporters turn out in force, his party could still pull it off. Not allowing him to form government in such a scenario would rob the election of any remaining vestiges of credibility, as would any attempt to steal the election through the 371,000 soldiers and reservists manning it.
Pakistanis have seen it all before. No elected prime minister has ever been allowed to fulfil a full five-year tenure in office. They have been unceremoniously dumped and replaced by the military’s hand-picked nominees, such as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and prime minister in the 1970s, and Sharif himself in the 1980s.
When one of these puppets has subsequently sought to cut their strings after coming into power, they have been overthrown by another, invariably in partnership with the military and judiciary – as was the case throughout the 1990s.
Since the military dictatorship of Pervez Musharraf in the 2000s, however, the Sharif and Bhutto dynasties have worked intermittently to trim the role of the military. This has motivated Musharraf’s successors to seek to dispense with them altogether and replace them with a new favourite – Khan.
However, there is no reason the military would treat him any differently, were he to become the prime minister. Many of the PTI’s candidates are recently inducted turncoats with no ideological commitment to the “change” Khan keeps talking about. The other feudal landlords and religious extremists whose support Khan would need to form a government would also invariably undermine any major move, not to mention the vengeful politicking by the established political parties he has helped to sideline.
Already, there are murmurs within pro-military circles that Khan’s demagoguery and personal conduct makes him unfit to lead a nuclear power. These may not prevent him from becoming prime minister, but it augurs ill for the longevity of his tenure.
The military’s divide-and-conquer strategy has all but rendered the general election pointless. Whatever the outcome, major segments of society will feel robbed, adding to the slow-burning public discontent with interference in the democratic process.
It may not spark any immediate political unrest, as the social and political fault lines are too pronounced to support a unified resistance against the military. Fears of reprisals are also too palpable to be ignored.
But trouble is brewing, and at some point a constitutional crisis could arise that no amount of domestic political engineering – or Chinese-funded development – can stop.
(www.scmp.com)
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Liam Coen
Assistant Quarterbacks Coach
College: Massachusetts
Experience: 3 years
Liam Coen enters his third season with the Los Angeles Rams, his first as assistant quarterbacks coach after spending the previous two seasons as assistant wide receivers coach after being named to the position in February 2018.
In 2019, Coen helped L.A.'s receiving unit produce two receivers with over 1,000 receiving yards for the second-consecutive season, a feat that had not been accomplished since a streak of four seasons from 1999-2002. WR Robert Woods posted his second-consecutive 1,000-yard season, finishing with 1,134. WR Cooper Kupp tallied his first 1,000-yard season, leading the team with 1,161 receiving yards.
With the help of Coen, who coached in the Super Bowl his first year in the league, the Rams quickly acclimated 2018 offseason acquisition Brandin Cooks into the league's No. 3 scoring offense. Last season, Cooks (1,204) and fellow WR Robert Woods (1,219) posted career-highs in receiving yards while becoming the first Rams receiving duo to surpass 1,000 yards each since Torry Holt and Isaac Bruce in 2006.
Coen spent the 2016-17 seasons serving as the offensive coordinator for the University of Maine.
Coen was the signal caller for Maine for two years under Joe Harasymiak and was instrumental in QB Dan Collin's emergence in 2016, as well as the growth of freshman QB Chris Ferguson in 2017.
Under Coen in 2017, the Black Bears had the fourth-best scoring offense in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA), which was spearheaded by RB Josh Mack who led the FCS in rush yards. Mack rushed for 1,335 yards and nine touchdowns, averaging 5.5 yards per carry and 133.9 rushing yards per game during the 2017 campaign. As a unit, the Black Bears averaged 24.6 points and 388.4 total yards per game during the 2017 season, after putting up 22.3 points and 357.6 total yards per contest in 2016.
Prior to his time at Maine, Coen spent the 2014-15 season as the pass game coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Massachusetts, where he mentored First-Team All Mid-American Conference QB Blake Frohnapfel.
He previously served as the quarterbacks coach at Brown University in 2010 and from 2012-13 and as the pass game coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Rhode Island in 2011.
Coen earned his bachelor's degree in communications from UMass in 2008 and was a four-year starter at quarterback for the Minutemen and led UMass to the 2006 FCS National Championship game. In his playing career, Coen rewrote the school's record book, he currently holds nearly every major career passing record in UMass history.
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On the seriousness of Archimboldo's silly creatures.
by Stefany Anne Golberg
We fill absences. This is what we do. Nature has her way of filling up absence with stars, atoms, frogs, dirt, human beings. Human beings, though, have their own curious way of filling absence. When we lived in caves, we filled the vacuum of the unknown with fear. In ancient times, gods filled the unknown. In 16th-century Europe, the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo filled the unknown with monsters.
“Arcimboldo, 1526–1593: Nature and Fantasy” Through January 9. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
In the darkened rooms of the “Arcimboldo, 1526-1593: Nature and Fantasy” exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., hang strange and unwholesome monster faces. The portraits lining the walls are a perversion of everything we consider to be natural and right and harmonious about the human visage. In Arcimboldo’s “composite heads,” men are made of candlesticks and gourds and fish and sticks. Arcimboldo also created invertible paintings that, when held over a mirror, show two totally different images. You might think you’re looking at a metal bowl filled with assorted vegetables, except when you hold it over a mirror — reverso! — it’s now a fat guy with thick mushroom lips and a turnip beard sporting a metal bowl for a hat.
The exhibition’s signature portrait is “Vertumnus,” the Roman god of the seasons. Like Arcimboldo’s other composite portraits, Vertumnus is something of a riddle, a funny tribute to his benefactor, Emperor Rudolph II. It portrays Rudolph as Vertumnus, as the harvest itself. The face of Rudolph/Vertumnus has nothing human about it save the form — no flesh, no blood, no bones. It is composed entirely of fruits and vegetables. A long pear nose dangles over cherry lips. Root vegetables and gourds arrange a neck and chest, which are adorned with flowers, an artichoke, and a cabbage. “Vertumnus” has an ear-of-corn ear and peapod eyebrows. Bunches of grapes make up his hair. It is a funny painting, I guess, and it’s a remarkable likeness of the Emperor. Yet it is also a very weird painting and the longer you look, “Vertumnus,” with his bulging apple cheeks — grows increasingly grotesque in his overabundance, and horrible. It is Rudolph as Vertumnus as the harvest as monster.
Arcimboldo’s milieu was the wildly experimental and inquisitive world of late-Renaissance aristocratic Europe. It was the Golden Age of exploration, globally and microscopically, an age influenced by impossible da Vinci flying machines and curiosa from newfound lands abroad. It was a time of zoos and gardens and wonder cabinets, atlases and encyclopedias, libraries and museums, places where disparate and differentiated objects and ideas were brought together to create complete, if uncanny, microcosms that functioned according to their own internal logic. Arcimboldo got his big break in the 1560s when he was appointed court painter and portraitist to the court of Maximilian II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, and later to Maximilian’s son, Rudolph II. Both father and son took their pleasure in this age of discovery, collecting a team of botanists and naturalists to accompany the exotic plants and animals in their zoological gardens and wonder cabinets. At the courts of Maximilian II and Rudolph II, discovery equaled delight.
The wonder cabinet of Rudolph II was among the greatest of its day, and Rudolph loved that wonder cabinet, he really did. That he hung “Vertumnus” in there — alongside other cabinet favorites such as his collected works of human deformities and his assemblage of signet rings — was big praise. Like most of Arcimboldo’s portraits, “Vertumnus” is both an homage to his benefactor’s collection and a wonder cabinet in its own right. The familiar fruits and grains that make up his face include species that were at that time exotic on the Continent — corn from the New World and eggplant from Africa and Arabia. It resembles a scientific naturalist study but is also an impossible object. It is a religious painting, a royal portrait, a mélange of miniatures, a supernatural caricature with references to Latin poetry.
Strolling through the exhibit, it’s easy to imagine this world of Arcimboldo as one of decadent absurdity, of eccentric aristocrats possessing a morbid fascination with the ridiculous and the unfamiliar — Rudolph and his team of mad scientists swilling fake unicorn blood in a grand Masonic-style hall, surrounded by sketches of nude African boys and compromised elephants. Call it weird for weird’s sake.
From this perspective Arcimboldo’s work — largely ignored after his death until the 20th century — is just a whimsical break from the otherwise smooth course of the Enlightenment. For most of recorded Western human thought (if one may make the sweeping generalization), the task of Great Thinkers was to disentangle and separate, to reduce things and ideas to their purest, most elemental states. Harmony and integrity were the world’s best achievements, and the task of humans was to locate those forms. This is how humans progressed, the logic goes. Or, you can flip this thought around and say that the common Western definition of progress is the world inching from a chaotic state to an increasingly ordered one. Intellectually speaking, the biggest problem with monsters was not that they were scary or inappropriate for children or even that were ugly, but that they were illogical. What is monstrosity anyway? A monster is an aberration. A freak of nature. ‘Monster’ comes from the Latin monstrum. One way to translate monstrum is “warning.” We see wildness in monsters; they are creatures we can’t understand, creatures beyond our control, who are therefore unknowable. Monsters, because they are irregular, are therefore irrational. Monsters had nothing to tell us about the pure elements. This is why we are told it’s OK to laugh at the portrait of Vertumnus. He is a parody of knowledge.
As such, Arcimboldo’s late-Renaissance hobbledygobbledy aesthetic vision sticks out in Western thought like a sore and rather deformed thumb. But where most see monsters as a question mark, Arcimboldo saw in his monsters an explanation. Another interpretation of monstrum is “to show.” We think that monsters exist so that we can look at them, judge them, laugh at them. In actuality, the monsters are looking at us. As they show us ourselves, they are showing us the world through the monster’s eyes. It is a world where deformity and irregularity are the norm.
If we stop giggling and give him a chance, Arcimboldo has something to say after all. To know the world is to know monsters. To know the world, therefore, is to know chaos. Vertumnus, after all, is not just the god of the seasons, but also the god of change. This is not simply weird for weird’s sake; it’s an epistemology.
Maximilian once commissioned Arcimboldo to make four paintings of the classic Four Elements — Earth, Air, Fire, Water — held by many cultures since antiquity to be the fundamental elements upon which all matter is based. A contemporary artist might do this with a simple white canvas for air, or a brown one for Earth. Arcimboldo complied with his usual over-determined, anthropomorphic mayhem. In “Fire,” we see a monster whose cheek is a flint and chin an oil lamp. A candle makes up part of a neck that sets ablaze a crowning campfire of hair. The bust is an array of firearms: a cannon, the barrel of a gun, a scoop filled with gunpowder. The face in “Water” is made up entirely of sea creatures, save a pearl necklace and a simple pearl earring dangling from the earlobe (which is an oyster shell). What is Fire to us anyway but candlesticks and woodchips and heat and war? What is Water but a home for the infinite creatures of the sea?
Knowledge, says Arcimboldo, is a mixed-up continuum. In this, Arcimboldo was very much our contemporary. He understood the importance of randomness and unpredictability. To know the world is to stop seeing life as a story with a beginning and an end, but rather as a place where an ear of corn is a man is a painting is virtue is fealty to the emperor is laughter. The world — as Alexander Pope wrote in “The Rape of the Lock” — is “harmoniously confused, where order in variety we see, and where, though all things differ, all agree.” So, Arcimboldo didn’t really fill the unknown with monsters. In Arcimboldo’s world, there are no empty spaces. Life, says Arcimboldo, is a monster. • 2 December 2010
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Shyam Selvadurai author of The Hungry Ghosts: Interview
By GREG QUILL
BOOKS COLUMNIST
Thu., April 18, 2013timer4 min. read
updateArticle was updated Apr. 15, 2013
The frigid suburban wasteland where Sri Lankan émigré Shivan — Shyam Selvadurai’s adolescent hero in his new novel, The Hungry Ghosts — finds himself in the early 1980s, is hardly the Toronto most of us would recognize.
But to hundreds of thousands of Asians who arrive here to begin new lives, Bridlewood Mall in the city’s northern sprawl is the centre of an unpleasant universe that, for as long as it takes to move elsewhere, is all the Toronto they know — a remote, disconnected, uncaring concrete terrain purposed to provide newcomers with inexpensive housing and hard lessons.
It’s no wonder Shivan’s dreams soon founder, and the memories of a warm, easily paced and colourful life in Colombo with his doting, wealthy land-owner grandmother begin to divert him — especially after his first adventures as a gay youth in Toronto prove less than rewarding.
Torn between the promise of a new life in a strange place unencumbered by the violent politics of the Tamil independence movement’s struggle with the dominant Sinhalese population, and a life of relative comfort in an old world he understands, with a lover who is kind and compassionate, Shivan is forced for the duration of Selvadurai’s masterful third novel, to live unhappily in both.
It’s a eerie feeling, and one that Selvadurai creates with remarkable ease, drawing, no doubt, on his own experiences and memories of his first few months in Canada.
But The Hungry Ghosts is not his story, he insisted during a recent interview to promote the novel’s launch last week.
“I am absolutely comfortable here now,” he said. “I am aware, or course, that I’m part of a minority culture and that I’m gay, but there is absolutely no anxiety about that. And it was always my intention to go to the West for my education, which young (East Asian) people are able to do now. Things have changed considerably in 30 years.
“When we first moved to Scarborough there was one Sri Lankan grocery store — now there’s a take-out on every corner, each with some specialty or another. You can get what you want the way you want it, and that’s very different from the way it used to be.”
While the details and characters in his books — including the Giller shortlisted debut collection of shorts, Funny Boy, and the 2002 novel Cinnamon Gardens — are fiction, much of the atmospheric and cultural texture come from his own life, said Selvadurai.
Part of that flavour results from the six months of each year he spends in Colombo , where he is project director of Write to Reconcile, a creative writing project in English undertaken by The National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, whose purpose is to bring together emerging Sri Lankan writers interested in writing about issues of conflict, peace, reconciliation, memory and trauma in their homeland.
But in the other six months, he’s no longer a stranger in Canada, where he’s a welcome member of the literary establishment.
“In the late 20th century it became possible to travel between cultures, between the old world and the new, with great ease,” said Selvadurai. “So when you go back, you take the changed person with you, who, in turn, changes things that otherwise might have stayed the same.
“That is part of what I wanted to address in this book.”
Selvadurai also touches a topic about which Canadians are particularly touchy. His lead character, Shivan, is Tamil but has grown up among Sinhalese. As he grows, his sympathies are tested, and the complex religious and political turmoil that is tearing Sri Lanka apart are also threatening the well being of immigrants in Canada. Shivan can’t seem to leave those particular troubles behind.
“I obviously have political beliefs that are reflected in the book, but I’m not active in Sri Lankan politics either here or there,” the author said.
“On a personal level, I think the political situation in Sri Lanka is very much on the mind of Sri Lankans in Canada. They have family here and family back home, and it’s possible they’ve lost members in any one of those tremendous, unbearable events there.
“So, of course they’re agitated, or concerned for their loved ones, or the loss of their way of living. It’s very personal, and it’s not possible to leave it behind.
“What’s not understandable or laudable are the extreme politics of (Sri Lankan) separation being played out in Canada, and the financing and support of war that is happening back home, from which we have been separated, and are now safe. I can’t defend that.”
For a review of the Hungry Ghosts see the Star’s books section in Sunday Insight, or check on line at www.thestar/books
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Article I Definitions
1. Board: The Directors and Executive Committee of this club
2. Director: A member of this club’s Board of Directors
3. Executive Committee: The president, president elect, treasurer, secretary, immediate past president
4. Member: A member, other than an honorary member, of this club
5. RI: Rotary International
6. Year: The twelve-month period that begins on 1 July
Article 2 Board
The governing body of this club shall be the board of 9 directors and the executive committee. The president, the president elect, the treasurer, secretary, and immediate past president are considered the Executive Committee. Directors are appointed for 3 year terms. Each year, the position of 3 directors expires and new directors are appointed by the president. In case of vacancies, the president will appoint additional directors for the remaining term of the leaving director.
Article 3 Election of Officers for the Executive Committee
Section 1 – The president-elect will become automatically the new president. At a regular meeting, one month prior to the meeting for election of officers, the president shall ask for nominations by members of the club for president-elect, secretary, treasurer. In the instance where the current president-elect cannot fulfill his/her term as president, the new president will also be elected.
The nominations may be presented by a nominating committee or by members from the floor. The nominations duly made shall be placed on a ballot in alphabetical order under each office and shall be voted for at the annual meeting. The candidates for president-elect, secretary, and treasurer receiving a majority of the votes shall be declared elected to their respective offices.
Section 2 – A vacancy in the executive committee shall be filled by action of the remaining directors.
Article 4 Duties of Officers
Section 1 – President. It shall be the duty of the president to preside at meetings of the club and the board and to perform other duties as ordinarily pertain to the office of president.
Section 2 –President-Elect. It shall be the duty of the president-elect to preside at meetings of the club and the board in the absence of the president and to perform other duties as ordinarily pertain to the office of vice-president.
Section 3 – Secretary. It shall be the duty of the secretary to keep membership records; record attendance at meetings; send out notices of club, board, and committee meetings; record and preserve the minutes of such meetings; report as required to RI, including the semiannual reports of membership on 1 January and 1 July of each year, which shall include per capita dues for all members and prorated dues for active members who have been elected to membership in the club since the start of the July or January semiannual reporting period; report changes in membership; provide the monthly attendance report, which shall be made to the district governor within 15 days of the last meeting of the month; collect and remit RI official magazine subscriptions; and perform other duties as usually pertain to the office of secretary.
Section 4 – Treasurer. It shall be the duty of the treasurer to have custody of all funds, accounting for it to the club annually and at any other time upon demand by the board, and to perform other duties as pertains to the office of treasurer. Upon retirement from office, the treasurer shall turn over to the incoming treasurer or to the president all funds, books of accounts, or any other club property.
Article 5 Meetings
Section 1 – Annual Meeting. An annual meeting of this club shall be held on the first Thursday after Thanksgiving, at which time the election of officers to serve for the ensuing year shall take place.
Section 2 – The regular weekly meetings of this club shall be held on Thursdays at 12:15pm.
Due notice of any changes in or canceling of the regular meeting shall be given to all members of the club. All members excepting an honorary member (or member excused pursuant to the standard Rotary club constitution) in good standing in this club, on the day of the regular meeting, must be counted as present or absent, and attendance must be evidenced by the member’s being present for at least sixty (60) percent of the time devoted to the regular meeting, either at this club or at any other Rotary club, or as otherwise provided in the standard Rotary club constitution, article 9, sections 1 and 2.
Section 3 – One-third of the membership shall constitute a quorum at the annual and regular meetings of this club.
Section 4 – Regular meetings of the board shall be held on the third Wednesday of each month. Special meetings of the board shall be called by the president, whenever deemed necessary, or upon the request of two (2) directors, due notice having been given.
Section 5 – A majority of the board members shall constitute a quorum of the board.
Article 6 Fees and Dues
The membership dues shall be $180 per annum, payable quarterly within 30 days of billing. A portion of each payment shall be applied to each member’s subscription to the RI official magazine.
Other financial obligations:
The club will hold several fundraisers each year to fund the charitable giving program. While participation for members is usually voluntary, the board may decide to make 1 or 2 fundraisers each year mandatory. Members who do not participate in those fundraisers will be billed for the amount determined by the board.
Past Due Notices:
A notice will be sent to members who are past 30 days due. After 60 days, a second notice is sent and the president will contact the member. If payment is not received after 90 days, and no special arrangements have been made, the member is excluded from the club.
Article 7 Method of Voting
The business of this club shall be transacted by voice(Article 5 section 3) vote except the election of offficers which shall be by ballot. The board may determine that a specific resolution be considered by ballot rather than by voice vote.
Article 8 Four Avenues of Service
The four Avenues of Service are the philosophical and practical framework for the work of this Rotary club. They are Club Service, Vocational Service, Community Service, and International Service. This club will be active in each of the four Avenues of Service.
Article 9 Committees
Club committees are charged with carrying out the annual and long-range goals of the club based on the four Avenues of Service. The president-elect, president, and immediate past president should work together to ensure continuity of leadership and succession planning. When feasible, committee members should be appointed to the same committee for three years to ensure consistency. The president-elect is responsible for appointing committee members to fill vacancies, appointing committee chairs, and conducting planning meetings prior to the start of the year in office. It is recommended that the chair have previous experience as a member of the committee. Standing committees should be appointed as follows:
This committee should develop and implement a comprehensive plan for the recruitment and retention of members.
Club Public Relations
This committee should develop and implement plans to provide the public with information about Rotary and to promote the club’s service projects and activities.
This committee should develop and implement educational, humanitarian, and vocational projects that address the needs of its community and communities in other countries.
This committee should develop and implement plans to support The Rotary Foundation through both financial
This committee should develop and implement plans to raise funds for our charitable giving program.
Charitable Giving Committee
This committee will develop the charitable giving program and provide recommendations to the board.
This committee will develop the administrative budget for board approval at the June board meeting.
Additional ad hoc committees may be appointed as needed.
The president shall be ex officio a member of all committees and, as such, shall have all the privileges of membership thereon.
Each committee shall transact its business as is delegated to it in these bylaws and such additional business as may be referred to it by the president or the board. Except where special authority is given by the board, such committees shall not take action until a report has been made and approved by the board.
Each chair shall be responsible for regular meetings and activities of the committee, shall supervise and coordinate the work of the committee, and shall report to the board on all committee activities.
Article 10 Duties of Committees
The duties of all committees shall be established and reviewed by the president for his or her year. In declaring the duties of each, the president shall reference to appropriate RI materials. The service projects committee will consider the Avenues of Vocational Service, Community Service, and International Service when developing plans for the year.
Each committee shall have a specific mandate, clearly defined goals, and action plans established by the beginning of each year for implementation during the course of the year. It shall be the primary responsibility of the president-elect to provide the necessary leadership to prepare a recommendation for club committees, mandates, goals, and plans for presentation to the board in advance of the commencement of the year as noted above.
Article 11 Leave of Absence
Upon written application to the board, setting forth good and sufficient cause, leave of absence may be granted excusing a member from attending the meetings of the club for 6 months. The request for an excused absence must be submitted to the board in writing.
Article 12 Finances
Section 1 – Prior to the beginning of each fiscal year, the board shall approve a budget of estimated income and expenditures for the year, which shall stand as the limit of expenditures for these purposes, unless otherwise amended by action of the board. The budget shall be broken into two separate parts: one in respect of club operations and one in respect of charitable/service operations.
Section 2 – The treasurer shall deposit all club funds in accounts approved by the board.
Section 3 – All bills shall be paid by the treasurer or other authorized officer. Payments over $1500 require 2 signatures of authorized officers.
Section 4 – A thorough overview of all financial transactions by a qualified person shall be made once each year.
Section 5 – The fiscal year of this club is from 1 July to 30 June, and for the collection of members’ dues shall be divided into four (4) quarterly periods extending from July 1 to September 30, October 1 to December 31, January 1, to March 31, and April 1 to June 30.
Article 13 Method of Electing Members
Section 1 – The name of a prospective member, proposed by an active member of the club, shall be submitted to the board in writing, through the club secretary. A transferring or former member of another club may be proposed to active membership by the former club. The proposal shall be kept confidential except as otherwise provided in this procedure.
Section 2 – The board shall ensure that the proposal meets all the classification and membership requirements of the standard Rotary club constitution.
Section 3 – The board shall approve or disapprove the proposal within 30 days of its submission and shall notify the proposer, through the club secretary, of its decision.
Section 4 – If the decision of the board is favorable, the prospective member shall be informed of the purposes of Rotary and of the privileges and responsibilities of membership, following which the prospective member shall be requested to sign the membership proposal form and to permit his or her name and proposed classification to be published to the club.
Section 5 – If no written objection to the proposal, stating reasons, is received by the board from any member (other than honorary) of the club within seven (7) days following publication of information about the prospective member, that person, (if not honorary membership), as prescribed in these bylaws, shall be considered to be elected to membership.
If any such objection has been filed with the board, it shall vote on this matter at its next meeting. If approved despite the objection, the proposed member, (if not honorary membership), shall be considered to be elected to membership.
Section 6 – Following the election, the president shall arrange for the new member’s induction and new member Rotary literature. In addition, the president or secretary will report the new member information to RI and the president will assign a member to assist with the new member’s assimilation to the club as well as assign the new member to a club project or function.
Section 7 – The board may elect, in accordance with the standard Rotary club constitution, honorary members.
Article 14 Resolutions
The club shall not consider any resolution or motion to commit the club on any matter until the board has considered it. Such resolutions or motions, if offered at a club meeting, shall be referred to the board without discussion
Article 15 Order of Business at regular meetings
Meeting called to order.
Introduction of visitors.
Correspondence, Announcements, and Rotary information.
Address or other program features.
Adjournment.
Article 16 Amendments
These bylaws may be amended at any regular meeting, a quorum being present, by a two-thirds vote of all members present, provided that notice of such proposed amendment shall have been mailed to each member at least ten (10) days before such meeting. No amendment or addition to these bylaws can be made which is not in harmony with the standard Rotary club constitution and with the constitution and bylaws of RI.
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Simone Forti came of age in the 1950s and 60s and developed out of two main influences: dance improvisation which she studied with Anna Halprin, and the legendary Judson Dance Theater that revolutionized modern dance in New York at a historical moment of dialogue between artists, musicians, poets and dancers. From her early minimalist dance-constructions, through her animal movement studies, land portraits and news animations, Forti has had a seminal influence on her field. For the past two decades she has been developing “Logomotion”, an improvisational dance/narrative form.
Forti’s book Handbook in Motion was published in 1974 by the Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design as part of their Source Materials of the Contemporary Arts series. Her book, Oh, Tongue, a collection of experimental writings, was published in 2003 by Beyond Baroque Books. An article of hers is featured in Taken by Surprise, A Dance Improvisation Reader, published in 2003 by the Wesleyan University Press. Her hologram, Striding Crawling (1977), in collaboration with holographer Lloyd Cross, is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Forti is an adjunct assistant professor in the UCLA department of World Arts & Cultures, and continues to perform and teach internationally. She has received various grants including six National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. In 1995 she received the Dance Theater Workshop’s New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for sustained achievement, and in 2004 she received the Lester Horton Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Dance Recourse Center of Los Angeles. She is a recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Brink, Andre
A Dry White Season.
W.H. Allen, London, 1978. First edition of the author's most well-known work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, who has added a line from this work, "We must endure, we must survive. Andre Brink." Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Bob Haberfield. Ben Du Toit is a white schoolteacher in suburban Johannesburg in a dark time of intolerance and state-sanctioned apartheid. A simple, apolitical man, he believes in the essential fairness of the South African government and its policiesuntil the sudden arrest and subsequent "suicide" of a black janitor from Du Toit's school. Haunted by new questions and desperate to believe that the man's death was a tragic accident, Du Toit undertakes an investigation into the terrible affaira quest for the truth that will have devastating consequences for the teacher and his family, as it draws him into a lethal morass of lies, corruption, and murder. "Andre Brink's writing is built on conviction.A Dry White Season describes the triumph of tyranny" (The Times). Made into the motion picture bearing the same name starring Donald Sutherland, Susan Sarandon, and Marlon Brando. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover; In Dust Jacket]
Bookseller: Raptis Rare Books, ABAA/ ILAB [Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.]
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United Kingdom Official History of the Second World War
Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO), 1939. United Kingdom Official History of WWII The Military, Foreign Policy and Intelligence series in good to very good condition, all in original dust jackets. The full set of 49 volumes include the following titles:- Grand Strategy, Volume I. Grand Strategy, Volume II. Grand Strategy, Volume III, Part 1. Grand Strategy, Volume III, Part 2. Grand Strategy, Volume IV. Grand Strategy, Volume V. Grand Strategy, Volume VI. The War at Sea, Volume I, The Defensive. The War at Sea, Volume II, The Period of Balance. The War at Sea, Volume III, Part 1, The Offensive. The War at Sea, Volume III, Part 2, The Offensive. The Strategic Air Offensive against Germany, Volume I, Preparation. The Strategic Air Offensive against Germany, Volume II, Endeavour. The Strategic Air Offensive against Germany, Volume III, Victory. The Strategic Air Offensive against Germany, Volume IV, Annexes and Appendices. Defence of the United Kingdom. The Campaign in Norway. The War in France & Flanders, 1939-40. Victory in the West, Volume I, Battle of Normandy. Victory in the West, Volume II, Defeat of Germany. The War against Japan, Volume I, The Loss of Singapore. The War against Japan, Volume II, India?s Most Dangerous Hour. The War against Japan, Volume III, The Decisive Battles. The War against Japan, Volume IV, The Reconquest of Burma. The War against Japan, Volume V, The Surrender of Japan. The Mediterranean and Middle East, Volume I, The Early Successes against Italy. The Mediterranean and Middle East, Volume II, The Germans come to the Help of Their Ally. The … [Click Below for Full Description]
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Hwasa, born Ahn Hye Jin, is an award-winning South Korean singer, songwriter, rapper, and television personality. She was born on July 23, 1995 in Jeonju, South Korea, and made her debut in the entertainment industry in 2014, as a member of the K-pop girl group, Mamamoo. In 2019, she made her debut as a solo artist, with her digital single, “Twit” which successfully topped the charts, earning her the coveted “Triple Crown” and multiple awards including, “Best Solo Artist” and “Artist of the Year”. Making her reality show debut in 2017, she has continued to participate in various reality programs, including “Home Alone: Girl’s Secret Party” (2020).
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Todmorden Town Hall in Todmorden straddles the Walsden Water and it was situated in both Lancashire and Yorkshire until the county boundary was ...
Todmorden Town Hall in Todmorden straddles the Walsden Water and it was situated in both Lancashire and Yorkshire until the county boundary was moved on 1 January 1888. Designed by John Gibson of Westminster, this Grade 1 listed building holds a strong place in the hearts of local people.
Most iconic, from the outside, is the pediment. The carved stonework has two central female figures on a pedestal. The left hand one represents Lancashire (cotton spinning industry) and the right hand one Yorkshire (engineering and agriculture). Below the two figures are different friezes of the industries coming together to prosper on the border.
Inside the building there is an old Magistrate’s Court which now serves as Todmorden Town Council Chamber. The ballroom upstairs spans the length of the building and holds many memories for those who have attended the many varied events in the Town Hall for over 140 years.
Todmorden Town Hall is the People’s Palace. It was gifted to the people of Todmorden by the Fielden family on 6 August 1891. Please do get in touch to share your memories, explore and to ask questions.
All rooms at Todmorden Town Hall are licensed for civil ceremonies. All enquiries welcome and individual needs can be discussed and you are welcome on a pre-visit to see the magnificent hall so you can decide if it is the right place for you. There is no obligation to hire Todmorden Town Hall - we're happy for you to come and look around. Get in touch to confirm what date you'd like to look around, or to arrange a day.
The building has many stories to tell and is home to a Heritage Centre. Guided ‘Tea and Tours’ are available for groups with fully trained volunteer tour guides. Tours cost £4.50 per person, with a minimum group charge of £45.00. All tours include tea, coffee and biscuits.
Free ‘Taster Tours’ are available for individuals and couples on the first Sunday of the month (except January) and start at 2pm opposite the iconic pediment. There is no need to book a tour: you can just turn up. Please note that these tours last just one hour and are less comprehensive than the ‘Tea and Tours’.
For individuals and couples who would like to enjoy a more thorough tour there are also ‘Behind the Scenes Tours’ of Todmorden Town Hall available. These include access to the secret spaces of Todmorden Town Hall, including Caretaker’s Flat, bathroom in the attic and cellar. ‘Behind the Scenes Tours’ are charged at £6.50 per person and include tea, coffee and biscuits. To book your place on a ‘Behind the Scenes Tour’ please click here. :
If you would like to become a volunteer at Todmorden Town Hall or to book a tour please contact Todmorden Information Centre.
Todmorden Town Hall sits in the centre of Todmorden and all day parking is available in Bramsche Square, Todmorden, OL14 5AG. Parking charges are in force from 8am to 6pm .
Todmorden Town Hall is wheelchair accessible throughout. There are accessible toilets and a lift to the ballroom.
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A treasure trove of over 5000 toys and models, both for sale and on display. Housed in a protected historical building in the heart of the mark...
A treasure trove of over 5000 toys and models, both for sale and on display. Housed in a protected historical building in the heart of the market town of Todmorden, the Museum both sells and displays toys dating from the present all the way back to the early 1900’s. From elaborate models to action figures and Punch & Judy puppets, the museum displays a wide variety of trinkets and childhood playthings in quaint but jam-packed collection. Opening Times: Thursday to Saturday 11am - 4pm (We advise that you ring before planning a visit to check all these opening details are up to date.)
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UPI Almanac for Wednesday, July 29, 2020
On July 29, 2019, "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus broke the record for longest-running Billboard Hot 100 No. 1.
Billy Ray Cyrus (L) and Lil Nas X perform during the 19th annual BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on June 23, 2019. Their song, "Old Town Road," broke the record for longest No. 1 single on the Billboard 100 on July 29, 2019. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
President Bill Clinton speaks at the U.S. National Arboretum on new environmental legislation on January 12, 1999. On July 29, 1999, a federal judge fined Clinton $89,000 for lying about his relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. File Photo by Ian Wagreich/UPI | License Photo
Apollo 15 astronauts David R. Scott (L) and Alfred M. Worden (C) watch James B. Irwin open the hatch on a model of the Apollo 15 command service module after a news conference at the Manned Spacecraft Center. On July 29, 1958, NASA was created. UPI File Photo | License Photo
Today is Wednesday, July 29, the 211th day of 2020 with 155 to follow.
The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Leo. They include French historian Alexis de Tocqueville in 1805; novelist Booth Tarkington in 1869; Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in 1883; Dag Hammarskjold, second U.N. secretary-general/Nobel Peace Prize laureate, in 1905; actor Clara Bow in 1905; author Chester Himes in 1909; Elizabeth Dole, former U.S. labor secretary/U.S. senator in 1936 (age 84); TV anchorman Peter Jennings in 1938; artist Jenny Holzer in 1950 (age 70); documentary filmmaker Ken Burns in 1953 (age 67); musician Geddy Lee in 1953 (age 67); musician Patti Scialfa in 1953 (age 67); TV host Tim Gunn in 1953 (age 67); country singer Martina McBride in 1966 (age 54); actor Timothy Omundson in 1969 (age 51); actor Wil Wheaton in 1972 (age 48); actor Josh Radnor in 1974 (age 46); Formula 1 champion driver Fernando Alonso in 1981 (age 39); NFL quarterback Dak Prescott in 1993 (age 27).
On this date in history:
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In 1588, off the coast of Gravelines, France, Spain's "Invincible Armada" was defeated by an English naval force under the command of Charles Howard and Francis Drake.
In 1794, the first African Methodist Episcopal Church, Mother Bethel, was dedicated in Philadelphia. The church was founded by Black members of St. George's Methodist Church who left the congregation due to racial segregation at the church.
In 1848, at the height of the potato famine in Ireland, an abortive nationalist revolt against English rule was crushed by government police in Tipperary.
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In 1900, Italian King Umberto I was shot to death by Gaetano Bresci, an Italian-born anarchist who resided in the United States before returning to his homeland to kill the king.
In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- NASA.
In 1967, a fire aboard the USS Forrestal killed 134 U.S. service members and injured another 161. The super carrier was in the Gulf of Tonkin launching aircraft in missions against targets in North Vietnam.
In 1976, David Berkowitz, the so-called "Son of Sam," fatally shot two people in the Bronx, the first in a series of shootings that would terrorize New York City for months. Berkowitz pleaded guilty to the murders and was sentenced to more than 300 years in prison.
In 1981, British Prince Charles, son of the queen, married Diana Spencer at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Diana was killed in a car crash in 1997.
In 1999, a federal judge in Little Rock, Ark., fined U.S. President Bill Clinton $89,000 for lying about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky in his deposition in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.
In 2004, Democrats nominated Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts to oppose Republican incumbent George W. Bush in the November presidential election.
In 2008, U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, was indicted by a federal grand jury on seven felony counts accusing him of failing to disclose gifts from an oil services company. Stevens died in a 2010 plane crash.
In 2019, "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus broke the record for longest-running Billboard Hot 100 No. 1. The previous record was set by Mariah Carey's "One Sweet Day."
A thought for the day: "Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age." -- American novelist Booth Tarkington
Booth Tarkington
Dag Hammarskjold
Dwight David Eisenhower
Elizabeth Dole
Gaetano Bresci
Italian King Umberto
Patti Scialfa
Ted Stevens
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Google Fiber coming to Charlotte?
birky replied to HopHead's topic in Charlotte Coffee House
Any updates on the roll out of either Google or AT&T? Feels like there's been near complete silence, and I can't find info on which areas will see service soon.
FreeMore Projects (West Morehead, Freedom Drive, Bryant Park)
birky replied to cooperdawg's topic in Charlotte
Fencing at the Refinery site went up yesterday.
The State of Higher Education in Charlotte
birky replied to cltbwimob's topic in Charlotte
I'm going to dispute some of what you mentioned in part 2. There are certainly some graduate programs which rank somewhat well at the national level. And there are some faculty are well established in their fields. But the reason why international students make up more than a fifth of all graduate enrollment isn't because of the school's reputation abroad. First, there is limited interest in computing and engineering disciplines among domestic students in the US, especially when it comes to computer science, information technology, and certain engineering fields (electrical and mechanical being the primary ones). Schools like UNC Charlotte have to rely on international enrollment in order to keep these programs alive for domestic students and to attract and keep quality researchers. Every single one of the programs mentioned above would prefer to decrease international enrollment if it meant greater representation by domestic students. And that's not speculation on my part. That's not to say, in any terms, that international students aren't great students (they are) or that they don't do great work (they do). But they aren't coming here because of UNC Charlotte's reputation. They often come here because they know someone else, either through family or through school, that also came here. It's still largely word of mouth. But take Indian students, who make up the majority of the international students at UNCC - they are not coming from IITs or NITs, which are considered the top public institutions in India. Those students to go Carnegie Mellon or other high-ranking schools. Instead, they are coming from second-tier institutions, which often lack the resources of US schools. I can also say that for many international students, UNCC was not their first choice. So make of that what you will. A big part of what drives university prestige is both the quality and volume of research. While UNCC does produce some quality research, it's not at the same volume of NCSU or UNC. That's probably the bigger difference between the schools at this point. UNCC is classified as a Tier II research institution based on the number of doctoral research degrees it awards annually. They just recently jumped from III to II. UNC and NCSU are classified as Tier I. And there are some big hurdles in closing that gap. First, schools tend to be very territorial about who can offer what programs. If you want to be classified as Tier I, you have to graduate more PhDs and that means offering more programs. UNC, NCSU, ECU, and UNCG will all fight UNCC if they already offer a competing program in the same discipline. Second is that you have to be able to adequately fund these research programs. UNCC's small endowment is a major issue in this regard. The gap between UNC and NCSU is massive, but the gap between NCSU and UNCC or ECU is equally as massive (roughly $1 billion). That's such an advantage in terms of what you can offer faculty and graduate students (some schools can afford to fund master's students similar to PhD students; UNCC can't). As a research institution, UNC Charlotte fills a space ahead of non-research schools like App State or Asheville. It's roughly on par with ECU and UNCG. But the likelihood of it closing the research gap on UNC or NCSU in our lifetimes is, frankly, remote.
Charlotte Gateway Station and Railroad Improvements
birky replied to dubone's topic in Charlotte
Ok, maybe I am seeing this incorrectly, but it looks like the gold line has ROW in those images. No?
Legacy Union (former Charlotte Observer redevelopment)
birky replied to Missmylab4's topic in Charlotte
Does the pyramid come with a stargate?
SouthEnd "Gold District"
birky replied to Windsurfer's topic in Charlotte
CO article on Bardo and Yume: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/biz-columns-blogs/whats-in-store/article162536028.html
At the rate this is going, I expect my neighborhood will see Google Fiber sometime in the early 2200s.
UNCC is terminating their on-campus transit agreement with CATS and moving to run the service in-house, starting this fall. Name is tentatively "Niner Transit". The university is purchasing a number of new buses that will carry UNC Charlotte branding, but those won't be ready until 2018. The new service will include 3 lines (silver, green, gold) serving more of campus than the current arrangement with CATS, and will include extended operating hours and greater route frequency. The University is also launching a bike sharing system called "Charlotte Wheels", with 10 rack locations & 100 bikes. The bikes are through Gotcha. Starting this fall as well.
Charlotte Metro Tower | 40 Story Duke Energy Tower
birky replied to AP3's topic in Charlotte
Heard from a trusted source: 5 stories, stick-built with podium parking. Quick Trip out front.
Charlotte Center City Streetcar Network
birky replied to Sabaidee's topic in Charlotte
It's a thought, I guess. Although I'm not sure why you argue that a city can't have both great urbanism and an efficient public transportation system that offers access to lower-middle class and working-class individuals. Your argument, and correct me if I'm wrong, seems to be based on the premise that such a system isn't cheap. I'm just basing that on the fact that both of the articles you link focus on cost. But is cost necessarily a problem? Look, I think we all agree that government waste is a concern; we all want government to be run as efficiently as possible. But don't we also want government to be run well? And do we acknowledge that doing something well doesn't necessarily mean doing it cheaply? Neither of the articles you supplied actually reference a real-world study of a privatized public transportation system. The first is pure speculation, and the second is based on a working paper which argues that most cost savings of a private transit system would come from the elimination of collective bargaining with public sector unions. Neither of these articles actually suggest that such an option would increase urbanism or in any way better serve the lower-middle or working-class. It certainly might cut costs at the expense of public workers, and I guess shave off [literally] a few dollars in taxes for you and I every year. But we collectively invest in things like public transportation as a social good: to improve the standard of living and spur economic development (by the same principles we invest in things like clean drinking water and libraries). We invest in things publicly for different reasons than private companies do. We recognize that not all workers have access to reliable personal transportation, and these individuals play important roles in the local economy. I think it's highly questionable that markets can do (and would do) a better job than the city/state in providing infrastructure, including transportation. They may be able to do it more cheaply, but they may not be able to provide the same social good. There's just far too much focus here on $ and not enough focus on people. With regards to urbanism, Charlotte continues to face a big problem with its extreme socioeconomic segregation. While I'm obviously in favor of investing in public transportation, the big question facing the city this century is how to address gentrification. We've already seen it in south Charlotte. We're seeing it now in Belmont, Villa Heights, etc. We will see it in Biddleville and other neighborhoods along the Gold Line. Urbanism relies on more than just connectivity provided by public transportation; it also needs mixed-use and diverse neighborhoods, including socioeconomically diverse neighborhoods. Unless Charlotte starts to require more affordable housing in new developments in the city core, we won't get the type of urban environment we all want to see.
Just FYI: this degree planning stuff isn't secret information. It's published on the University's website: http://provost.uncc.edu/curriculum/planning "Request to plan" means given the green-light for the academic department to plan out what that degree program would look like, and obviously the request to establish is the actual OK to create the program.
Charlotte Knights AAA Ballpark in Third Ward
It's not as toasty if you enter through the center field gate.
Ascent Uptown - 33 stories (3rd and Poplar)
birky replied to navigator319's topic in Charlotte
Thanks. I now have a subtitle for my forthcoming coffee table book, "The Parking Decks of Charlotte: Uptown Stunners"
the bearden
That's no pond, it's a reservoir of beige paint for all of uptown.
CATS Long Term Transit Plan - Silver, Red Lines
birky replied to monsoon's topic in Charlotte
The CO article once again mentioned CATS' plan for a $6 billion splurge on additional light rail lines. Given extremely low interest rates, and that bonds are typically fairly easy to pay off over time due to inflation (not to mention expected future tax revenue as the city grows), would a bond referendum make sense as opposed to another tax hike? I'm sure the annual debt service would be significant, but could the city afford that in order to fund the full build-out?
This building on W Morehead between Cedar & McNinch is coming down. Demolition started on Saturday. The low brick building next to it, on the McNinch side, is already gone.
Bearden Park in Third Ward, Uptown Charlotte
Not that it's necessarily a bad thing, but I miss the old days when Brevard Court was a hidden gem. It's already a madhouse during baseball season, but certainly the hotel & offices will bring increased business. I know, I know...
I believe the original plan called for development from McNinch to Cedar, but the lot next to Cedar is currently being used as parking space for the storage building construction next to Steve's Motorsports. Quick question: after completing the demo of the previous building, why did the developers lay down grass? Why not just leave it as a dirt lot?
MLS in Charlotte - 2021
birky replied to tozmervo's topic in Charlotte Coffee House
Agree with all of this. I'm not in any way against public investment, but an MLS team in Charlotte would be a luxury. There are so many more pressing quality of life issues for residents in this city than another publicly-subsidized pro sports team. Pro leagues will continue to extract public money from local and state governments until those groups stand up to them. As an aside, the next big issue for me was the artificial urgency of this decision. I mean, clearly by design to squeeze the city & county into making a decision without a full vetting process. While the total cost to the city & county were not staggering sums, how many impact studies were performed before the street car was approved? [I have no idea, but I'm guessing more than zero]. I was sort of disgusted with Center City Partners, who were pushing approval of the deal really hard on social media. Their press release included a throw away comment about $500 million in expected economic development around a new stadium, but were completely silent about releasing their supposed economic impact study to the public. Although entirely unsurprising, for a group like CCP to push the general public on this, yet refuse to release their study (if it even exists), remains a joke.
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So long as there's a Hot Topic in the new mall, I'll be satisfied.
I don't think it's possible for UNCC to absorb CSL. That is generally not how public institutions operate. If UNCC were to open a law school, it would have to be approved through the UNC Board of Governors, there'd need to be adequate funding, a hiring process for faculty and staff, any students would need to go through the admission process, etc, etc. There's a ton that has to happen behind the scenes for this sort of addition. It's far more likely that CSL goes in bankruptcy and closes, and then a university like Wake (with an existing law program), hires some faculty for a cohort program in Charlotte.
Honestly, I wouldn't expect anything like this from UNCC in the near future. It's more likely that Wake expands their existing options in Charlotte to include an option for their JD.
No, this is news to me. All I can really say, and let me be clear that I am not directly involved in this in any way so please take with a grain of salt, but as I understand it UNCC has determined the joint programs are not in the school's best interest. Probation from the ABA certainly reinforces that sentiment.
Brooklyn Village Redevelopment in 2nd Ward
birky replied to atlrvr's topic in Charlotte
I have debated bringing this up for a few weeks now given the sensitive nature of this topic. However, considering current events this seems like an opportunity for discussion. In short, I think we should avoid calling the redeveloped land in 2nd Ward anything resembling "Brooklyn". When minority groups discuss the term structural racism, what is really being suggested is what can be called covert racism. That is, it's racism which is subtle/passive and usually lacking in intent. We tend to think of racism as something that is overt, like using a slur when referring to someone. This act demonstrates intent. What African-Americans in this country are trying to get others to acknowledge are the racial components of society that most of us never notice but reinforce domination of one group by another. "Brooklyn Village" is a great example of this. For those unfamiliar with the backstory, Brooklyn was an African-American neighborhood in 2nd Ward that was razed in the 1960s and 70s. The intent of the city was to fight crime and squalor, which often occurs in economically depressed neighborhoods. In order to redevelop the area, many black families were forced to relocate to other parts of the city. Forced relocation can be a huge burden on the working poor, and I think it's safe to say that incidents like these are not among the city's proudest moments. Now we are seeing calls for this area to once again be redeveloped, back into a neighborhood with mixed-use developments. There's an implied acknowledgement here that was lost was culturally significant. But the plan for this new development only calls for 10% set aside for affordable housing. Knowing what we do about demographics, this means the new "Brooklyn Village" will be predominantly white. And this is where I think we run into a problem - I wish there was a better term, but essentially we're talking about a white washing of the history of the previous Brooklyn neighborhood. I think it's one thing for a neighborhood to gentrify (and there are lots of criticisms with how that comes about), and another thing entirely to appropriate the name and the history of "Brooklyn" for a redevelopment that will really have nothing to do with the original. And I'm not suggesting that I'm against the redevelopment plan. Just call it something else. I think this is one of those simple choices that takes into consideration our fellow citizens.
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Are products like Soylent and in-vitro meat the future of food?
By Tom King, special to Utne Reader
| Winter 2014
The past five years have seen significant advancements in the development of a truly futuristic food with real potential to alleviate world hunger, improve the environment and end animal cruelty: in-vitro meat (IVM).
Photo by Fotolia/JPC-PROD
Our increasing distrust of American food production systems is fertile ground for both innovation and hucksterism—the latter seemingly the case of Soylent, a meal replacement beverage touting itself as “the future of food.”
Photo by Flickr/AFGE
First, the puzzling news. In January 2012, the USDA proposed the “Modernization of Poultry Slaughter Inspection” rule, slated to take effect in October 2014. The HACCP-based plan would decrease the number of USDA inspectors overseeing poultry slaughter assembly lines, allow the lines to run faster, and turn over the majority of inspection duties to company employees, essentially privatizing the inspection process. The remaining USDA inspectors would focus on laboratory testing for pathogens.
In a 2013 report, “The High Cost of Chicken,” Consumer Reports stated: “We recently tested 316 samples of raw chicken breasts bought from stores across the country, and found salmonella on 10.8 percent of samples. We also found campylobacter, another pathogen, on 43 percent. …97 percent of the breasts we tested harbored bacteria that could make you sick.”
The USDA claims it’s trying to update a system that has been in place since the Eisenhower administration. Food safety advocates are concerned about increased contamination. The public is understandably skeptical: Food recalls and breakouts of food-borne illnesses are common in the news. Bowing to pressure, the USDA tightened some of the rules in a final draft in July but to no avail. Food & Water Watch filed a suit in September to block the implementation of the USDA’s New Poultry Inspection System (NPIS).
Our increasing distrust of American food production systems is fertile ground for both innovation and hucksterism—the latter seemingly the case of Soylent, a meal replacement beverage touting itself as “the future of food” and a solution to world hunger.
Two years ago, 25-year-old software developer Rob Rhinehart decided that feeding himself required too much time, effort, and money. Menu decisions, grocery shopping, cooking, and especially dishwashing were old-fashioned drudgeries unsuited to modern times. Rhinehart decided to approach the pesky biological mandate of nutrition as an engineering problem.
Following RDA guidelines, he reduced a standard diet to a recipe of essential components: vitamins, minerals, amino acids, protein, carbohydrates, and fats. He purchased most of his ingredients as processed powders from Amazon; canola and fish oils from the supermarket supplied the fats. Rhinehart set to tinkering and eventually produced a beige slurry with a bland, oatmeal-like taste. “Looks like semen,” wrote a Gawker reviewer in 2013. His own guinea pig, Rhinehart downed his concoction and kicked off a 90-day trial of his formula. His plan was to give up solid food completely.
“I promised that if I was still healthy after three months of Soylent, I would launch a Kickstarter campaign to bring it to the world,” Rhinehart wrote in a February 2013 blogpost, “How I Stopped Eating Food.” He named his product after a food wafer made of soy and lentils distributed to a starving populace in Harry Harrison’s dystopian novel, Make Room, Make Room (1966). The book inspired the 1973 sci-fi movie Soylent Green, where the wafers were made of human flesh.
The name tantalized Reinhart’s target demographic: irony-loving, zombie-esteeming, millennial tech professionals who abhor dishwashing and distraction from the computer screen. Rhinehart’s sales pitch set the hook: “It’s all about efficiency, it’s about cost and convenience. I don’t have to cook, I don’t have to clean dishes,” he told Gawker in 2013. Then he reeled them in: “Soylent is 90 percent of my diet. I feel like the six million dollar man,” he wrote on his blog, Mostly Harmless. “My physique has noticeably improved, my skin is clearer, my teeth whiter, my hair thicker, and my dandruff gone.” Geeks, gamers, hipsters, dieters, and preppers rushed to order the brave new smoothie.
Rhinehart posted his recipe online and invited feedback from early adopters, declaring Soylent “the world’s first open-source recipe” (a claim easily refuted by Googling “homemade pizza recipe”). Online forums buzzed with gleeful tales of room-clearing farts by Soylent users; health care professionals protested the lack of long-term testing and a one-size-fits-all approach to nutrition; scientists accused Rhinehart of epistemic arrogance and making it up as he went along.
The uproar provoked a media storm. Rhinehart talked to the New York Times, Forbes, NPR, Vice, Time, The New Yorker and countless websites, dismissing his detractors as “reactionaries” and dropping incendiary statements. In 2013, he told Grub Street: “Nutrition is unfortunately a field where everyone thinks they’re an expert. I am not, and I don’t need to be.” He fanned the flames in a Motherboard interview: “A lot of people see food as this essential, sacred, unchanging thing. I don’t think that’s really based in evidence” (excluding teeth, cranial muscles, and digestive systems, of course).
As controversy grew, so did revenue. Alexis Ohanian, a founder of Reddit and an investor in Soylent, described it as “the most brilliant marketing strategy ever.” In little more than a year, Soylent garnered $3.5 million in crowdfunding and venture capital. When the FDA approved Soylent as a food product in July 2014, NPR reported: “The company says new orders are rolling in to the tune of $10,000 a day.” As of the October release of Soylent 1.1, a version bump addressing flatulence issues, orders were backlogged for months.
So why all the fuss over a smoothie? Meal replacement drinks are nothing new. They’ve been used by military, the space program, and the medical industry for at least 60 years—think baby formula—and products like Carnation Instant Breakfast (1964), Ensure and Jevity have been marketed for decades.
Soylent’s impact seems like a generational knee-jerk, a symbolic shunning of our ailing food production systems and our bombastic, wasteful food culture. Whatever Rhinehart’s claims, at this moment Soylent is primarily food for thought.
Soylent marks a unique shift in the food perceptions of an influential demographic: 20- to 35-year-old tech professionals, predominantly male, typically associated with artisan pizza, organic kale, and sushi. Why would so many members of a privileged and sophisticated group even consider swapping a multiverse of tastes for an insipid, transhumanist smoothie? Is it the culinary analog of punk rock, a stripping-down of bloated mores and systems? Salmonella blues? Decision fatigue? Merely another fad? Or, as Rhinehart doggedly asserts, the future of food? Time, the ultimate arbiter of prophets and profits, will tell.
But enough about mundane cash cows. The past five years have seen significant advancements in the development of a truly futuristic food with real potential to alleviate world hunger, improve the environment and end animal cruelty: in-vitro meat (IVM).
The world’s first lab-grown burger, four years in the making, was served up at an August 2013 press conference in London. Only two people tasted the five-ounce patty, both deeming it dry, but with taste and texture better than expected. Professor Mark Post of Maastricht University in the Netherlands, the scientist leading the burger project, was thrilled with the response: “This is proof of concept,” he said in a TED talk. Post’s burger, composed of billions of lab-cultured muscle cells produced at a cost of $330,000, was underwritten by Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
Much like Soylent, Post’s concept is nothing new. In the early 1930s, French scientist Alexis Carrel announced that he had kept chicken tissue alive for 20 years, prompting Winston Churchill to write in 1932, “we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.” Churchill’s prophecy was slow to materialize. Animal cells were cultivated almost exclusively by the medical industry for vaccines and insulin until 2008, when the animal rights group PETA offered a $1 million dollar prize for getting in-vitro chicken on the market by 2014.
“There is no future in conventional food production. The future is in in-vitro meat,” said Ingrid Newkirk, PETA’s president and co-founder.
To date, IVM research is focused primarily on beef. According to a 2013 report by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), “Livestock are the source of 33 percent of the protein in human diets. They utilize 30 percent of the global land area, and they are responsible for about 12 percent of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.” One-third of the crops grown world-wide are devoted to livestock feed and the global demand for meat is projected to grow by 60 percent in 40 years.
“At the global level, if all meat would be lab-grown, the greenhouse gas emissions could be reduced by 80 percent, and the water use by 90 percent,” noted Hanna Tuomisto, who researches the environmental impacts of lab-grown meat at the European Commission Joint Research Centre.
The implications are tremendous. The environmental stresses of factory farming, the insane cruelty of feedlots and slaughterhouses, the dangers of antibiotics and growth hormones, deforestation and habitat destruction, greenhouse gases, contamination risks—all eliminated. And when the IVM process is perfected, it won’t be limited to beef. With a single stem cell, scientists can grow any meat—fish, fowl, reptile and aardvark.
With so much at stake, IVM research currently has no problems with funding. Modern Meadow, a Brooklyn-based company using 3-D printers to print layers of tissue from cultured animal cells, is funded in part by Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal. Sergey Brin continues to foot Post’s burger project in the Netherlands, with hopes of a market-viable burger in a few years.
Perhaps the biggest hurdle facing IVM development is overcoming the public’s “yuck” factor. Helen Breewood, a scientist on Post’s team, addresses that challenge: “A lot of people consider lab-grown meat repulsive at first. But if they consider what goes into producing normal meat in a slaughterhouse, I think they would also find that repulsive.”
Tom King is a freelance writer based in Lawrence, Kansas.
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You're posting something that 3 years old. What's the flipping point ?
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Seeing a man before his color
President Barack Obama.
This piece was published on August 28, 2008 in the Pasadena Star News.
Thank you for not talking to me like a black man.
That statement of gratitude was said to me by Maurice Brown, an African-American man, more than fifteen years ago. At that time I was Manager of the Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program (HICAP) for Los Angeles County, a program administered by the California Department of Aging. I was talking to Maurice about the possibility of his training a group of HICAP volunteers.
I was looking for someone who could help the Volunteer Counselors, most of whom were over the age of 65, in their peer counseling on Medicare, HMOs and supplemental insurance at senior citizen’s centers throughout Los Angeles County. Most of the volunteers were retired professionals who absorbed the complex, complicated Medicare information with relative ease.
The newly trained Volunteer Counselors arrived at their local senior center armed with written materials to help them convey information about Medicare. What they weren’t prepared for was the recent widow who arrived, still in shock and mourning, with a grocery bag full of unopened bills and Medicare claims. Many were women whose husbands had always paid the bills and they had no clue where to start. Some had no children or close family members to help. I hadn’t figured out how to teach the Volunteer Counselors how to deal with their client’s distraught emotional state, and I thought Maurice could.
During our telephone conversation, I was well aware that Maurice was African-American, but his race had no relevance to our business at hand so I didn’t take it into account. Apparently, Maurice had experienced it the other way around, he was an African-American first, and a professional trainer second.
Although his statement took me back for a moment, I told him that I was seeking his expertise in enhancing communication skills and that his being African-American was of no consequence to me. That he would thank me for seeing his skills and abilities before the color of his skin helped me to understand what minorities deal with on a daily basis.
I first met Maurice Brown at a quarterly meeting of HICAP Managers in Sacramento. When my fellow HICAP Managers and I met every three months, the Department of Aging staff presented a training session during our two-day meeting. As a trainer myself, I was always anxious to see another trainer in action and Maurice was one of the best.
Maurice served in the military with one of the guys who later joined the staff in Sacramento. Maurice got his experience in teaching communication styles while in the military and was hired to train HICAP Managers in those skills. He discussed the complexity of human communication: body language, ethnic differences in relating to others and the reticence of people to say what they mean. In the second half of the training session, he offered suggestions to improve communication and understanding, a daunting task.
Throughout his presentation, Maurice held our attention and gained the respect of a rather jaded group, all of who were trainers with their own point of view, and who had been through myriad training sessions.
When I got back to Los Angeles, I called Maurice and described my training needs to him. After a fairly lengthy conversation, he thanked me for looking at him as a professional first and a black man second. As far as I was concerned, it was not hard to do.
I hired Maurice again several years later to train another group of volunteers. This time they were all women. I wanted to help them learn management skills because they were in charge of organizing other women in their local communities. An argument could be made that I should have hired a female for this training session but I knew Maurice, and I knew he could pull it off. About ten minutes into the presentation, the group was charmed by Maurice’s authenticity and sincerity and we had a great training session.
In this presidential election we have a black man who is asking us not to think of him solely in terms of race. I often think about Maurice and wonder if he still finds that people see his skin color first, and his experience and talent second. I understand better how frustrating it must be to look out at the world and see it looking back at you solely based on your skin color.
This election is a landmark in our country because Barak Obama is presenting our country with the opportunity to see him as a man first and an African-American second. How stirring it must be for Maurice Brown to see a young African-American running for the highest office in the land. I hope Barak Obama can say to his fellow countryman, no matter the outcome of the election: thank you for not talking to me like a black man.
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Fred Rogers wife, Mrs. Joanne Rogers, left, visits with friends, including Pittsburgh Steelers Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Franco Harris, right rear, in front of a giant Mister Rogers Forever Stamp following the first-day-of-issue dedication in WQED's Fred Rogers Studio in Pittsburgh, Friday, March 23, 2018.(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Published: Jan. 14, 2021 at 4:16 PM CST|Updated: Jan. 14, 2021 at 7:54 PM CST
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Joanne Rogers, an an accomplished concert pianist who celebrated and protected the legacy of her husband, the beloved children’s TV host Mister Rogers, has died in Pittsburgh. She was 92.
Rogers died Thursday, according to the Fred Rogers Center. No cause of death was given. The center called her “a joyful and tender-hearted spirit, whose heart and wisdom have guided our work in service of Fred’s enduring legacy.”
Joanne and Fred Rogers were married for more than 50 years, spanning the launch and end of the low-key, low-tech “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” which presented Fred Rogers as one adult in a busy world who always had time to listen to children. His pull as America’s favorite neighbor never seemed to wane before his death in 2003.
“I can’t think of a time when we’ve needed him so much,” Joanne Rogers told The Associated Press in 2018. “I think his work is just as timely now as it was when it came out, frankly.”
An ordained Presbyterian minister, Fred Rogers produced the pioneering show at Pittsburgh public television station WQED beginning in 1966, going national two years later. He composed his own songs for the show.
It offered a soft haven for kids, in sharp contrast to the louder, more animated competition. The final episode of what his widow called “a comfortable lap” aired in August 2001.
(2/2) Joanne was a brilliant and accomplished musician, a wonderful advocate for the arts, and a dear friend to everyone in our organization. We extend our heartfelt condolences to Joanne’s family and the thousands of people who had the privilege of knowing and loving her. pic.twitter.com/aPx9mGwhzc
— Fred Rogers Productions (@FredRogersPro) January 14, 2021
PBS stations around the country still air “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” and some can be found on the PBS Kids video app. There are DVD collections on Amazon and episodes stream on Amazon Prime.
The city of Pittsburgh, where the show was produced, tweeted that Joanne Rogers was one of Pittsburgh’s “greatest neighbors.” It said the couple “forever changed our city.” Other tributes came from such varied fans as tennis star Billie Jean King to designer Kenneth Cole.
Fred Rogers’ effect on popular culture was profound: Eddie Murphy parodied him on “Saturday Night Live” in the 1980s and one of Rogers’ trademark zip-up sweaters hangs in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. He’s had a category dedicated to him on “Jeopardy.”
2018, the 50th anniversary of when Rogers first appeared on TV screens, prompted a PBS special, a new postage stamp, the feature-length documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” and, a year later, the Tom Hanks-led biopic “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.”
Born Sara Joanne Byrd in 1928, Joanne Rogers met her future husband at Rollins College in Florida. After Fred Rogers’ death, she helped develop the Fred Rogers Center Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media at St. Vincent College in his hometown of Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
“Joanne and Fred were Pennsylvania treasures committed to improving our communities and the lives of our children. We will never forget their legacy of kindness,” Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said in a statement.
She is survived by two sons, James Byrd Rogers and John Rogers.
Associated Press reporter Michael Rubinkam contributed to this report from Pennsylvania.
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The Black woman lawyer who brought down America’s most powerful Mafia boss in 1936
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Eunice Hunton Carter, right from age eight, had the desire to study law. She once told a young boy on the beach that she wanted to be a lawyer to ensure “the bad people went to jail.” In three decades, Carter would bring down America’s biggest gangster in the 1930s, but not without certain difficulties.
Being an African-American woman living in the first half of the 20th century, Carter experienced racism, from being paid far less than her white male colleagues to being passed over for judicial appointments, The New York Times reported. Carter was at the time the first African-American woman to serve as a New York assistant district attorney. A pioneering prosecutor, she was the only woman and the only person of color on the team led by Thomas E. Dewey that took down the country’s biggest gangster.
Her work as a prosecutor also came at a time when the American Bar Association discriminated against African-American lawyers, and the contributions of women lawyers were relegated to the background. But Carter did not let these racial and gender barriers ruin her career. Thanks to her strategy, Lucky Luciano, the most powerful Mafia boss in history, was convicted.
“She was black and a woman and a lawyer, a graduate of Smith and the granddaughter of three slaves and one free woman of color, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York of the 1930s,” Carter’s grandson, Yale Law School professor and best-selling author Stephen L. Carter, writes about his grandmother’s extraordinary life in the book Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster published in 2018. “…without her work the Mafia boss would never have been convicted.”
Historians believe her career rise was inspired by her parents. Carter was born in Atlanta in 1899 to William and Addie Hunton, both college-educated. William was the founder of the black division of the YMCA, which fought for racial equality, and Addie was a social worker. Following the 1906 Atlanta riot, the family moved from Atlanta to Brooklyn, with Addie later becoming active with the NAACP and the YMCA.
Carter graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, receiving a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree. She was a social worker for some time before she decided to study law, becoming one of the first Black women to receive a law degree from Fordham University in New York City.
In just four years of graduating from Fordham Law School, 36-year-old Carter came up with the strategy to bring down Luciano while she was assistant prosecutor under Dewey, the future presidential candidate.
Luciano was a bootlegger for the Sicilian Mafia during Prohibition before creating America’s first national organized crime syndicate, the “Commission,” run by five Italian crime families in New York and top Jewish mobsters. In the mid-1930s, Luciano got involved in drugs, illegal liquor, prostitution, among other illegal activities which he either supervised or demanded payments from other operators, according to The Mob Museum.
Dewey, who had begun targeting the mobster, assigned his male prosecutors to investigate the Mafia boss’ connections to crimes drug trafficking, extortion and murder in the 1930s. Carter, the only woman on the team, was assigned to investigate illicit sex work, a report by The Hill said.
“In other words, she was assigned to a backwater, essentially busy work, to keep the public happy,” Carter’s grandson Stephen told The Hill. “But where all the other assistants failed to tie Luciano to any criminal activity, Eunice, to everyone’s surprise, constructed the case that Luciano profited from prostitution in New York City. That was the only charge on which he was ever tried, and he was convicted.”
Indeed, through the crucial evidence Carter presented to New York State special prosecutor Dewey, mob kingpin Luciano was subsequently sentenced to 30 to 50 years in prison in 1936. He was paroled in 1946 and deported to Italy.
The wife of a prominent dentist and mother of a young child, Carter’s pioneering work in the midst of racial hatred and intolerance has shaped America over time. Geoff Schumacher, vice president of exhibits and programs at the Mob Museum said that though Carter’s strategy to take down the gangster preceded the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act now used against criminal organizations, the Black woman lawyer did lay out “the eventual strategy prosecutors would use to go after the mob.”
Carter, apart from her remarkable work in the judiciary, played an immense role in the Pan-African Congress and in United Nations improving the status of women in the world.
“Skill, talent, and ingenuity prevail in woman-kind as well as man-kind,” Carter said at the International Council of Women triennial conference in Greece years before her death in 1970. “A country or community which fails to allow its women to choose and develop their individual beings in an atmosphere of freedom thrusts away from itself a large part of the human resources which can give it strength and vitality.”
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Inspired by loss, woman puts a 2020 twist on Elf on the Shelf
Cherie O'Neil makes masks for humans and elves, alike.
the elf on the shelf, maybe watching for Santa, but he's also become a form of comfort for this family in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. It's been a healing process. I know he really wanted me to make masks. Many, like Sherry O Neill, have lost loved ones in 2020. It's been a very rough year. Her mother succumbed to Parkinson's in June, and in September her son, Michael, died after a battle with leukemia. When the pandemic hit, Michael had encouraged Sherry to make masks, but she didn't think that she could keep up with demand. Before my son had passed away, Hey had suggested that I put masks on line and I said I couldn't keep up to them And after he passed, I decided maybe I couldn't keep up to them. But as the holidays approached, a friend suggested a twist on the idea. Tiny masks perfectly sized for the elf on the shelf that keeps kids on the nice list leading up to Christmas. Every day I keep thinking it's going to slow down and we probably take 25 30 envelopes to the post office daily. Her sales on Facebook took off and families all over the country have gotten the must have 2020 accessory for their elves. I've had so many people even message me after they received it and said their kids were so excited about the mask for the elf, and it's just puts a smile on my face. It's become a family business to I've been one of the elf's like, you know, with selling them, helping her sell them, but also tiny elastic. The hours spent creating tiny, intricate snowflakes and cutting fabric have brought joy to families across the U. S and healing to the O Neill's. I know he'd be really excited about this and and happy to see me see me doing something like this.
Cherie O'Neil, like so many, has lost a lot in 2020. Her mother died of Parkinson's disease in June, followed by her son, Michael, who passed away a few months later in September. "It's been a very rough year," Cherie said.Before he died, Cherie's son encouraged her to make masks to give to friends and family. She wasn't sure she could keep up with the demand, but tried anyway. When a friend suggested her sewing talents could be used to give Elf on the Shelf a 2020 makeover, she leapt into action and created a whole line of teeny-tiny masks for anyone who keeps an Elf on the Shelf in their home. Check out the video above for more about this holiday twist on masks!
WESTMORELAND COUNTY, Pa. —
Cherie O'Neil, like so many, has lost a lot in 2020. Her mother died of Parkinson's disease in June, followed by her son, Michael, who passed away a few months later in September.
"It's been a very rough year," Cherie said.
Before he died, Cherie's son encouraged her to make masks to give to friends and family. She wasn't sure she could keep up with the demand, but tried anyway.
When a friend suggested her sewing talents could be used to give Elf on the Shelf a 2020 makeover, she leapt into action and created a whole line of teeny-tiny masks for anyone who keeps an Elf on the Shelf in their home.
Check out the video above for more about this holiday twist on masks!
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Taal Volcano: Eruption Aftermath | MAFA's Global Support
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This past winter break I had a chance to visit the homeland from December 29, 2019 - January 11, 2020. This was the first time in 15 years since I visited my homeland and I was excited to experience the Philippines in a new way with 11 other participants of the YouLeaD immersion program. During my time in the Philippines, I visited places in Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Cabatuan, Makati, Tagaytay, Paranque, and Metro Manila to learn how communities function and true Filipino values. I am forever changed by how hospitable people were to us especially through the non-profit organization, Gawad Kalinga, which are communities built to help solve the poverty problem in the Philippines. I learned so much about Filipino history, the value of community, and took pride in my own Filipino identity. It brought me to tears to hear after my stay in the Philippines ended that the Taal Volcano exploded on January 12, 2020. Before the eruption, I had the opportunity to hike up one of the mountains on January 10, 2020. As my family and I followed our tour guide, she showed us the Sulfur steaming from the mountain and emphasized the volcano was still active with it's last eruption happening in 1977. I watched as various visitors walk along the trail witness this beauty while recognizing how this community prospers from tourism.
Visiting the surrounding areas near Taal, the communities thrived and I was thankful I got to see Tagatay before leaving. Coming back to the United States a day before eruption was a blessing in disguise, but I was sadden to see that the communities I visited during my time were all affected by the ash fall. As family and news stories rushed in, I found out the eruption was issued at an Alert Level 4 by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) meaning a hazardous explosive eruption is possible within hours or days. To be greeted by family the day after coming back to only hear about this disaster, I was in shock. I was immersed in this culture for two weeks and found a home away from home; I felt for all the families and communities I visited. I wanted to do something to help since I had the privilege to just visit and not live in the aftermath. Those displaced by the eruption were put into accommodations in about 500 state-run emergency shelters, mostly school and government buildings. The eruption forced the shutdown of Manila’s main international airport for a night from the volcanic ash, resulting in the cancellation of hundreds of flights. Environmental aftershocks from the eruption go from sudden earthquakes, destroyed roads and bridges, and killed wildlife and vegetation from horses to pineapples.
Picture by: Travel Daily Media
As of Saturday, January 25, the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC) and PHIVOLCS have reported a total of 950 volcano tectonic earthquakes in the Taal area since the eruption, 176 of which were felt. On January 26, 2020: PHIVOLCS has downgraded to an Alert Level 3 due to the inconsistent, but decreasing volcanic activity in Taal. The dust has yet to settle from the Taal Volcano, which shot magma and ash miles above a Philippine island while displacing more than 200,000 residents. Currenntly, the Philippines has entered the recovery phase after this disaster.
The decline in volcanic activity means that many of the region’s 376,000 displaced villagers can return to their "homes."
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MAFA supporting Kabataan Alliance's Taal Relief Program
This year's MAFA board (2019-2020) is choosing to get involved with Kabataan Alliance's (KA) "Kapit Bisig Relief Program" by donating funds to their cause. To find out more about the aftermath of Taal eruption, please read this Informational Powerpoint provided by KA to understand the places affected. KA's Taal Relief works toward educating, uniting, and acting to help the communities affected by the fastest means of monetary donations. The National Alliance for Filipino Concerns will be the recipient for all donations. The Philippine local economy depends on tourism, agriculture and fishing. The latest eruption caused economic losses of $150 million, according to the Philippines National Economic Development Authority. Our donations will help the communities bring back basic necessities, but our ongoing support and showcasing the issues of the Philippines can help bring long-term success for our families and communities that need our backing.
Please keep a look out on our social medias for upcoming fundraising initiatives!
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The Wharton Investment Resource Exchange (WIRE) angel investing and start-up network within the WCNY is proud to host a series of 30-minute webinars where Wharton-alumni founders of startup companies share their innovative new businesses.
This webinar series will give Wharton alumni founders the opportunity to showcase their companies among the WCNY community, take questions from alumni, and strengthen the network to facilitate potential leads for hires, advisors or investors.
The first WCNY startup series talk will feature Felicity Johnson, Founder & CEO of My Virtual Veterinarian, a veterinary telehealth platform that won first prize at the Wharton Startup Challenge in May 2020. Ms. Johnson will be interviewed by Jerrod Hill, who is a team member of Amazon Web Service's Venture Capital Business Development group.
About My Virtual Veterinarian & Felicity Johnson
My Virtual Veterinarian is a marketplace that connects pet parents with veterinarians for video and chat appointments. Pet parents can view the availability, pricing, and expertise of all the veterinarians on the platform and select the one that meets their needs. The platform also allows pet parents to easily fulfill prescriptions and request refills through its online prescription partnership with Vets First Choice.
Felicity Johnson, WG'20, founded My Virtual Veterinarian while earning her MBA. Prior to Wharton, Felicity worked as an iOS Developer at Rent the Runway. Felicity started volunteering at no-kill shelters for her Senior Project in high school, and never stopped!
About Jerrod Hill
Jerrod Hill, WG'15, is a member of the Amazon Web Services Venture Capital Business Development team based in NYC where he focuses on funds across the United States. Prior to AWS, Jerrod worked in startup investing, management consulting, and education. He also worked at two accelerators, including DreamIt Philadelphia and Techstars NYC as well as worked at two investment funds, including Bowery Capital and Wharton Impact Investing Partners. During this period, Jerrod also worked in management consulting at the Boston Consulting Group in NYC, where he focused on strategy and people and organization projects for financial institutions.
Jerrod started his career as a science teacher with Teach for America, where he taught chemistry, physics, and physical science in Atlanta Public Schools. He has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University, a M.A. in Secondary Teaching from Georgia State University, and a MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Click here to register. Please register early as events can and do sell out quickly.
Pre-registration is required. Registration is subject to availability and will close on Tuesday, July 28th at 9:00am.
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With both an entertainer’s eye and a social scientist’s rigor, Wayne Parent subjects Louisiana’s politics to rational and empirical analysis, seeking and finding coherent reasons for the state’s well-known unique history. He resists resorting to vague hand-waving about “exoticism,” while at the same time he brings to life the juicy stories that illustrate his points. Pa rent’s main theme is that Louisiana’s ethnic mix, natural resources, and geography define a culture that in turn produces its unique political theater. He gives special attention to immigration patterns and Louisiana’s abundant supply of oil and gas, as well as to the fascinating variations in political temperaments in different parts of the state. Most important, he delivers thorough and concise explanations of Louisiana’s unusual legal system, odd election rules, overwrought constitutional history, convoluted voting patterns, and unmatched record of political corruption. In a new epilogue, Parent discusses how the hurricanes of 2005 will affect state politics and politicians as Louisiana struggles to regain its footing in the New South.
Inside the Carnival: Unmasking Louisiana Politics
Wayne Parent is Russell Long Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Louisiana State University. He is a frequent commentator on national and Louisiana politics for the media, including Nightline, CBS Sunday Morning, All Things Considered, Voice of America Radio, CNN News, New York Times, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, and U.S. News and World Report. He is the coeditor of The Louisiana Field Guide: Understanding Life in the Pelican State.
5.5 x 8.5 Paperback
Features: Bibliography, Index, Maps, Illustrated, Table of Contents
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Nations pledge $9.8B to global climate fund to help the poor
Climate change activists gather for a march and rally with Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg at the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton, Alberta, on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. (Dave Chidley/The Canadian Press via AP)
PARIS (AP) — Rich countries have pledged $9.8 billion to help poor nations tackle climate change, the Green Climate Fund said Friday, as environmental activists slammed the United States for refusing to contribute and other nations for giving too little.
Yannick Glemarec, the executive director of the Green Climate Fund, said 27 countries announced contributions by the end of a two-day conference in Paris.
The United States did not make any pledge, as U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to stop paying into the fund. Former U.S. President Barack Obama pledged $3 billion toward the fund, but Trump moved to withhold $2 billion of that after taking office.
The Climate Action Network, which is made up of more than 1,300 non-governmental organizations, castigated both the U.S. and Australia for refusing to pitch in.
They “have turned their backs on the world’s poorest and have once again isolated themselves in global efforts to respond to the climate emergency,” the network said.
It also named Canada, the Netherlands, Portugal, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Austria and Belgium as countries that “failed to deliver their fair share” and called on them to make up the shortfall.
Oxfam International’s Armelle Le Comte called the failure of the United States and Australia to provide funding “appalling.”
But the Green Climate Fund’s Glemarec put an optimistic spin on the shortfalls.
“We will most likely be able to find additional resources” before the United Nations’ annual climate conference, which will be held in December in Santiago, Chile, Glemarec said.
Glemarec said the extra money will increase the fund’s capacity from about $1.4 billion per year now to $2.4 billion per year in the period from 2020-2024.
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, speaking earlier Friday, praised “a great success” that he attributed largely to European countries, noting that almost half of the amount was being provided by France, Germany and Britain alone.
“Many countries will double their contributions,” Le Maire said.
The South Korea-based fund, which provides money to help developing countries reduce their emissions and cope with the impacts of climate change, says it has nearly exhausted some $7 billion received following an initial funding round five years ago.
Follow AP’s full coverage of climate change issues at https://www.apnews.com/Climate
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Walmart announces dates, locations for its parking lot drive-in theaters
by: Heath Higgs and Nexstar Media Wire
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Walmart on Wednesday announced the locations and dates for its summer pop-up drive-in movie theaters.
Teaming up with Tribeca Enterprises, the retailing giant is turning 160 of its store parking lots into drive-in movie theaters.
Tickets for family movies such as “Black Panther,” “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” “Back to the Future,” and more will be free but must be requested in advance.
Tickets will be available at 5 p.m. ET Wednesday. Gates open at 6:00 p.m. and the movie begins at 7:30 p.m., Walmart said.
States that will participate in the pop-up event include Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.
There’s never been a better time for a drive-in. 😄 Get ready for some family fun in the parking lot of 160 stores nationwide with ~free~ movies like Black Panther, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Back to the Future, and more. #WalmartDriveIn
— Walmart (@Walmart) August 5, 2020
“Through our digital means and vast footprint of stores, we’re hoping to bring some summer fun to families across the country,” Janey Whiteside, Walmart’s chief customer officer, said in a statement last month.
The Bentonville-based retail giant first announced its partnership with Tribeca in early July. The movie tour is set to run through October.
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Mississippi Food Network aims to address food insecurity in state
by: Kayla Thompson
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – This holiday season many people are working to feed those in need, but hunger is an issue that for some is an everyday reality.
12 News spoke to the Mississippi Food Network about its role in fighting food insecurity statewide, which has become a problem for 56 percent of seniors and more than 600,000 people.
“Mississippi is a state that has dealt with food insecurity way before the pandemic happened,” said Crystal Alfaro.
Alfaro said she knows what it’s like to not have enough to eat. She said the pandemic has increased the need for many families.
“For not just people who were already dealing with it, but also for people that never imagined in their wildest dreams. So it’s increased the need in ways we would never have imagined, and it’s increased the work that we do.”
In October of 2019, the Mississippi Food network distributed 24 million pounds of food, but this year that number jumped to 37 million.
“We have lots of different programs. We feed citizens, and there are lots of different ways to get involved,” said Alfaro.
Pastor Devon Adams said, “We normally operate every week and sometimes twice a week on every 1st, 3rd, and 5th Saturday, and the Mississippi Food Network saw what we were doing and partnered with us, and they have been a blessing to us and the City of Jackson. And I’ve ever found that people come from Clinton and Bolton to get some of this.”
The Mississippi Food Network is continuing to accept volunteers and agency partners. They encourage anyone interested in fighting food insecurity to reach out.
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Want to start a stampede? Turn toward a crowd of birders and yell, “Kirtland’s Warbler!”
The Kirtland’s is one of the most sought-after birds, especially in the springtime when a variety of warblers travel through Indiana, dressed in their most colorful finery, on the way to their breeding grounds. The Kirtland’s is not the most colorful of the warblers, nor is it one of most beautiful singers, but it is quite elusive, making it one of the most prized birds for listers.
The Kirtland’s Warbler’s story is one of conservation success. In 1970, they were heading toward extinction. Today, they are rebounding, but their ability to succeed rests largely in our hands. Fortunately, the Kirtland’s has captured the attention of brilliant scientists in the birding world and many studies are underway to determine the best methods of helping these birds continue to prosper.
Via email, I spoke with Dr. Nathan Cooper who is at the helm of one of the most comprehensive studies on the Kirtland’s. He and Pete Marra, director of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, obtained funding to study the life history of the Kirtland’s Warblers using geolocators and radio-tracking devices. Dr. Cooper, his assistant Tom Ryan and volunteer David Bryden, are committed to spending time in the field, both in the breeding grounds and in the wintering grounds, to learn more about the birds’ movements, survival rates and habitat use.
The first step in the study was to place geolocators on adult birds. The geolocators monitor light levels and give the scientists an indication of the latitude and longitude of the birds. This allows them to track migration patterns and identify wintering locations. In all, 60 adult males were fitted with the devices.
Next, the scientists wanted to place radio-tracking devices on 7-day old nestlings. Finding and watching the nests was challenging. Dr. Cooper explains: “If you get too close [the adults] fly away or become anxious and won’t visit the nest. And if you’re too far, you lose them in the dense vegetation.” The transmitters would help the scientists determine survival rates and the habitats used by the fledglings.
The news is both good and bad for the chicks. In his blog, Dr. Cooper notes: “Most of our nestlings survived long enough to make it out of the nest...Predation rates during the first few days out of the nest have been fairly high...Causes of death are somewhat unclear...It’s quite difficult to tell what type of animal killed a fledgling even with the carcass in hand.” I asked Dr. Cooper whether he had an educated guess regarding the number of Kirtland’s that are killed by cats. He didn’t have a specific estimate, but he sent me a paper that should be required reading for everyone: “The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States” by Loss, Will and Marra, 2012. The study found that domestic cats kill an astounding 1.4 - 3.7 billion birds in the United States every year!
The survival rates for Kirtland’s through their second year are more unclear. In response to my question, Dr. Cooper stated: “This is something we are still working on getting a good estimate for. In general it is a very difficult question to answer for most songbirds. More and more studies are investigating the post-fledgling period and finding that anywhere between 22 and 70% of birds survive until they gain independence from their parents. For Kirtland's it is looking like ~50% of fledglings survive this period, but the analyses aren't complete yet. Estimating survival after the post-fledgling period until the following breeding season is even more difficult for most species. However, recent estimates (“Using complementary approaches to estimate survival of juvenile and adult Eastern Kingbirds”, Redmond and Murphy 2012) suggest only about 20-30% of birds survive from leaving the nest until the next breeding season.”
Despite the challenges from Cowbirds, habitat loss and other obstacles, Kirtland's Warblers are making a comeback. When I asked about his prognosis for their long-term survival, Dr. Cooper was cautiously optimistic. “Kirtland's Warblers are a real success story for the Endangered Species Act. After reaching a low of only 200 males in the world, there are now over 2000 males. With continued management, I think the species has a very strong probability of long-term survival. One of the unknowns however, is how their wintering habitat will change as the Caribbean grows in population size, and as climate changes. This has driven us to want to better understand this period through the use of light-level geolocators to track birds throughout the annual cycle.”
The next stage of the study is underway. Dr. Cooper traveled to the Bahamas in early March to study the Kirtland’s in their wintering grounds. The team will travel to Cuba (another potential wintering grounds for the Kirtland’s) next year. His wish list for future studies includes a reevaluation of the Cowbird control program and the development of smaller GPS tracking devices suitable for Kirtland’s. “I am eager for this day to come because studying the same individuals on both the wintering and breeding grounds would be a dream come true.”
Be sure to follow the progress made by Dr. Cooper and his team here: http://www.nathanwcooper.com/news/. In the meantime, Dr. Cooper suggests that everyone support local and national conservation organizations like the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center and Nature Conservancy. He also asks that we all help to protect migratory stopover habitats, and that we buy Smithsonian-certified bird-friendly coffee (http://nationalzoo.si.edu/scbi/migratorybirds/coffee/). He’s encouraged by the support he has found at the local level. “I'm always surprised by how many local people in the many areas I've worked truly care about birds and the environment. Many important issues often get lost at the national level, but when you talk to people who live in these wild areas, it's clear how much they care for and respect the land.”
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Capital Hotel undergoes yet another facelift
The Capital Hotel has once again reinvented itself - this time as a high-end steakhouse and oyster bar. Whether it remains that way for long remains to be seen.
The Capital Hotel has once again reinvented itself – this time as a high-end steakhouse and oyster bar.
Whether it remains that way for long remains to be seen. This is the third time in three years the storied and venerable Whitehorse bar has changed hands.
But the new owners have been on a lucky streak over the past year since they opened up the Burnt Toast Cafe.
Business is bustling at their diner and tapas bar, so-much-so the Capital’s owners decided to put Christine Kent and Katja Schmidt in charge of their building as well.
On Monday, the upstairs of the Capital reopened as the Cork and Bull – a reference to the wine and steaks served.
By the summer of 2012, the downstairs space – currently a construction zone after a botched effort to open a micro brewery – is expected to reopen as a pub, also operated by Kent and Schmidt.
Its name: the Dirty Northern Bastard. It’s more highbrow than it sounds. Kent found the name in a design book that included a painting of a cheekily renamed D.H. Lawrence novel.
The two new businesses are all part of the broader ambitions of these two young entrepreneurs. Kent, 31, and Schmidt, 25, both grew up in Whitehorse and spent many years working at Giorgio’s Cucina.
They found themselves yearning for more places to grab a drink and a bite to eat.
“These are things that I wished exist,” said Kent. “So we need to open them. Things could be cool here.”
Like Burnt Toast, the Cork and Bull wouldn’t seem out of place in a trendy Vancouver neighbourhood. That’s a big change for the Capital which once boasted of having a mummified cat under glass on the bar.
The Capital’s last incarnation as Tippler’s Pub felt like a suburban dad’s den but much has changed in the past month.
Its wood panelling has been replaced with brick. Red carpet is now grey tile. And, to the horror of some regulars, the new, white marble bar top has been ripped up and replaced with sawed-up planks of vintage fir, salvaged from the old Whitehorse Copper mine.
Above, more of this wood has been bracketed to the ceiling as decorative rafters. Near them dangle simple, circular metal chandeliers.
The seats are black leather. Part of one wall is covered with a ceiling-high wine rack.
An old piano that lurked in the corner of Tippler’s now has a more prominent place – its top raised to show off its musty interior.
Big, black-and-white photographs of an abandoned mine, taken by Mark Prins, decorate the walls. The idea is to pair big-city decor with Yukon character, the two said.
The restaurant can seat 96. Prices are comparable to Giorgio’s, with appetizers ranging from $12 to $18 and entrees from $22 to $35.
The oysters are shipped in on rotation from different places, like Prince Edward Island and Vancouver. Steaks are cut from 28-day, dry-aged Angus beef.
Specials will include wild boar tenderloin and elk.
The food is dolled up with compound butters and Argentinean chimichurri sauce.
Cheeses on offer are infused with stuff like pesto and Guinness beer.
And the beer and wine selections boast special imports.
Opening the new restaurant entails some obvious risks. To start, Kent and Schmidt are betting that Whitehorse has room for another fancy steakhouse and are opening shop immediately beside one of their rivals, the Cellar.
In a city where merchants often gripe about the difficulty of recruiting dependable service staff, the two also run the risk of being spread too thin with two restaurants open and another on the way.
But Kent and Schmidt are willing to take a gamble. “Burnt Toast was never the plan,” said Schmidt. “What we always wanted was a high-end restaurant.”
The speedy opening of the new restaurant is thanks to chefs, cooks and wait staff transferred from Burnt Toast. “We wouldn’t have done it if we didn’t have the staff we have,” said Schmidt.
And staying put with Burnt Toast would have involved its own risks. They’re now halfway through their two-year lease of the Second Avenue space. There’s no guarantee the restaurant will remain there one year from now.
The Capital has, at various points, served as a warehouse, a hardware store, a hair salon and possibly as a brothel.
In the early 2000s it became known as a notorious drug den, following an RCMP sting operation that busted several men trafficking cocaine.
In 2006, approximately 50 people gathered at the building to chase out a well-known drug dealer.
Former patrons also fondly recall the paintings of scantily clan women on the walls.
For now, the downstairs of the Capital is referred to by Kent and Schmidt as “the swimming pool.” Its floor is torn up, with rubble everywhere, serving as a sad reminder of Keith Jacobsen’s dream of opening a brew pub at the site.
Jacobsen found himself deep in debt, partly due to cost overruns and partly due to problems obtaining a liquor licence.
After only a year in operation, the premise was passed to Tim Cameron, who rebranded the upstairs as Tippler’s. Twelve months later, Cameron lost the lease for reasons that remain unclear.
Now it’s up to Kent and Schmidt to breathe new life into the space. Possibly, part of the building will be demolished to create a courtyard for the pub.
But the two plan to continue calling the entire building the Capital. And they hope it’ll remain that way in Yukoners’ minds.
“It’s historic,” said Schmidt. “You don’t want to take something like that away from the Yukon.”
“Everyone has a story about the Capital,” said Kent. “We want it to be a cozy, friendly pub.”
Contact John Thompson at
johnt@yukon-news.com
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Los Angeles Wrongful Death Attorneys
There is no worse experience for a family than to lose a loved one who has died through no fault of his or her own. When someone else, whether it is an individual, company or organization is responsible through an act of negligence for that loved one's death, then family members can find it hard to grasp. The death seems unfair and unjust. In addition to legitimate grief felt at the loss, there may very well be financial implications involved, too. A breadwinner who has been responsible for providing a family with income may have gone and the surviving family members may genuinely be struggling to make ends meet and pay bills on time.
Not long ago, there was no mechanism available for compensating the dead victim or his or her family for the death. If the victim had survived an accident, then a personal injury claim could have been initiated. The opportunity for making a claim was presumed in law to expire with the death of the victim.
What is a wrongful death lawsuit? Who can file?
The law in nearly all states across the country allow a wrongful death lawsuit to be filed by the heirs of the victim (the decedent). A wrongful death lawsuit is filed directly by the heirs acting together against the party deemed responsible for the death of their loved one. This is, in effect, a form of personal injury claim. All wrongful death cases in Los Angeles are determined by California's wrongful death statute (CCP Section 377.60).
Because of the complexities of this statute, it is always best to use an experienced Los Angeles wrongful death attorney to help with the claim. A wrongful death case is a civil claim pursued through the civil court. The claim is independent of any criminal charge laid against the party alleged to be responsible for the death by the state. Even if someone deemed responsible for your loved one's death is convicted and punished by the criminal court the heirs can still pursue a wrongful death action separately.
The people who are entitled to bring a joint lawsuit in Los Angeles are specified in the state's wrongful death statute (CCP Section 377.60). These are:
the spouse and surviving dependent children;
a defacto partner or domestic partner and any dependent children;
surviving parents or siblings of the decedent, and their children;
grandparents of the decedent;
any other person who may have been dependent on the decedent.
If the wrongful death case is successful, the amount of money that has been awarded to the joint group of claimants is shared out according to an agreed division worked out by the heirs themselves. Any disagreement about the way the settlement is divided can be brought to the attention of the court to help make a decision.
What types of wrongful death cases are common in Los Angeles?
Common causes of wrongful death in Los Angeles are road traffic accidents, followed by slip and fall accidents, workplace accidents and deaths resulting from medical malpractice or medical negligence. Some wrongful deaths have also been caused by the use of defective products. Traffic accidents are the single biggest cause of wrongful deaths in this state. The most common causes of traffic accidents include speeding, dangerous or reckless driving, distracted driving, alcohol or drug induced driving and, to a lesser extent, vehicle defects and poor road conditions.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's data for Los Angeles reveals that fatal crashes at intersections and at low speeds are both far higher in this city than the national average. 36% of crashes in LA take place, for instance, at intersections against a national average of 22%. The city also has a much higher percentage fatality rate at night compared to the national average. Of course, not all of these fatalities may be considered wrongful deaths, but it does give an indication of where the city has to put its traffic safety priorities.
How is a wrongful death classified in LA?
Wrongful death is defined as any death that results from an act of negligence on the part of someone else. The act of negligence must be able to be established beyond doubt. If you believe that a loved one has died because of someone else's negligence, then you should seek the advice of an experienced Los Angeles wrongful death attorney as soon as possible after the death.
In California, the claim needs to be submitted within two years for most wrongful deaths. In cases of medical negligence or malpractice, the statute of limitations is only a year. For someone who may have been killed as a result of negligence by a state agency, such as would be the case in the example of Milton Olin's case as described below, then the period for submitting a claim is reduced to 6 months.
All Los Angeles wrongful death cases are brought under the terms of state law. In this state, there is only one joint wrongful death claim allowed against a defendant. That means that all possible heirs to the decedent must bring the claim jointly. This is known as the “One Action Rule”. In fact, the heirs must not only jointly act together, if they think that another person may be entitled to be represented by the action, then that person must be declared at the time of the claim being submitted.
Los Angeles Deaths In Recent Years
Former entertainment lawyer Milton Olin died in January of 2014 as a result of a fatal collision between him and a police vehicle on Mulholland Drive. Olin was riding his bicycle at the time and the collision took place in the bike lane. He died at the scene as a result of multiple wounds to the head caused by the police patrol car's impact.
An investigation has been submitted to the district attorney's office which has to make a decision whether to prosecute the patrolman who was driving the vehicle at the time of the fatal accident. The driver of the vehicle, Los Angeles County Sherriff's Deputy Andrew Wood, was himself partially injured in the collision. He has returned to full duty since the accident but has now been transferred to another unit.
The question of whether the deputy's driving behavior was responsible for Olin's death may determine whether the victim's family will go ahead with a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver. The collision was reported to have taken place as the bicyclist and the patrol car were both heading in the same direction on a stretch of the one lane road.
Accidents resulting in serious injuries and fatalities that involve collisions between vehicles and pedestrians or cyclists are reported to be particularly common in Los Angeles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's statistics show that Los Angeles has triple the pedestrian and cyclist accident rate compared to the national average (33% compared to 11.4%)
The fatal accident that Milton Olin was the victim of came 18 months after Governor Jerry Brown specifically rejected proposed legislation which would have provided three feet of room between a cyclist and a passing vehicle, or would require the vehicle to slow down while passing. The legislation, if passed, could have been another factor used to decide whether Deputy Wood was to blame for Olin's death.
Should I make grief counseling a priority?
While a successful wrongful death lawsuit often brings a small amount of closure to those who have lost a loved one, there may be immediate counseling needed to help those who have been bereaved as a result of a wrongful death. Here in Los Angeles there are several organizations which help those who have suffered bereavement.
Some specifically cater for children who have lost a parent or parents; others such as the Bereavement group and the Grief Support Group are LA based counseling groups that help all age groups cope with their loss. A number of these groups have grief psychologists, grief psychotherapists and grief counselors who are trained to provide specific help for those who have lost a loved one. Your wrongful death lawyer can help direct you to a suitable organization.
How Our Los Angeles Wrongful Death Attorneys Can Help
If you or someone you know has lost a loved one as a result of another's negligence, you are not alone. Timothy J. Ryan & Associates' Los Angeles wrongful death attorneys can help you identify your options and provide you with a free confidential case evaluation.
Call 1-800-838-6644 today to obtain a free case evaluation and find out how our contingency fees can work for you.
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Safe injection sites may curb opioid deaths, report suggests
by: MARILYNN MARCHIONE, Associated Press
FILE – This Tuesday, May 6, 2008, file photo shows injection booths at a facility in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. According to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, July 8, 2020, a safe haven in the U.S., where drug users can give themselves heroin and other drugs has observed more than 10,500 injections over five years and treated 33 overdoses with none proving fatal. Such facilities may curb deaths from the opioid epidemic, which kills nearly 70,000 people each year in the United States. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
A safe haven in the U.S. where people can give themselves heroin and other drugs has observed more than 10,500 injections over five years and treated 33 overdoses with none proving fatal, researchers reported Wednesday.
The injection site is unsanctioned and its location hasn’t been revealed. The researchers say the results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show the potential for such places to curb deaths from the opioid epidemic.
Every year in the United States, nearly 70,000 people die of a drug overdose. Quick treatment with the medicine naloxone can prevent death in many cases. Besides offering trained staff to administer it, these injection sites offer safe disposal of used needles and a chance to get users into counseling and help with other health problems.
At least a dozen countries including Canada and many in Europe offer such sites. U.S. cities including Seattle, Boston and Philadelphia have been debating allowing them.
The unofficial one described in the medical journal opened in September 2014. Alex Kral, a San Francisco-based researcher with the research organization RTI International, and Peter Davidson, a medical sociologist at the University of Southern California, San Diego, reported on its five-year results.
As a condition of doing research there, they agreed to keep secret the location of the site and the name of the social service agency that runs it.
They previously described it as having two rooms, one with stainless steel stations that are cleaned and another next door where staff can monitor users afterward. The users bring their own drugs.
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AP-NORC poll: 61% say Trump doesn’t respect democratic norms
by: JULIE PACE and HANNAH FINGERHUT, Associated Press
In this Oct. 25, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump talks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Trump’s approval rating is holding steady as the House presses forward with an impeachment probe that could imperil his presidency, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Americans say President Donald Trump has little to no respect for America’s democratic institutions and traditions, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
The issue strikes at the heart of the House impeachment inquiry into Trump, which is focused in part on whether he used his office to seek a foreign government’s help for personal political gain. Sixty-one percent of Americans, including 26% of Republicans, say Trump lacks respect for democratic norms. Similar shares of Republicans are also critical of the president’s honesty and his discipline.
Yet the majority of Republicans — 85% — are supportive of Trump’s job in office. Overall, 42% of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of the job, in line with where he has been throughout his tenure. Just 7% of Democrats have a positive view of Trump as president.
Trump’s job approval rating and other markers in the survey underscore the deeply divisive nature of his presidency, with Republicans largely favoring his actions and Democrats overwhelmingly disapproving. As Trump eyes his reelection campaign, it suggests his path to victory will hinge on rallying higher turnout among his core supporters as opposed to persuading new voters to back his bid for a second term.
The president has leaned into that strategy during the impeachment process, casting the investigations as politically motivated and repeatedly disparaging his opponents, often in bitingly personal terms. It’s the same strategy he’s used to buoy his supporters throughout his nearly three years in office.
“The Democrats will not let the president do his job,” said Robert Little, a 73-year-old Republican from Kannapolis, North Carolina. “Ever since he’s been in office, he’s done a lot of good things for the United States, but the Democrats’ only agenda is to get rid of Trump.”
The biggest bright spot for Trump remains the economy, which has continued to grow despite warning signs of a downturn. Fifty-four percent of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of the economy, including a quarter of Democrats.
Trump inherited a growing economy from his predecessor, Barack Obama, and the trajectory has remained positive, with the unemployment rate hovering below 4%. But economists have warned that Trump’s push to levy tariffs on China puts economic gains at risk, and a majority of Americans, 55%, disapprove of Trump’s handling of trade negotiations with other countries.
Americans are more critical of Trump’s handling of foreign policy, with 59% disapproving of how he’s handling that issue. The public is also skeptical that Trump’s actions as president have been good for America’s standing in the world; 46% said his policies have done more harm than good, while 39% said they have had a more positive impact.
The poll was conducted almost entirely before Trump announced on Sunday that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed in a U.S. raid in Syria.
Trump was elected in 2016 with low marks from voters on an array of personal attributes, including honesty, and those assessments haven’t changed. Trump frequently repeats false statements and spreads conspiracy theories that have been debunked, including by members of his own administration.
More than half of Americans, 56%, said the word “honest” does not describe the president. Among Republicans, views are also mixed on Trump’s honesty: Just about half say “honest” describes Trump very or extremely well.
Even fewer Republicans have a positive view on Trump’s level of self-control, with just 39% saying “disciplined” is a very good way to describe the president, who often lashes out at critics and airs a myriad of grievances. Another 29% say it describes him moderately well, but about as many say it doesn’t describe him well.
The result is an electorate with raw emotions about the president. Nearly half say Trump makes them feel angry. And 4 in 10 Americans, including about 2 in 10 Republicans, say the president makes them feel overwhelmed.
“It wears you down, it wears you out,” said Bill Cathey, a 57-year-old independent from Charlotte, North Carolina. “And kind of dampens your spirit throughout the day.”
The AP-NORC poll of 1,075 adults was conducted Oct. 24-28 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 4.1 percentage points. Respondents were first selected randomly using address-based sampling methods and later were interviewed online or by phone.
AP-NORC Center: http://www.apnorc.org/
AP videojournalist Sarah Blake Morgan in Charlotte, North Carolina, contributed to this report.
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3. INVOICING AND PAYMENT. Unless otherwise instructed by Zebra in writing, Supplier shall invoice Zebra upon the last to occur of: i) Zebra’s receipt of Products at its facility; ii) completion of Supplier's performance of the Services; and/or iii) Zebra’s acceptance of Software. Upon Zebra's request, Supplier agrees to submit electronic invoices in accordance with Zebra's electronic invoice and payment process, as notified to Supplier by Zebra from time to time. At Zebra's request, Supplier will invoice and accept payment in other currencies at prevailing currency exchange rates. Supplier shall separately state on each invoice any import duties or sales, use, value added, excise or similar tax for which Zebra shall be responsible. Supplier shall not charge Zebra for any taxes from which Zebra is exempt and with regard to which Zebra furnishes Supplier a certificate of exemption. Unless a different period is indicated by Zebra on the face of this Order, payment is due net ninety (90) calendar days from the date Zebra receives the Products and an undisputed invoice. If local law requires a shorter payment term, then the longest payment term permitted applies. Supplier may not assign, pledge, discount or otherwise encumber Zebra receivables without Zebra's prior written consent. In addition to all rights of setoff or recoupment provided by law, Zebra may, at any time and in its sole discretion, apply any amounts payable or other amounts due or owing from Supplier whether arising under this Order or any other order, contract or obligation to reduce any amounts payable or other amounts due or owing from Zebra, whether arising under this Order, any other order, contract or obligation. Supplier may not exercise rights of setoff or recoupment.
4. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. “Confidential Information” means confidential or proprietary data, materials, or information disclosed by one party (disclosing party) to the other party (receiving party) under this Order in written, graphic, machine recognizable, electronic, sample, or any other tangible or visually perceptible form, and/or disclosed orally, whether identified or not identified as “confidential”. The nature, existence and terms of this Order are considered Confidential Information. All Zebra information delivered by Zebra relating to this Order, including product specifications, prototypes, designs, samples, testing processes and results, quality and manufacturing procedures and requirements, customer information, software and related documentation, product or technology roadmaps, cost or price information, demand or volume information, market share, market or financial projections and other similar information, and the existence of this Order and its terms and conditions, shall be considered Confidential Information. Confidential Information is and at all times will remain the property of Zebra, and Zebra's ability to use or disclose the Confidential Information is not and will not be restricted in any way. The receiving party is not obligated to maintain as confidential, Confidential Information that can be shown by documentation was: i) known by the receiving party prior to such disclosure without an obligation of confidentiality; ii) lawfully obtained from a third party or parties without a duty of confidentiality; iii) distributed to third parties by the disclosing party without restriction; iv) explicitly approved for release by written authorization of the disclosing party; v) publicly available or becomes publicly available other than by unauthorized disclosure by the receiving party; vi) independently developed by the receiving party without the use of any of the disclosing party’s Confidential Information or breach of these terms. Supplier shall: i) maintain the confidentiality of Confidential Information and not disclose it to any third party, except as authorized by Zebra in writing; ii) restrict disclosure of, and access to, Confidential Information to its employees, contractors and agents who have a "need to know" in order for Supplier to perform its obligations under this Order, and are bound to maintain the confidentiality of the Confidential Information by terms of nondisclosure no less restrictive than those contained herein; iii) handle Confidential Information with the same degree of care as Supplier uses for its own confidential information, but in no event less than reasonable care; iv) use Confidential Information only for the purpose of performing and, to the extent necessary, of fulfilling its obligations under this Order; and v) promptly notify Zebra in writing upon discovery of any unauthorized use, access or disclosure of the Confidential Information, take all necessary steps to regain possession and protection of the Confidential Information, and prevent further unauthorized actions or breach of this Order. Except as otherwise provided in this Order, no use of any Confidential Information is permitted, and no grant under any Intellectual Property Rights (defined below) of Zebra is given or intended, including any license implied or otherwise. Supplier shall not directly or indirectly export or re-export any Confidential Information to any country for which any applicable government, at the time of export or re-export, requires an export license or other governmental approval, without first obtaining the license or approval. Supplier acknowledges that Confidential Information contains information that is proprietary and valuable to Zebra and that any unauthorized dissemination or use of the Confidential Information will cause irreparable harm to Zebra. Supplier's obligation to keep confidential the Confidential Information continues as long as the information remains within the definition of confidential information or for at least five (5) years following the later of fulfillment, expiration or termination of this Order or Supplier's return or destruction of the Confidential Information and certification of such return or destruction.
5. OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY, SPECIFICATIONS AND WORK PRODUCT. Supplier shall provide all labor, materials, tools, equipment, personnel, supervision, and facilities necessary to provide the Products. All tools, equipment, drawings, software, data, samples, designs, prototypes or other materials or items, acquired for Supplier’s use or furnished by Zebra to Supplier are and shall remain the sole property of Zebra and shall be used only for manufacturing, testing or supplying Products under this Order. Supplier agrees that any suggestions, improvements, comments or other feedback provided by Supplier to Zebra with respect to Products, Zebra products or with respect to Confidential Information provided to Zebra ("Feedback") is given entirely voluntarily and Supplier grants to Zebra the right to use, have used, disclose, reproduce, modify, license, distribute or exploit the Feedback for any purpose, entirely and without obligation or payment from Zebra and without any restriction on use or disclosure of any kind. Zebra will retain ownership of all specifications and other documentation for the Products and will be the owner of all modifications and enhancements made by or for Zebra or by or for Supplier to such specifications and documentation, including without limitation any modifications or enhancements based on Supplier's Feedback. Supplier agrees that all materials, in whatever form, and all modifications or enhancements to the Products prepared or produced by Supplier under this Order ("Work Product") are a "work made for hire" under the copyright laws of the United States and any other applicable jurisdiction and are assigned to and will become the sole property of Zebra. At Zebra's request and expense, Supplier shall execute all papers and provide reasonable assistance to Zebra necessary to vest ownership in Zebra of, and to enable Zebra to obtain Intellectual Property Rights in, all such Work Product, Feedback, and modifications or enhancements thereof. "Intellectual Property Rights" means any and all: i) copyrights, trademarks, trade names, domain names, goodwill associated with trademarks and trade names, designs, and patents; ii) rights relating to innovations, know-how, trade secrets and Confidential Information (technical and non-technical); iii) moral rights, mask work rights, author's rights, and rights of publicity; and iv) other industrial, proprietary and intellectual property-related rights anywhere in the world that exist as of the Order date or hereafter come into existence, and all renewals and extensions of the foregoing, regardless of whether or not such rights have been registered with the appropriate authorities in such jurisdictions in accordance with the relevant legislation. Supplier may not sell, recycle or otherwise dispose of excess, obsolete, scrap, work-in-process, raw materials, or finished Products associated with this Order without Zebra's permission. Supplier's obligations as stated in this Section 5 survive the fulfillment, expiration, or termination of this Order.
6. WARRANTIES. Supplier represents and warrants that the Products are free of any condition that could pose a potential environmental or safety hazard, and that: i) for a period of twenty four (24) months from the date of acceptance by Zebra, all Products are merchantable, free from defects in design, materials and workmanship, of the highest quality, and conform to the terms and conditions of all applicable schedules, specifications, drawings, documentation, Zebra instruction books or service manuals, Zebra test and quality standards, and industry standards; ii) the Products meet all the quality requirements; iii) the Products are wholly new and contain new components and parts throughout; iv) satisfy Zebra's test and quality standards and processes; v) meet applicable industry quality and performance standards; vi) comply with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements; vii) Supplier has full power and authority to license all Software and to convey all other rights and licenses granted to Zebra under this Order; viii) the Products are properly packaged and labeled; ix) all Services will be performed in a professional and workman like manner by qualified persons utilizing, if applicable, Zebra parts or parts of equal quality; and (x) Supplier has requested, processed and obtained all necessary software licenses, certificates, import/export permits, approvals, consents and authorizations to enter into this Order and to perform and carry out all of its obligations under this Order. Additionally, Supplier hereby acknowledges Zebra is entitled to all warranties and remedies that arise by implication or operation of law, and Supplier shall extend to Zebra all warranties Supplier receives from its suppliers, service providers and subcontractors (collectively, its "Supply Chain"). All warranties and remedies run to Zebra and through Zebra to its customers including end users. Supplier agrees that its representations and warranties are reaffirmed with and applicable to each shipment or delivery of Products or performance of Services. All warranties survive any inspection, acceptance, payment, or resale by Zebra. Supplier represents and warrants that all Software and Products are free from any "Vulnerabilities", meaning: i) self-destruction mechanisms; ii) illicit code; iii) copy protection schemes that interfere with the use of the Products or Zebra's or an end user's ability to exercise its rights and privileges under this Order; and/or iv) security vulnerabilities, including any vulnerabilities that allow unauthorized destruction of, access to or control of Product(s) or Zebra product(s), other elements of a system that include Product(s) or Zebra product(s), or any information residing on Product(s), on Zebra product(s), on an end user's system that includes Product(s). Supplier further represents and warrants that it complies with general industry practices regarding the detection and correction of Vulnerabilities. Supplier shall promptly notify Zebra if Supplier becomes aware of any actual or potential Vulnerability. Supplier shall provide Zebra with a complete and accurate disclosure and description of any third party software (including open source software) included in any Products along with the corresponding open source software license terms. Supplier represents and warrants it has complied and shall continue to comply with all obligations, terms and conditions imposed under any applicable open source software license terms and that no Zebra software shall be subject to an obligation to be provided to the open source community as a result of Supplier's activities. Supplier warrants to Zebra that it shall observe and comply strictly with all data protection laws, regulations and requirements which arise in connection with this Order. Supplier shall not use or disclose any information that may identify an individual ("Personal Data") that is processed for or on behalf of Zebra, except to the extent it is required to perform under this Order and in compliance with Zebra’s instruction. To the extent Supplier processes Personal Data, Supplier warrants it will comply with all instructions issued by Zebra relating to Personal Data and implement and maintain appropriate technical and organizational measures and other protections for Personal Data to protect Personal Data against unauthorized or unlawful processing, and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, any such Purchaser Personal Data. Supplier shall promptly report to Zebra any breaches of security of Personal Data.Personal Data. To the extent that Supplier provides to Zebra, or otherwise allows Zebra to obtain, Personal Data about Supplier’s employees or contractors in connection with this Order, Supplier warrants and represents that it has provided any and all necessary notices to, and obtained any and all privacy consents from, such individuals to authorize Zebra to process such data and disclose such data to its affiliates and others for legitimate business purposes and for purposes of legal compliance. Supplier will not transfer Personal Data across any country border unless such transfers comply with all laws and regulations and it is strictly unavoidable for performance under this Order.
7. REMEDIES. Unless specifically prohibited by this Order, all rights and remedies under this Order are cumulative. In addition to other remedies provided in this Order and those available at law or in equity, if Supplier defaults on or breaches its obligations under any provision of this Order or delivers Products or Services that are late, defective, non-conforming, present a potential safety or environmental issue in Zebra’s opinion, or otherwise fail to comply with the representations and warranties in this Order, whether or not apparent upon inspection, Supplier shall immediately and at its sole expense: i) at Zebra's option, immediately repair, replace or re-perform the affected and potentially affected Products and Services, or provide a refund for such Products and Services; ii) expedite late deliveries and performance; and iii) take immediate remedial action for affected and potentially affected Products according to a corrective action plan approved by Zebra. Supplier shall be liable for all costs, expenses, charges, fines, penalties, direct, indirect, incidental and consequential damages incurred by Zebra and its customers arising from any breach of any provision of this Order (“Damages”) and Zebra shall have the right to seek, and Supplier agrees that Zebra is entitled to receive, specific performance by Supplier of its obligations under this Order.
8. LICENSE GRANTS. Supplier hereby grants Zebra a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, transferable, royalty-free, nonexclusive license, with the right to sublicense and authorize the granting of sublicenses, to use and reproduce Supplier's rights in the Product to the extent necessary for Zebra’s exercise and exploitation of its rights in the Product. Supplier will obtain and assign to Zebra a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, sub-licensable license to use all third party Intellectual Property Rights incorporated into, required to be used, or delivered with the Product. Supplier will provide or execute licenses to evidence the licenses herein upon Zebra’s request.
9. TRADEMARKS. All trademarks, service marks, insignia, symbols, or decorative designs, and trade names and other words, names, symbols and devices associated with Zebra and Zebra's products and services ("Zebra Marks") are the sole property of Zebra or a Zebra Affiliate, as applicable. Supplier acknowledges and agrees that it: i) has no right to use Zebra Marks without Zebra's prior written consent; ii) will take no action which might derogate from Zebra's rights in, ownership of, or the goodwill associated with, such Zebra Marks; and iii) will remove all Zebra Marks from any Products (including scrap and excess materials) not purchased by Zebra.
10. TERMINATION. Zebra may terminate all or any part of this Order immediately at any time for its convenience, without liability to Supplier, upon written notice to Supplier. In addition to all remedies provided elsewhere in this Order and at law or in equity, Zebra also may terminate this Order immediately, without liability to Supplier, upon written notice, if Supplier: i) fails to comply with any provision of this Order; ii) delivers a Product or Service which is defective or which does not conform to this Order; or iii) becomes insolvent or unable to pay debts as they become due, except as may be prohibited by applicable bankruptcy laws. Supplier may not revoke its acceptance of, or otherwise refuse to fully perform, its obligations under this Order. Supplier may terminate this Order only based on Zebra's material breach of an obligation under this Order and only after providing Zebra with thirty (30) days advance written notice and a reasonable opportunity to cure the breach. Supplier must use its best endeavors to carry out and complete this Order in line with the requirements. Supplier shall only be relieved of its obligations while it is unable to carry out or complete this Order because of any act of God, war, riot, fire or flood (“Force Majeure Events”). At the cessation of any Force Majeure Events, the Supplier will resume its obligations unless Zebra has elected to treat the Order as terminated in accordance with this Section. If the Supplier is to invoke a Force Majeure Event, it must advise Zebra by notice in writing within fourteen (14) days of the start of such event. Upon receiving such notice Zebra shall have the right to cancel this Order without liability to the Supplier.
11. INDEMNIFICATION. Supplier shall fully defend, indemnify and hold harmless Zebra and all of its past, present, and future Affiliates, customers, distributors, officers, directors, employees, contractors, successors, assigns, agents, (collectively "Zebra Indemnitee(s)") against any and all claims, damages, costs, expenses (including, without limitation, court costs and attorney fees), suits, losses, or liabilities of any type, under any theory of liability or recovery, (collectively "Claims") arising from or related to: i) any death, injury, or property damage caused by acts or omissions of Supplier, or its past, present or future officers, directors, employees, contractors, subcontractors, representatives or agents (collectively "Indemnifying Parties"); ii) any acts or omissions of the Indemnifying Parties, including, without limitation, Supplier's performance of, or failure to fully, properly and timely perform, any obligation in this Order (including, e.g., delivery of Products that are, or are alleged to be, defective, non-conforming, or not in compliance with any warranties in this Order); iii) any possible, actual or asserted infringement or misappropriation of any Intellectual Property Rights arising from or related to any Product or to a Zebra product by virtue of incorporation of or use with Supplier’s Product, Software, or Service, either alone or in combination; iv) Supplier's non-compliance with Sections 18-24 of this Order; or v) any and all labor claims, actions or demands of any kind filed by or in regard to Supplier’s personnel or contractors against any Zebra Indemnitee. Furthermore, if the purchase, manufacture, having made, use, importation, offer for sale, sale, or distribution of any Products or portion thereof, or any Zebra product or service by virtue of incorporation of a Product, is sought to be, is reasonably likely to be, or is in fact, enjoined or excluded from importation, then Supplier, at its sole expense and on terms acceptable to Zebra, shall: i) procure the right for Zebra Indemnitees to continue purchasing, manufacturing, having made, using, importing, offering for sale, selling, and distributing such Product(s) and any Zebra products and services incorporating or used with them; or ii) subject to Zebra's prior written approval, replace or modify such Product so it becomes non-infringing, are fully backward compatible, and meet all of Zebra's requirements, including, without limitation, ensuring that quality, quantity, price and delivery are equal or superior to that of the Product being replaced or modified. Additionally, at any Zebra Indemnitee's request, Supplier shall promptly issue a full refund of the total amounts paid for such Product, and any Zebra Indemnitee may reschedule or cancel any or all pending Orders and forecasts for i) such Products, ii) any related products or services, and iii) any other potentially impacted products or services, without liability of any kind. At Zebra's request, Supplier also shall assist Zebra in making alternative supply arrangements for such Products, related products or services, and any other potentially affected products or services. Supplier will not enter into any settlement order that affects any Zebra Indemnitee without Zebra's prior written consent. Zebra may, at its own expense, actively participate in any suit or proceeding related in any way to this Order through its own counsel, except that Supplier shall reimburse Zebra for such expenses if Zebra's participation through its own counsel is needed to avoid conflicting interests between the parties, to pursue any Zebra defenses, or to comply with a tribunal's rules or orders. Supplier agrees that time is of the essence and shall use best efforts and act in good faith to satisfy its obligations under this Section 11. If Supplier disputes its obligation or fails to fully and timely perform its obligations hereunder, each and all of the Zebra Indemnitees may assume the defense and/or settlement of the matter, provided, however, that Supplier shall remain fully and solely responsible for the Claim. Zebra has no obligation to indemnify Supplier under any circumstances. Supplier agrees that its obligations as set forth in this Section 11 will survive the fulfillment, termination, cancellation, or expiration of this Order. Supplier retains responsibility for all Services subcontracted under this Order and will fully defend, indemnify and hold harmless Zebra against any liability for Damages caused by the acts or omissions of Supplier's subcontractors.
12. CHANGES. Without Zebra's prior written approval, Supplier shall not make changes to: i) any Products; ii) the manufacturing, testing, quality or other processes hereunder; or iii) the bill of materials, materials, design, tools, sources of materials, or locations used to manufacture, assemble, or package the Products. Any unauthorized change of any type will render the changed Products nonconforming and will constitute a material breach of Supplier's obligations under this Order, and Supplier shall be responsible for all resulting Damages.
13. INSPECTION. Payment for Products does not constitute acceptance. Products will only be deemed accepted when counted, inspected and tested by Zebra and found to be in conformance with the requirements of this Order. Supplier shall provide Zebra with a reasonable opportunity and amount of time to inspect Products. At Zebra's request, Supplier shall promptly issue a return material authorization to Zebra for Products: i) that are non-conforming; ii) that are rejected, in excess of the amount ordered; or iii) delivered in advance of the delivery schedule. All returns to Supplier shall be at Supplier's expense and risk. Title to Products designated for return by Zebra will immediately revert to Supplier at the time of Zebra's designation. Supplier shall promptly evaluate the Products to identify the root cause of any defect or non-conformance, and provide Zebra with a detailed, written analysis thereof. Zebra's return or non-acceptance of Products will not affect Zebra's other rights and remedies under this Order or applicable law, including, without limitation, the right to reject or revoke acceptance of defective or non-conforming Products. Nothing contained in this Order relieves Supplier of its obligation to ensure that proper testing, inspection and quality control is performed. Zebra has the right to inspect Supplier's and Supplier's Supply Chain's facilities, equipment, materials, records, and the Products and may audit for compliance with this Order.
14. PACKING, DELIVERY AND SHIPMENT. All Products shall be packed and shipped in accordance with instructions or specifications contained in this Order or provided by Zebra. In the absence of any such instructions, Supplier shall comply with all applicable laws and best commercial practices to ensure safe and timely arrival of the Products at their destination at the lowest possible transportation cost and least environmental impact. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE ON THIS ORDER. Supplier shall pay all costs of expediting delivery of the Products. If Supplier fails to timely perform or deliver, Supplier shall reimburse Zebra, at Zebra's option, for: i) all Damages incurred by Zebra as a result of such late delivery or performance; or ii) liquidated damages in the amount of one percent (1%) of the price of the delayed delivery or performance for each calendar day of delay, computed from the due date without any grace period. Unless otherwise stated on the face of this Order, the delivery term for all deliveries under this Order is "FCA delivery point stated in this Order (Incoterms 2010)." If no delivery point is stated in this Order, the delivery term is "FCA closest airport to Supplier's factory (Incoterms 2010)." Supplier is responsible for any loss or damage caused by Supplier and discovered after transfer of title. No charge will be allowed for packing, labeling, commissions, customs, duties, storage, crating, express handling or travel, unless specifically indicated on this Order or under a mutually agreed and signed separate logistics support program.
15. DISCONTINUANCE OF PRODUCTS. Supplier shall not stop providing any Product to Zebra for any reason, for the longer of: i) three (3) years after commercial production qualification by Zebra of (a) the Product or (b) a Zebra product incorporating the Product (whichever occurs later); or ii) two (2) years from the issue date of this Order. If Supplier intends to stop providing any Product to Zebra for any reason, Supplier shall give Zebra at least twelve (12) months prior written notice, during which time Zebra may continue to place orders for such Product, with delivery not to exceed twelve (12) months from the date of any such orders. At Zebra's request, Supplier shall assist Zebra in making alternative supply arrangements for the discontinued Product.
16. SERVICE AND SUPPORT. Supplier shall provide training and documentation as requested by Zebra. Supplier shall provide Zebra information about outstanding deliverables and any actual or potential issues related to Supplier's performance under this Order. Upon request, Supplier shall: i) provide spare parts and spare Products to Zebra-authorized service centers for service and repair of Product(s) and Zebra product(s); and ii) provide Zebra access to and use of any tools, equipment, materials, software, documentation, premises, and Intellectual Property Rights necessary for the use, repair, support, manufacture, or supply of Products. Unless a longer period is specified in writing, Supplier shall make spare parts and repair services available for five (5) years after the last delivery under this Order.
17. INSURANCE. Without limiting Supplier's obligations hereunder, Supplier, at its own cost, shall procure, maintain, and keep in full force and effect insurance to protect Supplier and Zebra from all claims that arise out of or result from Supplier's provision of Products or Services under this Order. In particular, Supplier shall maintain the following insurance policies issued by companies in good standing: 1) Broad Form Commercial General Liability of at least $1 million; 2) Business Automobile Liability of at least $1 million; 3) Statutory Worker’s Compensation and 4. Professional Liability, as applicable, of at least $1 million. Within 10 days following written request by Zebra, Supplier shall provide a certificate of insurance, signed by a duly authorized officer or agent of the insurer, certifying the levels of coverage, naming Zebra as a certificate holder and as an additional insured and stating that Zebra will receive at least thirty (30) days written notice of policy cancellation, non-renewal or material modification.
18. COMPLIANCE. Supplier represents and warrants that in performing its obligations hereunder, the Supplier shall comply, without limitation, to all applicable environmental and recycling, health and safety, slavery and human trafficking laws, statutes, and regulations, including certain Zebra requirements for compliance with laws, which are incorporated in full by this reference and which are available at the Zebra Corporate Responsibility Resources link: http://www.zebra.com/us/en/about-zebra/company-information/corporate-responsibility.html, that are issued as of the date of delivery or performance, and the requirements set out in Sections 18-24. Supplier further represents and warrants that in performing its obligations hereunder, Supplier will adhere to the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) principles fostered by the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) Code of Conduct (http://www.responsiblebusiness.org/standards/code-of-conduct/) or any internationally recognized equivalent, in the areas of Environmental Sustainability, Health and Safety, and Labor and Ethics, and that Supplier will promote implementation of these principles to its Supply Chain. Supplier shall provide written evidence, upon request by Zebra, sufficient to demonstrate to Zebra its compliance with this Section, including evidence and/or certification that no slave or indentured labor, no child labor and no human trafficking is used in its operations, as well as in the operations of its Supply Chain. Supplier will establish and maintain policies, procedures, and compliance programs sufficient in order to ensure its compliance with this Section and provide, at its own cost, copies of such compliance policies, procedures and program documents to Zebra upon request. Upon request by Zebra, Supplier will subscribe to the RBA on-line supply chain evaluation tool or provide evidence and/or certification of participation in an internationally recognized equivalent system. In either instance, upon request Supplier will share its CSR assessment report with Zebra. Zebra and its designated agents may conduct announced or unannounced inspections or audits to confirm compliance with this Section and Supplier will cooperate with Zebra in any such inspection or audit. If any such inspection or audit uncovers any lack of compliance by Supplier, Supplier shall be liable for and shall reimburse Zebra for all costs and expenses related to the inspection or audit. Supplier shall immediately correct any non-compliance and fully defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Zebra Indemnitees against any Damages caused by any non-compliance. If Supplier fails to comply in any respect with all of these requirements, failure to comply will be considered a material breach of this Order and Zebra may immediately, and without liability, terminate this Order.
19. ETHICAL CONDUCT, ANTICORRUPTION AND UNFAIR BUSINESS PRACTICES. Zebra will not do business with any entity or person that Zebra believes makes or receives payoffs or is involved in any similar improper or unethical practices. Zebra expects its suppliers to abide by this policy with regard to their relationships with other entities and persons, and to not engage in any activity that results or may result in any conflict of interest for the Supplier or for Zebra or harm to Zebra's reputation. Supplier shall: i) provide the Products in accordance with the highest ethical standards; ii) maintain integrity, transparency and accuracy in corporate recordkeeping; iii) act lawfully and with integrity in the proper handling of competitive data, confidential and proprietary information and intellectual property rights; iv) comply with legal requirements regarding fair competition and antitrust, and accurate and truthful marketing; and v) not engage in corrupt practices, including, but not limited to, public or private bribery or kickbacks. If Supplier at any time acquires knowledge or reasonable suspicion of any ethics concerns relating to business involving Zebra, Supplier shall notify Zebra by email at ccofficer@zebra.com, or file an online report at www .tnwgrc.com/zebra.
20. ANTIDISCRIMINATION AND HUMANE TREATMENT OF WORKERS. Supplier will employ workers on the basis of their ability to do the job and not on the basis of their personal characteristics or beliefs. Supplier will assure that Products (including parts) will not be produced, manufactured, mined, or assembled with use of forced, prison, or indentured labor, including debt bondage, or with use of illegal child labor in violation of International Labor Conventions for minimum age (ILO-C138) and child labor (ILO-C182). Supplier will pay workers at least the minimum legal wage, or where no wage laws exist, the local industry standard. Supplier will assure that workers are free to join, or refrain from joining, associations of their own choosing, unless otherwise prohibited by law.
21. SAFETY DATA SHEETS/ SUBSTANCE DISCLOSURE/ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. Supplier shall: i) electronically provide Global Harmonisation System (GHS) compliant safety data sheets, chemical safety data sheets, or equivalent documentation for all chemicals and applicable articles sold to Zebra under this Order; ii) implement a functioning environmental management system in accordance with ISO 14001 or equivalent; and iii) for Products used as parts or components for Zebra products (including packaging and any manuals that accompany such Products), comply with all provisions of Zebra's Controlled and Reportable Materials Disclosure Process. Supplier certifies that Products and their parts do not contain and are not manufactured with a process that uses any ozone-depleting substances (as identified in 40 CFR Part 82 Appendix A to Subpart A, or as subsequently identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency).
22. IMPORT/CUSTOMS/OFAC. Supplier shall comply with: i) all import and customs laws, regulations and administrative determinations of the importing country; and ii) all security criteria of the importing country's government security program. If Supplier is providing Products to be delivered to, or Services to support delivery to, the United States, Suppler shall comply with the security criteria of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Customs-Trade Partnership against Terrorism (C-TPAT) Program (available at www.cbp.gov). If Supplier is the exporter of record for any shipments, Supplier shall obtain all export authorizations from the United States government or other governments that may be required to lawfully make such shipments. In addition to any other remedies Zebra may have, Supplier shall be liable for all Damages related to any representations made by Supplier with respect to documentation or other customs or governmental requirements with regard to entry requirements, classification, valuation, preferential treatment, duty drawback or trade terms (Incoterms). Supplier agrees that Products supplied under this Order do not originate with: i) a country or government subject to U.S. economic sanctions administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury or U.S. Department of State (hereinafter “Restricted Country”); or ii) a Specially Designated National identified on the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Specially Designated Nationals List, or iii) any other U.S. government list restricting the acquisition of items from an entity or person located outside or inside the United States (hereinafter “Restricted National”); or iv ) an entity or person that is owned or controlled by any Restricted Country or Restricted National; or v) a restricted country or debarred party under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations or U.S. Department of Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations. The U.S. Government requirements and additional information referenced in this Section are available at the following urls: www.treasury.gov/ofac; www.pmddtc.state.gov; www.state.gov/t/isn/c15231.htm; and www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/.
23. EEO COMPLIANCE REPORTS/DIVERSITY/UTILIZATION OF SMALL BUSINESSES. If applicable, Supplier will comply with U.S. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.219-8 pertaining to Utilization of Small Business Concerns, and any other state and local, small and other business utilization laws and with FAR 52.222 et seq. pertaining to Segregated Facilities, Equal Opportunity, Equal Opportunity for Veterans, and Affirmative Action for Workers with Disabilities and maintain, at each establishment, affirmative action programs required by the rules of the U.S. Secretary of Labor (41 CFR 60-1 and 60-2). Zebra is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Supplier represents that all services are performed in compliance with Zebra's Equal Employment Opportunity Policy, which is available at https://www.zebra.com/us/en/about-zebra/company-information/legal/legal-compliance.html. To the extent applicable, this contractor and all of their subcontractors shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR §§60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a). These requirements prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veteran or individuals with disabilities, and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability. If applicable, Supplier shall comply with the provisions of 52.222-50 pertaining to Combating Trafficking in Persons. If applicable, Supplier shall maintain, at each establishment, affirmative action programs required by the rules of the U.S. Secretary of Labor (41 CFR 60-1 and 60-2). If requested: i) Supplier shall track and report to Zebra its Supply Chain's spend with minority-owned, women-owned and disabled veteran-owned business enterprises; or ii) Supplier and Zebra shall agree on a goal for Supplier's Supply Chain spend, based upon a percentage of Supplier's total gross revenues under this Order. Supplier shall submit any requested reports via email to Zebra at supplierdiversity@zebra.com.
24. CONFLICT MINERALS. Supplier shall determine the presence of tantalum, tungsten, tin and gold (the “3TG Metals”) in its Products. If any 3TG Metals are present in its Products, Supplier shall exercise due diligence, as recommended by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (e.g., Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains), to determine the country of origin of such 3TG Metals. Upon written request by Zebra, Supplier shall complete and submit a Conflict Minerals Reporting Template obtainable from the website of the Conflict Free Sourcing Initiative (CFSI). Additionally, Supplier shall employ all reasonable efforts to transition its 3TG sourcing to conflict-free smelters certified by CFSI or some other internationally recognized equivalent organization.
25. GOVERNING LAW, VENUE, AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION. The rights and obligations of the parties under this Order shall not be governed by the provisions of the 1980 U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods or the United Nations Convention of the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods, as amended (collectively “the Conventions”). For the avoidance of doubt, the Conventions are hereby excluded. Except if otherwise provided hereunder, the rights and obligations of the parties under this Order shall be interpreted under, and any disputes whether sounding in contract, tort or otherwise arising out of this Order shall be governed by, the laws of the State of Illinois, including its provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code, but excluding its conflict of laws principles. Supplier irrevocably consents to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in Cook or Lake County, Illinois USA in connection with all actions arising out of or in connection with this Order, and waives any objections that venue is an inconvenient forum. If Zebra Affiliate placing the Order is incorporated in Zebra’s Europe, Middle East or Africa region (“EMEA”), the additional terms of Schedule 1 (below) shall apply and this Order and terms shall be construed and take effect in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and the parties hereby submit to the jurisdiction of the Courts of England and Wales for the determination of any disputes arising under any contract or this Order. For such Orders, Supplier agrees that it will not initiate any action against Zebra in any other jurisdiction in EMEA, however, Zebra may at its discretion initiate action in any jurisdiction in EMEA. Supplier agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding will be conclusive and may be enforced in any other jurisdiction (including without limitation, the appropriate courts of the jurisdiction in which Supplier is resident or in which any property or an office of Supplier is located) by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. If Zebra Affiliate placing the Order is incorporated within Brazil, this Order and terms shall be construed and take effect in accordance with the laws of the State of Sao Paulo excluding its conflicts of laws principles. For such Orders, Supplier irrevocably consents to the exclusive jurisdiction of the applicable courts located in City of Sao Paulo, in connection with all actions arising out of or in connection with the Order in Brazil, and waives any objections that venue is an inconvenient forum. Supplier further agrees that it will not initiate any action against Zebra in any other jurisdiction. If Zebra Affiliate placing the Order is incorporated in Zebra’s Asia Pacific region, this Order shall be governed by the laws of the country as set forth in Schedule 2 (below) without giving effect to the conflict of laws principles thereof. Supplier further agrees that it will not initiate any action against Zebra in any other jurisdiction. Supplier agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding will be conclusive and may be enforced in any other jurisdiction (including without limitation, the appropriate courts of the jurisdiction in which Supplier is resident or in which any property or an office of Supplier is located) by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. Zebra and Supplier will attempt to settle any claim or controversy arising out of this Order through consultation and negotiation in good faith and in the spirit of mutual cooperation; provided, however that this does not preclude either party from initiating a legal proceeding. Agreement by the parties to any alternative dispute resolution procedure will not be construed under the doctrines of laches, waiver, or estoppel to adversely affect Zebra’s rights. Supplier’s performance under this Order will not be suspended during the pendency of any dispute. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Supplier agrees to arbitrate any actions arising out of or in connection with this Order in the event Zebra so demands.
26. CONTROLLING LANGUAGE. This Order is written in English, although translations may be available online. In case of any inconsistency between the English version and any translated version of this Order and/or in the event of any dispute between the parties related in any way to this Order, the English version shall control and prevail over any translated versions. Any translation is furnished solely for the Supplier’s convenience.
27. PERSONAL DATA. Where required by a Data Protection Law (defined below) and where Zebra(as data controller) provides Personal Data to Supplier with explicit directions regarding the purposes for which and the manner in which the Personal Data is to be processed by Supplier on Zebra’s behalf, Supplier shall be considered the data processor. Where Zebra and Supplier (either alone or jointly) may determine the purposes for which and the manner in which any Personal Data are to be processed, Zebra and Supplier are each a data controller of the Personal Data and responsible for complying with Data Protection Law. By providing Products, Services and Software to Zebra as part of the Order, Supplier may process Personal Data of data subjects (including Zebra personnel and customers). The types of Personal Data Supplier may process includes some (but not necessarily all) of the following: name, contact numbers, addresses, email addresses, salutations, countries, titles, gender, primary roles, secondary roles and preferred languages. Details regarding any data processing of one party by the other party under this Order shall be specified in a separate written agreement (e.g. subject matter, duration, purpose, nature of processing, data type). Nothing in this Order relieves Supplier of any obligations as data processor or data controller under any Data Protection Law. Where required by a Data Protection Law, Supplier as a data processor shall: (i) have in place appropriate and sufficient technical and organizational measures to ensure an appropriate level of security and to ensure the protection of the rights of the data subject, taking account of the state of the art, implementation costs, the nature, scope, context and purposes of the processing and the risks presented by the processing; (ii) conduct a data protection impact assessment when using new technologies to process the data or where the processing otherwise presents a high risk to the privacy of data subjects; (iii) not engage another processor without the prior written authorization of Zebra and under a written contract; (iv) not transfer Personal Data outside of the European Economic Area or Switzerland without the prior authorization of Zebra. Where such authorization is provided, Supplier shall ensure that there is a valid data transfer mechanism in place to protect the Personal Data, in accordance with the Data Protection Laws and to the reasonable satisfaction of Zebra; (v) assist Zebra to comply with requests from data subjects exercising their data subject rights under the relevant Data Protection Laws; (vi) ensure that personnel of Supplier processing the Personal Data are under obligations of confidentiality; (vii) notify Zebra without undue delay and in any case no later than 24 hours after becoming aware of a Personal Data breach, such notifications shall contain the appropriate details setting out the nature of the breach and details of the categories and number of data subject and records concerned, data processor contact details, likely consequences of the breach, and the steps taken to mitigate the adverse effects of the breach. If requested by Zebra, Supplier shall assist Zebra in notifying data subjects of a Personal Data breach caused by Supplier or any processor acting under Supplier's direction, at no cost to Zebra; (viii) provide Zebra with all information that, in the reasonable opinion of Zebra, is necessary to demonstrate compliance with this Section 27 and permit Zebra or its duly authorized representatives, on reasonable prior notice, to inspect and audit Supplier’s data processing activities to validate Supplier’s compliance with this Section 27; (ix) cease processing the Personal Data immediately upon the termination or expiry of the Order and at the choice of Zebra, delete or return all Personal Data to Zebra upon completion of this Order and Supplier shall not retain any existing copies unless required by local Data Protection laws. Supplier shall be liable for and shall indemnify Zebra and hold Zebra harmless against any and all claims, actions, liabilities, losses, damages and expenses (including legal expenses) incurred by Zebra which arise directly or indirectly out of or in connection with Supplier 's data processing activities under this Section 27. In this Section 27, "Data Protection Laws" means any relevant data protection legislation (including the General Data Protection Regulation (EU 2016/679)); and the terms “Personal Data”, “Personal Data breach”, “processing”, “data processor”, “data subjects” and “data controller” shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the General Data Protection Regulation (EU 2016/679); and “personnel” shall mean employees, officers, agents, contractors, sub-contractors, consultants and any other temporary staff.
28. MISCELLANEOUS. Supplier shall not issue a press release or make any other disclosure regarding this Order, or regarding Zebra or Zebra's business generally, without Zebra's prior written consent. Supplier shall maintain all records related to this Order, as required by this Order, law, rule, or regulation and provide copies upon Zebra’s request. Supplier may not assign this Order or any of its rights or obligations hereunder, or subcontract any of its obligations under this Order, without the prior written approval of Zebra. Any attempted assignment, delegation or transfer without the required approval will be void. Zebra may assign its rights or obligations under this Order, in whole or in part, without the need for Supplier's approval and at no additional cost to Zebra or the assignee. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL ZEBRA BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOST PROFITS. ZEBRA'S TOTAL LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES UNDER THIS ORDER SHALL NOT EXCEED THE PRICE PAID BY ZEBRA ALLOCABLE TO THE SPECIFIC PRODUCTS, SOFTWARE, ACTIVITY OR SERVICES GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. Any notice, approval or consent required or permitted under this Order shall be in writing and will be deemed to have been duly given if mailed by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, or delivered by overnight courier service with tracking capabilities to the respective addresses of the parties set forth in this Order (or such other addresses a party may designate in writing). Supplier is an independent contractor in the performance of its obligations under this Order, and Zebra is to have no control over the methods and means Supplier uses to fulfill its obligations under this Order. Supplier (including its employees and contractors) shall not be considered employees of Zebra or any of its Affiliates or entitled to participate in any Zebra employee benefits or plans of any kind. Zebra's failure to enforce or insist on performance of any of the terms or conditions in this Order shall not operate as a waiver of that or any other right.
28. SURVIVAL. Upon fulfillment, expiration or termination of this Order for any reason, all provisions of this Order that explicitly survive or whose meaning requires them to survive shall survive, including but not limited to, the representations, warranties, indemnities and Sections 6, 8, 11, 16 and 25-27.
SCHEDULE 1: SPECIAL CONDITIONS FOR EMEA
1. TRANSFER OF EMPLOYEES.
1.1 The parties agree and acknowledge that the nature of any Services under this Order does not, and will not, involve the transfer of Supplier staff to Zebra on any basis (and the parties resolutely disclaim any legal or commercial intention to that effect). Accordingly, and for the avoidance of any doubt, the parties concur in their good faith belief that commencement of Services under this Order will not trigger the application of Employment Regulations in respect of Supplier staff or Zebra employees and the parties shall organise the provision of the Services in such a manner as is consistent with this intention ("Employment Regulations" means any national legislation (if any) applicable in any Zebra location implementing or having the effect of implementing the provisions of the EC Acquired Rights Council Directive 77/187/EC and 2001/23/EC or other equivalent or analogous national laws in any relevant jurisdiction, which may affect any party's employees.)
1.2 The parties agree and acknowledge that the nature of the Services under this Order does not, and will not, involve the transfer of Zebra assets or staff to Supplier or any subcontractor on any basis (and the parties resolutely disclaim any legal or commercial intention to that effect). Accordingly, and for the avoidance of any doubt, the parties agree that the termination of all or any part of this Order will not be a Relevant Termination for the purposes of the Employment Regulations (“Relevant Termination” means a termination of all or any part of an Order to which Employment Regulations apply Nevertheless, notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, in the event that this Order is terminated including but not limited to the expiry of this Order in accordance with its terms, Supplier shall indemnify Zebra for itself and for any replacement supplier against any cost, loss, damage, expense, order or award (including, without limitation, any claim for a redundancy payment, unfair dismissal compensation, or notice monies) suffered or incurred by reason of any proceeding, claim or demand by any Supplier employee, arising from the termination of this Order and provided that the Supplier employee employment is terminated within thirty (30) days of (a) the alleged date of transfer or (b) (if later) the date on which Zebra became aware of the person's claim and save for any liabilities arising directly from an act or omission on the part of Zebra which amounts to discrimination and/or less favourable treatment contrary to any applicable legislation and/or which amounts to a dismissal or detriment to which the person was subjected by Zebra because they made a protected disclosure under any applicable legislation.
1.3 If, on the expiry of this Order or earlier termination or variation of this Order, the contract of employment of any employee of the Supplier assigned to undertake the provision of the Services in accordance with this Order (“Transferring Employee”) shall transfer to a replacement supplier or back to Zebra by virtue of the Employment Regulations, Supplier shall indemnify Zebra in respect of, and shall on request by Zebra provide to the replacement supplier a written and binding indemnity in respect of, each and every claim by any such Transferring Employee employed by the Supplier whose cause of action arises prior to such transfer provided that, Zebra or, as appropriate, the replacement supplier, shall immediately notify the Supplier in respect of any such claims and on request of the Supplier shall allow the conduct of any litigation or court proceedings to be handled by the Supplier or their lawyers and providing that any such claim has not arisen directly from an act or omission on the part of Zebra prior to the transfer date which amounts to discrimination and/or less favourable treatment contrary to any applicable legislation and/or which amounts to detriment to which the person was subjected by Zebra because they made a protected disclosure under any applicable legislation.
2. ARBITRATION CLAUSE FOR RUSSIA TERRITORY
2.1 The terms shall be construed and take effect in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and the parties hereby submit to the jurisdiction of the Courts of England and Wales for the determination of any disputes arising under any contract or this Order.
2.2 Any dispute rising out of this Order including any question regarding its existence, validity or termination, shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration under the LCIA Rules, which Rules are deemed to be incorporated by reference into this clausesection. The number of arbitrators shall be one. The seat, or legal place, of arbitration shall be London. The language used in the arbitral proceedings shall be English.
SCHEDULE 2: SPECIAL CONDITIONS FOR APAC
A) GOVERNING LAW AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION.
If the Zebra ordering entity is located in the Territory below, the corresponding Governing Law and Applicable Dispute Resolution Clause shall apply:
Territory: Australia
Governing Law: Laws of the State of Victoria
Applicable Dispute Resolution Clause:
The parties hereby submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Victoria, Australia. Notwithstanding the foregoing, disputes concerning the ownership or scope of intellectual property right shall be settled by submission to any court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Illinois, United States of America. Supplier agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of Illinois for all intellectual property matters.
Territory: India
Governing Law: Laws of India
The parties hereby submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of New Delhi, India. Notwithstanding the foregoing, disputes concerning the ownership or scope of intellectual property rights shall be settled by submission to any court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Illinois, United States of America. Supplier agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of Illinois for all intellectual property matters.
Territory: Japan
Governing Law: Laws of Japan
The parties hereby submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of Tokyo, Japan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, disputes concerning the ownership or scope of intellectual property rights shall be settled by submission to any court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Illinois, United States of America. Supplier agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of Illinois for all intellectual property matters.
Territory: People’s Republic of China
Governing Law: Laws of JapanPeople’s Republic of China
In the event this Order and performance thereunder does not involve any “foreign factors” per the local mandatory laws of China, the governing law shall be the laws of the People’s Republic of China and the parties hereby submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of Beijing, the People’s Republic of China. Notwithstanding the foregoing, disputes concerning the ownership or scope of intellectual property rights shall be settled by submission to any court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Illinois, United States of America. Supplier agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of Illinois for all intellectual property matters. The foregoing “foreign factors” per the local laws of China, include but without limitation at least one of the following: 1) Either or both parties are foreign entities / individuals; 2) Order being accepted in territories outside mainland China; 3) Subject matter of this Order is assets located in territories outside mainland China; 4) Performance under this Order is in territories outside mainland China; or 5) Other conditions that may be deemed as “foreign factors” per the local laws of China.
Territory: New Zealand
Governing Law: Laws of New Zealand
The parties hereby submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of New Zealand. Notwithstanding the foregoing, disputes concerning the ownership or scope of intellectual property rights shall be settled by submission to any court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Illinois, United States of America. Supplier agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Illinois, United States of America, for all intellectual property matters.
Territory: Vietnam
Governing Law: Laws of Vietnam
In the event of any of the following, this Order and performance thereunder shall be governed by the laws of Vietnam, with express exclusion of any provisions of the 1980 U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods or the United Nations Convention of the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods, as amended: i) This Order or performance thereunder does not involve any “foreign elements” per the local mandatory laws; ii) This Order involves rights to properties being immovables in the Vietnamese territory; iii) This Order is for transportation services where the carriers have their head offices or branches in Vietnam. The “foreign elements” per the local laws include but without limitation to at least one of the following: i) Either or both parties are foreign entities / individuals, or Vietnamese residing overseas; ii) Basis for the establishment, modification or termination of this Order arose in a foreign country; iii) Assets involved in this Order are located in a foreign country; or iv) Other conditions that may be deemed as “foreign factors” per the local laws. The parties hereby submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of Vietnam.
Territory: Other APAC Regions
Governing Law: Laws of Singapore
The parties hereby submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of Singapore. Notwithstanding the foregoing, disputes concerning the ownership or scope of intellectual property rights shall be settled by submission to any court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Illinois, United States of America. Supplier agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of Illinois for all intellectual property matters.
B) JAPAN-SPECIFIC PROVISION – ADDITIONAL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES:
1. Supplier and Zebra each represent and warrant that the party does not or will in the future not fall under any of the following items:
1.1 The party and any of its officers (directors, executive officers or auditors) is an organized crime group (Article 2, Item 2 of the Act on Prevention of Unjust Acts by Organized Crime Group Members (Act No. 77 of 1991), a member of an organized crime group (Article 2, Item 6 of the Act on Prevention of Unjust Acts by Organized Crime Group Members (Act No. 77 of 1991), a person for whom 5 years have not yet passed since that person ceased to be a member of an organized crime group or any other person equivalent thereto, or a person who is closely related to an organized crime group or a member of an organized crime group (hereinafter, individually and collectively referred to as “Organized Crime Group Member(s)”);
1.2 It is recognized that the party’s business is controlled by the Organized Crime Group Members, etc.;
1.3 It is recognized that the party uses the force of the Organized Crime Group Members in relation to its business, that the party uses the Organized Crime Group Members, for the purpose of unjustly gaining any property benefit, or that the party engages the Organized Crime Group Members for the purpose of using the force thereof;
1.4 It is recognized that the party is involved with the Organized Crime Group Members, by ways such as providing funds, offering convenience or giving unjustly preferential treatment to the Organized Crime Group Members; or,
1.5 Performance of this Order promotes the activities of the Organized Crime Group Members or contributes to the operation of an organized crime group.
2. If any of the following items occurs to Supplier or Zebra, the other party may immediately terminate this Order without any notice or demand: a) Violation of Article 1 above; or b) Engagement in any of the following acts on its own or through a third party: (i) act of making a demand to the other party in a violent manner; (ii) act of making an unreasonable demand to the other party beyond legal responsibilities; (iii) act of using intimidation or violence against the other party; (iv) act of defaming the reputation of or interfering with the business of the other party by spreading rumors, or by using fraudulent or forceful means; or (v) other act equivalent to each of (i) through (iv) above.
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Died: April 20, 2000
In a short personal essay he contributed to the Twenty-Fifth Reunion Classbook, Kit wrote, “Much energy has been spent over the years on the debate about ‘moving to a better place’ or ‘making the best of where we are.’ I instinctively act on the latter agenda, and find my roots deepen as a result; along with increased investment in my wife, my kids, my community at home and at work.” These straightforward words about himself were amply borne out in his life.
Kit was an environmental and community activist in San Mateo County, California and along the San Mateo County Coast, much acclaimed for his successful environmental preservation efforts. When a Japanese bank threatened Half Moon Bay with development, he organized a protest in front of its headquarters in San Francisco, got the group to spell out “No yen” in pumpkins in a pumpkin field, and had a photographer fly over and photograph it for newspapers. He co-authored County Measure A, a growth control measure for unincorporated areas, and organized and lobbied successfully for its passage. He was a founder, leader, or active member of many local and regional environmental organizations and was an energetic and persuasive advocate who, one writer wrote, “brought a flair to his activism.” Kit once rented a truck, used its side panels to condemn offshore drilling, and drove up and down El Camino Real using a loudspeaker to make the case known.
In a tribute to Kit published in the Congressional Record, House of Representatives member Anna Eshoo stated, “Kit Dove was not only active in politics, he was also active in getting others to participate in the public arena;” he was “much sought after” on account of “his wisdom and ability to bring people together.” Kit’s wife Mary, to whom he was married for 26 years, said that Kit would campaign tirelessly for environmental causes, and the most important thing “was engendering a sense of belonging…It was his job to make this feel like a community.” Kit’s son Christopher added, “His innate ability to bring together [people] of varying views over diverse issues, and gain respect from all involved, was a key component in realizing his goals.”
Kit’s years at Yale presaged the strong individual contributor, team member, leader, and problem-solver that Kit was. He majored in math, captained the freshman wrestling team, and wrestled for the varsity from 1963-66; and he became an adept rock climber and rowed for Pierson’s crew. Describing his essay for our 25th Reunion as something of a “summing up” and a “goodbye,” Kit wrote that “fleeting memories of our times together visit from time-to-time;” and he recalled “late-nite chats, pizzas, cards” and more, including wrestling and “computers-computers-computers.” His career was in computing, working for companies like Matson Lines, Rand Information Systems, and IBM, and also founding his own company.
His Dad was “a dedicated family man,” his son Christopher said, who had a “graceful talent to find everybody’s strength, regardless of their personalities.” Kit died at home, with his family, following a long battle with mesothelioma. People in the community dedicated a sequoia tree to him, a public memorial service was held, and the area newspaper reported that “friends and adversaries offered glowing praise for [his] dedication.”
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by Liz · January 12, 2021
After years of doing family tree research it was finally time to visit those places in England where my ancestors originated, before they migrated to Australia. My father’s parents arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia in 1911, having travelled from their home in Colne, Lancashire all the way to London to begin the voyage. The morning after our arrival in Manchester, we set off to the area known as the Forest of Bowland where several of my relatives live. The little village of Hornby was our first stop, at the Tea Rooms. The stone, terraced buildings are very typical of this part of England and as we would discover, representative of the type of houses my ancestors had occupied.
I had connected with the wife of a cousin over the internet years earlier through our research and we had shared our finds with each other, promising to visit one day if either should be in the other’s country. So when a trip to Europe allowed us time to “pop in”, Grace and Graeme – my 2nd cousin once removed – generously put us up for a couple of days and took us on a tour of significant places in their part of Lancashire and the bordering area of Yorkshire. It was greatly appreciated, as Graeme’s work on the farm where he runs sheep up on the fells had to wait, as it was nearly gathering time. Their two storey farm house, made of the same stone as we saw in Hornby, was built in 1658 !
We were able to meet for the first time people I had only known about via genealogical research, which was very gratifying. My 1st cousins are somewhat older than me and sadly one has since died, so it was great to make contact when we did. We were able to find some of the ancestral homes in Colne, such as the tiny one in Gill Street (above). Unfortunately some had been demolished, including my grandfather’s home where his first born daughter had died as a result of burns sustained when her clothes caught on fire while she played near the hearth. She was only 21 months old. Discovering the details of this tragedy during my research was very upsetting although I do recall my father having once spoken of it briefly, as it was before he was born.
Just outside Colne was the village of Foulridge – which is now hardly distinguishable from the rest of Colne. It gets its name from the Anglo-Saxon words for foal and ridge, and is thus pronounced that way. It was once a hat making community, and evidence can be seen of weavers’ cottages surrounding the Village Green. One of my ancestors who lived there in 1851 was a hand loom weaver, along with her son and nephew, working with fine quality wool – Delain (from the French de laine – of wool). Her husband was a wool comber. Her husband and father-in-law had both been tailors. Ten years later, with increased mechanisation, many relatives had become cotton weavers in the local mill. One distant relative even owned the mill. Abner Row (above) is a lane where many inhabitants, including my grandmother (before marriage) were cotton weavers.
During our guided tour of the various villages and ancestral locations, Grace made sure to take us to the charming village of Haworth, in the district of Bradford, Yorkshire, made famous by its renowned Brontë sisters. On this rainy day there were few tourists to spoil our photos of the quaint shops and tea rooms, though the mists did make views of the moors beyond rather difficult.
There we visited the sisters’ former home which is now the Brontë Parsonage Museum. The exhibition room and the library contain the world’s most comprehensive collection of Brontë manuscripts, letters, early editions of the novels and poetry, and secondary material on the famous family and their work. It is possible to take a tour of the various rooms in the house, such as bedrooms, dining room, kitchen and servants’ rooms. Charlotte, Emily and Anne did most of their writing in the dining room and it was the focus of their creativity. ‘Jane Eyre’, ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘Agnes Grey’ were all written in there. Above the mantel is a sketch of Charlotte Brontë by portrait painter, George Richmond.
Leaving our hosts, we next travelled to the other main location for my father’s family – Bradford. This city built its fortune on the textile industry, with so many of its inhabitants – like my ancestors in Foulridge – working in the mills. Before his marriage my grandfather had lived in this district, working as a cartwright. He had been born in 1869 in Manningham, Bradford, 15 months before his father, James, died in the Manningham silk mills fire. James was a milk dealer, but with many other locals had rallied to try and save the silk, but a brick wall collapsed on him and another man as the fire took hold. Finding his former residence was difficult, although we found the tiny street, as well as various other small terraced streets where ancestors had lived according to the censuses of the 1800s.
The Lister Mills were largely rebuilt after the fire, but today some of the site lies abandoned while other buildings are converted to apartments. At one time Lister Mills was the largest silk factory in the world and after its rebuild was the largest textile mill in North England.
The wealthy Lister family had owned land in the area for generations, living in Manningham Hall which had vast parkland surrounding it. Samuel Lister sold the land to the local government body for the provision of a public park in 1870, which was named after him. We passed a rather grand entrance of a castellated gatehouse with octagonal turrets called the Norman Arch, built in 1883. The 22 hectare park includes an art gallery and museum, a Botanical Garden with a lake and a stream, and Mughal Garden. It is one of the main attractions of the city.
I had not realised how long it would take to do a thorough examination of my Lancashire and Yorkshire roots. Being there “fleshed out” the information I had so far gleaned, but only highlighted that I had a lot more research to do. But we had to keep moving as now we had hubby’s Norfolk ancestors to seek out. Maybe we can go back again one day!
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Obit: Bob Brozman (1954-2013) (43)
GUEST,Potato fingers 03 May 13 - 08:34 AM
GUEST 03 May 13 - 05:18 PM
GUEST,steve s 03 May 13 - 05:46 PM
Murray MacLeod 03 May 13 - 07:12 PM
GUEST,Gene-Adelphi 05 May 13 - 06:29 AM
Jack Campin 05 May 13 - 07:21 AM
Stilly River Sage 05 May 13 - 11:43 AM
GUEST,Another guest 05 May 13 - 05:34 PM
Stilly River Sage 05 May 13 - 07:58 PM
GUEST,Another guest. 05 May 13 - 08:16 PM
GUEST,stevesg 05 May 13 - 10:06 PM
GUEST,Another guest 06 May 13 - 01:26 AM
GUEST,mg 06 May 13 - 01:53 AM
GUEST,Eddie1 (sans cookie) 06 May 13 - 03:45 AM
GUEST,BoudiceaBlues 06 May 13 - 03:53 AM
Dave Hanson 06 May 13 - 03:55 AM
GUEST,Duck Baker 06 May 13 - 06:19 AM
GUEST,Anon 06 May 13 - 09:21 AM
GUEST,I knew the bastard 06 May 13 - 12:49 PM
GUEST,gillymor 06 May 13 - 02:20 PM
GUEST,Andy Alexis 06 May 13 - 04:02 PM
GUEST,Guest 06 May 13 - 04:37 PM
GUEST,Duck Baker 06 May 13 - 05:39 PM
Bill D 06 May 13 - 06:17 PM
Jack Campin 06 May 13 - 06:31 PM
Wesley S 06 May 13 - 07:18 PM
Midchuck 06 May 13 - 07:55 PM
GUEST,Santa Cruzan 06 May 13 - 08:27 PM
Subject: RE: Obit: Bob Brozman (1954-2013)
From: GUEST,Potato fingers
From the Santa Cruz News:
Gary Atkison (ex U.K. tour agent)Thu, May 02, 2013 - 12:01 pm
Because of the number of word restrictions, I am sending this message in two parts.
I'm sorry to burst the bubble here, but if you don't make it easy for readers to contact the editor directly then this sort of thing can happen.
You'll learn my qualifications for making the following statement in a moment. But let's begin with the difficult stuff first.
Bob Brozman committed suicide on Tuesday evening, 23rd April 2013, shortly after learning that he was to be taken to court for the severe sexual abuse of a child. This abuse happened some years ago spanning a period of time from when his victim was a toddler through to being a young teenager. In more recent years he repeated this abuse on another under age person. All of his victims were well known to him. In addition, I tell can you that whilst he was in the U.K. 1994 on tour, he sexually abused my own daughter who, at the time, was nine years old. I have never forgiven him and I never will.
My name is Gary Atkinson and I live in the U.K.. I was Bob's tour agent between 1988 and 1994. On the back of one major concert at the ICA in London, I arranged his first significant tour here. And even though I had not done anything like this before, I managed to get together for him ten or twelve dates.
We first met at London's Heathrow Airport. His flight was nearly twenty-four hours late! And he had been in the plane for that entire amount of time. As soon as he walked into the arrivals hall, loaded down with guitars and suitcases, I made him go straight to the bathroom and change into his stage clothes, after which, I bundled him into the car and we took a white knuckled car ride into the West of London where he was to headline a major concert, showcasing some of the finest slide guitarist in the world. After such a long and tiring journey from when he first set off from home, most people would have walked onto the stage, said "Hello" to the audience and then curled up under the chair and then said "Good night". Instead, Bob walked on, looking and acting like he had just had a month's vacation in Hawaii and as fresh as a daisy, he launched into one of the most energetic and powerful acoustic sets that I had ever seen.
Unlike most tour agents and artist's managers I always toured with the artists that I represented. I did the driving, I acted as stage crew, I helped with the sound checking, I would arrange interviews with everyone from music magazines to appearances on National TV and radio. Hotels, restaurants, banks, doctors. You name it. I even got up and joined him with my own guitar for half of the second set. Bob was an immediate success. The tours grew, year by year. By the fourth year we embarked upon the biggest tour so far. Nearly seventy dates, spread just a little over three months, including clubs, theatres, arts centres, concerts, festivals and even private parties that were prepared to pay his highest fee. And those sixty something dates didn't include interviews, workshops, recording dates etc.
I tell you this because, as a result of all of this activity Bob and became very, very close. From that first meeting at the airport, we got on like the proverbial house on fire. We agreed that we had become like "blood brothers". In addition, he was welcomed into the hearts, minds, venues and often, homes of people up and down and around the British Isles. He couldn't go wrong… Could he?
Gary AtkinsonThu, May 02, 2013 - 12:02 pm
When a travelling artist, such as musician, is on the road there is one thing that is at the top of the code of do's and dont's. Among all of the contracts for every date, interview, TV and radio appearance and recording session, there are also unwritten contracts of trust and moral behaviour. Bob, like so many, lived a here today, gone tomorrow life. He was idolised and had audiences in the palm of his hand. Yes, he put his trust in all of those that were prepared to further his career but he was also put into a position of trust by hundreds, if not thousands of people around the world who just wanted to help Bob Brozman because they loved him and loved what he did as an artist. This came as everything from handshakes by adoring fans or the free use of family homes by patrons of the venues, all done to help him and encourage him on his way.
I'm not going to go into details, but, for me, that trust was shattered in 1994 when Bob tried to take advantage of his "blood brother's " daughter. I confronted him about it and he would not admit to anything. There was a witness. My daughter's friend, also nine years old but she would not speak out. As a result, I quickly wound down the tour and had nothing to do with Bob again… until recently.
The first victim's mother had been relentlessly trying to press charges against Bob for some time. The second mother's victim was also fighting for justice. Bob denied everything and the local law enforcement agency were frustrating efforts by not taking individual allegations seriously. Bob thought he was on safe ground and in doing so tried to paint a picture of crazed opportunists trying to exhort him for his not insubstantial wealth.
More recently, I was contacted by the parents of the victims and from 6,000 miles away I did my best to support and encourage them. At times they were exhausted in their quest to get justice for their loved ones, whilst at the same time Bob proceeded to win the love, adoration and accolades from audiences around the world.
But even more recently as the result of the dogged persistence of the victim's parents a court case was announced. Bob panicked and quickly changed his tact, offering a significant "out of court" payment for the first victim. Of course, this is an admission of guilt in anyone's book. However, Bob would have known that such a settlement does not stop a case going to court and every court has the media reporters in attendance. For Bob the game was going to be up.
All of those years ago, Bob explained to me why he did what he did as a performer. Despite the fact that he really didn't need to work, certainly as much he did on his endless tours around the world, he fed off the audiences before him. He told me that he desperately needed their recognition, approval and acceptance.
With what was about to happen, coming straight towards him like an unstoppable express train, he knew that all of that trust, the praise and adoration was about to be shattered monumentally and he would be revealed for what he was.
I know that I cannot put everyone right about the real Bob Brozman and I don't blame millions of people for thinking that he was one Hell of a guy because of what they have seen at the shows and read in the papers, magazines and on the internet. But I will inform, where articles such as this have been written. Either, take the article down or do some proper journalism, find out the facts and tell the truth. The article as it is, is offensive to those involved.
From Bob's first wife:
My friend, Gary Atkinson, just called out the media for these worshipful pieces. Gary came forward and said it, Bob was a pedofile and about to go down. This is why he killed himself. My understanding is many, many people in the music world know. God knows I've been doing my best to receive justice for my loved one for years. Another thing, how many days did it take for the cause of death to come out? Well all one had to do was call the SC County Coroners office, as I did. In the garage, carbon monoxide and notes were left. Yes Bob was a musical genius. He was one when I met him in 1975. But he did great damage to at least 3 families that I know of and has caused decades of harm to at least one mother/daughter relationship. Domestic Violence and crimes against children have a way of affecting generations of people. Yes there are also grandchildren now. Please see Gary's comment on SantaCruz.com. It is in response to an almost unreadable peice of hero worship. He lays it out quite compelling since Bob molested his daughter also. Bob was not a good man and left a heartbreaking legacy.
If there is a way for the message to get to Bob's first wife, I would only assure her that I never, ever heard another report or rumor of this conduct. Not to say that I doubt her at all, but only to say that the impression that many musicians knew of this and did nothing may not be true at all. I will only add, as tactfully as possible, that many of his peers found Bob difficult on a personal level and were therefore not snowed by him or anything or that sort. I never bought the story about taking his life because he couldn't play like he used to. For any father to do that, that would seem impossible, though the story that he was in pain seemed credible. But that was before hearing this incredible news, which makes it obvious that none of us knew him.
My own inquiries seem to indicate that these awful allegations are true, and my heart goes out to anyone who has been damaged by this, and to their families. My only aim here is to assure them that this was not at all known to those of us in the music business; I wasn't close to Bob but have friends who were, and none of them knew.
From: GUEST,steve s
I have done a cursory inet search and communicated with some friends in the biz, and I can't confirm the above allegations. However, "Gary Atkison" is real, and has an association with Brozman. I advise caution esp. anonymous confirmation, as in the post above me.
steve senderoff
From: Murray MacLeod
It would seem to me that further comment, either eulogistic or speculative, would be well advised to be witheld until an official announcement has been made from the relevant authorities which would either confirm or deny that there was an impending prosecution.
I explained the reason for my previous post as having been made not to confirm anything but to hopefully send a message. It was anonymous because I'm a performing musician and want no part of amy controversy. Had I not satisfied myself about the probability of Mr. Atkinson's claims I would not have posted anything, but I am, as I said, not here to convince anyone of anything, one way or the other. I'm afraid that the truth will emerge anyway, but I'm not close enough to events to confirm anything, anyway. Really, all I can confirm is that the people who work in the same musical world never heard of any such behavior and my aim has only been to ease the impression on the part of Bob's wife that his peer group was covering for him.
From: GUEST,Gene-Adelphi
RE: Bob Brozman Obit...
To: Murray McLeod, and the other "naysayers", Et Al
Murray, the very LAST thing that ANYONE that has a potential (personal) "interest" in, or personal knowlege of (one way or the other) of this (horrific) "Brozman" situation should do is to "... with-hold comment....", with the exception, of course, of any MORE speculative &/or opinioned commentary, with which I totally agree with you.
However, waiting for an "...official announcement" regarding the factual details regarding Brozman's "alleged" pedophilia, is the equivalent of "...waiting for Godot", it will NEVER HAPPEN THAT WAY MY FRIEND!
The ONLY way that the truth will become known is by some of the serious blues & folk researchers, in residence here, doing the same serious Scholarly research that they do when researching the ENTIRE details of Robert Johnson's death but instead regarding Bob Brozman's death...this IS NOT rocket science my friends!
My personal researches seem to indicate that the "allegations" of pedophilia on Brozman's part are "in fact" true.
If so the ramifications are fucking horrific!!! How many Brozman fans out there have allowed "Uncle Bob" to crash at their house alone with their young children over these 20 or 30 years? How many of their children were NOT believed when telling their parents about "Uncle Bobs" touching? How many such children are in total denial & suffering years of psychiatric intervention? How many such young teens & young adults need understanding and "closure" over such abuse?
Well obviously I don't know (yet), but I'm VERY pessimistic about the ultimate possibilities, nay probabilities!!
I bring to your attention the theory known as Occam's Razor....the quick version goes something like this: In general, the simplest explanation for a given phenomenon, is predictably/generally the "correct" one.
You will not hear the truth from the family or the authorities, however, deep research into the CA court system (before it's expunged) will surely produce the public access documents such as CA vs Brozman, etc. pursuant to which the Subpoena was issued!!
It's there guys...........DAMMIT, go find it! PLEASE!!!
Gene R., Pres.
Adelphi/Sunsplash Records & Films, Inc
BBM Publ., ASCAP
NARAS
From: Jack Campin
The evidence in this thread doesn't suggest that Brozman was such a total loose cannon as to be a risk to every child he encountered in the music scene. If he had been, word would have got around long ago (as it did with Jimmy Savile).
Rampant monsters sell more papers and ad space than grey and boring truth. So Rupert Murdoch has a bottom-line motivation for escalating every case of paedophilia that way. I doubt if Gene R does.
From: Stilly River Sage
I fear this thread may limp along like the UK obit thread for Jimmy Savile did. It is a tragedy when someone is as flawed an individual as Mr. Brozman apparently was. He doesn't get a pass because he was also musically very talented.
It is better for those who are grieving, who might be looking for solace, to find a straight obituary thread with memories from friends and fans. Where does the talent and the sum of all of his recorded performances belong when the flawed individual who falls from grace (and then some) is shown to have had feet of clay via a criminal private life?
Keep the speculation about criminal behavior and proceedings over on this thread.
Thanks. Message edited to make sense in this new location.
From: GUEST,Another guest
Silly River Sage, I have to disagree. Pedophilia is fucking evil, pure and simple. I'll withdraw this if it turns out to be untrue but at this moment as one who knew Bob I have to say in my heart I believe it is the truth. I'm not piling on. But his fame and his wealth couldn't protect him from the truth any more. Word needs to get out. Other victims will come forward and still others need to know that it's okay to come forward. All the talent in the world does not balance the fact that there was a totally evil monster in our midst and its name was Bob Brozman. His contributions will be a simple footnote. He should have gassed himself years ago.
Word needs to get out for whom, "another guest?" He's gone. You're only hurting his friends and family now. And I'm not saying it shouldn't be out, but not necessarily in the obituary thread. It's unseemly. Start a new thread and we can move the accusations over there. Let his friends and family suffer in peace. They have a lot to be angry about without your righteous indignation. Go read my post again. I'm not giving him a pass. I think you ought to give a care to those around him who are now incredibly shocked and are mourning many things, not just his death.
From: GUEST,Another guest.
I respectfully disagree. There is NOTHING more reprehensible, more evil than victimizing children. I feel for his friends and his family but this is bigger. This story needs to be told everywhere. I'll say it again, and again and again, anywhere I can say it: There was a totally evil monster in our midst and its name was Bob Brozman.
From: GUEST,stevesg
_hey trolls and sock puppets_
criminal cases are not on line accessible in the database of the CA Superior Court serving the Santa Cruz area--only civil proceedings. They show Brozman's divorce and a probate process involving Haley, both not recent.
all allegations trace back to "Gary Atkison" and posts that may or may not be from Brozman's ex-wife.
_nothing_ can be confirmed or verified.
Gary Atkinson runs Document Records and has confirmed that he posted the information. He is also a co-author of brozman's national guitars book.
David Lindley and Paul Hostetter have weighed in online to say they are stunned and dismayed...but did not say they don't believe it.
No one from brozman's family or inner circle has denied or countered the charges. In fact, they have issued no statement whatsoever...not even an obituary or death notice in the local paper.
Much as I hate to admit it, this awful stuff has the ring of truth.
I'm surprised and dismayed to see mudcat engaging in censorship of any kind. Brozman was a monster, a hideous, evil monster.
Subject: RE: BS: Bob Brozman legal issues (NOT obit)
From: GUEST,mg
i think as they grieve they need to grieve for the whole truth, whatever that is...otherwise, if they grieve the man they thought they knew, and then the truth came out, it would be even more devastating..although if this is true they undoubtedly have been notified.
From: GUEST,Eddie1 (sans cookie)
What the hell is happening here? There have been many contributions and questions raised by people who knew Bob Brozman very well - now they have mysteriously disappeared. OK, obviously the slasher had a reason but surely we are due an explanation rather than to be treated like naughty children!
From: GUEST,BoudiceaBlues
Censorship!!?? Innocent until proven guilty, I understand, but freedom of speech. Shame on you! Some of the, Mothers, Parents of the victim's, now survivors, DESERVED to be heard, in this community of musicians, etc. Music is where we as songwriters,musicians and artists go when we can't express ourselves.This site is also another place, with Mudcat, that we can come and keep the origins of music alive. AND feel free to say what we need to say, about the rusty strings sounding better, and things we maybe couldn't say to our RL friends.. Being a purist doesn't mean "editing" out the biography. Let us also, not make this the Altamont, to a very beautiful and inclusive musical movement.One that is an important geneology of American music as well as the, again, all inclusive World music.
Love and Power to those who need it, and all of us who need eachother right now!
From: Dave Hanson
Someone earlier said ' this thread may well run like the Jimmy Savile thing in the UK ' yes it will, like this thread, when rumours started that Savile was a paedophile people rushed to defend Saint Jimmy until the truth finally surfaced about him, I suspect this will happen about Brozman too.
Dave H
I commented, rather angrily, on the obit thread, before this one appeared. I now apologise although a link would have helped.
From: GUEST,Duck Baker
What can possibly justify the removal of posts pertaining to facts here? Particularly when what is at stake is the possibility that other people targeted by this predator can finally feel free to speak out. I posted several days ago anonymously after having spoken to enough people to feel very sure that the allegations were true, not giving my name because as a working musician in the same general field I wanted to avoid controversy. Then, after speaking to enough people to be very certain, I posted using my name but my comment never appeared. I have been very moderate in saying what needed saying, and I'm telling anyone who cares that, if they follow the story back to the community of musicians in the Santa Cruz area, or to people who know Gary Atkinson who first made the allegations public (still viewable on the santacraz.com site), you will no longer be in doubt. I don't mind at this point having my name here; neither the perception of me by those who would choose to remain in denial nor the idea that we are besmirching a legacy means a hoot in comparison to the need of this community to look after the harm caused to innocents, however belatedly. Like everyone else, I didn't WANT to believe the truth of someone I knew for nearly 40 years, though not well, and worked with a few times, etc. But the fact is that word has gone out in the musical community that these allegations are true. If you don't want to take my word for it, and don't have access to other people close to the situation, and don't want to believe what people like Atkinson and Daivd Lindley are on record as saying, fine. But there can be no excuse for censuring comments that speak to these things. None whatsoever.
I certainly hope I don't have to stop visiting this site over this. My aim and that of others speaking from being close enough to have a clear view is to help victims. Nothing else matters at this point. If mudcat can't see that much, the waters must be muddy indeed in your world.
Duck Baker
From: GUEST,Anon
Victimizing children. There is nothing worse. One cannot help but wonder about the trips to all those third world countries. The man's "contributions" as a musician are worthless now. Everything he did is tainted by this, the most monstrous of crimes. I'm convinced that it is true. I am convinced that Bob Brozman was an evil, evil man. I'm glad he's gone and I wish he'd done this years ago. There is NO defense for this. No extenuating circumstances. If I never hear a note of his "music" again it'll be way too soon. Burn in hell.
Understandably enough, no one has been sure how to deal with this, and now some comments are here and some on the other page. I'm going to paste the substance of my last comment on the other site, editing out the complaints made when I thought the comments about abuse were being censured. To those who are worried about Bob's family and so on, wake up - the issue now is ONLY about victims, especially those as yet unidentified.
What is at stake is the possibility that other people targeted by this predator can finally feel free to speak out. I posted several days ago anonymously after having spoken to enough people to feel very sure that the allegations were true, not giving my name because as a working musician in the same general field I wanted to avoid controversy. Then, after speaking to enough people to be very certain, I posted using my name. I have been very moderate in saying what needed saying, and I'm telling anyone who cares that, if they follow the story back to the community of musicians in the Santa Cruz area, or to people who know Gary Atkinson who first made the allegations public, you will no longer be in doubt. I don't mind at this point having my name here; neither the perception of me by those who would choose to remain in denial nor the idea that we are besmirching a legacy means a hoot in comparison to the need of this community to look after the harm caused to innocents, however belatedly. Like everyone else, I didn't WANT to believe the truth of someone I knew for nearly 40 years, though not well, and worked with a few times, etc. But the fact is that word has gone out in the musical community that these allegations are true. If you don't want to take my word for it, and don't have access to other people close to the situation, and don't want to believe what people like Atkinson and Daivd Lindley are on record as saying, fine.
As for the rest, read between the lines. Grand jury proceedings in the US are secret, and are followed by a dismissal or an indictment. The story I am hearing is that the indictment was forthcoming, but until it hit, there could be no official record of anything.
The thread at santacruz.com has been plagued by much more of this kind of "it-can't-be-true-because-I-can't-google-it" stuff, often accompanied by name-calling and even attacks on the victims. I'm signing these comments to say that some of us have access to people close enough to know, and we don't need google. And no one this is true of is defending Brozman at this point; that should tell you enough.
I split up the threads, not all mods were in agreement, but last night it seemed a good move to keep the obit a music thread, and the speculation in separate place. Future scholarship may agree or disagree with that move.
I grew up with a mother who was an MSW - Psychiatric social worker who worked for a state child protective services department. The stories I heard - you don't want to know what some folks get up to around children. If the allegations are true, he deserved every awful thing that incarceration holds for child molesters. I've been reading obit threads at Mudcat for a lot of years, and the general consensus I've come away with is that most readers prefer the obit to stay a traditional obit, and let the discussion of private non-music stuff stay out of it. The Jimmy Savile thread was a mess and is the most recent example I had in mind. So, for the scholarship-minded folks who frequent Mudcat, I split the discussion in two.
SRS, there is no argument here. The man ABUSED CHILDREN. Anything else is, by comparison, unimportant. Taking down our posts or hiding them on another thread isn't going to make this go away. You say "In the more distant future, scholars wanting to research the music of Bob Brozman may find the obit thread and the links people posted to interviews and music, and they will find reminiscences of people musically influenced by him." Do you really think anyone will care about the "music" of a PEDOPHILE? Get real.
From: GUEST,I knew the bastard
Splitting the discussion is a lame chickenshit move. In light of what we now know the music is meaningless. The man was a fucking pedophile. A monster. His legacy is that of an abuser of children. His obit will reflect that, sooner or later.
I can't believe SRS thought this through. To try to separate this from his music is nuts. I don't think I'll ever be able to listen to him without throwing up.
Scholarship minded? Really? The only important thing here, as Mr. Baker pointed out, is to get the word out, let as many victims as possible know that it's okay to come forward. Your decision is a disgrace.
You're welcome to your opinion. No good deed goes unpunished.
And scholars researching Adolf Hitler's paintings may not want to know that he killed 6 million Jews...
When all of the conjecture and research are piled onto the obit thread, you're not hurting Brozman, as much as you'd like to. You're beating up on his family and friends who, I am sure, are struggling mightily with all of the information coming to light. I told you who I am so you won't beat up on the other moderators in your fury to exact justice. Complex questions and comparing Brozman to Hitler is a good start.
From: GUEST,gillymor
I can't really say what his family and friends are feeling right now. It must be hard for them and rather confusing but I can imagine how his putative victims might feel if, while looking for information, they stumble onto a folk site where people are lauding and paying tribute to this apparent pedophile. If we're going to err in the Brozman affair it's best to do it on behalf of his victims until this thing is sorted out. Scholarship can wait and Brozman's reputation can be rehabilitated if he's exonerated. Moving these posts down here was the right thing to do as long as you suspend his obit page for the time being.
the king of bongo-bong sez:
"As for the rest, read between the lines. Grand jury proceedings in the US are secret, and are followed by a dismissal or an indictment. The story I am hearing is that the indictment was forthcoming, but until it hit, there could be no official record of anything."
true, uhhh, wouldn't one expect a dismissal, means that no evidence that would stand up in court was uncovered?
if a witness testifies s/he observed Brozman engaged in illegal activity, that's admissable evidence that must be coraborated with similar quality evidence.
All of your evidence is hearsay, thus inadmissable.
I don't care about Brozman. I am concerned about the Salem witch trial gig engulfing this and related boards.
For that matter, I posesses no evidence at this time to differentiate "Duck Baker" from a virus on a Linux server.
sorry for the anon. post
Well, I guess I expected to be attacked personally for saying who I am, just as others are being attacked for NOT saying who they are, but really, that fact in itself SHOULD tell people with half a brain how sure I am of what's going on. If I wasn't, I wouldn't open myself up to such attacks. But how stupid is the attack itself? NO - one wouldn't expect a dismissal, not based on anything anyone has said. IF there was no indictment coming, why did Bob take his life? Pain in his hands? Please!! It was because, as everyone has been saying, the indictment was on the way, and from how I read Gary's statement, he was asked to make a statement exactly for the purposes of corroborating other evidence. I have talked to many people who have spoken to those making the allegations, so to disbelieve you have to think that Gary Atkinson, one of Bob's ex-wives, and another person whom I could identify but won't because I'm not sure she has identified herself - you have to believe that they all have lied. You have to believe that people like David Lindley and myself don't know more about it than you, that the musicians in the SC area who have assured me that it's all real don't know, or that Iim just lying about what's being said. You think I'm not Duck Baker? Send an email to my website and I'll confirm that I posted here. And WHY would I do all this? Just for the joy of engaging with people who have nothing better to do than stir things up because the situation isn't already ugly enough to suit them? Does it seem likely I have nothing at all to do but that?
I also did hear indirectly that the story about the indictment was tacitly confirmed by someone working at the SC courthouse. That would be hearsay if we were in court, but we ain't. We're here in the real world. Based on that alone I wouldn't make any claims, but added to the rest of it, the conclusion is inescapable.
And what evidence do YOU have? Have YOU talked to any of those directly involved? How many people connected to the Santa Cruz music community are YOU in touch with?
None, no, and none, right? What a shock!
If you want to act like you're defending Brozman from a witch hunt, good luck convincing anyone else. I've already responded to several messages from people thanking me for coming out and saying what the community close to Bob already knows. I kind of doubt anyone is going to thank you.
I don't intend to address such distractions again. My aim is, has been, and will be to remove doubts about this for the purpose of helping victims. Had Brozman not taken the easy way out, the indictment would have removed all doubts for anyone not in complete denial, but I don't even know what it would take for something "official" to happen in that regard now, and the idea that we should wait around for it is preposterous.
Sincerely, Duck Baker
Mr. Baker is a respected guitarist who travels in these circles. Mr. Atkinson worked with Brozman on his book and on tours. The former Mrs. Brozman has also posted. The question is, why would these people lie? What do they have to gain by that?
Amidst the recent jaw-dropping revelations about Bob Brozman there are those of us who knew him that are wondering how this stuff got by us. I never heard anything like this in the 40 years I knew him. No one said anything about it; not one word in all that time, in confidence, by rumor or anything. He sure kept it well hidden or at least disguised. Had I known things would have been different to say the least. Nothing is more vile than victimizing a child. Nothing. This all is a game-changer. Everything is different now, talent or no talent. Poor little kids. How do we deal with the destruction of that kind of innocence? I wish I would have known sooner. D.Lindley
From: GUEST,Andy Alexis
On santacruz.com, you will see one of my comments on the story; my family faced a similar situation, abuse of one of my siblings by a charismatic, creative (and trusted!) individual, with many of the same outraged responses from disbelievers after it was made public on TV by forces beyond our control.
In our case, there were many others abused by this individual that have never come forward; many never even told their own families. Only two brave individuals did in our case. Despite the already lurid nature of the TV coverage we got, I know for a fact that many of the actual details were even more explosive than what was reported.
So this is to say that the truth of these abuse cases is much worse than you will ever know. The victims of his abuse will be spending the rest of their lives recovering. Like David Lindley said, "this changes everything".
Andy Alexis in California
So if anyone wants to know where the rest of the thread, you know, the part about Bob Brozman the pedophile went, it's here: http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=150697&messages=35
Burn in hell.
From: GUEST,Guest
Thank you, Duck Baker. Much appreciated. His first wife never went by the name of Brozman.
I am just glad that a sort of unified front is now presented so that those who have been doubting can see that it's not just a bunch of made-up nonsense. I am not close enough to know many details, just close enough to know that the allegations must be taken seriously. Of that there can be no doubt at all.
If we can help just one innocent to seek support even five minutes sooner by being clear that those close to the situation are generally in agreement, that is that only thing that seems to matter at this point.
Let that be our aim now, please
I have to say, it worries me a bit that he traveled so much to other countries...just saw an old thread on the IGS forum where he claimed that he did that because he could not afford to travel in the US. Puh-leeez. I think most people know that Shep Brozman's son didn't have to worry about money...
Especially not since Shep died.
The worry is for all the homes he stayed in, all over the world.
He was wealthy and didn't have to do anything. Looking at where his travels took him you have to at least wonder...
What ever happened to due process?
What ever happened to due process? Whether this is true or not shouldn't this be proven first before the social media makes indictments?
Whatever happened to reading the posts in the thread before commenting? There will be no indictment now that he took the escape route that he did, and if the importance of getting the truth out isn't apparent, one can only assume you haven't read what's on this page.
It is not crucial whether the late subject was guilty, sort of guilty, very guilty...or even not guilty. *I* don't know the 'truth', and I must just shake my head at having to accept the stated word of some who claim they DO know the truth.
The point 'should' be that 'proving' this allegation to the world at large does little good. If those who knew him wish to explain it to one another, so be it. No particular good will come of arm waving and yelling about GUILT. We all know child abuse is a terrible thing, and we all should do our best to identify problem individuals while it is relevant. This rancor and posturing serves little purpose.
Note that no one who is remotely close to the guy or his family has denied a thing...
Do you really think anyone will care about the "music" of a PEDOPHILE?
You mean like Schubert and Britten? Yes, I do think they'll care.
Get a grip. There are things worse than paedophilia, and one of them is turning our whole society into a paranoic hell driven by panics like the witch craze. We can respond to this without all the hysterical crap. Raving outrage is nobody's moral duty.
(I appreciate Duck Baker putting his name to his comments - that gives them a lot more credibility).
From: Wesley S
"There are things worse than paedophilia"
No - not really.
From: Midchuck
Actually, Pedophilia means being sexually attracted to children. It is commonly misunderstood to mean acting upon that attraction. Your best friend could be a pedophile, but keep his actual behavior under control, and you'd never know it. Actual child molestation is what's the evil thing.
From: GUEST,Santa Cruzan
From Judith Herman's Book TRAUMA AND RECOVERY:
Sharing the traumatic experience with others is a precondition for the restitution of a sense of a meaningful world. In this process, the survivor seeks assistance not only from those closest to her but also from the wider community. The response of the community has a powerful influence on the ultimate resolution of the trauma. Restoration of the breach between the traumatized person and the community depends, first, upon public acknowledgment of the traumatic event and, second, upon some form of community action. Once it is publicly recognized that a person has been harmed, the community must take action to assign responsibility for the harm and to repair the injury. These two responses- recognition and restitution- are necessary to rebuild the survivor's sense of order and justice.
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Thursday, 17 December 2020, 17:00 HKT/SGT
Global business leaders view post-COVID economy in January
HONG KONG, Dec 17, 2020 - (ACN Newswire) - In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the 14th Asian Financial Forum (AFF) will be held virtually on 18 and 19 January 2021. Under the theme "Reshaping the World Economic Landscape", the forum will examine the challenges at hand and strategise the road to recovery and beyond with more than 150 influential global financial experts, policymakers, business leaders, economists, investors and entrepreneurs.
Paul Romer, 2018 Nobel Laureate for Economic Sciences and policy entrepreneur, will speak at the keynote session on the first day of the forum.
The most pressing issues of the day will be addressed round the clock during AFF 2021, including the post-pandemic recovery, sustainable development, responsible and impact investment, fintech, 5G, entrepreneurship and venture investment, and asset and wealth management. Moreover, the AFF's virtual platform will offer comprehensive business showcasing, networking and matchmaking services, including the Fintech Showcase, FintechHK Startup Salon, AFF Deal Flow Matchmaking Session, InnoVenture Salon and Global Investment Zone, providing interactive connections between global investors, project owners and start-up enterprises.
Valuable insights from Nobel Laureate economist
The keynote speaker on the first day will be Paul Romer, 2018 Nobel Laureate for Economic Sciences and policy entrepreneur, who previously served as Chief Economist at the World Bank and is currently University Professor in Economics at the University of New York. He was the co-recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2018 for his work "integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis", which integrated ideas and innovation into economic models for the first time, making clear the societal benefits possible when people join together and collaborate in new ways. Prof Romer will analyse the current state of the global economy and posit the path towards a new and sustainable growth engine.
Tech trailblazers discuss business innovation and investment
Innovation and technology are fundamentally impacting the financial industry and will be a key focus at the AFF. Alexis Ohanian, Co-founder of Reddit and Seven Seven Six, and Luc Julia, Co-creator of Siri, Apple's virtual assistant, will share their insights on innovation, technology and investment on the second day.
Mr Ohanian and fellow co-founder Steven Huffman started the entertainment and social news aggregation website Reddit, which is the third most-visited website in the United States and ranks sixth in the world. In 2016, he co-founded Initialized Capital with Garry Tan, an early-stage venture capital unicorn that now has over US$500 million under management and a portfolio with a market value of $36 billion. Mr Julia, in addition to being the co-creator of Siri, was also Chief Technology Officer at HP, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at Samsung and has co-founded a number of start-ups in Silicon Valley. He has been recognised as one of the top 100 most influential French developers in the digital world.
To help worldwide business leaders keep abreast of and capitalise on the latest developments, and to enhance their competitiveness, the AFF will spotlight a broad range of topics related to innovation and technology, including central bank digital currencies, blockchain, regulatory technology (regtech), the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, financial inclusion, investment technology and cyber security.
Financial heavyweights assess global economic prospects
Pandemic-induced disruptions, coupled with various geopolitical issues, have destabilised the global economy. Influential global financial policymakers and business leaders will take part in more than 50 panel sessions and fireside chats to analyse the latest trends and market developments, including Stephen A Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO and Co-founder of the Blackstone Group; Jean Lemierre, Chairman of BNP Paribas; Philippe Brassac, CEO of Credit Agricole SA; Urs Rohner, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Credit Suisse Group AG; Mark E Tucker, Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc; Howard Davies, Chairman of the NatWest Group; Jose Vinals, Group Chairman of Standard Chartered plc; Wong Kan-seng, Chairman of United Overseas Bank Limited; and Zhang Lei, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Hillhouse Capital Management Group.
The pandemic has also intensified interest in sustainable investment and environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration among global investors. Experts such as Vineet Rai, Founder and Chairman of Aavishkaar Group; Jennifer Pryce, President and CEO of Calvert Impact Capital; George H Walker, Chairman and CEO of Neuberger Berman Group; Jean Raby, CEO of Natixis Investment Managers International; and Amy Lo, Chairman, Executive Committee of the Private Wealth Management Association and Head and Chief Executive of UBS Hong Kong Branch, will examine evolving demands and solutions.
AFF 2021 will also inaugurate the series "Dialogues for Tomorrow" to survey the impact of COVID-19 on, and the outlook for, various sectors such as banking, insurance, fintech, energy, healthcare, food and agriculture and big tech.
Online showcase for latest innovations and investment opportunities
Co-organised by the HKTDC and the Hong Kong Venture Private Equity Association, the AFF Deal Flow Matchmaking Session will return in a virtual format to arrange more than 700 one-on-one meetings between worldwide investors and project owners representing opportunities from a wide range of sectors, including Internet of Things (IoT), digital technology, healthtech, fintech, education, environment and energy, food and agriculture, infrastructure and real estate.
Moreover, the Fintech Showcase, FintechHK Startup Salon, InnoVenture Salon and Global Investment Zone will present the latest trends in financial innovation, next-generation business ideas and investment opportunities across regions and sectors from more than 100 local and overseas international financial institutions, technology enterprises, start-ups and investment agencies such as Standard Chartered plc, HSBC Holdings plc, Cyberport, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks, PAO Bank and Airwallex.
The InnoVenture Salon will continue to empower worldwide start-up enterprises by building connections with international investors, potential business partners and financial regulators. It will also present the inaugural "AFF Accelerate", an open innovation challenge jointly organised by the HKTDC, 500 Startups and FWD Group. The challenge will invite global fintech and insurtech innovators to devise tomorrow's business solutions for the global insurance industry, particularly in areas such as agent recruitment, lead generation and payments.
As Asia's premier forum for the global financial and business community, the Asian Financial Forum will help participants establish connections and explore investment opportunities with worldwide counterparts at the beginning of the new year. Participants who register on or before 31 December 2020 can enjoy an early bird discount, while registration arrangements for media representatives will be announced in early January.
- Asian Financial Forum: https://www.asianfinancialforum.com/aff/en/
- AFF programme: https://www.asianfinancialforum.com/aff/en/s/programme
- AFF speakers: https://www.asianfinancialforum.com/aff/en/speaker/main
- Photo download: https://bit.ly/2KC3nOv
Members of the media interested in interviewing speakers at the Asian Financial Forum can email to [email protected] on or before 12 January 2021.
The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) is a statutory body established in 1966 to promote, assist and develop Hong Kong's trade. With 50 offices globally, including 13 in Mainland China, the HKTDC promotes Hong Kong as a two-way global investment and business hub. The HKTDC organises international exhibitions, conferences and business missions to create business opportunities for companies, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in the mainland and international markets. The HKTDC also provides up-to-date market insights and product information via trade publications, research reports and digital news channels. For more information, please visit: www.hktdc.com/aboutus. Follow us on Twitter @hktdc and LinkedIn.
Please contact the HKTDC's Communications & Public Affairs Department:
Angel Tang, Tel: +852 2584 4544, Email: [email protected]
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Home General Stories Anees Saleem arrives with his sixth novel after 3 years
on: January 12, 2021 In: General Stories
English novelist, Anees Saleem, shares the hope that his sixth novel will be released this year. Anees, a native of Varkala, who had been living in Kochi for 20 years as the Creative Director of an advertising company, is writing this book after a gap of 3 years. His last novel was “The Small-Town Sea“, published in 2017.
Anees said that though the novel is releasing after the pandemic outbreak, neither COVID nor Quarantine is it’s theme. The novel is set against the backdrop of Hyderabad, which fascinated Anees during his journey to become a writer. This novel is the culmination of a lot of research.
Anees continues to work from home for his advertising company. He came to Kochi from Mumbai, just 3 days before the lockdown. He remembers that he would have had to stay in Mumbai for some time if he had not returned from Mumbai at that time. Anees, who had been traveling a lot for work and on his own, has not seen the outside world since March. During the pandemic, one room in the house has been converted into an office, while the other two rooms have been converted into a school. Anees Saleem reveals that even though we live in this pandemic situation, we can no longer record it in writing in a contemporary way. Maybe after a while he’ll write about COVID.
His journey as a writer was tiring. His first two books were rejected by the publishers. He altered his style of writing for the third book. Although it took more than 20 years for the first book to be published, Anees is happy that all the published novels have been well received by readers. He also won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award in 2018 along with several other awards.
Malayalam Edition of Cosmos ranks #1 in Amazon Movers and Shakers
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Highlander 30th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray & DVD in July
To mark the 30th anniversary of the time travelling action fantasy favourite, Highlander, Studiocanal have announce that the cult classic has been fully restored in 4K and will be released with brand new bonus material.
1985 New York City; the Battle to end all battles. The last remaining Immortals gather together to fight to the death: decapitation alone can kill them, and the victor alone can lay claim to “The Prize”. Amongst the contestants is Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert), who fought his first battle in 1536 on the highlands of Scotland, swordsman Ramirez (Sean Connery) who mentored MacLeod and taught him the ways of the immortals, and the evil and brutal barbarian Victor Kruger (Clancy Brown).
Starring Christopher Lambert (Subway, Fortress), Sean Connery (Dr. No, The Hunt for Red October), Clancy Brown (The Shawshank Redemption, Starship Troopers) Roxanne Hart, Jon Polito, Sheila Gish and Celia Imrie. The film was directed by Russell Mulcahy (Swimming Upstream, The Real McCoy) and features an original score by Michael Kamen and Queen. Highlander went onto inspire four sequels and a television series.
Restored by Deluxe London, the restoration of Highlander is based on a 4K scan of the original camera negative, followed by a full 4K workflow, with the approval of director Russell Mulcahy.
Highlander will be released as a 30th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray and DVD on 11th July 2016 by Studiocanal at the RRP of £22.99 for the Blu-ray and £17.99 for the DVD.
New interview with Russell Mulcahy
New interview with Christopher Lambert
Making-of documentary in 4 parts
Audio commentary with Russell Mulcahy
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Tag Archives: George Barr
Pixel Scroll 11/9/19 You Don’t Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Pixel Scrolls
Posted on November 9, 2019 by Mike Glyer
(1) VIEW TRANSIT OF MERCURY ON MONDAY. These occur on average about 13 times each century. The next one won’t be until the year 2032. Let EclipseWise tell you about Monday’s event in “2019 Transit of Mercury”.
On Monday, 2019 November 11, Mercury will transit the Sun for the first time since 2016. The transit or passage of a planet across the face of the Sun is a relatively rare occurrence. As seen from Earth, only transits of Mercury and Venus are possible….
Observing the Transit
Since Mercury is only 1/194 of the Sun’s apparent diameter, a telescope with a magnification of 50x or more is recommended to watch this event. The telescope must be suitably equipped with adequate filtration to ensure safe solar viewing.
(2) SUPERNATURAL EPISODE RECAP. [Item by Martin Morse Wooster.] In the latest episode of Supernatural a character was introduced who said she made her living as “the number-one purveyor of non-authorized ‘Supernatural’ collectibles on Etsy.” She also wrote fiction set in the Supernatural universe, although it wasn’t clear if this was fan fiction or professional fiction. But what made the fiction distinctive was that instead of the typical Supernatural episode, which has, for 15 thunderous seasons, pitted Sam and Dean Winchester against vampires, assorted monsters, and the forces of Hell itself, the fan fiction had the Winchester brothers doing laundry and other chores. This made the stories very popular.
The episode didn’t do much with the main character other than having her deal with another character who was struggling with writer’s block. “The only way to deal with writer’s block is to write,” she said.
This is the first TV episode I’ve seen where fan fiction characters were referred to in the episode…
(3) THE NEW NUMBER TWO. When John Hertz looked at Walter Day’s Science Fiction trading cards he noticed that a photo of Isaac Asimov appears on both Asimov’s and Arthur C. Clarke’s cards in the online gallery. It brought to mind an anecdote about the two authors which is retold in the “Isaac Asimov FAQ” at Stason.org.
5.5 What is the Asimov-Clarke treaty?
The Asimov-Clarke Treaty of Park Avenue, put together as Asimov and Clarke were travelling down Park Avenue in New York while sharing a cab ride, stated that Asimov was required to insist that Arthur C. Clarke was the best science fiction writer in the world (reserving second best for himself), while Clarke was required to insist that Isaac Asimov was the best science writer in the world (reserving second best for himself). Thus the dedication in Clarke’s book Report on Planet Three reads “In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer”.
(4) SIGHTS TO SEE. Fanac.org’s Joe Siclari called attention to recent additions to their online collection, photos from the 1959 Worldcon, and scans of calendars featuring work by two great fanartists, George Barr and Tim Kirk.
Thanks to Karol DeVore Sissom, we are scanning photos from the collecton of Howard DeVore. Today, we put up 19 photos from Detention from Howard’s collection.Scans by Joe Siclari. http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/Detention/w59-p00.html.
We also added two calendars today, one from 1960 (George Barr) and the other from 1969 (Tim Kirk). They’re now in a directory set aside for calendars, and I’m sure there will be more as we go forward. Scans by Joe Siclari. You can see it at: http://fanac.org/fanzines/Calendars/.
(5) CAREER CHANGE. “In today’s political climate, battling supervillains might seem an easier gig“ — “X-Men’s ‘Rogue’ is now a Liberal MP”and The Star has the story.
Actor-turned-politician Lenore Zann is finding a second act in politics just as one of her most well-known roles finds a second life on the streaming screen.
Zann, a longtime New Democrat MLA from Nova Scotia, arrived in Ottawa this week as a newly elected Liberal MP.
Rogue, the character Zann voiced in the iconic 90s X-Men: The Animated Series, will be on Disney’s new streaming service along with the rest of the superhero team when that service launches in Canada next week….
(6) MALTIN PODCAST. [Item by Martin Morse Wooster.] In Leonard and Jessie Maltin’s podcast with James Gray, they talk about cosplay beginning at minute 14, when Gray asks, “At what point did adults start dressing up like Captain America at Comic-Con?” and then segue into Martin Scorsese’s complaint about the MCU films not being cinema. Gray argues that the decline in the humanities in the past decade meant that more young people don’t have as deep a knowledge of film as previous generations do. At minute 20, they switch to deep and interesting film talk.
Gray never discusses why he decided to make a sf film with Ad Astra, although he did say he enjoyed working with Donald Sutherland.
Also, Leonard Maltin revealed at the end of the podcast that he always sits through the credits because “the movie isn’t over until you’ve been threatened with civil and criminal prosecution.”
(7) MEET MARY SUE. The Rite Gud podcast introduces listeners to a bit of fanspeak in “Writing Mary Sues, or What Even IS a Mary Sue?”. Go direct to the podcast here.
In this episode, special guest Jennifer Albright of Have You Seen This? drops by to talk about Mary Sues, a term used to describe an overly-perfect female character created as a self-insertion wish fulfillment vehicle for the author. The discussion traces the expression Mary Sue back to its origin in Star Trek fanfiction and tries to grapple with its current usage. Does Mary Sue mean anything anymore? Is it a misogynistic term? Is Rey from Star Wars a Mary Sue? Is James Bond a Mary Sue? Does it really matter if a character is a Mary Sue?
(8) BOOKS FRANK MILLER LOVES. Shelf Awareness brings you “Reading with… Frank Miller”, best known for Daredevil, The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300.
Favorite book when you were a child:
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, because he went for impossible adventure.
Your top five authors:
Isaac Asimov: He was the godfather of modern science fiction. He took us beyond the rocket ships and bug-eyed monsters.
Raymond Chandler: For his urban romantic poetry that celebrated 1940s Los Angeles.
Dashiell Hammett: His town was San Francisco; his dialogue was clipped, yet wildly evocative. His heroes were tough and very, very alone.
Dorothy B. Hughes: She brought a distinctly feminine edge to the hard-boiled genre and, in her own way, was ready to take us to darker places than any of the rest.
Mickey Spillane: For his pounding and frenetic portrait of New York City in the post-World War II era.
(9) URBAN MYTH. Snopes debunks “The Strange Case of Time Traveling Rudolph Fentz” – for a very genre-related reason.
In 1950, a New York City police officer who was working missing-persons cases examined the body of an approximately 30-year-old man that was brought into the morgue. The man had shown up in the middle of Times Square at 11:15 p.m. that evening, “gawking and looking around at the cars and up at the signs like he’d never seen them before,” then was quickly hit and killed by cab when he tried to cross a street against the traffic lights.
The pockets of the deceased’s clothing held multiple pieces of coinage and currency of forms that had not been produced for several decades, yet many of them were in mint condition. His possessions also included items from types of businesses that no longer existed in New York City (i.e., a bill from a livery stable and a brass slug from a saloon), a letter postmarked in 1876, and cards bearing the name Rudolph Fentz with an address on Fifth Avenue….
(10) SERLING DOCUMENTARY. The Hollywood Reporter learned from a film that will hit theaters next week that “‘Twilight Zone’ Creator Rod Serling Feared He’d Be Forgotten”.
Rod Serling remains one of the more influential writers in the annals of science fiction. As creator of The Twilight Zone, he took took viewers to strange dimensions and pushed the boundaries of what the genre could do. Yet, part of him feared he would not leave a lasting legacy. That’s one of the topics tackled in Remembering Rod Serling, a new documentary that will be unveiled Nov. 14 in theaters via Fathom Events to celebrate The Twilight Zone‘s 60th anniversary.
Born November 9, 1886 — Ed Wynn. He appeared on The Twilight Zone in “One for the Angels” which Sterling wrote specifically for him. He appeared one more time on the series in, “Ninety Years Without Slumbering”. He provided the voice of the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland and played The Toymaker in Babes in Toyland. No doubt his best-remembered film appearance was in Mary Poppins as Uncle Albert. Bet you can name the scene he’s best remembered for! (Died 1966.)
Born November 9, 1921 — Alfred Coppel. Have I ever mentioned how much I love pulp? Everything from the writers to the artwork to the magazines themselves are so, so cool. And this writer was one of the most prolific such authors of the Fifties and Sixties. That he was also a SF writer is an added bonus. Indeed, his first science fiction story was “Age of Unreason” in a 1947 Amazing Stories. Under the pseudonym of Robert Cham Gilman, he wrote the Rhada sequence of galactic space opera novels aimed at a young adult market. Wiki claims he writing under A.C. Marin as well but I cannot find any record of this. (Died 2004.)
Born November 9, 1924 — Alan Caillou. The Head in the Quark series. If you have to ask… Last role was Count Paisley in Ice Pirates and his first was on the One Step Beyond series. (Died 2006.)
Born November 9, 1924 — Lawrence T. Shaw. A Hugo Award-winning fan, author, editor and literary agent. In the Forties and Fifties, Larry Shaw edited Nebula, Infinity Science Fiction and Science Fiction Adventures. He received a Special Committee Award during the 1984 Worldcon for lifetime achievement as an editor. (Died 1985.)
Born November 9, 1954 — Rob Hansen, 65. British fan, active since the Seventies who has edited and co-edited numerous fanzines including his debut production Epsilon. And he was the 1984 Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund delegate. His nonfiction works such as Then: Science Fiction Fandom in the UK: 1930-1980, lasted updated just a few years ago, are invaluable.
Born November 9, 1973 — Gabrielle Miller, 46. Her first genre series was Highlander: The Series. And yes, she had long red hair in it. That’s followed by M.A.N.T.I.S., Outer Limits, X-Files, The Sentinel, Dead Man’s Gun, Stargate SG-1, Viper, Poltergeist, Welcome to Paradox… oh, you get the idea.
Born November 9, 1974 — Ian Hallard, 45. He was on Doctor Who as Alan-a-Dale in “Robot of Sherwood”, a Twelfth Doctor story; in Sherlock as Mr Crayhill in “The Reichenbach Fall”; and he played one of the original directors of Doctor Who, Richard Martin, in An Adventure in Space and Time. And he wrote “The Big Four” episode with Mark Gatiss for the Agatha Christie series.
(12) JFK. Gideon Marcus (Galactic Journey) is lining up fans who are interested in a free alternate history story.
What if JFK hadn't been all we lost on Nov. 22, 1963?
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(13) C.S. LEWIS BIOGRAPHY. Publishers Weekly does a Q&A with Harry Lee Poe: “New Biography Examines C. S. Lewis’s Earliest Reading Life “.
Harry Lee Poe, a professor of faith and culture at Union University in Jackson, Tenn., pores over the first 20 years of C. S. Lewis’s life in Becoming C. S. Lewis: A Biography of Young Jack Lewis (1898-1918), the first of a three-volume biography of Lewis by Poe.
Why did you decide to look so closely at these first 20 years of Lewis’s life?
Virtually all of Lewis’s biographers have puzzled over why he devoted most of his spiritual biography, Surprised by Joy, to his first 20 years. As I first began to read the letters of young Jack Lewis from the time when he first went away to school, I realized why Lewis thought his childhood and youth were so important in his conversion. During this period, he developed all of his major tastes about what he enjoyed in life and what he hated. Many of the ideas that he would pursue in both his scholarly work and his popular writings have their genesis in his teenage years. Whether books like The Allegory of Love and A Preface to Paradise Lost, or The Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity, many of the ideas found in these books were topics of Lewis’s interest in letters to [lifelong friend] Arthur Greeves when he was 16 and 17….
(14) THEY DIDN’T JUST HANG AROUND. BBC reports “‘Astonishing’ fossil ape discovery revealed”.
Fossils of a newly-discovered ancient ape could give clues to how and when walking on two legs evolved.
The ability to walk upright is considered a key characteristic of being human.
The ape had arms suited to hanging in the trees, but human-like legs.
It may have walked along branches and even on the ground some 12 million years ago, pushing back the timeline for bipedal walking, say researchers.
Until now the earliest fossil evidence for walking upright dates back to six million years ago.
(15) VINTAGE MOONDUST UNCORKED. Smithsonian Magazine: “NASA Opens Pristine Tube of Moon Dust From the Apollo Missions”. Tagline: “Studying the lunar material will help scientists understand the best way to analyze new samples from future missions to the moon”
NASA scientists recently opened a sample tube of rock and soil collected on the moon during Apollo 17. The tube remained unopened for nearly 47 years, and it is the first time NASA scientists have broken in to a fresh moon sample in over four decades. Researchers are using the lunar dirt to test next-generation sampling tools in preparation for the next time humans fly to the moon.
The sample tube holds about 15 ounces of lunar regolith, or loose rocky material from the surface. Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt collected the material during mission in December of 1972, NASA’s last crewed mission to the moon. The sample, 73002, was taken from a two-foot-long tube that the astronauts drove into a landslide deposit in a feature called the Lara Crater. A second sample, 73001, is scheduled to be opened in January.
(16) A WIDE CANVAS. SYFY Wire’s video series is after big game this time — “Behind the Panel: On the hunt for Treasury Editions”.
In the latest installment of SYFY WIRE’s Behind the Panel, we’re roaming the halls of New York Comic Con while searching for an elusive Treasury Edition: MGM’s Marvelous Wizard of Oz. True story: That was the first-ever collaboration between Marvel and DC. But their second collaboration was a true game changer: Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man.
That’s right, the unthinkable crossover already happened in 1976, with a follow-up sequel in 1981. Only the Treasury Edition format could fully capture the twin heroic icons of comics as they had their inevitable battle before their equally inevitable team-up to save the day. For the time, Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man was the comic book equivalent of a blockbuster movie. That Treasury Edition is long out of print, but fans may be lucky enough to spot it at comic conventions.
(17) FROM THE LETTERZINE ZEEN. Kim Huett shares another gem from his files with readers of Doctor Strangemind. “One of the reasons I find nosing through old fanzines so worthwhile are the contemporary reactions to stories and authors. It’s always fun to discover reviews of the big names back when they were just starting out. As you can probably imagine I was most pleased to find what I suspect was the first critical reaction to Ursula Le Guin.” — “In the Beginning”
… Take for example consider the following comments by US fan, Earl Evers, who reviewed the contents of the April 1964 issue of Fantastic Stories of Imagination in his fanzine, Zeen #2 within weeks of it hitting the shelves. In the process of reviewing this magazine, story by story, he had the following to say about what was one of Ursula K. Le Guin’s earliest published stories…
(18) VIDEO OF THE DAY. Kim Huett also shared this link for… reasons:
Here’s an #Owlkitty video which more than adequately explains exactly why Tolkien didn’t feature cats in either Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit. Yes, the right cat would make a great Balrog or an excellent Nazgal mount except cats have minds of their own and I can’t imagine Sauron would like that (besides, they would stare right back at him and it doesn’t take an All Seeing Eye to find that sort of behavior annoying):
[Thanks to Cat Eldridge, Andrew Porter, John Hertz, Rich Lynch, Chip Hitchcock, John King Tarpinian, RS Benedict, Olav Rokne, Martin Morse Wooster, JJ, Kim Huett, and Mike Kennedy for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Patrick Morris Miller.]
Posted in Pixel Scroll | Tagged Arthur C. Clarke, C.S. Lewis, DC Comics, Detention, Earl Evers, Fanac.org, Frank Miller, George Barr, Gideon Marcus, Harry Lee Poe, Isaac Asimov, Joe Siclari, Kim Huett, Leonard Maltin, Martin Morse Wooster, NASA, Rod Serling, Supernatural, Tim Kirk, X-Men
Pixel Scroll 3/2/17 Doing The Trilogy Backwards
Posted on March 2, 2017 by Mike Glyer
(1) RECURSIVE NEWS. The Large Hadron Collider gets a pixel tracker.
Officials said the replacement of a key component inside the CMS experiment represented the first major upgrade to the LHC – the world’s biggest machine.
Engineers have been carefully installing the new “pixel tracker” in CMS in a complex and delicate procedure on Thursday 100m underground….
More than 1,200 “dipole” magnets steer the beam around a 27km-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss border. At certain points around the ring, the beams cross, allowing collisions to take place. Large experiments like CMS and Atlas then record the outcomes of these encounters, generating more than 10 million gigabytes of data every year.
The CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) pixel tracker is designed to disentangle and reconstruct the paths of particles emerging from the collision wreckage.
“It’s like substituting a 66 megapixel camera with a 124 megapixel camera,” Austin Ball, technical co-ordinator for the CMS experiment, told BBC News.
In simple terms, the pixel detector takes images of particles which are superimposed on top of one another, and then need to be separated.
(2) COLLECTING THE CURE. A bidder paid top dollar for a moldy piece of history.
The mold in question — which actually outpaced early expectations to be sold for a whopping $14,617, according to The Associated Press — is a capsule of the original Penicillium chrysogenum Alexander Fleming was working with when he discovered the antibiotic penicillin. Encased in a glass disc, inscribed with the words “the mould that first made Penicillin,” and signed by Fleming himself, the little sample comes from the collection of Fleming’s niece, Mary Anne Johnston.
(3) GOLD RUSS. James Davis Nicoll has the panelists reading “When It Changed” by Joanna Russ at Young People Read Old SFF.
With this story we enter the 1970s, the last decade in the Young People project . I knew which story I wanted to begin the decade with: Joanna Russ’ 1972 Nebula-winner “When It Changed”. Noted author and critic Russ’s story is a reply to such classics as Poul Anderson’s Virgin Planet, stories in which planets populated entirely by women are granted that most precious of treasures, a man and his unsolicited advice. Russ was not always entirely pleased by the status quo. Subtle hints of her displeasure can be detected in this classic first contact tale.
Of course, we live in a modern era of complete equality between the sexes. Who knows if this story can speak to younger people? Let’s find out!
Here’s one participant’s verdict –
….I’d still be willing to suggest that “When It Changed” is the most relevant of all the stories we’ve read so far in this project. I’m sure this is a very hard to believe statement, especially when you compare the story to some of the others we’ve read (i.e. dolphin-people and doomsday don’t-let-the-sun-set cultists), but I’m willing to say it and stand by it, for a few reasons….
(4) DEALING WITH IT. Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s “Business Musings: Writing with Chronic Health Problems” deals with something I’m sure many writers are doing after seeing people’s comments here.
It wasn’t until I got a Fitbit on a lark that exercise became do-not-miss for me. Why? Because I can hit my 10,000 steps even when I’m sick. I shuffle around the house like the walking dead, determined to hit that magic number, because I’m anal, and because finishing my steps every day before midnight is something I can control.
The knee injury got in the way. I made my doctor give me a schedule and benchmarks so that I wouldn’t start up again too soon, but also so that I would start as soon as I could. He thought I was nuts, but he did it. And I followed it, even though I didn’t want to. (I wanted to hobble around the house to hit that magic 10,000 steps.) Even with an injured knee, I got 3,000-4,000 steps per day (using crutches), because I really can’t sit down for very long.
So why am I telling you all of this? This is a writing blog, right?
Because dozens of you have asked me, both privately and in comments, how I write with a chronic health condition.
There really is a trick to the writing while chronically ill. But the trick is personal, and it’s tailored to each individual person.
So, more personal stories—and then tips.
(5) MoPOP. Nominations for next year’s inductees to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame are being taken from the public through April 16.
We’ve opened up our Hall of Fame nominations to the public so that you can choose the creations (e.g. a movie, video game, book, comic/graphic novel, superhero, etc.) and creators (e.g. director, actor, writer, animator, composer, etc.) that have most inspired you!
MoPOP also says the public will be able to vote for the selected finalists later this year, although it’s unclear what impact that vote will have. The website says —
Founded in 1996, the Hall of Fame was relocated from the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas to its permanent home at MoPOP in 2004. Nominations are accepted from the public and the final inductees are chosen by a committee of industry experts.
A public was invited to vote was taken on last year’s nominees, too, but as it says above, selected experts chose the inductees.
(6) NEBULA NOMINEE. Brooke Bolander, who calls this “sputtering,” writes a pretty good thank-you: “Nebula Finalist Frenzy, or: IT HAPPENED AGAIN WTF BBQ”.
“Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies,” my thousand-word rage bark published in Uncanny Magazine, is a finalist for the Best Short Story Nebula. Again, to everyone who put it on their ballot: holy shit, thank you so goddamned much. I was helping clean up after a family funeral when I got the call, so to say that I needed that good news is a grave and frankly insulting understatement to the gift you all handed me. I didn’t expect to get on the ballot last year. I figured it was probably the last time I’d be within six city blocks of a ballot for a long, long time, if ever. Is being a finalist again so soon intimidating? You’d better fuckin’ believe it, buster. Is trying to figure out how I am going to follow this up absolutely bowel-twistingly terrifying, the fear that I’ll never write anything else worthwhile once again lurking at the edges of my internal narrative like a shadow beneath a 1 AM streetlamp? DING DING DING.
(7) SURVIVOR. Pat Cadigan is deeply reflective in this installment of “Still Making Cancer My Bitch”.
…At the same time, however, it’s a little spooky to think that, had my cancer followed its standard course––had I not gotten so extremely lucky––I wouldn’t be here now. And the two friends I lost were supposed to be living their lives as usual. John Lennon once pointed out that life is what happens while you’re making other plans. Truer words were never spoken.
A few days ago, I had started writing a post about survivor guilt. There have been a few posts I found very difficult and uncomfortable to write but this one was impossible. I have seldom written nonfiction; it’s really not my metier. I did write two nonfiction books in the late 1990s, one about the making of Lost In Space and another a year later about the making of The Mummy; they were assignments I lucked into and I think they turned out pretty well, if I do say so myself. But I digress.
Survivor guilt is one of those things easier felt than explained––easier done than said, if you will. You can’t write about it without sounding like you’re fishing for comfort: Please forgive me for still being alive. You know people are going to tell you that you have nothing to feel guilty about. Except for the few whom you secretly suspect don’t forgive you.
Personally, I’ve always thought of survivor guilt as something suffered by people who have been through terrible catastrophes––natural disasters, mass transit crashes, explosions, wars. These people have been through extreme trauma and injury themselves. So claiming I have survivor guilt sounds self-aggrandising. The truth is, I’ve never been in pain and thanks to my family and my ongoing support system of friends far and wide, I’ve never felt alone or like I had no one to talk to.
What I’m feeling is more like survivor embarrassment. It’s like this: you find out you’re terminal, and you make a big deal out of it, because what the hell, it is a big deal, to you anyway. Then, holy guacamole! Things take a completely unexpected swerve and it turns out you’re not as terminal as they thought. You’re not exactly well, not in remission, but you’re stable and you’re not leaving any time soon unless someone drops a house on you. (And even then, it would probably depend on the house.)
(8) BEAR NECESSITIES. Worldcon 75 has received a 5000 € grant from Art Promotion Centre Finland. If you read Finnish, you can find out the details in the organization’s press release.
(9) ROCK SOLID EVIDENCE. “Oldest fossil ever found on Earth shows organisms thrived 4.2bn years ago”. The Telegraph has the story.
Oldest fossil ever found on Earth shows organisms thrived 4.2bn years ago
It’s life, but not as we know it. The oldest fossil ever discovered on Earth shows that organisms were thriving 4.2 billion years ago, hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought.
The microscopic bacteria, which were smaller than the width of a human hair, were found in rock formations in Quebec, Canada, but would have lived in hot vents in the 140F (60C) oceans which covered the early planet.
The discovery is the strongest evidence yet that similar organisms could also have evolved on Mars, which at the time still had oceans and an atmosphere, and was being bombarded by comets which probably brought the building blocks of life to Earth.
….Space expert Dr Dan Brown of Nottingham Trent University added: “The discovery is exciting since it demonstrates how quickly life can form if the conditions are right on a planet or moon.
“This makes it clear to me that as soon as we find conditions on an exoplanet that would favour life as we know it, the probability of finding some form of life on that planet is very high. However, we are not talking about little green aliens but about microorganisms.
(10) ABSTRACT THINKING. Click here for the table of contents of the March issue of Science Fiction Studies which brings us, among other headscratchers, Thomas Strychacz’ “The Political Economy of Potato Farming in Andy Weir’s The Martian” —
Abstract. This essay examines the diverse political-economic registers of Andy Weir’s The Martian (2011) in terms of its symbolic response to the material and ideological crises of the Great Recession. The 2008 financial collapse in the US led to millions losing their homes and posed a serious challenge to the legitimacy of mainstream economic principles. Published at the height of the crisis, and concerning itself with the monumental challenge of bringing just one person home, the novel writes contested economic discourses into cultural fable. On Mars, Mark Watney’s potato farming evokes the paradigmatic neoclassical economic figure of homo economicus, the self-interested, maximizing agent who constantly prioritizes competing choices in order to allocate scarce resources rationally. NASA’s Earth, conversely, is a fantastic world of “unlimited funding” where, overturning two centuries of (neo)classical economic principle, “every human being has a basic instinct to help each other out” (Weir 368-69). The novel’s confused attempts to reconcile homo economicus with a workable concept of the common good can be historicized. Other prominent documents of the recessionary era—the US government’s official Report on the Financial Crisis and Occupy Wall Street’s Declaration among them—manifest the same yearning to restore a vanishing sense of commonwealth.
(11) REVENGE OF THE SON OF THE RETURN OF THE SHADOW CLARKE. Two more shortlists from Shadow Clarke jurors.
“A Personal Shortlist by Jonathan McCalmont”
One of the things I wanted to do with my shortlist was to explore the idea of the Arthur C. Clarke Award as an institution that challenges the near-monopoly that genre publishing has over not only the field’s annual hype cycle but also over the construction of literary excellence. Traditionally, the Clarke Award has filled this role by smuggling a few choice mainstream titles over the ghetto walls but what if those disruptive tendencies were allowed to manifest themselves more fully? What if the Clarke Award came to represent genre publishing industry’s systematic failure to drive the genre forwards?
In order to come up with a deliberately counter-cultural shortlist, I made several passes through the submissions list in order to rule things out before making more positive choices about the things I wanted to read and write about:
…Second pass: Genre publishing has slowly developed a near-monopoly on the means through which individual works acquire a word-of-mouth buzz. This monopoly is partly a result of publishers and authors developing direct relationships with reviewers and partly a result of critics and reviewers losing influence in the age of Goodreads and Amazon reviews. With most of genre culture’s systems of recommendation skewed in favour of genre imprints and established genre authors, I chose to prioritise works that were either produced outside of conventional genre culture or which have been marginalised by genre publishing and forced towards smaller publishing venues….
“A Personal Shortlist by David Hebbelthwaite”
…The task of compiling a shortlist is slightly different for the shadow Clarke juror, because there is more scope to set a personal agenda. What do I want my shortlist to be? This question came into sharp focus when I looked at the list of submissions, and realised that I wouldn’t want to shortlist any of the books that I’d already read.
So I have had to fall back on books that I would like to read. On that basis, I decided to orient my shortlist around the idea of discovery, focusing primarily on authors I hadn’t read much before, and taking note of a few strong recommendations from trusted sources….
Mark-kitteh sent the links along with these comments: “I did a spot of tallying up:
The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead 5
Central Station — Lavie Tidhar 4
A Field Guide to Reality?— Joanna Kavenna 4
The Many Selves of Katherine North?—?Emma Geen 3
The Power — Naomi Alderman 3
The Gradual?— Christopher Priest 3
“Which conveniently makes a potential shortlist of 6. It’s unlikely to be the final result, but the jurors seem to have more to agree on than to disagree.
“They are followed by another 7 chosen by two jurors, plus 10 singletons with a lone champion. Nick Hubble has the honour of being the only juror with at least one other agreeing with all his choices.”
(12) TRIVIAL TRIVIA
Monopoly Board Games produced after September 2008 come with $20,580 in play money. Standard editions produced before that came with $15,140.
(13) TODAY’S DAY
Today is Dr. Seuss Day, a full twenty-four hours to make a mess with the Cat in the Hat, dance around with the Fox in Sox, hear a Who with Horton, count the red and blue fish, help the Grinch see the error of his ways, and listen to Sam I Am’s friend complain about his dish of green eggs and ham, the ungrateful hairball!
(14) TODAY’S BIRTHDAY BOY
March 2, 1904 — Dr. Seuss
(15) EARLY BARR. At Galactic Journey, Victoria Silverwolf has an eye for talent — “[March 1,1962] Hearts and Flowers (April 1962 Fantastic)”:
Appropriately, The April 1962 issue of Fantastic is full of romance, along with the sense of wonder demanded by readers of speculative fiction.
Before we get to the mushy stuff, however, Judith Merril offers us a mysterious look at The Shrine of Temptation. George Barr’s beautiful cover art appears to have inspired this ambiguous tale of good, evil, and strange rituals. Barr’s work has appeared in a handful of fanzines for a few years, but I believe this is his first professional publication. Based on the quality of this painting, I believe the young artist has a fine career ahead of him.
(16) IT’S MERVEILLEUX. At The New York Review of Science Fiction: “Brian Stableford: Madme De Villaneuve and the Origins of the Fantasy Novel”
The first concerted attempt to define and characterize a genre of fantasy fiction was made by Charles-Joseph Mayer between 1785 and 1789 when he published the 41 exemplary volumes of Le Cabinet des fées, ou Collection choisie des contes de fées et autres contes merveilleux [The Cabinet of the Fairies, or, Selected Collection of Fairy Tales and Other Marvelous Tales] in parallel with Charles Garnier’s Voyages imaginaires, songes, visions et romans cabalistiques [Imaginary Voyages, Dreams, Visions, and Cabalistic Fiction]. The latter is now regarded as most significant for the volumes containing imaginary voyages that can be affiliated in retrospect to the nascent genre of roman scientifique [scientific fiction] but, as the full title illustrates, it contains a good deal of material that would nowadays be considered to belong to the fantasy genre, and some of the items, such as Madame Roumier-Robert’s “Les Ondins, conte moral” (1768; tr. as “The Water-Sprites”) would have been perfectly at home in Mayer’s collection. It was, however, Mayer’s assembly that identified the two principal strands of the genre of the merveilleux as the mock folktales that became fashionable in the literary salons of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in association with the court of Louis XIV and tales written in imitation of Antoine Galland’s collection of Les Mille-et-une nuits (1707–19), which claimed to be translations of Arabian folklore, although many of the inclusions are drastically rewritten from the original manuscripts or wholly invented by Galland.
(17) PULLMAN. In “Paradise regained: ‘His Dark Materials’ is even better than I remembered”, the Financial Times’ Nilanjana Roy uses the forthcoming publication of The Book of Dust to discuss how she read Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy ten years ago and how much she enjoyed these books. (The article is behind a paywall; the link is to a Google cache which can be read after taking a survey.)
The first in the trilogy is the most memorably dazzling, a classic quest story where the young Lyra travels to the north, befriending armoured bears and witch-queens. She has a daemon, Pantalaimon — most people in her world do, the daemon being an animal who is the external manifestation of a person’s inner spirit — and that is what I remembered most about the trilogy. When His Dark Materials came out, most of my friends abandoned their dignity and played games of Guess His Daemon? assigning slinking jackals or brown marmorated stink bug daemons to those they didn’t like.
(18) IT PAYS NOT TO BE IGNORANT. BoingBoing tells about the Norwegian news site that makes readers pass a test proving they read the post before commenting on it.
The team at NRKbeta attributes the civil tenor of its comments to a feature it introduced last month. On some stories, potential commenters are now required to answer three basic multiple-choice questions about the article before they’re allowed to post a comment. (For instance, in the digital surveillance story: “What does DGF stand for?”)
(19) THE CULTURE WARS. Yes, it’s Buzzfeed – perhaps someday you’ll forgive me. “This Far-Right Tweet About ‘The Future That Liberals Want’ Backfired Into A Huge Meme”. A lot of tweets have been gathered in this post – here are three examples, the tweet that started everything, one of the pushback, and a third from the bizarre spinoffs.
This is the future that liberals want. pic.twitter.com/QwterpqQbH
— /pol/ News Network (@polNewsNetwork1) March 1, 2017
(Buzzfeed says the photo was originally posted on @subwaycreatures, where it was used to “showcase the beauty of New York’s diversity.”)
@polNewsNetwork1 two people calmly sitting on a bus. oh the horror! I thought it was the SJWs who were supposed to be easily offended ?
— Sunny Burn ? (@sunweasel) March 1, 2017
This is the future that liberals want. pic.twitter.com/WCJHcP1BuL
— Mat (@MatCro) March 2, 2017
[Thanks to John King Tarpinian, Chip Hitchcock, Martin Morse Wooster, Cat Eldridge, JJ, and Mark-kitteh for some of these stories. Title inspiration credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Lis Carey.]
Posted in Pixel Scroll | Tagged Arthur C. Clarke Award, Brian Stableford, Brooke Bolander, David Hebblethwaite, Dr. Seuss, Galactic Journey, George Barr, James Davis Nicoll, Joanna Russ, Jonathan McCalmont, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Large Hadron Collider, Mark-kitteh, Nilanjana Roy, NYRSF, Pat Cadigan, Phillip Pullman, Science Fiction Hall of Fame, The Martian, Victoria Silverwolf, Worldcon 75, Young People Read Old SF
New Fanhistory Videos from Fanac.Org
Posted on October 27, 2016 by Mike Glyer
The YouTube Fanhistory Channel has added a selection of videos from Worldcons of the 1970s and 1980s.
Ms Marian’s Bedtime Story
11 minute video. MidAmeriCon, the 34th World SF Convention, was held in Kansas City in 1976. This entertaining video, framed as a children’s story, is full of references to the fannish lifestyle and how fans live Fandom as a Way of Life. It was created in the summer of ’76 to be used as filler on the convention’s closed circuit channel. The material is part of the Video Archeology project coordinated by Geri Sullivan.
Constellation (1983) Worldcon: Masquerade
1 hour, 48 minute video. This video of the masquerade shows the wide variety of costumes and skill levels that were shown. At around 1:42, there is information on how the masquerade was judged and the winners are announced and shown again at the end.
Panel: Women in SF: Their Right and Proper Place
1 hour video. MidAmeriCon (1976) Worldcon Panel: Women in SF: Their Right and Proper Place. This video of the panel “Women in SF” features Susan Wood, Kate Wilhelm, Marta Randall, Amanda Bankier and Suzy McKee Charnas. Includes an interesting description by Suzy McKee Charnas of her evolutionary networking of female SF writers. This video will give you good insight on where the discussion regarding women writers in SF was in the mid 70s as well as a few choice editor anecdotes. Note: there are a few sound problems. Part of the Video Archeology project coordinated by Geri Sullivan, with technical work by David Dyer-Bennet.
MidAmeriCon (1976) Worldcon – George Barr and Robert Heinlein, Guests of Honor
One hour 15 minute video. MidAmeriCon (1976) Worldcon – Speech by George Barr (Fan Guest of Honor) plus tributes to Robert Heinlein (Pro Guest of Honor) along with his response. This video of the Guest of Honor Banquet includes tributes to Robert A. Heinlein from Wilson “Bob” Tucker, Alfred Bester, Frederik Pohl, George Scithers, Jerry Pournelle, L. Sprague de Camp, Larry Niven and others. There’s a lot of respect and love evident in these tributes, and not a little humor. Part of the Video Archeology project coordinated by Geri Sullivan, with technical work by David Dyer-Bennet.
Posted in 70s Fanhistory, 80s Fanhistory, Conventions | Tagged Constellation, Fanac.org, George Barr, MidAmeriCon
Pixel Scroll 7/17
Posted on July 17, 2015 by Mike Glyer
Praise, complaints and tales of derring-didn’t fill the Scroll today.
(1) George Barr, Fan Guest of Honor at MidAmeriCon, the 1976 Worldcon, unexpectedly popped up in a soft-sell blog entry for PR firm Signal Hill, “Science Fiction Illustrator Finds Home” —
Hugo award winner George Barr found his home, freedom and #passion in #sciencefiction. http://t.co/1AsXTJqs86 pic.twitter.com/1iyzLucNO2
— Signal Hill (@signalhillspot) July 17, 2015
Barr’s art, often marked by a distinctive watercolor-over-ballpoint pen technique, illustrated science fiction magazines for decades, including the covers of “Amazing Stories,” “Fantastic Stories” and “If.” Barr also brought books to life through his work with publishers like DAW Books and Ace Books.
Prior to compiling this impressive resume, Barr did a great deal of free work for “fanzines,” non-professional publications popular in the science fiction world. Not only did it help build his portfolio, but it was a way to get his illustrations out, he says. The work even earned him a Hugo Award for best fan artist at the World Science Fiction Convention in 1968.
Barr earned these achievements with only one formal art course under his belt. Though he says he learned a lot about color, harmony and composition, the emphasis on commercial art did not play toward his interests. The freedom of the fantasy genre spoke to him most, he says.
“There was absolutely nothing you could imagine that could not occur,” says Barr of the genre. “You can conceivably be drawing anything that ever existed or might.”
Barr is 78 and has good things to say about the retirement community where he lives.
(2) Was the late Christopher Lee’s illustrious war record a complete fabrication? The Daily Mail writer who penned Lee’s obituary is now deconstructing his claims.
Until the end of the war, the man who would be Dracula served with the air force as an intelligence officer, briefing and debriefing pilots, and liaising with other units.
It was during this time that he claimed to have served in some way with the Long Range Desert Group and the SAS.
As Gavin Mortimer has shown, there is simply no evidence to support this. Lee may have worked alongside these units in some way, but he was emphatically not a part of them.
‘Lee didn’t exactly lie,’ says Mortimer. ‘But he did lead us on, encouraging us to believe [his job] had involved more derring-do than it actually did.’
In an interview he gave to Belgian television to promote Lord Of The Rings, Lee claimed also to have served with a small special forces organisation called No 1 Demolition Squadron, better known as Popski’s Private Army (PPA) after its charismatic leader Major Vladimir Peniakoff.
Like the Long Range Desert Group and the SAS, the PPA was a raiding and reconnaissance unit, and its exploits are venerated by many.
Again, there is no hard evidence to support Lee’s claim that he worked with the PPA.
(3) It’s not so much the complaints about Comic-Con that drew me to Heidi MacDonald’s roundup of what the convention’s critics had to say, but what she revealed in passing about the support other cons give to fans with disabilities, which far exceeds anything I see at the cons I attend:
There were many complaints about Hall H this year as always. Was it different? Not sure. I do know at least one person told me he got in and found many empty seats inside while a huge line was still waiting to get in, but that could be due to safety measures for crowd control. I would like to draw your attention to this post by Nick Eskey on the Talk Back panel and the subsequent comment threads as it deals with disabled attendees and the line wait. While to some hearing a fellow complain about not having a place to plug in his CPAP machine while waiting for Hall H may seem the height of folly, but you know, physically challenged fans have the same right to experience whatever it is they want out of Hall H as anyone else.
This is that guy that only slept 16 hours and needed his CPAP machine. You apparently only caught part of what I was saying, which is, that if they had not removed the outlets I could have used my CPAP machine and slept outside just fine. Besides that, however, you missed the point completely which is not everyone with disabilities can sleep outside. Because of that they should be given special consideration for their placement in line. What other convention gives ADA this sort of consideration? Try Emerald City Comic Con and PAX Prime, both in Seattle and both allow ADA to ALWAYS be first in line. Try DragonCon in Atlanta, where ADA have volunteers that will guide them through the convention, hold their spot in line and generally assist them in whatever way needed. I was on the BoD for OkCon and we bent over backwards to assist our ADA. Maybe because we had people on the board with disabilities.
And there’s even more in the Nick Eskey post she links to.
(4) On the other hand, fans are responding skeptically to a blogger’s complaint to SDCC management that the nine-year-old Who fan in his party was traumatized by the horror-oriented displays near the items they went to see. I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss the complaint myself. As the parent of a 13-year-old, I have discovered my former ideas of what’s okay for kids were pretty out-of-touch.
I attended SDCC this year as part of a larger group. One of our party, a nine-year-old, is a HUGE Whovian (we are a large Whovian family), so the first day at the convention we immediately made our way to the BBC America booth for Doctor Who merchandise, photo ops, and chatting with the BBC America representatives onsite about Doctor Who and upcoming events. We found that the booth was sandwiched between a booth for AMC’s The Walking Dead and Starz’s upcoming series Ash vs Evil Dead. Though problematic on its own, we were extra upset to find that both horror booths had their walls covered in TVs playing, on loop, terrifying clips of zombie horror (The Walking Dead) and absurdly gory violence (Ash vs Evil Dead), of which the latter’s level of violence I, even as a 24 year old man, actively avoid because it’s an anxiety trigger to me.
That night our 9 year-old woke up screaming with nightmares about zombies attacking her, and the next day she burst into tears when we tried to enter the con floor (despite the fact that we were far from the horror booths). For the rest of the con, while we were able to get her onto the con floor without a meltdown, we had to make a wide berth around the BBC America booth because of its proximity to the Walking Dead and Ash vs Evil Dead booths, which was secondarily upsetting for her because she was previously extremely excited to be near the Doctor Who things (especially the TARDIS set up at the Hollywood Sci-Fi Museum booth, also placed next to the Ash vs Evil Dead booth – she wanted to take her photo with the TARDIS so badly).
…Thank you so much for all that you do to organize and present this convention every year. Beyond this, we had very little issues with the rest of the con and overall had a great time. It’s simply unfortunate that the experience was marred by the emotional trauma inadvertently caused to our child stemming from the placement of BBC America’s booth between two of the biggest horror booths at the convention.
(5) John King Tarpinian says Mystery & Imagination Bookshop in Glendale is getting a lot of people wanting to buy reading copies of To Kill a Mockingbird, which led to a surprising discovery. “They are running out of paperback reading copies. A good customer says she wants a copy, the bookshop has one paperback left but Malcolm remembers that Christine paid $2 for a 40th anniversary hardback the other day and figures he’d be nice by offering it to the customer for $5 when she comes in. Malcolm, as is his habit, opens the book to discover it is SIGNED by Harper Lee. This is how a $2 book becomes a $1000 book.”
(6) While analyzing how the Hugos fit into contemporary fandom, Karl-Johan Norén points out that everyone thinks he/she is at the center of fandom.
(Ur-)Fandom came to Sweden in the 1950s. In the early 70s Tolkien societies evolved here from it, in many ways similar to SCA in the United States. The ties between the Tolkien societies and fandom in Sweden are still strong, and we can mingle relatively easily. However, media fandom, cosplay, LARP, and lots of other stuff were direct imports from the United States. Here the cultural differences are much larger and more profound. Partly this is because of the direct import, partly this is because Swedish fandom after the disastrous feuds of the 80s closed in on itself and very much focused on the core of discussing science fiction as books.
Put another way, the splinter lines within all the various off-shoots, special fandoms, and so are much easier to see here in Sweden. But the same tendencies are very much present in the United States, I imagine.
Another thing which has happened, from the 90s forward, is that the Internet has made it much easier to set up special interest groups that can gain critical size and connectivity. Baen’s Bar is one early such example, but there are many more nowadays.
So which of these disparate groups do the label “fandom” belong to nowadays? All of them. However, there is a tendency to use the word “fandom” as a shorthand for “the specific fannish group that I happen to be a member of”. I believe this is especially true within “core” fandom, the one that evolved around the pulp magazines in the 20s and 30s, with a primary interest in written science fiction. Historically, I think that movement can claim having first dibs on the label, but it helps to remember that fandom nowadays is much bigger and diverse than “core” fandom is.
(7) And as a kind of postscript, here are John Scalzi’s, Cheryl Morgan’s and Fred Kiesche’s tweets inspired by the report Michael Z. Williamson is voting No Award in every Hugo category.
Apparently the hip new thing for the Puppies re: the Hugos is to vote your work below "No Award" before everyone else does.
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) July 17, 2015
@CherylMorgan @scalzi I'm hipper than they are. I was voting them no award before they thought it was cool to do the same.
— Fred Kiesche (@FredKiesche) July 17, 2015
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Innovation in the Liberal Arts and Sciences in China: Six Recommendations to Shape the Future
GE Lecture
Innovation in the Liberal Arts and Sciences in China:
Six Recommendations to Shape the Future
In the last decade, Mainland China and Hong Kong have witnessed significant growth in university programs and schools that emphasize the liberal arts and sciences. There are, however, significant obstacles that impede this growth. Obstacles include general confusion over the meaning of the liberal arts; doubts about its value and relevance; the low quality and limited reach of current offerings; a lack of qualified faculty; formal metrics and incentives that hamper educational innovation; bureaucratic resistance; difficulties in scaling programs; the need for new ways of teaching about Chinese, Western, and other cultures, traditions, and values; and the fact that Mainland Chinese institutions are still overseen by important political forces that are ambivalent about the virtues of liberal arts and sciences education for Chinese university students.
This talk highlights six key recommendations to overcome these obstacles and to realize the potential for the liberal arts and sciences in China. These recommendations emerged from a gathering of university leaders and scholars at Duke Kunshan University (DKU) in June, 2017 and are contained in the report released in November, 2017: make general education matter; invest in interdisciplinary integration; focus on faculty incentives and development; embrace innovative pedagogy; scale quality programs; and study multiple traditions.
Biography of our Honorable Speaker
Dr. Noah Pickus
Associate Provost and Senior Advisor to the Provost, Duke University
Dean of Undergraduate Curricular Affairs and Faculty Development, Duke Kunshan University
Dr. Pickus was the Nannerl O. Keohane Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University and the founding Director of the Institute for Emerging Issues at NC State University. At Duke, he focuses on strategic planning, learning innovation, and policy engagement and co-authored Duke’s new Strategic Plan: Together Duke. At DKU, he led the design of an innovative, interdisciplinary, and problem-based undergraduate curriculum and is responsible for hiring a new faculty, implementing the curriculum, and developing innovative pedagogical approaches. He has taught at Middlebury College and in China and Israel. He was an American Council on Education Fellow at Franklin & Marshall College and is currently a lead curriculum designer for the Arizona State University-Georgetown University Academy for Innovation in Higher Education Leadership.
Date: 17thNovember , 2017 (Friday)
Time: 12:30 – 2:00pm
Light lunch will be provided
Venue: ACC209, 2/F, Jockey Club Academic Community Centre, Baptist University Road Campus
All staff are welcome!
For enquiries, please contact Miss Ada Chan at ge@hkbu.edu.hk or 3411 2106.
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norf norf lyrics meaning
(yeah) Tell him that I slit his throat, in this dream I had", -Eminem, from the same radio stations that played Brittney, Christina, N'Sync, Maybe she never heard of nelly, 50 cent, Eminem. The only thing I disagree with, but I guess it depends on what Vince means by 'attack'. Hard copies can be purchased on Amazon and digital copies are available on Watch official video, print or download text in PDF. Vince Staples Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More at SongMeanings! Looks like he's deleted this tweets since, however. I get the feeling that this woman's reaction of crying about the content of these lyrics is exactly the emotion this song should get....tears for his situation growing up where he did. That lady crying while reading Norf Norf lyrics, might honestly be the greatest piece of art ever. Sorry, but the email address you supplied was invalid and needs to be fixed before you can subscribe to The discography of American recording artist Vince Staples consists of three studio albums, four mixtapes, two extended plays and 22 singles (including ten singles as a featured artist). “We already have a lot of issues between black and white relations in this country based on misunderstandings,” Staples said. I know I wouldn't want to have grown up that way. An abbreviation for the North Melbourne Kangaroos Football Club (AFL). Yeah I didn't like that" and I'm like "yeah you're not supposed to". song lyrics, song meanings, albums, music and more. It originated from their supporters who were either too lazy or too dumb to say North/North Melbourne/Kangaroos and it is now an accepted abbreviation for this struggling football club. 35K Views 68 4. Vince Staples's Dopeman (Audio) music video in high definition. Vince Staples's Norf Norf music video in high definition. The song she heard was Norf Norf by the 23-year-old rapper Vince Staples. What does NORF stand for? This may be why the woman failed to hear the deeper meaning behind Vinceâs lyrics. Your religion is like your penis: I do not give a shit what you do with it in private, but keep it out of me and my children. Music Reviews: Norf Norf by Vince Staples released in 2015 via ARTium, Blacksmith, Def Jam. Stop asking me. “I don’t really have much to say about the video — I don’t think it’s funny at all,” he said. She doesn’t look like a mean person. It received widespread acclaim by critics and was placed on several year-end lists. Fuck no. I'm not okay with that. actually one of the top youtube comments on this video is this: She fell into the logical trap in thinking that the music creates the violent culture, when in reality the violent culture inspires the music., It’s not right to attack someone over their stance, their opinions, and their religion. The emotional rant has been a popular topic on Reddit today (October 4). Anti-vax, weird-ass homeopathic remedies like "urine therapy," teaching their kids to be racist/sexist/homophobic, the list goes on. "Norf Norf" is a song recorded by American rapper Vince Staples for his debut double studio album, Summertime '06. This misunderstanding of our community leads to miscommunication which we should convert into a progressive dialogue. List of 8 NORF definitions. Great Job. This is really well spoken on Vince's behalf. Or the fact that's she's offended by this when literally every single piece of music by Britney Spears is "how can I tell this guy I want to suck his dick without seeming like a slut?". My Mom didnât approve of the top 40 stuff during my childhood, either. Find more of Vince Staples lyrics. In the video, the unidentified woman complained about how rappers like Staples are ruining the youth, recited the song’s uncensored lyrics through sobs, and repeatedly pronounced “Norf Norf” as “Nerf Nerf.” She was an instant punchline to many, but Staples–known for his snarky social media presence as well as his social commentary–isn’t joining in on the jokes. North side Long Beach California. Bands like Korn, Limp Bizkit, Static-X, Marilyn Manson, Rage Against the Machine, and Tool were getting huge airtime with some pretty suggestive lyrics. In the video, the unidentified woman complained about how rappers like Staples are ruining the youth, recited the song's uncensored lyrics through sobs, and repeatedly pronounced "Norf Norf⦠But putting up a youtube video is putting that opinion on a forum for discussion. To contact us about advertising please email contact (at) spin.com. It’s not okay…. She doesn’t look like a mean person. I think that’s very immature… It’s just not right that’s she’s being attacked. that is the default mode of american poor white christians.
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The Story of Physics: Part 3 – Applications
With Part 1 we covered the origins of physics, the questions that gave birth to it as well as the though process of early physicists. With Part 2, physics came of age with the application of the scientific method and mathematics.
In this third part of the series, we discuss how physics itself is applied to the real world and its problems.
"The Industrial Revolution was a watershed in the history of mankind. Three forces – technology, economic organization, and science, in this sequence – each from separate and undistinguished parentage, linked up, inconspicuously at first, to form, hardly a hundred years ago, into a social maelstrom that is still engulfing new and new millions of people, in an irresistible rush." - Karl Polanyi, "For a New West" (1958)
The last time we discussed the Story of Physics, we left Newton basking in the glory of his theory of gravitation. We can safely assume that left the world being proud of his discoveries, all neatly tied up with empirical evidences provided by Brahe and Keppler, as well as his calculus which correctly predicts the motions of everything from cannonballs to planets and moons.
The Newtonian theory, now known as classical mechanics, held up perfectly well for more than 300 years. But again, as we say in IFSA: science marches on! With the coming industrial age in the 18th and 19th centuries, physics play a greater role in daily life; that is, applied physics. As scientists and engineers try to solve real-world problems, physics advanced with them.
The first of these advances is prompted by none other than the steam engine. Since the early 18th century, the steam engine have been used to pump water out of the coal mines of Northern England. Unfortunately, and ironically, these early engines consumer more coal than they’re worth, making the whole notion of increasing the productivity of a coalmine, moot. The problem is heat wastage, operators have no idea how much coal to feed the infernal machine to produce how much steam at how high a temperature to produce how much pressure.
Joseph Black (1728 - 1799)
Turning up the Heat
Enter Joseph Black, a Scottish professor of chemistry at the University of Glasgow, and later Edinburgh. In 1761, he discovered that the application of heat does not necessarily increase the temperature of the substance. An experiment was devised to prove this theory of ‘latent’ heat by measuring the temperature of a block of ice as it melts into liquid water, and later, that of boiling water and the steam it produces. This discovery, heralding the arrival of a new branch of physics, provides a guide on heat expenditure and conservation, which then resulted the development of more energy efficient and powerful steam engines – just in time to power the Industrial Revolution.
Thermodynamics, as it is now known, isn’t the only hot, new physics of the age. Application can come after much fruitless tinkering by the theorists and experimentalist, as the first and foremost nature of science is to discover, anything else is derivative. Similarly was the case with electricity; for centuries, the existence and effects of electricity have been known, though not fully understood. Chemical reactions can be measured, swinging pendulums can be timed – but what about electricity?
A Spark of Genius
For most of the 18th century, electricity was simply a novel curiosity. The first form discovered, static electricity, became quite a sensation whereby people (purposely) shock themselves, either for entertainment or therapeutic use. After much experimentation by figures such as Stephen Gray (discovered the principles of conductivity), Charles Francois du Fay (electrical charges), Pieter van Musschenbroek (capacitance), and the illustrious Benjamin Franklin (electrical potentials), the theory of electrodynamics began to form sufficiently enough for applications in the 19th century.
Stephen Gray (1666 - 1736)
Charles du Fay (1698 - 1739)
Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692 - 1761)
Benjamin Franklin (1705 - 1790)
At the dawn of the 19th century, Alessandro Volta provided the means to enable the actual use of a continuous electrical current. His ‘voltaic pile’, now known as the battery, was first employed in chemistry by Sir Humphry Davy who decomposed compounds into their basic elements, giving birth to electrochemistry. But things didn’t really take off until the relationship between electricity and magnetism was accidentally establish by Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted when he noticed that the needle of a misplaced compass twitches during his experiments using the voltaic pile.
A flurry of applicable principles poured out as a result of the discovery of electromagnetism. Michael Faraday’s law of induction produced the electric motor and generator, Andre-Marie Ampere’s circuital law rationalizes the flow of currents and therefore heralded the transmission of electrical power, and Georg Ohm tempers it with an understanding of resistance. And though it came late in the industrial revolution, the electrification of modern society extended it to create humanity’s first era of globalization. Telegraph lines extend throughout empires and across oceans, an investor in London may get price updates on the Paris stock market in a matter of hours, radio allows instant transmission of information, and not to mention the telephone and street lighting.
All these developments in thermodynamics and electromagnetism had therefore rounded out the achievements of classical physics. The cycle seems to be complete: the hypotheses of the ancients, the experiments of the Renaissance, the theorems of the Age of Enlightenment, and the applications during the Industrial Revolution.
But something was amiss. A lingering notion of how detached these branches (classical mechanics, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism) are.
If we were to adopt the views of the Enlightenment, that the universe is akin to some super-complicated mechanical clockwork governed by mathematics, then there must be a single, unified way to rationalize it all. Just as much we can trace the source of the movements of all three hands of a clock down to its regulating pendulum.
The quest for the unification of every principle in physics is now at hand. Of which we will continue in the next part of this series.
Contrary to popular belief, the steam engine was actually invented in the late 17th century by a Frenchman, Denis Papin. However, why did it took so long to be adopted widely?
Why wasn't mathematics applied to the research of electricity much earlier? What seems to be the missing link?
The scientific method's long journey from positing hypotheses, experimental validation, and formulating theorems, before considering applications seems directionless. In the meanwhile, science fiction have shown to inspire research in the basic sciences. The Star Trek series for example had been crucial to the modern development in communications, health, transport and defense.
Should we reverse this paradigm of 'build what we can imagine' to something more akin to 'imagine what we can build'? Why and why not?
Joseph Black, if James Watt is the father of the steam engine, Joseph Black is its incessant, pestering school teacher for its efficient use.
The role of steam power in the Industrial Revolution, one of the first modern examples of the applied sciences.
Electrification, proof that frivolous research may yield massive unintended benefits.
Classical physics, what we have been covering from Part 1 to Part 3. Part 4 will cover things beyond this....weird things...
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I understand the Communist China and its fear of Catholicism, however I do not understand why the agreement Phantom of the Holy See with the Beijing Government
29 September 2018 23 February 2020 isoladipatmos
- Church in the world: short essay about a priest who loves China and its people -
I UNDERSTAND THE COMMUNIST CHINA AND HIS FEAR TO CATHOLICISM, RATHER NOT UNDERSTAND THE REASONS OF THE PHANTOM OF THE HOLY SEE WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF BEIJING
Christianity has become an element of aggregation and unity, but did not prevent, as perhaps he thought the Emperor Constantine, the disintegration of the Empire, indeed in some respects favoring. So, political power that sought to strengthen their using as an element of unity and unification of Christianity, believing that they can in this respect and to this end absorb Christianity, It has instead been absorbed by Christianity, who survived Empire Romano maintaining in-house traditions, uses and totally Christianized Roman costumes. This is what frightens the Communist government of China, and they are right, politically, to be scared, then to act accordingly. It is the Holy See that maybe did not understand the reason for these fears..
Rome 2010 – Father Ariel S. Levi to Gualdo Via Crucis the Colosseum in memory of the Blessed Christian Martyrs, along with one of several Chinese confreres with whom he lived in contact in the Capital
I have long wanted spender two words on the Chinese question, but I refrained from doing so because many experts are now self-elected than on the Catholic press, to follow along with the plethora of websites and blogs Catholics, give us valuable pearls of wisdom. Most commentators accredited they just published showgirls to their past by some officer of the Secretariat of State, thus giving continuity within the Catholic Church in what was the relationship between the official organ of the Communist Party, the newspaper true [in Italian Truth], and the Moscow Soviet. Moreover, in the Russian language, true mean Truth. And what makes you smile, like today makes you smile the name of the newspaper of the Italian bishops: Future. Because at this rate, the future of the pilgrim Church on earth, short unfortunately will not be among the most edifying.
I have known over the years leading scholars, including several missionaries, that despite having studied for decades the Chinese phenomenon and having lived in that great country, when they named China were imbued with a kind of awe, as aware of its historical and social complexity and its ancient and glorious culture. Above all, since my formation for the priesthood, I have known and lived closely in Rome with several Chinese; and I can assure our readers that the "little" that lived by their lives I may have learned, I may have learned something more than velinari of true Pontificia, to which some monsignorino Secretary of State, who he has never set foot in China, spent some tissue paper to writing so that the Venerable Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun, chinese ancient lineage, eighty-six years old and already the Hong Kong Archbishop, it's just an old angry prejudiced against atheistic communist government of that country. Word of velinari, all at the instigation of some curial, that perhaps has got to much better known both far deeper China, if anything, the sifting of the Secretariat of State of His Holiness cards.
If a venerable man like Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Who, Instead of always all kinds of failure on the part of the Holy See to the Government of China, He says "They're giving the sheep to the wolves," and that this is an incredible betrayal ", and finally adding: "The signing of an agreement with the Beijing atheist regime undermines the credibility of the Pope» [Reuters, service WHO], someone, He wants to ask for the case at least of the questions? The problem is that the Church of the surface, dell'approssimativo, but most of the emotional, dialogue over everything cost even destroy everything, He has long ceased to listen to the experts; and after having been more or less settled amicably, decided to go ... Follow your little heart Subjective beating.
We smile so tenderly both on velinari from sacred palace is on those who improvise experts of this ancient and giant complex, This is China, speaking of which humility has always been the prince instrument used by his real and great scholars, if anything, at the tender age of eighty, after half a century of studies dedicated to it, with typical candor of connoisseurs tell you: "After half a century of in-depth studies, I learned something China, its history and its ancient culture but ..., of course: just something!».
A LITTLE COFFEE HISTORY THE GREAT CHINA
Rome, 2010 – Father Ariel S. Levi Gualdo with a Chinese confrere
The first written historical records of China sink their ancient roots in the Shang Dynasty dating back to the years 1.800-1100 a.C. While the Zhou Dynasty, which will occupy the scene for more than twelve centuries of history, between the year 1.500 and year 250 circa a.C. date back to the first writing characters imprinted on oracle bone, pieces of bone or shells of animals on which were engraved the paintings and inscriptions in its present form evolved match Chinese writing characters in use today. To this we might add that, a technical and architectural level, in greater China were the works that is accurate in both size, but in many ways even in perfection and beauty, outweigh the great works of the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans. Just think of the Great Wall of China, whose construction begins in the fifth century B.C.. Moreover, in 2009 the archeology department of the Chinese government made it known that the Great Wall was not long, as believed, 8.800 kilometres, but 21.196,18 kilometres. In any case always known that China has built the largest architectural and engineering feat in the history of all humanity. And, said this, who wants to hear …
The West today is the product of the little that remains of the greek-Roman culture, to follow with Christian culture. The bases on which will develop over the centuries, the law and politics have their fundamental basis in the philosophy of Plato, Socrates and Aristotle; and as a historical era, We are between the fourth and third centuries B.C.. China begins instead to have a philosophical development from the seventh and sixth centuries B.C.. through Confucianism, the moismo and the so-called legalism, thoughts from which will come to life and a legal structure entirely different policy, compared to that of the West.
The right cineif it is old 4.000 year old and since ancient times used to encode its own laws written. For the Chinese culture, the law, It is an absolute rule and a rigid pattern of behavior. As for the law and its application, it should first be given that Chinese law has certainly not assimilated what are the principles of Christianity then transfused in post-Constantinian era in Roman law, where it takes shape the concept of punishment still targeted to the recovery of the convicted offender. As today some things are difficult to understand when analyzed with contemporary analysis criteria, through the same penalty of death was given the opportunity to condemned to expiate the guilt of his crime, then to return to a state of purity through a death penalty that was precisely espiativa, applied not for punitive Revenge, but as an act of mercy aimed at the preservation of the soul's eternal salvation of the condemned.
In Chinese legal culture, certain concepts are alien: the sentence, whatever it is, action is purely punitive and definitely imposed for a crime committed. Only in Maoist era to life, for purely socio-political reasons, element in itself alien to Chinese culture, for example, the public repudiation of the errors and re-education. But this is items that have nothing in common with the Roman-Christian law, but with Marxism modulated for use by the Chinese regime during the Maoist revolution.
That alone could be enough to outline two cultures that are born, They take shape and develop through the centuries on the foundations quite different; but above all who speak two completely different languages, thereby generating a different feel and a different experience.
The western-European, It is a decadent society sick of hatred towards themselves and towards their origins. And those of Europe - with all due respect for the large representation of gays and lesbians who clamoring in the Strasbourg Parliament - are eminently Christian origins, non origins LGBT. It is not by chance, the idea of Europe, and its name, It born within the monastic, from the eighth century, after the fall of Roman Empire.
If Europe is an old continent less and less identity taken to fight with the very negation of their roots, that Chinese is rather a society that lives an ascent marked by a continuous development, but above all is a company deeply rooted in their ancient and noble origins. After saying this is suddenly the first question: a Catholic church daughter dying of a Europe that denies itself, afflicted internally by a moral crisis without historical precedent, with powerful gay and lesbian lobby through the total subversion of natural law claiming the right "sacred" to the destruction of our civilization; a Europe which for half a century has been weakened by a crisis of the internal principle of authority from which he then came to life the destruction of authority itself ... how can, This kind of Europe, think you can talk to and deal with a culture like China? Or someone can imagine a big Gay Pride in Beijing, with the usual masked pranksters, if anything, from Xi Jinping, severe President of the People's Republic of China, depicted in the form of pink bunny covered with pajettes? Or need to explain that the case for such a thing, in China, He was sentenced to death within a maximum of forty-eight hours after being beaten up in a public square? In China the government considers homosexuality "a clear sign of “Western bourgeois decadence ". Add to this that the Government of China, requiring parents to be able to adopt a Chinese baby, It imposes to be united in strictly heterosexual marriage and prohibits the granting adoption of children to couples LGBT. The PRC law defines marriage as a union only between a man and a woman and does not recognize any legitimacy to homosexual couples [III Session of the Fifth National People's Congress, 10 September 1980]. Very restrictive even legislation on sex change, which by law can not take place before and after twenty accurate medical reports attesting to the absolute necessity. Very rare in China so are the sex change, by surgical interventions and related hormonal treatment. That said, someone thinks they can tell the Government of China: … who are you, to judge gay and prevent them from realizing the right to their love, and to crown with the adoption of a child, or with his purchase by a surrogate mother?
The Orientals in general, Chinese in particular, not even conceive that the authorities and the principle of authority can be separated from the authority of who the authority is exercised. And here lies the second question: the Merlin Secretary of State of His Holiness, pace of showgirls published by the journalists of true Pontificia, just as the ecclesiastical structure is experiencing its deepest crisis at the global level authority, how they plan to deal with those on the authority principle is based rather any kind of social relationship, political and economic?
The Chinese system shape and raises its summits of champions almost always trained from childhood in a very meticulous and strict, to be able to play certain roles. And the exercise of certain roles, in Chinese culture not the good-natured principle that applies err it is human, but rather the opposite: in a certain role it is impossible to go wrong, especially when a mistake compromise - even if that happens so mild - the image of the authority and the honor of their country. This is to reiterate that talking about the rising China whose socio-philosophical system is the Confucian roots, so decadent Europe whose socio-philosophical approach, albeit from the same despised and denied, It is greek-Roman and Christian roots, we we compare two worlds and two totally antithetical companies, especially with regard to the concept of man, society, and rights. A single example: in European culture, not only Christian, but also in the lay of which is affected by the Christian root that also denies, pardon and clemency are in fact signs of civil superiority; testing is something that almost all the constitutional and legal systems is expected to act of pardon by the Head of State to also convicted of serious crimes against the state itself. Otherwise, the social culture and Chinese politics, forgiveness and mercy can be a sign of weakness that svigorirebbe unheard of in certain special situations the authority and credibility of the entire social system, political and legal, especially for those who are considered crimes against the People and the State. And, said this, does not lead astray the way between the fifties and the seventies of the twentieth century was modulated by the regime of Mao Zedong's public repudiation of errors against the People and the State, so the re-education of those we call "repent". All this was in fact the sole purpose of converting them into more active propagandists of the Communist Regime, reborn from error and so become witnesses of the truth. A striking example in this regard? That last emperor of China Pu Yi, interned in 1950 in a re-education institute for war criminals, from which he was released from prison in 1959. Once re-educated and become faithful and respectful to the Communist Regime, he worked as an officer in the collection and classification of historical material and as a gardener Beijing botanical garden, until his death in 1967 [cf. Pu Yi, I was Emperor, by Francesco Saba Sardi. Milan, It. Italian Bompiani, 1987].
Let's turn to another example exhaustive: think of what was once the 28 August 2008 the inauguration of the Olympics in Beijing. The whole world was stunned by those sets and the synchronized movements of thousands of extras who gave evidence of what is the kind of perfection that does not admit mistakes. But above, behind those unique settings and up to now unique to any other people in the world, It is enclosed in a socio-cultural element that is another foundation of that culture: the concepts of people, state and nation are above the individual. In European society is rather the individual above all, while that of China, above all, there is the concept and identity of the people. And here lies the fourth question: reduced the Catholic Church to an old mare who gives birth to little mice, in which the quality and talent are penalized with destructive ferocity, where the poor come to power now for thirty years impose categories of authentic sub-mediocre as their collaborators and then successors - all based on the principle that the chickens scratching in the henhouse certainly can not be surrounded by golden eagles -, how you can think of to deal with the subjects that have been selected, grew up and trained to be rather true champions of high talent? When the Chinese are put into play, but especially, When any title is at stake is the dignity and honor of their country, only they need to excel and rigor; and always manage to excel in everything, children how to have a culture that never, and in particular in certain positions and roles, no room for error, and least of all forms of mediocrity.
An example for even better clarify: Once a Chinese priest of the underground Church come from a few days in Rome, after I had tried to speak to him in English greeting, then in French, while I was wondering inside of me which language he spoke in addition to the Chinese, these turned me so: «Venerabilis Frater, Grace and peace be with you. Ego sum sacèrdos Sìnicus. I do not speak Italian language. Tamen, Senex EPISCOPUS sinicus, He speaks Latin language, I am teaching» [Venerable Brother, Grace and peace to you. I am a Chinese priest. I do not speak Italian. But it, the elderly Chinese bishops who speak the Latin language, I was taught to speak Latin]. That said I do not want to be disrespectful, but I'd be tempted to invite anyone to enter the classroom of the Italian Episcopal Conference, then to turn in Latin to some’ in the case of bishops, especially those of the last generation who pose as intellectuals sopraffini, and then see what happens, but above all to ascertain what they understand …
Having clarified the concept of non-wandering which applies to certain social and institutional levels in Chinese culture, Finally we can add one more question, aimed at both Merlin Secretary of State of His Holiness both velinari publishing amenities, namely, the following: the Secretary of State of His Holiness, in which they teem with the foolish people who go unpunished if they make mistakes in their seats, or worse, if they make mistakes never admit their error, especially if their hierarchical level is especially high, it cost well punish the innocent in order to defend the perpetrators of serious damage ... Well, how can they think that we can deal with people in certain public and institutional levels do not admit error, up to consider it an unforgivable damage and a huge disgrace, Chinese place in the socio-political culture does not prevail the defense of the individual, but the maximum protection of honor unitary institutional body?
In the current historic moment, the Church has neither the strength nor the diplomats appropriate to liaise with the Government of China, to converse with whom it would take to ecclesiastical figures in first able to hit them with their great authority and especially with their great authority. And we today, while we wander from one another grotesque scandal, similar characters, where we plan to take them out?
PUBLIC IMAGE, CONCEPT OF FORM AND SUBSTANCE IN CHINESE CULTURE
… this is a government of Cape minister of the Catholic Church – because that on the political level is considered a cardinal by any international governmental authority – committed to illustrate the washing machine and a clothes dryer to the Roman Pontiff, all under the watchful shooting of a cameraman, a clear proof, if anything you need it, this skit knew nothing at all to leave the private sphere, but make their own public …
Since we live in the world of image, then we try to give two completely different images, although today many, too many, do not want to accept the idea that the form, in his own way, contributes to making the substance, or at least put it in the right light. deliberately failing to indicate the person and also the year, so even through the date it goes back to the character, I remember, years ago, an in-depth documentary in which he was shooting a plenary meeting at the United Nations. With dismay I noticed the representative of the Holy See, that at the UN building has a seat as permanent observer. The representative of the Holy See was dressed with a sloppy clergyman that betrayed the shiny torn by television, with ill-combed hair, Visible white dandruff on the shoulders of the shots in the foreground, and an air somewhat clumsy. Shortly after he was framed - I do not know whether by accident or on purpose - the representative of the People's Republic of China, accompanied by two employees. All three with a bearing authentic princes of their oldest historical dynasties, haute couture clothing, comb your hair, shaved and pulled a shiny better and perhaps more than three actors in Hollywood during the big Oscar night. Before the Chinese, for which the form and substance are inseparable and that not even conceive that in the absence of an appropriate form can be any substance, what impression could do, the sloppy person who represented the Holy See at 'O.N.U? And then, We are having said that we point out that at the material time have just narrated, all in all not do badly spent ancòra like today, I think it said everything, or at least he said he was all you had to say. Species considering today, a Chinese delegation he came with his official style in Vatican City, entering or exiting the leonine walls could cross the Cardinal barista that comes with terms, a plastic bag, his sleeves pulled above the elbows, to bring the evening coffee to the homeless under Bernini's Colonnade.
… This is instead a Minister of the Government of the Republic of China, S. AND. Wang Yi, charge of the department of foreign affairs from 2013 to the 2018, Today the Council of State, apparently descended from the dynasty of the last Emperor of China. Please note whether in an official public occasion, between “a washing machine and a drying room”, It has a single hair out of place …
Without respect for the figure and age, journalists true Pontificia They instilled the poison Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun, which in addition to being Chinese, after being Archbishop of Hong Kong, eighty-six years it presumes know China more than certain velinari is their owner-operators. Yet veiled criticism of him we read that they portrayed as a stubborn senile. No one has focused this cardinal who declares himself an enemy of an atheist government, by members of the Communist government is recognized as a genuine authority. Because this is another feature of Chinese social psychology: recognize the profound value of the enemy. And Cardinal Joseph Zen is a respected enemy and deeply honored by this atheistic communist government with which he, uselessly, It reiterated that the Holy See did not treat, or at least it should not have to deal quickly and at all costs, because those of the great China are always very slow tempos praxis.
THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT HAS ALL THE HISTORICAL REASONS TO FEAR THE CATHOLICISM
Rome 2009 – Ricordi fraierai …
We come to the heart of the problem: we who presume to trattar with the Chinese and to draw up agreements with them, we know neither the Chinese culture nor China, while the Chinese senior government leaders, selected since children, grew up and trained to become the golden eagle, no chickens, instead we know; with us familiar Christianity, more than you can imagine.
first of all, in Catholicism, unlike various other Christian communities belonging to Protestant Movement, which we know is not a unitary phenomenon, the same goes for Islam, the Chinese Communist government sees a force that is dependent on a foreign power; What this unacceptable for a socio-cultural and political system like China. It is from this fear, Now let's try to analyze and understand the fundamental fear that China's government has Christianity, but especially of Catholicism, because if we want to make a serious and impartial analysis, we must admit that it is a fear completely understandable and above all historically established. In history, Christianity, It has created a unifying effect it has produced but later devastates, in many cases absorbent. most striking case of the story is the fall of the Roman Empire. In the dying empire, since the time of Constantine, Christianity has become an element of aggregation and unity, but did not prevent, as perhaps he thought the Emperor Constantine, the disintegration of the Empire, indeed in some respects favoring. So, political power that sought to strengthen their using as an element of unity and unification of Christianity, believing that they can in this respect and to this end absorb Christianity, It has instead been absorbed by Christianity, who survived the empire maintaining in-house traditions, uses and totally Christianized Roman costumes. If we want to go from antiquity to modernity, take for example the case of Poland of years early seventies of the twentieth century, in which the Christianity, at the level of aggregation, It constituted not only a front against the communist regime, but through Domino effect It originated its subsequent crumbling in all countries of the former Soviet bloc.
When we are speaking of Catholicism in China, They are mentioned immediately, alone and almost always the Jesuits, who came there to the middle of the sixteenth century. Unfortunately, however, a gross historical error, because the first to bring the Gospel in China were around 1246 the Franciscan Friars, two and a half centuries before the birth of the Society of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. So that, when after the 1260 The Polo Brothers came as merchants and were finally received at court by the Great Khan, who was in Beijing today, They were heard asking from the ruler 'news on the Pope and on the conditions of the Roman Church and the Latin customs ». Figure factor was a few decades after that of the Franciscan Giovanni da Montercorvino, who managed to win the trust of the Great Khan, and to start a genuine evangelization. Thus the Pope Clement V replied to requests for Brother John, who asked to organize the ecclesiastical districts, China sending another group of Franciscan Friars, along with seven bishops. The group of bishops and religious arrived in China around 1310, After several years of traveling. The bishops had received orders from the Pope to proceed to the episcopal ordination of Brother John, who was the first bishop consecrated in China and the first Archbishop of Peking [cf. AA.VV. The Franciscans in China. 800 years of history. It. Porziuncola, 2001, an extract is available WHO]. Well ... with all due respect the blessed memory of the Jesuit Matteo Ricci [Macerata 1552 - Beijing 1610], Jesuits came over two centuries and a half later. And wanting - always to be historically honest - we can say that they came not least also do damage, besides the doubtless well they work. And passing with a jump of centuries to modernity, we can not omit to mention that the main development of Catholicism in China between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, yes it is also due to the Jesuits, but it is noted that the Jesuit missionaries arrived in the wake of the French and all of them, for greater, They were of French nationality. France, in China, She had indeed many consulates for mainly economic reasons; and consulates were built around these communities and the activities of the French Jesuits. Being able to then arrange for its activities of considerable economic resources, in 1903 They opened the Aurora University, in the current Shanghai, which he ceased to be a Catholic university in 1953. Later it was opened in 1905 Fudan University and 1926 the prestigious Fu Jen University in Beijing, now based in Taiwan. The purpose of these institutions, especially Peking University, It was to train future classes of China executives, all in periods in which the Jesuits ancòra did not show any symptoms of wanting "a poor Church for the poor".
Previously the Jesuits, by Franciscan missionaries and Dominicans They had been accused of laxity, of the power and prestige Search, but especially of favoring idolatry and the so-called Worship of the Ancestors. The Jesuits tried to justify himself by replicating it for them, bids placed before the Tablets Ancestors, they had no religious ritual significance. Not at all persuaded by their justifications, in 1645 the Pope Innocent X - to say the least unconscious with those who had to do and then what would have produced - these customs condemned as incompatible with Christianity. The Emperor is outraged by such imperious interference in Chinese affairs, as well as to life the "dispute over rites".
In 1704 the Pope Clement XI I chimed the dose issuing a decree of condemnation on the practice of Confucian rites and Worship of the Ancestors, sending a legate watched over him so that application. The emperor, already perplexed by the struggles and rivalries between members of various religious orders present on its territory, He felt deeply offended by papal decree and the manner in which the supervision of its implementation had been established, all followed a decade later by Bull Ex illa The of 1715 in which the missionaries imposed the renunciation oath to the dissemination and practice of certain superstitious rites. The Emperor replied through their ambassadors: "What would the Pope of Rome, if the Emperor of China were allowed to judge and to reform the ceremonies of the Apostolic See?». And in 1717 Empire forbade Christian proselytizing and preaching the Gospel. Simply said,: If on the one hand, among the members of the Society of Jesus missionaries in China, there was a caste of Jesuits who acted like mandarins and also public that covered political and administrative roles, on the other there were the Dominican missionaries, suffering on the other hand by not less severe myopia, or perhaps even worse, They thought they could unleash theological disputes and to launch accusations of heresy, just as if they were in some so-called Catholic country of her time. And, very soon, the serious damage was, producing effects not easily repaired until today …
Having said that we must clarify, always for the historical and political duty, who was following the work of the joints below the French Jesuits, which began to form the idea that Catholicism was the long hand of a foreign power. It must also be remembered that the first to accuse the foreign priests, and in particular precisely the Jesuits, were Chinese priests, not least for the fact that several times, the missionaries of the Society of Jesus who ran numerous apostolic vicariates, They did filibuster in Rome for the appointment of local bishops, then for the canonical erection of dioceses, stating that it was not suitable subjects, while the truth was that they did not want to lose their jurisdiction over these vicariates, as it would have happened if it had been erected a diocese and appointed a bishop, and particularly if the bishop had been a priest of the place. Needless to say, similar situations, in the same years, or a few decades away to follow, always by the Jesuits, They came to life in the territories of evangelization of the Latin American Continent, with as many missionaries Dominicans and Franciscans to an opposite pole of the earth, but at the same identical manner, They accused the Jesuits to operate commingling between the old site and Christianity rituals, the so-called religious syncretism.
When exploded the Great Cultural Revolution which then he brought to power Mao Zedong, the reason to proceed, the best scenarios, the expulsion of all foreign missionaries from China, It was already so beautiful and packed for about two or three centuries: missionaries and foreign priests were the emissaries and servants of bourgeois power, capitalist and imperialist West. A quel point, missionaries who had the better, They fled to Hong Kong and the Philippines, other, including especially those who did not intend to abandon the faithful without priests and pastoral and sacramental care, instead they ended up in prisons, where in the space of a few meters they were crammed numerous people, so much so that to be able to get some sleep 'at night it had to take turns and unwind a bit' each. The suffering of these missionaries were terrible, because, What we know, none of them agreed to be subjected to re-education programs to become faithful devotees of the Maoist Regime. Programs that were accepted instead of several Chinese priests, jailed on charges of having served foreign powers. In this regard it should be noted, however, that the acceptance of rehabilitation programs loyalty towards the regime, Chinese priests were induced not by the desire to save themselves and their lives, but that of their family. Indeed, the members of the secular and regular clergy who were missionaries in China during the upheaval of the Great Cultural Revolution, their families had them in the various countries of the West, while imprisoned Chinese priests, before being killed, they would have had to witness the murder of their parents, Brothers, sisters and grandchildren, then would have been finally executed their.
Under the government of Mao Zedong, It is approved in 1954 the new Constitution of the People's Republic of China where the Communist Party control is established on any kind of organized activity. Anticipating what this would entail, Pope Pius XII issued shortly after the encyclical Nations to China, condemning the creation of a Catholic Church split from Rome. Incidentally: the text of this encyclical, which is an authentic pastoral masterpiece and at the same time of diplomacy, should read, but just read it on your knees, is today velinari of true Pontificia, both their owner-operators Secretary of State who instruct them in the publication of their pearls of wisdom [see the text of the encyclical, WHO] …
… the answer was that the following year, one of the largest dioceses in the country, to Shanghai, governed by Archbishop Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, It was quickly devastated. At the end of 1954 foreign missionaries still in the area, including two bishops, were just sixteen, between them fourteen in prison. In 1957 the latest Catholic religious institutions were closed and created by the Communist Regime the church detached from Rome Patriotic totally subservient to the State. Paradigm of this persecution was the tragic fate inflicted on monks of the Carthusian monastery of Our Lady of Consolation, in the district of Beijing, located about 180 kilometers from the capital. The monastery was attacked several times by Communist bands in the forties of the twentieth century and finally set on fire in 1957. The monks were captured, bound hands and feet with wire and forced to make forced marches under winter temperatures. Most of them lost their lives during these forced journeys, while the few survivors, after being subjected to the great farce of so-called Popular Maoists processes, put to death for refusing to recant and be subjected to re-education processes [cf. James T. Myers, Enemies no shotgun – The Catholic Church in the People's Republic of China, CIT. pp. 31 is S. readable text WHO].
It should also be noted that globally, a Catholic Patriotic Church, He came to life only in China; in various other parts of the world, different regimes, They have attempted to carry out similar operations, but without ever succeeding. Because what were permitted in China? This has been possible because of the strong aversion that the Chinese have a socio-cultural level towards foreigners. This does not mean that China is not hospitable, anything! The Chinese have a very deep sense of hospitality and the welcome of the stranger, and it is also well disposed and happy, to collaborate with foreigners, provided that deeply respects the ancient and noble Chinese culture and dare not groped to insert elements within his society as completely unrelated. Obviously, this created huge problems at once as for evangelization. But some say, more or less triumphant tones, that "to be successful only were the Jesuits'. Always be honest we must reply that if successful the Jesuits, It means the religious syncretism, or Confucian philosophy mixed with the Christian philosophy and vice versa, in that case, then we are talking about the biggest failure in which it can fall any missionary work of evangelization, always with due respect of the blessed memory of Matteo Ricci.
CHINESE COMMUNISM NOT ANALYZE WITH THE WESTERN CRITERIA
Rome, 2009 – fraierai Ricordi …
Communist China can not be understood if we apply to Chinese Communism Western categories. It is therefore necessary to clarify a key element: Communism China has something to himself, Communism Chinesized being a part of a culture that is born of greek-Roman-Christian roots but from Confucian roots. That Soviet and the Chinese have a common basis only red communist flags. An example exhaustive: the Catholic Church was severely persecuted in the Soviet Union, always based on the principle that it was owned by a foreign power. Less he was persecuted the Orthodox Church of Russia, albeit also subjected to persecution and restrictions. That said just remember - always to trace the difference which exists between these two different communism -, that shortly after the fall of the Soviet regime was found that, almost all Communist Party members, from those of higher rank, they were baptized, they had their children baptized secretly and had celebrated a religious marriage. And for the baptism of their children, senior Soviet leaders they had not even settled for a Pope, they had been baptized by some Metropolitan, if not directly, at the very highest levels, personally by His Beatitude the Patriarch of Moscow.
That said, I think there is more to with regard to the substantial difference that exists between a Communist regime born of the Great October Revolution in Russia Cristiana, and the Communist regime born of the Great Cultural Revolution in the ancient and noble Confucian China.
In China Communism, although today completely transformed, It stands firm as a system of government; and paradoxical as it may seem, especially if he said by me, we should also auspicarci that this government can stand the system as long as possible, transforming itself in a very slow and gradual. Simple the reason for this hope: in China there are hundreds of different ethnic groups who harbor ancestral forms of hatred towards each other. The Communist regime is a deterrent and especially brake on the struggles of fierce blast and internal wars. A comparison level we could use the former Yugoslavia, in which were present different ethnicities animated by fierce hatred toward each other, but kept at bay by Josif Broz regime, said Marshal Tito. We then saw what happened in the brutal heart of Europe, at sunset of this regime; the tuna fishing in those years were consumed, They were so violent that the international press reported and described the facts, but he avoided to publish photographs depicting deaths in the most violent. Perhaps someone can imagine, or worse to hope, If anything in the name of Western principles of democracy - as if the decadent Western democracy fetish was always applicable everywhere and in all cultures -, a Yugoslavia case multiplied to the power of a thousand?
FROM A “GHOST AGREEMENT” TO THE PROBLEM OF THE MARTYRS AND PERSECUTED
a painting sent to Rome from Beijing by a Chinese priest Father Ariel S. Levi Gualdo the day of his priestly ordination
Unlike velinari of Truth Pontifical and sapients raging from the printed paper to the telematic network, I have no answers to give, but only to ask questions. We start from the first: at a time when the Communist government of China has tightened restrictions against Catholics, up to prevent access to the churches to underage [cf. service WHO], and in a time when the Catholic Church, a planetary level, pour in a state of decay and profound crisis of credibility, as we have been able to reach an agreement? Also because until now, This "ghost Agreement", apart from comments and subsequent warranty speeches, But they do not know the contents, they just follow the vague news papers. How then give wrong to Cardinal Joseph Zen who laments: "The press, long awaited, the Holy See is a creative masterpiece in so many words to say anything "? [cf. service, WHO]. We do not know in fact what do you think the Chinese government of this agreement, nor do we know what do you think the so-called Patriotic Church, let alone what do you think the underground Church has always been loyal to Rome at the price of blood.
All we know at the moment It is that there was an agreement with the Government of China for which you do not know the contents. In practice, as if in 1929, to end Roman question, They had been signed the Lateran Treaty between the Holy See and the then Kingdom of Italy, no but no one knew the contents of those pacts, the manner of their application and then all the commitments and the possible consequences for the two parties that had signed them. But above: how many were the bishops of the Patriotic Church legitimized after this agreement? How many have been excluded from the legitimacy instead, for example, for serious reasons, from those bishops who have lovers and children? Or maybe, not to irritate the Communist Regime, They will also be entitled them, Myer before other? And those who were excluded from the case legitimation, it will be because, but especially for those who desire to? How will, after this "ghost Agreement" the mechanism of appointment of bishops? Does anyone really think that the Government of China, after this "ghost Agreement", grant freedom to the bishops for the exercise of their sacred ministry and as much freedom to the faithful? For case, after this "historic agreement" of "epochal", as we have defined certain velinari of Pradva Pontifical, It was accidentally revoked by the Government denial of access in the churches to underage, complete with a prohibition and conduct any pastoral work with young people? But above: It never happened, in the two thousand year history of the Church, somebody to make arrangements with the persecutors and the persecuted were in progress? It is by chance someone that Pope Marcellinus [296-304], when the Emperor Diocletian unleashed the last great persecution of Christians, He ran to agree with him? Things did not go in this direction, according to the chronicles that narrate the martyrdom Marcellino, occurred on 25 October of the year 304, by beheading, executed on the orders of Emperor Diocletian. His successor, The Pope Marcellus I, He had to address the issue of so-called child, those who during the persecution disowned the faith in Christ and asked to be readmitted to the Church. Marcello's claims for their admission of repentance path, But not everyone accepted, to the point that it was he, at the end, to be exiled, as we learn from the inscription written by Pope Damasus I in his tomb:
"True Shepherd, because he appeared to the child the requirement that they had to expiate their denial with tears of penitence, It was considered by those miserable as a terrible enemy. Hence the fury, hatred, The discord, sedition and death. Because of the murder of one that even during peace denied Christ, He was deported Marcello, victim of the cruelty of a tyrant ".
I'm not a velinaro let alone a spin doctors, so I have no answers to give, because in lavish answers and explanations of what you do not know, may provide only velinari of Truth Pontifical; but responses based on the fact nothing. God forbid that someone, just to ask a tin medal on the chest in the decadent Rome, He has played clumsily with persecuted believers and with the bishops who have spent most of their lives in prison or forced labor; because they are the martyrs to whom you can say four words of circumstance, while they, for a lifetime, They have paid their loyalty to Rome and the Papacy.
However if we see now on the basis of an agreement made ghost that we do not know the contents, We will try to get out of this mess by saying: what matters is only the unity. But without explaining what this unit very subjective and very little corresponding to the principles of unity contained in the Holy Gospel resulted in price to pay, It considered that the goods purchased is not clear, and it is unknown the price paid for it, but above all to be paid in the near future. God forbid that the price paid for a tin medal has been paid on the skin of the martyrs and the persecuted Catholics in China, to which inter alia, if you do not take seriously irritate the susceptibility of the Communist government and an atheist, you can not even turn to them as "martyrs" and "persecuted", precisely because it would be grossly offensive to the persecutors with whom you made an agreement and persecution are increasingly being.
the modern era, the Holy See has signed more agreements of understanding and mutual recognition of culture with countries not only, not Catholic, but their non-Christian culture. Just go and see how many countries with the Holy See has diplomatic relations. From year 2007 the Holy See has diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates. The Holy See has diplomatic relations with Turkey, Country where he was apostolic nuncio to the future John XXIII; with Iran, l’Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, Algeria. The Holy See has diplomatic relations even with Turkmenistan, where they reside just five hundred Catholic. Well, we who are not subtle minds and high diplomacy specialists as it they are the best elements of the Secretary of State of His Holiness, we wonder: place that the Holy See has diplomatic relations even with countries which have imposed as the state law Kshrij and where proselytizing by other religions is prohibited and prosecuted by law, how can you talk, but above all to establish agreements of any kind if they are, the first step, is not that of mutual recognition? Because all countries cited earlier, recognize the Holy See as head of the world's Catholic Community, enough to have established diplomatic relations with it.
In conclusion: I can talk, I did something which has often, with people not only non-Catholic, but with non-Christians, nor related in any way to any Christian cultural roots, provided, however,, these my interlocutors, first of all recognize the right to my life.
That being said I wonder and then ask therefore: how can you talk and establish agreements with those upstream does not recognize the right of your existence, or that the limit, acknowledging your existence, It considered a danger to keep the more and how much better under control? Because it is with this kind of people that the Holy See, theme, It has established a "ghost Agreement". But I am sure that velinari of true Pontificia They will not hesitate to even clarify this no small dilemma, let's give him time only to receive tissue the hallowed halls, and we will have some enlightening pearls of wisdom, it cost well go beyond the boundaries of reality, but especially over the blood shed by the martyrs and persecuted, place in China, the persecution of Catholics faithful to Rome, They are far from finished. And do not even let us ask ourselves the dilemma, entirely rhetorical, rather than, Rome, these persecuted martyrs has proved authentic and faithful mother ...
In the final footnote I will explain why I cherish deep respect for the Communist government of China, whereas I have no respect for certain Madame populating and devastate the Holy See, those, to be clear, that the velinari of true Pontificia do not see, as they are insensitive to the persecution of the Church and clergy who really suffer. Well, the Communists of China, not only have an ancient and noble dignity, but also dignify the persecuted and the martyrs. So for me it would be a real honor, being persecuted as a priest for the persecutors so highly honorable and noble, end up in their nation's prisons or worse ancòra; and between the two sides, even in ferocity, there would be a mutual respect between persecutor and persecuted. What respect I should rather feed, for those two or three monsignorini fennel protected by some Cardinal sodomite, that feeling before me discovered, They haunt you for life with a real ferocity menstrual hysteria? I hope that some velinaro of true Pontificia refer all friends of the Secretariat of State - even though I always read carefully - and especially the August of the Tenant Martha House Sancthae, whose sensitivity and high sense of justice, Apparently exhausted everything with the mandates complimentary ice cream to the poor and immigrants in Rome, including alleged refugees, however, fled on the spot just come to the reception center of the Italian Episcopal Conference in Rocca di Papa [cf. chronicle, WHO, WHO, WHO]. All, obviously, complete with ample photographic and journalistic, so that makes a noise charity and news, as well as political provocation against the current Government of the Italian Republic [cf. chronicle, WHO].
Which holy envy try for the Chinese persecuted because faithful to the Church of Rome, while i, leaving home to go to do shopping, risk of finding myself with a twelve or thirteen brat that seeing a black cassock you go screaming behind two blasphemies against the Virgin Mary! In Beijing provinces do not scream behind you, if anything will stop at two in the morning while sneaking celebrated Mass for a group of faithful. And this is much more dignified, and for those who stop for both arrested. Even so, China is a great power, while Europe, who is now the mother of all is permissible and granted beyond good and evil, it is just a poor continent to total political defeat, social, cultural, moral and religious [cf. WHO, WHO, WHO etc. ..].
God Bless the Greater China and its noble people !
the Island of Patmos, 29 September 2018
Feast of Saints Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael
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3 thoughts on "I understand the Communist China and its fear of Catholicism, however I do not understand why the agreement Phantom of the Holy See with the Beijing Government”
Zamax says:
My opinion is that however communism has already subtly forever undermined the foundations of Chinese society, since communism, although perverse, It is a fruit of Christian civilization. After the victory of Christ on the cross and the rise of Christian civilization, that does not identify with Christianity, but with the field where live, the wheat and the tares in which somehow the Christian "authentic" will always be persecuted, since even the best Christian civilization will always be the "world" in the evangelical sense of the word (which some traditionalists in their millenarianism the contrary, ie face to the past, They never get to understand or to accept, culpably); after the victory of Christ, I said, evil is, as it were, forced to act through anticristiche demonstrations, dissimulatrici, false similarity or perverse imitation of the Christian.
Saint John, the "recapitulates" for excellence essence of Christian truth, He says that this is "the last hour", that is the time that separates us from the return of Christ the judge after he said on the cross: "It is finished"; but this is also the time of Antichrists, according to St John, because only after Christ the Antichrist becomes conceivable to its fullest, at least in the history.
Now, Christianity has taken away forever the man to "totalitarianism" family, clanistico, ethnic, national, without abolishing or annihilate neither family, born he clan, born the ethnic group, or the nation (as do the Jacobins scimmiottatori Christian universalism worshipers State) because with Christ a person becomes fully before all that really is: son of God.
In the second century AD, and then the beauty of around 1850 years ago, Justin Martyr (100-165 d.C.) addressed to the Emperor Antoninus Pius Apologia for Christians in which he writes, The Other Brother, with stunning clarity: "We strive to pay anywhere, before all others, taxes and tolls to your charge, as we have learned from him. During that time, He approached some who wondered if we should pay taxes to Caesar. And He answered: "Ditemi, this coin who depicts?”. Those, in turn, They responded: “Cesare”. His E, yet, turned to them: “Date, therefore, to Caesar what is Caesar, and to God what is God's ". So we worship God alone, but for everything else you obey willingly, recognizing as legitimate emperors and kings men, and praying that into you, along with the imperial power, you also can find the right reason ".
The recognized sonship of God, and then ontological uniqueness of each person, It is the basis of Christian universalism that unites us all. The Enlightenment revolutions and those communistic, which they are modern forms of millenarian heresies, They have borrowed many aspects of Christian universalism (think of the pseudo-religion of human rights or the pseudo-religious character of Republican ésprit) But putting the state in the place of God, abolishing the fruits of Christian secularism (the only really conceivable in the long term, What the traditionalists above, frightened by modern anti-Christian secularism, They have not wanted neither understand nor accept) that distinguishes it is the century of what is of God because of the different purposes, though not conflicting, at a different level hierarchical, state and religion, for "separate" and so was ethical and create more refined forms of totalitarianism old. It should be noted that typically only in reaction to them were born totalitarianisms statalistici on reduced and national scale that flirted openly with neopaganism.
So communism anti-Christian, historically speaking, He has indirectly represented, for the non-Christian world, a brutal and perverse form of Christian secularism. The fact that ancient civilizations and cultures have miserably collapsed under his blows it can not only be explained by the ruthless and cynical realism of its interpreters, but also with the fact that it was the bearer of truth conveyed Christian universalism and they spoke to the hearts irresistibly. It 'the same pattern that gave a mysterious force early centuries of Islam: barbaric but crudely and imperfectly universal leveler, and then affratellante.
As different, today (speaking epochal sense) the reality of Islam and China are in mid-stream, knowing in their hearts that ending (it is absolutely inevitable in the long term) in Christian secularization they will end up in Christian civilization, on the other hand he has never annihilated languages and cultures, and indeed he has often re-vivified freeing them from what was a transient dehumanizing in them. The Catholic Church today does not seem to be clear, nor the face of the world's convulsions or culturally non-Christian secularism in front of the decaying current anti-Christian West, so instead of bright stand as peaceful lighthouse, He prefers to "peacefully" confused and come to terms with both.
carlone says:
Perhaps communism is more the result of 'Judaism . Only the people with the people and for the people will achieve the sun of
piertoussaint says:
Very interesting, Padre Ariel!… I have read a bit’ Book of Myers… amazing stories, yet true.
Recently I read this as well, Review of the Catholic Press:
http://www.rassegnastampa-totustuus.it/cattolica/?p=41116
From me, which I am certainly not an expert, But I feel, albeit “skin”, as would Bassetti, that the Chinese regime is not still very hard… the demographics working against, and people are tired. I'd hate to much, some, that the collapse would cause a bloodbath in former Yugoslavia, but you know that history goes like this… when the time came, It came.
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Moon Replaces Finance Minister, Chief Economic Adviser
Posted on November 9, 2018 by Korea Bizwire in National Politics, Policies and Regulation with 0 Comments
Hong Nam-ki (L), chief of the Office for Government Policy Coordination. (image: Yonhap)
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in sacked the finance minister and his chief policy adviser Friday after the two top economic policymakers openly displayed a serious rift over how to handle the slumping economy.
Moon named Hong Nam-ki, an economic technocrat who is currently serving as chief of the Office for Government Policy Coordination under the Prime Minister’s Office, to replace Kim Dong-yeon as finance minister and deputy prime minister for economic affairs, Cheong Wa Dae said.
Moon also sacked Jang Ha-sung, presidential chief of staff for policy, and named his senior social affairs secretary Kim Soo-hyun to succeed him. Jang is the architect of Moon’s trademark “income-led” growth policy.
Kim and Jang have publicly displayed wide differences over how to revitalize the sluggish economy, with Kim voicing a need to alter the “income-led” growth policy and Jang insisting on sticking to the distribution-centered policy.
Their replacement was seen in part as aimed at revamping the economic team as they failed to produce tangible results in revitalizing Asia’s fourth-largest economy. Their sacking was also seen as a measure to hold them responsible for failing to work in concert with each other.
Noh Hyeong-ouk, Hong’s deputy, was named to succeed Hong as chief of the Office for Government Policy Coordination, while Kim Yeon-myung, a social welfare professor at Seoul’s Chung-Ang University, was tapped to be the new senior social affairs secretary.
“Nominee Hong is an economic technocrat known as an expert in budget and public finances,” Yoon Young-chan, senior presidential press secretary, told reporters. “He has good understanding of national tasks … and is an economic expert equipped with broad administrative experiences and capabilities to implement and coordinate policies.”
Hong is the “top official to assume the government’s economic control tower at a time when vitality needs to be breathed into the economy in a speedy manner through the implementation of innovative and bold policy,” Yoon said.
“As the economic control tower, he is expected to deal actively with issues related to the livelihoods of ordinary people and manage economic policy in the direction of realizing an inclusive nation through the implementation of key economic policies, such as income-led growth and a fair economy,” he said.
Officials said Hong will be the sole top economic policymaker.
Hong, 58, graduated from Seoul’s Hanyang University and earned a masters degree in business administration from the school and another masters degree in economics from Britain’s University of Salford.
Hong entered the government after passing the high-level civil service exam in 1986 and is considered an expert in budgetary issues. After serving in various positions at the finance ministry, Hong served as vice minister of the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future under the administration of President Park Geun-hye.
Hong said that structural reforms will be one of his top priorities.
“If I take over this duty following a confirmation hearing, I will concentrate on providing vitality to our economy. As you know, our economy is at a structural turning point. If we’re going to realize sustainable growth, we should carry out structural reforms,” Hong said.
Hong said he will also heed voices from private businesses.
The new presidential chief of staff for policy, Kim, graduated from Seoul National University and earned his masters degree in urban planning and engineering and his Ph.D. degree in environment from the school.
During the administration of President Roh Moo-hyun, Kim served as vice environment minister and presidential secretary for social affairs.
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mustard tree vs mustard plant
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The Royal Horticultural Society prefers the evergreen, Salvadora persica, the Kilnel oil plant—sometimes called the mustard tree. It is a toxic gas,generally used in chemical warfare. Not only do domestic mustard plants come from the wild mustard, vegetables in the brassica family like cabbage, cauliflower, and kale also come from mustard. It’s unknown exactly when the mustard plant was domesticated, but it has been vastly bred. Let seeds air dry naturally. has been cultivated for its greens for over 4,000 years. Ounce for ounce, more mustard seed is sold annually than even pepper. The mustard tree has been grown and written about by various cultures for centuries. Mustard tree is also called toothbrush tree because the tender young sticks cut from the tree have been used as antibacterial teeth cleaners for hundreds of years. 2 2 0. Mustard seed is used as a spice. Mustard (Brassica spp.) Plant name: black mustard (Sinapis nigra or Brassica nigra) Plant type: annual, dicotyledon Average size of seed: 1–2 millimeters (about .05 inch) Average size of plant: 1–2 meters (about 3–6 feet) high, though under certain conditions it can sometimes grow to be 3–5 meters (about 10–15 feet) high or more, and just as wide Facts about Mustard Seeds Mustard seed is used as a spice. 6 8 1. 8 3 2. While both collard greens and mustard greens are plants that thrive in cooler temperatures, their basic structures are radically different. 7 4 0. In rotations with sugar beets, suppression of the white beet-cyst nematode is an important trait. What does a mustard seed grow into? The mustard tree is an evergreen that can grow to twenty feet. 1 / 8. Shepherd'S Purse Herb. This article provides a complete overview of mustard greens, including their nutrition, benefits, and uses. If their pulp — which contains germination inhibitors — has been completely removed, the seeds should begin to sprout within 24 hours. Flower Yellow Mustard. The seeds can also be pressed, to give a kind of oil called mustard oil. Mustard is one of the oldest condiments and hasn't changed much through the years. A genetic relationship between many species of mustard, along with turnips, cabbage, and their respective derivatives, has been observed and is described as the triangle of U. Brown mustard trees produce seeds similar to black mustard trees but the seeds have less flavor and is often used in fried foods. Encyclopaedic Dictionary of the Bible; William George Smith and John Mee Fuller, Editors, Weed Control in Natural Areas in the Western United States; University of California-Davis Weed Research and Information Center. The seed of this species is very small (1–1.6 mm.) As the weather warms and greens reach their full height of about 18”, the plant will begin to send up tall stalks and bright yellow flowers blossom. Brown mustard Seeds are reddish brown to dark brown in colour and are 2 mm or less in diameter. Herbs Spices and Seasonings. The white mustard tree produces a round seed that is used for mild flavoring and pickling. The Arabs give it the name of Khardal. MUSTARD (Heb. [2] According to the Saskatchewan Mustard Development Commission, "Some of the earliest known documentation of mustard's use dates back to Sumerian and Sanskrit texts from 3000 BC".[3]. 11,824 mustard seed plant stock photos, vectors, and illustrations are available royalty-free. See mustard seed plant stock video clips. Mustard Food Plant. Grinding and mixing the seeds with water, vinegar, or other liquids creates the yellow condiment known as prepared mustard. Home > Vegetable comparison > Mustard Greens vs Spinach. TREES AND SHRUBS All Shrub Reviews (30+) Shrub Finder - select shrubs for different conditions. It is essential to control all wild mustard and volunteer canola plants in the crop(s) preceding mustard. Mustard greens are an exception to the brassicas - they are not particularly cold hardy. Jesus would have known that it wasn't the largest of garden plants because of the prevalence of larger plants. Encyclopædia Britannica. 3 2 0. I have its preparation reaction,see the picture. ... Quercetin is a bioflavonoid found in many plants and grains, known for its positive effects on the immune system and for its antioxidant properties. Pharmacognosy Review; Salvadora Persica; M. Khatak et al. The plant referred to here (Greek σίναπι, sinapi) is generally considered to be black mustard, a large annual plant up to 9 feet (2.7 m) tall, but growing from a proverbially small seed (this smallness is also used to refer to faith in Matthew 17:20 and Luke 17:6). Grinding and mixing the seeds with water, vinegar, or other liquids creates the yellow condiment known as prepared mustard. It is brown and looks like it has been polished. It often used in treating allergies. In Europe, mustard plants have primarily been utilized for their seeds to make mustard (which Davidson notes has been important there for centuries because it is one of the few spices that can be locally grown), though leaf mustard was, and is, also eaten. Process until seeds break down and mustard reaches desired consistency. The same applies to seed mustards. I think it is a mustard plant. It is a tap-to-use plant that squirts mustard and ketchup at the zombie closest to the house, slowing it down. Desert browsers such as goats and camels gobble up the mustard tree's mustard-flavored and moisture-rich edible leaves, the most tender of which are eaten by people as well. Growing mustard trees from seeds begins with soaking a mustard tree's fruits in lukewarm water for one to three days until their pulp has been reduced to a runny texture. Jesus said the Kingdom of God is like a mustard … Mustard plant is herbaceous plant that belongs to the cabbage family. By late summer you can see the fruit. Parable of the Mustard Seed. The branches come off low and commonly hang to the ground in a large skirt. This page is an index of articles on plant species (or higher taxonomic groups) with the same common name (vernacular name). Plant in a shallow furrow one-half inch deep, with 12 seeds per foot for baby greens. Mustard Consumer Website. Mustard trees have been found in various locations throughout the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent. Plant them closer together for a windbreak or if the soil is highly saline. Those fibers provide the peelu often found in alternative toothpastes. The mustard seed grows best in hot, arid climates; high humidity stunts tree growth. It won't taste like "true" mustard condiment, which you would get by using seed mustards. Because mustard trees grow slowly, waiting until your trees are up to 3 years old may be necessary before transplanting them outdoors. 1 2 0. If purchasing mustard seed, inspect the seed tag. Similar Images . Brassica nigra is a mustard plant that grows to about 8 to 10 feet when mature and is probably the one Jesus was using for his illustration. Mustard Green Bok Choy. The seeds can also be pressed to make mustard oil, and the edible leaves can be eaten as mustard greens. Technically, the mustard seed is only the smallest of seeds grown in soil, but not the smallest seed of all plants. By creating an account you agree to the Hunker, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Salvadora Persica, World Agroforestry Centre: Salvadora Persica, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens: Salvadora Persica, World Agroforestry Centre: Salvadora Persica (Siwak). The Middle Eastern mustard tree (Salvadora persica) reaches a maximum height of about 25 feet. Guldens vs. French's "I grew up eating this," was the response everyone gave to either Guldens or French's mustard. Slightly blurred on the right is garlic mustard, also growing a raab. Chestnut Trees Chestnut. It is considered an evergreen shrub and it can be as wide as it is tall. Since the seeds germinate quickly and allow you to grow a lot of mustard in a short amount of time, many gardeners start their plants from seed. It must, moreover, be remarked that generally trees in most parts of the Holy Land do not reach a large stature. Similar Images . When we found out we were hosting the Swedish ambassador for a dinner two weeks ago, I was pumped. Green Fresh Mustard. Mustard, any of several herbs belonging to the mustard family of plants, Brassicaceae (Cruciferae), or the condiment made from these plants’ pungent seeds. In it's essence, mustard is combination of mixing the ground seeds of the mustard plant with liquid, but its the variety of seeds and type of liquid used that creates all the varieties of mustard we know today. You can make a shitty, "fake" mustard condiment by taking seeds from mustard greens and grinding them into powder. A faith that starts small but reaches out to many. The young oval leaves are dark green in color and lighten with age. The mustard tree is not th… Generally attaining a height no taller than 25 feet with fleshy, 1 1/2- to 3-inch leaves, the tree takes advantage of damp conditions near rivers and waterholes but can survive on fewer than 8 inches of rainfall per year. The seeds are one of the smallest in the world and is considered a spice in … The seed of both black and white mustard is similar in size, about 1.0 to 3.0 mm (1/8 inch) (11) so it is not the smallest seed but it is the smallest seed of those which "you plant in the ground" clearly indicating that the Lord was not comparing the mustard seed to all plants but only to those which were commonly grown. You can also direct seed by sowing outside from early spring until early fall in most areas. Plants of Differing Structures. Ask Login. Web. 3 2 0. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Jesus is saying the Kingdom of Heaven is more like a mustard bush than a tall cedar of Lebanon. Jesus would have known that it wasn't the largest of garden plants because of the prevalence of larger plants. Considered by some people to be the source of the mustard seed mentioned in Scripture, the mustard tree (Salvadora persica) grows wild throughout much of the Middle East and Africa. mustard tree. The seeds can also be pressed to make mustard oil, and the edible leaves can be eaten as mustard greens. Mustard Plant Blossom. Mustard trees reach full size in a few years. Combine vinegar, cider, brown mustard seeds and yellow mustard seeds in a glass jar. Radish White Raphanus. Mustard Plant vs. Mustard Bush It should be noted that a mustard bush is a very different plant altogether. It is hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 10 through 11. There are wild mustard plants over ten feet tall near the Jordan River, and even in moderate climate a mustard plant may grow that tall, provided it gets enough sunshine. Although sweeter than the leaves, the fruits also have a pungent flavor and can be consumed raw, dried or cooked. There are around 40 types of mustard plants. Mustard Tree joins #GivingTuesday 2020, the global day of generosity taking place on 1st December (11/17/2020)-Mustard Tree is thrilled to announce that we’re one of the thousands of organisations taking part in this year’s #GivingTuesday campaign, to be held on the 1st of December. It is a tap-to-use plant that squirts mustard and ketchup at the zombie closest to the house, slowing it down. Keeping the container on a heat mat so the sand's temperature stays in the mid-80s to mid-90s Fahrenheit produces the best results. (Phase two is the Millennium) Though a mustard seed should grow into a garden plant, this one grew into a tree so big that “the birds of the air” were comfortable nesting there. Article by David Marks There are two key reasons for growing mustard in the UK, the main one being to use it as a green manure on soil. Similar Images . The mustard tree is not the source of the seeds used to make condiment mustard; those seeds are harvested from herbs of the Brassica family. <, "What is Mustard?".
apart. For full-sized plants sow seeds every 6-inches with 12-inches between rows. Mustard seed is used as a spice. The different types of mustard trees produce varying seeds. The mustard plant family includes a variety of plant species, spread all over the world. GROW YOUR OWN MUSTARD . Follow the production of mustard from seeding to harvesting. 16 March 2016 Painted Lady Butterfly. People wishing to "brush" their teeth generally strip off a young stick's bark and chew on the stick's inner fibers. Watch these flowers mature then wither. 31a). The tree turns yellow and orange in autumn. The seed of this species is very small (1–1.6 mm.) has been cultivated for its greens for over 4,000 years. It is easy to spot the tree in winter when it shows pairs of scaly dark brown buds. [math]H_2C=CH_2[/math] is ethene which is an Alkene. The black mustard tree also produces hard round seeds; these seeds are more spicy compared to white mustard seeds. After pollination, those flowers set pea-size fruits that ripen to a maroon shade; each fruit contains a single seed. Within two weeks, a flush of tender new leaves will emerge from the plants’ centers. The biodiesel made from mustard oil has good flow properties and cetane ratings. Mustard Flower Field. PLANTS All Plant Reviews (10+) GARDENING NEWS . The mustard tree was potentially a noxious weed, which could take over your garden and crops. White, black and brown varieties of mustard plant are the best known and most commonly used today. Farmers prefer late-flowering varieties, which do not produce seeds; they may become weeds in the subsequent year. [The mustard seed is the smallest of all seeds that a Palestinian farmer would sow in his field. White, black, and brown are the various types of mustard found in various parts of the world. Plant the mustard bushes 12 to 15 feet apart. 4 4 0. Mustard greens do … SMDC 2011. Add honey and salt and transfer into a food processor. Lazarus looking into heaven 'seeing Abraham' is not real, but this plant is. Try these curated collections . The mustard plant is a plant species in the genera Brassica and Sinapis in the family Brassicaceae. in Germany, Netherlands, mainly differing in lateness of flowering and resistance against white beet-cyst nematode (Heterodera schachtii). The Salvadora grows on the sides of the Dead Sea. Fortunately, mustard plants are very willing to regrow should you opt to lop off and compost huge handfuls of summer-grown mustard greens. I have its preparation reaction,see the picture. first part. The aggadah relates that a man having sown "a single seed of mustard… would climb it as he would a fig tree" (TJ, Pe'ah 7:4, 206). twenty spices. These buds are beginning their transformation into yellow flowers, just like broccoli. Early vigor is important to cover the soil quickly and suppress weeds and protect the soil against erosion. If purchasing mustard seed, inspect the seed tag. Oriental Mustard Seeds are predominately yellow to dark yellow in colour with some seeds light brown to dark brown. A mustard tree is more like a bush which can grow up to 3-6 meters. If using saved seed, have it analyzed for wild mustard and/or canola admixtures. 5 0 0. 0 0 0. Seeds are spherical or oval in shape. However, the average person knew as a household truth that the mustard seed was so small and they new in their garden's how big it was, that even birds literally 'in reality' nested in them. Considered by some people to be the source of the mustard seed mentioned in Scripture, the mustard tree (Salvadora persica) grows wild throughout much of the Middle East and Africa. Fall Planting. Because of its Gr. This is the Crest vs. Colgate battle of the mustard world. Add to Likebox #121200234 - row of cherry blossom trees and field of rapeseed along riverbank.. Mustard (Brassica spp.) The mustard plant is a plant species in the genera Brassica and Sinapis in the family Brassicaceae. You would harvest the seed pods when the pods are at full maturity, and open pods up to release seeds. Food and plants. [4] White mustard (Sinapis alba) is commonly used as a cover crop in Europe (between UK and Ukraine). Secure jar lid and soak overnight. Strain the pulp through fine cheesecloth to collect the tiny, brown seeds. The mustard plant is a plant species in the genera Brassica and Sinapis in the family Brassicaceae. Collard greens -- also called the tree cabbage -- grow from an upright stalk that is usually topped with a rosette of leaves. 4615 sínapi – a mustard plant ("tree"), always used in connection with its seed (the smallest of all Palestinian seeds in common use). However, Zohary and Hopf conclude: "Suggestions as to the origins of these plants are necessarily based on linguistic considerations. The seeds can also be pressed to make mustard oil, and the edible leaves can be eaten as mustard greens. Planting Mustard. While they are still moist, scatter the seeds in a seedling flat or other container filled with damp sand, and press them into the sand's surface. Canada and Nepal are the world's major producers of mustard seed, between them accounting for around 57% of world production in 2010. The leaves and swollen leaf stems of mustard plants are also used, as greens, or potherbs. They’re a versatile plant, too. "[1] Encyclopædia Britannica states that mustard was grown by the Indus Civilization of 2500–1700 BCE. The white bark appears cracked and grows i… name some believe that the plant must therefore be Sinapis alba, the white mustard, but this grows only two ft. high. Mustard greens are peppery-tasting greens that come from the mustard plant. Explore {{searchView.params.phrase}} by colour family {{familyColorButtonText(colorFamily.name)}} mustard flower - mustard plant stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images. Browse 11,126 mustard plant stock photos and images available or search for garlic mustard plant to find more great stock photos and pictures. The Parable of the Mustard Seed. Web. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2016. Hunker may earn compensation through affiliate links in this story. [math]H_2C=CH_2[/math] is ethene which is an Alkene. Mustard plants lay down thousands of seeds and are one of the first plants to spring up after a fire. Many varieties exist, e.g. The Mustard Plant. Although some varieties of mustard plants were well-established crops in Hellenistic and Roman times, Zohary and Hopf note, "There are almost no archeological records available for any of these crops." Inside is one seed. You can grow mustard micro-greens in under a week, or you can wait and pluck the older leaves as you need them for a continuous crop. It is a toxic gas,generally used in chemical warfare. Resistant white mustard varieties reduce nematode populations by 70–90%. Now this would have shocked his audience, especially farmers and gardeners. Some white and brown mustard seeds will produce a tall mustard tree, while other white mustard seeds produce a leafy mustard plant that's usually grown in gardens. Mustard Flower. A former master gardener with a Bachelor of Arts in writing from Houghton College, Audrey Stallsmith has had three gardening-related mysteries published by WaterBrook Press, a division of Random House. An annual mustard plant can grow up to 6 feet but will only last one season. Mustard bushes reach an average mature height of between 6 and 20 feet with a 20-foot spread, although exceptional plants can reach 30 feet tall under ideal conditions. Mustard tree is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Nicotiana glauca; Salvadora persica; See also. This is a huge plant when fully matured and bears very tiny seeds.] Oval in shape with a width of 1.2 to 2 mm and a length of 1.6 to 3 mm. Recent research has studied varieties of mustards with high oil contents for use in the production of biodiesel, a renewable liquid fuel similar to diesel fuel. When the last flower has faded, the mustard seeds are ready to be harvested. – Mike Mar 14 '13 at 23:10. add a comment | 6. Mustard Varieties. Learn more about mustard at http://www.saskmustard.com. Wild forms of mustard and its relatives, the radish and turnip, can be found over west Asia and Europe, suggesting their domestication took place somewhere in that area. From the interpretation of of the first parable in the series, we know that when Jesus spoke of the birds of the air, he was talking about Satan and his minions. You can plant mustard from seeds or from transplants. The stem of a mustard plant also becomes dry and wood-like, which gives it the aspect of a tree. Home Science Math History Literature Technology Health Law Business All Topics Random. Mustard greens add just the right amount of zing to dishes, and they’re easy-as-pie to raise. Mild white mustard (Sinapis alba) grows wild in North Africa, the Middle East, and Mediterranean Europe, and has spread farther by long cultivation; oriental mustard (Brassica juncea), originally from the foothills of the Himalaya, is grown commercially in India, Canada, the United Kingdom, Denmark, and the US; black mustard (Brassica nigra) is grown in Argentina, Chile, the US and some European countries. About 90% of all households use mustard, plus whatever is consumed at sporting events and restaurants. Mustard 'n' Ketchup is a seedium plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. Seed will become plump and soft. Mustard 'n' Ketchup is a seedium plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. Add to Likebox #44496595 - Beautiful white mustard flowers field with a big tree in Dalat,.. -- MATT. Grinding and mixing the seeds with water, vinegar, or other liquids creates the yellow condiment known as prepared mustard. From January through April, the tree produces 2- to 5-inch-long panicles of small, greenish-yellow flowers. Generally attaining a height no taller than 25 feet with fleshy, 1 1/2- to 3-inch leaves, the tree takes advantage of damp conditions near rivers and waterholes but can survive on fewer than 8 inches of rainfall per year. The trunk of the tree is upright or crooked and rarely over 1 foot in diameter. A side point. 2. more kaempferol per 100g. Wild mustard is native to the entire old world from Europe to the Middle East and Asia. Do not plant mustard seed that is contaminated with wild mustard or canola seed. The mustard plant is a plant species in the genera Brassica and Sinapis in the family Brassicaceae. Mustard (condiment), a paste or sauce made from mustard seeds used as a condiment Mustard plant, one of several plants, having seeds that are used for the condiment . ... tree of heaven and Spanish broom. Mustard seed is used as a spice. [math]S_2Cl_2[/math] is disulphur dichloride or sulphur monochloride. 0 4 0. The mustard tree known as Salvadora persica has extremely small seeds and grows into a small bush. The mustard tree known as Salvadora persica has extremely small seeds and grows into a small bush. History. The leftover meal after pressing out the oil has also been found to be an effective pesticide.[5]. Often, mustard trees have many branches that start to grow from the tree trunk low to the ground. Given favorable conditions, the plant reaches a height of more than six feet. xxxl. It is exclusively tied-in with the Summer Nights event and can be unlocked through 350 seed packets in either Arena or Penny's Pursuit during that time. It originates from Europe, Asia, Mediterranean region and Himalayas. "Indus civilization". [math]S_2Cl_2[/math] is disulphur dichloride or sulphur monochloride. It is exclusively tied-in with the Summer Nights event and can be unlocked through 350 seed packets in either Arena or Penny's Pursuit during that time. Flower Bloom. This could be tr. For example, a palm tree makes a mustard plant look small. The mustard tree can grow as wide as tall. of 119. mustard seeds and flower mustard flower and seeds mustard seed and flower mustard seeds with flower mustard field pattern mustard vector field of canola flowers mustard draw dijon mustard mustard drawing. 16 March 2016 <, http://www.britannica.com/topic/Indus-civilization, "Industrial mustard crops for biodiesel and biopesticides", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mustard_plant&oldid=970732984, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 2 August 2020, at 01:52. For instance, orchids have smaller seeds, including those of vanilla, which is consumed by humans. Stem of mustard plant is green and tender so it is a herb. black mustard, brassica nigra, tall yellow flowering plant on one of the many footpaths in north devon, uk - mustard tree stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images isolated tree in rape field landscape - mustard tree stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images Cultivation of mustard plant started 3.000 years BC in India. Mustard greens have no problem with light frosts, but temperatures below 20°F (-7°C) usually kill plants back to the ground. 38.3mg. Grinding and mixing the seeds with water, vinegar, or other liquids creates the yellow condiment known as prepared mustard. Mustard seed, seeds of the mustard plant used in cooking; Mustard greens (Brassica juncea), edible leaves from a variety of mustard plant; Mustard family, or Brassicaceae, a family of plants It's tricky to name a winner since you're just going to piss off the other group, and they'll insist you're wrong. Wild mustard raabs. Alliaria Petiolata. A South American, soft-wooded shrub that can reach 20 feet tall and has 2- to 8-inch, oval, bluish-gray leaves, it is highly toxic and can be invasive. “It is a vicious cycle,” Burger said. They are green, thick and covered with small prickly spikes. Tree tobacco (Nicotiana glauca), hardy in USDA zones 8 through 11, also is occasionally called "mustard tree," perhaps due to the yellow shade of its tubular flowers. Sep 26, 2016 - Before a mustard seed can grow into a large herb plant and produce fruit, it must first die. If this is not possible, allow a minimum of four years between Argentine canola and mustard, and six years between Polish canola and mustard. To prevent the contamination of mustard with canola, never plant them on the same land. The seeds can also be pressed to make mustard oil, and the edible leaves can be eaten as mustard greens. A mustard plant reaches a height of three meters (about ten feet). It is hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 10 through 11. To … It's also resistant to many of the common pests and plant diseases. Other herbs and spices can be added in line with your tastes and preferences. Mulch the plants with an organic shredded mulch, grass clippings or newspaper to keep weeds down, hold in moisture and maintain the soil temperature. and was used to indicate the smallest measure of size (Ber. Saskatchewan Mustard Development Commission. #90338298 - Jesus parables about the size of faith: mustard, seeds, trees.. Vector. Mustard Weed. This article however is concerned with growing mustard plants to use as a spice. Ever wondered where mustard comes from? black mustard, brassica nigra, tall yellow flowering plant on one of the many footpaths in north devon, uk - mustard tree stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images isolated tree in rape field landscape - mustard tree stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images The word mustard is used to refer to several species of plants.These plants belong to the genera Brassica or Sinapis.They have tiny seeds.These seeds can be used as a condiment.When they are first ground, and then mixed with water, vinegar and other ingredients, a condiment called mustard can be made. 3 2 0. The aggadah relates that a man having sown "a single seed of mustard… would climb it as he would a fig tree" (TJ, Pe'ah 7:4, 206). Criticism. Brassica nigra is a mustard plant that grows to about 8 to 10 feet when mature and is probably the one Jesus was using for his illustration. and was used to … They also lend themselves to … It is essential to control all wild mustard and volunteer canola plants in the crop(s) preceding mustard. Her articles or photos have also appeared in such publications as Birds & Blooms, Horticulture and Backwoods Home. 3 1 0.
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FACT-CHECK: Sen. McConnell has not filibustered SC Nomination
May 17, 2010 14:00 | admin
The following is a fact-check of the May 16, 2010 episode of Meet the Press:
SEN. MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY) | “I’ve never filibustered a Supreme Court nomination” – TRUE
SEN. McCONNELL: I’ve never filibustered a Supreme Court nomination.
From crowd-sourcer James:
It’s true that McConnell has never filibustered a Supreme Court nomination. There have only been four: Abe Fortas in 1968, Rehquist twice, in 1971 and 1986, and Samuel Alito in 2006. All were unsuccessful. McConnell was elected to the Senate in 1984, so he has only had two chances to join a filibuster of a Supreme Court nomination, Rehnquist for Chief Justice, and Samuel Alito. Those two filibusters — though it is disputed whether the Rehnquist debate was actually a filibuster — were mounted by the Democrats, and it is true, McConnell did not join them.
Page 2 of this pdf by the Congressional Research Service has detailed information and history on cloture attempts on nominations. http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32878.pdf
James’ research and conclusion is sound. Senator McConnell’s statement gets a TRUE.
This fact-check took a combined 25 minutes.
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Review: Joe Swanberg & Adam Wingard Take a Different Approach to Fleshing Out Their Ideas in “Autoerotic”
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City news in 250 words: Tuesday 1 March
Levenshulme baths saved, tram crash arrest and a new police chief for Manchester
Published on March 1st 2011.
LEVENSHULME BATHS is to remain after a public campaign to prevent its closure. Manchester City Council has said it will now replace the pool with a new facility instead. The council’s U-turn was confirmed by Councillor Bernard Priest who said they had received more responses on the proposed closure than any other aspect of the budget.
ARREST AFTER TRAM CRASH: A man has been arrested after the car he was driving collided with a tram on Mosley Street yesterday just before 4pm. No one was injured in the crash. Police have arrested the driver on suspicion of driving whilst disqualified. One passenger described hearing a thud and seeing debris from the car. A Metrolink spokesperson said the tram remained on the line for one hour, while police studied the scene.
MMU ADVISES AIRPORTS: Manchester Metropolitan University is to advise the world’s airports on how they can reduce their environmental impact. The university’s Centre for Air Transport and the Environment (CATE) was chosen due to the work it has previously undertaken with Manchester Airport. CATE aims to help airports reduce their overall environmental impact, rather than focusing on just noise and carbon pollution.
MANCHESTER CITY CENTRE HAS A NEW POLICE CHIEF: Steve Heywood has been appointed chief superintendant for GMP’s North Manchester Division, which includes areas to the north and east of Manchester. He has previously been involved with the Xcalibre gun crime initiative and working with the Home Office on the new National Crime Agency, focusing on combating organised crime and strengthening border policing.
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What Today’s YA Is Still Missing: Ace Spectrum and Non-binary Characters
by S.L. Lahna | Jun 30, 2019 | Craft, LGBT Pride Month
When I came out as demisexual (someone who can’t feel sexual attraction without a deep emotional connection) four years ago, it did not go well. I was told that I wasn’t what I thought I was and given evidence why, as if another person could know anyone better than they know themselves. This person was a dear friend of mine; I had known them for over 13 years. I thought they were right. It made me feel like I was wrong, as if there were something inherently incorrect in how I viewed myself. It also made me keep quiet about the fact that I didn’t feel like a man or a woman, but something in between.
At the time, I didn’t know the terms non-binary or demisexual existed, let alone what they really meant. I didn’t have anything or anyone to tell me about them. There were no books back then that featured someone like me. I took care to avoid writing about characters who were me. I wasn’t gay. I wasn’t trans. I had never had body dysphoria. Clearly, I didn’t belong at the queer club. In the end, I did come out. I found myself, it just took another two years. And in the process I terminated a friendship. It’s a wound that still hurts. It doesn’t really stop hurting; you just meet other people and remind yourself that you matter. That your story matters.
Queer characters are in everything I’ve written. My espionage series features a gay Russian spy and a bisexual American spy, working together to take down a secret organization that has managed to penetrate the KGB, set in 1965. It’s not a romance, because I wanted to give queer men the ability to see themselves in action adventure. I want them to kick butt just like the straight boys do, better than even. I have two projects out on sub, one a YA horror lead by a pansexual boy, and a NA low fantasy/post apoc lead by an asexual and aromantic girl. Today, I’m finally plucking up the courage to do the one thing I never thought I would: write an Own Voices novel.
This new project is a YA low fantasy set in the Ozarks. It’s a blend of folk magic and horror in the working poor setting. It’s a story about first loves and family and the lengths we go to save them. Last summer, in watching Sagas of Sundry Dread, I realized it was something more: its the story of two genderqueer punks who fall in love. It’s Riley, who is non-binary (someone who identifies as neither male or female) but doesn’t know it yet, and Chase, who is demisexual and thinks gender concepts are bullshit altogether. As I began to outline it, I grew excited in a way I had not in a very long time. I’m drafting it now, and I think this might be the book. The landing an agent book. And its because I took the leap to make it queer that I think makes it so, makes it more than just a folk magic horror story.
It has not been an easy story to write. Riley is not an exact copy of me; far from it. But there are lines which she is told about how she presents herself that are word for word what I was told growing up. The difference is, Riley will have Chase, who for all of his flaws and mental health issues, loves Riley wholly and completely. It’s Chase who pushes her to be herself, however that means she/they presents. Doing it under the guise of punk subculture gave me a lot of room to play with presentation. Chase wears makeup and nail polish. He dyes his hair a lot; helps Riley cut and dye hers. Chase has 99 problems but toxic masculinity ain’t one.
Ace spectrum, of all areas of the LGBTQIA, needs rep that isn’t just characters who are asexual to the point of being cold, aloof, and uncaring. There needs to be diversity across the board. Like gender, asexuality is a spectrum. All gender and sexuality is a spectrum and we should stop pretending like this is some modern concept invented by millennials. It’s not. Gender binary is a modern principal; gender as a spectrum is the concept of old that we’ve tried to bury with the nuclear family–the need to simply make children which cropped up from world wars one and two.
We especially need these stories to be told in YA, where so much of the literary landscape is whirlwind romances. Ace spectrum still happens, even in your teen years. But how can teens know what they’re feeling is real and not a mental health condition (it was part of the DSM as a mental illness as late as 2013) if they don’t see themselves represented? We need more stories about these gentle, slower romances, especially where one character is ace spec and another is not. This way, teens can learn how to navigate these waters from both sides.
Riley’s story will take time to make it out into the world. This year I’ll have to get the draft done; if I’m very lucky it will be agent-ready by next summer. But I will keep at it and I won’t give up until I’ve sold it and given it every opportunity to get in the hands of as many readers as I can. Because asexuality is part of the queer community, as is being non-binary, and I want teenagers to know it. I want them to read this story about love and sacrifice and see that you are not broken, and you are loved. That being who you are does not make you somehow undateable. Riley and Chase’s story is epic, and yours is too.
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Jacqueline Woodson And Jeanette Winterson To Be Honored At LAMBDA Literary Awards
By Newsdesk 3rd May 2017 2nd May 2017 Arts & Culture
And the stellar roster of presenters includes Cynthia Nixon, A.M. Homes, Eileen Myles and Ana Castillo.
Lambda Literary has announced that Jacqueline Woodson will receive Lambda’s Visionary Award and Jeanette Winterson will receive the Trustee Award at the 29th Annual Lambda Literary Awards (“Lammys”). The Lammys bring together over 500 attendees, sponsors, and celebrities to celebrate excellence in LGBTQ literature, making it the most glamorous and prestigious LGBTQ literary event in the world. Woodson and Winterson will be honored along with the winning authors of 23 separate LGBTQ literary categories as determined by over 75 judges.
Emmy, Tony and Grammy Award-winner Cynthia Nixon will introduce Jacqueline Woodson for the Visionary Award. Woodson is the 2014 National Book Award Winner for her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award. She is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books for adults, young adults and children.
Award-winning author of ten books, A.M. Homes, will introduce Jeanette Winterson for Lambda Literary’s Trustee Award. Winterson is the author of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, along with many novels and short stories. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
“The extraordinary work of this year’s special honorees, Jeanette Winterson and Jacqueline Woodson, has made a deep impact, not just on LGBTQ culture, but on American and British culture, inspiring readers and writers on both sides of the Atlantic,” said Tony Valenzuela, executive director. “We are privileged to celebrate their tremendous contributions at this year’s Lammy Awards.”
The awards will be hosted for the first time by Mx Justin Vivian Bond on Monday, June 12 in New York City at the NYU Skirball Center for Performing Arts. Bond is a trans-genre artist living in New York City. As a performer both on and Off-Broadway, Mx Bond has received numerous accolades winning an Obie (2001), a Bessie (2004), a Tony nomination (2007), the Ethyl Eichelberger Award (2007), The Peter Reed Foundation Grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant for Artists.
Finalists of the 29th Annual Lambda Literary Awards can be found here.
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Sense of Entitlement European Sytle
Europe has gotten itself into quite a jam. The “womb to tomb” nanny state policies of most of the European countries have resulted in a financial crisis in several countries. The socialistic mentality that the government has to provide all kinds of services has bankrupted Greece and other countries because the cost of these services has exceeded tax revenues. Rather than cut back on these services, those countries have borrowed to make up the difference. Now they have such a huge debt it is nearly impossible to pay it down.
Despite the financial crisis, citizens of these countries still have a sense of entitlement and are rioting because some of these services will have to be curtailed. How do these people think these services will be paid for? Drachmas from heaven? I doubt if they want to see their already high taxes go even higher.
The United States is also in deep financial trouble, with an enormous national debt, unfavorable balance of trade, an ailing economy, and a crisis of leadership. Similar to the Europeans, we have a government that is living beyond its means. Special interest groups and many individuals have a sense of entitlement, and so continue to feed at the government trough.
What’s the humane but practical solution? Returning to what made this country great in the first place: government that wasn’t intrusive, reasonable taxes that aren’t a disincentive to succeed, a solid work ethic, and nearly unlimited opportunity to excel. How do we do this?
First of all, government at all levels should do only what either nobody else can do or do what it does best, and eliminate everything else. Government shouldn’t try to be all things to all people, but should be responsible for national defense, police and fire protection, education, infrastructure maintenance, regulation and control, food inspection, environmental protection, provide a safety net for the disabled, poor, and those temporarily unemployed. Earmarks should be eliminated and the president should have line-item veto.
Second, redeploy some of the savings from smaller government to programs of national importance: energy policy, rebuilding the crumbling infrastructure, including the electrical grid, building up a defense against cyber attacks.
Third, simplify government, reduce paperwork, make starting a new business easier, get government out of some aspects of life where it makes minimal if any positive impact, simplify the tax code (but no flat tax, no VAT).
With these actions hopefully we as a nation can become debt-free, energy independent, and more business-friendly, and begin to eliminate the sense of entitlement that so many people have. Who knows? Maybe we’ll be able to bring some manufacturing back into the U.S. from overseas.
Congratulations to the Cardinal
Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, has been in the local NY news quite a bit. He was recently elevated to the rank of Cardinal, putting him in the elite leadership of the Roman Catholic Church. The main thing the Cardinals do is elect the next pope from their ranks when the current one dies.
Dolan is a refreshing change from Cardinal Egan in terms of personality. Egan seemed somewhat dour and aloof, plus he wasn’t liked by some in the Archdiocese. He had to make some tough and unpopular decisions regarding closing schools and churches, which didn’t endear him to some.
You can’t help but like Dolan. He is genuinely pleasant, is available to the media, and just seems like a really nice guy. Even if he has to make more tough decisions, I think people will be more forgiving because of his personality. As head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and their spokesman, he is getting a lot of national publicity, especially regarding his criticism of the Obama plan to require Catholic organizations to pay for and provide contraception for employees. He is articulate and presents his position well.
I’d love to see him elected pope some day. After all, the U.S. probably has more Catholics than any other country, and most of our Catholics are active. Italy, France, and other European countries may claim to be Catholic, but most of the people are not practicing. Their churches are essentially museums, with worship attendance very low. Much of Europe is now post-Christian, so calling these countries Catholic is a stretch (except for Poland, which takes its religion seriously). Dolan seems to be on the fast track, so who knows?
Introducing Religion into the Campaign
Rick Santorum is criticizing Obama’s environmental “theology” and some are concerned because Mitt Romney is a Mormon. Conservatives still aren’t comfortable with the liberal church Obama attended for years, given some of the inflammatory rhetoric of Pastor Jeremiah Wright. I haven’t seen religion play such a major role in an election since JFK was running for president in 1960.
The Obama administration made matters worse by getting the Roman Catholic Church riled by insisting it pay for health care coverage for lay employees that includes contraception and abortifacients (“morning after pills” which induce an abortion). Even those who view contraception as OK are not happy that Obama is insisting a church must pay for and provide something they believe is morally wrong. If that is allowed to stand, it sets a dangerous precedent.
As a pastor, my religious beliefs are important to me, but so are values and positions on issues. For many, their religious beliefs inform their positions on many matters. However, I don’t think it is appropriate for an opponent to attack a candidate’s religion or theology. Attack the opponent’s positions with logical arguments as to why you believe their view is wrong, and present your own position clearly so people understand your view on the matter. Is that asking too much of the candidates?
Israel and Iran
One thing you can say about the Middle East – it’s never dull. Now that Saddam is out of the way and Iraq has been neutralized, Iran has become more aggressive. It is a frightening thought that radical Iran may soon possess nuclear bombs and the means to deliver them as far as the U.S. It appears that Israel, whose very existence is at stake, may make a pre-emptive strike to destroy Iran’s nuclear capability.
What Americans fail to realize is that it wouldn’t take much for Iran to deliver bombs to Israel – the distance isn’t that great. Naïve Americans think we can negotiate with radical regimes such as Iran’s, so they are critical of Israel’s attacking Iran to protect itself. If the U.S. happens to be on the receiving end of a couple of nuclear bombs, it would be catastrophic for the cities hit, but the rest of the country would remain intact. With a small country such as Israel, it would take only a few well-placed bombs to wipe out most of the country. We’re talking about annihilation, so of course Israel must do something before Iran’s nuclear bombs and delivery systems are in place.
What Americans also fail to fully comprehend is the level of dedication to Israel’s total destruction that radical Muslim groups and countries have. It borders on an obsession, and they are willing to sacrifice anything, even their own people, to achieve that goal. Just think if the surrounding Arab countries, the Palestinians, and the radical groups such as Hamas would reach a true peace settlement with Israel. The whole region would become prosperous, safe, and at peace. Rather than wasting precious resources on weaponry, infrastructure would be built, jobs would be plentiful, and there would be prosperity for all. Right now the so-called Palestinian people live mostly in squalor with high unemployment. That could change if only the Arabs would reach a peace agreement with Israel and give up trying to destroy it. But destroying Israel is more important to them then giving their fellow Arabs – the Palestinian people – a decent life. The lame offers they occasionally make for peace with Israel are totally unacceptable.
Hopefully now that you better understand the fanaticism of the Muslim countries in the Middle East, you can see why Israel must protect itself, even to the point of conducting a preemptive strike against Iran’s weapons plants. War is generally not the answer, but it is often the only option, especially when you’re dealing with fanatics. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, pray for peace in the region, and pray Iran doesn’t bomb any American, Israeli or other cities.
Lessons from Whitney Houston’s Life and Death
It was a shock to everybody when Whitney Houston’s premature death was announced. It is a shame when anybody passes away while still relatively young. We’ve seen it with Steve Jobs and Michael Jackson, to name a few others who left us all too soon. In the case of Houston and Jackson, it appears their premature deaths resulted from their use of dangerous drugs.
Although you and I can’t begin to imagine what it’s like to be constantly in the public eye, I can guess that it must be very stressful and often irritating. The pressure to perform flawlessly is an added source of stress. As a result, many stars turn to substance abuse. They have the money to buy whatever they want, so they can financially afford a drug habit. It’s so easy to become addicted, and before they know it, they are hooked. Once addicted, it’s difficult to break that powerful addiction.
Sadly, many “ordinary” people are also engaged in substance abuse, whether its alcohol, heroin, marijuana, or something else. As a result, millions of lives are being ruined and families destroyed. Crime is high because these addicts must fund their habit, so they steal. Drugs are ruining this country, and I have no idea how this problem can be solved. Drugs are illegal but can’t be stopped. We tried Prohibition with alcohol and it didn’t work. Probably strict drunk driving laws are more effective in cutting down on alcohol abuse than anything else we’ve tried.
Besides the danger of narcotics, what else can we learn from the death of Whitney Houston? I think we can see that no matter how rich, beautiful, famous, or talented you are (and she was all of those), you aren’t immune from the natural consequences of your wrongdoing.
Moreover, we also learn that despite your wealth, fame, and star status, you can still die young. While some, like Steve Jobs, died of a disease such as cancer, others died because of their lifestyle. If they aren’t immune, neither are you and I. So we should be prepared to go into eternity at any time. Are you?
Related to that is a further lesson from Whitney Houston’s life and death, which is we shouldn’t stray from God. Whitney was brought up in the church, and faith in God was very important to her throughout her life. However, she let idols into her life and they came to dominate her. The pull of worldly things is strong, especially the escape that drugs can temporarily provide.
The world has lost a talented and beautiful person in Whitney Houston. Since she put her faith in Jesus, I am confident she has at last found peace with her Maker. Rest in peace, Whitney, you’re now singing with the angels.
The Catholic Church vs. Obama
Soon-to-be Cardinal Nolan, Archbishop of New York, has objected to the Obama administration’s ruling that the health plans of all employees of the Roman Catholic Church must include coverage for birth control. The Catholic Church believes using “artificial” means of birth control (pills, condoms) is morally wrong, so forcing the Church to pay for and provide coverage is interfering with the practice of religion, according to Nolan.
No matter what you think of the Catholic Church or its policy on artificial birth control, the fact is that Obama is setting a very dangerous precedent by his action. No religious institution should be forced to pay for something it believes is morally wrong. The government rarely intrudes into internal church affairs, so what Obama is doing goes against both tradition and the Constitution.
In the First Amendment of the Constitution contains the so-called “Establishment Clause”. It has been misinterpreted by the Supreme Court since 1947. The purpose of the clause is twofold:
(1) First, its purpose is to prohibit the establishment of a state-sponsored religion like you had in most countries of Europe in those days (such as the Church of England). Often those people choosing not to be a part of the official state religion were persecuted or discriminated against.
(2) Second, its purpose is to protect religious expression from government interference. President Jefferson wrote a letter to some Baptists in Danbury, Connecticut, in answer to their question as to what the clause means. He coined the phrase “wall of separation” (which has been misused since 1947) which he said was a “wall” to keep government out of religion. Today it is interpreted to mean keep religion out of society as much as possible – to protect society from religion and religious influences. Note that the phrases “wall of separation” and “separation of church and state” are not in the Constitution.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say Obama is “declaring war on the Catholic Church” or on religion, as some are saying. I believe the problem with what he’s doing is twofold:
(1) First, he’s telling a church to pay for something it believes is morally wrong, and this sets a dangerous precedent, as I said earlier. This goes against the spirit of the U.S. Constitution.
(2) Second, the federal government shouldn’t be telling private insurance plans what they must cover. The government can provide general guidelines, such as plans must cover preexisting conditions, but not get into specific things they must cover.
You may want to write your representative or senators and let them know how you feel on this subject.
Sense of Entitlement: JFK and the Intern
I watched an interview last night with a woman who had been President John F. Kennedy’s mistress for about 18 months while he was in the White House. She was a White House intern (sound familiar?) and was an 18 year old college freshman when it started in 1962. The president was 45 at the time. It is well-known that JFK was a womanizer, but going after a teen-aged intern was a bit over the top in my opinion.
I see a lot of problems with this “affair” that we should examine so that we don’t fall into a similar pattern of behavior given the right circumstances. Although this 18 year old did not resist the president’s seduction, to me his first encounter with her bordered on rape. Although she willingly continued with this affair, he was clearly using her as his sex toy. What do we learn from these actions?
(1) First of all, JFK’s actions constituted a clear abuse of power. As far as I know, this girl did not throw herself at the president (as Monica Lewinski did with Clinton). When the President of the United States makes moves on you, it’s difficult to resist, especially for an 18 year old kid. If you are in any position of power, don’t use that power for evil.
If you don’t think you are in any position of power, you are if you are a teacher or professor, a clergyperson, a manager or supervisor, a parent, an adult, a politician, or a public figure of some kind.
(2) Second, Kennedy’s actions (as well as similar activities by Bobby and Teddy) reveal a sense of entitlement. He was rich and powerful, and he felt he was entitled to just about anything and anybody he wanted, even Marilyn Monroe. Nobody is entitled to use another human being the way he did.
(3) Third, this was a betrayal of trust. This girl’s parents entrusted the White House staff with their daughter. Jacqueline Kennedy was betrayed by all this. I’m sure the president used government resources to fly this girl to different places, so the people were betrayed.
(4) Fourth, this affair, and the other womanizing done by the Kennedys, shows some serious character flaws. Certainly they reveal an overactive libido (essentially a sex addiction), an attitude that women are to be used, not respected, and a sense of entitlement as mentioned before. “Boys will be boys” doesn’t excuse their actions.
While JFK had a certain charisma, there was a dark side. He was not unique because we all have a built-in propensity to sin called our sin nature. Rather than trying to bring it under control, Kennedy indulged his sin nature, using other people as sex objects in the process. I hope we can learn from him and not give in to our wrong desires. Let us not buy in to situational ethics but remember that some things are just plain wrong.
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General Information: They may be found as members of the normal microflora of humans, where these bacteria find a suitable niche in virtually every anatomic site. This organism is the best known and most widely studied species of the genus. It is the causal agent of the disease diphtheria, a deadly infectious disease spreading from person to person by respiratory droplets from the throat through coughing and sneezing. In the course of infection, the bacteria invade and colonize tissues of the upper respiratory tract, proliferate and produce exotoxin that inhibits protein synthesis and causes local lesions and systemic degenerative changes in the heart, muscles, peripheral nerves, liver and other vital organs.
Subject: NC_006958:628035 Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13032, complete genome
Lineage: Corynebacterium glutamicum; Corynebacterium; Corynebacteriaceae; Actinomycetales; Actinobacteria; Bacteria
General Information: Causes bovine brucellosis. They may be found as members of the normal microflora of humans, where these bacteria find a suitable niche in virtually every anatomic site. This organism is a well-studied soil bacterium of considerable importance in biotechnology, in particular for the fermentative production of L-amino acids for food and fodder industry. The name was originaly given for this species for its ability to produce significant quantities (>100 g per liter) of glutamic acid (glutamate), an important food enhancer that has a meaty taste and flavor. Currently used commercially to produce glutamate and other amino acids (L-lysine) and compounds. The first strain of the species was isolated in 1957 by S. Kinoshita and colleagues while searching for an efficient glutamate-producer.
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Got to live the life of a powerful man, even if in fiction: Sunil Grover on 'Tandav'
By Radhika Sharma
New Delhi, Jan 12 (PTI) When director Ali Abbas Zafar sent the script of the upcoming political drama "Tandav" to Sunil Grover, the actor asked him "Are you sure about this?"
Grover, the funny man behind popular characters like Gutthi, Rinku Bhabhi and Dr Mashoor Gulati on television, was sceptical about joining the cast of the Amazon Prime Video series where he plays the right-hand man to Saif Ali Khan's scheming politician.
But Zafar, who collaborated with the actor in 2019's "Bharat" opposite Salman Khan, knew Grover was the perfect fit to play Gurpal Chauhan.
"I had worked with Ali in 'Bharat' and he said he wants me to work in 'Tandav'. He sent me the script, I read it. I called him back and said 'Are you sure about this because I have a very strong background as a funny guy?' He said 'I want only you to do this role'," Grover told PTI in an interview over Zoom.
Born in Sirsa, Haryana, the actor holds a master's degree in theatre from Panjab University and was discovered during his college days by the late satirist and comedian Jaspal Bhatti.
Prior to his success on TV, Grover played bit roles in films like "Pyaar Toh Hona Hi Tha", "The Legend of Bhagat Singh", and it was the small screen that gave him his second innings in cinema with "Gabbar Is Back", "Pataakha" and "Bharat".
"There is this constant question of 'who am I?' in my life. People say 'Oh I met Sunil Grover'. The other one would ask 'Who Sunil Grover?' 'Oh the same man who plays Gutthi, Gulati, etc...
"I only know how to play different characters. I want to keep doing this and keep experimenting for as long as possible."
His character in"Tandav", the 43-year-old actor said, is close to the kingmaker, Khan's Samar Pratap Singh, and that gave him a chance to stay real.
"I love playing different characters, funny or not. Even when I have played funny roles, they are different characters in my body of work. I often made those parts funny or caricaturish, here I have kept the character realistic and approached it accordingly."
As Gurpal is someone who is right next to the "kingmaker", his character also holds some authority in this fictional world of politics, Grover said.
"This is a true character, wrong or right, I can't say. I tasted what power feels like through this character. I got to live the life of a powerful man, even if fiction. The moves one makes to claim power, and all the mental and physical energy that it takes.
"It is difficult to return to a place without power after tasting it. Power is a drug. If you never had power, then it's a different thing. But if power is snatched away from you, dealing with it on a psychological level is very tough."
The actor said "Tandav" is an "insightful and intricate work" by writer Gaurav Solanki.
"The show is about humans who live a political life. It's not just about politics, it's more about people. The series is open to interpretation," he added.
Grover praised Zafar, who also serves as the creator on the show, for his multi-tasking skills and quipped direction is "more difficult than building the Sea Link bridge".
"I share a good relationship with Ali. He is very cool, calm and quiet. But many people don't know he is very funny. We share heartland humour between us. We kept laughing on the sets. He is also very sarcastic man, intelligent man. Laughing and making people laugh is the work of intelligent people."
The nine-part political drama also stars Dimple Kapadia, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Kumud Mishra, Mohd Zeeshan Ayyub, Sarah Jane Dias, Dino Morea, Anup Soni, Kritika Kamra, Sandhya Mridul and Amyra Dastur.
"Tandav" will start streaming from January 15.
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Shahid Kapoor''s ''Jersey'' to release on Diwali
Steve Martin receives COVID-19 vaccination
Furious with division being created on the basis of religion, says Naseeruddin Shah
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When Multiculturalism Fell into the Sea
A review of The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, by Padma Viswanathan
Ava Homa
The Ever After of Ashwin Rao
Padma Viswanathan
Random House Canada
How many times can identity be hyphenated? What if an emigrant’s new country refuses to accept that person, or does so only superficially? Does death assign a permanent identity? What if no country claims the corpse?
In The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, Padma Viswanathan’s second novel, Ashwin Rao, a Canadian-trained psychologist, loses his sister, niece and nephew in the catastrophic June 1985 bombing of Air India flight 182 from Montreal to London and Delhi. After graduation from McGill University as a foreign student, Rao returns to India. But in 2004, when the British Columbia Supreme Court begins the trial of two suspects, he travels to Canada to interview the families directly or indirectly affected by the disaster. Rao’s therapeutic technique is to turn their suffering into a narrative that can help them heal.
The Ever After of Ashwin Rao offers scant insight into Rao’s own psyche—a grieving middle-aged bachelor, a witness to violence against Sikhs in his predominantly Hindu community in India—but details instead the emotional lives of two interviewees, Seth and his daughter, Brinda, who have lost friends in the attack.
Seth, a physics professor in Lohikarma (a fictional town in British Columbia) is in close contact with Venkat, whose wife and son were on the attacked plane. Venkat, a colleague and a member of Seth’s extended family, and an already difficult person, grows ever more irrational and is incapable of coping with the tragedy; he becomes a burden to Seth and his family, who must find a way to care for him.
The book is about grief, about losing loved ones and finding a means to fill the vacuum. It explores how characters react to their pain: with denial, religion, logic, depression or revenge.
The novel starts in 2004 but contains many flashbacks. Seth had been traumatized when he accompanied Venkat to Ireland in 1985 to identify the recovered bodies. Dazed by the shock, Seth stared into the Atlantic Ocean for hours on end, chased after the flotsam the waves washed ashore, unsure of what he might find. Seth and Venkat saw or heard about disfigured corpses, some attacked by sharks. Venkat calmed himself through Hindu rituals. Seth discovered that prayers soothed him.
After returning to Canada, unable to share his horrific experiences with his family, Seth began a quest for a god to heal him and help him make sense of what he had witnessed. Eventually he became the follower of a guru named Shivashakti, a man often considered God by his devotees. Seth’s daughter, Brinda, who was romantically involved with a boy who had been aboard the downed plane, hid her wounds by staying in a sexless marriage for a decade. She reveals the truth to Rao when she finds herself in need of therapy.
The chapters alternate between Rao’s, Brinda’s and Seth’s perspective but written by Rao as his therapeutic technique. Little direct detail is provided about the mental state of Venkat, since he refused Rao’s interview request.
In addition to dealing with grief, religion and history, the novel examines the immigrant experience. Lakshimi, Seth’s wife, took up secular meditation in search of healing, happy that Canada, unlike India, offered her the freedom to be who she wanted to be without having to justify her decisions to every relative.
The bombing was a double trauma for these Indo-Canadians, who not only lost loved ones and their sense of security, but felt ignored by Canadian society—their society. The tragedy was trivialized, sometimes as brutally as when a man pushed through the crowd in front of the B.C. Supreme Court and spat out, “Go back home to the Dark Age! We don’t want your problems in Canada”—a remark that made both Seth and Rao feel “too humiliated for eye contact” when Venkat arrived. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney sent an official letter of condolence to the Indian government but no message of sympathy to the grieving Canadian families, making Indo-Canadians wonder which country they belonged to.
The trial, lasting almost 20 years, ends without providing closure. Three hundred twenty-nine people were killed, 82 of them children, and the Crown obtained only one conviction.
“It is hard to remember the only thing worth remembering: the difference, if any, between before and after the verdict. Not guilty … Who Are the Guilty? Only they and their Maker know,” thinks Rao.
Rao interviewed more people, but readers mainly get details about Seth and Brinda, non-practising Hindus who suffered from an act of sectarian violence perpetrated by the Sikhs. The book takes care to explore the pain of the Sikh communities and offers insight into the massacres and oppression that occurred during the 1984 occupation of the Golden Temple and the succeeding battle with the Indian Army. Rao had seen Sikhs burnt alive whose only crime was being born into a targeted religious group. Discrimination against Sikhs was not limited to India: they were treated as “first-class fighters [and] second-class citizens” in Canada. When Canada went to war, they were given soldiers’ uniforms but not the privileges that came with them.
Viswanathan compares the effects of the bombing of a plane containing hundreds of Canadians with those of the 9/11 attacks in the United States. “After the World Trade Tower attacks, nearly half of all Americans showed PTSD symptoms … Had Canadians suffered similarly, following the bombing? … Canadians at large did not feel themselves to have been attacked, although nearly every passenger aboard that flight was a born or naturalized Canadian.”
The author suggests that the September 11 attacks traumatized the western world, but the Air India bombing was perceived as a “brown-on-brown attack,” a matter that did not concern Canada.
Padma Viswanathan is a British Columbia–born author currently based in Arkansas. Although she did not lose a family member to the Air India tragedy, it has coloured her perspective. Hers is not the only book about that tragedy: another, Children of Air India: Un/Authorized Exhibits and Interjections, a collection of poetry by British Columbian Renée Sarojini Saklikar, was recently nominated for a B.C. Book Prize. And in 2006, Anita Rau Badami’s novel Did You Hear the Nightbird Call? made a strong attempt to address the conflicts and emotional stresses within the Indo-Canadian community after the bombing. These books provide a means for Indo-Canadians to deal with trauma and to document their history.
The Ever After of Ashwin Rao is an ambitious novel that tries to offer insights into the minds of many different characters at many different times, at the same time stitching in passages about philosophy, physics, mathematics, immigration, culture clash and other topics. These disparate and offhand elements are not always well integrated into the narrative: their weight and significance remain unexplained. Seth’s story achieves closure, but not Ashwin Rao’s, who is more interested in the lives of others than his own; readers are left wondering why the protagonist left his girlfriend and how his life will change after having written the narratives of his interviewees.
Ava Homa’s collection of short stories, Echoes From the Other Land, was nominated for the 2011 Frank O’Connor prize. She is the second vice-chair of the national council of the Writers’ Union of Canada, and the North American director of the Association of Human Rights for Kurdistan of Iran (KMMK-G). Homa is an activist and a political analyst specializing in women issues and Middle Eastern affairs.
Sex, Death and Tourism
A review of All Inclusive, by Farzana Doctor
Rashi Khilnani
An Imperial Crisis
A review of Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru, by Ali Kazimi
Jonathan F. Vance
A Tragedy of Our Own
The Air India bombing and how we live with the past
Fictional Fetish
A review of Dahanu Road, by Anosh Irani
Kamal Al-Solaylee
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Tag: financial trouble
Dorothy Eriksson: the Mango Mavin
In Zambia, mangos are so cherished they’re said to have been created from the goodness of God. For generations, families have planted a tree for every newborn child. The fruit trees litter the landscape and are found in back gardens, school yards, along streets, in the wild and throughout farm land, mostly growing unmaintained by human hand. They are abundant in season, their sweet aroma filling the air, and Zambians casually grab them from trees as they walk past. So it’s surprising to learn there is no heritage of mango cultivation and processing for commercial purposes in the southern African nation. Luckily, this unexploited horticultural opportunity was ripe for picking for Zambian farmer Dorothy Eriksson, who recognised the potential in the midst of her own financial crisis almost 15 years ago.
“At the time, the bank had taken us to court to seize our commercial farm that we had owned for almost three decades. As a born-again believer, I’d been praying for the Lord to give us a break. I was walking in the markets and my eyes were opened to all the wasted fresh mango, it was strewn everywhere and a little light went off in my head. So I began to research ways of processing mango. The task took my focus off the court case, and I buried myself in the work of developing a new product for the farm.”
Dorothy purchased Chankwakwa Farm in Kabwe, about 150 km north of Lusaka, with her Swedish husband Rolf in 1974. The pair had met when Dorothy, a hostess with Zambia Airways, was visiting her sister. Rolf was working with small-scale farmers in Kabwe on behalf of SIDA, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, and fell in love with his new wife’s country.
“We were so young but we had a big vision!” Dorothy laughs. “With a loan from my widowed mother, we purchased a 1227-hectare commercial farm and christened it Chankwakwa. It was there that I came to find my God-given talent and planted my first orchard of orange trees, and it was there we happily raised our four children.”
For many years, the farm was productive in its growth of maize, soya beans, and tomatoes and breeding of cattle. Dorothy opened a restaurant in town in the early 80s, followed by a restaurant ten years later. Life was going well until the late 90s when the farm started to struggle due to ineffective government agricultural policies.
Dorothy’s mango “a-ha” moment came at the height of the crisis, with the family on the verge of losing the farm. The decision to set up processing facilities turned Chankwakwa around. Because the production and processing of fruits are labour intensive, Dorothy saw an opportunity not only for her own family but also for others in the community to earn an income. With proper storage and a small processing facility, the fruits could be sold in a variety of forms throughout the year rather than just in-season where much of the yield rots.
“I did a lot of experimentation and endlessly researched processing techniques. We started by cooking jams on braziers in 5-litre pots. We hired a local brick layer with our own savings to lay the foundations for the factory and then we got a loan from the SIDA to finish construction. Our next investment was solar dryers to dehydrate the mango – we got that money from a Danida grant. When we expanded in 2003, we got a commercial bank loan, which was matched with a grant by the Ministry of Agriculture. We also received two motor bikes and a utility truck for marketing, which made a big difference to the business. I never knew there were so many organisations supporting small businesses like ourselves,” Dorothy exclaims.
With the help of an extension agriculture officer, Chankwakwa Farm organised 266 local farmers into a fairtrade collective that sets high minimum prices for crops and yields a shared profit for the local community. Farmers receive training on organic principles and the EcoCert requirements needed to export to Europe. A critical success factor for the business, all the processing is done in a HACCP-certified factory, which requires the building to meet strict standards to minimize cross-contamination.
“Getting both HACCP and organic certification was a turning point for us as it enables us to export to Europe. These are annual certifications so it’s always a challenge for us to obtain funding for the process,” Dorothy explains.
Today, about 1000 farmers in the Central and Luapula province are enrolled in the Chankwakwa collective, which sells the big mango (dodo) and other fruits such as guavas, oranges, and lemons to the farm to be processed into a ready-to-eat healthy organic dried fruit snack. Purees from mango, guavas, oranges, and lemons are also processed into a variety of six jams. The farm employs 50 women during mango season and has 15 full-time employees. The dried mango is exported to Hansen’s Ice Cream in Denmark, where it is used as an ingredient in their ice cream, and sold locally in 26 Shoprites and all the Pick n Pay outlets as well as privately owned supermarkets and market stalls.
With the market for organic fruit on the rise, Dorothy is very optimistic about the future. Two of her children and a daughter-in-law are involved in the family business, which is very important for the 65-year-old.
“This comforts me as the community is so close to my heart. We’ve empowered small-scale farmers by giving them the know-how needed to produce quality crops and transformed their lives with the ability to earn a living and support their families. Our involvement in health, education, and the environment in the local area benefit around 1000 families and we brought renewed pride in the cultivation of the precious indigenous mango trees. I would not like to see this dream die after my death.”
Considering all the mango’s health benefits, Dorothy is guaranteed to have many productive years ahead and plenty of time to inspire the growth of other agri-businesses across Zambia.
Always pay your debts! Maintain communications with your debtors, even if you fail to have the money on time. Keep the relationship solid.
There are many organisations that fund and build capacity in small business projects. Do some research and connect with NGOs to see where the opportunities lie.
Connect with organisations that enable you to meet with others in the business like the Chamber of Commerce, Farmers Union etc.
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your project. Don’t
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dream BIG. Go for it!
Be Fearless. Failure is not an option.
Dorothy’s story first appeared in Women Creating Wealth, A Collection of Stories of Women Entrepreneurs from across Africa. You order or download a copy here.
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Make/Model: Piaggio typhoon
City, State: lexington, KY
Name: Joey
Vin: zapc29c1955001642
Plate: none
email grungyjoes@yahoo.com
Date of theft: 2006-09-09
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Make/Model: Malaguti Yesterday
City, State: Chapel Hill, NC
Name: Mac Welliver
Plate: n/a 50cc
email macwelliver@yahoo.com
Scooter is beige with brown leather seat. Is missing one mirror. Picture is similar model.
Make/Model: Hyosung
Color: red metal black plastic
City, State: KEY WEST (STOCK ISLAND), FLORIDA
Name: Michelle or wesley Warren
Vin: KM4CA104971600360
Plate: 668059 fl
email michelle61380@yahoo.com
IT IS RED METAL FRAME WITH BLACK PLASTIC FRAME IT IS BRAND NEW ONLY HAD IT 3 MONTHS AND SOMEONE STOLE IT FROM MY YARD THE MUFFLER IS A LITTLE LOUD IT IS A PROBLEM SOME OF THE NEW MODEL ARE HAVING UNDER SAET WE HAD SOME PICTURES AND OTHER PERSONAL STUFF
City, State: Tampa (Ybor City), Florida
Name: Erin Pitman
Plate: Florida
email erinmpitman@yahoo.com
Make/Model: Honda Ruckus
City, State: Tampa, FL
Name: Kate
Plate: FL
email kate.pagan@gmail.com
It has stickers. Scratches on right side from fall. Over 2000 miles. Very rare in Tampa.
Name: max
email curioso509@hotmail.com
ererew
Make/Model: Honda Metropolitan
Color: Red/White
City, State: Denver, CO
Name: Carolyn Tedder
Vin: JH2AF60J44K001703
Plate: N/A
email carolyn@lemonbugg.com
Stolen from my house in City Park West. Has two stickers on the back that read DirtBag and Life will be the Death of Me. Has chrome rack on the back and black interior basket. Very missed!!
Stolen from my house in City Park West. Has two stickers on the back,
Make/Model: Piaggio Zip
City, State: Nottingham, Beeston
Name: Richard Fletcher
Plate: FM52 FJF
email r_s_fletcher@hotmail.com
Stolen from Beeston Marina.
Make/Model: zip r3i
City, State: Pierceton, IN
Name: katie
Vin: 5kmmsg1z455101964
email KRJ2010@aol.com
stolen out of shed at Jellystone Campground. Stickers on back-small white flower, the number 308. flower sticker on front. stickers likely removed. any info helpful. thanks!
Make/Model: Vespa P125X
Color: Red (Kinda orange after fading)
City, State: Brooklyn, Williamsburg, NY
Name: Joshua Myers
Vin: VNX1T93267
Plate: NY
email lucky_boy@earthlink.net
The most noticeable thing is it has a bright yellow hub on the front wheel! It has chrome front and rear racks. A messed up headset and speedo. It was stolen from the front of my house, chained to the gate on South 4th St. Any info will help. REWARD.
Make/Model: Aprilia Rs 50
Color: Red/ Gray/ yellow
City, State: Indianpolis, Indiana
Vin: zd4pgf005ys000416
Plate: Indina
email Slutty22@hotmail.com
Stolen From Riley childrens hospitial of Indianapolis.
Make/Model: Vespa/Ciao
Name: zshanna kristoff
Vin: ?
email zshanna@gmail.com
My moped was parked and locked next to my porch by ellesworth and logan street. I haven't been on it for a few days and checked on it noon today, october 17th. it was snowing. the moped is gone. last seen yesterday by my boyfriend, so it must have been taken sometime after that unless he is mistaken. it is pretty rare and in really good condition with details only i could recognize. just incase, there is a little red gas can tied to the back of it with a purple and a black bungee. one pedal is really sharp and the other is not. also, the choke button looks like it's in the wrong place because the engine is newer than the engine lid. ok, enough details. i am searching for the serial number right now, the person who sold it to me moved back east. it might take a day to find the information. sorry i did not register it. i am sorrier than ever now. ps: i have a photo.
Make/Model: Yamaha QT50
City, State: Fort Collins, Colorado
Name: Sam Smith
Vin: 3L5-208506
Plate: CO 000510
email eeijua@netzero.net
custom blue front fold-down pegs locatd on the forks to replace original broken foot pegs.
City, State: Vermillion, SD
Name: Kaylee
email sweeps11@hotmail.com
Stolen by three guys in a new Chevy Blue extended cab truck from my driveway
City, State: Hurst, Texas
Name: Michael Wyatt
Vin: jh2af58094k101849
Plate: Texas 6bg959
email michael_wyatt@yahoo.com
Black Honda Ruckus 50cc scooter with 10,400 miles on odometer. Has purple Decepticon Transformers sticker on front, flaming 'n' Nine Inch Nails sticker on side, black and white 'NIN' Nine Inch Nails sticker on back, 'Free the WM3' West Memphis Three sticker on side
Make/Model: zuma
City, State: glen burnie, maryland
Plate: N/.A
email mikeman21060@yahoo.com
they cut a cable with bolt cutter and broked the seat and the seat has a rip in it no scickers
Make/Model: Yamaha Yamahopper QT50N
Color: powder blue
City, State: Powers Lake, Wisconsin
Name: Steph
Vin: JYA5U9004FC133443
Plate: E49Q Wisconsin
email Stephgreidanus@yahoo.com
It was stolen out of my back yard. Front Head light don't work. Thanks
Make/Model: Vento Triton R4
City, State: Indianapolis, Indianapolis
Name: David Ochstein
Vin: 5kmmsg11365012304
email dochstein1@aol.com
Stolen From 4701 Millersville Road APT #9 Off Keystone North Side Of Indinapolis Engine # VE1E40QMB62000903 Reward!
City, State: mountain view, CA
Name: yan li
Plate: 17H4650 (CA)
email 1000bt@gmail.com
Make/Model: Oxygen electric
City, State: London, Islington N1
Name: Martin Humphries
Plate: AY04 MXV
email martin@cinemamuseum.org.uk
Parked and locked to bike stand in motorcycle bay in Maygood Street N1 (diagonally opposite the police station in Tolpuddle St)at around 18:30 gone by 20:45. Has steering lock and immobiliser.
City, State: Tempe, AZ
Name: Mark Dudlik
email post@markdudlik.com
Make/Model: Vento Triton
City, State: St. Louis, Missouri
Name: David
Vin: 5kmmsg1t955002004
email davidhvoss@yahoo.com
Stolen from garage of my apartment on Delmar right next to 170. Scooter has a scratch on the left hand front side that is easily visible due to previous fall.
Make/Model: Honda Elite 250
Color: Light Tan
City, State: Charlotte, NC
Name: Aaron Shurts
Vin: JH2MF0107GK103257
Plate: NC 5H7937
email aaron@aaronshurts.com
It was stolen out of my apartment complex on Park Road. Parkhill Condominiums.
Make/Model: Motron Medalist Classic
Color: Blackish Brown w/gold mags
City, State: Portland, Oregon
Name: Erin Seale
Vin: 07659
email erinseale@mac.com
Stolen from the Sellwood neighborhood. It's not a scooter, it's a moped! Mopeds aren't too common so it should be pretty easy to spot. It has a kit and pipe so it should be kind of noisy. There is a $100 reward, no questions asked. The baskets are no longer on the bike.
Make/Model: Honda Metropolitan CHF50S
Color: White with blackand gray kanji
City, State: louisville, Kentucky
Name: Sarah Crockett
Vin: JH2AF606025K100789
Plate: Kentucky
email sccroc02@louisville.edu
It got stolen in broad daylight In front of my work on the second day at my new job. they used bolt cutters on the chain and would have hadto break the kick stand or the seat to release the kick stand lock. and hotwire it.
Make/Model: honda bali
City, State: derby, derby
Name: michelle wilkinson
Plate: r906 rau
email shellntabby@yahoo.co.uk
Make/Model: Lambretta
City, State: Oscoda, Michigan
Name: Jon Manning
Vin: 520635
Plate: 1967/ Mi
email joncobrajet@aol.com
Stolen from shed, approx.time above.Oscoda PD. case # 06-3533
Make/Model: Yamaha Zuma
City, State: Key West, Florida
Name: Jerry
Vin: LPRSA20A62A006712
Plate: FL 34396J
email bonus112@yahoo.com
KWPD Case Number 06-5541 Approximately 6,012miles on Odometer.
email Smith
Make/Model: Yamaha Riva
City, State: Ann Arbor, Mi
Name: Roman
email cnetfan3@yahoo.com
Scotter was stolen in Sandalwood in late July in sadalwood. The Scooter has 2 blue pieces of roll tape near the gas lever and the seat has holes (rips). If you see a Riva somewhere in ann arbor area and aren't sure if it's mine, still e-mail me, I will give you a reward.
Make/Model: honda elite ch80
Color: blake
City, State: des moines, iowa
Name: kyle
Plate: ia
email kyle_m6@yahoo.com
Make/Model: lambretta li 150 sr 1
Color: green white
City, State: doncaster,
Name: james waterhouse
Plate: asj476
email lus769@msn.com
Make/Model: Vespa Et2
Color: Alabaster/Red Two Tone W. Tan seat
City, State: WICHITA, KS
Name: Chris Lovett
Vin: ZAPC161A935001643
email vespaxcore@netscape.net
Make/Model: Lambretta J125 Starstream
Color: Light blue w/gray side panels
Name: Dave Schwanke
Vin: J125-155638
Plate: None (pending from DMV)
email dave@scooterracer.com
Stolen from the motorcycle street parking spaces near downtown Portland at SW 17th & Morrison near PGE Park stadium between 6:30 & 9:15 PM.
City, State: staten island, NY
Name: rene
Plate: 31 EY 90 new york
email lstdrmr1929@yahoo.com
had two yellow headlights, a broken rear fender with yellow nylon cords around the fender, left headlight housing loose, front shocks leaking on the left side where inspection sticker is located
Color: Yello
City, State: Chicago, IL
Name: Ellen Chung
Plate: AX595
email ellen_y_chung@yahoo.com
My scooter was stonlen overnight on Columbus and East Wacker Drive.
Color: two tone white and sky blue
City, State: Houston, Texas
Vin: JH2A60073K103082
Plate: 396V4Z
email kfk1919 at excite.com
Stolen out of my driveway in the middle of the night. Kick stand and steering column locks were engaged.
Make/Model: vespa GL
Color: blue/silver
City, State: pensacola, FL
Name: Philip switzer
email shutupandscoot@hotmail.com
Color: ming green
Name: joe murphy
email toosquare@gmail.com
stolen green vespa et2, had front fender damage. had clear taillight lens's, large mod windscreen and front chrome rack. also rare black glove box instead of the green one.
Make/Model: derbi atlantis
City, State: manchester, ct
Name: joe fitzgerald
Vin: vthatlaa34g214019
Plate: moped ct
email fjoseph633@aol.com
Scooter was stolen from condo complex where I live. Report filed with Manchester, CT police dept.
Make/Model: Honda Metro
Color: White w/ Dark Blue stripe
City, State: Portland (St. Johns, Oregon
Name: Nathan
Plate: OR #M576097
email river.soldier@gmail.com
West Side of the St. Johns Bridge around 4:30 pm. Along with the Scooter my Helmet was stolen. It is red with a white peace sticker on the back. Thanks
Color: Electric blue
City, State: NYC (Brooklyn), NY
Name: Finessa Javier
Vin: VMB1T78475
email finessa@gmail.com
Make/Model: vespa px150
City, State: st.louis, mo.
Name: richard beckman
Vin: ZAPM09 rest to come
email gearboxfunhouse@yahoo.com
-single saddle, -black anodised aluminum stand feet -cowl anti theft levers bent upwards to accomodate single saddle frame. -FACO chrome florida bars, -florida bars have home made aluminum tailpiece fastened with black rubber cog shaped hand screws -dent in right side (as you sit) floor board where it meets the legshield, -left side cowl (as you sit) has no PX150 lettering as is normally standard. -both cowls and mudguard have small scratches touched up w/ rub in gel. -red kick start rubber -castrol Isle of Man sticker on glovebox top and large white bowie sticker on inside legshield -race stipe down front of legshield. -electric start out (blown Fuse)
Make/Model: Yamaha CW
Color: Blue with wshite stripe
City, State: Calgary, Alberta
Name: David Weisgerber
Vin: VG54RWN062A107022
Plate: LX821
email david.weisgerber@calgary.ca
A 2002 Yamaha CW50, Stolen sometime between Aug 7-8, in the evening, Parked on the street in front of my house in Renfrew, Front wheel was locked, Registration and insurance were locked under the seat, Red Palm dairy milk container was strapped onto back, License plate no. LX821.
Make/Model: Yamaha CW50
Plate: LX821 Alberta, Canada
City, State: , maryland
Name: will
Vin: yhftkiukjkhgkg
email willhardibg@yahoo.com
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When businesses are asked about their reasons for moving to Warrington, the town’s geographical location and excellent transport links rank amongst the most important.
Warrington is situated at the heart of the regional motorway network, with quick and easy access throughout the region and the wider UK via the M62, M6 and M56. This has been a key factor in making the town an important hub for logistics business.
Rail links are also outstanding. There are frequent services to London via the West Coast Main Line, with a travel time of less than two hours. East-west rail links are also excellent, with the Trans Pennine Express service linking the town to Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and the east coast. Travel times to both Liverpool and Manchester are 30 minutes or less by rail.
Warrington is also fortunate in its proximity to both Manchester Airport – the busiest airport in the UK outside the London region – and Liverpool John Lennon Airport. Together these airports link the region to the rest of the world. In the UK, flight times to London from Manchester are approximately 1 hour.
The location also provides businesses with convenient access to the Port of Liverpool and the Manchester Ship Canal, which handle more than 40 million tonnes of cargo and 15,000 ship movements a year.
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Pioli has to keep it simple
by October 18, 2019 Football
Seeing a club sacking a Coach after a victory is a sight that we don’t witness too often. In fact, Marco Giampaolo has the right to feel at least a bit unfortunate with the timing of his Milan dismissal, as the Rossoneri host Lecce next in a game that could’ve easily seen the ex-Sampdoria boss winning two in a row.
While this would’ve bought Giampaolo some more time to work on his ideas, very few people can blame the club for opting to part ways with the 52-year-old tactician, as the Rossoneri looked clueless during the majority of his seven games at the helm of the club.
However, dismissing Giampaolo was the easy part. On the other hand, finding a proper replacement at this stage of the season is far more challenging and with the Rossoneri having to act quickly, they opted for a low-cost solution in Stefano Pioli.
The former Lazio, Inter and Fiorentina boss was never the most popular choice among the Milan faithful, not only because of his past with the Nerazzurri, but also because of his rather mediocre results in recent years.
The 53-year-old lost five and drew two in his last seven games at Inter, while his win percentage of 36% at Fiorentina was the worst one for La Viola since the Delio Rossi days almost a decade ago. So how can Pioli be the right man for Milan based on that?
While the Emilia-Romagna-born tactician rarely shines with tactical innovation, he is actually very good at keeping things simple on the pitch and that is exactly what Milan need right now.
Unlike Giampaolo, who seems to be overly attached to the 4-3-1-2 formation that worked well for him at Sampdoria, Pioli doesn’t necessarily stick to one module and prefers to field his teams based on the players’ strengths.
In fact, this might be the biggest difference between Pioli and his predecessor, as Giampaolo tried a bit too hard to fit certain players into his ideas instead of adjusting his tactics. This was evident from the very beginning of the season, as putting the goalkeeper and the defence aside, Krzysztof Piatek was the only player who featured in his natural position in Giampaolo’s official debut against Udinese.
Fabio Borini is not a central midfielder, Samu Castillejo is not a striker, Suso is not a trequartista and Hakan Calhanoglu is most definitely not a regista. This was evident for everyone, as the Rossoneri lost 1-0 and barely troubled the Zebrette, but Giampaolo didn’t learn from the defeat. His experiments continued and eventually saw other players like Lucas Paqueta suffering while playing in a deeper role on multiple occasions.
Therefore, the first step that Pioli should take in order to steady the Rossoneri ship seems to be quite simple – field players in their best positions.
Milan’s current roster shows that 4-3-3 is probably the best formation and there is no surprise that according to reports, Pioli will try to rediscover the team’s identity with this setup.
It makes perfect sense for Milan, as Suso can take his preferred place on the right, Ante Rebic should finally get a chance to start on the left with both Calhanoglu and the once again fit Giacomo Bonaventura ready to deputise in case the Croat is struggling.
Rafael Leao and Piatek will be battling for a starting place in the heart of the attacking trident with the Portuguese youngster looking like the better option at the moment. The Pole’s struggles in front of goal and misses in crucial moments of games mean that at least temporarily, Piatek should be dropped to the bench. Leao has looked fitter, sharper and more capable of leading the line so far.
Giampaolo’s choices in midfield have also proved to be ineffective, as Franck Kessie and Ismael Bennacer have looked far from their best physically, which inevitably affects their performance. It really seems that the Africa Cup of Nations has taken its toll on both players, so Pioli might opt to be more careful in their usage at this stage of the season.
Fielding the fittest players in their best positions and not necessarily insisting on a certain formation that doesn’t work. That might not seem to be too complicated a task, and yet for some reason Giampaolo failed to achieve it.
While Pioli is not the most decorated Coach in the industry, he is experienced enough to learn from his predecessor’s mistakes. The current Milan team is not good enough for the Scudetto, but it is definitely worthy of a top four challenge.
In order to achieve that and get the team to the desired levels, Stefano Pioli does not need to reinvent the wheel. He should just stick to the basics.
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Jan 04 2013
January, 2013 - In This Issue:
RAISING THE BAR ON AFRICAN PHILANTHROPY
TOWARDS DEVELOPING A MORE JUST SOCIETY
HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY DIALOGUES HIT THE ROAD
VISION FOR LIBERIA BECOMING REALITY
Welcome to our revised edition of TrustAfrica Now! TrustAfrica would like to ensure that you receive your newsletter in your preferred language. In order to do so, we need you to please click on the "Update Profile/Email Address" link at the very, very bottom of this email. When it takes you to your profile page, please be sure to complete the final question regarding your language preferences. In the future, you will only receive this email in your preferred language. Many thanks.
Second Annual African Grantmakers Conference Highlights Growing Interest
"W
hat's New, What's Now, What's Next, Growing African Philanthropy" a three-day conference sponsored by the African Grantmaker's Network (AGN) was a terrific opportunity to participate in an exciting dialogue on the latest developments happening in philanthropy on the continent. Moderated by the formidable Deprose Muchena from OSISA, one session moved seamlessly into the next as attendees listened to keen insights provided by a wide range of luminaries, networked with nearly 400 guests, and nibbled on a variety of tasty dishes, all the while enjoying the wide-open spaces of the ultra-modern Turbine Hall in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The second annual AGN Assembly kicked off with welcome remarks by Janet Mawiyoo, AGN Chairperson and Executive Director of the Kenya Community Development Foundation. Participants were then treated to two surprise guests, H.E. Bongi Ngema, current First Lady of South Africa and H.E. Graca Machel, political activist and former First Lady of South Africa and Mozambique. Dr. Machel made a number of thought-provoking statements about the nature of philanthropy in Africa, including "Philanthropy starts in Africa with an idea and ends with a search for money, elsewhere it is the reverse." She urged philanthropists to "build a chain of solidarity with those we serve" and reminded them of the example of churches whose sustainability is through solidarity, even if they go through long periods without money.
After Dr. Machel departed, the morning plenary session started. Plenary discussions each day focused on the issues raised by the conference title. Topics for parallel sessions in the afternoons ranged from celebrity philanthropy in Africa to philanthropy's role in shifting power from North to South. Other high-level guests included Joaquim Chissano (Former President of Mozambique), Mamphela Ramphele (academic and former anti-apartheid activist), and Jay Naidoo (Actvist and Chair, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)). The final day of the conference, The Zimbabwe Alliance, a project funded through a number of donors including TrustAfrica, gave a presentation on its activities and the challenges and opportunities the project faces.
Guests were invited to attend two separate awards ceremonies on consecutive evenings. The first, the Inyathelo Philanthropy Awards, honored several selfless South Africans and announced the 2012 AGN Philanthropy awardwinner, Mrs. Marwa El Daly, Founder and Chairperson of the Maadi Community Foundation in Egypt. The second night, guests were invited to the Drivers of Change Awards gala dinner, hosted by the Southern African Trust and the Mail & Guardian newspaper.
AGN is a Pan-African group comprising grantmaking organizations who work to strengthen the objective of African philanthropy on the continent. TrustAfrica is the current secretariat for the AGN. To learn more, kindly access the conference Twitter feed at #AGN or #AfricanGrantmakers or visit our photo gallery on Picasa.
TOWARD DEVELOPING A MORE JUST SOCIETY
A Critical Look at Social Justice Philanthropy in Africa and in the Arab Region
Immediately preceding the AGN conference, TrustAfrica, the Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace Working Group and the AGN, in collaboration with the Arab Foundations Forum and the Global Fund for Community Foundations, brought together a small group of individuals from across the continent to begin a collective discussion on how to advance debate, build a body of knowledge, inform good practice and strengthen the impact of social justice philanthropy in Africa and in the Arab region. While definitions and understandings vary, broadly speaking "social justice philanthropy" refers to philanthropy that addresses the drivers underlying social, economic and political inequalities.
As the first convening on the continent focused specifically on this topic, it was no surprise that during the one and half days, challenging and complex discussions arose. Participants addressed issues ranging from how to define and understand social justice philanthropy in terms of movement building, to the nature of the risks taken; from examining issues of resource governance and redefining the meaning of enabling giving environments, to making hard choices about what money should or should not be accepted; from sharing experiences around civic action in enabling or oppressive environments, to how to manage power with various constituencies; and the disconnect between policy makers, donors and academia. These and other issues brought about critical reflection of the role philanthropy does, and should, play in developing a more just society.
The convening closed with a strong sense of energy and commitment to continue the self-examination it started. While this convening began as a small focused conversation, it is seen as the first of a series of discussions; and subsequent steps will seek to broaden and deepen the opportunities for such discussions.
Convenings in Several Target Countries Engage Networks, Reveal Gaps
The Higher Education Policy Dialogues have been making their way around the continent! In the last several months of 2012, the Higher Education program held meetings with local and state actors in Uganda, Tanzania and Nigeria. The dialogues are part of the core strategy of the program to promote transformation in higher education, which is critical to secure the conditions for democracy and equitable development in Africa.
In each of the four target countries (including Ghana), TrustAfrica has aligned itself with government officials, heads of institutions, umbrella bodies of vice chancellors, seasoned academics and development actors to strengthen networks and develop relevant and effective policies that will encourage positive growth in the sector. In collaboration with its local partners, namely Committee of Vice Chancellors (Nigeria), Uganda Vice Chancellors Forum (Uganda) and Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals of Tanzania, it has held national policy dialogues during which it showcased the findings of its scoping studies and share this information with critical audiences.
These convenings have provided an opportunity for local actors to augment their agendas with a discussion around a broader range of critical education policy issues. Often, the gatherings have attracted the participation of heads of education ministries (including cabinet ministers), senior officials of other government ministries, parliamentarians and representatives of the private sector, in addition to the academic communities.
The dialogues have also unearthed some critical issues that need to be addressed; for example, in Nigeria, the dialogues generated some controversy when it was revealed that Nigerian students spend nearly $500 million a year to study abroad, rather than staying in their home country. In Tanzania, the Education and Vocational Training Minister stated that higher education would be the engine that will drive the country towards its goals, as defined by the nation's Vision 2025.
The Higher Education Policy Dialogues employ a variety of strategies to address the unique challenges facing higher education on the continent today. The program hopes to sustain the policy dialogues it has started as a means to improve conditions in areas such as governance, financing, collaboration, ethics and standards, research, planning, postgraduate training, and many more. The networks that have been formed are being encouraged to continue to push for reforms of the higher education sector in their respective countries and across the continent.
For more information on the dialogues, including discussion papers, podcasts and videos, please visit our Website at http://bit.ly/SjKsGT and click on the Conferences and Dialogues link on the lefthand side.
Activities are Underway to Shape the Country's Future
The government is taking steps to move the country forward in Liberia. Recently, a group of engaged stakeholders gathered to discuss the President's Vision 2030 Liberia Rising Project, a process whereby local Liberians were provided an opportunity to participate in determining the country's future through a series of meetings around the country, attended by HE President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Ezekiel Pajibo, Project Director for the Liberia Civil Society Initiative was invited to participate in the process. Last month, the discussions culminated in the President's office releasing a draft vision statement, produced during the National Vision Conference, convened in Gbarnga, Bong County. The statement officially ends the design phase of the Vision 2030 and declares the beginning of the operationalization and implementation of its recommendations.
In an effort to further encourage citizen participation and engagement in the exercise, the Liberia Civil Society Initiative recently awarded a $62,150 grant to the Liberian Media for Democratic Initiatives (LMDI). The grant is intended to allow LMDI to engage in a year-long series of dialogues on the Vision 2030 exercise using community outreach and media platforms to ensure the broadest possible participation and awareness by local populations. The intention is for the dialogues to be broadcast around the country.
Copies of the draft Vision statement can be found on our Website. Please scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the link. You can access more information on grantee LMDI here.
WE'RE GETTING A FACELIFT
New and Improved Materials Make Information Easier to Access and Understand
TrustAfrica is undergoing a facelift to improve its grants and communications materials. In an effort to ensure ease of use, greater understanding, and increased accountability, we have redesigned several key components of our grants templates, Website and Annual Report.
The Grants Department has been working for several months to improve the documents needed to apply for a grant from TrustAfrica. After reaching out to several stakeholders and incorporating their feedback, the newly designed templates, which are bi-lingual (English and French) will allow TrustAfrica to better assess the impact its grantees are having in their specialty areas. These information sheets, application forms and budget documents are designed to provide all the relevant information from grantees to best make an assessment of their potential viability as a TrustAfrica grant recipient. In addition, they ensure that TrustAfrica is able to meet its own transparency and accountability objectives as a grantmaking organization. The new templates are already in use and garnering great feedback from our grantee organizations.
In addition, our Website is being upgraded to accommodate all the growth that has taken place in our organization over the last several years. The new site will feature searchable grants and publications databases, an easy to navigate interface and lots more opportunities to better understand the important work our grantees are doing. We are also taking this opportunity to transition into an online annual report that will be more interactive and provide a quick snapshot of the successes and challenges we have faced over the last fiscal year.
We are excited about the many changes and hope you will be, too!
WE ARE GROWING...
Lyne Mendy, Operations Manager
Ms. Mendy joined us in June 2012. She became part of the permanent staff after working as a consultant for three months. She previously worked at the Ministry of Institutional Relations and at the Ministry of Social Action and National Solidarity in Senegal. Ms. Mendy has also worked in the healthcare industry as a Financial Specialist at Theracom, a CVS Caremark Company and as a Patient's Accountant at Suburban Hospital in the United States. She is a certified translator and holds a degree in Business Administration. She is fluent in English and French.
Jeanne Elone, Program Officer, International Criminal Justice
Ms. Elone rejoins TrustAfrica as Program Officer for the International Criminal Justice fund. Previously, Ms. Elone coordinated research on North African civil society, examining the role of civil society in the political transformations that shook region in 2011 as well as analyzing the legal and regulatory environment in which these groups operate. She also worked with the ICBE Research Fund and managed grant-making in TrustAfrica's three core programs. Ms. Elone has lived in Cameroon, Burkina Faso, France, and the United States, working on a range of issues from fair trade and agricultural subsidies to human rights to development finance. She studied at Columbia University in New York and at the National Institute for Political Science in Paris and is currently pursuing a doctorate at the School for Advanced International Studies (Johns Hopkins University) in Washington, D.C. She is bilingual in French and English.
Angela Naggaga, Project Director, International Criminal Justice Project
Angela Naggaga joined us in December 2012. She previously worked for over six years as Deputy Director of the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA), a pan-African NGO based in the Gambia focusing on using African Union human rights treaties and mechanisms to advance human rights in Africa. Prior to joining IHRDA, Angela was an Assistant Lecturer at the faculty of law of Makerere University in Uganda (four years), and also served as Senior Legal Officer of the faculty's Refugee Law Project providing legal aid to refugees and asylum seekers (five years). Ms. Naggaga has a Bachelor of Laws degree from Makerere University, and a Master of Law from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. She is fluent in English and is working on her French.
PROMOTING AFRICAN AGENCY.
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DeeZire – Tell Me
R&B Duo DeeZire brings back classic 90s sound with new single ‘Tell Me’
ATLANTA, GA – While there are many artists emerging from the booming Atlanta music industry, few of them possess the unique talent and style that DeeZire exhibits. This up-and-coming R&B and Hip Hop duo comprised of members cousins Swade and X’Clusiv offer a truly special blend of sound, style and influence to the world. They have everything it takes to become the next big name in music.
Their recent single, “Tell Me,” is a great example of the kind of groundbreaking sound they’re bringing to the international market. A true love song that’s indicative of the late 1990s and early 2000s R&B sound, “Tell Me” is all about putting that loved one on a pedestal.
“It’s speaking to your significant other and wanting them to tell you what they want from you,” Swade X ’Clusiv said. “It’s about supplying your significant other their needs. The 90s sound of this song is a lot like all of our music, which plays a big influence in how we write and sing. It’s a totally different sound than what’s on the radio today with R&B and Pop. We do a lot of harmonies and a lot of arrangements with live instruments across all our tracks.”
DeeZire formed in 2013 when Swade and X’Clusiv came together in Atlanta. They both had a mutual love for music, and the more time they spent around each other, the more they realized they shared the same inspirations – from Michael Jackson and Prince to New Edition and Usher, among others. They soon realized that if they worked together, their shared passion to use music and share their artistic voice with the rest of the world could lead to something truly original.
“We’re bringing that classic sound of R&B back,” X’clusiv Swade said. “Everybody has been saying it’s dead, but we don’t feel that way. We feel that R&B isn’t being marketed the way Pop and hip Hop is right now, and we want to bring that back to the table. We want to show that there are still people out there doing quality R&B music that you can vibe and rock to. We want to put that sound back on the map.”
With a follow up to their debut EP, “Love Therapy,” The duo hopes to do just that with the release of their second debut EP, “Love ZoneTherapy,” which is slated to drop in the next couple of months. One Two more singles, “Raindrops” and “Love Zone” is are slated to release before the full EP, however.
To listen to their music or to follow them on social media, please visit:
www.instagram.com/officialdeezire
www.facebook.com/officialdeezire
www.twitter.com/officialdeezire
https://songwhip.com/deezire/tell-me
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The Grynd Report kicks 2021 off with an exclusive interview from Michael Matthews, CEO of DigitalRadioTracker
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Seeking the Truth on “Chicago Justice”
Powerhouse creator Dick Wolf delivers a captivating new installment to the hit Chicago franchise. Just like their brethren in the Chicago P.D., the State’s Attorney’s dedicated team of prosecutors and investigators navigate heated city politics and controversy head-on, while fearlessly pursuing justice. As they take on the city’s high-stakes and often media-frenzied cases, they must balance public opinion, power struggles within the system and their unwavering passion for the law.
At the center of the show is prosecutor Peter Stone (Philip Winchester), the ambitious Deputy Chief of the Special Prosecutions Bureau. Relentless in his quest for justice, it’s more than a job, it’s a purpose. Son of renowned New York City District Attorney Ben Stone (from “Law & Order”), Stone is shooting at a target that only he can see. This often puts him in direct conflict with Mark Jefferies (Carl Weathers), the Cook County State’s Attorney who sees the world through a political prism. While Jefferies believes that a good prosecutor gives the jury and the public a clear, clean and digestible narrative, Stone is convinced the law isn’t always best served in a sound bite. Together with their team, Stone and Jefferies strive to bring some much-needed justice to the city of Chicago.
The team also includes Assistant State’s Attorney Anna Valdez (Monica Barbaro), a passionate newcomer, who’s more flexible and willing to bend the rules to get the right result; Laura Nagel (Joelle Carter), a tough-as-nails State’s Attorney Investigator who sees each case through the eyes of the victim; and Antonio Dawson (Jon Seda, formerly on “Chicago P.D.”), a level-headed and by-the-book detective turned Chief Investigator.
In addition to Wolf, executive producers include Michael S. Chernuchin, Matt Olmstead, Derek Haas, Michael Brandt, Arthur Forney and Peter Jankowski. “Chicago Justice” is produced by Wolf Films in association with Universal Television.
Creators: Dick Wolf, Michael Brandt, Derek Haas
Stars: Philip Winchester, Jon Seda, Joelle Carter
Tags: Chicago Justice, Derek Haas, Dick Wolf, Joelle Carter, Jon Seda, Michael Brandt, Philip Winchester
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Adult Swim Ranks #1 for 3rd Quarter Total Day Delivery Among Young Adults 18-34
[via press release from Cartoon Network]
Repeating its top-ranked performance last year, Adult Swim will claim the #1 ranking among ad-supported basic cable networks for third quarter total day delivery of adults 18-34, adults 18-24, men 18-34 and men 18-34, according to preliminary data from Nielsen Media Research. This achievement will mark Adult Swim�s sixth straight quarter for #1 delivery of adults 18-24 and men 18-24 since becoming an individually rated network in April 2005. Adult Swim also has ranked #1 in total day delivery of adults 18-34 and men 18-34 for five of the last six quarters. Additionally, the late-night network ranked #6 among ad-supported basic cable networks for total day delivery of adults 18-49 (486,000), and #6 for total day delivery of persons 2+ (1,056,000).
Among Adult Swim�s third quarter programming highlights, the network�s newest original series, Metalocalypse, premiered on Aug. 6 to impressive double-digit gains vs. the previous four weeks across all young adult demos: adults 18-34 delivery grew by 26% and ratings by 25%, while adults 18-24 delivery jumped 32% and ratings by 33%. The Sept. 17 season premiere of Seth Green�s Robot Chicken also enjoyed remarkable delivery and ratings increases vs. its prior season premiere across its target demographics: adults 18-34 delivery increased by 43% and ratings by 38%, while adults 18-24 delivery and ratings both advanced by 67%.
Adult Swim (AdultSwim.com), launched in 2001, is Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.�s network offering original and acquired animated comedy and action series for young adults. Airing overnights six days a week for a total of 45 hours weekly, Adult Swim shares channel space with Cartoon Network, home to the best in original, classic and acquired programming for children and families, and is seen in 91 million U.S. homes.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, is a major producer of news and entertainment product around the world and the leading provider of programming for the basic cable industry.
RATING PERIOD: 6/26/06 � 9/21/06
SOURCE: Turner Entertainment Research from Preliminary Nielsen Media Research data, based on most current data available (Live+SD). Complete and final data (Live+7) will be available in two weeks. These television ratings data are reproduced here with permission from Nielsen Media Research. Reproduction of these data in volume, without permission from Nielsen Media Research, is prohibited.
NOTES: All ratings based on Total U.S. Television Universe of 111,400,000 homes.
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Wednesday's Broadcast Ratings: "MasterChef" Rises as FOX, NBC Share Demo Crown
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)
Primetime Preliminary Fast National Nielsen Data
(includes all DVR playback through 3:00 am)
Here are the highlights of the 14 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the broadcast networks last night (7/8/15):
FOX (3.781 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 1.3, #T1) was the demo champ on Wednesday thanks to new episodes of "MasterChef" (4.837 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 1.7, #2) and "Bullseye" (2.726 million viewers, #12; adults 18-49: 0.9, #T7).
Sharing the top spot was NBC (5.001 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 1.3, #T1) with encores of "America's Got Talent" (6.589 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.3, #3) and "American Ninja Warrior" (4.206 million viewers, #6; adults 18-49: 1.2, #4).
Next up was CBS (5.367 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.2, #3) and its mix of "Big Brother 17" (5.840 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 1.9, #1), a repeat "Criminal Minds" (5.204 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 0.9, #T7) and a new "Extant" (5.056 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 0.8, #T9).
Meanwhile, ABC (3.533 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 0.8, #4) served up repeats of "The Middle" (3.936 million viewers, #8; adults 18-49: 0.7, #12), "The Goldbergs" (3.367 million viewers, #10; adults 18-49: 0.8, #T9), "Modern Family" (3.984 million viewers, #7; adults 18-49: 1.1, #5) and "Black-ish" (3.610 million viewers, #9; adults 18-49: 1.0, #6) plus a new "Celebrity Wife Swap" (3.150 million viewers, #11; adults 18-49: 0.8, #T9).
And finally, second runs of "Arrow" (1.236 million viewers, #13; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T14) and "Supernatural" (0.868 million viewers, #14; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T14) on The CW (1.052 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 0.3, #5) closed out the evening. In the netlet's target demo (women 18-34), the former delivered a 0.2 rating while the latter posted a 0.2 rating.
Week-to-week changes (adults 18-49):
+21.43% - MasterChef
+14.29% - Extant
+5.56% - Big Brother 17
0.00% - Bullseye
0.00% - Celebrity Wife Swap
Year-to-year changes (adults 18-49):
+41.67% - MasterChef (vs. So You Think You Can Dance)
0.00% - Big Brother 17
0.00% - Celebrity Wife Swap (vs. Motive)
-25.00% - Bullseye (vs. So You Think You Can Dance)
-33.33% - Extant (vs. Criminal Minds (Repeat))
In late-night metered market ratings (via NBC's press release):
Here are the highlights of the 13 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the broadcast networks one year ago (7/9/14):
CBS (7.338 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.6, #1) was the network to beat on Wednesday thanks to a new "Big Brother 16" (6.111 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 1.9, #1), the premiere of "Extant" (9.424 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.7, #2) and a repeat "Criminal Minds" (6.479 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 1.2, #T5).
NBC (5.547 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 1.3, #2) then took home the silver with an encore of "America's Got Talent" (5.971 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 1.5, #3) followed by a new "Taxi Brooklyn" (4.700 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 1.0, #T8).
Next up was FOX (3.713 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 1.2, #3) with an original "So You Think You Can Dance" (3.713 million viewers, #9; adults 18-49: 1.2, #T5).
Meanwhile, ABC (3.773 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 1.0, #4) served up repeats of "The Middle" (4.176 million viewers, #6; adults 18-49: 1.0, #T8), "The Goldbergs" (3.696 million viewers, #10; adults 18-49: 1.0, #T8), "Modern Family" (3.820 million viewers, #8; adults 18-49: 1.3, #4), another "The Middle" (3.218 million viewers, #11; adults 18-49: 1.1, #7) and a new "Motive" (3.864 million viewers, #7; adults 18-49: 0.8, #11).
And finally, the special "iHeartRadio Ultimate Pool Party" (0.824 million viewers, #12; adults 18-49: 0.3, #12) and a repeat "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" (0.696 million viewers, #13; adults 18-49: 0.2, #13) on The CW (0.792 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 0.3, #5) closed out the night. In the netlet's target demo (women 18-34), the former delivered a 0.2 rating while the latter posted a 0.2 rating.
·In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," 2.9/7; CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman," 1.9/5; and ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 1.5/4 with an encore.
·In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results were: "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," 1.1/5; "Late Show," 0.4/2; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.5/2 with an encore.
·From 12:35-1:05 a.m. ET, ABC's "Nightline" averaged a 1.1/4 in metered-market households and a 0.3/2 in 18-49 in the Local People Meters.
·From 12:35-1:35 a.m. ET, "Late Night with Seth Meyers" (1.2/4 in metered-market households) beat CBS's "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (1.0/4). In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, "Late Night" (0.5/3 in 18-49) topped "Late Late Show" (0.3/2).
·At 1:35 a.m., "Last Call with Carson Daly" averaged a 0.8/3 in metered-market households with an encore and a 0.3/2 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.
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Chrome & Hot Leather (1971) review
CHROME & HOT LEATHER 1971
Tony Young (Mitch), William Smith (T.J.), Michael Haynes (Casey), Marvin Gaye (Jim), Peter Brown (Al), Michael Stearns (Hank), Kathrine Baumann (Susan), Wes Bishop (Sheriff), Bobby Pickett (Sweet Willy), Cheryl Ladd (Kathy)
Directed by Lee Frost
T.J.: "Gabriel...can't you see we're menacing someone?"
T.J.: "No, you leave when you're excused. Now say it. Please...may I be excused. Say it!"
A soldier returns from action in Vietnam to learn that his fiance has been killed in an auto accident caused by a gang of wild bikers. The vet calls on three of his war buddies to help in finding the gang members responsible and bring them to justice.
Lee Frost directs this interesting, if slightly disappointing entry in the biker movie genre. With such an awesome premise, the script has so much potential for pure unadulterated sleaze, yet never fully realizes the possibilities therein. The film isn't without interest, though. There's a lot to like in CHROME & HOT LEATHER (1971); some of the performances, the pretty girls and some well shot sequences. It being the 1970's, a PG rating usually would get away with nudity or violence that wouldn't fly in todays cinematic climate. However, there are ample opportunities for nudity and extreme violence, but amazingly, Frost avoids treading those lines.
Which makes it all the more odd in that Frost was a director of a number of soft core sleaze films and also what a lot of people consider the progenitor to the Naziploitation films, LOVE CAMP 7 (1969). Even still, there's enough violence here to hold ones interest, but most 70's exploitation fans will likely be disappointed with this one. One scene in particular is a sex scene between Mitch and Susan. There's the requisite nude scene, yet the camera obscures Kathrine Baumann's beautiful frame deciding to tease the audience with it instead.
Frost would also direct the fairly tame THE THING WITH TWO HEADS (1972), a sci fi horror comedy that travels the outskirts of the blaxploitation genre about the head of a racist placed on the body of a black deathrow inmate. There's some amusing moments, a handful of racial slurs and a dynamite car chase plus William Smith in a cameo as a crazy prisoner. Frost showed a penchant for action in that film. That elaborate pre-BLUES BROTHERS police car smash up is more action packed than anything that takes place in Frost's Green Berets vs. Bikers opus.
What's really interesting about CHROME & HOT LEATHER is how similar the later Sam Raimi star vehicle, THOU SHALT NOT KILL...EXCEPT (1985) is to Frosts' movie. Both involve Vietnam vets facing a biker gang upon returning home. The difference is that one film is a rather pedestrian TV Movie of the Week style actioner while the other is a no budget gorefest. One of the things that hurts CHROME & HOT LEATHER (1971) is that the war buddies never go all out in their vengeance. They are simply working with the cops. The film totally misses exploitation greatness by passing up all the possibilities of this cool concept.
The military men use trickery to snag a great deal of military firepower such as rockets and ammo, but never use the weapons to kill, just to scare and capture the enemy. In fact, none of the gang dies at the end. They are all arrested after an explosive battle in a valley and a final fist fight in a cave between Mitch and Casey, who killed his fiance. Maybe Frost was going for a message of some sort? It's very bizarre considering this was AIP that they wouldn't push a seasoned veteran of sleaze to deliver the depraved delights inherent in the plot.
Stone faced Tony Young plays the lead, Mitch. He had a decent career in movies featuring in genre product like A MAN CALLED SLEDGE (1970), BLACK GUNN (1972) and THE RAPE SQUAD (1974). Young also played one of the main villains on the season three original STAR TREK episode, 'Elaan of Troyius'. He never quite comes off as a suitable foil for William Smith's character, T.J. He's got a good look, but his stagnant acting keeps him from rising above the already meager material. Probably the closest comparison would be fellow "actor", Richard Harrison. Both look like they're in a trance, or have been shot with a massive tranquilizer.
William Smith co-stars as T.J., the leader of 'The Wizards'. Smith is easily the best thing in this movie and lends the production its most memorable scenes. Smith had a magnetism onscreen that whether he was playing a good guy or a bad guy, you knew you were gonna see something special. He keeps this movie together and makes it worth watching. He's really not a villain here. He's more of an anti hero. Smith has had an amazing life that is just as exciting, if not exceedingly moreso than his cinematic endeavors.
Marvin Gaye is the same sensational singer from Motown who curiously tried his hand in Hollywood even doing some movie soundtracks like the blaxploitation hit, TROUBLE MAN (1972). He had a monumental musical career that was ended abruptly on April 1st, 1984 when his own father shot him twice in the chest.
Miss America runner up, Kathrine Baumann is a gorgeous stunner playing the girlfriend of the short fused Casey. Her character comes off like a small time girl that got mixed up with The Wizards by chance and not necessarily by choice. By the end, it's apparent she wants to leave. T.J. asks if she's staying or going and she asks, "Do you want me to stay?" There's never much of a chance to explore her character or really anybody else for that matter, at least not to any great lengths.
Minor players are Wes Bishop who was a frequent collaborator to director Frost working both behind and in front of the camera. Here, he plays the sheriff who wants The Wizards out of his town. This, too, is an idea with a lot of potential, but like so much of this well constructed story, nothing is really explored in any great detail. Bobby Pickett is the same Bobby "Boris" Pickett who sang the #1 hit back in 1962, 'Monster Mash'. Cheryl Ladd, later to be a member of the original CHARLIES ANGELS, has a bit role as Mitch's fiance.
CHROME & HOT LEATHER (1971) possesses an awesome title that teases a lot of exploitation greatness but delivers very little violent thrills. It's a tight story and it is entertaining, just that's a bit of a disappointment considering the talent involved as well as the storyline--soldiers versus bikers yields all kinds of sleazy spectacle. Unfortunately, Lee Frost didn't (or couldn't) steer his film in that direction. As it is, this AIP exploitation-lite production is definitely recommended to fans of William Smith. Far less demanding fans will find this of interest, but most everybody else will find this a slow exercise in tedium.
This review is representative of the MGM double feature DVD paired with the chopper chicks flick, THE MINI-SKIRT MOB.
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The little mountain of Carningli dominates the landscape around Newport and Cilgwyn, and although it is only 347m ( 1,138 feet) high it is visible as a prominent feature from the north and east, and even from the south, for travellers approaching from Mynydd Preseli. From certain directions, the mountain looks like a volcanic peak -- and this is appropriate, since it is indeed an ancient volcano. But it is extremely ancient -- around 450 million years old, be be almost precise -- and its present-day profile gives us little guidance as to what it looked like when it was erupting. When the mountain was born, the area which we currently call North Pembrokeshire was part of a great ocean, the bed of which was buckled up and down and shattered by earth movements and mountain building over millions of years. There was virtually no life on land, and very little in the sea. We know that there were tens if not hundreds of volcanoes across a wide area, since dolerites and other volcanic rocks occur in virtually all of the high points of the landscape.
Carningli probably started to emerge from the sea as a violent volcanic island, appearing, erupting and growing just as the Icelandic island of Surtsey did in 1963. Ash and lava from the eruption must be present over a wide area beneath the present-day land surface, interbedded with old sea-floor sediments of sand, silt and clay which have now been transformed into solid rock. The only place where we can see the volcanic ash today is in the cliffs between Newport and Cwm-yr-Eglwys, in great beds of crumbly grey material which looks very different from the dark-coloured and flaky shale which the locals call “rab.”
When the Carningli eruption came to an end, the volcanic island immediately started to be whittled away by wave action, wind and running water. The land surface, originally many thousands of feet above its present position, was lowered inexorably by erosion, so that what we see today is essentially the “core” of the original mountain, made largely of a very hard blue-grey rock called dolerite. Some of it is “spotted dolerite” like the famous bluestone of Carn Meini.
During the Ice Age the mountain was completely covered by the ice of the massive Irish Sea Glacier, moving down from the north and north-west, possibly in several different glacial episodes. Some traces of ice erosion can still be seen on rocky slabs near the summit and on the eastern flank of the mountain. In the last glacial episode the glacier may not have over-ridden the summit, but it pressed against the northern slopes and probably into the amphitheatre of Cilgwyn, leaving the southern and eastern slopes to be afflicted by thousands of years of frost shattering. That is why the east face of Carningli is almost obliterated by a great bank of scree even today. Martha and her children loved to climb on the great jumble of boulders and craggy outcrops, and somewhere, in the middle of it all, is Martha’s cave and the crevice into which she dumped Moses Lloyd’s body.
The summit of the mountain is protected in part by a splendid defensive embankment, now somewhat ruinous but still obvious to all who climb up from the north or west. In its heyday it was probably about 10 feet high, with a vertical outward face, and maybe even a timber palisade on top. When you climb up from the east (for example, from the car-park on the Dolrannog Road) the embankment is not so obvious; that is because the scree slopes provided good natural defences for the inhabitants of the mountain against marauding warriors. So the embankment never did enclose the whole of the summit. There was a fortified village here, aligned more or less SW-NE, with three segments. The builders knew all about military architecture, and in some ways it was just as sophisticated as that of the Normans who followed maybe 2,000 years later.
In the south-west is the outer enclosure, approached through a fine gateway passage with flanking walls from what is now the open common. Animals may have been brought into this flattish area at times of trouble. Then there is a “cross wall” with a gateway in it, which separates the outer enclosure from the “inner bailey”. This area encloses the three inhospitable craggy summits of the mountain; here there might have been some crude shelters against the rock faces, but the inhabitants would only have used it in times of great crisis. Then on the north-eastern side of the mountain (on the lee side, away from the prevailing wind) there are two natural platforms on which we can still see hut circles and small enclosures. This was the main living area, and archaeologists think there may have been about 25 houses here, providing shelter for 150 people. These houses would not have looked like the reconstructed round houses of Castell Henllys! Here it was far too exposed for such exotic structures to survive, and so we are talking about very crude shelters, partly excavated into the stony ground and roofed over with a low lattice of branches, thatch and animal skins. Possibly these “houses” were so low and primitive that it was not even possible to stand up inside them. This living area is actually encolosed by defensive walls on three sides. Altogether there are nine entrances through the main defensive embankment. Gates are always vulnerable, and this leads archaeologists to think that those who lived here were not particularly threatened by enemy tribes.
On both the western and eastern sides of the mountain, outside the main defended area, there are scores of embankments, paddocks and the remains of other shelters which must have been used in the pastoral and farming economy, for keeping sheep, cattle and goats and for growing and storing human food supplies and fodder. These features are all prominent, except at the height of summer when the bracken is high. The most prominent features of all are two gigantic looped banks on the eastern side of the mountain at the foot of the scree slope.
Who built the Carningli hillfort? In Martha’s day most people simply assumed that “The Ancient Druids” built almost all of the old man-made features in the landscape, some time after Noah’s Flood had obliterated everything. Now we know that the Carningli village was occupied during the Iron Age -- but we still do not know for sure whether it was a permanent settlement, or one that was simply occupied during the summer season by people who spent their winters in the sheltered woodlands of the river valleys. The site has never been properly excavated, so there are very few clues to be interpreted. There are some old records which suggest the the mountain was occupied by vagrants and travellers well into the Middle Ages and maybe even later, and at the other end of the scale it is now suggested that the earliest occupants may well have been here during the Bronze Age around 3,000 years ago or possibly even in the Neolithic, more than 4,000 years ago. So some of the stone walls around the summit may be older than the pyramids of Egypt, and the site may have been occupied (intermittently) by many different groups of people over something like 3,500 years.
With such a history of settlement, perhaps we should not be surprised that the mountain has been thought of as a “sacred mountain” for a very long time. There are no burials on the summit (although there may well have been human sacrifices and executions, given that the Iron Age was a pretty brutal time), so Carningli may not have been thought of as a particularly sacred or spiritual place in pre-Christian times. But when St Brynach, our local saint, came into the district around 450 AD to convert the heathen and to found his monastery at Nevern, we learn from the old texts that he was instantly attracted to the mountain. When life at the monastery became too frantic (it was, after all, on the pilgrim route to St Davids) he used to climb up onto the summit in order to “commune with the angels.” That was one way of saying that he went to find solitude, to fast, and to spend time in contemplation and prayer. It may be that during the Age of the Saints the mountain acquired the name “Mons Angelorum”, and it was still called this in educated circles around the year 1600. The name “Carningli” is difficult to translate, but in old Welsh it may well mean “Mount of the Angels” -- and on old maps it is called Carn Yengly or Carnengli, which are probably both corruptions of Carn Engylau.
So where does this aura of sanctity come from? Well, all who climb onto the summit know that is a very special place -- high enough above the surrounding countryside to be closer to heaven than everywhere else, low enough to be easily accessible to those who are reasonably fit, and not quite rocky enough to be dangerous or threatening. When you are on the mountain by yourself you can look down on the world with nothing but the whisper of the wind and the song of the skylarks in your ears, while you watch, far below, the bustle of Newport and the traffic speeding along the Fishguard - Cardigan road. Peace and quiet, only thirty minutes’ climb from the town centre. Even today, the place is sacred.
In the stories, Martha taps into the sanctity of the place just as I do on every visit and just as thousands of others do. But note that in the stories Martha is the only one who looks on Carningli as her cathedral --- her children look on the place as a playground and as somewhere to have adventures, and the servants at the Plas look on it as a place which provides shelter from the northerly winds and which conversely endangers grazing animals. Martha’s “special relationship” with the mountain is important as a storytelling device -- to enhance the “sense of place” in the Saga, and also to show that Martha is a very spiritual person although she may not be “religious.” Nowadays the mountain is widely used for worship and for rituals. It is a common thing for people who love the mountain to ask that their ashes should be scattered from the summit when they die -- and their surviving relatives are very willing to oblige. I have often seen bunches of flowers, ribbons and other keepsakes or personal momentoes on the summit-- and I can only assume that people use the mountain for prayers, for those who are ill or troubled, in exactly the same way as the people of Ireland use their roadside shrines. Some people who are into witchcraft use the mountain, as do the adherents of other religions including Buddhism.
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Then there is the shape of the mountain. It has to be female, just as the spirit of the mountain is female. When you look at Carningli from the south or south-east, it has the unmistakeable skyline profile of a woman lying on her back. To the left you see the head, with a strong forehead, and then the prominent breast and rib cage, and finally to the right the raised knees. Some people think that the reclining figure is pregnant, but that depends on your viewpoint. Perhaps the profile helps to explain the sanctity of the mountain, and author and long-distance walker Lawrence Main thinks that the summit of the mountain is on an ancient “spirit path” and is also a manifestation of the Earth Goddess. Lawrence believes that Carningli is not just a goddess but also a sleeping giant, which makes the mountain a place of great spiritual power. He calls her Rhiannon. Laurence claims to have spent over 700 nights on Carningli since 1995, sometimes in a tent and sometimes in the open. He is very attuned to the presence of angels on the mountain, and for some years he has conducted “dreaming experiments” with volunteers on the green patch adjacent to the summit, using the early Celtic tradition that the earth remembers everything and speaks through the dreamer. The theory is that those who are chosen will dream of angels when they sleep on the green patch which is the navel of the Earth Goddess. Not everybody who sleeps there does dream of angels, and not everybody finds it easy to identify with Lawrence’s ideas, but we all have our own realities, and I am more than a little intrigued that when the story of Martha Morgan came into my head in 1999 I knew that she would die on the mountain summit. So when I came to write the final chapter of Flying with Angels it was entirely natural that she should die in exactly the same position, lying on her back, at peace beneath the frosty stars.
So are Martha and Rhiannon one and the same? Lawrence talks of the Earth Goddess, while others, who are not into goddesses and angels, refer to Martha as “Mother Wales.” Has the story of Martha been given to me by Rhiannon or by the spirit of the mountain? Now there’s an interesting thought.........
There are many records of strange phenomena on Carningli, and these perhaps help to explain why the mountain is deemed to be sacred. Two or three of my acquaintances have observed rainbow haloes around the summit, caused (if you are inclined to scientific explanations) by thin mist around the rocks and sunlight above, projecting shadows and catching and scattering the colours of the spectrum on water droplets. TC Lethbridge called this “the broken spectre”, and Welbourne Tekh experienced it in a stunning form in 1997 when he climbed to the summit in clearing cloud, after heavy rain. I have been on the summit myself, on many occasions, when sea mist has been rolling in from the coast and the topmost crags stand like little islands above the surface of an ocean of white foam. Swirls of mist roll in slow motion through the gaps between the rocks, and the effect is eerie and very beautiful. I have described some of my own “cloud effect” experiences in the pages of the novels, and have given to Mistress Martha my own sense of surprise and wonderment. And many times every year, when high-altitude cirrus clouds are seen above the summit of the mountain, it is easy to see in them the shapes of angels’ wings. On many such occasions I have heard the comment “Ah, the angels are flying over Carningli today.”
Now, from the sublime to the ridiculous. At the top of the green track that leads up the mountain from the Dolrannog Road parking area, there are two masonry pillars with a narrow gap between them. One of my friends refers to these pillars as “the gateway to Carningli” and she will not go up the mountain, or come down off it, without passing between them. Above the gateway is the craggy mountain with all its mysteries, and below it is the humdrum world of everyday life. Fair enough, but the origins of the pillare are far more prosaic.
From what I can gather from the older local residents, the pillars are the most obvious relics of Carningli’s industrial revolution. They are located at the top of the “Carningli Mountain Railway” which operated for a few years between the two World Wars during a time of substantial road improvements by Pembrokeshire County Council. The hundreds of little roads around Newport and Cilgwyn were being improved and provided with asphalt surfaces, and there was a great demand for crushed roadstone. Seeing a commercial opportunity in this, five Newport men decided that Carningli bluestone would fit the bill perfectly, since it could be obtained in good quantities from the lower scree slopes of the mountain with relatively little effort. They cleared things with the Commoners, applied to the Barony of Cemais for permission to take stone from the mountain (in exchange for a royalty for every ton taken), and did a deal with PCC.
They set up in business, and built a narrow-guage railway track about 500 yards long from the Cilgwyn Road up onto the mountain side. It runs almost east-west. In some places the men had to build embankments, and in others they had to excavate cuttings. They built a small crushing plant at the roadside, operated by a diesel engine. At the top of the incline they constructed two masonry pillars to support a large cable drum, the mountings for which were fixed on two large iron bolts on the top of each pillar. Another diesel engine was installed adjacent to the pillars, and this provided the power to rotate the drum and pull in the cable. They installed the railway track and bought three little railway trucks, which were connected together and then coupled to one end of the cable. When the trucks were stationed at the top of the incline they could be filled with blocks of stone carried from the quarrying area in a horse-drawn cart. Then they would be let down under the force of gravity, using a braking system on the cable drum to control the rate of descent. When they reached the bottom, they would be unloaded and the stone fed into the crushing plant. Then the upper diesel motor would be started, and the cable would be wound in again, pulling the three trucks back up to the top of the incline for a fresh load of stone.
I have never seen any written records (or photographs) of this short-lived industrial enterprise, but according to legend it only lasted for a few years. Two men worked in the crushing plant and three up on the mountain. The “quarry” was maybe a hundred yards long, extending southwards along the contour from the winding gear. There are several obvious cuts into the mountain slope, but probably most of the rock which has been taken consisted of loose boulders and scree rather than solid rock. In the quarry the rock was broken up into stones about the size of footballs. Today we can still see still some piles of excavated stones here and there, but the most obvious trace of the quarrying activity is a cutting or gully which was used by the horse and cart for its journeys back and forth in delivering stone to the “loading bay”.
Today all that can be seen of this little enterprise is the smooth green track of the incline, with a few metal sleepers showing through the turf, the winding-gear pillars, the overgrown quarrying area, and a little ruined hut to the north of the incline which might have been used as a shelter for the workmen. There is no trace at all of the crushing plant on the Cilgwyn Road.
And what was it that brought the Industrial Revolution on Carningli to an end? It must have been a truly spectacular event. According to legend, one day around 1933 the man in the quarry who had charge of the dynamite became a little too enthusiastic, and this led to an almighty explosion which caused fragments of shattered bluestone to rain down upon the roofs of all the cottages in the cwm. Thankfully nobody was hurt, but there was such an outcry that the firm’s operating licence was revoked. The men dismantled their machinery and sold it off, leaving the mountain once again in the possession of sheep and angels.
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Some of the biggest names in today’s pop music headline Firefly Festival along with the Rock/Metal/Funk/Hip-Hop band Rage Against the Machine who haven’t released new music since 2000. I’m sure there are plenty of festival goers this year attending Coachella and Firefly alike that are wondering why debatably the heaviest band to ever play the Woodlands is topping the bill.
Trevor Daniel not just a Tik Tok Sensation
Trevor Daniel is a 25 year old pop artist from Los Angeles California. Most people know about Daniel from his song “Falling” which was heavily featured and caught mainstream success due to Tik Tok and peaked at 25 on the Billboard Hot 100. Now some people believe that he is just a tik tok sensation.
Cash Cash: Pop Rock Turned EDM
If you're a fan of EDM, then you’ve probably heard of Cash Cash. Hailing from New Jersey, the three-man trio consists of Jean Paul, Alex Makhlouf, and Samuel Frisch. The band has accumulated 1.6 billion streams since their start in 2007, and as of 2016 have released four full length albums and an array of singles and EPs.
Missio: An Alternative Electronic Duo
MISSIO began its journey with songwriter/vocalist Matthew Brue in 2015. He collaborated with his friend and local producer David Butler to collaborate on their self-titled EP, which they released in 2016. After the sudden success online for the EP, Matthew made his debut under the name MISSIO at the SXSW festival in 2016.
Meute: The Eleven-Piece Techno Marching Band
Meute is an eleven piece marching band that fuses hypnotic techno sounds with expertly executed instrumentation. The techno project from Hamburg, Germany, composes a wholly unique sound, infusing electronic music with the unique musical capabilities of a full acoustic arrangement. The band has attracted a lot of attention with their “reworks” of tracks by popular electronic artists like Flume, deadmau5, Dennis Ferrer, and Oscar House.
Big Boi Returns to Firefly
Big Boi, born Antwan Andre Patton, is a 45 year old American rapper, songwriter, actor and record producer from Savannah, Georgia. He is also one-half of the hip hop duo Outkast alongside fellow American rapper Andrè 3000.
Meet the Neighbors!
99 neighbors exploded onto the hip-hop scene last year with their single, welcome to chili’s. Billing themselves as a “collective of independent artists,” the Vermont-based group has a diverse sound that is reminiscent of other rap collectives that came before it like BROCKHAMPTON and Odd Future.
The Australian Pregnant DJ Anna Lunoe
If you’re an EDM fan you probably already heard of Anna Lunoe. She is going to be the most interesting performer at FireFly in my mind. She is an EDM DJ from Sydney, Australia and is pregnant. Yes pregnant you read that right Lunoe is out here killing festivals and stages all across the world while being pregnant.
Album Reviews in 200 Words Or Less
Discover new music and read up on what's poppin' and what's not. (According to First State Studios Album Critics)
CHINATOWN SLALOM - WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE
SUPERORGANISM- SUPERORGANISM
KEVIN ABSTRACT - ARIZONA BABY
JAI PAUL - LEAK 04-13 BAIT ONES
Whipped Cream: Bringing Swagger to EDM
Punk’s Not Dead: The Regrettes Bring Feminist Garage Pop to the Firefly Stage
Whipped Cream is a swagged out Canadian DJ/producer who is straight fire. I’m not saying she is fire just to hype her up and give her some clout.
The Regrettes rock. With heavy guitar and strong vocals muddled with a vulnerability that feels like it’s being performed at someone’s basement show, their debut on the Firefly stage is not to be missed.
Absofacto: How Jonathan Visger Is Changing The Game On Music Genres
Absofacto was created by artist Jonathan Visger, a member of the Michigan-based indie rock band Mason Proper. He released his first track “North South Pt.1” under his own name, and then his second track under the pseudonym Bung Lung Baby. The name Absofacto was first used in 2009 with the EP Tagalong, and he has been using the name ever since.
Space Jesus Invites You To His Dimension
Brooklyn-based electronic artist Jasha Tull is coming to Firefly to transport you deep into the intergalactic wormhole. With low frequency baselines frequently augmented by what might be the sounds of spaceships whirling across galaxies, Space Jesus produces soundscapes that are easy to get lost in.
Noah Cyrus is Here to Make You Cry
Hugel: Come To An Epic Dance Party Hosted By One of France’s Hottest DJ’s
Noah Cyrus is a 20 year old singer, songwriter and actress from Nashville, Tennessee. Cyrus’ sound features a combination of genres, including R&B, pop soul, electropop, and alternative. She's also Miley Cyrus's sister...
In the first few seconds of Guajira Guantanamera, Hugel lets the voice of Joseito Fern(a)ndez lead without interruption. After a few seconds, the kick comes in, and the 1929 hit of the same name transforms into a throbbing EDM track.
Devon Gillfillian and His Adventure into Deep Soul Music
Making his debut in 2016, Devon Gillfillian has been creating a blend of hip-hop, soul, and blues to create his own genre of music, which he states cannot be described through the common classification for music.
Noga Erez Takes Firefly for 3rd Trip EVER in America
Noga Erez from Tel Aviv, Israel is performing only for the 3rd time ever in America. If EDM or electric pop is your type of music genre, you are going to wish she comes back to the States after seeing her perform live. I normally don’t listen to EDM but hearing her album “Off the Radar” blew my mind.
Neon Trees @ The Woodlands 2020
Neon Trees is an American rock/ new wave band from Provo, Utah. Their style is a blend of upbeat pop and indie dance music with rock and electronic influences. The four person band is led by lead singer Tyler Glenn, who says that this year they look forward to ushering in a new era for the band.
RAVEENA - LUCID
JPEG MAFIA - VETERAN
THE VOIDZ - VIRTUE
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“Drew Barrymore” Singer Bryce Vine is Bringing His One-Of-A-Kind SoCal Sound to Firefly 2020
Bryce Vine is an American rapper and singer from New York City. His unique sound is drawn from both rap, punk rock and pop influences and features clever lyrics paired with memorable hooks. Vine spent much of his childhood between the cities of New York and L.A., and much of his sound is derived from impressions of both coasts.
Mallrat aka "the Princess of Brisbane Australia
Mallrat aka the Princess of Brisbane Australia is a 21 year old electronica artist. Her name alone makes you scratch your head. But she will have you vibing out when she performs. If you're into some chill laid back electronica music then Mallrat is for you. While listening to her music you can hear some hip hop and indie pop influences. Mallrat’s two recent EPs In The Sky and Driving Music which peaked at 10 in Australia are great projects to listen to.
K.Flay: Brings An Indie Twist On Rock n Roll To Firefly
Similar to K.flay: MISArtists SIO, Joywave, MC Lars, Foreign Air, Watsky, and AWOLNATION.
If you are a fan of the Netflix series “Sabrina the Teenage Witch”, then you’ve most likely heard K.flay’s top hit “Blood in the Cut” before, even if you weren’t aware of it. Kristine Flaherty, a.k.a K.flay, built her career up through the releasing mixtapes in the underground rap circuit.
Haiku Hands Electrifying Sister Trio
"I personally stumbled upon Haiku Hands in my friend's car, and it was one of those songs that was just so off the wall and wierd but good, that I had to stop the conversation and ask, 'Dude what is this?'"
Black Milk - Fever
Sunflower Bean - Twentytwo in Blue
Zhu - Ringo's Desert Pt. 1
You'll Have"No Regrets" Checking Out Don Toliver at Firefly 2020
Don Toliver will be a force in hip hop in the coming years. He has one of the top artists in the game right by him. Plus he’s in the hottest labels in music today. So there is nothing that can stop this man. Don Toliver is 5 flame emojis out of 5 as an artist to see at FireFly. MUST SEE ARTIST.
Badflower: This Generation's Voice in Rock n Roll
Badflower are a four piece rock band hailing from Los Angeles California. They released an EP titled, Temper in 2016 and a full length album in February, 2019. Their debut record, OK, I’m Sick, was one of the best front to back rock albums of the year due to subject matter and how sonically tight they are instrumentally. This upcoming summer they will be playing the Firefly Music Festival for the first time and might even be bring along some new music with them...
Dominic Fike Was Signed To A Record Label Before Releasing Any Music
The young man who everybody has been saying is like a mixture between Jack Johnson and the attitude of Lil Pump. Branded with the Apple logo where a teardrop would usually be inked, the Florida-bred artist exudes originality and boyish charisma. Apple is a forward moving industry, I think I see what he's doing here. Not sure how this is possible, but Fike has found a way to get a record deal without even having music released.
Sure Sure - What It's Like
Crumb - Jinx
Lil Keed - Long Live Mexico
Firefly Headliner Maggie Rogers Went To A Delaware High School
In case you haven't already seen the heartwarming moment which sparked Maggie Rogers' big break, here it is. While attending NYU, Rogers had the opportunity to play one of her "unfinished" songs in front of Pharrell Williams, musician and record producer himself, whom we all have at least heard of before.
Meet Turnover, A Shoegaze Band Performing At Firefly
Turnover is one of the many talented bands coming to Firefly this year, and could very well be one of the smaller names that you do not know. If you're into shoegaze and dream pop, Turnover is right up your alley. If you're not into shoegaze, that's okay too, they have songs for you as well.
Sweet Geek Podcast's Steam Pick of the Week
Tyler Bendel and Nick Guistiniano review Warframe on Sweet Geek's Game of the Week segment.
What is Warframe? What's the good about it? What's the ugly? Should I really buy it?...
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Download Warframe by clicking the steam application above.
"Diverse gameplay... currently, there are 64 different Waframes, including Prime Variants, and Excalibur Umbra. You can take on a mission fast or slow, guns blazing or stealth, use a bow or an assault..."
What It's Like To See Slenderbodies Live
The California based indie pop duo consists of two members, Max Vehuni and Benji Cormack. They are joined on stage by touring drummer Will; on stage they announced this is his first tour. For their first headlining show in Philly, the Foundry seems to be the perfect venue. Their live light production spills off the back of the stage and fills the entire room.
Indie Artists That Broke Out in 2019
What new faces from the rock and alt worlds will populate 2019's year-end charts and best-of lists? We're making our predictions, and we truly believe you'll agree. Last year, Billboard tried their best and they actually did hit spot on with a few emerging bands and artists, that now appear to be sticking around for the long haul. Props to Billboard. What we love most about indie-rock is the goofiness and self-expression all the artists share in common...which is the only thing they share in common. Across alternative, punk, indie, folk, and beyond, here are 17 sure bets and deep cut candidates to level up significantly this year.
31 Horror Movies You Haven't Seen
There is nothing better than finding the perfect horror film that has the entire room on the edge of their seats. Sometimes the movie doesn’t even have to be “terrifying” just cheesy and strange enough to share some awkward laughs. After many years, you may have exhausted all the classics: The Exorcist, Halloween, Friday the 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Shining...you get the picture. Instead, you may be looking for something to watch that’s a little bit more obscure or you just haven’t seen. Here’s a list of some of the best hidden gems in horror.
I Went To A Turnstile Concert Without Knowing...
Okay so first off, I only went to this show because a friend of mine had two tickets and ended up not being able to go. He said "Hey you should go see this band Turnover, they're shoe gaze. So like very chill, they stand in one place and look down at their shoes the whole time...shoe gaze. I can't make it so you can have these tickets for free."
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Yemen War: Redrawing The Fault lines
Conn Hallinan / Dispatches from the Edge & The Daily Planet – 2015-05-14 00:55:27
http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-05-08/article/43300?headline=DISPATCHES-FROM-THE-EDGE-Yemen-War-Redrawing-The-Fault-lines–Conn-Hallinan
(May 12, 2015) — Yemen is the poorest country in the Arab world, bereft of resources, fractured by tribal divisions and religious sectarianism, and plagued by civil war. And yet this small country tucked into the bottom of the Arabian Peninsula is shattering old alliances and spurring new and surprising ones.
As Saudi Arabia continues its air assault on Houthis insurgents, supporters and opponents of the Riyadh monarchy are reconfiguring the political landscape in a way that is unlikely to vanish once the fighting is over.
The Saudi version of the war is that Shiite Iran is trying to take over Sunni Yemen using proxies — the Houthis — to threaten the Kingdom’s southern border and assert control over the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait into the Red Sea. The Iranians claim they have no control over the Houthis, no designs on the Straits, and that the war is an internal matter for the Yeminis to resolve.
The Saudis have constructed what at first glance seems a formidable coalition consisting of the Arab League, the monarchies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Turkey and the US Except that the “coalition” is not as solid as it looks and is more interesting in whom it doesn’t include than whom it does.
Egypt and Turkey are the powerhouses in the alliance, but there is more sound and fury than substance in their support.
Initially, Egypt made noises about sending ground troops — the Saudi army can’t handle the Houthis and their allies — but pressed by Al-Monitor, Cairo’s ambassador to Yemen, Youssef al-Sharqawy, turned opaque: “I am not the one who will decide about a ground intervention in Yemen. This goes back to the estimate of the supreme authority in the country and Egyptian national security.”
Since Saudi Arabia supported the Egyptian military coup against the Muslim Brotherhood government and is propping up the regime with torrents of cash, Riyadh may eventually squeeze Cairo to put troops into the Yemen war. But the last time Egypt fought the Houthis it suffered thousands of casualties, and Egypt has its hands full with an Islamic insurrection in Sinai.
While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also pledged Ankara’s support for “Saudi Arabia’s intervention,” and demanded that “Iran and the terrorist groups” withdraw, Erdogan was careful to say that it “may consider” offering “logistical support based on the evolution of the situation.”
Erdogan wants to punish Iran for its support of the Assad regime in Syria and its military presence in Iraq, where Teheran is aiding the Baghdad government against the Islamic Front. He is also looking to tap into Saudi money. The Turkish economy is in trouble, its public debt is the highest it has been in a decade and borrowing costs are rising worldwide. With an important election coming in June, Erdogan is hoping the Saudis will step in to help out.
But actually getting involved is another matter. The Turks think the Saudis are in a pickle — Yemen is a dreadfully difficult place to win a war and an air assault without ground troops has zero chance of success.
When the Iranians reacted sharply to Erdogan’s comments, the President backpeddled. Iran is a major trading partner for the Turks, and, with the possibility that international sanctions against Teheran will soon end, Turkey wants in on the gold rush that is certain to follow.
During Erdogan’s recent trip to Teheran, the Turkish President and Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif issued a joint statement calling for an end to the war in Yemen, and a “political solution.” It was a far cry from Erdogan’s initial belligerence.
The Arab League supports the war, but only to varying degrees. Iraq opposes the Saudi attacks, and Algeria is keeping its distance by calling for an end to “all foreign intervention.” Even the normally compliant GCC, representing the oil monarchs of the Gulf, has a defector.
Oman abuts Yemen, and its ruler, Sultan Qaboos, is worried the chaos will spread across its border. And while the United Arab Emirates have flown missions over Yemen, the UAE is also preparing to cash in if sanctions are removed from Teheran. “Iran is on our doorstep, we have to be there,” Marwan Shehadeh, a developer in Dubai told the Financial Times. “It could be a great game changer.”
The most conspicuous absence in the Saudi coalition, however, is Pakistan, a country that has received billions in aid from Saudi Arabia and whose current Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, was sheltered by Riyadh from the wrath of Pakistan’s military in 1999.
When the Saudi’s initially announced their intention to attack Yemen, they included Pakistan in the reported coalition, an act of hubris that backfired badly. Pakistan’s Parliament demanded a debate on the issue and then voted unanimously to remain neutral. While Islamabad declared its intention to “defend Saudi Arabia’s sovereignty,” no one thinks the Houthis are about to march on Jiddah.
The Yemen war is deeply unpopular in Pakistan, and the Parliament’s actions were widely supported, one editorial writer calling for rejecting “GCC diktat.” Only the extremist Lashkar-e-Taiba organization, which planned the 2008 Mumbai massacre in India, supported the Saudis.
Pakistan has indeed relied on Saudi largesse and, in turn, provided security for Riyadh, but the relationship is wearing thin.
First, there is widespread outrage for the Saudi support of extremist Islamic groups, some of which are at war with Pakistan’s government. Last year one such organization, the Tehrik-i-Taliban, massacred 145 people, including 132 students, in Peshawar. Fighting these groups in North Waziristan has taxed the Pakistani Army, which must also pay attention to its southern neighbor, India.
The Saudis, with their support for the rigid Wahabi interpretation of Islam, are also blamed for growing Sunni-Shiite tensions in Pakistan.
Second, Islamabad is deepening its relationship with China. In mid-April, Chinese President Xi Jinping promised to invest $46 billion to finance Beijing’s new “Silk Road” from Western China to the Persian Gulf. Part of this will include a huge expansion of the port at Gwadar in Pakistan’s restive Baluchistan province, a port that Bruce Riedel says will “rival Dubai or Doha as a regional economic hub,”
Riedel is a South Asia security expert, a senior fellow at the conservative Brookings Institute, and a professor at Johns Hopkins. Dubai is in the United Arab Emirates and Doha in Qatar. Both are members of the GCC.
China is concerned about security in Baluchistan, with its long-running insurgency against the central government, as well as the ongoing resistance by the Turkic-speaking, largely Muslim, Uyghur people in western China’s Xinjiang Province. Uyghurs, who number a little over 10 million, are being marginalized by an influx of Han Chinese, China’s dominant ethnic group.
Wealthy Saudis have helped finance some of these groups and neither Beijing or Islamabad is happy about it. Pakistan has pledged to create a 10,000-man “Special Security Division” to protect China’s investments. According to Riedel, the Chinese told the Pakistanis that Beijing would “stand by Pakistan if its ties with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates unravel.”
The US has played an important, if somewhat uncomfortable, role in the Yemen War. It is feeding Saudi Arabia intelligence and targeting information and re-fueling Saudi warplanes in mid-air. It also intercepted an Iranian flotilla headed for Yemen that Washington claimed was carrying arms for the Houthis. Iran denies it and there is little hard evidence that Teheran is providing arms to the insurgents.
But while Washington supports the Saudis, it has also urged Riyadh to dial back the air attacks and look for a political solution. The US is worried that the war-induced anarchy is allowing Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to florish. The embattled Houthis were the terrorist group’s principal opponents.
The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is growing critical. More than a 1,000 people, many of them civilians, have been killed, and the bombing and fighting has generated 300,000 refugees. The Saudi-US naval blockade and the recent destruction of Yemen’s international airport has shut down the delivery of food, water and medical supplies in a country that is largely dependent on imported food.
However, the Obama administration is unlikely to alienate the Saudis, who are already angry with Washington for negotiating a nuclear agreement with Iran. Besides aiding the Saudi attacks, the US has opened the arms spigot to Riyadh.
The Iran nuclear agreement has led to what has to be one of the oddest alliances in the region: Israel and Saudi Arabia. Riyadh is on the same wavelength as the Netanyahu government when it comes to Iran, and the two are cooperating in trying to torpedo the agreement.
According to investigative journalist Robert Perry, the alliance between Tel Aviv and Riyadh was sealed by a secret $16 billion gift from Riyadh to an Israeli “development” account in Europe, some of which has been used to build illegal settlements in the Occupied Territories.
The Saudis and the Israelis are on the same side in the Syrian civil war as well, and, for all Riyadh’s talk about supporting the Palestinians, the only members of the GCC that have given money to help rebuild Gaza after last summer’s Israeli attack on Gaza are Qatar and Kuwait.
How this all falls out in the end is hard to predict, except that it is clear that, for all their financial firepower, the Saudis can’t get the major regional players — Israel excepted — on board. And an alliance with Israel — a country that is more isolated today because of its occupation policies than it has been in its history — is not likely to be very stable.
Long-time Middle East correspondent for the Independent Robert Fisk says the Saudis live in “fear” of the Iranians, the Shiia, the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, US betrayal, Israeli plots, even “themselves, for where else will the revolution start in Sunni Muslim Saudi but among its own royal family?”
That “fear” is driving the war in Yemen. It argues for why the US should stop feeding the flames and instead join with the European Union and demand an immediate cease-fire, humanitarian aid, and a political solution among the Yemenis themselves.
Conn Hallian can be read at https://dispatchesfromtheedgeblog.wordpress.com and https://middleempireseries.wordpress.com
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Noam Chomsky on ISIS
December 2nd, 2015 - by admin
Emanuel Stoakes and Noam Chomsky / Jacobin Magazine – 2015-12-02 01:38:37
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/11/noam-chomsky-interview-isis-syria-intervention-nato/
Chomsky and His Critics
Noam Chomsky on ISIS, his foreign policy critics, and why socialist ideas are “never far below the surface”
Emanuel Stoakes and Noam Chomsky / Jacobin Magazine
Noam Chomsky, to rehearse a cliche, is among the world’s greatest living radical intellectuals. It is no less trite or true to add that he is also a broadly controversial figure: accused from various corners of a variety of failings ranging from “genocide denial” to rigid, “amoral quietism” in the face of mass atrocities. Most recently, critics of dissimilar political hues claim to have identified a range of follies in his statements on Syria.
In the following interview, freelance journalist Emanuel Stoakes puts some of these criticisms to Chomsky.
While reasserting his opposition to full-scale military intervention, Chomsky says he does not in principle oppose the idea of a no-fly zone established alongside a humanitarian corridor (though Putin’s recent interventions have all but killed the possibility of the former option). Chomsky also clarifies his positions on the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and NATO’s 1999 intervention in Kosovo.
In addition to answering his critics, Chomsky gives his thoughts on a wide range of other topics: what should be done to combat ISIS, the significance of popular struggles in South America, and the future of socialism.
As always, his underlying belief in our capacity to build a better society shines through.
What’s your reaction to the attacks in Paris earlier this month, and what do you think of the current Western strategy of bombing ISIS?
The current strategy plainly is not working. The ISIS statements, both for this and the Russian airliner, were very explicit: you bomb us and you will suffer. They are a monstrosity, and these are terrible crimes, but it doesn’t help to hide our heads in the sand.
The best outcome would be if ISIS were destroyed by local forces, which could happen, but it will require that Turkey agree. And the outcome could be just as bad if the jihadi elements supported by Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia are the victors.
The optimal outcome would be a negotiated settlement of the kind being inched towards in Vienna, combined with the above. Long shots.
Like it or not, ISIS seems to have established itself pretty firmly in Sunni areas of Iraq and Syria. They seem to be engaged in a process of state building that is extremely brutal but fairly successful, and attracts the support of Sunni communities who may despise ISIS but see it as the only defense against alternatives that are even worse.
The one major regional power that is opposing it is Iran, but the Iran-backed Shiite militias are reputed to be as brutal as ISIS and probably mobilize support for ISIS.
The sectarian conflicts that are tearing the region to shreds are substantially a consequence of the Iraq invasion. That’s what Middle East specialist Graham Fuller, a former CIA analyst, means when he says that “I think the United States is one of the key creators of this organization.”
Destruction of ISIS by any means that can be imagined might lay the basis for something worse, as has been happening quite regularly with military intervention. The state system in the region imposed by French and British imperial might after World War I, with little concern for the populations under their control, is unraveling.
The future looks bleak, though there are some patches of light, as in the Kurdish areas. Steps can be taken to reduce many of the tensions in the region and to constrain and reduce the outlandishly high level of armament, but it is not clear what more outside powers can do apart from fanning the flames, as they have been doing for years.
Earlier this year, we saw the Greek government struggling with its creditors to work out a deal. It’s tempting to view this showdown, as well as the crisis as a whole, as less a case of the EU trying to manage a debt crisis in the common interests of the union and more as a battle between Greek society and those who benefit from austerity. Would you agree? How do you view the situation?
There has been no serious effort to manage a debt crisis. The policies imposed on Greece by the troika sharply exacerbated the crisis by undermining the economy and blocking hopeful chances for growth. The debt-to-GDP ratio is now far higher than it was before these policies were instituted, and there’s been a terrible toll on the people of Greece — though the German and French banks that bear a large part of responsibility for the crisis are doing fine.
The so-called “bailouts” for Greece mostly went into the pockets of the creditors, as much as 90 percent by some estimates. Former Bundesbank chief Karl Otto Pöhl observed very plausibly that the whole affair “was about protecting German banks, but especially the French banks, from debt write-offs.”
Commenting in the leading US establishment journal Foreign Affairs, Mark Blyth, one of the most cogent critics of the destructive austerity-under-depression programs, writes, “We’ve never understood Greece because we have refused to see the crisis for what it was — a continuation of a series of bailouts for the financial sector that started in 2008 and that rumbles on today.”
It is recognized on all sides that the debt cannot be paid. It should have been radically restructured long ago, when the crisis could have easily been managed, or simply declared “odious” and cancelled.
The ugly face of contemporary Europe is presented by German Finance Minister Schäuble, apparently the most popular political figure in Germany. As reported by Reuters news service, he explained that “a write-off of some of Europe’s loans to Greece might be needed to get the country’s debt to a manageable level,” while he “in the same breath ruled out such a step.”
In brief, we’ve milked you about as dry as we can, so get lost. And much of the population is literally getting lost, with hopes for decent survival smashed.
Actually Greeks are not yet quite milked dry. The shameful settlement imposed by the banks and bureaucracy includes measures to ensure that Greek assets will be taken over by the right greedy hands.
Germany’s role is particularly shameful, not just because Nazi Germany devastated Greece, but also because, as Thomas Piketty pointed out in Die Zeit, “Germany is really the single best example of a country that, throughout its history, has never repaid its external debt. Neither after the First nor the Second World War.”
The London Agreement of 1953 wiped out over half of Germany’s debt, laying the basis for its economic recovery, and currently, Piketty added, far from being “generous,” these days “Germany is profiting from Greece as it extends loans at comparatively high interest rates.” The whole business is sordid.
The policies of austerity that have been imposed on Greece (and on Europe generally) were always absurd from an economic point of view, and have been a complete disaster for Greece. As weapons of class war, however, they have been rather effective in undermining welfare systems, enriching the northern banks and the investor class, and driving democracy to the margins.
The behavior of the troika today is a disgrace. One can scarcely doubt that their goal is to establish firmly the principle that the masters must be obeyed: defiance of the northern banks and the Brussels bureaucracy will not be tolerated, and thoughts of democracy and popular will in Europe must be abandoned.
Do you think the struggle taking place over Greece’s future is representative of a lot of what is happening in the world at the moment — i.e., a struggle between the needs of society and the demands of capitalism? If so, do you see much hope for decent human outcomes when the trump cards all seem to be held by a small number of people linked to private power?
In Greece, and in Europe more generally in varying degrees, some of the most admirable achievements of the postwar years are being reversed under a destructive version of the neoliberal assault on the global population of the past generation.
But it can be reversed. Among the most obedient students of the neoliberal orthodoxy were the countries of Latin America, and not surprisingly, they were also among those who suffered the worst harm.
But in recent years they have led the way towards rejecting the orthodoxy, and more generally, for the first time in five hundred years are taking significant steps towards unification, freeing themselves from imperial (in the past century US) domination, and confronting the shocking internal problems of potentially rich societies that had been traditionally governed by wealthy foreign-oriented (mostly white) elites in a sea of misery.
Syriza in Greece might have signaled a similar development, which is why it had to be smashed so savagely. There are other reactions in Europe and elsewhere that could turn the tide and lead to a much better future.
The twentieth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre passed this year. It has emerged that the US watched the killing take place in real time from satellites, and that many of the world’s great powers were negligent or worse when it came to making efforts to prevent predictable slaughter there.
What do you think should have been done at the time? Do you think, for example, that the Bosnian Muslims should have been given a greater chance to defend themselves far earlier, for example?
Srebrenica was a barely protected safe area — and we should not forget that thanks to that status, it was as a base for Nasir Oric’s murderous Bosnian militias to attack surrounding Serb villages, taking a brutal toll and boasting of the achievement. That there would sooner or later be a Serb response was not too surprising, and measures should have been taken to “prevent predictable slaughter,” to borrow your words.
The best approach, which might have been feasible, would have been to reduce and maybe end the hostilities in the region rather than allowing them to escalate.
You’ve come in for a lot of criticism for your position on the Kosovo intervention. My (perhaps mistaken) understanding is that you believe there were alternatives to the bombing, and that the violence could have been stopped if there had been greater political will to find a diplomatic solution. Is that right? Can you outline what could have been done as an alternative?
I haven’t seen criticisms of my position on the intervention, and there are unlikely to be any, for the simple reason that I scarcely took a position. As I made explicit in what I wrote on the topic (The New Military Humanism), I hardly even discussed the propriety of the NATO intervention. That’s clearly stated in the early pages.
The topic is indeed brought up, three pages from the end, noting that what precedes — the entire book — leaves the question of what should have been done in Kosovo “unanswered,” though it seems a “reasonable judgment” that the US was selecting one of the more harmful of several options available.
As explained clearly and unambiguously from the outset, even from the title, the book is about a wholly different topic: the import of the Kosovo events for the “new era” of “principles and values” led by the “enlightened states” whose foreign policy has entered a “noble phase” with a “saintly glow” (to quote some of the celebratory rhetoric reviewed).
That very important topics must be sharply distinguished from the question of what should have been done, which I scarcely addressed. An important topic, and evidently an unpopular one, best avoided. I don’t recall even seeing a mention of the subject of the entire book in the critical commentary on it.
I did review the diplomatic options available, pointing out that the settlement after seventy-eight days of bombing was a compromise between the NATO and Serbian pre-bombing positions.
A year later, after the war ended, in my book A New Generation Draws the Line, I reviewed in extensive detail the rich Western documentary record on the immediate background to the bombing.
It reveals that there was a steady level of violence divided between KLA guerrillas attacking from Albania and a brutal Serb response, and that the atrocities were very sharply escalated after the bombing, exactly as was predicted publicly, and to US authorities privately, by commanding Gen. Wesley Clark.
If there has been criticism of what I actually wrote, I haven’t seen it, though you’re right that there has been a great deal of furious condemnation — namely, of what I didn’t write.
As to a possible alternative, there were what seemed to be fairly promising diplomatic options. Whether they could have worked, we don’t know, since they were ignored in favor of bombing.
The usual interpretation, which I’ve reviewed elsewhere, is that the bombing was motivated by a sharp upsurge of atrocities. This reversal of the chronology is quite standard, and useful to establish the legitimacy of NATO violence. The upsurge of atrocities was the consequence of the bombing, not its cause — and as noted, was predicted quite publicly and authoritatively.
What do you think was the real objective of NATO’s Balkan intervention?
If we can believe the US-UK leadership, the real objective was to establish the “credibility of NATO” (there were other pretexts, but they quickly collapse). As Tony Blair summarized the official reason, failure to bomb “would have dealt a devastating blow to the credibility of NATO,” and “the world would have been less safe as a result of that” — though, as I reviewed in some detail, the “world” overwhelmingly disagreed, often very sharply.
“Establishing credibility” — basically, the Mafia principle — is a significant feature of great power policy. A deeper look suggests motives beyond those officially stressed.
Do you oppose military intervention under any circumstances during dire humanitarian disasters? What are the conditions that would make it acceptable from your point of view?
Pure pacifists would always oppose military intervention. I am not one, but I think that like any resort to violence, it carries a heavy burden of proof. It’s impossible to give a general answer as to when it is justified, apart from some useless formulas.
It is not easy to find genuine cases where intervention has been justified. I’ve reviewed the historical and scholarly record. It’s very thin. Two possible examples stand out in the post-World War II period: the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, terminating Khmer Rouge crimes as they were peaking; and the Indian invasion of Pakistan that ended the hideous atrocities in the former East Pakistan.
These two cases do not enter the standard canon, however, because of the fallacy of “wrong agency” and because they were both bitterly opposed by Washington, which reacted in quite ugly ways.
Moving on to Syria, we see an appalling humanitarian situation and no end in sight in terms of the internecine warfare taking place. I know some Syrian activists who are furious at what they perceive to be your tolerance of the immense misery being experienced by people living with barrel bombs and so on; they say this because they think you are opposed to any kind of intervention against Assad, however limited, on ideological grounds.
Is this accurate or fair? Would you support the idea of a no-fly zone, with an enforced humanitarian corridor? Can you clarify your position on Syria?
If intervention against Assad would mitigate or end the appalling situation, it would be justified. But would it? Intervention is not advocated by careful observers on the scene with close knowledge of Syria and the current situation — Patrick Cockburn, Charles Glass, quite a few others who are bitter critics of Assad. They warn, with no little plausibility I think, that it might well exacerbate the crisis.
The record of military intervention in the region has been awful with very rare exceptions, a fact that can hardly be overlooked. No-fly zones, humanitarian corridors, support for the Kurds, and some other measures would be likely to be helpful. But while it is easy to call for military intervention, it is no simple matter to provide reasoned and well-thought-out plans, taking into account likely consequences. I haven’t seen any.
One can imagine a world in which intervention is undertaken by some benign force dedicated to the interests of people who are suffering. But if we care about victims, we cannot make proposals for imaginary worlds. Only for this world, in which intervention, with rare consistency, is undertaken by powers dedicated to their own interests, where the victims and their fate is incidental, despite lofty professions.
The historical record is painfully clear, and there have been no miraculous conversions. That does not mean that intervention can never be justified, but these considerations cannot be ignored — at least, if we care about the victims.
Looking back at your long life of activism and scholarship, what cause or issue are you most glad to have supported? Conversely, what are your greatest regrets — do you wish that you had done more on certain fronts?
I can’t really say. There are many that I’m glad to have supported, to a greater or lesser degree. The cause that I pursued most intensely, from the early 1960s, was the US wars in Indochina, the most severe international crime in the post-World War II era.
That included speaking, writing, organizing, demonstrations, civil disobedience, direct resistance, and the expectation, barely averted more or less by accident, of a possible long prison sentence.
Some other engagements were similar, but not at that level of intensity. And each case has regrets, always the same ones: too little, too late, too ineffective, even when there were some real achievements of the dedicated struggles of many people in which I was privileged to be able to participate in some way.
What gives you the most hope about the future? Do you feel that young people in the US that you have interacted with are different from some of those you dealt with decades before? Have social attitudes changed for the better?
Hopes for the future are always about the same: courageous people, often under severe duress, refusing to bow to illegitimate authority and persecution, others devoting themselves to support and to combatting injustice and violence, young people who sincerely want to change the world.
And the record of successes, always limited, sometimes reversed, but over time bending the arc of history towards justice, to borrow the words that Martin Luther King made famous in word and deed.
How do you view the future of socialism? Are you inspired by developments in South America? Are there lessons for the Left in North America?
Like other terms of political discourse, “socialism” can mean many different things. I think one can trace an intellectual and practical trajectory from the Enlightenment to classical liberalism, and (after its wreckage on the shoals of capitalism, in Rudolf Rocker’s evocative phrase) on to the libertarian version of socialism that converges with leading anarchist tendencies.
My feeling is that the basic ideas of this tradition are never far below the surface, rather like Marx’s old mole, always about to break through when the right circumstances arise, and the right flames are lit by engaged activists.
What has taken place in recent years in South America is of historic significance, I think. For the first time since the conquistadors, the societies have taken steps of the kind I outlined earlier. Halting steps, but very significant ones.
The basic lesson is that if this can be achieved under harsh and brutal circumstances, we should be able to do much better enjoying a legacy of relative freedom and prosperity, thanks to the struggles of those who came before us.
Do you agree with Marx’s prognosis that capitalism will eventually destroy itself? Do you think that an alternative way of life and system of economics can take hold before such an implosion occurs, with potentially chaotic consequences? What should ordinary people concerned with the survival of their family, and that of the world, do?
Marx studied an abstract system that has some of the central features of really-existing capitalism, but not others, including the crucial state role in development and in sustaining predatory institutions.
Like much of the financial sector, which in the US depends for most of its profits on the implicit government insurance program, according to a recent IMF study — over $80 billion, a year according to the business press.
Large-scale state intervention has been a leading feature of the developed societies from England to the US to Europe and to Japan and its former colonies, up to the present moment. The technology that we are now using, to take one example. Many mechanisms have been developed that might preserve existing forms of state capitalism.
The existing system may well destroy itself for different reasons, which Marx also discussed. We are now heading, eyes open, towards an environmental catastrophe that might end the human experiment just as it is wiping out species at a rate not seen since 65 million years ago when a huge asteroid hit the earth — and now we are the asteroid.
There is more than enough for “ordinary people” (and we’re all ordinary people) to do to fend off disasters that are not remote and to construct a far more free and just society.
The new issue of Jacobin, centering on development and the Global South, is out now. To celebrate its release, new subscriptions start at only $14.95.
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Are the US and China Bound to Clash over Natural Resources in Space?
January 28th, 2016 - by admin
Alex Calvo / The Australian Strategic Policy Institute – 2016-01-28 23:48:55
(January 25, 2016) — The end of 2015 witnessed three seemingly unrelated developments: the establishment of a space hotline between Washington and Beijing, the US Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (Space Act), and the positive decision on jurisdiction by the arbitration court in Manila’s suit against Beijing concerning the South China Sea.
The hotline seeks to minimize incidents arising from satellite operations and ASAT tests, while the legislation could pave the way to private exploration and exploitation of natural resources, including asteroid mining.
The court decision, however, means that China’s claims and activities in the South China Sea will come under the scrutiny of an international judiciary. The question is whether the current confrontation between China and the US concerning the legal status of the South China Sea is a harbinger of things to come in the space commons.
Two contradictory aspects of space have significant bearing on this question. Space has long been seen in military terms — the ultimate ‘high ground’ from which to master other battlefields. But space law has derived to a great extent from the law of the sea, including the key principle that the high seas (waters beyond 12 nautical miles from a country’s shores) can’t be appropriated by any nation, being open to navigation by ships of any flag.
Thus, the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST) reads that ‘Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means’.
The passage has prompted much controversy, since it’s unclear whether it restricts or even bans the exploitation of natural resources from the Moon, asteroids, and other celestial bodies, given that the treaty also says space ‘shall be free for exploration and use by all States’.
At one extreme, some observers believe that the ban on territorial claims also means a prohibition on economic activities, which would require a further treaty, probably providing for some sort of international authorisation (with the International Seabed Authority often cited as a template).
At the other end, some voices see the ban as concerning only national territorial claims, not economic activities by private enterprises. You could draw an analogy with fishing in the high seas: open to private companies from different countries, yet not amounting to the appropriation of those waters.
However, fishing doesn’t require the permanent or at least long-term control over a given physical space. A trawler simply goes through international waters, which remain open to navigation by other trawlers or ships.
Of course there’s the issue of overexploitation, and the well-known concept of ‘tragedy of the commons’, but unless fishing boats are used in non-lethal asymmetric warfare, overexploitation needn’t lead to a territorial conflict.
However, to mine an asteroid, you have to occupy it, thus excluding other companies. Given that US legislation lays down that asteroid exploitation must comply with ‘the international obligations of the United States’ and thus the OST and absent any provisions for international agreements or royalty-sharing, the only logical conclusion seems to be that the US Congress envisions the allocation of space resources as grounded on a ‘first-come first-served’ basis. That is, whoever makes it to an asteroid can mine it, and if the actor is under American jurisdiction, its activities will be regulated by US Law.
There are some problems with this approach.
First of all, less technologically advanced countries may not welcome the idea of. [sic] Despite impressive advances in its space program, China may well consider that it’s unlikely to make it first to the most attractive corners of the solar system, in which case Beijing would oppose US legislation.
On the other hand, the PRC may feel optimistic and conclude that there’s enough time to catch up, thus taking a more nuanced view. That could be one of the reasons for China’s silence to date.
Second, it may not always be clear what operating in an asteroid or an area of the moon actually means. When exactly is a company entitled to exclude others? Is it necessary to actually start production? Does it suffice to reach it first and somehow mark it?
To make matters more complex, in the South China Sea effective occupation involves a human presence, which furthermore provides a tripwire, with states often ready to use non-lethal force while remaining prudent not to open fire on each other’s personnel.
However, space exploration is likely to be robotic to a large extent, and therefore the question arises whether the lack of a human presence may make violence more likely, since loss of life won’t be at stake.
It should perhaps not surprise us that Beijing is silent on those issues, given that China still hasn’t managed to master its near seas. However, it’s unlikely that, in the longer term, China will simply accept US legislation on natural resources in space.
Instead, we could see a move to negotiate an alternative set of regulations, perhaps under the much-touted banner of ‘new type of great power relations’ and incidents once there’s both an established US and Chinese presence in space.
The limited human role may make it easier for Beijing to engage in the kind of non-lethal warfare we’re seeing in the South China Sea, with the goal of preventing the normal operations of US corporations, forcing Washington to negotiate.
That may be facilitated by the OST’s ambiguous reference to ‘military’ forces and personnel and China’s reliance at sea on myriad quasi-state forces, from maritime militias to private fishing vessels, operating in a murky legal arena, a strategy that may well be deployed in space.
Alex Calvo is a guest professor at Nagoya University, Japan and focuses on security and defence policy, international law, and military history, in the Indian-Pacific Ocean Region.
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with Tuan Hai Ewe, Oil & Gas Advisor, INTSOK Malaysia
01.04.2010 / Energyboardroom
2009 was a year of global economic downturn. How did this impact the Malaysian economy, especially the oil & gas activities?
Even during the downturn prospects have been good. The only changes that we observed were some projects being slightly delayed. PETRONAS is committed to keeping the same level of spending. Malaysia works on a Production Sharing Contract system, which is why many companies have to remain active in order to fulfill their contract agreements. Gumusut as well as Kebabangan have been somewhat affected but it is not too significant. When the price of oil went down the prices of raw materials and services did not go down as fast, thus created challenges, but services providers have actually understood PETRONAS’ and PSCs constraints. The outlooks are good in Malaysia but the biggest challenge will be in terms of oil and gas reserves of the country, which is why PETRONAS has been internationalizing its activities.
What has hit Malaysia the most: the Asian financial crisis of 1997 or global financial crisis of 2009?
The 1997 crisis has had more impact on Malaysia. The country was actually quite prepared for the latest one. A good indicator is the prices in real estates. In 1997 prices went down really far and this time around many investors had been waiting for the prices to go down to pick up some good properties but this was not the case. It is also an indication that there are many people with cash in their pockets, so to speak!
Malaysia has developed several legislations, among them the National Development Policy. How has the economy changed through these policies and how was business affected?
There have been several policies in place, but they have not brought any major changes on the business scene. To a foreign eye it could look like only the name has changed. The idea is for the government to take away this policy once Bumiputera have reached thirty percent national equity, but based on the government statistics it hasn’t reached that level yet and therefore has been extended.
How does this legislation on the integration of Bumiputeras influence the operations of companies in the oil & gas industry?
I believe you are referring to the Bumiputera policy, which is linked to the New Economic Policy that was launched in the early seventies. Bumiputeras are the Malays and the other indigenous people in the country. This policy applies mostly to government contracts. Take the oil & gas industry as an example, a strategic industry for Malaysia and in which PETRONAS – a fully government owned company- is the owner and regulator in the upstream sector. Any company that wants to provide services/products to PETRONAS or the PSCs has as a condition to have majority Bumiputera equity. Most foreign companies have difficulties, initially, to understand this when they enter Malaysia with products that PETRONAS is interested in buying that they need to have a licence from PETRONAS to sell. Alternatively, a foreign company can appoint a Malaysian company, which is licenced by PETRONAS, as its agent. It is also one of my roles as INTSOK Advisor to advise and be a kind of a matchmaker between Norwegian companies and the thousand of Malaysian companies registered with PETRONAS. The other roles I play include evaluating these potential partners, select them and present them to the Norwegian companies. The final choice will be left to the Norwegian company to do, since business cannot be successful without sound human relationships and future partners need to be able to talk with one another.
What were the reasons behind the creation of INTSOK in Malaysia?
I have been heading the then Norwegian Trade Council in Malaysia (now known as Innovation Norway) since 1984. From the very beginning I have been working and supporting Norwegian companies in the oil & gas sector. Three years back, when INTSOK – which is an oil & gas partnership organization in Norway – realized that an important number of its members were established in Malaysia, it decided to classify the country as a “priority country”. Since I have been working a lot within the oil & gas industry and therefore have established a strong network within the sector and PETRONAS, INTSOK decided to appoint me its Oil & Gas Advisor for Malaysia, devoting some thirty percent of my time for them.
You have more knowledge than a Norwegian in the local market. As a Malaysian, how do you manage to advise them without falling within a cultural gap when advising Norwegian companies?
Cross-culture is always a challenge. My past twenty six years working for Innovation Norway, traveling to Norway at several times a year and having established working relationship with many Norwegian companies, have put me in a much better position to understand Norway and her people. Being a Malaysian, I am able to help them to understand Malaysian business culture and to advise them on what to do and whom to talk to. Norwegian companies are here to do business with Malaysians, and that is where my local knowledge becomes useful. Norwegians like to go straight to business, whereas Malaysians need to socialize, get to know their partners and build trust before going into business. Most of the time it is not the best technology that wins a contract, it is more than that. You can be the best but if you do not have the human elements it will not work. There is a need for mutual trust. It is therefore our task to help companies to become successfully when entering the Malaysian market.
Networking is extremely important in Malaysia, especially establishing relationships with PETRONAS. How did you create your bonds with PETRONAS?
I have been working in the oil & gas almost since the day I started my professional career. Along the way, I made friends with people in PETRONAS and do not talk about business with them all the time thus making relationships easier. Moreover, I have a different position since I am not a sales person and I have no specific product to sell. In my position and as INTSOK representative I am trying to introduce unique technologies from Norway that can make a difference for Malaysia. In that sense you can say I represent Norway’s commercial interests as a whole. Moreover having been working with PETRONAS for a while, having organized joint capacity building seminars and training sessions with them, we have established a trust relationship.
What is the main challenge faced by Norwegian companies when entering Malaysia?
There are many challenges. There are plenty of international companies present in Malaysia, and many of them offer similar technologies and therefore it is a competitive market. Of course if you have unique technologies, for example EMGS, the market is less crowded and the market entry is easier. But for most companies, it is very important to build network, know whom to talk to and how to sell to the people inside. Norwegians are too eager to sell their products and may not realize that business in Malaysia takes time. They also cannot be selling something from Norway, and will have to show they are serious by either having an agent in Malaysia to back them up, or having joint venture company. One needs to be patient, demonstrate that you are serious and committed to the country.
Your role as INTSOK is to inform Norwegian companies on the regulations and news impacting the industry in Malaysia. What are the new trends, the hot topics, in Malaysia today?
Deepwater is one of the most interesting areas. There has been the successful development of Kikeh, the next one is Gumusut, and there are six or seven projects in the pipeline. PETRONAS wants to build Malaysia as a deepwater hub. Deepwater is an area where the two countries can cooperate. Norway and Malaysia started their oil and gas industry at about the same time, but Norway has gone a bit further in the development of deepwater and can lead the way for Malaysia. Norway is a small country, with a small population, not threatening, which is comforting for Malaysians. The second area of development is CO2 management. If you look at the gas fields in Malaysia there are many with high CO2 content, up to 60 per cent, and it is an issue on how to develop these fields. INTSOK has organized a seminar on CO2 management during the official visit of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess to Malaysia. Looking at the CO2 content, it is much higher in Malaysia than in Norway, thus pose a bigger challenge. It is one of the areas for joint research and development for Malaysia and Norway, between the University Technology PETRONAS (UTP) and universities and institutions in Norway. As you may also know Norway is extremely strong in R&D, and spent about NOK3.3 billion last year in R&D. Norway is good not only at researching, but especially in bringing the research to the business world or commercialization, and that is where they can be useful to PETRONAS. It is also very important to know how to extract more oil from the existing fields, enhancing oil recovery etc. But this is not a unique challenge since every country is facing this at the moment. To sum up, I would say that deepwater, CO2 management and R&D are the three areas for potential collaboration between Malaysia and Norway.
How would you rate the attractiveness of Malaysia for Norwegian oil & gas companies in the region?
Malaysia is at the top of the list for South East Asia, even though Indonesia is getting attractive now that the authorities are getting their acts together in terms of regulations. If you look at the priority countries in INTSOK’s list, which is an indication of interest of its partners companies, Malaysia is definitely in a strong position.
There is indeed a need of Norwegian expertise in terms of deepwater. How can Norwegian companies help the development of this area in Malaysia?
Aker Solutions has state of the art facilities in Port Klang, where they invested $100 million. FMC Technologies has established operations in Johor, it is an American company but with deepwater and subsea center in Norway, is also very strong in Malaysia. There are also companies such as EMGS specialized in deep water but also looking at shallow waters. PETRONAS is interested in having Norwegian service providers establishing in Malaysia to support their move toward building the country as a service hub for the region.
On the other hand Norway is trying to develop its LNG sector with development of Snovit or Melkoya, and Malaysia is the second LNG exporter in the world, having the largest LNG plant in Bintulu. Where can Norway learn from Malaysia’s expertise?
Norway can definitely also learn from Malaysia. Companies providing technologies to Malaysia learn how to apply their technologies elsewhere, and use or adapt them under different conditions. Sharing experience is both ways, Malaysians learn from Norwegians and vice versa. It also involves exchanges in human resources, with training of Malaysians in Norway where both nationalities can learn and teach each other.
Do you think that in the future it would be possible to see Malaysian companies taking over and telling Norwegian companies they do not need them anymore?
I would see this as a positive development. In this industry, when it comes to technology, one always has to go forward and come up with new technology, not to stay still or else one would be left behind. It is indigenous to Malaysia to encourage joint ventures for the development of new technology, which is extremely positive.
Statoil has developed internationally, bringing with it its own services providers. Now that PETRONAS is developing its global strategy, do you believe there will be opportunities for Malaysian service providers to develop to piggy back on PETRONAS?
It has happened in the past, and will certainly happen again. It is not only Malaysian companies, but also Norwegian companies working in Malaysia. When PETRONAS works with a company in its home country and is satisfied its products and services, the company should find opportunity in the international markets where PETRONAS is operating. That is why we are telling companies that are starting operations in Malaysia that they should not view opportunity in just one country alone, Malaysia, but to see opportunity in the thirty plus countries where PETRONAS has operations.
Which companies do you believe will emerge as giants, becoming the equivalent of Aker or Roxar in Malaysia?
In this matter your guess is as good as mine! I read that a number of Malaysian companies were getting contracts internationally. SapuraCrest and Scomi have been successful internationally. Other companies to watch include UMW, Dialog and KNM.
What would be your pitch line to explain the complementarities between Norway and Malaysia and INTSOK’s role?
There are many SMEs from Norway which have come up with great innovative technologies, and Malaysian companies can benefit from cooperating with these companies. Norwegian companies can help in developing the industry and give it more value added. INTSOK is here to link them together and become a kind of match maker.
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Jonette was born in 1974 and lived most of her life in Christchurch until moving to Wellington in 2006. Art has always been an important outlet and passion for her. Some of her fondest memories as a child were sitting quietly outdoors sketching flowers.
"I have always loved how I can loose myself in my art. Perfectly isolated in a peaceful state, where time, hunger, worry or any other distraction has melted away to nothingness."
Over the years she mainly worked in pencil and pastel, but was often frustrated that her prefferred style of realism was discouraged by her teachers and the wider world. Despite her love of art, she did not pursue a career in art until she was 28. It was at this time she taught herself to paint. Not long after this she began regularly exhibiting and selling paintings through Article Gallery in Christchurch.
After moving to Wellington with her husband, Jonette exhibited and sold work at Van Helden Gallery in Eastborne for a short time. However, starting a family put her love of painting on the back burner for some years.
Jonette ran successful businesses over the years, but her passion for art could not be quelled. As her children grew she was soon back painting, determined to develop her style and become a professional artist.
"At that time my dining room was often a jumble of Lego, Playdough, flowers from the garden and a still life in progress. It was the perfect snapshot of my life."
Jonette studied different painting techniques, instructional videos and worked hard at improving her skill set. Fitting in around the family often meant working late at night, painting till dawn on a regular basis. During this time she began exhibiting and selling works through Bryce Gallery in Christchurch. She continued working in this fashion for five years until her youngest child started kindergarten. It was then that she could finally dedicate herself to her art.
"I am fascinated with vintage objects because of their history. To me they not only signify a connection with the past and the way things used to be, but they also represent endurance. I often place these things along side fruits and flowers which represent life and its fleeting beauty. Paring these objects together provides a contrast between the living and the forgotten, the fragility and celebration of life, and serve as a reminder of the importance of living in the moment."
Over the past year, things have been moving very fast in Jonette's career. She was chosen to participate in a group exhibition at Expressions Whirinaki Entertainment Center in Upper Hutt, where several of her works sold. She caught the attention of a reputable art dealer, and was soon offered representation by The Artists Room Fine Art Gallery in Dunedin. Since then she has participated in several group shows, and sold a large number of works, many on the day they are listed. Her first solo show in May was a huge success, with her next solo show booked in at the Artists Room in March 2019. Her work is fast becoming collectible, with works being sold and commissioned throughout New Zealand, and internationally.
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Korean media: the epidemic hits the tourism industry, causing losses of up to 14 trillion won
After the outbreak of the epidemic, not only did they fall into unemployment, but most people had difficulty obtaining government assistance because they had not signed a labor contract with the company.
According to the Korean media "Jingxiang Shimbun", due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in 2020, a South Korean travel agency's revenue fell 97% year-on-year, and its debt was more than 1 billion won (about 5.94 million yuan). At the end of last year, the third pandemic occurred in South Korea. The travel agency was overwhelmed and was forced to fire more than 20 employees. The person in charge of the travel agency said that since South Korea issued anti-epidemic measures that banned gatherings of five or more people, small travel agencies in some places have struggled. "I have been in the tourism industry for 20 years, but this is the first time I have encountered such a harsh business environment." He said.
According to a data from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of South Korea, affected by the epidemic, the overall revenue loss of South Korea's tourism industry in 2020 is expected to reach 14.1 trillion won (about 83.5 billion yuan). Among the practitioners, the tour guides responsible for receiving foreign tourists and translating bear the brunt. After the outbreak of the epidemic, not only did they fall into unemployment, but most people had difficulty obtaining government assistance because they had not signed a labor contract with the company.
In addition, various industries in South Korea’s cultural and art fields have suffered serious losses. The income from museums and art galleries has decreased by 110.3 billion won; the income of art performances and art exhibitions has decreased by 449.2 billion won; the cancellation of 570 popular music performances has resulted in a loss of 66.6 billion won; Cinema revenue fell nearly 80% year-on-year. It is worth noting that the sports industry has suffered more losses than the tourism industry. Last year, its revenue dropped by 29 trillion won. (*Article source: People's Daily Online)
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Hello and welcome. You are as welcome as the spring after a hard winter, and the summer of your smile brightens all who behold it.
Welcome to an episode in the Life of six students as they went from London to India by road in the sixties;- Excitedly they packed their rations, gear and bits and pieces they felt they needed. They had to conserve as much space as possible in the two long wheel based diesel land rovers.
Specially adapted for the tropics and desert. The second roof to allow air through, diesel tanks range of 1,000 miles by tanks inside and acted as seats and bunks.
The route was roughly as below:-
Slight variations, went via Dover to Ostend, Germany, Kashmir and Srinigar and some other variations.
Approximately 8,550 miles, and three months to get there and rest with site seeing, 9 months in India and diversion to Greece on way home.
They arrived at Dover and went by Ferry to Ostend in Belgium, thus leaving England and venture the first step in Europe. Then onto the countries where the Cyrillic alphabet starts.
alphabetic writing system. It is based on the Early Cyrillic, which was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School.[1][2] It is the basis ofalphabets used in various languages, past and present, in The Cyrillic script /sɨˈrɪlɪk/ or azbuka is an parts of the Balkans and Northern Eurasia, especially those ofSlavic origin, and non-Slavic languages influenced by Russian. As of 2011 around 252 million people in Eurasia use it as the official alphabet for their national languages. About half of them are in Russia.[3] Cyrillic is one of the most used writing systems in the world.
Cyrillic is derived from the Greek uncial script, augmented by ligatures and consonants from the older Glagolitic alphabetand Old Church Slavonic for sounds not found in Greek. It is named in honor of the two Byzantine Greek brothers, Saints Cyril and Methodius, who created the Glagolitic alphabet earlier on. Modern scholars believe that Cyrillic was developed and formalized by early disciples of Cyril and Methodius.
With the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union on 1 January 2007, Cyrillic became the third official script of theEuropean Union, following the Latin and Greek scripts.
The group had to use a note book with the signs for their roads and towns. Their adventures were many and here the story confines itself to their purpose and spiritual quest.
There were six students three female and three male some were students of science, some of philosophy and some adventurers to discover culture and Life abroad, all were meditaters.
The sleeping arrangements that four slept in one vehicle and two in the other. The one with the two occupants had more gear in it. Three inside the vehicle two on the tanks /seats and the third on the floor and the fourth across a special adapted board in the front by driver and passenger and acted in day as a table.
Two large oil drums scoured and cleaned were filled with water and as vehicle bounced on the the rough roads, the washing got cleaned, and dropped the humidity and heat in the vehicles.
At night or at rest in the heat of day the two vehicles backed up and a canvas sheet was attached to the topical roof of one and the other of about fifteen feet long and the width of the landrover, then two canvas side awnings were attached by loops to the long one, so making a flat roofed oblong tent. Climate and ground permitting these were sleeping quarters with sleeping bags and ground sheets.
The experiences of the architecture, mosques, ruins and so forth are numerous and can be found by other over landers. Although the students took these in they were mainly interested in ' feeling the vibes' so to speak and although not guru followers were interested in Yogi's, Fakirs, Swami's and other kinds of anomaly.
The quietness of the desert, as the salt desert contracted as it got colder, like eerie footsteps, then solitude just the whispering of some of the people, gentle breathing of sleep, and one awake lying on the roof looking up at the stars, which seem to come out and feeling like being hoovered up into the Cosmos and lost for ever in Eternity. Feeling of being overwhelmed, insignificant and then surrendering to the infinity and the rapturous joy of losing oneself in the awesome magnificence. Words, thoughts and feelings gave way to a rapture that is beyond description and yet on returning to tent or front sleep position, vehicle bed, it was difficult to sleep and all who experienced this felt this alone was worth the journey so far, and there were many more nights to follow.
Desert at night
The group were very quiet the days that followed these nights, as if humbled by the experience, as the town westernised young people were endeavouring to come to terms with the all and all of it.
Amazing, beautiful, powerful and humbling.
One night nearing the border there were the sound of horsemen. Eight riders were present a fierce looking man pushed aside the canvas and asked why were they there. One of the group answered and said they were students and wanted to learn about other cultures and values. All the men were armed with rifles and swords.
The head man looked through the belongings and asked if there were guns, drugs or nasty things, he found none and they were invited to search and offered food. They declined. Our ladies had covered their heads, wore wedding rings and looked plain with no make up, the head man smelt the men, he grunted and they galloped off. Later we heard they were Pushtun's. A tribe that had come into Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Pashtun people (Pashto: پښتانه Pax̌tānə; also spelled Pushtun, Pakhtun or Pukhtun), also known as ethnic Afghansor Pathans[13][14] are an Iranian ethnic group belonging to Afghanistan and Pakistan.[15][16][17] They are typically characterised by the usage of the Eastern Iranian Pashto language and practice of Pashtunwali, which is a traditional set of ethics guiding individual and communal conduct. Their origins are unclear but historians have come across references to various ancient peoples called Pakthas (Pactyans) between the 2nd and the 1st millennium BC,[18][19] inhabiting the region between the Hindu Kush and Indus River, who may be the early ancestors of the Pashtun people. Since the 3rd century AD onward, they have been referred to by the ethnonym "Afghan".[20][21][22][23]
Often characterised as a warrior and martial race, their history is sSouth, Central andWestern Asia, centred around their traditional seat of power in medieval Afghanistan. During the Delhi Sultanate era, the Pashtun Lodi dynasty replaced the Turkic rulers in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. Other Pashtuns fought the Safavids and the Mughals before obtaining an independent state in the early-18th century,[24] which began with a successful revolution by Mir Wais Hotak followed by conquests of Ahmad Shah Durrani.[25] Pashtuns played a vital role during the Great Game from the 19th century to the 20th century as they were caught between the imperialist designs of the British and Russian empires
Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and reigned as the dominant ethno-linguistic group for about 300 years, with nearly all rulers being Pashtun. The mujahideen who fought against the pro-Soviet Afghan government in the 1980s were also dominated by Pashtun fighters. Abdul Ahad Mohmand became the first Afghan and 4th Muslim to journey into outer space, spending nine days aboard Mir space station in 1988. Zalmay Khalizad became the first Muslim and first Afghan to become Ambassador of the United States. Many famous Bollywood superstars in India are of Pashtun descent. Some became high-ranking officials working for the World Bank, the United Nations and other international organizations.
They made up the majority of the Taliban and the current Afghan government. They are also an important community in Pakistan, which has the largest Pashtun population and constitute the second-largest ethnic group, having attainedpresidency there and high rankings in sports. They are the world's largest (patriarchal) segmentary lineage ethnic group. According to Ethnologue, the total population of the group is estimated to be around 50 million[1] but an accurate count remains elusive due to the lack of an official census in Afghanistan since 1979. Estimates of the number of Pashtun tribes and clans range from about 350 to over 400.[24][26
ntroduction and history: The holy town of Rishikesh is located in Uttarakhand in India. It is located where the Ganges River comes down from the Himalayas. The town is still known as the World Capital of Yoga. It is believed that meditation in Rishikesh brings one closer to attainment of moksha, as does a dip in the holy river that flows through it. Rishikesh is also the Gateway to the Himalayas, where the sacred journey begins from here. According to Hindu mythology, Rishikesh is the abode of Shiva, where it is also believed that Lord Rama did penance here for killing Ravana, the demon king of Lanka. In the recent past the town is also becoming a popular spot for white water rafting enthusiasts, both from India and abroad, as it offers medium to rough rapids in the course of river Ganges.
Pashtun men
Now Taliban
At the frontier they were told there could be a three day wait and hold up there as there was a queue of traffic some miles long.
Then from the hills the men who came to the landrover and searched went to the border guard and they looked at the students. The students were a little concerned to say the least, the guards and tribesman came to the vehicles and they were taken to the front, checked and passed. In India they asked why this was so? The guard explained this was a local war Lord, he said you were clean, respectful and had not weapons, drugs and even plastic knives.
Into Kashmir and Srinigar, the magic and actual feel of spirituality. The on the list was a visit to a place named Rishikesh. introduction and history: The holy town of Rishikesh is located in Uttarakhand in India. It is located where the Ganges River comes down from the Himalayas. The town is still known as the World Capital of Yoga. It is believed that meditation in Rishikesh brings one closer to attainment of moksha, as does a dip in the holy river that flows through it. Rishikesh is also the Gateway to the Himalayas, where the sacred journey begins from here. According to Hindu mythology, Rishikesh is the abode of Shiva, where it is also believed that Lord Rama did penance here for killing Ravana, the demon king of Lanka. In the recent past the town is also becoming a popular spot for white water rafting enthusiasts, both from India and abroad, as it offers medium to rough rapids in the course of river Ganges.
When the students were there it was not built up and they entered by way of an old bridge on foot. This bridge was a little off of the main river and old man came out of sewer pipe. He knew the students by name and they were dumbfounded and he told them of the Christian Yogi. He apparently ate once a month and did a miracle for those invited to his cave.
They were invited to his cave. He had a large bible on a sort of wooden cross, when the cave got really, really dark, the cave began to glow like a soft mellow background light, it then got brighter, and brighter there were no hidden lights, and were invited to examine for them. The Yogi said now take photographs, and all flash lights were removed. The photos never came out, and he explained they would not as this was the light of Christ. (the scribe has heard and read of this in other works). The students got their first glimpses of the mystics with the old sewer man and the Christian Yogi and of course the war Lord at the Frontier. They also told of the amazing synchronises that had accompanied them so far.
They recounted two incidents in which they towed some Australians who had an air cooled Volkswagen vehicle and could not move for overheating and rarefied air in a high mountain pass, a man who sold burgers and had worked in Soho in London at this high place, and a landrover repair when the students had their first experience of bargaining.
They visited Kashmir, Srinigar, then Delhi, a brief Nepal excursion, down to Calcutta and Poona, spent a little while trying to see Sri Rajneesh.
Sri Rajneesh. The 'sniffers' would no let them in. Apparently he was allergic to perfume, after shave or deodorants so they say.
The down to the South and Auroville.
Designed on a spiral galaxy
Auroville.
The students were lost for words and stayed a week.
Then onto to see the Red Hill and Ramana Maharishi's ashram, he had passed on before they arrived. They were lost for words at the beauty and the serenity and the sheer absolute meditative quality of this place.
Arununachala , The Red Hill and the Ashram. A simple affair then. The students thought the Red Hill was like a small mountain.
Sometimes to make a break the students stayed at a DAK bungalow.
DAK BUNGALOW
A kind of rest house for travellers. This one was simple and basic and a old man was the guardian, caretaker and like many Indian accents very hard to understand for Westerners and vice versa.
In this particular one they had charpoy's
Charpoy Bed
This particular DAK had a six post arrangement with the legs all in tins filled with oil to keep the nasties away and a mosquito net over the bed. All eight beds were in one kind of dormitory. One of the beds was on a slant and the Australian student wanted to make it in line with the rest. The old man gesticulated wildly obviously not wanting him to do it. However this young man said he had lived in the Aussie Bush and he could handle it. Candles out all went to sleep. About three hours in the Aussie woke up the guy next to him saying he was in trouble, a huge train of red ants were walking across his chest. He was advised to be as still as possible. In the morning his midriff and chest were red raw from bites and thousands of feet walking across him. The old man knew this and tried to warn him, so local knowledge is to be listened too.
A second incident of mirth. Whilst in the north they decided to go to Dharamsala.
Dalai Lama. His Holiness lives here.
Whilst there the students stayed a week and a half. At that time a famous film star was there. One of the students and the star became pals and they played jokes on each other. One day the student mentioned went to the bush to the toilet and a cobra reared up, he had put a blanket on the bush so that anything would hopefully go round the blanket. A Lama laughed at the distraught chap and said it was breeding and just a warning and the student had been doing his ablutions there for a few days.
Eventually the Dalai Lama came out and apologised for keeping everybody waiting. It seemed that to relax the Dalai Lama was roller skating round an old film on a screen and it sounded like Clint Eastwood and Dirty Harry, the famous star who knew the Dalai Lama said that this student could do a wonderful impression of the actor in the film. The student was forced to do this impression by the Hollywood Star and every one had a good laugh before everyone listened to his highness and he answered questions.
The next part of the journey was go right down South and see one of the wonders of the world.
The Sun Rise and Set In Kerala.
Sunset in Kerala
The students said that the part of the beach where they were shown was very much like the sunset one. As the sun rose it was like stage lights going along the horizon, it seemed to feel as if it were in their abdomens, then as it rose it was red and gold, then the fiery sun, and it felt as though it was moving through their souls, their very being. It felt as currents of energy were lifting them to the heavens.
Later on after bathing and resting they watched the sun gradually fade into the sea as if someone had pulled it down, and the footlights came on and when the sun finally bedded down out of sight, a strange deep silence fell over them, they say this experience never left them, they felt born and reincarnated in their bodies as someone else not recognising themselves for days. It is said the rise and fall of the sun in Kerala is one of the wonders of the world.
The students had also visited Swami Satyananda (The Bihar School of Yoga is an internationally acclaimed school of Yoga founded by Swami Satyananda Saraswati in 1964 to fulfill the instruction given by his Guru, Sri Swami Sivananda of propagating the ancient wisdom of yoga from door to door and from shore to shore. Situated on the banks of the Ganges, the campus of Bihar School of Yoga is known as Ganga Darshan, located at the top of hillock in the town of Munger in the Indian state of Bihar. Bihar School of Yoga imparts traditional yoga teachings to householders and sannyasins alike from across the globe.)
Also the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Ashram in Rishikesh, a Welsh Priest who had an Ashram on the East Coast, then Swami Sadchidananda (satchidananda Saraswati (December 22, 1914 – August 19, 2002), born as C. K. Ramaswamy Gounder, was an Indian religious teacher, spiritual master and yoga adept, who gained fame and following in the West during his time in New York. He was the author of many philosophical and spiritual books, including a popular illustrative book on Hatha Yoga. He is widely known in India as the spiritual guru of the Indian cinema superstar Rajinikanth. He also founded the international school Satchidananda Jothi Niketan located in )
There were a few others, during this time they were appalled at the poverty, also the hospitality of the village people.
An humorous aspect was some village folk had not seen white folk, so the men peered curiously at the men when ablutions were going on as the women to the women, when they found their appendages were the same all was well. It was innocent like children examining themselves and curious about the opposite sex.
They were amused by the Fakirs and their 'magic' and the noise and monkeys, barking dogs in places drove them nuts at times.
Swami Satchidananda.
A point that they all shared, that the driving of the Landrovers was hard, there was no synchromesh from first to second gear and no power steering, they had arms and torso's to be envied and tiring at first.
The journey continues to Bombay( now Mumbai) and to Satya Sai Baba's Ashram, where they met him and one had a slight altercation with him.
Then they drove up to Hyderabad where they followed a route across a Baluchistan desert back Pakistan and Afghanistan and then to Iran.
Hyderabad to Quetta and into Afghanistan.
At Quetta they went partially into Afghanistan and then South to Iran. Iran through to Turkey and then to Greece where they had a short holiday and site seeing, then back to England, via ship to Spain, from Spain through to France and then back to Dover.The Baluchistan Desert (The landscape of Balochistan is composed of barren, rugged mountains and fertile, but dry land. Most of the land is barren, particularly on the Iranian and Afghan side of the region, and it is generally sparsely populated. In the south (Makran) lies the desert.
Agriculture in this region is based on horticulture supported mostly by rain water. Cultivation is often located on alluvial fans, along river-courses, and in fertile areas which are maintained through artificial irrigation systems such as qanats (holes sunk in the ground to trap water) and gabarbands (low stone and earth mounds creating raised beds which become saturated by rainfall and water run-off from the surrounding hills). In the southern Makran and oasis region (south of the Chagai Hills) date palms are cultivated. Orange orchards are also typical in southern Balochistan, particularly in Jhalawan and Sara)
The students tell of crossing the Desert, they say there were only rough tracks and very sandy filled roads at best, they said as they entered the desert outside Hyderabad, there was a wooden sign post, like a hand, and they were advised to line up their compass's with it, then go to the rovers and take a reading and the the mid point reading was the direction. They were told there was a diesel station midway, and it was set there by the Nairn Brothers, who were originally from New Zealand and set up the Damascus to Baghdad bus / caravan route. Anyway they found the station more like a dump, and were not sure if the Nairn's put it there or not. Small snakes, the bootlace snake, it looks like a bootlace made of leather and can camouflage itself, many a soldier in India in the occupation went to pick the bootlace up from the parade ground and got bitten they are very venomous. The students had them thrown up by the wheels on a part of the desert near Hyderabad.
(There's an old maxim that says, if you want to succeed in business find a need and fill it. And that, in a nutshell, is the story of Gerald and Norman Nairn, the men who pioneered the famous bus route across the Syrian Desert - the Nairn Way.)
There was a rumour that they were to set up another route which maybe they explored and left the dump, whereby others supplied the fuel. This is but a synopsis of their journey, adventures and experiences.
In conclusion the students have only now given the scribe permission to share part of their adventures. Their lives changed dramatically, some married, others parted, some have died by now, they feel in common that they were reborn, found themselves relatively speaking, and have disappeared into the mass of humanity. None of them have written their stories until the scribe took their notes which were sent to him by the remaining students and was told that he could recount their stories.
The honour fell to the scribe and this scribe is yours truly. Geoff
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Civil services day: Administrating administration
There is a need to provide freedom to our officers to exercise their role and responsibilities effectively
Pankil Goswami | April 21, 2017
#Bureaucrats #IAS #Civil Services Day #Governance
Civil services day observed on April 21 every year is according to the government “an occasion for the civil servants to rededicate themselves to the cause of citizens and renew their commitment to public service and excellence in work”.
On this particular day in 1947, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, expressing his thoughts to the first batch of civil servants, pressed on the privilege that these new civil servants will not be working and taking instructions of “foreign masters” and that they will now have the satisfaction of taking orders from and working for “fellow Indians”.
After almost seven decades, the narrative has changed. Indians have enjoyed excessive freedom to the extent that in many cases dissent seems to be an act of mere imitation undertaken to achieve vested interests of a particular group, community or political party. There are no more foreign masters but there are politicians who have the ability to act as foreign masters to accomplish their agendas. In the middle of all the chaos, governance is lost in the lieu of projection and electoral results and civil servants seem to be the last species left on which the most important responsibility of running the nation lies.
Contesting for an elite status
Young Indians stress too much on becoming something rather than doing something. Is becoming a civil servant also part of this romantic notion of the middle class families?? According to a rough estimate, on an average from all the applications received, only 0.1% to 0.3% of the population make it to this prestigious position. This speaks volumes about the ability of the selected individuals. But the intention to become a civil servant should only be influenced by the passion to make a change and take up the responsibility which is often ignored by armchair intellectuals. In fact, this serves as only one of the reasons for pursuing a career in the public services. We have gone through one of the detrimental transitions of being an inward looking society to an outward looking one. Civil services promises a lucrative position in the government, power, prestige and respect which comes from the clearing the sought after exam and acquiring a prestigious position. Most importantly, it provides a sense of security to an individual, an integral aspect of this collective dream nurtured by a cautious society. But in the desire of achieving this, individuals, forget that “with great power comes great responsibility”.
Traditional remedy for an emerging crisis
The notion of governance has changed drastically since independence where previously, the focus was on the building institutions that foster high values of integrity and accountability. The literacy rate in India has increased from 18.33% in 1951 to 74.04% in 2011. Thus, there is an opportunity to serve citizens who are not only literate but also more vigilant and aware of their entitlements. The challenge is no longer seen only in terms of alleviating poverty and providing world class public services but to also to seek solutions to specific new age problems like rapid urbanisation and climate change. Are we training our civil servants to cope up with present day crisis? Or we do follow the age old adage of “Jack of all Trades” for all our civil servants. Little wonder then that many of our bureaucrats feel smug owing to this tag of being “panacea provider that ails society”! It is time that the administration as a whole entity realizes that bureaucrats at high levels of governance need to have the required specialisation based on their educational background and past experience. This can be one of the more concrete ways not only to acknowledge the need of going into detail to provide answers to critical problems but also to execute timely solutions. Until this happens, the dependability of the administration on external agents for problem solving will only grow by leaps and bounds in near future.
Question of morality
An important question that has always lingered around administration class is morality of the civil servants. When we as a system place so much of faith on one individual, there are ample opportunities to use the same power to fill up pockets. The case of Arvind and Tinoo Joshi of the 1979 batch of Madhya Pradesh cadre proves efficiently how certain bureaucrats have the uncanny ability to acquire disproportionate wealth. Most corruption cases or scams done under the purview of bureaucrats are a consequence of how their bosses (politicians) have often spread the plague of self interest in the system. The problem here is that the idea of self-interest is perceived totally differently from the welfare of the society. The system functions in such a way that any wise officer is bound to face severe pressure to lower her/his standards of integrity and adjust and/accommodate for the sake of surviving within the system. Often, these civil servants are let down by their own colleagues who have made a name for themselves in the corridors of power for being numb to all the wrong doings. On the other hand, there have been brave officers like Narendra Kumar, an IPS officer of the 2009 batch who was serving as sub divisional officer at Banmore, set an example of his dedication by giving up his life fighting against sand mafias in Madhya Pradesh. The need of the hour is to embed the services with assertive individuals who remain steadfastly committed to the cause of public welfare. Even now, there are such committed and corruption-free bureaucrats who are precise and clear on their agenda of development and have no room for vanity.
Anticipated struggle to hold ground
To accomplish a task right from the ideation to implementation, a civil servant needs to spend considerable time on that project or within that department. However, this is not possible in most cases because of political interference which tends to remind any good administrator that the power of democratically elected offices surpasses every achievement of their own! We need a regulatory mechanism that could help our bureaucrats function effectively and perform their duty judiciously. The Maharashtra Government Servants Regulation of Transfers and Prevention of Delay in discharge of official Duty Act, 2005 is a step in a positive direction. The act states that all India service officers and all Groups A, B and C state government servants or employees, their normal tenure in a post shall be three years. Further, it says that no government servant shall ordinarily be transferred unless s/he has completed their posting tenure of three years.
Finally, the importance and contribution of the civil servants in developing the nation is unparalleled. This contribution can only be well acknowledged when we allow them to exercise their role and responsibilities effectively. We need to step back and introspect on how efficiently we have been able to make systematic changes based on the 2004 P C Hota’s Committee report on civil services reform. We have managed to create a judicial system whose integrity is unquestionable and its contribution is given in the form of justice for the society. Can we allow the civil servants to function freely where they face fewer obstacles and deliver what is expected out them? This can be only done when individuals in the system are committed to development which works on ground and not on self-serving corrupt notions.
Pankil Goswami is a programme officer with Public Affairs Centre-a not for profit think committed to good governance.
#Bureaucrats
#IAS
#Civil Services Day
#Governance
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Breast Cancer | Technologies for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer |
Dilemma of “Earlier” detection
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The efforts to develop technologies capable of pushing back the detection timeline to a stage that is even earlier than what is currently possible could provide new opportunities for early intervention, but such opportunities could also increase the difficulties associated with “overdiagnosis.” The underlying assumption in promoting early detection held by many investigators, most physicians, and almost all members of the lay population is that early detection provides an opportunity to reverse the malignancy process more effectively and perhaps with less toxicity than if the condition were identified later.
The notion that earlier detection is better requires the following three assumptions: (1) that development of carcinoma of the breast proceeds through a relatively orderly series of steps (Figure 1-6); (2) that this process includes an irreversible checkpoint (which may vary for different patients) and that once an individual is past this checkpoint the process steadily progresses so that only some sort of external intervention can prevent the ultimate inevitability of morbidity and mortality; and (3) that detection of this process before establishment of metastatic deposits will permit external intervention to prevent disease-specific morbidity and mortality more efficiently than after metastases are established. These points of detection are illustrated as A, B, C, and D, respectively by the vertical lines on Figure 1-6.
The fundamental support for these assumptions comes from the randomized clinical trials described earlier in this section, which showed that mammography screening of asymptomatic women results in early treatment of breast cancers that are detected and reduces disease-specific mortality by approximately 20 to 30 percent compared with that for women who have not been screened. Why is the decrease in mortality not greater? There are several possible answers to this question. Simply put, screening mammography is insufficiently sensitive in two ways: (1) it does not detect all cancers at point B, and (2) it does not detect any cancers at point C.
One might argue that improvements in imaging technologies might allow clinicians to increase the number of tumors detected at point B or even move detection to point C. However, a second reason that reductions in breast cancer mortality rates due to screening mammography are limited might be embedded in the biology of the cancer itself. Some cancers may metastasize at a time well before point B on the breast cancer continuum, whereas others may do so much later. Thus, the question of whether detection is early enough to allow effective intervention may vary from one woman to the next.
The assumptions presented above raise several considerations. A distinction should be made between screening for an asymptomatic but precise condition that is considered undesirable and establishing that the individual is at risk for such a condition but does not yet and may never have it. Indeed, taken to its extreme, this distinction is blurred and perhaps even abolished in the definition of “disease.” For example, most patients and physicians would consider a histological diagnosis of breast cancer, even when it is totally in situ, a “disease.” However, a more precise definition of disease is “a condition that causes morbidity and mortality.” In this sense, breast cancer is only a disease when one of these two conditions exists. Morbidity and mortality occur almost exclusively in the setting of clinically detectable metastases.
FIGURE 1-6 Hypothetical illustration of breast cancer initiation and progression.
Although most patients and physicians would consider a histological diagnosis of breast cancer, even when it is totally in situ, a “disease,” a more precise definition of disease is “a condition that causes morbidity and mortality.” In this sense, breast cancer is only a disease when one of these two conditions exists. Morbidity and mortality occur almost exclusively in the setting of clinically detectable metastases. Thus, all other stages of breast abnormalities are shown here as having variable levels of risk for the development of morbidity and mortality (i.e., disease). For more detail, refer to the section Dilemma of “Earlier” Detection in the text.
Before the increased awareness of breast cancer and adoption of screening mammography, almost all patients who presented with breast cancer did so because the condition was at a stage at which it was truly a disease: it caused symptoms or even death. However, in more modern times, most patients are diagnosed with asymptomatic breast cancer. In this setting, almost all treatment for breast cancer (surgical removal of the primary tumor, local-regional radiation to sterilize the area, and adjuvant systemic therapy) could be considered prophylactic or preventive. Such treatments are applied to reduce the chances that the patient will develop morbidity or mortality (or “disease”). A substantial body of literature describing the results of randomized clinical trials demonstrates that each of these strategies does, in fact, reduce to some extent the individual’s chances of developing morbidity or mortality from breast cancer.
Why are these distinctions important? No single condition, other than actually having symptomatic disease, carries a 100 percent chance (or risk) of developing what is designated, in this discussion, disease. However, as one moves from left to right on the theoretical breast cancer continuum illustrated in Figure 1-6, an individual’s chances of ultimately developing morbidity and mortality increase. Estimating this risk is quite difficult because, at least in the last century, few patients were left untreated once they had a diagnosis of “breast cancer,” and therefore, it is impossible to determine what percentage of patients, if any, might never have progressed to experience morbidity or mortality from breast cancer if they were left untreated.
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For The Love of Marketing Prose
4 years ago • By kraabel • 3 Comments
I believe in the power of the written word to inspire an audience and to lead them on a visceral journey of self-discovery. I am writer, but I still make mistakes, leave drafts riddled with typos, drop letters from words, invent new words, and militaristically support the oxford comma. But I always try to get the story correct. Or at least somewhat clear.
I love writing corporate manifestos and scripts for brand anthem films. I’ve written a lot of them over the years. They’re big and powerful. They’re designed to inspire and unite teams and leave a lasting emotional impression. They help put companies in perspective for both the employees and their customers. An artfully crafted “about page” on a website can be the difference between global domination and bankruptcy (maybe, probably … probably not).
But sometimes, every so often, you run across one of these anthems or corporate overviews that go beyond their basic duty and simply become – all capital letters – ART.
Here is such a story…
“Flextronics or: How I Learned to Stop Writing Corporate Nonsense and Love the Power of Clarity in Words.”
A few years ago, I was driving around the bay area visiting several of our client’s customers as part of a brand transformation project. I was in the back seat as we passed by a series of newly constructed industrial park office buildings. As we turned a corner, I noticed one of the buildings had the google logo (in her bright and shiny technicolor glory). Most buildings in the Bay Area have a google logo these days, so it was more of a novelty. Next to her, however, was the building that caught my eye.
Flextronics, written in the most amazing 80’s video game typography, jumped off the building and into my curiosity. I asked my fellow passengers if they had also seen this amazing icon of human achievement? They had.
We laughed and assumed it was a CIA front, considering the proximity to Google. None of us had ever heard of such a made-up-company-name before, so we googled. What we found was nothing short of marketing amazement. The Gold Medal of writing. The Nobel Prize for corporate speak. The Medal of Honor for “saying nothing, while saying everything.”
As I read the “about page” word for word to my fellow passengers, each carefully crafted word rolled off my tongue as if it had been written for my voice, and my voice alone, to read. It was magical. I was truly inspired, but perhaps for the wrong reason. It was like a puzzle to solve. Who is Flextronics? Are they really a CIA front? Is this who John Galt is?
I enter it here, unedited, for your amazement, enjoyment, and investigation. It is long, but you may thank me for introducing you to one of the most perfect corporate “about page” the world has ever constructed. One that that does everything, yet says nothing.
At Flextronics, impossible is where breakthrough begins. As a socially-responsible, global leader in design, manufacturing, distribution and aftermarket services, Flextronics is unique in its ability to provide end-to-end solutions through its innovative and proprietary systems — all to enhance customer competitiveness and success. Working across four business groups and several business units, Flextronics is able to unleash the full potential of the world’s most valuable brands and new ventures.
What Flextronics creates is value. By increasing speed to market and driving competitive positioning for customers, Flextronics in essence solves customers’ most challenging problems better, faster and more cost effectively than any other company. Flextronics is able to manage big data in a way that allows for trending in market environments that are in flux, allowing the Company to provide solutions for customers, often before a challenge is ever realized.
Flextronics is unique in the depth, breadth and scope of the Company. With an unmatched global presence, customers are supported with unprecedented speed in product ramp-up, delivery, and the ability to manage volume regardless of complexity or product mix. Leveraging state-of-the-art LEAN practices, Six Sigma, key investments in infrastructure and FlexQ, a propriety quality program that is beyond leading edge according to customers, Flextronics is the market leader in almost every business in which it operates. Whether high mix/low volume or low mix/high volume, Flextronics can enable any customer’s success.
At Flextronics, there is no room for “mediocrity.” If anything, the Company exists to continually test the bounds of what can be expected in terms of designs and processes. Optimization is what Flextronics does best.
People make the difference. People with passion have an even greater impact. The Flextronics team spans more than 30 countries and four continents, and has a global workforce of 200,000. Each member of the team is dedicated to enabling customer success. That is achieved through intense collaboration, passionate customer focus, thoughtful and disciplined execution, a tenacious commitment to continuous improvement and a relentless drive to win.
Culture is the most important sustainable, competitive advantage of any company. The Flextronics culture is built on commitment — to customers, employees, the communities in which it operates and the environment. Flextronics is a global leader in non-profit/for-profit partnership, providing assistance in the places around the world that need it most. The Flextronics Foundation provides assistance in the areas of natural disaster relief, human rights and educational opportunities. Culture drives every aspect of the Company’s success. The culture and business model work hand-in-hand to ensure simplicity, flexibility and above all — sustainability.
Do you know what they do? Nah, neither did I, but I felt so damn empowered that I continued to search for a good while longer to try and figure it out. I won’t say how long it took, but now I think I know what they do. I think.
What’s your best guess?
In the years since this discovery, I have often gone back to read the Flextronics about page. They’ve recently re-branded, so I have to find it on archive.org. It’s a reminder for me to “stop trying to be a writer” and just write. Write with clarity, precision, and with directness. Flextronics … you were my true first love of copywriting. We will always have San Jose.
Jacob George
Love this. Writing can inspire without information (I mean look at our President for Pete's sake).
kraabel
Thanks for the note, but I'm not entirely sure what this has to do with politics or the president? Perhaps you're taking a non-political post and making it political? As a young person in the industry, I would caution you about making sweeping statements or taking issues to places they were never intended to go.
Well I was in the car with Mike in that drive and I still don't know what they do. Mike, what do they do?
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
Dimitri A.C. Ly April 14, 2015 2 Comments on A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors served as my introduction to the franchise. I was just a boy at the time, too young to have appreciated the original, but I contend I watched the series in the ideal order. Though positioned as a direct sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) with Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) returning as a sort of dream veteran, the film clearly addresses a new, younger audience, reintroducing the myth in epic detail and dumbing the whole thing down as if to ensure my prepubescent mind could follow along.
I don’t mean this as a criticism. After all, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors works best as a mythical retelling of the original, taking the series’ fairy tale motif to its logical extreme. Consider the way returning scribe Wes Craven redefines his own creations to fit specific archetypes in the genre. No longer a vague embodiment of our subconscious dread, Freddy (Robert Englund) has turned into a full-blown storybook monster: “the bastard son of a hundred maniacs” feeding on the souls of innocent children. By the same token, Nancy has graduated from slasher heroine to old Jedi master, mentoring the next generation of valiant knights.
Her young charges, however, tap into a different fantasy: the adolescent conviction that grown-ups just don’t understand. Believed to be suffering from a group delusion, they’re gathered at Westin Hills Psychiatric Hospital and pumped full of sedatives, allowing Freddy to pick them off uninterrupted. At least the staff is well-intentioned, bringing in Nancy and her experimental new “therapy”. The same can’t be said of the kids’ parents, whom A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors depicts as either abusive or criminally negligent. That’s always bothered me, given these people committed murder to protect their children.
My real complaint, though, lies in the kids themselves. Each displays little personality beyond that one dream power and matching character flaw for Freddy to exploit: Kristen (Patricia Arquette) can bring others into her nightmares but lacks confidence on her own; Will (Ira Heiden) can turn into an all-powerful wizard but feels powerless in his wheelchair; Taryn (Jennifer Rubin) becomes a punk goddess but fears a drug relapse; Kincaid (Ken Sagoes) has super-strength but comes across as such a grating weenie I want to tear my ears off whenever he appears on screen… The list goes on and on, as A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors boasts one of the highest body counts in the series, treating the children as cannon fodder rather than human beings.
It’s all about the set pieces, you see. Drawing inspiration from the old Ray Harryhaussen fantasy adventures, director Chuck Russell fills the screen with stop motion oddities in surreal environments, like the giant Freddy snake slithering through a papier-mâché replica of the house on 1428 Elm or our villain’s calcified bones jousting with Nancy’s father (John Saxon) in a valley of blinking cars. On the one hand, these wondrous sights give A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors a richer feel, enhancing the overall myth to epic proportions. On the other, they’re not scary, which kind of defeats the purpose of a horror flick.
Consider Freddy’s slicker design here. In A Nightmare on Elm Street, Craven gave his monster an awkward, deranged aesthetic, with pants a few sizes too big and skin that’s constantly peeling off. In A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985), Jack Sholder went for a more sinister look, with blades protruding from the villain’s actual fingers and facial features still boiling from the inside. By comparison, the creature in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors feels downright cartoony, with his big round eyes and latex flesh. It doesn’t help that Russell keeps bathing him in light on account of all them fiery pits. God, there are a lot of fiery pits in this one!
You know, I remember liking this film a lot more as a kid. Mind you, I also recall fantasising about becoming a dream warrior myself, warding off nightmares with my awesome super-powers. From a grown-up perspective, I suspect that may have been the point. For all of its juvenile excesses, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors stays true to the series’ central theme of empowerment. So what if it skews younger? Freddy hadn’t yet devolved into self-parody, and the shift in tone just means a wider audience can appreciate the myth. Plus, I love Nancy. I wish she’d stuck around forever…
Note: A lot of people, including the creative minds behind the next entry, interpret the last shot of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors as a cliffhanger heralding Freddy’s return. However, I’ve always understood this epilogue as Kristen using her dream powers to fulfill her final promise to Nancy. After all, it can’t be a coincidence that the lit window in the papier-mâché house matches our heroine’s bedroom.
Tagged A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Bruce Wagner, Chuck Russell, Craig Wasson, Dream, Frank Darabont, Heather Langenkamp, Horror, John Saxon, Patricia Arquette, Robert Englund, Wes Craven
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Ding Dong / I Don’t Care Anymore 7″ Single
UK Release Date 6 December 1974
Weeks On UK Chart (to date) 5
Peak UK Chart Position 38
George’s attempt at a Christmas hit was released in the UK on 6 December 1974 and had a five week run in the charts peaking at number 38. In the US, where it had Hari’s On Tour (Express) as the B side, it was not released until 23 December 1974, which was probably too late for cashing in on the holiday season, but still managed to reach number 36 in the charts.
Initial recordings for the basic track took place the previous year in November 1973 at George’s home studios then overdubs were added in September/ October 1974. Amongst the musicians who appear on the track are Ringo, Klaus Voormann, Ron Wood, Alvin Lee, Jim Keltner and Mick Jones (Foreigner).
George took the lyrics from carvings found around Friar Park. Ring Out The Old, Ring In The New and Ring Out The False, Ring In The True were on either side of the fireplace in the drawing room whilst Yesterday, today was tomorrow and And tomorrow, today will be yesterday were found in one of the outbuildings. All George had to come up with was the chorus which is Ding, Dong repeated.
The UK B side, I Don’t Care Anymore, is an oddity in that only George himself appears on the track – there are no other musicians. Looking at the lyrics it appears to be about his love for a woman who was with someone else. Until the Apple Years box set in 2014 this track was only ever available as this B side.
The pictures below are of my push out centre first press copy (there were no solid centre copies) which has the matrix numbers 7YCE 21757-1U and 7YCE 21756-2U. It also has X-48946-Z5 hand etched into the B side run off. The A side of the record is in excellent condition, both visually and playing wise, whilst the B side has a few light marks which produce a little very light crackle on playback. It is housed in a plain black sleeve.
Estimated Value : £3 – £5
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History 106: The Civil War and Reconstruction
Course Category:
History and Political Science - Study.com
Various; distance learning format.
18 hours (6 weeks).
December 2013 - Present.
Instructional delivery format:
Online/distance learning
Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: compare and contrast the differing views of the government by citizens, the demographic shift through the country, and the commercial revolution in the 19th century; examine rising tension over slavery in the mid-19th century as well as the Mexican-American War; investigate the birth of the Republican Party, the split of the Democratic Party, the election of 1860 and the successes and failures of Abraham Lincoln; illustrate how 11 states seceded to form the Confederacy and how the Civil War began in Fort Sumter; compare and contrast President Lincoln's and Davis's cabinets, Armed Forces and the various battles that took place in 1862; appraise the casualties of war, the role and circumstances of women and African-Americans in the war, and the various battles that took place in 1863; critique Lincoln's re-election campaign, the Overland Campaign, the Atlanta campaign, the march to the sea, and the various battles that took place in 1864; describe the last 100 days of the Civil War, the fall of Richmond, and the repercussions of the war; and categorize Lincoln's legacy, President Johnson's plan for reuniting the US, Republican ideas on reconstruction and the effects of it, the 13-15th amendment, Johnson's impeachment and the election of 1876.
Major topics include life in 19th Century America; rising tension over slavery; the Political Situation in 1860; the Civil War Unfolds 1861; the War in 1862; the War Continues 1863; the tide of War shifts 1864; conclusion of the Civil War 1865; and Reconstruction after the Civil War.
Credit recommendation:
In the lower division baccalaureate degree category, 3 semester hours in History (12/16).
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Children Matter
December 11, 2014 By: NCVeditor Category: Community, Diane Lefer, Family
Coping with the Trauma of Incarcerated Parents
by Diane Lefer
Imagine that as you read these words, someone bursts into the room and holds a gun to your head. Your body and brain react instantly to the threat in ways that can be measured scientifically as cortisol floods your system.
The same level of cortisol is found in young children when separated from a primary caregiver. That absence feels as life-threatening as a loaded gun, explained Ann Adalist Estrin, currently the Director of National Resource Center on Children of Incarcerated Parents.
The adult calms down, she continued, when the threat is ended. Dopamine floods the system with relief. But in a young child, the dopamine response comes from contact with the caregiver. So what happens if the caregiver is gone? Toxic stress can change the chemistry and actual architecture of the developing brain, potentially with lifelong consequences.
Today, approximately 2.7 million American children are separated from a parent because of arrest and lockup in prison or jail. Do we simply accept that these kids will be collateral damage in our culture of mass incarceration?
Toxic stress can lead to problems with impulse control, over-the-top reactions to small uncertainties and losses, anti-social behavior, truancy and diminished school performance, separation and attachment problems, depression, eating and sleeping disorders, anxiety, substance abuse and addiction as the person seeks the dopamine effect through self-medication.
If we look at the toxic effects of a parent’s incarceration, says Estrin, we may tend to label the kid “maltreated” and think he or she is better off without the parents. Many of us have heard statistics about the likelihood of children of the incarcerated ending up in prison themselves. Estrin has grown impatient after hearing this repeated over and over again. There’s no research to back it up, she said. The statistic is a made-up figure that’s been repeated over and over again after it was said, without any verification, on the floor of Congress.
When young children are looked at merely as future thugs and criminals, how much sincere concern can we expect for them? Certainly our society shows little for their parents. Estrin quoted a man who attended one of her training sessions: “Incarcerated parents should be fed to the hungry in a Third World country.”
Estrin reminded us that each child is an individual with his or her own temperament and coping skills. Risk factors don’t lead to inevitable outcomes. Instead of stigmatizing children and tearing families apart, Estrin wants us to maximize protective factors and resilience. Kids are more resilient, she said, when they have skills, emotional competence, faith and hope. And maintaining the relationship with an incarcerated parent—absent a history of actual abuse or neglect—turns out to be one of the best things we can do for the child. Among other advantages, contact minimizes the chance the chance will cling to unrealistically frightening or idealized images of the absent parent.
According to the Honorable Marguerite Downing of Los Angeles Superior Court, until very recently, these children were rarely considered. They were an invisible population though even babies don’t escape the traumatic effects when a parent is taken. Besides creating psychological problems, there are practical consequences with serious effects: very often the arrested parent is the main or sole economic support of the family. The children are then left in poverty. Older children must cope with the stigma, the conspiracy of silence, and often a sense of guilt, believing they are somehow at fault.
For years, family reunification was written off by agencies as an improbable or undesirable goal. And only recently has the court understood that multiple placements increase trauma and that it’s important for the child to continue interaction with former caregivers. These days, Judge Downing considers the situation of kids in foster care who are seeking to return to post-incarceration parents.
I heard both Estrin, who has worked for decades with this heretofore “invisible” population and has offered trainings in every US state except for Idaho and Nebraska (and would love an invitation from an agency or school district in either place), and Downing, who chairs the Incarcerated Parents Working Group for Los Angeles County at Children’s Court, in Long Beach on Tuesday, December 2 at a summit meeting– Children with Incarcerated Parents: Trauma, Toxic Stress, & Protection–convened by Friends Outside Los Angeles County.
I already knew Friends Outside from the trailers they operate outside California State prisons where they provide acceptable clothing on visiting day when guards decide a visitor is dressed inappropriately and cannot enter. Turns out, the organization does much more: escorting kids to visit mothers in LA County Jail, providing support and services to returning dads, serving in many ways as a bridge between the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated, their families, and the larger community.
Their educational videos include one, available in English or in Spanish, that lets kids know what will happen when they go to the County Jail to visit Mom. I burst into tears when I saw that these visits take place behind glass. No contact, no touching, no hugs or kisses allowed.
Reportedly, the Sheriff’s Department plans to allow contact visits in the future. In the meantime, no hugs in jail. And though contact visits are possible in California State prisons, most are located in remote areas not accessible by public transportation making visiting itself difficult to arrange. Phone calls home must be made collect at exorbitant rates.
Does it have to be this way?
In Philadelphia, people in jail get a free 10-minute phone call home each week. Some jurisdictions in the US have experimented with using Skype so that incarcerated parents can attend parent-teacher conferences or talk with pediatricians, and remain involved in the lives of their children. (Using technology to maintain communications and contact has reduced at least some stress for children in military families when left behind by deployed parents.)
To my surprise, a formerly incarcerated dad at the meeting expressed gratitude to the Child Support Unit of the District Attorney’s office for helping him reunite with his children.
The children of the incarcerated are less invisible than they used to be. Sesame Street recently added a new character, Alex, whose father is incarcerated. Author Jacqueline Woodson, winner of many prestigious awards, including the National Book Award, has now written a picture book for children, with illustrations by James Ransome, about a little girl going with grandmother to visit Daddy in prison. Visiting Day will be published in August.
At Venice High School, kids from families affected by incarceration get together in the POPS (Pain of the Prison System) Club where they express themselves through writing and drawing. Said Angel de la Cruz, one of the founding members, “Sharing stories made me feel more powerful and comfortable.” Another founding member, Bianca Lopez said that before the club “I always felt like a judgment towards me.” After watching a Sesame Street video featuring Alex she commented, “The way Alex felt is just the way I felt. I could just relate.” Amy Friedman, one of the adult founders of the club would like to see a POPS club in every high school around the country.
In 2013, as part of its reconsideration of our policies of mass incarceration, the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice launched the Safeguarding Children initiative (IACP-SafeguardingChildren) to create a new protocol for police departments to follow when arresting a parent whether or not the child is present. The intention is to set up a framework that lays out how to interact with a child, minimizes trauma, and includes pre-planning and collaboration with other agencies so that the best placement can be determined and official custody avoided.
Children’s advocates, including Estrin, were invited to participate, but the drafting was put in the hands of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. A wise choice, thought Estrin, as police departments are more likely to follow the policy if they get to write it.
The new protocol needs more detail and Estrin hopes the people most directly affected—the families—will have a chance to offer input. For now, she finds police departments are cautious. Commander John Perez of the Pasadena Police Department pointed out that “policies are beautiful things that are written on paper.” We want to care, he said, but don’t always know how to care. “We feel so frustrated. You want to bring relief to a 5-year-old and you just don’t know how to do it.”
So can a protocol help without jeopardizing safety and the integrity of an arrest?
Child welfare agencies are ambivalent. If caseloads are already out of control, what will it mean when the police call them at the time of every arrest of a parent? Jennie Feria of the LA County Department of Children and Family Services worried about follow-up care. The agency only takes on cases where there’s outright abuse or neglect, so in the case of an incarcerated parent, who will step up? They have set up an expedited response program so that a social worker can get to the scene of an arrest and care for a child quickly instead of the police officer having to wait for hours.
Families—still reeling from Ferguson and all the other Fergusons coast-to-coast—are skeptical. Law enforcement sees officer discretion as at the core of good policing, but families are concerned that unless cops must comply with specific rules-or else–they can’t be trusted.
Estrin saw benefit in the discussions. One example: Police automatically confiscate cell phones at the time of an arrest. If the children aren’t present, how will they know what’s happened? Telling a mother or father to phone the children from the precinct often won’t work if the children have been told to never answer the phone if the call comes from an unknown number. So why not allow a parent one phone call to the kids before the cell phone is taken away? The police representatives at the meeting agreed it made sense.
I am disappointed that ICE doesn’t seem to have been included in the development and adoption of the protocol. The children of undocumented immigrants who are detained and deported suffer equal if not greater trauma.
We’re at a moment in our history when it’s become necessary to assert over and over again that Black Lives Matter. Most of the children of incarcerated parents are black or brown. And they matter, as do all children. As do the incarcerated, their loved ones, the undocumented, the trafficked. But beyond that, our culture must recognize the broad issue: Even as we dutifully recite “All men (and women) are created equal…”, we must stop behaving as though some people matter a helluva lot more than others.
For resources, see the website of the National Resource Center on Children of Incarcerated Parents. Most materials are in English though some have been translated into Spanish and Mandarin. Offers to translate into other languages are very welcome.
Diane Lefer is an author, playwright, and activist. Her latest books include The Blessing Next to the Wound, nonfiction co-authored with Colombian exile Hector Aristizabal; the crime novel Nobody Wakes Up Pretty from Rainstorm Press; and, most recently, her historical novel The Fiery Alphabet. Lefer writes for LA Progressive, where this article originally appeared, and is a Contributing Author for New Clear Vision.
Tags: children, immigration, parenting, police, prison, race
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If you haven’t seen the October 2015 issue of Esquire, rush out to newsstands and grab a copy before you miss out.
This issue should be must reading for any publisher, editor, art director, advertising director or circulation manager, as it documents the history of American culture, as seen through the pages of Esquire magazine.
The 212 page issue is packed with insights into the creative process.
And if you ever wondered if covers are taken extremely seriously by Esquire, this issue makes it clear that creating fantastic covers is central to the Esquire brand and identity.
In fact, the October 2015 cover is a huge five-page gatefold (sponsored by Samsung…they get it) that showcases 20+ classic covers from the Esquire archive.
On page 38 you’ll find the very first cover of Esquire, from Autumn 1933an issue that had articles by Ernest Hemmingway, John Dos Passos, and Dashiell Hammett…quite the editorial line-up.
On page 40 you’ll find A Note From the Editor, David Granger, that announces the launch of a new digital archive, Esquire Classic, that has every issue, every article, every cover, every ad ever produced by Esquire.
On page 68 you’ll find four images from some of Esquire’s famous “cover-up” covers, featuring semi-nude models who have been covered in artistically interesting ways.
On page 77 you will find a brief expose on the classic Angie Dickinson cover from March 1966, which led to a re-creation for the famous Britney Spears cover in November 2003.
On page 108 you’ll learn about Carl Fischer (now 91 years old), the photographer who collaborated with editor George Lois, on 60 iconic covers from 1963 to 1972. It’s a fascinating expose on the creative process. It features stories about the Muhammad Ali cover (April 1968), the Campbell Soup cover (May 1969), the Sonny Liston cover (Dec 1963), The Chicago Democratic convention cover (Nov 1968) and the Lt. Calley cover (Nov 1970).
On page 134 you’ll find an article on covers featuring JFK…no one has appeared on more Esquire covers!
On page 180 you’ll find two covers featuring sex symbols shaving… Marilyn Monroe March 1965, and Jessica Simpson May 2008…which is clearly sponsored by The Art of Shaving, who has an adjacent gatefold ad…smart!
And sprinkled throughout you’ll find other covers with briefs on why they mattered.
This issue demonstrates the importance of magazines, and why covers matter. Don’t miss it.
The November 2015 cover for National Geographic is a winner. It’s a classic example of the “less-is-more” school of cover design.
The careful layering of the globe over the logo, and over the edges of their yellow border box, and subtle shadowing really make this cover pop.
Simple, but powerful image + Bold type treatment + Timely Editorial Subject Matter = Winner!
In case you were wondering if National Geographic takes cover creation seriously, editor-in-chief Susan Goldberg uses her From The Editor page to show us four completely different covers that were created, but ultimately rejected. I think you will agree, that they made the right choice.
The Dec/Jan 2016 issue of Canada’s History is set to hit newsstands on November 21, 2015. This time slot almost always generates the best sales in any given year.
The Press run for this issue is a new historic high of nearly 20,000 copies. (Special thanks to Ron Sellwood & the CTC team).
Look for special promotions at Chapters/Indigo, Wal Mart and Presse Commerce.
The question a lot of circulators and publishers ponder this time of year is whether or not to raise cover price.
Here’s a case study you may wish to consider.
Outdoor Canada produces a fabulous Hunting Special (SIP) each year. The cover designs are always first class. In 2014, they raised the cover price from $6.95 to $7.99, an increase of $1.04 or a 15% increase in the retail price.
So, how did that play out?
In 2012, the Hunting Special sold 19,145 copies at $6.95, for a total gross revenue of $133,058. (Personally, I like this cover the best).
In 2013, the Hunting Special sold 18,662 copies at $6.95, for a total gross revenue of $129,700. That was a variance of just 483 copies or 2.5%. Still a great performance.
In 2014, the Hunting Special raised the cover price to $7.99, and sold 17,676 copies. That’s down 986 copies or 5.3%. However, gross revenue was $141,231, for a revenue gain of $11,531 or 9%.
Clearly, this trusted brand still has a loyal following, who appreciate the quality of the magazine, and are prepared to pay for it!
Covers in sequence (2012, 2013, 2014 and the new 2015 edition, which went on sale August 24th 2015):
The latest in our series of SIP’s is set to hit newsstands on November 2, 2015, just in time for Remembrance Day.
Art Director Jason Duprau has created a completely fresh new look in this series of successful SIPS.
Look for special promotion displays at Chapters/Indigo, Loblaws, Shoppers Drug Mart, Wal Mart and Gateway.
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what does phung mean in vietnamese
Phuong falls into the name categories bird, place. Want to see how Phuong sizes up? Quan was born in 1932. Then check out the Phuong Name Popularity Page. See other popular names in California, , or Texas. Find out below. Survey: Which of the following lists would you find most interesting? Phùng was born on September 27th, 1985 in Vietnam. Phuong is a great choice for parents looking for a more unique name. Children named Phuong are often orderly and exuberant but most of all they are read more >>. The map shows the absolute popularity of the name Phung as a last name in each of the states. What are some names that would belong on a list titled ", the most popular surnames and their ethnicities and origins, A user from California, U.S. says the name Phung is of. It consists of 6 letters and 1 syllable and is pronounced Phuong. Less than 5 boys were given the name. Not all countries that have shown an interest in the name are listed in the bar graph. Search for more names by meaning . When you want to say “a hundred” in standard Vietnamese, you should say “một trăm”. If your name is “Bách Phụng”, it means “A hundred phoenices”. Darker blue on the map indicates that people in the country are more likely to search for this name. A daring name, Phuong possesses great character. Lam Phương is a popular music of vietnam musician. Submit the origin and/or meaning of Phung to us below He died in 1995. Interest is based how many people viewed this name from each country and is scaled based on the total views by each country so that large countries do not always show the most interest. Bách is a Vietnamese word which base on Chinese means “a hundred”. "Hey Phuong, make me some Pho'soup or I'll deport your ass back to Vietnam " Phuong is generally used as a girl's name. If it is “Bạch Phụng”, then it means “White Phoenix”. These Numerological numbers may tell your child's story. What does the name Phung mean? Also see the lists of names of Vietnamese, English, or Chinese origins. A user from California, U.S. says the name Phung is of Vietnamese origin and means "Phoenix legend". Our Baby Namer - Origin and Meaning of Baby Names, Books, Gifts. Wrap it up and take it home, Phuong may just be the name you're looking for. Phung was born in 1901. Phan is also known as Phan Đình Phùng. Phùng was born in 761. Submit the origin and/or meaning of Phung to us below, Sino-Vietnamese word from 馮, from Middle Chinese 馮 (bjuwng). Phuong Vietnamese word meaning either " phoenix " or " direction " Phuong is a common name for Vietnamese women which includes my hot and very tight GF. U.S. Social Security Administration: Popular Baby Names, Death Master File (public domain). Lam was given the name Lâm Đình Phùng on March 20th, 1937 in Rạch Giá. U.S. Census Bureau: Frequently Occurring Surnames from the Census 2000 (public domain). The meaning of Phuong is "phoenix". People with the last name Phung are most frequently Asian, Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander. He breathed his last breath in 802. People who like the name Phuong also like: Phailin, Tuyen, Philomena, Penelope, Quynh, Tuyet, Thuy Phùng Công Minh is a soccer player for the Becamex Bình Dương F.C. The name Phuong means Phoenix and is of Vietnamese origin. Phuong is generally used as a girl's name. Less than 5 boys were given the name. Phùng was born on February 2nd, 1949 in Mê Linh, Hanoi, Vietnam. Phùng was born on November 23rd, 1982 in Nam Định. Phung Trong Luan is an athlete for the Thai Son Nam Futsal Club. Văn was born in 1930 in Hanoi. Destiny Number, Life Path Number, Soul Urge and Personality Number. Learn about nautical flags and see your name or message written in nautical flags, on the Phuong in Nautical Flags page. Phùng Văn Nhiên is a soccer player for the Hải Phòng F.C., Nam Định F.C., Hoàng Anh Gia Lai F.C., and Vietnam national football team. It consists of 6 letters and 1 syllable and is pronounced Phuong. Phùng Quang Thanh is a Member of the Politburo, Chief of the General Staff, 10th Minister of Defence, Member of thePolitburo, and Chief of theGeneral Staff. Longer bars in the bar graph indicate that people in the country are more interested in the name. Phan was born in 1847 in Đông Thái. Take a look at the Numerology Of Phuong. He breathed his last breath in 1896. In contrast, the year before less than 5 girls were given the name. They left this life in 1999. Văn Phụng was a jazz musician. The name Phuong is of Vietnamese origin. He passed away in 1941. In the U.S. in 2018, less than 5 girls were given the name. Phuong is a name that's been used primarily by parents who are considering baby names for girls. Would you like to fingerspell the name Phuong in American Sign Language? How it compares to some other names? Just for fun, see the name Phuong in Hieroglyphics, learn about ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics and write a Hieroglyphic message. and Vietnam national football team.
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A Long-Standing Problem
THIS SEEMS vaguely relevant:
Giles and Electe, who anxiously aspired to martyrdom, and who were only lay-brothers, had appeared to St. Francis to be more fit to be sent to the Saracens than even those of the clergy, and they hastened to go into Africa with several others. What chiefly animated the zeal of brother Giles, as the author of his life remarks, was his having heard that the Saracens treated with great cruelty those Christians who spoke ill of the law of Mahomet. When he reached Tunis with a party of missionaries, he generously preached the faith in public, and this continued for some time. A person who was looked up to among the Saracens for his great wisdom, having come forth from his retreat, told the people that they ought to put to the sword all those infidels who spoke against the law of their prophet. Giles and his companions were delighted at the prospect of an early martyrdom; but the Christians with whom they had their domicile, fearing lest they might be included in the massacre, took away these preachers and compelled them to go on board a vessel in the harbor, and did not permit them again to land. As they did not cease addressing the Mahometans who crowded to the sea-shore, with a view to induce them to embrace the faith of Jesus Christ,—their desire to sacrifice their lives for His glory being so ardent,—the Christian residents hastened to have them removed to Europe. Thus seeing that even their fellow-believers were opposed to their views, they returned to Italy.
— from The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi, by Father Candide Chalippe
Starting in about the 1940s, Christianity in the middle-east has been in a particularly sharp decline. Modern nation-building, promoted by the secular West, has caused untold hardship for the Christians in those places. Wars and revolutions now taking place are making things far worse for them. Our secularist leaders seem to have no pity for Christians, who are seen more as problem rather than souls in need of mercy and protection.
Kestrel Thursday, May 05, 2011 7:59:00 AM
"secularist leaders", to whom do you refer?
Mark S. Abeln Thursday, May 05, 2011 9:31:00 AM
All of them. I cannot recall even one U.S. President, U.K. Prime Minister, or any other secular Western leader who showed significant concern for the Christians of the middle-east. I know of no policy initiative that concerns the preservation and protection of Christians.
Kestrel Thursday, May 05, 2011 1:37:00 PM
Ok, I was hoping that this lack of policy had spanned many administrations and various other governments in your opinion, one which I share.
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Kickers miss short field goals, Seahawks, Cards tie 6-6
Stephen Hauschka needed only to make a 27-yard field goal to give the Seattle Seahawks an overtime victory over Arizona.
Chandler Catanzaro's only had to hit a 24-yarder to give the Cardinals a win.
Such kicks are often called automatic. They aren't.
Hauschka's kick was wide left with 7 seconds left after Catanzaro booted one off the left upright, and the game between two teams that have dominated the NFC West in recent years ended in a 6-6 tie Sunday night.
"I make that kick 999,999 times out of a million," Catanzaro said.
The last tie in the NFL came in 2014, when Carolina and Cincinnati tied 37-37. It was the Cardinals' first tie since Dec. 7, 1986, a 10-10 draw at Philadelphia when the franchise was based in St. Louis, and the first for Seattle since entering the NFL in 1976. There had not been an NFL tie with no touchdowns scored since 1972.
"That was really an amazing football game," Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said. "I don't think I have ever been in a tie before and my brain doesn't really know where to go.
The Cardinals (3-3-1) dominated the game statistically and looked to be in shape to win it after Carson Palmer's 40-yard pass to J.J. Nelson set up Catanzaro's short kick.
The Seahawks (4-1-1), stuffed throughout regulation by the Arizona defense, took over and Russell Wilsoncompleted passes of 31 yards to Jermaine Kearse and 27 yards to Doug Baldwin to give Hauschka his short attempt.
"We work hard to make those kicks all season long and it is disappointing when it doesn't go well," Hauschka said. "I feel like I let my team down."
Both kickers made field goals on their teams' first possession of overtime.
Catanzaro, who kicked field goals of 46 and 45 yards, also had a 39-yard field goal blocked by a stunning play by Bobby Wagner .
Until overtime, the only time the Seahawks crossed midfield came when Tanner McEnvoy blocked Ryan Quigley's punt with 4:33 to play. That gave Seattle the ball on the Arizona 27 and led to Hauschka's 40-yard field goal that tied it at 3 with four minutes to play.
"It's disappointing to put up those kind numbers and not come away with points because of the kicking game," Arizona coach Bruce Arians said. "It's disheartening to play that well and not come away with a victory."
Catanzaro's 46-yard field goal put Arizona up 3-0 with 3:11 left in the first half, and the Cardinals nursed that lead until the blocked punt.
On a bruising night, Arizona's David Johnson had a career-high 41 touches. He carried the ball 33 times for 113 yards and caught eight passes for 58 yards. Wilson, obviously slowed by leg problems, completed 24 of 37 passes for 225 yards, most of the damage coming in the overtime. He carried the ball once for minus-2 yards.
Arizona's defense nearly scored halfway through the fourth quarter when Chandler Jones hit Wilson as he was about to pass and the ball bounced toward the Seattle goal line, but Michael Glowinski jumped on it for Seattle at the 4-yard line, a 20-yard loss.
The Cardinals finished with a 443-257 advantage in yards, 23-11 in firsts downs and 46:21 to 28:39 in time of possession.
Arizona had one drive end when the Cardinals failed on fourth-and-1 from the Seattle 19. And Johnson came so close to scoring a game-winning touchdown on Arizona's last possession. He ran four yards to the 1-yard line and his foot knocked over the pylon as he was knocked outside, but officials did not review to see if it was a score.
SUPREME HURDLE
The Cardinals had the first scoring threat. Catanzaro lined up for a 39-yard field goal but 245-pound linebacker Wagner jumped over Arizona long snapper Aaron Brewer like an Olympic hurdler and blocked it. Cardinals coach Bruce Arians argued loudly for a penalty and was charged with a timeout when he challenged a play that is not reviewable. That proved significant when the Cardinals couldn't stop the clock to get off a short field goal attempt as the first half ended.
MISSING BROWNS
The Cardinals were without speedster John Brown after doctors diagnosed sickle cell traits that were causing leg pain. The other wide receiver named Brown, Jaron, left the game early with a knee injury, depleting is usually one of the league's deeper wide receiver corps.
The Seahawks play at New Orleans next Sunday, while the Cardinals play at Carolina next Sunday.
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Browns don't lose, tie Steelers 21-21 in sloppy game
One week in and the Browns are still undefeated.
Now that's progress.
Cleveland ended its 17-game losing streak on Sunday with a 21-21 tie against the Pittsburgh Steelers, who prevented the Browns from getting their first victory since 2016 when linebacker T.J. Watt blocked Zane Gonzalez's 43-yard field-goal attempt with 9 seconds left in OT.
The Steelers, who blew a 14-point lead in the fourth quarter, also wasted their chance to escape with a win when Chris Boswell was wide left on a 42-yard field-goal attempt with 1:44 remaining in the extra period.
It was the NFL's first tie in Week 1 since 1971 and the league's first overall since Washington and Cincinnati ended in a 27-27 deadlock on Oct. 30, 2016.
"If you don't win," Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said, "it feels like a loss."
The Browns remain winless since Dec. 24, 2016, but at least they have a positive after going 0-16 last season, just the second team in league history to lose all 16 games.
Pittsburgh committed six turnovers, including a strip-sack fumble of Roethlisberger late in OT that had the Browns poised to win their first opener since 2004.
But Gonzalez's kick was low and Watt, who had four sacks, got deep penetration and appeared to get his hand on the ball, which went sideways and landed on the soaked FirstEnergy Stadium turf as thousands of Browns fans threw up their hands in disbelief.
So close. So far.
"They broke through and were right there, so there wasn't much I could do about it," Gonzalez said. "It was blocked. We felt good about it when we went out there. They definitely were in there a little quick."
Browns coach Hue Jackson felt the Steelers were offside on the climactic kick.
"Disappointed for our fans," said an exasperated Jackson, who fell to 1-31-1 with Cleveland. "Did not want them going home without a victory. I did not want our players to go home without a victory. We were not able to get it done. Did not finish it, but obviously, a tie. A tie."
The Browns also had a chance to win it in regulation and were driving for a potential game-winning field goal, but Tyrod Taylor's deep pass for Josh Gordon was underthrown and intercepted by Cameron Sutton with 16 seconds left.
"There is nothing to be excited about, nothing at all," said Gordon, who missed most of the past four seasons because of drug suspensions. "We don't come to work to get ties. It's the equivalent of a loss to me."
The Steelers played their opener without star running back Le'Veon Bell, who remains away from the team in a contract dispute. As Bell continued his holdout in warm and dry South Florida, James Conner filled in and scored two touchdowns while running for 135 yards - just nine fewer than he gained as a rookie last season.
Roethlisberger threw three interceptions in the first half and finished 23 of 41 for 335 yards, throwing a 22-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter to Antonio Brown.
Down 21-7 in the fourth quarter, the Browns were on the verge of their 18th straight loss.
But they forced a fumble by Conner and scored quickly on Carlos Hyde's 1-yard run to pull within a touchdown.
Cleveland's defense then forced a punt before Taylor connected with Gordon, who was playing in his first opener since 2012, made a gorgeous leaping catch in the corner over Steelers cornerback Cameron Sutton.
In his debut with Cleveland, Taylor completed 15 of 40 passes for 197 yards.
BUNGLING BROWNS
Cleveland gave up seven sacks and committed 11 penalties, including four on false starts.
"Tyrod got hit way too much," left guard Joel Bitonio said.
ROOKIE SHINES
Browns rookie cornerback Denzel Ward intercepted Roethlisberger twice in his NFL debut. Both picks by the No. 4 overall selection came in the first half.
"We got guys who can get the ball and are ball hawks," defensive lineman Myles Garrett said. "Denzel is one of them."
Steelers: CB Joe Haden injured his hamstring in the second half and did not return.
Browns: DE Emmanuel Ogbah left briefly with an ankle injury in the first quarter but returned.
LEFT OUT
It was a tough week for Browns rookie guard Austin Corbett. First, the No. 33 overall pick was replaced in the starting lineup when coach Hue Jackson slid Joel Bitonio back to left guard and put undrafted rookie Desmond Harrison in at left tackle. Corbett figured to be a backup on game day, but was one of the club's inactives.
Steelers: Host Kansas City on Sept. 16.
Browns: Visit New Orleans on Sept. 16
Posted by Andrew Tanner at 10:01 PM
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MARSHE ROCKETT -VS- DJZ ANNOUNCED FOR SSW'S "STORM FRONT" ON SUNDAY, MAY 1ST
It has just been announced that on Sunday, May 1st, at "STORM FRONT", there will be an IMPACT made when Marshe Rockett takes on DJZ! A few days ago, we announced that DJZ of TNA Impact Wrestling was going to appear in SSW on May 1st. It was also announced earlier in the month that Impact has signed Marshe Rockett to their roster, and it seems only fitting that his first match in SSW after that news would be against a former TNA "X-Division" Champion, in that of DJZ (formerly known as "Zema Ion")!
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Hands-On With Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
* PS Nation was invited to a preview event in New York City with light food and drinks served. Travel was paid for by the reviewer. The game was played using a PC with an Xbox One Controller.
I had a chance to sit down last week to play two sections from the upcoming MachineGames title Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. You can check out some direct feed video from the playthrough of the first section here. The second section is available here.
Fair warning: I played on PC using an Xbox One controller and things felt very loose. I had no option to change the sensitivity so I worked with it as best I could. During the second section the controller kept disconnecting and we’ve tried to edit the video as best we can to make up for any stuttering or outright stopping during the action.
Picking up directly after the events of Wolfenstein: The New Order, you continue on as B.J. Blazkowicz but you’re pretty hobbled right out of the gate. B.J. is in a wheelchair and he’s still pretty severely wounded so you’ll need to constantly gather health pickups before you bleed out.
It makes for an interesting twist on the old run and gun combat since you really need to be on a constant hunt for medical supplies. Being in a wheelchair isn’t too much of a hinderance itself but you’ll need to find a creative way around the stairs in the level.
The controls, loose as they were, still felt good and man does this game look pretty. Built on the id Tech 6 Engine, first seen in the 2006 version of Doom, the detail, the anti-aliasing, the realtime lighting and shadows, it all looks pretty amazing even in this early state.
It’s a fun level designed to get players reacquainted with the action and up to speed with some of the story elements. There’s a prologue before the level which we weren’t shown and you’ll be given a choice to play in the Wyatt timeline of the Fergus timeline. I’m not going to spoil what that means so if you don’t know what I’m talking about either play through the first level of The New Order or look it up.
The second level we had access to takes place a little deeper in the game and it’s all set in Roswell, New Mexico and Area 52. This is essentially the Nazi Pentagon in the US and it’s where most of the top military brass is situated.
B.J. is headed there to nuke the complex to show that the Nazis are vulnerable and that an uprising is possible. On your way into town you can take some time to wander around, check out the storefronts, and listen in on conversations. The two KKK bumpkins sucking up to the Nazis is particularly worthwhile.
Speaking with Creative Director Jens Matthies, he said that they conceptually love the idea of 50’s Americana with Nazi appropriation of the zeitgeist. The team brainstormed about what would be the coolest places to set levels and they wanted some US icons but didn’t want to do stuff that’s already been too exploited. Matthies said he purposely avoids any media dealing with that type of situation, think Man in the High Castle, so he can’t even be subconsciously influenced when working on the game.
Before I started playing, I was told that stealth would be much more important in the second section and that quietly taking out command personnel should be my priority. Things didn’t go quite as planned.
I approached the game from an Assassin’s Creed and Uncharted 4 standpoint. I knew I probably couldn’t tag enemies, and I couldn’t, but I figured I could at least quietly scout the area, pick off some isolated bad guys and reach the commander – easier said than done.
I tried a couple different approaches but kept getting tripped up with controller disconnections and my own failure to see some of the enemies before they spotted me. I eventually got caught with a bad checkpoint and everything went downhill fast.
Had I been playing at home, I’d have simply reset to the beginning of the level and started from scratch. In the interest of time and a morbid curiosity of seeing if I could get myself out of this horrible mess I’d created, I continued on and died many, many horrible deaths for your amusement instead.
I love what I played and I’m thrilled that there’s not just an opportunity for serious stealth in this game, but really, a necessity. We’ve seen a few takes on the invasion of America in video games but I think this one will stand above the others.
The developers always wanted to do a trilogy and they knew they wanted to go to the US in the sequel to The New Order, not just because it would be cool to see but because it’s BJ’s homeland and they wanted to show what that experience would be for him. How will B.J. handle seeing the place he grew up in taken over by his mortal enemies?
MachineGames likes to build each of its games around a concept. For the first it was Dogma. Everything was built around that and what that concept means, not just for the Nazis but for everyone. It tied into the story arc for every character.
For this game it’s Catharsis. It can mean different things to different characters but this is the main focus for each of them in the game and you’ll see it play out across the story.
What I really like about MachineGames in general is that they like to allow the player to work at their own pace. Matthies said that “The goal is to create the richest and most emotionally believable space so you can get invested in the characters”. They want the world to respond to you no matter what type of player you are.
On the one hand the game is over the top and crazy while on the other it’s intimate, dark, and dramatic. They looked towards other things that did that successfully like the original Robocop, District 9, or even Guardians of the Galaxy and tried to emulate that tone knowing that it’s incredibly hard to maintain.
I asked about the inclusion of any major historical characters since we’re now in the US but there’s a lot of baggage there along with potential rights issues. If they want to do something with a particular character that goes against who they were in real life, how would people respond? Are people going to be pissed off? That being said, I get the feeling we’ll be seeing characters like J from The New Order, depending on the timeline you picked.
As for the Terror Billy action figure included in the Collector’s Edition of the game, it speaks to the twisted take on branding and merchandising seen in The New Colossus.
B.J. has become a bit of a celebrity as the face of the enemy and it shows up in a lot of small ways throughout the game if you have a sharp eye. For the figure in particular, the marketing department wanted to do it for the Collector’s Edition and the developers got excited about the idea and then added it to the game.
Fans of the series are going to love this game. There’s a ton of narrative here and it looks to be a really cool storyline. They rebuilt this version from the ground up using a complete body model instead of just floating guns. While it’s still just a game, they wanted it to feel very real and make it as immersive as possible. I think they’re on the right track.
Published by Bethesda Softworks and developed by MachineGames, Wolfenstein II: Shadow of the Colossus will be released on October 27, 2017 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
* All screens used in this preview were provided by the publisher.
Posted by: Josh Langford on July 27, 2017.
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Category: Odyssey
The day video games were born
September 1, 1966 September 26, 2012 theLogBook
In a hand-written design document, Ralph Baer, an engineer working for defense contractor Sanders Associates, sketches out his ideas for a device he calls a TV Gaming Display. The design proposal lays out a concept to take television from being a passive form of entertainment to an interactive one in which two players can manipulate simple on-screen displays to play various games. Management at Sanders recognizes the potential of the invention, and Baer proceeds with development of the first video game prototypes, one of which becomes the basis for the first home video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, six years later.
Odyssey, Video Games
The ‘480 Patent
January 15, 1968 October 11, 2012 theLogBook
Ralph Baer files the first patent for his Television Gaming & Training Apparatus, United States patent #3,728,480. The patent is assigned to Baer’s employer, government contractor Sanders Associates, and is the first patent filed for the design of a video game. Though Baer will eventually build, and sell the design for, the first home video game, the real reward to be reaped from this patent will be licensing: every company manufacturing a video game console will have to pay Sanders and Baer for the privelege of expanding upon this basic patent, and it stands up in numerous court cases well into the 1980s as the “pioneer patent of the video game industry.”
The Brown Box
December 9, 1968 December 9, 2012 theLogBook
At Sanders Associates, Ralph Baer completes the sixth iteration of his recently-patented Television Gaming & Training Apparatus, now covered in brown woodgrain and called “The Brown Box.” Utilizing logic circuits and spot generators rather than a computer chip, the Brown Box is capable of playing video ping pong and other simple games. This is the prototype of the first mass-marketed home video game system. Sanders begins courting prospective licensees, including RCA, Zenith, General Electric, Motorola and Magnavox; companies already manufacturing television sets will be the corporate entites most likely to show an interest. RCA declines, but one of its executives, having seen the Brown Box demonstrated, later defects to Magnavox, which eventually licenses the Brown Box technology from Sanders. The result will be the Magnavox Odyssey, the first-ever home video game console.
White House honors Odyssey inventor
February 13, 2006 February 14, 2013 theLogBook
Ralph Baer, the inventor of home video games, receives the National Medal of Technology from President George W. Bush. While working for defense contractor Sanders & Associates in the 1960s, Baer pioneered the concept of interactive television programming, eventually gathering a hand-picked team to create a prototype called the Brown Box. Baer and his employer licensed the technology to Magnavox, which repackaged it and marketed it as the world’s first home video game console, the Odyssey. Baer also created other key video game innovations, such as the first light gun.
Hiroshi Yamauchi, Nintendo president, dies
September 19, 2013 September 19, 2013 theLogBook
The president of Nintendo through the latter half of the 20th century, Hiroshi Yamauchi, dies at the age of 85. Having dropped out of college to assume control of Nintendo from his ailiing grandfather in 1949, Yamauchi transformed the company from a maker of playing cards into a power player in the electronic game market, even though Nintendo’s first video game product was a licensed version of the American-made Magnavox Odyssey. Twice, Yamauchi boldly decided to break into the American video game market with no guarantee of success: once with the arcade game Donkey Kong, and again with the launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System, even after a Stateside licensing deal with Atari fell through at the last minute, depriving the NES of Atari’s existing marketing and distribution channels.
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Sesame Street's Julia: What An Inclusive World Should Look Like
[image: partial view of Sara, who has dark hair in pigtails and is
wearing a dark pink shirt, smiling. She sits with a Julia doll,
holding onto the doll’s hand. The Julia doll has bright orange hair
in pigtails and green eyes, looks happy, and is wearing a pink shirt.]
Sara Liss
I wish that Julia the Muppet from Sesame Street had existed when I was a toddler and first learning (not very successfully) to interact with other kids.
I was desperate to play with someone other than my baby sister, her baby playmates, and our family friends. I didn’t know how to connect with the other kids my age, and most of them preferred for me to stay away. One or two of the girls at my preschool either liked me or took pity on me, on their own or with adult encouragement, and were my sometimes-playmates. (I don’t think my pre-school teachers assigned them to me as playmates, the way my teachers did every year from pre-K to 4th grade.)
I can say, though, that the only social interaction was the time my not-quite-friend Melissa invited me to play with her outside and then told off another girl who didn’t want Melissa to play with me. I guard that memory carefully, clinging to it as I try to forget the times I stood at the play kitchen or sand table minutes after the other girls had used them, trying to pretend I wasn’t alone.
I can remember most of the Sesame Street episodes and skits broadcast between 1989 and 2000. I’m 30 years old, and my youngest sibling is 23, and my brother’s occupational therapist and later babysitter had a burning hatred of Barney, which means I know the Sesame Street songs from that era word-for-word almost two decades later.
When I was a child, there were no openly autistic faces to us to latch on to as role models. But Sesame Street, so progressive that it moved its new programming to HBO to keep social conservatives from trying to kill the show entirely, was no stranger to disability even then. Linda, a Deaf woman who debuted on the show in 1973, was already teaching children how to sing in ASL back in 1976. Tarah, who had osteogenesis imperfecta, was showing off her skills as a wheelchair ballerina in 1993. But there still wasn’t anyone on Sesame Street with disabilities that also affected their minds.
(In the world of disability inclusion, disability is always physical first and mental/cognitive second, unless there’s been another mass shooting and we’re desperate to find something besides a gun to blame.).
When I was a child, Sesame Street coded characters as autistic—the Count, of course, and also sometimes Bert. Most autistic kids identified with the Count. (Personally, I found him terrifying, and may or may not have run away from him and his scary mountain and scary bats at least once. He wasn’t quite as scary as Ursula from The Little Mermaid, though, so I still have his “The Lambaba” word-perfect two decades later.)
I myself adored Bert, and, according to family lore, actually teethed on his nose. Most of all, what resounded with me was his bemusement at Ernie’s version of logic, which made literal sense and was reasonable from Ernie’s point of view, but always led to the wrong conclusion. (The cookies in bed sketch is a classic example.)
I had another kind of kinship with Kermit the Frog, who wasn’t a resident of Sesame Street but appeared in enough skits as a reporter covering Fairy Tale News for me to claim him for this essay. I was drawn to his high anxiety levels, his endless attempts to get everyone to just listen to him, to get everything in order for once in their lives, and the way heightened emotions stole his words and left him with screaming, flailing, and flapping as his only way to communicate.
But Kermit was never coded as autistic, not as far as I can tell. He was rather a giant ball of anxiety, almost certainly depressed, in an on-and-off relationship with an amazing woman who could have been a great partner for literally anyone else. (This is not an essay on the many, many wonders of Miss Piggy. Nor is it an essay on how the stereotype of a hen-picked husband needs to be rended from tip to toe and thrown to the piranhas. I can write that essay some other time, if anyone is interested, but I’m currently wearing my Joyful Autistic hat, and the Raging Feminist one will have to wait.)
Julia is different from all those other characters. Julia is openly autistic and doesn’t apologize for it. She has a home on Sesame Street and doesn’t need to be “fixed” to keep it. She’s not a single obsession, a savant, or a machine who needs to be programmed with the “right” words or social skills.
I look at Julia and see an autistic girl—an actual GIRL—who STIMS! and who is EMOTIONAL, so much so that her body can’t contain it! who USES HER BODY TO COMMUNICATE HER FEELINGS! She doesn’t need speech to express herself, and can say more with her body than words can contain, even when the NTs foreign to her world don’t understand what she means. She’s silly and goofy and strange and people LIKE HER FOR IT.
My new friend Julia has *real* friends, friends who didn’t need anyone to tell them that Julia was lonely because she was different and needed a special buddy to help her feel the same as everyone else.
Her friends think of her as an equal, not as a Special Task the grown-ups trust them with. Her friends don’t exploit her oddities for their own amusement or make fun of her in ways they know she can’t understand. They don’t leave her in favor of her “normal” friends when she breaks social taboos, and don’t leave her when she can’t answer their questions about who she is, or how she thinks, or why she can’t be like everybody else no matter how hard she tries. Her friends are the non-disabled peers I loved and followed as a child but could never seem to keep, the people I broke by getting too close when I was hopelessly broken.
It wasn’t until my second year of college that I found friends who embraced me and the autistic parts of my soul but weren’t autistic themselves. Calling them NT is probably a stretch. I’m pretty sure there’s something neurodivergent about people who creep along public streets in broad daylight pretending to be a raptor, complete with sound effects, and completely sober; and all of us had trouble passing in so-called normal culture.
They were and are more like me than any non-autistic person than I’d ever known. They love my flappy rants about administrative law at New Yorker speed, the same way I love their shared horror of the Twilight movies. We’re entertained, sometimes enraptured, frequently clueless, and sooner or later, baffled at why we’re still talking. They’ll probably never know why I’m so obsessed with the Chevron doctrine, and I will never understand what possessed them to go to the midnight release of the first Twilight movie. And that’s okay. We’re oddballs, but that’s a feature, not a bug.
I can’t be certain, but: I don’t think I’d have had to spend 20 years waiting to find friends who could love my autistic soul—but not have their own to match—had I met Julia the same day I met Big Bird, Mr. Snuffleupagus, and Elmo. I don’t think I’d have gone 29 years without being diagnosed, making three separate trips to Albany to be evaluated, just so I could prove a point. I don’t think my dad would shy away from me every time I talk about being autistic because he’d thought my mind was "fine" and never considered my social issues might be so “bad” I needed a disorder to describe them. And I don’t think my first female fictional friend would have been Baby Bop just because she was a girl, and there weren’t any girls on Sesame Street.
Sesame Workshop is finally teaching kids that autistic people are people worth the same as anyone else, even if their minds aren’t "fine." Her Muppet friends Elmo and Abby Cadabby know that she’s their equal. She can love and be loved without trying to make her life a game of pretend, a game there’s no way for her to win. She speaks with her loud hands and loud arms and loud body. She speaks in the wordless sounds she makes and the rest of the world tries to interpret, sometimes correctly, sometimes wrongly, and sometimes looking for meaning that words can’t express at all.
There’s a lot of Julia in me. I see her and I want to keep her safe from a world that sees difference and tries to fix it, even when there’s nothing to be fixed. I want to protect her from a world that demands conformity at any price, and punishes us when hurting ourselves is the only way to comply.
At the same time, I look at Julia and see a girl like me in the safest place I’ve ever known, who sees and does things differently and who isn’t scolded for it. I see adults who see her as a person, a disabled person, autistic through and through, and still knows she exists for her own sake. I see a fictional world that’s taught tens of millions of young children over generations numbers and letters and skipping rhymes and phrases like “please” and “thank you.” I see a powerful force in children’s education telling Americans everywhere to welcome me as I am. I see a world that’s always tried to include everyone, desperately trying to teach us to better people, and see that in this better world, there’s a place for me.
I wish that when I was little, I’d seen a girl like Julia on Sesame Street, and seen Sesame Street embrace her. I’m not a child anymore, but I’m so, so glad that she’s here now, and here for me.
This article was previously published at kpagination.wordpress.com.
Posted by Shannon Des Roches Rosa on Tuesday, January 15, 2019
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Several curious tidbits that happened on this day in Mormon History
175 years ago today - Apr 25, 1845
James H. Monroe, a convert and school teacher in Nauvoo who taught the children of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, writes in his diary: "My time was spent, when not occupied with my school, in reading Fowler's Phrenology, a very valuable work in my estimation, and containing much information of especial benefit to me in my present capacity, as it enables me to form a better opinion of the tastes, feelings, and powers of my little protiges and thereby suggests the proper mode of education, and tells me which faculties are necessary to be cultivated. I think I must make out a chart of their heads with a description of their character as shown by the development of their organs, and then concoct a plan for their education in accordance with those principles." Four days later he complete's the phrenology chart of Joseph Smith III's head, "which [was] admitted to be correct by his mother "
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Royal messages for Malaysia’s Independence Day
HIS Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam has consented to send congratulatory messages to His Majesty Al-Sultan Almu’tasimu Billahi Muhibbuddin Tuanku Alhaj Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong XIV of Malaysia, and Dato Laila Utama Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia, as well as the government and people of Malaysia on the occasion of the country’s 57th Independence Day.
In His Majesty’s message to His Majesty the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong XIV of Malaysia, His Majesty was grateful to Allah the Almighty that the friendship and bilateral relations between the two countries had grown encouragingly from year to year, for which His Majesty was confident that this close and excellent understanding would be further enhanced in time to come for the benefit and prosperity of the peoples of the two countries.
In ending His Majesty’s message to His Majesty the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong XIV of Malaysia, His Majesty together with Her Majesty Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Hajah Saleha prayed that His Majesty the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong XIV of Malaysia and Her Majesty Permaisuri Agong, Tuanku Hajah Haminah as well as the royal family would always be under the protection of Allah the Almighty and that the government and people of Malaysia would always enjoy lasting peace and prosperity.
In His Majesty’s message to Dato Laila Utama Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib, His Majesty was grateful and pleased that Brunei and Malaysia continued to enjoy ties of friendship and fraternal relations that have grown closer and warmer. His Majesty believed that these long-established relations would continue to last and be enhanced in time to come.
His Majesty also looked forward to the arrival of Dato Laila Utama Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib for the upcoming 18th annual consultations and was confident that they would become a platform for a variety of cooperative frameworks that would bring beneficial outcomes for the peoples of both countries.
In ending the message to Dato Laila Utama Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib, His Majesty and Her Majesty Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Hajah Saleha prayed that Dato Laila Utama Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib, Datin Paduka Seri Rosmah and the government and people of Malaysia would always be under the protection of Allah the Almighty.
Meanwhile, His Royal Highness Prince Mohamed Bolkiah, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, sent a congratulatory message to Dato Seri Paduka Anifah Haji Aman, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia, on the occasion of the 57th Independence Day of Malaysia.
His Royal Highness said, “I am very pleased to convey my deepest respects to Seri Paduka Baginda Yang Di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia and extend my hearty congratulations to you personally and the government and people of Malaysia on your 57th Independence Day.
“It was a great pleasure having you and Datin Seri in Brunei recently for His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam’s 68th birthday celebrations.
“I very much appreciate the work that we have done over the years as close friends and neighbours in strengthening the long-standing bilateral relations between our two countries.
“I look forward to continuing our work during Malaysia’s Asean Chairmanship in 2015 and wish you the very best in all your preparations.” - Borneo Bulletin (31 August 2014)
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Ann on her way up the multi pitch
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Ann on the sharp end leaning back pitch two
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Ann racking the gear
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Ann on the Sharp end at 7 star park
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Joe and Ann at cliff artistic blur
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Joe at Bellay in China
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China sunset
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Joe on the Sharp end
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Joe on Bellay on ground in China
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Ann at Zonlu house table
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An unbelievable shot of the tearace
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Ann in China's Time Square
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Taxi Drive Night
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ZonLu Village at sunset
Waiting to get on the Mag Lev (fastest train in the world)
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Shangri La and water
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Night shot of West Street
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Ann and I on Bike warmed up
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Ann on top of building shanghi at night
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Joe with tower in glasses Shanghai
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Shanghi Street bare
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The Bund at night
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A lonely silouette
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Ann Below Shanghai World Trade Center
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Ann doing a hand stand along river
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Paris 2010 Velvia Slide film
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Ana on railing
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Ann and the Kids
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Emmett at fountain
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Kids by the fountain
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Fountain shot two
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Ida and the Snake
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Ida in the tree
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Ann and her bicicle built for two in city
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Smaller Ann and I on Bike warmed up
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Ann at Pizza place
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Ann on the front of the bike built for two
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Our Chinease friends
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Ann and I from Go Pro on Tandem Bike
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Flowers and mountains
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Joe and Ann and go pro on bike
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Smaller Joe and Ann on a bicle built for two on west street
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West Street Tandem
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proverbs356
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cool-bible-facts6
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Beautiful scene of mountains and streem and ducks touched up much smaller for blog
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300---Rep-Spartan-Workout
Ann and some friendly monkeys.
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The group on pitch one of flat Iron
Ann climbing
Down the Isle
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Abram climbing
Ann on Flat Iron
Earwax candles!
Proposing to Ann
Earwax Candles
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Ann and Richard and Joe
Joe and his mom
Ann's Mom
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Ann and mom as a kid!
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Ann and I walking in Yangshou
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Shout Mag add
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web_image_blue
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Ann on bike beautifully blurry
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Ann at summit
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Ann Black and white
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Ann and Richard
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Two Broken Arms
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Shout Ad 1
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Richard, Ann, and Joe at a restaurant in Yangshuo
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Ann and Richard climbing in Seven Star Park, Guilin, China
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Just after climbing in Seven Star Park, Guilin City, China
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Hanging out at Seven Star Park in Guilin
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At the Longsheng Rice Terraces
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All three of us on our ledges
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Bryan on Pitch two
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Bryan on Porta Ledge
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Bryan on the Jumars
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Bryan on the ledge
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Joe aiding off the ledge
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Joe and Ann head shot on the ledge at night
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Joe and Bryan on pitch two
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Joe and the haul bags
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Joe on PortaLedge
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Ann and Joe ledge joe shirt off
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"Will You Marry Me?" tarps
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Ann and the bird
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Youth Group Backpacking Trip
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Easter Hike 2
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Easter Hike
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1st Anniversary Card
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Father Son
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Joe & Mike
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Posted by Ann Baker on 13 Feb 2012 / 4 Comments
During our dating years, Joe introduced me to the book “Captivating” by John and Stasi Eldredge. Captivating takes women on a journey of exploration and discovery to find the life Christ has intended for the feminine soul. When I first received it I was intrigued at what lay behind the beautiful front cover. After reading just a few chapters, I found my heart deeply connecting with the author.
The back cover of the book reads:
Most women think they have to settle for a life of efficiency and duty, chores and errands, striving to be the women they “ought” to be, but often feeling they have failed. Sadly, too many messages for Christian women add to the pressure. “Do these ten things, and you will be a godly woman.” The effect has not been good on the feminine soul.
But her heart is still there. Sometimes when she watches a movie, sometimes in the wee hours of the night, her heart begins to speak again. A thirst rises within her to find the life she was meant to live–the life she dreamed of as a little girl.
The message of Captivating is this: Your heart matters more than anything else in all creation. The desires you had as a little girl and the longings you still feel as a woman–they are telling you of the life God created you to live. He offers to come now, as the Hero of your story–to rescue your feminine heart and release you to live as a woman, fully alive. A woman truly captivating!
It didn’t ever cross my mind that I would have the opportunity, or even really want to go to the conference again, simply because I had already been before. But God laid it on my heart to go again this year and to invite another dear friend of mine. I met Margie while living in Texas working on the Stork project, and Joe and I had grown very close to her and her husband. I invited Margie to the retreat, and much to my surprise, she happily said yes (it was very short notice inviting her)!
Me, Charae, and Margie just before leaving on a hike during some of our free time at the retreat.
The opening session of the retreat was called “The Core Desires of a Woman’s Heart.” It felt so good to be reminded that the desires and passions that I have as a woman are designed to execute a specific role in a larger story. The first core desire of a woman is a desire to be romanced and pursued, not only by men but also by God. We long for Jesus to rescue our hearts and become our intimate lover. We long for Him to pursue us in a relationship full of danger, risk, beauty, and the unknown. All that we need to do as women is to give Him permission to woe us. As far as earthly lovers go, every woman that I have ever met longs to be romanced by someone. I sure do. We want someone to know us deeply, perhaps more than any other human. We long for a man to share life’s experiences with – the good and the bad. This is where the retreat took on new meaning for me. Being married as I heard this message spoke volumes.
The second core desire is a desire to play an irreplaceable role. I am reminded of a scene from the Lord of the Rings where Arwen is riding on horseback in an attempt to get Frodo medical help. She told Aragorn that she was the faster rider, and so she sets off to help Frodo. While riding she is pursued by the seven Black Riders. She makes it through the river and calls to the spirits for help. Frodo’s destiny depends on her, and she is the only person who is able to fulfill that role. I long for a deeper role that only I can play in the larger story God has called me to. I long to battle for those I love and for the causes I am passionate about.
The third core desire is a desire to have a beauty all of our own to unveil. Ladies, this is sooo true! Don’t we all long to be beautiful to someone? To everyone? Women were created as the crown of creation, the most beautiful thing God had ever made. Adam was incomplete without Eve. God called her Adam’s “Ezer,” his lifesaver. We are called to bring life to creation, and to have a beauty to unveil to those around us. This can be seen in any beauty magazine you pick up, at any shopping mall, and while watching young girls play dress up. Our beauty is a powerful thing! Beauty strikes the heart like nothing else.
Living from the desires of your heart is the hardest way to live. As soon as you start trying to live from your heart everyone will continually try to shut you down. Many women lose heart and trade pursuit for passivity, adventure for safety, and captivating beauty for good enough. To live from your heart is a battle. To get your heart back is all out war! We as women live under a daily sustained assault. And the barrage of enemy fire is sent to crush one thing – our identity as captivating women.
I left the weekend in Colorado reawakened to who I am as a woman. There is still quite the inner journey to continue but I am sure of one thing – God thinks I am captivating.
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Strong Building (1929)
© Photographed July 20, 2015
Beloit, Rock County, Wisconsin
42.49966,-89.0354
The Strong Building is located at the southeast corner of the intersection of East Grand Avenue and State Street, at or near 400 East Grand Avenue, Rock County, Beloit 53511.
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory
400, 404, 408 East Grand Avenue, Rock County, Beloit
Historic Name: Strong Building
Architectural Style: Art Deco
Wall Material: Terra Cotta
Architect:Samuel Oman and Samuel Lillienthal
National/State Register Listing Name: Strong Building
National Register Listing Date: 1983-01-07
State Register Listing Date: 1989-01-01
The most distinctive Art Deco building in the city, the four story Strong Building, built in 1929 by Chicago architects Oman and Lillienthal, is characterized by a glazed terra cotta facde, reeded piers and recessed spandrels, and dramatic (and colorful) Art Deco ornament, including the remarkable floral motif at the frieze. Faced with light green terra cotta panels on the upper stories, and darker brown panels on the ground story, the Strong Building wraps around the intersection of State and Grand with a curved corner. Fifteen piers, most ornamented with reeding, race uninterrupted to the frieze where they are crowned with large, stylized white and yellow daisies imposed on a dark green background. Recessed from the piers, the spandrels are ornamented with incised and applied Art Deco ornament in a variety of geometric and floriated patterns. The first story facade is punctuated with large plate glass display windows, surmounted by transoms, and two entries including one on the north facade which features a large Art Deco surround. Except for some alterations to the store fronts on the easternmost bays of the north facade, the exterior of the Strong Building remains in original condition. Inside, however, extensive remodeling over the years has divided the space into small offices and retail space and has taken a toll on the original Art Deco features. Surveys of Rock County (beginning with a county-wide reconnaissance survey in 1975, and updated through intensive surveys of Beloit (1980-81) and Janesvile (1981-82), have clearly revealed that the Strong Building is the most significant Art Deco structure in Beloit and one of two excellent examples of teh style in Rock County. (The Monterrey Hotel in Janesville is the only comparable Rock County structure). The stylized and colorful ornament, the terra cotta sheathing and the reeded piers create a "modernistic" landmark in the center of the city. Chicago architects Samuel Oman and Samuel Lillienthal began their practice in 1922 and have been credited with the designs of the St. Clair and Eastgate hotels in Chicago as well as the Marine Drive apartments in that city. Built in 1930 by F.M. Strong, the building has served as retail and office space since its construction.
The foregoing text used with permission of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Wisconsin.
The Strong Building is located in Beloit, Wisconsin.
Labels: National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin, Rock County Wisconsin Historical Markers
Location: 400 E Grand Ave, Beloit, WI 53511, USA
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St. Patrick and the Persecution Complex
Posted on March 20, 2013 by Walker Wright
RealClearPolicy editor Joseph Lawler had the following to say about this past weekend’s holiday:
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Each year, the days leading up to March 17th remind us of another alarming reality that wasn’t obvious before social media: apparently at least half of Americans think that the holiday is called “St. Patty’s Day.”
Now, imagine that you were were kidnapped as a [British] teenage boy and sold into slavery in a foreign, wild land. Then imagine that you escaped back to your homeland, and daringly returned to your captors to convert them — all of them — to your faith, driving out a country-wide infestation of snakes along the way, establishing yourself as the patron of that nation forever. And imagine you did all this only to be called a girl’s name by millions of [expletive] on the internet centuries later.
That is the situation that St. Patrick, rolling in his grave, faces today.[1]
Though his name may be butchered by an increasing number of social network users, St. Patrick can at least be happy about how far his Irish brothers and sisters have come in American life. More accurately, St. Patrick can be happy about how far his Anglo-Saxon brothers and and sisters have come in their treatment and acceptance of the Irish in American life. Irish soldiers serving in the English military marched through New York City on March 17, 1762, initiating the very first St. Patrick’s Day parade. This celebrated tradition was, ironically, started by immigrants who were originally considered “people of color” by their fellow Americans: “In general, the Irish were seen as a separate race. They were considered members of the “inferior Celtic race” that could be physically distinguished from the “superior Anglo-Saxon race.” Especially in the decades prior to the Civil War, it was not uncommon to refer to the physical distinctiveness of the Irish.”[2] For example, an 1860 American encyclopedia defined the Irish as a separate race. This was not unusual: “Americans of indigenous, African, Asian, Slavic, and Mediterranean descent” were also considered “non-White.” Italians and other southern Europeans were “racially positioned in a similar manner.”[3] Eventually, Celts, Italians, and others were accepted as fully white.[4] But what does this even mean? The validity of the term “whiteness” has been seriously challenged (rightfully so, in my view) due to inconsistent definitions and glaringly obvious political ideologies in the literature.[5] Nonetheless, sociologists Jonathan Warren and France Winddance Twine define the term as “the norm against which all are measured and all are expected to fit. Whiteness does, however, take shape in relation to others.”[6] Under this definition, I find the concept useful. The racial discrimination against what would now be considered white groups by other white groups reveals the extremely complex history of racism and group prejudice. Like most things, it is not black-and-white (excuse the pun). The point is that these outsiders were seen as physically distinct from insiders.
The late historian George Fredrickson identified two components of racism: difference and power. This is an “us vs. them” mentality that finds the differences between the two to be “permanent and unbridgeable.”[7] This in turn motivates those in power to suppress “them.” “[Racism] either directly sustains or proposes to establish a racial order, a permanent group hierarchy that is believed to reflect the laws of nature or the decrees of God.”[8] Fredrickson points to the association of Jews with the devil and witchcraft in the 13th and 14th centuries as the first inklings of a racist worldview. In the public eye, Jews evolved from having false beliefs and the guilt of the Crucifixion on their shoulders to being intrinsically different from their European counterparts. Similarly, the enslavement of black Africans was justified largely because blacks were considered heathens (white enslavement had declined in Europe since the Middle Ages in part due to the belief that it was wrong to enslave fellow Christians). As conversions to Christianity took place among slaves, scriptural justification for continued enslavement was found in Genesis 9 and the infamous “curse of Ham.” Black slaves were no longer heathens, but they did have “heathen ancestry.” The Enlightenment and secular science provided a pseudo-scientific rationale for understanding different races as separate species. If “all men are created equal,” but a group is “scientifically” shown to be subhuman, then those rights do not apply.
“After the Mormon exodus to the Great Basin, Americans came to see Mormons–the majority of whom were either displaced Yankees or converts from Northern Europe–as a foreign race.”[9] The “unnatural” practice of polygamy had given rise to a new distorted race of sexually deviant creatures. Robert Bartholow, a U.S. army surgeon, wrote of the Utah saints in 1858,
The yellow, sunken, cadaverous visage; the greenish-colored eyes; the thick, protuberant lips; the low forehead; the light, yellowish hair; and the lank, angular person, constitute an appearance so characteristic of the new race, the production of polygamy, as to distinguish them at a glance.[10]
Yet, instead of Mormons being inherently inferior, it was their practice of polygamy (a type of “race treason”) that caused their supposed racial degradation. Much like other races considered separate and unequal, Mormons faced legal opposition that was seen as justifiable based on their racial inferiority.[11]
Mormons have often been described as suffering from a “persecution complex” and to some extent I think this is true. But as philosopher Simon Critchley recently pointed out in a popular New York Times op-ed,
Among my horribly overeducated and hugely liberal friends, expressions of racism are completely out of the question, Islamophobia is greeted with a slow shaking of the head and anti-Semitism is a memory associated with distant places that one sometimes visits — like France. But anti-Mormonism is another matter. It’s really fine to say totally uninformed things about Mormonism in public, at dinner parties or wherever…This is a casual prejudice that is not like the visceral hatred that plagued the early decades of Mormonism…but a symptom of a thoughtless incuriousness…But every now and then during one of those New York soirées, when anti-Mormon prejudice is persistently pressed and expressed, and I perhaps feel momentarily and un-Mormonly emboldened by wine, I begin to try and share my slim understanding of Joseph Smith and my fascination with the Latter-day Saints. After about 45 seconds, sometimes less, it becomes apparent that the prejudice is based on sheer ignorance of the peculiar splendors of Mormon theology. “They are all Republicans anyway,” they add in conclusion, “I mean, just look at that Mitbot Romney. He’s an alien.” As an alien myself, I find this thoughtless anti-Mormon sentiment a little bewildering.[12]
In essence, Mormons are often the wrong kind of minority and strains of prejudice still run through society.[13] Mormons, however, should not practice this form of prejudice toward others (as they have and may still). President Gordon B. Hinckley made this clear in his April 2006 Conference address:
Racial strife still lifts its ugly head. I am advised that even right here among us there is some of this…I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ…Let us all recognize that each of us is a son or daughter of our Father in Heaven, who loves all of His children…If any within the sound of my voice is inclined to indulge in this, then let him go before the Lord and ask for forgiveness and be no more involved in such.[14]
But this goes far beyond racism. Race is an obvious candidate. This goes to the heart of prejudice, enmity, and hatred for one’s fellow man. Bigotry and hatred revolve not only around race, gender, or nationality, but also religion, culture, and politics. Each of these elements can be used to dehumanize another. I’ve seen fellow saints respond to counter-cult anti-Mormonism with their own brand of anti-evangelicalism (I admit my own past guilt). I’ve heard anti-Catholic (especially anti-papacy) nonsense in Gospel Doctrine classes. I’ve heard conservative members demonize Democrats (e.g. “Obama is evil”) and wonder how any faithful Mormon could support such a party. I’ve read some of the most vile and condescending things about conservatives from my left-leaning Mormon brothers and sisters. I’ve heard derogatory, ignorant claims about different ethnic groups from otherwise kind and thoughtful members of the Church. Bizarre racial theories still emerge when discussing sensitive topics like the priesthood ban. While this condition is a human plight and in no way unique to Mormonism, that does not excuse it.
Mormons have been at the pointed end of bigotry and hatred (even a form of racism). Instead of seeing persecution in every disagreement, members should take that history and experience and use it to develop empathy with others. “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them” (Matthew 7:12). Based on their history, Mormons should know what not to do unto others. This historical suffering should provide Latter-day Saints with the means to bridge gaps, build friendships, and heal the hearts of the alienated and oppressed. In essence, “mourn with those who mourn; yea, and comfort those that stand in need of comfort” (Mosiah 18:8-9).
Too often, we act like cheerleaders for secondary groups. We become [insert group here] first, disciples of Christ second. Imagine if St. Patrick had taken such an attitude. Instead, he returned to the land of his kidnappers and sought to bring the grace of Christ to the Irish. Perhaps St. Patrick’s Day could be viewed less as a drinking day (I hope this is already the case among my fellow Mormons) and more as a day of reflection. He introduced potential Irish converts to Christianity by means of their own traditions. His day can be a reminder to us all that despite our different backgrounds and past hostilities, we can all be brought together into one great whole. Even when his native land attacked Irish Christian settlements right after a mass baptism ceremony, Patrick did not embrace British nationalism or justify the raids based on “Celtic inferiority.” Instead, he rebuked the British king Coroticus in A Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus. “Patrick’s fury is easy enough to understand, all the more so when we recall his own history,” writes religious scholar Philip Jenkins.
He knew at first hand what it was like to see your homeland devastated by soldiers, and to be carried off into slavery. Everywhere he looked in Ireland, he saw enslaved Christian women who had been seized from their British homes. But these latest horrors were the work of men who claimed to be Roman and Christian…This March 17, then, forget the snakes and the green beer. Think of the prophetic Christian leader who demanded that rulers live up to the faith they professed, and who had no hesitation in damning violent oppressors to Hell.[15]
May members of my church follow such an example.
1. Lawler, “Don’t Call It St. Patty’s Day,” RealClearReligion (March 17, 2012): http://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2012/03/17/dont_call_it_st_pattys_day.html. By the way, the lack of Irish snakes had more to do with the Ice Age and less to do with the patron saint. This is one of several myths surrounding St. Patrick’s Day.
2. Jonathan W. Warren, France Winddance Twine, “White Americans, the New Minority?: Non-Blacks and the Ever-Expanding Boundaries of Whiteness,” Journal of Black Studies 28:2 (November 1997): 202.
3. Warren & Twine, 1997: 204-205.
4. It turns out 34.7 million U.S. residents have Irish ancestry, which is the second highest reported ancestry in the nation. This will most likely rise along with the increasing intermarriage rates. For further reading on minority ancestry, see Ronald Bailey, “The Silly Panic Over a Minority White Nation,” Reason.com (Feb. 21, 2012): http://reason.com/archives/2012/02/21/white-majority-minority-2050; Sam Roberts, “A Nation of None of the Above,” The New York Times (Aug. 16, 2008): http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/weekinreview/17roberts.html?_r=0
5. See Eric Arnesen, “Whiteness and the Historans’ Imagination,” International Labor and Working-Class History 60 (Fall 2001): 3-32.
6. Warren & Twine, 1997: 207.
7. Fredrickson, Racism: A Short History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002), 9.
8. Ibid., 6.
9. Nathan B. Oman, “Natural Law and the Rhetoric of Empire: Reynolds v. United States, Polygamy, and Imperialism,” Washington University Law Review 88:3 (2011): 681.
10. Ibid.: 682-683
11. See Oman’s piece in full for more details.
12. Simon Critchley, “Why I Love Mormonism,” The New York Times (Sept. 12, 2012): http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/why-i-love-mormonism/
13. See Mona Charen, “The Wrong Kind of Minority,” National Review Online (Dec. 30, 2011): http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/286809/wrong-kind-minority-mona-charen
14. Hinckley, “The Need for Greater Kindness,” Ensign (May 2006): http://www.lds.org/ensign/2006/05/the-need-for-greater-kindness?lang=eng
15. Jenkins, “Raging on St. Patrick’s Day,” RealClearReligion (March 16, 2013): http://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2013/03/16/raging_on_st_patricks_day.html
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St. Patrick and the Persecution Complex — 24 Comments
larryco_ on March 20, 2013 at 4:38 am said:
“And imagine you did all this only to be called a girl’s name by millions of [expletive] on the internet centuries later. That is the situation that St. Patrick, rolling in his grave, faces today.”
Do you really think he would be more concerned about the nickname than the fact that people all over the world get fall-over drunk on the day we commemorate his religious accomplishments?
Allen on March 20, 2013 at 10:04 am said:
“Yet, instead of Mormons being inherently inferior, it was their practice of polygamy (a type of “race treason”) that caused their supposed racial degradation. Much like other races considered separate and unequal, Mormons faced legal opposition that was seen as justifiable based on their racial inferiority.”
19th century racism could be complex. Another (more benign) example of the religious based racism that you describe is how the British for the longest time would not recruit Gurkhas from among the Buddhist tribes. It was feared that being born into a pacifist belief-system inherently made one less-warlike. When at last Buddhists were recruited, many officers were amazed to find Buddhists were much like Christians.
“This was not unusual: “Americans of indigenous, African, Asian, Slavic, and Mediterranean descent” were also considered “non-White.” ”
In Russia “black” is applied to Caucasians, IE, Chechens, Daghestanis, Adyghe, Armenians, Georgians, and Azeri. It means that you have dark hair and a swarthy complexion. To describe Africans (when the term negro isn’t used), one would say black-skinned.
Racism and prejudice rear their ugly heads in countless guises.
Anyway, thought-provoking post, thanks!
Walker Wright on March 20, 2013 at 10:35 am said:
Thanks for bringing so much to the table, Allen! I’m always fascinated (and saddened) by how racism and prejudice take shape. It seems like any and everyone is tainted by it in one way or another.
Kullervo on March 20, 2013 at 1:56 pm said:
Religion is not a race. Religion is an idea. It’s not bigotry to oppose a bad idea.
Walker Wright on March 20, 2013 at 3:02 pm said:
I never said otherwise. But when you use religion to dehumanize people, it becomes bigotry. As Fredrickson pointed out with antisemitism, it went from opposing Jews because of beliefs to opposing Jews because they were intrinsically different. I often think people will say they oppose ideas, but think and treat individuals as “other” because of those ideas.
Christopher Smith on March 20, 2013 at 4:35 pm said:
Can’t say I liked your opening quote. Struck me as a bit misogynistic on Mr. Lawler’s part.
It’s interesting to note that the idea that polygamy was making Mormons racially distinct was one held by Mormons themselves as well as by the broader American population. The Mormons thought of it as a eugenics program to transform them into a race of supermen.
WalkerW on March 20, 2013 at 5:23 pm said:
The quote wasn’t meant to be enlightening. While this guy is up in arms because St. Patrick is called a “girl’s name” by FB users, the people he is the patron saint of have made major progress in America. That’s all that was meant by it.
Kind of like one of Allen’s (?) stories about a sacrament talk: “This was said by St. Hilary. Now I don’t know who she was…”
“The Mormons thought of it as a eugenics program to transform them into a race of supermen.”
You have a way of putting things that make reanalyze the way I think about a particular subject. 😉
Some of the persecution in Mormon history I think stems from arrogance on our part. Which is why dwelling on persecution doesn’t do much good. It gets complicated. Seeing the potential to use the history and experience for good? Now that seems fruitful.
>> You have a way of putting things that make reanalyze the way I think about a particular subject.
lol. Well in this case, I’m mostly just parroting B. H. Roberts:
“[The purpose of polygamy] was to give succeeding generations a superior fatherhood and motherhood, by enlarging the opportunities of men of high character, moral integrity, and spiritual development to become progenitors of the race. To give to women of like character and development a special opportunity to consecrate themselves to the high mission of motherhood. Race culture, then, was the inspiring motive of the plural wife feature of this revelation on marriage. It was in the name of a divinely ordained species of eugenics that the Latter-day Saints accepted plurality of wives.”
Roberts also said polygamy was instituted “that the day of the super-man might come.”
I also have a really interesting newspaper article from 1917 talking about how the Germans were considering following the Mormon example by adopting polygamy as part of their eugenics program. I haven’t dug into that yet, but it may become a WWE blog post at some point.
Another interesting link between Mormonism and the early 20th century progressive movement. Fascinating. I hope you end up blogging about it. Do you have the article? If so, will you send it to me?
Allen on March 20, 2013 at 6:49 pm said:
Yep, I heard that one Sunday.
Chris, what year is the Roberts quote?
Thanks for bringing that quote to my attention. Found this because of it: https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/040-37-40.pdf
What’s ironic is that polygamy has some major negative effects on society: http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/367/1589/657.full
And another: http://www.juvenileinstructor.org/a-divinely-ordered-species-of-eugenics/
Mormon endorsement of Nazis: http://www.wheatandtares.org/2012/01/05/nazis-and-mormons/
Several church members in Utah/Idaho were very supportive of Hitler in the 30s, due to his economic policies, his stance against communism, and him being seen as the underdog. I heard of one case from that person’s daughter. It really is important to realise just what they were supporting, and when. As the war progressed, of course, sentiment changed (kind of like Beethoven’s view of Napoleon), and to give credit where credit is due, they were extremely supportive of Wasserman, the noted Polish Jewish musician (colleague of Szpylman), when he moved to Utah. After hearing that story I considered conducting further researches- I am in a position to conduct much of it- but decided against the idea, I think it might prove too personal. At any rate, it is a complex relationship that members of the church had with Hitler.
I’d be interested in any resources you have, Allen.
Looks like you probably already found the source of the Roberts quote, but for anyone else who’s interested, this is from his magnum opus, “The Way, the Truth, the Life.” It wasn’t published during his lifetime, but is available in a Signature Books edition. If I recall correctly, he made similar remarks in the Comprehensive History of the Church.
“Some of the persecution in Mormon history I think stems from arrogance on our part.”
There definitely was a good deal of apocalyptic arrogance displayed by Mormon newcomers to Missouri. It would be interesting to compare that to other examples of arrogance which seem to afflict apocalyptic and messianic movements.
Of course, how can one forget Blazzing Saddles, “But we don’t want the Irish!”
WalkerW on March 20, 2013 at 11:16 pm said:
There is a book out by Richard Landes entitled ‘Heaven on Earth’ that is on my reading list. He looks at the different forms of millennialism in religious and political thought: http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/ReligionTheology/Theory/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5OTc1MzU5OA==
Allen on March 20, 2013 at 11:32 pm said:
You mentioned that one to me, I think. It is a great book, I was thinking of his Xhosa example in connection with similar behaviour by Yemenite Sabbatians.
SBA on March 21, 2013 at 10:28 pm said:
Petty, petty comment: Patrick was born ca. A.D. 400, before the Anglo-Saxons showed up.
Allen on March 22, 2013 at 9:49 am said:
You are right if you mean that Patrick was a Briton, but the Anglo-Saxons had already made inroads into Britain by AD 400.
I used “Anglo-Saxon” for those who finally accepted the Irish in American life (way after Patrick). I said they were Patrick’s “brothers and sisters” in universal sense mainly, but also because of the Anglo-Saxon relation to Britain.
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