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Washington Times settles case with Homeland over improper seizure of reporter’s notes
Documents improperly taken in raid on Audrey Hudson's home identified confidential sources
Law_Crime
Audrey Hudson
The U.S. and U.S. Department of Homeland Security flags fly over the Karnes County Residential Center in Karnes City, Texas on Thursday, July 31, 2014. Federal officials gave a tour of the South Texas immigration detention facility that has been ... more >
By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times - Monday, September 29, 2014
The Homeland Security Department has ordered a review of training for its Coast Guard criminal investigators as part of a broad legal settlement with The Washington Times over the improper seizure of a reporter’s interview notes involving sources.
The Times and its former reporter, Audrey Hudson, took Homeland Security to federal court after an August 2013 incident in which agents entered Ms. Hudson’s home with a warrant to collect information about guns that her husband reportedly possessed in the house. The agents used their access to seize reporting materials from Ms. Hudson, including documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and notes from interviews exposing problems in the agency’s Federal Air Marshal Service.
As part of the settlement, reached with the help of a federal magistrate over the summer, the government is taking the rare step of reimbursing some of the newspaper’s and Ms. Hudson’s legal bills accrued during the fight to protest the seizure last year.
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“While the settlement payments cover just a fraction of the legal bills we accrued, the fight was, in the end, about protecting a journalist’s right to keep her sources confidential and to engage in the First Amendment protected activity of reporting without unwarranted government intrusion,” said Larry Beasley, the president and chief executive officer of The Times.
Ms. Hudson, whose series on problems inside the Federal Air Marshal Service won awards before she departed The Times in 2010, said she hoped the settlement would prevent similar confrontations.
“The importance of this case was that we just were not going to let it stand, the idea that federal officers at will could confiscate a reporter’s notes without any sort of subpoena or search warrant seeking the notes or even directed at the reporter,” Ms. Hudson said.
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She started at The Times in 1999 and was the paper’s Homeland Security Department reporter when she wrote the articles.
The agents apparently did not appreciate the First Amendment protection of the press and Fourth Amendment right to privacy, Ms. Hudson said.
“Clearly, these employees were not trained, and they just thought that they could take any reporter’s notes that they wanted to,” Ms. Hudson said.
The Department of Homeland Security did not return calls seeking comment Monday. As part of the settlement, the agency said it returned to Ms. Hudson any documents or other notes that were taken during the raid.
The department also promised to require the director of the Coast Guard Investigative Service to “initiate an internal review and analysis of current training and policy related to the Privacy Protection Act.”
John Solomon, editor and vice president for content and business development for The Times, said the newspaper was “pleased DHS recognized a review was warranted of its training practices and that greater sensitivity among its investigators is needed to the constitutional safeguards that should have been triggered in this episode.”
Allen Farber, a lawyer at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP and one of The Times’ counsels in the case, said he was pleased with the resolution. “I hope the government will implement training and follow procedures to prevent such intrusions in the future,” he said.
Maryland State Police and a federal agent with Homeland Security’s Coast Guard Investigative Service raided Ms. Hudson’s home on Aug. 6, 2013, at 4:30 a.m. The officers had a warrant to search for registered firearms and a potato launcher supposedly belonging to Ms. Hudson’s husband.
Mark Grannis, Ms. Hudson’s attorney with the law firm Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP, said it was significant that the settlement did not involve only money, but also an assurance from the government that training programs would be improved and would “hopefully raise awareness of privacy protections among the press.”
“Ms. Hudson stood up for the rights of the press and did not let the federal government seize her notes and violate the Privacy Protection Act,” he said.
Fred Brown, a member of the Ethics Committee for the Society of Professional Journalists, said government actions like this can cause a chilling effect.
“If you’re a reporter, who wants to subject himself or herself to that kind of disruption?” he said. “For this kind of thing to happen, for the government to enter a house, seize documents that have to do with the reporting of a legitimate story, that’s inexcusable bullying.”
The government, Mr. Brown said, needs to follow a simple axiom when dealing with either the press or general public: “Follow whatever laws that apply.”
Mr. Grannis said he hopes the settlement serves as a reminder for federal agents going forward.
“At a time when more and more people are engaged in newsgathering, people that execute state and federal search warrants really need to be aware of the special privacy considerations that arise whenever a reporter’s notes are involved,” he said.
• Kellan Howell contributed to this report.
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National Assessment of Coastal Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise
The original national coastal vulnerability index (CVI) assessment was motivated by expected accelerated sea-level rise (SLR) and the uncertainty in the response of the coastline to SLR. This research was conducted between 1999 and 2001, and is currently being updated using new data sources and methodology. This original study was part of the ...
Contacts: Erika Lentz, Ph.D.
Attribution: Natural Hazards, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Region 11: Alaska, Region 6: Arkansas-Rio Grande-Texas-Gulf, Region 9: Columbia-Pacific Northwest, Region 2: South Atlantic-Gulf (Includes Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands), Region 4: Mississippi Basin, Region 1: North Atlantic-Appalachian, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Long-Term Coastal Change
Goals of this task include developing and improving coastal-change assessments and supporting long-term planning and decision making to ensure sustainable coastal economies, infrastructure, and ecosystems.
Contacts: Emily A Himmelstoss
Attribution: Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Region 11: Alaska, Region 6: Arkansas-Rio Grande-Texas-Gulf, Region 9: Columbia-Pacific Northwest, Region 2: South Atlantic-Gulf (Includes Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands), Region 4: Mississippi Basin, Region 1: North Atlantic-Appalachian, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards
Research to identify areas that are most vulnerable to coastal change hazards including beach and dune erosion, long-term shoreline change, and sea-level rise.
Contacts: Hilary Stockdon, Rob Thieler, PhD, Nathaniel Plant, Ph.D.
Attribution: Natural Hazards, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Region 1: North Atlantic-Appalachian, Region 2: South Atlantic-Gulf (Includes Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands), Region 4: Mississippi Basin, Region 6: Arkansas-Rio Grande-Texas-Gulf, Region 9: Columbia-Pacific Northwest, Region 11: Alaska, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Science Summary—New digital map documents surficial-aquifer thickness in the Delmarva Peninsula, Maryland and Delaware: Helping to understand the role of groundwater in delivering nitrogen to Chesapeake Bay
Nitrate, the major source of nitrogen in streams of the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay and the wider Delmarva Peninsula, is transported primarily in groundwater through the unconfined surficial aquifer. Understanding the subsurface processes that affect nitrate transport in this area has been hampered by a lack of regional information on the thickness of this aquifer.
Attribution: Chesapeake Bay Activities
Long-Term Response Monitoring of Suspended-Sediment Transport Characteristics on the Patapsco River near Ellicott City, Maryland, in Response to the Removal of Simkins Dam, 2010-present
For over 100 years, the Patapsco River has been impacted by the presence of several dams that were designed and built at the beginning of the 20th century. The objective of the project is to monitor suspended-sediment transport resulting from the removal of Simkins Dam on the lower Patapsco River in November 2010. The role of USGS in the project includes operation and maintenance of 3 stream...
Attribution: Region 1: North Atlantic-Appalachian, Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Water Science Center
Delaware Agricultural Shallow Groundwater Monitoring Network
Studies in the Delmarva Peninsula have demonstrated that groundwater in shallow unconfined aquifers near agricultural lands is susceptible to contamination from chemicals applied at the land surface.
Observed concentrations of nitrate in shallow groundwater commonly exceed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Maximum Contaminant Level of 10 mg/L on the peninsula. Groundwater...
Enhanced hydrologic and geomorphic monitoring in Ten Mile Creek, Montgomery County, Maryland
Ten Mile Creek is a small, predominantly agricultural and forested watershed located to the west of Clarksburg, Maryland, in an area that has experienced land-use change and urban development over the past decade. Additional development extending into the Ten Mile Creek watershed is planned over the next several years.
This planned development in the Ten Mile Creek watershed presents an...
Contacts: Edward J Doheny, Matt Baker
Bioremediation in Wetland Areas, Standard Chlorine of Delaware Inc. Superfund Site, Delaware City, Delaware
Major releases of chlorinated benzenes and benzene are known to have occurred at the Standard Chlorine of Delaware Inc. Superfund Site from 1966-2002, resulting in contamination of the groundwater underlying the site and the wetlands surrounding Red Lion Creek.
Although installation of a groundwater interception and treatment system has been completed around the main facility, wetland...
Contacts: Michelle Lorah
Coastal Monitoring Tide Gage Sites in Maryland, Delaware, and Washington, D.C.
Vital coastal storm-tide information needed to help guide storm response efforts following major storms affecting Maryland will be more accessible than ever due to a new monitoring network the U.S. Geological Survey is currently building.
A team from the USGS MD-DE-DC Water Science Center is surveying 63 locations in the state, determining their elevations and installing receiving...
Contacts: Jonathan Dillow, Michael Geissel
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimates water use by state, source of water, and category of use every 5 years. The withdrawals for Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia are available in the tables below.
In 2010, 1,472 million gallons per day (Mgal/d) of freshwater were withdrawn from surface water and groundwater sources in Maryland, 300 Mgal/d in Delaware, and 0.10...
Contacts: Wendy McPherson
Monitoring Water-Quality Response of Conservation Practices in the Bucks Branch Watershed, Sussex County, Delaware
The Bucks Branch sub watershed in the Nanticoke River basin has been identified as having one of the highest concentrations of nitrate in surface water of all sites sampled in Delaware.
Changes in water quality related to changes in agricultural conservation practices will be seen first in shallow groundwater as groundwater is the major source of nitrate in surface water.
Very...
Hydrogeology and Groundwater Quality of the Anacostia River Watershed
The Anacostia River has been subjected to dredging, filling, contamination, and other human influences for over 200 years. The result of these activities is that the river has been seriously degraded from its natural state. Many groups have been working to reduce the effects of environmental degradation on the water quality and living resources of the Anacostia River, primarily by focusing on...
Contacts: Cheryl Dieter
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Spain says ex-Venezuelan spy chief wanted by US is missing
by: CIARAN GILES AND JOSEPH WILSON, Associated Press
FILE – In this file photo dated Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, former Venezuelan military spy chief, retired Maj. Gen. Hugo Carvajal walks out of prison in Estremera, outskirts of Madrid, Spain. Spanish police said Wednesday Nov. 13, 2019, they have been unable to locate Venezuelan former spymaster Carvajal, wanted by the United States for extradition on charges of drug trafficking. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, FILE)
MADRID (AP) — Spanish police said Wednesday they have been unable to locate a Venezuelan former spymaster wanted by the United States for extradition on charges of drug trafficking.
Police told The Associated Press that its officers have been unable to find Maj. Gen. Hugo Carvajal.
News website El Español reported on Friday that a Spanish court had reversed an earlier ruling throwing out the U.S. arrest warrant and that it had ordered authorities to proceed with the extradition request. A spokesman for the National Court said Wednesday that no decision on the case has been made public at this time.
Carvajal’s lawyer, Maria Dolores de Arguelles, said her client couldn’t be considered a fugitive because the defense has not been officially notified of the court ruling granting the extradition, and no court summons or arrest warrant has been issued.
Carvajal is free on bail, but his passport has been confiscated and he is not allowed to leave the Madrid region, according to the bail terms. He also needs to sign in at the court every 15 days — the next time is Friday.
Anti-drug prosecutors in Spain had appealed a mid-September decision by the National Court rejecting the extradition to the United States, where he is wanted on drug smuggling and other charges.
The extradition needs to be cleared by the Spanish Cabinet, which typically holds weekly meetings every Friday. Appeals can be filed before the country’s Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights, but that wouldn’t necessarily stop the extradition.
The U.S. had been seeking Carvajal’s extradition since the former head of Venezuela’s military intelligence fled to Spain in late March after publicly supporting the opposition’s efforts to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Prosecutors in New York say Carvajal should face trial for “narcoterrorism” as part of a group of Venezuelan officials who were charged with “flooding” the U.S. with drugs.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration ties Carvajal to a 5.6-ton cocaine shipment busted in Mexico in 2006 and accuse him of aiding and protecting Colombian guerrillas.
Wilson reported from Barcelona. Aritz Parra in Madrid contributed to this report.
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The History of Yoga - Where Did Yoga Come From? No It originated. It has gone evolution that was much and had been handed down orally. The first reference to Yoga was discovered when excavations were made in the Indus valley - an wonderful powerful and powerful civilization from the first period. This culture developed around the Indus river and the long gone Sarasvati river in India and'd sewage systems, baths as early BC. While religions continue To wish to make yoga their own creation, it belongs to all of us. It has many aspects that is found from the Hindu and Buddhist faith, but the basic principals are worldwide and based on"the eight limbs of yoga", which can be found in all religions. The History of Yoga is described as four phases: Vedic Period Period, Classical Period, Post Classical Period and the Modern Stage History of Yoga Yoga Is said to be as old as culture itself but the oral transmission of this practice, has left several openings in its history. Earliest archeological evidence relating to the presence of yoga is found excavated from the Indus valley, constituting a figure seated in a conventional yoga pose. The rock seals put Yoga's existence around 3000 B.C. The Vedic Period The following Reference yoga is found in the Rig Veda, the earliest sacred text on earth. The Vedas, dating back to 1200 BC and 1500, are a collection of hymns, mantras and brahmanical rituals which praised a being that is greater. Meditation is known to without any mention of a method or a clinic to attain this discipline. The Atharva Veda too mentions yoga with a reference to controlling the breath. Pre-Classical Period The Introduction of the Upanishads, The term Upanishad intends to sit near and implies that the only way a student could learn the truths was by sitting close. The Maitrayaniya Upanishad summarized a route to liberation. This six-fold yoga course included controlling the breath (pranayama), withdrawing the senses (pratyahara), meditation (dhyana), concentration (dharana), contemplation (tarka), and absorption (samadhi). Patanjali's Yoga Sutra was to mirror these paths with elucidation and a couple of additions. Two yoga areas Gained prominence now: karma yoga (path of action or ritual) and jnana yoga (path of knowledge or study of the scriptures). Both avenues led to liberation or enlightenment. The Bhagavad-Gita, written around 500 BC later included the bhakti yoga (the path of loyalty ) for this path. It was at the time of the Upanishads that the idea of Ritual sacrifice became the notion of sacrifice of the ego through action, self-knowledge and wisdom and was internalized. This remains an important part of yoga's philosophy now. Now as with the Vedas, the Upanishads contained nothing of what we'd term as yoga asana practice. The most important and probably first demonstration of yoga arrived in the next period. Classical Period Written some Time Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, in the century produced a landmark defining what is currently called the Classical Period. This pair of 195 sutras (aphorisms) is considered to be the first systematic demonstration of yoga, and Patanjali is revered as the father of yoga. Patanjali described the eight-limbed route of yoga (ashtanga yoga), which explained a practical treatise on living and laid out a path for attaining harmony of the mind, soul and body. Strict adherence to which would lead you. Although yoga no longer sees the necessity, the sutras nevertheless function as a guideline for living in the world. Post-Classical Period It Was that the belief of the body as a temple had been revived and yogis designed a clinic also to prolong life and to rejuvenate the human body. It was no longer required to escape from reality; rather the focus was living in the moment and about the correct path. The quest of the spiritual and the bodily halves and the necessity to harmonize body, the mind and spirit caused the creation of Tantra yoga, to Hatha yoga at the tenth or ninth century, and to cleanse the entire body and mind. Contemporary Period Yoga in its current avatar owes lots of To learned gurus who traveled west to spread the benefits of yoga, or researched and generated distinct schools of yoga. Back in yoga-world.org addressed the Parliament of World Religions at Chicago and talked about Raja yoga. Swami Sivanada introduced the five principles of yoga and wrote several books on philosophy and yoga. J.Krishnamurti, the Indian philosopher, affected thousands with his writings and teachings on Jnana yoga. Modern day yoga's epicenter practiced in the west, began Mysore India, with Krishnamacharya in 1931. T The first Hatha yoga college opened . Since Then, a lot more yoga professionals have become pioneers, popularizing yoga in keeping with the changing times and locating new fashions. Yoga in America has been A true yogi understands, although more concentrated on the Asana side of the clinic There is more to the encounter. I advise students to try Various styles and you will find one that provides you the most enrichment.
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ABOUT YOC
Family owned and operated for over 30 years!
In the spring of 1983, Ivan and Polly Yoder leased about 200 metal concrete molds and started producing statuary in south eastern Kansas close to Parsons. Soon after, they decided to take the plunge and sold their TV repair business in Hutchinson Kansas, bought a piece of property on highway 50 in Burrton, Kansas and relocated. With the help of their to sons, Don and Carl Yoder, the property was cleared of trees for construction and the first 50' X 60' building was built. Inside was a 20' X 30' show room, small paint room, oil room & mold room. The rest of the warehouse area was used for production. After completion of the new YOC in October of 1983, an existing house that was on the property was also removed to make way for the fast growing ornamental concrete business.
In 1986 they hired their first full time employee, artist Doris Yoder (Don's wife), to airbrush paint. In 1989, Don came on full time and added on to the existing warehouse by constructing a 60' X 120' building on the west side and an extra 10' X 60' staging area on the north side. As business and the number of employee's increased in 1990, Carl came on full time primarily as a mold maker and supervising the morning concrete pour production. As business continued to flourish through the 1990's YOC dropped the mold making side of the business and focused primarily on the production of concrete statuary.
On September, 12 1997 YOC had a devastating fire that destroyed most of the plant saving only the shell of the original building. Within a short few months, a new warehouse was rebuilt and another 3,000 sq foot was added to house the now huge inventory of ornamental concrete.
In 1999, the YOC acquired property north of the warehouse and expanded their yard to it's current size with another 5 acres if needed. Today, Yoder's Ornamental Concrete is well known through out the entire midwest and a popular destination for art lovers everywhere.
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Who Are the Young Turks?
A Film by Stephen Seemayer
and Pamela Wilson
The rent was cheap, the streets were tough, the beer was warm
Richard Newton, Eric "Randy" Johnsen, John Schroeder, James Croak, Jon Peterson, Marc Kreisel, Woods Davy, Paul Velick (a.k.a. "The Light Bob"), Andy Wilf, Monique Safford, Stephen Seemayer, Coleen Sterritt, The Dark Bob, Linda Frye Burnham
From 1977 to 1981, multimedia artist Stephen Seemayer took a Super-8mm movie camera and captured some of the artists and denizens of downtown L.A. in their unnatural habitat. He filmed them at work and at play, discussing art and the experience of living amid the gritty alleys and deserted industrial buildings at the city’s urban core.
A rough cut of the resulting documentary, “Young Turks,” was screened at a 1981 event called the Downtown Drive-In. The film was projected onto the wall of a warehouse that had been converted into artist studios. Then it was put into storage and never seen again.
Newly digitized and fully reedited with additional footage, “Young Turks” has been re-envisioned by Seemayer, along with film editor Pamela Wilson, with an eye to sharing it with a new generation.
In 1981, rents were cheap and life was edgy in downtown L.A. The artists featured in “Young Turks” discussed their reasons for moving there and how it affected their work.
Click on the logo above to watch the "Young Turks" trailer.
Order "Young Turks" on DVD
Watch "Young Turks" now on these digital platforms
"Young Turks" is now on a variety of digital platforms, including Amazon Prime, MGo, Xbox, iTunes, PlayStation, Vudu and Google play, which has just made the documentary about artists in downtown Los Angeles available to viewers in the United Kingdom, Australia and other international markets.
© 2012 Seemayer Studios LLC
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Trump campaign, RNC raise record $125 million in 3rd quarter
by: ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press
Posted: Oct 1, 2019 / 08:45 PM MDT / Updated: Oct 1, 2019 / 09:16 PM MDT
From left, Vice President Mike Pence, President Donald Trump, and Defense Secretary Mark Esper, participate in an Armed Forces welcome ceremony for the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, Monday, Sept. 30, 2019, at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Va. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee raised $125 million in the third quarter of the year, a presidential fundraising record.
The pro-Trump effort said Tuesday that it has raised more than $308 million in 2019 and has more than $156 million in the bank. Republicans aim to use the fundraising haul to fight off Democrats’ impeachment effort.
Former President Barack Obama and the DNC raised just over $70 million in the third quarter of 2011.
“President Trump has built a juggernaut of a campaign, raising record amounts of money at a record pace,” said Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale.
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel credited Democratic attacks on Trump for motivating supporters to donate in record numbers.
“We are investing millions on the airwaves and on the ground to hold House Democrats accountable, highlight their obstruction, and take back the House and reelect President Trump in 2020,” she said.
The fundraising announcement comes as the pro-Trump efforts launched their first major advertising campaign of the cycle. Trump’s team aims to devote $1 billion to his reelection.
Last week, as House Democrats launched their impeachment effort, the Trump campaign announced it would spend $8 million to air an ad attacking Democrats for trying to “steal” the 2020 campaign. The RNC said it would spend $2 million attacking Democrats for their support of impeachment.
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Emma Roberts has a lot to smile about these days.
The actress took to social media to share the first photo of her newborn son and revealed his name.
“Thank you 2020 for getting one thing right,” she wrote. “Our bright light Rhodes Robert Hedlund.”
Roberts welcomed her son with actor Garrett Hedlund last month.
Over the course of her pregnancy she shared occasional updates, in one interview saying, “I’ve been trying to not buy a ton of stuff because I love shopping. All I can say is thank goodness I’m not having a girl because the clothing situation would just be insane.”
She also appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan in December, and became the first pregnant woman to pose for the magazine’s cover.
In the interview she said she wasn’t sure she would be able to have children due to being diagnosed with endometriosis.
“When I found out about my fertility, I was kind of stunned,” she said. “It felt so permanent, and oddly, I felt like I had done something wrong.”
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Local Company Sponsors Community Football Scheme In Halifax
A well-established multinational manufacturing company continues to support a summer football programme in Halifax to engage young people over the School Summer Holidays.
AAM Powertrain Halifax (formerly Metaldyne) is part of the AAM (American Axle & Manufacturing) group which provides engine and powertrain solutions to the automotive industry.
The business, located on Parkinson Lane, Halifax, previously had a car park that was used by local young people to play informal football, but when the organisation erected fencing to secure the site, the company realised young people were left with little space in the area to play in. The company contacted Halifax Central Initiative who along with other local partners such as The Himmat Project, started a programme of football over the Summer aimed at 8-16 year olds. The programme is now into its 4th year and engages over 100 young people every summer.
The 6 week programme took place on a Friday afternoon and culminated in a tournament and prize giving on Friday 31st Aug at Calderdale College, Halifax that was attended by Powertrain Senior Staff and the Mayor of Calderdale.
Keith Eagle, Managing Director at AAM Powertrain said “Our Halifax business has been operating since 1959 and we see ourselves as part of the local community. We are proud to continue to sponsor the summer football programme and would encourage as many young people as possible to be involved. We always look forward to meeting them and presenting them with their well earned prizes.”
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July 28 police/fire reports
Published 9:00 am Friday, July 28, 2017
WINCHESTER POLICE
— Yvette Renee Byrd, 48, was charged Wednesday with public intoxication.
— James Dylan Caudill, no age given, was charged Wednesday with fourth-degree assault (domestic violence).
— Charles Allen Durham, 37, was charged Wednesday with fourth-degree assault (domestic violence) and second-degree unlawful imprisonment.
— Eric Anthony Gladson, 37, was charged Wednesday with driving on a suspended or revoked license.
— At 12:11 a.m. Wednesday, officers responded to 11 Hughes Ave. in reference to a domestic disturbance.
— At 12:40 a.m. Wednesday, officers responded to 102 Springmist Lane in reference to a breaking and entering.
— At 1:34 a.m. Wednesday, officers responded to a domestic disturbance at 408 W. Washington St.
— At 5:26 a.m. Wednesday, officers responded to 20 Virginia Ave. in reference to terroristic threatening.
— At 6:02 a.m. Wednesday, officers responded to 214 Abbeywood Drive in reference to someone banging on the neighbor’s door loudly.
— At 7:35 a.m. Wednesday, officers responded to 7 N. Main St. in reference to littering.
— At 9:37 a.m. Wednesday, officers responded to 1212 W. Lexington Ave. in reference to a toddler walking near the roadway. Police located the mother, who said she was sleeping and the child got out of the house.
— At 11:06 a.m. Wednesday, officers responded to a domestic disturbance at 237 E. Washington St. Charles Durham was arrested and charged with fourth-degree assault (domestic violence) and second-degree unlawful imprisonment.
— At 4:03 p.m. Wednesday, officers took a report of a stolen vehicle.
— At 8:10 p.m. Wednesday, officers responded to a domestic disturbance at 106 Springmist Lane.
— At 9:53 p.m. Wednesday, officers responded to 27 E. Washington St. in reference to an assault.
WINCHESTER FIRE-EMS
— On Wednesday, emergency personnel responded to nine general medical calls, two cardiac cases, one respiratory case and one stroke.
— At 5:38 p.m. Wednesday, firefighters responded to a structure fire at 5440 Van Meter Road.
— At 9:25 p.m. Wednesday, firefighters responded to an alarm sounding at 341 Frontier Way. A leak in the HVAC drain pan was discovered.
— At 10:55 p.m. Wednesday , firefighters responded to a mulch fire at 1919 Rolling Hills Lane.
— At 5:43 p.m. Wednesday, firefighters responded to a structure fire at 5440 VanMeter Road.
— At 8:38 p.m. Wednesday, firefighters responded to a transformer fire at 525 Old Ruckerville Road.
— At 7:35 a.m. Thursday, firefighters responded to an injury accident at the area of Irvine Road and Red River Road.
— At 10:22 a.m. Thursday, firefighters provided mutual aid to a call for Clay City Fire Department.
— At 10:44 a.m. Thursday, firefighters responded to an injury accident at 1255 Combs Ferry Road.
Police/fire reports for July 27, 2017
CLARK COUNTY SHERIFF Charged — John Anderson, 23, of Lexington, was charged Wednesday with theft by unlawful taking. Reports — At... read more
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Vampires, rebels and Katrina
Cinema 320 announces its spring schedule
A CHRISTMAS TALE (France 2008; NR)
Feb. 24, 26, 28 - 7:30 p.m.; Mar. 1 - 1, 3:50 p.m.
A bone marrow transplant for the matriarch (Catherine Deneuve) of a big, tempestuous French family brings skeletons galore sprawling out of their closets. 150 min. Subtitles.
OBSCENE: A PORTRAIT OF BARNEY ROSSET AND GROVE PRESS (2008; NR)
Mar. 3, 5, 7 - 7:30 p.m.; Mar. 8 - 1,
Engaging biography of the legendary free-thinking publisher who spent a fortune fighting obscenity charges against Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Tropic of Cancer, made the FBI’s watch list, and managed to bring five Nobel Prize winners for literature to American readers. 97 min.
I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND (Czech Rep 2008; R)
Mar. 10, 12, 14 - 7:30 p.m.; Mar. 15 - 1, 3:20 p.m.
The picaresque progress of an ambitious young man is chronicled in this funny and flippantly cynical comedy of Czechoslovakia’s turbulent 20th century. 120 min. Subtitles.
TROUBLE THE WATER (2008; NR)
As Hurricane Katrina bears down on New Orleans, an aspiring young rap artist tries out her new video camera on her friends and neighbors in the Ninth Ward. No one can guess the scenes of horror and heroism, desolation and resilience that will pass before her lens. 90 min. English and subtitles.
WENDY AND LUCY (2008; R)
Wendy (Michelle Williams) is a young woman driving to Alaska in search of work. Lucy is her dog. When their old car breaks down on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon the consequences make for a movie that will stay with you for a long time. 80 min.
GOMORRAH (Italy 2008; R)
Apr. 7, 9, 11 - 7:30 p.m.; Apr 12 - 1, 3:35 p.m.
A cross-section of Mafiosi characters big and small give life to Roberto Saviano’s bestseller about organized crime taking over Naples — a book so painful to the Mafia’s self-esteem that Saviano remains under armed guard today. 137 min. Subtitles.
WALTZ WITH BASHIR (Israel 2008; R)
Apr. 14, 16, 18 - 7:30 p.m.; Apr. 19 - 9 p.m. only.
A veteran of the 1982 Lebanon campaign goes inquiring among his buddies for their memories when he strangely finds that he cannot recall his own. 90 min. Subtitles.
(Sweden 2008; R)
Apr. 21, 23, 25 - 7:30 p.m.; Apr. 26 - 1, 3:15 p.m.
Lonely 12-year-old Oskar gets a desperately needed friend when a bewitching and reclusive adolescent girl named Lina moves into his apartment block. But Lina’s arrival also coincides with an outbreak of appalling murders in which the victims are drained of blood … 114 min. Subtitles.
THE CLASS (France 2008; PG-13)
Apr. 28, 30, May 2 - 7:30 p.m.; May 3 - 1, 3:25 p.m.
In a working class Parisian school, students from every place in the world where France ever set foot live out a challenging school year with their teacher. 128 min. Subtitles.
IMAGINARY WITNESS: HOLLYWOOD AND THE HOLOCAUST (2004; NR)
May 5, 7, 9 - 7:30 p.m.; May 10 - 1, 2:50 p.m.
Hollywood’s checkered yet fascinating confrontation with Nazism and the Holocaust across sixty years of movie history. Documentary narrated by Gene Hackman. 92 min.
Cinema 320 is located on the third floor of the Jefferson Academic Center at Clark University. cinema320.com
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Global shares mixed as investors await more earnings
Posted: Oct 16, 2019 / 12:42 AM EDT / Updated: Oct 16, 2019 / 07:53 AM EDT
Chinese investors react as they monitor stock prices at a brokerage house in Beijing, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. Asian shares were higher Wednesday after a gain on Wall Street boosted by healthy earnings reports from U.S. companies. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
TOKYO (AP) — Global markets were mixed Wednesday as investors await another batch of earnings reports from U.S. companies and Brexit talks faltered yet again.
Germany’s DAX rose 0.3% to 12,666, while Britain’s FTSE 100 fell 0.1% to 7,202. France’s CAC 40 was flat to slightly lower at 5,699.
U.S. shares were poised to open down with Dow futures falling 0.2% at 26,929. S&P 500 futures were also down 0.2% at 2,992.
European shares mostly declined after European Union and British negotiators failed to reach a breakthrough in Brexit talks during a frantic all-night session. They are to continue seeking a compromise on the eve of a crucial EU summit on Thursday.
A report also showed that inflation in the 19-country eurozone was revised down in September to its lowest rate in nearly three years. Low inflation, which can be a sign of a weak economy, has been a concern for officials at the European Central Bank.
In Asian trading, Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 1.2% to finish at 22,472.92, while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gained 1.3% to 6,736.50. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng edged up 0.6% to 26,664.28, while the Shanghai Composite index lost 0.4% to 2,978.71.
South Korea’s Kospi added 0.7% to 2,082.83 after the Bank of Korea announced it was cutting its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, to a record-low 1.25%.
Shares also rose in Taiwan and most of Southeast Asia. India’s Sensex fell 0.1%.
U.S. stocks notched solid gains Tuesday on Wall Street on surprisingly good quarterly results from some of the nation’s biggest companies.
Investors are looking to the wave of quarterly report cards due out over the next few weeks to give them a clearer picture of what impact the trade war between the U.S. and China is having on corporate profits and the broader economy.
“Global market sentiment was seen picking up a notch overnight with Wall Street gaining on earnings despite the uncertainty that persists on U.S.-China trade,” said Jingyi Pan, market strategist with IG in Singapore.
The encouraging earnings reports came with a spate of surprisingly good forecasts for the rest of the year, which helped ease concerns about a slowdown due to the costly trade conflict.
On Friday, the U.S. agreed to suspend a planned hike in tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese goods that had been set to kick in Tuesday. Beijing, meanwhile, agreed to buy $40 billion to $50 billion in U.S. farm products.
The U.S. did not, however, cancel plans for more tariffs in December and the sticking points of intellectual property and trade secrets still hang over the dispute.
ENERGY: Benchmark crude oil picked up 22 cents to $53.06 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It fell 78 cents to $52.81 a barrel Tuesday. Brent crude oil, the international standard, gained 9 cents to $58.83 a barrel.
CURRENCIES: The dollar fell to 108.77 Japanese yen from 108.85 yen on Tuesday. The euro strengthened to $1.1032 from $1.1029.
Matt Ott in Washington contributed to this report.
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Providence’s richest ZIP code getting biggest tax break, data reveals
by: Eli Sherman, Steph Machado
Posted: Aug 13, 2019 / 02:17 PM EDT / Updated: Aug 13, 2019 / 09:22 PM EDT
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – Enrique Gonzalez isn’t sure how he’s going to pay his Providence property tax bill this year.
The 67-year-old retired machine operator, who has lived with his family in one unit of their Broad Street two-family home for eight years, was surprised to see his tax bill when it arrived late last month.
The bill climbed to $2,585, compared to $1,949 last year.
Enrique Gonzalez holds his 2019 tax bill outside his Broad Street home. (Steph Machado/WPRI)
Gonzalez, who’s on a fixed income, said it’ll be difficult to come up with the extra $636, representing a 33% increase in his taxes.
“I don’t know what to do,” said Gonzalez, who rents out the second unit. “Maybe I’m going to increase the rent because that’s the only way I’m going to find the money.”
Gonzalez is hardly alone.
The first tax bill of fiscal 2019-20 is due Friday in Providence, and about 60% of homeowners will pay more than last year, according to a Target 12 analysis of more than 30,000 residential tax bills.
But the increases are not equal across Providence, which fueled a months-long debate leading up to the new fiscal year that pitted much of the East Side against the rest of the city.
(Story continues below.)
More than two-thirds of residential properties in the affluent 02906 ZIP code, which includes the Wayland and Blackstone neighborhoods on the East Side, will pay less in taxes compared to last year. The median household income in 02906 is about $77,000, Census data shows.
Homeowners in poorer areas are more likely to have a higher tax bill. In Gonzalez’s Washington Park neighborhood in ZIP code 02905, where median household income is about $41,000, about 63% of homeowners will pay more this year.
In 02909 — which includes Olneyville, Silver Lake and the West End, and where the median household income is about $34,000 — a whopping 75% of residential properties got a tax bill increase this summer.
The discrepancy stems largely from this year’s state-mandated citywide revaluation. The city’s independent assessor, Vision Appraisal, determined property values in some of the poorest neighborhoods had skyrocketed in recent years, while those in the richer neighborhoods remained fairly stable.
Dean deTonnancourt, president of the Rhode Island Association of Realtors, said the soaring values were partly fueled by the popularity of multifamily homes and starter homes for first-time homebuyers in neighborhoods outside of the East Side. The East Side real estate market, meanwhile, has remained relatively level.
“It’s all demand driven,” deTonnancourt said. “The market has rebounded since the Great Recession and values have come back up.”
The rising values could be good news for homeowners looking to sell their properties and recoup a profit off their original investment. But for long-time residents and those with no plans to move, rising tax bills can be a challenge.
The typical tax bill in the neighborhoods of 02904, 02905, 02907, 02908 and 02909 increased more than the median amount citywide. But in 02903 and 02906 — representing most of downtown and much of the East Side — the typical bill decreased.
Despite that, the typical East Side household is still paying a far bigger tax bill than residents in other parts of the city. The median 2019 property tax bill in 02906 is $6,744, while the median bill in 02909 is $3,006, less than half as much.
Providence Tax Debate
The city’s tax rolls – obtained by Target 12 through a public records request – confirmed the concerns raised by many city councilors, who scrambled to try and address the shifting costs before the new fiscal year began July 1.
Council President Sabina Matos said Target 12’s analysis demonstrates why she pushed for a change in the city’s tax structure before the bills were sent out last month.
“We realized that this was not fair,” Matos said an interview. “It was insane the amount of how the taxes were going to go up in some neighborhoods … and the taxes were going to go down for others. We were trying to address that.”
Matos said she plans to form a commission after the council’s August break to study the tax structure and revaluation process. The commission would include financial experts, tax policy analysts and business leaders. The goal would be to issue a report by the end of the year, she said.
In June, council leadership championed a failed attempt to create a two-tiered tax structure, which would have given a a smaller tax break to homeowners living in more valuable homes.
But the change required state legislation, which was squashed by the General Assembly after House leaders said it was introduced too late in the process.
Target 12 requested the city’s revaluation data in June to try and calculate the would-be effect on each neighborhood of the various proposals. But the city denied the request, arguing the new values hadn’t been certified. The data was released after the tax bills went to homeowners last month.
Much of the opposition to the two-tiered tax proposal came from the East Side, where homeowners living in higher valued homes would have received a smaller tax break — known as a “homestead exemption.” Non-owner occupied properties, typically owned by landlords, don’t get an exemption.
“This is the first time in a very long time that we have seen a tax decrease on the East Side,” said Councilwoman Helen Anthony, who represents Ward 2. “The East Side has paid their fair share of taxes. Under our current tax structure we pay more of the burden because we should, we have higher valued properties.”
She said some of her constituents actually felt their taxes were reduced too much this year.
“They saw significant savings, more than they expected,” Anthony said. “They say, ‘We didn’t want that either. … We’re happy to contribute. We just want to be treated fairly and we want to be a part of the process.'”
Matos, who represents Ward 15 and lives in 02909, said she couldn’t believe the East Side outrage over the two-tiered tax structure.
“We wanted to balance this out,” she said.
Mayor Jorge Elorza strongly opposed the two-tiered plan during the budget fight with the council, which delayed the passage of the fiscal 2019-20 budget until eight days after the new fiscal year started on July 1.
The leaders compromised, setting one residential tax rate of $24.56 per $1,000 of assessed value with a 40% exemption on the value of owner-occupied homes.
Elorza said on a recent taping of WPRI 12’s Newsmakers that he does support a progressive tax structure, but didn’t like that the plan was announced by the council two weeks before the start of the fiscal year.
“You don’t do this at the last minute and also you don’t do it to single out one community,” Elorza said. “If you’re doing this because it’s good policy, then let’s do it because it’s good policy.”
Digital graphic created by Lisa Mandarini
If Matos is successful in setting up a commission to study the city’s tax structure, the debate surrounding Providence taxes is poised to continue.
Anthony said she’s not sure yet whether she would support a progressive tax structure, but strongly supports studying the revaluation process. Right now, state law mandates a full revaluation every nine years and statistical changes are made every three years.
“This has been devastating this year for a lot of our city, just this drastic change all of a sudden,” Anthony said. “It’s just too much for people to handle, they don’t have the additional income.”
She said if updates to property values were made every year, it could be “an easier pill to swallow.”
“If you have a full reval every nine years, it just shakes you to your roots in terms of the drastic change that people are experiencing,” Anthony said.
At the state level, the House passed a resolution this year urged by Lt. Gov. Dan McKee to create a joint commission to study how the revaluation process affects all Rhode Island municipalities, but it didn’t pass the Senate. A Senate spokesperson said the commission was proposed late in the session, and there was no companion bill.
In Providence, as city leaders try to figure out a path forward, homeowners like Gonzalez are left to deal with the immediate consequences. “I don’t understand where I’ll find the money,” he said.
Matos is worried that the rising tax bills could send longtime Providence families packing.
“There are people who love this neighborhood,” Matos said. “They want to stay here in Providence.”
A note about the data
This report compares the tax bills of most residential properties listed on the 2019 and 2018 city tax rolls.
The two data sets, provided by the city of Providence, were not perfect matches, as some 2019 properties did not exist in 2018, and vice versa. Target 12 removed such properties from its analysis, along with any duplication of properties found in the data.
The city also provided the tax data before discovering an accounting error that resulted in the overcharging of about 21,000 tax bills. The city estimates the average impact was $1.12 per tax bill.
Eli Sherman (esherman@wpri.com) is a Target 12 investigative reporter for WPRI 12. Follow him on Twitter and on Facebook.
Steph Machado (smachado@wpri.com) covers Providence, politics and more for WPRI 12. Follow her on Twitter and on Facebook
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The order -- signed on Dec. 30 -- waives the existing requirement that a retired teacher's state pension be paused if they work for more than 90 days in a given school year. The provision exists to prevent so-called "double dipping," where a teacher could retire and draw their state pension but also take up another teaching post with a taxpayer-funded salary.
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Is the stigma of cannabis preventing more seniors from using it?
By: Kumasi Aaron
Posted at 3:34 PM, Nov 12, 2018
Seniors are among the fastest-growing population of new cannabis users. However, the stigma behind cannabis could be keeping some seniors from getting much-needed relief from chronic pain, as well as sleepless nights.
Greg Saweikis is one senior finding relief through cannabis. Since he was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in 2017, he’s undergone rounds of chemotherapy and radiation. But after a suggestion from a friend, Saweikis started taking cannabis, too.
He takes CBD and THC pills by Stratos. He even uses a cannabis cream for his hands.
“It seems like it really has been helping,” Saweikis says. “I sleep a little bit better.”
But Saweikis knows not all people his age and older are open to using cannabis.
“I think there is a large stigma, still,” he says. “And it's just a holdover from the 60s and the whole, you know, from demonstrations and all of that kind of thing.”
Since the 1930s you've been told there's something really bad about cannabis that's always going to be there in the back of your head.
Leland Rucker is editor of Sensi, a magazine for adults with a cannabis emphasis. He says the stigma is still attached.
“And I talked to one woman who it really helped her start to sleep. She's all of a sudden sleeping much better, but she was embarrassed about,” Rucker recalls. “She was embarrassed to talk to people about it, because she had been so cannabis negative all of her life.”
But Rucker says more older Americans are exploring, encouraged in part by their children and grandchildren.
“And so, you have to find out what the reality is,” Rucker says. “And I think that now that it's legal, we've given people that opportunity.”
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Nation That Sparked Arab Spring Finds Itself a Springboard for Illegal Migration
Plagued by an economic crisis at home, more Tunisians are sneaking into Europe; ‘They all reach a point of despair’
People wait to receive the bodies of loved ones in the Tunisian town of Sfax on June 4 after more than 50 migrants drowned in the Mediterranean the day before, the majority off the coasts of Tunisia and Turkey.
Photo: SOFIENE HAMDAOUI/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
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Aug. 27, 2018 5:30 am ET
AL ATAYA, Tunisia—More than seven years after Tunisians overthrew their country’s dictatorship in a revolution that spawned the Arab Spring, the country’s economy is in crisis and thousands of people are sneaking into Europe, as part of a new wave of clandestine migration from what had been a North African success story.
A fishing community here of low-slung stone houses, on the Mediterranean’s Kerkennah Islands, has become a gathering point for smugglers sending young Tunisians to Italy. The young people sail by night on fishing boats, hoping to find jobs and a new life on European shores to the north.
The exodus is a sign of the widespread sense of disaffection with the country following the euphoric ouster of autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.
“They all reach a point of despair,” Zine Abdedine Warda, a 54-year-old shipbuilder and teacher in Al Ataya, said of the young men boarding the boats. “There’s nothing for them on land, so they leave by sea.”
Tunisians now represent the largest population of migrants entering Italy on smugglers’ boats. More than 3,300 Tunisians have arrived in Italy this year, according to the United Nations. Nearly 6,000 others have been arrested for attempting to leave the country illegally, the Tunisian government said.
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Deftones Video Interview
Some bands are unstoppable. Cue Deftones. When devastation struck, and their bassist Chi Cheng was critically injured in a car accident, they pulled together to support him and each other. When they recorded Eros and decided that the album didn’t represent them personally or musically, they started over. What they ended up with instead was Diamond Eyes, a celebration of Chi that also proved to be a chart topping success, dubbed iTunes’ Rock Album of the Year in 2010. Deftones has managed to stay true to themselves while continuing to grow and evolve musically.
This past Wednesday, Deftones played to a sold out crowd in Montreal. Before they hit the stage, we were invited backstage to chat with Deftones drummer Abe Cunningham and keyboardist/DJ Frank Delgado on the one-year anniversary of the release of Diamond Eyes.
The fan reception to the album has been good, both in terms of record sales and for their live show.
“The shows have been amazing. We’re having fun. We just got off a string of sold out dates, so it’s a good time for us right now.”
During the interview, Frank and Abe talked openly about coping with Chi’s condition, and moving forward:
“Making this Diamond Eyes record was pivotal, dude. ‘Cause that was like life changing to the situation that happened with Chi for us to even attempt to keep on and to take a chance on ourselves. I think most bands don’t have those types of coping skills and friends […]”
“And it’s a healing thing too, you know […] it’s sort of a celebration of him. […] It really kicked our ass in a lot of ways […]”
But in the end, the guys still love what they do. And so do we.
Check out the video below for the complete interview, which explains the origin of Diamond Eyes, Abe "Tweeting," and much more. For pictures of the show at Metropolis, visit our Deftones photo gallery. For up to date information about Chi Cheng, visit https://www.oneloveforchi.com/.
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SALONE AND THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION
By Abubakarr Turay
One of the campaign pledges of President Ernest Bai Koroma in 2007 was to ensure zero tolerance for corruption and to toughen the fight against it corruption by strengthening the country’s anti-graft agency, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). The following year after his election, President Koroma translated his words into action by amending the then Act and enacting the Anti-Corruption Act 2008, which gives more powers to the ACC including powers for the Commission to prosecute its own cases and providing for all public servants to declare their assets with the Commission. The ACC has-especially in the last five years under the leadership of Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara-been using the provisions of the Act to make more gains in the fight against corruption in the country.
The National Anti-Corruption Strategies
The development of strategies to fight against corruption is important in targeting both grand or systemic corruption and petty or ordinary corruption. The Government of Sierra Leone had adopted two national anti-corruption strategies before the current strategy which runs from 2014-2018. The 2009-2013 strategy took a three-pronged approach: public education, prevention and law enforcement or prosecution. Implementation of the strategies has over the years helped to raise more public awareness of issues of accountability, transparency and integrity in public life; stir public debates about corruption and how citizens themselves could play a role in the fight against the scourge. The current strategy is people-driven and the experts that put it together incorporated the need to tackle private sector corruption.
Prosecution and recoveries
One of the major successes of the ACC has been in the area of prosecution. The Commission has successfully prosecuted all levels of individuals, including sitting government ministers, high court judges, heads of government and non-governmental organisations, police officers, and customs officials. For the period spanning January to October 2014 the anti-graft agency secured a one hundred percent conviction rate of all its cases in court. This includes a landmark case in which one of the accused persons was convicted for unexplained wealth and for failing to declare assets. This huge success in the cases prosecuted has resulted in a corresponding increase in the recovery of stolen public funds totalling over Twelve Billion Leones.
Systems and processes review of public establishments
Corruption is seen as widespread in the country mainly because the systems and conditions of public institutions make room for it to prevail. Consistent with its mandate, therefore, the Systems and Processes Review Department of the ACC has been conducting systems reviews of public institutions to unearth how the systems encourage corruption to thrive and what can be done to seal such opportunities in order to improve service delivery and revenue generation, in the case of public enterprises. Systems reviews have produced citizens’ service charters, policy and ethics guidelines on the use of public assets and codes of conducts to regulate the behaviour of civil servants in the workplace.
The government has been demonstrating its political will in the fight against corruption by providing over 90% budget support to the Commission. It has also been providing logistical support to the Commission.
The ACC considers partnerships as integral in the fight against corruption. This spans from maintaining a close work relationship with donors such as the World Bank, European Union, DFID and Irish Aid, who sometimes provide budget support to meet the shortfall in government funding and enables the Commission to implement some of its projects. One of such projects is ‘The Pay No Bribe Campaign’ financed by DFID to tackle acts of bribery in the country. This campaign followed the Global Corruption Barometer Report 2013 by Transparency International which ranked Sierra Leone as one of the countries with prevalent cases of bribery.
In a bid to build a network for intelligence and information sharing, the Commission has also signed Memorandums of Understanding with a host of specialised public institutions and civil society organisations.
Embracing Information Technology
One thing that came out of the Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer Report 2013 is that 99 per cent of Sierra Leoneans showed willingness to help the Commission in the fight against corruption. The Commission has been cognisant of this which is why it has been employing information technology, especially the use of social networks, to provide forums for more public debates about corruption and give more opportunities to the people to report acts of corruption to the Commission. Recently, the Commission developed an application for android phone users to anonymously report corruption in a much faster and easier way. The ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION SIERRA LEONE APP is on the SIERRA LEONE APP on Google Play and can be downloaded free of cost.
Monitoring of Ebola funds
The outbreak of the Ebola Disease has not only accounted for hundreds of lives in Sierra Leone but also severely affected the socio-economic developments of the country. Consistent with its mandates the ACC’s official response to the outbreak was to sympathise with the families of those who have lost loved ones, acknowledge the strides of those in the forefront in the fight against the disease, and reminding those handling Ebola funds and resources from government and local and international partners to use them judiciously in order not to contravene the provisions of the Government Budget and Accountability Act and the Anti-Corruption Act 2008. The ACC Commissioner and his team also visited the regional cities of Makeni, Bo and Kenema to give words of support to staff of the Commission in those areas and meet with stakeholders responding to the Ebola disease. The meetings with members of the Emergency Response Team were to prevent the situation that led the Geneva-based Global Alliance for Vaccine Immunisation (GAVI) to suspend funding to Sierra Leone in 2013 following an audit report which showed mismanagement of their funds. The matter led to the prosecution and conviction of some top health officials, an intervention that led the Alliance to restore confidence and funding.
International Rankings and Accolades
Sierra Leone’s strides in the fight against corruption has made been recognised in different quarters, as shown by the country’s rankings in transparency indices by Transparency International and the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. The Mo Ibrahim Index of 2013 shows the country has the largest 6-year improvement in accountability. The indicators used in the accountability category are accountability, transparency and corruption in the public sector, corruption and bureaucracy, accountability of public officials, and prosecution of abuse of public office. The country’s rankings in the 2013 and 2014 Corruption Perception Index by Transparency International show that the country went four places up to 119 (from its 123 position in 2012) out of 177 countries ranked in the index, with a one point increase in the scorecard. This means that Sierra Leone’s steady progress in the fight against corruption has seen it go thirty-nine places up in the index in the last five years. These achievements do not go unnoticed as the ACC has received several local accolades from civil society organisations and a World Bank award in 2010, an award of excellence in 2011, and more recently, in May this year at the Commonwealth Regional Conference for Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Africa in Accra, Ghana, Sierra Leone attained a first place benchmark by the Commonwealth as a country for transfer and peer learning.
In spite of the successes in the fight against corruption, several challenges prevail.
Celebrating the corrupt
The disturbing scenes of people carrying convicted officials shoulder high is a major challenge in the fight against corruption. There are instances when people celebrated corruption convicts simply because they are not handed stiffer penalties like custodial sentences. Another reason for such unfortunate celebrations is based on the political, regional, religious or tribal affiliations of the convict. Such scenes of merrymaking are seen by the ACC as an inducement for the commission of more corrupt acts.
Retention of staff
The Commission has been struggling very hard to retain its highly productive workforce due to better opportunities elsewhere. The lack of training and development opportunities for staff pose a serious threat to the Commission’s retention policy.
Lack of technical assistance
The Commission is in dire need of technical assistance especially to help build the capacity of staff of the Intelligence, Investigations and Prosecution Department. This is in order for the Commission to continue making gains in its court cases.
Bright prospects
The National Anti-Corruption Strategy 2014-2018 provides many opportunities and bright prospects for the country’s efforts in the fight against corruption. The strategy provides for the Commission to take a risk-based approach in the fight against corruption by putting more attention to corruption prone areas, revenue generating institutions and areas such as procurement where government expends large sums of public funds. The Commission also continues to build more partnerships and strengthen state institutions by ensuring that such institutions mainstream anti-corruption measures in a bid to imbibe the values of transparency, accountability and integrity in public life. In the area of law enforcement, the Commission continues to show its resolve to end impunity by ensuring that those who steal and misappropriate public funds and resources do not go unpunished. With the fight against corruption being one of the key indicators to qualify for the Millennium Challenge Corporation funding, the political leadership is putting more emphasis on zero tolerance for corruption.Start writing here...
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Steve Jobs: A Person with Vision
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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is, by far, one of the technology industry’s most influential figures.
Battling with a pancreatic cancer for over seven years, Jobs passed away on Thursday, the 5th of October 2011, at the age of 56. His death triggered diverse reactions; his mourners reached China, where an estimated 35 million grieving microblogging messages pervaded Sina Weibo—China’s equivalent of Twitter.
The American entrepreneur’s genius essentially consisted in his distinctive ability to manipulate technology to implant it in everyday life.
As such, Steve Jobs did not ‘invent’ anything. Like Shakespeare, the great dramatist of all times, Jobs made use of what was already there, within his reach, or tangible perhaps, and transformed it into a myriad of new, creative ways. In his own words:
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity.
– Steve Jobs, Wired, February, 1995
MP3 players, for instance, were not invented by Apple, nor were online music stores, but the 2001 launching of the iPod and the iTunes digital media store managed to capture generations of customers that record music companies thought were lost forever.
Mobile broadband, touch screens, online services—all had already existed for years, but the Californian brand is the one that succeeded in providing the average man with the whole package, with the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, the App Store in 2008 and the iPad in 2010.
Steve Jobs fashioned landmark products that have made industrial history, the way other great inventions have had over the centuries. Interestingly, he was a 21-year-old college dropout when he created Apple in 1976, together with his friend, Steve Wozniak.
It is undeniable that Steve Jobs will be remembered as one of our era’s greatest inventors. In this inspirational video, Jobs speaks about he came to be, he draws on his own experiences and strives to give courage to everyone who is willing to listen. We hope that you will find it intriguing and perhaps, you will manage to put some of his insights and advice into good use.
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A week or two ago, a friend of mine posted to Facebook this article from The Daily Beast railing against New York City nostalgia. I have really mixed feelings about the piece and the attitude of the person who wrote it. One thing’s for sure, the city has changed a lot since the “bad old days.”
Just to clarify, my experience of the real “bad old days,” the 70s and 80s, were as a kid who visited on the weekends. My parents are both native New Yorkers, and we came in to see my grandparents in Queens and Brooklyn, neither of which did I like, at all. My memories were of dirty, trash-ridden streets and dark, musty apartments with untouchable tchotchkes. My only really positive memories of the city were the things we sometimes did after those visits, like taking home pizza from Famous Ray’s (the REAL Famous Ray’s, or at least the one we thought it was), or special occasions, when we went to the Museum of Natural History, or to Broadway to see Annie, Cats (yes, twice) or Sweeney Todd (my parents had a history of taking us to stuff that wasn’t really for kids. I remember seeing Monty Python and the Holy Grail in the theater, and that came out when I was six).
I finally developed something of an appreciation for the city when I was a teenager in the 80s, when my friends and I started coming in on the PATH train to go shopping for vintage clothes and acquire colorful eponymous buttons for our backpacks at stores like Unique, Flip, Zoot, and Canal Jean Company. We stuck to a defined route down 8th Street and Broadway that hit these specific stores, and it was all we knew because we were too scared to go anywhere else or, God forbid, take the subway. That was the exaggerated fear of a suburban kid, no doubt, but still, the 80s were the era of Bernhard Goetz, Curtis Sliwa, and the Central Park jogger (before we knew that the teenaged defendants in that case were railroaded by the NYPD and the DA’s office).
By the time I moved here in 1990, the city was definitely considered a safer place. I lived first in the Village, which was a good starter neighborhood for NYC living, because even though it wasn’t the dreamy West Village of the quaint, winding streets lined with cute cafes, brownstones, and actual trees, it was pretty clean, convenient to everything and felt safe. It was basically the same with Alphabet City, where I moved in 1993, although it took a little longer to feel like it. “Alphabet City,” again, was not what it had been in the 70s and 80s – the Lower East Side had by then claimed that mantle of “cool by virtue of being a little dangerous." When a friend from film school dragged a group of us to Max Fish, a lonely, neon-lit outpost with pinball machines and a pool table in the no man’s land of squats and tenements south of Houston, I was nervous about being there during the day, much less at 2 am. But where I lived, at 6th and A, above Benny’s Burritos, the biggest problem was not being able to sleep with the windows open at that hour because the bars and restaurants were hopping, or because of the guy with a fish-shaped nyckelharpa busking on the corner (I once bought him a pizza to make him go away).
Still, rats, robbery, drug deals and having to step over junkies nodding off on the sidewalk or on one’s stoop were all normal aspects of life in neighborhoods like the East Village that one had to learn to deal with, and so there were rules for living in New York in the 90s. You paid attention when you walked around, particularly at night. You didn’t walk down streets that were deserted or too dark, and if you had to walk down one with dark sidewalks, you walked in the street — and you always carried your keys in your hand for protection. You knew your neighborhood — which meant you knew which blocks to avoid. For instance, 13th St between A and B was a dealing block. (The people who lived around there said that actually made it safer, because the dealers wouldn’t let people get mugged there, but I saw no reason to test that theory). You always kept an eye on your personal belongings wherever you were, never put a wallet in an outer pocket of a bag, and never hung anything on the back of your chair in a restaurant — which was the mistake I made that led to me being the victim of my first theft (a backpack, which luckily only contained my calendar and journal, but still made me feel vulnerable and disoriented). Crime was a fact of everyday life, but it was one that it was your responsibility to avoid by not being stupid. I remember the first time I went to jury duty, the judge asked who in the room had been the victim of a crime, and every single hand went up. I had a friend who talked about how eventually in this city, “your number just came up” — which was why, after a mutual acquaintance of ours had the shit kicked out of him one night outside a bar, she decided it was time to leave. You always had to keep an eye, if not a hand, on every piece of film equipment on a shoot so it didn’t “walk away.” I was on a student film in a bad part of Brooklyn where we turned away for a moment and someone took the feeder cable. If you don’t know what feeder cable looks like, it’s really, really heavy, and it’s cable.
And yet, at that time, it seemed like if you observed the rules, you could own this city. Sure, Manhattan was expensive, but you could also get by for very little if you knew your way around. I knew the best places for late night pierogies and martinis (Odessa), for cheap but excellent pasta (Frank or Max), for kabobs (Bereket), for caipirinhas (Boca Chica). In addition to the sample sales, I also kept up-to-date on all the free events, like Summerstage and Bryant Park film night and free Fridays at the MOMA before they all got so swamped you couldn’t go any more, as well as what good dance parties had a cheap cover charge (Shine on Monday nights), which bars pretty much guaranteed a hook-up (7B), and which was the rotating hangout for the film community, where, on any given night, I’d go in and know half the people there (Blue & Gold, then Lucy’s, then Ace Bar).
But it was also in the 90s when we really started to see things change, and it wasn’t because of the policing techniques that started when Dinkins made Ray Kelly Police Commissioner in 1992, or the “quality of life” changes Giuliani instituted after he became mayor in 1993, though I’m sure those things did make a difference. It was because of money. The first signs of gentrification are always awesome. When Dean & DeLuca opened up on Prince Street in Soho, I thought it was terrific — a nice cafe with great pastry in an area of warehouses, lofts and galleries, so close to NYU? What was not to like? When they removed the homeless from Tompkins Square Park, closed it down for two years of renovations and then reopened it in 1993, for the first time, it actually looked like a park. But soon it was clear that it wasn’t all good. In 1995, I decided to leave Avenue A for Brooklyn because I wanted cheaper rent. The people who realtors brought to look at my East Village apartment were no longer students and artists. One even wore a suit: he worked for Citibank. I asked him why he wanted to move to a neighborhood with junkies and homeless people and no services, which was a fifteen-minute walk from the nearest subway. “It’s just more interesting than the Upper East Side,” he said. The rent was going up from $1350 to $1600, which seemed like a big jump, but it was nothing compared to what would happen over the next ten years.
I was moving to what I then considered uncharted territory: Brooklyn. I discovered that I could pay significantly less than I had in the Village to share a four-story house (counting the basement, which had a laundry room and a second kitchen that I would eventually convert into a darkroom) on a pretty street with even more brownstones and trees than the West Village, half a block from Prospect Park. It had a back deck, a huge kitchen with a dishwasher, a living room and a dining room — more than enough space to house all my stuff, including the couch I’d acquired as set dressing for my thesis film — in addition to my own room, which was sun-filled and, compared to everywhere else I’d lived, palatial. And this neighborhood I was moving to, called Park Slope, with its great coffee shops and no tall buildings, felt more like Seattle than New York City. Still, it was a scary change. Instead of being able to walk a few blocks to my door late at night after going out, I would have to take the train home because a cab would be too expensive. And the streets were quiet at 1 am. For a Manhattanite, that was just spooky. Little did I know that Manhattan was going to follow me there. I managed to stay in Park Slope for about 12 years before it, too, got too popular and expensive, and I had to move deeper into Brooklyn.
For a long time, I still went back to my haunts in the East Village, but eventually, I didn’t. Practically everyone I knew was moving out of there too, so the people were changing, and those places stopped feeling like places I knew. By now, most of them have disappeared altogether. Last July, I was finishing up a job one night and we found ourselves pushing the equipment through a huge crowd on the sidewalk that we realized it was in front of Max Fish. The bar was having its closing night before moving to a new location in Williamsburg, because the landlord had raised the rent to $20,000 a month.
I know it might sound like what I miss about the old New York is what everyone else talks about: that it used to be “cool.” But it never felt cool getting harassed in Times Square by dudes stumbling out of peep shows, or having to avoid the scurrying rat parade on the sidewalk around the pile of garbage in the empty lot at B and 10th St. What I miss is feeling like this city belonged to me. Back then, maybe because those things kept the visitors away, it felt like New York was a place that really existed for its residents. Even though there were people who were living much, much better than I was, we were dealing with a lot of the same shit, and we were all in it together.
It’s definitely not that way any more. I often have that feeling that the stories I read on the Style pages or in the Dining Out section are about people living in an entirely different New York from me. That’s okay on some level, I don’t need to have the privileges that they do. But what bothers me is that theirs is a New York where they can isolate themselves from the rest of us, and from the problems they don’t want to see: the poverty, joblessness and homelessness which is growing literally around them, as the people who can’t afford to be in Manhattan or anywhere close to it get pushed ever outward. It’s a city where some people are doing very, very well while others slide rapidly downward, and the rest of us just try to hang on to the middle, knowing that the abyss might only be one layoff or one big medical bill away. Sometimes, it even feels like a lot of what’s done “for the city” is really done for the tourists, or the people who come in on a Saturday night to go to dinner and a game at the Barclay’s Center (especially if you know the story of Atlantic Yards and how that all went down).
I don’t want to go back in time. My nostalgia for the days when I first lived in New York is so tied to who and what I was then: younger and more carefree and oh so much more clueless. I wouldn’t want to be that person again, even if she had better knees and never got hungover, and I wouldn’t want that old New York back either. But what I do miss is the sense that we were all living in the same city. I think, or at least hope, that that’s what Mayor de Blasio misses too. Maybe he can do something about it.
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German-born American Hudson River School Painter, 1830-1902 Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Germany. His family moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1833. He studied painting with the members of the D??sseldorf School in D??sseldorf, Germany from 1853 to 1857. He taught drawing and painting briefly before devoting himself to painting. Bierstadt began making paintings in New England and upstate New York. In 1859, he traveled westward in the company of a Land Surveyor for the U.S. government, returning with sketches that would result in numerous finished paintings. In 1863 he returned west again, in the company of the author Fitz Hugh Ludlow, whose wife he would later marry. He continued to visit the American West throughout his career. Though his paintings sold for princely sums, Bierstadt was not held in particularly high esteem by critics of his day. His use of uncommonly large canvases was thought to be an egotistical indulgence, as his paintings would invariably dwarf those of his contemporaries when they were displayed together. The romanticism evident in his choices of subject and in his use of light was felt to be excessive by contemporary critics. His paintings emphasized atmospheric elements like fog, clouds and mist to accentuate and complement the feel of his work. Bierstadt sometimes changed details of the landscape to inspire awe. The colors he used are also not always true. He painted what he believed is the way things should be: water is ultramarine, vegetation is lush and green, etc. The shift from foreground to background was very dramatic and there was almost no middle distance Nonetheless, his paintings remain popular. He was a prolific artist, having completed over 500 (possibly as many as 4000) paintings during his lifetime, most of which have survived. Many are scattered through museums around the United States. Prints are available commercially for many. Original paintings themselves do occasionally come up for sale, at ever increasing prices. Related Paintings of Albert Bierstadt :. | Evening on the Prairie | Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite | Among the Bernese Alps | On_the_Sac | A Rustic Mill (Farm |
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Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1612-1666 Painter and draughtsman, son of (1) Giovanni Battista Mola. His most characteristic works are small, intensely romantic scenes from mythology, the Bible, and from works by the poet Torquato Tasso, set in landscapes inspired by Venetian art. Yet he also received important public commissions for frescoes and altarpieces, and in his mature work he achieved an impressive synthesis of 17th-century Roman gran maniera painting with the stronger chiaroscuro and richer palette of the 16th-century Venetian style. He was a prolific and versatile draughtsman, who drew for pleasure as well as in preparation for commissions; he was also a witty caricaturist, who mocked himself and his friends as much as more typical targets
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‘Lilo & Stitch’ set to return with live remake
Art, Arts & Entertainment, Movies, Music, TV November 27, 2018November 20, 2018 Sarah Boutin
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Disney is adding one more title to its list of live-action remakes, as it was announced Oct. 3 that “Lilo & Stitch” will be next in line.
The remake will feature a mix of live-action and computer graphics, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The release date and whether or not the remake will be released in theaters or in Disney’s new streaming service is unknown, presently.
“Lilo & Stitch” (2002) was originally an animated movie directed by Dean Deblois and Chris Sanders.
The story tells the life of a lonely Hawaiian girl who befriends a blue dog-like alien on the run from an intergalactic government. The movie is filled with surfing, Elvis Presley music and the theme of “ohana,” which means “family” in the Hawaiian language.
Caelan Thompson, junior political science major, said he likes the message “Lilo & Stitch” sends and is looking forward to seeing Lilo in action in the new remake.
“‘Lilo & Stitch’ shows that even if you do not fit in with what people think is normal, you are still unique. My motto is, ‘Why blend in when you were born to stand out,’” Thompson said.
“In the remake, I would love to see Lilo’s fight with Myrtle. That has always been one of the most comedic moments to me.”
This will be the sixth live-action remake Disney has announced from its original animated movies that are currently in production. Those five movies include “Aladdin” (1992), “Dumbo” (1941), “Mulan” (1998), “Lady and the Tramp” (1955) and “The Lion King” (1994).
Taji Saleem, junior film production major, said Disney’s remakes have the potential to show audiences what their favorite Disney movies look like in real life.
“Disney remaking their movies will give a new perspective that can be influenced by the changes in technology, which was limited back when the cartoon versions were first created,” Saleem said.
With Disney producing remakes of their original animated movies, it is unknown if there are original movies coming in the next few years. Disney’s current movie line up only consists of remakes or sequels.
Michael Eaton, professor of film studies and film production, said that with Disney’s various movie projects its remakes should not hurt cinema.
“I don’t think that remaking old properties is a huge drag on the future of movies as long as they are done well, whether animated or live action,” Eaton said.
“Remember that Disney also owns Pixar, which itself remade the whole landscape and future of cinema by creating movies that were so good that they competed for Best Picture of the Year, not just Best Animated Picture.”
Disney’s past live-action remakes, such as “The Jungle Book” (2016) and “The Beauty and the Beast” (2017), both earned more than $900 million in the box office, so it is likely the new “Lilo & Stitch” remake will also fare well in theaters.
The “Lilo & Stitch” series has spawned a massive fan following and the remake is expected to be the next addition in a long line of Disney’s successes.
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LONG LIVE THE KING:
Luciano Pavarotti, Italian Tenor, Is Dead at 71 (BERNARD HOLLAND, 9/06/07, NY Times)
Luciano Pavarotti, the Italian singer whose ringing, pristine sound set a standard for operatic tenors of the postwar era, died early this morning at his home in Modena, in northern Italy. He was 71. [...]
Like Enrico Caruso and Jenny Lind before him, Mr. Pavarotti extended his presence far beyond the limits of Italian opera. He became a titan of pop culture. Millions saw him on television and found in his expansive personality, childlike charm and generous figure a link to an art form with which many had only a glancing familiarity.
Early in his career and into the 1970s he devoted himself with single-mindedness to his serious opera and recital career, quickly establishing his rich sound as the great male operatic voice of his generation — the “King of the High Cs,” as his popular nickname had it.
By the 1980s he expanded his franchise exponentially with the Three Tenors projects, in which he shared the stage with Plácido Domingo and José Carreras, first in concerts associated with the World Cup and later in world tours. Most critics agreed that it was Mr. Pavarotti’s charisma that made the collaboration such a success. The Three Tenors phenomenon only broadened his already huge audience and sold millions of recordings and videos.
And in the early 1990s he began staging Pavarotti and Friends charity concerts, performing side by side with rock stars like Elton John, Sting and Bono and making recordings from these shows.
Throughout these years, despite his busy and vocally demanding schedule, his voice remained in unusually good condition well into middle age.
Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti dies: He was hailed by many as the greatest tenor of his generation (Reuters, September 6 2007)
Discography (IHT, September 6, 2007)
Here is a selection of Luciano Pavarotti's classic opera recordings, as well as a few compilations and recital discs available on CD and DVD.
The Paradoxes of Pavarotti (BENJAMIN IVRY, September 6, 2007, NY Sun)
First among the paradoxes of Pavarotti was that this native of the northern Italian city of Modena, the industrial fiefdom for car makers like Ferrari, Bugatti, and Maserati, sold millions of CDs of Southern Italian songs. Unlike past popular singers of this repertory, like the Naples-born Enrico Caruso (1873–1921) or the American Mario Lanza (1921–1959), of Sicilian origin, Pavarotti remained a Northerner through and through in a country where a popular saying goes that "anything south of Florence is Africa." Yet to the outside world, Pavarotti managed to represent the caricature of a sunny Italian tenor, obsessed with vino, women, and pasta.
Of the three, his seductive force with women was perhaps the most extraordinary, despite heft which at times tipped the scales at 350 pounds. Charming, lively, and humorous, Pavarotti could convey the personal charm of a Latin lover onstage in frisky outings like Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore" in which on a DVD from Deutsche Grammophon, he and the much-maligned American soprano Kathleen Battle make a convincing romantic duo. Opera is the art of transcending improbabilities through the magic of music, but Pavarotti added the special capacity to charm audiences out of preconceptions.
Another major paradox is the oft-cited accusation that Pavarotti could not read music, repeated in the bitter memoirs of the tenor's ex-manager Herbert Breslin, "The King and I: The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by His Manager, Friend and Sometime Adversary" (Broadway Books). Whatever Pavarotti's skills in sight-reading —according to many accounts he was a slow reader at best — his innate musicality should not be in question after hundreds of recordings. In a 1998 interview with Libération, he expressed his curiosity for 20th century music like Janáček's "From the House of the Dead," and confessed that he "loves and has a feeling for" works by Arnold Schoenberg. Still, he admitted, his own voice was "made for the 19th century."
In a range of demanding works from that era, Pavarotti would regularly rise to the occasion, especially when working with the finest conductors, a sure sign of musical command. Through convenience or commercial necessity, he agreed to record with unidiomatic podium mediocrities like Richard Bonynge, the husband of soprano Joan Sutherland who was contractually guaranteed to conduct all of her recordings, or the routine accompanist Leone Magiera. Yet on a legendary 1967 Deutsche Grammophon DVD of Verdi's "Requiem" conducted by Herbert von Karajan, Pavarotti shines alongside superhuman colleagues like the soprano Leontyne Price, in what remains one of the best-filmed classical performances ever, directed with entomological attention by Henri-Georges Clouzot. Pavarotti's Decca CD of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" with Karajan is also compelling in its uncommon spaciousness.
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Corbyn Versus the Third Way : Jeremy Corbyn is attempting to transform a Labour Party that represents labor in name only. (Jason Schulman, September 2015, Jacobin)
For decades, the leaders of Europe's social-democratic and labor parties attempted to use the machinery of the liberal-democratic state to transform capitalism from within. But as Gerassimos Moschonas demonstrates in his 2002 book In the Name of Social Democracy, it is capitalism that has transformed social democracy -- not the other way around.
Over the last thirty years, virtually all social-democratic parties have presided over some degree of market deregulation, commercialization, and privatization of the public sector, and at least the piecemeal implementation of welfare-state retrenchment. One might expect working-class parties, even ones with fairly autocratic internal lives, to be largely immune from an intellectual, ideological embrace of neoliberal doctrine. Workers and union leaders tend not to demand that austerity measures be imposed upon themselves.
Yet social-democratic parties have hardly inoculated themselves and are increasingly led by advocates of deregulation, privatization, and the free market. Social-democratic parties have generally made no concerted effort to find alternatives to what all countries but the United States call "neoliberalism" -- their role in government in recent decades has been, at best, to slightly dull the sharpest edges of the market.
This has been true both for the continental European social-democratic parties and for the union-based labor parties of Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. In the case of the New Zealand Labour government of 1984-1990 and the British Labour government of 1997-2007, the shift at the macroeconomic level involved a fundamental refutation of traditional left policies. A similar shift also occurred in Australia under Labor governments between 1983 and 1996, even though it was less radical and was accompanied by some renovation of the welfare state.
Various explanations for this dramatic change in how social-democratic parties govern have been offered. Most frequently, they have pointed to the globalization of production and finance, the shrinking of the blue-collar working class, and the rise of "post-materialist politics" (feminism, environmentalism, gay and lesbian rights, etc.).
This is the great danger for the Democrats, that they too will decide to rebel against economic reality.
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Rewriting Hong Kong's companies law
Gordon Jones FCIS FCS, former Registrar of Companies, gives CSj a behind-the-scenes account of the most ambitious and complex law reform process in Hong Kong’s recent history – the Companies Ordinance rewrite.
Thanks for giving us this interview, what are your feelings now that the new Companies Ordinance has been implemented?
‘An enormous sense of relief and great personal satisfaction because, as you know, I was very heavily involved in the rewrite exercise from the beginning. There is also a rather nice symmetry to the fact that it has been implemented in 2014 because the Ermanno Pascutto consultancy study of the Companies Ordinance, which was the genesis of the rewrite exercise, was commissioned in 1994. So it has been exactly 20 years between the time when a rewrite was first suggested and the implementation of the new Companies Ordinance. The current rewrite exercise was launched in 2006 and has taken eight years, but there was a very considerable amount of reform work before that over the previous 12 years which should be acknowledged.’
Do you think Hong Kong’s law reform process is too slow – particularly in contrast to the speed with which Mainland China has brought in legislative reforms?
‘The Mainland can implement reform quickly because they have a very authoritarian government which can push things through very quickly. This is why, in a number of corporate governance areas, the Mainland is more advanced than Hong Kong. But, at the end of the day, I think it is better to consult the market and the public who will be affected by the proposed reforms before trying to push the legislation through the legislature. If the market and the public are not happy with what is being proposed, you are going to have a problem on your hands.
We were criticised on a number of occasions on the basis that the reform process was taking far too long – this was a constant refrain whenever I attended LegCo bills committee meetings on Company Ordinance amendments – but you need to break the 20 years down into various component parts to get the process into perspective.
Ermanno Pascutto’s study lasted for about three years from 1994 to 1997. When his report came out, many of the recommendations were not widely welcomed. As a result, the Standing Committee on Company Law Reform initiated its own review exercise from 1997 to 2000 which provided the blueprint for a series of major companies amendment bills in 2002 and 2003.
The government grouped the Standing Committee’s proposals into four phases. The first of these comprised a number of stand-alone and largely unrelated amendments which could be incorporated in an amendment bill and dealt with fairly quickly. The second phase concerned corporate governance reforms. The third phase concerned other major reforms such as the issue of par value and the investigation and punishment provisions which would require further research and consultation. Finally, the fourth phase included structural reforms to the whole ordinance including a rewrite.
We covered the first phase reform in the Companies (Amendment) Ordinance 2003. The second phase amendments were subsumed by the government’s own corporate governance review which was launched in 2000. Many of the reforms which came out of that review, such as strengthening shareholders’ remedies, were the subject of the Companies (Amendment) Ordinance 2004.
In 2002, the government and the then Hong Kong Society of Accountants (HKSA) established a Joint Working Group to review the accounting and auditing requirements of the Companies Ordinance which subsumed the recommendations on financial reporting that had emerged from the Corporate Governance Review and the work of the HKSA’s working party, which was reviewing the 10th Schedule of the Companies Ordinance.
Parallel with all these developments in Hong Kong, the UK was having a major review of its own Companies Act which, in many ways, provided the basis for Hong Kong’s Companies Ordinance. In view of this, it was considered that it made sense to capitalise on those efforts wherever appropriate. That is not to say that we should blindly copy what the UK did, but that it would not be very sensible to reinvent the wheel. So the decision was taken in the course of 2005 that we should have a major rewrite of the Companies Ordinance which would, of course, sweep up all the other recommendations of the Standing Committee’s review.’
You mention the fact that the UK Companies Act was a model for Hong Kong’s Companies Ordinance – was PRC companies law also looked at as a potential model?
‘It would have been inappropriate for us to adopt Chinese company law since it comes from a very different judicial tradition. China’s company law is based on German civil law which is very unlike British common law since it sets out broad principles which are interpreted by the courts. The common law is far more detailed as it draws on centuries of case law. Having said this, we did keep an eye, of course, on what was happening on the Mainland, and they are ahead of us in several areas of corporate governance, at least on paper.’
Can we turn to your own involvement in the Companies Ordinance rewrite?
‘I became Registrar of Companies in 1993, so I was involved in the whole review process from its genesis in the Pascutto report through to the rewrite exercise itself.
One of the things that the Pascutto report highlighted was the fact that, for such a major reform to proceed, you need to have a dedicated team in place. As the Standing Committee comprised very busy professionals meeting once a month, it was in no position to undertake a reform of that size.
I was closely involved in the discussions with the Financial Services and Treasury Bureau (FSTB) in the course of 2005 and 2006 on drawing up the modus operandi of the Companies Ordinance rewrite exercise. I drew up the master-plan for the rewrite covering issues such as how we were going to undertake the rewrite, the staff and accommodation resources required, the formation of advisory groups and many other practical aspects such as the expansion of the professional legal literature in the Companies Registry’s law library.
The key proposal was to set up a Companies Bill Team, comprising 14 administrative officers and lawyers, drawn from the FSTB, Companies Registry and Department of Justice, most of whom would be accommodated in the Companies Registry. The team would be formed through the redeployment of existing posts and the creation of new posts. In the event, we had some difficulties persuading LegCo’s Finance Committee of the need for some of the new directorate-level posts but were able to overcome these objections.
The Companies Bill Team was headed by John Leung Chi-Yan [who was Deputy Secretary of the FSTB at the time]. Its remit was to prepare policy papers covering a very wide spectrum of issues in the Companies Ordinance, in particular looking at reforms in the UK, Singapore and Australia, but also in the US, Canada and other jurisdictions as appropriate. After analysing the policy and legal aspects of all these issues, the papers made recommendations on possible options for amending the Companies Ordinance which were then considered by the relevant advisory group.
We decided to form four advisory groups, each tasked with looking at specific areas of companies law. These new advisory groups were in addition to the existing Joint Working Group which was reviewing the accounting and auditing provisions of the Companies Ordinance.
The philosophy behind setting up the advisory groups was to ensure there would be the widest possible representation of different sectors and as diverse a spectrum of views as possible in the discussions. I was a member of each of the advisory groups and the Joint Working Group.
After the advisory groups had decided which policy recommendations should be adopted, their recommendations went to the Standing Committee for approval. Consequently, by the end of this process, we had a fairly good idea of how the new Companies Ordinance would look. These policy recommendations formed the basis for detailed drafting instructions which were then sent to the Law Draftsman’s Office in the Department of Justice for drafting the Companies Bill.’
Are you happy with the new companies law which has emerged from this process – do you think the reforms it introduces go far enough?
‘I believe that what we have now is a great improvement on the old Companies Ordinance in terms of structure and content. As regards the structure, we did not consider the prospectus and insolvency provisions as the former will be transferred at some stage to the Securities and Futures Ordinance while the latter will be subject to a separate review. For the time being, these provisions, along with several other parts which do not form part of ‘core’ company law and, in practice, are largely administered by the Official Receiver’s Office, remain in the old Companies Ordinance. Looking into the future, as the law governing insolvency is very different from that governing live companies, I would be opposed to reincorporating the insolvency provisions back into the new Companies Ordinance at a later date once they have been reformed. They should be the subject of a separate statutory vehicle.
However, there are quite a few areas where we could and should have gone further. We codified directors’ duties of care and skill, but I don’t see that there would have been a problem with enacting directors’ core fiduciary duties into statutory law. However, the government consulted the public on this in 2008 and, given the diversity of views expressed, the feeling in the FSTB was that it would not be appropriate to codify them.
The UK enacted a new statutory duty for directors in the Companies Act 2006 to promote the success of the company for the benefit of the shareholders as a whole under the ‘enlightened shareholder principle’. This is a completely new fiduciary duty and a potentially very controversial area of law as it means that directors have to take account of a very wide spectrum of stakeholder interests. Subsequent to the government’s public consultation on codifying directors’ duties, the published consultation conclusions stated that about half of the respondents agreed with the proposal to codify directors’ duties with the exception of the new duty to promote the company’s success, although a ‘slightly larger’ number disagreed.
Unfortunately, the controversial new duty may have, arguably, played a role in influencing the final decision not to codify the other fiduciary duties. I don’t see that there would have been a problem with enacting directors’ core fiduciary duties, like avoiding conflicts of interest and acting in the best interests of the company, into statute law as they have been settled law for a very long time as the result of well-established common law cases. Furthermore, if the formulation in the Companies Act 2006 had been adopted, these statutory duties would be interpreted and applied in the same way as the equivalent common law rules and equitable principles which they replaced. This is an area where the government could and should have shown a greater degree of firmness and direction.
From the corporate governance angle, other significant omissions from the new Companies Ordinance include the statutory disclosure of individual directors’ remuneration and provisions regarding members’ approval of directors’ substantial property transactions and giving shareholders the ability to inspect directors’ service contracts, although these had been endorsed by the Joint Working Group, the relevant advisory group and the Standing Committee. The latter two provisons were deleted at a very late stage in the proceedings after the new Companies Bill had been published in the government Gazette, but the reasons for this eleventh hour volte-face are not known.’
One of the reforms which has been generating a lot of interest has been the requirement for larger companies to include a ‘business review’ in their annual reports – could you say a few words about that?
‘Yes, this was one of the things which I was really pushing very hard for. There were members of the Standing Committee who felt that it was a bridge too far, but I pointed out that all major commercial jurisdictions were enacting corporate social responsibility disclosures in their company law. I argued that we had to make a similar move in Hong Kong or we would be left very badly behind. So I’m very glad we’ve got that on the statute books.’
How much influence do you think the new Companies Ordinance will actually have – particularly since the majority of our listed companies are incorporated overseas?
‘Over 80 percent of Hong Kong’s listed companies are not subject to the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance and are regulated primarily through the listing rules. However, we should bear in mind that the listing rules repeat very large parts of the Companies Ordinance with which all listed companies are expected to comply. The problem arises because the listing rules are not a statutory document so there are no sanctions. This is why the whole issue of statutory backing is so important and at the moment, as you know, the only listing rules that have statutory backing are those on the disclosure of pricesensitive information.
The previous recommendations in 2005, that were at that time widely welcomed by the market, to extend statutory backing to financial disclosure and directors’ connected transactions as well as price-sensitive information, seem to have vanished into a black hole. There was a significant delay of five years between the recommendations in 2005 and the very watered-down proposals in 2011 which limited statutory backing to the disclosure of pricesensitive information.
However, we should bear in mind that listed companies comprise a very small proportion of the companies incorporated in Hong Kong. The new Companies Ordinance will apply to private companies, guarantee companies, unlisted public companies and about 20 percent of the listed companies. Moreover, as the new provisions in the new Companies Ordinance will be repeated, where appropriate, in the listing rules, all listed companies, irrespective of their domicile, will have to follow these provisions such as those on financial reporting. There will, however, be an issue if a non-Hong Kong incorporated listed company fails to comply with one of these provisions.’
How do you think companies law and regulation will change in the years ahead?
‘We are in a very globalised commercial environment and there will inevitably be increasing pressure for company laws to converge. Ultimately, of course, there cannot be complete convergence because the economic, regulatory and social conditions in each jurisdiction are different, but in areas such as financial reporting, audit regulation, corporate social responsibility and sustainability reporting, it is desirable and should be possible to achieve a high degree of convergence between developed jurisdictions.’
Look out for our interview with the current Registrar of Companies Ada Chung in next month’s journal.
A 20-year history
1994 – The Hong Kong government commissions a consultancy study to conduct a comprehensive review of the Companies Ordinance.
1997 – The consultants deliver their Consultancy Report of the Review of the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance.
2000 – The Standing Committee on Company Law Reform publishes its report on the Consultancy Report of the Review of the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance. The government commissions the Standing Committee to undertake a wideranging Corporate Governance Review.
2001 – The Standing Committee publishes a consultation paper on proposals made in phase one of its Corporate Governance Review.
2002 – The Joint Working Group is formed by the government and the then Hong Kong Society of Accountants to look at the accounting and auditing provisions of the Companies Ordinance.
2003 – The Standing Committee publishes a consultation paper on proposals made in phase two of its Corporate Governance Review. LegCo passes the Companies (Amendment) Bill 2002.
2004 – LegCo passes the Companies (Amendment) Bill 2003.
2006 – The Companies Ordinance rewrite is launched. The Companies Bill Team and Advisory Groups 1–4 are established.
2010 – The draft Companies Bill is submitted for public consultation.
2011 – The Companies Bill is introduced into LegCo.
2012 – LegCo passes the Companies Bill.
2014 – The new Companies Ordinance is implemented.
The advisory groups
Advisory Group 1, chaired by David Stannard, looked at the provisions relating to arrangements, takeovers and mergers; share capital and debentures; distribution of profits and assets; and registration of charges.
Advisory Group 2, chaired by Mike Scales, looked at the provisions relating to beneficial shareholders’ rights; electronic communications; shareholder voting and proxies; registration provisions and the powers of the Registrar of Companies; company formation and the re-registration of companies; deregistration and striking-off; company names; company administration and meetings; and table A and other tables.
Advisory Group 3, chaired by Patrick Wong, looked at the provisions relating to directors’ duties, directors’ conflicts of interest, directors’ and auditors’ liabilities, indemnities and insurance, directors’ residential addresses; shadow directors; and the appointment of, and miscellaneous provisions regarding, directors and secretaries.
Advisory Group 4, chaired by Godfrey Lam, looked at the provisions relating to inspections, investigations, offences and punishments.
The Joint Working Group, chaired by Roger Best, looked at the accounting and auditing provisions.
A full list of the members of these advisory groups, together with members of the Standing Committee on Company Law Reform (current and for the period of the Companies Ordinance rewrite), is available on the Companies Registry website: www.cr.gov.hk (see ‘New Companies Ordinance/ Publications and Press Releases/ Books and Papers/ Annex 1’).
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4 Causes of Chest Pain You Might Not Know About
Health by Kristen Domonell on 2/19/2015
Between Valentine’s Day and American Heart Month, it’s pretty impossible not to think about your body’s hardest working organ during February. But whether you celebrated Valentine’s Day, Galentine’s Day or Singles Awareness Day this year, it’s time for some straight talk about your ticker. About 720,000 Americans have a heart attack every single year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To put that into perspective, that’s about 80,000 more than the population of Seattle.
In most cases, a heart attack comes on suddenly and can be very intense, with chest pain and/or pressure starting in the center of the chest and radiating to other parts of the body like the jaw, shoulder, back, neck and stomach, says Rani Whitfield, MD, a family practitioner in Baton Rouge, LA, and national American Heart Association volunteer spokesperson. Some people experience extreme fatigue, shortness of breath, sweating, nausea and lightheadedness. If you recognize any of these signs, call 911 immediately.
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But did you know that noncardiac chest pain (NCCP) affects up to 25 percent of the adult population in the U.S, too? Check out these four causes of chest pain you may not have heard about before — and learn why you should still seek medical attention if you suspect they’re to blame for your pangs.
4 Unexpected Causes of Chest Pain
1. Acid Reflux. The most common cause of NCCP is gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), says Dr. Whitfield. GERD is a chronic digestive disease where stomach acid flows up into the esophagus, causing irritation, which can be more painful after a meal. “But keep in mind that disorders of the esophagus and heart disease or heart attacks can co-exist,” says Dr. Whitfield. That’s why it’s important to see your doctor, even if you’re fairly certain you can pinpoint the problem on the tacos you ate at dinner.
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2. Depression and Anxiety. If something has you feeling down, it may feel like your heart is actually physically breaking. Depression can cause people to experience chest pain, but it’s not typically associated with heart problems. Anxiety, the worry-based cousin of depression, also frequently presents itself in the body as chest pain, says cardiologist Stephen T. Sinatra, MD, FACC, founder of the Heart MD Institute. “I’ve often told my patients to breathe into the chest discomfort to see if it goes away,” says Dr. Sinatra. “But when in doubt, I would always tell them to go to a medical facility especially if the chest pain did not dissipate quickly. It is also important to note that any heart attack is also accompanied by major anxiety as well.”
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3. Pulled Chest Muscles. Pushing and pulling heavy objects like furniture, vacuuming and even doing twisted yoga poses (when you aren’t quite flexible enough) can strain muscles in your chest wall and cause discomfort you might mistake for heart pains, says Dr. Sinatra. “Many times it may take manipulation, trigger point massage, topical remedies, cold laser therapy or ice followed by heat to help these people recover.”
“If you are experiencing chest pain during a workout, stop, let someone know, and call 911.”
4. Breast Cysts. Chest pain may actually be breast pain, in some cases. Fluctuating levels of the hormones estrogen and progesterone during a woman’s menstrual cycle can cause “fibrocycstic breast changes,” or breast cysts, explains Mary Jane Minkin, MD, clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Yale School of Medicine. These non-cancerous breast lumps will usually go away after a woman gets her period, but can be drained if they get too painful.
“Indeed, many women do get periodic breast pain, and indeed many women can confuse it for cardiac-related discomfort,” says Dr. Minkin. “Unfortunately, the opposite can also occur. Many women who get atypical chest pain, which is cardiac in origin, think it’s breast related.” So, even if you feel like your cleavage is the culprit, get it checked out. You’ll likely get peace of mind after a physical exam, and possibly an ultrasound.
Experiencing Chest Pain During a Workout?
Yes, your workouts should feel challenging, but chest pain during a workout is never normal, Dr. Whitfield says. “If you are experiencing chest pain during a workout, stop, let someone know, and call 911. If you exercise regularly and experience extreme fatigue or shortness of breath that is atypical for you, these could also be warning signs of underlying heart disease.”
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If you do experience discomfort, and find it isn’t heart-related, it could be due to one of the triggers above. Regardless, it’s always a good idea to see your doctor to get to the heart of the issue as soon as possible.
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Nigeria 2013-2017
Thread: Nigeria 2013-2017
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How to Deal with Nigeria's Boko Haram: A Primer
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Post edited down for use on this new thread, it originally appeared on the AFRICOM stands up thread. There are several posts there which give some background:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...t=6167&page=18
Today, 6th December 2013, this thread 'Nigeria's future: where to start?' was renamed 'Nigeria: watching and debating its future' and becomes the current thread. The older, longer thread ' ' has now been closed, with a final post explaining why.(ends).
I'm Nigerian, I live in Nigeria - and even if you casually dismiss history with a wave of a hand, I wont. I've seen 15,000 dead since 1999, a clash of civilizations with Sharia in the North and Evangelical Christianity rising in the South.
Who could have dreamed up such a time bomb - the British, who had no interest in understanding the situation on the ground, just grabbing resources for the home counties.
These things will be settled, with much blood & zero input from the West - we saw it Yugoslavia. That is Nigeria's trajectory. We could have a discussion on that.
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Yugoslavia - is that is Nigeria's path to the future?
Kingjaja,
The break-up of Yugoslavia pre-dates SWJ, it does sometimes appear in posts and there is at least one SWJ article:http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art...-of-bosnia-and
Europe, particularly Western Europe, would prefer not to remember what happened and much political plus effort has been expended to make amends. As last week proved in Kosovo local tensions can lead to skirmishing:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24798397
The Balkans have a long history, largely out of sight when part of the Ottoman / Turkish Empire; where religion, tribe, community and more intersect in close proximity. Partnership did happen - in peace and war - and Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina's main city and provincial capital) was noted for the extent of inter-marriage.
It took several days of violence and barbarity - my reading blames the Serbian extremists - to force everyone to "take a side" and so fracture communal partnership.
Today there is a sort of peace in Bosnia and the former Yugoslavia, with each nation-state joining or aspiring to EU status (Slovenia, the smallest, most homogeneous and with the most peaceful escape joined the EU sometime ago).
Is Nigeria on the same trajectory? I don't know, but the Bosnian experience provides some clear warnings.
Nigeria's future: where to start?
Kingjaja suggested a discussion, so a new thread appears. Nigeria's size alone makes it important, let alone its complexity and wealth. Maybe first for Africa, then the rest of the world.
This will appear first until two posts from the AFRICOM thread where Kingjaja made his suggestion will appear, are moved.
Now let the discussion begin.
Incidentally I don't envisage external intervention in a future Nigeria, on the scale seen in former Yugoslavia.
Last edited by davidbfpo; 11-09-2013 at 11:56 PM.
davidbfpo,
Sadly, Nigeria is on the same trajectory.
Most foreign analysts concentrate on Boko Haram or the Niger Delta crisis, because they fit easy categories (War on terror & Energy security).
Having said that, Nigeria's most deadly fault-lines are in the Middle Belt - where the former Sokoto Caliphate & Kanem-Bornu Empire meet Christianised ethnic groups.
Nowhere is this more visible than in the Middle Belt's most important cities - Kaduna & Jos. In Kaduna, a river separates the Christian part of the city from the Muslim part. When I traveled to Kaduna, I was advised to land at a Abuja & travel to Kaduna from the South (since I was a Christian). Muslims are advised to land at Kaduna airport & pass through Muslim populated parts of the city.
Sharia law is implemented some states in that part of Nigeria & while "multi-culturally educated Western intellectuals" can advance sophisticated arguments in favour of Shari'a law - Nigerian Evangelicals will not.
And the average poorly educated conservative Nigerian Muslim doesn't see the need for sophistication either. So people fight & kill.
The anti-Shari'a riots tore Kaduna apart. Since 1999 about 15,000 people have died in inter-communal clashes (ethnic animosities tinged with religion). One can see clear fault lines there.
This thing isn't going to stop. Nobody is going to stop the Saudis from sending Wahabbi preachers or sponsoring religious students. Nobody is going stop American TV evangelists. The nation is bifurcating there.
And that is only one fault line.
So Nigeria's future is like Yugoslavia - only worse, we are a lot poorer, a lot more violent and there are more of us.
Can there be a Nigeria without oil?
80% of Nigeria's govt spending is from oil money - that is why the Niger Delta militancy is a very serious problem.
But even with that, it is estimated that about 150,000 bpd is stolen from the Niger Delta. So in essence we are going to witness the growth of South American style cartels in the Niger Delta, challenging the Nigerian state's monopoly of violence.
You have an army taxed with maintaining internal security in opposite parts of Nigeria (North and South) - & there are already reports of grumbling among the rank and file.
But there are global headwinds that are not in our favour. Shale oil means that Nigeria will lose a very important customer, the United States. Crude could fall to $80 a barrel next decade.
In the long term, crude reserves will be depleted - so what will bind Nigeria's people? Will the Niger Delta be willing to subsidise the existence of the rest of Nigeria? I doubt it.
I question two of your assertions here, first the level of violence in Yugoslavia was on par with anything seen in Africa, and poverty in Eastern Europe was shockingly deep outside the cities. I am showing by bias because I didn't think European countries would ever be like that. The one thing that is non-disputable is you have many more people.
I have heard claims of Nigeria's imminent fall for well over 15 years, and while I agree the trend line is troubling yet your country seems remarkably resilient to what would cause other countries to collapse. On the other hand if your predictions are correct then I agree the situation will be dire for a number of reasons. Since Nigeria is the heart of ECOWAS who will be willing to step up and lead a regional response to support Nigeria? The West is exhausted and broke after 10 plus years of failed nation building in Iraq and Afghanistan, so it is unlikely they'll have the political will to intervene. Though Nigeria is more important strategically than the Sudan, I suspect Sudan will be the model of our response.
If your right and the fault lines give in Nigeria how will that impact the rest of the region? I can't see these conflicts being contained within your borders.
Bill Moore,
Things are progressively getting worse, state authority is eroding steadily. Government is losing monopoly of violence and respect.
It is much easier to reverse a sharp decline than to reverse a slow, steady decline over several decades - such a decline tends to be irreversible.
That is Nigeria's problem. The implosion will happen, not tomorrow, but it will happen.
Website of Iranian style Islamic organisation in Nigeria
Is there a limit to diversity? Look at this website, I'm a Christian from Southern Nigeria - we have organisations like this in Nigeria. Why am I part of the same nation as these people? Does this nation Nigeria, make any sense?
This is the link to the website: http://www.islamicmovement.org/
What exactly is a sense of national cohesion supposed to be built on? Can US influenced Evangelicals co-exist in peace with folks like this? No.
That, in a nutshell, is the problem with Nigeria. It is not a cohesive entity by any stretch of imagination. There's nothing binding these people together save a desire by the elite to share money made from crude oil sales.
Now all you folks are a lot smarter than I am - please someone should tell me how this "diversity" (coupled with very low literacy rates) will not lead to an ongoing "clash of civilizations"?
Nigeria is more complex than either Pakistan, Afghanistan or Syria - none of the aforementioned nations have several Evangelical churches that seat congregations of 14,000 and above.
This picture depicts an Evangelical auditorium at the opposite end of Nigeria (the South) that can accommodate one million worshipers
This congregation recorded over 60,000 babies born between August 10, 2011 & August 10, 2012 alone!!
It isn't the only Evangelical congregation in Nigeria, and it might not be the largest!!
Nigeria is like having Jerry Falwell & Ayatollah Khomeini in one nation. Also imagine that both men's influence in politics is steadily rising as the years go by.
Question: can even the United States of America manage that kind of diversity, talk less a much poorer & much more artificial Nigeria?
http://www.islamicmovement.org/index...141&Itemid=161
Nigeria at 50: what next?
Translated from Hausa by Abdul Mumin Giwa
Where then is the problem, what is the trouble? Why refusing Islam when it allows you to practice your Christianity? Islam will not stop you from practicing your religion whether Christian or traditional. But it is not right for you to insist that you have right and that your right is that the majority keeps aside his own right. It is not the right of the minority for the majority to follow him.
There is an end to everything there is n end to the continued suppression of Islam. I know there will not be that round table decision on the way out for the country but definitely when the time comes Islam shall be established. We cannot possibly continue to stay like that whereas the Qur’an is there instructing us on what to do and we are believers in Islam. Whether you accept or not, Islam is on the rise and you cannot stop it. This is the reality and you cannot fight against reality. By the grace of God Almighty Islam is the destiny of this nation and this shall come to pass.
An excerpt from a speech found on the website you provided a link too. These are strong words, but they're just words. In the US we have left wings groups who want to establish a communist system, right wing groups who want to establish an Aryan Nation in the northwest, Islamists who want to establish Sharia law, etc., and if you read their websites you would think the world is falling, but the reality is none of these groups have the coercive power or power of attractive ideas to realize their visions. I agree the threat is more dangerous in your country, but I don't think the Christians and Animists will succumb to Islamic rule outside of the north. The potential for the bloodshed is definitely there, though it seems pretty high already to me.
I think you made a good point when you wrote,
This seems true for all governments, it is hard to convince governments (especially democratic ones) to invest in the future or focus on prevention if the problem isn't perceived to be a pressing issue.
You wrote,
I for one don't think any of us who live outside of Nigeria are as near as smart as you are on the nature of your problems. As for diversity the US is incredibly diverse and we make it work. It wasn't always that way, but has Bob Jones has pointed out in numerous post the civil rights movement and the subsequent civil rights bill was a defining moment in time for the US. There were extremists on both sides who used violence throughout, but our nation didn't allow it to be decisive. The majority had another vision and the will to pursue it politically. There will always be outsiders who continue to pursue their ends through violence such as the KKK, Black Panthers, Neo Nazis, but again they won't gain ground and the state still maintains dominance when it comes to coercive power to deal with these groups as criminals vice insurgents. What is possible in Nigeria? Are only the extremist voices heard? Are there leaders that can unify the people?
I don't think you understand Nigeria. These are not mere words. Religion has a role in politics in Nigeria that is unthinkable in the United States.
I need to remind you that thousands have been killed in religious riots in Northern Nigeria - and words like those trigger those riots.
Secondly, I don't think the United States of America is a diverse nation in the same way Nigeria is a diverse nation.
In the US, a group of Anglo-Saxon settlers laid the ground rules - separation of church and state, no kings, property rights, a common law system etc. Diversity in the US means getting people from different backgrounds to obey these ground rules, then accommodating minor differences.
True, the story of African Americans was sad, but there was a common understanding of what an ideal America should look like.
Diversity in Nigeria is an entirely different beast - there are no ground rules.
On fundamental issues like the nature of the Nigerian state, there are no ground rules - is Nigeria a secular state or not?
Very few people in Northern Nigeria accept that Nigeria is a secular nation.
In Northern Nigeria Shari'a law applies to criminal matters. If a Muslim converts to Christianity, he's treated like a criminal under the law.
Did the US ever have to deal with a religiously derived legal system competing with a secular legal system
Nigeria, like most African nations, is an artificial construct overlaying many ancient societies with thousand year old cultures and ground rules. Similarities can be found between cultures, but in many cases, the gulf is too wide to be bridged.
Americans don't like to hear this, but there is very little the US can teach Nigeria (or any African nation) about diversity.
US is a settler nation (like Australia) that resulted from the elimination of indigenous cultures and the imposition of a dominant settler culture.
Managing diversity in the US is about tinkering around the edges of the dominant settler culture to make allowances for new entrants. In Nigeria (& most of Africa) there is no dominant culture - so US style diversity WILL NOT work here.
Hopefully this doesn't surprise you, but I agree with 90% or more of your response. I don't claim to understand Nigeria after only spending a few months there, but the situation did and does fascinate me. I wasn't offering the America way as the solution, simply presenting how our nation wrestled with deep ethnic divides and at least relieved enough tension to avoid what could have been a much bloodier civil conflict.
True, the story of African Americans was sad, but there was a common understanding of what an ideal America should look like
You touched on a key point. We did have an idea of what being American was, it wasn't about skin color or gender, but it took us years to actualize the idea (at least get closer to it). That idealism is what enabled the Civil Rights Movement to be successful. If the idea of equality didn't exist it would have failed before it started, so like all things context matters.
I also think many Americans, myself included don't see it as a black and white issue, though that seems to dominate the media. To understand multicultural integration you also have to look at the Cubans, Hispanics, Russians, Italians, Chinese, Filipinos, Vietnamese, Irish, and a growing Muslim population among others. Yes it very different situation in Nigeria and Africa as a whole, but still worth studying.
You may be right that,
Managing diversity in the US is about tinkering around the edges of the dominant settler culture to make allowances for new entrants.
That is a perspective I haven't heard before, but it makes sense.
I don't agree with you that the US is secular. You wrote,
Did the US ever have to deal with a religiously derived legal system competing with a secular legal system?
We have been dealing with this issue from the beginning and continue to do so today. Many Europeans are surprised at the level of influence religion has on our society. In general these are not violent contests, but arguments contested in court. What seems to be changing is the strength of the far left and their political correctness movement which is similar to Mao's Reformation minus the millions killed, who are attempting to dictate through law what people can say, read, and think. In turn this is spawning a revival of the far right, and unfortunately the middle is disappearing. This seems to be happening throughout much of the West, so we're seeing a growing divide between the far left and right now that could result in considerable violence if we lose touch with our core accepted values that define us. Again we're not Nigeria, but we're not immune to these problems.
Finding answers for Nigeria is the task of the Nigerian people. We need to focus more on solving our own problems. Of course the West and UN could intervene and attempt to impose a solution on Nigeria if eventually comes close to failing, but that is almost guaranteed to fail before it starts.
ganulv
Berkshire County, Mass.
Originally Posted by KingJaja
That’s an interesting take, and it might be the way things work out. There has certainly been a growing backlash against it post-Obama, though.
This may seem flippant, but a friend of mine was trying to figure out what was going on with the costumes of the Miss Universe contestants this past weekend. Several of the Western nations seemed to be using the event to demonstrate their commitment to their variation on diversity. (Some of the get-ups, including that of Miss USA, do just look kind of silly.) How does Miss Nigeria read to Nigerians?
If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. – Mark Twain (attributed)
Let me explain the Nigerian situation to you in a bit more detail.
A large part of Northern Nigeria is a remnant from the Kanem-Bornu Empire & the Sokoto Caliphate - two of the most prominent Islamic kingdoms in The Sudan.
The British made no attempt to separate religion from governance (although some aspects of Shari'a like amputation were forbidden). But try as they might, nobody could prevent the spread of (Evangelical) Christianity to those parts of Nigeria.
So in Northern Nigeria, you have a situation where there is state government funded religious police (Hisbah), the state discourages the construction of Churches & discourages the spread of Christianity - but promotes the spread of Islam; by building Mosques.
This is a recipe for a DISASTER - and this has no parallel in the United States or the Modern Western World.
Imagine the problems Britain is facing with its growing Islamic Minority (and calls for Shari'a law) - now imagine if Britain had to deal with Evangelical Christianity in addition to Fundamentalist Islam - & poverty & illiteracy?
ganulv,
Nigeria's Muslim community dislikes beauty contest. In fact, the bloodiest riot in response to a beauty contest happened in Nigeria in 2002.
About 200 people were killed during those riots. (Many Christians)
So even among the Christian population, beauty contests might leave a bitter taste.
Quite simply, very few people in Nigeria bother about beauty contests.
Boko Haram finally designated as a "foreign terrorist organization"
So Boko Haram has finally been designated as a "foreign terrorist organization" (after all the politics has been played in DC and Obama can no long sit on the fence on this issue).
But please, what does this mean in practice?
Testimony from a Nigerian from Boko Haram hearing.
Interesting read - not the usual Western analyst's understanding of this issue:
A decade ago I visited a Nigerian community devastated by flooding. The US and
Nigerian governments built 400 free houses for them. When I went to the houses, I saw northern children wearing Osama bin Laden hats. What was shocking to me is that US diplomats are aware of the intense anti-American sentiments in northern Nigeria but somehow the US misrepresents this as being “local”.
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA...E-20131113.pdf
It depends on the group, I recall working in another country where Department of State was considering designating a group a FTO, and that particular FTO lobbied hard with State and Congressional members to avoid the designation because it hurt their substantial fund raising activities in the U.S.. Department of State finally designated them, and I have to assume it degraded that particular group. Will the world turn upside down for Boko Haram? Hardly, but like you said at least we are now mandated by law to take some action again them.
http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/other/des/123085.htm
Legal Ramifications of Designation
1. It is unlawful for a person in the United States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to knowingly provide "material support or resources" to a designated FTO. (The term "material support or resources" is defined in 18 U.S.C. § 2339A(b)(1) as " any property, tangible or intangible, or service, including currency or monetary instruments or financial securities, financial services, lodging, training, expert advice or assistance, safehouses, false documentation or identification, communications equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal substances, explosives, personnel (1 or more individuals who maybe or include oneself), and transportation, except medicine or religious materials.” 18 U.S.C. § 2339A(b)(2) provides that for these purposes “the term ‘training’ means instruction or teaching designed to impart a specific skill, as opposed to general knowledge.” 18 U.S.C. § 2339A(b)(3) further provides that for these purposes the term ‘expert advice or assistance’ means advice or assistance derived from scientific, technical or other specialized knowledge.’’
2. Representatives and members of a designated FTO, if they are aliens, are inadmissible to and, in certain circumstances, removable from the United States (see 8 U.S.C. §§ 1182 (a)(3)(B)(i)(IV)-(V), 1227 (a)(1)(A)).
3. Any U.S. financial institution that becomes aware that it has possession of or control over funds in which a designated FTO or its agent has an interest must retain possession of or control over the funds and report the funds to the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Insight: Boko Haram, taking to hills, seize slave 'brides'
Read this - now imagine the impact on Christian/Muslim relations.
(Reuters) - In the gloom of a hilltop cave in Nigeria where she was held captive, Hajja had a knife pressed to her throat by a man who gave her a choice - convert to Islam or die.
Two gunmen from Boko Haram had seized the Christian teenager in July as she picked corn near her village in the Gwoza hills, a remote part of northeastern Nigeria where a six-month-old government offensive is struggling to contain an insurgency by the al Qaeda-linked Islamist group.
In a new development, Boko Haram is abducting Christian women whom it converts to Islam on pain of death and then forces into "marriage" with fighters - a tactic that recalls Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in the jungles of Uganda.
The three months Hajja spent as the slave of a 14-strong guerrilla unit, cooking and cleaning for them before she escaped, give a rare glimpse into how the Islamists have changed tack in the face of Nigerian military pressure.
"I can't sleep when I think of being there," the 19-year-old told Reuters, recounting forced mountain marches, rebel intelligence gathering - and watching her captors slit the throats of prisoners Hajja had helped lure into a trap.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...9AG04120131117
Scores killed as Boko Haram attacks Air force Base in Maiduguri
This is serious:
Suspected Boko Haram terrorists, Monday morning, attacked the Composite Group Air force Base and other places in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.
The siege which started at about 3am shook the town as sporadic gunshots and other Rocket Propelled Grenade Launchers fire were heard, with ensuing airstrikes in Maiduguri and Jere metropolis till 8 am.
Sources said during the attacks on the Air force Base and other targets, including the Maiduguri International Airport, several people were killed as the terrorists, numbering over 300 planted explosives in targeted areas in the state capital.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/s....u5MU2HKG.dpuf
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Founded in June 2000 by musicians, artist advocates, technologists and legal experts, Future of Music Coalition works to ensure that musicians have a voice in the issues that affect their livelihood. FMC’s activities are rooted in the real-world experiences and ambitions of working musicians, whose perspectives are often overlooked in policy debates. Over the years, FMC has provided an important forum for discussion about issues at the intersection of music, technology, policy and law. Guided by a firm conviction that public policy has real impact on the lives of both musicians and fans, FMC advocates for a balanced approach to music in the digital age — one that reflects the interests of all stakeholders, and not just the powerful few. By documenting historic and emerging trends in the music industry, FMC has become a trusted voice in the ongoing dialog about the challenges and opportunities facing today’s musicians.
Founded in June 2000 by musicians, artist advocates, technologists and legal experts, Future of Music Coalition works to ensure that musicians have a voice in the debates that shape the industry, now and in the future. FMC’s 2000 manifesto framed the original intent of the organization around three core issues:
We build this organization as an attempt both to address pressing music-technology issues and to serve as a voice for musicians in Washington, DC, where critical decisions are being made regarding musicians’ intellectual property rights without a word from the artists themselves.
No longer will corporate media and big money be able to frame the discussion of music solely in terms of their industries, as we draw together the strongest voices in the technology and independent music communities to address questions of music in the marketplace with a clear-eyed focus on the interests of the artists.
No longer will business interests or lobby groups for business interests drown out the voices of the musicians on whose art they have built an industry.
No longer will idealistic techies and idealistic musicians find themselves locked into opposing sides of an issue that profoundly affects both of our communities.
FMC’s work is rooted in the real-world experiences and ambitions of working musicians, whose perspectives are often overlooked in policy debates. Over the years, FMC has provided an important forum for discussion about issues at the intersection of music, technology, policy and law. Guided by a firm conviction that public policy has real impact on the lives of both musicians and fans, FMC advocates for a balanced approach to music in the digital age — one that reflects the interests of all stakeholders, and not just the powerful few. By documenting historic and emerging trends in the music industry, FMC has become a trusted voice in the ongoing dialog about the challenges and opportunities facing today’s musicians. In fighting for a legitimate digital music marketplace and a broadcast media that values local and independent culture, FMC helps establish a healthier music ecosystem.
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2017 Jury Award – Best Narrative Feature: God’s Own Country directed by Francis Lee
For its exceptional direction, haunting imagery and the ability of its two leads to create a vivid, three-dimensional relationship, oftentimes using only spare dialogue, the Narrative Jury awards the prize for Best Narrative Feature to Francis Lee’s God’s Own Country.
Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting
BPM (Beats Per Minute), directed by Robin Campillo, has an almost epic runtime, warranted by the story’s historical significance, and yet the film’s length is never an issue. The narrative is moved along at a beautiful pace by the fluid editing. But it is the incredible ensemble cast led by Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, giving naturalistic performances that effectively capture the anger, the love, the pain, and the triumph of the times, that truly captivates.
2017 Narrative Film Jury
Jim Farmer
Jim Farmer has coordinated Out On Film, Atlanta’s LGBT film festival, since 2008. The recipient of a grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Oscars) in 2013 for the festival’s visiting filmmaker series, Out On Film has also been the recipient of the Guardian Angel Award from the Atlanta Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (AGLCC) for nonprofit excellence and the Center for Civic Innovation’s Creative Impact Award. Out On Film was voted Best Local Atlanta LGBT Event by the readers of The Georgia Voice in 2015 and in 2016 was named as a Grand Marshal in the Atlanta Pride parade. Most recently Out On Film was awarded the Beacon Award for Community Engagement as part of ArtsATL.com’s Luminary Awards. Jim has served on several festival juries over the last decade, most recently as the jury chair of the Atlanta Film Festival. A graduate of the University of Georgia, Jim Farmer has written about the arts for more than 20 years and is a member of several critic’s associations. His work can be seen on ArtsATL.com and in The Georgia Voice and Simply Buckhead. He lives in Atlanta with his husband Craig.
KJ Mohr
KJ Mohr has been working in film for twenty-five years as a curator, programmer, educator, filmmaker and consultant. She is currently the Director of Programming for the Tampa Bay International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, which celebrates its 28th anniversary this fall. As Director of Film and Digital Media Programs at Baltimore’s Creative Alliance, she founded the Charm City Queer Film Festival, now heading into its seventh year. KJ teaches film at George Mason University, having taught previously at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In the mid-2000’s KJ served as the first Curator of Film and Media Arts at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, prior to which she was the curator of Conversations at the Edge, a weekly visiting artist series at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago. She got her start with the extraordinary media arts and activist organization and film festival Women in the Director’s Chair (1980-2005).
Ken Salzer
Ken Salzer worked as a programmer for ImageOut from its first year in 1993 until he moved in 2003. He currently lives in Pittsburgh, where he programs for their Reel Q LGBT Film Festival.
2017 Jury Award – Best Documentary Feature: The Untold Tales Of Armistead Maupin directed by Jennifer M. Kroot and Bill Weber
For its accomplished storytelling that is both enlightening and entertaining, successfully peeling the many (untold and sometimes delightfully surprising) layers of a well-known gay literary icon for many in the LGBTQ+ community, the Documentary Jury gives the top prize to The Untold Tales Of Armistead Maupin.
Special Jury Prize for Social Justice Focus
The Death and Life Of Marsha P. Johnson, directed by David France, is a powerful film that uses the frame of a cold-case investigation to draw the viewer in and then proceeds to expertly demonstrate how the past remains present. The film eloquently emphasizes the need to push harder for trans rights and to seek justice for all victims of transphobia.
2017 Documentary Film Jury
Allen Braude
Allen Braude has over 20 years of experience as a programmer with a variety of film festivals including: Out On Screen Vancouver Queer Film Festival; Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival; Sprockets International Film Festival for Children (Toronto); Reel Talk Toronto; and Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Children and Youth (Salt Lake City). Allen is currently a member of the programming team for the Toronto Jewish Film Festival.
Rachael Brister
Rachael Brister has been working in the LGBT community for almost 20 years starting as the Programmer and Chair of ImageOut, the Rochester Lesbian & Gay Film Festival just after graduating college. In 2004, Rachael moved to Seattle to become the Executive Director of Three Dollar Bill Cinema, the organization that produces The Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, The Seattle Transgender Film Festival and other film events throughout the year. In 2012, Rachael accepted the position of Vice President of Marketing & Tourism for the Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA), the largest LGBT Chamber of Commerce in the US. Prior to joining GSBA’s staff, Rachael served on the organization’s Board of Directors for over 5 years. In 2016, Rachael joined the staff of GreenRubino, an integrated marketing agency, as their LGBT Strategist and a Pubic Relations Manager. Rachael is thrilled to be involved with ImageOut in its 25th year. She credits volunteering with ImageOut her sophomore year at the University of Rochester in 1994 (and the subsequent 10 years with the organization) for changing the trajectory of her professional life… for the better!
Laura Chekow
Laura has been devoted to all aspects of cinema since her Mom first took her and her sister to see hippopotamuses dance in tutus to sensationally scored music in Disney’s 1940 animated feature, Fantasia. She hopes it goes without saying that it was in re-release. Laura enthusiastically taught both documentary and narrative film history and appreciation at R.I.T. for four years, during which time she was also honored to participate on the judges’ panel for the Rochester Teen Film Festival . Additional film festival experiences include Hamptons International Film Festival; Berkshire International Film Festival, High Falls Film Festival, and Greentopia Film Festival.
2017 Jury Award – Best Short Film: Scar Tissue directed by Nish Gera
Scar Tissue creates remarkable depth in its short length. Depicting how gay men from very different worlds can reach across their differences to connect (and yet still not fully bridge the circumstances which divide them), this film’s masterful pacing, rich cinematography, and strong performances deeply impressed the Short Film Jury.
Special Jury Prize for Originality
The Night Cleaner, directed by Blair Fukumura, stands out for its originality, both in content and style. At its core is a candid and touching interview with a young man who works cleaning a bathhouse, a topic rarely discussed. The film then creatively visualizes his story with animation depicting the sometimes disgusting but sometimes surprisingly sweet moments of this man’s life on the job.
2017 Short Film Jury
Aviva Dove-Viebahn
Aviva Dove-Viebahn has a PhD from the University of Rochester in Visual and Cultural Studies and served on the ImageOut Programming Committee from 2006-2008. She is currently an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University, a Contributing Editor for the Scholar Writing Program at Ms. Magazine, and Web Content Manager for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
J. O’Neill
J. O’Neill first volunteered with the ImageOut Public Relations Committee in 1995, creating the (one and only) ImageOut mascot, Globey. He later joined Programming, co-chairing from 2004 to 2006. J. now lives in Philadelphia, where he works as a teacher, writer, and colonial stand-up comedian.
Sam Roberts
Sam Roberts was a member of the ImageOut Programming team from 2000 to 2006. He’s been a lab engineer at the University of Rochester Laser Lab since 1998. He’s currently taking non-matriculated courses at the U of R and still trying to find himself.
2017 Audience Award – Best Narrative Feature: A Million Happy Nows directed by Albert Alarr
2017 Audience Award – Best Narrative Feature Runner Up: I Dream In Another Language directed by Ernesto Contreras
2017 Audience Award – Best Documentary Feature (Tie): Rebels On Pointe directed by Bobbi Jo Hart
2017 Audience Award – Best Documentary Feature (Tie): The Lavender Scare directed by Josh Howard
2017 Audience Award – Best Short Film (Tie): Curmudgeons directed by Danny DeVito
2017 Audience Award – Best Short Film (Tie): Sisak directed by Faraz Ansari
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The Amorgos Conspiracy is the true story of the escape of a political prisoner from the colonels’ dictatorship of the 1960’s. The moderate left wing politician George Mylonas is being held in exile on a remote Aegean island. A plot to rescue him is mounted by his son-in-law, Elias Kulukundis, the author—a young Greek-American writer—who leads the rescue party to the island of Amorgos. The drama unfolds against an idyllic setting of a cruise in Greece, and the other rescuers—young Italian volunteers about the same age as Kulukundis—do not know either the identity of the prisoner or the “member of the resistance,” who is leading them. Kulukundis, the narrator, is traveling under a Danish passport belonging to one Arne Diener, a young Danish citizen who like many Scandinavians in that era has donated his passport to the resistance against the colonels.
What makes The Amorgos Conspiracy different is the fact that is not a novel. It is a true story. It is Elias Kulukundis’ gripping tale, of organizing the escape of his father-in law, George Mylonas. This is a book about coming of age, “a true story that marked the end of my youthful illusions” as Elias says.
The Amorgos Conspiracy in a few words: A political thriller, conspiracy, adventure, drama, love story, narrative nonfiction, true story.
“Packed with intricate relationships, exotic landscapes, and real-world
intrigue, The Amorgos Conspiracy is my favorite kind of read — a stylish
globe-trotting adventure that teaches as much as it entertains.”
—Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno
“Elias Kulukundis brilliantly captures a rich and complex world at a
dangerous and critical time. He takes the reader inside a Greek shipping
family, inside Greek politics, inside a plot to free a prisoner under the
Colonels, and inside a questing and adventurous Greek-American’s heart.
The Amorgos Conspiracy is a page-turner.”
—Arianna Huffington, publisher The Huffington Post and author of Pigs At the Trough.
Nikolia Apostolou, a video-journalist based in Athens, has directed a short documentary entitled “The Amorgos Conspiracy: A true story of escape from the military junta”, written and produced by Elias Kulukundis.
Watch the short documentary based on the book.
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"After Earth," "Movie 43" Sweep Razzies; Sandler Left Empty-Handed
posted 2 Mar 2014, 09:14 by Mpelembe [ updated 2 Mar 2014, 09:15 ]
"Movie 43," "After Earth" "win" at Razzie Awards, celebrating film duds of 2013.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (MARCH 02, 2014) (REUTERS) - Big budget sci-fi flop "After Earth" and ensemble comedy "Movie 43" led the Razzie Awards on Saturday while annual favorite Adam Sandler went home empty-handed at the ceremony that mauled Hollywood's worst films and performances of the year.
"After Earth," starring Will Smith and his teenage son Jaden, picked up three gold spray-painted raspberry accolades: Jaden Smith for worst actor, Will Smith for worst supporting actor and worst screen combo for the father-son stars.
The $130 million film, co-written by Will Smith and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, was a major flop for Sony's Columbia Pictures last year, grossing just $60 million at the U.S. and Canadian box office.
Relativity Media's "Movie 43," which features 16 off-beat comedy sketches with stars such as Halle Berry, Kate Winslet and Hugh Jackman, won worst picture, worst screenplay for its 19 screenwriters, and worst director for its 13 filmmakers.
The Razzies, created in 1980 as an antidote to the backslapping of Hollywood's awards season and now in its 34th year, is held on the evening before the glitzy Oscars ceremony, the biggest night of honors for the film industry.
The Razzie awards are selected by about 800 members of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation, who can purchase a membership for online voting rights in the annual panning of films. Eight of the nine categories are voted by members, while the ninth for worst screen combo was determined by more than 80,000 votes on movie review website RottenTomatoes.com.
The award winners rarely attend to collect their statuettes in person, althoughSandra Bullock notably attended in 2010 to collect her worst actress and worst screen couple awards for "All About Steve," the night before she won the best actress Oscar for "The Blind Side." Halle Berry also collected her worst actress award in 2005 for "Catwoman," bringing her best actress Oscar for 2001's "Monster's Ball" to the ceremony.
Sandler, who has earned more than 20 Razzie nominations over the course of his career, failed to win any of his seven Golden Raspberries nods this year for comedy "Grown Ups 2," which was bludgeoned by critics.
The "Wedding Singer" star won two Razzies last year for the father-son comedy "That's My Boy" and pulled off the only "Razzie sweep" for his film "Jack and Jill" in 2012, winning all 10 awards handed out that year.
This year's worst actress went to another Razzie regular, actor-director Tyler Perryin drag for the lead character of "A Madea Christmas." Reality TV personality Kim Kardashian was named worst supporting actress for her role in "Tyler Perry's Temptation."
Disney's "The Lone Ranger" film starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer, one of last summer's notable big-budget flops, was named worst remake/rip-off or sequel. The film, made for more than $200 million, failed to perform at the box office and lost $190 million for the studio.
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Clapton married Pattie Boyd in 1979. She had formerly been hitched to Clapton’s buddy George Harrison from 1966 to 1977. Clapton’s songs ‘Layla’ and ‘Wonderful Tonight’ had been prompted by her. They divorced in 1988.
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The manager of AIR Studios Montserrat in 1984, Clapton began a relationship with Yvonne Kelly. Although both had been hitched with other individuals in the right time, that they had a child in 1985. She had been called Ruth Kelly Clapton, but she had been held through the public through to the media realised she had been their son or daughter in 1991.
Clapton and Boyd attempted unsuccessfully to possess kiddies, and attempted in vitro fertilisation in 1984, but had miscarriages that are several.
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Conor died in 1991 in the chronilogical age of four, after falling out in clumps of a bedroom that is open regarding the 53rd flooring of a Manhattan apartment building. The track ‘Tears in Heaven’ ended up being influenced by this tragedy.
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Eric Clapton was created on March 30, 1945.
He celebrated their 73rd birthday celebration in 2018.
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Within the mid-1960s, Clapton left the Yardbirds to relax and play with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. Soon after making them, he formed the power trio Cream with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce.
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Clapton then created an innovative new musical organization made up of Delaney and Bonnie’s previous rhythm area, Bobby Whitlock as keyboardist and singer, Carl Radle once the bassist, and drummer Jim Gordon, with Clapton guitar that is playing. The band ended up being initially called ‘Eric Clapton and Friends’. The title ‘Derek in addition to Dominos’ occurred by accident whenever their temporary name of ‘Del and also the Dynamos’ was misread as Derek while the Dominos.
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Clapton has stated he is suffering from deafness, and that he additionally struggles to strum your guitar. Nevertheless, he has gotn’t announced any plans to retire.
He said which he ended up being instead anxious about doing “proficiently” at their Hyde Park gig in summer time 2018, as a result of experiencing tinnitus, a ringing sound from the ear.
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What exactly is Eric Clapton’s web worth?
Eric Clapton is projected to possess a worth that is net of $250 million (Ј190 million).
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I’m sure I’m not the only one, but I’ve often thought of the relationship between my home country, Australia, and that of New Zealand as being much like that of brothers. This brotherhood stretches back more than 100 years before the more well-known voyage of James Cook, to that of Abel Tasman. He sighted Australia on the 24th of November, closely followed by New Zealand on the 13th of December, in the year 1642. So Australia can claim the title of older brother by a mere 19 days, but we also have landmass and population (excluding sheep) on our side as well. You can also see the family resemblance just by looking at our near-identical national flags.
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Title: Public domain
Subject: Upload log archive/September 2003, Upload log archive/December 2002, Upload log archive/January 2003, Carbohydrate-binding module, Health systems by country
Collection: Copyright Law, Intellectual Property Law, Public Domain
Intellectual property law and Intellectual rights
Primary rights
Sui generis rights
Authors' rights
Database right
Indigenous intellectual property
Industrial design right
Integrated circuit layout design protection
Plant breeders' rights
Related rights
Supplementary protection certificate
Utility model
Limitations and exceptions to copyright
(Fair dealing
Right to quote)
Societal views
Traditional safety valves
Outline of intellectual property
Works in the public domain are those whose intellectual property rights have expired,[1] have been forfeited,[2] or are inapplicable. For example, the works of Shakespeare and Beethoven, most of the early silent films, the formulae of Newtonian physics, the Serpent encryption algorithm and powered flight are all now in the public domain.[1] The term is not normally applied to situations where the creator of a work retains residual rights, in which case use of the work is referred to as "under license" or "with permission".
As rights are country-based and vary, a work may be subject to rights in one country and be in the public domain in another. Some rights depend on registrations on a country-by-country basis, and the absence of registration in a particular country, if required, creates public domain status for a work in that country.
Value 3
Relationship with derivative works 4
Relationship with the Information Society 5
Perpetual copyright 6
Application to copyrightable works 7
Works not covered by copyright law 7.1
Expiration of copyright 7.2
Government works 7.3
Dedicating works to the public domain 7.4
Patents 8
Trademarks 9
Generic trademarks 9.1
See also 10
Although the term "public domain" did not come into use until the mid-17th century, the concept "can be traced back to the ancient Roman Law, as a preset system included in the property right system."[3] The Romans had a large proprietary rights system where they defined "many things that cannot be privately owned"[3] as res nullius, res communes, res publicae and res universitatis. The term res nullius was defined as things not yet appropriated.[4] The term res commune was defined as "things that could be commonly enjoyed by mankind, such as air, sunlight and ocean."[3] The term res publicae referred to things that were shared by all citizens, and the term res universitatis meant things that were owned by the municipalities of Rome.[3] When looking at the public domain from a historical perspective, one could say the construction of the idea of "public domain" sprouted from the concepts of res commune, res publicae, and res universitatis in early Roman Law.[3]
When the first early copyright law was first established in Britain with the Statute of Anne in 1710, public domain did not appear. However, similar concepts were developed by British and French jurists in the eighteenth century. Instead of "public domain" they used terms such as publici juris or propriété publique to describe works that were not covered by copyright law.[5]
The phrase "fall in the public domain" can be traced to mid-nineteenth century France to describe the end of copyright term. The French poet Alfred de Vigny equated the expiration of copyright with a work falling "into the sink hole of the public domain"[6] and if the public domain receives any attention from intellectual property lawyers it is still treated as little more than that which is left when intellectual property rights, such as copyright, patents, and trademarks, expire or are abandoned.[7] In this historical context Paul Torremans describes copyright as a "little coral reef of private right jutting up from the ocean of the public domain."[8] Because copyright law is different from country to country, Pamela Samuelson has described the public domain as being "different sizes at different times in different countries".[9]
Newton's own copy of his Principia, with hand-written corrections for the second edition
Definitions of the boundaries of the public domain in relation to copyright, or intellectual property more generally, regard the public domain as a negative space, that is, it consists of works that are no longer in copyright term or were never protected by copyright law.[10] According to James Boyle this definition underlines common usage of the term public domain and equates the public domain to public property and works in copyright to private property. However, the usage of the term public domain can be more granular, including for example uses of works in copyright permitted by copyright exceptions. Such a definition regards work in copyright as private property subject to fair use rights and limitation on ownership.[1] A conceptual definition comes from Lange, who focused on what the public domain should be: "it should be a place of sanctuary for individual creative expression, a sanctuary conferring affirmative protection against the forces of private appropriation that threatened such expression".[10] Patterson and Lindberg described the public domain not as a "territory", but rather as a concept: "[T]here are certain materials – the air we breathe, sunlight, rain, space, life, creations, thoughts, feelings, ideas, words, numbers – `not subject to private ownership. The materials that compose our cultural heritage must be free for all living to use no less than matter necessary for biological survival."[11] The term public domain may also be interchangeably used with other imprecise and/or undefined terms such as the "public sphere" or "commons", including concepts such as "commons of the mind", the "intellectual commons", and the "information commons".[7]
Pamela Samuelson has identified eight "values" that can arise from information and works in the public domain.[12]:22
Possible values include:
Building blocks for the creation of new knowledge, examples include data, facts, ideas, theories, and scientific principle.
Access to cultural heritage through information resources such as ancient Greek texts and Mozart’s symphonies.
Promoting education, through the spread of information, ideas, and scientific principles.
Enabling follow-on innovation, through for example expired patents and copyright.
Enabling low cost access to information without the need to locate the owner or negotiate rights clearance and pay royalties, through for example expired copyrighted works or patents, and non-original data compilation.[13]
Promoting public health and safety, through information and scientific principles.
Promoting the democratic process and values, through news, laws, regulation, and judicial opinion.
Enabling competitive imitation, through for example expired patents and copyright, or publicly disclosed technologies that do not qualify for patent protection.[12]:22
Relationship with derivative works
L.H.O.O.Q. (1919). Derivative work by the Dadaist Marcel Duchamp based on the Mona Lisa.
Derivative works include translations, musical arrangements, and dramatizations of a work, as well as other forms of transformation or adaptation.[14] Copyrighted works may not be used for derivative works without permission from the copyright owner,[15] while public domain works can be freely used for derivative works without permission.[16][17] Artworks that are public domain may also be reproduced photographically or artistically or used as the basis of new, interpretive works.[18] Once works enter into the public domain, derivative works such as adaptations in book and film may increase noticeably, as happened with Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel The Secret Garden, which became public domain in 1987.[19] By 1999, the plays of Shakespeare, all public domain, had been used in more than 420 feature-length films.[20] In addition to straightforward adaptation, they have been used as the launching point for transformative retellings such as Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Troma Entertainment's Tromeo and Juliet.[21][22][23] Marcel Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q. is a derivative of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, one of thousands of derivative works based on the public domain painting.[16]
Relationship with the Information Society
According to Bernt Hugenholtz and Lucie Guibault, the public domain is under pressure from the "commodification of information" as items of information that previously had little or no economic value have acquired independent economic value in the information age, such as factual data, personal data, genetic information, and pure ideas. The commodification of information is taking place through intellectual property law, contract law, as well as broadcasting and telecommunications law.[12]:1
Perpetual copyright
Some works may never fully lapse into the public domain. A perpetual crown copyright is held for the Authorized King James Version of the Bible in the UK.[24] While the copyright of the play Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by J. M. Barrie has expired in the United Kingdom, it was granted a special exception under the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988 (Schedule 6)[25] that requires royalties to be paid for performances within the UK, so long as Great Ormond Street Hospital (to whom Barrie gave the rights) continues to exist.
Application to copyrightable works
Works not covered by copyright law
The underlying idea that is expressed or manifested in the creation of a work generally cannot be the subject of copyright law (see idea-expression divide). Mathematical formulae will therefore generally form part of the public domain, to the extent that their expression in the form of software is not covered by copyright.
Works created before the existence of copyright and patent laws also form part of the public domain. For example, the Bible and the inventions of Archimedes are in the public domain, but copyright may exist in translations or new formulations of these works.
Expiration of copyright
Determination of whether a copyright has expired depends on an examination of the copyright in its "source country".
In the United States, determining whether a work has entered the public domain or is still under copyright can be quite complex, primarily because copyright terms have been extended multiple times and in different ways—shifting over the course of the 20th century from a fixed-term based on first publication, with a possible renewal term, to a term extending to fifty, then seventy, years after the death of the author. The claim that "pre-1923 works are in the public domain" is correct only for published works; unpublished works are under federal copyright for at least the life of the author plus 70 years.
In most other countries that are signatories to the Berne Convention, copyright term is based on the life of the author, and extends to 50 or 70 years beyond the death of the author. (See List of countries' copyright length.)
Legal traditions differ on whether a work in the public domain can have its copyright restored. In the European Union, the Copyright Duration Directive was applied retroactively, restoring and extending the terms of copyright on material previously in the public domain. Term extensions by the U.S. and Australia generally have not removed works from the public domain, but rather delayed the addition of works to it. However, the United States moved away from that tradition with the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, which removed from the public domain many foreign-sourced works that had previously not been in copyright in the US for failure to comply with US-based formalities requirements. Consequently, in the US, foreign-sourced works and US-sourced works are now treated differently, with foreign-sourced works remaining under copyright regardless of compliance with formalities, while domestically-sourced works may be in the public domain if they failed to comply with then-existing formalities requirements—a situation described as odd by some scholars, and unfair by some US-based rightsholders.[26]
Government works
Works of the United States Government and various other governments are excluded from copyright law and may therefore be considered to be in the public domain in their respective countries.[27] In the United States, when copyrighted material is enacted into the law, it enters the public domain. Thus, e.g., the building codes, when enacted, are in the public domain.[28] They may also be in the public domain in other countries as well. "It is axiomatic that material in the public domain is not protected by copyright, even when incorporated into a copyrighted work."[29]
Dedicating works to the public domain
Few if any legal systems have a process for reliably donating works to the public domain. They may even effectively prohibit any attempt by copyright owners to surrender rights automatically conferred by law, particularly moral rights.[30] An alternative is for copyright holders to issue a licence which irrevocably grants as many rights as possible to the general public, e.g., the CC0 licence from Creative Commons.[30]
In most countries the term or rights for patents is 20 years, after which the invention becomes part of the public domain. In the United States, the contents of patents are considered valid and enforceable for twenty years from the date of filing within the United States or twenty years from the earliest date of filing if under 35 USC 120, 121, or 365(c). [31] However, the text and any illustration within a patent, provided the illustrations are essentially line drawings and do not in any substantive way reflect the "personality" of the person drawing them, are not subject to copyright protection.[32] This is separate from the patent rights just mentioned.
A trademark registration may remain in force indefinitely, or expire without specific regard to its age. For a trademark registration to remain valid, the owner must continue to use it. In some circumstances, such as disuse, failure to assert trademark rights, or common usage by the public without regard for its intended use, it could become generic, and therefore part of the public domain.
Because trademarks are registered with governments, some countries or trademark registries may recognize a mark, while others may have determined that it is generic and not allowable as a trademark in that registry. For example, the drug "acetylsalicylic acid" (2-acetoxybenzoic acid) is better known as aspirin in the United States—a generic term. In Canada, however, "Aspirin", with an upper case A, is still a trademark of the German company Bayer, while aspirin, with a lower case "a" is not. Bayer lost the trademark in the United States, the UK and France after World War I, as part of the Treaty of Versailles. So many copy-cat products entered the marketplace during the war that it was deemed generic just three years later.[33]
Bayer also lost the trademark for "Heroin", which it trademarked a year before it trademarked Aspirin.
Generic trademarks
Although Hormel resigned itself to genericide,[34] it has fought attempts by other companies to register "spam" as a trademark in relation to computer products.[35]
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
Copyfraud
Copyright status of work by the U.S. government
Copyright Term Extension Act
CSPD, Duke University Law School's Center for the Study of the Public Domain
Eldred v. Ashcroft
Fair dealing
Millar v Taylor
List of countries' copyright length
List of films in the public domain in the United States
Public Domain Day
Public Domain Enhancement Act
Public domain film
Public domain image resources
Public domain in the United States
Public domain music
Public domain software
Public Domain Calculator
Rule of the shorter term
^ a b c
^ a b c d e
^ Rose, C Romans, Roads, and Romantic Creators: Traditions of Public Property in the Information Age (Winter 2003) Law and Contemporary Problems 89 at p.5, p.4
^ Young, Mark (ed.). The Guinness Book of Records 1999, Bantam Books, 358; Voigts-Virchow, Eckartm (2004), Janespotting and Beyond: British Heritage Retrovisions Since the Mid-1990s, Gunter Narr Verlag, 92.
^ Dennis Karjala, "Judicial Oversight of Copyright Legislation", 35 N. Ky. L. Rev. 253 (2008).
^ Copyright Office Basics
^ Nimmer, Melville B., and David Nimmer (1997). Nimmer on Copyright, section 13.03(F)(4). Albany: Matthew Bender.
^ Manual of Patent Examining Procedure available at http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2701.html
^ Copyright and Trademark Issues RE: Materials from USPTO Website
^ Aspirin, World of Molecules
Public Domain Manifesto
Public Domain Review
Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke University
Issues and debates
Copyright infringement of software
Gripe site
Legal aspects of file sharing
Music piracy
Software patent debate
Patent trolling
All rights reversed
Alternative compensation system
Anti-copyright notice
Business models for open source software
Commercial use of copyleft works
Commons-based peer production
Free software license
Infoanarchism
Libertarian positions
Open Music Model
Open patent
Open-source hardware
Share-alike
Access to Knowledge movement
Cultural environmentalism
Free culture movement
Free software movement
Open Rights Group
Organization for Transformative Works
Piratbyrån
Students for Free Culture
Rickard Falkvinge
Peter Sunde
Steal This Film (2006, 2007)
Good Copy Bad Copy (2007)
RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (2008)
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard (2013)
Free and open-source software
Alternative terms for free software
Comparison of open source and closed source
Comparison of source code hosting facilities
Formerly proprietary software
Free and open-source Android applications
Free and open-source iOS applications
Free and open-source software packages
Free software events
Free software project directories
Free software web applications
Gratis versus libre
Long-term support
Open-source software
Basic For Qt
Application Suite
Android Open Source Project
Blender Foundation
freedesktop.org
FSMI
GNOME Foundation
KDE e.V.
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
Open Source Initiative
OpenBSD Foundation
Software Freedom Conservancy
Symbian Foundation
Ubuntu Foundation
VideoLAN Organization
X.Org Foundation
Xiph.Org Foundation
XMPP Standards Foundation
APSL
Beerware
CDDL
GNU GPL
GNU LGPL
Ms-PL/RL
and standards
Comparison of free and open-source software licenses
Copyfree
Debian Free Software Guidelines
Definition of Free Cultural Works
The Free Software Definition
The Open Source Definition
Open-source license
Permissive free software licence
Viral license
Binary blob
Free and open-source graphics device driver
Lack of wireless driver support
Hardware restrictions
License proliferation
Mozilla software rebranding
SCO–Linux controversies
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Forking
Linux distribution
Microsoft Open Specification Promise
Vague or ambiguous geographic scope from August 2014
Articles with unsourced statements from August 2014
Lawrence Lessig, Free culture movement, Creative Commons license, Intellectual property, Open source
Source code, Public domain, Free Software Foundation, Copyleft, OpenBSD
Copyright, Law, Patent, Trademark, Human rights
Intellectual property, United Kingdom, Trademark, Internet, Public domain
Intellectual property, Public domain, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Software
Carbohydrate-binding module
Pfam, InterPro, Public domain, PDBsum, Protein Data Bank
Health systems by country
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Regarding movie & TV show remakes
Posted on Mon 19 Mar 2012 at 2:04 PM PST. Filed under Entertainment.
It has been a constant complaint in the last few years, especially by genre fans: the countless Hollywood remakes or re-imaginings of older movies and TV shows. I personally prefer original works (even if everything is a remix of previous artistic knowledge in reality), and I don’t discount all direct remakes as useless. But in the last few years there’s definitely an identified problem in the sheer concentration of remakes or blatant copies of older ideas. It feels like there’s nothing really fresh coming out from the world anymore. I believe that it’s a three-tier issue:
1. Hollywood doesn’t take risks anymore
Why would Coca-Cola change its recipe? They normally wouldn’t. Similarly, in these difficult financial times we live in, Hollywood prefers to serve us tried & tested recipes. Can you blame them? Actually, you can. Hollywood is an immense artistic influence and force, we like it or not. While the various execs are in it just for the money, this doesn’t discount the fact that as industry leaders they also have an ethical obligation to be artistically progressive. And this can only happen when some risk is taken. With the explosion of various art mediums in the ’90s, Hollywood has entered a second phase of maturation, which unfortunately made it more bureaucratic, and more concentrated. There are of course a lot of politics behind the scenes, but the gist of it all is that these companies are now running like old oil factories: one step in front, two steps back.
“Kichwateli” (Swahili for TV-head) is a short film by self-taught animation & film director Bobb Muchiri set in a post-apocalyptic African slum and city. This afro-sci film takes the viewer on a spiritual and metaphorical voyage through a young boy’s dream mixing new imagery of a young boy wondering inquisitively with a live TV as his head to show the effects of media on a young generation.
2. Lack of imagination
Has capitalism sank its fangs into us to the point that we’re culturally bankrupt already? I don’t think so, because whereas in the past only a few people would become artists, today almost everyone is one. Human beings are resilient artistically to be able to go around such obstacles, such as a rotten political and economical system. Or could it be that every cool story is already being written and there’s nothing new to provide to the world? Sure, our world is cataclysmically bombarded with various works every day, but not everything is shown on screen, and not absolutely everything has been thought-up yet. And yet, not many radical works are getting released recently. I find the lack of imagination (or at least the exec disapproval of imaginative works) very disturbing. Science Fiction is supposed to be about what it could become, while at the same time is being current to today’s problems. What is our existence without a window to a possible future or solution? What is art if it doesn’t strive to imagine some sort of utopia?
3. Plot timing
As I wrote above, science fiction describes both a possible future but also our present. When remaking an old sci-fi movie, you’re running into the danger of re-discussing a then-current issue that is no more. Often this is “fixed” by re-writing specific plot points, enough to piss off the old fans and sabotage the new movie any way the can. And failing at the box office, it gets the business back to point No 1 above. Rinse, repeat.
The solution? By definition, the new wave will come from indie filmmakers (especially as tools become even more inexpensive), or from an anti-Hollywood conglomerate of international media companies. Hollywood won’t survive this new reality, the same way the big-4 music labels haven’t survived the indie music onslaught in the last few years.
Sex Mahoney wrote on March 19th, 2012 at 5:07 PM PST:
Let me preface this by saying, I dislike Hollywood.
I don’t buy any merchandise, I won’t shell out for tickets, and I will wait for years to see a blockbuster just to avoid the possibility that someone might profit off it.
Still, Hollywood has done a fairly effective job of appealing to the masses. Some of those movies I boycott for years end up being pretty enjoyable.
Besides, creative cultural exports go hand in hand with empire. The more parts of the world independent of American control, the less Hollywood will become a source of dependable entertainment, and more another niche market in a vibrant, international, cinematic lineup.
It also means that when people who are interested in art for art’s sake (about 100 to 200 years from now), the fighting robots and sparkly vampires will have vanished. There’s no telling what will be left behind, but I have no doubt it will be something with more heart. Sad and bittersweet and full of pain. Like ‘Drive’ or ‘WALL E’.
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Golden Boot Game Latest Web Log
Week #15 - 'Weakenders' Take Over Top Spot
It is January, which means the transfer window is open. So far the only move affecting the Golden Boot Game is Haller’s departure from West Ham. Those with very sharp eyes may have noticed he is no longer in the list of strikers registered for selection or in the Strikers List table. For those of us with the misfortune to have selected him, he does still appear on the list of our team’s selections so far this season. In my case a reminder of the three times I backed him and the zero points with which he rewarded my faith.
This January we have to keep track of a volatile fixture list as well as transfers, so we can’t always guarantee that strikers leaving the Premier League will be removed from selection in a timely manner. As always, it is your responsibility to ensure your selected strikers still play for a Premier League club at the selection deadline for any Week. However, you don’t need to worry if one of your selections moves from one Premier League club to another. In that case, any goals he scores for the new club will still count towards your team’s score.
The scoring in Week #15 started in the same way as it had in Week #14, with two Man Utd strikers getting a goal each. It became clear that it would be a better scoring Week when two Spurs strikers, both with more selections, joined the party (not that party!). Lacazette’s double kept the scoring moving on Saturday and De Bruyne added significant points on Sunday. This meant that every one of our teams had some points after the first set of matches despite the postponement at Burnley. We would have to wait until the penultimate match of the Week for the next Golden Boot Game points. Kane, doubling his tally, now had more points than the other eight contributions combined. With nothing to add on Thursday, the Week #16 average score remained at 19.7 points.
Cheshire Town were the only team to have five goal scorers this Week. Their seven goals were also the Week’s best but the 29 points they scored was beaten by four teams. Upforthecup had the best total with 34 points from their six goals and doubles from their top two selections. Two teams, Silly Rockets fc. and M1, posted 33 points from six goals and Weakenders were just a point behind from their six goals. Team Of The Weak were the best of the five goal teams matching the 29 points of Cheshire Town from just three scorers.
Good returns for Weakenders and Team Of The Weak has taken them into the top two positions. The former leading the way by five points. Bury Wanderer retained third place a further five points adrift. Four points further back donnyvegasisback move up a place to fourth ahead of last Week’s leaders BF Giants who are now twenty points behind the leaders in fifth. So, it’s the same five teams in the top five places but the order has changed and, more significantly, the gaps have opened up. If the new top teams can increase those gaps this may be a significant part of the season even though we are not yet half way. Time will tell.
Eight teams added two gold medals to their tally in the second Week of the Medals Table Game. For seven of them these were their first golds. Only Upforthecup already had a gold medal from the first Week. As they also gained two silvers this Week they now have a clear lead. Magic Eight Balls were one of three teams able to add one silver to their two golds and, already having a silver from last Week, they move into second place. Teak Temple had two bronzes from last Week to add to their silver and two golds from this, giving them third place from Team Of The Weak who had drawn a blank last Week. We know things can change in an instant in this game and there will be every chance for teams to make their mark next Week as long as matches get played and plenty of goals are scored.
Week #16 is a bit like Week #15 but shorter. It only lasts for a single calendar week. There are fourteen matches currently scheduled, with matches every day except Friday. Nine clubs have two matches scheduled with five of them having two at home and four having two away. Late fixture changes mean Everton no longer have a match in Week #16. This leaves another ten clubs with just one match to play. The first match in Week #16 is now the Saturday lunchtime clash between Wolves and West Brom. This means the selection deadline will be at 11:00 am on Saturday 16th January. There are five matches in total scheduled on Saturday and three more remain on Sunday. Monday night’s match is the last one where both teams are playing their only Week #16 match. There are then two matches on Tuesday and two more on Wednesday before the final match of the Week takes place on Thursday night at Anfield, where Burnley are the visitors. We will be updating our website shortly after the final whistle in that match.
Another Thursday night finish means the next web log will not be available until around midday on Friday 22nd January. We will have the latest updates from the Golden Boot Game and the Medals Table Game as we approach the half way point of the season. We will also be playing our new favourite game: Guess The Fixtures.
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Toronto's JFL42 Cancels In-Person 2020 Festival
But Just for Laughs organizers are working on a "new plan" for this year's event
Toronto's JFL42 has become the latest in the seemingly endless wave of festival interruptions. The organizers have announced that the festival, which was set to run from September 24 to October 3, will no longer take place in-person.
The 9th edition of the comedy fest may not be taking place in the flesh, but an announcement suggests that there will be some sort of an online edition. Those exact plans have not yet been confirmed, however.
A statement from organizers reads as follows:
Due to the many impacts and unpredictable nature of COVID-19, and the amount of planning that goes into organizing this festival in advance, the current situation and conditions leave us no alternative as we are increasingly getting closer to the planned dates. We had hoped for a different outcome and are so disappointed that we are all subject to this extraordinary context. While we are not moving forward with the festival in its current format, we believe that 2020 demands a new plan for us to continue to entertain and bring laughter during these unprecedented times. We are currently working on these new plans and will have an exciting announcement to share in the coming weeks.
JFL42 has already announced its 2021 dates, which will run from September 23 to October 3 next year. Trevor Noah's headlining show, which had been scheduled for October 3 will now take place on October 2, 2021. Tickets for Noah's 2020 show will be valid for the 2021 show, or refunds will be available starting August 7.
Organizers add: "For now, the health and safety of our audiences, artists, partners, and staff is our primary driver in this situation. We will be back in a big way in 2021 with exciting plans to expand the festival for the people of Toronto, and for the comedy fans and industry who travel to join us every September."
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HomeEthiopia extends state of emergency by four months:- Aljazeera
Ethiopia extends state of emergency by four months:- Aljazeera
Ethiopia extends state of emergency by four months
Opposition parties complain that the emergency is being used to clamp down on their members and activities.
The country’s ruling coalition is controlled primarily by the Tigray ethnic group, who accounts for only 6 percent of the population [Tiksa Negeri/Reuters]
(Aljazeera) – The Ethiopian parliament has extended by four months a state of emergency it declared six months ago after almost a year of often violent anti-government demonstrations.
The widely expected extension comes amid reports of continued violence and anti-government activities in some rural areas.
At least 500 people were killed by security forces during the year of protests, according to New York-based Human Rights Watch group – a figure the government later echoed.
“We still have some anti-peace elements that are active and want to capitalise on disputes that arise among regional states in the country,” Ethiopia’s defence minister, Siraj Fegessa, told MPs when he called on them to approve the extension on Thursday.
“In addition, some leaders of the violent acts that we witnessed before are still at large and are disseminating wrong information to incite violence.”
Opposition parties complain that the emergency powers are being used to clamp down on their members and activities, especially in rural regions far from the capital, Addis Ababa.
The state of emergency, declared on October 9, was a reaction to protests that were especially persistent in the Oromia region. Many members of the Oromo ethnic group say they are marginalised and that they do not have access to political power, something the government denies.
OPINION: The Oromo protests have changed Ethiopia
A wave of anger was triggered by a development scheme for Addis Ababa, which would have seen its boundaries extended into Oromia. Demonstrators saw it as a land grab that would force farmers off their land.
The protests soon spread to the Amhara region in the north, where locals argued that decades-old federal boundaries had cut off many ethnic Amharas from the region.
Crushed to death
The Oromo and Amhara ethnic groups together make up about 60 percent of Ethiopia’s population.
The country’s ruling coalition, which has been in power for a quarter of a century, is controlled primarily by the Tigray ethnic group, who make up six percent of the population.
Tensions reached an all-time high after a stampede in which at least 52 people were crushed to death fleeing security forces at a
protest that grew out of a religious festival in the town of Bishoftu on October 2nd.
In the following days, rioters torched several mostly foreign-owned factories and other buildings that they claimed were built on seized land.
The government, though, blamed rebel groups and foreign-based dissidents for stoking the violence.
The state of emergency initially included curfews, social media blocks, restrictions on opposition party activity and a ban on diplomats traveling more than 40 kilometres outside the capital without approval.
Authorities arrested over 11,000 people during its first month.
Some provisions of the state of emergency were relaxed on March 15th, two weeks prior to Thursday’s announced extension. Arrests and searches without court orders were stopped, and restrictions on radio, television and theatre were dropped.
Protesters run from tear gas being fired by police during Irreecha, the religious festival in Bishoftu where at least 52 people died [Tiksa Negeri/Reuters
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Trump Said to Ease Combat Rules in Somalia Intended to Protect Civilians
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a2a rail stock
The start of surveying activities means that we are now officially 'boots on the ground' here in Alberta. The route will link the deep-water ports and the existing railway network of Alaska to the Canadian railway system. EDMONTON, AB, July 7, 2020 /CNW/ - The Executive Team of the Alaska - Alberta Railway Corporation (A2A Rail) has commissioned engineering firm HDR to immediately commence with detailed land surveying along the Alberta segment of the railway's proposed route. The project will provide bi-direction freight transportation to and from North American destinations and better access to previously inaccessible areas in the region. A2A Rail commissioned HDR for detailed land surveying in Alberta in July 2020. It will deliver steady-state revenues of more than C$4bn ($3bn) a year to cover the operational and capital costs. Surveying work is required ahead of construction for any major infrastructure project. The Executive Team of the Alaska - Alberta Railway Corporation (A2A Rail) has commissioned engineering firm HDR to immediately commence with detailed land surveying along the …
It will reduce fuel usage, environmental impacts and improve safety by employing lower railway grades (generally 1%) and curvature. Fed holds rates at zero amid 'considerable risks', Subscribe to Premium to view Fair Value for A2A.MI. It will be connected to the Delta Junction (current-approved endpoint of the Alaska Railroad), from where the trains will link the tidewater ports of Southcentral Alaska.
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Compare 2020 top lenders to get matched with lenders curated for your needs in 2 min. The associated field research and topographical modelling enable detailed engineering, permitting applications and construction planning. Front Page. PRESS RELEASES; IN THE NEWS; CONTACT US; Search for: Menu Close. The A2A line would transport oil, as well as grain, ore, and other containerized goods. It will also analyse options for the government-issued grants and loan guarantees in both the countries for the risk capital. The infrastructure of the corridor, including the bridges, culverts, and tunnels, is designed as per the environmental and operational requirements. HDR will work with respected local contractors and subcontractors, including Quantum Spatial, a geospatial analytics pioneer, and Lawson, a certified Indigenous owned and controlled surveying firm. It will deliver steady-state revenues of more than C$4bn ($3bn) a year to cover the operational and capital costs. A 30-year plan for UK rolling stock: lessons from the RIA. By linking south-central Alaska with north-west Canada, the route will establish railway access to the Canadian region. ABOUT A2A… The new rail line will create new economic development opportunities for a wide range of businesses, communities and Indigenous communities in Canada and Alaska.
But, this barely scratches the surface of the economic stimulus A2A Rail will create, as McCoshen lays out: "This is a world-class infrastructure project that will generate more than 18,000 jobs for Canadian workers at a time when they are most needed, provide a new, more efficient route for trans-Pacific shipping and thereby link Alberta to world markets. The route will link the deepwater ports and the existing railway network of Alaska to the Canadian railway system. 10,209 rail stock products are offered for sale by suppliers on Alibaba. The railway project will connect North American transportation networks and world markets. Alaska - Alberta Rail initiates surveying activities in Alberta. The railway corridor will generate more than 28,000 jobs in the impacted states and provinces and lift the average incomes in the regions along the railway by up to 40%. The A2A corridor will be a heavy haul standard gauge railway that will transport general cargo, bulk dry and liquid cargo, bulk cargo, refrigerated cargo, roll-on/roll-off cargo and container cargo, as well as passengers. A2A, which first began work on the line in 2015, is one of two companies that have pitched similar projects over the past several years. The US and Canadian regulatory processes will include the development and submission of an environmental impact statement (EIS) along with engagement with indigenous communities, agencies and interested parties. Skip to content. Proposed Alberta-Alaska railway to get oil to market For A2A Rail Founder and Chairman Sean McCoshen this is yet another important milestone in the project's impressive progress towards the start of construction work: "A2A Rail continues to gather momentum.
The project is being developed by the privately owned Alaska-Alberta Railway Development (A2A Rail). A+ Rating with BBB. The rail system will be equipped with positive train control (PTC) along with heat detectors to predict mechanical issues. Another company, G7G, also pitched the project in 2018. Early field activities and detailed engineering works are expected to commence in late 2020, while soft construction will start by the end of 2020. ABOUT A2A; OUR RAILWAY; COMMUNITIES . Transport for London to receive £1.7bn bailout amid political tensions, Optimising rail resources in uncertain times: lessons from IRS webinar. Once constructed, the A2A railway will be a modern, safe and efficient way to transport a wide range of bulk commodities including oil, grain and ore in addition to containerized goods. Alaska-Alberta Railway Development (A2A Rail). View original content to download multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/with-start-of-surveying-activities-a2a-rail-achieves-another-development-milestone-301089373.html, SOURCE Alaska-Alberta Railway Development Corporation, Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our, Tech stocks are primed to surge another 15% as election results seem likely to ease regulation risk, Wedbush says », 5 political ads that may have changed the outcome of the election ». Released in 2016, the viability study is being used by A2A Rail to perform works related to the project. The Alaska-to-Alberta (A2A) rail concept has been around in various forms for decades.
It will also be used to transport non-hazardous goods safely with the help of advanced technology. Will HS2 Birmingham Curzon Street provide the blueprint for future rail stations in the UK? We estimate that A2A Rail could unlock $60 billion CAD in additional cumulative GDP through 2040 and lift household incomes by an average of 40%.". Combining that with our progress on completing our feasibility study, it is safe to say that A2A Rail has advanced well beyond the early idea first investigated by the Van Horne institute, into a mature infrastructure project only months away from breaking ground.". A2A Rail entered a master agreement with Alaska Railroad for cooperation on permission, selection of the right of way (ROW), economic terms, and approval to operate on their track and to extend some sections of their system. With the start of surveying activities, A2A Rail is now also delivering tangible economic impact for the province of Alberta. The A2A rail corridor is estimated to cost more than C$22bn ($17bn), including C$7bn ($5.2bn) for the Alaskan segment and C$15bn ($11.2bn) for the Canadian section.
Made In NYC | It will cut shipping times between North America and Asia by two to four days. The proposed route will connect the North American railway network via Northern Alberta to the existing Alaska Railroad network and Alaska's deep-water ports. Commerce Policy | Stock quotes by finanzen.net. Construction will begin from North Pole city near Fairbanks, Alaska and will extend towards the south and east through Alaska and enter Alberta through Yukon and the Northwest Territories (NWT). A2A Rail will now intensify efforts to move forward with the following groups: Alaska - Alberta Rail is a privately owned corporation. The company plans to secure financing from private investors, infrastructure funds, and sovereign wealth groups for the upcoming phases of the project. Once constructed, the A2A railway will be a modern, safe and efficient way to transport a wide range of bulk commodities including oil, grain and ore in addition to containerized goods.
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COURT DOCUMENTS REVEAL DE BEERS CHARGES AGAINST USMANOV OVER GRIB DIAMOND PIPE
De Beers’s arsenal resists Usmanov attack on the Grib pipe and the Arsenal pitch.
A public relations blitz under way this month in London and the UK media has produced charges and counter-charges involving Alisher Usmanov, an iron-ore and steel magnate. He is accused of conspiring with other Russians to defraud a De Beers-affiliated company of its 40% stake in, and several hundred millions of dollars in future profits from, the only major diamond deposit newly discovered in northwestern Russia.
Usmanov has had run-ins with the London press before. The first time, in 2003 and 2004, was when he started buying shares of the then Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus, and was rebuffed by the Corus board, which went on to sell itself to Tata of India. Usmanov found his champion at the time at the Financial Times. He also pocketed a substantial profit from the rise in the Corus share price.
This time Usmanov has been after possible control of the Arsenal Football Club. As the Corus board had done before them, the Arsenal shareholding defenders have attempted to persuade the London newspapers to publish items from Usmanov’s past career, thereby deterring shareholders from selling out, and creating an atmosphere hostile to Usmanov’s involvement in the affairs of the football club.
As Usmanov had done before, he found his champion in a Moscow-based correspondent for the Sunday Times. What the latter omitted to report was a detailed dossier of court files from Sweden to the United States, the existence and meaning of which Usmanov has gone to great public care and private expense to deny. The wording of Usmanov’s denials is subtle; the only way to understand that is to read the court documents themselves.
De Beers isn’t providing them. The diamond group is carefully avoiding being drawn publicly on the conflict, although it is indirectly connected to Arsenal through Sir Chips Keswick. A former Hambros banker, Keswick sits on both the De Beers and Arsenal boards. Keswick was last reported as owning 20 shares of Arsenal, amounting to 0.032% of the issued stock.
Usmanov owns a 23% shareholding in Arsenal, and has said he would continue to buy shares if other major shareholders wanted to sell, and if the price is right.
But according to the published terms of a lock-down agreement just signed, Usmanov’s opponents on the Arsenal board, led by chairman Peter Hill-Wood, have announced: “Members of the board are committed long-term shareholders, and to strengthen the current position they have entered into a new agreement which replaces the existing lock-down agreement. Under the new agreement, the board members have agreed not to dispose of any of their interests in the club before April 18, 2009, other than to certain permitted persons, such as close family. After that date, for the remainder of the term of the agreement, they can only sell their shares to another person if the other parties to the agreement do not wish to buy them.”
In the game between Usmanov and De Beers, Mineweb has been calling the ball-by-ball action for several years. The direct negotiations between them came to nothing. Arbitration in Stockholm began in 1998, and is continuing. Court actions have followed in Sweden, the US, and Russia. Usmanov has been listed on the schedule to give a deposition in Colorado; it hasn’t happened yet.
What makes the latest Arsenal case of interest to mining industry and mining finance readers is the extent to which the London market has become the world’s most costly reputation laundry. Buying football clubs impacts on mine finance and corporate broking, because it is one of the prices to be paid for making reputations, allegedly tarnished by purported scandals elsewhere, popular and bankable.
City banks are obligated to fill out Know-Your-Client forms. These can be expedited by the kind of acquaintance that develops in the VIP boxes at football matches. In the case of a loan Usmanov procured from Standard Bank, South Africa’s dominant lender, yachting was the recreation that was KYC positive.
Whether Usmanov’s conduct in the affair of the Grib diamond project ought to impact on the future of English steel and of English football appears to have been decided. It did, and it does; although the lockdown agreement has obviated the necessity for the Arsenal board to say more.
The bedrock in the case of De Beers versus Usmanov is that Usmanov has been named in US court papers as one of the principals in the affair of the Grib pipe; that several billion dollars in costs, damages, and compensation are at stake in both Denver, Colorado, and Stockholm; and that if you are a target of Usmanov’s interest — Mineweb has also reported on Usmanov’s interest in Australian iron-ore and precious metals — the playbook of his management footwork is a must-read.
The Grib diamond pipe was first discovered in 1996 by a joint venture of Canadian and Russian prospectors. Subsequent sampling and valuation, conducted by De Beers, have identified 98 million tonnes of kimberlite to a depth of 500 metres, containing an estimated 67 million recoverable carats. The grade has been estimated at 69 carats per 100 tonnes. The original De Beers valuation was $79/carat, amounting to $5.3 billion. This valuation has moved up with diamond prices to more than $7 billion today.
For several years, Usmanov and partner, Vagit Alekperov, chairman of LUKoil, have been facing the charge that they conspired in a scheme of “unjust enrichment”; the details have been filed in federal US court, as well as in the district court of Denver, Colorado; and in arbitral and court proceedings in Stockholm, Sweden. The plaintiff is Archangel Diamond Corporation (ADC). A Canadian listed diamond mining junior, ADC was initially directed by venture miners. The Oppenheimer family bought a stake, and then sold it to De Beers, which accumulated additional shares to become the controlling shareholder.
According to an October 9 report by Moscow news agency Interfax, Usmanov has denied reports that ADC, now a subsidiary of De Beers, had filed a lawsuit against him. According to Interfax, “Alisher Usmanov is not and has never been a defendant in claims from Archangel Diamond Corporation. ADC previously made a contrived attempt to involve A. Usmanov as a party in the case, which was rejected in arbitration proceedings in Stockholm,” the billionaire’s press service said in a statement issued Monday evening. ADC lost all of its lawsuits against Arkhangelskgeoldobycha (AGD), which is now a subsidiary of Lukoil (RTS: LKOH), the press service said. AGD won court hearings both in Russia, and in the U.S. state of Colorado. The case in Colorado is continuing only against Lukoil on procedural grounds,” the statement said.”
A promotional interview with Usmanov, reported by Mark Franchetti of the Sunday Times of London on October 14, did not report the existence of the US and Swedish court documents.
Usmanov’s claims are misleading. The caption pages of the filings by ADC in US federal and Denver District Court refer to LUKoil and Arkhangelskgeoldobycha (AGD) as defendants. Usmanov is explicitly named as a “co-venturer” with LUKoil and Alekperov; and as the co-controlling shareholder of VA Investment LLC “a company which managed and controlled [defendant] AGD”. The charges cited in the court filings include “fraud, breach of express and implied contract, civil conspiracy, intentional interference with contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and unjust enrichment…”
ADC is claiming that it has lost more than $30 million in its investment in the deposit, and more than $400 million in profits which it would earn from its 40% stake in the Grib mine venture. In court filings, it is claiming $1.2 billion in triple compensatory damages, and $3.6 billion in punitive damages. Colorodo is the venue because LUKoil operates petrol stations in the jurisdiction; and because ADC’s operating office and chief executive were located in Denver at the time, and conducted negotiations with LUKoil, AGD, Usmanov, and Alekperov from there.
Usmanov is accused in the US court documents of having “operated and controlled AGD during the time periods described herein”; to have “served as the Deputy Chairman of AGD and represented AGD in negotiations and communications”; and to have controlled AGD through other entities in which he had control, including Mapo Bank, Interfin Services, and AGD Invest.
The US courts have so far considered only jurisdictional issues, and there has been no trial on the substance of the charges. The case is still pending.
In Sweden, where ADC has filed for breach of contract, the initial panel of arbitrators accepted jurisdiction, and then heard testimony in the case. A switch of votes on the panel, in suspicious circumstances, then reversed the jurisdiction ruling. ADC appealed to the Swedish courts, and in February 2004, the Stockholm District Court upheld ADC’s appeal, reversed the tribunal ruling, and ordered a rehearing of the charges. In a blow against the credibility of AGD, it was ordered to pay ADC’s costs. That case is also still proceeding.
Russian court litigation in the case, to which Usmanov refers in his London media defence, is described by ADC in the US court documents as “seek[ing] to take advantage of the notoriously corrupt Russian court system”.
by John Helmer - Sunday, October 21st, 2007
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Barrie Williams Dies
January 17, 2014 August 5, 2018
One of the last photos of Barry Williams
Paekakariki loses one of its favourite sons
By Alan Tristram
Barry Williams, one of Paekakariki’s elder statesmen and a revered character, has died after a long illness.
He will be remembered — among many other things — for his leadership during the severe flooding in Paekakariki in 2003.
His funeral will be held next Tuesday, January 21, at 2pm in St Peter’s Village Hall.
Barry, who was 82, died at the Mary Potter Hospice in Wellington on Wednesday.
The Williams family
He is survived by his wife Maureen, a well-known author and political campaigner, his son Gwyn and daughters Frith and Meg, and four grandchildren.
Barry Williams was born in Palmerston North in 1932. Later he went to Nelson College as a boarder; then went to Canterbury University.
About this time he boarded with artist Toss Woollaston and his wife Edith (he became a close friend of their son Philip Woollaston).
During his academic life, Barry Williams first became an adult education tutor, travelling to the West Coast of the South Island from a base in Christchurch. His special area of expertise was music,
Then in 1965 he took up a post as an Adult Education lecturer at Canterbury University. And two years later he married Maureen, daughter of two well-known Communist campaigners in Wellington, Connie and ‘Birchie’ Birchfield.
In 1973, the Williams moved to Palmerston North, where Barry became Director of University Extension at Massey University; and later Director of Music.
A painstaking scholar and writer, he wrote several books, including a history of adult education, ‘Structures and Attitudes in NZ Adult Education 1945-75,’ and also wrote widely for other publications.
Political campaigner
As a man of principle, Barry Williams campaigned long and hard for things he believed in — the anti-apartheid cause, opposition to US intervention in Vietnam and Iraq; and the anti-nuclear movement.
After moving permanently to Paekakariki in 1989, Barry took a full part in village life.
Barry (right) listening to Xpress editor Don Polly, with friends John Porter (left rear) and Robin Fordham
He served as chair of the Paekakariki Community Board for several years and was later chair of the Paekakariki Station Precinct Trust — and he was a founder member of the group producing the famed Paekakariki Xpressed newspaper.
He was a valued member of Friends of the Kapiti Coast Libraries for many years; and he co-founded a group known as the ‘Left Overs’ after the collapse on the Alliance Party.
The Prostate Squadron
In recent years too, he achieved some notoriety as a founding airman (with Don Polly, Michael Secker, Anthony Dreaver and the author) of the ‘Prostate Squadron.’
This was founded so older men could meet to discuss political issues, share experiences, and help each other cope with the rigours of over-exertion on the Home Front.
He held the honorary rank of Flight Sergeant for many years, but was being considered for higher things by the Wing Commander when he passed away.
In 2004, Barry received a Kapiti Coast Civic Award for his work as Community Board chair during the Paekakariki floods the year before.
He was one person of whom it can be said:”He had no enemies.’
Ann Chapman says:
Always a gentleman
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Mads April 29, 2020 April 10, 2020
In one impulsive moment the summer before they leave for college, overachievers Scarlett and David plunge into an irresistible swirl of romance, particle physics, and questionable decisions. Told in non-linear, vivid first-person chapters, As Many Nows As I Can Get is the story of a grounded girl who’s pulled into a lightning-strike romance with an electric-charged boy, and the enormity of the aftermath. Cerebral, accessible, bold, and unconventionally romantic, this is a powerful debut about grief, guilt, and reconciling who you think you need to be with the person you’ve been all along.
I’m not a huge contemporary fiction reader. However, every once in awhile I’ll stumble across one that just oof. Get’s to me. As Many Nows As I Can Get was one of those.
As Many Nows As I Can Get is the kind of book you don’t know you need until you read it. I went in expecting an average young adult romance, and was surprised to find a realistic story full of a lot of depth. The book follows a group of intelligent and successful teens who grow up in a small town that, really, kinds of glorifies them, and lets them get away with a lot of questionable behavior.
The author paints this picture through several different points in time, weaving it all together beautifully to slowly bring us back up to the present. Specifically, we see a parallel between the heroine and her love interest; two people who were similar, going down similar paths, with one big difference that resulted in some significant consequences.
This novel covers a lot of heavy, triggering topics (ie- drug abuse, overdoses, abortion), but is much less graphic/dark than similar books, like Crank by Ellen Hopkins. However, if it is something you decide to pick up, it’s one of those books that will change your perspective on adolescence. The commentary on small-town politics, the impact of the educational system, feminism, teenage drug use… it was incredibly fascinating, impactful, and left me in tears.
DISCLAIMER: Parts of this review will be/have been (not sure of the time line) also shared by another review source on my behalf, so if you see a review by another Maddie with similar points and wording… that is also me lol! Probably don’t need a disclaimer for that, but my writing consultant side wanted to make sure and kind of sort of cite that.
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2012-03-10: Promise Of Silence
Summary: Some secrets should not be kept, despite our best judgment to the contrary. Jill tries to lie about it, but Kalindi promises to keep it a secret anyway.
Log Title: Promise of Silence
Romania - Tower - Top Floor
Grandeur is one word that can be used to describe the rectangular room. A large crystal and gold chandelier hangs from the middle of the high ceiling with long white tapered candles that always stay lit without ever needing to be replaced. Four smaller chandeliers hang from each corner to provide more light and accent the larger one. The high ceiling is nothing shy of magnificent, with gilded molding to accent to the white designs and intricate patterns that almost give it layers.
The walls are all white with golden trip and design which accents the ceiling. A large mirror with a grandiose gilded frame sits above a magnificent marble fireplace that is always lit with a comforting fire, which provides the perfect amount of warmth. Two large couches sit around a marble topped tabled and a few chairs sit on the sides of the couches to be pulled up around the table. On the mantle of the fireplace is a clock that doesn't seem to work, a few small statues and candelabras.
Across from the large fireplace are two large glass doors that lead out to a balcony which hangs over a large water fall. Looking down it's easy to tell the tower is high up in the air and there is at least five hundred feet between the balcony and bottom of the waterfall. The red moon can be seen in the night sky shining down on the tower as it seems to be perpetually night.
Along one side wall two mirrors hang with gilded frames and in front of each is table a with lit candelabra in the center to help provide the brightness in the room. In between the mirrors is large painting of an old fashioned, pale looking male with dark hair and a pale face that hangs over an elegant lit fireplace. On the opposite wall it is covered will books from floor to ceiling along with a small rolling ladder attached to the shelves to reach the harder to find books. It seems like almost any book you wish to read is there.
Two large doors sit on each side of the large fireplace with mirrors set into their doors. One door leads to the hallway where the bed chambers are and the other to the bathroom. The bathroom has a large circular tub built into the floor with many taps around it that provide bubbles, scents and water in the perfect temperature. Golden lamps hang from the walls and there are fluffy towels off to the sides.
Kalindi sits in one of the chairs, keeping perfect posture, dark eyes scanning over the pages of a book. More like a tome, really, as it looks like it is positively ancient, not bearing any kind of title on the exterior and having yellowed pages. The young woman seems quite interested in the book, only shifting every once in awhile to adjust her skirts. While she is aware of access to modern clothing she has still picked a more regal outfit, a royal purple and elaborate dress.
With a more modern sensibility, Jill has chosen to eschew the fabulous finery of the 19th century and before. Fashionably pre-distressed blue jeans complete with straight-from-the-factory rips in the knees, black Converse All-Stars with painted on flames, and a heather grey fitted t-shirt with the clever slogan 'I Eat Boys' above a red heart silk-screened to look like fresh dripping paint, or some other red fluid. Her wardrobe came, apparently, entirely from the clearance rack at Hot Topic. "Kalindi?" the blonde girl asks tentatively, hands clasped behind her back as she exits the washroom. "Is that… is that the book he gave you?"
Kalindi glances up from the book when her name is spoken, blinking a few times in the manner of someone who has not stopped reading for an extended period of times. She smiles slightly at the question and says, "My time with it might be limited. It is best that I am remembering what it says, yes?" She looks at the page for a moment and then closes it, resting her hands on the cover.
"You didn't even look up when I walked by the first time," Jill says sheepishly, digging the toe of her sneaker into the plush Persian rug. "I didn't wanna disturb you. You seemed kinda… into it. Sophie told me he gave you something. And… and he gave her back her eyes, but only for two days." She glances toward the wing of suites and her voice drops in volume. "It's probably already… I mean, I don't know what even counts for a day around here. I stopped trying to keep track of time. Seemed kinda pointless."
Kalindi shrugs lightly and says, "I am very much into it. This is, well, it is magic, and it seems like it is the kind of magic that I am able to use. Many many times, I get things that I cannot use, and I can only sell to others." She sighs and then nods, "Sophie's eyes were healed for a little bit of time, yes… It seems that gifts, there are many many gifts that he is using to tempt." She tilts her head slightly and then says, "So what is his manipulation for you?"
Jill's mouth works uncertainly for a moment. "N-nothing," she says evasively, eyes averted. Quickly she adds, "I mean, he gave me the Stradivarius violin that Evelyn asked for, but, y'know, I don't think… it's not like I'd get to keep it or anything. Not for real, right?"
"If you were chosen, perhaps…" says Kalindi, pursing her lips lightly, "Perhaps you would be able to keep such a thing. Now that I know who our host is, I know why this place is threaded so strongly with magical forces. He is powerful." She considers that for a moment and then says, "He told me to ask you… what would become of anyone who is not chosen?"
"Yeah, it kinda all makes sense now, doesn't it. We're in Castlevania." The blonde girl's eyes drop, but she rolls her shoulders and turns her head to pretend to look at the decorative gold-leaf work on the walls. "He said… umm, he hadn't decided yet. But that-" Jill cuts herself off quickly. "But that he would. Eventually," she finishes, sucking on her bottom lip.
Kalindi watches Jill for a moment and she says mildly, "Please do not tell me lies. Where I have lived most of my life, since I was a little girl, lies are one of the worst things a person can do. It is not something I can do, and I do not want it done to me." She feels the cover of the book lightly and then shrugs, "I think you know more than what it is you are saying."
Jill frets, alternating between squeezing her arms across her stomach and brushing strands of hair nervously from her eyes. Several times she starts to speak but stops before she can truly start. She really can't lie very well. With a sound like a sigh and a groan, her shoulders sags. "You… you have to promise me. Promise me you won't tell the others. It's not… It's not something I want them to know yet."
Kalindi inclines her head and says, neutrally, "You have my promise, unless you tell me the promise is no longer needed and will be dissolved. I cannot break my word, so you can trust that I will not."
The blonde girl is hesitant for a few moments more. "Okay," she says, but doesn't relax very much. She takes a seat in one of the reading chairs, knees pressed tightly together and gripping them with both hands. "Okay," Jill says again, steeling herself and collecting her thoughts. "He… he offered me a deal. And the more I think about it, the more I'm thinking… I might take it." She swallows hard, eyes on her shoes instead of Kalindi. "If I do, there's a good chance everybody could go free."
Kali tenses slightly when Jill says that she was offered a deal, and she says, "What was it that he has offered you? You have to understand, that any deal a sorcerer of his strength could offer… well, you must be very very careful."
"It's…" Jill frowns and bobs her head uncertainly. "He said that if his son, Geoffrey, marries me, then everyone else could go free. Unharmed and everything. Just…" Her fingers twitter like something scattered in the air. "Poof. Go home. But if I took the deal and he *didn't* pick me, then… I'd have to stay anyway. And marry him. Dracula. But that everyone else would still get to go home."
Kalindi licks her lips lightly and considers the words calmly for a few moments, folding her hands together, "And then if you do not take the deal, then… there are no guarantees, I will guess." She frowns and then nods, "It seems that Dracula has taken some interest in you. That is interesting… And what of you, if you do not take the deal? No guarantees for you either?"
Jill nods, teeth pressed down tightly to bite her lower lip. "He said… if I didn't agree, I wouldn't even know what happened to everyone else. 'Their fate,' he said. And that… that didn't sound good. For anybody." Her fingers lace and she squeezes both hands between her knees, hunching forward under the great weight pressed upon her. "But see? If I do, and then I can get Geoffrey to agree to it, then everybody goes free." A pause and a grim correction. "Almost everybody, whichever way it goes. Which is better than nobody."
"Almost everyone, yes… but sometimes if you give someone one solution, then they might stop thinking about others," says Kalindi, considering that for a moment and peering down towards her book, "This means that… either he does very very much want to keep you, or he is not fond of other alternatives that you could do and you have not taken…" She tilts her head back and forth, "I think it is best, very much best, if everyone who wants to leave this place, can."
"It's not my first choice either. I don't wanna stay here. I don't wanna get married and frankly Geoffrey doesn't either," Jill shoots back, a little testily. "But Rashmi keeps going on about how her boyfriend's gonna come rescue her. And, well… if I hedge my bets on it, I can stall for a while. Say I'm still thinking it over, for as long as I can, in the hope that she's right and it won't come down to… this." Her hand lift limply then falls back to her knee. "Kind of a… a backup plan, I guess. An emergency backup plan."
"I imagine… if I were to place bets, that I would think that my girlfriend has contacted my father by now. If she has, then she too may have power at her disposal. More than that, I will not say, because I do not know if the walls have ears…" says Kalindi, frowning for a moment. "I did not think it to be your first choice, just an alternative given to you. But… you will not be having to do that, if those on the outside act as Rashmi predicts, or as I predict. I know that Rashmi is a woman with many powerful friends. She is a dangerous woman for those who would harm her." She shrugs at that lightly. "For now… I will take advantage of my gift, as it might help us sometime in the future."
Jill releases the grip on her knees and sinks back into the chair, slouching down weakly. "I'll… I'll give it some time. As much as I can, but, y'know… it's an option. Not a good one, but it's still an option if nobody comes for us. I wish I could tell time so I could know how long it's been, or going to be, before I have to." She sighs, head rolling to the side to give Kalindi's gift a hard look. "You sure that thing's not, like, booby-trapped or something? I still don't know much about how real magic works."
Kalindi nods at Jill and says, "I will not tell anyone that it is an option. It is an option that I do not want to take. You should not be so coerced into such things, and I find it to be unacceptable." She then looks at the tome and then tilts her head slightly, "Well… it is likely all magic that he knows. And if he knows all of the magic, then he will be able to recognize and reverse many of the things…"
"That's why I didn't want you to tell anybody else. It's a last resort and… they'd try to stop me, even if I'd do it for their own good." The blonde girl crosses her legs and she picks distractedly at the laces of her shoes. The laces, too, have little pictures of flames on them. Jill sighs. "So, like, there's probably nothing in there you could use to break us out or, I dunno, conjure up garlic and holy water? That's… unfortunate. Not really surprising, though."
"All of the spells in this book are enhancement magics, which in my experience, are the only real magics I've ever been able to work. It is a good place to begin. So these things, they can provide more strength or speed or things like this, but they cannot create things…" explains Kalindi, shaking her head, "But a reversal of these kinds of spell… this is what prevents us from working our abilities, be it mutant or magic…"
"So you do buffs," Jill comments with a bit of MMO lingo, resting her chin in the palm of one hand. "But not creating stuff out of thin air or, like, fireballs and lightning bolts and stuff." She scoots up in her chair. "And he's the one debuffing the rest of us. I guess… I guess it doesn't matter much anyway. Even if I still had my mutant power, it wouldn't do any good. I'm not- *wasn't* very high on the list of powerful mutants. I was just slime."
Kalindi shrugs lightly. "It is something that we might have been able to use under different circumstances. And, ah, if different circumstances give me a chance, I might be able to, what is it you say? Buff us?" Kalindi tilts her head lightly and considers, "Or remove these, ah, debuffs? I have not heard these words before."
"Oh, umm," breathes Jill sheepishly. "It's a video game term. A buff is something that gives a temporary bonus. Like you said, to speed, or strength, or whatever. A debuff is the opposite, making your character weaker or making them unable to use their abilities." Her shoulders squeeze together and she looks embarrassed. "It seemed appropriate."
Kalindi tilts her head slightly and then says, "Ah, I see. I do not play video games, so I have no heard the word before, I am sorry." She nods once and then shrugs lightly, "I guess it is a little bit the same thing."
"It's kind of funny," supposes Jill with a smirk. Her eyes wander to the ceiling. "To think that video games actually do represent magic realistically." As if remembering something, she ducks her head a little and makes as if to stand. "Oh, umm, sorry, you probably want to read as much of that as you can while you've got it. I didn't mean to, like, interrupt you or anything. It might come in handy and I'd hate to be the one, y'know, responsible for making you miss something… important… I guess," she babbles.
Kalindi shrugs and says, "Many types of storytelling are based on something… the reality is sometimes close to the fiction because of that." She considers for a moment and then looks down to the book and shakes her head, "I will return to reading it when our conversation concludes, whether you leave or I leave, but for now I am not frustrated at the company. Speaking to people will sometimes give ideas and new informations, yes?"
Jill shakes her head, paused midway in the motion of standing up. "I don't… think I have any ideas that could help. I already told you everything *I* know. I got offered a deal, an' Rashmi's waiting on a rescue party. Geoffrey doesn't really seem all that interested in getting married but his father's making him do it anyway. He actually seems kinda…" Slowly the blonde girl lowers herself back into her chair. "He seems kinda nice, really. Like he's sorry this is all happening."
Kalindi shrugs and then says, "You do not have to have ideas to give ideas. It is a strange thing with ideas, yes?" She smiles lightly at her own joke, considering it, before she nods and says, "I agree. He seems to be very much reluctant about this whole idea. Not very fond of settling down and having a marriage…"
"Well, neither am I," Jill scoffs. "I'm only sixteen, after all. … Maybe seventeen, depending on if time really passes here or not. My birthday's February 25th, so if it does, then I'm probably seventeen now." She blows out a breath and waves a hand flippantly. "And he's seventy-something but he looks, like, eighteen. Bit of an age difference. Regardless, I'm not too keen on the idea."
"I think that time does indeed pass here," says Kalindi, looking out, "Though sometimes it does not seem to. Perhaps it passes differently, but it certainly passes. And no, I am not very fond of settling down yet myself, and if it was, it would be with my girlfriend and not with some man who I barely even know…"
Jill leans forward to rest her elbows on her knees. "Then if time is passing, I guess we gotta assume it's passing at the same rate as back home. Which means we've been here for…" She pauses, eyes rolling up with the effort of mental calculation. Finally she just shakes her head and exhales despondently. "I don't know. I tried to keep track but the clocks don't work and there's no sunrise or sunset to tell one day from another. Weeks, maybe. A month. Who can tell?" Another disheartened exhales escapes her. "Is she nice? Your girlfriend? I mean, I guess she is or you wouldn't be with her, but… tell me about her. Tell me anything."
Kalindi nods at Jill and says, "Yes, I think that much time has passed on the outside. Maybe a month or so, yes…" She sighs and shakes her head, "But that means they may be closer to finding us, yes? We will not give up hope for that, and we will not continue working." She pauses for a moment, considering the latter question, "She is nice. She is strong and she is sweet, very prideful and she does not listen to me sometimes, but I care for her very much."
"You… you don't know the kind of resources my school has. I mean, seriously. They've got *all kinds* of tricks up their sleeves. And if even they haven't found us by now…" Jill lets the logical conclusion of that remained unstated, if still clearly implied. "You must miss her a lot. I miss my mother. Well, really she's my great-aunt, but… well, y'know, I wish she at least knew I was okay."
"Oh, yes, I miss her very much… I would very much just like to be home and having a nice dinner with her, that would be very satisfying to me," says Kalindi, nodding slowly at that and sighing softly, "I miss being home. I would also very much like it if I could practice my martial arts here somehow."
Jill fidgets, tapping her fingertips together in sequence, a little coordination game. "I don't think I can help you with that. I'm not very… not much of a fighter. We have to take self-defense classes, but I'm not very good." Exhaling slowly through her nose, Jill tries to smile at Kalindi, like it was a joke. It was not terribly funny, nor is the smile entirely convincing. "I was… gonna try writing a letter home, see if he'd let me send it. Assuming I didn't try to tell them anything about where we are and stuff. I don't think he'd let me send it if I did. You could write a letter too, to let her know you're okay. Well, alive, at least."
"It is fine," says Kalindi, nodding once, "I am… eh, I am very very good. I am not a good sorceress, but I am a good fighter, yes?" She smiles slightly at that, though it doesn't touch her eyes, and then she says, "A letter seems like it would be a good idea. If you succeed in sending a letter out, then I will request the same… I think it would be a good thing, I would want to ask for a dictionary. My English is not so good."
"Oh!" Jill brightens. "You could do that already! I mean, you can, like, ask for anything you want. Like the only reason we had all those old dresses and stuff is 'cause nobody asked for anything else. Then I did, and…" The blonde girl gestures at her clothes. While not the height of fashion, or even good taste, they are decidedly 21st century. "So just ask Igor if he can get you a dictionary. There's nothing, like, sinister about it. You can't use a dictionary to try and escape or anything. I'm sure they'd give you one."
Kalindi chuckles softly and says, "Oh, I do not think it would be hard to get a dictionary right now, no. I should ask anyways, but it would only help me very much if I am writing a letter. Pages in these kinds of book that I am reading, they are very rarely English. I speak an otherworldly tongue, and it helps me to get through such things."
"Oh," says Jill, sounding a little deflated. "Well… I think it's probably safe to say I don't speak whatever language that's written in." Frowning but shrugging it away, she pulls herself up by the armrests of the chair and gets to her feet slowly. "I'm, uh, gonna go get something to eat. It's still kinda inconvenient for me, having to eat all the time. I didn't used to have to…" Awkwardly, she stands there a moment, not seeming to know what to do with herself. "If you still wanna, y'know… I'll, umm, I'll just be in my room, okay?"
Kalindi nods at Jill, opening the book to where it was open before and she says, "Enjoy eating, even if it is an inconvenience. I think there are nice flavours that will come with it. I will see you later." Kalindi smiles and then looks down to the pages in front of her.
Before she goes, Jill pauses, glancing around the room and down the wing toward the guest suites. "And, umm, remember what we talked about… and your promise, okay?" She fidgets, pulling at the hem of her t-shirt. "I won't… If you were worried, I won't do anything about it. Not right away. I'll give everyone some more time so maybe it won't have to come to that. As much time as I can, okay?"
"I cannot break a promise," says Kalindi, nodding once and looking up quite seriously, "I will carry what you said to the grave if it comes to that, but I will suggest you tell sooner or later."
"Later," Jill agrees, bobbing her head. "It's… y'know, it's a last resort. If everything else fails, I think I'd rather see some of us go home… than none of us." Eyes lowered, the blonde girl turns and walks slowly back to the guest wing, leaving Kalindi to her reading.
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Siege of Detroit
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Part of the War of 1812
The Surrender of Detroit, John Wycliffe Lowes Forster
Detroit, Michigan Territory
British-Indian victory
Tecumseh's Confederacy United States
Isaac Brock
Tecumseh William Hull
2 ships[1] 2,500
1 brig[2]
2 wounded 7 killed
2,493 captured
1 brig captured
The Siege of Detroit, also known as the Surrender of Detroit or the Battle of Fort Detroit, was an early engagement in the British-U.S. War of 1812. A British force under Major General Isaac Brock with Native American allies under Shawnee leader Tecumseh used bluff and deception to intimidate U.S. Brigadier General William Hull into surrendering the fort and town of Detroit, Michigan, along with his dispirited army which actually outnumbered the victorious British and Indians.
The British victory reinvigorated the militia and civil authorities of Upper Canada, who had previously been pessimistic and affected by pro-U.S. agitators. Many Indians in the Northwest Territory were inspired to take arms against U.S. outposts and settlers. The British held Detroit for more than a year before their small fleet was defeated on Lake Erie, which forced them to abandon the western frontier of Upper Canada.
American plans and moves
U.S. forces during the siege of Detroit were commanded by Brig. Gen. William Hull, an aging veteran of the American Revolutionary War.
Tension was increasing between the United Kingdom and the United States in the early months of 1812. Michigan Territory Governor William Hull urged President James Madison and Secretary of War William Eustis to form an army which would secure the Northwest Territory against Indians who were being incited by British agents and fur trading companies to take up arms against the United States. It was urgently necessary to reinforce the outpost of Detroit, which had a population of 800 and a garrison of 120 soldiers.[3] It was also suggested that this army might invade the western districts of Upper Canada, where support might be expected from the many recent immigrants from the United States who had been attracted by generous land grants.[4]
Madison and Eustis concurred with this plan and offered command of the army to Hull, an aging veteran of the American Revolutionary War. He was reluctant to take the appointment, but no other officer was available with his prestige and experience. He accepted after repeated pleas from Madison and was commissioned as a brigadier general in the United States Army.[5] His army consisted of three regiments of Ohio militia under Colonels Lewis Cass, Duncan McArthur, and James Findlay. Hull took command of them at Dayton, Ohio on 25 May but found that they were badly equipped and ill-disciplined, and no arrangements had been made to supply them on the march. He made hasty efforts to remedy the deficiencies in equipment.[4]
The army marched north from Urbana, Ohio on 10 June, joined by the 4th U.S. Infantry under Lieutenant Colonel James Miller. Hull ignored an earlier route established by Anthony Wayne and created a new route to Detroit across the Great Black Swamp area of northwest Ohio.[6] He received a letter from Eustis on 26 June that was dated 18 June, warning him that war was imminent and urging that he should make for Detroit "with all possible expedition",[7] so he hastened his march. His draft horses were worn out by the arduous march, so he put his entrenching tools, medical supplies, officers' baggage, despatches, some sick men and the army's band aboard the packet vessel Cayahoga at the foot of the Maumee River, to be transported across Lake Erie.[7]
Eustis had sent his first letter of 18 June by special messenger. Congress had passed the declaration of war later that day, but Eustis sent a letter with this vital information only by ordinary mail.[8] On 28 June, the postmaster at Cleveland, Ohio hired an express rider to rush the letter to Hull but even this arrived only on 2 July. The British ambassador in Washington had sent the news urgently to Britain and Canada, and the military commanders in Canada had, in turn, hastened to inform all their outposts of the state of war. On 2 July, the unsuspecting Cayahoga was captured by General Hunter, a Canadian-manned armed brig of the Provincial Marine, under the command of Lieutenant Frédérick Rolette, near the British post at Amherstburg, Ontario at the foot of the Detroit River.[7]
Hull reached Detroit on 5 July, where he was reinforced by detachments of Michigan militia, including the 140 men of the Michigan Legionary Corps, which Hull had established in 1805. The American army was short of supplies, especially food, as Detroit provided only soap and whiskey.[8] Nevertheless, Eustis urged Hull to attack Amherstburg. The fort there was defended by 300 British regulars, mainly from the 41st Regiment of Foot, 400 Indians, and some, principally Essex, militia.[9][10] The post's commander was Colonel St. George, who was later superseded by Colonel Henry Procter of the 41st. Hull was not enthusiastic and wrote to Eustis that "the British command the water and the savages."[11] Nevertheless, his army crossed into Canada on 12 July. He issued several proclamations which were intended to induce Canadians to join or support his army while some of his mounted troops raided up the Thames River as far as Moraviantown. These moves discouraged many of the militia from opposing his invasion, but few of the inhabitants of the region actively aided him, even those who had recently moved from the United States.[12]
There were several indecisive skirmishes with British outposts along the Canard River. Hull decided that he could not attack the British fort without artillery, which could not be brought forward because the carriages had decayed and needed repair, and fell back.[13] Several of his officers disagreed with this retreat and secretly discussed removing him from command. Hull had been quarreling with his militia colonels since taking over the army, and he felt that he did not have their support in the field or in their councils of war.[13]
British moves
Plan of Detroit and its fort, 1792
On 17 July, a mixed force of British regulars, Canadian fur traders, and Indians captured the important trading post of Mackinac Island on Lake Huron from its small American garrison who were not aware that war had been declared. Many of the Indians who had taken part in the attack either remained at Mackinac or returned to their homes, but 100 or more Sioux, Menominee, and Winnebago warriors began moving south from Mackinac to join those already at Amherstburg, while the news induced the previously neutral Wyandots living near Detroit to become increasingly hostile to the Americans. Hull learned of the capture of Mackinac on 3 August, when the paroled American garrison reached Detroit by schooner.[14] He feared that this had "opened the northern hive of Indians"[15] and so abandoned all the Canadian territory that he held.
Hull's supply lines ran for 60 miles (97 km) along the Detroit River and the shore of Lake Erie, which was dominated by the British armed vessels, making them vulnerable to British and Indian raiders. A raiding party under Tecumseh ambushed and routed an American detachment under Major van Horne on 4 August at the Battle of Brownstown, capturing more of Hull's despatches. Hull sent a larger party under James Miller to clear his lines of communication and escort a supply convoy of 300 head of cattle and 70 pack horses loaded with flour, which was waiting at Frenchtown, Michigan under Major Brush.[16] Miller forced a British and Indian force under Major Adam Muir of the 41st Regiment to retreat some distance at the Battle of Maguaga on 9 August, but the British re-formed their line and he declined to resume the attack. Miller was ill and his losses in the engagement were heavier than those of the enemy, and he lost confidence and remained encamped near the battlefield until Hull ordered him to return to Detroit.
Major General Isaac Brock met with Shawnee chief Tecumseh in Amherstburg, Ontario and quickly established a rapport, ensuring that he would cooperate with his movements.
Meanwhile, British Major General Isaac Brock was in York, the provincial capital, dealing with the unwilling Legislative Assembly and mobilizing the province's militia. He had only a single regiment of regulars and some small detachments of veterans and artillery to support the militia, but he was aware that there was no immediate threat from the disorganized and badly supplied American forces on the Niagara River, or from the lethargic American commander in chief, Major General Henry Dearborn at Albany, New York. Hull's army alone was occupying or threatening Canadian territory. Late in July, Brock learned of the capture of Mackinac. He was also informed by Lieutenant General George Prevost, the Governor General of Canada, that an additional regiment was being dispatched to Upper Canada, although as piecemeal detachments. Brock dispatched 50 of his small force of regulars and 250 volunteers from the militia westward from York to reinforce Amherstburg. On 5 August, he prorogued the assembly and set out himself after them. He and his force sailed from Port Dover, Ontario in batteaux and open boats. They reached Amherstburg on 13 August,[17] at the same time as 200 additional Indian warriors who joined Tecumseh (100 "Western Indians" from Mackinac and 100 Wyandots).
At Amherstburg, Brock learned from Hull's captured despatches that the morale was low in Hull's army, that they feared the numbers of Indians which might be facing them, and that they were short of supplies. Brock also established a rapport with Tecumseh, ensuring that the Indians would cooperate with his moves. Brock and Tecumseh met shortly after Brock arrived at Amherstburg, and legend has it that Tecumseh turned to his warriors and said, "Here is a man!" Brock wrote shortly afterwards, "a more sagacious and a more gallant Warrior does not I believe exist."[18]
Brock determined on an immediate attack on Detroit, against the advice of most of his subordinates. The British had already played on Hull's fear of the Indians by arranging for a misleading letter to fall into American hands. The letter asked that no more Indians be allowed to proceed from Fort Mackinac, as there were already 5,000 at Amherstburg and supplies were running short. Brock sent Hull a demand for surrender, stating:
The force at my disposal authorizes me to require of you the immediate surrender of Fort Detroit. It is far from my intention to join in a war of extermination, but you must be aware, that the numerous body of Indians who have attached themselves to my troops, will be beyond control the moment the contest commences.[19]
According to Brock's later report, the attacking force included 600 warriors and 1300 soldiers, as well as two warships.[20] Brock's force carried out several bluffs to deceive the Americans into believing that there were more Indians and troops than there actually were. Major Thomas Evans at Fort George suggested that Brock give his militia the cast-off uniforms of the 41st Regiment to make Hull believe that most of the British force were regulars.[21] The troops were told to light individual fires instead of one fire per unit, thereby creating the illusion of a much larger army. They marched to take up positions in plain sight of the Americans then quickly ducked behind entrenchments, and marched back out of sight to repeat the maneuver. The same trick was carried out during meals, where the line would dump their beans into a hidden pot, then return out of view to rejoin the end of the line.
The Francois Bâby house, in the grounds of which the British set up their battery to fire on the American fort
On 15 August, gunners of the Provincial Marine set up a battery of one 18-pounder and two 12-pounder guns and two mortars on the Canadian shore of the Detroit River (in the grounds of the Francois Bâby House, formerly Hull's headquarters) and began bombarding Fort Detroit, joined by the armed vessel General Hunter and the 20-gun sloop-of-war Queen Charlotte. In the early hours of the morning of 16 August, Tecumseh's warriors crossed the river about 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Detroit.[22] They were followed after daybreak by Brock's force, divided into three small "brigades". The first was composed of 50 men of the Royal Newfoundland Fencibles and some Lincoln and Kent militia; the second consisted of 50 men of the 41st Regiment with York, Lincoln, Oxford and Norfolk militia; the third was formed from the main body of the 41st (200 men) and 50 men of the Royal Artillery with five field guns (three 6-pounders and two 3-pounders).[1] Elements of the Essex militia, which had been disheartened in the face of Hull's initial advance into Upper Canada, also constituted part of Brock's reinvigorated force.[10]
Brock originally intended to occupy a fortified position astride Hull's supply line and wait for starvation and bombardment to force the Americans to surrender or come out to fight, but he then learned that Hull had sent a detachment of 400 men the previous day under Colonels Cass and McArthur to escort Brush's convoy to Detroit via a backwoods trail some distance from the lake and river,[23] and this detachment was only a few miles from the British rear. (Hull had sent messengers recalling this force the night before, but Cass and MacArthur had already encamped for the night and declined to move.) To avoid being caught between two fires, Brock advanced immediately against the rear of Fort Detroit, the side farthest from the river where the defences were weakest.[22] Tecumseh's warriors, meanwhile, paraded several times past a gap in the forest where the Americans could see them, while making loud war cries. Militia cavalry leader William Hamilton Merritt noted that "Tecumseh extended his men, and marched them three times through an opening in the woods at the rear of the fort in full view of the garrison, which induced them to believe there were at least two or three thousand Indians."[24] Merritt was not an eyewitness, however, and this claim has been disputed.
As the British prepared to attack, a shell exploded in the officers' mess inside the fort, causing casualties. Hull despaired of holding out against a force which seemingly consisted of thousands of British regulars, because he was lacking adequate gunpowder and ammunition to withstand a long siege.[25] A surrender would also save his 2,500 soldiers and 700 civilians, including his own daughter, from "the horrors of an Indian massacre", he wrote.[26][27]
Hull hoisted a white flag of surrender against the advice of his subordinates. He sent messengers to Brock asking for three days to agree on terms of surrender. Brock replied that he would allow him three hours. Hull surrendered his entire force, including Cass's and McArthur's detachment and Major Brush's supply convoy. There were rumours that he had been drinking heavily prior to the surrender. He is reported to have said that the Indians were "numerous beyond example" and "more greedy of violence... than the Vikings or Huns."[28]
USS Adams shortly after she was captured by British forces during the siege of Detroit
The British bombardment killed seven Americans before the surrender, including Lieutenant Porter Hanks, the former commander of Fort Mackinac who was awaiting a court-martial. The answering fire from the guns of Fort Detroit wounded two British gunners. After Hull surrendered, the 1,600 Ohio militiamen from his army were paroled and escorted south until they were out of danger of attack from the Indians. Most of the Michigan militia had already deserted. The 582 American regulars were sent as prisoners to Quebec City.[29]
Among the booty and military stores surrendered were 33 cannon,[30] 300 rifles, 2,500 muskets, and the brig Adams, the only armed American vessel on the Upper Lakes. The British Navy put it into service, and it was briefly recaptured two months later near Fort Erie. An intense US and British artillery barrage ensued, causing a fire that ultimately destroyed the battered hulk.[31]
Hull's surrender was startling on both sides of the border. On the American side, many Indians took up arms and attacked American settlements and isolated military outposts.[32] In Upper Canada, the population and militia were encouraged, particularly in the Western districts where they had been threatened by Hull's army. Brock forgave the local militia for their reluctance to perform their duty, instead rewarding those militiamen who had remained at their posts. More materially, the 2,500 muskets captured from Hull were distributed among the ill-equipped militia.[33]
The British gained an important post on American soil and won control over Michigan Territory and the Detroit region for most of the following year. Brock was hailed as a hero, and Tecumseh's influence was strengthened over the confederation of Indians. Brock next intended to mount a pre-emptive attack into New York State to forestall an American attack across the Niagara River. He was thwarted by an armistice arranged by Sir George Prevost. When this ended, the Americans attacked in October near Queenston, Ontario. Brock was killed at the ensuing Battle of Queenston Heights while leading a hasty counter-attack to recover a battery which had been captured by the Americans.
A third American invasion of Canada took place in November north of Lake Champlain. The Americans accidentally fired on each other in the dark, then retreated after a brief engagement at Lacolle Mills. The Vermont newspaper Green-Mountain Farmer wrote in January 1813: "The whole Canadian campaign had produced nothing but 'disaster, defeat, disgrace, and ruin and death'".[]
General Hull was tried by court martial and sentenced to death for his conduct at Detroit, but the sentence was commuted by President Madison to dismissal from the Army in recognition of his honorable service in the American Revolution. American attempts to regain Detroit were continually thwarted by poor communications and the difficulties of maintaining militia contingents in the field, until the Americans won a naval victory at the Battle of Lake Erie on 10 September 1813. This isolated the British at Amherstburg and Detroit from their supplies and forced them to retreat. Hull's successor Major General William Henry Harrison pursued the retreating British and their Indian allies and defeated them at the Battle of the Thames, where Tecumseh was killed.
The British 41st Regiment (which is now perpetuated by the Royal Welsh Regiment) was awarded the battle honor "Detroit". The captured colors of the 4th U.S. Infantry are currently in the Welch Regiment Museum at Cardiff Castle.[34] The patriotic song "The Bold Canadian" was written by a private on the campaign to commemorate conquering Detroit in Michigan Territory.[35] Seven infantry, armored and artillery regiments of the Canadian Army carry the battle honor "Detroit" to commemorate the service of ancestor units in the campaign.[36] In 2012, the Royal Canadian Mint released a 25¢ coin depicting Tecumseh to mark the War of 1812's bicentennial.[37]
A bronze life-sized statue was unveiled on 7 September 2018 in Sandwich Towne, a neighborhood in Windsor, Ontario. It depicts Brock examining Detroit through a telescope while Tecumseh, mounted on horseback, is watching the British battery bombard the fort. The statue commemorates the partnership between the two leaders which resulted in the capture of Detroit, and was sculpted by Canadian Mark Williams, who also created the Provincial Marine monument at the King's Navy Yard in Amherstburg.[38]
^ a b Hitsman, pp.79-80
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^ a b Elting, p. 25
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^ a b c Elting, p. 26
^ Elting (1995), p. 28
^ a b Garcia, Bob. "Fort Amherstburg in the War of 1812". The War of 1812. Access Heritage.
^ Hitsman, p. 70
^ a b Hitsman, pp. 71-72
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Review | The Hunt by Andrew Fukuda
Don’t Sweat. Don’t Laugh. Don’t draw attention to yourself.
And most of all, whatever you do, do not fall in love with one of them.
Gene is different from everyone else around him. He can’t run with lightning speed, sunlight doesn’t hurt him and he doesn’t have an unquenchable lust for blood. Gene is a human, and he knows the rules. Keep the truth a secret. It’s the only way to stay alive in a world of night—a world where humans are considered a delicacy and hunted for their blood.
When he’s chosen for a once in a lifetime opportunity to hunt the last remaining humans, Gene’s carefully constructed life begins to crumble around him. He’s thrust into the path of a girl who makes him feel things he never thought possible—and into a ruthless pack of hunters whose suspicions about his true nature are growing. Now that Gene has finally found something worth fighting for, his need to survive is stronger than ever—but is it worth the cost of his humanity?
The concept behind Andrew Fukuda’s The Hunt is fascinating – a lone, human boy who has hidden his true nature his whole life, living side by side with those who’d eat him (Yes, eat him!) in a heartbeat if they knew what he was. Gene is a sheep amongst wolves. When he unexpectedly wins the “honor” of participating in the first national Heper Hunt in a decade, he knows that it’ll result in the deaths of the last remaining humans on Earth (or as they’re more derogatively known, hepers), as well as the likely exposure of his own closely guarded secret. There’s a girl. There’s a romance. There’s an entire world full of literally blood-thirsty villains. (Who I will refer to as “Vampibals” from here on out, since they are only referred to as “people” throughout the novel, and I find that very confusing. Vampibal = Vampire + Cannibal.)
It sounds thrilling, with the potential for real originality, right? Unfortunately, for me, it didn’t quite live up to the hype.
My first issue was with the story. It took a long, long time for things to really get rolling. From the title and the blurb, I have to admit that I was expecting a very action-packed book. I was almost 2/3 of the way through the novel, when the action I had been anticipating finally showed up. Fukuda spends so much time cementing the fact that Gene has this gigantic secret, making sure the reader knows the consequences of what happens if his humanity is discovered, that the story begins to lag. Much of the story happens at The Heper Institute, the holding grounds for the specially-chosen Vampibals while they await the beginning of the Hunt. It’s a lot of politics, a lot of subterfuge, a lot of talking, a lot of Gene worrying about trying to survive. By doing this, Fukuda does successfully create and build this tense, frightening atmosphere – never letting the reader forget just how deadly, vicious and downright prejudiced Vampibals are toward Hepers. Gene is literally one paper cut away from death at all times. However, though I appreciate the ambiance Fukuda develops, it still seems to take a needlessly long time for the story to really take off. Truly, I believe Fukuda is most successful in communicating the viciousness of the Vampibals in the first few pages with an anecdote of a five-year-old human child being eaten by his Kindergarten class. Doesn’t get more chilling than that.
Not only does the story lag in the middle, but Gene’s circumstances are so highly improbable. I can accept a lot of really “out there” things in a story if given enough credibility, but I find Gene’s situation too hard to believe. First of all, he’s managed somehow to survive on his own since the age of 11. I admit that it’s possible – there are children extraordinarily mature, wise beyond their years, who are willing to do what it takes to survive. However, in such a dangerous, volatile environment, it just seems unlikely that a child of eleven could possibly provide for his needs by himself and remain so constantly vigilant for so long. Death is a great motivator, I suppose. Second, Gene has a whole Gattaca-like morning routine he goes through to make sure he blends in with the other Vampibals. He must rid himself of his body hair, keep his nails long, and wear fake fangs. He must mask his oh-so-human scent, lest he smell too delicious. He must shy away from light. He has disciplined himself to restrain any kind of human emotions or mannerisms – no widening of the eyes, no laughing, no startling, no goosebumps, no hiccups, just to name a few. I just can’t fathom that this kid has never sneezed, yawned or perspired in public, even though even one of these tells means an immediate death sentence. It’s just really hard for me to believe that he’s never had some kind of involuntary, human bodily function at school or in public? A little nick or cut that put him at risk? I just can’t buy it, no matter how disciplined someone is, life is often beyond our control.
World building is another area I had problems with. This re-imagined earth with its Vampibal population is so interesting, yet barely explained at all. It’s our world – people get up, go to work, school, recreate, shop, etc. Despite the inhabitants, the world seems to operate pretty much as normal… except for the fact that humans are all but wiped out, and these vampire-like creatures have taken our place. It’s so familiar and human, but for the people. It’s hinted that humans used to hold domain over the world, but there’s absolutely no history, no back story. It just… is. If you, Dear Reader, are anything like me, you need context – maybe not a full explanation, but a little bit of a “why” to the overall question of “What happened?” is definitely desired. As I said before, Fukuda builds up the current climate of heper discrimination and Gene’s terror at being discovered very well, but I feel very much in the dark, and I wish I had a more complete view of Gene’s world.
Speaking of Gene, he’s a tough one. Frankly, I’m not sure I like him. He’s just so buried in his lies, in hiding himself, in making himself something that he’s not, that I’m not sure he even knows who he truly is. Due to the propaganda, his immersion into Vampibal society, and his continual fear of being discovered, he’s surprisingly (or perhaps unsurprisingly) prejudiced against humans. He is even ashamed of his own human characteristics at times. In addition, because his life is built on so much untruth, trying to blend into the background and his obsession with just staying alive, Gene sadly lacks personality. It does shine through on very rare occasions, but not nearly enough. If you’re looking for a one-man Vampibal resistance movement, a champion of humanity, the lone bastion of courage, and a last hope for a dying species, Gene is not your Obi Wan Kenobi. At least not yet. His general lack of compassion – though it does emerge on, again, very rare occasions – and his absence of moral fiber is a bit shocking at times and isn’t very endearing in a hero. Though perhaps Gene’s “looking-out-for-number-one” attitude is truer to the human condition than I’d like to admit, but Fukuda does provide hope that Gene is a redeemable character.
Odds ‘n ends. The love interest… I didn’t like her all that much for many of the same reasons I disliked Gene, though she shows promise. Second, Fukuda’s descriptions of gore and death are rather shudder-inducing, and downright disgusting. Let’s just say that I may never look at a pizza the same way again. Third, the prejudice and justification for the treatment and extermination of hepers/humans is disturbing – a reminder of the atrocities that hatred can propagate. Lastly, There were a few more world building issues that didn’t quite make sense to me, such as the Vampibal’s chosen method of transportation. This particular piece of the their world is, ironically, explained, but I felt like the reasoning behind it, didn’t quite hold up.
Overall, from the lagging storyline, to the too-vague world, to the main character that I just couldn’t connect with, to the improbability of it all, The Hunt is an interesting premise that fails to live up to its full potential.
Author: Andrew Fukuda
Title: The Hunt
Series: The Hunt (Book #1)
Published: May 8th 2012 by St. Martin’s Griffin
Format: Hardcover, 1st USA Edition, 304 pages
Website: www.andrewfukuda.com
Source: Review copy provided by Around the World ARC Tours
roro @roro is reading[rogier] says
bummr it was a let down for you
ppl diffr
it was a 4,5 for me though
tnx 4 the review
I’m planning to read this one. I hope I like it more than you though!
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Title: Seminaries
Subject: Style (manner of address), Chungam, Wafaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia, Pakistan
"Theological College" redirects here. For the institution in Washington, D.C., see Theological College (Catholic University of America).
A seminary, theological college, or divinity school is an institution of secondary or post-secondary education for educating students (sometimes called seminarians) in theology, generally to prepare them for ordination as clergy or for other ministry. The English word is taken from the Latin seminarium, translated as seed-bed, an image taken from the Council of Trent document Cum adolescentium aetas which called for the first modern seminaries.[1] In the West the term now refers to Roman Catholic educational institutes and has widened to include other Christian denominations and American Jewish institutions.[2][3]
2 Accreditation and recognition
3 Other uses of the term
The establishment of modern seminaries resulted from Roman Catholic reforms of the Counter-Reformation after the Council of Trent.[4] The Tridentine seminaries placed great emphasis on personal discipline as well as the teaching of philosophy as a preparation for theology.[5]
Some seminaries elect to acquire accreditation. In North America, four entities that accredit religious schools in particular are recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation: Association of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools, Association for Biblical Higher Education, Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada, and Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools.[6]
Other uses of the term
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sponsors religious education programs for secondary school students which are referred to as seminaries.
In general use, a seminary can be a secular institution, or part of an institution, designated for specialized training, e.g. a graduate course.[2] It has occasionally been used for military academies, though this use is not well attested after the nineteenth century.[2]
In some countries, the term seminary is also used for secular schools of higher education that train teachers; in the nineteenth century, many female seminaries were established in the United States.[7]
Minor seminary
Hawza
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United Kingdom, Australia, Pahang, Bishop, Catholic
India, Kerala, London, Asia, Kottayam district
Wafaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia, Pakistan
Multan, Arabic language, Punjab, Pakistan, Pakistan, Hanafi, Qawmi
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Title: August 1
Subject: Current events/July 2009/Sidebar, July 2009, August 2010, 2004, 2007
Collection: August, Days of the Year
August 1 is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days remaining until the end of the year.
Holidays and observances 4
30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
527 – Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
902 – Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabids army, concluding the Muslim conquest of Sicily.
1203 – Isaac II Angelos, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexios IV Angelos co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
1291 – The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
1469 – Louis XI of France founds the chivalric order called the Order of Saint Michael in Amboise.
1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
1620 – The Speedwell leaves Delfshaven to bring pilgrims to America by way of England.
1664 – Ottoman forces are defeated in the battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
Georgian era of British history.
1715 – The Riot Act comes into force in England.
1759 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay): Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
1831 – A new London Bridge opens.
1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
1838 – Non-laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
1840 – Laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
1842 – The Lombard Street riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1855 – The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
1907 – The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
1911 – Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
1914 – The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
1937 – Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
1944 – World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
1946 – Leaders of the Russian Liberation Army, a force of Russian prisoners of war that collaborated with Nazi Germany, are executed in Moscow, Soviet Union for treason.
1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
1961 – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
1964 – The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1968 – The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
1974 – Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line", dividing Cyprus into two zones.
Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
1980 – A train crash kills 18 people in County Cork, Ireland.
1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.
1984 – Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, northwest England
1993 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
2001 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay.
2007 – The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
2008 – The Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway begins operation as the fastest commuter rail system in the world.
2008 – Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
2010 – Convention on Cluster Munitions enters into force.
2014 – Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence enters into force.
10 BC – Claudius, Roman emperor (d. 54)
126 – Pertinax, Roman emperor (d. 193)
1068 – Emperor Taizu of Jin (d. 1123)
1313 – Emperor Kōgon of Japan (d. 1364)
1377 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
1545 – Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and scholar (d. 1622)
1555 – Edward Kelley, English occultist (d. 1597)
1579 – Luis Vélez de Guevara, Spanish author and playwright (d. 1644)
1626 – Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi and theorist (d. 1676)
1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (d. 1673)
1659 – Sebastiano Ricci, Italian painter (d. 1734)
1713 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1780)
1714 – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter and academic (d. 1782)
1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794)
1744 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic (d. 1829)
1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory (d. 1838)
1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and poet (d. 1843)
1779 – Lorenz Oken, German-Swiss botanist, biologist, and ornithologist (d. 1851)
1809 – William B. Travis, American colonel and lawyer (d. 1836)
1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1882)
1818 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer and academic (d. 1889)
1819 – Herman Melville, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (d. 1891)
1831 – Antonio Cotogni, Italian opera singer and educator (d. 1918)
1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer (d. 1883)
1858 – Gaston Doumergue, French lawyer and politician, 13th President of France (d. 1937)
1858 – Hans Rott, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1884)
1861 – Sammy Jones, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
1871 – John Lester, American cricketer and soccer player (d. 1969)
George Hackenschmidt, Estonian-English wrestler and strongman (d. 1968)
1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician and academic (d. 1940)
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist and academic (d. 1979)
1891 – Karl Kobelt, Swiss lawyer and politician, 52nd President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1968)
1893 – Alexander of Greece (d. 1920)
1894 – Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
1899 – Raymond Mays, English race car driver and businessman (d. 1980)
1900 – Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player (d. 1965)
1901 – Francisco Guilledo, Filipino boxer (d. 1925)
Paul Horgan, American historian, author, and academic (d. 1995)
1905 – Helen Sawyer Hogg, American-Canadian astronomer and academic (d. 1993)
1907 – Eric Shipton, Sri Lankan-English mountaineer and explorer (d. 1977)
1910 – James Henry Govier, English painter and illustrator (d. 1974)
1910 – Mohammad Nissar, Indian cricketer (d. 1963)
1910 – Walter Scharf, American pianist and composer (d. 2003)
1911 – Jackie Ormes, American journalist and cartoonist (d. 1985)
1912 – Gego, German-Venezuelan sculptor and academic (d. 1994)
1912 – Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999)
1914 – Jack Delano, American photographer and composer (d. 1997)
1914 – Alan Moore, Australian painter and educator (d. 2015)
1914 – J. Lee Thompson, English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1916 – Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal (d. 2014)
1916 – Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet (d. 2000)
1918 – T. J. Jemison, American minister and activist (d. 2013)
1918 – Richard Pearson, Welsh-English actor (d. 2011)
1919 – Stanley Middleton, English author (d. 2009)
1920 – Raul Renter, Estonian economist and chess player (d. 1992)
1920 – Jeffrey Segal, English actor (d.2015)
1921 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player, sailor, and sportscaster (d. 2009)
1921 – Pat McDonald, Australian actress (d. 1990)
1922 – Arthur Hill, Canadian-American actor (d. 2006)
1923 – Val Bettin, American actor
1924 – Marcia Mae Jones, American actress and singer (d. 2007)
1924 – Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (d. 2015)
1924 – Frank Worrell, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1967)
1925 – Ernst Jandl, Austrian poet and author (d. 2000)
1926 – Theo Adam, German opera singer
1926 – George Hauptfuhrer, American basketball player and lawyer (d. 2013)
1927 – Anthony G. Bosco, American bishop (d. 2013)
1928 – Jack Shea, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1929 – Hafizullah Amin, Afghan educator and politician, Afghan Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1979)
1929 – Ann Calvello, American roller derby racer (d. 2006)
1930 – Lionel Bart, English composer (d. 1999)
1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (d. 2002)
1930 – Julie Bovasso, American actress (d. 1991)
1930 – Lawrence Eagleburger, American lieutenant and politician, 62nd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
1930 – Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician, 51st Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1996)
1930 – Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer (d. 2014)
1931 – Ramblin' Jack Elliott, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1931 – Trevor Goddard, South African cricketer
1932 – Meir Kahane, American-Israeli rabbi and activist, founded the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
1932 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (d. 1972)
1933 – Dom DeLuise, American actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2009)
1933 – Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player and manager
1933 – Teri Shields, American actress, producer, and agent (d. 2012)
1933 – Dušan Třeštík, Czech historian and author (d. 2007)
1934 – John Beck, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2000)
1934 – Derek Birdsall, English graphic designer
1935 – Geoff Pullar, English cricketer (d. 2014)
1936 – W. D. Hamilton, Egyptian-English biologist, psychologist, and academic (d. 2000)
1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, Algerian-French fashion designer, co-founded Yves Saint Laurent (d. 2008)
1936 – Laurie Taylor, English sociologist, radio host, and academic
1937 – Al D'Amato, American lawyer and politician
1939 – Bob Frankford, English-Canadian physician and politician (d. 2015)
1939 – Terry Kiser, American actor
1939 – Stephen Sykes, English bishop and theologian (d. 2014)
1939 – Robert James Waller, American author and photographer
1940 – Mervyn Kitchen, English cricketer and umpire
1940 – Ram Loevy, Israeli director and screenwriter
1940 – Henry Silverman, American businessman, founded the Cendant Corporation
1941 – Ron Brown, American captain and politician, 30th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1996)
1941 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage) (d. 1995)
1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1944 – Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, Russian banker and politician (d. 1998)
1944 – Andrew G. Vajna, Hungarian-American film producer
1945 – Douglas Osheroff, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1946 – Boz Burrell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (King Crimson and Bad Company) (d. 2006)
1946 – Rick Coonce, American drummer (The Grass Roots) (d. 2011)
1946 – Richard O. Covey, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1946 – Sandi Griffiths, American singer
1946 – Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist and academic
1947 – Lorna Goodison, Jamaican poet and author
1948 – Avi Arad, Israeli-American screenwriter and producer, founded Marvel Studios
1948 – Cliff Branch, American football player
1948 – David Gemmell, English journalist and author (d. 2006)
1949 – Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Kyrgyzstani politician, 2nd President of Kyrgyzstan
1949 – Jim Carroll, American poet and author (d. 2009)
1949 – Ray Nettles, American football player (d. 2009)
1950 – Bunkhouse Buck, American wrestler
1950 – Roy Williams, American basketball player and coach
1951 – Tim Bachman, Canadian singer and guitarist (Bachman–Turner Overdrive and Brave Belt)
1951 – Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Deep Purple, Zephyr, and James Gang) (d. 1976)
1951 – Pete Mackanin, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1952 – Zoran Đinđić, Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
1952 – Yajurvindra Singh, Indian cricketer
1953 – Robert Cray, American singer and guitarist
1953 – Howard Kurtz, American journalist and author
1954 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican-Canadian boxer (d. 2006)
1954 – James Gleick, American journalist and author
1954 – Benno Möhlmann, German footballer and manager
1955 – Arun Lal, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
1956 – Ku Ok-hee, South Korean golfer (d. 2013)
1956 – Lewis Smith, American actor
1957 – C. J. Laing, American porn actress
1957 – Taylor Negron, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1958 – Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter (10,000 Maniacs) (d. 2000)
1958 – Adrian Dunbar, Irish actor
1958 – Tor Håkon Holte, Norwegian skier
1958 – Michael Penn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Doll Congress)
1958 – Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player and coach
1959 – Joe Elliott, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Def Leppard, Atomic Mass, and Down 'n' Outz)
1959 – Otomo Yoshihide, Japanese guitarist and songwriter (Ground Zero and Filament)
1960 – Chuck D, American rapper and producer (Public Enemy, The Bomb Squad, and Confrontation Camp)
1960 – Suzi Gardner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (L7)
1960 – Professor Griff, American rapper (Public Enemy and Confrontation Camp)
1962 – Jesse Borrego, American actor and singer
1962 – Jacob Matlala, South African boxer (d. 2013)
1962 – Cesar Montano, Filipino actor and director
1963 – Coolio, American rapper, producer, and actor (WC and the Maad Circle)
1963 – Demián Bichir, Mexican-American actor and producer
1963 – John Carroll Lynch, American actor
1963 – Lynette Sadleir, New Zealand swimmer
1963 – Koichi Wakata, Japanese astronaut and engineer
1963 – Dean Wareham, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (Galaxie 500, Luna, and Dean & Britta)
1964 – Adam Duritz, American singer-songwriter and producer (Counting Crows and The Himalayans)
1964 – Kaspar Capparoni, Italian actor
1964 – Fiona Hyslop, Scottish businesswoman and politician
1965 – Brandt Jobe, American golfer
1965 – Sam Mendes, English director and producer
George Ducas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966 – James St. James, American club promoter and author
1967 – Gregg Jefferies, American baseball player and coach
1967 – José Padilha, Brazilian director, producer and screenwriter
1968 – Stacey Augmon, American basketball player and coach
1968 – Dan Donegan, American guitarist (Disturbed, Fight or Flight, and Vandal)
1968 – Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Japanese baseball player and sportscaster
1969 – Andrei Borissov, Estonian footballer and manager
1969 – Kevin Jarvis, American baseball player and scout
1969 – Graham Thorpe, English cricketer and journalist
1969 – Stuart Wade, English actor
1969 – David Wain, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1970 – Sibel Can, Turkish singer, actress, and dancer
1970 – Quentin Coryatt, American football player
1970 – David James, English footballer and manager
1970 – Elon Lindenstrauss, Israeli mathematician and academic
Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez, Mexican drug lord
1971 – Ágúst Gylfason, Icelandic footballer
1971 – Charles Malik Whitfield, American actor and producer
1971 – İdil Üner, German-Turkish actress and singer
1972 – Nicke Andersson, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Hellacopters The Solution, The Hydromatics, and Imperial State Electric)
1972 – Christer Basma, Norwegian footballer and coach
1972 – Todd Bouman, American football player and coach
1972 – Martin Damm, Czech-American tennis player
1972 – Devon Hughes, American wrestler and trainer
1972 – Thomas Woods, American historian, economist, and academic
1973 – Gregg Berhalter, American soccer player and coach
1973 – Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
1973 – Veerle Dejaeghere, Belgian runner
1973 – Kris Holden-Ried, Canadian actor
1973 – Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor
1973 – Edurne Pasaban, Spanish mountaineer
1974 – Cher Calvin, American journalist
1974 – Marek Galiński, Polish cyclist (d. 2014)
1974 – Tyron Henderson, South African cricketer
1974 – Dennis Lawrence, Trinidadian footballer and coach
1974 – Beckie Scott, Canadian skier
1975 – Vhrsti, Czech author and illustrator
1975 – Håkon Mjåset Johansen, Norwegian drummer and composer (Motif and Come Shine)
1975 – Teresa Mak, Hong Kong actress
1975 – Ane Dahl Torp, Norwegian actress
1975 – Ryoko Yonekura, Japanese model and actress
1976 – Don Hertzfeldt, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor
1976 – Søren Jochumsen, Danish footballer
1976 – Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
1976 – David Nemirovsky, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 – Hasan Şaş, Turkish footballer and manager
1976 – Cristian Stoica, Romanian-Italian rugby player
1977 – Marc Denis, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1977 – Haspop, French-Moroccan dancer, choreographer, and actor
1977 – Darnerien McCants, American-Canadian football player
1977 – Damien Saez, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977 – Yoshi Tatsu, Japanese wrestler and boxer
1978 – Andy Blignaut, Zimbabwean cricketer
1978 – Björn Ferry, Swedish biathlete
1978 – Dhani Harrison, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Thenewno2, Traveling Wilburys, and Fistful of Mercy)
1978 – Chris Iwelumo, Scottish footballer
1978 – Edgerrin James, American football player
1978 – Jonathan Wilkes, English singer and actor
1979 – Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer
1979 – Nathan Fien, Australian-New Zealand rugby player
1979 – Bernadette Flynn, Irish actress and dancer
1979 – Jason Momoa, American actor, director, and producer
1979 – Honeysuckle Weeks, Welsh actress
1980 – Mancini, Brazilian footballer
1980 – Oluchi, Nigerian model
1980 – Romain Barras, French decathlete
1980 – Bryan Fisher, English-American actor
1980 – Esteban Paredes, Chilean footballer
1980 – Krisztina Fazekas Zur, Hungarian-American canoe racer
1981 – Ashley Parker Angel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (O-Town)
1981 – Brett Chukerman, American actor
1981 – Dean Cox, Australian footballer
1981 – Vaiko Eplik, Estonian singer-songwriter guitarist, and producer
1981 – Taylor Fry, American actress
1981 – Pia Haraldsen, Norwegian journalist and author
1981 – Christofer Heimeroth, German footballer
1981 – Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
1981 – Jamie Jones-Buchanan, English rugby player
1981 – Miracle Laurie, American actress
1981 – Sally Pressman, American actress and dancer
1982 – Basem Fathi, Jordanian footballer
1982 – Montserrat Lombard, English actress, director, and screenwriter
1982 – Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress
1983 – Bobby Carpenter, American football player
1983 – Craig Clarke, New Zealand rugby player
1983 – Julien Faubert, French footballer
1983 – David Gervasi, Swiss decathlete
1984 – Steve Feak, American game designer
1984 – Francesco Gavazzi, Italian cyclist
1984 – Brandon Kintzler, American baseball player
1984 – Valery Ortiz, Puerto Rican-American actress and singer
1984 – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
1985 – Stuart Holden, Scottish-American soccer player
1985 – Adam Jones, American baseball player
1985 – Hyun Jyu-ni, South Korean singer and actress
1985 – Cole Kimball, American baseball player
1985 – Gegard Mousasi, Iranian-Dutch mixed martial artist and kick-boxer
1985 – Tendai Mtawarira, South African rugby player
1985 – Kris Stadsgaard, Danish footballer
1985 – Dušan Švento, Slovak footballer
1986 – Damien Allen, English footballer
1986 – Elijah Kelley, American actor, singer, and dancer
1986 – Jonas Plass, German sprinter
1986 – Jörn Schlönvoigt, German actor and singer
1986 – Lucas Simón, Argentinian footballer
1986 – Anton Strålman, Swedish ice hockey player
1986 – Andrew Taylor, English footballer
1986 – Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
1986 – Mike Wallace, American football player
1987 – Stan, Greek singer-songwriter
1987 – Karen Carney, English footballer
1987 – Jakov Fak, Croatian-Slovenian biathlete
1987 – Rumi Hiiragi, Japanese actress
1987 – Sébastien Pocognoli, Belgian footballer
1987 – Lee Wallace, Scottish footballer
1988 – Mustafa Abdellaoue, Norwegian footballer
1988 – Max Carver, American actor
1988 – Sasha Jackson, English-American actress
1988 – Patryk Małecki, Polish footballer
1988 – Bodene Thompson, New Zealand rugby player
1988 – Joanna Wang, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
1989 – Tiffany, American-South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Girls' Generation and Girls' Generation-TTS)
1989 – Madison Bumgarner, American baseball player
1989 – Tomoka Kurokawa, Japanese actress
1990 – Aledmys Díaz, Cuban baseball player
1990 – Jean Hugues Gregoire, Mauritian swimmer
1990 – Elton Jantjies, South African rugby player
1990 – Jack O'Connell, English actor
1991 – Marco Puntoriere, Italian footballer
1992 – Austin Rivers, American basketball player
1993 – Álex Abrines, Spanish basketball player
1993 – Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
1994 – Sergeal Petersen, South African rugby player
1994 – Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer (S/mileage, Hello Pro Kenshūsei, and Shugo Chara Egg!)
1995 – Derrick Monasterio, Filipino actor, singer, and dancer
1996 – Katie Boulter, English tennis player
1996 – Cymphonique Miller, American actress and singer
1996 – Ellona Santiago, Filipino-American singer
1998 – Khamani Griffin, American actor
1999 – Deimantė Kizalaitė, Lithuanian figure skater
30 BC – Mark Antony, Roman general and politician (b. 83 BC)
371 – Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop and saint (b. 283)
527 – Justin I, Byzantine emperor (b. 450)
946 – Ali ibn Isa al-Jarrah, Abbasid vizier (b. 859)
1137 – Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
1227 – Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
1252 – Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Italian archbishop and explorer (b. 1180)
1402 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1341)
1457 – Lorenzo Valla, Italian author and educator (b. 1406)
1464 – Cosimo de' Medici, Italian ruler (b. 1386)
1541 – Simon Grynaeus, German theologian and scholar (b. 1493)
1543 – Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1488)
1557 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish archbishop, historian, and cartographer (b. 1490)
1580 – Albrecht Giese, Polish-German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
1589 – Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
1714 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (b. 1665)
1787 – Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1696)
1795 – Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist (b. 1735)
1796 – Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet, English colonel and politician (b. 1720)
1798 – François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, French admiral (b. 1753)
1807 – John Boorman, English cricketer (b. c. 1754)
1807 – John Walker, English actor, philologist, and lexicographer (b. 1732)
1812 – Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (b. 1763)
1851 – William Joseph Behr, German publicist and academic (b. 1775)
1866 – John Ross, American tribal chief (b. 1790)
1903 – Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman and scout (b. 1853)
1911 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (b. 1852)
1911 – Samuel Arza Davenport, American lawyer and politician (b. 1843)
1918 – John Riley Banister, American cowboy and police officer (b. 1854)
1920 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian lawyer and journalist (b. 1856)
1922 – Donát Bánki, Hungarian engineer (b. 1856)
1929 – Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
1938 – John Aasen, American actor (b. 1890)
1938 – Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and academic (b. 1862)
1943 – Lydia Litvyak, Russian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1921)
1944 – Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
1945 – Gyula Csortos, Hungarian actor (b. 1883)
1959 – Jean Behra, French race car driver (b. 1921)
1963 – Theodore Roethke, American author and poet (b. 1908)
1966 – Charles Whitman, American murderer (b. 1941)
1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
1970 – Frances Farmer, American actress and singer (b. 1913)
1970 – Doris Fleeson, American journalist (b. 1901)
1970 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
1973 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (b. 1882)
1973 – Walter Ulbricht, German soldier and politician (b. 1893)
1974 – Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian cardinal (b. 1898)
1977 – Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (b. 1929)
1980 – Patrick Depailler, French race car driver (b. 1944)
1980 – Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
1981 – Paddy Chayefsky, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
1982 – T. Thirunavukarasu, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1933)
1983 – Lilian Mercedes Letona, Salvadoran activist (b. 1954)
1989 – John Ogdon, English pianist and composer (b. 1937)
1990 – Norbert Elias, German-Dutch sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1897)
1990 – Graham Young, English serial killer (b. 1947)
1996 – Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian general and politician, 5th President of Somalia (b. 1934)
1996 – Frida Boccara, Moroccan-French singer (b. 1940)
1996 – Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1996 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and surgeon (b. 1929)
1997 – Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
1998 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian-British actress (b. 1927)
1999 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bangladeshi−English historian and author (b. 1897)
2001 – Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
2003 – Guy Thys, Belgian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1922)
2003 – Marie Trintignant, French actress and screenwriter (b. 1962)
2004 – Philip Abelson, American physicist and author (b. 1913)
2005 – Al Aronowitz, American journalist (b. 1928)
2005 – Wim Boost, Dutch cartoonist and educator (b. 1918)
2005 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter and sculptor (b. 1920)
2005 – Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
2006 – Jason Rhoades, American sculptor (b. 1965)
2006 – Ferenc Szusza, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1923)
2006 – Bob Thaves, American illustrator (b. 1924)
2006 – Iris Marion Young, American political scientist and activist (b. 1949)
2007 – Tommy Makem, Irish singer-songwriter and banjo player (The Clancy Brothers and Makem and Clancy) (b. 1932)
2008 – Gertan Klauber, Czech-English actor (b. 1932)
2008 – Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1916)
2009 – Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
2010 – Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican activist (b. 1919)
2010 – Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby player and cricketer (b. 1910)
2012 – Aldo Maldera, Italian footballer and agent (b. 1953)
2012 – Douglas Townsend, American composer and musicologist (b. 1921)
2012 – Keiko Tsushima, Japanese actress (b. 1926)
2012 – Barry Trapnell, English cricketer and academic (b. 1924)
2013 – John Amis, English journalist and critic (b. 1922)
2013 – Chua Boon Huat, Malaysian field hockey player (b. 1980)
2013 – Mike Hinton, American guitarist (Rainforest Band) (b. 1956)
2013 – Gail Kobe, American actress and producer (b. 1932)
2013 – Babe Martin, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2013 – Toby Saks, American cellist and educator (b. 1942)
2013 – Wilford White, American football player (b. 1928)
2014 – Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarusian footballer and manager (b. 1973)
2014 – Rod de'Ath, Welsh drummer and producer (b. 1950)
2014 – Michael Johns, Australian-American singer-songwriter (b. 1978)
2014 – Jan Roar Leikvoll, Norwegian author (b. 1974)
2014 – Charles T. Payne, American soldier (b. 1925)
2014 – Mike Smith, English radio and television host (b. 1955)
2015 – Stephan Beckenbauer, German footballer and manager (b. 1968)
2015 – Cilla Black, English singer and actress (b. 1943)
2015 – Bernard d'Espagnat, French physicist, philosopher, and author (b. 1921)
2015 – Bob Frankford, English-Canadian physician and politician (b. 1939)
2015 – Hong Yuanshuo, Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1948)
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Armed Forces Day (Lebanon)
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Azerbaijani Language and Alphabet Day (Azerbaijan)
Celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which ended the slavery in the British Empire, generally celebrated as a part of Carnival, as the Caribbean Carnival takes place at this time (British West Indies):
Earliest day on which Caribana celebration can fall, celebrated on the first Weekend of August. (Toronto)
Earliest day on which Emancipation Day can fall, celebrated on the first Monday of August. (Anguilla, the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands)
Emancipation Day (Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago)
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Abgar V of Edessa (Syrian Church)
Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori
Æthelwold of Winchester
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Eusebius of Vercelli
Exuperius of Bayeux
Felix of Girona
Peter Apostle in Chains
Procession of the Cross and the beginning of Dormition Fast (Eastern Orthodoxy)
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August 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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The beginning of autumn observances in the Northern hemisphere and spring observances in the Southern hemisphere (Neopagan Wheel of the Year):
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A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he doesn't know they once belonged to a murderer.
Tokyo Drifter (1966)
Tetsu has joined his yakuza boss in going straight, but when a rival gang threatens to bring them back into the gang wars, Tetsu must become a drifter to keep the pressure off his old boss
Shagird (2011)
Sub-Inspector Mohit Kumar joins Delhi Police' Crime Branch and is instructed to work under the supervision of Senior Police Inspector Hanumant Singh, who lives with his wife and school-going son, Nikhil. Mohit witnesses Hanumant's family come under attack and becomes sympathetic - especially when the media - including his Aaj Tak Reporter and girlfriend, Varsha Mathur - criticizes him. Mohit does change his mind about Hanumant when he witnesses the latter break the laws as well as accept bribes and shares it with other police officers with impunity. Mohit will not only face career and personal challenges when he decides to oppose politically-connected Hanumant, but also when Varsha, along with two other journalists, will be abducted by Islamic terrorists
Operation Thunderbolt (1977)
In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons. After much debate, the Israeli government sent an elite commando unit to raid the airfield and release the hostages.
Flaming Brothers (1987)
An early movie of Chow Yun-Fat. The story is about two brothers going into opposite directions in life. One leaves the triads to become an honest citizen, the other stays triads member. But in the end both hold together. A typical HK movie storylin in the 1980s.
Bonnie and Hillary are two young lost souls who meet one day and discover that they get along. They talk about their lives and run around and and keep getting really excited. Their day escalates into an eruption of violence and rage that can only be understood by the two girls.
Vettai (2012)
The film revolves around two brothers, the elder being sensitive to violence and the younger being a jobless rogue, settled in Thoothukudi. After the death of their father, a police officer, the elder brother takes on the same job by request of the younger. The older brother rises to fame in his job by having his younger brother secretly punish suspects and save victims for him. This angers two of the village's biggest mob bosses, who begin to seek revenge on the elder brother. After getting severely beaten by them, the elder brother loses his fear and becomes physically stronger through training from his younger brother. How the brothers get back at two gangs and protect their families form the rest of the story. The film was released worldwide on 13 January 2012 to mixed reviews
Based on the Gothic romance novel by Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca is a classic tale of love and hate. Maxim De Winter marries a woman half his age only a year after his first wife, the beautiful and accomplished Rebecca, dies. She finds herself in an aristocratic social world her middle class upbringing did not prepare her for, and housekeeper Mrs Danvers despises her for taking her darling Rebecca's place. But these are not the only problems to face... Written by
Portland Street Blues (1998)
This spin-off movie provides a different contrast to the familiar Young and Dangerous films with greater character development. This time, the story's focus is on a female character - Sister 13 (Sandra Ng) of the "Hung Hing" triad. In a triad underworld dominated by men, the film tells the story of how she faces trials and tribulations of rising to become the branch leader of Portland Street. The story shows the reasons she became a lesbian. The film also gives more details about the "Tung Sing" triad, and how the relationship between Sister 13 and Ben Hon develops.
Made in Britain (1983)
Trevor sometimes-violent skinhead with no regard for authority, and would rather spend his time stealing cars than sitting in the detention centre to which he is sent. His social worker, Harry Parker, tries to do his best, but Trevor is only interested when theres something that he can get out of it. The authorities within the centre try to make Trevor conform to the norms of society, but he takes no notice, and would rather speak in a torrent of four-letter words and racial abuse.
Shinjuku Underworld: Chinese Mafia War (1995)
The film is based around the interactions of a homosexual triad group with a police officer as well as opposing yakuza organizations. When the younger brother to a renegade police officer becomes the lawyer to the triad group, an argument between the two leads to the downfall of the organization.
Operation Amsterdam (1959)
Operation Amsterdam is a 1959 adventure film, directed by Michael McCarthy, and featuring Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, and Tony Britton. It is based on a true story [1] as described in the book Adventure in Diamonds, by David E Walker. The action of the story covers a few days in May 1940 when the Germans invaded Holland.
House of the Sleeping Beauties (2006)
Edmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed alongside beautiful, sleeping young women, who stretch, roll over and dream, but never awaken. Bedazzled by their seductive yet innocent tenderness, but distressed about the reason for their deep sleep, he delves into the mystery of the house of sleeping beauties.
The Yards (2000)
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts.
All Things To All Men (2013)
A thief is caught up in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a maverick cop and London crime boss.
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
James Cagney plays Ralph Cotter, a career criminal who escapes from prison, then murders his partner in crime. Along they way he attempts to woo his ex partner's sister (Barbara Payton) by threatening to expose her role in his escape. Cotter quickly gets back into the crime business only to be shaken down by local corrupt cops.
Prince of the City (1981)
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants
A saga centered on a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney, investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.
Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009)
It's Yorkshire in 1974, and fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions in the last decade. But after a mutilated body is found on a construction site owned by a local property magnate, Eddie and Barry are drawn into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.
A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.
S. Darko (2009)
S. Darko follows Samantha Darko, the younger sister of Donnie, the protagonist of Donnie Darko, and her friend Corey. On their way to California, their car breaks down, forcing them to wait in a small town until it is fixed. While there, Samantha begins to have dreams that warn her of the end of the universe.
Eyes Without a Face (1960)
A brilliant scientist, Professor Genessier, is guilt-stricken after having disfigured his daughters face in a car accident. He has almost perfected the technique of grafting skin tissue and intends to use this science to rebuild his daughters damaged face. But he needs a supply of donors to experiment on.
Compliance (2012)
Becky and Sandra arent the best of friends. Sandra is a middle-aged manager at a fast-food restaurant; Becky is a teenaged counter girl who really needs the job. One stressful day (too many customers and too little bacon), a police officer calls, accusing Becky of stealing money from a customers purse, which she vehemently denies. Sandra, overwhelmed by her managerial responsibilities, complies with the officers orders to detain Becky. This choice begins a nightmare that tragically blurs the lines between expedience and prudence, legality and reason.
Infernal Affairs (2002)
Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midst.
Blood of Redemption (2013)
Quinn Forte had it all: power, money, a brother who idolized him, and a woman who loved him. He also had enemies. In the course of one night, he loses everything. Betrayed by someone in his inner circle, Quinn is set up and arrested. His father, the patriarch of the criminal empire is killed and his brother suspects that Quinn is behind it all. When he's released from jail he tries to escape the demons from his past, but that becomes an impossible task. Campbell, the ruthless new leader of "The Company" won't let him leave in peace. So instead of escaping them, Quinn fights back. He joins forces with his former henchman and friend, The Swede, and takes on his enemies head on.
Marked Woman (1937)
Set in the underworld of Manhattan, Marked Woman tells the story of a woman who dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters. The women of the story are "hostesses". What is implied, but not stated clearly is that they are prostitutes, who work in a gambling den in the city.
Bless the Child (2000)
When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always longed for. But six years later Jenna suddenly re-enters her life and, with her mysterious new husband, Eric Stark, abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis, takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently missing children.
When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn.
The 51st State (2001)
Elmo McElroy is a streetwise American master chemist who heads to England to sell his special new formula - a powerful, blue concoction guaranteed to take you to 'the 51st state.' McElroy's new product delivers a feeling 51 times more powerful than any thrill, any pleasure, any high in history. But his plans for a quick, profitable score go comically awry when he gets stuck in Liverpool with an unlikely escort and his ex-girlfriend and becomes entangled in a bizarre web of double-dealing and double-crosses.
Fighting Back (1982)
It's a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals' violences and ravages. He organizes a patrol of civil people. It all starts to go wrong because his team's actions are taken as racial discrimination
Infernal Affairs II (2003)
In this prequel to Mou gaan dou (2002), Chan Wing Yan has just become an undercover cop in the triads while Lau Kin Ming joins the police force. Both the triads and the police find an enemy in a rival crime boss.
Modus Operandi (2010)
Two briefcases with mysterious contents are stolen from top Presidential candidate Squire Parks, setting off a deadly series of double-crosses and betrayals. Desperate warring factions of subterranean organizations will stop at nothing to gain possession of the sensitive material. A covert branch of the CIA calls on notorious Black Ops agent Stanley Cashay, who has been barely existing in a semi-comatose twilight since the murder of his wife. Cashay is offered the identity of his wifes killer in exchange for locating and returning the cases.
Nameless Gangster (2012)
A corrupted customs officer, Choi Ik-hyeon, faces losing his job. Then, his life turns around as he meets ganster Choi Hyeong-bae who has connection with the Yakuza. They quickly form a partnetship; Hyeong-bae helps Ik-hyeon set up a business with the money from drug trafficking while Ik-hyeon lobbies for his partner Hyeong-bae. As the government declares war on crime, however, their partnership begins to crack.
Street Kings (2008)
Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.
A corrupt businesswoman seeks to disable RoboCop in favor of her own model of cyborg.
Bullet to the Head (2012)
After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.
After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt New York City politicians and police.
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.
Similar to "The Dirty Dozen" or one of that nature. Japan is trying to take over the world and the generals of the allied forces trying to stop the Japanese have been taken prisoner. A force of loners and fighters is put together to try and rescue the generals and save the war effort with the promise of gold and/or pardons of past crimes.
Single father and former cop Tom Cutler has an unusual occupation: he cleans up death scenes. But when he's called in to sterilize a wealthy suburban residence after a brutal shooting, Cutler is shocked to learn he may have unknowingly erased crucial evidence, entangling himself in a dirty criminal cover-up.
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Gabriella, a Columbian immigrant, is obsessed with understanding violent crime. The current string of murders by "The Blue Blood Killer" of affluent Miami socialites provides her with fodder for her scrapbook of death. She lands a job with a post-murder cleaning service and during a Blue-Blood clean-up job, discovers evidence that police have overlooked.
Paid in Full (2002)
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky breaks and solid interpersonal skills, Ace moves to the top of the Harlem drug world. Of course, unfaithful employees and/or rivals conspire to bring about Ace's fall.
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Carlitos Way (1993)
A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of NYC.
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The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can break the man. But despite his troubles, Wayland is a master of manipulation, and during the interrogation, he begins to turn the tables on the investigators, forcing them to reveal their own sinister sides.
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A tale of double cross and revenge, centered upon the members of an elite U.S. Special Forces unit sent into the Bolivian jungle on a search and destroy mission. The team-Clay, Jensen, Roque, Pooch and Cougar -find themselves the target of a lethal betrayal instigated from inside by a powerful enemy known only as Max. Presumed dead, the group makes plans to even the score when they're joined by the mysterious Aisha, a beautiful operative with her own agenda. Working together, they must remain deep undercover while tracking the heavily-guarded Max, a ruthless man bent on embroiling the world in a new high-tech global war.
It's a major double-cross when former police officer Brian O'Conner teams up with his ex-con buddy Roman Pearce to transport a shipment of "dirty" money for shady Miami-based import-export dealer Carter Verone. But the guys are actually working with undercover agent Monica Fuentes to bring Verone down.
Memories of Murder (2003)
1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about a serial murderer grow louder. A special task force is set up in the area, with two local detectives Park Doo-Man and Jo Young-Goo joined by a detective from Seoul who requested to be assigned to the case.
Gharshana (2004)
Rama Chandra (played by Daggubati Venkatesh) is the Deputy Commissioner of Police of Hyderabad City. His upbringing as an orphan, and the special nature of his job as a policeman, have left him reluctant to form relationships with women. He doesn't have much faith in the judicial system and seeks to 'eliminate' the criminals in the town through encounters.
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John Marek
For other people named John Marek, see John Marek (disambiguation).
Deputy Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales
2 May 2000 – 7 May 2007
Rosemary Butler
Assembly Member
for Wrexham
Office Created
Lesley Griffiths
9 June 1983 – 14 May 2001
Ian Lucas
(1940-12-24) 24 December 1940 (age 80)
Forward Wales (2003–10)
John Marek Independent (2003)
Labour (1983–2003)
John Marek (born 24 December 1940), is a Welsh Conservative politician, former Member of Parliament and former Assembly Member. He was leader of Forward Wales until joining the Conservatives in 2010.[1]
He was Labour Member of Parliament for Wrexham from 1983 until 2001. He stood down after he was elected to represent Wrexham in the National Assembly for Wales in 1999. This was initially for the Labour Party, but he was deselected in 2003 and formed Forward Wales, for whom he was re-elected. He was defeated at the 2007 election.
3 Wrexham AFC
Born in London of Czech descent, Marek was the only Czech-speaking Member of the UK Parliament.[2] He was educated at Chatham House Grammar School and at King's College London where he earned a BSc in Mathematics in 1962, and a PhD in Mathematics in 1965. He became a lecturer in applied mathematics at Aberystwyth University
Marek was elected a member of Ceredigion District Council in 1979 and served until 1983; he was chair of its finance sub-committee in the year 1982–83.
Having previously unsuccessfully contested Ludlow in October 1974, Marek was elected as Labour Party Member of Parliament for the Wrexham Westminster constituency in 1983 and served as a party spokesman on Treasury matters, although he was not offered a government post in 1997.[2]
As a supporter of devolution, he chose to move to the National Assembly for Wales in 1999, and stood down from the UK Parliament in 2001. In the Assembly he became increasingly known as a maverick. In 2000, he was elected as Deputy Presiding Officer against the candidate preferred by the Labour leadership. This move, and his frequent criticisms of the Labour-led Wrexham County Borough led to his deselection as the Labour Party's candidate for the National Assembly elections of 1 May 2003.[3]
Marek then stood as a candidate for the John Marek Independent Party and defeated the official Labour Party candidate, Lesley Griffiths, a former secretary of his, by 973 votes. Later that year he formed a new political party called Forward Wales' (Welsh: Cymru Ymlaen).[4] He ran for re-election in the 2007 Welsh Assembly election, but was defeated by Labour's Lesley Griffiths by 1,250 votes, thanks to a swing to the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, and UKIP.[5]
On 29 March 2010, Marek joined the Conservative Party,[1] and he was later confirmed as the party's candidate for the 2011 Welsh Assembly election where he again came second to Griffiths, by 3,335 votes in the Wrexham constituency.[6][7]
Marek is one of three Welsh MPs or AMs to win a constituency as both a party candidate and an independent, following S. O. Davies who was MP for Merthyr Tydfil from 1934 until his death in 1972, who was deselected by the local Labour Party on grounds of age prior to the 1970 general election but ran against the official candidate as an independent and won; and Peter Law who was barred from contesting his seat for Labour due to an all-woman shortlist being imposed [8]
In 2006 he was appointed a vice president of Wrexham A.F.C. by new owners Nev Dickens and Geoff Moss, and remained a vice president until the club passed into the ownership of the Wrexham Supporters Trust.
^ a b "Former Wrexham Labour MP and AM John Marek joins Tories". BBC News. 29 March 2010. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
^ a b "AMs profile: John Marek". BBC News. 1 September 1999. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
^ "AM loses reselection battle". BBC News. 22 February 2003. Retrieved 22 February 2003.
^ "Marek is first independent AM". BBC Wales. 2 May 2003. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
^ "Independent John Marek is ousted". BBC News. 4 May 2007. Retrieved 4 May 2007.
^ "Ex-Wrexham MP and AM John Marek to fight seat as Tory". BBC News. 3 August 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
^ "Election 2011 - Wales - Wrexham". BBC News. 5 June 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
^ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-law-6102699.html
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Marek
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Chuck Yeager, Ace in a Day
A Man With The Right Stuff
American pilots of World War II tended not to get as much celebrity or notoriety as Luftwaffe pilots. There are several reasons for this, most notably that Americans were not in the war for its entire duration and thus could not amass the experience and scores that the top (and luckiest) Luftwaffe pilots did. German pilots also had far fewer restrictions on their time of service than did Allied pilots, and much of the Allied effort was devoted to night bombing which did not lend itself to celebrity.
While there were indeed many extraordinarily competent Allied pilots, one that stands out is Chuck Yeager (born 13 February 1923). Much of Yeager's celebrity accrues from his post-war service, and that is beyond the scope of this article. However, Yeager's adventures during the war by themselves were enough for any military career and are illustrative of the career of a top Allied fighter pilot.
Chuck Yeager (left) at RAF Leiston
Yeager was born in Myra, West Virginia and spent two summers gaining exposure to the military at the Citizens Military Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis, Indiana. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces before Pearl Harbor, on 12 September 1941. He had phenomenally good eyesight, and thus was accepted for flight training after beginning as a mechanic despite an indifferent educational background.
Chuck Yeager in flight school, ca. 1943.
Yeager graduated from flight training on 10 March 1943, and he was assigned to the 357th Fighter Group at Tonopah, Nevada. Early on, he exhibited a daredevil attitude and earned an early reprimand for dangerous stunts. He was transferred with his Group to RAF Leiston on 23 November 1943.
Capt. Charles E “Chuck” Yeager”, Hamlin, WV, 363rd Fighter Squadron, P-51D 44-13897 B6-Y “Glamorous Glen II”.
Yeager's arrival coincided with the upgrading of the P-51D fighter into a war-winning aircraft that could escort bombers all the way to Berlin (the renewed bombing offensive against Berlin resumed on virtually the day he arrived in Europe). This forced the defending German fighters to battle Allied fighters during the daylight hours, giving Allied fighter pilots like Chuck Yeager greater opportunities.
In the latter half of 1943, Allied fighter range grew tremendously and ultimately extended to Berlin.
However, Yeager got off to a rocky start with the high-performance aircraft (he had trained on the mediocre Bell P-39 Aircobra). After gaining one victory, he was shot down over France during his eighth mission while attacking a pair of Focke Wulf 190s. Making contact with French partisans after a harrowing night, he escaped to Spain and made his way back to England via Lisbon. That makes it sound simple and straightforward, but it wasn't: Yeager's escape required four days of climbing through knee-deep snow and freezing rain, and he and a companion were fired upon by a German patrol. After his return, he was officially grounded per regulations due to his knowledge of the French resistance (which he might reveal after another downing). Despite those regulations to the contrary, he later was allowed to resume flying over France after receiving the direct approval of General Eisenhower after D-Day.
Chuck Yeager on or about October 14, 1947 when he became the first man to break the sound barrier, posing beside the plane in which he did it, the Bell X-1. He named his planes Glamorous Glennis after his wife, Glennis Dickhouse (married 26 February 1945). It was common practice of fighter jockeys to name their craft after the girl they left behind and hoped to come back to (which didn't always happen for one reason or another).
It was at this point that Yeager fully asserted himself as a top ace. Captain Yeager earned the title "ace in a day" by downing five Messerschmitt BF 109s on 12 October 1944. He was aided by the fact that one Messerschmitt that he was about to shoot down banked sharply right to evade his fire and collided with his own wingman, causing both aircraft to become Yeager's victims. Among other fascinating aspects to his performance that day, he had just been given command of his 49-plane group formation due to his skill and thus was able to position himself where the bad guys would be lurking. His Squadron, the 363rd, positioned itself 100 miles ahead of the bomber stream looking for defenders at the standard 28k feet. Spotting 22 Bf 109s, which were circling waiting for the bombers, he started picking them off from the rear of their flight. He hit his first kill that day in the cockpit and engine, the second suddenly exploded, the third he got with a deflection shot. The Germans likely were from III/JG 26, a premier Luftwaffe formation that had spent the earlier part of the war on the Channel coast.
Yeager continued his string of successes thereafter, though pickings were lean due to the Luftwaffe's own difficulties. On 27 November, he shot down four FW 190s, gaining revenge for his own previous downing by the aircraft and showing that his previous big day was no fluke. He even gained an early victory over a jet fighter on 6 November 1944, following it and attacking while it was vulnerable as it was trying to land. It was a rare (and invigorating) Allied victory over the vaunted Messerschmitt 262. Yeager also was present during Operation Bodenplatte, the last-ditch mass Luftwaffe attack on 1 January 1945 in aid of their Ardennes Offensive. From a trench at his forward air field in Belgium, Yeager carefully watched the Germans bomb and strafe his base. He observed that the German pilots were poorly trained and barely in control of their aircraft. This was conclusive evidence that Germany no longer had the resources to adequately train new crew. Despite Allied fears about new high-performance German aircraft, the Luftwaffe was in its death throes.
Reflecting the Allied restrictions on its pilots, Yeager was sent back to the States soon after. He was assigned to Wright Field near Dayton, Ohio for the duration of the war, where he re-trained as a test pilot and later broke the sound barrier. This is important because once again it shows how Allied practices prevented top pilots from racking up higher combat scores. As it was, Yeager wound up with a kill score of 11.5, twice as many as were needed to be recognized as an ace (many credit him with an additional victory over a Ju 88 during a training flight over the North Sea while he was on "probation" after his escape from France and not officially reinstated, and that would make the total 12.5).
One of the perks of being on the winning side: then-Colonel Yeager receives a welcome visit from Barbara Eden of "I Dream of Genie" in the '60s.
Beyond his military successes, Yeager is an interesting World War II figure in another respect. He was quite open in later years about the murky morality of the Allied air effort. While the Allied bombing effort led by Arthur "Bomber" Harris was controversial before it even started (there were spirited debates about its morality in Parliament), Yeager added his own disgust about certain other practices that did not receive nearly as much attention.
Chuck Yeager with Ava Gardner.
For instance, in his 1986 memoirs, Yeager recalled being instructed during the war to strafe civilians. Basically, that order made him a potential war criminal should events have turned out differently. That candid admission does not lessen the magnitude of German war crimes, but it does reflect reality. Such is the morality of war, and Chuck Yeager is to be commended for his contribution to the common understanding of what war is really all about.
A trio of 363rd aces at Leiston, England, January 1945; Center: Captain Don Bochkay (13.75 victories); Right: Chuck Yeager (12.5 victories).
Posted by James Bjorkman at 1:42:00 AM
Labels: 357th Fighter Group, Aces of World War II, Ava Gardner, Barbara Eden, Bell P-39 Aircobra, Bf 109, Chuck Yeager, Eisenhower, FW 190, ME 262, Operation Bodenplatte, P-51 Mustang, RAF Leiston, USAAF, Wright Airfield
The "Glamorous Glennis" is misidentified as a P-51. It is the Bell X-1 and it's 1947 not 1944.
James Bjorkman January 19, 2017 at 12:12 AM
Thanks for the correction. Had that mislabeled, appreciate your setting the record straight. I corrected the caption. Should have known from the nose of the plane, they look nothing at all alike.
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Reader Recommendations from 2005
January 18, 2006 Andre Salles
I have absolutely no motivation this week. Apologies for the late column, and further apologies in advance if it ends up sucking. I seriously considered blowing this week off, but with so much new music hitting stores in the next few weeks, I can’t afford to. If I don’t get to these reviews this week, chances are way too good that I’ll never get to them at all.
But first, a digression into TV land:
I caught the premiere of Love Monkey this week. With that title (taken from the novel on which the show is based), I had no idea what to expect, but I watched it because a) it stars the immensely likeable Tom Cavanagh, who made Ed a worthwhile stop each week for years; b) the supporting cast is eccentric and excellent, including Larenz Tate, Judy Greer and Jason Priestly, as well as two Buffy alums (kudos to the first person who can tell me who they are without consulting IMDB), and c) it’s about music nerds. As a music obsessive who’s been trying to capture the spirit of that experience for years, I’m always interested to see how others approach it.
Love Monkey looks like it’s going to be one of those shows I wish I could embrace. Cavanagh is terrific, as always, even if he’s basically playing Ed Stevens again. The writing is sometimes klutzy, but it’s the pilot, and I did laugh out loud a couple of times, so I’m willing to give it another shot. The plotting was ridiculously predictable – Cavanagh’s character has both a girlfriend who’s no good for him, and a girl-slash-friend who would be perfect for him, and I get the definite sense that the show’s writers will pursue this will-they-or-won’t-they in the most cliched manner available to them. But as I said, it’s the pilot. I’ll give it another go.
But what really bugs me about Love Monkey is the music stuff. No, scratch that – the music stuff in this show pissed me off. Cavanagh plays an A&R guy for a major minor label in New York, and his job is to seek out the new sound. He’s portrayed as an obsessive music junkie, one who actually gets fired from the record company for standing up for the transformative power of music. “We should be all about bringing the music to the people, not about making money” he says, name-checking the whole of the 1960s in the process, and it’s an inspiring little speech.
There’s just one problem. The show is so obviously corporate, so obviously not written by music fans, that it’s insulting. Early in the pilot, Cavanagh’s character Tom Farrell finds his next big thing, a guitar-playing kid named Wayne, and he’s shown reacting with wonder and awe at his obvious talent. But Wayne sounds just like a third-rate John Mayer, and no better than 95 percent of what you hear on the radio. You can hear kids like Wayne at 400 open mic nights a week in New York alone. What’s so great about him? The show never tells us.
But I will. Wayne sounds like what the execs at CBS expect their audience of middle-agers to like. He sounds like the next ready-to-mold adult contemporary star, one step above the contestants on American Idol. He’s carefully inoffensive, designed to make the 40-somethings watching on Wednesday nights say, “Yeah, he’s pretty good.” There is literally nothing about this kid that would make any music junkie take notice.
It doesn’t stop there. The references throughout the show are all easy. Not one band or artist was name-checked that my mother wouldn’t recognize. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, and I don’t need obscure you’re-in-the-club asides to like a show like this, but if you’re talking about people who live and breathe music, the breadth of their knowledge and obsessiveness will naturally extend beyond Eric Clapton and Sting. It feels like the writers are being careful not to make anyone feel left out, and in doing so, they’re missing the essence of a character like Tom Farrell.
The most nerdishly upsetting thing about Love Monkey was the obvious product placement – Sony’s Essential Bob Dylan collection, which is a key element of two scenes. First of all, any music fan like Farrell purports to be would know that there is nothing essential about these collections, and wouldn’t give them as gifts. He’d more likely make a mix of his own, and fume a bit about how all the good stuff was left off the corporate compilation.
Worse, though, is what he says when he hands it over: “It’s every song he ever recorded.” Um, what? Dylan’s been recording for more than 40 years, and he has more than 30 albums. The Essential Bob Dylan is a two-CD set that collects 30 songs. There’s no way a supposedly music-mad guy like Tom Farrell would make that mistake, or not correct someone when they make the same mistake. It’s a sales pitch put into the mouths of characters in an attempt to sell more of an extraneous Dylan collection, and if Tom Farrell were a real guy watching this show, he’d have kicked his TV at that point.
I know, because I almost did.
There’s a lot right with Love Monkey, but if it’s supposed to be about music, and about how much this character loves it, then there’s a lot wrong with it, too. He bitches about Air Supply at one point, and then spends the rest of the show trying to sign a guy whose songs are the A&R equivalent of that band’s crowd-pleasing pap. It makes no sense to me, but then, I don’t think I’m the target audience here. They’re not going for music fans, they’re going for people who know music fans, and older folks who stopped listening to new bands around 1979. They’re going for Targeted Consumers, and I would bet that more specifically marketed CD collections like The Essential Bob Dylan will be product-placed in future episodes.
Anyway, I’ll give it another shot or two, mainly for Cavanagh and Greer. But I don’t highly recommend it.
Speaking of that…
In a lot of ways, TM3AM lives and dies on recommendations. Not only do I have this extensive network of friends and acquaintances who know what I like and give me tips on great new stuff, I also have readers who write in every week to tell me about their favorite records. Most of the time, I know the artists, but surprisingly often, a stranger will surprise me with something excellent that I’d never heard.
For example, last year’s number one album, Sufjan Stevens’ Illinois, was a recommendation. So was number nine, The Dissociatives. Last week, I reviewed Imogen Heap’s Speak For Yourself, which I probably wouldn’t have bought without Dr. Tony Shore’s ecstatic emails. I get excited about music, and I love it when others share that excitement. It’s infectious. I’m not always as taken with the recommended albums, but just knowing that there are people as thrilled to share the music they love as I am often keeps me going.
But sometimes I just forget to say thanks, or to write something about the records themselves. I have a few from 2005 that just slipped by me, very good albums that I may not have bought without some very jazzed readers telling me about them. Last year especially, there was just so much good music that I couldn’t get to everything.
Case in point. So many people told me to pick up Porcupine Tree’s Deadwing that it would be unfair to single one or two of them out. But there’s a guy named Matthew Waterhouse (and yes, Doctor Who fans, he’s heard all the Adric jokes) who has been urging me to review it for months now, and wondering why I didn’t give it at least an honorable mention in the year-end top 10 list. So this one’s for him, although he’ll probably want his money back.
It would be inaccurate to say I’m a Porcupine Tree fan, although I do like them. Their mastermind, Steven Wilson, first came to my attention as the producer and co-writer of Fish’s Sunsets on Empire album, which still stands as one of the big man’s three best efforts. Wilson played the mean guitar solo on “The Perception of Johnny Punter,” and if you’ve heard it, you know how immediately impressive it is. That initial exposure led me to Wilson’s main band, and a couple of his side projects, but he’s never made a stronger impression than that smoldering solo, unfortunately.
But I really liked In Absentia, the more concise, rocking Porcupine Tree album from 2002. PT has always been a slower, more Floyd-esque guitar-rock band, dabbling in electronic textures and ambient skyscapes, but In Absentia packed a pop song punch I enjoyed tremendously. Of course, I forgot to review it, but what else is new…
Deadwing is in a similar vein, but the more drawn-out passages are back, providing an interesting balance. The album ignites early with the nine-minute title track, a heavy groove with a pleasant melody and a kickass solo by Adrian Belew. It does slightly overstay its welcome, but thankfully, the same cannot be said for the bulk of Deadwing. “Shallow” is a great little rocker, and “Lazarus” is fragile and very pretty. Of the longer songs, “Start of Something Beautiful” impresses the most, with its buildups and diversions.
The problem is, most of this album just blends together into one long groove of various tempos. With all of Wilson’s meticulous production, the songs often lie there – “Mellotron Scratch” is creepy, yet forgettable, and “Arriving Somewhere But Not Here” could have been half as long and still been as effective. By the end of Deadwing, I’m not sure what I’m supposed to get out of it – it feels more like an attempt at a mood piece, but the driving rhythms keep it from achieving the ambient grace of some of Wilson’s earlier records.
In the final analysis, this is a decent enough record, but it doesn’t concentrate its efforts enough to be anything more. I have heard better Porcupine Tree albums (like In Absentia), and I have heard worse ones. I probably forgot to write about this because it didn’t lodge itself in my brain. It has just sort of existed in my to-review pile for months, not calling much attention to itself. And even after re-immersing myself in it, I have to say that I’m still more impressed by Wilson’s work on Sunsets on Empire than anything here.
If I recall correctly, Matthew Waterhouse was merely curious as to whether Deadwing would appear in the top 10 list. Whereas my longtime correspondent Lucas Beeley was downright incensed that his recommendation didn’t chart, writing me an email with the subject line, “So what gives?” He was kidding, of course, but I owe him an apology for not responding quickly, and for not reviewing the record he suggested. It’s a double insult, because the album itself is fan-bloody-tastic.
It’s Picaresque, the third LP from the Decemberists, a five-piece from Oregon who may as well be the house band on the Flying Dutchman. It’s odd to be able to tie this band down to a terrestrial place, to give them a state of origin – their work is so timeless, haunting and otherworldly, like the songs of the sea itself. The Decemberists work almost strictly within the English folk tradition, playing ghost stories and sea shanties as if they were pop songs.
In a lot of ways, they remind me of the Levellers, but rather than use their folksy framework to capture the sound of the earth rising up, as the Levs usually do, the Decemberists tap into the sound of the ocean. It doesn’t need to rise up – all things sink into it eventually, so it’s unnervingly patient. Leader Colin Meloy’s songs are as traditional as Richard Thompson’s, and yet here, thanks to the production of Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla, they sound perfectly modern, like newly minted legends.
The band could not have picked a less poppy opener than “The Infanta,” the tale of a baby monarch. It’s strummed with almost explosive abandon, a strident minor-key folk song of the highest order. Just listen to the thunderous toms throughout, and the fanfare of strings in the bridge. This thing is awesome, and while Picaresque never quite gets there again, it makes for a stunning opening shot.
Not that the rest of the album isn’t excellent, it’s just quieter. The Levellers comparisons strike closest on “We Both Go Down Together,” a sweet fiddle-driven number, and “The Bagman’s Gambit” somehow manages to be both sparse and epic at once, all acoustics and pianos until its two-minute mark. “For My Own True Love (Lost at Sea)” is the perfect Decemberists song, a foreboding, deathly waltz over bass drum bomb-blasts, given added ethereal grace by Meloy’s wavery voice and delicate melody. One song later, they’re breaking out the Beatles influences on the sprightly anti-war diatribe “16 Military Wives.”
My favorite number here is “The Engine Driver,” a song that seamlessly combines this band’s folk and pop leanings. Revolving around the simple line, “And if you don’t love me let me go,” the simply strummed piece has a melody that never stops surprising. It’s a song that would sound equally at home in the repertoires of R.E.M. and Fairport Convention. The album concludes with an extended, lurching epic called “The Mariner’s Revenge Song” and a graceful coda called “Of Angels and Angles,” striking just the right note. But it’s “The Engine Driver” that stays with you.
I can’t say why I never reviewed this one. I had heard of the Decemberists before, but I probably would not have picked this album up without Lucas Beeley’s now-trademark breathlessly excited email. And he’s right, this deserved an honorable mention in the top 10 list. I plan on picking up this band’s other work – I already have Her Majesty, and it’s similarly terrific. Which is all I can ask of a recommendation – that it introduces me to great music I might never have heard otherwise. So keep them coming, folks.
Thanks to Matthew Waterhouse, Lucas Beeley (and his brother Steve), and everyone else who wrote me with questions, complaints, comments and suggestions this year. You’re all appreciated.
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When I think of Saluda, I think of the old Andy Griffith Show and everything that is associated with it.
Be sure to stop at Ward’s Grill for breakfast or lunch. Walking in this place will take you back about 40 years, the food & service will win you over and you’ll come back as often as possible. Expect a short wait for a table, because this is a very popular spot and there is a minimal amount of seats. There are other great restaurants in town too; The Green River B-B-Q, The Purple Onion and several more choices.
You’ll find some wonderful gift items at Heartwood Gallery, Curtis Wright Outfitters and several other wonderful places in town.
Looking for real estate in this town? Tryon Foothills Realty is your #1 Choice for home & land sales in this area, so be sure to call for availability.
Some Historic Places and Places to see
The Mountain Home – Built in 1910 as a retreat for the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. Now The Orchard Inn. Hwy 176, Saluda
Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration – Built in 1892 it still has the original furnishings and beautiful and unusual stained glass windows. Charles St., Saluda
Saluda Depot – Built in the early 1800’s. Now a shop. Main St., Saluda
Saluda Grade – The train tracks follow the steepest, class 1, main-line grade in the U.S. With a total of over 50 curves, the gradient ranges from 3.7% to 5.59%, rising 885 ft in a three mile section. Hwy 176, between Saluda and Tryon
The Oaks – This beautiful Victorian home was built in 1894 for a local banker. Now a Bed & Breakfast Inn. Greenville St., Saluda
Pearson’s Falls – With the falls thundering over a 90 ft drop, this property of the Tryon Garden Club is a remarkable botanical wonderland. Offering hiking, bird-watching, picnicking and more. Hwy 176, Saluda
Green River Cove – Runs from Saluda to Lake Adger and has 2 access areas to the Green River, Fish Top and Big Rock, for swimming, tubing, kayaking and other outdoor activities. Saluda
Bradley Falls/Little Bradley Falls – Beautiful trails that cover acres of woods, streams and breathtaking waterfalls & gorges. Parking is on the right 3.2 miles from brick columns at Heaven’s View Motel. Trails to the falls are on the left before the bridge. 1-26 Saluda exit. Holbert’s Cove Rd. Proper clothing & footwear advised.
This information was gathered from wikipedia and www.historicsaluda.org and combined.
The city of Saluda is located in both Henderson and Polk counties. Saluda is famous for sitting at the top of the Norfolk Southern Railway’s Saluda Grade, which was the steepest main line standard gauge railroad line in the United States until Norfolk Southern ceased operations on the line in 2001. The main street of Saluda is a bustling hub of newly formed restaurants and art galleries. Tourists and cyclist are common on summer and fall weekends due to the many winding mountain roads located around Saluda. The main town festivals are Coon Dog Day, The Saluda Arts Festival, and The Home Town Christmas Celebration.
Saluda Arts Festival
Fine artists from all over western North Carolina and South Carolina exhibit and sell oil, water colors, acrylic paintings and drawings, wood working, photography, pottery, jewelry, sculptures, stained glass, metal working, and more. The festival also offers live demonstrations of landscape painting, weaving, pottery, and black smithing.
Coon Dog Day Festival
Coon Dog Day is one of the oldest festivals in Saluda, it is a homecoming and celebration which includes food, live music, a parade, crafts, street dance, and more. The festival also includes a 5k race and a benefit breakfast at the Saluda Masonic Lodge.
Saluda Home Town Christmas
Main Street is decked out in Christmas lights and holiday decorations. This long-standing tradition has become a way for Saluda residents to come together and celebrate the holiday season. Businesses and shops are open and serve holiday refreshments while local musicians perform. The open house and musical events are closed with an ecumenical service delivered by Saluda ministers at the Saluda Presbyterian Church.
Saluda offers a number of unique restaurants and the majority of the shops are located on Main Street.
Saluda offers local artists work in many small studios and shops. Saluda is also very close to the Tryon Fine Arts Center, which helps to promote local art, music, film, and other cultural endeavors, and the Asheville Art Museum, Colburn Earth Science Museum, Diana Wortham Theater, and the YMI Culture Center. The Brevard Music Center is also a short drive away and provides young musicians with the opportunity to develop their talents. Sauda is also quite close to the Flat Rock Playhouse, The Blue Ridge Performing Arts Center, and the Tryon Little Theater.
The Saluda Community Land Trust manages parks and develops trails including the Lazy Girl Loop, Tryon Missing Trace 40, Little Park, and a Community Garden. A small park with a playground and picnic shelter borders the railroad tracks on Main Street. Saluda Dog Park is on Chesnut Street. Many parks and forests are within driving distance of Saluda, including the Green River Game Lands, Dupont State Recreational Forest, and Pisgah National Forest.
There is one public school; Saluda Elementary which offers grades PK-5th.
There are 3 Hospitals/medical centers near Saluda:
St. Luke’s Hospital (Critical Access Hospital, Voluntary non-profit – Private, provides emergency services, about 10 miles away; Columbus, NC
Margaret R. Pardee Memorial Hospital (Acute Care Hospital, Government – Local, provides emergency services, about 13 miles away; Hendersonville, NC
Park Ridge Hospital (Acute Care Hospital, Voluntary non-profit – Other, provides emergency services, about 17 miles away; Fletcher, NC
The original name was “Pace’s Ridge”, from the Pace family who inhabited the area. The Pace family name is still found all over Saluda. Many of the original families were Scots-Irish who left Pennsylvania around the time of the Whiskey Rebellion in the early 1790s.
Count Joseph Marie Gabriel St. Xavier de Choiseul, French consul to Charleston, South Carolina, and cousin to Louis Philippe I of France, bought land in 1831 from the Barings of nearby Flat Rock and built his home – Saluda Cottages.
In 1878, there were only two houses in the limits of present-day Saluda. The completion of the Southern Railroad that same year brought about a large change in Saluda. The Saluda railroad grade is unmatched by any main line east of the Rocky Mountains with a grade that drops 600 feet to the mile. It was originally built to connect the Asheville and Spartanburg Railroad. The railroad was built with convict labor, which marked the first use of convict labor on a large scale, and was supervised by Colonel Andrew Tanner who operated the first hotel in Saluda and was also elected the first Mayor of Saluda in 1881. In 1881, eight passenger trains passed through Saluda daily with about 3,000 visitors a year. The Saluda Grade is infamous for runaway train accidents, in 1880 alone, fourteen men were killed on the three mile stretch of track. The train no longer runs through Saluda although there is talk of future passenger train plans.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.6 square miles, all land.
Saluda has a small pristine lake, Lake Summit, which is just large enough for motor boats.
Some of the early residents of Saluda included: Benjamin Staton, William Metcalf, Burrell Pope Pace, Cade Underwood, Samuel Gordon, three of whom are buried in the Metcalf graveyard in the Fork Creek community, the fourth was buried on a hillside in 1815 in what later became the Old Mountain Page Graveyard. His graveyard is located in present-day Henderson County. At the time he built his home in the community of Saluda, which was in Greenville county, SC. The state line was later changed and the land Staton owned at the time is now Henderson County.
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When the decision was made to route the railroad along the Pacolet River and over Saluda Mountain, there were few houses to accommodate even the visiting officials, much less the laborers and section bosses.
Land around Pace’s Gap was owned mostly by the Paces, who seem to have been a prolific family even then.
According to genealogical records, the first Pace came to Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 on the ship Marmaduke, and received a grant from King James. Some time in the late eighteenth century, some of his descendants moved inland, across Virginia, and down through the mountain passes into what is now Spartanburg County, SC. One Burell Pope Pace married Lydia Woodruff in the village named for her family according to the 1800 census. By 1856, when Polk County was formed from parts of Henderson and Rutherford Counties, the Paces had moved to the Saluda Mountain area and were attending Mountain Page Baptist Church. The oldest known grave in the Mountain Page Cemetery is that of Burrell Pace, who died in 1816. He was the father of Moses Pace, and moved to the area with Moses and Margaret some time after 1800. Moses lived until 1858 when he died at the age of 87 and is buried at Mountain Page with his wife Margaret, who died at age 93.
When the Paces were moving in from the east to Saluda, the Thompson’s were moving in from the west. There were Thompson’s in the Green River-Mills Creek area from the very early days. John Thompson, one of the seven brothers who came from Ireland to settle in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and later in Georgia, and the Carolina’s moved to what is now Lynn, NC, in the early 1800’s. One of his sons, Frank, built a house at the foot of Warrior Mountain, and another son, Asbury, named for Bishop Asbury but called Berry for short, built a house in the forks of the road where Holbert Cove Road splits from Howard’s Gap Road. The house was used as a stopover for stage coaches between Spartanburg and Asheville and served as trading post, election center, and Post Office until the railroad brought prosperity to Pace’s Gap in 1878. When Friendship Church was organized in 1834 by people living along Howard’s Gap Road, there were Thompson’s in the congregation.
In any case, when the railroad men came, there were Paces and Thompson’s in the neighborhood to greet them, and most of the deeds in the Polk County Records for Saluda Township in the years from 1875 to 1885 bear the name of Pace or Thompson as ‘grantor’.
In 1877 Andrew Tanner from Rutherford County, a contractor for the Asheville/Spartanburg Railroad, had the foresight to buy property near the railroad right-of-way at the top of the grade to build a commissary for the railroad employees and the first hotel in the village, known as Mountain House. There are deeds to Mr. Tanner that year from both Paces and Thompsons.
There was already one log house on what was later to be the school grounds, and a boarding house for stage drivers known as Pace House belong to Ransom Pace on the old drover trail up the Howard’s Gap. Quickly, from this beginning, the town sprang up near the right of way at the top of the grade. The laborers lived in tents and shanties near the tracks between Tryon and the top of the hill, but the foremen and engineers sought better accommodations.
When the Legislature passed an act in February 1881 chartering the town of Saluda, Andrew Tanner was named as mayor, John Forrest, J. R. Davis, and F. M. Linlev as Town Commissioners, and T. J. Ballard as Marshall to serve until an election was held. John Tanner was named first Postmaster, but J. Lee Hart would soon take his place and, known to everyone in town as ‘Daddy’ Hart, serve as Postmaster for almost twenty years.
The town, which spread over seven hills like Rome, was to cover an area ‘one mile square with the railroad exactly in the center’. Its altitude ranged from 2096 to 2200 feet above sea level. It was named ‘Saluda’ for the Saluda Mountains which in turn were named for the North Saluda River that flows at the bottom of the ridge that divides the states of North and South Carolina not far from town. Tradition has it that the river was named for an Indian chief whose name sounded like Saluda to white men, and means Corn River in Cherokee. An article in an early Saluda Magazine says, “The town was incorporated in order to protect the schools and churches from whiskey disturbances.”
The very early records of the Saluda Township meetings are lost in the past, probably burned. The books from 1918 until 1931, reveal the rise and fall of prosperity if one reads between the lines and a sporadic effort, since then, to return to the glories of bygone days. But for its first four or five decades. Saluda was one of the most exclusive resorts in the mountains, frequently by wealthy Northerners as well as the old established families of the Lo-Country and Midlands. Even during the Great Depression, the owners of summer houses came to Saluda where food was plentiful and cheap and where people out of work by the closing of plants and factories were glad of yard and maintenance work and housework to keep going. The hotels and inns, though, were forced to close for want of paying customers. As the Depression began to let up in the 1930’s,the hotels and boarding-houses were refurbished and reoccupied, and the summer tourist trade boomed until World War II put a stop to extended road and train travel.
In those first five decades, there was always plenty of business for hack drivers at train time, picking up passengers and their luggage from the depot to transport them to their hotels, homes and boarding houses. Wagons and surreys and later, touring cars with jump seats, waited at the station to haul debarking tourists and lure them to their vehicles. According to old timers, everybody took wagons down to meet the trains in hopes of picking up a fare. Vendors came from restaurants in town carrying trays of fried chicken and sandwiches for passengers remaining on the trains.
The year round inhabitants – the mountain people and the outlanders who were hardy enough to weather the winter storms and had settled here – fashioned their lives in two separate sections: the tourist season and the peaceful wintertime. Saluda expanded its downtown section and continued to thrive, but everyone was especially busy once the cold winter winds stopped blowing and the dogwood blossoms signaled the advent of ‘the Summer People’.
The term ‘Summer People’ referred to the people from the Lowlands and Midlands of South Carolina and Georgia who came year after year to stay in houses built on the hills above town. Some of them took in selected paying guests without being considered boarding houses. The older folks spent their days visiting on front porches and enjoying the mountain air while the younger set had their fun playing tennis, going for long walks, and attending the weekly square dances. The Summer People’s grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren in many cases still occupy the big airy Victorian houses at least part of the year.
In the 1950s and ’60s, the federal government began building an interstate highway from Charleston to Asheville that would route traffic away from downtown Saluda. Since the new road would go over Warrior Mountain, many of the old folks thought it would never be finished. The railroad builders had known that the ground was too unstable to support a railroad, just as the Cherokee had known. But with the interstate finished from Charleston to Columbus and from Asheville to Saluda, the highway department was determined to finish the missing link. It took eight years and many millions of dollars to finish the 7.5 mile stretch, but finally, by drilling homes in the rock to drain off the water of the main artesian wells, and stop-bench grading to prevent landslides, Interstate 26 was completed in 1976.
Since the heavy traffic had increased to dire proportions on the Tryon – to – Saluda section of Highway 176 during those eight years, Saludans breathed a sigh of relief. The big trucks now roared by at a distance, and people who wanted to leisurely browse and shop came into town.
For a concise and historically accurate compilation of Saluda’s history, read the PDF document prepared by George A. Jones in 1981 at http://www.historicsaluda.org
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Perpetual Failure of Middle Eastern Revolutions
Vicken Cheterian 09.14.2017
In the aftermath of the 1967 “Six-Day War”, in which the Arab armies were destroyed in a matter of hours by Israeli forces, a new generation of Arab militants radicalized from nationalist ideology towards Marxist-Leninist positions. People like George Habash and Wadie Haddad, the founders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), or Naef Hawatmeh of the Democratic Front (DFLP), and many others, argued that Arab regimes like that of Jamal Abdul Nasser had failed to fight against Israel and its imperial overlords because of their class structure. They argued that only a popular resistance inspired by Marxism and taking Vietnam and Latin American guerrilla movements as model, could lead to the liberation of Palestine. And before being able to lead a popular struggle, it was necessary to overthrow the bourgeois Arab regimes to establish people’s power capable of leading the long-term struggles.
A whole generation was influenced by this radicalization, which continues to shape the Middle East – and beyond. From Turkey to Germany, from Iran to Ireland, young militants copied, were inspired by, or even passed through the training camps of one of the factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Just to name a few: Deniz Gezmiş (Turkey’s “Che Guevara”), Abdullah Ocalan (founder of PKK), Fusako Shigenbu (founder of Japanese Red Army), or Abdullah Azzam (the father of “Afghan-Arabs” who once headed PLO sponsored training camps in Jordan). First Jordan, and later Lebanon became training ground for revolutionaries from around the world.
Two decades later this generation left the stage of history and the barricades of Middle Eastern wars without much noise. They were defeated in more than one sense: they failed to overthrow Arab “bourgeois” regimes; on the contrary, soon they were at the payroll of oil-rich Arab dictators. They failed to liberate Palestine. In fact, most of the attacks of the militants were indiscriminate attacks, without much distinction between civilians, legitimate targets of violence, and a strategy of revolutionary change. The same ideologies that led to the Vietnamese resistance against the US armies, the Cuban Revolution, and most important Mandela’s struggle to transform South Africa, failed in the Middle East. Yet, this generation left behind a legacy of what could be called Kalashnikov fetishism where the culture of violence predominates the idea of its utility and final result of the “struggle”.
The worst failure of this generation was its disappearance from the political scene without any critical debate, without lessons learned. They were taken over by a new generation of militants of Islamic ideology. For the Islamists, the older generation of Marxists or Arab nationalists – the generation of their fathers – were unbelievers; they had no lessons to be thought from. Instead of Mao or Che, they had other fetish symbols, from the Islamic history of the first century Hijri, found inspiration in the writings of Ibn Taymiyya instead of Lenin, from the Islamist struggles in Egypt, or from the Islamic Revolution in Iran. It did not matter much that Sayyid Qutb’s jihad or “vanguards” were structurally not all that different from Lenin’s revolution or Bolshevik Party’s professional revolutionaries.
In 2011 another wave of revolutions erupted which, from todays perspective, can be qualified as failure and disappointment. The Arab revolt came immediately after a series of post-Communist revolutions, starting with the 1989 Velvet Revolutions of East European states, until the Serbian revolution of 2000 or the Georgian “Rose” revolution of 2003. Yet, while Czechoslovakia succeeded both to overthrow its dictatorial regime and to separate into two nation-states without violence, Serbia and Georgia went through non-violent revolutions promising democratization, the Arab World today is going through cycle of bloodbath. This time we had the “popular uprisings” which a generation earlier the leftist militants dreamed of, yet it did not lead to “liberation” neither. What are the lessons learned from the failed Arab Spring? Why did the Arab world fail peaceful transition in the age of “democratic revolutions”?
This question concerns the entire world, as the failure of peaceful democratization of the Middle East and North Africa is having a harmful effect over many countries, both near and far away. Roughly speaking, two explanations have emerged. One says that Arab societies were not ready for the change, for democracy, and that any destabilization of the status quo could only lead to anarchy and disintegration of the established order. This argument may sound like justifying the perpetual rule of the old regimes, and it could be. Yet, it is nevertheless legitimate question: is the Middle East ready for democratic transition and rule of law, after the wave of change in Eastern Europe and Latin America? What were the social agents, social class, that could replace the military establishment in power with a new project in which rule of law could be beneficial to all? In the absence of this social group, the 2011 revolts succeeded in destabilizing the old regimes, but failed to replace them with a coherent project.
Yet, one of obstacles for those societies to develop, not only in the sense of political institutionalization but also economic progress are the old regimes themselves. Their rule for several decades since the end of colonial presence did not permit the development of those societies. On the contrary, all human development indicators in the decade prior to the 2011 revolt showed that Middle East and North African countries were less developed in the years 2000 compared with the 1970’s. Here we have the second argument: the Arab revolt failed because the ancien régime was ready to use endless violence, to a degree neither the last Tsar of Russia nor the Shah of Iran could have imagined.
There is of course the greatest of all revolutionary failures, the model of modern Middle Eastern regimes: that of the 1908 “Young Turk” revolution. Military officers rebelled against a Sultan – Abdul Hamid II, and took power in the name of the Constitution, and chanting: “Liberty, equality, justice”. Yet, they deliberately violated the constitution, and every the principles they promised. Instead, they brought the army to power establishing the military rules the legacy of which is still haunting the Middle East. They led a weak empire into the First World War under the shadow of which they murdered millions of their citizens.
When will be the time to learn the lessons of our failed revolutions?
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Pheaturing Billy Dee Williams
Hey there, welcome to the 315th entry of the Phile... with today's guest the one and only Billy Dee Williams! It's gonna be awhile before I get a bigger celebrity then that. The Phile is a proud sponsor of... I haven't seen the new Shrek movie yet but hope to see it today. DreamWorks is saying that this will be the last Shrek movie — unless it makes money. For the first time ever, scientists have created artificial life. The hope is that it can revolutionize healthcare, generate clean energy, become super-intelligent, take over the world, make us all its slaves, etc. President Obama’s big financial reform bill passed. From now on, bankers will be required to dress like robbers. They put a cap on ATM transaction fees, though a lot of the senators didn’t want to discuss it because they’ve never used an ATM. The Senate has mobile cash machines — they’re called “lobbyists.” There was a huge art theft in Paris. The problem there is that the guards can be distracted by unfiltered cigarettes and stinky cheese. Dell has announced that it is releasing a competitor for the iPad. It’s a great alternative for people that own an iPad but are fed up with it working all the time. Jesse James apologized to Sandra Bullock on “Good Morning America,” and then he apologized again on “Nightline.” He was planning to apologize again on “Wife Swap,” but decided against it. Remember that "Brady Bunch" episode when Jesse James met the kids on a train? Back to the President... President Obama has reached a deal with Congress to replace the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays and lesbians in the military with a “whoever felt it dealt it” policy. A new study has found that use of Viagra can double your chances of hearing loss. What? The FDA may be on the verge of approving Viagra for women. They say the chemicals in it may reduce the incidence of fake headaches before bed. So, Lee Dewyze is the new karaoke champion. I don’t know who he took the crown from, but the important thing is that it’s over. It was Simon Cowell’s last night on “American Idol.” He had a special way of telling us that we suck. Now the only people that we have to yell at us are Judge Judy and Dr. Phil. And one more thing, I heard that Tiger Woods is building a new house in Florida. You can tell it’s Tiger’s house because it has a front, a back, and a side that nobody knows about. I was at a comic book store the other day and I found a Star Wars toy that I never knew existed.
This is something I should ask Billy about... I wonder if he knows there's a cologne named after Lando. Check it out.
And hey, I found another Star Wars motivational poster, kids.
July 17, 1912 - May 26, 2010
Art no longer imitates life.
Henry Kissinger is born in Fuerth, Germany. 50 years later, Dr. Kissinger receives the Nobel Peace Prize for quitting the Vietnam War. No kidding.
A couple of Czech assassins ambush the car carrying Reinhard Heydrich and toss a grenade into the front seat. The man who headed the Wannsee Conference is mortally wounded in the attack, and dies of septicemia a week later. The Nazis retaliate by obliterating the Catholic village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia and its inhabitants.
After the pressing plant initially refuses to duplicate the record and the printer refuses to make the covers, Virgin finally releases "God Save the Queen" by the Sex Pistols in time for the monarch's Jubilee celebration.
Cannibal killer Jeffrey Dahmer manages to convince Milwaukee police that the dazed naked boy found staggering on the sidewalk and bleeding from the ass is his drunken lover, instead of a 14-year-old boy struggling to fight the effects of date-rape drugs. The MPD officers chalk it up to a "homosexual lovers spat" and escort them both back to Dahmer's apartment. After the cops leave, Jeffrey strangles the boy, rapes his corpse, and eats some flesh from the carcass of his twelfth victim.
Five are killed and 37 wounded when a Fiat Fiorino explodes outside the Uffizi museum in Florence, Italy. The car bomb (a combination of PETN, T4, and TNT) also manages to obliterate three priceless artworks and substantially damage thirty more. The bombing appears to have been the work of the Sicilian Mafia.
During the third jump of an equestrian event in Charlottesville, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is thrown headfirst over his horse. Reeve breaks his neck in two places, instantly rendering him a quadriplegic, unable to move or breathe without assistance.
This is the 9th book in the P.P.B.C. It's available on Amzon.com and in a few weeks the author Kimberly Raiser will be a guest on the Phile. And now... the greatest interviewee ever to grace the Phile.
Today's guest is an American actor, artist, singer, and writer, best known for his role as Lando Calrissian in the original Star Wars trilogy. Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Empire Strikes Back, and set to appear at Star Wars Weekends at Disney's Hollywood Studios from June 4th through the 6th, please welcome to the Phile, the one and only Billy Dee Williams.
Me: How are you doing, Billy? Welcomne to the Phile. So, do you like to do conventions like MegaCon a lot?
Billy: Yeah, I enjoy it. I like to come out and meet folks who are supporting you throughout the years and it’s something to do.
Me: When was the lat time you you came to Orlando?
Billy: I was in Orlando maybe in '03… or four years ago at Disney.
Me: For Star Wars Weekends, right?
Billy: Yeah, I’ll be going back there in June.
Me: I heard people ask you about Colt 45. Does that annoy you when they ask you things like that?
Billy: No, nothing annoys me anymore… I’m past that stage.
Me: What was your favorite roll you have ever played?
Billy: Well, there’s not one favorite roll. I played a lot of different rolls. Either on stage or on fim. There’s been quite a few.
Me: What has been your least favorite roll, that you were like why am I doing this roll?
Billy: If it’s the least then I have forgotten about it.
Me: I have to ask you about the Harvey Dent roll. So, did they tell you you weren’t going to be Harvey Dent in the Batman Forever film?
Billy: No. They sold it to Sony and everything changed at that point.
Me: I think you would of made a great Two Face if you had a chance.
Billy: I thought it was a good idea. That’s the reason I decided to do a Harvey Dent, so I could play Two-Face eventually. It’s just one of those things. Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don’t work out.
Me: And you did a lot of sitcoms like "Scrubs", that "70’s Show", and when you did shows like "Lost", which is not a sitcom, but do you like doing rolls like that? A lot of different type of rolls?
Billy: You know, with this juncture in my life, I had a long career, and when people ask me to do these sort of cameo type of things it’s fun for me.
Me: I thought it was great how you played yourself on Lost… playing the Cobra.
Billy: Jimmy Kimmel loves "Lost" so he always asks me to come on and do a parody on some of the episiodes and as a result the "Lost" people called me up for me to play myself, Billy Dee Williams playing the killer.
Me: Did you realize that Cobra is also the name of Lando's ship?
Billy: No, I didn't. I don't pay attention to stuff like that. Lando's ship was the Falcon I thought.
Me: And you were also great in "Robot Chicken". You got to do more of those if they ask you.
Billy: Well, Seth Green is my good friend and he always asks me to come play with him. He asks me to come out and pay General Goodface.
Me: You wrote a book called "Twilight", a romance novel. Are you annoyed about the new "Twilight" book that’s called that became more popular?
Billy: I am not annoyed at anything anymore. There’s no reason to be annoyed. You keep what you do and move along.
Me: And you paint and you write and are you gonna write any other books in the future?
Billy: That’s a possibility. I co-authored these books. I don’t exactly sit down and do all the work. I come up with the idea but most of the time when I come up with the ideas I am really looking forward to do a movie or television with something like that with it. Only because we are always being fed the same kind of stuff. In my life and career I always try to be an original person. And not fall into the trap or traps of the business. The kind of stuff that lacks is the kind of stuff where we should be in the social and political… where we should be social and political in the world. I always wanted to come out in my own litte way and tribute with my own little point of view.
Me: One more question, is it true you additioned for the role of Han Solo before the first film came out or is that a rumor?
Billy: No, that’s a rumor. They asked me to play Lando.
Me: Billy, thanks for taking time out to do this interview. Thank you so much.
Billy: My pleasure. You’re welcome, Jason.
There you go. Thanks to Mr. Williams for taking time out to do the interview and a special thanks to Derek Maki from Coolwaters Productions for hooking it up. Derek, you're the best! Thanks also to Wikipedia and of course you the reader. The Phile will be back next week, and next month, with gorgeous singer, songwriter Meaghan Smith. It's the start of the Most Phantastic Summer Ever here on the Phile. Spread the word, not the turd. Don't let snakes and alligators bite you. Bye love you bye.
Pheaturing Maria De Aragon and Dave Barclay From Star Wars
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Thanks for stopping by again. I have a really call entry for you this week, with the Phile's first Star Wars related guest. And there's two... not one. But first, what's been going on? NBC canceled “Law & Order” after 20 seasons. It’s too bad, but they had to make room for the new Jay Leno show, “Jaw & Order.” Here in Florida an 87-year-old woman was arrested for selling crack cocaine. She was sentenced to two months in jail — or as she calls it “life.” Robin Hood opened last weekend. Robin Hood is famous for stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, which made him a folk hero in 12th century England. Nowadays, we call that sort of thing “communism.” If someone was stealing from the rich and giving to the poor in America, Glenn Beck would go insane — more insane. A fertility clinic is now offering parents the option to select the eye and hair color of their babies. Don’t you miss the days when people would just get pregnant, have their eight babies, and go on “Entertainment Tonight”? A few days ago Justin Bieber was nominated for a BET award. BET stands for Black Entertainment Television. Justin Bieber is none of those things. I don’t know how Justin Bieber was nominated for a BET award. This is what happens when you let Stevie Wonder choose the nominees. In Louisiana, BP claims that it’s making progress with the leaking oil in the Gulf. They’re working on a plan to heat the Gulf up to 600 degrees and use it to fry chicken. Okay, you know I love motivational or inspirational posters, right? Well, they even have Star Wars theme ones which is perfect for today's entry. Check it out.
And as it's Star Wars day here's a never before seen deleted scene from one of the Star Wars movies. Enjoy.
Music DJ Alan Freed, originator of the term "Rock and Roll," is indicted in New York in the Payola scandal. Freed had accepted $30,650 from five record companies to play their records, although to be fair "pay for play" was the accepted practice up to that point.
The bassist and lead singer for the band Chicago undergoes five hours of emergency surgery after getting jumped at a Cubs-Dodgers baseball game. Peter Cetera winds up losing four teeth because some guys decided that his hair was too long.
Conservative British MP Harvey Proctor pleads guilty to committing acts of gross indecency against minors... paying rent boys to spank them in his London flat.
Attempting to clear Tiananmen Square of student activists and quell 100 million others protesting throughout the country, China declares martial law in Beijing. Two weeks later, after they continue to loiter in the Square, thousands of students are massacred by government troops.
The dissolving body parts of eight people are discovered inside six plastic barrels sitting in an abandoned bank vault in Snowtown, Australia.
Dio, eh?
Announcing the 9th book in the Peverett Phile Book Club. "Family Bones" by Kimberly Raiser. Will they stay? Will they survive? The Weavers have inherited family property in Astral, Pennsylvania, a town so small that Mrs. Weaver can find no mention of it on the Internet, save for a tiny spot on Google Earth. Hoping for a simpler, small-town existence for their young family, Steven and Tara eagerly head to Astral to see what they hope will be their dream house. As they explore their potential new home, the Weavers begin to discover secret passageways, secret rooms, and long buried family truths; some difficult truths are revealed and no longer kept in the far reaches of the closet. There are reasons for everything, and sometimes the explanations are so simple. But sometimes, simple can also be horrifying. Kimberly Raiser will be a guest on the Phile in a few weeks, and in the meantime, go ahead and check out the book on Amazon.com.
Today we have not one but two guests on the Phile. The first achieved her greatest enduring cult popularity with her brief, but memorable appearance as would-be alien assassin Greedo in Star Wars. The second worked as one of the puppeteers of Jabba the Hutt and has worked on many other movies including Team America: World Police and Looney Tunes: Back in Action. Please welcome to the Phile... Maria De Aragon and Dave Barclay.
Me: Hello, how are you guys doing? Welcome to the Phile you two, have you been to Orlando before? Is this your first time?
Dave: No, I’ve came out here a number of years ago with my two young boys at the time and had a fantastic time here in 1992. But I live in California now.
Maria: This is the first for me. I didn’t realize how much Orlando had to offer. I’m very much impressed by everything. The beauty of everything, hotels, places to visit.
Me: You were Greedo, right Maria? How did you get that role? You were kinda thrown into it, right?
Maria: I still am Greedo. A friend of mine was a set designer and we did some commercials together and he asked me would I be interested in woking with one of the upcoming great directors and I asked really, what's his name and he said George Lucas. I said oh, well, I will check with my best girlfriend and she’ll tell me. I asked what do have, and he said it was a film about science fiction, and that Lucas has a great imagination. I asked how old he was and he said 26. So I asked my best friend at the time, Shelly Winters, and she said he did American Graffiti and you should work with him. They wanted me to work three or four days at the most to replace Anothony Daniels who was unavailable. They wanted me to walk a little bit and speak in a soft voice.
Me: C-3PO?
Maria: Uh-huh. I am glad I didn’t do it because they had footprints in front of the Chinese Theater and I would have been upset so I went and worked on that for a few weeks. So, unbeknowned Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill had a big car accident and the shoot was cancelled. So, no Threepio would be for me. So they asked me would I like to have my very own monster and I said yes, I would. And I didn’t know until 20 years after I was proceded by Paul Blake who played him first in England. I am sorry, this is a long story. I could do that if you can tell. So, anyway, that is what happened. I played Greedo, and there were two of us. And then I found out there was five Darth Vaders. You have to run down the other Greedo. A lot of fans have both autographs of Paul and me. When I sign my name Paul had already signed the picture, or vice versa.
Me: Were you in the scene with Han Solo in the cantina?
Maria: Yes, I was, and so was Paul. When you see Greedo with Han Solo in long shots it was Paul Blake and Harrison Ford. When you see Greedo in close-ups it’s me. It goes to Harrison Ford with the camera and then to me and then to Harrison and then to me. We are never together, that’s because we weren’t never together. We worked in different towns. He was in England and Tunisia and all those places where Star Wars was shot and I was on the soundstage on La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles.
Me: Where are you from, Maria?
Maria: I’m from Canada but when I was 18 years old I moved to the United States and remained in the United States permantly and made films. First in New York, then Florida, got married, had a long life. And then moved to California and was there about 35 years. I went to California when Frank Sinatra married Mia Farrow... that goes back a while.
Me: Did you like wearing a mask?
Maria: No, I was running out of air under that mask which was made of latex. I am glad I wasn’t in make-up for two hours in the morning but I was not told I would be wearing a mask.
Me: Are you glad you worked for Lucas?
Maria: He saved my life!
Maria: Was that the first time you ever wore a mask?
Maria: Yes, and there were wires that in my neck to make it move and horns on my head. Greedo had a lot going, you know, his long fingers and all.
Me: Was that the last time you wore a mask?
Maria: Yes, first and last. It was taped to my throat and very little room in Greedo’s mouth to open it. I had a straw to deliver dialogue. Then they realized then and there they didn’t want a female voice coming out of him.
Me: They dubbed it over with some kinda alien garble anyway,
Maria: They had subtitles first and then they had Ben Burtt do the voice.
Me: Thank you, Maria. So, David, what part of England are you from?
Dave: I’m from London.
Me: What part of London?
Dave: North London.
Me: I was born in Balem. Do you know where Balem is, gateway to the south?
Dave: Yeah, yeah. I was in Enfield then moved to Morton Abbey, but now live in California.
Me: Do you like California?
Dave: Yeah, I love it because you don’t have the rain like we’ve got today.
Me: Now you were Jabba the Hutt, but one of the many people that played Jabba, right? How many altogether?
Dave: There were 7 of us working Jabba. I was chief puppeteer so I was the lead, and guide voice on set, and his right arm. With my left arm I did his jaw and all the mouth mechanisms to make his mouth move so I could do the lip synch while I was speaking. I did that all at the same time.
Me: Did you work on any other characters in the Star Wars movies?
Dave: I worked on Yoda with Frank Oz on Empire Strikes Back and on Return of the Jedi. On Empire I got to be chief puppeteer at the end of the shoot because it ran over and Frank nominated me on me to be his replacement. I was 19 years old and it launched my movie career.
Me: Do you still talk to Frank?
Dave: I haven’t spoken to him in a while but have kept up him with years working with him in Muppets and different projects over the years.
Me: Are you working on the new Dark Crystal movie?
Dave: The new Dark Crystal has in been in development for a number of years now and I guess they’re looking for funding. I’m not sure when it’ll come to production yet. They’ve been talking for the past years, saying we’ll be doing it in 6 months. It’s really hard to get funding for movies right now.
Me: There’s a new Muppet movie coming out... are you working on that?
Dave: Yeah, and there’s those Disney theme park commercials that are out. I worked on those. But I think they are trying to get a movie sometime in production this year but it’s hard getting something green lit in this economy.
Me: But they’re owned by Disney so I am sure Disney will.
Dave: Yeah, but the story has to be right, and the people and the script and the budget. There’s still a lot of behind the scenes stuff that happens before it goes ahead.
Me: And you worked on Where The Wild Things Are, is that right?
Dave: I worked on Where The Wild Things Are when they were developing the characters for Spike Jonez and they facial expressions for the main Wild Thing characters. I worked with him in Melbourne in 2006 or 2007 just doing real time puppeteer computer graphic faces. Basically exploritery character development tht can be done in real time. So from that they were able to take that character developments and do the key frame in post process on the final characters which was done by a company in London I think.
Me: You’ve been doing puppets most of your life, right?
Dave: My folks are puppteers. I started when I was four and still doing it.
Me: How long did it take to be able to lip-synch with your mouth and hand?
Dave: I’ve done training courses before and people can pick it up pretty quickly. You can do a 40 hour course you can get pretty close to it. It depends really if its uyour passion or not.
Me: I can tell it is your passion. Are you working on any projects in the future?
Dave: Yes, the latest project comes out July thr 4th which is Cat and Dogs: The Revenge of Killy Galore.
Me: Yeah, I saw that. Well, not the movie obviously but the trailer.
Dave: There’s some animatrionic shots in there, even in the trailer that I supervised. Haven’t seen the final cut of the film yet, but am interested in seeing that. And working on my own feature film at the moment.
Me: Really? When do you hope to have that released?
Dave: I’m not sure because we don’t have distribution yet and we are pre-production at the moment so maybe a good couple of years away.
Me: It is a sci-fi film?
Dave: It’s a fantasy film.
Me: That’s something to look forward to. Thank you, David.
Dave: Thank you, Jason.
Well, that about does it for another entry of the Phile. I hope you enjoyed the Star Wars theme, kids. Thanks to Dave Barclay and Maria De Aragon for taking time out to do the interview, and a special thanks to Derek Maki from Coolwaters Productions for setting it up. The Phile will be back next Thursday with the biggest interview the Phile has done... Billy Dee Williams. Yes, Billy will be next week's guest. Enjoy the series finale of "Lost" on Sunday and be back here next Thursday. Spread the word, not the turd, and don't let snakes and alligators bite you. Bye, love you, bye.
Pheaturing Joe Skinner From Funky Blues Messiahs
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I am your host, Jason Peverett. President Obama nominated Elena Kagan to be the next Supreme Court justice, against the advice of Joe Biden, who wanted Iron Man. A porn star from Poland claims that she has been having an affair with Mel Gibson. I thought Mel would have gone for a German. Oprah did her show from New York to celebrate the 10th anniversary of O magazine. Dr. Phil allowed them to shave his moustache, which is currently being used to sop up oil in the Gulf. Bobby Brown got engaged over the weekend. They say it’s the first time he’s been on one knee without the help of a police taser. Tyra Banks, who I once saw at Epcot, is writing a new series of kids’ books. She is the first supermodel to write a kids’ book since Kate Moss wrote “Green Eggs and Crack.” I wonder if I can get Tyra to be in the Phile Book Club.
The great company, and home of the Phile, Google’s new Droid phone is outselling Apple’s iPhone. I don’t know what an Droid can do, besides dance the robot or become the governor of California. A new study says that 77 percent of people admitted using their phones while driving. The other 23 percent are lying. President Obama said that we rely too much on gadgets. He gave a passionate speech about technology, but he had to stop when the teleprompter broke. There is a God: the June edition of Playboy magazine will be printed in 3-D. Haven’t we had that for a while? It’s called a strip club. Tiger Woods’ swing coach announced that he is quitting. Apparently he discovered that Tiger had 19 other swing coaches around the country. The swing coach quit by text message, which is like karma shooting a hole-in-one. You guys know I like inspirational posters, right? Check out this one.
Now that "Lost" is almost over, they are gearing up for a bunch of spin-offs. Check it out.
Iron Man has a lot on his plate this time around. He has to battle anti-hygienic bad guy Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke, with hilariously gross 90's jam band hair) and his dual super-electro-metal-shredding flogging devices. He also has to deal with sleazy weapons manufacturer Sam Rockwell. He's got a disgruntled Pepper Potts and an enigmatic assistant vixen named Natalie who won't get naked like he wants her to. Meanwhile his blood toxicity is on the rise, his chest-plug battery thingy is failing him, he's emotionally collapsing, dealing with daddy issues and Sam Jackson keeps bothering him about Shield. You'd break down too. I didn't like it as much as the first one. First because I think it's really difficult to recapture the impressive BANG! POW! of a first punch. I'm not saying it's a bad movie, just that I wanted the ante upped and what I feel I mostly got instead was a lot of connective tissue stretching out to the eventual Avengers movie. In the land of sequels it's no Temple of Doom or Empire Strikes Back, but it's also not Rise of the Silver Surfer. Me and my son, we still had a good time. The best stuff was Downey rattling around at a hundred miles an hour, talking faster than most human beings can keep up with while sparring with Paltrow (who holds her own thanks to great chemistry with Downey. Her new mandate should be to only take film roles that let her banter back petulantly until she's screaming); Scarlett Johansson's impossible cat-suit, Rourke's gnarly tattoos and the bowel-shuddering sound effects. What was weird about it was watching Downey go through a hitting-bottom process, especially during the mind-scrambling scene in which he's using his Iron Man suit as a party prop to drunkenly blow up watermelons while the unfortunately now-deceased-from-a-real-life-overdose DJ AM stands off to the side ready to "give [him] a fat beat" as an accompanying soundtrack. It's one of those moments that underscores the movie's plot and pulls you right out of it at the same time. And it suffers from the one villain too many syndrome. Sam Rockwell, who was so cool in last year's Moon doesn't have a lot to do here. It's not his fault. The part is written in a way that seems satisfied for him to be a generic corporate bad man. Rourke gets a better shake but even he has to spend a lot of time sitting around a lab tinkering with machines. You keep hoping he'll just bust out those murder-whips. And aside from the saddening presence of DJ AM, there's Christiane Amanpour as herself, a blink-and-miss Stan Lee as Larry King, one nice bit of musical punctuation via Daft Punk and an appearance by the famous Randy's Donuts sign. From 1 to ten, it gets an 8, and I will buy it on blu-ray unless Jen buys it for Logan first on DVD.
June 30, 1917 - May 9, 2010
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Robin Evan Roberts
September 30, 1926 - May 6, 2010
In his 19-season career, Roberts compiled a 286-245 record with 2,357 strikeouts, a 3.41 ERA, 305 complete games, 45 shutouts, and 4,688 innings pitched in 676 games. He holds the Major League records for home runs allowed by a pitcher (505) and for most consecutive Opening Day starts for the same team with 12, between 1950 and 1961. Also: he's dead.
The latest brainchild of Russian aircraft design genius Igor Sikorsky embarks on its maiden flight. The Grand, easily the world's most luxurious passenger plane, includes such innovations as upholstered seats, a balcony, and even a lavatory.
Three small children in Fatima, Portugal receive the first of six visitations from the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God. Over the next five months she lays some pretty heavy shit on the kids, including a three-part secret: a vision of Hell, a prophecy of war with godless Russia, and a third secret which remains classified until Y2K.
Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and nonfunctional elevators cause 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their death.
A delusional Turk guns down Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square. Mehmet Ali Agca believes that the Vatican is an abomination before God and must be destroyed. 19 years later, the Church will disclose that the assassination attempt was foretold in 1917, as part of the third secret of Fatima.
After attempting to serve arrest warrants at 6221 Osage Avenue, police in West Philadelphia are sucked into a 90-minute gunfight with members of the MOVE organization. Later, police drop a bomb on the house from a helicopter. The bomb misses its target and ignites a fire which consumes the entire city block. 61 houses are destroyed in the conflagration, killing 11 MOVE members -- including five children -- and leaving hundreds of neighbors homeless.
Okay, kids, this is really cool. Today's guest is the drummer of the Central Florida band Funky Blues Messiahs and good friend of mine. Their third CD release "Crawzilla" is now available on iTunes. Please welcome to the Phile... Joe Skinner.
Me: Hey, Joe, what do you know? Welcome to the Peverett Phile. So, how have you been? I haven't seen you in awhile.
Joe: Been great!!!! Busy with my band and teaching college... Developing a few new acts.
Me: Before we get down and talk about the Funky Blues Messiahs, I have to talk to you about dad. We have known each other for about 20 years, right? Where did you first meet my dad? Did you recognize him right away?
Joe: Yes, actually I did recognize him immediately... I was a big FOGHAT fan I had seen them with J. Geils and than with Black Oak and Montrose. He came into the music store I was working at and we struck up a friendship almost right away. I remember talking to him about the local music scene and offered to help him if he need any interfacing with musicians, studios, and rehearsal studio. Your father was so nice... I really was fond of him. The hours in my truck traveling with him to gigs and listening to the stories of the road... AWESOME!!!! You know I'm the one that has been leaving the Mardi Gras beads at his gravesite. Its my tribute. If I'm in the area I stop by to pay my respects.
Me: Okay, how long have you been into the New Orleans sound? Did you grow up listening to Dr. John and people like him?
Joe: Funny thing is my partner is from New Orleans but he played in rock bands. He had the New Orleans styling but I'm the one that loved cajun and Zydeco. I grew up in Winter Park, Florida and just dug the New Orleans feel.
Me: How and when did you put the Messiahs together? What is hard or easy to find good musicians?
Joe: We got together with this Cajun Kid from Louisiana named Evan that used to come jam at the music store. He was the real deal as far as the blues. We jammed and wrote a song right on the spot. After realizing we had something magical we decided to do a record. The funny thing is the Kid disappeared in the middle of recording so I had long time friend and Johnny and Edgar Winter guitarist Floyd Radford finish off the record. After receiveing much kudos we put together a touring band that included Liberty Devitto (while he was on hiatus with Billy Joel). It really isnt very hard to find good musicians there are alot of talented people in this area.
Me: The band has three albums out, right? "The Further Adventures of Reverend P.P. Pettibones Traveling Tent Revival", "Lost In Mississippi" and the latest came out in 2008 called "Crawzilla." The first two were parts of a story, but does the third continue that story?
Joe: Actually no, it doesn't, this record has more serious content. We split for three years so when we decided to regroup and write I personally had a writing frenzy and wrote about things that were on my mine at that time.
Me: How come there's no hot chick in the cover of the last album?
Joe: Funny thing is the chick on the front cover of our first CD got in touch with me recently... she's livin in Seattle. I don't know why no chick, I just wasn't in the mood to rehash the old ideas... it was like a new band. We found another awesome blues guitarist that plays slide so we kinda went back to the beginning. BTW that "Crawzilla" cover is designed by ME!!
Me: Years ago there was one of your songs on "The Real World in New Orleans". How did they find your music, and has the Messiahs been placed in any other shows or movies?
Joe: Wow. "Crawdaddy-O" payed off handsomely for us but no others yet... and I say yet because we wrote a Gator fight song on "Crawzilla". I guess the "Real World" people saw one of our reviews that was in a national Blues publications. I think a guy at Virgin New Orleans pointed them in our direction also when they visited the Jax Brewery Location... scouting locations.
Me: Do you still teach music? If so, where and what ages? You teach drums, right?
Joe: No, I did for a while but got frustrated when Little Johnny doesnt practice sooo I kinda give Master classes once in a while about my technique and influences... you know??? It's all about listening.
Me: You're the Messiahs' drummer, but who else is in the band?
Joe: I played on the first 2 records but not on the last. The drummer on the last record quit before our new years gig so I now play drums. Before that I was playing Congas, Timbales and Frattoir (Cajun Washboard). Doug Bare plays keys, key bass and lead vocals and Danny Archer is our awesome slowhand slide guitarist. That's it 3 piece!!!! Nobody wants to pay a decent wage anymore so we at least get the monies that we are looking for being 3 piece.
Me: Joe, do you have a favorite Foghat song, and if you were going to cover a Foghat song and make it fit with the New Orleans style music, what would it be?
Joe: I always loved "Honey Hush" and I think I could energize (no pun intended) "Home In My Hand" with a New Orleans Rumba. I got to play drums on "Slow Ride" and "Fool For A City" at one gig for a monitor sound check because the drummer hadnt showed up yet. That was a milestone in my life. I was doin' sound and road managing on that gig.
Me: I have to ask you about your record label called Trackspotting. Do you still put together compilations of local bands?
Joe: No buttttt there's something in the works with the label. I have so many talented students that I could call upon that an idea I have may just fly.
Me: Did you play Universal Studios this year for Mardi Gras?
Joe: No, they don't do it but on Saturdays now. Back in 2000 and 2001 we played 5 days a week and 12 weeks.
Me: Joe, thanks for doing this interview, and being a friend over the years, and especially a good friend of my dad's. Go ahead and plug your website and let the Phile readers know when and where you'll be playing.
Joe: Thanks, J. Myspace.com/funkybluesmessiahs.
There, that's it for another entry of the Phile. Thanks to Wikipedia and Joe Skinner, and of course you readers. The Phile will be next week with not one but two guests... Dave Barclay and Maria De Aragon from Star Wars! I will also reveal the 9th book in the Peverett Phile Book Club, and then in two weeks it's the biggest star ever to grace the Phile, kids. All will be revealed next week. So, spread the word, not the turd, and don't let snakes and alligators bite you. Bye love you bye.
Pheaturing Jeff Howell From The Poker Dogs
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I am your host, Jason Peverett, doing this thing pretty much every Thursday. This week is Teacher Appreciation Week. Teacher Appreciation Week began in 1985 when state and federal governments decided that giving teachers a holiday was cheaper than paying them more. Did you hear this? A man named Jason Pfeiffer claims he was Michael Jackson’s boyfriend. Pfeiffer says he told the story to prove that Jackson wasn’t a pedophile — although it seems like that would have been more helpful during the trial. There were big demonstrations protesting Arizona’s new immigration law. Despite the controversy, the state went ahead with their Cinco de Mayo party. I guess it’s a going-away thing. The world’s oldest living person, aged 114, passed away. The cause of death — you guessed it — a knife fight. This curse of the world’s oldest person continues — they always seem to die. Lots of oil is still leaking off the coast of Louisiana. BP has a plan to create a giant vinegar spill to turn the Gulf of Mexico into a delicious salad dressing. Have you heard the new BP slogan? "BP: Putting more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders". Happy belated Cinco de Mayo. If you don’t know what that means, maybe you’re a little out of touch — or maybe you’re the governor of Arizona. I didn't drink for Cinco de Mayo. I celebrated with Mexican food, or as it’s known in Mexico: “food.” Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican Army’s surprise victory over sobriety back in 1862.
Oddly, Cinco de Mayo is more popular here than in Mexico. Cinco de Mayo to us is what David Hasselhoff is to Germany. I am so excited... tomorrow Iron Man 2 comes out. And because of that, I have an exclusive picture from the movie here on the Phile. Take a look, kids.
I even found an Iron Man related motivational poster.
Ernie Harwell
Long gone.
March 8, 1943 - May 3, 2010
Red, green - whatever. As long as it's a grave.
A teenage loser wonders aloud why people don't help one another and why no one in real life ever tries to be a superhero. It's the kind of question only a kid with too much time on his hands would ask because any adult would just say, "Well because I can't fly and I don't have future-weapons at my disposal, that's why." And because when you're young you think nothing bad will ever really happen to you, the kid goes out in a scuba suit with some batons, tries to fight crime and winds up with multiple broken bones and stab wounds. Enter a real-life father/daughter team of ass-kickers who take him under their wing and teach him the trade. R-rated cartoon mayhem fills the rest of the running time. At one point this might have been someone's idea of satire (especially the bits where Kick-Ass is at his happiest when he becomes Internet-famous for his deeds) And then, possibly seduced by the joys of exuberant limb-hacking, bazooka-blasting, face-smashing and microwaving some random guy, the movie just decided that thoughtlessness and splatter was its own reward. I'm okay with that. Thoughts can be overrated in extra-violent, gut-level movies where bad guys are getting annihilated by people who are so cool and adept with weaponry that all you can do is bow to their skill. Especially when those thoughts don't really hold up to any kind of scrutiny. I wanted to see asses kicked and that's what I got. Left happy. What made the film is Chloe Moretz as Hit Girl, a tiny superheroine groomed into a lifestyle of extreme violence (and extra-bad swear words) by her vengeance-seeking father Nicolas Cage. The movie loves her and is amused by him, especially when he puts on his Batman-like suit and begins talking like Adam West. And when they're on screen you forget about Aaron Johnson. That's bad for him but good for you. When I say that Moretz has to utter some terrible things and commit terrible acts (like wholesale slaughter of dozens of people), I'm not joking. The movie wants you to see her not as the kind of real human being it gives you in Johnson, but as an invincible force that can stand it when she has to occasionally take it, as opposed to just dishing it out. Still, it's unsettling to watch grown men beating up a little girl. It just is. Will I get the movie on blu-ray? Yes. The day it comes out. From 1 to 1o, it gets a 10.
Mercenaries sack the city of Rome, an event considered by many to mark the end of the Renaissance.
Manhattan purchased by Dutch governor Peter Minuet for the equivalent of $24 in goods, which compounded at 6% annually is approximately $78 billion. But some scholars feel the actual value of the goods transferred to be in excess of $500, which translates to $1.6 trillion for the island when compounded.
Ignoring signals, a train travels through an open drawbridge and into the Norwalk river in Connecticut, killing 46 passengers. The engineer and crew jumped clear, not warning the others of their fate.
Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden and the essay Civil Disobedience, dead at age 44. His last words were "Moose... Indian".
Zeppelin Hindenberg explodes at Lakehurst NJ, leaving 36 dead and others seriously burned. Official cause of the explosion is listed as "St. Elmo's Fire," although it probably also involved the flammable silver paint the Germans used to coat the thing.
West German authorities announce that the recently discovered "Hitler Diaries" are counterfeits, made from paper not available until at least 1955. Parties unknown managed to swindle the German magazine Stern out of an undisclosed sum, and esteemed historian Hugh Trevor-Roper was so convinced of their authenticity that he proclaimed "I'm staking my reputation on it."
Disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker is formally defrocked by the Assemblies of God.
Disgruntled postal worker Mark Richard Hilburn (recently fired) enters the Dana Point, CA post office and shoots two former coworkers, killing one.
Disgruntled 27-year veteran Lawrence Jasion enters the garage area of the Dearborn, Michigan post office and whips out a .38 revolver. He proceeds to kill mechanic Gary Montes and wound two other coworkers. Before anyone can react, Jasion then blows his brains out. The Dearborn office was infamous for its authoritarian policies.
Dutch right-wing politician Pim Fortuyn is shot six times in the head as he leaves a recording studio in Hilversum, near Amsterdam. His party platform was based on repeal of the discrimination clause of the constitution, an odd position considering that Fortuyn was homosexual. It is not clear what assassin Volkert van der Graaf's motive was, speculations ranging from Fortuyn's public statements regarding fur farming (van der Graaf is a founder of that country's Animal Liberation Front) to his sympathies towards Dutch Muslims.
Today's guest is the lead singer and guitarist for the Orlando-based band The Poker Dogs whose album "Rebel Flag Bikini" is available on iTunes. He can also be heard on The Monsters in the Morning talk radio show on WTKS-FM Real Radio in Orlando, Florida, USA and XM Radio Channel 152. Please welcome to the Phile... Jeff Howell.
Me: Hey there, Jeff, welcome to the Phile. So, how are you?
Jeff: Doing well, thank you
Me: We first met years and years ago at the Jammy's, thatlocal awards show. Whatever happened to Jam Magazine I wonder. How did you get picked to host?
Jeff: The founder/editor of Jam Magazine (I believe) was an uncle of one of the members of Seven Mary Three. He got them signed to a major label and managed them, and then sold the magazine. He was a fan of my solo act and really liked my first album “Gimme’ A Dollar,” and really, really wanted me to host the Jammy’s. That, and the fact that he was only paying $75 for the gig.
Me: There's a bass player named Jeff Howell, Jeff. Have you heard of him? He was once in Savoy Brown and The Outlaws.
Jeff: Yes, I’ve gotten emails from girls before asking me if I remembered them from the tour of ’78. Havng a deep seeded fear of child support for someone else’s kid, I deleted every one of them.
Me: You have been playing a long time here in Orlando and all over the place, sir. Do you have a favorite show that stood out?
Jeff: No, there have been shows that (for whatever reason) seemed like I could do no wrong. The songs all sounded great and everything I said seemed to be funny. But, I can’t remember them specifically.
Me: Is it true you played at a 7-11 opening? I didn't know 7-11's had concerts. When and how did that happen?
Jeff: Mucho true. It was the opening of a 7-11 prototype that had a garage and dry cleaners attached. It was supposed to go after the K-Mart market but I believe failed miserably. I was asked to front a horrible 50’s band in the parking lot of the 7-11 right off of the Maitland Interchange. It was August, 98, 106% humidity and I was wearing a powder blue tux. We did two songs that led to the ribbon cutting ceremony. The president of the company then said, “It’s really hot! Let’s all go in and get a Slurpee.” and we continued to play in the heat for another two hours. Nobody saw the show except for two construction workers who were filling up their truck. They complimented me on my singing while waiting for their receipt to print.
Me: You're originally from Louisiana, right? Do you go back often? When and why did you move to Orlando?
Jeff: Yes, I’m from Baton Rouge. I go back about four times a year. I was off and on in Orlando starting in the fall of ’77. I lived here for a short period from ’82 – ’84. Then back in Orlando for another short period, ’85 – ’86. Then back here to stay in early ’88. I kept coming back here because I knew I could always make a living playing music here.
Me: Your son is starting to be a really good musician, Jeff. When did he start to play guitar? I don't have any musical talent, unless you count the kazoo, but my son does. You must be proud of your son.
Jeff: Very proud. He’s a wonderful kid (young man). He picked up guitar around the age of fourteen. He mostly taught himself but was really shy about playing in front of people. So I told him that if he learned my crap, I would learn a few of his songs and he could come and play with me in some of the venues that I play. And when we do, it just affirms to me what life is all about. It really doesn’t get any better (at least for me, it doesn’t).
Me: Okay, let's talk about you being on the radio. Some readers of the Phile, but not all, would know you from being on the Monster's radio show. How did you first meet Russ Rollins the host of the show and become a member of his show?
Russ: Bo (former co-host) was a regular fan who used to come see me play every weekend. He kept inviting me to come onto his radio show that aired at 6:00 AM, Saturday mornings. I declined until one night, I just stayed up until 5:45 and drove to the station (with a cold 40 oz.).
Me: You stopped being a regular member because you wanted to spend time with your son, and mornings were hard on you. I totally understand, I am not a morning person either. Recently though, you have been going on the show on Friday's. What made you pick Friday's? It's good to hear you back on the show.
Jeff: Thanks. The move to mornings ruined the show for me. I went from spending 3 – 4 days a week with my son to 9 – 12 hrs. Being with him was way more important than being on radio. I go on, on, actually, on Wednesdays and Fridays now, to have some fun and plug my gigs.
It was always a fun job but it totally ruined it for me when they went to mornings.
Me: You have been friends with Bubba Wilson for a long time, Jeff. If it wasn't for you, I don't think any of us would have heard him. It was you that got him on the radio. When did you first meet Bubba?
Jeff: I first met Bubba at Mardi Gras in New Orleans in 1975. I didn’t know him real well but we were kindred spirits. Two years later, he got me in Clutch (and vouched for me even though I was nowhere good enough musically to play in the band). But he knew I was funny and would work with me to make me musically strong enough. I’ve never forgotten that. Years later, I was able to kind of return the favor with the radio show. He did really well with it.
Me: Recently you and he formed a band called The Poker Dogs... is it your band you formed or Bubba's?
Jeff: Bubba was singing a few weekend nights to supplement the radio income (while he was still on the show). Through bad medications, he kept losing his voice in the first set. Rick Bailey, close friend and his guitar player, said, “Why don’t we get Jeff in the band? He ain’t that good of a singer, but he neverloses his voice!” So they did.
Me: Who are the other Poker Dogs? By the way, who came up with that name?
Jeff: The Poker Dogs are Bubba, Rick Bailey, Tom Holysz (drums), Dan Walters (bass), and me. I wanted to call the band Dogs Playing Poker but all of the possible website names for Dogs Playing Poker were taken. So, we named the band The Poker Dogs because of the availability of a matching website name. I guess that’s what it’s come to.
Me: I downloaded the album "Rebel Flag Bikini" off from iTunes. How did the song "Rebel Flag Bikini" become the album title?
Jeff: We were trying to figure out what kind of album it was going to be (musical and funny or just all out funny). Bubba had been playing with that title for two years with a small amount of lyrics. Rick Bailey came in one day with the intro lick and the chords, and the three of us penned the lyrics in a couple of days. Everybody loved it so much that it became the main song and title of the album.
Me: Also, I know there must be a story behind that song.
Jeff: Daniel (of the Monsters) said it on the air one day. Savannah (tall blonde former show member) texted Russ and said to tell Bubba to write a song called “RFB”. That was several years ago. It floated in the back of Bubba’s brain until a year ago.
Me: Other songs on that are reworked songs that were written for The Monsters show, right? Are there plans for a follow up album with new material?
Jeff: There are aspirations, but “time” is totally kicking our asses right now.
Me: What do you like better, performing solo or with a band?
Jeff: With a band. Much, much more fun!
Me: "Blues Dumps" is your last solo CD, am I right? Are you gonna do another one?
Jeff: No, “Blues Dumps” was that joke CD that I did with the Monsters. “Blues Junk” was after that. And. “The Tree” was my last solo even though I re-released “Gimme’ A Dollar” because I didn’t have it on CD. I want to do another one but as I said, “time” iscompletely kicking my ass.
Me: And I heard or read you want to write a book. Is it autobiography? When and if you do, I'll have you back on the Phile part of the Peverett Phile Book Club. Speaking of books, I am trying to get Russ Rollins on the Phile with his book "Monster Trash". Did you read it?
Jeff: The book that I am working diligently on (when “life” permits snippets of time) is a collection of vignettes mostly about my father and a few about our family. He was this bigger than life, sweetheart of a guy who had probably the most colorful life of anyone that I’ve ever met or known who had a plethora of stories and crazy things that happened in his life. No, I haven’t read “Monster Trash.” I’m waiting for the price to come down.
Me: If I interview Russ what is the one question you want me to ask him?
Jeff: Where are my damn crab legs!?!?
Me: Jeff, thanks for taking time out to do this interview. I wish you continued success and ask Bubba if he wants to be on the Phile. Take care, and keep in touch.
Jeff: Thank you, Jason. Best of luck to you and take care.
That's about it for another entry of the Phile. Thanks to Jeff for a great interview and to Wikipedia. The Phile will be back next Thursday with good friend and member of the Funky Blues Messiahs Joe Skinner. Then in a few weeks the biggest celebrity I have ever interviewed. Until next week, spread the word, not the turd, don't let snakes and alligators bite you. Bye love you bye.
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50th Reunion Memories
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C. Geoffrey Bryce
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Wesley M. McAuley
On June 15, 2004, Geoffrey, the only occupant of his small pickup truck, was fatally injured when his vehicle collided with a welding truck midway between Taos, NM and his nearby home in Valdez. He was DOA at the local hospital. -- Some classmates may remember Geoffrey as a brain. He was. At the end of 11th grade he consented to show me his final report card, nothing but A's. His only comment: he admired symmetry. His mother told me his only B at BHS was once in plane geometry courtesy of Mr. Thomas. A philosophy major, he graduated 5th in his class in 1968 from Md. U and received a graduate scholarship to Wisconsin University, Madison. -- A year later he was drafted into the Marine Corps and spent 3 months on Parris Island. No recruit wants to spend 3 months on Parris Island. But he survived and as a talented piccolo player, spent the remainder of his two USMC years in the band at Twentynine Palms, CA.
He returned to Madison for the Fall 1971 semester. The plan was to obtain a doctorate in philosophy and become a college professor. It never happened. His train did not so much come off the tracks as lose steam. He entered a relationship with a senior philosophy student. She was awarded her doctorate and obtained a teaching post before Geoffrey had finished his coursework. They moved to Northfield, MN, a long way from Madison and his plan gradually dissolved leaving Geoffrey "ABD". -- They got married in the late 1970s when she was having trouble obtaining a visa to re-enter the USA from her native Argentina. In the 1980s they bought two acres of land in Valdez and from then on, except for a couple of trips to Argentina, Geoffrey rarely left New Mexico. In the 1990s, his wife moved on from Northfield to New York University, Binghamton, and he stayed in Valdez. -- They had no children. Geoffrey's work history can best be described as sporadic and usually low skilled. At BHS he tended to withdraw to a low profile in social situations. This tendency did not change through the years. He is buried on his property in Valdez.
Donald E. Hughes
Here was a rare guy. I can't forget that little smile. He was always so brilliant, and unflappably confident with the flute. He was a good influence in the band. Geoffrey was a good friend and advocate, with a ready subtly humorous comment. I'm amazed he went into the Marines, but it makes sense he survived with the piccolo.
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The City of Tshwane in South Africa has created a successful road safety plan and has generously shared their documentation of Guidelines for the Development of Road Safety Master Plans. This process could be applied equally well here in British Columbia. If you are part of a citizen's advisory committee for your municipality, this document is worth your time to read.
Tshwane is a city in transition and has a mix of established and historically disadvantaged areas. The disadvantaged areas are mainly situated to the north of the city. Since road safety in these areas was severely neglected in the past, the new municipality that came into being in 2000 was faced with the tremendous challenge of improving road safety and providing infrastructure in these areas. Fatality rates were high and the communities were discontented about the road safety situation.
The City of Tshwane acknowledged the problem and developed road safety master plans in collaboration with stakeholders and the community. The master plans mainly focused on the provision of engineering measures such as pedestrian bridges, walkways, raised pedestrian crossings, speed humps and loading facilities at schools, but due attention was also paid to education, awareness raising, law enforcement and evaluation.
The process has been found to be highly successful and has resulted in the City’s receiving a number of national and international awards. The process has now been implemented in all previously disadvantaged areas of the city and is being integrated in the established areas in the city. (Quoted from the executive summary of the document.)
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Happeh Theory
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This blog is no longer actively updated. I happened across the article below which supports the claims of Happeh Theory and felt forced to add it to the blog now, in 2021.
One of the main claims of Happeh Theory is that a myriad of things can be determined from the examination of a person’s head and face, and that the science of Phrenology, which claims the shape of the head can be used to determine various characteristics of a person, is also true.
The study involves a scientists claiming that he can determine a person’s political views by examination of their face which supports the claims stated above. It is my prediction that as facial recognition technology becomes more and more prevalent, that more and more claims of a similar nature will be made. Basically what is happening now in 2021 is that modern technology is producing results that allow scientists to agree with the claims of Happeh Theory, which is something scientists refused to do previously because they apparently do not trust their own eyes and brains to agree with Happeh Theory. They need science and technology in the form of Facial Recognition Technology as a crutch to support the claims of Happeh Theory so they can blame the technology if something goes wrong, instead of accepting the blame themselves.
What that has done is held science back for…..20 years or so I believe. I forget how long ago I was actively working on Happeh Theory now. If scientists could have used their own eyes and brains and had the courage to trust what they saw and thought, they could have verified Happeh Theory was accurate 20 years ago and further work could have moved on from that point, instead of waiting 20 years and just now beginning to further the scientific frontier begun with the work on Happeh Theory.
Facial recognition algorithms can be trained to recognize people’s political views, Stanford-affiliated researcher Michal Kosinski claims, stating that his most recent study achieved 72 percent accuracy on liberal v conservative.
Properly trained facial recognition algorithms can correctly guess a person’s political orientation nearly three-quarters of the time, Kosinski claimed in a paper published on Monday in Scientific Reports. Using over a million profiles from Facebook and dating sites across the US, UK and Canada, the algorithm was able to accurately pick out conservatives from liberals in 72 percent of face pairs.
The most significant facial features in telling the political groups apart – aside from age, gender, and ethnicity – were head orientation and emotional expression, according to the study authors. They also explained that liberals were more likely to look directly at the camera and more likely to look surprised than disgusted.
Liberals were also supposed to smile “more intensely and genuinely,” leaving them with a different pattern of wrinkles as they age. Conservatives, meanwhile, “tend to be healthier, consume less alcohol and tobacco, and have a different diet” – attributes that affected the health and texture of the skin.
But their conclusions went much further than that, diving deep into the realms of facial-recognition dystopia. Facial appearance, they claimed, predicts everything from success in work, educational achievement, even the length of a prison sentence – all factors which, according to the researchers, could easily influence political affiliation.
On the flip side, they also suggested the link between facial attributes and politics could start in the womb, with “genes, hormones, and prenatal exposure to substances” all playing a role in whether an individual grows up to be liberal or conservative. “Negative first impressions” – presumably meaning ugliness – could “reduce [an individual’s] earning potential and status,” inculcating empathy for the down-trodden and thus a more liberal worldview.
Even drinking during pregnancy might predict future political orientation, given poor cognitive development has – the researchers claim – been “linked to political orientation.”
Presumably aware that he’d be attacked for seemingly trying to revive the long-discredited ’science’ of physiognomy, a technique purported to be able to assess an individual’s character, personality, even criminal propensities by the shape of their face, Kosinski denounced the discipline as “based on unscientific studies, superstition, anecdotal evidence, and racist pseudo-theories.”
However, he explained, just because the field was wildly unscientific “does not automatically mean that they are all wrong.”
Kosinski is perhaps best known for his work with Facebook, which gave rise to the infamous data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica ahead of the 2016 US election. The company scooped up tens of millions of Facebook users’ data to deliver precision-targeted political advertising on the part of the Republican presidential campaign.
He also worked as an adviser on Faception, a Minority-Report-esque Israeli program that purported to predict not only an individual’s place on the political spectrum, but also that person’s likelihood of being a terrorist, pedophile, or other major criminal. Kosinski’s work has won him a degree of infamy in the past. A 2017 paper he co-wrote argued that a simple AI system could determine whether a face belonged to a gay or straight person, raising the hackles of LGBT advocacy groups across the US. In October, he and a colleague published a paper debunking a previous claim that married couples grow to resemble one another facially as they spend their lives together.
But he’s far from the only scientist at work on trying to bring physiognomy up to date for the 21st century. The University of Harrisburg in May claimed it had developed an AI algorithm capable of determining with 80 percent accuracy whether someone was a criminal, just by looking at their face.
A similar study was conducted in China in 2016.
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Work Of Data Analyst Using AI Software Confirms The Main Claim of Happeh Theory, Which Is Facial Characteristics Can Determine If A Human Being Is Gay, And Other Personality Traits
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About The Smiddy
It is not known exactly when the original Smiddy was built in Cousland. The earliest historical record of smiths working in Cousland dates from 1740, but it is probably much older. It is believed the building, here today, dates from 1703.
The real interest of Cousland Smiddy lies in the complete industrial 'story' of its buildings and collections - evidence of continuous activity and adaptation to market forces, through the last 300 years.
Nowhere else in Scotland is there a working blacksmith's shop interpreted to the public.
The historical importance of the smiddy to the rural economy of the local area cannot be in doubt. Its prosperity is based on agriculture and coal mining. Agricultural improvements which began with the enclosure of the land in the eighteenth century led to increased use of horse-drawn machinery that needed to be repaired locally. As roads were improved, their surfaces were hardened and working horses needed to be shod. All these improvements generated work for the blacksmith who already had a valued place in the community, making things like pots, pothooks, door bolts and hinges. Up to the 1940s, the smiddy was the hub of the village; a social centre for the men who gathered there for a chat and a smoke.
The Smiddy is a treasure trove of old tools and agricultural and metal working artefacts. A foot driven grinding stone and a huge cast iron disc, used in fitting metal tyres (girds) to wooden cart wheels, can be seen in front of the Smiddy.
The present cottage, clearly incorporating an earlier structure, dates from about 1820. Various phases of modernisation took place up to the mid-1960s. A major restoration project started in 2003 to refurbish the cottage to create the facility we see today.
The bricks used in the chimneys of the cottage were from the local Smeaton brickworks, mentioned in the statistical account of 1790.
The but ‘n’ ben is probably 17th century and possibly shows the size and style of the original smiddy and smith’s cottage.
The workshop to the east of the smiddy was built at the start of World War 2 (in early 1940) to help with the upkeep of the many machines needed in the local coal mines.
The blacksmiths
In the 1841 census there is mention of a blacksmith called John Neil, the second last of possibly five generations of the same family who had been blacksmiths in Cousland since 1724. The Neils left Cousland for Edinburgh in 1874.
The 1882 valuation rolls make reference to a William Sked as proprietor of the Smiddy. We know that the business was handed over to his son Christopher Sked in 1890, then passed down to the third generation, in the early 1920's. In turn it was handed over to Kit Sked, who worked at the Smiddy until 1989.
A young farrier, Mark Russell, worked at Cousland for short period in 1989. Followed by Jamie Fleming until May 2015
Sean Cockburn takes over as blacksmith on 1st July 2015.
The Smiddy Trust
The Smiddy was threatened with closure in 1986, when the then blacksmith Kit Sked (well into his 70s), announced his retirement. The Cousland Smiddy Working Group, later to become Cousland Smiddy Trust, was formed believing that Cousland Smiddy could become a superb local heritage and educational facility.
Currently we are working on Phase 3 of our long-term ambitions for the smiddy complex.
Phase 1 involved the Smiddy, the workshop and the grounds; making them safe and suitable for a working blacksmith and benefiting local villagers and visitors.
Phase 2 concentrated on the Smiddy cottage; making an exhibition space, a meeting room for small community groups and an office for the Trust.
Phase 3 will allow villagers and visitors to access the large collections of documents, maps, photos and artefacts relating to Cousland's colourful and interesting history.
Design by Tom Morrow Solutions & Sheena Irving
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Luis Guzmán to Appear on the Upcoming Season of Showtime’s “Shameless”
Posted on September 12, 2018 by Tom Castaneda
There’s a little shame(less)in Luis Guzmán’s game…
The 62-year-old Puerto Rican actor has landed a recurring role in the upcoming ninth season of Showtime’s Shameless.
In Season 9, political fervor hits the South Side and the Gallaghers take justice into their own hands. A few highlights: Frank (William H. Macy) sees financial opportunity in campaigning and decides to give voice to the underrepresented South Side working man. Fiona (Emmy Rossum) tries to build on her success with her apartment building and takes an expensive gamble hoping to catapult herself into the upper echelon. Lip (Jeremy Allen White) distracts himself from the challenges of sobriety by taking in Eddie’s niece, Xan (Amirah Johnson). Ian (Cameron Monaghan) faces the consequences of his crimes as the Gay Jesus movement takes a destructive turn.
Guzmán will portray Mikey O’Shea. Frank (Macy) meets his match in O’Shea, a fellow lush and contender in an ad campaign competition to find the new face of Hobo Loco, a cheap liquor aimed at fraternities and alcoholics.
Guzmán’s recent television credits include Code Black, Roadies and Narcos. He’ll next be seen on the big screen in The Padre, set for release next month.
Shameless‘ expanded 14-episode Season 9 will air in two parts, premiering September 9 and January 20.
Created by Paul Abbott, Shameless is produced by Bonanza Productionsin association withJohn Wells Productionsand Warner Bros. Television. Developed for American television by John Wells, the series is executive produced by Wells and Nancy M. Pimental.
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Fall - Winter 2014 Exhibitions/Events:
EXHIBIT AND HOLIDAY SALE
“Winter in Woodstock”, exhibit of vintage holiday cards from the HSW collection.
Opening: Friday, December 5, 4-8 pm
… featuring note cards with works from the Historical Society collection, tins of home-made cookies, hand-made ornaments, hand-knit mittens, books and DVDs on local history, candles, home-made jam & maple syrup, vintage postcards, and more.
e-mail woodstockhistory@hvc.rr.com
or visit HSW on Facebook at Historical Woodstock
“Winter Holiday”, Clarence Bolton (1893-1962), lithograph, n.d., Historical Society of Woodstock Collection.
Musical Presentation by Ars Choralis
Friday, December 5, 6 pm
An ensemble of 12 members from the choral ensemble Ars Choralis will be performing beginning at 6 p.m. Music will include a variety of holiday inspired songs. The singers will be led by Barbara Pickhardt, Ars Choralis Artistic Director. Christina Gardner is the soloist and will sing "Winter's Coming Home", written by Benedictine Monks at the Weston Priory in Vermont. She will be accompanied by Jim Ulrich on autoharp. Performers include: Christina Gardner, Greg Dinger, Chuck Snyder, Carolyn Wolz, Bill Wolz, Jim Noecker, Ed Peters, Anne Brueckner, Nancy Howell, Ginny Workstus, Tracy Dowd, Mary Noecker and Sarah Kessen.
Exhibit and Holiday Sale continues
Saturday & Sunday, December 6 & 7, 13 & 14, 12-4 pm
Sunday, December 7, 2 pm, Holiday card making workshop for kids.
Saturday December 13, local historian Vernon Benjamin
Local historian Vernon Benjamin will be on hand to discuss and sign copies of his new book, The History of the Hudson River Valley. In the rich tradition of works by Alf Evers, Benjamin has crafted a new history of our valley that will become a definitive text for many years to come.
Also on Saturday, enjoy a special afternoon as HSW brings you "Cafe Eames," offering tea, coffee and edible treats for sale in support of HSW's building fund.
Sunday December 14 at 3:00 pm, author Crystal Schachter and illustrator Margarete de Soleil
HSW welcomes author Crystal Schachter and illustrator Margarete de Soleil for a book signing and discussion of their new children's book, Woody and the Candle Mountain. Follow Woody as she wanders through her hometown of Woodstock looking hopelessly for something worth doing. She meets many local characters along the way, who all manage to offer the same peace, love and granola advice, and small tokens of inspiration, which she gloomily accepts and moves on. Eventually, she visits the candle shop to admire the legendary Candle Mountain, a massive wax sculpture created over many years from thousands of melted candles. But even this awe-inspiring monument and the kind wisdom of the candle maker and his wife, can’t budge Woody’s mood. But, just when she’s convinced her day’s search has been completely useless, she finds herself in a place where her little bits of knowledge make a world of difference.
The Historical Society of Woodstock is located on 20 Comeau Drive.
WOODSTOCK CEMETERY HISTORY WALK
Saturday, November 29, 1 pm, Rock City Road
On Saturday November 29, at 1:00 pm, local historian Janine Fallon-Mower and town historian Richard Heppner will conduct a history walk through the Woodstock Cemetery on Rock City Road. The walk will offer observations on the many lives, stories and lore that have crafted Woodstock's story throughout the years.
Walkers should park in the Mountain View Parking Lot and meet at the cemetery gate. Please wear comfortable walking shoes. In case of inclement weather, call 679-6744 for a cancellation message. For further information about the walk, e-mail jmower@hvc.rr.com.
Photo Credit: Grave of Catherine Van Debogert, located in the Woodstock Cemetery.
Admission to the walk is $10 per person. All proceeds will support the HSW Building fund.
DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING:
Radio Unnameable - Screening and Historical Society Building Fundraiser
Saturday, November 8, 1 pm, Upstate Films/Woodstock
On Saturday, November 8, at 1 p.m., the Historical Society of Woodstock will present a special screening of Radio Unnameable at Upstate Films. The film recounts the rise of Bob Fass, an early pioneer of free-form noncommercial radio, on WBAI’s Radio Unnameable. Such luminaries as Bob Dylan, Abbie Hoffman, Ed Sanders, Happy Traum, Phil Ochs, Jerry Jeff Walker, Arlo Guthrie and David Amram stopped by his show to weigh in and to discuss their latest exploits. Radio Unnameable started in 1963 and is still being broadcast today. Neil Fabricant, Legislative Director of New York’s ACLU, during the 1960s, said that Fass was “ a midwife at the birth of the counterculture.”
During the late 1960s Bob Fass emceed the Woodstock Sound-Outs on Pan Copeland’s farm. He used his cred and clout on WBAI to book top name acts to the festival such as Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys and the Incredible String Band. Michael Lang, the co-creator of the Woodstock Festival, credits the Sound-Outs as a kind of spark for his idea of the Woodstock Festival.
The film has been widely reviewed in countless publications including the New York Times. At the end of the film, Bob Fass and Ed Sanders will be on hand to answer questions about the film and the era. There will be an after screening reception for Bob Fass at the Historical Society, Eames House, 20 Comeau Drive, Woodstock.
Tickets for the event are $10. All proceeds will support the HSW Building fund.
REVIEW: Review: "Radio Unnameable" "Radio Unnameable" DVD is available @ $19.95 - to order click here
Woodstock Building Supply, Corp. Thank you!
Exhibition: "SELDOM SEEN"
The Woodstock School of Art & The Historical Society of Woodstock present:
"Seldom Seen" - works from the collection of the Historical Society of Woodstock
September 13 - November 1, 2014
Woodstock School of Art, Route 212 Woodstock, N.Y
Selected by Susana Torruella Leval
OPENING RECEPTION: Sat, Sept 13, 3-5 pm
Seldom Seen features 63 paintings in the categories of landscape, bestiary and self-portrait. The time period of the work spans from the early to late 20th century and includes artists long associated with America's first artist colony who are known nationally as well as lesser known local artists who called Woodstock home. Work includes drawing, painting and printmaking by artists such as Charles Rosen, Otto Bierhals, Clarence Bolton, John F. Carlson, Marion Bullard, Richard Segalman, Eva van Rijn, Tor Gudmundsen, Eduardo Chavez, Ernest Fiene and many more. Each piece chosen reflects the time period of its creation and the embodiment of that intangible quality, the Woodstock "spirit."
Anton Otto Fischer (1882-1962), "Overlook Mountain", c. 1942, HSW Collection
Woodstock Town Historian Richard Heppner writes, "Woodstock is a small town and yet our history is writ large with the contributions of those who would see life through a slightly different lens. It is also a history that has seen those views shaped by connections formed between newly arrived artists and those who drew life and livelihoods from the very landscape that would find its way onto a multitude of canvases over the years. As a result, it is a history that has transcended great change while remaining grounded in its original purpose; a history in which we understand that we are not separate from our past but are an integral part of a combining experience that becomes our community." press release
More information: "Seldom Seen"
You are cordially invited to join us in the Angeloch Gallery at the Woodstock School of Art for the opening reception of SELDOM SEEN Saturday, September 13, from 3 to 5 p.m.
Spring - Summer 2014 Exhibitions/Events:
Exhibition: "... a few of our favorite things"
July 13 - August 31, 2014, Saturdays and Sundays, 1-5 pm
Opening reception: Sunday, July 13
Artifacts, objects, photos, and ephemera from the archives of the Historical Society of Woodstock, selected by members of the Board.
Within the archives of the Historical Society of Woodstock rest a multitude of connections to Woodstock's past. Some of those connections are obvious, such as items directly related to the founding of the art colony in the early 20th century. And yet, the breath of Woodstock history offers roads of exploration unimagined by many. With its new exhibit, "...a few of our favorite things", HSW presents a look at items from the archives that have traveled many of those disparate byways. Choosing from items that have been rarely presented to the public, HSW Board members offer an exhibit that explores the diversity of Woodstock history while underscoring that, from its many stories, came a community that would be known the world over.
John Trubov collection. (HSW Archives) 1937 truck that once belonged to theTinker Street tinker.
Featuring maps that explore the Woodstock that once was, 19th century artifacts from the Down Rent War and Woodstock's glass factories, farm implements, political collages, unique photographs and stereoscopes, the Woodstock Bicentennial Quilt, early printing, dishes that once adorned tables at Woodstock parties, school band uniforms and period clothing, "...a few of our favorite things" will offer the visitor a unique, multifaceted look back at Woodstock's journey into the future. press release
Ashokan Reservoir: talk by local historian Bob Steuding, Saturday, August 30, 2 pm
On Saturday, August 30, at 2 p.m., Bob Steuding, local historian and author, will give an illustrated talk on the Ashokan Reservoir. Bob is the author of The Last of the Handmade Dams: The Story of the Ashokan Reservoir; Rondout: A Hudson River Port and The Heart of the Catskills. After the talk, Bob will take questions and sign copies of his books. Steuding is a native of the Catskills and has been writing about them since the 1960s.
Overlook (work-in-progress performance), Saturday, August 30, 7 pm
Created and performed by Hélène Lesterlin, in collaboration with the Historical Society of Woodstock.
A lecture, a dance with memory, a time machine, a dream of utopia. Using creative interviews with village elders and the explosively inspiring archives of the Historical Society of Woodstock, this solo performance delves into local lore, wild personal narratives, and the unique stories of the many characters populating Woodstock’s art colony heyday.
Woodstock, a village laid out on the flank of Overlook Mountain, became synonymous with Bohemia as artists settled its hillsides in the 1900s, in a sweeping effort to create a thriving art colony and utopian community. Roaring through the 20s and beyond, it became known as much for revelry as for art. Through the lens of memory, on a foundation of first-hand accounts, this performance delves into the aspirations, dreams and lives that swirled around the Byrdcliffe and Maverick art colonies. Using an amalgam of voices, historical accounts and essays, original texts, dance, and handheld 2D figures, this solo illuminates themes of art-making, aging, high jinx, and a rooted sense of place.
press release, bio
Chair seating is limited, you might want to bring a blanket or lawn chair to sit on!
Running time: 40 minutes, followed by a Q&A.
This project is based on interviews with members of the community, whose memories and stories form the foundation of the text. This project is also made possible with the invaluable expertise and kind attention of the staff and board of the Historical Society of Woodstock, as well as its overwhelmingly rich archive.
Made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
Coming of age in Woodstock during the 1950s: talk by Tad Richards, Sunday, August 17, 2 pm
On Sunday, August 17, at 2:00 pm, Tad Richards will talk about coming of age in Woodstock during the 1950s. Along the way, he will discuss his encounters with Anton Refregier, Howard Koch and Maya Deren, among other artists and personalities. Richards is an American writer, visual artist and current steward of Opus 40. Over the years he has written 18 novels and 16 nonfiction works. His most recent published work, Nick and Jake: An Epistolary Novel, was co-written with his brother, Jonathan. Recently it was produced as an audio play by Alan Arkin, Tom Conti and Ali MacGraw. Several of Tad’s songs have been recorded by Orleans, the John Hall Band and Fred Koller. After the talk Tad will sign copies of his book Nick and Jake.
Tad Richards at Opus 40
Amateur Radio: a talk by Keith Tilley, Sunday, August 10, 2 pm
Keith Tilley, the communications officer of the Overlook Mountain Radio Club, leads a team of 25 volunteer amateur radio operators. On Sunday August 10, at 2:00 p.m., Tilley will speak at Historical Society of Woodstock, exploring the history of amateur radio, the science behind worldwide communication, and the many ways amateur radio is used today. In addition, he will discuss the group’s ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Service) and RACES (Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service) post 9/11 mission with such agencies as the American Red Cross and the county government. press release
Ulster County Bluestone: talk by Peter Roberts, Saturday, July 19, 2 pm
The Historical Society will explore the world of Ulster County bluestone through a talk by Peter Roberts. Once a major industry in Woodstock and surrounding areas, bluestone from Ulster County was shipped south in the latter half of the 19th century to form many of the sidewalks in cities such as New York and Philadelphia and to adorn the properties of the wealthy in urban areas. press release
Exhibition: "Artist Couples of Woodstock"
May 18 - July 6, 2014, Saturdays and Sundays, 1-5 pm
Opening reception: Sunday, May 18, 1-5 pm
"Conversation with artist Eva van Rijn", Sunday, May 25, 2 pm
Milton Avery & Sally Avery, Edward Chavez & Eva van Rijn, Caroline Haeberlin & Reginald Wilson, Doris Lee & Arnold Blanch, Eugene Ludins & Hannah Small, Nan Mason & Wilna Hervey, Caroline Speare Rohland & Paul Rohland, Andrée Ruellan & Jack Taylor.
This exhibition includes paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures created by eight artist couples who lived, worked, and socialized in Woodstock. The works are from the permanent collection of the Historical Society of Woodstock, supplemented by generous loans from the Arthur A. Anderson Collection.
For over a century Woodstock has been a home for creative people. Naturally some were drawn to each other and paired up, and a special type of relationship was created when both
of a couple were active artists. This exhibition includes works by sixteen Woodstock artists and was curated by eight students from a Bard College seminar about Woodstock art taught by art historian Tom Wolf. It will give a sense of the variety of styles and temperaments that flourished in the art colony through the unique perspective of artists who made their personal artistic statements while sharing their domestic lives. press release, "Artist Couples" review
Franklin Alexander, "Nan Mason & Wilna Hervey", 1969, HSW Collection
"Artist Couples of Woodstock" exhibition catalog is now available @ $20 - to order click here
Exhibition Catalog: Artist Couples of Woodstock.pdf
“Conversation with artist Eva van Rijn”, Sunday, May 25, 2 pm
Please join us for a “step back in time” with Eva van Rijn as she recalls what life in the “Woodstock Colony” was like when the artists in this exhibition were at the peak of their artistic careers.
Eva van Rijn was born in Holland and emigrated to the US with her parents during World War II. The family settled in Woodstock, where the vitality and creativity of the “Woodstock Colony” influenced Eva’s early ambition to create art. Eva married painter-sculptor Edward Chavez, who was born in New Mexico, and had also joined the Woodstock art colony and was teaching at the Art Student’s League. Eva continues to live in Woodstock and is noted for her landscape and wildlife paintings. bio
Eva van Rijn "Self Portrait" c. 1984, HSW Collection
"Preserving Local History - Geneology Research", Saturday, June 7, 2 pm
The Historical Society of Woodstock will continue its summer discussion series with a talk by Janine Fallon-Mower and Carl Van Wagenen on preserving local history through genealogical research. With extensive backgrounds in local genealogy, Fallon-Mower and Van Wagenen will discuss how they were drawn to such research, the processes they follow and how census data preserves a snapshot of early Woodstock life. Janine Mower is the author and co-author of five local history books including Legendary Locals with Richard Heppner that came out last year. Carl Van Wagenen wrote The Van Wagenen Family Genealogy 1637-2014, the definitive book on the Van Wagenen family tree. At the conclusion of the talk, the speakers will answer questions from the audience on how they might peruse their own genealogical research.
"Woodstock's Ancient Trails and Old Roads", Saturday, June 14, 3 pm
A talk about exploring and mapping the backwoods and lost landscape of Woodstock by Dave Holden, NYSCEC licensed hiking guide, trail-maker, and backwoods explorer.
In a time before GPS (by a few years, at least), trails carved out by Native Americans and early settlers once crisscrossed the Woodstock landscape. On Saturday June 14 at 3:00 pm, the Historical Society of Woodstock will present a closer look at those early byways in a talk offered by Dave Holden titled, Ancient Trails, Old Roads and Paths to the Future. Holden, who has explored Woodstock's old roads and archaic trails for over thirty years and is a NYDEC licensed hiking guide, will share his knowledge of these mostly lost elements of Woodstock's past and offer his thoughts on how to make use of them in the future while preserving their historic integrity.
"Wisteria at Alf's House", circa 1950
"Overlook Mountain", 1914
"Portrait of Hervey White", 1910
Note cards from the collection of the Historical Society of Woodstock
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Organizing for Success
Four months ago, 300 plus workers from the Shaw’s distribution center in Methuen, MA went on strike. This month, they're celebrating a victory.
The strike was born when workers voted in opposition to a contract that would cut their healthcare benefits. Shaw’s refusal to absorb the cost of an increase in premiums would cause workers a loss of $28 per week, which accumulates to $1,456 annually. Shaw's management stubbornly moved forward by hiring replacement workers and terminating healthcare for the striking workers.
In late May, the workers’ union, United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 791, organized a 60-mile, 5-day “March for Justice” beginning in Methuen and ending in Boston. Public officials, including Sen. John Kerry and Rep. Michael Capuano, urged Shaw's/Supervalu president and CEO Craig Herkert to reach a settlement.
The workers approved a new four-year contract–including wage increases and more affordable healthcare–on July 8th, ending the bitter strike. The temporary workers will be phased out gradually, allowing for the union workers to resume their positions.
A joint press release by UFCW and Shaw's stated, “The four-year contract continues Shaw’s long-standing history of providing good wages, comprehensive and affordable health care and a generous retirement plan,” although the original contract didn't exactly live up to this commitment. Many continue to feel that the ratified contract isn't enough–especially considering the months of lost pay–but the victory is about more than the final terms.
This resolution demonstrates the perseverance of the workers and the commitment of the union and communities to stand behind them. Supervalu was greedy and determined to break the union with intimidation, but the workers were unbending and rallied an enormous amount of support, ultimately forcing the company to renegotiate the contract.
The victory was made possible, in part, by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which granted unemployment benefits that were vital to the workers’ ability to sustain the strike. Additionally, a strike fund, for which over $180,000 was raised, played a key role in giving the Shaw's workers the financial wherewithal and morale to continue the strike.
Anthony Zuba, leader of the Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice, said healthcare should never be used as an “economic weapon,” and this 4-month battle is a lesson in why. The workers, union, advocacy groups and communities stood bravely and found their own weapon in a collective voice for workers' rights.
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LINDA STEIN
"As she concluded her May 2009 keynote address to the National Association of Women Artists, Linda Stein remarked, “Gender constructions and gender constrictions. How do we find the courage, the bravery to break these molds?” Her series of Knights, begun in 2002, guides the viewer toward empowerment in the face of sexism, homophobia, racism, and other forms of institutionalized oppression. Since 2007, the Knights have evolved from static totemic personages mounted on the wall to suits of armor animated by their wearers. They are trickster figures in their shape-shifting potentialities. Stein encourages the viewer to imagine what it is like to slip into another skin, to swap bodies and shift genders.
In Stein’s hands, Wonder Woman (created in 1941 as a superhero who never kills) advances the artist’s intent to recognize feminine strength and valor that are disavowed in the masculine and feminine positions that structure our society. Stein speaks movingly of the way gender stereotypes were reified after 9/11 in the media and official discourse to make all the heroes men (soldiers and first responders), and the victims women (the 9/11 widows most prominently). Fundamentally, Stein’s art is about disturbing the binaries that organize our society and that we accept unquestioningly as natural.
As artist-activist, lecturer, performer, as well as founding president of the non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, HAVE ART: WILL TRAVEL! Inc. (HAWT), Linda Stein’s focus has been to encourage constructive and empowering male and female gender roles leading to Peace and Equality through the arts. As art editor of On The Issues Magazine, she has written articles highlighting sexism in the art world and moderated discussions on Masculinity/Femininity with men who are known for their books and articles on the changing male and the fluidity of gender in the 21st century."
- Dr. Margo Hobbs Thompson, Art Historian, Muhlenberg College, PA
Stein's artworks are in many public collections throughout the country. For outdoor bronzes, in addition to private work, Stein has been awarded the commission for three larger-than-life Knights to be sited as the central commission for the $4 million Walk of the Heroines at Portland State University. For more complete information on Linda Stein, see her archives housed at Smith College or visit her website.
Stein has video work available for viewing on youtube: Linda Stein's youtube channel.
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4 COVID-19 deaths, 66 new cases
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica has recorded four additional COVID-19 related deaths, and 66 new cases of the virus in the last 24 hours.
This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 10,488 and the death toll to 247.
The four new deaths included three which were previously under investigation - two men 54, and 91 from Trelawny and St Catherine respectively; and a 74-year-old woman from St Catherine. A 78-year-old man from Manchester was also among the deaths reported.
Of the newly reported cases, there were 35 males and 31 females with ages ranging from 11 to 84 years.
The cases were recorded in Kingston and St Andrew (21), Westmoreland (18), St Ann (13), St Catherine (five), Hanover (three), St James (two), while Clarendon, Trelawny, St Mary and St Elizabeth each recorded one case.
The country also recorded 51 recoveries, bringing the total number of recoveries to 5,623.
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Vietnam's Successful Battle Against COVID-19
As of May 6, Vietnam’s Ministry of Health confirmed a total of 241 cases of COVID-19. As the world's most successful nation in tackling with Covid-19, Vietnam is cautiously lifting social distancing measures and restrictions on movement, UK Telegraph reported. After being closed for nearly a month, Vietnam's once-bustling stalls, shops and restaurants are open once again.
According to The Diplomat, Vietnam’s model for containing the outbreak has been touted as a successful low-cost model. Whereas its neighbors, Taiwan and South Korea, could afford mass testing, Vietnam lacked the resources and instead opted for selective but proactive prevention. Vietnam found its success in proactiveness. Over the course of three months since the first case, Vietnam has not hesitated to restrict movements where needed, balancing overt caution with precision.
The underlying factor that enables the Vietnamese government’s success is the mobilization of nationalism. The government has framed the virus as a common foreign enemy and called on the unity of the population to defeat it, echoing the enduring history of a nation always threatened by foreign invaders. Since “day one,” the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and the state have led the fight with the motto “fighting the epidemic is like fighting against the enemy.”
According to CFR, By all measures, three months into this war, Vietnam has been among the most successful countries in the world, if not the most successful, in the fight against COVID-19. Meanwhile, the United States, the richest and most powerful country in the world, struggles to provide even basic protective medical equipment to its medical professionals and has yet to institute an effective and comprehensive testing regimen for its citizens.
Vietnam also has used effective tracing methods, from much earlier on in the pandemic that many other countries. It has mobilized huge numbers of people to serve as tracers, making it possible to track down all or nearly all the contacts of infected people, and then to track down the contacts of those contacts, to ensure the virus did not spread.
Vietnam’s model is an example for countries and territories with limited resources and/or at the early stages of fighting COVID-19 with a low number of cases, CFR said.
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15-day social distancing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (31/03/2020)
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Welcome to Mengo Senior School
Mengo Senior School is located on Hoima Road Plot 422, Block 10. It was founded in 1895 by the Church Missionary Society (CMS). This makes it the oldest school in Uganda. It is a co-educational government aided school with a current ratio of 1:2 girls to boys. It offers general academic subjects, vocational and technical subjects, 29 in number. The school, though Church of Uganda Founded, admits students of all faiths. It provides secular education which is in line with the Uganda national goals and objectives of education. The school recognizes the global trends and has always organised and re-organised its curricula to suit the needs of the changing world basing on the national curriculum.
The Foundation Body
The school was founded and is owned by Namirembe Diocese, Church of Uganda (Anglican). The Foundation body nominates 5 (five) members to the Board of Governors; one of whom is the Chairperson. The current chairman of the Foundation body is Rt.Rev. Wilberforce Kityo Luwalira – Bishop of Namirembe Diocese. (See Education (Pre-primary, Primaries and Post – primary) Act 2008, Section 58, 59 Part II sub-section (a)).
As earlier mentioned, the founding of Mengo Senior School dates to the early days of the missionaries in Uganda. In their effort to preach the Word of God and win the souls of Ugandans, they soon discovered that formal education was one of the strategic baits to convert people from their "heathen ways".
Thus in 1895, an elementary mixed school (Kayanja) was founded at Mengo, the then capital of Uganda. Its location and appearance is described by Amos Kalule Sempa in his article; “African schools, (1941)” thus: “The first building of this school was situated between the present Namirembe (Mengo) primary school building and Namirembe Cathedral. Its walls were made of reeds and the roof was of grass”. One of the founder teachers was a missionary called Miss Chadwick. She started by inviting a number of young men into her house. These were mostly houseboys of missionaries of Namirembe Hill. Initially they came into her house every afternoon for prayers and other subjects. She then requested them to visit the chiefs and ask them to send their children to school. Due to the nature of their work these young men came to be known as Basizi (sowers). ‘When the newcomers would come, they would be taught by Basizi while Chadwick taught the Basizi.
In 1901, Mr. Charles William Hattersley took over the work of teaching the Basizi. As the number grew it was found necessary to house them in a boarding school. The then Katikkiro, Sir Apollo Kaggwa gave them his house on Namirembe Hill where they stayed for some years. Most of the first students who enrolled in Mengo (Kayanja as it was called) were later on posted by Church Councils to rural areas as school masters. Many others became clerks of chiefs. It is important to note that many of the big chiefs also attended classes in this school.
Although Mengo was a mixed school, it was very difficult to bring girls to school. While commenting about the education of women, the (Headmaster of Mengo), Mr. C.W. Hattersley (1901 – 1912) wrote: “the question of the education of women in heathen and Mohammedan lands always presents a great difficulty, accustomed as they are to be looked upon as slaves” There was not a lot of motivation to take girls to school, especially so, in a mixed one. After a lot of discussion, it was resolved to separate the girls from the boys so as to achieve better results. Hence a girls’ school was started at Gayaza.
Initially education was free. As the school advanced , the senior classes were required to pay 50 cents per week. The girls were required to pay ₤2 per year. The parents were unwilling to pay this money. Hattersley quotes parents saying: “What! ₤ 2 a year for a girl? Why, we could buy another cow for that!”
In June, 1904 the Church Missionary Society (CMS) held a Missionary Conference in which it was resolved to build two new schools: one at Namirembe Hill and another at Budo. The mission of these schools was to produce men fit to serve God in church and the State. The missionaries had a dim idea of when their mission would be achieved. Surprisingly, by the end of 1904, four brick houses, a school house and a fence were constructed. It was a boarding school for the sons of chiefs and was named Mengo High School. The subjects taught were Writing, Arithmetic, Geography and Elementary Science.
The formal opening of this school was performed by His Majesty’s Acting Commissioner, Mr. George Wilson, C.B. on January 25, 1905. The opening of Mengo High School did not mean the closure of the original school. Rev. C.H.T. Ecob took over the superintendence of the old school (Kayanja) while Mr. C.W. Hattersley devoted his energies to the new school. At this time the school had a capacity of 40 – 50 boys. In 1906, a group of 22 young men mostly from the Basizi proceeded to King’s School Budo. In the following year a group of nine young men, including Festo Luboyera, also joined Budo.
In the meantime, Mengo High School experienced a rapid increase in the number of boys during the first two years. The school also had boys coming from outside Buganda. They came from Busoga, Toro and Ankole. Due to increased demand for education, it was decided to expand the capacity of the school to 250 boys. Consequently, the original building was also converted into a dormitory. In addition, two new dormitories were erected. The cost was met by the local people. Furthermore, a large building to which the then Bishop of Namirembe contributed ₤500 was also erected. It was formally opened in November, 1907 by Mr. Winston Churchill, M.P. He was accompanied by the Governor, Mr. H. Hesketh Bell.
Soon, it was realized that the school needed to be split into two sections; the junior and the senior sections. This was implemented and the senior section was called Mengo Central School and the junior section became Mengo Primary School.
The school has been served by the following Head teachers
1 Miss Chadwick (Founder Headteacher) 1895 – 1901
2 Mr. G.W. Hattersley 1901 – 1912.
3 Rev. F.B. Luboyera 1913 – 1929
4 Rev. Y.B. Sempa 1929 – 1965
5 Rev. B.A. Armitage 1966 – 1972
6 Mr. Vergise George 1972 – 1985
7 Mr. Samuel K. Busuulwa 1986 – 1989
8 Mr. Musisi Bunjo Stephen 1989 – 1993
9 Mrs. Male Joy Feb 1994 – Aug. 1998
10 Mr. Joseph Ganatusanga Wakataama Aug. 1998 – March 2001
11 Mrs. Sarah K. Birungi March 2001 – March 2004
12 Mr. Patrick Bakka-Male March 2004 - January 2008
13 Mr. George William Semivule Jan 2008 – Aug 2011
14 Mr. John Fred Kazibwe August 2011- to date
Mengo Senior School believes in empowering its staff and students to cause change in the societies they live in. The values of fearing God, Respect of persons and property, Integrity, are the school’s core values. The values have been translated into observable actions which the students and teachers can practice to benefit the church, state and the entire world.
“AKWANA AKIRA AYOMBA”. This literally means that one who aspires to make friends is better off than one who engages in quarrels.
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Professors ask regents to suspend social media policy
By BEN UNGLESBEE, The Lawrence Journal-World
LAWRENCE, KAN. ----- More than 80 distinguished professors from Kansas University and Kansas State University have signed a letter asking the Kansas Board of Regents to suspend a recently passed social media policy while the regents review it.
The letter expressed "continued concern" among its signers while also stating that they "appreciate that the Board has invited representatives from the universities to review" it. They asked the regents to suspend the policy in the meantime.
"With the policy in place during this period of review, faculty and staff at Kansas universities would no longer have freedom of speech, nor the academic freedom necessary to do their jobs, nor tenure," they write.
Philip Nel, a distinguished professor of English at K-State, helped write the letter and organize its signing and publication. The letter is set to run as an advertisement, paid for by the professors, in the Manhattan Mercury, Lawrence Journal-World and Topeka Capital-Journal.
Nel said he and others were concerned that the policy remains in place after the regents announced they would review it. "Potentially that's asking all of us to just live under this policy for the foreseeable future," he said. "So we thought 'OK, this isn't good.'"
Ann Cudd, KU vice provost and dean of undergraduate studies and a distinguished professor of philosophy, echoed Nel's concern about the policy's status. "The policy is in place right now. It's not been put on hold, as far as I know," she said. "What we consider a dangerous policy is in force."
Given Cudd's dual role as a faculty member and university administrator, the decision to sign took on some extra weight for her. "I know that given that I have both titles, there may be more implications to my signing. I did think hard about it, think carefully about it," she said. "I think it's an important stand to take."
The regents passed the social media policy unanimously in December, partly as a response to KU journalism professor David Guth's anti-NRA tweet in September, which ignited nationwide controversy.
The new policy authorizes the leaders of Kansas public universities to fire employees for social media posts that conflict with the best interests of the university or its ability to efficiently provide services, among other violations. Members of the regents have said they did not think the policy violated academic freedom or speech rights.
In response to widespread outcry from faculty and staff at Kansas universities, the regents announced they would revisit the policy and set up a work group made up of representatives from regents universities to review the policy and suggest changes.
The letter signers came from a wide range of academic fields, including those such as history, philosophy and sociology that often intersect with hot-button issues that many at the universities fear could become targets of the policy.
Lynn Davidman, a KU distinguished professor of sociology, often teaches about sensitive religious and social issues in her class. "I don't use Twitter, I don't use social media but nevertheless I'm concerned it could affect me in my teaching job," she said. "The problem with a rule like this is it could unwind itself and apply itself to a vast range of utterances."
Among the signers were also distinguished professors in the natural and applied sciences. Berl Oakley, a KU distinguished professor of molecular bioscience who signed the letter, said the hard sciences are also given to controversy when it comes to subjects like climate change and, specifically in Kansas, the Ogallala aquifer. "It (the social media policy) could interfere with academically related activities of people who do hard sciences," he said. "Plus, there's just the issue of being able to express your opinion."
Professors who spoke to the Journal-World also said they wanted to use their positions as distinguished professors to protect staff and faculty and help persuade the regents to remove the policy. "My take on this is that this policy affects the most vulnerable faculty members among us," Nel said. "The distinguished professors are potentially those who have the most power to speak out on this," he said.
Breeze Richardson, a spokeswoman for the regents, said in an email that the regents could not comment because they had not read the letter. She noted that a workgroup has been established to "review this policy and offer recommendations in order to clarify the policy’s intent." She added, "Continued dialogue is welcome and encouraged."
Labels: Kansas Politics, Politics
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Vince & Sue's Travel Homepage 2014 Cross Country 2
Cruising the Delaware River
Tiny camper
Cowtown Rodeo Big Cowboy and Steer
Slowdown on US 40 in Woodstown area
Marilyn Monroe, John Belushi, Bogey, and others at Liquor store along the...
Traci, Don, Sue and Don's mom on the boat
Cole, Cole's girl friend, Troy, Don's mom and Dad, and Sue on...
Swan family at the marina
Memphis Belle flying over the Delaware River
Scenes along the Delaware River
The Tacony-Palmyra Bridge
The Tacony-Palmyra Bridge from the underside
Commercial traffic on the river
Jet skis heading toward the Ben Franklin Bridge with Philly skyline in...
Old RCA headquarters and factory on Camden waterfront
USS New Jersey
Different views of the Philadelphia skyline
Philadelphia waterfront activity
Historical ships seen along the Philadelphia waterfront
Gulls on the river
SS United States
Gang tag on grain elevator
Buoys on the shore
Life flight takes to the air
A DUCK drops into the river
Flock of gulls a sunset
Headed up river in our direction
After getting Winnie settled, we headed to Riverside to visit Traci, Sue's niece, and Don on their boat in the Rancocas Creek. We haven't seen them and the boys, Cole and Troy since early this year. Don's Mom and Dad were up from Florida in their 5th wheel and are spending some time in NJ to visit friends and family.
Lounging on the back of their boat while waiting for the food to be ready, we saw a B-17 fly overhead. I took a few pictures and when I enlarged them it turns out it was the movie version of the Memphis Belle. We saw this same plane in Georgia this winter on the 2014 First Trip - Fleeing the Freeze. Apparently it's in Philadelphia for tours and flights at $450 per person. It's at Northeast Philadelphia Airport August 22-24.
After a nice meal on their boat, we cruised the Delaware River from Delanco to South Philly. It was threatening rain all afternoon, but by the time we headed onto the river the sun was poking through the clouds and stye sky began to clear making for a nice evening cruise. We got to see Philadelphia and some of the river sites from a little different perspective. There was lots going on along the Philadelphia water from scene with a jazz concert at the waterfront amphitheater to people just relaxing by the river.
We passed by the mighty USS New Jersey that is moored along the Camden waterfront. BB62 was built at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard just downriver from her current location, and launched December 7, 1942- just a year after the Pearl Harbor Attack brought America into WWII. She served in the Korean War, Vietnam War, and to support the US mission in Lebanon in the '80's. She was finally decommissioned in 1999 and donated to the Home Port Alliance of Camden. She arrived in Camden on Veterans Day 1999 and was opened to the public for tours in 2001.
The other "big" ship along the waterfront is the SS United States. the United States has an interesting history. It was built by Newport News Shipbuilding where my brother works, in 1950. Since the Federal Government has subsidized the construction with the stipulation that it could be used as a troop ship in time of war, the ship was seized by the government for several months while a decision was made to convert it to a troop ship or not to carry troops to Korea. After it was returned to the United States Lines, construction was completed in 1952 and she entered cruise service in late 1952. Her maiden voyage was to England and she broke the record held by the Queen Mary for a TransAtlantic voyage. She completed the voyage in 3 days, 10 hours, and 30 minutes. Notable events that took place on board were filming of Gentlemen Marry Brunettes and Munster, Go Home as well as the return of the Mona Lisa to France after exhibits in Washington, DC and New York. She was decommissioned in 1969 after 400 voyages covering over 2.7 million miles. Since that time there have been numerous attempts to resurrect it as a cruise ship or a shoreside attraction for Philadelphia, Miami, or New York without much success so it sits at Pier 89 in Philly costing about $80,000 per year in docking fees. The SS United States Conservancy launched a new online campaign called "Save the United States", a blend of social networking and micro-fundraising, that allows donors to sponsor square inches of a virtual ship for redevelopment for $1/sq. in., but it seems that it's slow going. The web site is https://www.savetheunitedstates.org and it has a pretty neat virtual reality model of the ship that allows you to pick out the specific square inches you want to sponsor.
The ride back to Delanco was pleasant watching the sunset behind the Philadelphia skyline, though with a bit too many clouds to provide great photos.
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About Stirling Vines
Maimai is the wine label of Stirling Vines Limited of Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Stirling Vines is a family run enterprise that began grape growing operations in 1994, supplying grapes to large wineries in New Zealand, primarily Sauvignon Blanc. In early 2002 we made the decision to market a portion of our own fruit under our own label, Maimai. Managed by Mal McLennan, Stirling Vines comprises two vineyards - Stirling vineyard located in Meeanee, and, the Sally's Field vineyard in Bridge Pa. Maimai produces a range of white and red wines from two vineyards in Hawke’s Bay, with Sauvignon Blanc being grown in the cooler area of Meeanee, and Chardonnay, Malbec, Merlot, and Syrah being grown in the hotter regions surrounding Hastings.
The name Maimai derives from a small stream that used to run along side of the eastern boundary of our Meeanee property that we as children named “the creek.” In times of drought this creek was often a source of water for stock and water fowl. At some time in the early 1960's a maimai (hunting blind) was built and the creek became known as Maimai Creek.
Stirling Vines has expanded it's grape growing through a combination of planting on available land and through the acquisition of additional land for further planting.
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The Camp David Accords
The Framework for Peace in the Middle East
Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, and Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, met with Jimmy Carter, President of the United States of America, at Camp David from September 5 to September 17, 1978, and have agreed on the following framework for peace in the Middle East. They invite other parties to the Arab-Israel conflict to adhere to it.
The search for peace in the Middle East must be guided by the following:
The agreed basis for a peaceful settlement of the conflict between Israel and its neighbors is United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 in all its parts.
After four wars during 30 years, despite intensive human efforts, the Middle East, which is the cradle of civilization and the birthplace of three great religions, does not enjoy the blessings of peace. The people of the Middle East yearn for peace so that the vast human and natural resources of the region can be turned to the pursuits of peace and so that this area can become a model for coexistence and cooperation among nations.
The historic initiative of President Sadat in visiting Jerusalem and the reception accorded to him by the parliament, government and people of Israel, and the reciprocal visit of Prime Minister Begin to Ismailia, the peace proposals made by both leaders, as well as the warm reception of these missions by the peoples of both countries, have created an unprecedented opportunity for peace which must not be lost if this generation and future generations are to be spared the tragedies of war.
The provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and the other accepted norms of international law and legitimacy now provide accepted standards for the conduct of relations among all states.
To achieve a relationship of peace, in the spirit of Article 2 of the United Nations Charter, future negotiations between Israel and any neighbor prepared to negotiate peace and security with it are necessary for the purpose of carrying out all the provisions and principles of Resolutions 242 and 338.
Peace requires respect for the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every state in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force. Progress toward that goal can accelerate movement toward a new era of reconciliation in the Middle East marked by cooperation in promoting economic development, in maintaining stability and in assuring security.
Security is enhanced by a relationship of peace and by cooperation between nations which enjoy normal relations. In addition, under the terms of peace treaties, the parties can, on the basis of reciprocity, agree to special security arrangements such as demilitarized zones, limited armaments areas, early warning stations, the presence of international forces, liaison, agreed measures for monitoring and other arrangements that they agree are useful.
Taking these factors into account, the parties are determined to reach a just, comprehensive, and durable settlement of the Middle East conflict through the conclusion of peace treaties based on Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 in all their parts. Their purpose is to achieve peace and good neighborly relations. They recognize that for peace to endure, it must involve all those who have been most deeply affected by the conflict. They therefore agree that this framework, as appropriate, is intended by them to constitute a basis for peace not only between Egypt and Israel, but also between Israel and each of its other neighbors which is prepared to negotiate peace with Israel on this basis. With that objective in mind, they have agreed to proceed as follows:
Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the representatives of the Palestinian people should participate in negotiations on the resolution of the Palestinian problem in all its aspects. To achieve that objective, negotiations relating to the West Bank and Gaza should proceed in three stages:
Egypt and Israel agree that, in order to ensure a peaceful and orderly transfer of authority, and taking into account the security concerns of all the parties, there should be transitional arrangements for the West Bank and Gaza for a period not exceeding five years. In order to provide full autonomy to the inhabitants, under these arrangements the Israeli military government and its civilian administration will be withdrawn as soon as a self-governing authority has been freely elected by the inhabitants of these areas to replace the existing military government. To negotiate the details of a transitional arrangement, Jordan will be invited to join the negotiations on the basis of this framework. These new arrangements should give due consideration both to the principle of self-government by the inhabitants of these territories and to the legitimate security concerns of the parties involved.
Egypt, Israel, and Jordan will agree on the modalities for establishing elected self-governing authority in the West Bank and Gaza. The delegations of Egypt and Jordan may include Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza or other Palestinians as mutually agreed. The parties will negotiate an agreement which will define the powers and responsibilities of the self-governing authority to be exercised in the West Bank and Gaza. A withdrawal of Israeli armed forces will take place and there will be a redeployment of the remaining Israeli forces into specified security locations. The agreement will also include arrangements for assuring internal and external security and public order. A strong local police force will be established, which may include Jordanian citizens. In addition, Israeli and Jordanian forces will participate in joint patrols and in the manning of control posts to assure the security of the borders.
When the self-governing authority (administrative council) in the West Bank and Gaza is established and inaugurated, the transitional period of five years will begin. As soon as possible, but not later than the third year after the beginning of the transitional period, negotiations will take place to determine the final status of the West Bank and Gaza and its relationship with its neighbors and to conclude a peace treaty between Israel and Jordan by the end of the transitional period. These negotiations will be conducted among Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the elected representatives of the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza. Two separate but related committees will be convened, one committee, consisting of representatives of the four parties which will negotiate and agree on the final status of the West Bank and Gaza, and its relationship with its neighbors, and the second committee, consisting of representatives of Israel and representatives of Jordan to be joined by the elected representatives of the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza, to negotiate the peace treaty between Israel and Jordan, taking into account the agreement reached in the final status of the West Bank and Gaza. The negotiations shall be based on all the provisions and principles of UN Security Council Resolution 242. The negotiations will resolve, among other matters, the location of the boundaries and the nature of the security arrangements. The solution from the negotiations must also recognize the legitimate right of the Palestinian peoples and their just requirements. In this way, the Palestinians will participate in the determination of their own future through:
The negotiations among Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the representatives of the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza to agree on the final status of the West Bank and Gaza and other outstanding issues by the end of the transitional period.
Submitting their agreements to a vote by the elected representatives of the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza.
Providing for the elected representatives of the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza to decide how they shall govern themselves consistent with the provisions of their agreement.
Participating as stated above in the work of the committee negotiating the peace treaty between Israel and Jordan.
All necessary measures will be taken and provisions made to assure the security of Israel and its neighbors during the transitional period and beyond. To assist in providing such security, a strong local police force will be constituted by the self-governing authority. It will be composed of inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza. The police will maintain liaison on internal security matters with the designated Israeli, Jordanian, and Egyptian officers.
During the transitional period, representatives of Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and the self-governing authority will constitute a continuing committee to decide by agreement on the modalities of admission of persons displaced from the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, together with necessary measures to prevent disruption and disorder. Other matters of common concern may also be dealt with by this committee.
Egypt and Israel will work with each other and with other interested parties to establish agreed procedures for a prompt, just and permanent implementation of the resolution of the refugee problem.
Egypt-Israel
Egypt-Israel undertake not to resort to the threat or the use of force to settle disputes. Any disputes shall be settled by peaceful means in accordance with the provisions of Article 33 of the U.N. Charter.
In order to achieve peace between them, the parties agree to negotiate in good faith with a goal of concluding within three months from the signing of the Framework a peace treaty between them while inviting the other parties to the conflict to proceed simultaneously to negotiate and conclude similar peace treaties with a view the achieving a comprehensive peace in the area. The Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel will govern the peace negotiations between them. The parties will agree on the modalities and the timetable for the implementation of their obligations under the treaty.
Associated Principles
Egypt and Israel state that the principles and provisions described below should apply to peace treaties between Israel and each of its neighbors - Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
Signatories shall establish among themselves relationships normal to states at peace with one another. To this end, they should undertake to abide by all the provisions of the U.N. Charter. Steps to be taken in this respect include:
Full recognition;
Abolishing economic boycotts;
Guaranteeing that under their jurisdiction the citizens of the other parties shall enjoy the protection of the due process of law.
Signatories should explore possibilities for economic development in the context of final peace treaties, with the objective of contributing to the atmosphere of peace, cooperation and friendship which is their common goal.
Claims commissions may be established for the mutual settlement of all financial claims.
The United States shall be invited to participated in the talks on matters related to the modalities of the implementation of the agreements and working out the timetable for the carrying out of the obligations of the parties.
The United Nations Security Council shall be requested to endorse the peace treaties and ensure that their provisions shall not be violated. The permanent members of the Security Council shall be requested to underwrite the peace treaties and ensure respect or the provisions. They shall be requested to conform their policies and actions with the undertaking contained in this Framework.
For the Government of the
Arab Republic of Egypt:
Muhammed Anwar al-Sadat
For the Government
of Israel:
Menachem Begin
Witnessed by:
Jimmy Carter, President of the United States of America
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Category: Co-op
Reflecting on the past year, one of things of which I am most proud is the Co-op’s development of our “Future of Food” strategy. Building on many years of pioneering ethical and responsible sourcing of products, we have been working hard to revitalise our commitments for the next decade and beyond. In a world where we are all challenged by issues of environmental sustainability, its great to see us setting ambitious targets to build on our existing strengths in conjunction with our partners, taking action on what matters most.
Our goals revolve around three areas:
Sourcing products that are created with respect for people and planet – sustainability, health, reduced waste, reduced use of plastics, agricultural innovation.
Treating people fairly – working for justice in supply chains through more Fairtrade, empowering vulnerable workers and women, tackling water poverty, supporting British farmers and ensuring that all our suppliers get a fair deal.
Learning and celebrating together – educating and empowering future generations to make informed choices, working with partners and sharing good practice, helping everyone understand the true value of food.
Our programmes and plans have been developed after a lot of consultation with our supply partners, NGOs and academic experts as well as colleagues in all parts of our business. Having attended several workshops around this process as well as the launch event, I have been impressed by the hugely positive feedback they have given about the Co-op difference they can already see and our qualitatively stronger commitment to partnership.
You can read about our plans in much more detail on our website: https://food.coop.co.uk/food-ethics/future-of-food
Author adminPosted on January 17, 2019 Categories Co-op, Co-op Way, Fairtrade, sustainabilityTags Coop, food, sustainabilityLeave a comment on Future of Food
Just back from the Co-op AGM in Manchester. This was an inspiring event, with a good turnout of members, impressive debut speech from our new Chief Executive Steve Murrells and a great sense of an organisation now back in a stable position and beginning to think more about areas in which we can challenge the status quo as well as extend our trading.
For me there were four particular highlights:
1. Modern Slavery
We gave great attention to our new commitment to leading work on Modern Slavery. It was horrific to learn that there are thought to be 21 million victims of slavery worldwide – more than at any other time in history. And it is estimated that there are 10,000 slaves in the UK today. We are committed at the Co-op not only to working hard to ensure that our supply chains are free of this scourge, but to providing survivors with paid employment to help restore their dignity and sense of self worth. There was a powerful and emotional video sharing the story of one of the three former slaves who have been given permanent employment by Co-op, together with a commitment to taking on 30 more this year working with two charities (City Hearts and Snowdrop) in our Bright Future initiative. It was great to get an endorsement from members of our plans to campaign to encourage other companies to do likewise.
2. Fairtrade
This is a picture of me with Brad Hill, who heads up the Co-op’s Fairtrade work.
More good news on the Co-op’s commitment to Fairtrade, with our volumes of FT sales (18.5% up on last year) now over-taking Tesco’s to make us the second largest Fairtrade retailer in the UK. Only Sainsbury’s sells more, and with their momentum appearing to wane it is clear that our support for the movement is increasingly crucial. Our focus on maximising impact for producers is driving our new initiatives. Having taken all the cocoa in own brand products Fairtrade this year, we are now going to do the same with tea, coffee and bananas. So not only will these product categories continue to be 100% Fairtrade, but we will always source them on fair trade terms when they are used as ingredients in other products too.
It was also great to hear that because of our work with One Foundation (donating 3 pence per litre on sales of our bottled waters to water projects in Kenya and Malawi) we are the only UK retailer to be invited to join a new UN backed initiative (the Global Investment Fund for Water) to promote clean water.
3. Waste and recycling
New commitments on making all our food packaging recyclable by 2023 (though there is perhaps still more to do on reducing packaging). We will also be working with FareShare to redistribute the food for 20 million meals. These are great initiatives – although in my view we still need to do more to tackle the root problems behind food waste.
It was also great to see the Co-op’s first hybrid diesel/electric powered lorry outside the conference centre! It is the only 26 tonne lorry of this type in the UK, and we are trialling it as a way of improving fuel efficiency and reducing noise.
4. Community engagement
The launch of our Member Pioneer scheme, which over time will lead to 1500 activists working in the localities we serve to mobilise our members behind improving the well-being of their communities. About 60 Pioneers have been recruited so far (from 450 applicants) and we have started to train and resource them.
Lemn Sissay, the poet and Chancellor of Manchester University, has agreed to be Ambassador for the scheme, and gave a rousing speech on the importance of communities and also on our embracing migrants and refugees (recognising that migration is part of all our stories and integral to being human). This initiative promises to make our community support even more meaningful than the money given to good causes: £9 million distributed just last month as a result of our 5+1 membership scheme, and a further £6 million raised to fight against loneliness with the Red Cross (nearly double our target figure). I hope tackling loneliness will become a big feature of our local work going forward – with hard evidence that nothing does this better than encouraging people to volunteer and become engaged with local initiatives.
Re-elected!
Oh, and then there was the good news that I have been re-elected for a second term as Member Nominated Director! Although the voting numbers weren’t announced formally at the meeting I am told that I received over 40,000 of the first preference votes, with the other two candidates being on just under 20,000 each. I am humbled and delighted by this endorsement, and look forward to the next two years of serving the Society.
Author adminPosted on May 21, 2017 Categories Board, campaigns, Co-op, Co-op Way, community, Fairtrade, Member Nominated Director, sustainabilityTags AGM, Co-op Group, community, Fairtrade, member pioneers, MND election, moder salvery, recyclingLeave a comment on 2017 AGM
Election time – my manifesto
It seems hard to believe that is almost two years since I joined the Co-op Board. But AGM papers have just started going out to members, and include the ballot for electing Member Nominated Directors. It’s my turn to stand again.
I’m very much hoping to be re-elected for a second term. My colleague Ruth Spellman has decided not to stand again owing to her other commitments, so I’m the only current MND standing in this year’s election.
Over the last two years I’ve got to know my way around the Society (you can see something of this by looking at my posts on this blog over the past six months). I’ve been able to build relationships with many colleagues and Council members and I’ve spent time listening the the views of customers and members around the country. So I believe I’m well-placed to contribute to our planning for the next stage of the Co-op’s Renewal, and can provide continuity as we build on the successes and learn from the experience of the last two years.
My “manifesto” can be found here and if you are gluttons for punishment you can even see a short video of me making a two minute pitch!
A brief summary is that if re-elected I would focus on four things:
Firstly, empowering and equipping our colleagues so that they can use their skills and enthusiasm to serve our members and customers even better and get properly rewarded for doing so.
Secondly, extending our commitments to sustainability and ethical trade: more Fairtrade; more local suppliers; healthier ranges; less food waste.
Thirdly, I want to see us re-engage with the wider co-operative movement so that together we can truly champion better ways of doing business.
And fourthly, we need to build local structures that really connect with members and their communities and deliver benefits to them so that we feel like a real Co-op and not just any other business.
So if you are a member of the Co-op and entitled to vote I would very much appreciate your support!
Author adminPosted on April 20, 2017 Categories Board, Co-op, Member Nominated DirectorTags Co-op, election, MNDLeave a comment on Election time – my manifesto
Co-op: back to the future
Spent yesterday visiting the wonderful Beamish open air museum here in the North-East. As always one of the highlights was going round the village high street from the early 1900s: a high street dominated by the Co-op’s grocery and haberdashery stores.
I loved the nostalgia of looking along shelves to see some brands that are still going strong (Colman’s mustard, Rowntree chocolate …), and other products that have long since disappeared. Lots of Co-operative Wholesale Society own brand products too, of course, many of them manufactured and packaged in our own factories and proudly labelled with their origins. Early examples of the importance of knowing a product’s provenance.
And there were the posters urging customers to “Join Us” as members – something we are still encouraging people to do today.
Over half a million customers have signed up to become members since the New Year – so we are well on our way to the target of one million new members this year. But we need to do more than sign people up. We need to reconnect with the local community too, in the same way that the store at Beamish was once the heart of the community in Annfield Plain.
So I am delighted with the £9 million we have given to 4,000 good causes around the UK and that we have announced in the last week. This is the first fruit of our 1% donations on all own brand products bought by members since the relaunch of our Membership offer in September. As the scheme builds we hope to be giving £20 million a year in this way: that’s serious money. I hope the pioneers and the many colleagues who worked for Co-op down through the last 170 years would be proud of what we are still able to do in the spirit of the service they gave their local communities.
Author adminPosted on April 20, 2017 Categories Co-op, community, food stores, Membership offer, own brand productsTags causes, Co-op, history, membership, own brandLeave a comment on Co-op: back to the future
I was delighted to spend a morning attending a “town hall” meeting with colleagues from Co-op Funeralcare in Washington. These are a relatively recent initiative to allow colleagues to be updated on progress in the business and get their feedback. Colleagues from the Funeralcare support centre in Manchester are encouraged to get out to these local meetings around the country as a way of ensuring they keep in touch with the realities of life at the front line.
Thinking back through Co-op history making provision for a dignified funeral was a key concern of our members in the nineteenth century, so it is great that we continue to provide a high level of service in this sector to this day.
Recent progress
There is a remarkably good story to be told about our recent performance:
Growth in market share for the first time in five years 29% market share in sales of pre-need funeral plans – an excellent sign for the future Investment in new funeral homes – now over 1,000 around the UK – and in renewing our fleet of vehicles.
Launch of a low cost Simple Funeral to help address funeral poverty – which has forced competitors to respond in kind.
Announcement that we will provide funerals free of charge to any person who is 17 or younger, helping families at a time of acute grief: an initiative that was recently commented on positively by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons.
Merger of the funerals business with our legal services operation, to maximise the synergies around will writing and probate work and provide a fuller service to our clients.
Development of new software by our Digital team that promises to transform the back office operations of Funeralcare, improving efficiency and releasing colleague time to care for bereaved families.
Under the leadership of Richard Lancaster and Robert McLachlan there is a new confidence and willingness to take the business forward with a clear focus on caring for families. I was impressed by the positive comments and clear engagement of the colleagues at the briefing session.
Digital developments
At the session I was able to hear more about the Digital project (now being trialled in Edinburgh) from Regional Operations Manager, David Knowles. David was seconded to the Digital team for six months, to make sure that someone who really understands the needs of the business was plugged into the systems design from the outset. His enthusiasm for the potential improvements that would flow through was tangible, but I was especially pleased to note how positively other colleagues responded to the news: embracing the change rather than fearing a new challenge.
It was also great to be given a tour of the Washington Funeralcare centre, the hub of a network of homes in the area.
Our senior manager Karen Crake, with nearly thirty years of experience, is justifiably proud of her purpose-built building, for it looks very smart and professional throughout. They are the sort of premises in which the deceased can be handled in a dignified, respectful and professional manner, with strong standards clearly in place. I heard several stories of funeral directors visiting from other non-Co-op organisations and being amazed by the quality of what we do. Our main competitors, Dignity, in their recent results announcements called for more regulation of standards in the funeral industry. I am confident that the Co-op already leads the way in this respect, and we would welcome the opportunity for standards to be improved across the board to benefit families everywhere.
So thanks to David, Karen (shown in the photo above, with me) and Funeralcare’s Head of Marketing Lorinda Robinson for making me so welcome!
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This week has been dominated by preparations for the release of the Co-op Group annual results for 2016 on Thursday.
The headlines have predictably focused on the decision to write down the value of our holding in the Co-operative Bank to nil. Although the headlines say this means we just get it to be “worthless”, in fact it simply points to the impossibility of being able to put a clear value on the shares at a time when a sale is in prospect and uncertainty is being fuelled by (often misleading) press speculation.
The newsworthiness of this item and the fact that the write-down turned our year end profit into a loss have hidden a lot of other good news:
All three of our core businesses (Food, Funerals and Insurance) have shown growth in both sales and market share.
Strong uptake of our new membership scheme, and re-engagement of many members with the Society.
Operating profit was up 32% year on year.
Underlying profit before tax was slightly down on last year, but ahead of our budget and unsurprising given the scale of re-investment we are making across our businesses and in re-launching our brand and membership proposition.
The full press release can be found here.
Our markets remain fiercely competitive, of course, so the next couple of years will be challenging. Nevertheless we now have a stable and much stronger platform from which to develop and launch our plans for the future. It was interesting that the BBC coverage ended up focusing on what markets the Co-op might choose to enter next and disrupt. That’s quite a change from just three years ago when everyone was wondering whether the Group could even survive!
Author adminPosted on April 8, 2017 Categories Co-op, Co-operative Bank, financial results, food stores, Funeralcare, InsuranceTags Co-op Food, Co-op Funeralcare, Co-op Group, Co-op Insurance, Co-operative bank, resultsLeave a comment on Annual results
Earlier in the month I attended a conference organised by Co-ops UK (our industry trade association) focusing on the challenges and opportunities faced by co-operative retailers. Its an annual event, but it was my first time there. I was particularly impressed by a presentation from James Walton, chief economist at IGD (the Institute for Grocery Distribution) surveying past and future trends in retailing and the economy as a whole. And the whole proceedings were ably presided over by Ed Mayo, Secretary General of Co-ops UK.
This picture shows me chatting with Nick Matthews, chair of Co-ops UK and director of Heart of England Co-operative Society, between two of the sessions.
Shared brand and services
It was a great chance for me to get to chat at greater length with leaders from some of the independent co-operative societies. Many of these are closely linked to the Co-op Group, many of them use our brand and have votes within our democratic structures. We have a federal wholesaling system, meaning that many products are brought centrally using our collective purchasing power to get better prices. But they are also proudly distinct, with their own histories and a clear focus on their own regional constituencies.
The existence of these independents is sometimes a cause of confusion to Group members and customers. They see the Co-op brand over the shops and on own brand products inside, but find they cannot swipe their membership cards. If you understand the history behind this you can understand it, but in the modern era with so much more focus on clear brand identity you would probably not want to invent such structures!
The Co-op Membership offer
So I was especially interested to gauge the thoughts of the independents about adopting the Group’s 5+1 membership offer. It would be so much simpler if members could receive 5% on Co-op branded products and get 1% donated to local community projects, regardless of where they bought those products.
But you can understand why some of the independents are feeling reticent about adopting the same scheme. In a business where margins are often wafer thin, giving away 6% of margin can feel a big risk, especially if you still want to be able to give away dividends or support good causes in other ways too in accordance with the wishes of your own members.
To be able to afford it you need to be able to see a number of factors coming to fruition. You need existing members to switch their purchases from branded products to own brand products, as we need to give away less margin to suppliers on the latter ranges. Secondly, you need your members to start increasing their basket size and frequency of visits in response to the offer – so they are buying more from you than before. And thirdly you need to attract new members – not just converting existing shoppers to membership (though that is a good thing in itself), but attracting in brand new customers to increase volumes.
There are already promising signs on all these fronts for the Group, with growing proportions of own brand sales and half a million new customers signed up as members. But you can understand why an independent may for the moment want to wait and watch before plunging in.
Author adminPosted on March 30, 2017 April 8, 2017 Categories Co-op, Co-ops UK, Independent societies, Membership offerTags Co-op, Coops UK, IGC, independent co-operative society, Membership offerLeave a comment on Co-ops UK Retail conference
Fairtrade Fortnight – Co-op’s cocoa initiative
In the last week it has been great to catch up at various events with Mike Gidney, Chief Executive of the Fairtrade Foundation who for many years used to work with me at Traidcraft where he used to be Director of Policy while I was chief exec.
Update on Fairtrade
Mike was able to share the good news that the value of Fairtrade sales in the UK rose slightly in 2016 despite the challenges posed by changes in the EU sugar regime which have severely hit Fairtrade sugar sales. Given food price deflation, the underlying volume growth (which matters most to producers) was about 8%.
At one event a producer from Divine Chocolate (or rather from Koapa Kokoo the co-operative which owns and supplies Divine), impressed Co-op Group staff with her simple explanation of how selling cocoa on Fairtrade terms had allowed her community to achieve clean water, build a school and provide decent toilets for themselves.
Co-op’s cocoa initiative
But for me the stand-out event of the fortnight has been Co-op Group’s announcement that from May 2017 all the cocoa in any of our own brand products (not just the chocolate bars) will in future be sourced on Fairtrade terms. We are the first business in the world to make a commitment like this, and it means our purchases of Fairtrade cocoa will go up an impressive five-fold, with an extra £500,000 per annum in Fairtrade premiums flowing through to our producer suppliers on top of the value of the coca sales themselves. Co-op is challenging other businesses to follow suit, as this is how we can really achieve scale of impact.
It is a source of justifiable pride that Co-op is still leading the way in Fairtrade – perhaps particularly after the disappointing announcement that the Fairtrade logo will shortly disappear from Cadbury’s Dairy Milk (shame on them!). I am pleased to have been able to play a small part by providing Board-level encouragement for our commitment to Fairtrade, but the credit must go to our Fairtrade sourcing manager Brad Hill whose commitment and focus over many years has been absolutely exemplary.
Author adminPosted on March 8, 2017 March 30, 2017 Categories Co-op, FairtradeTags Co-op, cocoa, Fairtrade, Fairtrade Fortnight, Mike GidneyLeave a comment on Fairtrade Fortnight – Co-op’s cocoa initiative
Council and Senate
I am getting a little bit behind with my blogging, but ten days ago we had a dinner for Board and executive team members with members from the Senate of the National Members Council, to mark Richard Pennycook’s departure as chief executive. This was a good occasion, not only because of the excellent food and wine (exclusively Co-op own brand products of course!), and a memorable farewell address from Richard, but also because of the chance to build informal relationships between Board and Senate members.
Co-op democracy
The ten members of Senate are elected from the 100 members of the National Members Council (many shown in the image below), and as well as leading the work of the Council they are a forum to which the Board can refer for guidance on how Council might react to particular courses of action being considered. To carry out this latter role effectively requires the building of trust between individual directors and Senate members, so that we can speak openly with each other and yet know that confidentiality will be respected.
Role of MNDs
In my role as Member Nominated Director I am fortunate to have had more opportunities than many of my colleagues on the Board to get to know our Senate members and the wider Council. This is both through attending Council meetings and because I am a member the rather strangely named Stakeholder Working Group (which acts as a point of liaison between Board and the Council President and Vice-Presidents), and last year I also served on working parties relating to the election process for MNDs and the development of the “Co-op Compass” as a way of measuring our performance against key objectives.
Holding the Board to account
The Co-op’s governance give the Council a vital role as representatives of the interests and priorities of our members, holding the Board and individual directors to account, providing inputs on possible future direction and acting in many ways as the “conscience” of the Society – making sure that we strive to hold true to co-operative Values and Principles and high ethical standards. At times dialogue can feel uncomfortable – when Council challenges a decision or proposal from the Board. That discomfort is essential and can be creative if we are to ensure that the Board really does steer a course that is in line with what our member owners would like. It can and does have a very positive influence for the good. But there is always a risk that it can descend into confrontation and misunderstanding if mutual trust is replaced by suspicion or an assumption that either the Board is wanting to undermine our Values or that the Council is just wanting to create obstructions.
The way to make sure that Council-Board relationships add value to the Co-op is twofold: firstly – clear, open and early communication; secondly – strong personal relationships. We can always do better at both, and as an MND and member of the Stakeholder Working Group I believe I have a particular responsibility to help make sure we continue to invest in making dialogue and mutual understanding as effective as possible. Social interaction such as the dinner are a really important way of creating human relationships that will then make more business-focused discussions increasingly productive.
Author adminPosted on March 8, 2017 March 30, 2017 Categories Board, Co-op Council, Member Nominated Director, own brand productsTags Co-op, Co-op Compass, Council, Member Nominated DirectorLeave a comment on Council and Senate
You will have heard by now that Richard Pennycook has decided to stand down as chief executive of the Co-op Group. This comes after nearly four years during which he successfully rescued us from imminent collapse and rebuilt us to a point where we are once again looking to the future with confidence.
We all owe Richard an enormous amount. Without his experience, intellect, integrity and steadying sense of calm at the centre of the Group things could have turned out very differently. His vision for how we could express our co-operative values and re-engage with our communities whilst remaining a professional and successful set of businesses has helped us recruit many talented leaders into the Co-op.
It is typical of Richard that he recognised that unless he was to stay on for another four or five years, it would be best that he moved aside early to allow a new chief executive to lead our planning processes through this year for the Renew phase of our turn around.
And we are very fortunate to have had a clear successor in place in Steve Murrells, who in October was awarded the 2016 Grocer Cup as the person judged to have been “the individual who has contributed most to the industry over he past year and who has shown exceptional leadership in inspiring his company to achieve exceptional results”.
Steve is the person who has transformed Co-op’s food business in the last three years. By focusing more clearly on our natural strengths the convenience sector and re-building an own brand range that we could all be proud of, Steve has been instrumental in restoring morale, momentum and sustained market-leading growth to our stores.
I am delighted to be working with someone whom I know will bring vision, enthusiasm and energy to the task of leading the Co-op, and who totally buys into our values and ethos. More exciting times ahead!
Author adminPosted on February 10, 2017 March 30, 2017 Categories Board, Co-opTags Co-op, Murrells, PennycookLeave a comment on Changing of the Guard
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PublishingLab
Results of Our ‘Digital Reading’ Survey
By Josip Batinic, December 8, 2015 at 8:58 am .
During the months of October and November, we conducted a survey regarding reading habits on digital devices. We are currently busy working on an online reading platform, and such feedback was immensely helpful in presenting a general overview of the tendencies people have with digital text.
We shared the online survey via INC newsletter, with the people who have previously acquired an INC publication, our personal contacts and on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. In total, we received a little above 200 replies, which according to our calculations, should give a fairly faithful representation of our audience and their reading preferences.
The survey was divided into 6 parts, namely:
Researching online
Reading on computer (laptop & desktop computer)
Reading on a tablet
Reading on a smartphone
Beneath we present first some information related to our audience, the general outcome of the survey, and finally some more specific conclusion that we found particularly interesting.
We noticed that our average reader is in the age range of 26-45 year old (more than 50% of the total amount of people surveyed), while a solid 21.9% of the audience is older than 46, and a fair 18.5% is younger than 26. We were quite pleasantly surprised to find out that the results came from 32 different countries, with the most common one being, of course the Netherlands (26%), followed by the United States of America (14.1%), and Australia (6.8%). Nearly half of the participants were academics (49.51%), while the second most common occupational sector belonged to that of students (18.45%), followed closely by the cultural sector (17.96%). The remaining 14% was shared among fields such as Technology, Finiance, and Public Services. We have also noticed that the majority of the contributors use devices developed by Apple (especially for what concerns tablets and smartphones).
In general, our participants seem to lean towards an easy and convenient solution when they are reading a text online (specifically a long-form or research paper in this case). There is no clear aversion towards more interactive file formats, however, it can be argued that functionality and simplicity of the format beat variety and structureal complexity. All summed up, one can rightfully assume that people regard reading digital publications still as a sort of a novelty rather than a completely legitimate counterpart to reading print publications.
A few particular remarks
1. Information
The first pieces of information people look for when reading and researching new texts, are the title (53.8% say it the most important on a scale from 1 to 5), the author (47.4%), and the keywords (46.4%).
23.8 % of our participants consider information related to the editor(s) to be the least important.
The file format of the publication and the date of publishing are considered as ‘moderately’ important during the research process. 33.8% say that the file format is secondary, and likewise is the date of publishing (for 33% of people.
The date of writing seems to be less important than the date of publishing, although the margin of difference is quite minuscule (32.4%).
Our survey contributors have a strong preference for scrolling. 64.6% of them declared their fondness for scrolling on desktop or laptop computers and a staggering 71.4% on smartphones.
However, on tablets, results are more balanced. Almost 40% say they still prefer to scroll down (‘To read one page on a screen and to scroll down to read the whole content’). In contrast to the above results, 43.9% of our sampled population say they prefer ‘To read one page on a screen, but paginated (no scrolling, click on bottom to turn the pages)’, and 10.6% say they prefer to ‘read on an “emulated” book: 2 pages face to face and click on bottom to turn the pages’.
It seems that the digital readers from our surveya associate tablets with books more than the other two technological devices. A tablet has a closer physical resemblance to a book than a desktop/laptop computer or a smartphone has. The fact that out survey participants lean toward emulated page-flipping on tablets may suggest a certain nostalgia of a physicality of print book. The smartphones and other bulkier computers, instead, embrace the ephemeral and limitless entailments of digital technology.
3. Digital publishing platforms
Digital publishing platforms such as Issuu or Scribd appear quite unpopular with our survey contributors, as the majority (32.4% of them) say they use it ‘Less than once in three months’.
Issuu is slightly more popular than Scribd (27.8% compared to 25.4%), however 46.8% of the total amount of participants did not like any of the 2 platforms and sometimes even strongly reject them for a variety of reasons, such as preferring to have ‘control over the text’ and to ‘download files’.
4. Reading long Texts
Reading on a screen
Downloading and reading a PDF version convincingly wins the first spot as the most popular choice for when reading long texts (73.7% of people made this choice).
Apart from that, reading an online HTML webpage seems to be the ‘best’ alternativeto PDF (8.9%). Some also consider downloading and reading an EPUB file (7%), or a plain text file (.doc for instance, with a frequence of 3.8%).
The preference for the PDF could be explained by arguing that such a file is easily printable (60.1% of people agreed), it is easy to read on different computers/devices (43.2% expressed so) and also easy to send by email (53.5% of the surveyed claim).
60.8% said they have never purchased a book through a Print-on-Demand platform, yet 36.8% of them have done it. We consider this information quite striking, since PoD is still quite unpopular, and further, since INC publications are also available for free in digital versions.
The survey participants explained that even though it was already available for free digitally, the main reasons for purchasing a PoD book were:
– the content of the book itself (40.3% said ‘Yes, if I enjoyed the book (a lot).’)
– the preference for reading on paper (34.6% said ‘Yes, because I prefer to read on paper.’)
– the potential difficulty of reading the digital version (20.4% said ‘Yes, if the digital version is difficult to read.’)
However, although the surveyed population does not seem to be reluctant to the print-on-demand idea, some of them point out that a different layout would make them purchase a PoD book more easily, but they also insist that a cheap print quality would be ‘useless’.
People keep up with their favourite websites primarly by using social media. 53.5% of them said they use Facebook as a newsfeed, 46.9% of them said they use Twitter.
Despite some of them use social media as newsfeed, others still use the ‘traditional’ newsletter (55.4%) and RSS Feed, although the latter is used less (33.3%). Google+ doesn’t look popular, as only 5.6% of them said they used it.
We intend, thus to present the readers with a broad spectrum of different tools from which they can choose freely, since there is no specific digital reading tendency appearing at this point.
Download the survey by clicking on this link:
TheoryOnDemand_survey2015.pdf
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Over the last five months, the Theory on Demand Team has been working on developing an online reading platform for academic articles. The project task involved adapting the already existing print and static content of the INC’s ‘Theory on Demand’ series onto the digital screens, more precisely, creating a fully digital version of the book, [...]
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The 6 months we spent on experimenting on the reader and its form were very interesting and intense, because full of reflexions, contradictions and intuitions. Below are some of those points: A > B Family tree This platform has been created as a continuity and a declination of the current INC website. Thus, its design [...]
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Dear readers, We have just realized that we have been working on our platform for months, without showing you any overview, and that it is actually hard time to. Since MoneyLab (early December), we have been thinking about ways to improve online’s reading. We have created specific functions that would allow for an easy navigation [...]
Design and development by Roberto Picerno & Silvio Lorusso.
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Home » The service » Meet the Crew
TVACAA is one of the busiest air ambulance services in the country and is renowned for the professionalism and dedication of its crew – the pilots, paramedics and doctors.
The Paramedics
Our highly trained paramedic crew has a wide range of specialist skills so they can cope with all situations. As well as often being first on the scene – which can involve making life or death decisions – they understand the needs of the patients and their families and will handle everything in a sensitive manner.
Delivering advanced medical care in their helicopter emergency missions, our Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine (PHEM) experienced Doctors bring specialist medical skills at the highest level to the patient. The presence of a doctor on board the Air Ambulance provides a further depth of medical knowledge and the ability to carry out additional medical procedures.
Our aircraft, its pilots and maintenance support are leased from Bond Air Services. The pilots have a great deal of experience and are carefully selected as air ambulance flights are typically more challenging than non-emergency flight services. The pilots ensure that the medical team can safely get the patient to hospital as quickly as possible.
Meet Neil Plant
Paramedic Team Leader
As the Team Leader here at the Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance my time
is split between flying as part of the crew and office based sorting out all the logistics
that keep our HEMS service flying. I manage the team of HEMS paramedics and
doctors to include the rotas, ordering of stock and all the general day to day
administration tasks that are required.
I also work closely with both the charity and South Central Ambulance Service to
make sure the whole operation is as cohesive as possible. As you would expect
though my main passion is being part of the crew and attending the missions with
the highly skilled paramedics and doctors who crew this valuable service.
Meet Dr Syed Masud
Clinical Lead
Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Pre-Hospital Care, TVACAA HEMS Clinical Governance Lead. Training Programme Director for Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine, Health Education Thames Valley, Clinical Director for Major Trauma Thames Valley
Dr Syed Masud’s particular interests are safety and education in major trauma and pre-hospital care. He has spent over 10 years in training in both trauma and pre-hospital emergency medicine including time with the British Army.
Syed has invented many courses that have now become national standards within their field - including the HEMS Crew Course (HCC), Medical Tactical Firearms Officers Course (MTFO) and recently designed and project led on the Trauma Team Leaders (TTL) Course on behalf of the London Trauma Office. He spent two years as a consultant at the Royal London Hospital and then took up a post as Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Pre-Hospital Care at The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
Syed also has interests in Event Medicine having been the former Chief Medical Officer for Wembley National Stadium and is currently the Governance Lead. Syed's greatest passion is pre-hospital emergency medicine - he has worked in several HEMS units in the country from the Great North Air Ambulance to London HEMS. He is now currently the HEMS Clinical Governance Lead for TVACAA. Syed has recently been responsible for introducing PHEM training within the Thames Valley region. Syed is also a special constable with the Metropolitan Police.
Meet Alf Gasparro
Head Pilot
Having worked on the Air Ambulance since 2002, it has proven to be both a challenging and extremely rewarding experience attending to patients in their greatest hour of need. As an Air Ambulance pilot, our role is to prepare and fly the helicopter for missions, to develop and maintain operational and safety standards and procedures, check for weather and airspace restrictions, train HEMS crew members for their aviation roles and to guide and counsel, the crew, ambulance service and charity in terms of aviation requirements and legislation.
Pilots are ultimately responsible for the aviation aspect of the air ambulance service, however we seek assistance and work within a close team of Paramedics and Doctors to deliver the best possible clinical care within an evolving service. It is this team’s work, whether performing duties at the base, whilst in flight or at the scene of an incident that enables us to help and serve the community.
What your support enables us to deliver:
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True vocation: Hospitalized teacher finishes marking his students’ work before passing away
Facebook Sandra Venegas
By Upsocl
Alejandro Navarro packed up his laptop and charger when he found out he was going to be admitted to hospital, so that he could continue marking his students’ work. He dedicated his final hours to his profession.
The great teachers of the world don’t go down in history because of how much they know but because they become role models for their students. In a year as turbulent as this one we have been able to witness the true humanity of the many teachers who have given 100%, trying to be agents of change from a distance. Teachers like Alejandro Navarro from San Felipe del Río in Texas, United States, are remembered for their dedication and commitment.
Alejandro Navarro was a teacher who was devoted to his job and who had been admitted to hospital due to severe heart problems. Before going through to the ER, the teacher opened his laptop and got to work correcting the assignments and exams that his students had sent him virtually.
His daughter, Sandra Venegas, took the final photo of her father on her phone, showing how he used the little energy he had left to finish his work.
The picture was shared on Facebook on December 18th alongside a moving caption, in which Sandra detailed that when her father found out that he was going to be admitted to hospital, the first thing he packed was his laptop and charger so that he could finish checking reports from his hospital bed.
At one point, he was approached by doctors who told him that his condition was worsening and asked him to confirm whether he would prefer to receive CPR and be intubated or left to go in peace in the event of his heart stopping.
Sandra emphasizes how worried her father was about work and how he always put the needs of his students above his own. The daughter wishes that she could have made the most of those final moments with him.
“The last time I saw him was Monday and he spent the two hours I was at his house working. I wish I would have closed his laptop and enjoyed spending time with him.”
–Sandra Venegas en Facebook–
Venegas, who’s also a teacher, called for increased awareness about the great lengths teachers are going to in times of COVID and who are working far more hours than they are contracted to, which places an enormous strain on them. Her reflection finishes with a plea not to normalize working extra hours, as people are replaceable at work but they are not replaceable at home.
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Keanu Reeves has looked like a hippie nearly all his life, but he seems to be getting more and more like one every day since playing the spiritual master, Prince Siddhartha, in Little Buddha.
For Keanu Reeves, Little Buddha was more than just a movie about spirituality. It was very much a spiritual journey for him, too. And who could blame him. Sitting naked in the deep Nepalese woods to get into character must surely do something to a guy! But the biggest lesson Keanu learnt, was never to doubt himself. "I had lots of people saying 'you can't play this part'," says Keanu. "People on the street said, 'what's your next project?' Little Buddha. 'Oh yeah, what do you play?' Prince Siddhartha. 'Siddhartha?' Yeah. Buddha. That's hard to say to someone who goes, 'You can't play Buddha. You can't play Siddhartha.'"
Not only did Keanu play Buddha, he came out of the other side of. this picture something of a changed man. No mistake, he's still the same ambling breezy boy he's known and loved for, but now he seems to speak in great masses of spiritual sentences. Something happened while making Little Buddha, didn't it, Keanu? "I'll tell you what I learned, yeah," he says radiating like a sun beam. "It was such a joy, man, some of the best days of my life in acting and in film. It was just so full, and working on something like that is beyond entertainment."
Keanu also became more wrapped in the Buddhist faith than he ever imagined he would. "In the beginning, I didn't know anything about Buddhism," he says. "I didn't know the story of Siddhartha or anything else for that matter. It was all such a crash course for me. Literally 90 days of total immersion. I had no teacher, really. I was embracing everything so much. It was very intense, but I was looking for it, and I found it. And I was glad."
Perhaps it was just a case of perfect timing for Keanu. After all, the role of Prince Siddhartha came along at a time when he's questioning more than ever, the direction of his life. "I'm of that age, 29," he says, "so I'm historically, traditionally in the 'spiritual quest' part of my life. The beginnings of the quest of spirituality! For the common man." Erm... right. In English, please Keanu? "I feel like I'm beginning. I really do," he continues (in the same flouncyspeak mode). "Because I've had some successes and non-successes, with performances. I got killed in Dracula. I got slaughtered. I didn't think the accent was that bad, but supposedly it was! Because of that, because I stunk in some films, I wasn't making strong acting choices. I tried, but those kinds of failures put me in a precarious position. I really do have some improving to do. It depends on how familiar you are with the films that I did, but I haven't been in any really major studio successes." Even if critics absolutely cane the film or its star, Keanu isn't doubting himself - over this one. He likes the film, and he's thrilled with it. "You know what I liked about the film?" he asks with a smile. "I thought it was very subtle. It was putting things across in a very natural way." As for his favourite part in the film, Keanu is adamant. "My favourite scene to do was as the Sadu, the long-haired Prince Siddhartha," says Keanu. "Then yoga, going into the river, talking to the Moose. And my favourite scene to do was, I guess, at the bowl, squatting by the side of the water with knowing what I knew. Knowing that and having a wooden bowl in my hand and then the woman there watching me. It was just fun, 'cause that was the last scene I filmed."
So will Keanu ever return from this almost out of body experience of playing Prince Siddhartha? Well, for a start, he's got a totally conventional action movie - coming out. "Speed," he says, "is silly, it's ridiculous, it might be fun! It was good fun. I mean, it's very heavy. It's an action picture: The scenario is there is a bomb on a public bus and once the bus goes above 55mph it activates the bomb, if it falls below the bomb explodes. I'm a cop in the movie trying to save the day, Dennis Hopper is the mad bomber." For other humbling experiences there's Keanu's band. The mention of Dogstar makes him double up with laughter. "Dogstar!" he shrieks. "Wooooooo... well one thing I can say is that we're not a pretentious band. That could be a knock against us 'cause I think that in the music business you need to be a little pretentious to succeed. So we actually fail on that side. We played in the garage the other day. It was a bitchin' jam, but unfortunately I've moved out of my house so we have nowhere to play. Dogstar is, erm, in between music halls (laughs)."
So is Keanu planning to be a 'god' on the guitar? "I would like to make some good music," says Keanu going all serious again. "But I certainly have no ambitions to do this all the time. I mean I'm not a musician in that sense. But I'll play in a bar, that's for sure, cool!" And there it is - the old Bill And Ted-style grin is still there under that messy mop, no matter how serious making Little Buddha might have been. I point this out to Keanu, and while he looks back and laughs at the Bill And Ted days, he is keen to move on! "I thought it was great clown work!" says Keanu. "I'm very lucky to have had the opportunity to work in different genres. I mean the only consistency I can see upon reflection is the innocence," he ponders. "There's always innocence in my characterisaiton and in my life. So that's got to change." We'll look forward to the next stage Keanu.
Little Buddha - Big Stress
The Little Buddha crew picked one of the most impossible places to shoot their movie - ever. For authenticity and to capture the "spirit of Buddhism" they travelled to Bhutan. It's an extremely difficult place to get into, as the government only issues 2000 tourist visas a year. It took months of planning and delicate diplomacy for the crew to be allowed to use the ancient monasteries, where they wanted to film. Little Buddha is the first film ever to be filmed in the country of Bhutan.
Even catering became a nightmare in the tiny country. Caterers had to provide tons of food each day for sometimes over a thousand people, and had to make sure that the food fit in with everyone's religious beliefs and cultural differences when they were serving people from Italy, England, France, India, Nepal and Bhutan!
There is only one plane that makes the journey in and out of Bhutan, and it's only two flights a week from Kathmandu. The one small jet had to be stripped of all its seating, to be able to fly in all the filming equipment.
The men in Prince Siddhartha's court are made up of over 200 men - all generously supplied by the Nepali Army and Cavalry.
A total of 500 hair pieces, all made from real hair, were flown from London to Nepal, for the crowd scenes.
Keanu was set to have a body double for his revealing scenes in the film, but then he decided to fast and look "wasted away" enough to do the scenes himself.
Jewellers scoured the earth to get the valuable materials needed to make 150 anklets and toe-rings. Gold plated nutmegs, ginger roots, seed pods and shells were just some of the things brought in from Mexico, East Europe and India!
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His interviews from Little Buddha are some of my favorite. I like the way he talks about his experience, and the effect it had on him. You can tell it was profound. I have to say, sometimes I feel envious of him, of his filmic experiences, and this is one of those times. Up in Nepal, hanging out with monks, pushing the mind, body, and spirit... seems like a truly magical time.
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Federal Agency to support Lambda Legal/CWLA guidelines for LGBTQ youth in foster care
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"The Administration on Children, Youth and Families will make the Recommended Practice Guidelines available to every state child welfare agency in the country to help meet the needs of LGBTQ children."
(New York, December 14, 2011) - Today, Lambda Legal and the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) released "Recommended Practice Guidelines to Promote the Safety and Well-Being of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Youth and Youth at Risk of or Living with HIV in Child Welfare Settings." The guide includes national practice guidelines for state and local child welfare agencies to ensure safe and proper care consistent with the best interests LGBTQ children in the child welfare system.
"The single most important principle contained in the guidelines is that affirming the sexual orientation and gender identity and expression of LGBTQ youth in care protects young peoples' emotional safety and ensures positive outcomes," said Flor Bermudez, Lambda Legal's Youth in Out-of-Home Care Staff Attorney. "We are pleased that ACYF will make the Recommended Practice Guidelines available to every state child welfare agency in the country to help meet the needs of LGBTQ children."
"We know that child welfare agencies across the country welcome resources to improve the well-being of abused and neglected children," said ACYF Commissioner Bryan Samuels. "These guidelines provide practical examples of practices that every child welfare agency can use to better meet the needs of the LGBTQ youth in their care. I would have found this resource incredibly helpful when I was a child welfare agency director."
LGBTQ young people in out-of-home care continue to be overrepresented in foster care and face a crisis of rejection, neglect and discrimination. The guidelines build on previous research and best practice standards developed during the last decade by child welfare, social work and civil rights experts. Lambda Legal and CWLA hope that state child welfare agencies will use them to increase their knowledge of LGBTQ issues, influence their programmatic decisions and priorities, and set higher expectations and performance standards for the services provided to LGBTQ young people in care.
"We have compiled this best practices guide to give easy access to critical information for anyone who has an LGBTQ youth in their care," said Chris James-Brown, CEO at the Child Welfare League of America. "Everyone responsible for LGBTQ youth in child welfare systems, from foster parents to child welfare administrators, can use this resource to provide better care."
The Recommended Practices Guidelines give examples of the best practice in a range of areas, including: policies prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and HIV status; services that address family rejection; safe placement with foster or adoptive parents; access to appropriate medical and mental health care services for LGBTQ youth and youth at risk of or living with HIV; and best practices in supporting transgender and gender-nonconforming youth. The guidelines also encourage child welfare systems to find ways to collect data to quantify outcomes for LGBTQ youth in care.
The Recommended Practices Guidelines are available here: www.lambdalegal.org/publications/recommended-practice-guidelines
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Theatre Review: Wicked
Can you believe I had never seen Wicked!? It is one of the most beloved Broadway shows...ever, and I had never seen it. I don't think I ever made it a grade A priority because I was never fully sold on the Wizard of Oz. Dorthy annoyed me and the premise was not in my wheel house of 'things that entertain me'. So Wicked was out of the question.
But if people you know rave enough about something you are bound to give in at some point. So I did...I went and saw Wicked.
And ummm...WHY didn't anyone tell me it was amazing?! SO RUDE.
I mean, I know people did, however, they should know by now that you can't just say "It was great" and move on. You need to really sell it to me. You need to make me believe that my life would not end well if it ended before I saw this production. You need to make me feel like it was the biggest mistake of my life to miss it. I wouldn't believe any of this, but I would at least be interested enough to attend the show.
Wicked is the story of the two witches in the Wizard of Oz. Glinda, the Good Witch and Elphaba (Elphie), the Wicked Witch of the West. The show follows them from childhood, through college and right through to the time of Dorthy coming to Oz and stealing Elphie's sisters shoes of her dead body (see, I told you I hated Dorthy).
I won't tell you what happens, because I am sure there are other insane people out there like me who have not seen it, but I will tell you this - it is more a story of an unlikely pair of best friends than of some green girl who casts spells.
Laurel Harris (Elphaba) has one of the most powerful voices I have ever heard on stage and Kara Lindsay (Glinda) was Elle Woods meets anything Kristin Chenoweth has ever done - but possibly even better. Popular was one of my favorite songs of the night...behind Defying Gravity, of course.
I have nothing else to add really...the thousands of other reviews out there have already said it all. And they all end with the same thing: Wicked! Go.
Verdict: 4.3 Stars
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A Legacy at Stake? Michael Phelps Holds the Weight of the Swimming World on His Shoulders in the 2012 London Games
By - Kyle Malinowski
When one assesses the pantheon of American Olympians, male swimmer Michael Phelps would certainly contend for the title of the greatest Olympian of all-time.
Photo by: Heinz Kluetmeier
As the record holder of the most gold medals (14) ever won during the Summer Olympic Games, Phelps has nothing left to prove concerning his remarkable prowess in the water.
The last time America focused its attention squarely on Phelps was during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in which he went 8-for-8 by taking gold in all of the events he participated in. He almost did not achieve perfection in Beijing, but his close call in the 100-meter butterfly only added to his legend.
In perhaps the most memorable image of his career, Phelps won his 7th gold by one-hundredth of a second over Serbia's Milorad Cavic. It was only fitting that our most decorated Summer Olympian was not denied history in a photo finish.
Following the Beijing Games, Phelps was a hero and the epitome of perfection. The word that summed him up best: Dominating.
In the summer of 2012 though, at the London Olympic Games, he will most likely not be given a pass by the American public because of his past success. When Phelps chose to once again don the stars and stripes for his third Olympic Games, success in the pool instantly became the expectation.
This is the question I have: How will Michael Phelps be remembered if he does not win another gold medal? Will he be viewed as lazy? If he fails, will it be argued that he was satisfied with his performance in Beijing and did not care if he won in London?
Fair or unfair, Phelps has raised the bar so high that even the greatest swimmer in the world may not be able to match his past exploits. Therefore, shouldn't we view the London Games as a farewell, an opportunity to see him soar through the water during prime time one last time and not care if he wins?
In an ideal world -- yes, that would be the case; however, I have a feeling that Phelps will not be given that luxury.
Similar to Tiger Woods, who is still even in his average form picked to win almost every major golf tournament he enters, Phelps will also be held to a standard of winning gold -- or having London be viewed as a colossal failure and an unfortunate ending to a storybook career.
John Elway finished his Hall of Fame career winning back-to-back Super Bowls. But Michael Jordan didn't end his career on the jumper against the Utah Jazz as a Chicago Bull, but instead as a Washington Wizard, leaving us with a bad taste in our mouths. So, Phelps is definitely taking a risk by competing in London.
Since four years has passed, Phelps may not be held to a standard of winning gold in all of his events like he did in Beijing, but medaling -- or at least winning one gold medal is surely expected. Should Phelps fail to medal and appear to be a shell of his once great self, he will be Michael Jordan, not John Elway.
We want to remember Michael Phelps the champion, not Michael Phelps the loser. However, alternatively the London Games could also greatly add to his legend and cement him as the greatest Olympian of all-time should he do remarkably well and win at least a few gold medals. He would have then dominated the water over a 12-year time span of Olympic competition, a feat nearly impossible to be duplicated.
Succeed or not, Phelps' legacy won't ever be viewed as a failure, because the number of medals and records he holds speak for themselves.
It is without question though, if Phelps wants to make an even bigger impact on the popularity of swimming as a competitive sport, winning medals in London would do wonders.
For an Olympian to hold our attention once the torch is smoldered, they have to be out-of-this-world amazing in their accomplishments on the field of play, or in Phelps' case -- in the pool.
If he does well in London, it will without a doubt add tremendously to his worldwide fame; however, should he do poorly, USA swimming might decline in popularity with him. Phelps has that much weight on his shoulders.
Can you name another American swimmer competing in London? Exactly. Michael Phelps IS American swimming like Tiger Woods WAS golf. Therefore, I sincerely hope that Phelps is his old self in London so that we remember him as the champion that he is, and so that American swimming continues to succeed and possibly produce Phelps' successor.
No mention of the fact that he's a pothead? That's selective journalism if I ever saw it. LOL
Kyle Malinowski May 14, 2012 at 2:32 PM
How does the fact he smoked weed have any relevance to this story? Should every Tiger Woods story include that he is "sex addict" and adulterer? Should an article on a Floyd Mayweather boxing match talk about how he hit his wife? I firmly believe that barely anybody cares that Michael Phelps smoked weed as long as he wins gold medals. This country is very forgiving to athletes that win. Kobe Bryant cheated on his wife. Big Ben was a complete scoundrel with that girl in a Georgia bar bathroom? Do those stories follow those guys around in every story about them? Gimme a break dude.
J. Pettus May 14, 2012 at 5:08 PM
Like you mentioned, its hard not to expect great things from Phelps when he dominated the way he did in Beijing. While I dont see him winning 7-8 golds again, I would be surprised if he doesnt bring home 2-3. Shocked even.
Kris Fletcher May 15, 2012 at 12:13 PM
Great athletes have a tendency to rise to the occasion on the biggest stages, so don't be surprised if Phelps dominates in London much like the way he dominated in Beijing.
That's what the great ones do.
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Bravo Slates 'Keen Eddie' for Tuesdays Starting in January
By Brian Ford Sullivan (TFC)
CHICAGO (thefutoncritic.com) -- "Keen Eddie" is back.
Bravo has scheduled the short-lived FOX series for Tuesdays at 9:00/8:00c beginning January 20. "Eddie" will take the place of "Celebrity Poker Showdown" which wraps its first season on January 13.
The network had picked up the rights to all 13 episodes of the series from distributor Paramount Network Television (read the story) back in October, six of which were never aired by FOX. Coincidentally, FOX ran the show on Tuesday nights at 9:00/8:00c during its run this past summer. Bravo is expected to air all 13 episodes in their production order, beginning with the pilot episode.
Like most of its series, the cable channel plans to encore "Eddie" throughout the week to gives viewers multiple chances to catch the show.
[december 2003]
· CELEBRITY POKER SHOWDOWN (BRAVO)
· KEEN EDDIE (FOX)
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About Board of Directors Executive Director
Georgie Dent
Georgie is a writer, commentator, mum of three and a passionate advocate for women and families. The former lawyer is a contributing editor at Women's Agenda and the best-selling author of Breaking Badly, her memoir that was published by Affirm Press in May 2019. After over a year serving on The Parenthood's board, in July 2020, Georgie commenced in the role of Executive Director.
Read here what motivated her to become The Parenthood's Executive Director and why she needs you to succeed.
"I’m determined to demand better outcomes for parents and families across Australia. To do that, I need you. I need your voices. I need your willingness to engage on issues that affect children, parents and families. I need you to be unwavering in your belief that things can be better."
Georgie is a regular television commentator on The Drum and ABC Weekend Breakfast and has made appearances on Q&A, The Today Show, The Project, Weekend Sunrise, Studio 10 and Sky News. Her work has been been published in the Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Marie Claire, Harpers Bazaar, The Guardian and news.com.au. She has more than 35,000 followers between Twitter, Facebook & Instagram who enjoy her sharp and witty commentary on women, politics, health, money, family and everything in between.
As a lawyer and then a business reporter Georgie developed a particularly keen interest in the subject of gender which she has pursued for over a decade. Having children of her own proved illuminating in a practical sense around the barriers that can and do impede women's participation in the workforce. It fuelled her determination to have Australia's problem with women and work recognised and addressed.
She was recognised for her advocacy in the inaugural Women's Empowerment Journalism Awards in Singapore in 2014, where she was a finalist in the journalist of the year category. In 2015 she was a finalist in the inaugural Our Watch Walkley Awards to recognise excellent reporting of domestic violence.
In 2018, at the invitation of the Swedish Government, Georgie attended the Stockholm Forum on Gender Equality. She was identified as a global change maker who could help intensify efforts for a gender equal world. She lives in Sydney with her husband and their three daughters.
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4D Biomaterials
Chief Executive Officer (full time)
With over 35 years’ experience in the engineering and materials industries and a track record of delivering fast business growth in a diverse range of start-ups, Phil is playing a key role in shaping 4D Medicine’s strategy and driving the business forward. Previous start-up roles include CEO at Interface Polymers, a polymer additive spin-out from the University of Warwick and Managing Director at a precision instrument spin-out from Cranfield University, majority owned by a FTSE 100 company. Between those appointments, Phil enjoyed a total of 12 years working as an independent consultant and a business development specialist with Warwick Ventures. Phil initially trained as an Engineering Technician in the aerospace instrumentation sector and became a Chartered Engineer in the late 90’s. Throughout his career, Phil has been excited by innovation and the satisfaction of working closely with customers to disrupt markets that are ready for change. Phil has an MBA (with distinction) from Warwick Business School, a BSc Hons in Materials Science and Technology from Brunel University and a Higher National Certificate in Mechanical and Production Engineering.
Professor Andrew Dove
Founder and Chief Scientific Officer (part-time)
Professor Andrew Dove is a world-expert in degradable biomaterials/polymers at the School of Chemistry in the University of Birmingham. The creation of 4D Medicine Ltd was the culmination of over 12 years’ research and Andrew is determined to see his novel materials technology translated into a commercial success, delivering better treatment experiences and outcomes for medical patients across the globe. In his part-time role as a Director and CSO, Andrew continues to provide vital scientific guidance and support to the company. Andrew graduated from the University of York with an M.Chem. degree in 1999 and he gained his subsequent Ph.D. at Imperial College, London. Andrew undertook post-doctoral research at Stanford University, California and then as a post-doctoral fellow at IBM, San Jose, California. Andrew returned to the UK in 2006 and was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick, rising to Associate Professor in 2009 and Full Professor in 2014. In January 2018, Andrew joined the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham as Professor of Chemistry.
Dr Andrew Naylor
Head of R+D Operations (full time)
Dr Andrew Naylor has over 15 years’ experience in research and development at the interface between academia and industry. With a strong track record of taking new technologies from spin-out to market, developing quality management systems and securing substantial grant funding from UK and international sources, Andrew brings valuable commercial R+D management talent to the team. As head of R+D operations, Andrew leads our product and process development activities and manages the company’s laboratory at MediCity in Nottingham. Andrew is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Nottingham.
Tim O’Connell
Tim O’Connell is our part-time Chief Financial Officer. A Chartered Accountant, who for 20 years held senior executive roles in the computer games industry seeing different facets of Publishing, Development and Distribution, thereby gaining experience in a wide range of operational disciplines. Tim helped grow companies including one group as FD from 10 employees to 300 and flotation and ultimate sale. He was responsible for opening a number of international offices/joint ventures and helped acquire/sell companies and close non-performing ones. Tim also gained considerable experience with legal contracts, commercial and corporate including IP. Since setting up a consultancy in 2003, Tim has helped mentor and develop business and strategic plans for a number of start-up and early growth companies, helping raise finance through equity, debt and grants. Tim also works with VC’s/Angels.
Dr He Liang
Product Development Scientist
Dr He Liang is an experienced materials scientist with extensive knowledge around the creation and development of clinically-relevant biomaterials. Liang’s primary roles in the company are to support product development, proof of concept assessments and early-stage production, both for our family of resin-inks and our implantable medical devices. Prior to joining 4D Biomaterials, Liang worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Liverpool on the design and development of biopolymers including hydrogels, coatings and fibres.
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Miley Cyrus Admits She and Liam Hemsworth Rushed Into Marriage
Miley Cyrus spoke candidly about her divorce from Liam Hemsworth.
On Wednesday (December 2), during an appearance on The Howard Stern Show, the "Midnight Sky" singer spoke about the reason she and Hemsworth wed in the first place.
"We were together since 16," she began, referencing their meeting during the filming of The Last Song. "We had been engaged. I don't know if we really ever thought we were actually going to get married, but when we lost our house in Malibu [during the 2018 California wildfires] I lost everything."
She continued, "I had so much and it was all gone. Every song I had ever written was in that house. Every photograph of me that my parents had given to me, all my scripts, I lost everything."
"And so in trying to put that back together, instead of going, 'Oh, nature kind of did something I couldn't do for myself — it forced me to let go,' I ran toward the fire," she admitted.
"It's not abnormal, a lot of animals do this and end up dying. Like deer run into the forest," she added. "You’re attracted to that heat and me being an intense person and not wanting to sit with it, and not wanting to go, 'What could be purposeful about this?'"
She shared that she "clung" to what she had left in the house which was him. "And I really do and did love him very, very, very much and still do, always will," Cyrus added.
"There was too much conflict," she said of their former relationship. "When I come home, I want to be anchored by someone. I don't get off on drama or fighting."
Additionally, Cyrus confirmed that the song "WTF Do I Know," off of her seventh studio album Plastic Hearts, is about Hemsworth.
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Review: Naucrates, the robotic carry-on luggage that follows you around the airport
- Oct. 14th 2019 6:18 am PT
If you wanted to craft the perfect PR pitch to me, you couldn’t do much better than Naucrates. I’m a bagaholic who loves gadgets, so when it offered me the chance to try its new carry-on luggage which follows you around the airport, it was impossible to resist.
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention: you can also ride on it if you prefer…
The unusual white color aside, the Naucrates doesn’t look very different from any other modern carry-on roller luggage.
It has a hardshell casing in a gloss finish, four wheels, a pull-out handle (for manual wheeling) and a TSA-compliant lock.
Capacity is 36 liters, and it weighs just over a pound when empty.
Check out the video at the end of the review for a better sense of the look.
There’s a black, offset band running vertically down the front of the suitcase, with relatively discreet Artvz branding on a badge set into this hand, and again in the rubberized lifting handle on the top.
The only unusual thing that stands out a little at first glance is a black protrusion from the top of one side of the case. This contains the tech needed for the follow-me function. Microphones to pick up the ultrasonic signals from the remote, and an infra-red sensor used for collision-avoidance.
You’d have to look very closely indeed at Naucrates to see a second hi-tech feature: a fingerprint reader that can be used instead of a key to unlock the suitcase.
Finally, you’d have to lift a flap beneath the handle to reveal the third sign that this is no ordinary luggage: a USB-A port for charging a smartphone or other device, a small display panel with a battery-life percentage and a power button.
There’s also a push-button release for the battery. Press this, and the entire battery pops up. You can then slide it out for easy charging. This slides easily in and out.
You could also carry the battery on its own in another bag to use as a power-bank. The battery is an 80.1W one and is TSA-approved for carry-on baggage. It comes with a very neat three-in-one cable that plugs into the suitcase at one end and gives you USB-C, Lightning and MicroUSB connectors at the other end.
Finally, the Naucrates suitcase is supplied with a white plastic remote, around the size of a typical air-conditioner remote. This is a dual-function device, combining an ultrasonic emitter used in the follow-me mode, and a joystick for steering in ride-on mode.
Manual wheeling
The suitcase can be wheeled manually, like any other. The only real difference here – which is a slight drawback – is that only the front two wheels swivel; the rear ones are fixed. Most modern roller-luggage allow all four wheels to swivel for effortless movement in any direction. The fixed wheels here are to permit more accurate following, and better control when riding.
But this is a relatively small thing, and in general, it wheels as well as any other case. There is certainly no resistance evident from the motors.
As you’d expect, the automatic modes require a smooth surface, so are really only suitable in airport terminals and other places with a nice flat floor.
Follow-me mode
With follow-me mode, Naucrates follows you – or, rather, the remote control – around the airport.
Lift the flap, press the power button once and then on the remote press and hold the left button (with a dog icon) for a couple of seconds until it is solid blue.
This, in theory, puts the suitcase into follow-me mode with collision-avoidance activated. Pressing the button briefly puts it into non-collision-avoidance mode. I have no idea why one might even want that – but more on that in a moment.
Follow-me mode does work surprisingly well in terms of actually following you. I say surprisingly, because an ultrasonic signal isn’t a very precise positioning method. It’s essentially using multiple microphones to try to work out the direction in which it needs to move, and the volume to determine how far away you are. Despite this, it does follow reasonably accurately and closely.
Following is, however, jerky. It will wait, then suddenly rocket toward you at high speed in quite a nerve-wracking way, but in my tests it always came to a halt without hitting me.
Sadly, I can’t say the same for innocent things like walls and bollards. The collision-avoidance programming needs a lot of work! I was particularly nervous about it hitting people, so only felt comfortable using follow-me mode in uncrowded conditions. This is a bit of a drawback in a device intended to be used in airport terminals.
The range in this mode is said to be 6.2 miles.
Ride-on mode
If miles of walking through airport terminals gets to be too much for you, there’s the option to sit on the case and ride it.
There are two recessed footpegs on each side of the bottom of the suitcase. Press and release, and they pop out. Sitting on the case with your feet on these pegs is much more comfortable than you might imagine.
There are two ways of controlling the suitcase in ride-on mode: with the supplied remote, or with an iPhone app. It is, unsurprisingly, much easier to control with the joystick on the remote.
However, ‘easier’ is a relative term. So long as you have plenty of space around you, it works well enough. As with the follow-me mode, however, I didn’t feel comfortable using it in crowded environments. First off the plane and onto an empty corridor? No problem. Dozens of people around you all heading in the same direction, not so much.
Speed is said to be 4.3mph, but I have to say it feels faster. I’d seen it as a somewhat lazy way to get around, but it has to be said it would also make for rather faster journeys around the airport as it’s faster than a brisk walking pace.
Battery-life is cited as 4.3 hours in ride-on mode, which should be enough to cope with riding to and from the most distant airport gates. While I didn’t ride enough to put this claim to the test, I can believe it’s in that sort of ballpark from the battery readings I was getting during testing.
There is another factor to consider about the ride-on mode. I normally have two cabin bags, one this size, and a small laptop or camera bag. That second bag generally sits on top of my roller luggage to move around the airport, and if you’re riding on it, carrying the second bag becomes awkward unless it’s a backpack.
Naucrates pricing and conclusions
Naucrates’ official retail pricing is said to be $899, but I rather think that is one of those entirely fictitious prices used only for comparison purposes. At the time of writing, Super Early Bird pricing is still available on Indiegogo at $399, which feels a lot more realistic.
Whether it’s worth the money will, I think, depend on several factors. First, and most obviously, how much traveling you do. This isn’t going to be bought by anyone who makes a few trips a year.
Second, the type of airports involved. If it’s very busy ones, I think you’d have to be brave to use either of the motorized options. This really needs quieter terminals, at least in comparative terms – you need a decent amount of space around you to be confident neither you nor the case is going to hit anyone or anything.
Third, your personality! This is not a device for shy people. Whether it’s following you, or you’re riding it, it attracts a lot of attention. Good for people who like chatting with strangers, not so good for those who want to quietly mind their own business.
The usual crowdsourcing cautions apply: most campaigns deliver, but there are exceptions. Atrvz has been around since 2011 and has a good track record, and also has finished-looking pilot production models like the one I tested, providing a reasonable degree of confidence, but you always need to make your own call.
The Naucrates smart case has one week to run on Indiegogo, with $399 Super Early Bird pricing available at the time of writing.
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Category: The Original vs The Cover
The Original vs. The Cover – “Heroes”
Published on December 7, 2020 November 7, 2020 by 2loud2oldmusic38 Comments
Welcome back to The Original vs. The Cover. We are now going to look at the classic David Bowie song “Heroes” that was recorded by Bowie back in 1977 during his Berlin era. The cover song we are battling against is The Wallflowers’ version they recorded for the movie “Godzilla” back in 1998. Two powerhouse performances going up against each other and which one will win? We will see.
The song was written by David Bowie and Brian Eno and was inspired by Bowie’s producer, Tony Visconti as he embraced his lover as they were standing next to the Berlin Wall. The song is about two lovers coming together when one was from the East side of the Wall and the other from the West. They will let nothing stop them from being together, not even the Berlin Wall. It is a beautiful sentiment. Now the song was released in 1977 and the song did fairly well going to #12 in the UK and was platinum status in the UK as well. It didn’t really do much in the States, but I still remember hearing the song. It has made many lists as one of the greatest songs of all time (which doesn’t bode well for The Wallflowers, but we will see.
David’s version was inspired musically by The Velvet Underground’s song “I’m Waiting for the Man” as the tempo and rhythm of the song plod along in the same fashion. The song and a lot of David’s music from the Berlin Era is very experimental. The drums, the keyboards and the guitars are arranged to be a little noisy in an anthemic sense to give it a rich, full texture, but the coolest part of the song is how they recorded the vocals.
The vocals are done in what is known as gating. Three microphones were placed at different intervals from David. The first at 9 inches from David, the second at 20 feet and the third at 50 feet. As David sang each verse, a different microphone would be used and as each verse came, the first microphone would be shut off and the second opened. As he sang each verse he had to sing louder and with more energy giving the song the effect it as if each verse was more important and sung more powerful as the song builds and builds. It makes David’s vocal so effective in their delivery in bringing emotion and power to the song. I have to say it is quite brilliant.
David’s song is one of his most covered songs, but I think the most famous is probably done by The Wallflowers. The band kept that same plodding pace, but the sound of the instruments is brought to the 90’s and modernized with a fuller band sound and a I think the drums and guitar are even more robust sounding then the original. They seem more alive and gives the song a more rock sound.
On the vocals, Jakob Dylan doesn’t use the same technique as David, but he is able to project his voice with each verse driving the song to be more powerful and emotional as it went on. Jakob and the band didn’t really change much on the song as they understood the importance and gravity of the song and were able to capture that feeling and yet I felt they made the song their own and make it sound like a Wallflowers’ song.
I have to admit they are both fantastic versions of the songs. As much as I love the musical stylings of The Wallflowers and Jakob Dylan’s vocals, there is no denying David Bowie’s legendary vocals. David Bowie is my choice of the winner for the best version of this song. I mean, it is David Bowie no less. He is a legend for a reason. Plus the pain staking efforts they went through to get the sound they wanted alone makes this song the best version. David Bowie, Brian Eno and Tony Visconti brought us one of the greatest songs of all time so naturally it is my pick. Now, if you like The Wallflowers version, I can see why you’d pick it as it is great in its own right.
I am really interested in hearing what everyone else thinks of these two songs. Let me know which version you like the best and why. Feel free to leave a comment and talk about the song and tell me how right or wrong I am on this one. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.
I, I will be king
And you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can beat them, just for one day
We can be Heroes, just for one day
And you, you can be mean
And I, I’ll drink all the time
‘Cause we’re lovers, and that is a fact
Yes we’re lovers, and that is that
Though nothing will keep us together
We could steal time, just for one day
We can be Heroes, for ever and ever
What d’you say?
I, I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim
Though nothing, nothing will keep us together
We can beat them, for ever and ever
Oh we can be Heroes, just for one day
We can be us, just for one day
I, I can remember (I remember)
Standing by the wall (by the wall)
And the guns shot above our heads (over our heads)
And we kissed, as though nothing could fall (nothing could fall)
And the shame was on the other side
Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever
Then we could be Heroes, just for one day
Just for one day
We’re nothing, and nothing will help us
Maybe we’re lying, then you better not stay
But we could be safer, just for one day
Oh-oh-oh-ohh, oh-oh-oh-ohh
Written by David Bowie and Brian Eno
Categories Rock, The Original vs The Cover•Tags Berlin Era, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Godzilla: The Album, Heroes, The Berlin Wall, The Wallflowers
The Original vs. The Cover – ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’
Published on November 23, 2020 October 25, 2020 by 2loud2oldmusic24 Comments
For this month’s version of The Original vs. The Cover, we are going to cover one of the greatest songs of all time, (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones. No, I’m not being bold in saying that as the song has actually been voted as #2 on the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list and is in the Grammy Hall of Fame. The Cover we are going to look at is not the Britney Spears cover because, well, we have taste. That was harsh, it is really because there is no way it would have a chance to win. The cover we will actually discuss is the one by Devo from 1978 which I probably knew first thanks to MTV.
The song was written by the legendary duo of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. It is said that Keith wrote the music in his sleep and they have a tape that proves it. You get two minutes of guitar and 40 minutes of him snoring…pretty awesome. Jagger wrote the lyrics sitting poolside down in Clearwater, Florida. The song was extremely controversial for its day because the song spoke out against commercialism as well as rather sexually suggestive. In fact, in the UK, the song was only played on Pirate Radio due to that controversy. Eventually it made it to #1 in the UK and in the US (where it was less controversial.
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Categories Rock, The Original vs The Cover•Tags (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Devo, Keith Richards, Mark Mothersbaugh, Mick Jagger, Out of Our Heads, Q: Are We Not Men?, The Rolling Stones
The Original vs. The Cover vs. The Cover – “Hide Your Heart”
Published on October 21, 2020 September 12, 2020 by 2loud2oldmusic32 Comments
For this version of the The Original Vs The Cover we have yet another threepeat with the song “Hide Your Heart” which was original performed by Bonnie Tyler, then Kiss and then Ace Frehley all within a couple years. The song was written by Paul Stanley of Kiss along with the great Desmond Child and Holly Knight. The song was originally written for the Kiss album ‘Crazy Nights’ but didn’t make the cut so Paul shopped it around and Bonnie Tyler wound up with it. Kiss then put it on their next album and the same month, Ace Frehley, formerly of Kiss, did the song for his album ‘Trouble Walkin’.
After the success Desmond Child had with “Livin’ On a Prayer’ with Bon Jovi, Paul Stanley wanted to write a song in that same vein. Instead of Tommy and Gina, we get a cheap knock-off version of Johnny and Rosa. The problem with their relationship wasn’t the hardships of life, but that Rosa had a boyfriend named Tito who sounds like a gang leader in the shady part of town. Already, we know Rosa has bad taste in men. The story doesn’t end well like Tommy and Gina did. Basically this was a poor man’s version of “Livin’ on a Prayer” and the storyline sucked and was a total rip-off. It was too formulaic and Kiss was trying to chase trends at the time instead of being a leader and this was a perfect example of the trash that came out as a result. I guess it is pretty obvious I hate this song so why I am writing about it? Because I need to get it off my chest that I hate this song…I really don’t like it.
The song was never a big hit for any of the artist as it never cracked the Top 40. Even more proof of how bad this song really is. Enough about my distaste for the song, let’s get to the performances so I can get this over with and put out of my misery (ha!).
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Categories Rock, The Original vs The Cover•Tags Ace Frehley, Bonnie Tyler, Desmond Child, Hide Your Heart, Holly Knight, Hot in the Shade, Johnny, KISS, Paul Stanley, Rosa, Tito, Trouble Walkin'
The Original vs. The Cover – “Valerie”
Published on September 21, 2020 August 22, 2020 by 2loud2oldmusic16 Comments
For this month’s version of The Original vs. The Cover we are going to discuss a song that was covered only a year after the original and a little more current. We are talking about the song “Valerie” written by the band The Zutons in 2006 and then released by Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse and a third version was released by Amy Winehouse as a B-Side for her Back to Black album. The song first appeared on the Zutons second album, ‘Tired of Hanging Around’, in 2006.
The song has been revealed to be about a young lady named Valerie Star who is a celebrity make-up artists. She is friends with Zutons frontman Dave McCabe and he wrote this to her as a way to show her support when she got in to a little trouble for driving under the influence. Apparently, the song took 20 minutes to write and he was inspired to write it in a cab ride on his way to his mom’s house.
The song for The Zutons hit #8 in Scotland and #9 in the UK, but never charted in the US. The cover version with Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse hit #1 in the UK R&B Charts and #2 in the UK Charts so it was a little more successful. Amy’s solo version in 2008 hit only at #37 so it was the least popular, but is it the best version? We will see.
THE ZUTONS
The Zutons song is a light hearted indie pop sounding song. It is a fun, upbeat track with some great guitar tone to it. There is a little musical break with just a drum beat, hand claps and Dave on vocals that is a nice touch to the song to give it some variety. Dave’s vocals are little squeaky at times, but still very pleasant. It has a calming, sensitive feel to it like he really cares for Valerie and he wants he to come over and he’ll take care of her during her troubling times.
MARK RONSOON (FEATURING AMY WINEHOUSE)
Mark Ronson’s version of the song is more upbeat than The Zutons. The tempo is sped up and the production of the song is from the 1982 song called “Town Called Malice” by The Jam. There is a horn section and it is has a little blues, a lot of pop and a nice beat throughout. Amy’s vocals have the same old Amy sound, but not as jazzy as she can get and a lot more on the pop side. The song even has a little dance vibe to it.
Amy Winehouse’s solo version is nothing short of pure Amy. It was recorded Live at BBC Radio 1 in 2007. It is jazzier version with keyboards and a more acoustic feel. It has more heart and feeling and Amy’s voice is like no one else’s at that time and it sounds so classic. There is such a maturity to her vocals, she seems so seasoned like she has been through a lot and carries that weight in her vocals. A utter talent.
Picking a winner here is easy for me. Amy Winehouse’s solo version is tops for me. Not beating around the bush here. I really dug her vocals and when you put her in the jazz and blues setting she can’t be touched. The other songs are fun and more pop, but don’t have the heart her vocals bring. Now Dave McCabe of The Zutons hates the fact that Mark Ronson & Amy Winehouse’s version were so popular because people tend to forget it was really his song. It truly bothers him. I am sure when that check comes, it bothers him a little less.
Well sometimes I go out by myself and I look across the water
And I think of all the things, what you’re doing and in my head I make a picture
‘Cos since I’ve come on home, well my body’s been a mess
And I’ve missed your ginger hair and the way you like to dress
Won’t you come on over, stop making a fool out of me
Why won’t you come on over Valerie, Valerie?
Did you have to go to jail, put your house on up for sale, did you get a good lawyer?
I hope you didn’t catch a tan, I hope you find the right man who’ll fix it for you
Are you shopping anywhere, changed the colour of your hair, are you busy?
And did you have to pay the fine you were dodging all the time are you still dizzy?
Why won’t you come on over Valerie, Valerie.Valerie,Valerie?
Cos since I’ve come on home, well my body’s been a mess
Yeah valerie
Written by Dave McCabe, Russell Pritchard, Sean Payne, Abi Harding, Paul Molloy and Boyan Chowdhury
Categories Pop Music, The Original vs The Cover•Tags Amy Winehouse, Back to Black: B-Sides, BBC Radio 1, Dave McCabe, Mark Ronson, The Zutons, Valerie Star, Version
The Original vs. The Cover – “Stop Your Sobbing”
Published on July 20, 2020 June 13, 2020 by 2loud2oldmusic34 Comments
This month’s The Original Vs. The Cover is tackling another Kink’s song. I must be a glutton for punishment because the last time I did a Kink’s song, I was blasted by the Kink’s fans for not picking the Kink’s song. Their fans are rabid, no doubt!! Will I make the same mistake again…we will see shortly!
This month’s song is the Kink’s deep cut classic called “Stop Your Sobbing”. The song is off the band’s 1964 debut album simple called “Kinks”. There are two stories about the song and it’s origin, but both similar. The first is that Ray Davies’ girlfriend was so upset that they were becoming famous that she broke down in tears as she was worried she would lose him. The second is that Ray broke up with his girlfriend and she was so upset, she started crying and it pissed him off. Either way, she lost him!! I am sure those rabid Kinks fans will let me know the right story.
The Pretenders covered the song for their own debut album, ‘The Pretenders’, and had some decent success with it hitting the Top 40 in the UK, but only the Top 100 in the US. The coolest thing to come out of the song was that singer, Chrissie Hynde got to meet Ray Davies as a result of them singing the song. A budding relationship started between the two which actually led to a child. I would say they both got a lot out of it.
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Categories Rock, The Original vs The Cover•Tags Chrissie Hynde, Nick Lowe, Ray Davies, Stop Your Sobbing, The Kinks, The Pretenders
The Original vs. The Cover – “It’s My Life”
Published on June 22, 2020 May 24, 2020 by 2loud2oldmusic34 Comments
For this episode of ‘The Original vs. The Cover”, we are discussing the song “It’s My Life” by the band Talk Talk and the cover by No Doubt. Both were big hits for the respective bands with Talk Talk’s version going to #31 on the Billboard Charts while the No Doubt version went as high as #10 and garnered a Grammy nomination for Best Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal…they didn’t win.
“It’s My Life” came about due to Mark Hollis’ wanting to assert his independence from his record label and because he didn’t want to be swayed by the popular public opinion. He wanted to do things his own way. The song was his manifesto that it is his life and he will do what he wants to know, not what anyone tells him to do. The song performed well enough in the states that it actually earned him enough freedom to do things his way going forward. And I don’t remember them doing much else in the States after this. How’d that work out for you Mark???
No Doubt was on a slight break as Gwen was recording here debut solo album, but they wanted to get some material out so they thought of putting out a greatest hits album. They wanted to a new song on it, but didn’t want to take time to write a new song. So they narrowed the prospects of 100’s of songs down to “It’s My Life” and the INXS song “Don’t Change”…we see which one won out or we wouldn’t be discussing this song right now would we. Let’ get to the music.
Talk Talk’s song “It’s My Life” is a heavy synthesizer song as that is what type of music they played. They were part of the New Wave of music that was going on in the early 80’s along with band’s like Duran Duran and other two name bands. It is not a real happy, upbeat song. It has a slow groove driven by a bass riff and electronic drum beats bathed in synth sounds including some synth horns. It is not meant to be a pure dance song as it is expressing a person’s independence. It has a serious feel to the song, a warmth.
Mark Hollis doesn’t sing with gusto or scream out the lyrics, he sings with a darkness to his vocals. His delivery is a little monotone at times and a little dreary, an almost dreamlike state as he spews his thoughts and feelings out about how this is his life and don’t you forget it. It is an interesting delivery which evokes power and I think quite effective.
No Doubt doesn’t change too much on the song. The song still is a lot of electronic synths with just a more updated sound for the 21st Century. It seems to be a little more uptempo. The high pitched blips and beeps of the original are not here, but there is more cool electronic bass riff on occasion and the drum beats are so simple and yet just what the song needs. They keep the darker feel to the song and it still has that serious vibe that they have something important to say.
Gwen’s vocal delivery is quite different, mainly as she is a woman, but she sings with a little more gusto, especially on the chorus. She has an almost whiny, slight nasally sound to her vocals. The is ‘no doubt’ that Gwen has the chops to turn the song in to a song that feels like it is No Doubt while being so true and honest to the original.
This was a tough choice as I’m really not a fan of either song. I don’t own any Talk Talk album and as far as No Doubt, once I heard “Hellagood” and “Hey Baby”, there was nothing from them that would be remotely as good. But since I picked this song to discuss, I will pick a best song of the two. I am going to go with Mark Hollis’ version with his band Talk Talk. The reason is the song meant something to them. It was a manifesto. They wanted to do things their way and not be force fed instructions from a label. No Doubt already had that so the heart wasn’t there. So Talk Talk and the Original win out this go round.
Funny how I find myself in love with you
If I could buy my reasoning I’d pay to lose
One half won’t do
I’ve asked myself, how much do you
Commit yourself
Don’t you forget
It never ends (it never ends)
Funny how I blind myself, I never knew
If I was sometimes played upon, afraid to lose
I’d tell myself, what good do you do
Convince myself
Commit yourself?
Caught in the crowd
It never ends
Written by Mark Hollis and Tim Friese-Greene
Categories Pop Music, The Original vs The Cover•Tags Gwen Stefani, Independence, It's My Life, Mark Hollis, No Doubt, Talk Talk, Tim Friese-Greene
The Original vs The Cover vs The Cover – “Tainted Love”
The Original Vs The Cover choice for this month is one that will tackle three separate artists on the song “Tainted Love”. The original was performed by Gloria Jones way back in May of 1965 and was written in 1964 by Ed Cobb and arranged by Lincoln Mayorga. The song was originally a B-Side for Gloria’s failed single “My Bad Boy’s Comin’ Home” so it never charted unlike the covers.
The song was about a girl that Ed was seeing and the whole relationship was plain toxic. He wanted to take the song from the girls point of view which is why the song was offered to a lady to sing. According to Ed, once he came up with the words “tainted love” the song basically wrote itself from that point forward.
The covers were both done by male vocalist thus changing up the point of view. The first cover is by New Wave 80’s band Soft Cell who went all the way to #1 in several countries and #8 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Their version was released in 1981. 2o years we would see another successful version of the song this time done by Shock Rocker Marilyn Manson. His version didn’t do as well, but charted through-out the world reaching # 1 in Portugal!!. All three versions have something to offer so let’s see who has the best one.
GLORIA JONES
The original version by Gloria Jones is an uptempo fun, Motown styled song. The song is full of horns, guitars and drums as well as female backing vocals. This was 1964 and the song sounds like it. The Motown influence is front and center and Gloria’s vocals fit the song perfectly. There is a great upbeat tempo and the addition of the horns actually make it a fun sounding song which is why the song didn’t do well originally as it didn’t fit the lyrics. Continue reading “The Original vs The Cover vs The Cover – “Tainted Love”” →
Categories Pop Music, The Original vs The Cover•Tags Ed Cobb, Gloria Jones, Marc Almond, Marilyn Manson, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, Soft Cell, Tainted Love
The Original vs. The Cover – “Wonderwall”
For this month’s This Original vs The Cover is the song “Wonderwall” originally by the band Oasis. The song was released in October 1995 and on the band’s album ‘(What’s the Story) Morning Glory’. The song did really well and went to #8 in the U.S. and #1 in several countries and charts. The cover version we are battling with is Ryan Adam’s cover which was released back in 2003 on his album ‘Love is Hell, pt 1’ EP.
The song was written by Noel Gallagher and was originally titled “Wishing Stone. There is a little mix up on who and what the song is about. Originally the thought was the song was about his girlfriend at the time Meg Mathews who later became his wife and then even later became his ex-wife. It was after that divorce that the story of the song changed. It was no longer about his ex-wife, it was now about an imaginary person or friend that shows up and helps you save you from yourself. Ok. Noel has stated that it was the media’s fault for the confusion and once it was out in the universe he didn’t want to spoil it for his girlfriend/wife. But now that they are divorced, I guess it doesn’t matter anymore.
That is enough backstory. Let’s get to the song and we will start with the original version as well always do, no need to change now.
Continue reading “The Original vs. The Cover – “Wonderwall”” →
Categories Rock, The Original vs The Cover•Tags (What's The Story) Morning Glory, Lian Gallagher, Love is Hell pt. 1, Noel Gallagher, Oasis, Ryan Adams, Wonderwall
The Original vs. The Cover – “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding”
Published on February 17, 2020 January 25, 2020 by 2loud2oldmusic16 Comments
For this month’s version of The Original vs. The Cover, we are going to talk about the Brinsley Schwarz song “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding”. The song was written by Nick Lowe and was recorded by his band Brinsley Schwarz. It was released in 1974 album called ‘The New Favorites of…Brinsley Schwarz.
How Elvis Costello got a hold of it is the fact that Nick Lowe was the producer of his 1979 album ‘Armed Forces’. Nick introduced him to the song and the band recorded it for the B-Side of Nick Lowe’s single “American Squirm”. The song did so well, the slapped it on as the last track of the album for the North American release of the album.
Nick wrote the song in 1973 and it was supposed to be a joke song making fun of the hippie generation coming out of their dream like state and becoming a more cynical bunch. What he realized later was there actually is a bit of truth and wisdom in the song.
Continue reading “The Original vs. The Cover – “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding”” →
Categories Pop Music, Rock, The Original vs The Cover•Tags (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love & Understanding, Armed Forces, Brinsley Schwarz, Elvis Costello, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Jesus was a Cross Maker, Judee Sill, Nick Lowe, The New Favorites of...Brinsley Schwarz
The Original vs. The Cover – “Girls Just Want To Have Fun”
Published on January 13, 2020 May 20, 2020 by 2loud2oldmusic11 Comments
For this month’s The Original vs. The Cover, we are going to cover the classic 80’s pop song, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”. The original is by Robert Hazard who wrote the song and the cover we are going to use is Cyndi Lauper’s. I know, you thought that was her original song, didn’t you? Nope. Not hers. I guess an argument could be made that Cyndi’s is not really a cover since Robert’s song was only a demo and never released and I can see that argument, but I am ignoring for that so I have a post.
Robert Hazard wrote the song in 20 minutes while taking a shower in a motel. I guess you listen whenever inspiration strikes. He made a demo in 1979, but the demo never went anywhere. That was until Cyndi’s producer, Rick Chertoff, remembered hearing the song and took her to meet Mr. Hazard. After meeting, Cyndi wanted to do the song and Robert allowed her to tweak a few lyrics to fit the song coming from a woman’s perspective as the original is taken from a man’s perspective.
Robert’s version comes from a guys point of view and talking about what he wants to do with girls and that they really want to have “fun” in the sleazy sort of way. Cyndi of course turns it as she is the one one out late getting in to trouble because she and all girls want to have fun. It became more a feminist anthem and is now so recognizable as Cyndi’s song since she truly made it her own.
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Categories Pop Music, Rock, The Original vs The Cover•Tags Cyndi Lauper, Demo, Empowering, Feminist Anthem, Girls Just Want To Have Fun, Rick Chertoff, Robert Hazard, She's So Unusual
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Claire Rivero
Digital Strategy Manager, Tools and Classroom Resources
Claire Rivero is the Digital Strategy Manager on the Tools and Classroom Resources team at Student Achievement Partners. Claire leads the organization’s communications and digital promotion work across various channels including email, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, always seeking new ways to reach educators. She also manages Achieve the Core’s blog, Aligned. Prior to joining Student Achievement Partners, Claire worked in the Communications department for the American Red Cross and as a literacy instructor in a London pilot program. Claire holds bachelor’s degrees in English and Public Policy from Duke University and a master’s degree in Social Policy (with a concentration on Education Policy) from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Khabib Taking on Tony Ferguson
Home » Fighter» Khabib Taking on Tony Ferguson
» Posted by Charlene Adams on Nov 28, 2019 in Fighter | Comments Off on Khabib Taking on Tony Ferguson
The Ultimate Fighting Championship has received a confirmation on one of the most desired fights in recent history. It was announced that the UFC would hold a Pay-Per-View event in Brooklyn, New York on April 18th. This PPV will see Khabib Nurmagomedov and Tony Ferguson battle it out for championship victory. The confirmation of the fight was forced onto Dana White when multiple sources close to the UFC informed ESPN that the fight is currently in development. Afterwards, an initial report was made on Monday, November 26th, by the UFC on ESPN.
During this Press Conference, Dana White confirmed that these two prized fighters would take to the ring in April. However, he noted that negotiations for payment are still ongoing. Though this means that both athletes haven’t officially agreed to the fight, Dana White has forced them into a decision by making it a public announcement. It’s expected that a live televised event will be played out next week, where both fighters will sign bout agreements. It should be noted that these fighters have been scheduled to battle on four occasions, with injuries and ruined weights forcing those battles to be reprehended. It appears that this time around, both prized MMA fighters are in prime condition for the fight.
The Past of Nurmagomedov Vs Ferguson
Khabib Nurmagomedov is considered to be the best fighter in the UFC. He has been undefeated throughout his entire career and holds the lightweight title. Khabib is one of the few to submit Dustin Poirier and Connor McGregor, showing that he is unlike any other fighter in the league. Nurmagomedov hasn’t lost a fight since arriving in the Ultimate Fighting Competition, but his hardest fight has yet to come. Tony Ferguson hasn’t lost for twelve matches in a row and is considered to be the next lightweight titleholder. If he defeats Khabib on April 18th, then Tony Ferguson would become the new champion of the UFC.
The last two fights that Tony Ferguson had was against Donald Cerone and Anthony Pettis, where he defeated both fighters in a brutalized fashion. He beat both with total knockouts, allowing for his spot at number one contender against Khabib to be cemented. There isn’t any question; the Nurmagomedov Vs Ferguson bout will be one of the most significant battles for the 2020 UFC Season. It will settle a fight that fans have debated for years now.
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ArtsBeat | Ángel Corella Is Named Artistic Director of Pennsylvania Ballet
Ángel Corella Is Named Artistic Director of Pennsylvania Ballet
July 23, 2014 4:19 pm July 23, 2014 4:19 pm
Ángel Corella after his farewell performance with the American Ballet Theater in 2012.Credit Ruby Washington/The New York Times
The former American Ballet Theater principal Ángel Corella will become the artistic director of the Pennsylvania Ballet in September, the company announced on Tuesday. Mr. Corella, who left Ballet Theater in 2012 to devote himself to the company he had founded in 2008 in his native Spain, closed that troupe, the Barcelona Ballet, last year. (The company toured in New York in 2010 and 2012, receiving mixed reviews.)
The news comes almost three months after the surprise announcement that the current director, Roy Kaiser, who has held the position since 1995, was stepping down in the middle of the company’s 50th anniversary season. At the time, Mr. Kaiser, 58, said he felt the time was right to “transition the Company over to a new artistic leadership.” Two weeks after that announcement, the company’s executive director, Michael Scolamiero, left to take up the same position at Miami City Ballet. (David Gray was appointed as interim executive director; his contract runs through July 2015.)
“The Pennsylvania Ballet, celebrating its 50th anniversary this season, is in transition,” Alastair Macaulay wrote in The New York Times in a review of the troupe in May.
Commenting on Mr. Corella’s appointment in a press statement, the company’s board co-chairman, David Hoffman, said that Mr. Corella “has the power to make Philadelphia one of the most exhilarating dance cities in the world.”
Mr. Corella certainly has plenty of star power and A-list dance-world connections. Born and raised in Madrid, he joined Ballet Theater in 1995, at 19, after winning the Concours International de Danse in Paris. Just a year later, his pyrotechnical skills and charismatic stage presence won him a promotion to principal, and he became a major figure on the world’s classical dance stages. Dissolving the Barcelona Ballet was a difficult experience, he said in a telephone interview from the University of Hartford, where he is currently directing a summer program.
“The situation in Spain is very tough,” he said. “Of course it is a question of priorities for the government, but they don’t support the arts at all while they do support sport. And it’s very difficult to get private sponsorship, because there is no tax incentive to do that. In the end I was supporting the company myself, and that’s impossible. It’s sad that the government couldn’t see what an amazing company we had, what amazing artists. But in the end, you don’t really want to be where you are not wanted.”
Under Mr. Kaiser, the Pennsylvania Ballet, founded in 1963 by Barbara Weisberger, Balanchine’s first child pupil, has had a strong focus on its Balanchine repertory, and established Matthew Neenan as its resident choreographer. Mr. Corella said that he planned to keep the troupe’s Balanchine tradition alive (“I would be crazy not to,” he remarked) and, depending on the budget possibilities, to stage full-length ballets as well as commissioning new choreography.
“I think that my experience of guesting with many international companies and now working with my own company has given me very good exposure to a lot of work,” he said, citing Wayne McGregor, Liam Scarlett, Justin Peck and Édouard Lock. “There are a lot of different ways to bring a new audience to the ballet, which is what we have to do.”
Mr. Corella said that he did not yet know Mr. Neenan’s work, but looked forward to discovering it. “I also want to have choreographic workshops within the company to develop talent there and to involve audiences more directly,” he added.
Mr. Gray said in a telephone interview that Mr. Corella, who is still performing with a small group of Barcelona Ballet dancers, has a number of previous commitments in the fall, but will nonetheless begin his tenure in September. Mr. Kaiser will become “artistic director emeritus” in October. “They are talking about how to handle the transition,” Mr. Gray said.
A version of this article appears in print on 07/25/2014, on page C2 of the NewYork edition with the headline: Pennsylvania Ballet Names Artistic Director.
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Brandeis Is In the DNA of Dedicated Alumna
Home / Brandeisian Stories / Alumni Stories / Brandeis Is In the DNA of Dedicated Alumna
By Brian Klotz
For Dr. Susan Eisenberg Jay ’71, attending Brandeis was the natural choice. The university had been a part of her life for as long as she could remember.
“Brandeis is in my DNA,” says Jay. Her mother was a life member of Brandeis’ National Women’s Committee (NWC) – now known as the Brandeis National Committee (BNC) – an organization that she would later join herself. Growing up within the Jewish community of Brookline, Massachusetts, “Brandeis was always part of my milieu,” Jay says.
A history major, Jay relished the chance to study under professors such as Norman Cantor, Eugene Black and David Hackett Fisher. “I had an opportunity to immerse myself in history with some of Brandeis’ best faculty.”
During her time on campus in the turbulent late 60s and early 70s, Jay experienced some history herself. “It was an exciting time to be in college,” she says. “I remember standing in Ridgewood where there was a large-screen TV set up, watching President Johnson talk about the end of the Vietnam War.”
After graduation, Jay earned a master’s from Simmons College before relocating to Miami. Lacking any family or social connections in the area, she reached out to her alma mater. “The first thing I did when I knew we were moving to Florida was call the National Women’s Committee office,” Jay explains. They put her in touch with two alumni and NWC members in Miami, whom she says became two of her best friends.
“To me, that demonstrates the many ways that the Brandeis connection supports alumni and enriches our lives,” says Jay. “It is an immediate point of commonality when I meet others in the Brandeis community.”
Since graduation, Susan has remained engaged with the university in numerous ways, donating both her time and resources. Among other positions, she has served on the Alumni Association National Board of Directors, the President's Council, the Alumni Admissions Council and her class reunion committees. Jay served as chapter president of the Alumni Club of South Florida, which she helped found; as well as chapter president of the BNC South Dade (now Miami-Dade) Chapter, which she also helped create. She received the Alumni Association Leadership Award and the Alumni Association Chapter Service Award.
“I always felt that I was extremely fortunate to have gone to Brandeis,” Jay explains. “I am committed to the university and continue to serve. Not only did I receive a tremendous education there, but also having a Brandeis degree has proven to be prestigious. It has opened many doors for me.”
As an alumna, Jay has been a stalwart donor to Brandeis, whether giving to The Brandeis Fund, BNC fundraising campaigns or other initiatives over the years. She is a member of the Sachar Legacy Society, which honors the more than 500 alumni, parents, friends and BNC members who have included Brandeis in their estate plans.
“Both my parents were lawyers, so I’ve always known how important it is to make sure my commitments are honored,” says Jay. “Many people these days haven’t made wills, but it is crucial to think about and take care of these things while you can.”
As an advancement professional herself, Jay is uniquely aware of the sizable impact planned gifts have on an institution. She retired from a 20-year career at Florida International University (FIU), where she earned a doctoral degree in 1998. There, Jay served as an executive director of development, among other roles, including founder and director of FIU’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, and estimates she helped raise over $25 million for the institution.
Her innate drive and motivation to help others, however, wouldn’t let her stay retired for long. Recently Jay began working for Birthright Israel Foundation as associate vice president of major gifts for the Southeast region, through which she enjoys reconnecting with her Jewish roots while helping others do the same.
Reflecting on the role Brandeis has played in her life, and the generosity she has shown her alma mater as a volunteer and donor, Jay is grateful.
“I always felt an obligation to give back as a way to say thank you for everything that I received thanks to Brandeis,” she says.
Published On: November 7, 2018
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Global Health News Last Week
August 8, 2011 August 13, 2015 by ihsection, posted in APHA IH Section, News
Attention IH section members! We are still in need of moderators for the scientific sessions at this year’s annual meeting. According to our program committee, the following sessions are still available:
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.: International Health Programs & Policy 1
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.: Act Global, Think Local: Domestic applications of international health lessons; Child Survival & Child Health 1
8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.: Builidng Partnerships and Coalitions for better International Programs; Emerging, Re-emerging & Neglected Tropical Diseases
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.: International Health Communication/ Behavior Change Communication
12:30 p.m. 2:00 p.m.: HIV/AIDS 2
8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.: HIV/AIDS 3; Innovations in International Health 2
Please contact Omar Khan (ih.apha@gmail.com) for more information, or to volunteer!
USAID celebrated its 50-year anniversary this week.
The benefits of breastfeeding are being showcased around the world
for Breast Feeding Week.
US organizations will find it easier to deliver aid to parts of Somalia controlled by a pro-Al Qaeda group – the threat of prosecution if it ends up in the wrong hands has been reduced after an announcement by the State Department.
Dr. Ariel Pablos-Méndez was sworn in as the new Assistant Administrator for the Global Health Bureau at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Although Congress resolved the debt ceiling debate, the way the budget package is being shaped — particularly by combining International Affairs with defense in a single “security” category, global poverty spending is getting severely handicapped.
Blood tests for tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis may be putting patients’ lives at risk through providing misleading results, and should not be used, according to a WHO policy statement.
The inaugural charter of the Alliance for Oral Health Across Borders was signed at Temple University yesterday.
Tom Paulson of Humanosphere breaks down the 2010 Gates Foundation annual report, with some interesting commentary.
Jaclyn Schiff of UN Dispatch says we can look for more global health leadership coming from the city of Houston (my hometown!), as Dr. Peter Hotez, whom Schiff calls “an international health force of nature,” and an arm of the Sabin Vaccine Institute move there.
The Measles Initiative today announced it has helped vaccinate one billion children in more than 60 developing countries since 2001, making significant gains in the global effort to stop measles.
India’s health minister announced Tuesday a new initiative underway to boost the country’s rate of immunizing newborns by collecting mobile phone numbers of all pregnant mothers to monitor their babies’ vaccinations.
A multi-resistant strain of Salmonella Kentucky could be spreading globally, suggests a study by Institut Pasteur. Case numbers have risen in Europe and the US, and infections have also been acquired in various parts of Africa and the Middle East. The strain has also been found in food animals in Africa.
Pharmaceutical manufacturer iBio, Inc announced the successful animal testing of a malaria vaccine candidate in trials sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
A new study in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene shows a relationship between a kind of river flow and cholera outbreaks.
A new study in the Lancet shows that text messaging can be an effective tool in malaria treatment and prevention.
PLoS Medicine published a new study on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa. Among its key findings was the startling fact that sex between men (MSM) accounts for nearly one quarter of all new HIV infections across the region.
According to a new study, children of depressed mothers in developing countries are 40 percent more likely to be underweight or stunted than those with mothers in good mental health.
A cheap and portable blood test could provide a breakthrough for diagnosing infections in remote areas of the world, a scientific study says.
Using WHO data, researchers found that children who experience abuse and develop mental health disorders are at increased risk for chronic physical problems later in life.
A new study in the journal Nature Medicine finds that a credit card shaped device used for testing HIV, known as “Lab-on-a-Chip,” has had a successful trial run in Rwanda.
Mass treatment of river blindness and lymphatic filariasis with ivermectin has been hampered by severe reactions if the patient also has Loa loa. A new map developed by WHO’s African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control will help communities identify low risk areas for Loa loa and distribute ivermectin for lymphatic filariasis control safely.
The CDC reports that the annual number of HIV infections in the USA is holding steady at about 50,000, and that African American MSM are at particular risk.
AIDS remains a metaphor for inequality, argues Michel Sidibe in the LA Times. In the world’s wealthier nations, where access to medicine is widespread, AIDS is becoming a chronic disease rather than a death sentence. But in the eveloping world, 1.8 million people die of AIDS each year.
Global cholera incidence has increased since 2000, with Haiti’s large outbreak tipping the largest burden away from Africa for the first time since 1995, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Sunday.
Tens of thousands of Somalis have died and more than half-a-million children are on the brink of starvation. Western aid isn’t flowing to where the worst of the famine is — partly due to the “war on terror.”
The head of World Food Program in Ethiopia says the country’s emergency food stocks are almost gone, the latest trouble caused by the drought in the Horn of Africa.
TOTALLY UNRELATED TO ANYTHING – Apparently Hollywood has discovered its next Greg Mortenson: Sam Childers, the “Machine Gun Preacher,” is the subject of much hubbub and an upcoming movie starring Gerard Butler. This man claims to have been a gangbanger and drug dealer who found Jesus and then took up arms to rescue child soldiers from the LRA. Global health blogger Brett Keller offers some commentary into Childers’ outlandish (and, frankly, dubious) story, while anonymous aid blogger “J” at Tales from the Hood has a few choice words.
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October 2nd, 2014, 12:52 am
This "article" appeared on my Facebook newsfeed and I was subsequently and most unfortunately made aware of the existence of some random ex-Malaysian called Han Hui Hui who has taken upon herself the Herculean task of protesting against the CPF. She's yet another example of how a worthy cause is ruined by an activist who is unable to reason intelligently and avoid falling into the trap of making everything about hating the government. This video pretty much says it all.
These blind PAP haters are just as bad as the blind PAP supporters. People like Han banging on about how the government is stealing our money and, incredibly, how Lee Kuan Yew is a traitor who should die already are merely the flip side of people who bang on about how we should all be grateful to the government for giving us what we have today, yada yada yada (some arguments are just too stupid to rehash; I don't want to waste my brain cells processing them). It is testament to the strength of my belief in the freedom of speech that I do not resort to saying that they should all just shut the fuck up, even though I do wish they would; but it is also testament to the power of free speech that, by allowing these imbeciles to speak whatever crap is in their feeble minds, it becomes clearer what the real arguments are, and how they should be made. Namely: disrupting a charity event for disabled childern is not a good way to get your point across, and neither is swearing at a minister.
When will these clowns grow up?
I am back in Singapore. The weather is oppressive and mean; attempting to sleep at night is a harrowing experience because I am having problems falling asleep; and I am amazed by my own new-found patience and equanimity when it comes to taking public transport (that said, I did just complain to Wouter that I feel diminished as a person everytime I have to take the MRT, but I was just bitching as usual). I met Rui at her office for 20 minutes today in between her meeting and call; felt so good to see a friend after so long, even if it was just for a short while.
I continue to have a love-hate relationship with this country. The hate always has an edge, blunted merely by the love I have for my family, friends, and the food. I consider it a rather unfortunate circumstance of luck that I was born here and that I spent most of my life here. Don't get me wrong, I am infinitely thankful that I was born in Singapore and not Iran or some African country or China, places with more aggravating problems; but all the same, Singapore is a burden that I can never fully escape. It's not so much about Singapore as a state or a country, but it's more like this: if I were to renounce my citizenship and become a Dutch citizen, for instance, I would continue to be tied to Singapore...because it is still home, whether I like it or not.
Curiously, despite all my issues with my country, I think the only realistic situation in which I would give up my citizenship would be if I'd undergone some serious head trauma and recovered from it a completely different person. For better or for worse, Singapore is an integral part of my identity. I cannot be without it, even as I dislike it.
I just wish things could be better. I wish people were less stressed out, less petty, more polite and considerate; that working hours were shorter across the board and that people actually cared about hairdressers and waiters who work ridiculous 10-hour work days with a measly one day off a week; and that we stopped becoming so damn xenophobic and be less narrow-minded and inward-looking. I feel like Singapore is a village that has fooled itself into thinking it's a truly, meaningfully cosmopolitan city because it looks like one. I don't really think it is. I think there is so much about Singapore that is manufactured that we compensate for the lack of history and culture by shouting extra hard about a vague sense of pride at being Singaporean, whatever that means. Singapore is almost like Julian Barnes's England, England, perhaps without the farce (though the political scene is pretty farcical).
I don't like the manufactured glitz and glamour of the likes of Marina Bay Sands, and at the same time, I dislike the numbing dullness and sameness of the heartland and its ubiquitous malls. The overt planning is so palpable in almost every inch of this island that so little about it feels authentic. We are crammed into concrete buildings, squashed into boxes we pass off as apartments, jammed into the MRT, and it's simply too hot to go outside for a stroll in the park or along the river. The lack of political freedom is reflected in the lack of physical freedom...and it's so hard for me to come back to this when I have experienced life with so much more freedom than what Singapore has to offer.
I don't know. I feel like I'm perennially unhappy. Maybe my first boyfriend was right when he said that I thought too much...ten again, coming from someone who barely thought at all...and what would I be without my brain? Absolutely nothing.
Going to bed.
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Illness that caused hallucinations may have been spread by contact
by Jacqueline Kochak | Oct 19, 2016 | Bobs Blog, Public Health
Last week, an emergency room in the Pacific Northwest was briefly quarantined after five people experienced mysterious hallucinations from an unidentified illness believed to be spread by touch, according to news reports. The Coos County, Oregon, Sheriff’s Office said the illness appears to be spreading by contact.
Those affected included two sheriff’s deputies and a hospital worker. According to Oregon Live, the incident started early Wednesday, Oct. 12, when a 54-year-old caregiver in North Bend, Oregon, called the Coos Bay Sheriff’s Office to report that seven to eight people were “trying to take the roof off her vehicle.” Deputies who responded to the call said they found nothing, but after the caregiver reported the unseen vandals a second time, she was escorted to a nearby hospital for suspected hallucinations.
Shortly afterward, one of the deputies who responded to the call began experiencing symptoms described as “similar” by KVAL News and returned to the hospital. Soon after that, the other deputy, a hospital worker and the caregiver’s 78-year-old patient also began hallucinating and were hospitalized, KVAL reported.
A hazmat team was deployed to both the hospital and the initial residence, clearing the emergency room and providing a protocol to the sheriff’s office to decontaminate vehicles and equipment. The team was unable to locate a common source of contamination. Blood tests also failed to find anything unusual.
According to police spokesperson Patrick Downing, initial investigations suggested the 78-year-old patient’s narcotic fentanyl patches could be the source of the hallucinations, but that explanation was later ruled out, KVAL News reported.
“Investigation has found that all those patches and potential medications that may have caused the symptoms have been accounted for,” Downing told KVAL. “The vehicles, equipment, and uniforms have been checked, with no contaminates identified or located on or about them.”
Authorities say the investigation is ongoing.
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September 23, 2019 August 10, 2020 Malik Merchant, Editor
Anver Versi, editor-in-chief of New African, interviews His Highness the Aga Khan – “A man for all seasons”
Introduced by MALIK MERCHANT
(Publisher-Editor, Barakah, Simerg and Simergphotos)
Mr. Anver Versi’s world exclusive interview with His Highness the Aga Khan first appeared in the June 2018 print edition of the best selling pan-African magazine New African, of which he is the Editor-in-chief. With the permission of Mr. Versi and New African we are now delighted to reproduce the complete 12 page piece in Barakah.
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New African Editor-in-chief Anver Versi greets His Highness the Aga Khan just before his exclusive interview during the 49th Ismaili Imam’s Diamond Jubilee visit to Nairobi, Kenya. Photo: © New African / Anver Versi.
We thank Mr. Versi and New African for their permission. We also thank him for giving us the option of featuring extra photos in this post that were not part of his original piece.
A brief profile of Mr. Versi and another photo with His Highness follows the interview. The magazine’s website is http://www.newafricanmagazine.com.
His Highness the Aga Khan: A Life Devoted to the Service of Others
His Highness the Aga Khan visits a preschool in the remote village of Natugo located in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province. Photo: AKDN / Gary Otte.
By ANVER VERSI
His Highness, the Aga Khan, is one of the most iconic figures in the world. As the Imam of the 15m strong Shia Ismaili Muslim community worldwide, he is more than a leader and a guide.
As a direct descendant of Muhammed, the Holy Prophet of Islam through his daughter Fatima and his cousin and son-in-law, Ali, he is seen by his followers as the unbroken link between today and the very foundation of the global religion. His influence, not only within his own community around the world but also in the societies and countries in which Ismailis reside, is incalculable in terms of social development and spiritual upliftment.
The unbroken link of the Ismaili Imamat goes back to the time of the Prophet Muhammad and Hazrat Ali. The collage represents the four most recent Imams who are popularly known by the title Aga Khan, which was first bestowed on the 46th Ismaili Imam Hassanaly Shah, top left, in the 19th century. Photo: © Istockphoto.com. His successors in the collage are (top right) 47th Imam, Shah Aly Shah, Aga Khan II; (bottom left) 48th Imam Sultan Mahomed Shah, His Highness the Aga Khan III, Photo: © National Portrait Gallery, London; and the current 49th Imam, Shah Karim Al Hussaini, His Highness the Aga Khan IV.
The Aga Khan Development Network, which coordinates the activities of over 200 institutions, employing approximately 80,000 paid staff, is dedicated to improving living conditions and opportunities for the poor, without regard to their faith, origin or gender. It operates in more than 30 of the poorest counties in the world. Its annual budget for non-profit development activities is approximately $ 1 billion.
In Africa, particularly in East Africa, the Aga Khan educational and health institutions – accessible to all irrespective of religious or class distinctions – are regarded as the benchmark for excellence.
But the Aga Khan is also a thoroughly modern global citizen, equally at home in the West (the title His Highness was conferred on him, by HRM Queen Elizabeth II of UK in 1957, the year of his accession) as he is in South East and Central Asia and Africa.
His institutional interests through the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development encompass a wide range of entrepreneurial domains including prestige hotels (for example the Serena Group), tourism and industrial promotion, power generation (e.g. Bujugali hydroelectric power dam in Uganda), agro processing (Frigoken, Kenya), telecommunications, manufacturing, media (Nation Media Group), banking, insurance and property management. All companies have a clear social development mandate; all surpluses generated are reinvested in further development activities.
His Highness the Aga Khan looking at the Daily Nation newspaper during a visit at the Nation Printers & Publishers in 1981. Photo: AKDN.
Cultural initiatives also span a range from urban revitalisation to music. The triennial $1 million Aga Khan Architecture Awards established in 1977, have become the most prestigious prize in this discipline with winners coming from an astonishing range of countries, including Burkina Faso. The Award goes to projects around the world that set benchmarks of excellence in finding solutions to challenges of the built environment.
In March [2018], the Aga Khan announced the Aga Khan Music Awards which comes with $500,000 in prize money. The global awards will recognise exceptional creativity, promise, and enterprise in music performance, creation, education, preservation and revitalisation in societies where Muslims have a significant presence.
He is counted among the 10 wealthiest royals in the world but contrary to Western media speculation, does not live a lavish lifestyle, decrying “affluence for the sake of affluence”.
The Diamond Jubilee and Meeting His Highness the Aga Khan for the Interview
His Highness the Aga Khan introduces Her Majesty the Queen to members of his family during his visit in the Diamond Jubilee Year to Windsor Castle. AKDN / Gary Otte.
Although he is not a monarch or leader of a country, he is often given the red carpet treatment reserved for heads of state on his frequent visits to various countries or institutions. In March [2018] Queen Elizabeth hosted a private dinner for him and his family to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee, 60 years of his Imamat. He shares an abiding passion for thoroughbred race horses with the Queen.
His Highnesss the Aga Khan has met hundreds of world leaders, statesman, as well as institutional leaders throughout his Imamat. This collage represents but a very small segment of some of the leaders who have conferred with him.
The Aga Khan has met with and been feted by a veritable who’s who of world leaders, artists, architects and cultural, social and religious icons. He is a much sought-after speaker at international fora. His speech during the Africa 16 Forum in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt was one of the highlights of the event.
As part of his Diamond Jubilee year [from 11 July 2017 to 11 July 2018], he visited Kenya in April, where he addressed several thousand Ismailis who had gathered in Nairobi for the occasion. He also met with Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta.
First Lady of Kenya Margaret Kenyatta and President Uhuru Kenyatta welcome His Highness the Aga Khan to State House in Nairobi during his Diamond Jubilee visit to Kenya. Photo: The Ismaili / Aziz Islamshah
In a fractious world where an increasing number of global leaders seem to have become unmoored from the traditional values of humanity and where divisiveness, hatred, narrow self-interest, greed and blatant lies appear to be in the ascendency, why does this man inspire such deep respect, and affection not only among his community but all who come into contact with him?
Perhaps David Johnston, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of MaGill University before he was appointed Canada’s Governor-General said it best. Presenting the Aga Khan with an LL.D (honoris causa) in 1983, he said:
“This man is a bridge between North and South, East and West. His leadership is beyond politics, beyond race, beyond religion. In a world torn by division, hostility, war and fear of nuclear holocaust, he is a shining beacon of inspiration and of hard-headed accomplishment in improving the lot of humankind, in elevating the quality of civilized life and in uplifting all peoples of the world to cherish the brotherhood of man.”
While he was in Kenya, although the Aga Khan has rarely given one on one interviews over the past decade or so, he graciously agreed, despite a very tight schedule, to sit with New African editor Anver Versi for the exclusive interview that follows.
The Interview with His Highness the Aga Khan
Left: The Aga Khan as a boy. (Clockwise from top left): Aga Khan Primary School visit, Nairobi, Kenya, 1966; at the Great Wall during a round of the architecture award seminars held in China in 1981; receiving the State Award for Peace and Progress from President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, December 2002; planting a tree with Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni at the inauguration of the Bujagali power plant; at Aga Khan University convocation in 2015 in Dar es Salaam.
(Editor-in-chief, New African)
I felt an unusual nervousness while waiting for my scheduled interview with His Highness the Aga Khan at his home in Nairobi’s Muthaiga area. He, or rather his institutions had been of such profound influence in my life for so long that the thought of finally meeting the man in person after so many decades was unnerving.
I started my primary schooling in Nairobi while Kenya was still a British colony. Government schools were few and far between; instead parents relied on Christian Mission schools, or community schools to educate their children. The Aga Khan schools in Nairobi and Mombasa already enjoyed the reputation of being among the best education establishments in the country but admission, was not easy.
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His Highness the Aga Khan visiting a classroom at the Aga Khan Primary School in Nairobi. Photo: Late Mrs. Jean Kirk Family Collection / Allison Wallace, Australia.
By great good fortune, I was enrolled at the Aga Khan Primary School in Nairobi. The following year, I moved to Mombasa with my mother as Nairobi was becoming increasingly dangerous. I joined a small number of other non-Ismailis at the Aga Khan Primary School there.
This had a huge impact on my life. I loved the school and never once did I experience any form of discrimination as a non-Ismaili. I did well and was amply rewarded for it. I made friends who remain so to this day.
The second major impact on my life was when I went to work for the Nation newspaper. It had been launched by the Aga Khan in 1960, three years before Kenya’s independence to be a “voice for the voiceless”. Before that, the main English newspaper The East African Standard had been strongly focused on the colonial government and white settler community. The Nation, which was tabloid size, stood everything on its head. Now coverage was through the African perspective. Journalists were no longer required to be white. The paper sold like hotcakes and first instilled in me the desire to take up journalism when I finished my education – and that is exactly what happened.
A 2-page spread from the June 2018 print edition of New African, part of a 12 page article that includes an exclusive interview by Anver Versi with His Highness the Aga Khan. Inset – New African cover page. Photo: © New African.
Throughout most of my primary and secondary schooldays, the face of the young Aga Khan, Prince Karim, had beamed out at us from his photograph in the main hallway. I can still recall the surprised buzz, in 1957, that had greeted the information that in his will, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan III, had looked beyond the next generation past his two sons, Prince Aly Khan and Prince Sadruddin, and had named as his successor to the Imamat, the athletic 20 year old Karim who was then a student at Harvard University.
The news had been as much of a surprise to him as it had been to us. “Overnight,” Karim was to tell journalist Paul Evan Ress, “my whole life changed completely. I woke up with serious responsibilities toward millions of other human beings.”
After taking a year and a half to visit Muslim communities the world over, he completed his degree. Some years later, he was able to find time to join Iran’s skiing team for the 1964 Winter Olympics in Austria. In another interview with James Reginato, he explains why he returned to Harvard to finish his BA in history. “There was knowledge there that I needed. I was an undergraduate who knew what his work for the rest of his life was going to be.”
Prince Karim and Prince Amyn during their childhood years in Kenya. Photo: 1982 Africa Ismaili.
But his very early education, interestingly enough, was in Kenya. At the outbreak of the World War II, his grandfather had sent him and his younger brother Amyn to live in a house the family owned in Nairobi. In addition to the usual subjects, they were also tutored in Arabic, Urdu, the Koran and Islamic culture.
Back in Nairobi in April, the call came through that His Highness was ready for the interview. I knew that he had had a hectic couple of days in Nairobi and there was a long list of people wanting to meet him. The interview slot had been unavoidably delayed by a few hours so it was almost 7.00pm when I was shown through to a living room. He is over 80 years old and in his place, I might have felt a bit testy to have to sit through an interview.
He breezed in looking as fresh as if it was the start of the day. He gave me a warm smile, shook me firmly by the hand, ushered me to a sofa and turned his full attention on me.
I started by asking him if he recalled anything of his time when at a tender age he was in Kenya.
It was during the Second World War, he reminded me. “My brother and I were together of course at the time. And, we were very young. So, we were really children with home education. There was a nanny who was also an educator. And, we went back to Europe at the end of the Second World War. So our experience here was when we were very young children.”
Did he have any memories of the time?
“We were in the garden very often. We were interested in the growth of rhubarb. And why does rhubarb grow in grains? All the intelligent questions that young people ask themselves,” he said with a smile and we laughed. I immediately felt quite relaxed.
It was time to get to the nub of the matter. “How would you describe your role as Imam?”
“Oh, that’s another issue,” he said and reflected for a brief moment. “Well I think first of all, obviously, there’s an issue of interpretation and practice of the faith. And that is clear. But, in Islam an Imam is involved with the quality of life of the communities that refer to him. He’s not just a man of faith, he’s also a man of guidance for social relations, economic development, etc.
“My grandfather, as Imam in his time, was particularly concerned with the security of the community during the War. That was six years with the world upside down.
An early portrait of His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan, with a framed photo of his grandfather, the 48th Ismaili Imam, Mawlana Sultan Mahomed Shah (1877-1957) in the background. Photo by Philippe Le Tellier/Paris Match via Getty Images. Copyright.
“And, then, the question was always going to be the impact of the War on the countries where the Jamat (community) was living. He followed those issues very carefully, he was engaged in international affairs himself. So he was able to lead the Jamat with good knowledge of international political affairs. Obviously, in times of peace, in times of war, the role of the Imam is somewhat different.
“In his case, for example, communicating with the community was quite complex – from Switzerland, from a neutral country. Today, of course it’s a different situation. What I think is new is the more intimate contact with communities that did not have that contact with the Imam before.
“I am referring particularly to the Soviet Union, to countries behind the Iron Curtain. All that has changed the dynamics of the institution because those countries did not have direct institutional contextualisation with the Imamat at the time. Now they do.”
Ismaili communities occupy a broad swath ranging from central part of Afghanistan (Kabul and Kayan valley of Baghlan province where the Ismailis are of Hazara background); and Badakhshan – the mountainous valleys that stretch between northeast Afghanistan, Northern Areas of Pakistan, Badakhshan province of Tajikistan and Tashkurghan district of Xinjiang province of China as well as in Russia.
The Aga Khan’s memorable visit to Tajikistan, in 1995 established the first direct contact in over a century with these isolated communities. It was the first of many to follow. The Aga Khan Development Network has been working in the region ever since to improve living conditions and to create opportunity for populations across the the region.
Ismaili girls proudly display a decorated frame holding a photo of His Highness the Aga Khan in commemoration of his first visit (right) to Badakhshan in 1995. Photos: (left) © Matthieu Paley; and The Ismaili.
Expanding on the role of the Imam, His Highness continued: “There’s a whole question of how to organize the community, how to build its institutions, how to make sure its institutions serve national interests in those parts of the world because our institutions are not linked just to the Ismaili community, we serve the countries where we are present. So that’s changed the dimension and the international dimension of the work that’s being done.
“We now have to work in seven languages, because there is a major language issue. English is becoming I think the lingua franca of the community as education evolves. The community is bilingual and very often trilingual, so language plays a very important role. Projecting economic and social development, institutional capacity within all of that is absolutely critical.”
He moves on to the focal role of civil society.
“I think one of the key issues we are dealing with now is the strength of civil society. What we’re looking at is how civil society can build capacity to develop itself outside government rather than being constantly driven by government.
“Civil society is looking at building institutions in healthcare, in education, in economic development, etc. Institution building is an important aspect of what we’re trying to achieve – and these are national programmes; they’re not restricted to the members of the community.”
INTERVIEW CONTINUES BELOW
“Moving Picture“
TOP ROW (l to r): With Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle; with Presidents Compaoré of Burkina Faso and Nguesso of the Republic of the Congo; at 2013 Aga Khan University convocation in Karachi. CENTRE : At the University of Toronto’s 2004 convocation ceremony; with Tanzanian President Mkapa after signing an Agreement of Co-operation for Development; touring University of Central Asia Naryn Campus. BOTTOM: With world leaders at the London Conference on Afghanistan; in Lisbon for Award; greeting students at Mombasa’s Aga Khan Academy. Photos: AKDN.
The Aga Khan organisations have excellent credentials in development around the world but how much of this is influenced by spiritual considerations? The Aga Khan explains that the concepts of din (faith) and duniya (world) are inextricably linked.
“We’re both din and duniya . They live together in the ethics of what we do, and in the ethics of our faith. We function within the ethics of our faith.”
I point out that he is the direct descendant from Prophet Mohamed and Hazrat Ali. How have his ancestors and himself managed to bridge this vast span of time?
“One of the fundamental questions is the ethics of the faith. The ethics of the faith were very, very clearly established at the time of the Prophet and Hazrat Ali. So we have certainty in that domain.
“It doesn’t cover all subjects because the modern world is different from what it was at that time. But we have ethical principles, which are strong, well understood. We’re able to work with those as a starting point.
“What we have to do is introduce, or rather apply, the ethics to a pluralism of societies, which we didn’t have before. The pluralism of these societies today is massive – in terms of the languages, geography, economics, political systems.
“So we have to adjust, country by country, as to what we can do, what we want to do and that’s working within the government context, (because in most countries, government is expected to lead on development), so we look at what governments intend to do on leading development.
“Then we try to work within that context. A typical case is countries where development has been uneven – and I’m not criticising, because very often there are historical reasons, but there are countries where some provinces are so isolated they never come in contact with government at the centre.
“If we happen to be in that context, we have to address that issue of isolation and try and compensate where, for one reason or another, social institutions, economic institutions are not present.
“Fairly often we’ve been going into environments which are isolated, underdeveloped. And we’re trying to bring in capacity for society to improve itself. It takes time. You need consensus around common goals. You need to be fairly rigorous in terms of evaluating the outcomes. Are you achieving the goals that you want to achieve and, if not, how do you improve programmatic or institutional capacity to meet the needs?
“You don’t always achieve the goals you want,” he concedes, “for reasons which, very often you can’t predict, or which occur as time evolves. So it’s a moving picture, if you want. One of the important things is to monitor that picture so that you have a solid understanding of the changing processes. And a lot of things come into play – economics come into play, language comes into play, faith comes into play.”
Crowds welcome His Highness the Aga Khan upon his arrival at Abidjan airport. Photo: AKDN.
Although the Aga Khan’s institutional activities span several regions, a good deal of the investment, both in development terms as well as in for-profit enterprises is in Africa. Does the Continent have a special place in his heart?
“Let me put it this way, in various regions where we are working, there are different challenges. And the Imamat, as an institution, has to be equitable in the way it responds to those challenges.
“However, those responses are not uniquely dependent on what the Imamat wants. Local circumstances, international situations have a massive impact on what can be achieved or not be achieved.
“A lot of the work that the leaders of the community and myself are doing is trying to adjust to changing situations to try and make sure that the changes do not damage the community and people amongst whom they live, but that we can actually use change to build capacity. That’s a tough call. That’s a tough call.”
One of the unique aspects about your model, I say, is that you want to uplift the standards of living of your followers but also all the communities around them. Are you satisfied that that is also happening?
“I think our institutions, generally speaking, are achieving that goal. Many of them have higher usage by non-Ismailis than Ismailis. So, in many countries, our institutions have moved out of the community context into the national context, so they are serving the country rather than just the community. That progress has moved ahead.
“It’s also changed the nature of the institutions. In some countries, we can deal with the whole country. On the other hand, if you take a country as large as India, we can’t deal with the whole of India, so we would work with the key states of importance to us. It’s a case by case situation.”
Most of the projects his organisations are involved in take a holistic approach. He has said “We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.”
For example, while restoring the walls of the 14th century Djingereyber Mosque in Mali, the oldest earthen building in sub-Saharan Africa, the Aga Khan Development Network also made improvements in Mali’s educational system and in nearly every sector of its infrastructure, including water, electricity, aviation, agriculture, health, and education.
~~~INTERVIEW CONTINUES BELOW~~~
His Highness the Aga Khan admires the first print copy of the Daily Nation at the launching in 2016 of the new printing press Photo: AKDN/Aly Ramji.
My next question to him was about his ownership of the media in Kenya. When he started the Nation Group, he said he wanted to give “voice to the voiceless”. Is he satisfied with how the group has performed?
“Yes, I am,” he says. “If you look at it historically, it has done what it should have done, which was to illustrate to the public the key issues in national life. And, that has been a good thing.
“Keep in mind that the history of decolonization in Eastern Africa was a racial process. There’s a tendency to forget that. In pre-independence Kenya, you had a European educational authority, you had an Asian educational authority, and you had an African educational authority.
“Therefore building nationhood and building common premises towards the country are key issues that take time. They need to be omnipresent in civil society, because if they’re not omnipresent, you will end up in a mess at some stage or the other. So, my sense is yes, I think we’ve made good progress, and I hope history will demonstrate that.”
I raise the question of the freedom of the press which seems to have come under attack by authorities not only in Kenya but also in the US. Does this worry him as a media owner?
“I think all professions have to have their own ethical principles to function so that they sustain society rather than damage society. That’s true for the media and the communications industry.
“There are two ways to go,” he carries on. “Either the State imposes minimum regulation because it’s in the interest of society or the industry does it itself.
“When I started the Nation Group we set up a number of nation-building principles, which the management and the journalists had to abide by. The goal was that the media was going to contribute, for example, to a pluralist civil society. There was a goal to strengthen and add value to the notion of pluralism. It went through the whole organisation from management to the journalists to everybody else and it’s been a very strong principle.”
In 2015, the Aga Khan University set up the Graduate School of Media and Communications in Nairobi which today offers working journalists and communications professionals the chance to learn from practitioners from some of the world’s leading media and communications organisations. Today it partners with Harvard University and also has an unusual course for media owners. Why the focus on media owners, I wanted to know.
“If you observe the industry globally, you would tend to see the role of owners as being fairly significant. There’s no history of media ownership in Africa and very little even in Asia and insofar as these media groups reflect the ethics, the policies of the owners, I thought it was very important that the owners should be educated in terms of what their products can do to sustain peaceful and developing societies rather than adding conflict.
“You know as well as I do, that there are media that are aimed at creating conflict amongst communities. So, just the very perception that there is risk there seemed to me to be something that we should talk about openly, not hide it, and say to people, you are living in a pluralist society and you have to function within the ethics of a pluralist society.
“I think that’s now accepted.”
Support of Pluralism
His Highness the Aga Khan giving the key note speech at the Africa Forum held in 2016 in Egypt; and the Global Centre for Pluralism Headquarters in Ottawa, Canada. Photo: AKDN
One of the Aga Khan’s strongest positions is his support for pluralism, that is the acceptance of diversity in a society. Again, this is a principle that has come under sustained attack both in Africa and increasingly in the West, especially the US.
In his speech in Sharm el Sheikh at the Africa 2016 Forum, the Aga Khan made a profound statement on this issue. He said that a good deal of the conflicts were caused by “the fear we so often have that our environment will be controlled by others, which leads to suspicion of the other and hardening of attitudes.” I asked him if establishment of the Global Centre for Pluralism in Canada in partnership with the Government of Canada was his response to this threat.
“Canada is a pluralist society,” he explained. “And they value their pluralism, they invest in it; they protect it; and very often in law.
“So, I felt that Canada was an appropriate place to develop an institution that would seek to develop and sustain pluralist initiatives around the world using Canadian precedence, but at the same time working in Africa, working in Asia.
“We are both committed to sustaining pluralism around the world everywhere we can.”
“I think we are agreed on one basic premise, which is that society is not born with the notion of legitimising pluralism. It’s something people have to learn. They’re not born with the understanding or the willingness to enter into pluralist society.”
So there’s always an inbuilt fear? I ask
“There’s a fear or there’s apprehension or there’s misunderstanding and very often communities don’t communicate amongst themselves as much as they might.”
And are you confident, I ask him, that if this is pushed strongly enough, that society might become more pluralistic?
“I think over time we’ll educate enough people so that they’ll have a certain amount of influence in the Western world and elsewhere,” he replied. “But, it’s a long-term process and there’s no measureable outcome, I don’t think. We’ve been looking at that.”
One of the most significant aspects of his organisation’s approach, be it social or economic development, cultural restoration or tourism promotion, is the improvement of quality of life of people and the focus on minimum impact on the environment. How much was this a conscious, ethical decision?
“Pretty significantly,” he said. “This is an established premise that goes way back.
“Why is it there? It’s there to try to add value to local culture. If you bring modern industry, tourism, anything else, it will tend to “de-nature” the culture of the place where you are going.
“We thought that it was very important not to de-culture those communities through changing what’s there but adding value to those cultures so that there is an increased comfort level, respect and investment in enhancing those cultures.
“Our experience has been that these communities have value and they can be enhanced.
“It’s also socially essential, because if you build institutions in society and suddenly there’s a major divorce between society and your institutions, you’re in deep trouble – and the history of colonisation illustrates this.”
While the Aga Khan Development Network social development agencies, with a budget of roughly $1bn a year, are not-for-profit, the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) invests in for-profit enterprises. Companies generate revenues of over $ 4 billion and all surpluses are reinvested in further development activities.
In another interview, the Aga Khan noted that he did not see this as a conflict between his role as a spiritual leader as well as a business leader. “We have no notion of the accumulation of wealth being evil. It’s how you use it. The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.”
The Special Role of Architecture
TOP ROW: Cairo’s Al Azhar Park built by His Highness the Aga Khan; with inhabitants of Northern Pakistan discussing the Aga Khan Rural Support Program; with winners of the inaugural 2017 Global Pluralism Awards. CENTRE: Visiting the Nizamuddin Renewal Initiative in New Delhi; meeting the midwifery students at the Bamyan Hospital, Afghanistan; with winners of the inaugural 2019 Aga Khan Music Awards. BOTTOM: Restoration work at crown of Humayun tomb; with rice farmers in Madagascar; with winners of 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Photo: AKDN.
Referring to the much sought after Aga Khan Award for Architecture, I asked him why his focus on architecture? What is the link, if there is one, between Islam and architecture?
“Architecture is the only art form which has a direct impact on the quality of life. There is no other art form that impacts human quality of life.
“So, architecture seemed to me, first of all, basic to the quality of human life. Secondly, it is critical to cultural continuity because symbolism in architecture, symbolism in building is a very strong part of society. So, making sure that is maintained is, to me, very important.
“The basic issue is economics. The industrialised world is a world which every 20 years, 30 years, pulls down buildings, replaces them, etc. In the developing world we can’t do that. We do not have the economics to do that.
“So we have to build for a much longer time frame than the industrialised world, which means building in flexibility, building in additional land where you need land to change the product. If you look at medicine and the way medicine has changed in the last 50 years, hospitals today are nowhere near what they used to be 50 years ago. So, architecture has to adjust to change in the building environment. It has to do that. It also has to take into account materials, costs, longevity.”
And what about classical Islamic architecture?
“Then we are moving into what I would call the domain of spirituality. I think that insofar as all major faiths have their own illustrations of spirituality, it is essential that we maintain the symbols of spirituality and we can bring them up to modern architecture levels and modern materials, but the premise remains the same.
“I’m very sensitive when a person says ‘I’ve entered this space and I have had a sense of spirituality’. I am enormously pleased when that happens. And architects can be extremely talented in creating that mood.”
While I knew this was a sensitive topic, I had to raise the issue of how terror organisations such as Boko Haram and ISIL have corrupted the message of Islam and asked what was the way out?
“The way out. This is a big question,” he pondered. “My sense is that human history shows, very often, that when there has been an excess in one direction, there’s a corrective process that comes in. It doesn’t stay in the domain of excess.
“And I think that History is likely to show that human life without attention to the soul is not something that people will be happy with. They will need to have that access to spirituality. Now, I don’t think that’s permanent in the individual, I think it fluctuates in time, age, social context, etc., but I’m pretty sure that at some time in life most humans look for comfort.
“Well, in my mind, I believe very strongly in the message of Islam. And one of the messages of Islam is gain knowledge to understand the creation of Allah. That’s the purpose. And I believe in that very strongly.”
Did he see a conflict between science and religion? No, he said, there was no conflict. The purpose of Islam was to gather knowledge to better understand the creation of Allah. One would assume from this that since the creation of Allah is all encompassing, all knowledge gained is serving the purpose of Islam.
My final question to him was that looking back on 60 years of his Imamat, what would he consider his greatest achievement?
“I have to be very honest and say I have never asked myself those questions,” he replied with a twinkle. “And if I did, I probably wouldn’t want to listen to the answers.
“In my life, first of all, there is happiness for working with a wonderful community. There are challenges every day, but you know, we are looking at the ethics of human life. In that sense, in trying to make sure that the ethics of human life are well respected within the context of Islam is a major every day, every minute issue. It never leaves you.”
Date posted: September 23, 2019.
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His Highnesss the Aga Khan pictured in Nairobi with New African Editor-in-chief, Anver Versi. Photo: © New African / Anver Versi.
About the writer: Kenya-born Anver Versi (Anwarali Versi), is the Editor-in-chief of Africa’s longest established and most read pan-African current affairs publication, the London-based New African magazine.
He is also the editor of the quarterly African Banker magazine, the only pan-African publication dedicated entirely to the continent’s financial sector.
Before that, for almost three decades, he was Editor-in-chief of the London-based pan-African, African Business magazine. He won several international awards both in his personal capacity as well as for editorial excellence for African Business and African Banker.
New African, established about 50 years ago, is the world’s widest circulating and most influential political, economic and cultural publication specialising on Africa with a total readership of well over 750,000 a month.
Versi has written over a thousand articles for a variety of publications including The Times, The Independent, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist etc. He also regularly appears on BBC TV and Radio, CNN, SABC and various other broadcasters. Versi specialises in politico-economic analysis.
He has also organised and participated in a very large number of international conferences and seminars and chaired meetings for UNEP, COMESA, UNECA, AFDB, World Economic Forum, the World Bank, and the African Eminent Persons Group etc. In 2012, he anchored the annual WISE conferences in Doha, Qatar, alongside John Snow, the chief news anchor for the UK’s Channel 4.
In 2015, he returned to Africa as Director of Communications and External Affairs for the think-tank, African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET) based in Accra, Ghana, to get a better feel of the pulse of modern Africa. He returned to the UK after two years to take up the editorship of the legendary New African magazine as well as African Banker magazine of which he was the founder-editor.
He has interviewed and written profiles on almost all of Africa’s movers and shakers – ranging from Heads of State and ministers to the continent’s major entrepreneurs, investors and bankers.
Awards include the 2005 Diageo African Business Reporting Award as Best Journalist as well as winning the editing award for Best Publication. African Business won the Diageo Best Media award for a second time in July 2013.
African Business and African Banker magazines made the final nominations for every year, bar one, in the best publication categories. He was also given an award for Outstanding Services to Journalism by the Boston University based APARC organisation.
Versi’s publications include Search for Africa’s political identity published by Macmillan and the best-selling Football in Africa (1986) published by Collins.
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Alnoor Jamal says:
Am reading this interview again, in March 2020… once again the depth, knowledge, and humbleness of this great man Prince Karim Aga khan, has been brought out with skill by Anver Versi. We live in a complex pluaristic world where good leadership is important and much sought after.
Musti Mamujee says:
Well done Anver Versi. Your time at HH Agakhan High School, Mombasa primed you well for all the success in your literary career. Great interview with an exemplary and empathetic leader.
Al-Karim says:
The editors’ preamble to the piece titled ‘A Man for All Seasons’, the extensive images and subsequent concluding remarks complimented Mr Versi’s article.
In reviewing the content of the interview it is my humble opinion that Mr Versi’s line of inquiry was well thought out. The range of topics discussed enabled open ended responses covering the progress of humanity across multiple disciplines.
This thought provoking piece deserves much praise.
It is gratifying to have persons such as yourselves devoted in the pursuit of sharing knowledge.
Iqbal Motani says:
Bravo Malik for another excellent initiative. The background material and photos arrangements are very well done and enhance the reading experience.
Anver Versi’s interview of Hazar Imam is absolutely brilliant and reflects his solid knowledge of the subject.
Mahmood Fazel says:
Well done Anver.
Dr. Daulat Lutchmeah says:
Thank you Anver Versi, editor- in-chief of New African Megazine, and Mr. Malik Merchant publisher-editor of Barakah , Simerg, and Simergphotos for sharing this exclusive interview of Prince Karim Aga Khan in http://www.Barakah.com.
Versi’s title ”A Man For all Seasons” is a very fitting title and entices the reader to go over it again and again as there is so much to absorb and reflect! It encompasses so many attributes of Mawlana Hazar Imam.
As an Ismaili, one would understand that he is a leader guiding communities in din and duniavi aspects according to the changing times just like the changes in four seasons, but the fundamental Ethics of Islam remains same as it has been since the time of Prophet Muhammad (S.A.S.) and Hazrat Ali (A.S.).
One would generally interpret his entire life’s work through his various Institutions of AKDN having reached people globally – East, West North And South – with different geographical and climatic seasons ,different ethnicity and religions . Here again the fundamental of humanity is a constant factor- to alleviate poverty through education and enterprises and eventually make them self reliant and uphold self dignity.
As Versi has already mentioned. David Johnston former Principal and Vice Chancellor of MaGill University, had beautifully summed up: “His leadership is beyond politics beyond race and beyond religion” Truly the Imam is a bridge builder through his pluralistic approach in all aspects of life. Proud to be his follower.
Fakhrunnissa H. Versi says:
Excellent interview. Anver Versi has a unique way of reaching out to the public through the pen.
Thanks and well done to the publisher editor of Barakah, Mr. Malik Merchant, for the initiative taken in reproducing Versi’s interview in the publication.
Shamsuddin Bharwani says:
Thank you so much for providing such an informative interview.
Shamim Khawaja says:
Simply beautiful. Thank you.
Zulekha Nasser says:
Mashallah!!!.. Anver Versi’s interview with Mawlana Hazar Imam is a master piece. Our Beloved Hazar Imam is our spiritual father but his help extends to everyone and he takes care of all human beings, because everyone is created from One Soul. For many Ismailis, like me, he is Aql Kul and we are fotunate to have the direct descendant of the Holy Propet Muhammad (S.A.S.) guide us in our daily lives on the Straight Path. I wish all Ismailis Ya Aly Madad.
Zulekha Nasser (Zully)
Aziz Juma says:
A very nice interview. The way Mowlana Hazar Imam explains applying ethics in his network’s developmental programs and life in general – that there is both din and dunya – is very inspiring. Thank you Barakah for bringing Anver Versi’s interview from the New African to us. All the best for future editions
Phillipe says:
The New African introduction preceding the interview is short, precise and informative. I was even more fascinated about the manner in which Versi has presented the interview where you want to complete it because it is so engaging. The Aga Khan’s thoughts are insightful and his work and aspirations are that of a brilliant, yet humble mind. Wishing Versi well in his editorial work for a number of publications, and I hope he returns to the Aga Khan in a few years time!
Shafiq N says:
A truly fine interview by Anver Versi where he managed to bring out the vision of a humanitarian and leader of faith. It shows the brilliance and skill of His Highness in dealing with the complex work of development in a changing and expanding world.
Zarafshan says:
A great interview about Mawlana Hazar Imam’s services. I am very happy to read this because I am an Ismaili and it makes me feel really proud that I have such a lovely Imam to guide us in our lives.
Karim Dossa says:
What a wonderful and insightful piece. Thank you so much.
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