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Suicide Risk in Older Adults: A Growing Challenge for Law Enforcement
Suicide Risk in Older Adults
A Growing Challenge for Law Enforcement
By Tony Salvatore
The “graying of America” has arrived, and concern is rising regarding the societal impact of a predominantly older population. Deserving even more attention are the effects the increasing numbers of senior citizens will have on suicide rates. Elders have a higher rate than many younger age groups and account for more suicides than their proportion of the U.S. population would indicate.1 Police and other first responders must understand the nature of this risk among the aging public.
Baby boomers (born 1946 through 1964) are driving a major demographic shift in the United States. There are a large number of them, and they are living longer. In the 2010 U.S. Census, baby boomers numbered approximately 79 million and comprised 27 percent of the population.2 In late 2011 this group began turning age 65, and 10,000 more will do the same every day until the end of 2030.3 The oldest boomers are in their 60s, and the youngest are middle-aged.
From 1999 to 2010 the number of suicides in the United States among individuals aged 50 to 59 doubled, and the rate increased almost 50 percent.4 During this period, men accounted for the largest number of incidents in this age group; however, there was a significant increase among women aged 55 to 59.5 Individuals aged 45 to 49 had the highest occurrence of suicide over this time, and this likely will continue as people in this age bracket become older.6
Risk Factors
Some studies attribute the upsurge of suicide in middle-aged adults to the economic recession, prescription drug overdoses, and residual risks from high incident rates among baby boomers in their younger years.7 The latter, known as the “cohort effect,” occurs when a particular generation has a suicide rate it carries through life.8 As early as 1994 researchers noted that one out of every three victims was a baby boomer.9 Individuals in this age group also engaged in nonfatal suicidal behaviors.10 Previous suicidal ideations heighten both near-term danger of completing suicide and lifetime risks.11
The population of middle-aged adults carries other serious risk factors. Most prevalent among these is race.12 The U.S. Census found that the largest group, with over 83 percent of suicide victims, was Caucasian.13 The rate increased from 1999 to 2005 primarily because more whites aged 40 to 64 completed suicides.14
Social isolation, pain, physical illness, and functional impairment are critical risk factors for suicide in older adults.15 These problems may relate to a loss or lack of social connections, reduced resistance to potentially lethal self-harm, a personal belief of being a burden to others, or feeling one’s life is worthless.
Mr. Salvatore coordinates suicide prevention and postvention at Montgomery County Emergency Service in Norristown, Pennsylvania.
Many middle-aged Americans are entering their twilight years with no close interpersonal relationships. Divorce rates doubled among adults aged 50 and above between 1990 and 2009 and tripled among women in this age group.16 In 2009 one of four divorces involved someone 50 or older.17 One-third of baby boomers are divorced, separated, or never married.18 Living alone and having no strong social network are major suicide risk factors in elderly individuals.19 This is particularly true in older men and those who are bereaved.
Another risk factor for aging adults is substance abuse.20 Many baby boomers actively experimented with substances at some time in their lives.21 Such unsafe behavior lowers resistance to self-harm. For many boomers this activity carried over into their older years.22 Individuals aged 45 to 64 made up over one-fourth of all emergency department visits in the United States for drug-related suicide attempts in 2011.23
Alcohol use and abuse correlates with suicide in older adults.24 Problem drinking increases risk by interacting with other factors, such as depressive symptoms, medical illness, disability, a negative self-perception of health status, and limited social ties.25 It is estimated that countless baby boomers used alcohol in greater quantity and frequency than earlier generations, and this use likely will continue.26
Adults 45 to 64 years of age are more likely than other age groups to report physical suffering lasting over 24 hours.27 This is a potential sign of chronic pain, which may persist for weeks, months, or even years. Recurring pain is a precipitant for completed suicide attempts because an individual used to hurting less likely will fear the pain associated with an injurious suicide attempt.28
One study in 2013 found that people aged 49 to 67 were more likely than their parents at the same age to suffer from obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure.29 Chronic musculoskeletal problems top the list of health complaints for this age group, which also reports that these conditions impinge on daily living activities. Increased disability in later years raises the risk for suicide.30
Depression is a significant contributor to suicide risk in aging adults.31 Baby boomers manifest depressive disorders at higher rates than previous groups did at the same age.32 This correlates with the prevalence of chronic pain and disability and combines with such conditions to amplify the risk.
Lethal Means
Older persons differ by gender on the methods employed in suicide attempts. Almost 80 percent of men aged 60 and over used firearms compared with less than 40 percent of women.33 Poison was the means chosen by over 40 percent of women, but less than 8 percent of men.34 Almost 13 percent of female victims and 10 percent of male victims used hanging, strangulation, and suffocation.35 Falls, drowning, cutting, piercing, and use of motor vehicles each accounted for less than 2 percent of suicides in elderly people.36
Senior citizens more likely will die in suicide attempts because of their choice of lethal means.37 Compromised health also lowers the chance of survival. Older adults typically do not report suicidal ideation prior to an attempt, nor do they seek mental health assistance.38 There is not much warning of imminent danger with older people.
Firearms are common in homicide-suicides among older people, which, though rare, are expected to rise. Specific danger signs include a depressed elderly man with new or worsening health problems who is the main caregiver for a dependent spouse and who has access to a firearm.39 Homicide-suicides are more common in couples in their 80s, generally with the wife murdered by the husband who then completes suicide. Typically, the female victim is in her spouse’s care or under his control in a relationship with a history of domestic violence or marital discord.40
Veterans more likely will own firearms as they age and use one to complete a suicide attempt. Elderly veterans are at high risk for suicide because military training and exposure to trauma lower resistance to lethal self-harm.41 In 2012 the median age of male U.S. veterans was 64, and 36 percent were between ages 45 and 64.42 Veterans entering their later years have a higher rate of suicide than earlier generations of veterans had at the same point in their lives.43
Law Enforcement’s Role
With a potentially suicidal older adult, law enforcement officers and first responders must ensure the safety of all parties, including themselves. Additionally, officers need to determine if the individual is in near-term danger of completing suicide. They can do this by screening for suicide risk factors. Several questions can help identify these factors in older adults.
Does the individual cite a loss of meaning, usefulness, or purpose in life?
Does the person exhibit or express poor coping, problem-solving, or help-seeking skills?
Has the individual reported intimate partner conflict or social isolation?
Is there a history of suicidal behavior, mental illness, or substance abuse with this person?
Is this individual dealing with legal or financial problems believed to be insurmountable?
Does the person exhibit signs of physical illness or disability, or does the first responder believe these are present?
Generally, the more risk factors that exist, the higher the danger for suicide. When risk factors are present, the officer should send the person to the nearest hospital emergency department or crisis center. If the individual is uncooperative, the first responder should initiate the process for securing an involuntary psychiatric evaluation. When in doubt it is advisable to always err on the side of safety and ensure that a psychiatrist or other appropriate health care professional performs a suicide risk assessment as soon as possible. Officers and other first responders should keep certain points in mind when dealing with a suicide call involving an older adult.
Officers should assume the individual is close to or over the threshold for imminent danger.
There is a high probability that any suicide plan is based on highly lethal means.
If dealing with an older man, especially a veteran, firearms may be present.
There may be little opportunity for negotiation or crisis intervention.
Because of social isolation, collateral information or contacts may be unavailable.
Inflexibility and rigid personality styles can contribute to suicide risk in older adults.
A major transition, such as a housing change, could trigger suicidal ideations in elders.
Police Officer Risk
There are many retired and soon-to-retire police officers among the group of baby boomers. These individuals carry the suicide risk factors (along with their firearms) acquired during their careers into old age. Estimates indicated that 40 retired police officers complete suicide annually, but the actual number likely will be higher and continue to rise.44 Studies have suggested that “absence of friends, loss of status as a law enforcement officer, and a decline of self-definition leave some retiring officers vulnerable to suicide.”45 Efforts to address suicide risk in active police officers must extend to former officers also at risk.
Suicide among baby boomers has increased significantly. In part this has been attributed to the recession and prescription drug overdoses. High divorce rates and alcohol abuse among boomers may add to the increase. Individuals in this group likely will suffer from obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Additionally, seniors often choose more lethal means and do not report suicidal ideations.
Certain traits in older adults constitute high risk factors for suicide. The key characteristics—caucasian, male, living alone, depressed, previous suicidal behavior, serious illness or disability, chronic pain, substance abuse, or military service—are tools law enforcement officers and first responders can use to help determine if a senior adult who is the subject of a mental health call or other contact could be suicidal.
Officers first must ensure that all individuals, including themselves, are safe. Next, they should determine if the person is close to completion of a suicide attempt. They should evaluate the risk factors, and remember that the danger of suicide increases as more of these factors are present. Most important, they should make certain that the individual is properly evaluated and taken to a hospital or crisis center to receive the help needed. All officers and first responders should be aware of the risk factors and potential means a person may use to commit suicide.
Many officers are retired or close to retirement age and may possess some of these characteristics as well. If officers see that they, their fellow officers, or retired cohorts are at risk, they should seek assistance immediately.
Mr. Salvatore may be contacted at tsalvatore@mces.org.
1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Suicide Among Adults Aged 35-64 Years—United States, 1999-2010,” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 62, no. 17 (May 3, 2013): 321-325, accessed June 4, 2015, http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6217a1.htm.
2 United States Census 2010, http://www.census.gov/2010census/.
4 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Suicide Among Adults Aged 35-64 Years.”
7 Julie A. Phillips, Ashley V. Robin, Colleen N. Nugent, and Ellen L. Idler, “Understanding Recent Changes in Suicide Rates Among the Middle-Aged: Period or Cohort Effects?” Public Health Reports 125, no. 5 (September-October 2010): 680-688, accessed June 4, 2015, http://www.publichealthreports.org/issueopen.cfm?articleID=2514.
9 John L. McIntosh, “Generational Analyses of Suicide: Baby Boomers and 13ers,” Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 24, no. 4 (Winter 1994): 334-342.
11 Annette L. Beautrais, “A Case Control Study of Suicide and Attempted Suicide in Older Adults,” Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 32, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 1-9.
12 Guoqing Hu, Holly C. Wilcox, Lawrence Wissow, and Susan P. Baker, “Mid-Life Suicide: An Increasing Problem in U.S. Whites, 1999-2005,” American Journal of Preventive Medicine 35, no. 6 (December 2008): 589-593.
13 United States Census 2010, http://www.census.gov/2010census/.
14 Hu, Wilcox, Wissow, and Baker, “Mid-Life Suicide.”
15 Kimberly Van Orden and Yeates Conwell, “Suicides in Late Life,” Current Psychiatry Reports 13, no. 3 (June 2011): 234-241, accessed June 4, 2015, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3085020/.
16 Yeates Conwell, “Older Adults: Changing the Alarming Statistics,” National Council Magazine, no. 2 (2012): 62-64, accessed June 4, 2015, http://www.integration.samhsa.gov/health-wellness/NC_Mag_Web_Revised.pdf.
18 Susan L. Brown and I-Fen Lin, “The Gray Divorce Revolution: Rising Divorce Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults, 1990-2010,” The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 67, no. 6 (October 9, 2012): 731-741, accessed June 4, 2015, http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/67/6/731. full.pdf+html.
20 Frederic C. Blow, Laurie M. Brockmann, and Kristen Lawton Barry, “Role of Alcohol in Late-Life Suicide,” Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 28, S1 (May 2004): 48S-56S.
21 Louis A. Trevisan, “Baby Boomers and Substance Abuse,” Psychiatric Times (July 1, 2008), accessed June 4, 2015, http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/ geriatric-psychiatry/baby-boomers-and-substance-abuse.
22 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Drug Abuse Warning Network, 2011: National Estimates of Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits, HHS Publication No. (SMA) 13-4760, accessed June 4, 2015, http://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/ DAWN2k11ED/DAWN2k11ED/DAWN2k11ED.pdf.
24 Blow, Brockman, and Barry, “Role of Alcohol in Late Life Suicide.”
27 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics, HHS Publication No. 2006-1232, Health, United States, 2006 with Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans, accessed June 4, 2015, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus06.pdf.
28 Thomas Joiner, Why People Die by Suicide (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005).
29 Paola Scommegna, “Aging U.S. Baby Boomers Face More Disability,” Population Reference Bureau (March 2013), accessed June 4, 2015, http://prb.org/Publications/Articles/2013/us-baby-boomers.aspx.
31 Yeates Conwell, Paul R. Duberstein, and Eric D. Caine, “Risk Factors for Suicide in Later Life” Biological Psychiatry 52, no. 3 (August 1, 2002): 193-204; and Forrest Scogin, “Depression and Suicide in Older Adults Resource Guide: Introduction,” American Psychological Association, September 2009, accessed June 4, 2015, http://www.apa.org/pi/aging/ resources/guides/depression.aspx.
32 Scogin, “Depression and Suicide in Older Adults Resource Guide: Introduction.”
33 Debra Karch, “Sex Differences in Suicide Incident Characteristics and Circumstances Among Older Adults: Surveillance Data from the National Violent Death Reporting System—17 U.S. States, 2007-2009,” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 8, no. 8 (August 2011): 3479-3495, accessed June 4, 2015, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166755/.
37 Yeates Conwell and Caitlin Thompson, “Suicidal Behavior in Elders,” Psychiatric Clinics of North America 31, no. 2 (June 2008): 333-356, accessed July 6, 2015, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2735830/.
39 Scott Eliason, “Murder-Suicide: A Review of the Recent Literature,” Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 37, no. 3 (September 2009): 371-376, accessed June 10, 2015, http://www.jaapl.org/content/37/3/371.full.pdf+html.
40 Donna Cohen, Maria Llorente, and Carl Eisdorfer, “Homicide-Suicide in Older Persons,” American Journal of Psychiatry 155, no. 3 (March 1998): 390-396, accessed June 10, 2015, http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/ajp.155.3.390.
41 Thomas Joiner, Why People Die by Suicide.
42 National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics, Profile of Veterans: 2012—Data from the American Community Survey (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2014), accessed June 10, 2015, http://www.va.gov/vetdata/docs/SpecialReports/Profile_of_Veterans_2012.pdf.
43 Mark S. Kaplan, Bentson H. McFarland, Nathalie Huguet, and Marcia Valenstein, “Suicide Risk and Precipitating Circumstances Among Young, Middle-Aged, and Older Male Veterans,” American Journal of Public Health 102, S1 (March 2012): S131-S137, accessed June 10, 2015, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3496453/.
44 “Police Retirement—The Final Trauma,” The Badge of Life, accessed June 10, 2015, http://www.badgeoflife.com/retirees.php.
45 John M. Violanti, “The Mystery Within: Understanding Police Suicide,” FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, February 1995, 19-23.
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What Happens When a Car Is Stolen and Then Recovered?
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Auto theft laws and procedures vary from state to state. But in most states, after a vehicle is reported stolen, the vehicle description, license plate number, vehicle identification number (VIN) and registered owner information will be entered into the Statewide Stolen Vehicle System (SVS) and the National Crime Information Center (NCIC). The SVS and NCIC systems are accessible by virtually all law enforcement agencies nationwide. It is up to the registered owner to contact his or her vehicle insurance company and financial institution (if there is a loan on the vehicle) to report that the vehicle was stolen. Unfortunately, most vehicles are not recovered.
In most cases, a BOLO (be on the lookout) will be issued to all law enforcement officers in the area where the vehicle was stolen. If the vehicle is found being driven, officers will attempt to stop the vehicle. In most states, stopping a stolen vehicle is considered a felony stop, and all persons in the vehicle will be removed at gunpoint. Therefore, if you find your vehicle, call the local law enforcement agency in the area and notify them that you found your vehicle, and let that agency dictate how you will take possession of it.
Once the vehicle has been positively identified by the plate and the VIN as entered into the SVS and NCIC, an attempt to contact the registered owner or authorized contact of the vehicle will be made. The owner will be requested to come to the location of the vehicle to take possession of it. If the owner or the authorized contact cannot take possession of the vehicle (the distance is too great, the owner or contact can't be reached) then a tow service will be called to the scene and the vehicle will be impounded. The vehicle will then be entered into the SVS and NCIC as recovered. Unfortunately, any towing, impound and storage fees will have to be paid for by the registered owner.
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Processing for Evidence
If the vehicle is found parked or abandoned, most law enforcement agencies will process the vehicle for evidence in an attempt to identify the suspect. The vehicle may be dusted for fingerprints, items found in the vehicle and identified by the owner as not belonging in the vehicle may be taken as possible evidence, and theft of any items from the vehicle will be entered into the police report.
In cases where the vehicle has been destroyed by vandalism, a collision or the vehicle was stripped, the vehicle may still be towed and impounded. The owner will then deal with the insurance company and the towing and impound company to settle and pay fees incurred.
For more information on the prevention of, and how to check for, stolen vehicles, check your local law enforcement and vehicle insurance agency website.
Once the vehicle has been positively identified by the plate and the VIN as entered into the SVS and NCIC, an attempt to contact the registered owner or authorized contact of the vehicle will be made. The owner will be requested to come to the location of the vehicle to take possession of it. If the vehicle is found parked or abandoned, most law enforcement agencies will process the vehicle for evidence in an attempt to identify the suspect. In cases where the vehicle has been destroyed by vandalism, a collision or the vehicle was stripped, the vehicle may still be towed and impounded. The owner will then deal with the insurance company and the towing and impound company to settle and pay fees incurred.
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Around age eight Natasha Zena was told it was a woman’s job to take care of the home and since then she has built a career out of telling women they can do whatever the hell they want to do. She is the co-founder of Lioness, the go-to news source for everything female entrepreneur. Natasha was recognized as an emerging leader in digital media by The Poynter Institute and the National Association of Black Journalists. She has mentored women entrepreneurs and moderated panels at a number of national accelerators, Startup Weekends and conferences such as The Lean Startup Conference, the Massachusetts Conference for Women, Women Empower Expo and Smart Cities Connect. Natasha is also the author of the popular whitepaper, "How To Close The Gender Gap In Startup Land By 2021." In her spare time, she writes short fiction and hangs out with her son, Shaun.
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Carpentersville, Illinois Civil Procedure
Carpentersville, Illinois Civil Procedures
Find the right Litigation attorney in Carpentersville, IL
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In Carpentersville, Illinois, "civil procedure" refers to the varied processes and procedures that must be followed when conducting a civil lawsuit.
Carpentersville, Illinois's government strives to make the civil justice system fair, efficient, and accessible. The rules of civil procedure are designed to advocate those goals, to the greatest extent possible.
In Carpentersville, Illinois, civil litigation is typically extremely intricate. So, it shouldn't be a surprise that the rules of civil procedure can also be fairly confusing. After all, they govern everything from the first document filed by the plaintiff, to the last ruling issued by an appeals court.
Major Carpentersville, Illinois Civil Procedure Issues
Complaint: The first, and perhaps most important, part of filing a lawsuit in Carpentersville, Illinois is the complaint. The complaint is filed with the court in Carpentersville, Illinois that's responsible for handling civil trials. It lists everything that the plaintiff (the person who is suing) alleges against the defendant (the person the plaintiff is suing). Typically, but not always, the end of the complaint will contain a "prayer for relief." The prayer for relief is simply a statement of what the plaintiff is asking the court to do to remedy the harm that the defendant allegedly caused.
Answer: After the plaintiff files the complaint, the defendant has to act. While they have a few options at this stage of the game, most defendants elect to file an answer. The answer is the defendant's first direct response to the plaintiff's allegations. Sometimes, the answer contains a general denial, in which the defendant simply denies everything the plaintiff alleges. It might also contain a point-by-point addressing of every allegation the plaintiff makes, denying some, and admitting some.
Discovery: After the complaint has been filed in the Carpentersville, Illinois court of competent jurisdiction, the next major phase is the discovery process. In a civil lawsuit, there are not supposed to be any surprises (so the dramatic moments you see in TV trials are largely fiction). This predictability largely comes from the discovery process. Each side of the lawsuit has to disclose information relevant to the lawsuit to the other. This information can be acquired by sending the other side written questions, which must be answered under oath, demanding access to documents, and deposing witnesses.
Trial: It is truly quite rare for civil lawsuits in Carpentersville, Illinois to go to trial, since the rules of civil procedure in Carpentersville strongly encourage early resolution to cases by dismissal of lawsuits that have no merit, and negotiated settlement of those that do. However, when neither of those things happen, the case goes to trial. This is when a judge and jury decide the questions of law and fact, respectively, raised in the case. The jury then issues a verdict, based on the evidence presented to them.
How Can a Carpentersville, Illinois Lawyer Help?
If you're facing any substantial legal issue in Carpentersville, Illinois, you can be pretty much certain that you'll face at least a few procedural complications that can hold up the process.
It should go without saying that you should have a Carpentersville, Illinois attorney on hand to deal with any civil procedure issues that you're almost certain to face, if you're engaged in a lawsuit.
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Why Movie Baddies All Have the Same Evil Laugh
David Robson December 20, 2018
Towards the end of the Disney film Aladdin (1992), our hero’s love rival, the evil Jafar, discovers Aladdin’s secret identity and steals his magic lamp. Jafar’s wish to become the world’s most powerful sorcerer is soon granted, and he then uses his powers to banish Aladdin to the ends of the Earth.
What follows next is a lingering close-up of Jafar’s body. He leans forward, fists clenched, with an almost constipated look on his face. He then explodes in uncontrollable cackles that echo across the landscape. It is an archetypical evil laugh.
Such overt displays of delight at others’ misfortune are found universally in kids’ films, and many adult thriller and horror films, too. Just think of the rapturous guffaws of the alien in the first Predator film (1987) as it is about to self-detonate, taking Arnold Schwarzenegger with it. Or Jack Nicholson’s chilling snicker in The Shining (1980). Or Wario’s manic crowing whenever Mario is defeated.
A recent essay by Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen in The Journal of Popular Culture asks what the psychology behind this evil laugh might be. Kjeldgaard-Christiansen, a communication scholar at Aarhus University in Denmark, is well-placed to provide an answer having previously used evolutionary psychology to explain the behaviours of heroes and villains in fiction more generally.
In that work, he argued that one of the core traits a villain should show is a low ‘welfare tradeoff’ ratio: they are freeriders who cheat and steal, taking from their community while contributing nothing. Such behaviour is undesirable for societies today, but it would have been even more of a disaster in prehistory when the group’s very survival depended on everyone pulling their weight. As a result, Kjeldgaard-Christiansen argues, we are wired to be particularly disgusted by cheating freeriders – to the point that we can feel justified in removing them from the group, or even killing them.
However, there are degrees of villainy, and the most dangerous and despised people are those who are not only freeriders and cheats, but psychopathic sadists who perform callous acts for sheer pleasure. Sure enough, previous studies have shown that it is people matching this description whom we consider to be truly evil (since there is no other way to excuse or explain their immorality) and therefore deserving of the harshest punishments. Crucially, Kjeldgaard-Christiansen argues that a wicked laugh offers one of the clearest signs that a villain harbours such evil, gaining what Arthur Schopenhauer called ‘open and candid enjoyment’ from others’ suffering – moreover, fiction writers know this intuitively, time and again using the malevolent cackle to identify their darkest characters.
Part of the power of the evil laugh comes from its salience, Kjeldgaard-Christiansen says: it is both highly visual and vocal (as the close-up of Jafar beautifully demonstrates) and the staccato rhythm can be particularly piercing. What’s more, laughs are hard to fake: a genuine, involuntary laugh relies on the rapid oscillation of the ‘intrinsic laryngeal muscles’, movements that appear to be difficult to produce by our own volition without sounding artificial. As a result, it’s generally a reliable social signal of someone’s reaction to an event, meaning that we fully trust what we are hearing. Unlike dialogue – even the kind found in a children’s film – a sadistic or malevolent laugh leaves little room for ambiguity, so there can be little doubt about the villain’s true motives.
Such laughs are also particularly chilling because they run counter to the usual prosocial function of laughter – the way it arises spontaneously during friendly chats, for example, serving to cement social bonds.
There are practical reasons too for the ubiquity of the evil laugh in children’s animations and early video games, Kjeldgaard-Christiansen explains. The crude graphics of the first Super Mario or Kung Fu games for Nintendo, say, meant it was very hard to evoke an emotional response in the player – but equipping the villain with an evil laugh helped to create some kind of moral conflict between good and evil that motivated the player to don a cape and beat the bad guys. ‘This is the only communicative gesture afforded to these vaguely anthropomorphic, pixelated opponents, and it does the job,’ he notes.
There are limits to the utility of the evil laugh in storytelling, though. Kjeldgaard-Christiansen admits that its crude power would be destructive in more complex storytelling, since the display of pleasure at others’ expense would prevent viewers from looking for more subtle motivations or the role of context and circumstance in a character’s behaviour. But for stories dealing with black-and-white morality, such as those aimed at younger viewers who have not yet developed a nuanced understanding of the world, its potential to thrill is second to none.
Kjeldgaard-Christiansen’s article is certainly one of the most entertaining papers in a long time, and his psychological theories continue to be thought-provoking. It would be fun to see more experimental research on this subject – comparing the acoustic properties of laughs, for instance, to find out which sounds the most evil. But in my mind, it will always be Jafar’s.
This is an adaptation of an article originally published by The British Psychological Society’s Research Digest.
David Robson is a science journalist specialising in the extremes of the human brain, body and behaviour. A feature writer for the BBC, his first book is The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Stupid Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (forthcoming, 2019). He lives in London.
This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons.
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Taking a Stand for Truth: Biblical Portraits of Faith and Courage
30th April 2020 Jeanne Kun Leave a comment
Because the Hebrew midwives respected (“feared”) God, they knew that the preservation of life took precedence over the murderous decrees of the king, even at the risk of their own lives.
Stephen J. Binz, The God of Freedom and Life: A Commentary on the Book of Exodus
1:1These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household: 2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5The total number of people born to Jacob was seventy. Joseph was already in Egypt. 6Then Joseph died, and all his brothers, and that whole generation. 7But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.
8Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. 10Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.” 11Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh. 12But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites. 13The Egyptians became ruthless in imposing tasks on the Israelites, 14and made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and brick and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.
15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, 16“When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live.” 17But the midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but they let the boys live. 18So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and allowed the boys to live?” 19The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.” 20So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became very strong. 21And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families. 22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every boy that is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the Nile, but you shall let every girl live.”
(See also Exodus 2:1-10)
Shiphrah and Puah? Not many contestants in a Bible trivia game could identify them! Indeed, the Book of Exodus makes only brief mention of these two women who lived more than three millennia ago. Yet their story is a clarion call to us today to take a stand against sin and wrongdoing, even when the cost of doing so is high.
Exodus tells the story of the deliverance of the “sons of Israel” from their cruel bondage in Egypt. Joseph was the son of the ancient patriarch Jacob. His brothers, who were jealous of him, sold him into slavery, but eventually Joseph rose to great power in Egypt under Pharaoh’s authority. So when Jacob and his sons came to Egypt seeking refuge from famine, they were generously welcomed. But life in Egypt did not remain rosy for the Israelite settlers. When a new Egyptian king who did not remember Joseph rose to power (Exodus 1:8), the Israelites endured the bitter oppression that God had foretold to Abraham many generations earlier (Genesis 15:13).
“Pharaoh” is an Egyptian royal title meaning “great house” or “palace.” The Book of Exodus never refers to the Egyptian king by a given, personal name. With this impersonal designation and namelessness, we can see in Pharaoh a symbol of the human and spiritual forces that oppressed the Israelites in the time before their “exodus,” or departure, from Egypt. It is those same forces that oppress humankind today, but from which Jesus, the Passover lamb, came to deliver us.
Pharaoh was threatened by the growing strength and number of Israelites in his nation. So when harsh servitude failed as a means of population control (Exodus 1:12), Pharaoh turned to infanticide, ordering that their male newborns be killed (1:15-16). Yet why did he think that the midwives Shiphrah and Puah, women who were dedicated to bring life into the world, would be willing to obey this heinous command to be purveyors of death?
The original Hebrew text of Exodus 1:15 can be translated as “Hebrew midwives” or “midwives to the Hebrews”—both are linguistically possible. Consequently, biblical scholars have debated whether Shiphrah and Puah were Hebrews themselves or Egyptians attending Hebrew women in childbirth. If the midwives were Egyptians, Pharaoh might have assumed that they would be compliant to his plan. However, their names are considered by many linguists to be of Semitic origin, not Egyptian—Shiphrah possibly meaning “beautiful,” “fair,” or “pleasing” and Puah, “splendid.” *
The Hebrew text states that the midwives refused to carry out Pharaoh’s command because they “feared God” (Exodus 1:17). This statement doesn’t seem to refer to their regard for the array of Egyptian deities. Throughout the Bible, “fear of the Lord” describes the reverence, respect, and esteem that one has in acknowledgment of and response to God’s goodness and power. It is not dreadful fright but rather awe at God’s greatness and love. The psalmist writes that “the friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, / and he makes his covenant known to them” (Psalm 25:14; see also Psalm 34:10-14). Those who fear the Lord are in right relationship with him.
Motivated by their reverent fear of God, Shiphrah and Puah had the courage to honor and obey him rather than the Egyptian king. These women played a key role in preserving life, risking their own lives by defying Pharaoh’s order. When Pharaoh questioned why they “allowed the boys to live” (Exodus 1:18), they shrewdly asserted that Hebrew women were so “vigorous” that, unlike the Egyptians, they quickly gave birth before a midwife could arrive to attend them (1:19).
Shiphrah and Puah’s godly refusal to commit infanticide is perhaps the earliest known example in history of civil disobedience to an evil, oppressive regime. The midwives’ stand, perhaps at risk to their own lives, protected the baby boys, allowing the Hebrew people to flourish. God rewarded the women for their righteousness, courage, and “fear” by giving them “families” (Exodus 1:21)—children and descendants to carry on life to future generations.
What are the “take-aways” for us today from this story of Shiphrah and Puah?
• The midwives’ position of service and influence was no accident; rather, it enabled them to defend the lives of the male Hebrew babies. This gives us an assurance that even in a crisis, God is always at work to further his purposes and accomplish his will.
• Shiphrah and Puah didn’t play a passive role in this crisis; they did not become helpless victims. Revering God, they put their trust in him and acted decisively.
• Shiphrah and Puah are surprisingly contemporary models. The conflict presented to them by the Pharaoh’s death-dealing command is still played out today when society confronts us with demands hostile to Christianity. The story of the midwives reminds us that we, too, are threatened by evil, including sin, sickness, war, racism, and death. And like Shiphrah and Puah, we may have to risk, our reputation, our security, or even our lives for the sake of others. We can only do that when we put our trust in God, who will never fail to help us.
Not to be thwarted in his murderous intentions by the midwives’ refusal, Pharaoh commanded “all his people” to throw every boy born to the Hebrews into the Nile River (Exodus 1:22). Yet there is irony here, as Scripture commentator Stephen J. Binz has noted.
Each form of oppression portends the eventual triumph of Israel. The midwives, in saving the sons from death, foreshadow the saving activity of God in the Passover. The drowning of the boys in the Nile anticipates the way Pharaoh and his armies will meet their death. The oppressive actions, finally, prepare the way for the story of Moses’ birth. (The God of Freedom and Life)
Shiphrah and Puah’s story is brief, but it records a significant event at the beginning of the long story of the Israelites’ deliverance. In the chapters that follow, God raises up Moses as a liberator through whom the Israelites gain freedom from their slavery and oppression in Egypt. Ultimately, this “rescue” story told in the Book of Exodus is our story too, for the work of Moses foreshadows the saving work of Christ that sets each one of us free from the bondages of sin ad death.
* In the Bible, the term “Hebrew” is normally used by Israelites when speaking of themselves to foreigners, or is used by foreigners when speaking about Israelites. The Israelites/Hebrews were one of the Semitic peoples of the Middle East, and their language was of Semitic origin.
Shiphrah and Puah’s story is a clarion call to us today to take a stand against sin and wrongdoing, even when the cost of doing so is high.
Understand!
1. What was the new Pharaoh’s attitude toward the Israelites who had earlier found refuge in Egypt and settled there? In what ways did the Egyptians oppress the “foreigners” in the land?
2. Read Matthew 2:1-18. What similarities do you see between Pharaoh’s desire to kill newborn Hebrew males and King Herod’s massacre of the infants in Bethlehem? What were the fears and aims behind the actions of these rulers? How did God foil and derail the evil intents and deeds of both Pharaoh and Herod and ultimately accomplish our salvation?
3. What do you think motivated and enabled the Hebrew midwives to act so courageously? What character traits of these women are displayed by their actions?
4. What were the immediate consequences of the midwives’ action? The longer-range outcome? How did God bless Shiphrah and Puah for the stand they took? What does God’s response to the midwives’ actions reveal about his nature?
5. Read Exodus 2:1-10. What roles did Moses’ mother and sister and the daughter of Pharaoh play in God’s further intentions for the Israelites and his plan of salvation for all humankind? In what ways were these women audacious “risk takers” like the midwives?
Human Life Is Always a Good
Pope Benedict XVI notes that God’s immense love for each of us means that each person deserves to be loved.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you,” God said to the prophet Jeremiah (1:5). And the psalmist recognizes with gratitude: “You did form my inward parts, you did knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for you are fearful and wonderful. Wonderful are your works! You know me right well” (Psalm 139:13-14).
These words acquire their full, rich meaning when one thinks that God intervenes directly in the creation of the soul of every new human being.
God’s love does not differentiate between the newly conceived infant still in his or her mother’s womb and the child or young person, or the adult and the elderly person. God does not distinguish between them because he sees an impression of his own image and likeness in each one (Genesis 1: 26). He makes no distinctions because he perceives in all of them a reflection of the face of his Only-begotten Son, whom “he chose . . . before the foundation of the world. . . . He destined us in love to be his sons . . . according to the purpose of his will” (Ephesians 1: 4-6).
This boundless and almost incomprehensible love of God for the human being reveals the degree to which the human person deserves to be loved in himself, independently of any other consideration—intelligence, beauty, health, youth, integrity, and so forth. In short, human life is always a good, for it “is a manifestation of God in the world, a sign of his presence, a trace of his glory” (Evangelium Vitae, 34).
Indeed, the human person has been endowed with a very exalted dignity, which is rooted in the intimate bond that unites him with his Creator: a reflection of God’s own reality shines out in the human person, in every person, whatever the stage or condition of his life.
Pope Benedict XVI, Address to the Pontifical Academy, February 27, 2006
Grow!
1. By their stance against Pharaoh’s command, Shiphrah and Puah risked their lives to defend life. What situations or crises have you faced in which you had to take a courageous stand? What happened? How did your trust in God grow?
2. When has fear prevented you from taking a stand? What were you afraid of? Where those fears reasonable? What are some ways to overcome fear in such situations?
3. Shiphrah and Puah were not passive in the crisis in which they found themselves; instead, the acted decisively. How is passivity in difficult situations a temptation for you? What can lead you to act decisively?
4. In our secular society, we are often called to stand up for gospel values and truth, but it’s important to do so with charity. How often do you find yourself discussing controversial issues with co-workers or family or friends? What are some ways you can be loving and respectful during such discussions even when you don’t agree with someone’s viewpoint?
5. How do you respond to immigrants and refugees? With understanding and acceptance or with fear and apprehension? In what practical ways might you reach out to welcome a newcomer in your neighborhood, at work, or in your parish?
Irena Sendler, Woman of Conviction and Courage
Irena Sendler was a Catholic social worker who joined the Polish underground and risked her life to rescue hundreds of Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. By managing to get a pass that enabled her to enter the ghetto legally, Irena was able to visit daily to establish contacts and to bring in food, medicine, and clothing.
Irena smuggled children out of the ghetto in ambulances, garbage cans, toolboxes, cartloads of goods, potato sacks, and even coffins. Sometimes she took them out through a church with two entrances, one on the ghetto side and the other opening into the Aryan side of Warsaw. With the help of workers at Warsaw’s social welfare department, Irena secured hundreds of false documents with forged signatures, giving the Jewish children temporary identities.
The children were taken to private homes, orphanages, and convents. “I sent most of the children to religious establishments,” Irena recalled. “I knew that I could count on the Sisters. No one ever refused to take a child from me.”
The only record of the children’s true identities was kept by Irena, in a coded form, in glass jars buried beneath an apple tree in her neighbor’s backyard, right across the street from the German barracks. Irena hoped she would be able to locate the children after the war ended and inform them of their past. In all, the jars contained the names of 2,500 children.
On October 20, 1943, Irena was arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo. She was severely tortured but refused to betray any of her associates, the children in hiding, or those sheltering them. Irena was sentenced to death, but while she awaited execution, a German soldier took her to an “additional interrogation.” Once they were outside the prison, he shouted in Polish, “Run!” The next day Irena found her name on the list of the executed Poles. Underground members had managed to stop her execution by bribing the Germans, and Irena continued her work under a false identity.
When the war ended, Irena dug up the jars and used the coded notes to reunite the children she had placed in adoptive families with their relatives scattered across Europe. Most of the children, however, had lost their families in Nazi concentration camps. After the war, she helped establish orphanages as well as homes for the elderly.
In 1965 the Yad Vashem organization in Jerusalem awarded Irena with the title “Righteous Among the Nations,” and she was made an honorary citizen of Israel. She received the Order of the White Eagle, Poland’s highest civilian decoration, and in 2007 Israel and Poland supported her as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Irena Sendler died in Warsaw in 2008 at the age of ninety-eight.
Reflect!
1. God put Shiphrah and Puah as well as the mother of Moses and Pharaoh’s daughter in their particular positions in life in order to carry out his purposes for the salvation of the Israelites—and ultimately, our salvation, too. Like these women, we are where we are not by accident but by God’s design.
Reflect on possible reasons why God has put you where you are right now. Consider the present season of your life, your role in your family, your financial resources, your talents, skills, and abilities, your important relationships, your sphere of influence, and your profession. Is there something in particular that God may be asking you to do in your present circumstances to further his purposes?
2. Reflect on the following Scripture passages to guide and strengthen you in keeping the commands of the Lord and living uprightly:
Do not enter the path of the wicked,
and do not walk in the way of evildoers.
Avoid it; do not go on it;
turn away from it and pass on. . . .
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
which shines brighter and brighter until full day. (Proverbs 4:14-15, 18)
The fear of the Lord is glory and exultation,
and gladness and a crown of rejoicing.
The fear of the Lord delights the heart,
and gives gladness and joy and long life.
Those who fear the Lord will have a happy end;
on the day of their death they will be blessed.
Deuterocanonical book of Sirach 1:11-13
[Paul to Timothy:] God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline. Do not be ashamed, then, of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel, relying on the power of God, who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace. (2 Timothy 1:7-9)
Staying Seated to Take a Stand
On December 1, 1955, a bus driver ordered Rosa Parks to give up her seat in the “colored” section of the bus to a white passenger after the “white” section was filled. She refused. As Parks later explained, “When he saw me still sitting, he asked if I was going to stand up, and I said, ‘No, I’m not.’ And he said, ‘Well, if you don’t stand up, I’m going to have to call the police and have you arrested.’ I said, ‘You may do that.’”
On Sunday, December 4, plans for the Montgomery Bus Boycott were announced at black churches in the area. The following day Rosa was tried on charges of disorderly conduct and for violating a segregation ordinance of the Montgomery City code, even though she technically had not taken a “white-only” seat—she had been in the “colored” section. Rosa was found guilty in a trial that lasted thirty minutes; she was fined ten dollars, plus four dollars in court costs. She appealed her conviction and formally challenged the legality of racial segregation.
During the yearlong bus boycott, thousands of blacks walked to work rather than ride segregated buses. The protest continued until the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the city ordinance requiring segregation on public buses. Parks’ act of civil disobedience and the Montgomery Bus Boycott became iconic symbols in the civil rights movement in America and fostered efforts against racial segregation in other countries as well.
Rosa Parks suffered for the bold stance she had taken in refusing to give up her seat on the bus: she was fired from her job as a seamstress and received death threats for years afterwards. Not long after the boycott ended, she moved to Detroit, where she briefly found similar work. Later she worked for Democratic congressman John Conyers and cofounded a nonprofit institute to help youths in Detroit. She also traveled around the country to lecture on civil rights. In 1996 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Parks died in October 2005 at the age of ninety-two. She was the first woman to lie in honor at the Capitol Rotunda. On December 1, 2005, the fiftieth anniversary of Parks’ arrest, President George W. Bush directed that a statue of Parks be placed in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall, stating, “By placing her statue in the heart of the nation’s Capitol, we commemorate her work for a more perfect union, and we commit ourselves to continue to struggle for justice for every American.”
Is there an important moral or ethical issue facing you at work or in your community, or a social justice issue being considered by your state legislature or in the US Congress? If you sense God calling you to do something, ask him for the courage to be bold as well as for the grace to be kind and loving to those with whom you disagree.
Pray these Intercessory Prayers for Pro-Life Advocates prepared by the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops (USCCB):
For those who long for the equality of all persons: that their dedication to the unborn, the old, the condemned, and the forgotten, may grow every day
We pray to the Lord.
For all who work for an end to abortion: that they might be strengthened by prayer, and that God might reward them for their goodness;
For all those who work to promote the Gospel of Life: that God might reward them for their goodness;
For those who work to defend the lives of the unborn, the sick, the infirm, and the aged; those who defend humanity’s inalienable right to life;
For all who work for an end to the culture of death, and especially for our brothers and sisters
from other churches, ecclesial communions, and religions, that love for the Gospel of Life might draw us closer in Christ;
Called to Be “Protectors”
In his inaugural homily, Pope Francis called us to be “protectors” of people and of creation.
How does Joseph respond to his calling to be the protector of Mary, Jesus, and the Church? By being constantly attentive to God, open to the signs of God’s presence and receptive to God’s plans, and not simply to his own. . . . Joseph is a “protector” because he is able to hear God’s voice and be guided by his will; and for this reason he is all the more sensitive to the persons entrusted to his safekeeping. He can look at things realistically, he is in touch with his surroundings, he can make truly wise decisions. In him, dear friends, we learn how to respond to God’s call, readily and willingly, but we also see the core of the Christian vocation, which is Christ! Let us protect Christ in our lives, so that we can protect others, so that we can protect creation!
The vocation of being a “protector,” however, is not just something involving us Christians alone; it also has a prior dimension which is simply human, involving everyone. It means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book of Genesis tells us and as St. Francis of Assisi showed us. It means respecting each of God’s creatures and respecting the environment in which we live. It means protecting people, showing loving concern for each and every person, especially children, the elderly, those in need, who are often the last we think about. It means caring for one another in our families: husbands and wives first protect one another, and then, as parents, they care for their children, and children themselves, in time, protect their parents. It means building sincere friendships in which we protect one another in trust, respect, and goodness. In the end, everything has been entrusted to our protection, and all of us are responsible for it. Be protectors of God’s gifts!
Pope Francis, Inaugural Homily, March 19, 2013
This article is adapted from Biblical Women in Crisis: Portraits of Faith and Trust, by Jeanne Kun, © 2017 The Word Among Us, Used with permission.
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Maricopa County Board of Supervisor Denny Barney, a sixth-generation Arizonan and a successful business owner, has been named president and CEO of East Valley Partnership, effective June 1.
Barney, 48, will replace John Lewis, who will step down from his position at the end of May to serve as a mission president of the LDS Church in Cambodia.
“Denny is a dynamic business leader whose knowledge and deep relationships will continue to move our organization forward at a critical juncture in our region’s history,” said Rhonda Curtis, chair of the East Valley Partnership.
The East Valley Partnership was formed 35 years ago as a cooperative effort among the Phoenix East Valley cities of Apache Junction, Chandler, Mesa and Tempe; towns of Fountain Hills, Gilbert and Queen Creek; Gila River Indian Community, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. Since then, the region has experienced exponential population growth and added thousands of new jobs. Today, the communities boast a combined population of 1.3 million. Because of its talented and highly educated workforce and favorable quality of life, the area also continues to be a magnet for new businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, particularly in industries such as aerospace and aviation, technology, financial services and health care.
Barney will serve as part-time CEO, balancing his duties with his role as principal of Arcus Private Capital Solutions, a specialized realty investment and finance company. He also will continue to represent District 1 on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors until 2019.
Joining Barney on the East Valley Partnership’s leadership team will be Mike Hutchinson, a longtime PHX East Valley leader and former city manager of Mesa, who will serve as full-time executive vice president.
“The Partnership has played an indelible role in the growth and development of the PHX East Valley,” Barney said. “I appreciate the service of our outgoing president and CEO John Lewis. John has done an incredible job serving the people of the East Valley for over a decade. I feel honored to be able to take the baton from such a great leader. I look forward to working alongside my colleagues at the PHX East Valley cities and towns to continue the momentum and make the region the best place to live and work.”
Barney was elected to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in 2012 and served as board chairman in 2014 and 2017. As supervisor, his priorities have been finding creative solutions to address the demands of the fastest growing county in the nation, seeking ways to reduce inmate recidivism, improving regulatory processes and customer service, and collaboratively addressing regional homelessness.
Barney represents the Board of Supervisors on the Greater Phoenix Economic Council board of directors and the Maricopa Association of Governments Regional Council. He also served as a Maricopa County planning and zoning commissioner and a member of the Board of Health.
In addition to his business and political endeavors, Barney serves on the advisory board of Arizona State University’s Morrison Institute of Public Policy and Mesa United Way board of directors. He is an ex-officio director of the East Valley Partnership and a former member of Greater Phoenix Leadership. He also is a past president of the Mesa Baseline Rotary Club and has served on the boards of the United Food Bank, Arizona Board of American Indian Services, Commission on Excellence in Education and various Banner Health advisory boards.
Barney earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations and a law degree from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. He lives in Gilbert with his wife Nichole and their four children.
Since becoming president and CEO of the East Valley Partnership in 2015, Lewis has played an integral role in making the region a mecca for business, launching a mentoring forum for PHX East Valley business owners and entrepreneurs and forming a health care leadership council. He also worked with regional officials and Arizona Tech Investors to start the PHX East Valley Angel Investor Initiative, designed to catalyze economic growth by raising awareness of the importance of angel investing and enhancing access to early-stage funding for East Valley tech startup companies.
Previously, he served as mayor of Gilbert for seven years, where he was active in numerous town, region and statewide initiatives.
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“A Big Ask” is the inside story of the Ford Motor Company’s return to the world’s most famous sports car race – The 24 Hours of Le Mans – as told by veteran motorsports journalist David Phillips and accompanied by more than 100 color images by some of the world’s leading racing photographers. Half a century ago, Ford’s battles with Ferrari for supremacy at Le Mans became the stuff of legends. Rebuffed in his bid to buy Ferrari, Henry Ford II spent untold millions to defeat the iconic Italian marque in a race it had come to dominate in the early 1960s. After two years of humiliating failure, the Ford GT40 delivered a storied 1-2-3 finish at Le Mans in 1966, the first of four straight wins for the American automaker. Ford returned to Le Mans in 2016 with a 21st century Ford GT and a bold mission: Celebrate the golden anniversary of its legendary 1-2-3 finish in 1966 with another victory. But Ford did not go it alone. Boasting a driver line-up of “Le Mans Assassins,” Ford partnered with powerful Chip Ganassi Racing, winners of the Indianapolis 500, 24 Hours of Daytona and Daytona 500, world-renowned Multimatic Engineering, and a host of world-class suppliers in an effort to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Veteran motorsports journalist David Phillips was embedded with Ford Chip Ganassi Racing throughout what proved to be an exhausting and exhilarating journey, from the development of the Ford GT and its problematic competition debut through to its first successes and, finally, triumphant performances at Le Mans and beyond. With unfettered access to all of the key players at Ford, Chip Ganassi Racing and Multimatic, he provides a detailed, insightful and compelling account of Ford Chip Ganassi Racing’s audacious bid to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans that will be a welcome addition to the collection of any motorsports aficianado, automotive buff or sports fan.
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In Search of Black Assassins
PETER YARROW AND DEVONTE, RITUAL STRANGLING, MIND CONTROL, BLOOD RITES, STEPHEN MILLER & WAFFEN SS
NO INVESTIGATION, NO JUSTICE, RACIAL MASS MURDER IN AMERICA
Officially right this moment, Devonte is on the FBI’s List of Missing Persons as of March 26, 2018. However, there is no positive ID of Devonte ever being in Mendocino County or in California on March 26. The man with his hands around the throat of this missing child would certainty be at the top of my suspect list.
Nevertheless, the FBI under Christopher Wray of Georgia appears not too interested in actively investigating Devonte as a missing child, or asking any questions at all about Devonte.
In April 2018, “I’m to the point where I no longer am calling this an accident; I’m calling it a crime,” [Master Mason] Mendocino County Sheriff, Tom Allman told HLN’s “Crime & Justice with Ashleigh Banfield.” In other words, the matter of Jennifer, Sarah, Markis, Jeremiah, Hannah, Devonte, and Sierra is being currently investigated as a homicidal criminal mass murder case. Beginning on March 26, 2018, his main suspect has been a woman that looks like Jennifer Hart in Safeway in Fort Bragg, Mendocino County on March 25.
In April 2018, Mendocino County Sheriff Lt. Shannon Barney told The Oregonian/OregonLive the woman in the video looks like Jennifer Hart but that the footage is “very grainy.” Also in early April, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) said in a news release it was analyzing the store’s footage with FBI agents in an attempt to enhance the blurry viewing quality.
Right this minute in late June 2018, Sheriff Allman’s main mass murder criminal suspect is still the woman that looks like Jennifer Hart in Safeway in Fort Bragg, Mendocino County on March 25. There is no positive ID of Jennifer Hart being in Safeway, Fort Bragg on March 25 from the Mendocino County Sheriff, CHP or the FBI. Mr. Magoo can make a positive ID in Safeway. And, if anybody believes that it was Jennifer Hart in Safeway, it must have come from Mr. Magoo. Because, it didn’t come from the Mendocino County Sheriff, CHP or the FBI. Sheriff Allman will not even confirm or deny if the recently recovered foot evidence belong to Little Hannah. It is absolutely “BIZARRE“!
I think it is fair and appropriate to formally ask the California Attorney General, Xavier Becerra, to take over the investigation of the Hart Case from the Mendocino County Sheriff. If the woman in Safeway is determined not to be Jennifer Hart, then the unidentified woman may be a criminal decoy, conspirator or a patsy to cover-up racial mass murder. If the decoy is in fact dead found at bottom of the sea cliff, then she also is a murder victim.
RITUAL STRANGLING & CLANDESTINE MK ULTRA/MONARCH TRAUMA BASED MIND CONTROL OF CHILDREN
The picture of Peter Yarrow, formerly of Peter, Paul & Mary, with his hands around Devonte’s throat deeply affected and tore me apart emotionally for days and nights. Yarrow left hand is applying a lethal trachea strangle on Devonte. It appears deceptively settle only because Devonte is smiling, but Devonte was under a very sophisticated form of mind control. When I first saw the picture, alarms started going off in my subconscious. It terrified me, inside. My Lord, they prepared Devonte to be ritually sacrificed!
Strangulation is the restriction of airflow through the trachea via something squeezing from the outside. It’s technically incorrect to say that someone was “choked” by another person. The correct terminology would be strangled. Whether caused intentionally or accidentally, anything wrapped around the neck hard enough to restrict airflow through the trachea is causing strangulation.[1] It is not a mistake or coincidence. The picture shows Yarrow torturing Devonte. He has the child in a trachea stranglehold as if he is some kind of crash wreak dummy. And as if he is or will be a “ritual strangling” child victim! Even though, I see it with my own eyes that Yarrow has his hands around the black child’s throat in trachea stranglehold, I still cannot come to bear to fully comprehend that he is really ritually strangling Devonte. I talk about ritual satanic and sexual abuse of children all the time and it hurts and eat away at you. Yet, when I see it literally even masked or in deception, I kinda lose it.
“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.” –Dr. Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death [2]
THE FIRST THREE YEARS
Note: this comes from an article that contains graphic descriptions of trauma and programming setups under Dr. Mengele
“A ritual was done immediately, in which one of the people I had bonded with in the womb (my primary trainer – a father I loved) began to suffocate me, asking me if I would accept a demon present behind him; if I did, he would let me live. I agreed, and was allowed to breathe.”
Peter Yarrow & Allen Dulles
My dear Lord! Beyond being a convicted pedophile, Peter Yarrow is extremely dangerous. He is a tip of an iceberg. Yarrow is a multi-generational CIA operative directly linked to Allen Dulles, and Hauptsturmführer SS Dr. Josef Mengele’s MK ULTRA/MONARCH most clandestine and top secret mind control programs. There is a connection between the experience of childhood trauma and the consequential development of anxiety disorders. One type of anxiety disorder that can be particularly incapacitating is called PANIC DISORDER. Panic disorder is a severe form of anxiety in which the affected individual feels an abrupt onset of fear, often accompanied by profound physical symptoms of discomfort. Two of the most common and terrifying symptoms of severe anxiety (trauma) are a sense of shortness of breath and feelings of suffocation.[3]
The Illuminati Formula Used to Create an Undetectable Total Mind Controlled Slave by Cisco Wheeler and Fritz Springmeier: When the child victim’s crying is heard, they immediately apply torture so the child thinks it will suffocate. This trains the child not to cry.
Anectine (succinylcholine) is a MK ULTRA/MONARCH chemical strong muscle relaxant which paralyzes the body and makes one think they are suffocating. It was secretly used in prisons for aversion (behavior modification) conditioning experimentation.[4]
In Monarch Programming, Alters and Triggers: Trauma-based Coercive Mind Control is the 12th form of mind control, beginning with thought reform that is registered consciously, with memory, through the most covert forms of mind control, in which the individual has no memory of the installation, and is controlled beyond conscious awareness.
Trauma-based mind control programming can be defined as systematic torture that blocks the victim’s capacity for conscious processing (through pain, terror, drugs, illusion, sensory deprivation, sensory over-stimulation, oxygen deprivation, cold, heat, spinning, brain stimulation, and often, near-death), and then employs suggestion and/or classical and operant conditioning (consistent with well-established behavioral modification principles) to implant thoughts, directives, and perceptions in the unconscious mind, often in newly-formed trauma-induced dissociated identities, that force the victim to do, feel, think, or perceive things for the purposes of the programmer. The objective is for the victim to follow directives with no conscious awareness, including execution of acts in clear violation of the victim’s moral principles, spiritual convictions, and volition.
Installation of mind control programming relies on the victim’s capacity to dissociate, which permits the creation of new walled-off personalities to “hold” and “hide” programming. Already dissociative children are prime “candidates” for programming. Alternatively, very young children can be made dissociative through trauma-based programming. The extreme abuse inflicted on young children in intra-familial satanic and “black” witchcraft cults reliably causes dissociation. Children in these cults are programmed to the extent that the cult’s leaders understand mind control programming. Many ritual abuse survivors report that other abuser groups with criminal, political, [CIA MK ULTRA/MONARCH] and military agendas infiltrate their familial cults to gain access to these readily-programmable children to program them to fulfill their own agendas, often paying the cult parents large sums of money to do so.
One common function of trauma-based mind control programming is to cause the victim to physically and psychologically re-experience the torture used to install the programming should the victim consider violating its directives. The most common programs are unidimensional directives communicated during torture and impaired states of consciousness to; “Remember to forget” the abuse and “Don’t tell” about the abuse.
Much trauma-based mind control programming is significantly more complex, more technological in its methods of installation, and utilizes the individual’s dissociated identities (personalities) to effect greater layering of psychological effects. Personalities are usually programmed to take executive control of the body in response to particular cues (hand signals, tones, etc.) and then follow directives, with complete amnesia for these events. This is exemplified by the automatic response of the programmed assassin to seeing the Queen of Diamonds in the 1962 film, “The Manchurian Candidate”. Personalities are programmed to become flooded with anxiety or feel acutely suicidal if they defy program directives. Personalities are often programmed to believe that explosives have been surgically implanted in their bodies and that these will detonate if the individual violates orders or begins to recall the programming, the torture used to install it, or the identities of the programmers.
In highly sophisticated mind control, the individual is programmed to perceive inanimate structures in the unconscious inner landscape. “Structures” are mental representations of objects, e.g., buildings, grids, devices of torture, and other containers, that “hold” programmed commands, messages, information, and personalities. In many cases, walls are also installed that serve as barriers to hide deeper levels of programming and structures. Unconscious personalities perceive themselves as trapped within, or attached to, these structures, both visually (in internal imagery), and somatically (in experiences of pain, suffocation, electroshock, etc.).[5]
Studying the picture of Peter Yarrow and Devonte, it is trauma-based mind control programming taking place directly in front of your eyes! The picture actually makes me so upset that I become physically ill. If I look at it if for only a minute, I get double vision and dizzy. I have to lay down. It is an atrocious smoking gun form of MK ULTRA/MONARCH ritual child abuse, programming and torture that do not mark the child’s body.[6]
From what I have come to understand is that the above picture of Yarrow and Devonte was uploaded by Jen Hart to Facebook on 12/3/2014.[7] The picture appears to have been recorded in a storehouse, warehouse or even a basement. And, it appears that Jen Hart’s Facebook photo page with the picture have been subsequently wiped clean.[8]
Along with the public, Jen Hart tagged Bethany Yarrow, daughter of Peter Yarrow, posting “Devonte sends an abundance of love to you and your family! Our entire family looks forward to the next time we meet. Much Love.” It appears that Devonte was the first of the 6 (six) adopted black children to undergo highly advanced, sophisticated experimental trauma based mind control programming. All of the children were scheduled to go thru very sophisticated levels of high control to be implanted with complicated dissociated identities.
Bethany replied; “Oh Jen Hart! I will never forget that smile. What an amazing young man you have raised. The world thanks you, and him, for reminding us of the power of love, forgiveness and the highest possibilities of humanity. This is the unity prayer that we are all walking. So honored to be walking it with you.… for my children to walk it with your children together as shining warriors of the heart. It is the only way forward. The only way to heal this wounded and suffering planet scarred by so much violence and suffering passed down through the generations. So looking forward to seeing you again, and hoping that Devonte will be able to speak at unity 2015. We are focusing on the youth next year… We need a movement led by the children! It is coming! It is already here! (and so there IS hope!) sending love.”[9]
The clandestine children’s mind control movement was indeed already here. On November 25, 2014, Devonte became directly operational in a CIA MK ULTRA/MONARCH mass population diversion, distraction and propaganda operation. From Alex Riedlinger, a photographer in Portland, Oregon who was at the Ferguson Michael Brown Black Lives Matter mass protest the day of the infamous Ferguson hug between 12 year old Devonte, and Brett Barnum, a white Portland PD officer that went viral among millions on the internet across America and the globe:
“Here are the images of Devonte I took. The first depicts him and his guardian just prior to him approaching the officer, in my mind she seems to be coaching him though the picture does not imply this. The second was taken just before the hug and you can see as a crowd and captive audience is starting to form.
The cropping of an image is everything when it comes to its subjectivity and the way ideas are projected unto it. Every picture Ive seen of this crops out the circus of photographers that surrounded these two creating a captive audience. With such a captive audience I cant really say that the officer did anything that his superiors wouldnt have told him to do. They were there just as much for public relations as to keep the peace otherwise the dept. wouldnt have sent every queer looking, POC and female cop on the force.
Free Hugs, Love and Compassion for the Police State, Devonte and Portland Police Officer
The way this image has been propagandized is highly disturbing to me because it distracts from the real issues. This has never been about the relationship between individual officers and young Black men, but about the way in which our institutions and society protect cops, granting them license to use lethal force in ANY circumstance. Whether they do use it or decide to demonstrate love is irrelevant.
I would like to add that Devonte was crying before approaching the officer while he was talking to his guardian, presumably because he was terrified. This brings the question of coercion to my mind, but Ill let yall debate over it.[10]
Of course the 12 year old child was crying, his unconscious personalities were programmed to become flooded with anxiety or feel acutely suicidal even possible suffocation if they defy program directives.
RITUAL STRANGLING, MYSTERIOUS HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY & ANCIENT BLOOD RITES
Beyond even all of the extremely frightening MK ULTRA/MONARCH mind control circumstances above, Ritual Strangling is a deep practice linked to the mysteries of human physiology that is still unfolding as I speak. A common but little understood abuse method is partial strangulation, and its long term effects are staggering. What most victims, and many professionals who deal with domestic violence strangling every day, don’t know is that even partial strangulation can cause brain damage, pneumonitis, miscarriage, heart attacks, and delayed death, days or even weeks after the event. Strangulation even cause mysterious changes to WHITE BLOOD CELLS. Ritual Strangling is directly linked to ancient blood rites and human sacrifice going back to remote antiquity.
Tullman, 4th Century BC, Denmark
Peter Yarrow practice of ritual strangling to mind control program children is far from happenstance. Yarrow is a secret Sacrificial Blood Rite Kabbalah Torah Hasidic Jew. He is an executioner in Judaic Ritual Strangling.
Lubavitcher Rebbe in Queens, NY, is a Chabad-Lubavitch movement—a branch of Hasidism.[11] Yarrow follows the very same ancient Juratic Hasidic Blood Rite tradition of Jared and Ivanka (Drumpf) Kunster.
Chabad.org: “Here’s your chance to fulfill a relatively rare biblical mitzvah—that of covering the blood of a slaughtered bird. Take a handful of dirt (usually made available in the area) and recite the following blessing before covering the blood: Baruch attah Adonai Eloheinu melech haolam, asher kidishanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu al kisui hadam be’afar. (Blessed are You, L‑rd our G‑d, King of the universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments and commanded us concerning covering the blood with earth.).”[12]
In 2017 in Manhattan, NY, an ultra-Orthodox ritual involving the twirling and slaughtering of tens of thousands of chickens can continue on public streets despite the ruffled feathers of animal rights advocates and Brooklyn residents, an appeals court ruled.
The 3-2 ruling by the Appellate Division First Department in Manhattan upholds a lower court decision that declined to block the pre-Yom Kippur slaughter, Kaporos, that involves swinging the chickens three times overhead while saying a prayer that asks God to transfer sins to the bird. The chicken’s throat is then slit in accordance with kosher laws.[13]
When Moses consecrated the Tabernacle in the wilderness, he sprinkled the Altar of Burnt Offering with the anointing oil seven times (Leviticus 8: 10-11), and and purified it by anointing its four horns with the BLOOD of a bullock offered as a sin-offering,” and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.” (8:15-15). Then he took all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar. But the bull, its hide, its flesh, and its offal, he burned with fire outside the camp, as the Lord had commanded Moses. (8:16) The Leviticus Blood Rite involves a massive amount of BLOOD.
From almost the beginning, Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground. In the course of time, Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel for his part brought of the firstlings of his flock of sleep, their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. Since Adam’s day, generations of believers have sacrificed animals as an expression of faith. (Gen.8:20-21) The God of King Solomon diligently instructed man that he would not receive forgiveness or blessing if he did not approach the Lord with the blood of a sacrifice. So down through the ages many thousands of animals were sacrificed as a means of access to Yahweh’s holy presence. Later, again by divine decree, animal sacrifices were included in the laws given to Israel through Moses: but with a difference: The BLOOD of the sacrifices was to be brought to the Door of the Tabernacle (Exodus 29:11,32,42) and later to the Temple in Jerusalem.
When King Solomon consecrated his Holy Temple, “…the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar”(1 Kg. 3:5). The second time, ‘Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings … two and twenty thousand oxen,[22,000] and an hundred and twenty thousand [120, 000] sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. (1 Kg. 8:63). That involves absolutely thousands of people and tons of BLOOD. There was so much blood and carnage at Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem that the DEVIL, Himself, showed up to consecrate the Temple.
Part of Solomon’s temple complex was dedicated to Human Blood Sacrifice of Children. A Temple for Moloch/Molech is dedicated to the sacrifice of children.
Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
Peter Yarrow could kill all 6 (six) of the black children at the drop of a hat in ultra secret Jewish Blood Ritual Sacrifices or the CIA. The sacrificial rituals of the Vikings ranged from great festivals in magnate’s halls to offerings of weapons, jewelry and tools in lakes. Blood sacrifices of Humans and animals were also hung from trees in holy groves, according to written sources.[14]
LITTLE TY, HART WITCHES, SOUTH DAKOTA & THE NINTH SATANIC CIRCLE NETWORK
In August 2014, officials of the International Common Law Court of Justice (ICLCJ) in Brussels, Belgium in conjunction with Montreal police raided a secret Ninth Satanic Circle gathering where two children were scheduled to be sacrificed. Among those arrested were two Americans from bordering states of South Dakota, Cargill Corporation Executive Kerry Brick of Wayzata, MINNESOTA, and Sinclair Oil Executive Stephen Holding of Sun Valley, IDAHO.
On October 11, 2013, 2 year old Tyrese Robert Ruffin, of Sioux Falls, SD passed away surrounded by family members and close friends on Friday, October 11, 2013, at Sanford Children’s Hospital, Sioux Falls, SD. They called him, TY. DNA confirmed that Little Ty was actually NFL running back Adrian Peterson’s biological child. His mother left him alone one evening with her boyfriend, Joseph “Joey” Robert Patterson.
He called 9-11 to report that the child CHOKED on a fruit snack. They actually found fruit snacks in the child’s mouth. But, an autopsy concluded that 2 year old Ty sustained four blows to the head that killed him that doctors said couldn’t have been accidental. Within hours of being declared dead due to criminal homicide, Little Ty’s organs were harvested.
Little Ty’s October 22nd gathering of fellowship for friends and acquaintances was held at the First Evangelical Free Church in Sioux Falls. The Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA) is an evangelical Christian denomination that also pin their faith like the Klan to the Bible as the Revealed Will of God. EFCA was formed in 1950 from the merger of the Swedish Evangelical Free Church and the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Free Church Association.
The Church of Sweden goes back to the Middle Ages commingled with Norse Paganism and other pre-Christian religious systems that survived in the territory of what is now Sweden; for instance the important religious center known as the Temple at Uppsala at Gamla Uppsala was evidently still in use in the late 11th century. The temple was dedicated to Wodan (Odin) and Fricco (Freyr).
Danish historian, Saxo Grammaticus, says that Freyr began the human sacrifices at Gamla Uppsala:
Also Frey, the regent of the gods, took his abode not far from Uppsala, where he exchanged for a ghastly and infamous sin-offering the old custom of prayer by sacrifice, which had been used by so many ages and generations. For he paid to the gods abominable offerings, by beginning to slaughter human victims.
The sacrifices at the Temple at Uppsala are described by Adam of Bremen:
At this point I shall say a few words about the religious beliefs of the Swedes. That nation has a magnificent temple, which is called Uppsala, located not far from the city of Sigtuna. In this temple, built entirely of gold, the people worship the statues of three gods.
A general festival for all the provinces of Sweden is customarily held at Uppsala every nine years. Participation in this festival is required of everyone. Kings and their subjects, collectively and individually, send their gifts to Uppsala; – and – a thing more cruel than any punishment – those who have already adopted Christianity buy themselves off from these ceremonies. The sacrifice is as follows; of every kind of male creature, nine victims are offered. By the blood of these creatures it is the custom to appease the gods. Their bodies, moreover, are hanged in a grove which is adjacent to the temple. This grove is so sacred to the people that the separate trees in it are believed to be holy because of the death or putrefaction of the sacrificial victims. There even dogs and horses hang beside human beings. (A certain Christian told me that he had seen seventy-two of their bodies hanging up together.) The incantations, however, which are usually sung in the performance of a libation of this kind are numerous and disgraceful, and it is better not to speak of them.
Additionally, Freyr is also known as Tyr. Norse Mythology by Arthur Cotterell, originally published in 1997 and updated for 1999 by Lorenz Books has this to say: “Tyr, also known as Tiwaz, was the Germanic war god… He was closely associated with Odin and like that god, received sacrifices of hanged men.
TYR and Little TY, I just don’t believe that the names are similar due to any coincidences.
Just how deep are you willing to sink down the Rabbit Hole? Extremely deep! Little Tyrese’s Celebration of Life Ritual was held at Sioux Falls’ El Riad Temple. On May 25, 1888, the first ceremonial of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine held in Dakota Territory, was called to order in Sioux Falls by W. D. Stites, first Illustrious Potentate of El Riad Temple. The ceremonial was held under dispensation on May 25, 1888 and a “Class of 33” was taken into El Riad Temple. El Riad Temple was instituted by El Kahir Temple of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
A Masonic Temple is reserved for Satanic Freemasons. It’s pretty clear that whoever organized Little Tyrese’s Celebration of Life ritual was a Satanic Freemason. The ritual itself is a Humanist ceremony. The ritual is conducted by a Humanist Celebrant that believes that there is no soul or other supernatural component of the human personality that can in any way survive after physical death. The Humanist Manifesto II is very similar to the Satanic Bible. Anton LaVey’s Satanism is a form of Humanism. Whereas, a Celebration of Life ritual could very well be a Satanic Ritual.
El Kahir & Albert Pike-Arkansas Grand Dragon of the Invisible Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of the Ole Southern Satanic Brotherhood
In 2011, the El Kahir Temple of Grand Rapids was exposed to have been a “Clandestine Masonic Membership Shrine” under the jurisdiction of the Satanic Grand Lodge of Arkansas. The Grand Lodge of Arkansas meet in the Satanist/Grand Dragon of the Klan Confederate General ALBERT PIKE’s Memorial Temple, PIKE’S old home, built in 1838. Recall that Pike was the secret Old World European ILLUMINATI representative for North America. The Ole Southern Satanic Brotherhood that he helped to create in America is part of the Old World ILLUMINATI Satanic (Ninth Circle) network.
Since its establishment as a state on November 2, 1889, South Dakota and its predominately superstitious and dualistic nature European-Germanic population have been under the iron grip and influence of secret networks of Old World Secret Satanic Societies and the Ole Southern Satanic Brotherhood. The old families of South Dakota are undoubtedly deeply inter-related and associated with Secret Old World Bloodline and Blood Oath Secret Satanic/Masonic Based Societies such as the International Shriner, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Albert Pike’s Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and Freemasonry.
The global elite Old World Ninth Circle Satanic Cult is also secretly based in South Dakota. It is involved in the routine and systematic kidnapping, rape, torture and SACRIFICIAL MURDER of newborn infants and children up to age fourteen. According to witnesses in a federal lawsuit, the Ninth Circle Satanic Cult is globally based and centuries old, operating at Roman Catholic cathedrals in Montreal, New York, Rome, London and dozens of other locations, including at protected forest groves in America, Canada, France and Holland. It routinely utilizes children taken from Catholic orphanages, adoption agencies, hospitals and schools.
“Catholic Jesuit priest involvement in Ninth Circle Satanic Cult rituals at the Mohawk school in Brantford Ontario Canada is confirmed in correspondence from school principals as far back as 1922. Similar Jesuit sacrificial rituals using small children and newborns for sacrifice rites at CATHOLIC INDIAN SCHOOLS IN SOUTH DAKOTA and Omak, Washington are attested to by eyewitness Clarita Vargas in an affidavit entered into our docket material.”
After the collapse of Lawrence King’s Omaha, Nebraska CIA Satanic and Pedophilic Franklin Federal Credit Union, the federal credit union insurance fund repaid nearly all depositors 100 % of their deposits. The single big glaring exception was a South Dakota Sioux Falls order of Roman Catholic nuns that lost $2 million because its certificates of deposit exceeded the $100,000 insurance limit Secret Old World Satanic undergrounds, clandestine Masonic and the CIA/MK ULTRA Occult Bureau’s roots also runs deep around the Black Hills in South Dakota.
BLACK HILLS- SOUTH DAKOTA, THE HART WITCHES, HONDURAS & ONE EYED WILLY
Jennifer Hart was born somewhere around 1978 in Huron, South Dakota. Sarah Hart was probably born in the same year around Big Stone City, South Dakota.
Virtually from the day that SUV went off the cliff, Black Hills South Dakota police has been working closely with Mendocino County and the CA Highway Patrol to keep Jennifer and Sarah Hart’s South Dakota backgrounds warped into around puzzles inside an enigma.[15]
Secret Society Goonies One Eyed Willy- Maryjane Westra
The Permanent Family Resource Center (PFRC)- Influencing and changing the lives of children by securing supportive, loving, and permanent families for them in Minnesota across state lines, that handled the Hart Witches‘ Texas adoption of the 6 (six) black children was founded by Maryjane Westra and Kristy Ringuette of Fargo, North Dakota.[16]
Maryjane Westra, the One Eyed Willy
As far as I am informed on the date of this post, Maryjane Westra serves Global Ministries– Disciples of Christ in Honduras. Global Ministries serves the powerful religious Non Government Organization (NGO) Evangelical and Reformed Church of Honduras (IER) hierarchy linked to the U.S. State Department (CIA) inside Honduras. The voice of Rev. Juan Boonstra, preaching the gospel message via radio, is credited with reaching the hearts of millions of people throughout Latin America and helping to spur the formation of the first Christian Reformed Church in Honduras in the 1960s. Spanish ministry leader for Back to God Ministries International from 1961 to 1991, Boonstra was host and preacher on the program La Hora de la Reforma. He grew up in Argentina and graduated from [John] Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary.
Lion Tamer, Tyrese Ruffin- Patterson
The Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA) in Sioux Falls, South Dakota that hosted and covered religious or neo- religious memorials for Little Ty is not far off the beaten road of Calvinism- Neo Calvinism. In Honduras, IER set up and clandestinely help fund the brutal military, political and social conditions that drives hundreds and thousands of desperate innocent men, women and children migrants into the laps of Donald J. Drumpf’s twisted satanic dark circle that under gun force them in mass into cages, sacrificial sudden places (concentration camps) and the fires of MOLOCH in America. [17]
WHITE HOUSE, JEWISH BY CHOICE STEPHEN MILLER AND THE WAFFEN SS
Nison (Max) Miller, Stephen Miller’s great-grandfather, was denied naturalization in 1932 on account of ‘Ignorance.’ ”[18]
Donald J. Drumpf’s dark circle Senior White House Adviser and speech writer, Stephen Miller, himself is alleged to be happy with how things are going on at the U.S. border- mass arrests, interment and caging of children of color that he crafted, which led one fellow staffer to equate his behavior to that of the Nazi SS, Vanity Fair reported.
“Stephen actually enjoys seeing those pictures at the border,” an outside White House adviser said. “He’s a twisted guy, the way he was raised and picked on. There’s always been a way he’s gone about this. He’s Waffen-SS.”[27]
Do they not understand what the SS is. The SS isn’t a term to be cute or toyed with lightly as if to normalize it in the eyes of masses. The underground SS (Knights of the Black Sun) are menaces to society, a direct threat to democracy and people of color. If he believes that he is Waffen-SS, Stephen Miller is dangerous, and has to be condemned as a vicious damn racist criminal psychopath that shouldn’t be on the taxpayer’s payroll!
SS Waffen Stephen Miller
The Nuremberg Tribunal declared Die Schutzstaffeln Der Nationalsocialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei (commonly known as the SS) a criminal organization! The SS was utilized for the purposes which were criminal in the persecution and extermination of the Jews, brutalities and killings in concentration camps, excesses in the administration of occupied territories, the administration of the slave labour programme and the mistreatment and murder of prisoners of war. In dealing with the SS the Tribunal includes all persons who had been officially accepted as members of the SS including the members of the Allgemeine SS, members of the Waffen SS, members of the SS Totenkopf Verbaende and the members of any of the different police forces who were members of the SS.
Stephen Miller, “Jews-by-Choice”
In this free and pluralistic society, all of us are “Jews-by-Choice” and there are many moments when we stand, again, at the bottom of Mt. Sinai as Moses offers us the Torah, with all of its joys and all of its obligations, and we decide to what extent we will engage in this covenant. The Bar/Bat Mitzvah, “son/daughter of commandment”, is very much undergoing such a “Sinai” moment. Beth Shir Shalom [19]
In a rather unusual heated argument with CNN’s Jim Acosta, Senior White House aide, speechwriter, and adviser, Stephen Miller, told reporters the poem written by Emma Lazarus about the “huddled masses” was not part of the original Statue of Liberty. Miller said the statue was a masonic “symbol of American liberty lighting the world” and suggested it had little to do with immigrants. Miller worked closely with the dark side devil disciple white nationalist Stephen Bannon to craft the executive order banning refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries.[20]
Ultra Secret White Nationalist Juridic Mystic
Stephen Miller is a Blood Rite Jew-by-Choice WHO is also a white nationalist, and has been described as a right–wing troll. Miller grew up in a Jewish family in Santa Monica, California within illusionary liberal circles of orthodox Jewish upbringing — such as at Beth Shir Shalom– The Torah. The Kabbalah is Jewish mysticism. It is a mystical system of thought that has been synthesized by combining the corpus of hermetical thought that resulted from the commentaries and the contemplation of the Emerald Tablet with the Torah,.
The original Kabbalah system was derived from three works. The 1st is the Torah, or the 1st 5 books of the Bible, supposedly written by Moses. The 2nd work is the Sefer Yetsirah, or Book of Creation, which came out of the Gnostic material of the Emerald Tablet, and was written somewhere between the 3rd and 6th centuries A.D. It deals with esoteric theories of cosmogony & cosmology and is very veiled and complicated because of the use of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet as archetypes to explain cosmic occurrences and laws. The 3rd work is the Sefer Zohar, or the Book of Spender. It is accepted by most scholars of the Kabbalah that the author of this monumental work was Moses de Leon of Spain, who began to circulate editions of the book in the period of 1280 and 1290 A.D. He claimed that it represented some of the writings of Rabbi Simeon bar Yohai of the 2nd century A.D. From what we can find out, Rabbi Simeon bar Yohai was a great student of the corpus Hermetica and Jewish & Persian (Zoroastrianism) mysticism. The medieval environment is easily recognized in much of writing of the Zohar, though. Historical references to the Knights Templar Crusades and to Arab rule in Palestine after wars are put together with material based on laws and customs found in the Spanish environment of the author, Moses de Leon.[21]
The Zohar is a monumental work of 2500 published pages plus a gigantic oral tradition, and would take a serious researcher several lifetimes to fully digest and comprehend. This book is primarily a collection of allegorical stories and commentaries and has been written to hide and discourage serious seekers of mystical truth, and requires studying with someone, a master, to unveil its real truths hidden in its allegories, Hebrew letters, and strange symbology., where he went to Hebrew school, and which describes itself online as a “Progressive Reform Synagogue,” and at The Santa Monica Synagogue, a Reform temple where Stephen Miller was confirmed in 10th grade.[22]
What is the Emerald Tablet? The Emerald Tablets are a series of writings that were given allegedly passed down to mankind by the Kemetic God Thoth which were apparently written on a material created through an alchemical process. Nobody has seen all of these tablets. Only one exists in its original form, and the Emerald Tablets (as a textual body) are generally considered to be channeled material given to man by Thoth. They talk about everything from ancient history, to alchemy, to metaphysics, with the main objective being to teach us about the Mysteries of the Universe so “we may become unified with the Light.” The Emerald Tablets are a staple for any New Ager aspiring to ascend to higher states of consciousness. But upon closer inspection, these tablets actually depict the existence of “Fallen Angels”, Hell, and even Satan/Lucifer in ways that glorify them and are central to what they teach.[23]
The Ordo Lapsit Exillis is named after the Stone that fell from Heaven, the fabled jewel that is said to have fallen from Lucifer’s crown during the war in Heaven, and which in the occult is used as a symbol of enlightenment – of the descent of divine light form the mind of God into the mind of Man. As such it symbolizes Venus, the Morning Star, as well as the Luciferian doctrine of the initiates, the secret knowledge which men are not allowed, and which Lucifer’s angels were cast from Heaven for sharing with man.[24]
Legends tells us that when Lucifer fell from heaven, Archangel Michael swung his sword at Lucifer’s crown an emerald fell out and hit the Earth. This legendary emerald was symbolic of the fall of humanity and also the key to humanity’s redemption. In legend this emerald was the Holy Grail itself. It is believed that this emerald was was then fashioned into a cup or bowl by another angel that served as the cup of the Last Supper.[25]
“The stone that fell to earth was an emerald that adorned Lucifer’s forehead. It was cut into the shape of a bowl by a faithful angel, and thus the Grail was born. It was given to Adam before he was expelled from the Garden of Eden. Seth, Adam’s son, having temporarily returned to the earthly paradise, took the Grail along with him. Other people transported the Grail to Montsegur, a fortress in the Pyrenees, which Lucifer’s armies besieged in order to get the Grail back and put it into their leader’s crown, out of which it had fallen; but the Grail was allegedly saved by knights who hid it within a mountain.” – Julius Evola [26]
Lucifer’s greatest- most secret, dangerous and sinister “servants” are the SS- Knights of the Black Sun. By the outbreak of World War II, Heinrich Himmler’s Knights of the Black Sun had consolidated into its final form, which comprised three main organizations: the Allgemeine SS, SS-Totenkopfverbände, and the Waffen-SS. Himmler’s Waffen-SS evolved into a second German army alongside the Wehrmacht and operated in tandem with them, especially with the Heer (German Army). The SS rank system did not copy the terms and ranks used by the Wehrmacht’s branches. Instead it used the ranks established by the post-World War I Freikorps and the SA.
This was primarily done to emphasize the SS as being separate and independent from the Wehrmacht. They were Hitler’s second army. [28] At the end of WWII, the Wehrmacht– Heer (German Army) surrendered to Allied Forces. However, Himmler’s separate and independent “Knights’ Army” did not surrender. They went underground. Lucifer’s Servants with all their ultra secret mind control, medical, scientific Vril technologies, blood loot and gold from WWII went underground and blended into the higher ranks of the clandestine hierarchical knighthood branches of Freemasonry. They traded in their death head black and silver buttoned uniforms and hats for Brook Brothers (1818) suits and ties. Most of them changed their venues to North and South America.
When people in the White House recently called Stephen Miller Waffen SS, they must not truly understand who and what the SS Knights of the Black Sun are. Then again, if they do know and still call him Waffen SS, the Gates of Hell are indeed wide open in America. All of us, immigrants and citizens, should be very concerned, alarmed and afraid of what’s going on inside the White House. I am afraid, but I am not too scared to continue to CALL THEM WHAT THEY ARE AND DEMAND JUSTICE FOR ALL!
In closing. Let me say this. I don’t intend to rest while I am living until justice can be done for the violations of god given human rights, U.S. privileges, immuniities, rights and privileges of Markis, Jeremiah, Lil Hannah, Devonte, Abigail, and Sierra. And, Jennifer, Sarah Hart, Maryjane Westra, and their entire Shambhalian Satanic Coven have been exposed and brought to justice for crimes against humanity, democracy, and racial mass murder.
[1] https://www.verywellhealth.com/is-choking-the-same-as-strangulation-1298889
[2] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele
[3] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141201090430.htm
[4] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.374.1708&rep=rep1&type=pdf
[5] https://monarchprogramming.wordpress.com/category/alters-and-triggers/
[6] https://information.pods-online.org.uk/demystifying-ritual-abuse/
[7]https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/ca-hannah-16-devonte-15-ciera-hart-12-fnd-deceased-mendocino-cty-26-mar-2018-7.372145/page-45
[8]https://www.facebook.com/jen.hart.79/photos?lst=100000498631402%3A514341260%3A1529788032&source_ref=pb_friends_tl
[9] Id.
[10] https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/ferguson-hug-photo-staged-cropped.803689/
[11] https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/36226/jewish/About-Chabad-Lubavitch.htm
[12] https://www.chabad.org/holidays/JewishNewYear/template_cdo/aid/989585/jewish/Kaparot.htm
[13]http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/jewish-ritual-swinging-slaying-chickens-continue-court-article-1.3226269
[14]https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/religion-magic-death-and-rituals/the-viking-blot-sacrifices/
[15]https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2018/06/celebration_of_life_planned_fo.html
[16] https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/2008/04/adoption-agency-has-placed-200-children-in-fergus-area/
[17] https://www.globalministries.org/maryjane_westra
[18]http://jewishjournal.com/news/los_angeles/224412/animal-rights-group-sues-police-not-stopping-yom-kippur-chicken-swinging-ritual/
[19]http://www.bethshirshalom.org/sites/default/files/files/b’ney%20mitzvah%20handbook%20REDUX%20’12.pdf
[20] http://jewishjournal.com/tag/stephen-miller/
[21] http://www.plotinus.com/kabbalah_introduction1.htm
[23] http://reasonsforjesus.com/thoth-a-demon-in-sheeps-clothing/
[24] http://sirius-star.ro/green-stone-lucifers-crown-is-sirius-b/
[25] http://www.patheos.com/blogs/matauryn/2017/07/15/moldavite/
[27] https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-trump-adviser-rips-into-stephen-miller-he-s-waffen-ss-1.6192214
[28] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel
[29] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bolschwing
[30] http://spitfirelist.com/news/aktion-feurland-did-hitler-escape/
[31]https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/crime/2015/09/15/joseph-patterson-murder-trial-tyrese-ruffin-adrian-peterson/72310090/
[32] https://www.verywellhealth.com/is-choking-the-same-as-strangulation-1298889
[33] https://www.religionnewsblog.com/22124/kendra-alysha-suing
[34]https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/witnesses-testify-about-occult-beliefs-harris-childhood/article_d272e1b6-09ba-5a80-ac60-6d437c606b6a.html
[36] http://masongoddess.blogspot.com/2008/01/chapter-eleven-goddess-kali.html
[37]https://globegazette.com/news/slain-girls-mom-says-stepfather-practiced-spells/article_a28eb699-a394-5469-9aeb-5c8a14e03efa.html
[38]http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/man-killed-adrian-peterson-2-year-old-son-life-article-1.2440956
[39] http://the-nordic-religion.tumblr.com/rituals
[40]http://c7.b4in.net/celebrities/2018/05/vatican-clinton-soros-global-elites-named-in-child-rape-homicides-2475385.html
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UNESCO Rewards Outstanding Teacher Initiatives in Chile, Indonesia and the UK
MD Staff
Three programmes designed to empower teachers have been named as winners of the 2017-2018 UNESCO-Hamdan bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Prize: The Center for Mathematic Modeling of the University of Chile, the Diklat Berjenjang project of Indonesia and the Fast-track Transformational Teacher Training Programme of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The Prize for Outstanding Practice and Performance in Enhancing the Effectiveness of Teachers will be awarded on 5 October as part of World Teachers’ Day celebrations at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris when the each winner will receive $100,000.
The Center for Mathematic Modeling of the University of Chile (Chile) is rewarded for its Suma y Sigue: Matemática en línea (Adding it up: Mathematics online) programme which was developed to address the performance gaps in mathematics between students from different socioeconomic backgrounds and improve the quality of maths teaching in general. It is a ‘learning by doing’ programme organized by grade levels and curricula, enabling teachers to focus on their specialized area of mathematics teaching. It blends face-to-face sessions with intensive virtual instruction. The programme is scaleable, easily accessed by teachers in remote areas, and it promotes inclusion.
The Diklat Berjenjang project from Indonesia is rewarded for bringing quality professional development to early childhood teachers, notably in the poorest and most remote areas. It helps meet Indonesia’s need for teachers skilled in creating stimulating learning environments for young learners. It helps identify potential teacher trainers and provides step-by-step written guides, follow-up assignments and exchanges.
The Fast-track Transformational Teacher Training Programme from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was selected for its highly innovative and impactful approach to training teachers in various professional environments in Ghana. It promotes child-centred and play-based pedagogy in early education to replace traditional talk chalk disciplinarian methods. Practicing teachers receive a two-year training, combining workshops with smaller peer group meetings in which they are paired on the basis of their complementary strengths to engage in classroom observations and in class coaching.
The three winners were selected from 150 nominations submitted by the Governments of UNESCO’s Member States and UNESCO partner organizations on the recommendation of an International Jury of education professionals.
Established in 2009 with funding from Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al-Maktoum of Dubai, the Prize is awarded every two years to projects that have made outstanding contributions to improving the quality of teaching and learning, especially in developing countries or within marginalized or disadvantaged communities.
More information on the prize: https://en.unesco.org/teachers/Hamdan-prize
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An Analysis on Marshall McLuhan’s concepts
Dr.Begum Burak
Marshall McLuhan is an important scholar who has made major contributions to communication discipline through introducing new concepts like “global village” and “medium is the message”. It can be said that ideas of McLuhan can be applied to new technologies and social media discussions today.
McLuhan introduced the idea of “medium is the message” in his book called Medium is the Message that was published in 1967. According to McLuhan, what is said by the message is not very significant. The media actors which can be regarded as the medium hold a more major influence on the masses than the message it presents.
The medium (or media in other terms) does not only have the role of being the carrier of the message but it is also the message that shapes people’s views and perceptions (McLuhan, 1967). McLuhan, based on the idea of “medium is the message” gave examples to support his claim in his book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man published in 1964. According to McLuhan, the content of any medium is always another medium. For instance, the content of writing is speech; the written word is the content of print; and print can be seen as the content of the telegraph (McLuhan, 1964).
Another important concept coined by McLuhan is “global village”. This concept was introduced in the 1960s to say that mass media will spread all over the world and make the world become a global village (McLuhan, 1962). According to McLuhan, the electronic interdependence of today’s world produces a world in the sense of “global village”. The global village has been created by the instant electronic information movement according to McLuhan.
McLuhan believed in the usefulness of communication technologies. One of the most important emphases McLuhan made was about drawing attention with his findings about the global communication revolution. According to McLuhan, TV has been a critical invention that ensures that nothing remains a secret, and that eliminates privacy, and he believed that the change of societies is possible with the development of communication tools in various forms. McLuhan made one of the most important predictions of the 20th century. This was the Internet.
In contemporary world, social media is used by millions of user all over the world. New technologies have turned the world into a “global village” Although McLuhan said almost 60 years ago, his ideas about media (medium is the message) and the “global village” concept are still relevant today.
McLuhan, M. (1962), The Gutenberg Galaxy: The making of typographic man. London: Routledge.
McLuhan M. (1964), Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan, McGraw Hill
McLuhan, M. (1967). The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects. London: Penguin Press.
Leaving no one behind with Fiqh for person with disability
Dian Maya Safitri
As I watch the new Netflix documentary, Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution produced by former President Barrack Obama and Michelle Obama, I realize thatthere is an urgent need for grassroot activism to support disability religious rights to pave the way towards greater equality. The movie highlights disabled summer campers who fight for the realization disability rights in 1970s, at the time when they were largely ignored by the state.
And does Indonesia need A Disability Revolution?
According to a study by Monash University, it is estimated that the disability prevalence rate in Indonesia is between 4% and 11%. There are several causes of disability, ranging from malnutrition, diseases, ageing population, natural disaster, and accident. Unfortunately, due to social stigma in the society against people with disability, the disability statistical figures may be underreported.
The Indonesian government has been actively involved in international convention by ratifying United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) in 2007 and issued the law no. 8 of 2016 on rights of persons with disabilities to comply with human rights standards. But, at the same time the law faces some stagnate situation regarding improved well-beings of people with disabilities because disability prejudices are still at the heart of this tension.
For example, disabled children are less likely to attend formal education because of lacking inclusive schools. In public places, ramps and accessible information are not easily available. Zooming into the workforce, Indonesian 2010 census reported that only 26,4% people with severe disabilities were employed in formal sectors. This resulted in high rate of self-employment among people with severe disabilities. Many people with mental disability, such as bipolar disorder, have to conceal their condition for the fear of losing jobs.
A research found that discriminations against people with disabilities in developing countries, including Indonesia, caused a loss of up to 7% of Gross Domestic Product(imagine : what if a genius with severe disability like the late Professor Stephen Hawking had never been employed at university?).
Women with disabilities even suffered more from double prejudices, by their gender and their disabilities. What makes thing more difficult for disabled citizens is that, despite of some disabilities laws and ministerial decrees, they were poorly enforced. This explains the urgency of ending this discrimination from a social-economic developmental perspective.
As the largest Muslim majority country in the world, Fiqh (Islamic jurisdiction) for person with disability remains important to safeguard equal religious rights. As a non-disabled Muslim woman, being able to perform Islamic prayer (shalat) properly help me increase my mental wellbeing during this unprecedented time.
Unfortunately, there are still some Muslims who believe that disabilities are by-products of witchcrafts (sihr) or demons (syaitan) which can be healed only by involving spirits and enchanting some quranic verses. Further, in Islamic law per se, there is no specific term which can encompass all disabilities.
“Fiqh for person with disability is very important because the society has yet to accommodate special needs for people with disabilities in performing religious rituals. For example, how does Islam regulate the wudlu(ablution) taken by a man/woman without arms? Considering that Islamic law obligates that someone must wash one’s arm up to elbow during wudlu. And will the wheelchair be considered as najis(impure) inside the mosque?” said Mr. Bahrul Fuad, a disabled person and board member of AIDRAN (Australia-Indonesia Disability Research and Advocacy Network).
Mr. Ahmad Ma’ruf, the Disability Program Team Leader of Muhammadiyah, the second largest and most influential Islamic organization in Indonesia after Nadlatul Ulama (NU), even posed critical questions:“What if persons with hearing impairment wish to get married and say ijabqabul (Islamic marriage vows), will they use sign language? Because religious court has yet to regulate the sign language issue. And who has the authority to validate the sign language as “legally correct” in Islamic marriage? What if a man with wheelchair wishes to be an imam (leader of a congregational prayer)? Is he allowed to do that, given the fact that many people still interpret explicitly the regulation that makmum (member of a congregational prayer) must follow movements of imam? What if there is no accessible ablution facility in a mosque? Should a person with disability performs tayamum (dried ablution)?”
To address this issue, NUand Muhammadiyah issued Fiqh for person with disability and raise awareness of the public concerning equality for disabled communities. NU even collaborated with the Ministry of Religious Affairs to disseminate the Fiqhto mosques nationwide.
Fiqh for person with disability will fulfil civil rights of disabled community comprehensively, ranging from ubudiyah(religious rituals),muamalah(interpersonal relation), to sahusiah(public policy). This Fiqh will also protect rights of disabled women, as the most marginalized group.
To ensure the smooth implementation of the Fiqh, the government, civil societies, disabled people organizations, religious leaders, and experts of Islamic law should collaborate for accountable monitoring and evaluation. Regular capacity buildings for judges, teachers, and village officials should also be organized.
Finally, political buy-in through Perda(regional regulation)and guidelines should be issued to strengthen government officials’ commitment to enforce the Fiqh. For example, the Special Province of Aceh under Syariah law have regularly issued qanun(regional regulations subjected to Islamic stipulations).
Historically speaking, during the Umayyad Caliph era in the 700s, the Caliph Al-Waleed ibn ‘Abdul Malik accommodated health treatment needs for his population with disabilities through the provision of health care clinics within all his jurisdictional provinces. This idea was emulated by Caliph Umar Bin Abdul Aziz who hired support services workers for people with disabilities. This initiative resulted in social and legal impacts worldwide, in which a broad array of laws on disabilities were enacted.
In making public policy for citizens with disabilities, the government of Indonesia should not paint disabilities situation with a broad brush. Rather, Fiqhfor persons with disabilities must be taken into consideration seriously. Otherwise, there will be far-reaching consequences on well-beings of people with disabilities in the long run.
This Fiqhis a beacon of hope for future generations, to leave no one behind.
As put forward by a member of Crip Camp: “If you don’t demand what you believe for yourself, you’re not gonna get it”.
Good Parenting Reduces the Divorce Rate
Al Mukhollis Siagian
Divorce is a very stressful event. Apart from having a bad impact on children, divorce has a major impact on the survival of the husband and wife who experience it. Divorced couples visit psychiatric clinics and hospitals more than couples from intact families. Divorced couples experience anxiety, depression, feelings of anger, feelings of incompetence, rejection, and loneliness.
In Indonesia, the divorce rate from year to year shows an increasing trend. The Ministry of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia reports that since 2015 until now there has been an increase in the divorce rate. In 2015 there were 394,246 cases, in 2016 it increased to 401,717 cases, then in 2017 it increased to 415,510 cases, as well as in 2018 it continued to increase to 444,358 cases, and by 2020, per August the number had reached 306,688 cases.
The increase in the divorce rate from year to year has serious consequences in families. Conflict during the process of parental divorce and separation has a negative impact on the physical and psychological well-being of all family members. Quite a number of research results show that divorce has a negative effect on all family members, especially children. The results of Amato’s research in 2011 with a meta-analysis approach to 67 study results showed that children from divorced families had lower academic achievement, behavior, psychological adjustment, self-concept and social relations than children from intact families.
Based on In the author’s empirical observation, the ending of marital status for a particular family also brings several social impacts, for example: narrowing social networks which results in a lack of social support, causes negative life experiences and psychological suffering, and causes economic hardship for women.
Thus rather than that, a marriage which basically originates from an agreement between two parties, so if there is a divorce, it is certain that both parties will suffer losses. Even children from marriages who divorce will share such losses. Then, what factors cause divorce? In my opinion, the substantial cause of divorce is the parenting concept of a married couple.
Good Parenting
Parenting, generally known by the public as a pattern of parenting parents towards their children. This assumption is not completely wrong, but it must be straightened out that parenting is an ideal household conceptualization. Of course, you have to move from a husband and wife long before you have children. A husband and wife have had to discuss it long ago so that in various desired manifestations it can be carried out harmoniously together.
Parents (married couples), basically forming their children until they reach maturity will not be separated from the influence of their world. The mode of reflection on the relationship between parent and child is a complex activity that includes many specific attitudes and behaviors that work separately and collectively to influence the child’s outcome and the emotional bonds in which parental behavior is expressed.
In this case, parenting can be explained in terms of two components, namely parental responsiveness and parental demandness. Parents’ demands are the extent to which parents set guidelines for their children and how their discipline is based on these guidelines. Parental responsiveness is an emotional characteristic of parenting. Responsiveness continues to the extent to which parents support their children and meet the children’s needs. Both responsive and demanding parenting have been linked to securing attachment to children. Referring to Baumrind (1971), he identifies three parenting styles, namely: authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive with responsive and demanding concepts in mind.
Authoritative parentingis a condition of authoritative parents as a combination of demands and responsiveness. They make logical demands, set boundaries and demand children’s obedience, while at the same time, they are friendly, accept the child’s point of view, and encourage children’s participation in decision-making and often seek their children’s views in family considerations and decisions. This type of parent is then referred to as the type of parent who monitors and disciplines their children fairly, while being very supportive at the same time.
Authoritarian parenting, a demanding and unresponsive parental condition. They engage in little reciprocal interaction with children and expect them to accept adult demands without question. Strict socialization techniques (threads, commands, physical strength, love withdrawal) are used by parents who are authoritarian and withhold self-expression and independence. Authoritarian parents tend to set high standards and guidelines and require compliance. Authoritarian parents attribute love to success and not nurturing like the other two parenting styles.
Permissive parenting, consists of several clear and predictable rules due to inconstant follow-up and neglected bad behavior, neutral or positive affective tone. They give children a high degree of freedom and do not restrain their behavior unless physical injury involves. Permissive parenting shows an overly tolerant approach to socialization with responsive and non-demanding parenting behavior. These parents are nurturing and accepting, but at the same time they avoid imposing demands and controls on the child’s behavior. They have little or no hope for their children and often see their children as friends and have few boundaries.
Based on the three parenting models above that the author has reviewed and conducted a literature review, it is clear that the Good Parenting pattern that must be applied by a husband and wife is authoritative parenting. This concept implies a condition in which a positive influence on the realm of a child’s life until he grows up on the aspects of education and psychological well-being is formed.
A positive parent-child relationship illustrates that the family will survive in harmony so that it becomes the foundation of a healthy home and community environment. The influence of the parents on the whole life of the child means the influence from birth to adulthood due to the parents. Children spend most of their time at home and the attitudes, behavior, standard of living, and communication of parents with their children have a major impact on the child’s future life. If their parents are too strict or too obedient, it has a negative impact on their life. But the supportive, caring and flexible attitude of the parents results in a psychologically and mentally healthy child.
Parents (a married couple) should adopt an authoritative parenting style and practically apply it when dealing with their children. They are the backbone of a nation and the nation’s future depends on their psychosocial development. Healthy parents can produce healthy children in exchange for a healthy nation. On the other hand, unhealthy parents (husband and wife) will have a bad influence, a small example is divorce. And this is a burden for the nation.
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The Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market
11 June 2020 20 June 2018 by Media
Molly responds to constituents who have contacted her with concerns about Article 13 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market
Dear constituent,
In recent weeks, I have received many messages from citizens voicing their concerns about Article 13 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. I am glad to see that so many people are willing to raise this issue with their elected representatives in the European Parliament and to make their voices heard.
The debate on the new Directive has been no less controversial here in Parliament, especially on Article 13 – although there are other issues in the text that have caused intense discussions, such as Article 11 and the so-called “link tax”.
As you may know, the Greens/EFA Group plays a leadership role in the Parliament on digital and internet policy and our Shadow rapporteur, Julia Reda, has been working very hard on the Copyright Directive since the Commission published the draft legislative text back in 2016. I have been able to talk through with her our response to the key issues.
Let me be clear on this: our Group is opposed to the introduction of a filtering obligation for online platforms, which Article 13 currently implies. Monitoring and identifying all content users upload to online platforms in order to prevent copyright breaches is not proportionate to the objective of this law and puts freedom of expression at risk.
We also oppose Article 11, which would force anyone who wishes to use parts of journalistic content for link-sharing to first get a license form the publisher (e.g. to display link previews using headlines of articles, excerpts etc.). On the one hand, similar initiatives to introduce such a “link tax” in Germany and Spain have already failed. On the other hand, this measure would needlessly limit access to online information and discourage the use of hyperlinks.
I should say, however, that we believe the operators of social media platforms should take greater responsibility for their content and should carry some of the responsibilities of publishers. So far, it has been too easy for them to deny responsibility and thus facilitate the spread of disinformation and propaganda. I believe we may need to regulate in this area but the current proposals are too heavy-handed.
Julia Reda has been very vocal in opposing the aspects of the text that would threaten internet freedom. She has published extensive information about the Directive and its possible (negative) consequences on her website.
Unfortunately, the Committee for Legal Affairs adopted the Copyright Directive without any changes to Articles 11 and 13 on June 20th. However, the text still needs to be approved by the plenary of the European Parliament, probably in July or September. In the meantime, Julia Reda will challenge the outcome of the committee vote on behalf of the Greens/EFA Group. She remains determined to fight, because she is convinced that “we can still overturn this result and preserve the free internet”.
I would like to thank you for getting in touch with me at this crucial point in time – it is extremely important for citizens to address their concerns directly to MEPs. If you would like to know more about my work in the European parliament, please visit my website where you can also sign up to my regular newsletter.
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Uber CEO: We're not going public
by Sara Ashley O'Brien @saraashleyo October 21, 2015: 10:16 AM ET
5 stunning stats about Uber
Uber may be the world's most valuable startup, but it won't be going public anytime soon.
CEO Travis Kalanick said the company is still relatively young, and isn't planning an IPO, despite pressure from one of its investors, Bill Gurley, and Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg, an outspoken proponent of going public.
"Is it misery enjoys company? Or is there something else going on?" Kalanick asked at a Wall Street Journal tech conference in Laguna Beach, Calif. on Tuesday.
Kalanick said Uber is currently in its "junior high" stage of development, and that talk of going public now is like "telling us to go to the prom."
"It's just a little early," he said. "Give us some time ... something like that could happen but we're just not there yet."
Kalanick also said that Uber -- which is valued at more than $50 billion -- is still the underdog in some markets.
That includes China, which now makes up more than 30% of Uber's business.
"[China accounts for] almost as many [trips] as we're doing in the U.S., and we've been there a far shorter time," he said.
Kalanick said that Uber committed $1 billion this year to expansion efforts in China. Still, the company has a long way to go: "The economics aren't quite as good when you're the number two ... like we are in China," he said.
In China, a company called Didi Kuaidi -- which recently formed a strategic partnership with Uber's U.S.-based rival, Lyft -- is the industry leader.
But overall, Kalanick said he's happy with the China market: "We have not seen a single instance where we have been treated different than our competitor. That's all we ask for: Give us a fair shot."
Uber has a fraught relationship with many city governments, but Kalanick said that he sees his company fighting for cities, not with them: "When you succeed, there are going to be incumbents who fight progress from happening," he said.
Kalanick said that as Uber gets bigger, he's had to learn to finesse his approach.
"If you're starting to be perceived as the number one, but you're still acting as the scrappy underdog, there's a cognitive dissonance with that," he said. "There's a responsibility with success, and you have to be cognizant of that."
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CNNMoney (Laguna Beach, Calif.) First published October 21, 2015: 3:25 AM ET
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Revenue in Review: An Overview of New Hampshire’s Tax System and Major Revenue Sources
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How Now, Red Cow
Every year, on the first or second Shabbat following Purim, a special reading from Numbers 19, is added to the regular Shabbat Torah reading. Known as Parashat Parah, the Torah reading concerns the special purification ceremony of the Parah Adumah (Red Heifer), one of the most intricate and mysterious laws found in the Torah.
The process of purification via the Parah Adumah is complex and difficult to understand even for those who have spent years studying the Torah. A simple explanation is that a pure red heifer (cow) is sacrificed, and its ashes are mixed with holy water. The mixture is then sprinkled on those who seek spiritual purification. Most famously, the ashes of the Parah Adumah “cleanse” a person from the ritual impurity of coming in contact with a dead body. The precise process is described in Numbers 19 and in Mishnah Parah.
For the Parah Adumah, however, any-old red cow just won’t do. The animal must be a cow that is preferably three or four years old (but older than two years) and has never been mounted by a bull. Additionally, it should never have been yoked or have been engaged in any physical labor like most other domestic animals normally do.
Physically, like all sacrifices, the red heifer must be blemish free, both internally and externally. The most critical factor, however, is the definition of “red.” In order to be considered an actual Red Heifer, the animal may not have more than two hairs of a different color on its entire body!
Finding the exact specimen was so difficult that the sages recorded only eight red heifers from the time of Moses to the end of the Second Temple period: “Moses prepared the first, Ezra prepared the second,… Simon the Just and Yochanan the High Priest each prepared two, and El’y’ho’aynai ben Hakkoph and Cha’nam’ayl the Egyptian each prepared one” (Mishnah Parah 3:5).
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Language matters: “naming” and “framing” the moral foundation for health equity
Language is a tricky thing … it is both biological and a learned system rooted in cultural norms and beliefs. It makes it possible for us to think and act conceptually within a moral or values-based frame. Language is both rational and emotional. It simultaneously makes us think and makes us feel. Like I said, it’s tricky!
Let me give you a personal example …
I very much see myself as a second-wave feminist, but I would much rather be one of the “girls” than one of the “ladies” or “women”. There is nothing rational about it … I just like the playfulness of being with a group of women who are clearly no longer girls but having fun and being a bit crazy like we did when we were girls. However, if you include me with the ladies, all I can think about is the rules for ladylike behaviour and everything I am not supposed to do … and women just sounds, well, serious. The rules change again if you are a man, in which case you are not allowed to call me a girl or a lady. Like I said, language is both rational and emotional.
Power, privilege, culture … welcome to the world of communicating about the social determinants of health and health equity, of which gender is just one dimension.
When our public health colleagues said they wanted help using clear and effective language that resulted in action, we got a bit nervous. Finding the appropriate language to help name the core social justice values of public health is important, but the dilemma is that framing the idea we want to communicate needs to come first. As the cognitive linguist George Lakoff points out,
“[n]aming and framing are different. Framing is conceptual, it is about ideas that allow you to understand what you are experiencing. Naming is giving language to those ideas – often ideas you already have, possibly as part of your unconscious brain mechanisms. Naming can make the unconscious conscious.”
At the risk of putting the cart before the horse, we decided to create English and French glossaries of essential health equity terms. Our hope is that by helping to provide language related to health status, intervention strategies, populations, and root causes of health inequities we would be supporting public health advocates to make their case for the change they want and provide a key mechanism to communicate their values. However, public health actors still need to first frame the issue:
“Once the steps to a solution for a given public health problem have been identified and the mechanisms for instituting them have been determined, then language should be developed to communicate the solution and why it matters. That language, the specifics of the message, will then emerge from how the issue is being framed.” – Berkeley Media Studies Group
This is the first of a series of blogs about the glossaries, in which we plan to explore the power of language and what we have been learning about how health equity language is used in Canada in English and French. In future blogs we will discuss how one language might borrow from the other in order to communicate more powerfully.
The glossaries are intended to be living collections that capture how our understanding of equity shifts and changes as our language changes. I would encourage everyone to visit the Glossary web-page and add comments about how you use the terms and what terms you think we should be adding.
And no, you won’t find “girls” or “ladies” defined there … but you will find “gender/gender identity” named as a social determinant of health, helping us make the unconscious conscious.
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Going for Gold in Rio
Spencer Jones, Sports Editor
Since 1936, the USA Men’s Basketball Team has held a record of 130-5 in the Olympics. This year the success should be the same. USA Basketball (USAB) has looked to the NBA to construct arguably the best group of basketball players to represent the country this summer in Rio de Janeiro. The toughest battle these players could face is the next round of roster eliminations.
As of now 30 players have been selected. USAB Chairman, Jerry Colangelo, and Duke University’s Hall of Fame head coach, Mike Krzyzewski, have less than four months to trim this roster down to 12. Players like Carmelo Anthony (New York Knicks), LeBron James (Cleveland Cavaliers), and Stephon Curry (Golden State Warriors) are pretty much guaranteed spots on the roster, as long as they stay healthy.
Anthony has the most Olympic experience out of the group with 72 international games under his belt. His style of play fits into the international scheme. Standing at 6’7 he could play multiple positions on the court, and his lethal scoring ability makes his one of the hardest players to defend in the world.
The same can be said about the league’s reigning MVP and NBA Champion, Stephon Curry. With veteran point guards Chris Paul and Russell Westbrook in the mix to make the team, Krzyzewski has the luxury of moving Curry over to the shooting guard position and running a series of plays for him off the ball. He has the ability to space the floor and hit the open three, which is a key attribute for any player in international play since the regulation size of the court is smaller.
The talent level of Team USA’s guards is this team’s strength, but we can’t overlook the frontcourt players. Anthony Davis (New Orleans Pelicans), Kevin Durant (Oklahoma City Thunder), and DeMarcus Cousins (Sacramento Kings) have a good chance of making this team because of their past experience with Team USA. Back in 2012, Davis was selected as the first player since Christian Laettner to be featured on the national roster as a college player. He has the ability to space the floor, play with his back to the basket, as well as defend the paint. The only downside to Davis is his recurring injuries.
The players listed above could possibly make up 8 of the 12 open roster spots. The remaining finalists are LaMarcus Aldridge (San Antonio Spurs), Harrison Barnes (Golden State Warriors), Bradley Beal (Washington Wizards),Jimmy Butler (Chicago Bulls), Mike Conley (Memphis Grizzlies), DeMar DeRozan (Toronto Raptors), Andre Drummond (Detroit Pistons), Kenneth Faried (Denver Nuggets), Rudy Gay (Sacramento Kings), Paul George (Indiana Pacers), Draymond Green (Golden State Warriors), Blake Griffin (Los Angeles Clippers), James Harden (Houston Rockets), Gordon Hayward (Utah Jazz), Dwight Howard (Houston Rockets), Andre Iguodala (Golden State Warriors), Kyrie Irving (Cleveland Cavaliers), DeAndre Jordan (Los Angeles Clippers), Kawhi Leonard (San Antonio Spurs), Klay Thompson (Golden State Warriors) and John Wall (Washington Wizards).
Players that can operate at multiple positions stand out in international play, which Harden, George, Leonard, and Butler can do. The latter three are respected around the league for having the ability to play both sides of the ball. George has had a bounce back season since his gruesome injury during an exhibition game in the summer of 2014 with Team USA. It was reported that he had a huge chance of making the team before the injury, and the Pacers’ forward should have an even better chance since his game has improved.
Though Harden’s defense is unimpressive and sometimes a disgrace to his team, we can’t argue at the fact that he’s one of the premier scorers in the league, averaging 27.7 points per game. He came in third in MVP votes last year because he carried his Houston Rockets to the playoffs in the competitive Western Conference. This year he’s averaging around the same numbers on a team that’s slightly better than last seasons.
There’s a few players under the radar on this list that could make the team. Drummond is one of them. Arguably the best center in the league today, Drummond has the ability to average 20 points and 20 rebounds a game. Midway through the season he has a total of nine 20/20 games, the player closest to that record is Howard with two. Drummond is one of the last true centers in this run and gun league, and he has a certain toughness about him that could serve Team USA well.. The combination of Drummond, Davis and Cousins against bigger teams like Spain or Brazil could make Team USA the team to beat again.
Injuries are always the main concern. Some NBA general managers are opposed to letting their players participate, and some players themselves have taken the cautionary approach with these type of situations. Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose announced that he won’t participate in this year’s Olympics after going through countless injuries. All 30 players selected have expressed the desire to play for this team, and it’s an honor to be considered to represent their country. An announcement on who will make the final cut is expected around the end of the regular season.
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Death, hunger, looting: Typhoon-ravaged Philippines’ state of national calamity
(RT)
In the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, which left thousands dead, many more displaced and survivors battling for survival amid devastation and chaos, the Philippines has declared a state of national calamity to help restore order to the reeling nation.
In a primetime television speech delivered Monday, President Benigno Aquino said: “We declare a state of national calamity to hasten the action of the government to rescue, provide help and rehabilitate the provinces affected by [Haiyan].”
The declaration will also help the government control the prices of staple goods, with many in the country reduced to begging for food and water. Aquino called for patience as the scope of the damage frustrated efforts to coordinate relief operations.
“The extent of the devastation brought us back to a situation where information was passed on from one person to another. There was no television, radio and internet,” he said.
Noting how the devastation reduced people to word-of-mouth communication, Aquino vowed help would arrive in the coming days.
“My message: Staying calm, prayer, and helping each other are what will lift us from this challenge,” he said.
Three days after the typhoon made landfall, authorities are struggling to come to grips with the aftermath of one of the strongest typhoons ever recorded.
Forty-one of the country’s 80 provinces were affected, with Secretary to the Cabinet Rene Almendras saying that in the worst affected areas, the destruction had been “total.”
An estimated 10,000 people are believed to have been killed in Tacloban – a city of over 200,000 southeast of the capital, Manila – which bore the brunt of the storm. Flattened by massive waves and battered by winds reaching speeds up to 235 miles an hour, Tacloban remains littered by the dead, some covered with tarps, others left lying out in the open with looks of horror reportedly etched on their faces. The United Nations said officials in Tacloban had seen one mass grave of 300 to 500 bodies, Reuters reported. Relief workers fear that ground water may be contaminated by decaying bodies, and fears are growing of a massive public health crisis.
The city has also been gripped by looting, with authorities dispatching police and military reinforcements to restore order. A Philippine Red Cross truck carrying medical supplies was reportedly attacked while heading to the city. Manila has said it will not hesitate in deploying more police officers if necessary. Locals have already reportedly formed local militias and have promised to shoot looters to protect their property.
So far, Tacloban is relying almost entirely for supplies and evacuation on just three military transport planes flying from nearby Cebu. Aquino said 24,000 family food packs had been distributed in Tacloban on Sunday, while 18.7 billion pesos ($430 million) had been set aside from calamity funds, contingency funds, and savings for places hit by Haiyan.
Around 2,000 people, meanwhile, remain missing in the seaside town of Basely alone, which is located about 10 kilometers across a bay from Tacloban. Other coastal areas caught on Haiyan’s path are likely to have suffered similar levels of destruction, though efforts to survey the damage or make a full account of the dead have been severely dampened.
The country’s government has so far confirmed 1,744 deaths.
Both the official and unofficial death tolls are likely climb once officials reach more remote areas. Guiuan, a town of 40,000 in eastern Samar province, was largely decimated, although it does not figure into the casualty tabulations.
The only reason why we have no reports of casualties up to now is that communications systems … are down,” Colonel John Sanchez posted on the Philippines Armed Forces’ Facebook page, Reuters reported.
Farther west on the on the islands of Cebu and Panay, which also suffered direct hits from the typhoon, authorities have been hampered in their ability to assess the devastation.
Overall, more than 600,000 people were displaced by the storm across the country, with some lacking access to basic amenities such as food, water or medicine, the UN says.
Massively disrupted transportation and communications links have equally affected the ability for authorities to recover the dead and deliver relief to affected areas. Thirty provinces remain without electricity, and around half that number are having problems with phone and Internet connections. Although telecommunication firms believe service should be restored within days, restoring the national power grid in its entirety could take up to two months.
The US is sending an aircraft carrier in order to bolster the relief efforts, the Pentagon confirmed Monday. The nuclear-powered USS George Washington carries 5,000 sailors and more than 80 aircraft.
Meanwhile, Russia is dispatching a mobile hospital and rescue workers to the Philippines.
President Aquino said 21 other countries had provided aid, including Indonesia, the UK, Japan, Singapore, New Zealand and Hungary.
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Home » vietnambreakingnews » Việt Nam beat Australia 1-0 in AFC U23 tournament
Việt Nam beat Australia 1-0 in AFC U23 tournament
By Minh Quang 5:16 PM
HÀ NỘI – Nguyễn Quang Hải’s win brought Việt Nam’s historic 1-0 victory over Australia in the Asian Football Confederation U23 Championship Sunday, and opens a door to all Group D teams competing in the quarter-finals in Kunshan, China. Việt Nam was the first ASEAN team to win at this tournament, which is in its third edition. Two other teams here are Thailand and Malaysia. Thailand has just been eliminated after two straight losses, while Malaysia claimed one point from a draw after two matches. The golden boy Hải scored the only goal at the 72nd minute, making part of his coach Park Hang-seo’s expectation to make miracles come true. Prior to the tournament, Park said he wanted to surprise people with his Vietnamese players. And they are on the way to proving it. Last Thursday, Hải scored the opener for Việt Nam in their first match of the tournament. Despite losing 1-2 to 2016 championship runners-up South Korea, Việt Nam really shocked not only local experts, but also international trainers. Sunday’s victory was even an earthquake for the whole continent, as Australian media described their loss as a national disaster, while Thai newspapers, such as Thai Rath, Siam Sports and Bangkok Post, considered it a big shock. AFC President Sheikh Salman al-Khalifa sent his congratulation to the team after the match, saying he was proud of Việt Nam’s result and hoped the team would see more success. Despite being an underdog in the group, Việt Nam were really confident… [Read full story]
Viet Nam's U16 football team (Red) defeated U16 Brunei 6-1 in their second Group A match at the Southeast Asian U16 Football Championship in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Wednesday. — Photo thethao247.vn HA NOI (VNS) — Viet Nam's U16 football team defeated U16 Brunei 6-1 in their second Group A match at the Southeast Asian U16 Football Championship in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Wednesday. In other Group A matches, Laos stunned Timor-Leste with a 3-2 victory and Thailand defeated Malaysia 3-1. Viet Nam, who lost 1-0 to Malaysia in the first match, will next meet Laos today and Thailand on…... [read more]
Vietnam are heading to Qatar for the AFC U23 Championship finals after crushing Macau 7-0 on March 31 in their last Group I match at the Shah Alam Stadium in Sepang, Malaysia. They finished second in the group with six points behind Japan, who defeated Malaysia 1-0 in the later game. Vietnam raced to a 6-0 lead in the first half, but were only able to add one more goal after the break. Rising stars Nguyen Cong Phuong and Thanh Binh scored a hat-trick each after Ho Ngoc Thang’s opener. Vietnam went into the game knowing they had to win,…... [read more]
Vietnam are heading to Qatar for the AFC U23 Championship finals after crushing Macau 7-0 in their last Group I match at the Shah Alam Stadium in Sepang, Malaysia, on March 31. Striker Nguyen Cong Phuong They finished second in the group with six points behind Japan, who defeated Malaysia 1-0 in the later game. Vietnam raced to a 6-0 lead in the first half, but were only able to add one more goal after the break. Strikers Nguyen Cong Phuong and Thanh Binh scored a hat-trick each after mid-fielder Ho Ngoc Thang's opener. Vietnam went into the game knowing…... [read more]
Vietnam could bring some surprises at the finals of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Championship, which will open in China on January 9, said an article on the Chinese sports website catjc.com. Vietnam's U23 football teamThe article said Vietnam’s football has seen strong development with outstanding achievements, such as earning a ticket to the FIFA U-20 World Cup for the first time ever in 2017.Vietnam is certainly an unknown in Group D, it said.Vietnam is in Group D of the AFC event alongside Syria, Australia and the RoK.The AFC website, in its article introducing the AFC U23 Championship contenders,…... [read more]
The draw ahead of the 2018 AFC U23 Championship took place in Changzhou, China yesterday. — Photo the-afc.com The team will compete alongside 2016 runners-up South Korea, as well as Australia and Syria.The hosts China will play in Group A with Qatar and Uzbekistan after opening their campaign in Changzhou against Oman on January 8.Group B consists of Japan, North Korea, Thailand and Palestine. Group C concludes Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabi and Malaysia.The ceremony also revealed the tournament’s four host cities. Changzhou, Kunshan, Jiangyin and Changshu - all located in Jiangsu Province – will host the tournament’s 32 matches.“From our…... [read more]
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Nigeria: A country at a crossroads :
Conference to explore future of deeply divided Nigeria
By Alvin Powell Gazette Staff
Robert I. Rotberg, director of the Program on intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution at the Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center and president of the World Peace Foundation. (Staff photo by Kris Snibbe)
The Nigerian riots sparked by the Miss World Pageant brought global attention to the deep divisions between the nation’s largely Muslim north and the Christian-dominated south, highlighting regional differences that have some wondering whether Africa’s most populous nation can survive.
More than 200 people were stabbed, beaten, and burned to death and hundreds more injured by protesters after a newspaper columnist belittled Muslim criticism of the Miss World Pageant. The columnist, asking what the Prophet Muhammad would think of the pageant, wrote that he probably would have taken one of the contestants as a wife.
The rioting, which broke out in the northern city of Kaduna, prompted pageant organizers to move the Dec. 7 event to London from the Nigerian capital of Abuja. The conflict illustrates the delicate balance being struck in Nigeria today, according to Robert I. Rotberg, director of the Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution at the John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center and president of the World Peace Foundation.
Nigeria’s future will be examined at a three-day conference, “Nigeria: Unity, Governance, Law, and Conflict,” that begins today at the Kennedy School. The event, chaired by Rotberg, will feature senior leaders from academia, nongovernmental organizations, and government, including former Nigerian President Yakubu Gowon.
The conference’s only public event will be a panel discussion, “After the Riots: Islamic Law and the Future of Nigeria,” examining the riots and ramifications of the recent imposition of Islamic law in several northern states. It is scheduled for tonight at 6 p.m. in the Kennedy School’s ARCO Forum.
Conference attendees will formulate recommendations for policymakers in Nigeria and in nations and organizations that deal with Nigeria.
How Nigeria fares has important ramifications for the rest of Africa, Rotberg said. With more than 120 million people, it is by far the continent’s most populous nation and potentially one of its richest. At independence in 1960, Rotberg said, Nigeria’s per capita income was higher than Taiwan’s. After decades of political turmoil, corruption and mismanagement, however, the average Nigerian is 30 percent poorer than at independence.
Nigeria is an oil-producing nation that straddles Africa’s Muslim-Christian divide. It also has the dubious distinction of having the largest number of unemployed college graduates in the world. This combination of size, wealth, and human capital gives the West African nation the potential to lead sub-Saharan Africa, either into prosperity or continued decline, Rotberg said.
“If the engine of growth can get revved up in Nigeria, Western Africa can take off. If Nigeria can become a sustainably democratic place, the rest of Africa will,” Rotberg said. “Nigeria has the potential to reform Africa. It also has the potential, which it has lived up to over the last 30 years, to destroy Africa.”
Like the conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, Rotberg said, the Nigerian Muslim-Christian tension isn’t about religion. Religion, however, provides a convenient dividing line between populations that differ ethnically, culturally, geographically, and, most importantly, economically.
The roots of the tension, he said, lie in competition for jobs, patronage, control of the government, and in Muslim fears that they’re being overtaken by faster birth rates in the Christian south. Today, Nigerian Muslims officially have a slight edge in population. A completely believable and unrigged census hasn’t been conducted in Nigeria since 1953, Rotberg said, and it’s quite possible that Muslims are actually in the minority today.
“Where the United States has been called a melting pot, Nigeria should be called a ‘seething pot,'” Rotberg said.
The riots over the Miss World Pageant illustrate the sensitivity of the situation, Rotberg said, which has gotten even more touchy with the imposition of Islamic Law, or Shari’a, in several northern states. Though largely Muslim, those states have sizeable Christian minorities. The sentencing of several women to death by stoning for adultery has been contested by the national government, providing a further illustration of the increasing tension.
Rotberg said governmental leadership is one cause of the problem that will be examined during the upcoming conference. In 1999, the nation established its first civilian government after 16 years of military rule. That government, headed by President Olusegun Obasanjo, is a strong federal structure that gives considerably less authority to its 36 states than the states prefer. There are major arguments as well about how Nigeria’s oil revenues are divided.
The lack of decisive national leadership, Rotberg said, is one of the main factors in the nation’s uncertain future. Other factors, which will also be examined at the conference, include a lack of confidence in government institutions and a need to root out corruption and strengthen integrity in government.
“There’s a great potential for a Nigerian rebirth because the human potential is there and the human capital is there,” Rotberg said.
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Harvard brings the Earth to high school
Do sports and statistics constitute a ‘dream team’?
Free environmental science course for teachers unveiled
Steam vents in Yellowstone National Park are part of the area’s unique environment, seen in a case study exploring Yellowstone and the reintroduction of wolves into the park. This case study is part of a new environmental science course for high school science teachers.
Harvard scientists and media specialists unveiled an online environmental science course Monday (Oct. 1) aimed at high school teachers and, through them, high school students — the future inheritors of the Earth’s environmental problems.
The course, called “The Habitable Planet: A Systems Approach to Environmental Science,” features a scientific “dream team” of experts from Harvard and elsewhere who describe their fields, relevant problems, and potential solutions in a series of online videos. The videos accompany scientists into the field as they do their work and include specific case studies. They include an online textbook and a series of interactive labs illustrating specific concepts.
The package was developed by the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). It will be available for free on the Web site of Annenberg Media, which funded the endeavor.
“The goal here is to have as many teachers use this as possible,” said Alex Griswold, executive producer in the CfA’s Science Education Department and a member of the CfA’s Science Media Group, which handled the project’s production.
Center for the Environment Director Daniel Schrag, professor of Earth and planetary sciences and professor of environmental science and engineering, called Monday’s unveiling a “real celebration” and thanked all those involved with the course’s production.
Schrag, the chief content developer, said he had once been interested in creating a new high school science textbook, but was told that differing state-by-state standards and political influence in the process would make it not worthwhile. So when he was approached about a project aimed at science teachers, he jumped at the chance.
“The Annenberg program was different. It was to give the materials to the teachers and let them decide what to do with it,” Schrag said.
Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles attended the unveiling. He reflected that the pond on which he used to play hockey as a child no longer freezes over and said that there is a need to innovate and change how business as usual is conducted.
“We all understand that our energy future has to be different from our energy past,” Bowles said.
Bowles said Massachusetts has the opportunity to be a leader in changing how energy is used, and Harvard can play an important role in that. He cited Harvard’s recent commitment to cap the amount of greenhouse gases generated by its future construction in Allston as an important and unprecedented development.
“I think that project may make history over time. It already has,” Bowles said.
Michele McLeod, who managed the project for Annenberg, said they’ve been congratulated on timing its release to coincide with a new national environmental awareness. These problems have been around for years, however, McLeod said, and the scientists involved realize it’s not just a new fad.
“This represents the collected knowledge of a number of talented and dedicated scientists,” McLeod said. “That’s what this course is about: what is known and what is yet to be discovered.”
The course, which involved more than 40 leading scientists from a host of institutions, features 13 different units. The first four talk about life on Earth, highlighting the connections between all things. The next eight units discuss human impacts on the planet, from population dynamics to agriculture, from water use to energy, from biodiversity to the climate. The final chapter looks at the future.
The course is primarily designed for teacher professional development and includes a guide for those interested in taking it for graduate credit. But developers said it was designed with enough flexibility that units could be viewed in any order. Some materials, in addition, could be used in high school classes.
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography James McCarthy, who worked on the project, said that when Schrag first approached Harvard faculty members, they immediately became excited at the idea. A suite of environmental problems have become better understood in the lifetimes of today’s high school students, he said, and it is important they understand them.
While course developers said the goal is to reach as many teachers as possible, an important secondary audience may wind up being nonteachers who want to learn more, Griswold said.
During the course of their work, the developers who worked with the scientists learned a lot about the Earth’s problems. They also learned that, though the problems are severe, something can still be done.
“There’s still a chance. No matter how dire things seem, human beings have the ability to work together to make a difference,” Griswold said.
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Exela Technologies, Inc. Confirms Receipt of Preliminary Non-binding Indication of Interest
IRVING, Texas, July 24, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Exela Technologies, Inc. (“Exela” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:XELA), a location-agnostic global business process automation (“BPA”) leader across numerous industries, confirmed that it has received a preliminary non-binding indication of interest from HandsOn Global Management and an internationally recognized private equity firm. The Board of Directors of the Company has formed a Special Committee of Independent Directors, which will evaluate the non-binding indication of interest. The Special Committee is working with Houlihan Lokey as financial advisor and Kirkland & Ellis LLP as legal counsel.
Exela does not intend to comment on or disclose further developments regarding the Special Committee’s evaluation unless and until it deems further disclosure is appropriate or required.
About Exela
Exela Technologies, Inc. (“Exela”) is a business process automation (BPA) leader, leveraging a global footprint and proprietary technology to provide digital transformation solutions enhancing quality, productivity, and end-user experience. With decades of expertise operating mission-critical processes, Exela serves a growing roster of more than 4,000 customers throughout 50 countries, including over 60% of the Fortune® 100. With foundational technologies spanning information management, workflow automation, and integrated communications, Exela’s software and services include multi-industry department solution suites addressing finance and accounting, human capital management, and legal management, as well as industry-specific solutions for banking, healthcare, insurance, and public sectors. Through cloud-enabled platforms, built on a configurable stack of automation modules, and over 22,000 employees operating in 23 countries, Exela rapidly deploys integrated technology and operations as an end-to-end digital journey partner.
Find out more at www.exelatech.com
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Counseling and Human Services Faculty Member Receives National Honors
Wednesday, February 15, 2017, By Jennifer Russo
facultySchool of Education
Melissa Luke
Melissa Luke, associate professor of counseling and human services and coordinator of school counseling in the School of Education, has been recognized with two honors, adding to an impressive portfolio of recent professional accomplishments.
Luke has been selected as the 2017 recipient of the Chi Sigma Iota Thomas J. Sweeney Professional Leadership Award. Named for Thomas J. Sweeney, founder of Chi Sigma Iota (CSI), the international honor society for students, professional counselors and counselor educators, this award recognizes and honors persons who through their vision, leadership and concern for others have strengthened, expanded and enhanced the counseling profession at local, state, national and international levels.
Luke will be presented with the award during the CSI Delegate Business Meeting in at the 2017 ACA Conference in San Francisco, California.
Luke is also the recipient of the 2016-2017 Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in Counseling (ALGBTIC) Mentor Award. This award is presented to an individual identified for his or her significant contribution to mentorship in the ALGBTIC community and persons with the LGBTQQIA community.
School of Education Dean Joanna Masingila says, “Dr. Luke is a highly valued member of the School of Education, the University and her professional communities because of her exemplary research, engaging teaching and outstanding service. She is truly a gem!”
Luke has been recognized for her research, teaching and service to the profession at the University, nationally and internationally.
In 2016 she, with Kris Goodrich ’09, Ph.D., co-authored the book “Group Counseling with LGBTQI Persons,” which received the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision’s (ACES) Publication in Counselor Education and Supervision Award.
She is currently serving a three–year term in the Professional Trustee position for the Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in Counseling (AGLBTIC). In this position, Luke spearheads a research, scholarship and grants initiative for the association.
Luke has authored over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, and has presented nationally and internationally. In addition to being a celebrated scholar, she has received accolades for her teaching and mentoring from her department, Syracuse University and professional organizations.
Luke also serves the School of Education, Syracuse University and the field of counselor education through active service on many committees, organization and editorial boards.
Jennifer Russo
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Thunder to host pre-draft workout with Texas Tech guard Matt Mooney
Former Texas Tech guard Matt Mooney will workout with the Oklahoma City Thunder in the coming days, the senior said in an interview with ESPN 99.1 FM in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
The 6-foot-3 guard most recently played last season with the Red Raiders where he helped lead Texas Tech to the national championship game against Virginia.
In 38 games, Mooney averaged 11.3 points, 3.3 assists, 3.1 rebounds and 1.8 steals for Texas Tech. He was named to the Big 12 All-Defensive Team and the All-Big 12 Second Team.
Prior to playing at Texas Tech, Mooney spent two years at South Dakota. He averaged a career-high 18.7 points during for the Coyotes during his junior season two years ago.
He also spent one season at Air Force.
So far, Mooney has worked out for two NBA teams: the Utah Jazz and Atlanta Hawks. He also has multiple workouts lined up for the future with teams that include: the Phoenix Suns, Minnesota Timberwolves, Houston Rockets, Cleveland Cavaliers, Oklahoma City Thunder, Detroit Pistons, and the Miami Heat.
Mooney turned in perhaps his best collegiate game with Texas Tech against Michigan State in the Final Four. He matched a season-high 22 points while he dropped in four three-pointers during the win.
He shot 38.6 percent from beyond the arc at Texas Tech on 3.3 attempts per game. Mooney can create his own shot on offense and has been regarded as a great defender, given his placement on the Big 12 All-Defensive Team.
Most consider Mooney to be a late second-round pick at best, though. He appears likely to be a Summer League player for a team that will more than likely need some time in the G League to develop.
Mooney just turned 22 years old in February.
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Oklahoma City Thunder: Three players poised for a breakout year
It goes without saying that the Thunder are going to have a much different look this year.
With the departure of both Russell Westbrook and Paul George, Oklahoma City is in desperate need of their young talent to step up and fill the void. Luckily for OKC, they have several players on the roster that are poised for a breakout year.
1. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
This one is a no-brainer. Gilgeous-Alexander was a second-team All-Rookie selection with the Clippers in 2018-19. In his only season in Los Angeles, SGA averaged 10.8 points, 2.8 rebounds, 1.2 steals and 3.3 assists in 26.5 minutes per game.
I don’t know what’s better … the dunk or @theguardwhisperer admiration for me 😂
A post shared by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (@shai) on Sep 13, 2019 at 4:44pm PDT
By the looks of his Instagram, Gilgeous-Alexander has been putting in the work to make sure his second season is equally as successful, which is good because the Thunder will need him most in the absence of Westbrook.
2. Hamidou Diallo
The fellow Kentucky alum is also on the cusp of a stellar season in Oklahoma City and fans should be encouraged by the play they saw from Diallo during the Las Vegas Summer League.
Hami didn’t get a lot of playing time in 2018-19, but showed flashes of his ability in multiple double-digit scoring games, including dropping 18 in against the Sacramento Kings on Nov. 19.
Let’s also not forget that Diallo won the dunk contest this year. He’s the first Thunder player to win, which should do wonders for his confidence this season.
Hami should see more court time this season, however with the current logjam at point guard, it’s going to be interesting to see where the time comes from.
He might be the person that could benefit most from a potential Chris Paul trade, as it would likely shift Gilgeous-Alexander back to the point, freeing up space in the rotation for Diallo.
3. Steven Adams
Adams has enjoyed his career thus far as a role player for the Thunder, content to play in the shadow of other stars. He’s progressed steadily throughout each season, and now that both Westbrook and George are gone, it’s Adams’ time to shine.
The 26-year-old has been close to averaging a double-double over the last two years, and his numbers have been steadily improving since joining the league in 2013-14. If he continues his trajectory, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that he could average 15 points and 10 rebounds a game this season.
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TOBEY or not to be? (English)
Gallery: Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger
Artist: Mark Tobey
On the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the birth of Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976), the exhibition offers a convergence of perspectives: that of the the Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, the artist's historical gallery in Europe, that of a French private collection, the Collection de Bueil & Ract-Madoux and that of a Museum the Mnam / Cci Centre Pompidou.
A catalogue is published by Gallimard with contributions by Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, Cécile Debray, Dr. David Anfam, Etienne Klein, Stéphane Lambert and Thomas Schlesser.
In addition to the previous 2010 retrospective orga... more >> On the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the birth of Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976), the exhibition offers a convergence of perspectives: that of the the Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, the artist's historical gallery in Europe, that of a French private collection, the Collection de Bueil & Ract-Madoux and that of a Museum the Mnam / Cci Centre Pompidou.
In addition to the previous 2010 retrospective organized at the gallery by Véronique Jaeger to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the artist’s birth, as well as the continuous presentations the gallery has regularly organized throughout the years, the gallery recently contributed, through the loan of works, to the important retrospective Mark Tobey: Threading Light (curated by Debra Bricker Balken) at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover in 2017 2018.
This solo exhibition presents some forty essential works by the artist spanning thirty years of creative activity, from 1940 to 1970. There hasn’t been a solo exhibition of his works in a French Museum since the 1961 exhibition at the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris, nearly 60 years ago.
Tobey’s international reputation grew, during his lifetime, mainly in Europe, where he had his first solo exhibition at the Jeanne Bucher Gallery in 1955. His work was shown in London in the Tate Gallery 1956 exhibition American Painting, alongside works by Kline, De Kooning, Motherwell, Pollock, Rothko and Clyfford Still. He was the second American, after Whistler, to win the Grand Prize of the Venice Biennale in 1958. His first exhibition in a French institution was at the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris in 1961. His settling in Basel in the early 1960s was facilitated by the active support of Ernst Beyeler. Mark Tobey was the subject of a retrospective at the New York MoMA in 1962, and again in 1976. This discrete artist, nicknamed “the wise man of Seattle,“ was imperceptibly and progressively surrounded by an exceptional aura, that of a founder of modernity, of a mystical artist, but also of a philosopher of abstraction whose works are rare, intimate, dense, and deep. (Cécile Debray)
His works are now part of the collections of many prestigious international institutions, such as the Mnam / Cci Centre Pompidou
in Paris, the Fondation Beyeler and the Kunstmuseum in Basel, the Guggenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum in New York, the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Tate London, Seattle Art Museum ...
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The Past 24 Hours Or So
Your Daily Dose of Trump and His Administration News
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 Updates
President Trump said that officials are considering temporarily limiting flights to and from “hot spots” in the United States that have seen significant numbers of coronavirus cases.
“I am looking at hot spots. I am looking at where flights are going into hot spots. Some of those flights I didn’t like from the beginning, but closing up every single flight on every single airline, that’s a very, very, very rough decision,”
The Treasury Department said that Social Security recipients who typically don’t file tax returns will automatically receive their coronavirus relief checks and will not have to file tax returns to receive their payments. The announcement comes two days after the IRS released guidance that suggested Social Security beneficiaries would need to file what are known as simple tax returns to receive the money.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top official at the National Institutes of Health, said that improved coronavirus testing and tracing of infected people’s contacts will help the country eventually be able to ease up on measures such as stay-at-home orders.
During a White House briefing Dr. Fauci said that he would like to see enough capacity to test a wide range of people and the ability to determine who those that test positive have been in contact with.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the most visible figures on the White House coronavirus task force, has been given a security detail after receiving threats, a person familiar with the matter confirmed.
President Trump said he would “absolutely” take a call from presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to discuss the response to the coronavirus.
“Oh absolutely. I’d love to speak to him,” Trump said during a White House coronavirus briefing. “I always found him to be a nice guy,” he added.
UPDATE: President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, the leading Democratic presidential candidate, are arranging a call to discuss the coronavirus pandemic, the Biden campaign confirmed Wednesday.
President Trump is holding back on declaring a nationwide stay-at-home order, even as some governors resist imposing restrictions that Trump’s top public health officials say are needed to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The president has been reluctant to wade into matters he argues are better left to governors. But the pressure is growing for Trump to be decisive as Republican-led states like Texas, Iowa and Missouri are among the final holdouts to issue stay-at-home directives.
The Pentagon is looking into providing an additional 100,000 military-style body bags for civilian use, as the expected death toll from the coronavirus outbreak continues to rise.
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Vice President Pence urged Americans to avoid church services of more than 10 people as some faith leaders have come under scrutiny for holding crowded events despite social distancing guidelines to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
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Homeless to receive more than £850,000 in donations from Freemasons to help protect them this winter
Volunteers with a Homeless Welcome Pack
Having donated £1m between April and July to help those impacted by the Covid-19 crisis, Freemasons are now focusing on protecting the homeless, with a new series of donations across England and Wales.
The homeless crisis has been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, with many people losing their jobs and finding themselves either living on the streets or in unsuitable living conditions. In 2019 Shelter estimated that 280,000 people were homeless in England whilst the Greater London Authority reported 4,227 people sleeping rough in London between April and June, of which 2,680 were sleeping on the streets for the first time.
The funds raised will help provide safe living conditions, healthcare, meals, and employment opportunities for the homeless; as well as helping protect them from the winter weather, which kills hundreds of homeless people every year. In addition, Freemasons will be volunteering their time at 26 homeless support organisations.
Freemasons will be providing the following support to homeless people across the country:
More than 40,000 homeless people will be provided with essentials, transport and support, as well as help accessing services such as counselling, healthcare and benefits;
Almost 197,000 meals will be provided to homeless people;
Approximately 600 people are being given employment and training opportunities;
Nearly 1,400 individuals are being provided with accommodation and support.
Dr David Staples, chief executive of the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE), said:
We are expecting a harsh winter this year and so it’s essential to protect and support the homeless. Hundreds die every year on our streets during the winter, which is a shocking statistic, and due to the pandemic many vulnerable people have found themselves on the streets for the first time. In this second phase of donations, following our initial contributions during the Covid-19 crisis, we have donated the largest part of the funding towards helping the homeless. We hope this will provide those in need with somewhere safe to stay during winter but also offer them more long term help to get off the streets and into secure accommodation.
Among the organisations being prioritised by UGLE, the governing body for Freemasons in England and Wales, are local arms of homeless charity Emmaus. The money is being distributed to Emmaus centres located in Surrey, Yorkshire, Kent, Oxford, Bedfordshire, Lancashire, Hampshire, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Buckinghamshire and Middlesex.
In London, Freemasons are supporting Only a Pavement Away – a charity, which provides employment for the homeless, ex-offenders and veterans into careers within the hospitality industry. The donation will fund courses in the charity's life skills programme for homeless people, which will help them to live independently and sustainably. The Freemasons’ donations will also fund an in-home starter kit containing a cookery book, a cooking utensils starter park, and an essential ingredients box. This is in addition to the provision of key kitchen equipment including a cooker, microwave and fridge. Participants will continue to be supported by the charity after the course finishes with access to the Employment Pathway Support service.
In Wales, Brenda Fogg started Hope Restored back in 2010 in order to distribute food and blankets to the homeless community, having been homeless herself for a time. The Freemasons are now supporting the project to help make the lives of homeless that little bit more bearable. Ms Fogg said:
Each and every person who comes through our doors is met with a smile and a warm welcome. Our relaxed friendly atmosphere provides a welcome respite from the harsh realities of their lives, if only for a few hours. I want to thank the Freemasons for their generous support.
For the last few years, Freemasons in Northumberland have donated both their time, and Christmas gifts, to the residents of homeless veterans’ charity Launchpad and will visit the charity on 23 December to deliver fresh fruit and Christmas presents.
These initiatives are just the start of phase two of the Freemasons’ donations, and in January, UGLE will announce the next round of donation packages and charitable initiatives.
- ENDS -
Web links to the charities:
Only a Pavement Away - https://onlyapavementaway.co.uk/
Hope Restored - https://hoperestored.co.uk/
Launchpad - https://veteranslaunchpad.org.uk/
Emmaus - https://emmaus.org.uk/
Livia Ferreira, public relations manager, United Grand Lodge of England
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7395 9208 | Mobile: +44 (0)7539 578699
Michelle Worvell, director of communications and marketing, United Grand Lodge of England
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Outside the Circle
Outside the Circle News
courtesy spaceflightnow.com
The cargo, a capsule named Dragon, holds 1000 pounds of food, clothing, equipment, and science experiments and is headed to the International Space Station.
Sarah Groft, National News Reporter
Marijuana causes problems in Los Angeles
One year ago, federal law enforcement officials began focusing efforts on California’s medical marijuana industry. They made several high-profile arrests throughout the state and moved to Los Angeles last month. Since they arrived there, 71 dispensaries have been told to shut down. At the same time, however, the Los Angeles City Council repealed a ban on these dispensaries.
The ban had been passed a few months earlier and was removed due to the actions of medical marijuana supporters. California has had consistent problems with medical marijuana regulation for years. The number of dispensaries in Los Angeles alone is estimated to be between 500 and 1000.
Michael Larsen, president of the Neighborhood Council in Eagle Rock, said that people are desperate to get rid of the dispensaries. Eagle Rock itself boasts 15 dispensaries within a one-and-a-half-mile radius.
Medical marijuana was legalized in California in 1996, but, in the past few months, the federal authorities have closed over 600 dispensaries. Their argument is that federal law states that marijuana is illegal, while state law says that dispensary operators need to be nonprofit primary caregivers to the patients and that the distribution of marijuana needs to be for medical purposes only.
The warnings to the 71 dispensaries in Los Angeles are expected to be only a small fraction of the war against medical marijuana. Asset penalty lawsuits have been filed against three dispensaries and criminal warning letters have been sent to 68 others. Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the United States attorney, told The New York Times that this strategy has led to the closing of 97 percent of the targeted dispensaries.
In 2004, when California first allowed marijuana dispensaries, there were only a few. However, the number quickly jumped to hundreds. Over the summer, the City Council voted to ban dispensaries. Because of this ban, a counter-attack was created. With the help of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, the Americans for Safe Access, and the Greater Los Angeles Collective Alliance, the opposition raised $250,000. This money was used to get signatures, which would lead to a vote to overturn the ban on the ballot in March of 2013.
Instead of letting this plan unfold, the City Council voted to rescind the ban. José Huizar, one of the few council members that opposed the repeal, believed that the council was not prepared to fight the marijuana industry and that better access and restriction laws of marijuana are necessary. He said, “unless that happens, local cities are going to continue to play the cat-and-mouse game with the dispensaries.”
Not all of the dispensaries want to fight however. Rigo Valdez, director of organizing for the local union that represents over 500 dispensary workers in Los Angeles, told The New York Times that he would be glad to support an ordinance that limited the number of dispensaries to about 125. He also noted that he would support keeping these dispensaries away from schools and homes.
The outcome of the fight for medical marijuana is still unknown. David Welch, a lawyer representing 15 of the 71 Los Angeles dispensaries, promised that “medical marijuana dispensaries are very much like what they distribute; they’re weeds. You cut them down, you leave, and then they sprout back up.”
Falcon 9 takes flight
The first commercial cargo flight aimed for the International Space Station departed late Sunday evening. This flight was an essential step for NASA because private companies will now be in charge of transporting people and supplies to low-Earth orbit.
Space Exploration Technologies in Hawthorne, Calif. made the launch possible. The Falcon 9 rocket left from Cape Canaveral, Fla. at 8:35 p.m. This particular launch contained only cargo, as human transportation is still many years in the future.
The cargo, a capsule named Dragon, holds 1000 pounds of food, clothing, equipment, and science experiments. Twenty-three of these experiments were designed and created by students. A freezer that can cool samples to 300 degrees below zero is also part of the cargo.
The experiments chosen to be launched into space are determined through a program run by NanoRacks and the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education. One of the experiments comes from a middle school in Santa Monica, Calif. The experiment aims to discover whether silly putty will have different properties in space.
Major General Charles F. Bolden Jr., the NASA administrator, said, “It actually marks the beginning of true commercial spaceflight.” Flacon 9’s launch was the first of 12 that are set to occur due to a $1.6 billion contract with NASA. If everything goes according to plan, Falcon 9 will come back to Earth at the end of October, landing approximately 250 miles off the coast of Southern California.
Meningitis cases continue to increase
United States health officials announced this past Sunday that 27 additional cases of fungal meningitis have been reported. The meningitis outbreak, linked to steroid injections, has now affected a total of 91 individuals in nine states. It has also killed seven.
Most of the new cases were discovered in Michigan, where the numbers increased from eight to 20. Virginia totaled the next highest number of victims, going from 11 to 18. The states affected by these outbreaks are Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia. The first outbreak was noticed in Tennessee, which now has 32 infected individuals and three deaths. The other four deaths occurred in Michigan, Maryland, and Virginia.
The outbreak has caused focus to be shifted to pharmaceutical compounding companies, like the New England Compounding Center Inc. in Framingham, Mass. A compounding company is one that takes medication from pharmaceutical manufacturers and divides them into specific dosages and strengths.
According to the Massachusetts Health Department, this company shipped 17,676 vials of methylprednisolone acetate, the meningitis-causing steroid, to 76 facilities in 23 states from the months of July to September. The facility has previous complaints and was searched in 2011, but no issues were found.
Typically, the steroid is used as a painkiller, frequently for back pain. Approximately one to four weeks after their injections, the affected patients began showing meningitis symptoms. These symptoms can range from nausea, headache, and fever to serious neurological problems.
The New England Compounding Center Inc. has temporarily halted its operations while the facility is investigated. All lots of the distributed steroids have been recalled, as well as all products that are compounded or distributed by the facility.
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Slayer – Reign in Blood (1986) 7.9
Genre: Thrash Metal
1. “Angel of Death” 4:51
2. “Piece by Piece” 2:02
3. “Necrophobic” 1:40
4. “Altar of Sacrifice” 2:50
5. “Jesus Saves” 2:54
6. “Criminally Insane” 2:23
7. “Reborn” 2:11
8. “Epidemic” 2:23
9. “Postmortem” 3:27
10. “Raining Blood” 4:14
11. “Aggressive Perfector” 2:30
12. “Criminally Insane” (remix) 3:18
Slayer’s classic, Reign in Blood, is now 32 years old. Back in 1986 it was easy to like Slayer. They basically created the thrash metal genre along with their peers Metallica, Anthrax and Megadeath and became hugely successful after this monster addition to their catalogue. In 2018, liking Slayer is a bit more complicated. The Slayer Army is still strong and screaming “Slayer Rules” at a Slayer show is a right of passage for many metal fans. This is a great album, but fuck slayer.
The controversy surrounding this album started before it was even released. The album was delayed 2 years because the band refused to drop the first song “Angel of Death”. A super fast intense song about Nazi torture experiments. Honestly, there is nothing in the song endorsing Nazism or the human experiments. It was written from the perspective of Josef Mengele himself and from the perspective of an observer condemning his actions at Auschwitz. In interview, Kerry King says “I’ve said since 1986 if “Angel of Death” was a documentary on History Channel it would probably win awards”. OK, so Slayer isn’t racist, but they do have Nazi documentarian delusions of grandeur.
Speaking of delusions of grandeur…
Much like the current US President, whom they may publicly support (see “fuck slayer article” above), they can claim to be not racist all they want, but they’re not really out there being ‘not-racist’, and this can create a safe place for Nazi’s, who are unfortunately an actual thing in 2018, at their shows.
Controversy aside, these bumbling idiots have crafted a full speed classic and that deserves to be mentioned. It’s non-stop driving drums, intensely fast riffs and squealing solos and screams. Fav tracks, the live classic Raining Blood and the satanic Alter of Sacrifice.
← King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana (2017) 7.7
The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon (2009) 7.2 →
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Tag Archive | Camp 23 – Monteith
POWs and “the good ol’ hockey game”
On first glance, it may seem a simple photo of a hockey game and soldiers looking on. But on a closer look, something stands out – the soldiers are not Canadian. They are German. This picture, which I was very pleased to add to my collection, is a relatively rare photo of German POWs at Camp 23 (Monteith) playing hockey with their comrades watching from the sidelines. Considering tomorrow is Hockey Day in Canada, what better time is there for delving into a little history about German POWs and Canada’s national winter sport.
With thousands of young, athletic men interned in Canada during the Second World War, sports became an especially popular and important way to pass the time. Prisoners in most internment camps set up their own teams and leagues and began playing football (soccer), baseball, volleyball, basketball, tennis, and – you guessed it – hockey.
I have no record of how many POWs had played hockey before coming to Canada but hockey was an established sport in Germany, with the country taking the bronze medal in the 1932 Olympics. One also has to remember that many Canadians were interned in the early years of the war due to their status as “enemy aliens.” It is quite likely these men shared their skills with newly-arrived internees and EMS from the United Kingdom.
As for the skates, sticks, pucks and other equipment, most was provided by aid organizations, most notably the War Prisoners’ Aid of the YMCA. This organization dedicated itself to improving the living conditions of POWs interned on both sides and did their utmost to meet the recreational, educational, and religious demands of POWs. The War Prisoners’ Aid and the International Red Cross began supplying generic articles to improve the lives of those interned in Canada but also allowed POWs to make specific requests. For example, in late 1940, among the articles requested by internees at Monteith were lights for their Christmas trees, twenty-four pairs of stakes, and twenty-four hockey sticks.
The organization did have a budget to purchase items – ranging from ping pong balls to pianos – but also relied on donations. In an early report of the War Prisoners’ Aid, director Jerome Davis remarked,
One Canadian manufacturer out of the generosity of his heart, contributed two hundred pairs of skates. The result was that we were aided in building skating rinks in almost every prison camp in Canada. later, the Canadian Government took pictures of these rinks and some of them were sent to Germany. Therefore, the act of the Canadian business man who desired simply to do a Christian act for imprisoned soldiers – men who are not criminals but simply soldiers out of luck had its repercussions internationally and the Canadian business man may actually have done more to hep the British prisoners than he could have by sending in skates directly to them.
As the following image, given to Dr. Boeschenstein of the War Prisoners’ Aid, demonstrates, the equipment was greatly appreciated and quickly put to good use.
Artwork by unknown POW. Hermann Boeschenstein fonds, University of Toronto Archives.
Roughly translated, the poem reads:
When cold comes with ice and snow,
YMCA thinks of the POW
With YMCA’s help here on the spot
One Plays Ice Hockey, Canada’s Sport
By December 1942, the War Prisoners’ Aid reported that every internment camp in Canada had, among other things, skates and a skating rink. In Camp 23 (Monteith), for example, POWs flooded the soccer field in the winter months and turned it into a skating and hockey rink while POWs at Camp 44 (Grande Ligne) converted their tennis courts into two skating rinks, one for hockey and the other for “fancy skating.”
Limited for recreation in the winter months, these skates were in especially high demand; at Camp R (Red Rock) in March 1941, the skating rink was in use throughout the day but, only having thirty pairs of skates for 1,100 internees, the internees had to sign up in advance. Other camps were better-equipped; by 1943, Camp 21 (Espanola) had two skating rinks and 500 pairs of skates.
German POWs skating at Camp C (Gravenhurst). Library and Archives Canada.
The skills of those involved varied, as one report from Camp 44 (Grande Ligne) suggests: “One or two of the prisoners were quite good, but a number of them had not yet found their ice legs, and were falling around to the amusement of the on-lookers.”
As skating and hockey grew in popularity, the War Prisoners’ Aid continued to send out skates and hockey equipment. In early 1944, the War Prisoners’ Aid reported they had sent out skates, hockey sticks, pucks, goal keepers’ outfits, and, in some cases, even skis.
POW hockey team at Camp 132 (Medicine Hat) in February 1946. Library and Archives Canada PA-129146.
It was not only internment camps where hockey was popular. Prisoners in some of the almost 300 small, isolated labour projects also took up the sport. Those who found themselves working as woodcutters in the Northern Ontario bush frequently requested skates and hockey equipment to help pass the long winters. Fortunately for them, the pulpwood industry relied on waterways to move logs and most camps were located on the shores – or at least nearby to – streams, rivers, and lakes. Once cleared of snow, these frozen waterbodies became natural ice rinks.
Whether or not the POWs kept skating when they returned to Germany, I do not know. But I’m sure many brought back fond memories of their time in Canada playing that “good ol’ hockey game.”
Easter, 1945
Here is the menu card for Easter, 1945 at Camp 23 (Monteith, Ontario). “Aschinger” was the name of the dining hall, named after a famous Berlin restaurant.
Snapshot from Neys
While picture postcards of German prisoners of war in Canada are not particularly uncommon, examples from certain camps can prove more difficult to find (for more on PoW picture postcards, see my earlier post here). In my experience, images from Camp 100 at Neys, Ontario are among those harder to find. I was therefore quite happy to obtain this image recently. Depicting ten prisoners and their dog on a sandy beach with Lake Superior in the background, this postcard was sent by Enemy Merchant Seaman (EMS) Karl Hannover to his family in Germany in 1942.
Karl Hannover arrived in Canada in late June or early July 1940 and was likely first interned At Camp R in Red Rock, Ontario. However, he was soon transferred to Camp Q at Monteith, Ontario and, on November 25, 1941, he was transferred to Camp 100 (Neys) where he would remain for two years.
Located on the shore of Lake Superior, Camp 100 at Neys, Ontario, was arguably one of the most scenic locations for an internment camp. One of two purpose-built internment camps in Northern Ontario (the other being Camp X, later Camp 101, at Angler), Camp W (later renamed Camp 100) opened in January 1941 and initially held about 450 German officers and other ranks sent to Canada from the United Kingdom. By the end of the year, these men were transferred to other camps and replaced by about 650 civilian internees and enemy merchant seamen (EMS). The camp temporarily closed from December 1943 to August 1944 and re-opened as a “Black” camp – a higher-security camp primarily intended for pro-Nazis and troublemakers. The Neys Internment Camp finally closed at the end of April 1946.
An artist, Hannover submitted a design for consideration as the 1943 Christmas cards printed and distributed by the War Prisoners’ Aid of the YMCA but it does not appear his design was chose for, in November 1943, he and the rest of the EMS at Neys were relocated to Camp 23 (Monteith). In March 1946, Hannover was transferred to the United Kingdom, likely returning to Germany the following year.
The view from the shoreline at Neys Provincial Park. Camp 100 was located just behind.
Camp 100 was abandoned and dismantled in the late 1940s and the site was eventually re-forested. In 1964, the former camp location and the surrounding location became part of Neys Provincial Park. Few traces of the camp remain today although one can still find pieces of scrap metal scattered throughout the site and you can still make out the outlines of some of the building foundations. Park staff also run regular tours of the site throughout the summer months.
Undoubtedly the most unusual find this summer was a PoW-made fishing rod. While I have come across the odd mention of PoWs fishing in labour projects in Manitoba and Ontario, this is the first time I’ve encountered material evidence of this.
Made from a broom handle and what appears to be can lids, the fishing rod is simple but functional. The seller advised that it came from a guard at Fort Henry though to me it appears like something that came from the many lumber camps in Northern Ontario. Often located alongside lakes or rivers, bush camps offered PoWs considerable freedoms and a number of PoWs tried their hand at fishing. While the ability to fish was much more uncommon for those in an internment camp, it was not unheard of. Camp 42 in Sherbrooke, Quebec, was situated on a river and one report noted that there were a number of “ardent fisherman” and in May 1945, the camp held a series of angling competitions.
At Camp 23 in Monteith, Ontario, an intelligence report included a section aptly titled “A Fish Story:”
“A short time ago the German medical doctors, BK-788 Guenther Kalle, 43341 Heinz Machetanz and 000129 Hans Modrow, were taken for a parole walk by the Camp [Intelligence Officer]. Carrying fishing rods, the party started for a favorite spot on the Driftwood River, which flows past the camp. Crossing a bridge over a small stream about a half mile from camp, Dr. Machetanz saw a fish lying on the sandy bottom of the clear stream. Baiting a hook with red meat, he dangled the bait before the fish’s mouth, without result. The fish wouldn’t even move. The fisherman then fastened a triple hook to his line, and manipulating it gently under the fish’s mouth, heaved, and up came the fish, securely hooked. The fish turned out to be a sucker; but the fun of catching it in this odd manner was at least partial compensation for the failure to catch any more that day. They have had better luck since, as Dr. Machetanz caught a pickerel and Dr. Kalle got two on Saturday afternoon, 12 Aug.”
While some of the history of this piece may be lost, it still provides an interesting look into PoW handicrafts and recreation.
“German POW’s Buried in Bleak Northern Bush”
The following newspaper article appeared in the April 12, 1950 issue of the Globe and Mail. Having first come across this a few years ago, it remains one of my favourite articles and I thought I would share. While these graves were relocated to Kitchener, Ontario in the 1970s, the article provides an interesting perspective only a few years following the departure of the last PoWs in Canada.
Globe and Mail, April 12, 1950
By Don Delaplante
MONTROCK
They are a long way from home.
The bodies of 17 German servicemen lie at rest in a small military cemetery on a snowy, windswept hill overlooking the Abitibi River a mile west of here. Through the uncertain tides of war, their destiny was death in a wild, rugged land, 4,000 miles from home.
Beneath their lonely graves the river winds down to the paper mill at Iroquois Falls, then onward toward James Bay. Little wisps of steam swirl upward from the swift water; otherwise the calm of the wilderness is unbroken. On the opposite bank the bushland sweeps unceasingly to the Arctic.
Buried in this remote forest plot are German soldiers, sailors and airmen who died during the Second World War at the Monteith prisoner-of-war camp 15 miles to the south. Of the hundreds of men imprisoned at the camp or employed in bush work across the north, only these 17 were left behind. Most of the 17 died from the after-effects of wounds received in battle.
Their resting place is enclosed by a birch fences. It was made by other prisoners who cared for the plot till they were sent back to Germany after the war. A birch archway, bearing the sign Ruhestatte Deutscher Kriegsgefangener gives entry to the area. Orderly rows of small spruce trees surround the plot.
The snow leading to the graves of these forgotten men was four feet deep and had been unbroken all winter when I arrived. The fence was engulfed almost completely and so was the line of wooden markers on the south side of the plot, for the winter wind from the north had swept a heavy drift across the hill.
The markers on the north side of the cemetery stood forth from the snow in a brave, pathetic little line. Sunlight struggled through the murky afternoon of late winter and fell upon the polished wood of their surfaces.
The memorials were remarkable; it was much as though one had stumbled into a tiny village cemetery in Germany, where the village wood-carver had wrought with loving care the plaques of the deceased.
Shouting their German identity defiantly to the alien wilderness, the markers were the work of some expert craftsman who had apparently been a prisoner at Monteith. Just who the artisan was is unknown. There is no record of his name, for the POW camp has long since been converted to Ontario’s northernmost jail… But it is unlikely there are half a dozen men in Canada today who could have done a similar job.
Each man’s name was carved in bold, authoritative lettering – Johann Wagner, Fritz Schröder*, Fritz Bochwoldt*, A. Hartwig… Beneath were the dates of birth and death but places of birth were not mentioned. A few of the men had been in their late thirties when they died, but most were in their early twenties.
Above each name was a symbol representing the branch of the German service in which each served. A galleon sweeping across a rifted ocean marked the sailors and U-boat men. A two-pronged arrow heading into a sunset was on the graves of the airmen. An infantryman’s helmet identified the graves of the soldiers.
Beneath the helmets on the soldier’s markers, swastikas were carved in the polished wood… But the hated symbol was just pathetic here.
I dug away the snow from one of the buried markers on the south side. Here Oberfeldwebel Friedrich Küttner* was buried. A remarkable carving of a sleeping soldier was exposed. I pushed back the snow and left the soldier sleeping.
The last of the German prisoners of war left Northern Ontario in 1946. During the war they composed a large portion of the workers in the forests. Men who showed and inclination to escape were kept in Monteith. Further north, near Hearst, a camp for incorrigibles was maintained.
There is a second Germany cemetery beside Highway 11, a mile and a half north of Kapuskasing. The men lying in it were prisoners of the First World War and were kept at what is now the Dominion Experimental Farm at Kapuskasing.
Care of both cemeteries is in the hands of the Canadian War Graves Commission.
Night was creeping up the slope from the river. You could no longer see the wisps of vapor rising from the water. The shadows lengthened across the hills on the far bank. With the night, there came a darkness which heralded spring.
As I went away I thought: These were our enemies. But the brotherhood of death has made them akin to our own Canadians lying in Europe. War is very bad, no matter which side you are on.
* – Corrected spelling
A Secret Message
In the summer, I ran the first of a series of posts about prisoner of war mail (see here) and I briefly mentioned the censorship of PoW mail. Incoming and outgoing mail was censored by Canadian military and civilian officials to prevent PoWs from leaking sensitive information about Canadian wartime operations, their locations, and information that could be deemed harmful to the Canadian war effort.
Now PoWs were aware that their letters were being censored and were instructed not to include sensitive material in their correspondence. While many followed these instructions, a number of PoWs sought to circumvent the censorship process by hiding secret messages. Some PoWs used elaborate codes hidden within the body of their messages, some used predetermined words or messages, and others turned to more secretive methods, namely invisible inks.
I came across one of these messages that appears to have employed some sort of invisible ink in an attempt to convey a message from the spokesman of a remote lumber camp back to the spokesman at the base camp (Camp 23 at Monteith, Ontario).
The letter in question (Apologies for the poor quality). Source: Library and Archives Canada.
The original message (in black text) is quite innocent:
Dear Felix:-
As you see, I have run out of writing paper. Have you received my letter of 20.12.?? Please acknowledge the receipt of it, so that I will know that you have been informed. I hope that everything turns out to our satisfaction.
Yes Felix, we took everything on our own heads when we left the camp — everything except injustice.
Now I have some more requests, which you will certainly fulfill for me.
I urgently need 3 arch-supports, 4 portfolios and 2 pads (jotting paper) — This sort of article is not to be had here, and you know — 30 cents.
I am enclosing a list for the exchange of clothing. Please send it here as soon as possible. When can I count on the case of books? Christmas is coming and we have nothing to read. Please see to it that the carpenters complete the case. As far as everything else is concerned, everything here is keeping with the times.
In the hope that you (plural) spend a happy Christmas, naturally wet, I remained with best wishes.–
Your comrade, Wilhelm
In the white text, the letter takes a different turn.
The whole undertaking here is in Jewish hands. One gathers that they think they can exploit us, without doing anything for us in return. I am able to telephone Robert. Its the same where he is: There are several civilian camps here and I am trying to give you (plural) cause to rejoice soon! End.
Interestingly, this is the first case of Anti-Semitism I have so far encountered in my (intial) research. I have yet to discover whether there were any repercussions for sending the letter but it does highlight some of the many challenges internment officials faced during the course of the war.
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Cabinet decides to revise the regulations formulated under the Tourism Act
03 March 2009, Ref: 2009-202
The cabinet has today decided to revise the regulations formulated under the Maldives Tourism Act. After their deliberation on the matter, the Cabinet decided to establish a committee to undertake the work of revising these regulations. The committee includes Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture Dr Ibrahim Didi, Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture Dr Ahmed Ali Sawad, Minister of Economic Development Mr Mohamed Rasheed, and Minister of Human Resources, Youth and Sports Uz Hassan Latheef. The Cabinet also decided to include a member from MATI in the committee.
Speaking at the today’s Cabinet meeting, President Nasheed said that the objective of revising these regulations was to bring them more in line with the relevant laws. He also said that he wanted to make the regulations more industry friendly and more practicable.
In today’s meeting, the Cabinet discussed the procedures on how to transfer certain work of Ministry of Home Affairs to the provinces under the decentralisation process and decided on these procedures.
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The Nintendo Switch Online App Has Been Explained
Pokemon Diamond And Pearl Nintendo Switch Remakes Are Apparently Coming This Year
By Shannon Grixti 4 years ago
Nintendo has today confirmed that the Nintendo Switch smartphone application will launch on July 21st.
The application will allow gamers to arrange online gaming sessions as well as chat with them in game. Further to this, it’s clear that Nintendo will use the mobile app for specific features of certain games.
For instance, in Splatoon 2, you’ll be able to access SplatNet2 via the smartphone app. Using this, you’ll be able to see specific online play stats, gear, check out upcoming stages and more.
Using the app, you’ll be able to send invites via social media networks and messaging services which actually sounds interesting. There’s a lot of people on my social media networks that I want to play with, but I can’t keep track of who I’ve got on my Nintendo Switch friend lists, so this could actually turn out to be a really good idea.
Here’s Australian Prices And Release Dates For The Samsung Galaxy S21, S21+ And S21 Ultra
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Tag Archives: launchkey
the “eternal album” – and, sequencing with the fairlight pro app
Posted by pureambient on June 24, 2013
with the recent release of my first “eternal album”, “music for apps: fairlight pro” I’m now moving much more publicly into the realms of app-based music, so far, I’ve kept most of my application-based music just in the world of you tube videos, with musical activities such as the purescapes channel, which is a you tube channel dedicated to music I’ve created with “scape” – the generative ambient music application designed by brian eno and peter chilvers… I’ve also done the odd live improv involving applications on some of my other you tube channels such as “applicationHD” and “synthesizerHD” but this is my first actual full “album” of application-based music.
I should take a moment and explain the “eternal album” concept; this is an idea I’ve been working on for about one year, I’ve mapped out a series of these albums to be made using existing and future music recorded with applications – and application-based music is like science fiction to me; I still can’t really believe that it exists, and that for the last year and a half, I’ve been able to create music (and, a lot of music at that) on a tablet; using a myriad of music-making applications – to create music of incredibly varied styles, from super ambient (scape, mixtikl, bloom) to frenetic, heavy, synth music (nanostudio, imini, animoog, addictive synth, thor, nave, n log pro, magellan, sunrizer, and so on…) to almost anything in between (launchkey, loopyHD, cantor, mugician, sound prism pro, beatwave, and so on…) – five years ago, I would not have thought this possible. however, a practical problem has emerged, that the “eternal album” solves – how to present a large number of finished compositions (far too many to assemble into ordinary “albums”) in a way that makes sense for both artist and listener. the “eternal album” solves this new world, application-based problem.
so, after 41 years of making “normal” albums – i.e., for release first on cassette, then on compact disc, and eventually, online (a mixture of downloads and compact discs), but this…this is a new “kind” of album, one that recognises that the album concept has become slightly outmoded. of course, I will still continue to make normal “albums”, where I collect songs together (such as “gone native”, my recent collection of active music, or ambient albums such as “sky full of stars” and “the haunting” – and many others, too) – this will continue, and it will revolve mostly around music made with electric guitar, or guitar synthesizer – I still feel in particular that for ambient music, the normal “album” full of songs is the best presentation method. there are many reasons for that, the foremost of which is that by selecting a group of songs, and ordering them in a particular way, the artist can control the “mood” of the ambient album experience – so I think a defined set of tracks, carefully sequenced, is very often a good idea, and in ambient music, it’s particularly effective.
but…not so for music made with applications. since to me, with my old-fashioned brain, this is futuristic music, science fiction music, music that I never dreamed could be made, mixed and published on a tablet device, in vast quantities (example – in just about one year of creating “scapes” using eno and chilvers remarkable application, I’ve created in excess of 1000 scapes) – and, the majority of them are of a quality I would absolutely publish – so – I feel that this music, in these quantities and at this level of quality (there is really no such thing, for example, as a “bad scape”) – this music deserves a new kind of album – the “eternal album”.
the concept is simple:
1) there is no finite number of tracks – tracks are added as they become available. we begin with existing, completed tracks, and add new tracks as they are created and completed
2) there is no ending to the album itself – it’s end is dictated either by the disappearance of bandcamp, or by the disappearance of myself from the planet (both will happen eventually – this is inevitable)
3) customers can download any number of tracks and construct their own “versions” of the album, from a single track to hundreds of tracks if available, or anywhere in between
4) customers can either use the suggested running order or create their own, four seconds of silence has been added to the end of each track for this specific purpose
5) there is no album price, as the “album” is whatever the customers want it to be, from one track to hundreds of tracks (if available) in any order they please
6) a word about track pricing, because of the nature of the “eternal album”, we have set the track prices at a special low level to compensate for the higher track count
so what this means for me as an artist, is what I need to do to present the work for a particular application, is to create a normal bandcamp album, in this first case, the album is called “music for apps: fairlight pro” (in fact, all of these albums will have similar titles, such as “music for apps: scape” and “music for apps: nanostudio” and so on) and I then upload the existing, finished master tracks that I’ve created with that application. that might be just a handful of tracks, it might be many, but once uploaded, I would then add to the album at any point in time over the next 30 or 40 years, many, many more completed tracks – as they become available.
this might mean that if I have a very prolific period of composition next year, that I might add 20 or 30 new tracks during 2014, to the existing fairlight pro tracks that are already part of the album. or, if I do not have the urge (or more likely, the time, due to other commitments) to work with the fairlight, it might be that no tracks are added until 2017, when I finally find the time to record new fairlight sequences…the input is totally flexible. note: if customers indicate a demand for more tracks of a certain type, i.e. they ask for more fairlight sequences, or more scapes, I will do everything within my power (and my schedule) to provide same.
so any “eternal album” can have any number of tracks at any time, more tracks can be added at any time, or, they might remain static for many months or years depending on what apps I am currently recording with. it’s the ultimate in flexibility for me, the artist, but it’s also the ultimate in flexibility for the customer for these reasons:
1) the customer can listen to all of the available tracks before making any purchase, and decide if they like none, one, a few, many, or all of the tracks
2) the customer can download only the tracks they like, ignoring those tracks that do not appeal to their “ear”
3) for completists, they can own every available track and get the full musical impact of perhaps a decade or two decades’ worth of the artist’s work in that particular format – perhaps, a hundred or more songs recorded over ten or twenty years – something that most artists do not necessarily make available to their listening public (but I wish to as much as is humanly possible)
4) having many “eternal albums” to listen to and choose between, gives the customer a very good idea indeed “which” of the applications that he or she likes the sound of, so some folk, for example, who are more used to my ambient work, will favour the scape and mixtikl “eternal albums” while others who perhaps like the louder, more active side of dave stafford, will opt for the “eternal albums” created with the fairlight, nanostudio, or other active/synth tools. it provides a much greater range of choice, which appeals to me.
it’s really all about choice, and to me, having a range of albums, sorted by application, with a comprehensive catalogue of tracks created within each application available to listen to at no charge and no risk, gives customers the chance to listen, compare, and decide which applications they feel drawn to or that resonate with them, and, which applications do not appeal to them at all. it might be that one customer only likes the sound of scape and mixtikl, and does not enjoy the fairlight pro or nanostudio albums. or, the complete opposite, or any mix of styles/apps – but the beauty is, as with all albums presented in bandcamp, you can listen, compare and contrast before making any purchase decision.
since I have just been through a complete review of every single track I’ve ever produced using the fairlight pro (peter vogel cmi) sequencer, I wanted to take some time to talk about the joys and frustrations, the highs and lows of creating music with the fairlight pro app in particular, since it’s the subject of the first dave stafford “eternal album” and is our featured application today.
whether you call it by it’s current official name, “peter vogel cmi”, or if you are a bit lazy like me, and you call it “the fairlight” or “fairlight pro” – this is one of the most unique applications that appeared in the early days of the ipad tablet revolution. despite it’s high ticket price, it was one of the very first applications I purchased, because I wanted that sample library – the one that kate bush and peter gabriel used in the early eighties, I wanted those sounds!
I had a bit of a learning curve, I am first a guitarist, second, a pianist, and lastly, a synthesist – and despite playing both guitar and keyboards, sequencing was a skill that I had really never got the hang of…until the fairlight pro application appeared in the itunes store. it took me a few weeks to really understand and take advantage of what the app can do, but once I got the hang of it, my skill set just skyrocketed, and within a few months, I found that I was creating pieces of music that really surprised me in their complexity for one thing, but at the same time, it was the sound of the pieces…and that takes us right back to those incredible samples.
in uploading the tracks to the album, I’ve taken the unusual step of defining in full, in the attendant metadata, a detailed description of each piece, it’s duration, tempo and the instruments used in the creation of each track, so for each track that is part of the album, there is a list of the eight instruments used to create it. the reason I’ve included this is because it’s so, so difficult, when listening to a completed, mixed, stereo sequence, to tell what the component parts are.
but even knowing what “went into” the piece is sometimes not enough, sometimes it’s more about unusual choices made with note durations, or adjusting the tempo to make a certain melody sound a certain way, a lot of the fairlight “magic” is in the combination of instruments used – and sometimes, strange things happened, and instruments that sound one way juxtaposed with three other instruments, suddenly change their sonic character when paired with say, two other different samples.
there is something about the fairlight that you can’t explain in words, and at that point, you can only listen. the samples are just classic, and I love the quantity and diversity on offer, but even more important, the insanely strange combinations of instruments you can achieve by mixing and matching across categories, and if you think about it, each fairlight “instrument” consists of (a maximum of) eight instruments, so just how many combinations of eight can be made from the many hundreds of samples there are??
what amazes me, too, is that I can create a new instrument, and it always, always sounds completely different from any other instrument I’ve ever created! no matter how many I create, each instrument seems to create an utterly unique sound, which you can’t replicate easily using other applications.
yes, you could physically collect those eight instruments (although it might be difficult, for example, to get ahold of “jetpasso1” – mosts musicians do not have a jet in their studio) and record with them, but it would be utterly impractical in a lot of cases, again, I don’t have a digeridoo in my studio, but with the fairlight – well, I do.
listening back to the sequences I created beginning in february 2012, and then moving up to the present moment, it’s a journey of pure discovery, a joyful, joyful journey, with a few moments of frustration, a few paths that I shouldn’t have gone down, but mostly, it’s just one of the most unique, interesting and entertaining bodies of work I’ve ever had the pleasure of creating and being the composer of. I’ve created silly sequences, sequences composed of bird song, classical music, pop music, heavy synth music, rock music, progressive rock (quite a bit of prog in there), it’s unbelievable the variation of tracks I’ve created over the last year and a half – I even have one sequence that accidentally sounds a bit like an obscure XTC b-side…
I think that this unassuming little app, with it’s amazing set of classic 1980s samples, has a remarkable power – it allows you to play eight very diverse instruments together, in an impromptu “band” that you then arrange measure by measure…creating completely unique pieces of music with these one of a kind “instruments”. I love spending time creating with it, and I hope that you’ll enjoy some of the fruits of this labour, it’s always an amazing feeling when you push “play” for the first time, and a remarkable and very unique piece of music plays back…which was built literally, note by note.
so – I think it’s appropriate that the music made with the fairlight pro application is the subject of my first “eternal album”, it seems right, it’s both a classic synth from the 80s but also, one of the first high quality sequencer/samplers to be made available for the ipad and iphone, so therefore, it’s part of our past and our present and our future. I love working with this tool, and I recommend it highly to anyone who plays keyboards, that wants to learn how to sequence – it’s how I got started 🙂 note by beautiful note !
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application of the moment
I’d like to talk about an application that I downloaded exactly one week ago, last Saturday, the day I returned from my holiday. it’s called ifretless guitar, and to be frank, I can’t put it down. every time I pick up the ipad, I find myself opening ifretless guitar, and seeing what I can learn.
this is a remarkable application, and even after just one week, I’m astonished at what I’ve learned from it and with it. first of all, as a standalone app, just with it’s basic “guitar string” sound, it’s excellent. you can set it up as a 7-, 8- or 9-string virtual “guitar”; you can select 7, 8 or 9 frets; and even better, you can tune it in many, many ways: standard guitar tuning, bass guitar tuning, maj 3rds, violin tuning, and tritone tuning.
it also has both a coarse tuner and a fine tuner so you can match it precisely to other apps and instruments.
that’s the basics, but beyond that, it has many, many excellent features, such as: you can set the lowest two strings to “power chord” mode, so they play chords instead of notes – meaning you can “chord” or “riff” with the bottom two strings, while you “solo” with the top 5 or 6 or 7 strings…
it has controls for velocity, a four band EQ section, a music player, a nice reverb control, and a really capable digital delay that adds a fantastic liveliness to the sound…not to mention, an x-y pad for added versatility.
the current price of the app is zero – so that’s a pretty capable app for the price. [update 20130603 – apologies – by the time this was published, the price had returned to $5.00. but you can, if you are willing to wait, get the “app ticker” application, then set it to “watch” ifretless guitar – and when the price drops, the app alerts you, you can set a threshold – so if it’s $5.o0 normally, you can tell app ticker to alert you when it reaches $3.99 or whatever price you want to pay – or it could drop to zero, and it would let you know that too. app ticker is a really useful tool – you can load all of the apps you want to buy but think are currently too expensive, and it will let you know when the price you want to pay is reached – brilliant].
but it gets better – when you realise just how much more you can do with this app, because like so many apps, of course, you can control other apps with it – so on day two, I started using it to control other ios synths, from n log pro to mini synth pro to launchkey to sunrizer to any number of other MIDI friendly devices, and I have to admit, playing high quality synths from a nine “string” interface tuned to whatever you desire, is a lot of fun!
so beautiful pads, string sounds, or mellotron-like patches, you can control from the fretboard, so you can play your own nine string version of king crimson’s “dinosaur” – I found myself playing all kinds of unlikely tunes, bits of “here comes the sun” or “something” ( no idea why, but very enjoyable) but I also found that I could do a credible “fripp soundscape” if I picked the right string or string-like synth sound, and then played odd triangular shapes – and I’ve never played touch guitar or chapman stick (well, before last saturday, anyway), but I am finding it very easy to do (because of course, I do play piano, and synth – but I also know my fretboard reasonably well – and if you don’t – another great feature is “turn note names on”) – so regardless of which tuning you pick, if you know your “notes”, you can play anything – chords, melody, whatever.
or, crank up the quality digital delay, and have a go at being tony levin for a day – no problem. for serious bass players, there is a “paid” version of the app, called “ifretless bass” – and if it’s ANYTHING like “ifretless guitar” – it’s going to be a brilliant application 🙂 if I find this app to be as long-lasting and useful as I believe it will be, I might even be tempted to buy the bass version. after one week, I’ve got a lot of mileage out of this application, I “play” a bit of nine string guitar almost every day, I play in different tunings, and I alternate between playing with the normal guitar string sound (which really does sound quite good, if I may say so myself), and driving various other ios synths with it, picking synths and synth voices at random to see how well ifretless guitar responds – and so far, it always responds brilliantly, it’s such an amazing feeling to “play” a beautiful mellotron sound with a trio of guitar strings, a string “chord”, or to “play” a mad arpeggiator or a powerful lead synth sound, on a virtual fretless nine string guitar – it’s just a great feeling, I don’t know why.
I can easily see a whole range of live performance possibilities with this app, and I am quite certain that I will use it when I next make app-based live performance videos – because it’s an enormous amount of fun to play. I was thinking that it would sound amazing, run through a looper through the eventides – and I hope that I will be in a position to try it out as one of my premier sound-generation apps in the ios, normally, I am used to playing synthesizer applications, and applications with “new” kinds of interfaces, like “mugician” or “cantor“, but this is something that feels very natural (since I am primarily a guitarist) – so I am hoping this will become a respectable part of my ios instrumentation.
this app is a true gem, and given the price, you get so much value – it’s possibly the best free app I’ve ever downloaded, because it’s not just a guitar emulator, it’s practically a full-on control surface, with great features and a really well-thought out interface – it’s so easy to play, easy for beginners, because they can turn the notes names “on”…., easy for advanced players, because of the range of tuning / fretting options, as well as a lot of great features that make playing this application a real joy for folks at any ability level.
hats off to the developers of ifretless guitar (and ifretless bass), then; as with every app, there are a few things I’d love to see added to this already excellent and very musical tool, of course, my request would be please add robert fripp’s new standard tuning to the tuning choices (and maybe, a “set your own custom tuning function, too, where you can define the tuning of each string manually”), but regardless of such fanciful enhancements, this is one of the most useful control surfaces I’ve seen yet on the ipad. I do like this kind of app, I am very fond of both “mugician” and “cantor“, but I am finding that “ifretless guitar” is even more fun to play than either of those, well, more fun, anyway, because it’s familiar to me as a guitarist – yes, the ipad gives us lots of unusual and new ways to make music, and that’s fantastic, but there is something to be said for the devil you know, too 🙂
and this little devil is a real beauty – give it a try !
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Home Articles CEOing While White
CEOing While White
Daniël Eloff
The struggling State-owned arms manufacturer Denel made news headlines and the Twitter trending list this week after the appointment of Daniel du Toit as CEO. The sin committed by the company that made R2 billion loss in the 2017/18 financial year was the fact that they dare appoint a pale male to head up the enterprise.
After announcing Du Toit’s appointment, various organisations such as the Black Management Forum (BMF) as well as the Cosatu-affiliated trade union the Liberated Metalworkers Union of SA (LIMUSA) criticised Denel for appointing a white man to the position.
It is worth noting the horrendous financial and structural background of Denel. The company has been marred by allegations of corruption and involvement in State Capture. Furthermore, the poor financial health of the State-owned arms manufacturer has led to the South African government having to provide guarantees to Denel in order to pay its employees their salaries. The situation is so dire that in September 2018 it was reported through a leaked memorandum that the company couldn’t even afford to provide toilet paper to its employees.
According to Denel chairperson Monhla Hlahla, during the whole appointment process Denel considered and approached nearly 100 executives as potential CEOs. Moreover, during this process preference was given to black candidates. It would seem that Denel complied with its compulsory transformationist employment equity due diligence.
Despite the fact that Du Toit has a Master of Commerce (MComm) degree, has completed a top executive development programme, was managing director at SAAB Medav Technologies in Germany, was an executive at Altech Multimedia and is said to have been the top candidate that applied, this apparently fails to make up for the fact that he is a white man. Du Toit is guilty of CEOing while white.
The Black Management Forum seems to have been so traumatised by this “gross offence” that it has stated their intention to approach a court to challenge the appointment.
What is surprising about the brouhaha made is the shortsightedness of fussing over a white male CEO. Firstly, Denel’s troubles are not secret. As a State-owned company, it costs taxpayers huge amounts of money. Money that would not have been necessary had Denel not been in such dire financial straits or had Denel not been a State-owned company in the first place. Having a competent CEO, regardless of his or her skin colour, would be beneficial to the whole country, by stopping the financial bleeding.
Secondly, should the BMF have their way and a black person is appointed as CEO, the fact that the CEO is black does nothing for the poor. Transformationism at CEO level does not lead to substantial transformation for those that most need it. Focusing on CEO level transformationism leads to our current predicament where during the past 24 years substantial transformation has not occurred despite the window-dressing at top levels.
Most South Africans agree that transformation is important. Most South Africans want to see the whole country economically empowered. But complaining about a white CEO will do nothing to create the 270,000 jobs per year that the ANC promises.
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Daniël is a Senior Staff Writer at the Rational Standard. He is a co-founder of AGENDA a South African non-profit aimed at enabling and empowering young South Africans with debating and public speaking skills and currently works at Hurter Spies Inc, which specialises in public interest and civil rights litigation, while completing his LLM degree in constitutional- and cyber law. He is also a co-host of the Afrikaans podcast Podlitiek.
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How to Make $41 Million From $3,000: Investing Lessons From a Century
have returned about 10% a year for a century. Those returns mean $3,000 invested at the end of 1920 would be worth roughly $41 million today.
Barron’s took a look at the numbers because we are turning 100. It was partly an exercise in nostalgia, but also a fascinating walk through the tangle of mergers that is American corporate history. More important, looking at the market over a long span offers lessons about how to put money to work.
Like investing itself, digging into century-old data isn’t simple. We tried to calculate 100-year returns for the indexes, as well as for some prominent companies that have been traded continuously for a century.
For the indexes, the price levels are easy. The S&P closed at about 6.8 in 1920. The Dow finished that year at about 72. The S&P closed out 2020 at 3,756 and the Dow closed above 30,000.
That works out to average annual gains of 6.5% and 6.2% respectively. That’s not 10%. But about 40% of total stock returns historically are in dividends. And getting a list of dividends for a hundred years is hard.
For companies, calculating 100-year returns is nearly impossible, though we managed it for a few. A lot happens to companies in a century including mergers, spins, stock splits, and name changes. And getting dividends for companies for a century is harder than getting them for an index.
Gathering the data, essentially, requires looking at stock tables published in Barron’s and The Wall Street Journal decades ago. The companies we started looking at were no help.
They included:
(ticker: MO), the former Philip Morris;
(GE);
(UNP); and
(HON), among others. Honeywell, for instance, just celebrated its 100th anniversary of trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
Still, neither Honeywell nor the exchange could answer the question: What is the 100-year average annual return of Honeywell stock?
They can’t really be blamed. A century is a long time. And Honeywell is a melding of Allied Chemical & Dye—which eventually became AlliedSignal—with the Minneapolis Honeywell Regulator Company, which eventually changed its name to Honeywell.
Allied Chemical was formed in 1920. Minneapolis Honeywell was formed in 1927. Then Allied and Honeywell merged in 1999, creating what investors now know as Honeywell International. More recently, Honeywell has spun off a few companies, including
AdvanSix
(ASIX). Keeping track of the spins is an additional headache.
In the end, Barron’s found that
United States Steel
(X) has returned about 5% a year on average over the past century. GE has managed about 9%. Union Pacific has outperformed the Dow by a little bit at about 11%, while Altria takes the cake, returning roughly 15% a year.
Outperformance adds up. Ten percent a year on $3,000 becomes $41 million. Fifteen percent on $3,000 becomes $3.5 billion. That seems impossible. But Altria has also spun out
(MDLZ) and
(PMI) which together have a market capitalization of about $290 billion. It would be a very large company today.
What’s more, the parent firm has paid out nominal dividends worth millions over 100 years based on an initial $3,000 stake.
The $3,000 figure wasn’t chosen at random. That was the average household income in 1920, according to the Internal Revenue Service. Not many Americans can devote a year’s wages to the stock market all at once, but the growth still illustrates the power of compounding returns.
The power of compounding is one of the biggest investing lessons from the 100-year-return exercise. But there are others. Growth, market share, and industry structure always matter to stocks.
Electricity demand has grown at about 4% a year on average since many Americans were reading by candlelight. That boosted GE’s business.
The total miles of railroad track in the U.S. hasn’t grown at all, but the freight shipped over them has. What is more, it is hard to build a competing railroad from scratch. Union Pacific helped show the world the benefits of network effects—the difficulty of challenging an incumbent with vast cash flow, expertise, and infrastructure that is difficult to replicate—decades before Google’s parent Alphabet (GOOGL) dominated the search industry.
Consumer products, meanwhile including addictive ones, are usually stable investments. And commodity industries can be hard, as U.S. Steel’s returns indicate.
What is also clear is that dividends, in the long run, are huge. And even the great growth companies of long ago—GE and U.S. Steel were FAANG stocks of their day—eventually paid dividends.
And that is part of the answer to the question: How to turn $3,000 into $41 million? Invest in the stock market, reinvest the dividends, and don’t touch the money for 100 years.
Corrections & amplifications: If you invested $3,000 at the end of 1920 and earned 15% a year for 100 years, it would be worth $3.5 billion. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said $3.5 trillion.
Write to Al Root at allen.root@dowjones.com
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Saner Security
Congress made smart changes to the way we fund homeland security before Osama bin Laden's death. That shouldn't change now.
by Sarah Laskow
Last month, when the continuing resolution for the 2011 budget stripped the Department of Homeland Security of hundreds of millions of dollars meant to aid state and local security programs, lawmakers on Capitol Hill had an unusual reaction. That is, they didn't have much of a reaction at all.
In past years, the mere suggestion that a president's budget proposal would cut homeland-security funding stirred up the wrath of Congress. In 2008, after the Bush administration proposed cutting grants to firefighters, Rep. Peter King, then the ranking member of the House's Homeland Security Committee, railed against it. "We cannot afford to be cutting back on the numbers of those [grants]," he said. His reaction to last month's cuts was more mild: "There's no doubt that cuts have to be made," he said at a hearing last Wednesday.
King's new attitude may kowtow, in part, to his party's renewed interest in slashing budgets, but it is also part of a gradual shift in homeland-security strategy. After almost 10 years of staving off the fear of another attack on American soil by throwing money around, there were signs, before Osama bin Laden's death, that the country's attitude toward homeland security was becoming a bit more rational.
New security programs started after September 11 were dedicated to making Americans feel safer, and a lot of them involved buying cool stuff. State and local governments used federal money to purchase sturdy radios, computer software, surveillance equipment, hazmat vehicles, and other gadgets. The federal government invested in projects such as the electronic tracking of every border entry and exit with fingerprinting, and a virtual fence that would keep both terrorists and immigrants from entering the country.
Many of these proved both expensive and ineffective, but it took years for the federal government to admit the measures might not be working as well as they could be. The virtual fence, which was supposed to be a network of sensors and cameras that could monitor the border constantly, ate up about $1 billion before Janet Napolitano, secretary of Homeland Security, decided earlier this year that the program's cost outweighed any benefits. Last month's cut also zeroed out a grant program devoted solely to buying new communications equipment for systems that were supposed to enable radios made by different manufacturers to communicate. That program never quite lived up to its promise.
The most iconic program that the proposal discontinued, though, was the system of color-coded homeland-security threat levels that the Bush administration put in place. This system, too, was surprisingly expensive. Raising the threat level prompted some cities to increase port security, turn on surveillance cameras, and increase patrols on transit systems and in other sensitive locations. But it also represented the pervasive, if nebulous, fear in the country after September 11.
When Napolitano announced in January that the the color-coded system would be retired and replaced with an alert system that warns the public of specific threats, she signaled that it was only worth being frightened when there was a specific danger. This program, the National Terrorism Advisory System, debuted less than two weeks before bin Laden was killed.
Napolitano decided against issuing an NTAS alert in the wake of bin Laden's death. Intelligence gathered from the raid on bin Laden showed that al-Qaeda had been contemplating a September 11 anniversary attack on the country's rail system. Lacking any intelligence about a specific or impending threat, however, Napolitano stood by the decision. Napolitano insisted that only a real threat, based on real information, would warrant a heightened alert.
But far from allaying fears of another attack on American soil, the al-Qaeda leader's death has rekindled our tendency to overreact to vague apprehensions. Napolitano's decision came under criticism from members of Congress almost immediately. Last Wednesday, Sen. Susan Collins, ranking member of the Senate's Homeland Security Committee, asked whether it wouldn't "be prudent to increase the threat level, not to the highest level ... but to acknowledge that we are in a situation where we are at risk." And throughout the week, security experts came out in droves to warn that the country faced the threat of a retaliatory attack from al-Qaeda somewhere, at some time.
The truth is, the vague threat that al-Qaeda could attack our transit system is nothing new. Our transit systems are vulnerable, and the group has claimed credit for attacks in Europe that targeted trains and subways. The Department of Homeland Security already runs a grant program dedicated to transit security, and while it's useful to know that these general concerns and efforts to strengthen the systems are warranted, it doesn't serve our security to heighten people's fears.
One anniversary attack that al-Qaeda was reportedly contemplating involved tampering with rail tracks to send a train flying off a bridge or down a mountain. Much of the homeland-security funding that was cut would not have stopped them. Against this and all other homeland-security threats, gadgets alone cannot protect us. Throwing money at state and local governments is not a long-term solution to homeland security. Smart responses to specific threats might be.
Sarah Laskow
Sarah Laskow is a journalist based in New York.
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Do They Dare to Say "Impeach"?
One person's airtight legal case is another's "Stay out the Bushes."
Tim Cavanaugh | From the June 2006 issue
You'll never find anyone as impartial, disinterested, judicious, and concerned only with the well-being of the American people as a party hack laying into a politician from a rival party. Thus the case for the impeachment of President George W. Bush has grown organically from the very fabric of the universe. It's not that Democrats are motivated by frustration with Bush and his party's electoral winning streak—hell, the Dems profoundly regret that they've been brought to this! It's that Bush's lies and violations of the Constitution are so egregious, so without precedent in American history, that we must activate the gravest of constitutional mechanisms.
To wit: In his 286-page report The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War, House Judiciary Committee member John Conyers (D-Mich.) isn't grinding any party ax. Rather, the problem is that "we have found that there is substantial evidence the President, the Vice President, and other high-ranking members of the Bush Administration misled Congress and the American people regarding the decision to go to war with Iraq."
As a result, "the House should create a bipartisan select committee vested with subpoena authority to investigate the Administration's abuses" in order "to protect our constitutional form of government."
Interestingly, Conyers, who entered the House of Representatives in 1964, never managed to find any impeachable behavior in the conduct of Lyndon Baines Johnson, who lied America into a far more destructive war and presided over the colossal civil rights violations of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. But it's not just elected Democrats who view impeachment as something that should happen only to the GOP.
Former Harper's Editor Lewis Lapham, whose most recent cancer on the national attention span was a 5,000-word "Case for Impeachment" in the magazine's March issue, told a Harper's roundtable: "The media tends to believe that the branches of government are the Democratic and Republican parties.…I think we also have to make it clear—if this turns into a partisan thing, Democrat/Republican, I would think it would do more harm than good." (To his credit, Lapham adds, "I also think we should get over the idea that impeachment is a big deal. I mean, we should use it more often." That's a sentiment any good American would endorse.)
Thus, Lapham notes, we must distinguish between the Bush administration's "criminal DNA" and the far more famous DNA of "Bill Clinton, whose penis was known to be aimless and shown to be harmless." Not so harmless, of course, to those civilians in Yugoslavia, Sudan, and Afghanistan who were sacrificed when Clinton turned American forign policy into an extension of his own impeachment scandal.
Elizabeth Holtzman, the former member of Congress and New York City comptroller, made the same gestures toward nonpartisan concern for the Constitution in her 4,000-word impeachment brief in The Nation in January, but there's no way to know how she would have voted when her own party was on the hot seat.
Alas, Holtzman's political career ended in 1993, with a tearful denunciation of reporters who ignored her "long record of standing and fighting for people," and focused instead on a $450,000 loan she accepted from Fleet Bank in exchange for a lucrative city contract. Undoubtedly she would have vigorously contested Bill Clinton's promiscuous bombing raids, if only the media had given her the chance.
It's true: Bush is impeachable on the bare facts of the case, without any recourse to party differences. Back on Planet Earth, he's invulnerable as long as his party continues to control both houses of the Congress. If these Democrats and their supporters are serious about bringing him to account, they'll need to learn how to win elections. To make that happen, they might start by impeaching a few of their own leaders—not for high crimes and misdemeanors, just for incompetence.
NEXT: Banishing Ideological Boggarts
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Would a National Lockdown Have Saved the U.S. From COVID-19?
A comparison of Texas and California suggests that legal edicts matter less than The New York Times thinks.
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
How To Create Cross-Platform PowerShell Scripts
To avoid errors, it's important to write PowerShell scripts that prevent code from running on an unintended platform. Luckily, this is easier to do than it sounds.
By Brien Posey
Up until a few years ago, PowerShell scripts could only run on Windows machines. Admittedly, that sounds like a really obvious and inconsequential statement, but think about what it means: Back then, it was possible to create a PowerShell script without thinking about what kind of machine the script would eventually run on.
Today, this simply is not the case. A PowerShell script that is intended for a Windows machine probably isn't going to work correctly on a Linux machine. Of course, the opposite is also true.
Actually, it's a little bit worse than that. If you attempt to run a PowerShell script on a different platform than it was intended for, some of the commands within the script will probably work, while others are unsupported and will therefore generate errors. The end result will be completely unpredictable. In some cases, the script could end up doing damage.
That being the case, it is important to build PowerShell scripts that are either cross-platform, or that prevent code from running on an unintended platform. Believe it or not, this is easier to do than it sounds.
Let me start with a really simple script that does hardly anything. I will then build on this script as I introduce more concepts. Here is the script:
Function RunOn-Windows
Write-Host 'The Script is Running on a Windows Machine'
RunOn-Windows
This script creates a function called RunOn-Windows. As I previously noted, the function doesn't really do much. It simply displays a message indicating that the script is running on a Windows machine. The script's body is equally simple. It contains a single command, which calls the function.
As it is written, this script has no idea if it is running on a Windows machine or not. But what if it were possible to perform a test to determine whether the script is running on Windows, and call the function only if the Windows operating system is detected? It's not that hard to do, but you will need to make sure that you are running PowerShell version 6 or higher. Otherwise, this technique won't work.
Microsoft provides a series of variables that you can use to see what operating system is being used. If you want to see if a script is running on Windows, for instance, you can use the $IsWindows variable. This variable is set to True if the system is Windows-based, or False if the operating system is something else. We can easily evaluate the variable as a part of the function call. Here is what the script might look like:
If ($IsWindows) {RunOn-Windows}
As you can see, I haven't touched the function itself. What I have done, however, reconstruct the function call so that it only executes if the $IsWindows variable is true. This is a great way to prevent Windows code from running on a non-Windows system.
But what if you want to inform users of non-Windows systems that the script only works on Windows? The only thing we have to do is add an Else statement. Here is what such a statement might look like:
If ($IsWindows) {RunOn-Windows} else {Write-Host 'This script only works on Windows computers'}
This line of code checks if the script is running on Windows. If it is running on Windows, then it calls the RunOn-Windows function. If the script is running on another platform, it displays a message indicating that the script only works on Windows systems.
As handy as this technique might be for preventing a script from running on an unintended platform, it can actually be extended to make a script multiplatform. Here is what such a script might look like:
Function RunOn-Linux
Write-Host 'The Script is Running on a Linux Machine'
Function RunOn-Mac
Write-Host 'The Script is Running on a Mac'
If ($IsLinux) {RunOn-Linux}
If ($IsMacOS) {RunOn-Mac}
This script contains three different functions. Remember, a function never executes unless it is explicitly called. One function contains code that is intended for use on a Windows machine, while the other functions contain code for Mac and Linux.
The script's main body contains three If statements. If the script is found to be running on a Windows machine, it calls a function containing a Windows version of the code. If the script is running on a Linux machine, it calls a function containing Linux-specific commands. Likewise, if the script is running on a Mac, then the script will call a function containing code that is intended for use on a Mac.
Brien Posey is a 19-time Microsoft MVP with decades of IT experience. As a freelance writer, Posey has written thousands of articles and contributed to several dozen books on a wide variety of IT topics. Prior to going freelance, Posey was a CIO for a national chain of hospitals and health care facilities. He has also served as a network administrator for some of the country's largest insurance companies and for the Department of Defense at Fort Knox. In addition to his continued work in IT, Posey has spent the last several years actively training as a commercial scientist-astronaut candidate in preparation to fly on a mission to study polar mesospheric clouds from space. You can follow his spaceflight training on his Web site.
Security solutions company Malwarebytes affirmed on Monday that alternative methods besides tainted SolarWinds Orion software were used in the recent "Solorigate" advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks.
How To Fix the Hyper-V Read Only Disk Problem
DOS might seem like a relic now, but sometimes it's the only way to fix a problem that Windows seems ill-equipped to deal with -- like this one.
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In Chicago, The City Becomes a Great Big Classroom
It’s not just schools that are responsible for preparing young people for the future. In Chicago, a successful summer experiment is going year-round, connecting kids to the city’s rich cultural resources and opportunities for learning outside as well as inside the classroom.
Last Summer, the City of Chicago, in partnership with the MacArthur Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation, launched Chicago Summer of Learning, a set of connected summer learning programs centered on the theme of science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM). More than 100 organizations took part, from the Art Institute of Chicago to the Cook County Forest Preserve. The summer was such a hit—more than 210,000 young people took part—that it’s being expanded to a year-round effort, now called the Chicago City of Learning (CCOL).
CCOL will make Chicago a laboratory of learning and enhance opportunities for young people throughout the year and throughout the city because, as the website says, “no one institution, on its own, can prepare our young people for their futures. It takes all of the city’s resources.”
CCOL will also showcase a theory of learning called “connected learning.” This approach ties together three realms of young people’s worlds—their peers and pop culture, academics, and their own interests—with the mentorship of adults. Doing that, proponents believe, can spur greater engagement in learning, wherever it happens.
More than a hundred of organizations joined CCOL sponsors in Chicago on December 4 to kick off the expanded effort. “Great energy was created in the room as everyone embraced the idea of Chicago as a ‘campus,’” said Digital Youth Network Learning Pathways project director Sybil Madison-Boyd. “Organizations worked together to develop the ‘majors’ that young people might pursue by engaging in experiences across organizations.”
The first coordinated projects will happen during winter break.
CCOL is hoping to engage the city’s public schools, city agencies such as the Park District, and the many afterschool and cultural learning organizations across the city in this year-round effort.
The original Summer of Learning in 2013 was a first on another front. It was the first citywide effort to use badges. Badges are a digital form of credentialing—and a great motivator for youth. Students earn badges when they successfully complete a step in a project or perfect a skill. Each badge builds on the prior badge to create a pathway of learning. In this way, they document progress toward a goal. The badges are housed online in the student’s digital backpack, visible to teachers, employers, and others interested in the students’ skill set. Nearly 100,000 badges were awarded by summer’s end. The Mozilla Foundation created the online platform and digital backpacks for presenting and issuing badges.
The badges were also the linchpin in another feature: citywide challenges. Chicago’s Digital Youth Network and the Chicago Hive Learning Network—organizations with deep experience in both badges and citywide learning networks—designed a series of progressively more complicated challenges for youth. To level up, youth earned a required number of entry-level badges from any organization. The end goal was a city-level badge. Earning a city level badge in turn unlocked a series of citywide challenges.
Building on these experiences, CCOL will create a new field of learning opportunities. The organizers are currently analyzing the data embedded in the badges to better understand the learning that youth engaged in over the summer to guide future programming and gain a better understanding of youths’ interests.
Other cities, including Pittsburgh and Los Angeles, have expressed interest in their own Cities of Learning, and Chicago will share its lessons learned widely.
Pittsburgh hosted a version of its own summer of learning last year. During the Hive Days of Summer campaign, youth attended more than 100 learning and creativity activities in the city and surrounding communities, including collaborations with the Andy Warhol Museum, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. And the Pittsburgh Public Schools ran the Summer Dreamers Academy, a camp that has replaced traditional summer school in the city.
“We decided to throw out remedial, punitive summer school and create a summer camp that’s just like the camp that our kids’ more affluent peers in the suburbs spend hundreds of dollars to go to, only our kids get to go for free,” Eddie Willson, the district’s director of operations for student support, told Pittsburgh’s public radio affiliate WESA.
The camp is still strong on academics, but its students also get tons of enrichment activities like water polo, swimming, and art. Though it’s cold and grey outside now, summer, thankfully, will be here before we know it. And these cities are ready.
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Photos, President Obama, Republicans are Racist, Seriously?
Romney Rally Fail: Put the White Back in the White House!
“Put the White Back in the White House” T-Shirt at Romney / Ryan Rally.
This Getty Images photo from a Romney / Ryan rally in Lancaster, Ohio on Friday has gotten a lot of attention. I wonder why? This Romney supporter not only felt comfortable enough in this crowd to wear a t-shirt saying “Put the White back in the White House” but he wanted to spike the ball by adding a Romney / Ryan sticker to the top of the message.
A Romney spokesperson commented that the shirt was “reprehensible and has no place in this election.” That being said, the Right-wing Media leaped to Romnney’s rescue claiming that this guy was a Democratic plant and that the photo was taken outside. There is absolutely no evidence of a plant (but what else can you say just weeks before the election) and it was later proven that the photo was indeed taken inside of the event.
This is certainly no surprise, and I’m sure the man got mad props on his wardrobe choice from his fellow Republicans, but what terrible timing. Didn’t anyone tell him that the GOP really wants to downplay the race issue until after election day? Guess it doesn’t matter to this guy. The important thing to him is getting his message out by preaching to his racist choir.
Tagged GOP, Mitt Romney, politics, Racism, Rally
Public Officials, Republican Candidates, Republicans are Racist
Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Racist Conservative
Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative
When one thinks of the mindset of a Republican in Arkansas, it is not hard to imagine them being pretty extreme. It is along that line of thinking that I will present quotes from the book “Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative” written by Republican Legislator Jon Hubbard of Jonesboro, Arkansas.
For my racist readers (and I know you’re there,) this is a book that you’re going to love. It’s not only chock full of bigoted statements, it even includes the prediction of a full-on race war similar to what we saw in Nazi Germany. It’s yet another peek into the mind of another elected member of the GOP. It’s filled with contradictions and horrible interpretations of Biblical scripture.
Here is a list of some of the choice quotes as compiled by the Arkansas Times.
Slavery was good for black people:
“… the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise. The blacks who could endure those conditions and circumstances would someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth.” (Pages 183-89)
If you think slavery was bad, you should have seen Africa:
African Americans must “understand that even while in the throes of slavery, their lives as Americans are likely much better than they ever would have enjoyed living in sub-Saharan Africa.”
“Knowing what we know today about life on the African continent, would an existence spent in slavery have been any crueler than a life spent in sub-Saharan Africa?” (Pages 93 and 189)
Black people are ignorant:
“Wouldn’t life for blacks in America today be more enjoyable and successful if they would only learn to appreciate the value of a good education?” (Page 184)
Integration was bad for white people and black people are lazy:
“… one of the stated purposes of school integration was to bring black students up to a level close to that of white students. But, to the great disappointment of everyone, the results of this theory worked exactly in reverse of its intended purpose, and instead of black students rising to the educational levels previously attained by white students, the white students dropped to the level of black students. To make matters worse the lack of discipline and ambition of black students soon became shared by their white classmates, and our educational system has been in a steady decline ever since.” (Page 27)
It’s basically hopeless:
“… will it ever become possible for black people in the United States of America to firmly establish themselves as inclusive and contributing members of society within this country?” (Page 187)
Immigration is bad:
..the immigration issue, both legal and illegal… will lead to planned wars or extermination. Although now this seems to be barbaric and uncivilized, it will at some point become as necessary as eating and breathing.” (Page 9)
Don’t forget Nazi Germany:
“American Christians are assuming a similar stance as did the citizens of Germany during Hitler’s rise to power.” (Page 158)
Now that should whet your appetite. Get out there and grab a copy. Only one elected Republican wrote it but he’s far from being alone in sharing the book’s sentiments. Finally, there is an owner’s manual for the modern Republican “Christian” mind.
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Rates of shoreline progradation during the last 1700 years at Beachmere, Southeastern Queensland, Australia, based on optically stimulated luminescence dating of beach ridges
Brooke, Brendan
Lee, Roland
Cox, Malcolm
Olley, Jon
Pietsch, Tim
Olley, Jon M.
The optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating method was used to determine the geochronology of seven relict beach ridges that sit immediately behind the modern beach at Beachmere, a low-energy sandy coast within Moreton Bay, Queensland. Between 2600 +/- 400 and 1700 +/- 130 years ago, the shoreline eroded and foreshore sediment was deposited over the older beach deposit. Subsequently, there was a 1500-year period of shoreline progradation: the shoreline advanced 0.16 m/y between 1700 +/- 130 and 1140 +/- 80 years ago; and 0.41 m/y between 1140 +/- 80 and around 200 years ago. Shortly after 690 +/- 60 years ago, a series ...
View more >The optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating method was used to determine the geochronology of seven relict beach ridges that sit immediately behind the modern beach at Beachmere, a low-energy sandy coast within Moreton Bay, Queensland. Between 2600 +/- 400 and 1700 +/- 130 years ago, the shoreline eroded and foreshore sediment was deposited over the older beach deposit. Subsequently, there was a 1500-year period of shoreline progradation: the shoreline advanced 0.16 m/y between 1700 +/- 130 and 1140 +/- 80 years ago; and 0.41 m/y between 1140 +/- 80 and around 200 years ago. Shortly after 690 +/- 60 years ago, a series of well-developed regularly spaced beach ridges gave way to an intertidal flat and then deposition of a set of lower amplitude, closely spaced beach ridges. The younger ridges were deposited between 230 +/- 40 and 140 +/- 50 years ago, at a rate of around 1.06 m/y. During the last several decades, much of the Beachmere shoreline has eroded into these younger relict ridges. Drivers of these changes in shoreline sedimentary regime are yet to be accurately determined; however, it seems likely they are related to switches that occur in the nearshore sand transport pathway. Our results demonstrate the utility of the OSL method for providing insights into coastal change that occurred in the historical and recent geological period. Better understanding the tempo of shoreline change in the recent past is particularly relevant for assessments of vulnerability to erosion of rapidly developing, low-lying sandy coasts such as northern Moreton Bay.
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Geomorphology and Regolith and Landscape Evolution
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The impact of adverse weather conditions on autonomous vehicles
how rain, snow, fog, and hail affect the performance of a self-driving car
Shizhe Zang, Ming Ding, David Smith, Paul Tyler, Thierry Rakotoarivelo, Mohamed Ali Kaafar
Department of Computing
Recently, the development of autonomous vehicles and intelligent driver assistance systems has drawn a significant amount of attention from the general public. One of the most critical issues in the development of autonomous vehicles and driver assistance systems is their poor performance under adverse weather conditions, such as rain, snow, fog, and hail. However, no current study provides a systematic and unified review of the effect that weather has on the various types of sensors used in autonomous vehicles. In this article, we first present a literature review about the impact of adverse weather conditions on state-ofthe-art sensors, such as lidar, GPS, camera, and radar. Then, we characterize the effect of rainfall on millimeter-wave (mmwave) radar, which considers both the rain attenuation and the backscatter effects. Our simulation results show that the detection range of mm-wave radar can be reduced by up to 45% under severe rainfall conditions. Moreover, the rain backscatter effect is significantly different for targets with different radar cross-section (RCS) areas.
IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
https://doi.org/10.1109/MVT.2019.2892497
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Zang, S., Ding, M., Smith, D., Tyler, P., Rakotoarivelo, T., & Kaafar, M. A. (2019). The impact of adverse weather conditions on autonomous vehicles: how rain, snow, fog, and hail affect the performance of a self-driving car. IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, 14(2), 103-111. https://doi.org/10.1109/MVT.2019.2892497
Zang, Shizhe ; Ding, Ming ; Smith, David ; Tyler, Paul ; Rakotoarivelo, Thierry ; Kaafar, Mohamed Ali. / The impact of adverse weather conditions on autonomous vehicles : how rain, snow, fog, and hail affect the performance of a self-driving car. In: IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine. 2019 ; Vol. 14, No. 2. pp. 103-111.
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Roderik Overzier – Astrophysicist / Person
Professional Astronomy from Brazil
Full-scale model of the Hubble Space Telescope at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington DC (2004).
A young Roderik Overzier standing in front of his own press release about his PhD research with the Hubble Space Telescope displayed IN the National Air & Space Museum.
A young Roderik Overzier at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington DC, standing in front of a press release about his PhD research with the Hubble Space Telescope (2004).
The question of how the galaxies and the large-scale structure formed is extremely complex. The answers involve a great many details related to star formation, dark matter, supernova feedback, active galactic nuclei, gas accretion, and cosmology that are still unknown. We study how galaxies formed and evolved as a function of time and place in the cosmic web. We use multi-wavelength observations from the X-rays to the radio from the world’s main ground- and space based observatories (for example, VLT, Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra, Spitzer, etc.). We also use detailed theoretical predictions and cosmological simulations in order to better understand the observational results and in order to create better models. We are performing small, targeted research programs, as well as participating in a number of large international collaborations in order to find the answers to the many intriguing questions.
Motivation for doing Extra-galactic Astrophysics in Brazil
Originally from The Netherlands, I have been very fortunate to work in several astrophysics departments around the world (Leiden Observatory in Holland, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Texas in the United States, and the Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany). I joined the Observatório Nacional in Rio de Janeiro in 2013 in order to contribute to the development of extra-galactic astrophysics and astronomy in general in Brazil. Today is a very exciting time for young people to be interested in astronomy in Brazil, with some amazing opportunities to do fore-front research with the world’s best telescopes (Gemini, Subaru, SDSS, ALMA, VLT, HST, JWST, GMT, etc.). Especially in the field of extragalactic research, we are benefiting from the many new exciting international projects and telescopes that we are part of.
Some areas of activities by our group
The formation of galaxy clusters – Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally-bound objects in the universe. We study how to find them at high redshifts, and how to study the cluster formation process by comparing clusters and the progenitors of clusters (“protoclusters”) at high and low redshift. For a recent review on the topic, see my paper The realm of the galaxy protoclusters (Overzier, A&ARv, 24, 14, 2016).
The formation and evolution of galaxies – At high redshift, the Hubble Space Telescope has found small galaxies that must be the building blocks of the present-day population of spiral and elliptical galaxies. How did this process of galaxy assembly exactly happen? By using detailed observations of both high redshift and nearby galaxies, we are trying to piece together this complicated puzzle. In the process, we are learning many new details about a variety of interesting astrophysical processes including star formation, supernovae, winds, galaxy merging, black hole formation, and chemical enrichment.
Active galaxies and black holes – Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are extremely energetic phenomena occurring in the cores of some galaxies. They are the result of the inflow of matter onto a supermassive black hole. We are especially interested in the role of AGN in the formation of galaxies, and their relation with the large-scale structure.
Properties of the first galaxies – Telescopes can now quite easily select galaxies at redshifts z > 6, corresponding to only ~0.5-1.0 Gyr after the Big Bang. We are trying to measure the properties of these galaxies in order to get an idea of what this first population looked like and what it may have evolved into at later times. They also offer an important probe of the epoch of cosmic reionization, as these galaxies produced the hydrogen ionizing photons that were needed to ionize the neutral intergalactic medium.
Virtual theoretical observatory and cosmological simulations – We make frequent use of so-called theoretical universes and virtual observatories. A virtual observatory can be used to create simulated telescope images and spectra based on cosmological simulations of galaxy formation. When we developed our virtual observatory, The Millennium Run Observatory, this was a very new concept in astrophysics. Today, such techniques have become a standard tool in many new survey projects.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey – ON is a member of the SDSS-IV survey project, which includes a large integral field survey of 10,000 nearby galaxies (MaNGA) and a high redshift spectroscopic survey that will target 1 million distant galaxies and quasars (eBOSS).
The S-PLUS Survey – I am the Project Scientist for the Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS). This is the largest brazilian-led survey project undertaken to date, and aims to map 9000 square degrees of the sky in 12 broad and narrow band filters using a small (0.8m) robotic observatory at CTIO. An overview of the survey along with the first public data release can be found in the paper by Mendes de Oliveira and the S-PLUS collaboration (MNRAS, 2019, in press).
The J-PAS Survey – The Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (J-PAS) is the big sister of S-PLUS. It is a Spanish-Brazilian project that will image 8000 square degrees of the sky in 56 narrow optical filters to measure dark energy, galaxy evolution, stars, and solar system bodies. The survey is expected to start in 2019/2020, but has performed a small pathfinder survey that is currently being analyzed by the collaboration.
The Subaru HyperSuprimeCam SSP – I am an external member of the team that is exploiting the HSC-SSP to study the formation of galaxy clusters. This project has already led to some amazing results, such as ~200 new protoclusters at z~4 (this is 5 times more than have been found in the past 20 years!). Read all about it in this NAOJ press release.
The Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph Survey – Through IAG/USP and FAPESP, I am a member of the collaboration to build a revolutionary new multi-object spectrograph for the Subaru Telescope. The goal is to measure dark energy, galaxy evolution and AGN at high redshifts. The collaboration is led by IPMU in Tokyo with partners Princeton University, Caltech Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique Marseille, ASIAA/Taiwan, MPA, and IAG/USP and LNA in Brazil. With PFS, our group aims to study galaxies, galaxy clusters, and AGN at high redshifts to a level of detail provided by no other survey starting around 2021.
Giant Magellan Telescope – I am a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the GMT project for Brazil. The project is absolutely fascinating, and will offer us a chance to be among the first astronomers in the world working with the next generation of extremely large telescopes.
Other projects – The universe is a very big place and extragalactic astrophysics is a very broad area of research that is always changing! The above list offers only a glimpse of the possibilities. Other active projects in my group include observations with the Hubble Space Telescope and the future James Webb Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory.
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March 10, 2020Written by Sean Bacher
What is an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) Injury?
injury to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), medial collateral ligament (MCL) and meniscus. Research in the 1990s revealed that this unhappy triad is a peculiar clinical entity involving athletes with knee injuries. The research shows that lateral meniscus tears are more common than medial meniscus tears in conjunction with ACL sprains.
The unhappy triad which is also referred to a a ‘blown knee’ occurs as a result of a lateral blow to the knee which causes a rupture in the anterior cruciate ligament, medial collateral ligament and the meniscus. The injury usually happens when a lateral (outside) force impacts the knee and while the foot is on the ground. The rotary force to the knee tears the ACL, MCL and meniscus all at the same time. This particular injury often occurs in contact sports such as rugby, motocross and football.
An ACL tear often requires surgery to repair the torn ligament and many patients are given a knee brace to wear post-surgery. There is also a great deal of debate regarding just how effective a knee brace can be during the post-surgery healing process. Yet, much depends on the preference of the surgeon as well as the attitude of the patient. Often, it is thought that once an ACL tear occurs, a sportsman may never regain his former level of prowess. Yet, there is a great deal of evidence to the contrary. Recovery time is anything from two to six months on average but can take up to nine months in certain cases.
What are the symptoms of an ACL injury to the affected knee?
Swelling and stiffness
Catching or locking of the knee
Instability of the knee
Inability to move the knee in terms of full range of motion
How do ACL injuries occur?
ACL injuries occur when:
Sudden stopping and changing direction
Direct contact to the knee from other opponents on the field
Landing onto a bent knee from a jump and twisting and/or landing on the over-extended knee
Sporting examples
Injured soccer players who are keen to get back into their game as quickly as possible might choose to wear an ACL knee brace post-surgery to aid recovery.
Fear of being away from the soccer field for too long ensures determined player stays in the game
In 2017, veteran Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic suffered injuries that resulted in meniscus and cruciate ligament damage and was told that he would be laid off for at least 9 to 12 months. However, despite his own fears that his injuries were more severe than first diagnosed, his determination saw him back on the field much sooner than that.
Over the years, many soccer players who have suffered ACL injuries have defied the odds and returned to sporting victory such as Tottenham England striker Paul Gascoigne, Manchester United/The Netherlands striker Ruud van Nistelrooy and Arsenal/England Winger Theo Walcott.
How does an ACL knee brace work?
Once an ACL tear or injury has occurred, wearing an ACL knee brace can help to prevent injury to the anterior cruciate ligament and help support the knee. An ACL knee brace stabilises the knee while allowing movement of the knee within the confines of the brace and reduces the amount of time the anterior cruciate ligament is at risk from tearing. The knee brace helps to relieve discomfort and provide support and the best devices have compression to support the knee without interfering with mobility, which also helps to increase blood flow thereby reducing pain.
Those who sustain injuries when riding off-road motorcycles use a knee brace to help prevent further injuries. Wearing a sports brace after injury or surgery allows the restoration of good blood flow which would otherwise take longer without the aid of the brace.
Figure 1: ACL Knee Brace
What are the advantages and disadvantages of wearing an ACL knee brace?
Let us examine the advantages and disadvantages of wearing an ACL knee brace.
Enables the knee to rest
Affords protection in the event of falling
Assists in maintaining the extension of the leg
Makes the limb stronger
Allows for proper vascularization to take place
Can prevent further injuries
May be uncomfortable
Some braces tend to slip
Important considerations
Some patients often ask Roger whether a brace can make the knee weaker since certain sources often report that this is the case. However, in answer to this question Roger states that if a patient is in too much pain and the brace provides pain relief and enables the patient to walk then the knee will become stronger through walking. When the patient is lying down and not moving the limb the knee cannot be strengthened.
Once an injury is sustained, as far as the healing process is concerned not even a doctor will know how long it will take for the tiny blood vessels to fully heal. However, wearing a brace during the healing process offers support to the knee as it heals.
The importance of choosing the right knee brace
When choosing to wear a knee brace it is vital that the brace is prescribed by a qualified practitioner such as an orthotics specialist. In the case of ACL injuries, it is not sufficient to merely opt for off-the-shelf products.
Call us on (011) 640 7198 for a free first consultation and assessment.
Reference sources: Williamsterett.com, Wikipedia, Verywellhealth.com
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Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold (1953-1961)
Fonds consists of a very small portion of the records of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold those which were left at the Secretariat after selected records were transferred to Andrew Cordier and/or Sweden. Arranged in the following record series.
UN. SECRETARY-GENERAL (1953-1961 HAMMARSKJOLD)
S-0847: Minutes of the Secretary-General's private meetings with the Under-Secretaries-General 1946-1958
S-0844: Miscellaneous administrative records 1948-1964
S-0846: Miscellaneous operational records 1953-1961
S-0928: Press releases 1953-1961
Related records: For Congo Mission records (ONUC) which were created by Hammarskjold and subsequent Secretary-General U Thant see S-0845 and S-0849 (part of the Secretary-General U Thant fonds AG-005). Most of Secretary-General Hammarksjold's records are held by the Department of Manuscripts at the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm (approx. 61 linear ft.) and by Columbia University Library in New York (approx. 38 linear ft.). At the National Library of Sweden, the following Secretary-General's records are held within the Dag Hammarskjold collection: Correspondence and memorabilia 1953-1961; Country files 1953-1961; Photographs 1953-1961; Records related to the Middle East conflict 1956-1961; Records related to the Congo crisis 1960-1961; Trip files 1953-1961. At the Columbia University Library Rare Book and Manuscript Division the following Secretary-General Hammarskjold records are held within the Andrew Cordier Papers: Trips and trip files 1953-1961; Miscellaneous 1953-1961; Subject files 1946-1961; Peacekeeping and crisis files 1953-1961.
Secretary-General - Dag Hammarskjold
Secretariat and Personnel Files
Fait partie de Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold (1953-1961)
Series is comprised primarily of records relating to Secretariat matters and personnel matters including some earlier files from the period of Secretary-General Trygve Lie. Arranged in several groupings.
Secretariat - staff regulations
S-0844-0001-01-00001
Secretariat - transfer of certain units of the Secretariat to the office in Geneva
Secretariat - committees boards and groups
File contains three items (1) A compilation list of Circular notes verbales 11 October 1946 to 30 July 1954 submitted by Mr. Protitch (2) A report submitted by Mr. Cordier entitled Committees boards and groups containing 1-page descriptions on each such group under the headings authority membership meetings functions (3) A report entitled Elections and Appointments Eighth Session of the General Assembly.
Secretariat - consultative committee to the health service on mental hygiene
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The 1692 Salem Witch Trials
In January of 1692, nine-year-old Betty Parris and eleven-year-old Abigail Williams, the daughter and niece of Salem Village minister Reverend Samuel Parris, suddenly feel ill. Making strange, foreign sounds, huddling under furniture, and clutching their heads, the girls’ symptoms were alarming and astounding to their parents and neighbors. When neither prayer nor medicine succeeded in alleviating the girls’ agony, the worried parents turned to the only other explanation; the children were suffering from the effects of witchcraft. As word of the illness spread throughout Salem Village, and eventually Essex County, others began to fall ill with the same alarming symptoms. The afflicted complained disembodied spirits were stabbing them, choking them, and jabbing them with pins. Soon names were cried out as the afflicted began to identify these specters. Neighbors, acquaintances, and total strangers were named in the statements and examinations that followed. Gossip and stories from decades prior were dredged up as fear continued to spread. Over the course of the year 1692, approximately 150 people across Essex County were jailed for witchcraft. Ultimately, nineteen people were hanged and one man was pressed to death after being examined by the Court of Oyer and Terminer. This was the largest witch-hunt to ever take place in America, and would be the last large-scale panic to take place in the New World.
To understand the events of the Salem witch trials, it is necessary to examine the times in which accusations of witchcraft occurred. There were the ordinary stresses of seventeenth-century life in Massachusetts Bay Colony. A strong belief in the devil, a recent smallpox epidemic and the threat of attack by warring tribes created a fertile ground for fear and suspicion. This was made worse by a growing factional conflict in Salem Village, the Village’s rivalry with nearby Salem Town, and the removal of the Massachusetts Bay Charter in 1684 which left the colony in a state of fear, confusion. To many it seemed the Puritan ideal of a “City on a Hill” was slipping away, decades of work suddenly pulled from their grasp. Many wondered if Satan’s forces had infiltrated their new land.
In June of 1692, the special Court of Oyer (to hear) and Terminer (to determine) sat in Salem to review these witchcraft cases. Presided over by Chief Justice William Stoughton, the court was made up of magistrates and jurors. The first to be tried was Bridget Bishop of Salem. Goodwife Bishop was found guilty and hanged on June 10. Thirteen women and five men from all stations of life followed her to the gallows on three successive hanging days before the court was disbanded by Governor William Phipps in October of that year. Trials resumed in January of 1693, this time with a new court, the Supreme Court of Judicature, the same court we use in this country today. This court differed from the first in that it no longer accepted spectral evidence. This evidence, never before allowed in New England courts, was based upon the notion that the accused were able to use their invisible shapes or specters to torture their victims. With this standard of evidence gone, the new court released those awaiting trial and pardoned those awaiting execution. In effect, the Salem witch trials were over.
As years passed, apologies were offered, and restitution was made to the victims’ families. One judge, Samuel Sewall, and 12 jurors, came forward to apologize for their roles in the Salem witch trials. The other magistrates never admitted there had been a miscarriage of justice, going to their graves believing they did what was best for the colony. Historians and sociologists have examined this most complex episode in our history so that we may understand the issues of that time and apply our understanding to our own society. It is significant to the parallels between the Salem witch trials and more modern examples of “witch hunting” like the McCarthy hearings of the 1950’s.
The mission of the Salem Witch Museum is to be the voice to the innocent victims of the Salem witch trials, while also bringing awareness to the root cause of witch-hunts from 1692 to the present day. By understanding this history, through audiovisual displays, guided tours, educational events, and discussion, we strive to connect this tragedy to the modern-world and highlight why history matters.
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The Salem Witch Museum Timeline
An overview of The Salem Witch Museum from its founding in 1972 to the present.
The Salem Witch Museum: Past and Present
For the past four decades, the museum has told the true story behind the Salem witch trials of 1692 and provided context for understanding the phenomenon of "witch hunts" and witchcraft in general from the Middle Ages to modern times.
The Salem Witch Museum Offers Free Admission for Residents
The Salem Witch Museum has offered free admission to Salem residents for the past several years. With the museum's recent exterior conservation and planned redesign of its web site, administrators are hoping that more Salem residents will be drawn to its doors.
The Salem Witch Museum Launches Major Conservation Project
After a full eight months of preservation work to the museum's brownstone and brick exterior - costing upwards of $500,000 - the classic Gothic Revival structure won't look any different than it did before all the work began. Every one of its crenellations, arched windows, buttresses and battlements will appear to be untouched.
Witches: Evolving Perceptions
Our second exhibit, “Witches: Evolving Perceptions” is a guided tour which examines the European witchcraft trials, how the word “witch” has evolved and changed over time, and the phenomenon of witch-hunting.
This staff guided tour provides an overview of the European witchcraft trials of the early modern era. Witch-hunts began in Europe in the fifteenth century and continued well into the eighteenth century. During this time, shifts in religious thought, evolving superstitions, and general legal and social changes combined with a period of particular fear and tension due to massive outbreaks of disease, major religious wars, economic shifts, and irregular weather patterns. This dangerous mixture led to centuries of witch-hunts across Europe and its colonies and the deaths of at least 45,000 (though the exact number remains unknown). This constantly evolving and growing tour focuses on why witch trials began, where they were the most intense, how the stereotypical image of a witch emerged in popular memory, and what the word “witch” means in the modern-day.
In 2019, we had the great joy of announcing the acquisition of a first edition of L. Frank Baum’s classic novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Considered to be America’s first fairy tale, this novel is responsible for several changes to the image of the witch in the twentieth-century. This very special book is currently on display in this exhibit.
The tour concludes with a discussion of a formula for a witch-hunt and how this formula may be applied to three twentieth-century examples. When studying the history of witchcraft, it is important to understand that witchcraft was a crime created and imposed on innocent people. No individual actually had the power to cause hailstorms, spread mass disease, or fly through the night to a gathering of evil beings. This was a crime imposed on innocent people during times of mass fear and hysteria. While the legal prosecution of witchcraft came to an end in the eighteenth century, the pattern of behavior that caused witch-hunts can be identified throughout history and in the modern day. Visitors are encouraged to submit their own example they believe fits this formula, and may do this online at https://salemwitchmuseum.com/witch-hunt.
We encourage you to explore more in Salem and learn more about the Salem Witch Trials on these sites.
Salem Haunted Happenings
Official Guide to Salem
Salem Motor Coach Route Map
SalemWeb.com – The City Guide
Boston/Salem Ferry Services
Derby Square Tours
Massachusetts Office of Tourism
Hawthorne Tours, Custom Group Tours
The Go Boston Card
“Witchcraft at Salem Village”
MuseumSpot.com
A Delusion of Satan
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NBU withdraws from circulation a coin with a denomination of 25 kopecks (and old banknotes until 2003) from October 1, 2020
The National Bank of Ukraine presented future changes in the hryvnia banknote and coinage series aimed at further streamlining the monetary circulation of the national currency and simplifying settlements. In particular, coins with a denomination of 25 kopecks and all hryvnia banknotes of old samples, introduced into circulation before 2003, cease to be a means of payment when making payments in cash and will be withdrawn from circulation from October 1, 2020. The NBU will also more actively withdraw from circulation paper banknotes of 1 and 2 hryvnia and 1 hryvnia coins of the 1996 model, replacing them with the corresponding circulating coins of the 2018 model.
Deputy Chairman of the National Bank Aleksey Shaban announced this today during a press briefing.
“We continue to put things in order in cash circulation and bring it to world standards. The main goal of our solutions is to simplify cash payments and improve their convenience for users. We also take care of the economic feasibility and improving the quality of cash in circulation.
As a result, the banknote-coin range of the hryvnia will be reduced from 17 denominations to 12. In total, 6 denominations of coins and 6 denominations of banknotes will remain in it, which is in line with international practice, ”said the Deputy Chairman of the National Bank.
At the moment, coins with a denomination of 25 kopecks are not exchanged due to the withdrawal from circulation of coins with denominations of 1, 2 and 5 kopecks, which took place last year. Thanks to their withdrawal from circulation, this problem will be solved.
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Old-style banknotes, introduced into circulation before 2003, almost no longer fulfill their function of a means of payment. Now they are about 1.8% of the total number of banknotes in circulation. Over the past three years, their volume in circulation has remained almost unchanged. That is, citizens hardly pay with them, these banknotes are not collected and are not received by banks.
The NBU noted that thanks to the proposed changes, the costs of the state and participants in cash circulation for the production, processing, transportation, storage of banknotes and coins will decrease.
As the Director of the Monetary Circulation Department of the National Bank Viktor Zaivenko noted, coins with a denomination of 25 kopecks and all old banknotes introduced into circulation before 2003 will cease to be legal tender in Ukraine in a month – from October 1, 2020.
“From this date, they will not be accepted for payments in cash for goods and services, and the National Bank will withdraw them from cash circulation. That is, from October 1, 2020, all shops, restaurants, and everyday life should stop accepting them, and the rest of such coins and banknotes must be handed over to the cash desks of Ukrainian banks by October 16 to be credited to accounts, ”he explained.
At the same time, citizens will be able, without restrictions and free of charge, to exchange coins with a denomination of 25 kopecks and old banknotes introduced into circulation before 2003 for coins and banknotes of other denominations and designs within the next three years: in all Ukrainian banks – within one year from the date of their withdrawal from circulation – until September 30, 2021 inclusive; in the NBU and authorized banks (Oschadbank, PrivatBank, Raiffeisen Bank Aval, FUIB) – within three years from the date of their withdrawal from circulation – until September 30, 2023 inclusive.
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In addition, from October 1, 2020, the National Bank will more actively withdraw from circulation banknotes with a denomination of 1 and 2 hryvnia samples of 2003-2007 and circulating coins with a denomination of 1 hryvnia of the old model, made before 2018 (golden color). Once in banks, they will no longer be returned to circulation, but will be seized and transferred to the National Bank.
Unlike obsolete banknotes and coins of 25 kopecks, banknotes of 1 and 2 hryvnia samples of 2003-2007 and coins of 1 hryvnia of the old model, made before 2018, will still remain a valid legal tender. They can be calculated, they do not need to be specially exchanged. At the same time, they will gradually become less and less in circulation, and their place will be taken by the corresponding “silver” coins of 1 and 2 hryvnia denominations of the 2018 issue.
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Rare Throwback Footage Shows Harbor Pilot Boarding Ship in Middle of Hurricane Sandy (Intense)
by Jesse Kleib | June 12, 2019
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Back in the year 2012, the east coast of the United States was absolutely bombarded ...
Back in the year 2012, the east coast of the United States was absolutely bombarded by Hurricane Sandy. The storm ripped its way up the coast, causing damage in several states. Naturally, when we consider hurricanes, we think about what they’re going to do when they make landfall.
However, for a select group, these folks have to worry about what the storm is going to do to vessels in the water. After all, there are countless ships up and down the East Coast. Many of these fell in the path of where this horrendous storm traveled. For one Disney Fantasy cruise, it was underway when the storm struck.
This time, we get to catch up with some incredible footage that shows what was going on during the storm. During said occurrence, it just so happened that the Disney Fantasy cruise was still in the water. With few options, the captain had to pilot the ship full of people through the conditions. When they finally approached the port, in order to dock and allow everybody to get off, pilots had to be exchanged.
Those who are known as “harbor pilots” essentially take over for a ship when it’s being controlling in tight quarters. This might be because of their expertise or their extensive knowledge of a particular area. Essentially, after a ship is done in open water, these pilots will board and help it to navigate the tighter area. Why are they necessary? For starters, just a ship alone can cost upwards of $1 billion. This doesn’t include the precious cargo that might be on board. Still, have questions as to why this sort of specialization might help?
In the video below, we watch quite a stressful situation. In 40 knots of wind, this particular harbor pilot makes his way out to the Disney Fantasy and climbs aboard. It’s not necessarily as simple as stepping from a dock to a ship, either. As it turns out, with the water raging like this, making his way onto the ship is easier said than done. Luckily, he is able to make it. However, it’s not too hard to see how a situation like this could go wrong in a hurry.
This Compilation of Boating Fails Will Make You Curl Inside
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Back to School Sunday
Posted on August 29, 2019 by St. Mary Magdalene Church, Paddington, London
Sunday 1st September is “Back to School Sunday”, when we mark the start of the new school year with a special Family Service at St Peter’s, Elgin Avenue, at 11am. There is no Mass at St Mary Magdalene’s, as we combine the congregations for this service, celebrating our two church schools and giving thanks for the work of Christians in education.
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Bishop Jonathan’s Sermon
Tonight we celebrate the abundant fruits of ten years of visionary thinking, meticulous planning and execution of the highest quality. Congratulations to Fr Henry and his team. And in so doing, we are also celebrating the successful accomplishment of that greatest of challenges: how to remain true to the ideals of founders and pioneers in hugely changed times. The principal architect of this magnificent building, G.E. Street, sometime Churchwarden of All Saints in Margaret Street, no doubt had many objectives and aspirations in mind as he contemplated his schemes and plans for this church, but one little detail speaks volumes. He was determined that there would be no pew rents here; all the seating in the House of God would be free, free for all the People of God. It was to be a church for the poor: the poor who are always our teachers. The realisation and the completion of the works undertaken here will ensure that this remains a place of worship, a place to inspire the heart and lift the soul to heaven, but also a place which is at the heart of the community, as it was always intended to be. The history of this church on your parish website describes it as having been ‘marooned’ after the post-war slum clearances; but now our prayer and our confident hope is that it will not be an island but a hub, with spokes radiating outwards to make numerous connections with local life – life which, in all its richness and diversity, is lived out here in the true Christian sense “in all its fullness.”
A place of worship; a sermon in stone, to borrow Ruskin’s phrase, himself of course quoting Duke Senior’s vision in As You Like Itof not an urban but a rural paradise – but the phrase remains both resonant and fitting. In his notable essay ‘of the Atmosphere of a Church,’ Sir Ninian Comper, another of this church’s architects and designers – and what a roll call of names to conjure with who have built, adorned and beautified this place, and now new names are added to the roll – writes:
‘A church built with hands, as we are reminded at every Consecration and Dedication feast, is the outward expression here on earth of that spiritual Church built of living stones, the Bride of Christ, urbs beata Jerusalem, which stretches back to the foundation of the world and onwards to all eternity….To enter therefore a Christian church is to enter none other than the House of God, and the gate of Heaven.’Comper prefaces this passage with his exposition of the mass, the offering of this holy sacrifice in which we are now engaged, as the very heart and soul of the church building, its source, its purpose, its entire raison d’etre. He writes:
‘[A church] is the centre of Worship in every community of [those] who recognise Christ as the Pantokrator, the Almighty and Ruler and Creator of all things; at its altar is pleaded the daily sacrifice in complete union with the Church Triumphant in Heaven, of which He is the one and only Head, the High Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedech.’
This is heady stuff; it is all true, but expressed in words almost too intoxicating in their strength. But then Comper makes this wonderful, pithy observation:
‘There is then no such thing as a Protestant church. A church is of its very nature Catholic, embracing all things.’This surely could be the strapline for the mission statement for this church and congregation: – ‘Catholic, embracing all things.’ Our Scripture readings this evening fill in the detail. The Spirit of God comes upon the prophet in order that the oil of gladness might be poured out upon the poor, the broken hearted, the prisoner, those who mourn. When Jacob erects a pillar to mark the spot where the Lord God met him in a dream, and promised him that his descendants would fill the whole earth, he pours oil upon it. When we consecrate our altars, to offer (in Comper’s phrase) the daily sacrifice, we pour oil upon them. Oil for holy places and holy things. But oil too, the oil of gladness, for the poor of the Lord, for all who inherit the promise of the year of the Lord’s favour. In Jesus Christ, all the promises of which Isaiah speaks are fulfilled, and in the Gospel reading from St Matthew this evening Jesus Christ commissions his servants, his friends, to go out and bring in the harvest of those who will live in the light of His own coming and be drawn thereby into the Kingdom of God. It is as we know Christ and are known by him, as we share in his life by baptism and through the other sacraments of the Church, that we too can speak the prophet’s words which Our Lord Himself makes his own – ‘the Spirit of the Lord has been given to me.’
What a great thing has been done here. The offer – generous, expansive, and magnificent – which is made here is that of nothing less than life in all its fullness. The prophet Ezekiel sees a river flowing from the threshold of the temple, and the river brings life; just so did a river flow from Eden, divide into four, and water the regions of the earth before even Adam and Eve were made. This church and the Grand Junction (what a marvellous name) which adjoins it will surely bring life, life to this part of London and beyond. Henry James said of London that it was ‘magnificent:’ not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, but ‘magnificent.’ Lovers of London, among whom I count myself, might find his failure to find cheer here James’s problem and not London’s, but we sort of know what he meant. But, he said, still speaking of London, ‘the biggest aggregation of human life…the most complete compendium of humanity’ is here. What a canvas upon which to trace the outlines of a ministry in the name of Jesus Christ. What an adventure will surely unfold in this place.Today we celebrate St Anthony of Padua, the Evangelical Doctor, a saint hot on penitence, hot against heresy, and hot on compassion for all in need and love for the poor. At the end of this mass we shall offer him lilies, and pray for freedom from evil, the healing of sickness, and the gifts of peace and grace to strengthen us in our weakness. Last Sunday we celebrated the Feast of Pentecost, and the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles gathered in prayer with Mary the Mother of the Lord; the Holy Spirit who drove them out into every corner of the known world, on fire with the love of Jesus Christ and the message of This is heady stuff; it is all true, but expressed in words almost too intoxicating in their strength. But then Comper makes this wonderful, pithy observation:
What a great thing has been done here. The offer – generous, expansive, and magnificent – which is made here is that of nothing less than life in all its fullness. The prophet Ezekiel sees a river flowing from the threshold of the temple, and the river brings life; just so did a river flow from Eden, divide into four, and water the regions of the earth before even Adam and
His Gospel. Let us give the last words to St Anthony whose feast we keep, from a sermon which he preached on the Feast of Pentecost.
Let us speak, then, as the Holy Spirit gives us to speak, asking Him humbly and devoutly to pour out His grace, so that we may complete the days of Pentecost in the perfection of our five senses and in the observance of the Ten Commandments. May we be filled with the mighty wind of contrition, and be set afire with the fiery tongues of confession; so that, ablaze and alight in the splendour of the saints, we may be found fit to see God the Three and One. May He grant this who is God Three and One, blessed for ever and ever. Let every spirit say: Amen. Alleluia.
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Mary A. Wilcox & Maggie E. Jones - Klamath Falls, OR - Graves of Unusual Deaths on Waymarking.com
Mary A. Wilcox & Maggie E. Jones - Klamath Falls, OR
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Quick Description: Two women share an obelisk marker in Linkville Pioneer Cemetery and were both assassinated in 1916, as inscribed on their headstone.
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 4/23/2015 11:29:36 AM
Waymark Code: WMNR6H
Located in the upper middle portion of Linkville Pioneer Cemetery is an obelisk headstone that contains the names of two women, Mary A. Wilcox who was assassinated on February 8, 1916, age 64 years and Maggie E. Jones who was also assassinated on February 8, 1916, aged 46 years.
I was able to located an article that highlights the details surrounding these ladies' demise in more detail on FindaGrave.com and it reads:
THE EVENING HERALD
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
MOTHER AND HER DAUGHTER SLAIN IN FIGHT TODAY
Mrs. Mary Wilcox and her daughter Mrs. Maggie Jones, are dead and William Doyle is slightly injured as the result of a battle to the death in the southeastern part of Langell Valley this morning. Details are very vague as the people in this district are not inclined to discuss the case before the arrival of officers. Sheriff Low, Deputy Sheriff Lloyd Low and Cornoner Earl Whitlock left this morning for the scene of the crime. They found upon arrival at Bonanza, that the remainder of the trip must be made over snow covered roads by wagon so they will not reach the Jones ranch until late tonight.
According to telephonic information received by the sheriff's office, Doyle said the women shot each other following a quarrel. He attempted to separate them and was slightly cut on the hand.
An earlier report said that the women were shot by Doyle, who recently leased the Jones ranch. Late advices tend to corroborate the story told the sheriff's office, as Doyle is reported as leasing the ranch going about his duties while awaiting the arrival of the officers.
Mrs. Wilcox was in the neighborhood of 64 years of age. Her daughter was about 41 years old. Both resided in that section for many years, and were well known.
Doyle had been in Langell Valley for about two years, coming to Klamath county from central California
Residents of the Langell Valley country say that there has been bad feelings on the ranch where the shooting occurred as the result of an agreement with Doyle, whereby Doyle put in a fall grain crop, to be farmed on shares. A short time ago a prospective buyer visited the ranch, and sought to buy it outright, but Doyle refused to waive his rights, owing to the planting of the crop, and the sale was abandoned. Threats of shooting are said to have been made many times by all parties concerned.
THE EVENING HERALD FEB. 9, 1916
Doyle is held a murderer. Jurors Make Accusation.
THE EVENING HERALD FEB. 10, 1916
Doyle may be arragined today or Monday.
Doyle Hearing Set for Monday
He was tried and found guilty of murder of both women.
I don't know what happened to Doyle after his conviction. There is another grave in this cemetery, the Lee and Joe Laws grave, who were murdered by masked assassins in 1882. The men were 19 and 15 years of age.
Linkville Pioneer Cemetery was recently listed in the National Register of Historic Places and contain many notable graves of local pioneers as well as memorials to victims of disasters over the decades.
Type of Death Listed: Assassinated
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More than 500 people from local businesses attended a Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games briefing at the ICC last week, to hear about how they could benefit from the largest sporting and cultural event ever to be held in the West Midlands region.
The event, which was hosted by former Team England Commonwealth triple jump champion, Jonathan Edwards and John Crabtree, Chair of the Birmingham 2022 Organising Committee, included a networking breakfast and presentations from Neil Carney, Birmingham City Council’s project director for the Commonwealth Game’s and Ian Reid, the Organising Committee’s Interim Chief Executive Officer.
Also in attendance were West Midlands Team England athletes Sarah-Jane Perry, who won squash singles silver at this year's Commonwealth Games, and Nathaniel Brown, who travelled to the Games as a wrestling training patner.
After the event John Crabtree said: “I was delighted to see so many businesses from across Birmingham and the region at the ICC. It was an excellent chance to explain how they can put themselves in the best possible position to benefit from the significant boost that hosting the Games will bring to the West Midlands.
“We know from recent editions of the Games that it’s possible that more than 80% of the Organising Committee’s contracts will be won by local or regional businesses and today’s event has kick started that process of ensuring the city and region is truly competitive.
“The Organising Committee is very much looking forward to working with local companies over the next four years, to ensure that we deliver a lasting economic legacy across the West Midlands and beyond.”
Jonathan Edwards, who shared with the audience his experience of competing at three and working at three different editions of the Commonwealth Games, said: “I was lucky enough to compete in Birmingham many times in my athletics career, so I’ve witnessed first-hand the passion that local people have for sport and today I’ve also seen how passionate the regional business community is.
“I have no doubt that working closely together over the next four years, the local business people I’ve met today will use that passion and determination to ensure that they take full advantage of the opportunity that having a major multi-sport event on their door step will bring.”
The event also included a panel session, with a chance for the audience to quiz Saqib Bhatti, President of the Greater Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, Ian MacLeod, Birmingham City Council’s Assistant Director for Planning and Regeneration, Rebecca Battman, Head of Brand at RBL in Leamington Spa, who have already won a contract to work with the Organising Committee and Laura Vernett, Marketing Director from Harper Macleod, the legal firm that won a major contract for Glasgow 2014.
Those attending the event, which was co-ordinated by FinditinBirmingham and supported by local and regional Chambers of Commerce, Local Authorities and Local Enterprise Partnerships, were given practical advice on how to apply for Games related projects and opportunities, contracting insights from previous Games and were encouraged to register on the new Birmingham 2022 Business Portal - birmingham2022.com/businessportal – which was also launched today. This website will advertise all available Games contracts, with the majority of contracts being available closer to the event.
More information about the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, which will be staged from 27 July to 7 August – twenty years after the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games and ten years on from the London 2012 Olympic Games – can be found at www.birmingham2022.com
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Synonyms for subota or Related words with subota
minja josipa smilevski radmila lisac mitevska sofija katica jelica marjeta fabijan vjera hristos emilija svyat bilja ispod radost ljubov natasa yosif gjoka hristijan julija dimitrovski janevski nacionalna blagoj slavka grafa blago biserka zorica judita lidija saimir banjac buljan margita bisera zmijanac poslednja justinas babica dimitrovska totev darinka emanuil debela zorana
Examples of "subota"
"Sedam Subota" is a duet with Serbian singer Aca Lukas.
In September 1691 units of Serbian Militia from Transylvania commanded by Subota Jović captured Arad. Because Subota Jović distinguished himself during this capture, field marshal Veterani appointed him as Captrain of Arad.
Subota means Saturday in several Slavic languages. It may refer to
Subota Jović () was late 17th century Habsburg military officer of Serbian origin.
Subota was born in Minsk, Belrus in 1984. He studied sports coaching at Belarusian State University of Physical Training.
Aliaksandr Subota (born 28 August 1984) is a Paralympian athlete from Belarus competing mainly in T46 classification track and field events.
The school is proud of its students and their contribution to the culture, sport, art of Belgrade and the Republic of , such as: Мihajlo Petrović Alas, Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac, Моša Pijade, Pavle Savić, Dejan Udovičić, Zoran Baranac, Ivo Lola and , Vladeta Jerotić, Svetozar Gligorić, Ružica Sokić, Nikola Simić, Boža Prodanović, Мinja Subota and others. The school has its own hymn, composed by Minja Subota, and the text was written by Saša Trajković.
The Yugoslavian national final to select their entry, "Jugovizija 1981", was held on 28 February at the Studio TV - TV Beograd in Belgrade, and was hosted by Minja Subota and Helga Vlahović
Lazarice in Serbian language and Lazaruvane in Bulgarian language is tradition of procession during the Bulgarian Orthodox feast of Lazareva Subota ("Lazarus Saturday", the Bulgarian Orthodox feast is different from other churches) the parade consists of six maids.
Milan "Minja" Subota (, ; born 8 November 1938 in Sarajevo) is Serbian composer, musician, entertainer and photographer. He is the host of the long-running children's TV show "Muzički tobogan" on RTS (formerly on TV Novi Sad).
Subota first represented his country at a Paralympics in 2004 in Athens, where he competed in the long jump and triple jump, although he failed to achieve a podium finish in either. Subota was back in the Belarus team for the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, this time competing in just the long jump. He finished fifth. His most successful Paralympics to date was the London Games in 2012. There he competed in both the long jump and triple jump, finishing third in the triple jump to claim his first Paralympic medal.
The feast of Vrbica (Врбица) or Lazareva Subota, is commemorated by Serbian Orthodox and Bulgarian Orthodox tradition. Due to a general lack of palm trees, pussy willow branches are blessed, and distributed to the faithful. Small bells are often tied to the branches. Other features include:
One of Ukrainian media outlets illegally created a project "Karaoke near the Fountain", which was a copy of the "Karaoke on the Maidan" format. The proceeding in a case lasted three years. Attorneys-at-law Natalia Subota and Andrii Nechyporenko represented Ihor Kondratuk's interests in court. The presenter of the program and co-author Ihor Kondratuk visited court sessions by himself.
Vrbica or Lazareva Subota ("Lazarus Saturday") is a Serbian Orthodox tradition that has origins in the Eastern Christian feast of Lazarus Saturday, however the feast has its own features. The feast celebrates the resurrection of Lazarus of Bethany, the narrative of which is found in the New Testament Gospel of John ().
As well as his Paralympic success, Subota has also claimed medals at both World and European Championship level. He claimed a silver in the triple jump (T46) in the 2013 World Championships in Lyon while he has won three European medals, including a gold in the T46 Javelin in 2016 in Grosseto. This was the first international competition that he had entered into the javelin event.
As a singer, she had won her first prize at “Maglaj Youth Festival” in 1974. In 1976, she toured the Soviet Union as a soloist in Sasha Subota Orchestra, where she had recorded a "Compilation of World Hits" LP and a single "Mikado" for Soviet label Melodiya. Besides extensive touring with hundreds of concerts performed throughout former Soviet Union, she took part in numerous TV shows. One of the highlights was her interpretation of Marina Tsvetaeva's poem “I Like When You Are Yearning for Me”, sung in Russian on Moscow TV, in a special birthday greeting for Soviet Union’s President Leonid Brezhnev.
The Choir has also been the launchpad of several pop stars in Serbia, such as teen sensation Zoran Leković. The Kolibri Choir performs at home and abroad, making regular appearances on television and in films. All their recordings are published by the Music Production of Serbian Radio Television (PGP RTS). "Kolibri" performed in Bolshoi Theatre in Musorgsky's opera ""Boris Godunov". Kolibri and Milica Manojlović worked with Vlastimir Đuza Stojiljković, Ljubiša Bačić, Sedmorica Mladih, Dragan Laković, Oliver Dragojević, Bajaga, Minja Subota, Tanja Bošković, Riblja Čorba, Ljubiša Simić, Kemal Monteno, Bora Dugić and many other musicians, actors and artists in former Yugoslavia.
Badrov released his self-titled fourth studio album on 18 October 2011. It featured the hit songs "Subota je ludilo" ("Saturday is Madness"), "Bivša draga" ("Former Honey"), "Sklonite čaše drugovi sa stola" ("Remove the Cups from the Table, Friends"), "Ludo ljeto" ("Crazy Summer"), "Volim te" ("I Love You") and "Pravo na ljubav" ("Right on Love"). The album was recorded in a recording studio called "Hazard" in the Bosnian town of Bugojno. The lyrics to all the songs were written by Davor's long-time songwriter Muharem Haro Hazikardić and the entire album was produced by Mirza Hadžiahmetović.
On the night of 3 February 2009, Lukas was shot by an unknown assailant. The assailant fired two hits, but Lukas survived with just a wounded leg. When he came out of the hospital, he said: "Dobro se osećam. Hvala Bogu, nije mi ništa. Pustili su me iz Urgentnog centra i dobro mi je!" (translation: "I am feeling well. Thank god, nothing is wrong with me. I was released from the ER and I am feeling good.") Lukas was shot in front of Gandijeva street no. 66, while he was entering his vehicle "Porsche Cayenne". In the 2010 year Aca record the 2 new songs "Sedam Subota" with Dado Polumenta, and "Ja Ovaj Život Imam".
Marko Marković was born in Leskovac, 1935. In 1957 he started working as a journalist. Most of his career he spent working at Radio Television Belgrade (RTB), 1961-1995. During his time with RTB he reported at numerous football matches and covered 40 World and European Championships, as well as The Olympic Games. He was one of the initiators of the famous programmes: "Sportski pregled" (The Sports Overview) and "Sportska subota" (Sport Saturday), and creator of many more radio and TV sport programmes, he made countless interviews and wrote six monogragraphs. His flagship programme was "Indirekt" which aired from 1971 to 1994. The topics, he focused on, were not only the current issues but all those interesting things he span in his own way.
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Tees Valley To Host Cook Islands For Rugby League World Cup 2021
Home » News » Tees Valley To Host Cook Islands For Rugby League World Cup 2021
Tees Valley will welcome the Cook Islands men’s international rugby league team for next year’s Rugby League World Cup, it was today (June 10) revealed.
The team will be based at Darlington’s Rockliffe Hall hotel and train at the town’s Mowden Park arena less than ten minutes away, while they compete in the seven-week tournament.
Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen was joined at Rockliffe Hall by its Managing Director Jason Adams and Mowden Park’s Danny Brown to welcome the announcement, made to mark 500 days until the start of the tournament. The event could give Tees Valley an economic boost of up to £8million, attracting tens of thousands of international rugby fans to the area.
The Cook Islands is a self-governing country in the South Pacific Ocean made up of 15 islands. It was named by Russians after Middlesbrough-born Captain James Cook, who visited many of the group’s southern islands.
Middlesbrough’s Riverside Stadium will also host a game during the major international competition, with Rugby League World Cup expected to release the fixtures throughout July, with tickets available on pre-sale from September.
Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen said: “I’m delighted to be welcoming the Cook Islands to our area for the duration of the tournament, where they’ll be able to take advantage of the exceptional facilities and venues that helped us win our hosting bid.
“As well as training and staying here, it will be fantastic to see the team out and about, engaging with our local communities and the next generation of fans to build a legacy of rugby league across Teesside, Darlington and Hartlepool. On top of this, I’m sure they, and our game, will draw thousands of fans from far and wide.
“In this difficult and unprecedented time, we need something to look forward to and 2021 is shaping up to be another fantastic year of events that show we’re punching above our weight. From the rescheduled Killers gig at the Riverside and Tom Jones concert at Darlington Arena to the rugby league world cup fixture itself, we’re continuing to get noticed on a global scale.
“I hope they are as excited to visit as we are to have them here!”
Jason Adams, Rockliffe Hall’s Managing Director, said: “It’s a pleasure to be involved in the Rugby League World Cup and we’re delighted to now find out that we’ll be hosting the Cook Islands. It’s been a challenging time for everybody so like Ben says, it’s great to have such a big event to look forward to next year. It will be the ideal opportunity for us to showcase our region and everything it has to offer. We look forward to welcoming the squad to Rockliffe Hall.”
Lee Rust, Darlington Mowden Park’s Managing Director, said: “We’re delighted with the news that another global event has made the decision to come to Darlington and the Tees Valley, which is a marker of the fantastic facilities and offering that we have as a region. We look forward to welcoming the Cook Islands and I’m sure the local sporting community will make them feel at home throughout the tournament. 2021 really is shaping up to be an exciting year and this can only add to the list of events to look forward to.”
Jon Dutton, RLWC2021 Chief Executive, said: “Today marks another hugely exciting milestone on the road to Rugby League World Cup 2021 as we celebrate 500 days until the opening fixture at St James’ Park in October next year.
“Cook Islands’ story is a fantastic one, which I am sure will contribute to them becoming very popular with attendees in 2021. They have brought tremendous passion and vibrancy to rugby league already. As we know, the people of the North East are sports mad and some of the most welcoming in the country, so I am sure the whole of Tees Valley will be excited to adopt the Cook Islands squad as their own.
“Our refreshed tournament identity and today’s nation base announcement can serve as an exciting reminder for the people of Tees Valley of what’s to come in 2021 as we continue to build momentum towards what promises to be the biggest and best Rugby League World Cup in history.”
The bid was put together by a partnership of the Tees Valley Mayor and Combined Authority, Middlesbrough Football Club, Darlington Mowden Park RFC, MFC Foundation, Middlesbrough Council and Darlington Borough Council.
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Clijsters battles past Venus for final berth
Defending champion Kim Clijsters will face Vera Zvonareva in Saturday’s US Open final after coming from behind to beat Venus Williams in their semi-final.
Clijsters recovered from losing the opening set to win 4-6 7-6(2) 6-4 in two hours and 23 minutes on Arthur Ashe Stadium, extending her winning streak at Flushing Meadows to 20 matches.
The second seed won the title in 2005 and then returned to action in 2009 to regain the crown in only her third tournament and 14th match since coming out of retirement.
Williams, who had suffered with a knee injury and hadn’t played since Wimbledon before arriving in New York, served superbly in the opening set, dropping just five points and breaking Clijsters in the seventh game.
But the American was unable to maintain that standard in the second set, twice losing serve to fall 3-0 and 5-2 behind, only for Clijsters to fail to serve out for the set at 5-3.
However, Williams’ serve then completely went to pieces in the resulting tie-break, the 30-year-old serving two double-faults to fall 3-0 behind and failing to win a single point behind her serve.
Clijsters took the tie-break 7-2 to carry the momentum into the decider and it was no surprise when she broke Williams again in the third game as the American netted a simple backhand.
The tension was palpable and Clijsters produced back-to-back double-faults of her own and a woeful drive-volley to gift Williams the break back, only to break again in the next game courtesy of a sublime backhand lob which landed just inside the baseline.
That gave the 27-year-old the chance to serve for the match and she held her nerve to set up a showdown with Zvonareva, who had earlier dominated the day’s first semi-final to beat top seed Caroline Wozniacki 6-4 6-3.
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FESPA UK and Vism to launch UK Graphic Awards and Thrive in Print Conference
Vism and FESPA UK have announced they have joined forces to launch a unique industry event. The joint venture will include the inaugural UK Graphic Awards, celebrating the achievements of the wide format graphics printing and installation industry and Thrive in Print - a brand new conference dedicated to informing and educating wide format printing business managers and owners. The events will take place on consecutive days, Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th September, at a venue to be announced shortly.
The UK Graphic Awards is an opportunity for the industry to come together to celebrate and recognise the talent and hard work that goes into producing the UK’s most exceptional projects and the impact these have on the wider commercial and social community. The ceremony will consist of a drinks reception, gala dinner, live music and awards and will take place on the evening of Tuesday 8th September 2020, followed the next day by the Thrive in Print business conference.
The Thrive in Print conference will be a day of thought provoking conversations and discussion aimed at helping owners and senior managers of wide format print and graphics providers improve bottom line profitability by exploiting increased business, technical and marketing opportunities. The conference will take place on Wednesday 9th September 2020 following the UK Graphic Awards.
Vism is a fast-growing producer of a project management software system specifically designed and built for the sign and graphics installation industry. Dan Tyler, founder of Vism, explains why the company has launched this event in conjunction with FESPA UK: “We felt there was a real need in the UK to have an event that is entirely focused on celebrating all that is good in the wide format graphics production and installation industry. We want to formally recognise the innovation, creativity and talent that people and businesses in this industry are delivering every day and help promote these achievements as widely as possible.”
FESPA UK’s managing director, Carol Swift, adds, “FESPA UK has always been focused on running successful industry-specific events that deliver quantifiable benefits to the companies involved. We are delighted to be working with Vism to make this happen, and launch a fantastic competition that will deliver hugely prestigious awards for the very best people, companies, projects and achievements in the industry.”
All 12 competition categories will be confirmed soon, and will include awards for internal and external retail installations, events and exhibition graphics, creativity and large scale project roll-outs. There will also be overall best in show awards and several others.
Further information on venue and award categories will be provided very soon. In the meantime if you wish to learn more about UK Graphic Awards and Thrive in Print conference, please visit the web site at ukgraphicawards.com. If you are interested in getting involved with the event, either as a delegate or sponsor, please contact either Dan Tyler (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Carol Swift (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
"These will be hugely prestigious awards that will add real value to the winners’ business propositions. They will be free to enter and each category will be judged to a very high standard and with complete impartiality. Judges will be selected from a broad cross-section of the industry and will all be highly qualified and independent. Applications will be reviewed in detail and a shortlist will be selected and presented at the ceremony."
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Neighborhood Focus: Lake Forest
The Lake Forest Neighborhood
REAL ESTATE SPOTLIGHT
By Gary A. Miller
There is a lake in Chapel Hill that lights up around the holiday season.
The annual Light Up the Lake experience in the Lake Forest neighborhood not only brings a beautiful display of illuminations, but also results in helping others in the area. “Several (home)owners are supporters of the SECU Family House and the Ronald McDonald House, and offered to donate to those charities in proportion to the number of docks on the lake that were lit up,” says long-time resident Lisa Carey.
Carey notes that the decorations that adorn the many docks are as varied as the residents themselves. She says, “a flotilla of canoes/barges/kayaks and even the occasional paddleboarder goes around the lake to count the lit docks on Christmas night.” She estimates more than 35 docks sparkle with the festivities each year.
“It is festive, beautiful and community-oriented,” she proclaims, “just like the community itself!”
Megan Johnson, another Lake Forest resident, agrees about both the beauty of the area and the community orientation. She describes the area as being “a really open and welcoming community with a shared interest in the lake and outdoor activities.”
However, an additional interest drew the attention of her and her husband, Mike, when they were home searching — the architecture. Lake Forest features many homes designed in the mid-century modern style, which she found very appealing.
The presence of this design style is logical, given that the majority of homes in the Lake Forest neighborhood were built between the mid-1950s and the early 1970s just northwest of the convergence of East Franklin Street and Fordham Boulevard. Although some homes in the area have been built (or rebuilt) in subsequent decades, a part of the unique charm of the area is the featuring of high-end older homes.
While the sizes and styles vary, the homes of the neighborhood do not necessarily meet the stereotypes of the time period in which they were built.
We often think of smaller homes with tiny closets and segmented spaces from that time. Here, although you will find the typical brick ranch in Lake Forest, you are just as likely to find homes larger than 4,000 square feet with open designs and interior flow. Architecture styles range from the aforementioned mid-century modern to split levels and from cottages to traditional.
Over the past 12 months, there have been 14 closed sales in Lake Forest, all of which were for homes built between 1957 and 1975. For comparison, the similarly sized Colony Woods neighborhood had 24 closed sales over the past 12 months, and the smaller-but-closer Coker Hills neighborhood had only 7 closed sales in the same time period.
Although sale prices are higher in Lake Forest than either of these comparison neighborhoods, the table below shows that there is also a broader range of price points in Lake Forest. This is reflected in the difference between the median sales price and the average sales price.
Area Median Sales Price, last 12 months Average Sales Price, last 12 months Average Days on Market, last 12 months
Lake Forest $590,000 $766,978 28
Colony Woods $347,500 $356,818 14
Coker Hills $629,000 $660,285 17*
*This figure removes one extreme outlier that was on the market for 217 days
As demonstrated in the table above, Lake Forest homes take slightly longer to sell, on average, when compared with Coker Hills and Colony Woods. Although there can be many reasons for pace of sales in a given neighborhood, in this instance the higher average price point is the likely culprit.
Still, the neighborhood is sought after by buyers and adored by residents. After all, there are not many neighborhoods that offer their residents an actual beach!
Carey says the neighborhood is a balm for her in an increasingly fractured society. “Living in a neighborhood where people are truly community-minded is so important,” she says. It also provides her a peaceful retreat, where she can “come home and watch the sun set over the water.”
“Can’t get much better than that!” she exclaims.
Gary A. Miller is co-owner of Red Bloom Realty. He has lived and worked in Chapel Hill off and on since 1994 and is an avid kayaker, traveler and former educator. His real estate column will appear monthly in The Local Reporter.
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The Mediaeval Monk
Medieval Monks, Magic, and More
Further Reading About The Middle Ages
Pope Leo and Attila (Yes, THAT Attila) in The Golden Legend
August 15, 2020 August 15, 2020 / Viktor Athelstan
Attila the Hun is one of those famous historical figures I knew existed, but know very little about. As a result of my ignorance, I was surprised to learn that there are accounts of Attila and Pope Leo interacting with each other. Instead of doing a full analysis of their meeting, I want to look at how the text The Golden Legend tells it. Because The Golden Legend is a compilation of miracle stories and hagiographies, it is not exactly a reliable historical source. That being said, I want to take a deeper dive into why the author wrote the story the way they did.
When people are writing historical accounts it’s important to remember these things:
Who is writing it?
Why are they writing it?
Who is their audience?
What is their motive for writing it?
The answers to these questions will impact how you view the text. (By the way, these questions can and should be applied to media today too!)
The Meeting between Leo the Great (painted as a portrait of Leo X) and Attila | Source: Wikimedia Commons
Before I begin my analysis of the story, I will retell the story:
Attila has invaded Italy. He is doing a very good job of destroying it too. Knowing that he can’t just let this happen, Leo spends three days and three nights praying in the church of the apostles for some kind of guidance. After doing this, Leo tells his men that he’s going to meet Attila and anyone who wants to come can join him. The two men meet up. Leo has just barely gotten off his horse when the mighty Attila throws himself at his feet!
Attila begs Leo to tell him what he wants. And Leo knows exactly what he wants! He wants Attila to leave Italy and release all of his Christian prisoners. (Apparently, Leo was not particularly concerned about anyone who was not a Christian.) The story doesn’t explicitly say whether or not Attila actually did this (as a side note, Attila did, in fact, leave Italy), but it does say how angry and shocked the Huns are at Attila’s conduct in front of Leo:
“And his servants reproved him that the triumphing prince of the world should be overcome of a priest.” (christianiconography.info)
Attila has an ominous response for his critics:
“I have provided for myself and to you. I saw on his right side a knight standing with a sword drawn and saying to me: But if thou spare this man thou shalt be slain, and all thy men.” (sourcebooks.fordham.edu)
And that’s the story of Leo and Attila’s meeting! Let’s start analyzing it.
The Golden Legend is a compilation of hagiographies, collected by a friar named Jacobus de Voragine. While he didn’t write all of the stories himself, he was still a Christian, thus he has a Christain worldview. His intended audience is made of Christians as well. Furthermore, this story was written by Paul the Deacon who was also a Christian, thus he would be affected by a similar worldview/motive as Jacobus de Voragine. Hagiographies are biographies of saints and they are supposed to tell of the miracles they performed. So it’s only natural that the story is going to focus on the miracles done by and the holiness of Pope Leo.
Historically, Attila and Leo met and they negotiated for peace. In reality, how exactly Leo got Attila to leave probably wasn’t due to an angel or what have you threatening Attila and his people with physical violence. There were definitely earthly matters at play. (Earthly matters such as the famine, sickness, armies fighting back, and perhaps even a ton of money from the government to get them to go away. All of which are fantastic incentives for any invader to think to themselves, ‘Huh. Maybe trying to take over this country is more hassle than its worth.’)
Personally, I don’t think Attila was actually threatened by a knight only he could see. It’s entirely possible he had a vision, but I don’t think it’s plausible. However, whether or not Attila actually had a vision isn’t really the point of the story. The point of the text is to show that Leo is holy, Heaven says he’s holy, and Leo is saving Christians from heathen invaders.
Main Sources:
https://www.christianiconography.info/goldenLegend/leo.htm
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/goldenlegend/GoldenLegend-Volume4.asp#Leo
The Golden Legend: Readings on Saints–Google Books
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Attila-king-of-the-Huns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huns#In_Christian_hagiography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_I#Leo_and_Attila
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Legend
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Deacon
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The monthly extreme water levels include a Mean Sea Level (MSL) trend of 1.8 millimeters/year with a 95% confidence interval of +/- 0.19 millimeters/year based on monthly MSL data from 1914 to 2006 which is equivalent to a change of 0.59 feet in 100 years.
The plots show the monthly highest and lowest water levels with the 1%, 10%, 50%, and 99% annual exceedance probability levels in red, orange, green, and blue. The plotted values are in meters relative to the Mean Higher High Water (MHHW) or Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) datums established by CO-OPS (1 foot = 0.3 meters). On average, the 1% level (red) will be exceeded in only one year per century, the 10% level (orange) will be exceeded in ten years per century, and the 50% level (green) will be exceeded in fifty years per century. The 99% level (blue) will be exceeded in all but one year per century, although it could be exceeded more than once in other years.
Exceedance probability curves versus return period
Seasonal variation of exceedance probability levels
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Highest and lowest extremes which exceeded the 10% annual exceedance probability levels
Highest Extremes 6/9/1966 6/19/1972 8/31/1985 11/1/1985 3/13/1993 6/5/1995 10/4/1995 10/7/1996 9/3/1998 7/10/2005
Highest Extremes 6/6/2016 9/2/2016
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A listing of the Top Ten Highest Water Levels at 110 long-term stations is also available as a table in meters or a table in feet above MHHW. No adjustment has been made for the rates of sea level rise or fall at each station. Therefore, stations with falling sea level trends are likely to have most of their Top Ten values near the beginning of their periods of record. An inferred level indicates that missing data at the peak water level were filled in. A high water mark is a physical mark near the station that can indicate the maximum elevation of a storm event. For some stations, older data recorded at a particular location may be stored in our database under a different station ID number.
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1 killed as thieves blow up, steal ATMs in Philadelphia
Authorities say one man was killed and explosions punctuated the overnight hours in Philadelphia as thieves blew up and stole ATMs across the city in what authorities believe was a “coordinated” effort
PHILADELPHIA —
One man was killed and explosions punctuated the overnight hours in Philadelphia as thieves blew up and stole ATMs across the city in what authorities believe was a “coordinated” effort, police said Tuesday.
At least 10 machines were vandalized, mainly at neighborhood convenience stores and gas stations, police said. The thieves mainly blew up the machines before making off with the cash. In some cases, they stole entire machines.
It wasn’t clear who was behind the ATM thefts. They came as police have been trying to cope with large demonstrations against police brutality and widespread vandalism and theft from businesses in a number of areas of the city.
Police said a 24-year-old man died several hours after attempting to break into an ATM with explosives in north Philadelphia early Tuesday. Police said live explosives were recovered. His name wasn’t immediately released.
Also in north Philadelphia, an ATM was snatched from a mini-mart and the windows of a gas station were smashed before thieves drove off with the ATM, WPVI-TV reported.
No arrests were immediately announced. Police commissioner Danielle Outlaw said the thefts are believed to be “organized” and “coordinated” efforts, and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is taking the lead in the investigation.
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Share this Story: Paris attacker asked students to point out victim before beheading him
Paris attacker asked students to point out victim before beheading him
Thierry Chiarello
People bring flowers to the Bois d'Aulne college after the attack in the Paris suburb of Conflans St Honorine, France, October 17, 2020. Photo by Charles Platiau /REUTERS
PARIS — The 18-year-old who beheaded a history teacher outside the school in France where he taught had approached pupils in the street and asked them to point out his victim, anti-terrorist prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said on Saturday.
Speaking at a news conference, Ricard also said that the Russian-born attacker, after beheading the teacher, had posted a photograph of the teacher’s body on Twitter, accompanied by a message saying he had carried out the killing.
Paris attacker asked students to point out victim before beheading him Back to video
A photograph of the teacher’s body, accompanied by a message claiming responsibility posted on Twitter, was found on a phone near the assailant’s body. Ricard said the Twitter account belonged to the assailant.
The post was removed swiftly by Twitter, which said it had suspended the account because it violated the company’s policy.
Ricard quoted the message as saying: “In the name of Allah the most gracious, the most merciful, … to (President Emmanuel) Macron, leader of the infidels, I have executed one of your hell-hounds who dared to belittle (Prophet) Mohammad.”
Police shot the attacker dead minutes after he murdered 47-year-old history teacher Samuel Paty on Friday. The killing shocked the country and carried echoes of an attack five years ago on the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Abdoulakh A., who was Russian-born and of Chechen origin, was living in the town of Evreux northwest of Paris, according to authorities. On Friday night, police arrested his parents, younger brother and one grandparent, a judicial source said, wanting to establish what they knew of his plans and if he had any accomplices.
The 18-year-old had a record of juvenile delinquency but was too young for police to have built up a file on him. He lived in a Chechen community that is not well understood by intelligence services.
He used a knife to decapitate Paty, who had shown cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammad to his students in a class on freedom of expression.
Paty had earlier this month shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a civics class on freedom of expression, angering a number of Muslim parents. Muslims believe that any depiction of the Prophet is blasphemous.
Prime Minister Jean Castex said the attack bore the hallmarks of Islamist terrorism.
“I want to share with you my total indignation. Secularism, the backbone of the French Republic, was targetted in this vile act,” Castex said.
Four relatives of the attacker, including a minor, were detained in the immediate aftermath of the attack in the middle-class suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, according to police sources.
Five more were detained overnight, among them two parents of pupils at the College du Bois d’Aulne where the teacher was employed.
A tenth person was placed in custody in connection with the attack later on Saturday, BFM TV said, citing judicial sources.
A week ago, one man who said his daughter was in Paty’s class recorded a video shared on social media in which he branded the teacher a thug and appealed to others to “join forces and say ‘stop, don’t touch our children’.”
It was not clear whether the parent was one of those in police custody. It was also not immediately known if the attacker had seen the video.
Parents of pupils laid flowers at the school gate. Some said their children were distraught.
“(My daughter) is in pieces, terrorized by the violence of such an act. How will I explain to her the unthinkable?” one father wrote on Twitter.
In an outpouring of grief, the hashtag #JeSuisSamuel (I am Samuel) trended on social media, like the #JeSuisCharlie call for solidarity after the attack on Charlie Hebdo in 2015.
Before that attack, Charlie Hebdo had published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, unleashing divisions that still cast a pall over French society.
Addressing the country’s teachers, pupils and their parents, Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said Paty was killed by what he called the enemies of freedom.
“The Republic will never, never, never back down when confronted by terror, intimidation,” he said in a recorded statement.
Muslim leaders condemned the killing, which many public figures perceived as an attack on the essence of French statehood and its values of secularism, freedom of worship and freedom of expression.
The litany of deadly attacks by Islamist militants or their sympathizers was devastating for France’s Muslim community, Tareq Oubrou, the imam of a Bordeaux mosque, said.
“Every day that passes without incident we give thanks,” he told France Inter radio. “We are between hammer and anvil. It attacks the Republic, society, peace and the very essence of religion, which is about togetherness.”
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Echo Park: The Oasis in the Shadow of Downtown Los Angeles
MarkLA March 11, 2020 Echo Park: The Oasis in the Shadow of Downtown Los Angeles2020-07-07T19:16:00+00:00 LA Places No Comment
One of the more beautiful views of downtown Los Angeles is from the north end of the lake at Echo Park. Echo Park also has some of the most beautiful gardens in the city and unlike other gardens such as Descanso Gardens or the Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, Echo Park is completely free. Even parking on the streets around the park is free.
We took some time to make a video of the beauty of the park for you to see. Watch it in full screen mode to really soak it all in! Please subscribe to our YouTube channel by clicking the icon in the lower right corner to see more videos of the beauty of Los Angeles.
You won’t find the variety of botanic collections at Echo Park as at the other gardens mentioned. The botany is mostly of the aquatic variety: lotus flowers, water lilies, grasses and such. They are beautifully maintained and what it may lack in variety of plant types it makes up for with a variety of ducks, geese and turtles. The animals will keep the kids fascinated for hours.
This is a beautiful place to step back from the world, take in some beauty and tranquility and recharge your soul. For photographers it’s also a great place to take pictures of the Los Angeles skyline and the lotus flowers, ducks and geese. So bring a good camera along with you.
See our earlier post about Echo Park for information on the history of the lake and the neighborhood.
Visit Echo Park at 751 Echo Park Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90026
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Quarantine extended, Olympics canceled: Top 5 events of the week
1. On March 25, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine extended quarantine until April 24 and introduced an emergency regime throughout the country. On the morning of March 29, 356 cases were detected in Ukraine, 9 patients died. In the world, the number of infected people approached 665 thousand (about 31 thousand were fatal).
2. At the first ever Big 20 online summit in March 26, participants decided to take collective measures to support the global economy and invest $ 5 trillion in the fight against coronavirus.
3. The holding of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo has been postponed to 2021 due to the global coronavirus pandemic. This was announced on Wednesday by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
4. On March 28, US President Donald Trump signed into law for $ 2.2 trillion to support the US economy amid coronavirus. The United States has become the global epicenter of the pandemic (about 125 thousand infected).
5. The effects of the coronavirus pandemic have already triggered a recession for the global economy. This was announced by the head of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva
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21.01. The European Parliament is concerned that large parts of Ukraine and Georgia are still occupied by Russian troops. This is stated in the resolution on the Common Security and Defense Policy of the EU in 2020. MEPs also passed a resolution expressing concern over the proliferation of hotspots in the EU's neighboring countries.
21.01. EU leaders warned Biden that four years of the Trump administration had changed the nature of transatlantic ties. And called on Biden to form a “new founding pact” between Washinton and Europe on security, prosperity, freedom and human rights.
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21.01. The new US President Joe Biden, by the first decrees, stopped the country's withdrawal from the World Health Organization and returned the United States to the Paris Climate Agreement. In the new US administration, for the first time in history, the post of "climate king" will appear.
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How To Train Your Dragon 3 Tops U.S. Box Office
Posted by Victoria Rosenthal | Feb 25, 2019 | First Look, Interests, Movies, News | 0
Universal Picture‘s How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World struck gold at the U.S. box office during its premiere weekend.
Movie measurement and analytics company Comscore announced the animated sequel earned $55.5 million for the weekend of Feb. 24.
However, the How To Train Your Dragon sequel was the second-highest-earning movie worldwide with a total of $90.2 million. The DreamWorks animated film has made $274.9 million to date.
Last weekend marked the best debut for a movie within the franchise and topped its earlier week projections of $40 million to $45 million, according to Deadline.
“The response to the film has been incredible. Audiences have seen these characters develop and grow over the years in a way that’s particularly unique in the animation landscape. Throughout the journey, the franchise’s loyal fan base continues to show their support and really true dedication, which is clear from this weekend’s results,” domestic theatrical distribution president of Universal Jim Orr says in a statement.
However, How To Train Your Dragon 3 follows 2oth Century Fox’s Alita: Battle Angel in the global box office, which earned $104.4 million worldwide this past weekend.
The Manga-based, sci-fi flick has earned a total of $12 million in the U.S. and $263.4 million to date.
Check out the 12 highest-earning movies worldwide and in the U.S. for the weekend of Feb. 24 below.
Top 12 Domestic Weekend Box Office Estimates
How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World – Universal – $55.5 million
Alita: Battle Angel – 20th Century Fox – $12 million
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part – Warner Bros. – $10 million
Fighting With My Family – MGM Studios – $8 million
Isn’t It Romantic – Warner Bros. – $7.5 million
What Men Want – Paramount Pictures – $5.2 million
Happy Death Day 2U – Universal – $5.0 million
Cold Pursuit – Lionsgate – $3.3 million
The Upside – STX Entertainment – $3.2 million
Run The Race – Roadside Attractions – $2.3 million
Green Book – Universal – $2.1 million
Glass – Universal – $1.8 million
Top 12 Worldwide Weekend Box Office Estimates
Alita: Battle Angel – 20th Century Fox – $104.4 million
The Wandering Earth – Multiple – $36.7 million
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part – Warner Bros. – $20.3 million
Happy Death Day 2U – Universal – $11.1 million
Total Dhamaal – 20th Century Fox – $10.9 million
Green Book – Multiple – $10.7 million
Cold Pursuit – Multiple – $9.2 million
Fighting With My Family – Multiple – $8.5 million
Pegasus – Multiple – $8.4 million
Crazy Alien – Huoerguosi Enlight Media – $8.3 million
Svaha: The Sixth Finger – CJ Entertainment – $7.6 million
Photo: The Hollywood Reporter
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Judge Dredd Predicts the Future: Part 2
For 40 years, 2000 AD has provided high concept (and often silly) post-apocalyptic sci-fi with Judge Dredd. Somehow 2000 AD writers have always been ahead of the curve on technological and social change. Looking at the series as a whole, it is easy to see where our own world has crossed into that of Mega-City One. With over 2000 Judge Dredd stories, it’s no surprise that some of them have overlapped with reality, but it is still fun to observe and dissect the parallels. For this series, we will periodically look at three different Judge Dredd stories and their real life counterparts.
Undercover Santa: This one might be a little too fresh, but its parallel is oddly specific. New Year’s Eve 2016: a gunman dressed as Santa Claus attacked a nightclub in Istanbul. Near the attack were several undercover police officers also dressed as Santa Claus. In 2000 AD, Dredd donned the famous red robe and white beard to catch a group of robbers dressed as Saint Nick. Dredd’s story ends on a somewhat happier note, with the lead robber (Fatt Blatt) murdered by a sniper. Unfortunately, the Istanbul shooter was able to kill nearly 40 people.
Futsie: This one hasn’t quite pierced our reality yet, but we’re starting to see the first signs. In the Dredd universe, there is a mental condition known as “Futsie” or “Future Shock.” Victims of this illness cannot handle living in the stressful conditions of the 22nd century, which usually causes them to embark on a killing spree. In reality, emerging research suggests that our brains are rewiring themselves in response to 21st century technology.
At this time, I would point to two examples. The first is phantom vibration syndrome, a feeling that your phone has buzzed, even if it is not in your pocket. The validation that comes with new technologies is causing our brains to create false alarms.It’s an interesting subject and worth a look at the source.
Second, I would look to studies on social media usage and depression. One study from the University of Pittsburgh suggests that obsession with social media usage is linked to depression. Another study suggests that after a certain number of social media friends, your enjoyment quickly declines. This relates to Dunbar’s number, a theory that human mental capacity is limited to roughly 150 social relations. Initial research suggests that there is a rising possibility of depression as humans continue to expand their social structures through substantial virtual interaction. This, in one way or another is a kind of trauma that would not be possible without future technology. Therefore in some small way it seems to be the start of future shock or futsie.
It’s important to remember that this research is in its infancy, but it still represents a disturbing trend.
Source: Phantom Vibration
Source: Social Media Depression
Gainers and Feeders: Although Fat Acceptance was mentioned in “Dredd Predicts the Future: Part 1,” this is a little different. “Two Ton” Tony Tubbs appeared in 2000 AD on October 19, 1985. At that time, having a character obsessed with gaining weight was a joke. Indeed, the fatties were often used for humor. At one point in Dredd’s history, fatties hijacked a food convoy by jumping from a cliff and crushing the trucks beneath their bulk. 31 years later, gainers and feeders are a real life trend and relationship status.
As you may imagine, the gainer is someone who is overfed for the purpose of gaining weight. The feeder provides the food. Though not hugely prevalent, this trend has launched web shows, documentaries, and even a dating site exclusively for gainers. Regardless of your stance on the trend, it is interesting to see how some couples display affection in a manner that was originally perceived as a form of dark comedy.
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For almost 40 years, 2000 AD has provided high concept (and often silly) post-apocalyptic sci-fi with Judge Dredd. 2000 AD writers have always been ahead of the curve on technological and social change. Looking at the series as a whole, it is easy to se where our own world has crossed into that of Mega-City One. With over 2000 Judge Dredd stories, it is no surprise that some of them have overlapped with reality, but it is still fun to observe and dissect the parallels. For this series, we will periodically look at three different Judge Dredd stories and their real life counterparts.
Dave the Orangutan: Unhappy with the election process in Mega-City One, citizens formed a populist movement in one of Mega-City One’s low level bars. Their candidate was Dave, an orangutan cared for by Citizen Billy Smart. Despite being unable to speak English or sign his name, Dave was able to run for Mayor simply because there was no law against it. Dave won by a landslide, capturing the hearts and minds of the citizens (generally as a joke to make up for the awful candidates). Dredd himself said it was a good thing and proof that democracy was a failed experiment (something revisited in Judge Dredd: America).
Regardless of your stance on Donald Trump, the parallel is clear. An orange faced politician rises to fame through an unhappy populist movement and ends up elected.
By no means is this meant to compare Donald Trump to an orangutan, but rather the unlikely American populist movement that arose from dissatisfaction with the status quo.
Universal Basic Income: Unemployment in Mega-City One hovers between 96-99%, based on what percentage of the population has been vaporized/executed/eaten alive throughout a given year’s storyline. Robots have replaced almost all human jobs. Given a drawing or writing sample, a robot can perfectly (and legally) duplicate creative content. In short, this means that the only way to become successful in Mega-City One is to either get on TV or become an entrepreneur. Common citizens rely on an allowance from the Justice Department to buy food, pay rent, and purchase other luxuries. Unfortunately, this means that citizens are often bored, and therefore more prone to crime just to break up the monotony. As real life automation of labor increases, several billionaires and a handful of world governments have been pushing for a guaranteed income given to all citizens.
Fat Acceptance: The Fatties actually got me into Judge Dredd. I was intrigued by their belly wheels and the troughs hanging from their necks. I often find that a single interesting idea is enough to get me hooked on a franchise (Servitors for Warhammer 40k). Fatties first appeared shortly after the Apocalypse War. Due to a nuclear war, food was severely limited in Mega-City One, yet there were bored citizens who had made a hobby (and even a game show) out of eating as much as possible.
The Justice Department promptly responded by putting all the fatties in apartments blocks where chefs accounted for every calorie they ate. Citizens could come and go any time they wanted, so long as they were under a certain weight.
Although the real fat acceptance movement has never been so divisive on either side, seeing the iconic “fat fathers for justice” panel from Judge Dredd vs The Fatties brings up some clear parallels. Some of the signs in the panel read “BIG IS BEAUTIFUL” and “FAT PRIDE.” Although this was likely a parody at the time the comic was written, those two phrases have become actual slogans of the fat acceptance movement.
If you enjoyed this piece, don’t forget to look at Judge Dredd Predicts the Future: Part 2!
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An Introduction to Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd. He’s the only comic book hero I truly enjoy. From humble beginnings in the pages of 2000 AD to movies and even video games, Judge Dredd has been a cultural icon of law and order for nearly 40 years. Whether it be on the streets of Mega-City One, the radioactive wastelands of the Cursed Earth, or even deep space, Judge Dredd not only upholds the law, he is the law.
Getting into Judge Dredd can be daunting for some. The character has a lot of history and ages in real time. The first issue of Judge Dredd takes place in the year 2099. Nuclear war has crippled the Earth, leaving endless deserts populated by hideous mutants while surviving Humans have been resigned to a handful of walled Mega-Cities.
A single Mega-City can stretch hundreds of miles and usually has a population in the hundreds of millions. Manual labor in these cities has been widely replaced by robots, leaving the unemployment rate anywhere between 96%-99%. Massive unemployment has caused many citizens to turn to crime. In a single day, there may be thousands of crimes in a single district.
The Judges are all that stands in the way of complete lawlessness.They are judge, jury, and executioner. Of all the Judges, one has proven himself time and time again as not only an exemplification of the law, but a hero of Mega-City One. He is Judge Dredd.
For almost 40 years, Judge Dredd has dealt with: robot uprisings, multiple genocides, mutant children, psychic horrors from parallel dimensions, werewolves, zombies, aliens, and he’s even been bodyguard to an Orangutan. Through all of that, Judge Dredd has maintained a stern persona. He is the epitome of the “lawful neutral” archetype. Dredd is the law and the law is his life, but the Judge is not “lawful stupid”, he focuses on the most important crime at hand, but still deals with minor infractions during a slow day.
Despite hist reputation for being rugged and ruthless, Dredd occasionally reveals his softer side. The Judge has a niece (daughter of his evil twin) who he shows more compassion for than anyone else. Although Dredd is supposed to uphold the law completely, he has occasionally fought against the Justice Department whenever it strays too far or refuses to use common sense.
One of the long ongoing jokes in the series is that Dredd’s face is never shown. The Judge has removed his helmet several times throughout the series, but his face is always hidden or changed beyond recognition.
Reading Judge Dredd is fun. The world is filled with interesting super-science, silly fashion trends, great action, and funny social commentary.Interestingly enough, Judge Dredd has correctly predicted the future on several occasions (sugar tax, fat acceptance, Olympic blood doping, etc). Despite a mostly unchanged titular character, the series has stayed fresh for over 40 years. When you open a copy of 2000 AD or one of the Judge Dredd Case Files, you never know what you’re going to get. One week it may be an epidemic of fatties stealing food, another it may be a second nuclear war or robot vampires. No matter what, Judge Dredd’s adventures are always entertaining.
As 2000 AD releases their 2000th issue, I only hope that old Joe Dredd still has a few more years on the streets of Mega-City One.
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The Federal Reserve And Income Tax Conspiracy Theory
During the 19th century, the international banks in Europe were really threatened by the United States. At this time, the banks in Europe effectively controlled all European governments. All countries in Europe had a corrupt monetary system and taxation system. With a fair taxation system and monetary system, all the talented people in the world would flock to the United States. The power of the USA would grow and their power would decrease.
There was another problem that concerned the large international banks. Large pools of private capital were forming, outside the control of the international banks. If someone asks an international bank for capital to start a business, the terms of the financing make the bank the effective owner of the business. With private capital pools, people could found businesses that the international banks could not control. By fixing interest rates at an artificially low level, these private capital pools would dry up. With market-determined interest rates, it's more attractive to finance a business with equity. Financing via equity means reinvested earnings or selling equity. With artificially low interest rates, it's more attractive to finance a business with debt. This even lets the international banks have a veto over which businesses succeed, because they can give cheap loans to the monopoly they support. Nowadays, selling equity is almost the same as debt financing, because the people who buy the equity borrowed the money from an international bank.
Artificially low interest rates ensure that all economic activity comes under the international banks' control. With high debt levels, artificially created boom/bust cycles allow banks to confiscate assets during recessions. In order to successfully build a business with equity financing, you have to be sufficiently efficient to overcome the advantage that large businesses get from debt financing and their size.
That's what's dangerous about the Internet. The Internet allows a new business to be founded with very little capital. The Internet makes it very easy to grow a business with equity financing. The main cost of an Internet business is software, which is created by engineers and not by bankers. A top-flight programmer can produce something that 1000 average or good programmers could not. That's why it's so important to destroy network neutrality. Individuals can't be allowed to effectively start their own businesses with equity financing.
The European banks set out to destroy the USA. Apparently, only a handful of spies were needed to completely corrupt the US government and economy. They didn't come to the USA covertly as spies. They came here openly as traveling businessmen and consultants. They explained the wonders of Europe's monetary and taxation system. They were generously helping the leaders in the USA set up a similar system here.
There was one key victory that the international bankers won before 1913. This was the Supreme Court ruling that said that corporations had the same rights as people. Corporations could own property and enforce contracts. Corporate ownership is anonymous. Anonymous corporate ownership is power without responsibility or accountability. Under current SEC rules, an ownership stake over 5% must be declared. However, a group of 30 people acting as a cartel could buy 2% each. They would be able to control the corporation without publicly declaring their ownership.
This Supreme Court ruling was the effect of decades of lobbying. Many politicians and judges were bribed. They were convinced that corporations were good. The never was a law passed that said "corporations have the same rights as people". It was a Supreme Court decision. It was a decision the original authors of the Constitution would not have approved.
Many large US banks were funded by the international European banks. Corporate ownership is anonymous. Anonymous ownership meant foreigners could control US banks. Through the banks, they were able to control everything else. They only needed to buy up or infiltrate a handful of newspapers to make sure that their misdeeds went unreported.
Corruption of newspapers and television news is necessary to allow the structural defects in the economic system to go unreported and unresolved. This means that a lot of other huge abuses are necessarily ignored. Newspapers and television news had to be neutered of all their investigative journalism reporting capability. This prevents them from exposing this huge structural flaw in the economy. It also means they can't report other abuses.
Don't you consider it suspicious that newspapers and television don't report The Compound Interest Paradox and The Discounted Cashflow Paradox? Isn't it very suspicious these topics are never mentioned in schools? These are two very simple ideas. If I was running a major newspaper or television station, I'd be complaining about these two topics as often as possible.
There are occasional times when newspapers will do a good job of critically covering an issue. However, it almost always is something superficial compared to the other abuses that occur. For example, some people say that JFK was killed for standing up to the international banking cartel and the Federal Reserve. The investigations following the assassination focused on "How he was killed?" People never ask "Why was he killed?" With Nixon as President, newspapers did a good job of exposing a scandal and holding someone accountable. This distracted all attention from the JFK assassination. See, the government is incapable of covering up secrets! Was the Watergate scandal just a subterfuge to make people think the government couldn't keep secrets effectively? Was it a subterfuge to make people think that newspapers and television news hadn't totally betrayed them?
The Federal Reserve was created to corrupt the monetary system in the US. The easiest way to destroy a country is devaluing its money. Trade surpluses were converted into deficits, and gold left the US treasury for other countries. The income tax was needed to discourage productive work and drain the productive value of the economy. The income tax was needed to force people to use worthless dollars. The income tax was needed to convert all US citizens into slaves instead of free people.
In the election of 1912, there were 3 major candidates: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson. Each of them were the advocates of a banking reform bill. All three versions of the bill had practically the same language. The international bankers were financing all three candidates! Wilson won the election and the Federal Reserve was created. It was passed just before Christmas when a lot of members of Congress had already left for vacation.
The Federal Reserve was an easy sell to the big US banks. By fixing prices, they would be able to sell all the loans they wanted. They knew in advance when interest rates would be lowered or raised, enabling them to profit from the boom/bust cycles. The small banks didn't have inside information. Many small banks were wiped out.
The income tax was an easy sell to politicians. It would enable them to greatly increase the size of the government and their own power. The welfare system was created to compensate for the damage caused by the Federal Reserve and the income tax.
In 1913, the international banking cartel won its final victory over the United States. The Federal Reserve Act and the 16th amendment are the functional equivalent of a surrender treaty. The Federal Reserve Act surrendered control of the monetary system to the international banking cartel and guaranteed the eventual abandonment of the gold standard. The Federal Reserve's debt-based money guaranteed the enslavement of every American under a crushing debt burden. The Federal Reserve guaranteed the ability of the international banking cartel to confiscate wealth through artificially created boom/bust cycles. The income tax converted all US citizens into government slaves, forcing them to turn over 40-50% or more of their wealth via income taxes. The government is now able to steal an additional 5-45% through regulations. If you add up the cost of taxation and regulation, the average person has an effective taxation rate of 50-90%.
Every country everywhere has a corrupt financial system. Every country has a central bank monopoly that fixes interest rates. Every country has an income tax or equivalent tax. (The VAT system used in Europe is logically equivalent to an income tax.) An individual can't say "I'll move to a country with a fair monetary and taxation system.", because there aren't any. The USA was a temporary anomaly. For a brief time, it had a fair monetary system and taxation system.
The USA still is the world's most powerful country. Its rules for commerce are still more favorable than other countries, despite the huge handicap of an unfair monetary system and an unfair taxation system. You would think that at some point, somewhere, a country would return to a fair financial and taxation system. Such a country would be incredibly prosperous. However, it would be promptly invaded or infiltrated by the existing countries. Is there any solution?
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http://fskrealityguide.blogspot.com/2007/07/federal-reserve-and-income-tax.html
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How common is rabies in humans?
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In the United States, cases of human rabies are rare.
In 2012, only one case was reported to the CDC.
In this century, the number of human deaths caused by rabies in the United States has drastically declined, from more than 100 cases per year to an average of just two or three cases a year, according to the CDC.
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How common is rabies in India?
In India, about 15 million people are bitten by animals, mostly dogs, every year and need postexposure prophylaxis. Since 1985, India has reported an estimated 25 000–30 000 human deaths from rabies annually (the lower estimate is based on projected statistics from isolation hospitals in 1985).
How common is rabies in raccoons?
Wild animals accounted for 92.4 percent of reported cases of rabies in 2015. Bats were the most frequently reported rabid wildlife species (30.9 percent of all animal cases during 2015), followed by raccoons (29.4 percent), skunks (24.8 percent), and foxes (5.9 percent).
How common is rabies in Thailand?
Most deaths from rabies occur in India and Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America. Thailand has an estimated 10 million stray dogs, with 1 in 10 dogs in Bangkok estimated to be infected with rabies.
Are you at risk for Rabies?
How common is rabies in racoons?
How common is rabies in dogs?
Rabies in the U.S. More than 90% of all rabid animals reported to CDC each year occur in wildlife. The animals that get rabies the most are raccoons, skunks, foxes, and bats. However, most people in the U.S. get PEP due to close contact with domestic animals such as cats or dogs.
Is rabies common in Turkey?
SUMMARY. The incidence of rabies has decreased in Turkey during recent years. However, an increasing number of rabies cases have been reported in the Aegean (western) region of Turkey. Since 2001, the virus has been recorded in the previously rabies-free provinces of Manisa and Aydin.
How common is roundworms in humans?
Ascariasis is the most common type of worm infection in the world, with an estimated one billion people infected, but it is rare in the U.S. Roundworm's eggs live in the soil and in contaminated feces or bowel movements.
How common is brucellosis in humans?
Around the world, approximately 500,000 cases of this disease are reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) each year. As an infection in livestock, brucellosis occurs worldwide, and domestic livestock is the major source of human infection in parts of the world where livestock is not routinely vaccinated.
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How common is roundworm in humans?
How common is leptospirosis in humans?
Of these, 110 became infected. Although incidence in the United States is relatively low, leptospirosis is considered to be the most widespread zoonotic disease in the world. It's estimated that more than 1 million cases occur worldwide each year, including an about 59,000 deaths.
How common is parvovirus in humans?
Parvovirus B19 infects only humans. It most commonly causes fifth disease, a mild rash illness that usually affects children. But it can cause different signs and symptoms, depending on your age and overall health. Since parvovirus B19 infects only humans, a person cannot catch the virus from a pet dog or cat.
How common are worms in humans?
Worms in humans. Threadworms, sometimes called pinworms, are the only common worm infestation seen in Australia. They usually occur in children and up to 50% of children may be infected at some time.
Where is rabies most common?
Rabies is present in mammals in most parts of the world (see map). Most of the estimated 55 000 human rabies deaths per year occur in Africa and Asia.
What's News With Rabies
How is human rabies treated?
Treatment for people bitten by animals with rabies. But this will depend on several factors, such as the type of animal and the situation in which the bite occurred. Rabies shots include: A fast-acting shot (rabies immune globulin) to prevent the virus from infecting you.
Is Rabies always fatal in humans?
In unvaccinated humans, rabies is almost always fatal after neurological symptoms have developed. Vaccination after exposure, PEP, is highly successful in preventing the disease if administered promptly, in general within 6 days of infection.
How long is rabies vaccine good for in humans?
A booster dose as often as every 6 months to 2 years may be required for person at highest risk for exposure to rabies virus, such as persons who work with rabies virus in research laboratories or vaccine production facilities, veterinarians and staff, and animal control and wildlife officers.
What country is rabies most common?
Rabies is a much bigger problem in other parts of the world than it is in North America. It's worse in developing countries where humans most often get it through dog bites. Areas where rabies is most common include Africa, Asia, India, Indonesia, and Central and South America.
How long is the incubation period of rabies in humans?
The incubation period of rabies in humans is generally 20–60 days. However, fulminant disease can become symptomatic within 5–6 days; more worrisome, in 1%–3% of cases the incubation period is >6 months. Confirmed rabies has occurred as long as 7 years after exposure, but the reasons for this long latency are unknown.
What is the most common parasite found in humans?
The enemy within: 10 human parasites Hookworm. (Necator americanus) Scabies mite. (Sarcoptes scabiei var. Roundworm. (Ascaris lumbricoides) Flatworm blood fluke. (Schistosoma mansoni, S. Tapeworm. (Taenia solium) Entamoeba histolytica. This single-celled organism causes a disease called amoebiasis. Giardia lamblia. Toxoplasma gondii.
How much is a rabies shot human?
Although the cost varies, a course of rabies immune globulin and four doses of vaccine given over a two-week period typically exceeds $3,000. The cost per human life saved from rabies ranges from approximately $10,000 to $100 million, depending on the nature of the exposure and the probability of rabies in a region.
How effective is rabies vaccine for humans?
A rabies vaccine is usually recommended based on a traveler's itinerary. If you plan on staying in a country with an elevated risk of rabies for more than two weeks, vaccination is recommended. It is believed up to 60,000 people die every year from rabies worldwide.
How much is rabies shot for humans?
How is rabies passed to humans?
Rabies is mostly transmitted to humans, and between animals, through the saliva of infected animals. Transmission is generally through a bite from any infected animal or by intaking saliva by any means. Transmission between humans is extremely rare, although it can happen through organ transplants, or through bites.
Is rabies curable for humans?
In unvaccinated humans, rabies is almost always fatal after neurological symptoms have developed. Vaccination after exposure, PEP, is highly successful in preventing the disease if administered promptly, in general within 6 days of infection. Begun with little or no delay, PEP is 100% effective against rabies.
Is rabies contagious between humans?
What is the first sign of rabies in a human?
The first symptoms of rabies can appear from a few days to more than a year after the bite happens. At first, there's a tingling, prickling, or itching feeling around the bite area. A person also might have flu-like symptoms such as a fever, headache, muscle aches, loss of appetite, nausea, and tiredness.
How common is insulinoma in dogs?
Canine insulinoma is a rare disease, yet it is the most common tumor of the endocrine pancreas. Most regularly, insulinomas put an excess of insulin into the body. Insulinoma occurs most often in middle-aged and older dogs, averaging nine years in age.
How common is Lyme disease in dogs?
Lyme Disease in Dogs. Lyme disease is caused by the spirochete bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi. The disease is transmitted to humans and dogs by the nymph and adult stages of the black-legged tick, Ixodes scapularis. In New England, 50-75% of dogs tested may be positive for Lyme disease.
How common is cryptorchidism in dogs?
There are two good reasons for neutering a dog with cryptorchidism. The first is to remove the genetic defect from the breed line. Cryptorchid dogs should never be bred. Second, dogs with a retained testicle are more likely to develop a testicular tumor (cancer) in the retained testicle.
How common is ringworm in dogs?
There are a few ways that dogs can get ringworm. Dogs most commonly are infected with the fungi Microsporum canis, Microsporum gypseum, and Trichophyton mentagrophytes. The incidence of these and the less common species that cause ringworm varies according to your geographic location.
How common is pannus in German shepherds?
What is pannus? Pannus or chronic superficial keratitis is an immune-mediated condition affecting the cornea or clear part of the eye. It occurs primarily in middle-aged German Shepherd dogs and Belgian Tervurens, but other breeds may also be affected.
How common is valley fever in Arizona?
More than 65 percent of all valley fever cases in the U.S. occur in Arizona and 30 percent occur in California. Most other cases occur in Nevada, Utah and New Mexico. Current research shows one of every three people who inhales a coccidioides fungal spore gets sick enough to go to a doctor.
Where is the rabies vaccine injected in humans?
Additional doses should be administered on days 3, 7, and 14 after the first vaccination. For adults, the vaccination should always be administered intramuscularly in the deltoid area (arm). For children, the anterolateral aspect of the thigh is also acceptable.
What is the treatment for rabies in humans?
Rabies shots include: A fast-acting shot (rabies immune globulin) to prevent the virus from infecting you. Part of this injection is given near the area where the animal bit you if possible, as soon as possible after the bite. A series of rabies vaccines to help your body learn to identify and fight the rabies virus.
How do they test for rabies in humans?
Diagnosis in humans. Several tests are necessary to diagnose rabies ante-mortem (before death) in humans; no single test is sufficient. Tests are performed on samples of saliva, serum, spinal fluid, and skin biopsies of hair follicles at the nape of the neck.
How do you test for rabies in humans?
How do you treat rabies in humans naturally?
Treatment A fast-acting shot (rabies immune globulin) to prevent the virus from infecting you. Part of this injection is given near the area where the animal bit you if possible, as soon as possible after the bite. A series of rabies vaccines to help your body learn to identify and fight the rabies virus.
Can you test for rabies in humans?
Several tests are necessary to diagnose rabies ante-mortem (before death) in humans; no single test is sufficient. Tests are performed on samples of saliva, serum, spinal fluid, and skin biopsies of hair follicles at the nape of the neck. Serum and spinal fluid are tested for antibodies to rabies virus.
How common is entropion in dogs?
Entropion is relatively common in dogs. When it's an inherited condition, it usually occurs before the dog turns a year old. Entropion can also occur as a secondary condition as the result of eyelid scarring, an eye infection like conjunctivitis that causes spastic entropion, corneal spasms, trauma, and nerve damage.
How common is testicular cancer in dogs?
Testicular tumors are considered very common among intact male dogs. In fact, up to 27% of unneutered male dogs will eventually develop one or more testicular tumors. In total, they're estimated to account for at least 4% to 7% percent of all tumors found in male dogs.
How common is heartworm in dogs?
The risk of a dog's being infected with heartworm disease each year is 250,000 out of 50,000,000; this translates to one in 200 dogs becoming infected each year. The chance that you will be diagnosed with cancer this year is about one in 200—the same odds as a dog's acquiring heartworm disease.
How common is nasal cancer in dogs?
For dogs, nasal tumors make up about 1–2% of all cancers, and about 80% of the nasal tumors are malignant. Common types of nasal tumors in dogs are carcinomas followed by sarcomas. Because these tumors are hidden inside the nasal cavity, they are more difficult to detect.
How common is degenerative myelopathy in dogs?
Degenerative Myelopathy - disease basics. Degenerative myelopathy is a progressive disease of the spinal cord in older dogs. The disease has an insidious onset typically between 8 and 14 years of age. As the disease progresses, the limbs become weak and the dog begins to buckle and has difficulty standing.
How common is salmonella in eggs?
Even with safety steps in place, it's estimated that about 1 in 20,000 to 1 in 10,000 eggs are contaminated with Salmonella, Chapman said. That's why health officials recommend cooking eggs until both the yolks and whites are firm, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
How common is coccidia in puppies?
Coccidiosis in Dogs. Coccidiosis is a parasitic type of infection, caused by the coccidium, that most commonly causes watery, mucus-based diarrhea in dogs. If it is not treated, over time it can cause damage to the lining of the dog's intestinal tract. With treatment, the prognosis is good.
How common is Megaesophagus in dogs?
Megaesophagus is a relatively common condition in dogs characterized by a distension of the esophagus, the vital tube that moves food from the mouth into the stomach. Unfortunately, most cases of megaesophagus have no known cause. These dogs are referred to as having the idiopathic form of the disease.
How common is salmonella in dogs?
Salmonella is a common bacteria, but doesn't often cause disease in healthy dogs. According to the CDC, “Dogs and cats that become ill from Salmonella infection generally will have diarrhea that may contain blood or mucus. Affected animals may seem more tired than usual, and may have a fever or vomit.”
How common is gum disease in dogs?
Periodontal disease is the most common clinical condition occurring in adult dogs and cats, and is entirely preventable. By three years of age, most dogs and cats have some evidence of periodontal disease. Tartar above the gum line is obvious to many owners, but is not of itself the cause of disease.
How common is lymphoma in dogs?
Approximately 80 to 85 percent of lymphomas in dogs is multicentric. This type of cancer affects the lymph nodes, and in the majority of cases, the most obvious clinical manifestation is the rapid enlargement of the lymph nodes.
How common is tetanus in dogs?
Fortunately, tetanus is relatively rare in dogs. As an emergency veterinarian, I have personally seen two cases of tetanus in dogs and read of several others. The disease arises from the bacteria Clostridium tetani, which is introduced into the body via wounds. C. tetani is naturally present in some soils.
How common is cancer in animals?
How common are neoplasia and cancer? Approximately 1 in 4 dogs will, at some stage in their life, develop neoplasia. Almost half of dogs over the age of 10 will develop cancer. Dogs get cancer at roughly the same rate as humans, while there is less information about the rate of cancer in cats.
How common is thyroid cancer in dogs?
Thyroid tumors in dogsare not very common and only account for one to four percent of all canine tumors. There may be a breed predisposition for Boxers, Beagles, and Golden Retrievers, although they can be seen in any breed. The average age of dogs diagnosed with thyroid tumors is over nine years old.
How common is false pregnancy in dogs?
Relax, she may just be experiencing false pregnancy—a very common condition for intact or unspayed, female dogs that occurs after they go through an estrus or heat cycle. As a result, after any heat cycle, your dog can experience most of the same signs of pregnancy as when she's not actually pregnant: Early lethargy.
How common is pica in pregnancy?
It is true that the majority of women will experience cravings during pregnancy; however, most of these cravings are for things like pickles and ice cream. Pica cravings are most commonly seen in children and occur in approximately 25-30% of all children; pica cravings in pregnant women are even less common.
How common is distemper in dogs?
Canine distemper is seen worldwide but because of the widespread use of successful vaccines, it is much less common than it was in the 1970's. It is still seen in populations where vaccination rates are low and in stray dogs. The virus may persist in recovered carrier dogs and in wildlife such as skunks and raccoons.
How common is Cushings in dogs?
There are two major types that affect dogs: Pituitary dependent. This form is the most common, affecting about 80% to 90% of the animals who have Cushing's. It happens when there's a tumor in a pea-sized gland at the base of the brain, called the pituitary.
How common is dementia in dogs?
Dementia in dogs is more common than you might think. The Behavior Clinic at the University of California studied the phenomenon, concluding that 28% of dogs aged 11 to 12 years displayed one or more signs of cognitive impairment. That number increased to 68% for dogs aged 15 to 16 years.
How common is periodontal disease in dogs?
How common is Nose cancer in dogs?
Nose cancer is an aggressive cancer more commonly found in older dogs, dogs with longer snouts, and dogs living in urban areas. Nose cancer, technically known as nasal adenocarcinoma, is a rare tumor of a dog's nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses. Nose cancer accounts for 2.5 percent of canine tumors.
How common is hantavirus in mice?
Only 20 to 40 cases of HPS occur in the United States each year, but the syndrome can be fatal. “In the United States, most HPS cases are caused by Sin Nombre virus, for which the North American deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) serves as reservoir,” the authors say.
How common is beef allergy in dogs?
The most common allergens are beef, dairy, wheat, egg, chicken, lamb, soy, pork, rabbit, and fish. And, most dogs are usually allergic to more than one thing. A: It's a multi-factorial thing, but certainly you have to have a genetic predisposition to develop allergies. The environment can affect it, too.
How common is hemophilia in dogs?
Hemophilia A (Factor VIII deficiency) is the most common inherited bleeding disorder in dogs. Carrier animals have higher levels of Factor VIII (40 to 60% of normal), and the results of their clotting tests are usually normal.
How common is separation anxiety in dogs?
One of the most common complaints of pet parents is that their dogs are disruptive or destructive when left alone. Instead, they are indications that the dog has separation anxiety. Separation anxiety is triggered when dogs become upset because of separation from their guardians, the people they're attached to.
How common is cancer in Labradors?
Mast cell tumors: Mast cell tumors are an extremely common form of cancer in older dogs and mixed breeds, as well as boxers, Boston terriers, Labrador retrievers, beagles, and schnauzers. Approximately 85 percent of osteosarcoma tumors are malignant, and grow very quickly.
How common is Cushing's disease in dogs?
Every year, roughly 100,000 dogs are diagnosed with Cushing's disease in the United States. Most dogs are six years of age or older when diagnosed, but it can occur in younger dogs. The disease is rare in cats.
How common is leptospirosis in dogs?
Outbreaks associated with exposure to contaminated water sources are more common than disease secondary to transmission of Leptospira from dogs or other pets. dogs, etc.) likely reflect increased exposure to urine of wild animals and rodents that may carry the infection. Leptospirosis in cats is rare.
How common is heartworms in dogs?
How common is Ivdd in dachshunds?
We can use the results to identify how common (prevalent) back disease is in our breed. The data shows that, typically, 1 in 4 Dachshunds will suffer some degree of back disease during their lifetime. This figure is about 10-12 times higher than would be expected in the general population of dogs.
How common is DM in German shepherds?
Degenerative myelopathy (DM) is a fatal, chronic, progressive, degenerative disease of the spinal cord of several breeds of dog, including the German Shepherd dog (GSD). There is no treatment for this disease and in time it leads to complete paralysis in all limbs (tetraparesis).
How common is GDV in dogs?
Gastric Dilatation-Volvulus (GDV) is a rapidly progressive life-threatening condition of dogs. The condition is commonly associated with large meals and causes the stomach to dilate, because of food and gas, and may get to a point where neither may be expelled.
How common is ITP in dogs?
Clinical Signs: ITP is relatively common in dogs and rare in cats. The average age of onset is 5 to 6 years, and females are most commonly affected.
How common is roundworm in dogs?
Roundworms are extremely common parasites in dogs. Almost all dogs have roundworms at some point in their lives—most often in puppyhood. There are two main species of roundworms affecting dogs: Toxocara canis and Toxascaris leonine. Toxocara canis causes more serious disease and can be transmitted to humans.
How common is cancer in dogs?
Q: How common is cancer in dogs, and what are some of the common cancers found in dogs? Fifty percent of dogs over the age of 10 develop cancer at some point. We see malignant lymphoma, which is a tumor of the lymph nodes. We see mast cell tumors, which is a form of skin cancer.
How common is kidney disease in puppies?
Kidney disease is more common as dogs age. It is estimated that more than 1 in 10 dogs will develop kidney disease over a lifetime1,3, so it's an important topic to understand.
How common is brucellosis in dogs?
The disease is most common in sexually intact adult dogs. "Brucellosis in dogs typically causes reproductive problems such as infertility and abortions, with few other signs of clinical illness." Male dogs infected with brucellosis develop epididymitis, an infection in part of the testicle.
How common is epilepsy in dogs?
Epilepsy is the most common neurological disorder seen in dogs, and has been estimated to affect approximately 0.75% of the canine population3.
How common is arthritis in dogs?
According to the Arthritis Foundation, approximately 20% of all adult dogs have arthritis, or about 1 in 5. If, however, your dog is more than 7 years of age, there's a 65% chance he's suffering from the disease. In other words, more than half of all older dogs have arthritis.
How common is UTI in dogs?
The most common causes of UTIs in dogs are bacterial. It is so common, in fact, that bacterial urinary tract infection is the most common infectious disease in dogs, period. UTIs also have in increased rate of occurrence in dogs with other health problems, such as chronic kidney disease and Cushing's disease.
How common is spleen cancer in dogs?
Splenic hematoma and nodular hyperplasia are the most common non-cancerous lesions found in the spleen and account for 20–41% of all splenic lesions. They are benign nodules/masses of clotted blood. Hemangiosarcoma is a common malignant tumor of the spleen usually seen in older dogs (8–10 years of age).
How common is lung cancer in dogs?
Lung tumors are relatively rare in dogs, accounting for only 1% of all cancers diagnosed. The average age at diagnosis is 10 years with no sex or breed predilection. Metastatic cancer to the lungs is much more common than primary lung cancer. Lung tumors have moderate to high potential for metastasis (spreading).
What organs do pigs and humans have in common?
Pigs have all of the same thoracic and abdominal organs as humans. There are small differences in a few organs. Liver – the human liver has four lobes: right, left, caudate and quadrate. The fetal pig liver has five lobes: right lateral, right central, left central, left lateral, and caudate.
What characteristics do all humans have in common?
If you thought you knew what humans were like, then think again. SKILLS. Human nature: Being playful. KNOWLEDGE. Human nature: Being scientific. BEHAVIOUR. Human nature: Being legislative. FEEDING. Human nature: Being epicurean. SEX. Human nature: Being clandestine. COMMUNICATION. Human nature: Being gossipy.
Is cancer common in mastiffs?
According to the Health Survey, the major cause of death in Mastiffs is cancer. The most common cancers affecting Mastiffs are osteosarcoma, lymphoma, hemangiosarcoma, and Mast Cells tumors.
How long is a rabies shot good for humans?
How common are break ins?
Break ins are 6% more likely to occur during the day between 6am and 6pm while people are at work or running errands. The lowest amount of burglaries happen in the month of February.
How much is a rabies shot for humans?
How long is rabies shot good for humans?
Is Untreated rabies always fatal to humans?
Rabies. Rabies is a serious but fairly rare disease. It is a virus transmitted to humans through an infected animal's saliva. Rabies is almost always fatal if left untreated.
How does rabies kill a human?
How fast does rabies kill a human?
How are rabies shots given to humans?
A person who is exposed and has never been vaccinated against rabies should get 4 doses of rabies vaccine – one dose right away, and additional doses on the 3rd, 7th, and 14th days. They should also get another shot called Rabies Immune Globulin at the same time as the first dose.
How long do human rabies vaccines last?
Is cannibalism common in animals?
Cannibalism involves consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food. To consume the same species, or show cannibalistic behavior, is a common ecological interaction in the animal kingdom, and has been recorded in more than 1,500 species.
Is Megaesophagus common in dogs?
Is diarrhea common in puppies?
Other types of pests that can cause diarrhea in your pup are protozoan parasites. These are single celled organisms, the most common of which are coccidia and Giardia. If your puppy is carrying a protozoan parasite in her intestinal tract, her diarrhea will typically be watery and very smelly.
Is entropion common in dogs?
Entropion in Dogs. Entropion is a genetic condition in which a portion of the eyelid is inverted or folded inward. This can cause an eyelash or hair to irritate and scratch the surface of the eye, leading to corneal ulceration or perforation.
How common is Cynophobia?
A person who has cynophobia experiences a fear of dogs that's both irrational and persistent. Specific phobias, like cynophobia, affect some 7 to 9 percent of the population. They're common enough that they're formally recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5).
Is prolapse common in puppies?
Parasitic infections are the most common cause of rectal prolapse in dogs, but there are several other possible causes. The condition is most often seen in puppies under the age of six months old, though it can happen to dogs of any age.
Is Giardia common in Mexico?
Giardia lamblia, once considered a harmless commensal organism, has become one of the most common pathogenic intestinal parasites (12, 16, 17). Several studies have been carried out in Mexico in order to compute indices of parasitic infections. In Mexico, newborns and infants are more susceptible than adults.
Is cancer common in beagles?
It is more common in dogs than any other species. Mast cell tumors: Mast cell tumors are an extremely common form of cancer in older dogs and mixed breeds, as well as boxers, Boston terriers, Labrador retrievers, beagles, and schnauzers.
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by Shakespeare, better known simply as Hamlet, written at the end of sixteenth century.
The play takes place in Denmark and tells how Prince Hamlet wreaks a vengeance on his uncle King Claudius, murderer of the previous king, Hamlet’s father and a new husband of Hamlet’s mother, Queen Gertrude. The play vividly recreated the flow of real and feigned madness manifested sometimes by the means of a great melancholy, sometimes by the deepest ferocity. The play is full of worst human vices such as apostasy, vengeance, incest, and moral decline.
Despite the best efforts of historians of literature, the precise date of writing stays controversial. Until now, there were three early versions of the play: they are known under the names “The First Quattro” (Q1), “The Second Quattro” (Q2) and “The First Folio» (F1). In each of them, there are lines and even whole scenes that are not in others.
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In writing Hamlet, Shakespeare apparently relied on the legend of Amleth, recorded in Deeds of the Danes by Saxo Grammaticus, an annalist of the 13th century and then narrated by Francois de Belleforest, a philosopher of the 16th century. He might as well refer to the lost play of Elizabethan era, known now as the “Ur-Hamlet.”
Given the play complex composition and the depth of characters, Hamlet can be analyzed, interpreted, and discussed from different points of view. For example, for many centuries, the contemporaries had been jolted by Hamlet’s vacillation whether to kill his uncle. Some considered it as a means of the act continuing, others regarded it as a result of the pressure of the perplexing philosophical and ethical considerations that are part of callous execution, premeditated revenge and vain desires.
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Lexie Gerson
Redshirt Senior
Fort Washington, Pa.
The Peddie School (N.J.
Cavalier Career 2013-14
Earned the second ACC All-Defensive Team honor of her career
Was the lone Cavalier to earn a spot on the ACC All-Academic Team
Candidate for the Good Works Team
Finished her career ranked fifth on the Cavalier career steals list with 257
Led the ACC in steals much of the season and ranked among the top-25 in the nation, averaging 2.7 per game
Led the ACC in steals in conference games at 2.9 per game.
Is second in the ACC in assist-to-turnover ratio in conference games at 2.3
Is second on the team in rebounding, averaging a career-best 4.9 per game
Finished her career with 907 points and 392 rebounds
Averaged 8.2 points per game this season and 7.1 points over her four-year, 127-game career
Pulled in a career-high 10 rebounds, narrowly missing getting her first career double-double with nine points against UMES
Recorded 9 defensive rebounds against University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Went 4-of-5 from three-point range, including making three treys in the final 1:19 of the first half against Tulane, scoring 13 points during a 20-point comeback against the Green Wave. She finished the game with a season-high 18 points
Scored eight points with five rebounds, four assists and four steals in the comeback victory at Virginia Tech and posted an identical stat line in the next game against Notre Dame
Scored nine points, with eight assists and six rebounds in the upset victory over No. 17 Florida State
Scored 13 points, including 11 in the second half, at Duke, going 6-of-11
Had an 11-game stretch during ACC play in which she made at least one three-pointer
Footage of her scoring a layup while getting fouled against Maryland made the SportsCenter Top-10 Plays of the Day (Jan. 23), ranking No. 4
Missed the 2012-13 season recovering from hip surgery
Earned a spot on the 2012 ACC All-Defensive Team
Named the team’s Best Defensive Player
Led Virginia in total steals (113) and steals per game (3.1)
Those totals consistently ranked in the top 15 nationally and top three in the ACC all season long
Averaged 9.5 points, 3.8 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game in 36 appearances
Started 24-consecutive games to end the season
Scored in double figures on 18 occasions, highlighted by a 19-point performance vs. Radford (Dec. 18)
Had at least five steals eight different times, including a seven-steal game vs. James Madison on Dec. 20
Appeared in 30 games and started 13, averaging 5.5 points and 1.9 rebounds per game
Reached double digits in points on six occasions, including a career-high 19 points vs. Radford (Dec. 6)
Had her best performance of the season against the Highlanders, finishing 6-for-15 from the field and tying a career-high with three 3-pointers
Appeared in 30 games and started 15 for the Cavaliers
Averaged 5.0 points and 1.6 rebounds
Led the team in free throw shooting, connecting on 35-of-43 (81 percent)
Had eight double-digit scoring games, including a run of four-straight from Jan. 24 to Feb. 4 against ACC opponents Georgia Tech, NC State, Wake Forest and Clemson
Scored a career-high 15 points at Wake Forest (Jan. 31), including a personal best three 3-pointers
Hauled down a career-high seven rebounds in her first-career ACC Tournament contest vs. NC State (March 5)
Received an honorable mention All-American nod from the 2009 Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA)
Ranked as the No. 6 shooting guard and No. 26 overall player in the class by the Collegiate Girls Basketball Report
Played AAU basketball for the Philadelphia Belles
The Peddie School ended with 20-straight victories in Gerson’s senior season and cracked the top 50 in national polls
The Peddie School went on to win the state and MAPL championships, its fourth-straight
Scored her 1,000th career point in February of her senior season
Daughter of Mitch and Andrea Gerson
GERSON’S CAREER STATS
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Ocean Vuong, Surrendering
A summary of — and a response to — Ocean Vuong’s Surrendering.
Vuong describes how he became a writer, and how he started drawing on his own life experiences to churn out stories. He came from a family of illiterate Vietnamese farmers, and immigrated to the US when he was two. There he remained largely unexposed to the English language for about 5 years. Going to kindergarten was like immigrating again, only this time into a language instead of a country. He managed to speak English fluently, but the craft of writing fluently eluded him.
In school, he managed to avoid writing by copying passages from books instead. This continued till one afternoon in grade 4, when he turned in a poem that he had written in honour of the National Poetry Month. His teacher assumed — wrongfully — that he had plagiarised the poem, and demanded to know where it had been copied from. The teacher went so far as to tip Vuong’s desk to empty the contents of the attached cubby. There Vuong stood — alone, a poemless island in the middle of the emptied rubble — as his teacher and classmates looked on, unconvinced.
He was bullied at school, which is why he used to hide in the library during recess. There he found a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whom he mistook for a medical practitioner, and was immediately hooked and impressed. Vuong could hear the recorded sound of a huge crowd applauding MLK, and felt insignificant in front of the great man. He wondered if words could cure people. He realised he had been narrating his grandmother’s stories all his life and, in that moment, also realised that we don’t only stumble into stories when we read.
So he wrote a poem about spring, using exotic names for flowers that he had picked up from the gardening shows his grandmother watched. Using a dictionary and a piece of white paper, which he describes as a white flag, he brought his poem into existence. He calls it an act of surrender, adding that he plagiarised his own life to offer his audience the best of himself.
I find the idea of writing as surrender very interesting. Frantz Fanon said, “[…] to speak is to exist absolutely for the other” and one could, by extension, say the same thing for writing. What Fanon means is that language is a social fact, not a faculty of the individual. So when one speaks one inevitably assumes the presence of an Other to perceive it. So writing is a form of interaction with the world outside the Self, a very specific form of interaction with its own history and social implications.
When we don’t have a community’s language, we’re alienated from them in a profound way. That was a major site of alienation for Vuong. I think he wrote both to make sense of his personal and collective history, as well as to connect with the community he felt alienated from. In many ways, our lives are structured by the social formations we’re interpellated into. Vuong’s class position meant that he did not always have access to proper education. He immigrated to a new country and a new language, and perhaps writing for an Other (who spoke the new language and belonged to the new country) was his way of trying to bring his own history — both personal and collective — closer to his new surroundings: an act of surrender, then, and of raising the white flag, instead of fighting the alien environment he found himself in.
Posted on 8th July 2016 9th August 2018 Categories response
in response to a quote by Marilynne Robinson
Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are either immeasurably insignificant or we are incalculably precious and interesting.
— Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
let’s try to move away from the human and the linguistic. let’s move to the place where the words ‘insignificant’ and ‘precious’ mean nothing — there are no words here, no meanings. i rather like it here.
i don’t always approve of the way we try to attach meaning to everything. i hate the way we sometimes desperately try to tease beauty out of the ordinary, the unusual, and the chaotic. we exist and, sometimes, that’s all there’s to it.
Posted on 17th July 2014 14th May 2018 Categories response
in response to a quote by Anne Carson
I do not want to be a person / I want to be unbearable.
— Anne Carson, “Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions”, Decreation, p. 72
One can be a person and still be unbearable. All people are unbearable: unbearably ethereal, unbearably beautiful, unbearably Other.
I want to invite her and Kundera to dinner, and stay up all night talking to them.
in response to a quote by Arthur Rimbaud
Avant je pensais que ce que je faisais aurais de l’importance. Que ça changerait le monde. Que rien ne serait plus comme avant… Mais c’est inutile. Le monde est trop vieux, il n’y a rien de noeuf. Tout a été dit.
— Arthur Rimbaud, Eclipse Totale (1995)
Not everything, no. I am starting to believe it is the way you say things — perhaps more than any other component of content — that shifts something inside of other people. They may not realise it at the time, but they notice it later when they are alone and trying to gather themselves. That is when they see parts of you that have decided to stick to them permanently. And all your words go rushing back to them.
Nothing will ever be as it was before.
I do not think it is possible to establish a global equilibrium. As long as people are all different, everything you say could be important. Which is why we still read books and engage in dialogue. That is also why someone like Kundera can give you shelter and soothe you with his sentences when no one else in the world can.
in response to: Raising a boy in times of rape
This blog post gives me hope, but patriarchy takes it away.
I do not have children so it would be easy for me to dismiss this problem, citing my lack of progeny, but I won’t. Violence against women is a systemic problem, which we need to understand discursively. That’s the only way to figure how to raise children (not just boys) in these times.
The main motive of these crimes — both sexual and otherwise — is the victim’s gender and the meanings we associate with it. For centuries men have had very fixed ideas about women and how they ought to behave. Their protective/violent behaviour towards us is a means of reinforcing said ideas. Which is why we see men desperately trying to protect their women, trying their best to subjugate the inferior subspecies. Rape is an act of domination. Violence is an act of domination. Protective behaviour is an act of domination.
Women are expected to be weak, docile. Any deviation from this behaviour is seen as an act of transgression. What are we to do, then? We abolish discriminatory practices: we treat people the same, regardless of whether they have a penis or a vagina or neither. We stop celebrating rakshabandhan: it’s a fucked up concept. Then we take it further and kill the protectionist attitude that’s so deeply ingrained in our society. And then perhaps some day men will stop assuming ownership over the women in their lives, and start to treat them like real people. What next? We could then try to stop worshipping women and bring them back to the sphere of the human. When the woman is a complete human again — not a goddess or an object — we could try to let her live her own life as she sees fit. This basic freedom should be every human’s undeniable right, and not just a privilege reserved for men.
So how are we to raise children? I think that now, more than, ever, kids need to be raised to be gender-blind. Educate them about sex — as early in their lives as possible — and tell them what it means to be raped. Tell them that people can be hurt in other ways too, and teach them not to discriminate.
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REVIEW – A Quiet Place
October 13, 2018 CJ Stewart 1 comment
Directed by: John Krasinski
Produced by: Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller
Written by: Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, John Krasinski
Edited by: Christopher Tellefsen
Cinematography by: Charlotte Bruus Christensen
Music by: Marco Beltrami
Starring: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Cade Woodward
Damn. Who knew that Krasinski had this in him? Always an affable actor, Krasinski’s work behind the camera, unfortunately, has been less than… well, good up until this point. Krasinski made his directorial debut in 2009 with the David Foster Wallace adaptation Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, which seemingly passed through the public consciousness without much notice. It took another seven years for the actor-turned-director to take another shot at directing with 2016’s The Hollars, a star-studded family dramedy that similarly fizzled. Luckily, Krasinski seemingly isn’t one to back down, as his third film, A Quiet Place, is an unexpected, drastic departure from his previous two productions, with the director putting together a fairly intense, bold horror film that has me wondering if he just hadn’t found his niche until now. Read more…
Categories: Reviews Tags: Alien, alien invasion, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, Bryan Woods, Cade Woodward, Charlotte Bruus Christensen, children, Christopher Tellefsen, contrived, Drama, Emily Blunt, family, forgiveness, grief, guilt, Halloween, Halloween Movie Month, horror, John Krasinski, loss, love, Marco Beltrami, Michael Bay, Millicent Simmonds, monster, monsters, Noah Jupe, parents, pregnancy, reconciliation, regret, scary, Scary Movie Month, Scott Beck, silence, sound design, thriller, tragedy
2014 IN REVIEW: The Films I Didn’t See (January – April)
January 15, 2015 CJ Stewart 1 comment
I’m not going to waste too much time this year on introductions. We all pretty much know this is the dumping ground for lesser films prior to the summer blockbusters and awards season after that. Still, it’s worth mentioning that this was a slog to go through, and I didn’t even see these movies; I just charged myself with reviewing why I never got around to them.
Yes, 2014 may have been a record year for me seeing the most movies from that year, but there were still movies I never got around to or never even had the ability to see due to either foreign or limited release. I still like going over them, however, as this process often leads to me finding some unexpected gems that I might enjoy. Some of these I might become so interested in that I see them before I even get to the films I did see, so there is actually a possibility you might see these films reappear in this 2014 in Review series if that becomes the case.
Anyway, here are many of the films from January to April 2014 that I didn’t see, for one reason or another. It’s by no means complete, but that’s what you get when you’re using Wikipedia and Best of/Worst of lists from other sites. Read more…
Categories: Year in Review Tags: 2014, 50 Cent, Aaron Paul, action, American Samoa, Animated, anime, Anthony Mackie, Arjun Kapoor, Ashleigh Ball, Bollywood, Brony, Cambodia, Case Closed, Christmas, Conan Edogawa, crime, Danny Trejo, David Cross, detective, documentary, Drama, Dylan Mcdermott, Evan Rachel Wood, Fabio, fairy tale, football, Forest Whitaker, found footage, France, Franck Dubosc, Gattlin Griffith, gimmick, Harland Williams, Hindi, horror, India, Jaleel White, Japan, Jason Reitman, Jennifer Garner, Jenny Slate, Jimmy Kudo, John Cusack, Josh Brolin, Juliette Lewis, justice, juvenile delinquent, Kate Winslet, Katie Holmes, Kev James, Kevin Costner, Khmer Rouge, Léa Seydoux, manga, Marlon Wayans, Mary-Louise Parker, massacre, Michael Rosenbaum, Mike Epps, Morena Baccarin, My Little Pony, Nick Swardson, parkour, parody, Pascal Bourdiaux, Paul Belle, Paul Walker, pregnancy, Priyanka Chopra, Production I.G, Ranveer Singh, Rebecca Da Costa, revenge, Rithy Panh, Robert De Niro, Salman Khan, soccer, Spencer Lofranco, spoof, suspense, thriller, Tobin Bell, Tom Arnold, Victor Salva, vigilante, vigilanteism, Ving Rhames, war, war crime, World War II, year in review
REVIEW: The Nativity Story
December 23, 2013 CJ Stewart 5 comments
Directed by: Catherine Hardwicke
Produced by: Toby Emmerich, Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, Cale Boyter, Catherine Hardwicke, Mike Rich, Tim Van Rellim
Written by: Mike Rich
Edited by: Robert K. Lambert, Stuart Levy
Cinematography by: Elliot Davis
Music by: Mychael Danna
Starring: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Oscar Isaac, Stanley Townsend, Clarán Hinds, Shaun Toub
“Jesus is the reason for the season.” That’s what you always hear this time of year, isn’t it? And yet it seems like it’s pretty hard to find many movies exclusively based on the story of the birth of Christ, as opposed to His entire life or crucifixion. The Nativity Story is undoubtedly one of the few that does focus on this one aspect. I had actually meant to review this film long ago, when I first started this blog, but the movie’s always been checked out indefinitely this time of year on Netflix and Blockbuster (back when they, you know, actually did the whole physical movie renting). This was the first year I actually managed to be proactive and get a copy, and so I guess it’s only appropriate that I actually make good on that and finally review the film, right? Read more…
Categories: Reviews Tags: angel, Bible, birth, Cale Boyter, cash in, Catherine Hardwicke, Christian, Christianity, Christmas, Clarán Hinds, Elliot Davis, faith, God, holiday, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Keisha Castle-Hughes, legend, Marty Bowen, Messiah, Mike Rich, miracle, Mychael Danna, nativity, Oscar Isaac, period piece, pregnancy, prophesy, Robert K. Lambert, Shaun Toub, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Stanley Townsend, Stuart Levy, Tim Van Rellim, Toby Emmerich, Virgin Mary, Wyck Godfrey
REVIEW: Alien
October 31, 2013 CJ Stewart 4 comments
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Produced by: Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill
Written by: Dan O’Bannon (screenplay); Dan O’Bannon, Ronald Shusett (story); David Giler, Walter Hill (uncredited)
Edited by: Terry Rawlings, Peter Weatherley
Cinematography by: Derek Vanlint
Music by: Jerry Goldsmith
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Ian Holm, Veronica Cartwright, Yaphet Kotto, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Bolaji Badejo
I’ve been wanting to write this review for quite some time, but somehow never went forward with actually doing it. Don’t really know why it’s taken this long, but I figured that using it as the finale of the 3rd Annual Halloween/Scary Movie Month was appropriate enough! Read more…
Categories: Favorite Movies, Reviews Tags: action hero, Alien, blue collar, body horror, Bolaji Badejo, chestburster, classic, corporation, Dan O'Bannon, David Giler, Derek Vanlint, Ellen Ripley, facehugger, favorites, feminism, gender, Gordon Carroll, H.R. Giger, Halloween, Halloween Movie Month, Harry Dean Stanton, heroine, heroism, horror, Ian Holm, influential, Jerry Goldsmith, John Hurt, National Film Registry, Peter Weatherley, pregnancy, Ridley Scott, Ronald Shusett, scary, Scary Movie Month, sci-fi, Sigourney Weaver, Terry Rawlings, Tom Skerritt, transcendant, unlikely hero, Veronica Cartwright, Walter Hill, Weyland-Yutani, xenomorph, Yaphet Kotto
2019 IN REVIEW – My Favorites
2019 IN REVIEW – The Worst of the Year (…and also the ones in between)
REVIEW – Rubber
REVIEW – Selena
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Safer-at-Home Order: Remix Edition
By: Attorney Samuel D. Bach-Hanson – Weld Riley, S.C.
On April 16, 2020, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (“DHS”), at the direction of Governor Tony Evers, issued a new Safer at Home Order, Emergency Order #28 (the “New Order”). This Order goes into effect on April 24, when Emergency Order #12 (the “Original Order”) expires, and will be effective through Tuesday, May 26, 2020.
While the Order is similar to Emergency Order #12, there are some key differences that provide additional restrictions, the loosening of restrictions, and clarifications. Schools will remain closed through the 2019-2020 school year and public libraries must now remain closed except for online services, curb-side pick-up, essential government functions, and food distribution. The Order creates additional criteria essential businesses and operations must follow to be in compliance with “safe business practice” requirements. In addition to what was included in the Original Order, essential businesses and operations must now:
Restrict the number of workers present on the premises to no more than is strictly necessary to perform the essential operation.
Increase standards of facility cleaning and disinfection, as well as adopt protocols to clean and disinfect in the event of a positive COVID-19 case in the workplace.
Adopt policies to prevent workers from entering the premises if they display respiratory symptoms or have had contact with a person with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19.
Further restrictions were placed on essential businesses and operations that remain open for in-person sales, including:
Consider establishing curbside pick-up to reduce in-store traffic and mitigate outdoor lines.
Establish lines to regulate entry in accordance with the Order.
For stores with less than 50,000 square feet of customer floor space:
Limit the number of people in the store to twenty-five (25) percent of the total occupancy limits establish by local rule.
For stores with more than 50,000 square feet:
Limit entry to four customers per 1,000 square feet of customer floor space.
Offer at least two hours per week of dedicated shopping time for vulnerable populations.
The New Order also loosened some of the restrictions in place from the Original Order. Public and private golf courses may now open, so long as they follow certain restrictions. Additionally, public parks and open space are open, but may be closed at the discretion of local health officials.
The Order expands the definition of “minimum basic operations.” In addition to what was in the Original Order, the definition now includes:
Non-essential businesses and operation must determine which workers are necessary to conduct minimum basic operations and inform such workers of that designation.
The fulfillment of nonessential deliveries, mailing parcels, or receiving parcels if all of the operations are performed by one person in a room or confined space, including a vehicle.
The curb-side pick-up of goods, if all operations are performed by one person in a room or confined space, including a vehicle, and the goods are purchased online or over the phone, are prepackaged, and no signature is required.
Arts and craft stores may offer curb-side pick-up, as described above, and in addition have the minimum additional staff necessary to fill orders for materials for making personal protective equipment.
Aesthetic or optional exterior work, including operational exterior residential constructions and lawn care, if all operations are performed by one person in a room or confined space, including a vehicle.
Lastly, the New Order specifically exempts from the restrictions of the order members of federally recognized tribal nations in Wisconsin within the boundaries of their tribal reservations and federal land held in trust.
While the New Order has some differences and provides more details than were in the Original Order, the additions are mostly practices essential businesses and operations were already utilizing to comply with the first Safer at Home Order.
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UK Transport and Brexit News & Views No. 82
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Top Articles, UKTiE News
Mark’s EU Week for Transport
I welcome the progress in the negotiations that have led to a Draft Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration on the Future Relationship. UKTiE has been campaigning for some months for this breakthrough. In response to the Chequers Agreement and the Brexit White Paper we argued the Government plans for Brexit must go further, faster and be fairer, in order to ensure the best possible Brexit deal for transport.
How do the latest documents match up against those three tests?
1. Further. We argued the Government’s approach was not sufficiently clear, consistent or comprehensive. The transition period is very clear, and comprehensive, is now extendable to 2022, and the plans for the ‘Future Relationship’ go a long way to address our concerns. Britain’s transport industry is very mature and goods and services are now completely inter-connected. For example, transport goods are not sold or provided in isolation: the service element, from finance and design to operation and maintenance is integral to our ability to win contracts. A future deal must therefore encompass goods and services. So I provide a cautious but positive welcome because the declaration commits the UK and EU to seek to secure a deal on goods and services. Although, like the Prime Minister, we would like to see the details of the future framework fleshed out in the coming weeks.
2. Faster. A new UK-EU relationship on transport will form part of a mixed trade agreement (FTA). Given we need to secure the swift and unanimous ratification of the agreement by the required 37 national and regional Parliaments on the Continent it’s important we don’t diverge too far from EU legislation across the modes. Here again there is significant progress in relation to the transitional arrangements, the backstop and the future relationship, but we need more detail.
3. Fairer. This is undoubtedly the most difficult area, and the main reason why the deal faces such opposition in Westminster. The UK transport sector would, without any say, be subject to EU’s transport rules for the foreseeable future, and like the rest of the UK economy, will also be subject to EU rules in the fields of the environment, employment, state aid and competition legislation. However, future rule-alignment through the proposed institutional arrangement relies very much on a Joint Committee of the EU and UK, which will manage the arrangements on a day to day basis, with little or no Parliamentary accountability or industry input. Making the deal fairer with more transparency, accountability, oversight and scrutiny is vital for the deal to be workable, sustainable and deliverable.
These documents begin to paint the picture of the UK as a third country, and now begins the work to prepare us for this major new reality. Tomorrow’s UKTiE Forum in the European Parliament will indeed be a timely gathering. We will witness the largest ever gathering of UK and EU experts and the UK’s top transport companies and organisations to discuss the Brexit deal, and how we will work together after March next year to ensure we can influence our regulatory framework, which will still largely made in Brussels.
This week’s song of the week, ‘Are you in love with a notion?‘ by The Courteneers.
1. UKTiE Forum- November 20th
This year’s UKTiE Forum will take place tomorrow afternoon in the European Parliament, hosted as every year by our Patron Jacqueline Foster MEP. This year’s forum will feature expert speakers including: the Permanent Representation of the UK to the EU, the Mission of Switzerland to the EU, the UK Department for Exiting the EU, the European Free Trade Association, the Japanese Business Council in Europe, MEPs and UKTiE members.
The UKTiE Forum is a unique platform facilitating dialogue between UK transport organisations and EU officials, politicians and stakeholders. This year’s event will discuss ‘Looking beyond Brexit: influencing EU transport legislation as a third country and will be the largest ever gathering of its kind with EU experts and Britain’s leading transport companies and organisations in attendance.
Bringing together a number of high level speakers from both sides of the Channel, the forum represents an important opportunity to assess the UK’s role as a future third country, discuss and learn from other third country models, and debate how leading UK transport businesses and organisations can work together to ensure the UK’s transport interests continue to be protected and promoted in EU legislation. Irrespective of the outcome of the Brexit negotiations, EU transport legislation will continue to largely apply in the UK for the foreseeable future.
A link to the Programme for the UKTiE Forum can be found here.
More information on the UKTiE Forum and on UKTiE can be found on our website: https://uktie.eu/events/
2. Draft Withdrawal Agreement and Outline of the Political Declaration setting out the Framework for the Future Relationship published
Last week, enough progress was made in the Brexit negotiations that a Draft Withdrawal Agreement and the Outline of the Political Declaration setting out the Framework for the Future Relationship were published. Despite the political fall out that these documents have caused in the UK, and the unlikeliness that the UK Parliament will accept the Draft Withdrawal Agreement, these two documents represent the clearest indication of what the UK’s third country relationship to the EU could look like. The Draft Withdrawal Agreement seems to have taken on board the UK’s White Paper suggestion for a dispute settlement mechanism between the EU and the UK on the withdrawal issues. As shown in the diagram below, any disagreement in the Joint Committee, consisting of civil servants, could be referred to a newly-created arbitration panel which would need to then refer to the ECJ on matters of EU law. What this diagram shows, however imperfectly, is that dispute settlement mechanism would make it tough for disputes to be resolved without the involvement of the ECJ.
Looking beyond the Withdrawal Agreement, the Outline of the Political Declaration setting out the Framework for the Future Relationship provides a brief indication as to what the future EU-UK transport relationship will look like. Across the different modes, the document outlines the following:
Aviation: “Comprehensive Air Transport Agreement, covering market access and investment, aviation safety and security, air traffic management and provisions to ensure open and air competition”.
Rail: “Acknowledgement of the intention of the United Kingdom and relevant Member States, in line with Union law, to make bilateral arrangements for cross-‐border rail services”.
Road Transport: “Comparable market access for freight and passenger road transport operators, underpinned by relevant existing international obligations to ensure open and fair competition, with consideration of complementary arrangements to address travel by private motorists”.
Maritime: “Connectivity in the maritime transport sector, underpinned by the applicable international legal framework, with appropriate arrangements for cooperation on maritime safety and security”.
UKTiE Coordinator Mark Watts said: “We welcome the progress in the negotiations that have led to this Draft Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration on the Future Relationship. These documents begin to paint the picture of the UK as a third country and now begins the work to prepare us for this major new reality”.
3. A tale of two Johnsons
Amidst the political excitement of last week, a new front emerged in the Tory party between Boris and his brother Jo Johnson. While they both agree that Theresa May’s deal is not the right one for the country, they disagree in a stark manner over the remedy for this course of action. Writing in the Financial Times, Jo Johnson argued that “the democratic and politically sensible thing to do is to release us from the shackles of the referendum result and give the public the final say”. He further argues that “this would not be about re-running that referendum, but about asking people whether they want to go ahead with Brexit on these terms now that we know the exact nature of the deal that is actually available to us, whether we should leave without any deal at all or whether people on balance would rather stick with the deal we already have inside the EU. To those who say that is an affront to democracy given the 2016 result, I ask this: is it more democratic to rely on a three-year-old vote based on what an idealised Brexit might offer, or to have a vote based on what we know it does actually entail?“. Offering a different solution, Boris Johnson suggested in the Telegraph alterations to Theresa May’s deal that would make it more palatable. Among his ideas, he suggests scrapping the Protocol on Northern Ireland, jointly declaring as part of the Withdrawal Agreement that both the EU and UK are embarked on a giant free-trade deal on Super‑Canada lines, withholding at least half of the £39 billion until a deal has been agreed, and insist that our government finally gets behind Brexit and shows some basic confidence and enthusiasm and belief in this great project. This tale of two Johnsons appears to represent the growing chasm in the Conservative Party in the aftermath of Theresa May presenting the Draft Withdrawal Agreement to her party and the UK public. As ever, it is tough to know yet which side will seize control of the narrative and the direction the party takes. However, one thing that is certain is that this coming week will prove critical in determining the future of both the Draft Withdrawal Agreement and the Prime Minister herself.
4. Will the EU rise to the challenge of decarbonising Heavy Duty Vehicles?
Last month, Mark’s blog posed the following question: ‘is the EU finally getting serious about decarbonising transport?’ and he analysed the latest EU plans to curb CO2 emissions from cars and light vans. This month, in his blog, Mark covers the fact that unlike the US, China, Japan and Canada, Europe does not yet regulate C02 emissions and fuel efficiency of HDVs. However, this glaring gap in the battle against climate change moves one big step closer to being plugged on Wednesday in Strasbourg, when MEPs are set to vote on European Commission proposals on the CO2 emissions performance standards for new heavy-duty vehicles Heavy Duty Vehicles (HDVs), such as lorries, buses and coaches. The question is: will the EU rise to the challenge of decarbonising Heavy Duty Vehicles?
5. UKTiE has also put together the latest timetable for Brexit. We will keep this up to date as the process develops:
29 March 2017 – A50 triggered.
5 April 2017 – European Parliament adopted Brexit guidelines.
22 May 2017 – Brexit negotiating directives approved by Council.
19 June 2017 – Negotiations formally began.
23 March 2018– European Council agreed guidelines on the future trading relationship.
30 September 2018 – Date by which EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, wanted to conclude the terms of Britain’s exit from the Union.
20 November 2018 – UKTiE Forum, European Parliament, Brussels
25 November 2018 – Special meeting of the European Council (Art. 50)
30 March 2019 – Britain formally exits the EU, following ratification of Brexit by all other member states and the European Parliament.
23-26 May 2019 – European Parliament election.
31 December 2020 – End of transition period. (TBC)
Mark Watts
UK transport in Europe (UKTiE)
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Tag: Shanghai
Saints or Thieves – Corruption and the Chinese Dilemma
Eric X. Li on 2013-09-11
At last, Bo Xilai is going on trial. The case against the former Politburo member brings to a climax the aggressive anti-corruption drive undertaken by the Chinese Communist Party. In fact, the new general secretary…
The RAPE of NANKING: A Countless Number of Unforgivable Japanese “War Crimes,” “Crimes Against Humanity” [Part II]
Lloyd Lofthouse on 2013-02-07
[Part 1] The RAPE of NANKING: A Countless Number of Unforgivable Japanese “War Crimes,” “Crimes Against Humanity” (Photos Included) http://www.4thmedia.org/2013/01/24/part-1-the-rape-of-nanking-unforgivable-japanese-war-crimes-crimes-against-humanity-photo-news/ Although China has suffered from internal war and strife, the Han Chinese have seldom…
The Drugging of a Nation: The Story of China and the Opium Curse
Long Xinming on 2013-02-06
NOTE: These chapters were originally published during 1907 and 1908 in Success Magazine in New York, and as a book published by the Fleming H. Revell Company, New York. Though frankly journalistic in…
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Working Shanghainese and Beijingers not only find themselves earning much less than other international cities but also their purchasing power falls bottom of the list, according to a study conducted by a Swiss bank. The…
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The long-anticipated Shanghai Disneyland due to open in 2016 will struggle to turn a profit in its first five years, tourism experts warned Thursday. Their skepticism greeted the confident Shanghai tour of Tom Staggs, chairman…
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Wang Ying on 2011-07-15
SHANGHAI – A recently released financial index ranks Shanghai as the world’s No 6 financial center, two positions behind Hong Kong. Experts said mature market regulations and more diversified investment channels are necessary to boost…
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Yan Bing on 2011-06-21
The Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway, which is scheduled to open soon, represents a milestone in Chinese and even world railway history. It is even more significant than the high-speed railways linking Beijing to Tianjin, Wuhan to…
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ACHS Membership Info
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McCormick Hall
McCormick Hall is a two story, brick Italianate structure with a three story entrance tower topped with a pyramidal roof. The tower has dormers on each face for ventilation. The entire building is surrounded with a bracketed cornice. The windows are segmentally arched on the first floor and jack-arched on the second with brick string courses along the springing lines of the arches at each floor level. The main entrance has an elaborate pressed metal hood and a large sign at the top of the tower identifying the building. The building still rests on its original limestone foundation and maintains its original structural and architectural integrity.
McCormick Hall is a fine example of a building type closely associated with educational architecture during the late 19th century. Its basic form could be seen in many communities; but today is is one of a very few remaining examples in the state. McCormick Hall was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
The idea for a college in Hastings, Nebraska was conceived by Mr. A.L. Wigton, editor of the Hastings Journal, who published an editorial on August 19, 1873, expressing his desire that a college be located in the growing frontier community. The townspeople were soon very excited about the idea and presented a proposal to the Kearney, Nebraska Presbytery at the November, 1873 meeting. There a planning committee was appointed, but nine years passed before definite steps could be taken. The delay was caused by drought, grasshoppers and economic problems of the time.
During the winter and spring of 1881-82, 93 men contributed $11,050 to the fund to be used for purchase of a site, construction of buildings and cost of maintenance for the first year. A tract of 100 acres was acquired one mile east of the center of town; and since financial support was assured, the college was incorporated May 10, 1882.
The college opened formally September 13, 1882 with a chapel service in the First Presbyterian Church. This first year there was a student body of 44 and three full-time and two part-time faculty members. After the chapel services, the students went to their classes above the post office in downtown Hastings.
Ground was broken April 25, 1883 for McCormick Hall, the first building erected on the campus. It was named for Cyrus H. McCormick who contributed the initial $5,000 for the building. Construction began in the summer of 1883 and the building was completed and dedicated in October, 1884. Total cost was $14,703. It has remained in daily use since that time.
From 1884 to the mid 1950s, McCormick Hall was the principle classroom building with the departments of English, mathematics, speech, drama and chemistry inhabiting the structure. A large room on the second floor, which originally housed the college chapel, was later converted into a little theatre.
Nearly every student who has attended Hastings College since 1884 has had at least one class in this building. Consequently, it is closely associated in the minds of former students, as well as townspeople, and serves as a link to their pioneer forebears on campus.
Source: National Register of Historic Places nomination form available at Adams County Historical Society.
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Neustar CEO Hook On TARGUSinfo Acquisition And The Opportunity In Advertising
by AdExchanger // Monday, October 17th, 2011 – 12:09 am
Lisa Hook is CEO of Neustar, a telecommunications company. Last Tuesday, Neustar acquired caller ID infrastructure and data company TARGUSinfo for $650 million. Read the release.
Hook discussed the TARGUSinfo acquisition and the strategy ahead - especially as it relates to advertising.
AdExchanger.com: What's Neustar's worldview on the opportunity in advertising and marketing?
LH: We recognize the potential in real-time marketing and analytics in this industry and this is a strategic reason for us making this acquisition. When we look at digital marketing and advertising in a world that is exploding with connected devices and multiple ways to reach consumers, advertising really has to change. It has to add value. It has to be appropriate. It has to be in context. As you know, people don't mind advertising as long as it is providing value to them.
How do you provide value to a consumer with digital advertising? You expose them to products and services that they find valuable. And the way to do that obviously, is to do audience analysis beforehand, to understand what type of content to serve up, and to whom. If I'm online or if I'm on my cell phone and I get an advertisement for football, I'm going to find it extremely intrusive because I have zero interest in football. But, if I get an advertisement for the latest pair of Jimmy Choo shoes, I'm not going to regard that as advertising, I'm going to regard it as value add. Our long-term view is helping the CMO and agencies deliver relevant advertising information to consumers based on what they value in an environment that makes sense to them.
We think the growth in digital advertising is explosive. I mean, truly explosive. The world is moving away, from non‑targeted media to a one-to-one relationship between the marketer and the recipient.
So why buy TARGUSinfo?
From a Neustar perspective, there's a natural fit. I'd say we are the brawn and they're the brains. We have vast amounts of information. We have the world's largest database of IP addresses. We know where those IP addresses are located - in many cases down to precise geographic locations, enabling us to expose anonymous audience attributes in real-time. We can do this both domestically and internationally. In New Zealand we actually know what sheep stations they're coming from.
We see 10 to 15 percent of the world's Internet traffic. We see every phone call and text message in North America. More recently, we've launched an initiative called the Intelligent Cloud and TARGUSinfo has been working with us on this. Companies like AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Telos—all of the big operators are providing their network information to us so that we can expose those permissible, anonymous attributes it in a single API to a marketer.
We have the data - we have trillions and trillions of records that can be leveraged to provide value to marketers. What the TARGUSinfo acquisition gives us are teams like AdAdvisor, who actually know how to take all of our capabilities, data and records and create a value proposition for the marketing and advertising industry in a way that will be very compelling.
What is going to be the strategy for the audience buying space and as it relates to the current TARGUS team? Do you grow them? Does it change a little bit?
The current team is fantastic, and honestly it's a big piece of what we're buying, and we look forward to allowing them to focus on growing their businesses and to continue developing. Because we're a public company, we are going to integrate what we call corporate governance functions: Legal, HR, finance, corporate communications. We believe it's important to have an umbrella Neustar brand evolve elegantly.
We're looking for the AdAdvisor team and the broad suite of other TARGUSinfo services to be wildly successful and will continue to invest both resources and capital. We believe there are a number of ways the combined company can work together to deliver one plus one equals three results. That to me is the most exciting part of this acquisition.
Do you see a connection between this acquisition of TARGUSinfo and what you've been doing with Neustar-owned Quova has been in the advertising space?
Quova, to your point, has been in that space for a long time. So we're looking to do bring the groups together post-close and look at opportunities to grow both businesses. We will look at all these individual services and determine where there are compelling packages of value around brand management and brand protection that we can deliver to the market.
In addition to Quova, we are managing the US short code registry and continue to broaden our offerings in mobile by moving into QR codes. We are also big player in the registry space and a large number of new TLDs are coming online.
We're working with corporations to buy their brand and to support their brand launch in a TLD environment. We're not obviously well known in the display advertising industry and I would tell you that we're nowhere near the sophistication of TARGUSinfo, but we do have assets that we think we can bring to bear to make the combined company more visible and able to provide more end to end solutions for marketers.
What you're talking about seems to echo the holding company model that is currently in place in the agency world, for example. Thoughts?
Yes. I would say that we look at it that way at a minimum. An agency holding company doesn't actually wind up leveraging all of their capabilities and assets. We'd actually like to be more cohesive in looking for ways to build solutions for both the CMO and CTO. For example, simply presenting all the services we're selling into this particular vertical. What services are we missing? How could be round out the service package and how can we provide more value to the end user?
Neustar's business has really been for the most part been around this theme of "neutrality" - how does this relate to TARGUSinfo and the opportunities ahead?
Yes, one of our core brand values is neutrality. I think TARGUSinfo is widely regarded as a third party particularly in its original business, Caller ID. They enjoy the reputation of being a neutral third party that is highly trusted with high quality data. When we provide information on numbers for the phone industry, we're 100 percent accurate all the time. We never make a mistake. So we value quality of data and TARGUSinfo is one of the few providers of truly high quality data.
We also value reliability in delivery. We value privacy. The thing that attracted me particularly was the whole notion of privacy by design, security by design—these are absolutely the highest priority for us. So when we mapped our core brand values against theirs, the match was uncanny.
Finally, what's in it for the chief marketing officer with this acquisition?
Piece of mind. We want to be the company that is able to take a huge volumes of data, our data and your data, and deliver real intelligence back to the CMO in partnership with the CTO. There are a lot of companies out there that are saying we have a lot of data and we'll give it back to you. There are very few companies that are able to sort through that data and provide value added insights that a CMO can act on.
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Sources in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
by Leslie Kelly
This book introduces the student of Late Antiquity and Byzantium to the types of sources they are most likely to encounter in their research, explaining how these genres work and how best to utilize them as sources for history. When attempting to draw on a letter, a legal text, a code of conduct, a sermon, a speech of praise, or a Life, the student of history should be familiar with the usual formats and themes of that genre. The historian should also have in mind how that type of writing functioned within the larger society. This book provides a starting point for these goals. The work is divided into the broad, sometimes overlapping, categories of panegyrics and orations, sermons, hagiography and biographies, legal and administrative texts, and literary letter collections. Each genre is situated into its historical and social context, and its characteristic forms described. Such analyses, the intention behind these texts, what led to their development, and the part they played in their societies, provide a unique lens into the world of Late Antiquity and Byzantium.
Dr. Leslie Kelly is Professor of History at American Public University. She is the author of Dialogue in the Greco-Roman World and Prophets, Prophecy, and Oracles in the Roman Empire: Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman Cultures.
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Posted on November 27, 2020 November 27, 2020 Books
Contra-amor, poliamor, relaciones abiertas y sexo casual: Reflexiones de lesbianas del Abya Yala
by Norma Mogrovejo
Desde la voz, pensamiento y experiencias de lesbianas contra amoro-sas y poliamorosas, Norma Mogrovejo reflexiona sobre la insurgencia a normas que controlan y privatizan el cuerpo y la sexualidad de las mu-jeres. El discurso del amor romántico ha fagocitado al movimiento ho-mosexual y las lesbianas radicalizan la práctica cotidiana cuestionando a las instituciones que siguen traficando con ellas (al amor, el matrimonio, la familia, el parentesco).
El contra amor es una ruptura epistémica, un quebranto con el some-timiento que el amor romántico impone a las mujeres controlando sus vidas; y un laboratorio de experimentación donde las certezas son acaso mitos sin reactivos. Mogrovejo complejiza las preocupaciones de las lesbianas por entablar acuerdos éticos amorosos entre las socias, por sacar al Estado patriarcal de la cama y el entorno, por realizar alianzas de vida posrupturas, por resignificar el placer perejil y privado, entre otras. El amor es un territorio fundamentalmente político, que organiza jer-arquías, sometimiento y dominacíon. Pero también es lugar de rupturas y locuras.
Esta es una propuesta de quiebra con el individualismo amoroso que alimenta fundamentalmente al capitalismo neoliberal y una reconsid-eración de la comunalidad amorosa. Contra-amor, poliamor, relaciones abiertas, sexo casual, anarquía amorosa, ruptura de la monogamia obligatoria, son conceptos o experiencias, que se discuten, entre otras.
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Del sexilio al matrimonio: Ciudadanía sexual en la era del consumo neoliberal
Del estudio del sexilio a la crítica de la familia lésbica, Norma Mogrovejo sigue la pista sutil de la infiltración capitalista en la vida de las personas. Si el sexilio nos habla de la persecu-ción, la tortura, el sojuzgamiento de la disidencia sexual y sus dificultades para alcanzar una subjetivación, en países donde la discriminación racial y la xenofobia producto de los nacio-nalismos no dejan más opciones a las lesbianas que la migración y el exilio, el segundo nos lleva a reflexionar so-bre los riesgos de la falsa conciencia en el ejercicio de los derechos econó-micos y de transmisión de la ciuda-danía que se adquieren al conformar una familia.
Posted on October 2, 2020 October 6, 2020 Books
Trump, The Wannabe Dictator: How We Got to This Dire State of Affairs
by Alon Ben-Meir
Contrary to his campaign slogan, Trump did not make America great again—he brought peril on America’s greatness because of his dictatorial ambitions and the manner by which he has been pursuing those aims since he came to power. The book reveals how Trump’s governance is starkly different from any of his predecessors, due to his incessant lies, misleading statements, and corruption. Ben-Meir surveys Trump’s colossal failure in foreign and domestic policies, and the great danger he poses to America’s democracy. Highlighted is his aggressive style and deep disdain for Democrats, which has polarized the country and brought it to the precipice of violent confrontation between his supporters and detractors, which should concern every American.
Professor Alon Ben-Meir is an expert on Middle East and West Balkan affairs, international negotiations, and conflict resolution. In the past two decades, Ben-Meir has been directly involved in Track II diplomacy involving Israel and its neighboring countries and Turkey. Ben-Meir is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute, is featured on a variety of television networks, and regularly briefs at the U.S. State Department for the International Visitor Leadership Program. He writes a weekly article that is syndicated globally. He has authored seven books related to the Middle East, and is currently working on two new books about Syria and Turkey.
Ben-Meir is on Facebook at @ABenMeir, and Twitter at @AlonBenMeir.
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Posted on September 28, 2020 Books
It Can Happen Here: A Novel Look Backward
by Max J. Skidmore
It Can Happen Here is set in the near future following the term of a rogue president. Its protagonist has kept a detailed journal of American politics of the period. He responds to numerous requests from family and friends for descriptive analyses of the 2020 elections and the resulting first year of the new administration. Drawing from the journal, he produces an unconventionally forthright study drawing upon fact and common sense.
Like his protagonist, author Max J. Skidmore has a background well suited for the task. Throughout a long life, he migrated far from his youthful extreme conservatism. His Ph.D. in American Studies enriched his views, as did living abroad. He has been a professor and dean at two American universities, and was the founding head of a political science department at another. He was CEO of a large library and research centre in India. He was senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Hong Kong. He has published widely, and was founding editor of a peer-reviewed academic quarterly. Never an ivory tower academician, he earned a pilot’s license, and has long practiced martial arts (holding several advanced black belts). He has produced It Can Happen Here as the final part of a trilogy of sorts, along with Unworkable Conservatism, 2017, and The Common Sense Manifesto, 2020. Each of these approached America’s politics from a different point of view. It Can Happen Here is his first application of fiction to complete the truth of the whole.
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Posted on September 23, 2020 September 23, 2020 Books
Peacebuilding: A Personal Journey
Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
by David L. Phillips
David L. Phillips is Director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. Phillips served as Foreign Affairs Expert and as Senior Adviser to the U.S. Department of State and as Senior Adviser to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. He has worked at academic institutions as Executive Director of Columbia’s International Conflict Resolution Program, Director of American University’s Program on Conflict Prevention and Peace-building, a Fellow at Harvard University’s Future of Diplomacy Project, Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Center for Middle East Studies, and Professor at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. He worked at think-tanks such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Atlantic Council, and the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo. Phillips has also been a foundation executive, serving as President of the Congressional Human Rights Foundation and Executive Director of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. Phillips was an analyst and commentator for NBC News, CNBC, and the British Broadcasting Company. He has authored many books, policy reports and opinion pieces.
Posted on September 2, 2020 December 3, 2020 Books
Caribbean Perspectives on Criminology and Criminal Justice: Volume 2
Dr. Wendell C. Wallace, Editor
In this volume and the one that precedes it, Dr Wendell C. Wallace has not only succeeded in bringing together a fascinating collection of papers that illustrate the uniqueness (as well as sharedness) of Caribbean Criminology, he has succeeded in putting Caribbean Criminology very firmly back on the intellectual map. This book deserves to be read by academics and students of Criminology and related disciplines from across the globe.
—Professor Kevin Haines, The University of Trinidad and Tobago
This volume makes an efficacious contribution to Caribbean research on crime and violence. It provides criminological insights on a range of topics such as paradigms of justice, perspectives on policing and incarceration, the geopolitical context for extradition, and violence reduction strategies. This rich and profound installment will be useful to an international community of researchers, practitioners and policymakers. It also makes a strong case for the role and impact of post-Colonial scholarship.
—Dr. Vaughn Crichlow, Associate Dean and Associate Professor, College of Social Work and Criminal Justice, Florida Atlantic University
A path-breaking and comprehensive work, Caribbean Perspectives on Criminology and Criminal Justice (Volume 2) comes at a time when societies in the Caribbean region are grappling with a plethora of issues within their criminal justice systems and with crime in all its iterations and when the structure of the justice system on which all of these societies are premised is being challenged to adjust to changes in societal mores. Volume 2 of this edited book adds to the growing body of scientific, empirical, and theoretical literature on criminology and criminal justice in the Caribbean. In a similar vein to Volume 1, this book is a direct response to the call for a Caribbean Criminology, as espoused by Ken Pryce (1976), and is aimed at whittling away the “epistemological coloniality” or the dominance and transfer of knowledge from the Global North to the Global South, more specifically, the Caribbean. This edited book also aims at reducing the “coloniality of knowledge” (Smith, 2012) and thus enhances epistemological diversity in the postcolonial Anglophone Caribbean. Bringing together a broad range of experts, this edited book sheds light on key criminological and criminal justice topics in the Caribbean. This not only brings to the fore socio-legal and criminological issues plaguing the Caribbean, but also proffers suggestions and recommendations aimed at alleviating these concerns. This book is therefore an essential reading for those engaged with Caribbean—or decolonial—Caribbean criminology and criminal justice.
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Posted on July 27, 2020 December 3, 2020 Books
Policy Perspectives from Promising New Scholars in Complexity: Volume IV
Editors: Dr. Liz Johnson , Dr. Joseph Cochran, Kristopher Heiser
The world is getting more complex causing policy problems to seemingly get bigger and become more intractable. Traditional approaches and conventional methodologies alone are no longer adequate to solve policy problems in our interconnected global environment. Promising new scholars in the field of policy and complexity are breaking boundaries and laying the groundwork for innovative perspectives on how to better define policy problems, impacts, attitudes, and solutions. Whether in the field of economics, education, energy, health, human security, or transportation, the selected essays and research in this book demonstrate how essential new thinking and approaches are needed.
These scholars have demonstrated vision, imagination, diligence, passion, and courage for solving problems. Don’t miss how some of the top promising new scholars address problems and add to creating viable solutions to some of the biggest policy issues of our day.
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Posted on July 27, 2020 July 27, 2020 Books
The Forgotten Army: The American Eighth Army in the Southern Philippines 1945
by Robert M. Young
History has produced many famous armies. It has also produced several that few knew even existed. The American Eighth Army of World War II is one such force. They existed for only about 8 months yet saw action throughout the Southwest Pacific, specifically in the Philippines. Under the command of General Robert Eichelberger they conducted operations in the Southern Philippines, on the islands of Panay, Negros, Cebu, and Mindanao, as well as conducting mopping up operations on Leyte and Luzon. It was a small army, never having more than 5 divisions, and other than Mindanao those divisions never fought together. It was also an army that never experienced defeat. They experienced frustration, a tenacious enemy, and at times shortages of troops. Yet victory was at every turn. The war was coming to an end and the Eighth Army played its part by liberating the rest of the Philippines from Japanese control. The atomic bombs made an invasion of Japan unnecessary but the Eighth Army stood ready to take part in what would have been one of history’s largest operations.
Dr. Robert Young received a B.A. from St. John’s University, an M.A. from Brooklyn College, and a Ph.D in military History from the C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center. He is currently a Professor of History and Military History at American Military University. He is the author of several books on World War II in the Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA) ad well as numerous articles on World War II and post-World War II conflicts. A New York City native and United States Army veteran, he currently lives in Long Island with his wife and two children.
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Posted on July 27, 2020 Books
The Garden at Rose Brake: Garden Writings of Danske Dandridge
Collected and Introduced by Justin McHenry
Caroline “Danske” Dandridge (1854-1914) was a prominent West Virginian poet and historian of her generation. In numerous articles published in the leading gardening magazines of the time, Dandridge brought readers to her country estate on the outskirts of Shepherdstown, West Virginia. A place she called Rose Brake. The Garden at Rose Brake is the first collection of Danske Dandridge’s garden writings. These articles provide delicate and sumptuous descriptions of Rose Brake’s gardening delights and offer a glimpse into the life of one of West Virginia’s most acclaimed writers.
Justin McHenry is a writer and historian, and the archivist for American Public University System.
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Posted on May 26, 2020 Books
Storia del Grande Oriente d’Italia (Italian Edition)
by Emanuela Locci
Questo volume è la traduzione italiana di un libro precedente nato con l’intento di colmare una lacuna bibliografica, infatti, fino alla sua pubblicazione non era presente nella letteratura massonica un libro che trattasse in maniera organica la storia della massoneria in Italia, scritto in inglese. Questo volume si proponeva di eliminare questa mancanza e di far conoscere a una parte del mondo, quella che si rifà alla lingua anglosassone, la storia della più importante delle Obbedienze che operano in Italia: il Grande Oriente d’Italia.
Il libro nasce dall’unione delle competenze di giovani ricercatori italiani che si occupano di massoneria e si sono incontrati in occasione del primo seminario promosso dal Centro Ricerche Storiche sulla Libera Muratoria che si è tenuto a Torino nel 2017 e che hanno deciso di mettere il loro sapere e la loro professionalità al servizio della storia e di questo libro.
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Posted on April 2, 2020 April 7, 2020 Books
Beat the Drum Ecclesiastic: Gilbert Sheldon and the Settlement of Anglican Orthodoxy
by Heather D. Thornton
Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury (1663-77) was at the helm during the time the Church of England sought to remake and redefine itself in the aftermath of not only the Civil Wars, Interregnum, but the Restoration Settlement as well. He aided in the preservation of a remnant of the Church of England, supported his king until his execution, and gained a high position in the Church upon its return, which gave him the opportunity to influence the Church to the present day.
This work seeks to highlight Sheldon’s role during this era, and illustrates his powerful influence upon the Church he tirelessly served. Sheldon has often been one figure often overlooked by history and this work seeks to correct that problem. It showcases the importance of his steady hand at the helm of the church in the 17th century that allowed the Church of England to recover and flourish in later centuries.
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Heather D. Thornton received her PhD from Louisiana State University in 2010. She is currently an associate professor with the Department of History at American Public University. This is her first book.
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Posted on February 28, 2020 February 28, 2020 Books
Siren of the Heart
by Gad Ben-Meir
Siren of the Heart is a selection of Ben-Meir’s poems written over the last twelve years celebrating his avid appreciation and colourful insight into love and friendship in all their manifestations, repercussions and, sometimes, conversion into hate or antipathy. His rhymes and free verse illuminate the breadth and depth of such feelings covering, inter alia, the readers’ underlying stratum of their own life experiences. Ben-Meir has cast, with verve and vivacity, his Middle Eastern cultural background into the vibrant and multi-cultural societies of Australia and England where he and his family have lived for close to six decades.
Posted on February 25, 2020 Books
Worlds of Print: The Moral Imagination of an Informed Citizenry, 1734 to 1839
by John Slifko
Plato, Aristotle, Baron Montesquieu, and Jean Jacques Rousseau argued that you could never have a democracy bigger than the geographic size, intimate oral habits, and embodied rituals of face-to-face communication, and walking distance of a Greek city-state, French town, or small Swiss city. However, in the years surrounding the 1776 American War of Independence and accelerating into the 1800s in the American northeast and mid-Atlantic, there was a significant cultural transformation in the transition from oral/aural cultures to an increasingly literate citizenry. A consequence of this transition was an expanded geographical range of democratic engagement. In this book, John Slifko argues that freemasonry was representative and played an important role in this transformation and helped articulate the moral imagination of an informed democratic citizenry via fast emerging worlds of print.
A metamorphosis occurred through worlds of print anchored at home in the routine lives of local community and transmission in space across networks of place. Communication and political participation were enhanced in early America through a growing range of print vehicles such as pamphlets, newspapers, declarations and books of all types concerned with ancient and modern learning. The formation of local civic associations and reading libraries further contributed to this growth of available print documents. This work examines the vital roles that freemasons played in this print transformation.
John Slifko (1950-2018) was an expert in the fields of Freemasonry and Esotericism. He dedicated much of his scholarly and charitable work to studying democratic civil societies.
In 2015, John was awarded the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Geography from University of California, Los Angeles. He completed a joint Bachelor’s degree in Urban Planning and Geography in 1987 from San Francisco State and a Master’s degree in 1989 from University of California, Los Angeles in Urban Planning. John worked as a Planning Deputy for the Los Angeles City Council and as a Legislative Aide Field Representative for the United States Congress.
He was a founding member and served on the Board of Advisors at the Hannah Mather Crocker Society, Notre Dame University. He was also a Founder and co-Director of the Roosevelt Center for the Study of Civil Society and Freemasonry and Project AWE, which is dedicated to exploring connections between Western esotericism and the arts.
John was described by Zhenya Gershman, an Artist and Art Historian, as someone who “had a thirst for knowledge and a striving for improvement of life conditions for others that continues to be contagious. The concept of ‘Moral Imagination’ represented to John a combination of the reverie for artistic creativity with simultaneous responsibility for the world”.
The Hope for Perfect People Leaders: Positive Psychology Education to Lead our Future Health, Happiness and Success
by Dr. Lisa Miller
The Hope for Perfect People Leaders provides a visionary strategic plan to educate and empower our future generations as luminaries of positive psychology. Leaders learn to dedicate themselves to the hope for higher humanism, while also producing prosperity through local and global altruistic reciprocity.
Readers will find a multidisciplinary collaboration from meticulous researchers, bold leaders, compassionate thinkers, eloquent activists, clever humorists, Olympic coaches, and wise discerning diplomats. This work offers a thought provoking mentality capable of improving one’s fundamental motivation toward life experiences. Lessons learned from the reading will inspire increased emotional intelligence, gracefulness in conflict, dedication to loyally serving others, and cultural inclusivity of demographic diversity and neurodiversity.
Dr. Lisa Miller, Professor of Health Sciences at American Military University, contributed 20 years of expertise on innovative collaborations in research, teaching, and service to develop our hope for altruistic leaders who will improve mental, physical, and spiritual health in higher education. Dr. Miller completed a Doctorate from The Ohio State University with interdisciplinary specializations in Higher Education and Student Affairs, Counseling and Sport Psychology, Research Methods for Human Development, and Sport and Exercise Management. She earned a Master of Human Resources from the Fisher College of Business along with a Graduate Concentration from Harvard University in Education and Religious Studies in addition to a Bachelor of Science in the Psychology Honors Program from Wright State University as a tennis scholar athlete. In her spare time, Dr. Miller enjoys discussing noble international projects, traveling internationally, teaching tennis, strolling through campuses, and helping others with positive psychology skills to proactively improve mental health.
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Posted on February 1, 2020 Books
A Common Sense Manifesto (With a Nod to Thomas Paine, Not Karl Marx)
political situation in America, and how it came to be. It chronicles the disturbing deterioration of the Republican Party into an extreme and corrupt mechanism ready to receive and incorporate a destructive force that it welcomed wholeheartedly when it appeared in the bombastic, and completely self-centered, form of Donald Trump. Calling for a “blue tsunami,” the Manifesto outlines the way forward, out of the insanity. It notes political realities and thus accepts the need to work within the two-party system. It argues for a rational and comprehensive “Modern Political Economy” that recognizes environmental imperatives, corrects severe income and political inequality, expands Social Security, implements universal health care, protects the rights and dignity of all the people, improves America’s sagging infrastructure and transportation up to world-class and responsible standards, and ensures full participation in the national bounty in ways that protect the world and all its current and future inhabitants.
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Posted on February 1, 2020 December 3, 2020 Books
US Ballistic Missile Defense and Deterrence Postures: The New Cold War Era Perspective on the Wartime Use of Active Missile Defenses
by Grzegorz Nycz
This book discusses most recent developments in the area of US ballistic missile defense with an eye on its battlefield capacities since the Kuwait war, analyzed from the perspective of deterrence postures encompassing the key post-Cold War security challenges (Middle East, Far East, Eastern Europe). The analyzed cases of missile defense engagements included (after the Desert Storm), Operation Iraqi Freedom, Israeli operations against Hamas and Yemen war. The theoretical base of the book relied on the waves of deterrence theory since the early years of the nuclear age through the deployment of thermonuclear warheads, nuclear plenty and the late Cold War revisions of deterrence paradigms.
The main body of the book is exploring the historical and probabilistic evidence on missile defense accuracy in various scenarios of its employment and differing layered short, medium and long range systems of the US counter-ballistic technologies. Historically, the missile defense investments since the early thermonuclear range were challenging the Mutual Assured Destruction paradigm. Notably, after partial marginalization of US long range missile defense concepts of the 1960s, seen as incompatible with 1972 Anti-ballistic missile treaty between the US and USSR, missile defense constructions were reinvigorated through Reagan’s 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative, while post-1976 Patriot tactical air and missile defense were gradually winning arms contracts, as in the post Cold War age the value of extended deterrence grew. New post-Cold War missile defense investments included the Middle Eastern US allies, as well as Japan and South Korea threatened by DPRK nuclear and ballistic experiments. Importantly, the value of extended missile defense engagements became broader visible in the era of New Cold War between Russia and the West, when new Aegis Ashore bases in Romania and Poland proved the theater range missile defense capacity of new NATO members.
Grzegorz Nycz, Ph.D. is adjunct professor at the Pedagogical University of Cracow’s Institute of Political Science. He graduated from Jagiellonian University and Cracow University of Economics. Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund Fellow 2007/2008. His research refers to U.S. security and foreign policy, with a special focus on nuclear deterrence and ballistic missile defense postures. His recent publications include monographs on strategic balance and U.S. national security policy and texts in periodicals related to ballistic missile defense investments, as well as U.S. military-political engagements in Eastern Europe, Middle East and East Asia in the time of the “New Cold War” between Russia and the West.
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Posted on January 6, 2020 March 20, 2020 Available for Purchase, Books
All Flowers Bloom
by Kawika Guillermo
In a cruise ship stateroom, a soul awakens in the afterlife, still dressed in the Roman servant garbs of his previous life.
He can’t remember much, but a silent woman stands out in his memory: his first and only love.
Unable to cope with an eternity without her, he leaps from the ship and back into the depths of the life stream.
Five hundred years later, he awakens again in the same stateroom, alone and fueled with new memories of her.
In his past lives she was a male insurgent, an elderly wise woman, an unruly servant.
For a millennia the pair are tethered together, clashing in love and fear, betraying each other in times of war and famine.
Before memory drives him mad, he vows to rescue her from the stream — even if it takes a thousand lifetimes more.
“A defiant and tender call for the power of love, across a thousand lifetimes and lands. Guillermo’s imagination is breath-taking, and he shows the power of the written word as at once the most high-fidelity and stylized of mediums.”
—Ken Liu, author of The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Grace of Kings
“Kawika Guillermo has achieved an ambitious feat: to chronicle a memory—and its vast empire of battles and love, constant guises and surprises—that spans over four thousand years through a narrator who, like the beloved, is blessed, or cursed, with hundreds of lives, each rebirth announcing a different milieu, a different role. At its core, All Flowers Bloom is a lover’s discourse on desire, its multiple masks and power to make lovers and strangers, and traitors and rescuers out of us.”
—R. Zamora Linmark, author of Rolling the R’s and Leche
“All Flowers Bloom is a beguiling book, with an inventive narrative unlike anything I have encountered before. This is an emotional journey through lifetimes and loves and losses. Kawika Guillermo delivers wonderment and surprise, a complex universe, and an unforgettable cast of characters.”
—Doretta Lau, author of How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?
Posted on January 1, 2020 December 3, 2020 Books
Anti-Poverty Measures in America: Scientism and Other Obstacles
Editors, Max J. Skidmore and Biko Koenig
Anti-Poverty Measures in America brings together a remarkable collection of essays in two groups. The first group consists of papers dealing with the inhibiting effects of scientism—an over-dependence on scientific methodology that is prevalent in the social sciences, particularly in political science. Employing the methods of science is vital where appropriate, but other approaches often will lead to useful insights as well, some of which may be essential. Ignoring them has deleterious effects, such as discouraging the obligation to “speak truth to power.” The second group presents papers dealing with other obstacles to anti-poverty legislation in the United States.
Papers in both groups originated as presentations during annual meetings of the American Political Science Association at panels of the APSA’s Caucus on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy; the first group from the San Francisco meeting in 2017, and the second from the 2018 meeting in Boston. All were subsequently published in the journal related to the Caucus: Poverty and Public Policy, sponsored by the Policy Studies Organization. Recognizing their value, the PSO is pleased to present these essays to the public in this volume.
The Editors:
Max J. Skidmore is University of Missouri Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has been Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer to India (where he was CEO of the American Studies Research Centre), and Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Hong Kong (where he was elected to chair the Board of American Studies). His publications include scores of articles and book chapters, and more than two dozen books. His major emphases are American government and political history, presidents and the presidency, social legislation (especially Social Security), and ideologies and American political thought. His Ph.D. is from the University of Minnesota.
Biko Koenig is Assistant Professor of Government & Public Policy at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. Trained in ethnographic, interview based, and survey research methods, his research approach is grounded in qualitative, fieldwork based, and interpretive approaches to problem solving. His ongoing research involves labor-community coalitions that focus on low income workers and public policy.
Posted on December 16, 2019 December 3, 2020 Books
Editor: Wendell C. Wallace, PhD
If your desire is to attain a greater understanding of theoretical frameworks, methodologies, and pragmatic discussions on criminology and criminal justice in the Caribbean, then this is the book for you. This book is a direct response to the call for a Caribbean Criminology as espoused by Ken Pryce (1976) who pointed to the “need to examine the reality of crime from a critical standpoint in the context of the Region’s history of capitalist repression and exploitation, and in terms of the Caribbean’s structural heritage of black working-class styles of protest and modes of response to oppression through slavery down to the present stage of neo-colonialism” (p. 5).
Caribbean Perspectives on Criminology and Criminal Justice is intended for academics, criminal justice professionals, students, practitioners, policymakers, and interested persons who are desirous of improving their understanding of the challenges that arise when issues related to criminology and criminal justice cross national boundaries in the Caribbean. Conceptualized and edited by the innovative, creative, and forward-thinking scholar and criminologist, Dr. Wendell C. Wallace, Caribbean Perspectives on Criminology and Criminal Justice is a MUST read for any serious practitioner with an interest in criminological and criminal justice issues that impact the Caribbean.
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How Did I Get Here?: A Story of Interspecies Intimacies (In Nepalese Elephant Stables)
by Kim Idol
Kim Idol is a writer/instructor at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, partial to dogs, guns, rock-climbing and backpack traveling. She has been in love with Nepal since she first visited 8 years ago. She knew she loved the outdoors and that she would love the Himalayas, but she was unexpectedly charmed by the wildlife and the people she met on her first trip and upon returning home immediately began saving and planning in order to return. Eight years later after a tough year at home, a random mouse-click on the word elephant led her to the site that described working at the elephant stables in Chitwan. So she packed up and left home journaling her experiences in Chitwan as she went.
Nepal is the mountain, the jungle and the foothills. The country is blessed and cursed with being a popular tourist destination and while its people take advantage of the luck they are also engaged in a vigorous fight to preserve their culture and protect the park and the mountains that are home to some of the last surviving members of several endangered species including the one horned rhinoceros, the Asian elephant, the sloth bear and many bird and crocodile species. This book is about the outdoors, about a culture straddling the past and the present and about a woman finding a little peace as she treks through the result. The trip changed this traveler and she suspects she might be seeing Chitwan again.
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Kingsglaive’s Exploration of World War II, Cultural Trauma, and the Plight of Refugees: An Animated Film as Complex Narrative
by Amy M. Green
Kingsglaive’s Exploration of World War II, Cultural Trauma, and the Plight of Refugees: An Animated Film as Complex Narrative posits that the 2016 film, tied narratively to the video game Final Fantasy XV, merits far more critical attention that it has received. Given that Kingsglaive is both CGI animated and erroneously seen as only a video game tie-in, it has tended to be consistently dismissed by critics. A closer examination of the film reveals a deeply complex narrative, one that contends with the lingering cultural trauma of WWII in Japan, as especially evidenced by images of fire and burning. The film also contends with the plight of refugees and immigrants, both in Japan and around the globe, as recent years have seen a drastic spike in anti-immigrant sentiment. Finally, through the film’s hero and protagonist, Nyx Ulric, Kingsglaive presents a man who is himself suffering from trauma, standing in the present, yet unable to fully imagine a future for himself.
About the author: Amy M. Green received her Ph.D. in literature from UNLV in 2009. She specialized in Shakespeare and 19th century American literature. Today, her work has evolved and she focuses her research on the exciting and evolving field of digital narrative study. She is especially interested in the expanding presence of video games as a compelling source of narrative, one that is necessarily participatory by nature. Further still, video games have long merited the right to be considered as important cultural artifacts and her study and analysis of their stories focuses especially on their historical, political, and social relevance. She also maintains her love of the written word and loves to explore how storytelling, in all of its forms, reveals important aspects of our shared humanity. Most of all, she loves her time in the classroom, sharing ideas and thoughts with students from all backgrounds. Her classes feature the close and careful study of storytelling in both written and digital forms. She is the author of three books, Storytelling in Video Games: The Art of the Digital Narrative, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Trauma, and History in Metal Gear Solid V, and A Cure for Toxic Masculinity: Male Bonding and Friendship in Final Fantasy XV as well as numerous articles.
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Bunker Diplomacy: An Arab-American in the U.S. Foreign Service
by Nabeel Khoury
Nabeel Khoury has written a remarkably cogent memoir. He not only details life in the Foreign Service in a highly entertaining and engaging style, but also provides provocative and telling insights into many of the crises in the Middle East…From Egypt, to ‘The Magic Kingdom’ to Iraq, Morocco and Yemen — Dr. Khoury undertook his duties with a flair that was both bold and unique. I only wish that American policy makers would read his chapters on Morocco and Yemen in particular, and benefit from his general policy recommendations – It might induce some humility and second thoughts on some important “lessons learned.”
Mark G. Hambley
Former Ambassador to Qatar and Lebanon
This is a gripping narrative that fuses two stories in one. The first is the academic and political journey of a fascinating man standing between two worlds — Beirut and Washington, Arabness and Westerness, the State Department and the Middle East…The second narrative is a story of America itself as a great power casting a long shadow over the Arab world. The bureaucratic battles described as occurring inside different presidential administrations over four decades reveal a foreign policy often caught between conflicting personalities and demands. Major events like the Gulf War, Iraq War, and Arab Spring are trenchantly retold from the perspective of policymakers, diplomats, and intelligence officers. That these two stories come from the same book is reason enough to read it, but that they come from the career of the same individual will make readers never forget it.
Moulay Hicham el-Alaoui
President Hicham Alaoui Foundation
Nabeel Khoury – an accomplished Arab-American diplomat – offers readers a searing personal journey through America’s trials and tribulations in the Middle East.
William J. Burns, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Former Deputy Secretary of State
After twenty-five years in the Foreign Service, Dr. Nabeel A. Khoury retired from the U.S. Department of State in 2013 with the rank of Minister Counselor. He taught Middle East and US strategy courses at the National Defense University and Northwestern University. In his last overseas posting, Khoury served as deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Yemen (2004-2007). In 2003, during the Iraq war, he served as Department spokesperson at US Central Command in Doha and in Baghdad.
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Policy Perspectives from Promising New Scholars in Complexity: Volume III
Dr. Liz Johnson and Dr. Joseph Cochran, Editors
Posted on August 29, 2019 Available for Purchase, Books
History of the Grand Orient of Italy
Emanuela Locci, Editor
The initiative to write this volume comes from the need to fill a bibliographic gap: no book in Masonic literature upon the history of Italian Freemasonry has been edited in English up to now. Thus, it aims to cover this lack and to enter those scholars referring to the English idiom into the history of the most eminent Obedience acting in Italy: the Grand Orient of Italy. The book consists of eight studies, written by young researchers devoted to this topic, and covers a span from the Eighteenth Century to the end of the WWII, tracing through an orderly temporal plot the story, the events and pursuits related to the Grand Orient of Italy.
Posted on July 10, 2019 December 3, 2020 Available for Purchase, Books
Geopolitics of Outer Space: Global Security and Development
by Ilayda Aydin
Civilization in the twenty-first century is characterized by its technological capacity, which is substantially realized through space technologies. A desire for increased security and rapid development is driving nation-states to engage in an intensifying competition for speed and superiority to better utilize the unique assets of space. This competition, however, is rigorously challenged by the unforgiving physical properties of the space environment such as extreme temperatures and intense fluxes of radiation, as well as by an escalation in nuclear proliferation that could end all life known to human existence. Despite these challenges, humanity is taking eager steps into space—and is taking its various geopolitical rivalries and imperatives along.Does space development further or undermine global security? Can an obsession with security pose an ironically existential threat to humanity in this most fragile yet unforgiving environment it is stepping into? This book analyses the Chinese-American space discourse from the lenses of international relations theory, history and political psychology to explore these questions.
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Posted on June 5, 2019 June 27, 2019 Available for Purchase, Books
Why Thirty-Three?: Searching for Masonic Origins
by S. Brent Morris, PhD, Introduction by Wallace E. Boston, Jr.
The papers presented here represent over twenty-five years of publications by S. Brent Morris. They explore his many questions about Freemasonry, usually dealing with origins of the Craft. What “high degrees” were in the United States before 1830? What were the activities in the United States before 1801 of the Order of the Royal Secret, the precursor of the Scottish Rite? How did American grand lodges form as they broke away from England? Who were the Gormogons; how did they get started; what happened to them? Why does the Scottish Rite have thirty-three degrees?A complex organization with a lengthy pedigree like Freemasonry has many basic foundational questions waiting to be answered, and that’s what this book does: answers questions.
S. Brent Morris, 33°, Grand Cross, is Managing Editor of the Scottish Rite Journal, the largest circulation Masonic magazine in the world. He retired after twenty-five years as a mathematician with the federal government and has taught at Duke, Johns Hopkins, and George Washington Universities. He is Past Master of Patmos Lodge No. 70, Ellicott City, Maryland, and Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, London; a Fellow and Mackey Scholar of the Scottish Rite Research Society; a Fellow of the Philalethes Society; an honorary Fellow of the Phylaxis Society; founding Editor of Heredom, the transactions of the Scottish Rite Research Society; indexer of Ars Quatuor Coronatorum; and Past Grand Abbot of the Society of Blue Friars. He is the author of Magic Tricks, Card Shuffling, and Dynamic Computer Memories; two U.S. patents; nine technical articles; and is author or editor of over forty books on Freemasonry including Complete Idiot’s Guide to Freemasonry and Is It True What They Say About Freemasonry? (with Arturo de Hoyos).
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Posted on October 6, 2018 October 6, 2018 Available for Purchase, Books
Adirondack Summer, 1969: A Novel
by Alan Robert Proctor
“In Adirondack Summer, 1969, Alan Proctor has fashioned a marvelous world that invokes nostalgia and realism (and even magical realism) to superb effect. It’s a poignant, playful, intensely imagined book, written with grace and good humor and the kind of sentences all writers ache to produce. Highly recommended, whether you went to summer camp or not.”
—Brian Shawver, author of Aftermath and The Language of Fiction.
“I’m a big believer in good first lines to novels, and Alan Proctor grabs you from the first sentence.”
—Frank Higgins, playwright, author of Black Pearl Sings.
“This jewel of a novel … reminds readers of the vulnerability and gifts of summer …. I fell right into the characters, the setting and the drama ….”
—Denise Low, 2007-2009 Poet Laureate of Kansas, author of Melange Block and Jackalope.
“Alan Proctor’s Adirondack Summer, 1969, is a meditation on grief and loss, told with the verve of a John Irving novel. Proctor’s vivid sense of place makes the novel’s setting—an arts camp in the Adirondacks—a character in its own right. His cast, led by Deidre and Myron Cravitz, weave a gorgeous, often comic, tapestry of their delusions, loves, and dreams. Any reader booking a cabin at Camp Cravitz should prepare to be moved and entertained.”
—Whitney Terrell, author of The Good Lieutenant.
Posted on September 24, 2018 November 12, 2019 Available for Purchase, Books
The Death Penalty in the Caribbean: Perspectives from the Police
Editor, Wendell C. Wallace PhD
“The Death Penalty in the Caribbean is a novel, thought-provoking and timely contribution to the contentious debate of the Death Penalty in the Anglophone Caribbean. This book is directed at policy makers, law enforcement practitioners and scholars, and is a must read for students of criminology, international relations, political science and security studies for the light it sheds on this complex matter.”
—Dr. Suzette A. Haughton, senior lecturer of international relations and security studies, Department of Government, The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus.
“The Death Penalty in the Caribbean is a clarion call to police leaders and police officers to share their views on the viability of the death penalty as a crime control mechanism for the Caribbean. The book presents cogent and reasoned discussions which are worthy of stimulating future discourse among policy makers, police leaders and academics and is very encouraging for the development of a Caribbean Jurisprudence.”
—Stephen Williams, Commissioner of Police, Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.
Many individuals have yearned to hear the voices of the often voiceless police leaders in the Caribbean. With this in mind, two controversial topics, policing and the death penalty, are skillfully interwoven into one book in order to respond to this lacuna in the region. The book carries you through a disparate range of emotions, thoughts, frustrations, successes and views as espoused by police leaders throughout the Caribbean. The book is a riveting read that will quench readers’ thirst for knowledge on the death penalty and policing as viewed through the lens of police practitioners. This book is a must read for students of criminology, law, police sciences as well as man on the street and is a great opportunity to listen to the voices of Caribbean police leaders as they bare it all for the readers. If you are interested in understanding the challenges faced by police officers, crime prevention and reduction strategies and the efficacy of the death penalty in the Caribbean, then this is a book for you.
Dr. Wendell C. Wallace is a Criminologist, Barrister and a Certified Mediator who also has over 15 years of progressive policing experience. These unique qualifications have placed him in a prime position to deliberate on the myriad of crime related issues such as the Death Penalty, obstacles to policing and crime prevention and reduction strategies that confront Caribbean countries and their police departments.
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Posted on August 5, 2018 March 4, 2020 Available for Purchase, Books
Stamped: An Anti-Travel Novel
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Winner of the 2020 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Prose
Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction: Literary category of the 2019 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest
Exasperated by the small-minded tyranny of his hometown, Skyler Faralan travels to Southeast Asia with $500 and a death wish. After months of wandering, he crosses paths with other dejected travelers: Sophea, a short-fused NGO worker; Arthur, a brazen expat abandoned by his wife and son; and Winston, a defiant intellectual exile. Bound by pleasure-fueled self-destruction, the group flounders from one Asian city to another, confronting the mixture of grief, betrayal, and discrimination that caused them to travel in the first place.
“Guillermo tells the stories of American expatriates seeking to lose or remake themselves in the far-flung corners of Asia. His narrative voice—steady, visual, and evocative—is complemented by his keen ear for dialogue.”
—Peter Bacho, author of Cebu and winner of the American Book Award
“Guillermo’s novel teaches the reader how to engage the world and reveals the very best about being a traveler rather than a tourist. We follow not only a vivid visual adventure across Asia, but also a linguistic journey into understanding new language and a definition of ‘we’ that is inclusive and empowering and revealing.”
—Shawn Hsu Wong, author of Homebase and American Knees
Kawika Guillermo moves and writes throughout Asia and North America, usually embarking from his station in Hong Kong. This is his first novel.
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Posted on July 22, 2018 Available for Purchase, Books
A Place in the Lodge: Dr. Rob Morris, Freemasonry and the Order of the Eastern Star
by Nancy Stearns Theiss PhD
Ridiculed as “petticoat masonry,” critics of the Order of the Eastern Star did not deter Rob Morris’ goal to establish a Masonic organization that included women as members. As Rob Morris (1818-1888) came “into the light,” he donned his Masonic apron and carried the ideals of Freemasonry through a despairing time of American history. His voluminous writing on Freemasonry and his ability to pen poems that celebrated occasions or honored the deceased earned him the title of Poet Laureate of Freemasonry in the 19th Century. An obscure figure in American history, Morris changed the world of Freemasonry making it one of the largest fraternal organizations in the world today. This book is a revised edition in the celebration of Rob Morris’ 200th year birthday, born July 31, 1818. It is based on a collection of family letters about Rob Morris’ journey in the world of Freemasonry that took him across the continents. In this revised edition, there are more letters, details about his literary contributions and images.
The Great Transformation: Scottish Freemasonry 1725-1810
by Dr. Mark C. Wallace
Modern Freemasonry emerged in Britain after 1700 as a prominent fixture in both British communal and social life. It combined earlier stonemason customs and methods of organization with the popular passion for clubs and societies. Some mocked Masonic lodges and their rituals, but they were an accepted feature on the social scene, given that they avoided political and religious discussion and swore loyalty to the existing regime. The French Revolution, however, caused a severe backlash against the masons in Britain and Europe. Despite its commitment to the establishment, Freemasonry came under suspicion. By the 1790s, lodges were viewed as convenient vehicles for radical groups to pursue covert revolutionary activities. As a result, legislation was passed which attempted to regulate these societies and eradicate any traces of secrecy. This book examines the structure, nature, and characteristics of Scottish Freemasonry in its wider British and European contexts between the years 1725 and 1810. The Enlightenment effectively crafted the modern mason and propelled Freemasonry into a new era marked by growing membership and the creation of the Grand Lodge of Scotland, with the institution becoming part of the contemporary fashion for associated activity.
Dr. Mark C. Wallace is an Associate Professor of History at Lyon College. He teaches British and Scottish history, including British Imperialism, British cultural, social, and intellectual history from the fifteenth century to the present, and the Scottish Enlightenment. A former Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, he has written extensively on Scottish Freemasonry and eighteenth-century Scottish clubs and societies.
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Posted on May 23, 2018 Available for Purchase, Books
ABC of Criminology
by Alain Bauer
Durkheim:
There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it.
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Policy Perspectives from Promising New Scholars in Complexity, Volume II
Editors: Dr. Liz Johnson and Dr. Joseph Cochran
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Posted on May 23, 2018 November 21, 2020 Available for Purchase, Books
The Politics of Impeachment
Margaret Tseng, Editor
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As changes in our political system have developed over the last two centuries, impeachment has grown even more political. The polarization of political parties, the power of interest groups and the expansion of suffrage has deeply impacted who we elect. Those elected officials, in turn, are responsible for overseeing the impeachment process, and their decisions are impacted by party dynamics, interest group influence and the desires of their constituents. While discussion about impeachment seems ubiquitous today, on the state level, impeachments of governors are extremely rare. Over 2,000 people have served as governors in the United States, but only thirteen governors have been impeached and eight removed from office.
On the national level, there have only been two presidential impeachments, but modern presidents have faced increased impeachment efforts. Every president since Ronald Reagan has faced some type of impeachment resolution from the opposing party. President Trump is no exception. Starting from his first day in office, over a million people signed an online impeachment petition and within six months of taking office he faced articles of impeachment from two Democratic congressmen.
This edited volume addresses the increased political nature of impeachment. It is meant to be a wide overview of impeachment on the federal and state level, including: the politics of bringing impeachment articles forward, the politicized impeachment proceedings, the political nature of how one conducts oneself during the proceedings and the political fallout afterwards. The group of men profiled in this book are an interesting, over-the-top group of politicians including Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, William Sulzer, Evan Mecham, and Rod Blagojevich.
Margaret Tseng is Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Politics at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. She also serves as the director of the American Heritage Initiative at Marymount. She earned her Ph.D. from Georgetown University. She is co-editor of The Presidents as Commander-in-Chief series with the Naval Institute Press.
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Posted on March 31, 2018 March 31, 2018 Available for Purchase, Books
Donald J. Trump as U.S. President: “It’s all about me!”
by John Dixon, Assisted by Christina Dixon
This is a wide-ranging book that focus the man who is the 45th president of the United States of America—Donald J. Trump. Its premise is that Trump’s rhetoric and actions become more understandable, perhaps even more predictable, in the light of his personality and his worldview and view-of-the world. It, therefore, has two goals:
• To delineate his personality traits and his worldview, so as to surmise on how he thinks about himself, others, and the world-at- large, and how he perceives and takes meaning from reality he experiences.
• To elucidate his idiosyncratic views on governance, government, the presidency, public administration, and domestic and foreign public policy.
To achieve these goals requires drawing upon concepts, frameworks, paradigms, and theories from philosophy, political science, psychology, public administration, economics, management, organizational theory, social theory, and sociology to understand his personality and worldview, and his views of the world-at-large, governance, government, and public policy.
This book is targeted at those for whom the Trump phenomenon—as a presidential candidate and as president—is both fascinating and baffling, but who are not intimately familiar with Trump the man of some notoriety or with American political institution, processes, and politics.
Companion volume: John Dixon and Max J. Skidmore (eds.), Donald J.
Trump’s Presidency: International Perspectives (Westphalia Press, Washington, DC, 2018).
John Dixon is Professor of Public Administration at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. He is a fellow of the British Academy of the Social Sciences in 2004, and has been an honorary life member of the American Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars since 2006.
Posted on March 16, 2018 November 12, 2019 Available for Purchase, Books
Donald J. Trump’s Presidency: International Perspectives
Editors: John Dixon and Max J. Skidmore
President Donald J. Trump’s foreign policy rhetoric and actions become more understandable by reference to his personality traits, his worldview, and his view of the world. His campaign rhetoric catered to Americans comfortable with isolationism and certainly with no appetite for foreign military engagements. So, his foreign policy emphasis was on American isolationism and economic nationalism. He is not really interested in delving too deeply into some of the substantive issues of international politics, particularly the prevailing quandaries in the East Asia, Middle East and North Africa, and Central and Eastern Europe. Why bother when simple solutions will suffice, for his purposes. He has placed America’s global superpower status at risk. The gradual decline of its global influence seems inevitable.
Companion volume: John Dixon, Donald J. Trump as U.S. President: “It’s all about me!” (Westphalia Press, Washington, DC, 2018).
Max J. Skidmore is University of Missouri’s Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Thomas Jefferson Fellow at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has been Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer to India, and Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Hong Kong.
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Posted on February 16, 2018 Available for Purchase, Books
A Different Dimension: Reflections on the History of Transpersonal Thought
by Mark B. Ryan
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A Different Dimension traces the historical development of an expanded, transpersonal view of consciousness—a view that sees the human mind as reaching beyond individual, personal consciousness into realms that we call “spiritual.” It provides a rich and vital discussion of some of the most fundamental questions of our lives: questions about the nature and capacities of the human mind, and its relation to ultimate realities.
While scientifically informed, transpersonal thought challenges common assumptions of our dominant, materialistic intellectual consensus, which sees all consciousness as a product of brain function. While sympathetic to mystical experience, it seldom endorses mainstream systems of religious belief; rather, it provides intellectual substance to the trend referred to as Spiritual But Not Religious.
Focusing on key figures and their seminal ideas, Mark Ryan presents a clear and graceful account of this current in psychology, from before the discovery of the unconscious in the late 19th century, through the emergence of transpersonal psychology as an organized field in the late 1960s, to its reverberations in our contemporary world.
For 22 years, Mark Ryan taught American Studies and History at Yale University, where he was the long-term Dean of Jonathan Edwards College. Subsequently, he was Titular IV Professor of International Relations and History at the Universidad de las Américas, Puebla in Mexico, where he also served as Dean of the Colleges and Director of the graduate program in United States Studies. For 14 years a Trustee of Naropa University, he is certified as a practitioner of Holotropic Breathwork. Currently he teaches at the C.G. Jung Educational Center of Houston, the Wisdom School of Graduate Studies of Ubiquity University, and other venues.
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Posted on January 22, 2018 December 3, 2020 Available for Purchase, Books
Demand the Impossible: Essays in History as Activism
Editors: Nathan Wuertenberg and William Horne
Born from the wave of activism that followed the inauguration of President Trump, Demand the Impossible asks scholars what they can do to help solve present-day crises. The twelve essays in this volume draw inspiration from present-day activists. They examine the role of history in shaping ongoing debates over monuments, racism, clean energy, health care, poverty, and the Democratic Party. Together they show the ways that the issues of today are historical expressions of power that continue to shape the present. Adequately addressing them means understanding their origins.
The way our society remembers the past has long served to cement inequality. It is no accident that the ahistorical slogan “make America great again” emerged after decades of income inequality and a generation of funding cuts to higher education. But the movement toward openly addressing injustice and inequality though historical inquiry is growing. Although many historians remain tucked away in ivory towers of their own making, we join a long tradition of activist scholars like W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James, and C. Vann Woodward, as well as a growing wave of engaged colleagues including Keri Leigh Merritt, who penned the foreword for this volume. As historians and citizens, we feel a responsibility to preserve an authentic vision of the past in a moment riddled with propaganda and lies. In doing so, we hope to help provide a framework to fight the inequities we inherited from prior generations that are repurposed and enshrined by the powerful today.
Nathan Wuertenberg is a doctoral candidate at The George Washington University. He is conducting research for a doctoral dissertation on the 1775 American invasion of Quebec, entitled “Divided We Stand: The American War for Independence, the 1775 Quebec Campaign, and the Rise of Nations in the Twilight of Colonial Empires.” William Horne is a PhD candidate at The George Washington University researching the relationship of race to labor, freedom, and capitalism in post-Civil War Louisiana. His dissertation, “Carceral State: Baton Rouge and its Plantation Environs Across Emancipation,” examines the ways in which white supremacy and capitalism each depended on restricting black freedom in the aftermath of slavery.
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Posted on December 18, 2017 December 18, 2017 Available for Purchase, Books
Best Practices for High Impact Threats to Critical Infrastructure: Conference Proceedings of the InfraGard National EMP SIG Sessions at the 2016 Dupont Summit
Edited by Charles L. Manto and Stephanie A. Lokmer
Best Practices for High Impact Threats to Critical Infrastructure provides transcripts of the 2016 InfraGard National EMP SIG ™ (EMP SIG)™ sessions at the Dupont Summit and additional materials from the subsequent months. The conference also reviewed nationwide activities of the EMP SIG including the release of Powering Through. It is a planning guide for communities, companies, and government agencies to help prepare for and mitigate widespread prolonged infrastructure collapse.
The conference segments also reflect the work of EMP SIG members at the National Guard Bureau, the Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health and the INCOSE Critical Infrastructure Protection and Recovery Working Group that provided key articles reprinted from the December 2016 INCOSE Journal Insight. The EMP Commission’s final letter to Congress and a Resilient Hospitals Handbook are also included.
InfraGard EMP SIG Publications:
Beginning December 2015, the EMP SIG developed a planning guide named Powering Through for organizations to use to enhance their own continuity of operations and disaster plans in light of the new National Space Weather Strategy and manmade EMP and cyber threats. Work is planned for 2016 for an expanded second edition. Copies can be ordered at: https://www.empcenter.org/publications/planning-guide/ This complements the Triple Threat Power Grid Exercise also published by Westphalia Press and Amazon.
Information on these planning materials and upcoming activities can also be acquired by contacting the EMP SIG at igempsig@infragardmembers.org. To join InfraGard and the EMP SIG, apply on the home page of InfraGard.org.
About the InfraGard National EMP SIG: The InfraGard National EMP SIG™ was formed in July 2011 for the purpose of sharing information about catastrophic threats to our nation’s critical infrastructure. The ultimate goal of the EMP SIG is to assist local communities to enhance their own resilience with a special emphasis on developing protected local infrastructure ranging from local power generation and energy storage to water and food production.
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Posted on December 18, 2017 November 12, 2019 Available for Purchase, Books
Secrets & Lies in the United Kingdom: Analysis of Political Corruption
by Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq
Secrets & Lies in the United Kingdom: Analysis of Political Corruption lifts the shroud of secrecy in the United Kingdom in relation to modern freemasonry in Scotland in the late-18th century, the ‘Stolen Generations’ in Australia from the early 1900s to the late 1970s, Enoch Powell’s motives for resigning, Britain’s secret plan for a nuclear power station in Wales, intentional and unintentional disclosures of secret information about the Liberal Democrats and their rivals, the ‘culture of secrecy’ of English police forces, and the paradoxical co-existence of secrecy and transparency in the English justice system.
Editor Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq is Professor of Contemporary British Studies at the University of Tours, France, and conducted research for the European Commission (Daphne II programme) for four years. She authored Sexualités et maternités des adolescentes : Voix anglaises et écossaises (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009), co-authored Les Politiques de jeunesse au Royaume-Uni et en France (Presses Sorbonne nouvelle, 2012), and has recently edited Fertility, Health and Lone Parenting: European Contexts (Routledge, 2017). She is currently preparing a book on motherhood in the global context.
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Posted on December 18, 2017 December 3, 2020 Available for Purchase, Books
Resilient Hospitals Handbook: Strengthening Healthcare and Public Health Resilience in Advance of a Prolonged and Widespread Power Outage
byCharles “Chuck” Manto, Earl Motzer PhD, James Terbush MD
A number of high-impact threats to critical infrastructure can result in a regional or nationwide months-long power outage, making it unlikely for timely outside help to arrive. Hospitals are encouraged to gain the capacity to make and store enough power on-site to operate in island mode indefinitely without outside sources of power or fuel and protect on-site capabilities from threats that could impact regional commercial power systems. This handbook outlines challenges and opportunities to solve these problems so hospitals, healthcare facilities, and other resources might become more resilient. From the Second Goal of the 2015 National Space Weather Strategy: http://www.dhs.gov/national-space-weather-strategy
• “Complete an all-hazards power outage response and recovery plan: —for extreme space weather event and the long-term loss of electric power and cascading effects on other critical infrastructure sectors.
• Other low-frequency, high-impact events are also capable of causing long-term power outages on a regional or national scale.
• The plan must include the Whole Community.”
From the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency
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• “An electromagnetic (EM) attack (nuclear electromagnetic pulse [EMP] or non-nuclear EMP [e.g., high-power microwave, HPM]) has the potential to degrade or shut down portions of the electric power grid important to DoD.
• Restoring the commercial grid from the still functioning regions may not be possible or could take weeks or months. Significant elements of the DCI require uninterrupted power for prolonged periods to perform time-critical missions (e.g., sites hardened to MIL-STD-188-125-1).
• To ensure these continued operations, DCI sites must be able to function as a microgrid that can operate in both grid-connected and intentional island-mode (grid-isolated).
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Unworkable Conservatism: Small Government, Freemarkets, and Impracticality
Unworkable Conservatism looks at what passes these days for “conservative” principles—small government, low taxes, minimal regulation—and demonstrates that they are not feasible under modern conditions. First, for many reasons, they are difficult, at best, to implement. Second, if they are put into place, they please no one, not even those who advocated them in the first place.
Most people now are too young to remember the presidency of Mr. Conservatism, himself, Ronald Reagan. If they are old enough, they generally have forgotten how dissatisfied those on the right were with the Reagan administration. Frustrated at not being able to bring themselves to criticize the Republican Party’s idol directly, they had to be content to screech at Reagan’s aides: “let Reagan be Reagan!”
Along with direct analysis and criticism, this book takes an innovative approach, and incorporates some of the author’s review essays. Using other important works as an intellectual launching pad, it adds to them and reveals numerous overlooked yet vital facts that should have been obvious even to casual observers. It makes clear that things in America have gone very wrong, how and why this has happened, and what might be done about it.
Max J. Skidmore is University of Missouri Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Thomas Jefferson Fellow at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has been Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer to India, where he directed the American Studies Research Centre, and Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Hong Kong, where he headed the American Studies Programme. Among his numerous books are several dealing with the American presidency, with Social Security and Medicare, with American political thought, and with other topics, including American highway travel in the early 20th century. He is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. His Ph.D. is from the University of Minnesota.
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Posted on December 18, 2017 July 14, 2019 Available for Purchase, Books
Beijing Express: How To Understand New China
by David Baverez
2017. The new President of France just took office. He knows his country needs radical reforms. The question is how to make his mark from the word go and how to make a clean break from his predecessors’ policies. He has an idea: instead of going to Berlin on his first official foreign visit – as is customary – why not go to Beijing? What better example is there of a country where radical reforms have met with success? In order to get a better idea of how things are changing in China, he asks someone who lives and works there and has daily contact with Chinese people to come with him.
During the flight from Paris to Beijing on the presidential jet, he and his traveling companion have a lively, quick-fire conversation about China. What comes to light is far from the preconceived ideas held in the West. We see the true nature of the new Chinese cultural revolution, backed by technology, service industries, and the thirst for consumer goods – an unexpected source of inspiration when it comes to reforming Western economies.
David Baverez is a private investor. He has been based in Hong Kong since 2012, where he finances and advises various starts-up. Previously, he was a fund manager for 15 years, first at Fidelity Investments in London and Boston, then as the Founding Partner of KDA Capital, a European Equity fund, until 2010.
He first published Beijing Express in France (Paris-Pékin Express – La Nouvelle Chine racontée au futur Président ; Éditions François Bourin, 2017). He is also is the author ofGénération Tonique – L’Occident est complètement à l’Ouest (Plon, 2015) and is a regular columnist in French newspapers L’Opinion and Les Echos.
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Ongoing Issues in Georgian Policy and Public Administration
Edited by Bonnie Stabile and Nino Ghonghadze
Thriving democracy and representative government depend upon a well functioning civil service, rich civic life and economic success. Georgia has been considered a top performer among countries in South Eastern Europe seeking to establish themselves in the post-Soviet era at the start of the 21st century. Georgia’s challenges in pubic administration reform provide unique illustrations of universal struggles of governance, including encouraging civic engagement, inculcating the values of public service, combatting corruption and nurturing economic development. Written from the vantage point of Georgian academics, many with first hand experience as public servants, in collaboration with US scholars, the chapters in this volume offer insights that should be of broad interest to public administrators and policymakers everywhere.
Bonnie Stabile is Director of the Master of Public Policy Program and Research Assistant Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, USA.
Nino Ghonghadze is Professor at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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Posted on August 25, 2017 November 12, 2019 Available for Purchase, Books
For Rulers: Priming Political Leaders for Saving Humanity from Itself
by Yehezkel Dror
In this striking book, Yehezkel Dror bravely goes where few authors dare, offering a big-picture view of the fateful choices facing the human species. He urges humankind to adopt unconventional survival and thriving strategies, including elevating the future of humanity above state interests, limiting the production and spread of dangerous knowledge and tools, and strengthening humanity’s collective deliberative capacity.
The author confronts the evolutionary trap of science and technology ensnaring unprepared humankind by providing it with awesome future-shaping power, which contemporary values and institutions are unable to handle. Dror warns that tribal and nationalist values, the inability to learn from history, and mediocre leadership will catastrophically endanger the future of human life, making radical, even painful, innovations essential.
According to Dror, the prevailing form of politics is obsolete. Instead, he argues urgently for a new type of political leader – “Homo Sapiens Governors” – willing and able to fulfill the daunting mission to save humanity from itself.
Recognizing that the tyrannical status quo will try to prevent essential transformations, Dror predicts new crises making what is still unthinkable clearly compelling – and that humankind will have to choose: learn rapidly to survive and thrive, or perish.
YEHEZKEL DROR is professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Recognized as a founder of modern policy studies, he integrates multi-disciplinary scholarship with extensive personal experience as a global advisor into a novel paradigm on alternative evolutionary futures of humanity – as shaped by fateful choices humanity has never before faced.
Posted on August 1, 2017 June 26, 2019 Available for Purchase, Books
Dialogue in the Greco-Roman World
by Leslie Kelly, Ph.D.
This short book is designed to introduce students of ancient history to the genre known as “the dialogue.” This literary form went through periods of popularity and decline in ancient Greece and Rome but it was present from the classical period through late antiquity and carried over into medieval and Byzantine culture. For all ancient texts, historians ask who created it, when, and why? They try to determine the author’s agenda and try to situate the text within its larger historical context. For the dialogue, we must do more than this. We must consider the conventions of the genre and read later compositions in light of earlier examples of the form. This book will explore the origins of dialogue in ancient
Greece and explain how dialogues of the Greco-Roman world were intended to be read. It will examine significant examples in the development of the genre from Greek, Roman, and early Christian cultures, and discuss the issues that students must take into account in order to responsibly utilize these sources to reconstruct and understand the past.
Dr. Leslie Kelly teaches at American Public University and holds advanced degrees in Jewish and Christian Scriptures, classics, and ancient history.
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Issues in Maritime Cyber Security
Editors: Dr. Joe DiRenzo III, Dr. Nicole K. Drumhiller, Dr. Fred S. Roberts
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The world relies on maritime commerce to move exceptionally large portions of goods, services, and people. Collectively this effort comprises the Maritime Transportation System or MTS. A major component of this daunting multifaceted enterprise are cyber networks, and the infrastructure they control. From the complex programs managing the loading and unloading of containers to waiting trucks, to the global navigation systems onboard vessels, to the hydraulic valves designed to protect spills into waterways that are located and controlled by cyber systems within chemical, water/wastewater, or petroleum plants, the MTS is becoming increasingly automated.
The impact of the cyber element on the international MTS is significant. Yet, with the clear advantages this brings, come vulnerabilities, and challenges. Researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to remotely take control of a vessel by spoofing its GPS. The news has reported attacks that shut down a floating oil rig by tilting it. The electronic positioning software systems on ships are vulnerable to attacks that could modify les and charts, causing potential for serious damage. The complexity of the problem of making our MTS safe from cyber attack is daunting and the need for all stakeholders in both government (at all levels) and private industry to be involved in cyber security is more significant than ever as the use of the MTS continues to grow.
While there is literature about the maritime transportation system, and about cyber security, to date there is very little literature on this converging area. This pioneering book is beneficial to a variety of audiences, as a text book in courses looking at risk analysis, national security, cyber threats, or
maritime policy; as a source of research problems ranging from the technical area to policy; and for practitioners in government and the private sector interested in a clear explanation of the array of cyber risks and potential cyber-defense issues impacting the maritime community.
About the Editors: Dr. Joe DiRenzo III is a retired Coast Guard Officer. Dr. Nicole K. Drumhiller is the Program Director of Intelligence Studies at American Military University. Dr. Fred S. Roberts is Director of the Department of Homeland Security University Center of Excellence CCICADA, based at Rutgers University.
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Posted on June 23, 2017 November 12, 2019 Available for Purchase, Books
Pacific Hurtgen: The American Army in Northern Luzon, 1945
Too often in war many of its campaigns are forgotten. One such forgotten campaign occurred in the Philippines during the last year of World War II. American Army units fought a bitter battle against dug-in, fanatical Japanese soldiers on the Philippine island of Luzon. It was a campaign that need not have happened. American forces throughout the Pacific were on Japan’s doorstep but due to the immense power and personal desires of a singular commander, General Douglas MacArthur, the Philippines would once again become a major theater of the war. It did not bring the defeat of Japan any closer but did leave many thousands of American soldiers dead and tens of thousands wounded. In Europe, the American Army’s most wasteful campaign occurred in the Hurtgen Forest in 1944. Luzon would be the Pacific Hurtgen.
Dr. Robert Young received a B.A. from St. John’s University, an M.A. from Brooklyn College, and a Ph.D in Military History from the C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center. He is currently an Associate Professor at American Military University as well as a New York City High School History teacher. He is the author of numerous articles on World War II and post-Cold War conflicts. A New York City native and United States Army veteran, he currently lives in Long Island with his wife and two children.
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Posted on June 23, 2017 Available for Purchase, Books
Freemasonry, Politics and Rijeka (Fiume) (1785-1944)
by Ljubinka Toseva Karpowicz
LJUBINKA TOŠEVA KARPOWICZ studied sociology and later political science at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade. She received her Ph.D. from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Ljubljana in 1987. She worked as a researcher in various institutes in Yugoslavia and Croatia. Prior to publishing her first book (written with a co-author) in 1990 (Sindikalni pokret u općini Rijeka do 1941. godine (The Union Movement in the Commune of Rijeka Until 1941)), she had published numerous articles concerning the political history of the city of Rijeka in Croatia, Serbia, Italy and Germany.
During her research in the archives of larger cities in various countries (Rijeka, Belgrade, Rome, Budapest and Washington, D.C.), she noted the activities of Masons within various political entities. This gave her the impetus to devote additional research to the empirical and historical analysis of Masonry as a special political group.
The result of her work was the publication in 2007 of her book D’Annunzio u Rijeci—Mitovi, politika i uloga masonerije (D’Annunzio in Rijeka—Myths, Politics and the Role of Masonry) which covers the period 12.IX. 1919 to 12. XI.1920. The book raised great interest and Lj.T. Karpowicz then focused her research over a longer time frame on the same theme.
In addition to the foregoing books, the author also published two additional books: Pravoslavna opština u Rijeci 1720-1868 (The Orthodox Commune in Rijeka 1720 -1868) (published in 2002), and Tajne Opatije—Tajna diplomacija i obavještajne službe u Opatiji 1890-1945 (Secrets of Opatija—Secret Diplomacy and Intelligence Agencies in Opatija 1890-1945). Lj.T. Karpowicz received the Award of the City of Rijeka in 2016, the committee making the award noting that her research had encouraged further investigation into the history of the city of Rijeka and assisted in promoting the reputation of Rijeka in the world.
The book Masonerija, politika i Rijeka (1785-1944) (Freemasonry, Politics and Rijeka (1785-1944) is the result of empirical and historical analysis of the work of Masonry from various states in Rijeka’s corpus separatum, a special political body in Central Europe. It analyzes the work of Austrian, Hungarian, French and Italian Masonry through numerous decades. It focuses on the work of the Hungarian wing of the Rite of Strict Observance, whose members served as Governors of Rijeka; the work of former exiled Hungarian politicians, who were Masons, after their return from Western Europe and their role in the establishment of Austria-Hungary (the Dual Monarchy); and discusses the specifics of Masonic organization in Hungary and its contributions to the development of Hungary’s special type of liberalism.
The greater part of the work concentrates on the efforts of Italian Irredentism in Rijeka in which intellectuals and Masons from Rijeka and Italy played a leading role. Some chapters analyze the work of Italian Masonry during the Fascist era, the military coup against the Free State of Fiume and the attempts to resurrect the Free State after the fall of Fascism. The appendices and supplements contain biographies of Rijeka’s Masons, as well as a report of the American Consul concerning an attack on the Palace of the President of the Free State of Fiume, the proclamation of the Rijeka’s Fascists concerning the attack on the provisional government, and a letter from the Rijeka’s Lodge Sirius to Belgrade’s Pobratim Lodge.
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Synthesis based on relevant Committee decisions
The World Heritage Committee encourages the use of traditional materials and skills in restoration works and interventions (based on Case law on decisions on the State of Conservation).
See for examples Decisions: 34 COM 7B.53 38 COM 7B.52 40 COM 7B.41 41 COM 7B.46 43 COM 7A.33 43 COM 7B.76
The World Heritage Committee recommends paying particular attention to the conservation of authenticity and to inaccurate reconstructions and the risk of over-interpretation, with regard to restoration and development works, including architectural restorations and of technical historical reconstructions (based on Case law on decisions on Nominations).
See for examples Decisions: 37 COM 8B.41 38 COM 8B.34
“All properties nominated for inscription on the World Heritage List shall satisfy the conditions of integrity.”
Theme: 2.2.4 - Integrity
“Integrity is a measure of the wholeness and intactness of the natural and/or cultural heritage and its attributes. Examining the conditions of integrity, therefore requires assessing the extent to which the property:
a) includes all elements necessary to express its Outstanding Universal Value;
b) is of adequate size to ensure the complete representation of the features and processes which convey the property’s significance;
c) suffers from adverse effects of development and/or neglect.
This should be presented in a statement of integrity.”
“For properties nominated under criteria (i) to (vi), the physical fabric of the property and/or its significant features should be in good condition, and the impact of deterioration processes controlled. A significant proportion of the elements necessary to convey the totality of the value conveyed by the property should be included. Relationships and dynamic functions present in cultural landscapes, historic towns or other living properties essential to their distinctive character should also be maintained.”
“For all properties nominated under criteria (vii) - (x), bio-physical processes and landform features should be relatively intact. However, it is recognized that no area is totally pristine and that all natural areas are in a dynamic state, and to some extent involve contact with people. Biological diversity and cultural diversity can be closely linked and interdependent and human activities, including those of traditional societies, local communities and indigenous peoples, often occur in natural areas. These activities may be consistent with the Outstanding Universal Value of the area where they are ecologically sustainable.”
Threats: Changes in traditional ways of life and knowledge system Identity, social cohesion, changes in local population and community Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation Indigenous hunting, gathering and collecting Ritual / spiritual / religious and associative uses Society's valuing of heritage
“In addition, for properties nominated under criteria (vii) to (x), a corresponding condition of integrity has been defined for each criterion.”
The World Heritage Committee recommends providing a more detailed inventory of the attributes and elements of the property (based on Case law on decisions on Nominations).
See for examples Decisions: 32 COM 8B.28 33 COM 8B.32 34 COM 8B.20 34 COM 8B.11
“Legislative and regulatory measures at national and local levels should assure the protection of the property from social, economic and other pressures or changes that might negatively impact the Outstanding Universal Value, including the integrity and/or authenticity of the property. States Parties should also assure the full and effective implementation of such measures.”
Theme: 2.2.5.2 - Legislative, regulatory and contractual measures for protection
“Each nominated property should have an appropriate management plan or other documented management system which must specify how the Outstanding Universal Value of a property should be preserved, preferably through participatory means.”
Theme: 2.2.5.3 - Management systems
“The purpose of a management system is to ensure the effective protection of the nominated property for present and future generations.”
“An effective management system depends on the type, characteristics and needs of the nominated property and its cultural and natural context. Management systems may vary according to different cultural perspectives, the resources available and other factors. They may incorporate traditional practices, existing urban or regional planning instruments, and other planning control mechanisms, both formal and informal. Impact assessments for proposed interventions are essential for all World Heritage properties.”
“In recognizing the diversity mentioned above, common elements of an effective management system could include:
a) a thorough shared understanding of the property, its universal, national and local values and its socio-ecological context by all stakeholders, including local communities and indigenous peoples;
b) a respect for diversity, equity, gender equality and human rights and the use of inclusive and participatory planning and stakeholder consultation processes;
c) a cycle of planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and feedback;
d) an assessment of the vulnerabilities of the property to social, economic, environmental and other pressures and changes, including disasters and climate change, as well as the monitoring of the impacts of trends and proposed interventions;
e) the development of mechanisms for the involvement and coordination of the various activities between different partners and stakeholders;
f) the allocation of necessary resources;
g) capacity building;
h) an accountable, transparent description of how the management system functions."
“Effective management involves a cycle of short, medium and long-term actions to protect, conserve and present the nominated property. An integrated approach to planning and management is essential to guide the evolution of properties over time and to ensure maintenance of all aspects of their Outstanding Universal Value. This approach goes beyond the property to include any buffer zone(s), as well as the broader setting. The broader setting may relate to the property’s topography, natural and built environment, and other elements such as infrastructure, land use patterns, spatial organization, and visual relationships. It may also include related social and cultural practices, economic processes and other intangible dimensions of heritage such as perceptions and associations. Management of the broader setting is related to its role in supporting the Outstanding Universal Value. Its effective management may also contribute to sustainable development, through harnessing the reciprocal benefits for heritage and society.”
“States Parties are responsible for implementing effective management activities for a World Heritage property. States Parties should do so in close collaboration with property managers, the agency with management authority and other partners, local communities and indigenous peoples, rights-holders and stakeholders in property management, by developing, when appropriate, equitable governance arrangements, collaborative management systems and redress mechanisms.”
“The Committee recommends that States Parties include disaster, climate change and other risk preparedness as an element in their World Heritage site management plans and training strategies.”
“World Heritage properties may sustain biological and cultural diversity and provide ecosystem services and other benefits, which may contribute to environmental and cultural sustainability. Properties may support a variety of ongoing and proposed uses that are ecologically and culturally sustainable and which may enhance the quality of life and well-being of communities concerned. The State Party and its partners must ensure their use is equitable and fully respects the Outstanding Universal Value of the property. For some properties, human use would not be appropriate. Legislation, policies and strategies affecting World Heritage properties should ensure the protection of the Outstanding Universal Value, support the wider conservation of natural and cultural heritage, and promote and encourage the effective, inclusive and equitable participation of the communities, indigenous peoples and other stakeholders concerned with the property as necessary conditions to its sustainable protection, conservation, management and presentation.”
Theme: 2.2.5.4 - Sustainable use
“The delineation of boundaries is an essential requirement in the establishment of effective protection of nominated properties. Boundaries should be drawn to incorporate all the attributes that convey the Outstanding Universal Value and to ensure the integrity and/or authenticity of the property.”
Theme: 2.2.6.1 - Boundaries
“For properties nominated under criteria (i) - (vi), boundaries should be drawn to include all those areas and attributes which are a direct tangible expression of the Outstanding Universal Value of the property, as well as those areas which in the light of future research possibilities offer potential to contribute to and enhance such understanding.”
“For properties nominated under criteria (vii) - (x), boundaries should reflect the spatial requirements of habitats, species, processes or phenomena that provide the basis for their inscription on the World Heritage List. The boundaries should include sufficient areas immediately adjacent to the area of Outstanding Universal Value in order to protect the property's heritage values from direct effect of human encroachments and impacts of resource use outside of the nominated area.”
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Have A Blast At Six Flags Over Georgia
Six Flags Over Georgia is a popular theme park located just west of Atlanta Georgia in Cobb County. The park opened to the public in 1967 and has grown into one of the most popular theme parks in the United States. Six Flags Over Georgia is the second of three theme parks built by Six Flags and is about 290 acres large.
The popular theme park features 11 roller coasters including the Mind Bender and Goliath. These two roller coasters have been recognized every year by Amusement Today. Six Flags Over Georgia also features 30 other rides, shows, and attractions.
The founder of the Six Flags parks, Angus Wynne, began looking for a second location to build another Six Flags theme park after the success of the first one. The original Six Flags amusement park was built in Arlington, Texas. Design work for the new Six Flags in Georgia began in 1964. By 1967, the park was done and became the first multi-gate theme park operator in the United States.
In 2010, Six Flags began removing licensed theming from their attractions. Thomas Town (themed after Thomas the Train) was renamed Whistlestop Park before the 2011 season began.
In late 2013, Six Flags announced that it would add Hurricane Harbor. Hurricane Harbor is a water park situated next door and was completed and opened in time for the 2014 season. Later that year it was decided that the park would stay open until January to celebrate the holidays instead of closing in October.
In 2015, the park got a few new rides in it’s Gotham City section. “The Joker: Chaos Coaster” was added as well as “Harley Quinn Spinsanity”.
In 2016, two children’s areas were added to the park. “Bugs Bunny Boomtown” and “DC Super Friends” were sure to entertain the park’s tiny visitors.
Batman: The Ride opened in 1997
Blue Hawk opened in 1992
Dahlonega Mine Train opened in 1967
Dare Devil Dive opened in 2011
Georgia Scorcher opened in 1999
Goliath opened in 2006
Great american Scream Machine opened in 1973
Mind Bender opened in 1978
Superman: Ultimate Flight opened in 2002
The Joker Funhouse Coaster opened in 2004
Twisted Cyclone opened in 2018
Previous roller coasters include:
Deja Vu 2001-2007
Georgia Cyclone 1990-2017
Mini Mine Train 1969-1988
Vioer 1995-2001
Z-Force 1988-1991
There are loads of other rides and attractions in Six Flags over Georgia. There is something suitable for everyone. Whether it be Monster Mansion, Gotham City Crime Wave, or Rockin’ Tug in Carousel Hill, your family is sure to have an amazing time!
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Al Castro, the health research program director at Milwaukee’s United Community Center, helped the 2016 and 2018 Wisconsin Idea Seminar participants learn about elder and memory care services tailored to Latino communities in the Milwaukee area and the importance of supporting pipelines that prepares young bilingual and bicultural students for careers in the health sciences. (Image by Catherine Reiland/UW-Madison)
Dispatches from Our Own Wisconsin: Al Castro of the United Community Center
Al Castro is the Director of Health Research Programs at the United Community Center, a nonprofit Latino community organization in Milwaukee. With an extensive background in social work, Al combines public health issues in his work at UCC, facilitating community-engaged health research in the Latino community with academic research universities, including UW-Madison. Al serves as a community-imbedded Research Ambassador for UW-Madison to help UW researchers develop and conduct health research projects in the Latino community of Milwaukee. The Wisconsin Idea Seminar visited the United Community Center in 2016 and 2018.
We caught up with Al to ask a few questions about how he and the rest of the team at the United Community Center, which is celebrating its 50th-anniversary of serving the Milwaukee Latino community, are collaborating with local organizations to address shifting healthcare needs.
Have you seen the community in Milwaukee’s South Side come together in response to COVID-19? If so, how? Yes, there are a variety of individuals, organizations, and health providers who are responding collaboratively to COVID-19 in the Latino community of Milwaukee. Entities, such as Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers, UMOS, Advocate Ascension Health Care, have established testing sites in the area. Organizations and academic partners have collaborated to apply for some of the immediate response grant funds coming from federal, state or area foundations to quickly develop public education and response activities, like Sixteenth Street Clinic, United Community Center, Southside Organizing Committee, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Health Department, UMOS, the Hispanic Collaborative. These various initiatives are a good start, but there is still much to be done in more direct education and preventive information to be disseminated directly with many individuals in the community. Some of these groups have applied jointly and obtained response grant funding from the Advancing Healthier Wisconsin grant (from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Partnership Program and the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program) for these strategies.
The United Community Center can be seen as a microcosm of our larger world: you are home to two schools, a senior center, a restaurant, a dementia center, an adult day center, and more. Education, senior living, and restaurants have experienced incredible disruption due to the pandemic and the United Community Center has all these sectors under one umbrella. What has been a guiding principle for you and your team during these past few months? Responding as an organization, our leadership took steps immediately to comply with the Governor’s Safer at Home order in mid-March, to protect our employees and our program participants, and we have continued to remain closed for non-essential services to date. Even with the recent cancellation of the state-wide Safer at Home order, UCC continues to maintain the health and safety of our staff, program participants, and the community by complying with the existing County of Milwaukee’s ongoing Safer at Home directives. However, despite the temporary closing of the physical facilities, UCC has continued to respond to the needs of our community, and to continue providing services and support as best as we can. Most program staff are working remotely, and we are continuing the residential substance abuse treatment program. We have converted the daily senior meal site program into home-delivered noon meals to our elderly participants during this time.
Like most everyone else in this country, UCC has had to quickly pivot and learn how to use teleconferencing for meetings and client support services. Our substance abuse program is now providing intake and outpatient treatment services via telemedicine; our memory diagnostic clinic is now conducting initial screenings and clinical evaluations via telemedicine; teachers continue to communicate with their class students via tele-sessions; and other UCC programs are using technology to continue communication with program participants where possible. We are glad to be able to continue providing for our community as best as we can during these unpredictable times and are very appreciative of new funding support or flexibility in current grants to be able to continue our work.
In April, we reached our 50 year anniversary milestone in serving the Milwaukee Latino community. We recently had a change in our leadership, as Mr. Ricardo Diaz retired as Executive Director. Ms. Laura Gutierrez has now assumed that position, and we had planned to celebrate this transition at our annual dinner event. While our physical event was postponed, we continue to celebrate this accomplishment and all of the individuals who have been a part of the UCC family for 50 years. We launched an online timeline to commemorate the occasion which can be viewed on our website. We and look forward to more celebrating in the future.
Over the years you have helped to facilitate valuable educational field experience for UW faculty, setting the stage for innovative efforts to improve educational and health outcomes and to minimize disparities that impact the Latino communities in Milwaukee. Has the pandemic heightened the need for particular types of research inquiry and community partnerships? I believe this a unique opportunity for everyone, even those outside the most affected areas to realize how the broader community health and well-being affects us all. As we see now, it is critical for everyone to understand that the health of all population groups has an effect on the lifestyles and health of everyone around the state. The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the impacts of long term health inequities and racial/residential segregation in our communities. The impacts of the pandemic are being felt state-wide, and country-wide, and others are seeing how people in underserved and ethnic communities are being impacted to a greater degree. I do believe the pandemic will provide, and is providing, valuable opportunities to utilize science and research to not just understand why the pandemic is happening and who is being impacted, but what can we all learn from this to avoid repeating the same in the future. I would hope to see other researchers and stakeholders come to the table to get involved in learning more about what the research and lessons learned can tell us, and bring other stakeholders to get involved to start making some feasible systemic changes in our policies, social norms and life-styles. By this, I mean others like the business community, employers, health insurers, and new collaborations which include representatives from both urban, suburban and rural areas that tackle state-wide, systemic disparities, for the good of the all.
These are opportune times of new living research opportunities for health research students and faculty to collaborate with such entities to develop and drive research efforts that will help a greater variety of stakeholders learn how not to allow this to happen again. Otherwise, we run the risk of becoming complacent again, once this pandemic passes, and we go back to the usual norms and practices that reinforce continued inequities, and allow breeding grounds for a new costly pandemic in the future.
A mural at the United Community Center by prolific Milwaukee painter Reynaldo Hernández gestures to the layered identities in Milwaukee’s Latino communities. The Wisconsin Idea Seminar visited the United Community Center in 2016 and 2018. (Photo by Catherine Reiland/UW-Madison)
Have the constraints of physical distancing galvanized the exploration of new ways to approach health-related community research? I think we are too early in this phase to say new approaches have been galvanized, as this is a new phenomenon for so many of us and our communities. Some key lessons we are learning are the different levels of abilities for residents and service providers to be able to communicate and obtain health care and services, depending on the technology available at the time, their level of comfort and skills with such technology, such as virtual meeting platforms, internet connection–or shaky internet connections–the “digital divide” factor of older people not having the technology, skills or comfort in using video conferencing and internet resources, compared to younger, more tech-savvy persons; the challenges in converting or pivoting to what type of services and support can be provided remotely and what cannot; and facing moral or ethical dilemmas in having to temporarily close physical, on-site programs for so many program participants. I do see how organizations, health services, and governmental services are now going to grow and change in incorporating more technology into daily business, so as to be better prepared in a future health crisis, and how to become more nimble and flexible in order to reduce the impact of future disruption of services. These challenges and new experiences present opportunities to learn and develop new ways to conduct health-related research, whether in urban or rural areas, but will require investments in such technology by many stakeholders.
Has the United Community Center played a role in amplifying critical health messages to the Latino communities in Milwaukee? Our UCC website has quickly created a COVID-19 resource page to provide up-to-date information on the virus, about available resources and suggestions for preventive practices. We use that page to relay and share information from the CDC or other health agencies to our community and employees. In addition, UCC recently collaborated with the Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers (a local federally qualified health center) to obtain a COVID-19 response grant from Advancing Healthier Wisconsin/UW-Madison to expand a social media community education program to the Latino community of Milwaukee (Lo Que Debes Saber: What you should know about COVID 19), which is about to launch in the next few weeks. As a member of the Milwaukee Latino Health Coalition, UCC is also involved with other organizations to help support and learn from each other in our responses to COVID 19, and sharing of information and resources with each other to help our community.
The United Community Center is located in the heart of Milwaukee’s Latino community and serves a growing number of older Latino adults, including those living with Alzheimer’s disease and dementias. How has the UCC’s memory care been affected by the pandemic? Due to the pandemic, we have had to temporarily close down our adult dementia day center, where we have been serving over 60 older adults per day. I can only imagine the increased level of stress and responsibilities this is placing on the family caregivers who now are providing care 24 hours a day, with no break. On top of this care, many of our family caregivers still have children at home, who are also home due to the schools being closed. So social distancing is not much of an option for so many of our families. In addition, given the community we serve, many of our residents are those “essential workers” who work in service industries and have to continue going to work or risk losing their jobs. This can only increase the chances of bringing the virus infections home to their families and leaves such persons in such a dilemma. In addition, for a few weeks, we had to temporarily suspend our memory clinic operations of conducting home-based initial assessments and our office-based clinical assessments. However, we recently established tele-screenings and tele-assessments and are able to continue to see most of the patients that had been referred but were having to wait to be seen by our memory clinic team.
As a leader of the UCC’s Health Research Program, what is your biggest concern during these uncertain times? And what brings you hope? The pandemic has certainly interrupted some important health research activities that cannot be done remotely. This is concerning, as many of these health research efforts are for existing health disparities in the Latino community (such as, cancer, dementia, falls among the elderly, diabetes), and some of these morbidities are what is contributing to the impact of COVID-19 of persons with such diseases. This may cause significant lag in obtaining much-needed knowledge about these other morbidities, which can further contribute to the impact of COVID 19 among Latinos and other groups as well. What I do see as hopeful is the amazing responses from so many other community organizations, health officials, local businesses, local media, and the general public of trying to get through this pandemic as best as we can and helping each other out. I hope all this highly visible goodwill can be carried on and translated into continuing to collaborate with each other to support strategic and needed research in the health inequities that are contributing to the pandemic, and that new concerned stakeholders will get involved in such discussions and efforts. So I hope a large group of these people and groups will still be there after the pandemic to help us continue doing our work for better health outcomes for all.
Do you have any advice for others on keeping spirits up during times like these? Remember, you are not alone. Keep in touch with your loved ones and your working colleagues. As humans, we are social animals, and the social distancing and Safer at Home directives really goes against the grain of who we are as humans. So find ways to stay connected, by phone, video-chats, drive-by visits, video business meetings. And, don’t stop laughing! This is the time to find and experience those things and people who make us laugh (whether on TV, radio, internet or your pets and kids!). This will pass and we will all be stronger and wiser, and hopefully more appreciative of those around us.
Spools of thread wait to be incorporated into an array of apparel and craft projects at the Adult Day Center of the United Community Center in Milwaukee. The arts and crafts room, kitted out with sewing machines, supplies, and ample workspace, is a space where skilled elders can share their knowledge with others. The United Community Center was a destination of the 2016 and 2018 Wisconsin Idea Seminar. (Photo by Catherine Reiland/UW-Madison).
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Overview of John
G. From About the Time of Passover 32 C.E. Onward (6:1–7:1)
Jesus feeds about 5,000 men at the Sea of Galilee (6:1-13)
Jesus withdraws when people attempt to make him king (6:14, 15)
Jesus walks on water (6:16-21)
Jesus urges people to work for the food that remains for everlasting life (6:22-27)
Jesus is “the bread of life” (6:28-59)
Many disciples take offense at Jesus’ words, but Peter acknowledges that Jesus is “the Holy One of God” (6:60–7:1)
the Sea of Galilee, or Tiberias: The Sea of Galilee was sometimes called the Sea of Tiberias—after the city on its western shore that was named for Roman Emperor Tiberius Caesar. (Joh 6:23) The name Sea of Tiberias occurs here and at Joh 21:1.—See study note on Mt 4:18.
+Mt 14:13; Lu 9:10
it-1 885; it-2 881; w86 2/15 17
+Mr 6:33
+Lu 9:11
the Passover: Apparently referring to the Passover of 32 C.E., the third Passover during Jesus’ earthly ministry.—See study notes on Joh 2:13; 5:1; 11:55 and App. A7.
+Joh 2:13; 5:1
w81 6/15 31; w78 9/1 24; w76 247; w68 505; w61 729; w59 491
Where will we buy bread for these people to eat?: This is the only miracle of Jesus that is recorded in all four Gospels.—Mt 14:15-21; Mr 6:35-44; Lu 9:10-17; Joh 6:1-13.
+Mt 14:14-17; Mr 6:35-38; Lu 9:12, 13
Book for All, p. 17
jy 128; w10 10/15 4; ba 17
w10 10/15 4
denarii: See Glossary, “Denarius” and App. B14.
Greatest Man, chap. 52
jy 128; gt 52; w87 9/1 16-17
+2Ki 4:42-44
g79 12/22 28
Have the people sit down: Or “Have the people recline.” Here “people” translates a form of the Greek word anʹthro·pos, which often includes both men and women. The occurrence of “men” in this verse translates a form of the Greek word a·nerʹ, which in view of Mt 14:21 included only adult males in this context.—See study note on Mt 14:21.
the men sat down there, about 5,000 in number: Only Matthew’s account adds “as well as women and young children” when reporting this miracle. (Mt 14:21) It is possible that the total number of those miraculously fed was well over 15,000.
+Mt 14:19-21; Mr 6:39-44; Lu 9:14-17
w62 616; tc 11
mwb18.09 5; g92 5/22 31
g78 10/8 17; g76 3/8 16; km 11/74 3
ad 195; g65 12/8 27; w62 616; tc 11
the Prophet: Many Jews in the first century C.E. expected that the prophet like Moses, mentioned at De 18:15, 18, would be the Messiah. In this context, the expression come into the world seems to refer to the expected appearance of the Messiah. Only John recorded the events mentioned in this verse.—See study note on Joh 1:9.
+De 18:15, 18; Lu 24:19; Ac 3:22
w78 9/1 24-25; w76 431; kj 233; w66 645; im 213; w62 231; w60 207; pn 20
to make him king: Only John recorded this incident. Jesus resolutely refused to get involved in the politics of his homeland. He would accept kingship only in God’s way and in God’s due time. Jesus later emphasized that his followers were to take the same position.—Joh 15:19; 17:14, 16; 18:36.
+Joh 17:16; 18:36
+Mt 14:23; Mr 6:45
w18.06 4; it-2 868; w10 7/1 22; w96 5/1 12
g81 3/22 10; w78 1/15 28; w78 9/1 24-25; g73 9/8 16; kj 233; w64 378; g64 8/22 7; w62 106, 231, 253; g62 1/8 6; w60 207; g58 12/22 6; w56 646; pn 20
the sea: That is, the Sea of Galilee.—See study notes on Mt 4:18; Joh 6:1.
+Mr 6:47-51
+Mt 8:24; 14:24-33
about three or four miles: About 5 or 6 km. Lit., “about 25 or 30 stadia.” The Greek word staʹdi·on denotes a linear measurement that equaled 185 m (606.95 ft), or one eighth of a Roman mile. Since the Sea of Galilee is about 12 km (8 mi) wide, the disciples may have been in about the middle of the lake.—Mr 6:47; see study note on Mt 4:18 and App. A7 and B14.
it-2 401; jy 131; nwt 1704; gt 53; w87 9/15 8
te 61-62; is 76
Tiberias: A city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, about 15 km (9.5 mi) S of Capernaum and just N of some hot springs that were famous in ancient times. It was built by Herod Antipas sometime between 18 and 26 C.E. as his new capital and residence. He named the city in honor of Tiberius Caesar, Roman emperor at the time, and it is still called Tiberias (Hebrew: Teverya). Though it was the largest city in the region, this is the only mention of it in the Scriptures. It is never stated that Jesus visited Tiberias, perhaps because of its strong foreign influence. (Compare Mt 10:5-7.) According to Josephus, the city of Tiberias had been built on the site of tombs; therefore, many Jews had been reluctant to move there. (Num 19:11-14) After the Jewish revolt in the second century C.E., Tiberias was declared cleansed and became the leading city of Jewish scholarship and the seat of the Sanhedrin. The Mishnah and the Palestinian (Jerusalem) Talmud were compiled here, as well as the Masoretic text that was later used for translating the Hebrew Scriptures.—See App. B10.
w68 522; w65 208; w60 644; w53 170
food that perishes . . . food that remains for everlasting life: Jesus understood that some people were associating with him and his disciples solely for material advantage. While physical food sustains people day by day, “food” from God’s Word will make it possible for humans to stay alive forever. Jesus urges the crowd to work . . . for “the food that remains for everlasting life,” that is, to put forth effort to satisfy their spiritual need and to exercise faith in what they learn.—Mt 4:4; 5:3; Joh 6:28-39.
+Mt 6:31-33
+Joh 4:14; 17:3; Ro 6:23
+Mt 3:17; Ac 2:22; 2Pe 1:17
w08 4/15 31; w87 11/15 6
g73 7/22 26; w65 208; w53 170
w72 694; w53 26
+Joh 7:29; 8:42; Ac 16:31; 1Jo 3:23
w72 694; or 16-17; w53 26
+Mt 12:38; Mr 8:12; Joh 2:18; 1Co 1:22
jy 132; gt 54; w87 10/1 8
Our forefathers ate the manna: The Jews wanted a Messianic King who could supply them with material food. As a justification, they reminded Jesus that God had given their forefathers manna in the wilderness of Sinai. Quoting from Ps 78:24, they referred to the miraculously provided manna as bread [or, “grain”] from heaven. When requesting “a sign” from Jesus (Joh 6:30), they may have had in mind the miracle he had performed just the day before when he multiplied five barley loaves and two small fish into enough food to feed thousands.—Joh 6:9-12.
+Ex 16:4, 15; Nu 11:7
+Ne 9:15; Ps 78:24; 105:40
w78 9/1 25; w62 561; wr 17
the world: In the Christian Greek Scriptures, the Greek word koʹsmos generally refers to the world of mankind or a part of it. (See study note on Joh 1:10.) At Joh 1:29, Jesus as the Lamb of God is said to take away “the sin of the world.” At Joh 6:33, Jesus is described as the bread of God, Jehovah’s channel of life and blessings to mankind.
w78 9/1 25; w62 561; wr 17; w49 120
the bread of life: This expression occurs only twice in the Scriptures. (Joh 6:35, 48) In this context, life refers to “everlasting life.” (Joh 6:40, 47, 54) During this discussion, Jesus refers to himself as “the true bread from heaven” (Joh 6:32), “the bread of God” (Joh 6:33), and “the living bread” (Joh 6:51). He points out that the Israelites were given the manna in the wilderness (Ne 9:20); yet, this divinely provided food did not sustain their lives forever (Joh 6:49). By contrast, Christ’s faithful followers have available to them heavenly manna, or “bread of life” (Joh 6:48-51, 58), which makes it possible for them to live forever. They ‘eat of this bread’ by exercising faith in the redeeming power of Jesus’ flesh and blood that he sacrificed.
+Joh 4:14; 7:37; Re 22:17
+Mt 11:28, 29; Joh 17:6
w79 4/15 16; w43 89
+Joh 3:13; 8:23, 42
+Mt 26:39; Joh 5:30
w62 561, 586, 592; wr 17, 31, 41; w61 195; w43 89
I should resurrect them on the last day: Jesus states four times that he will resurrect people on the last day. (Joh 6:40, 44, 54) At Joh 11:24, Martha too refers to “the resurrection on the last day.” (Compare Da 12:13; see study note on Joh 11:24.) At Joh 12:48, this “last day” is associated with a time of judgment, which will apparently correspond to the Thousand Year Reign of Christ when he will judge mankind, including all those resurrected from the dead.—Re 20:4-6.
+Joh 17:12; 18:9
+Joh 5:28, 29; Ro 6:5
w65 104; w62 326, 592; wr 41; w59 334; w49 120; w47 102
everlasting life: On this occasion, the expression “everlasting life” is used four times (Joh 6:27, 40, 47, 54) by Jesus and once (Joh 6:68) by one of his disciples. The expression “everlasting life” occurs 17 times in the Gospel of John compared with 8 times in the three other Gospels combined.
+Joh 11:24; Ac 17:31; 1Th 4:16; Re 20:12
w78 9/1 25; w65 104; w64 196; w62 326; wr 37; bd 59; w59 334; mn 21; w49 120; w47 91
+Mt 13:55; Mr 6:3; Lu 4:22
w76 262-263; g73 3/8 27; w62 558; wr 12
draws him: Although the Greek verb for “draw” is used in reference to hauling in a net of fish (Joh 21:6, 11), it does not suggest that God drags people against their will. This verb can also mean “to attract,” and Jesus’ statement may allude to Jer 31:3, where Jehovah said to his ancient people: “I have drawn you to me with loyal love.” (The Septuagint uses the same Greek verb here.) Joh 12:32 (see study note) shows that in a similar way, Jesus draws men of all sorts to himself. The Scriptures show that Jehovah has given humans free will. Everyone has a choice when it comes to serving Him. (De 30:19, 20) God gently draws to himself those who have a heart that is rightly disposed. (Ps 11:5; Pr 21:2; Ac 13:48) Jehovah does so through the Bible’s message and through his holy spirit. The prophecy from Isa 54:13, quoted in Joh 6:45, applies to those who are drawn by the Father.—Compare Joh 6:65.
+Joh 6:65; 2Th 2:13
Close to Jehovah, p. 247
cl 247; w13 5/1 14; w12 4/15 28; w12 7/15 10; w09 6/1 28; w08 4/15 31; w01 4/1 16; g98 2/8 13; w96 3/1 5; w95 4/1 14; w94 2/1 18; w92 6/15 26
w84 8/15 18; w83 1/1 6; w80 3/15 18-19; w79 4/15 14; w78 5/15 5-6; w78 9/1 25-26; w77 279; lp 114-115; hs 105; w75 309; w65 104; w53 251, 279; w47 102; w46 248; ch 141; w34 286; w31 326
Jehovah: In this quote from Isa 54:13, the divine name, represented by four Hebrew consonants (transliterated YHWH), occurs in the original Hebrew text. Existing Greek manuscripts of the Gospel of John use the word the·osʹ here (perhaps reflecting the term used at Isa 54:13 in copies of the Septuagint), which explains why most translations say “God.” However, in view of the Hebrew Scripture background of this quotation, the divine name is used in the main text.—See App. C.
Or “be those taught.”
+Isa 54:13; Jer 31:33, 34; Mic 4:2
it-1 360; re 178; w95 8/1 9; w87 3/15 13-14
w85 9/1 20-21; w81 5/1 22; w78 9/1 25-26; hs 105-107; li 69, 71; yb65 48; g65 3/8 8; w64 305; w63 338, 656, 714; w62 591; wr 40; w53 251; w45 264; ki 285; ci 128; w34 131; jh 191; w31 326
+Ex 33:17, 20
+Mt 11:27; Lu 10:22; Joh 1:18
w87 3/15 13-14
it-1 364; w14 6/1 8-9
lp 86; w65 244; w62 46; w51 56; w37 235
g66 5/8 29; w65 244; w62 46; w37 235
+Heb 10:10
it-1 364; it-2 271, 310; jy 134; w14 6/1 8-9; w09 8/15 10; w99 8/15 27; g99 5/8 26-27; gt 55; w89 1/15 31; rs 342; w88 2/1 30-31; w87 10/15 8; w86 2/15 18
w78 3/1 9; w78 9/1 26, 29; lp 86; hs 167; w73 199; g73 7/22 4; g72 9/22 7; w65 244; im 235; w63 237; bf 425; w62 45, 143, 561; wr 17; g62 5/8 6; g62 11/8 28; w61 165; w56 52; w51 55; w38 72; jh 106
w78 9/1 26-27; w65 624; gv 23
life in yourselves: At Joh 5:26, Jesus said that he was granted “life in himself” just as his Father has “life in himself.” (See study note on Joh 5:26.) Now, about a year later, Jesus uses the same expression regarding his followers. Here he equates having “life in yourselves” with gaining “everlasting life.” (Joh 6:54) Rather than denoting the power to impart life, in this context the expression “life in oneself” seems to refer to entering into the very fullness of life, or being fully alive. Anointed Christians become fully alive when they are resurrected to immortal life in heaven. Faithful ones with an earthly hope will be fully alive after they pass the final test that will occur right after the end of the Millennial Reign of Christ.—1Co 15:52, 53; Re 20:5, 7-10.
2/15/1986, pp. 18-19, 30-31
jy 134; w08 4/15 31; w03 9/15 30-31; w95 3/15 26; gt 55; rs 263, 268; w87 10/15 8-9; w86 2/15 18-19, 30-31; w86 4/15 31
w78 3/1 9-10; w78 9/1 16-17, 27-30; w65 104; w62 143; w56 52; w51 56; w42 77; w39 92; w38 71; jh 108; w33 88
feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood: The context indicates that those who feed and drink do so in a figurative sense by exercising faith in Jesus Christ. (Joh 6:35, 40) Jesus made this statement in 32 C.E., so he was not discussing the Lord’s Evening Meal, which he would institute a year later. He made this declaration just prior to “the Passover, the festival of the Jews” (Joh 6:4), so his listeners would likely have been reminded of the impending festival and the significance of the lamb’s blood in saving lives on the night that Israel left Egypt (Ex 12:24-27). Jesus was emphasizing that his blood would likewise play an essential role in making it possible for his disciples to gain everlasting life.
+Joh 6:40; 1Co 15:51, 52; 1Th 4:16
it-1 845; it-2 271; jy 134; g99 5/8 26-27; gt 55; w90 2/15 12-13; rs 268; w88 2/1 30-31; w87 10/15 8-9; w86 2/15 18-19
w79 6/15 24, 26-27, 30; w78 3/1 9-10; w78 9/1 16-17, 24, 27-30; bq 10; ad 590; w65 104; w63 237; bf 426; w62 143; w56 52; w47 102; jh 108; w30 41
it-1 845; jy 134; w90 2/15 12
w78 9/1 28-29; ad 590; w63 237; w62 143; w56 52; jh 108
in union with me: Or “in me.” This expression indicates close association, harmony, and unity.
+Joh 15:4
jy 134; w86 2/15 19-20
w78 9/1 28-29; w62 143, 593; wr 44; w51 56; w39 93; jh 108
+Joh 5:26; 1Co 15:22
it-2 52
w78 9/1 28-29; w74 527; ad 918; w62 593; wr 44; nh 26; w51 489; w37 235
w78 9/1 27, 29; w65 306; w62 561; wr 17; w56 52; w49 120; g32 8/3 702
a synagogue: Or possibly, “public assembly.” The Greek noun sy·na·go·geʹ used here literally means “a bringing together; an assembly.” In most occurrences in the Christian Greek Scriptures, it refers to the building or place where Jews assembled for Scripture reading, instruction, preaching, and prayer. (See Glossary, “Synagogue.”) Although the term in this context could be used in a broader sense to refer to any type of gathering that was accessible to the public, it most likely refers to “a synagogue” where Jesus was addressing a Jewish audience who were under the Mosaic Law.
w78 9/1 27; bq 10; w67 469; w65 306; w31 343
Does this stumble you?: Or “Does this cause you to take offense?” or “Does this cause you to believe no longer?” In the Christian Greek Scriptures, the Greek word skan·da·liʹzo refers to stumbling in a figurative sense, often with reference to falling into sin or causing someone to fall into sin. Depending on the context, stumbling may involve breaking one of God’s laws on morals, losing faith, accepting false teachings, or taking offense.—See study notes on Mt 5:29; 18:7.
Or “Does this offend you; Does this cause you to be offended?”
w78 9/1 16-17, 27-28; w65 306
+Joh 3:13; 6:38; 8:23; Ac 1:9; Eph 4:8
w78 9/1 27-28; w62 561; wr 17
the spirit: Apparently referring to God’s holy spirit. Jesus adds that in contrast with the power and wisdom that God grants through his spirit, the flesh is of no use at all. This indicates that the power as well as the wisdom of humans, as reflected in their writings, philosophies, and teachings, cannot lead to everlasting life.
the flesh: This expression seems to refer broadly to things connected with the limitations of a fleshly or human existence, including human reasoning and achievements. The sum total of human experience and wisdom, all its writings, philosophies, and teachings, are of no use at all as a means to gain eternal life.
are spirit and are life: The Greek word rendered “are” (e·stinʹ) may here have the sense of “mean,” so this phrase could be rendered “means spirit and means life.” (See study notes on Mt 12:7; 26:26.) Jesus is apparently indicating that his sayings are inspired by holy spirit and that these sayings are life-giving.
+De 8:3; Mt 4:4
w74 211; w63 658; w60 48; w44 217
Jesus knew . . . the one who would betray him: Jesus was referring to Judas Iscariot. Jesus spent the entire night in prayer to his Father before selecting the 12 apostles. (Lu 6:12-16) So at first, Judas was faithful to God. However, Jesus knew from Hebrew Scripture prophecies that he would be betrayed by a close associate. (Ps 41:9; 109:8; Joh 13:18, 19) When Judas started to go bad, Jesus, who could read hearts and thoughts, detected this change. (Mt 9:4) By use of his foreknowledge, God knew that a trusted companion of Jesus would turn traitor. But it is inconsistent with God’s qualities and past dealings to think that Judas had to be the one who would fail, as if his failure were predestined.
from the beginning: This expression does not refer to Judas’ birth or to his being selected as an apostle, which happened after Jesus had prayed the entire night. (Lu 6:12-16) Rather, it refers to the start of Judas’ acting treacherously, which Jesus immediately discerned. (Joh 2:24, 25; Re 1:1; 2:23; see study notes on Joh 6:70; 13:11.) This also shows that Judas’ actions were premeditated and planned, not the result of a sudden change of heart. The meaning of the term “beginning” (Greek, ar·kheʹ) in the Christian Greek Scriptures is relative, depending on the context. For example, at 2Pe 3:4, “beginning” refers to the start of creation. But in most instances, it is used in a more limited sense. For instance, Peter said that the holy spirit fell on the Gentiles “just as it did also on us in the beginning.” (Ac 11:15) Peter was not referring to the time of his birth or to the time when he was called to be an apostle. Rather, he was referring to the day of Pentecost 33 C.E., that is, “the beginning” of the outpouring of holy spirit for a specific purpose. (Ac 2:1-4) Other examples of how the context affects the meaning of the term “beginning” can be found at Lu 1:2; Joh 15:27; and 1Jo 2:7.
+Mt 9:3, 4; Joh 2:24, 25; 13:11
it-1 858; it-2 129; w08 4/15 31; gt 55; rs 143; w87 10/15 9
w84 7/15 6; g78 9/22 27; ad 598, 976; w70 476; w63 99; w61 409, 730; w53 339
it-1 1176; w05 9/1 21-22
w79 7/1 28; w78 9/1 27; w75 508-509; w73 404; ad 814; w67 152, 469; g63 9/22 27; w61 208; w47 135; w31 343
+Joh 6:63; 17:3
Imitate, pp. 189-190
jy 134; ia 189-190; w10 1/1 25; w00 9/1 9-10; w92 11/15 21; gt 55; w87 10/15 9
w81 2/15 19; w81 12/1 31; w79 3/1 24-25; w76 297; w75 508-509; w73 404; w67 469; g66 9/8 6; w65 306; w64 334, 435, 465; w62 593, 763; wr 44; w61 114; w60 48; w53 663; w47 135
w73 404; g66 9/8 6; w62 593; wr 44
a slanderer: Or “a devil.” The Greek word di·aʹbo·los, most often used with reference to the Devil, means “slanderer.” It is rendered “slanderers” (2Ti 3:3) or “slanderous” (1Ti 3:11; Tit 2:3) in the few other occurrences where the term does not refer to the Devil. In Greek, when used about the Devil, it is almost always preceded by the definite article. (See study note on Mt 4:1 and Glossary, “Definite Article.”) Here the term is used to describe Judas Iscariot, who had developed a bad quality. It is possible that at this point Jesus detected that Judas was starting down a wrong course, one that later allowed Satan to use Judas as an ally in having Jesus killed.—Joh 13:2, 11.
+Lu 22:3; Joh 13:18
w66 235; w61 409, 730; w58 197; w53 339
+Mt 26:14, 15; Lu 6:13, 16; Joh 12:4
John 6:1Mt 14:13; Lu 9:10
John 6:2Mr 6:33
John 6:2Lu 9:11
John 6:5Mt 14:14-17; Mr 6:35-38; Lu 9:12, 13
John 6:10Mt 14:19-21; Mr 6:39-44; Lu 9:14-17
John 6:15Mt 14:23; Mr 6:45
John 6:16Mt 14:22
John 6:17Mr 6:47-51
John 6:18Mt 14:24-33
John 6:31Ps 78:24
John 6:45Isa 54:13
John 6:4Joh 2:13; 5:1
John 6:5Joh 1:44
John 6:92Ki 4:42-44
John 6:14De 18:15, 18; Lu 24:19; Ac 3:22
John 6:15Joh 17:16; 18:36
John 6:18Mt 8:24
John 6:25Joh 1:38
John 6:27Mt 6:31-33
John 6:27Joh 4:14; 17:3; Ro 6:23
John 6:27Mt 3:17; Ac 2:22; 2Pe 1:17
John 6:29Joh 7:29; 8:42; Ac 16:31; 1Jo 3:23
John 6:30Mt 12:38; Mr 8:12; Joh 2:18; 1Co 1:22
John 6:31Ex 16:4, 15; Nu 11:7
John 6:31Ne 9:15; Ps 105:40
John 6:35Joh 4:14; 7:37; Re 22:17
John 6:37Mt 11:28, 29; Joh 17:6
John 6:38Joh 3:13; 8:23, 42
John 6:38Mt 26:39; Joh 5:30
John 6:39Joh 17:12; 18:9
John 6:39Joh 5:28, 29; Ro 6:5
John 6:40Joh 10:27, 28
John 6:40Joh 11:24; Ac 17:31; 1Th 4:16; Re 20:12
John 6:42Mt 13:55; Mr 6:3; Lu 4:22
John 6:44Joh 6:65; 2Th 2:13
John 6:44Joh 11:24
John 6:45Jer 31:33, 34; Mic 4:2
John 6:46Ex 33:17, 20
John 6:46Mt 11:27; Lu 10:22; Joh 1:18
John 6:51Heb 10:10
John 6:54Joh 6:40; 1Co 15:51, 52; 1Th 4:16
John 6:56Joh 15:4
John 6:57Joh 5:26; 1Co 15:22
John 6:62Joh 3:13; 6:38; 8:23; Ac 1:9; Eph 4:8
John 6:63Ga 6:8
John 6:63De 8:3; Mt 4:4
John 6:64Mt 9:3, 4; Joh 2:24, 25; 13:11
John 6:66Lu 9:62
John 6:68Joh 6:63; 17:3
John 6:70Lu 22:3; Joh 13:18
John 6:71Mt 26:14, 15; Lu 6:13, 16; Joh 12:4
According to John
6 After this Jesus set out across the Sea of Galʹi·lee, or Ti·beʹri·as.+ 2 And a large crowd kept following him,+ because they were observing the miraculous signs he was performing in healing the sick.+ 3 So Jesus went up on a mountain and sat down there with his disciples. 4 Now the Passover,+ the festival of the Jews, was near. 5 When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip:+ “Where will we buy bread for these people to eat?”+ 6 However, he was saying this to test him, for he knew what he was about to do. 7 Philip answered him: “Two hundred de·narʹi·i worth of bread is not enough for each of them to get even a little.” 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him: 9 “Here is a little boy who has five barley loaves and two small fish. But what are these among so many?”+
10 Jesus said: “Have the people sit down.” As there was a lot of grass in that place, the men sat down there, about 5,000 in number.+ 11 Jesus took the bread, and after giving thanks, he distributed it to those who were sitting there; he did likewise with the small fish, and they had as much as they wanted. 12 But when they had eaten their fill, he said to his disciples: “Gather together the fragments left over, so that nothing is wasted.” 13 So they gathered them together and filled 12 baskets with fragments left over by those who had eaten from the five barley loaves.
14 When the people saw the sign he performed, they began to say: “This really is the Prophet who was to come into the world.”+ 15 Then Jesus, knowing that they were about to come and seize him to make him king, withdrew+ again to the mountain all alone.+
16 When evening fell, his disciples went down to the sea,+ 17 and boarding a boat, they set out across the sea for Ca·perʹna·um. By now it had grown dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.+ 18 Also, the sea was getting rough because a strong wind was blowing.+ 19 However, when they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and getting near the boat, and they became fearful. 20 But he said to them: “It is I; do not be afraid!”+ 21 Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and right away the boat arrived at the land to which they had been heading.+
22 The next day the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there except a small one, and that Jesus had not boarded the boat with his disciples, but his disciples had left by themselves. 23 Boats from Ti·beʹri·as, however, arrived near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks. 24 So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they boarded their boats and came to Ca·perʹna·um to look for Jesus.
25 When they found him across the sea, they said to him: “Rabbi,+ when did you get here?” 26 Jesus answered them: “Most truly I say to you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate from the loaves and were satisfied.+ 27 Work, not for the food that perishes,+ but for the food that remains for everlasting life,+ which the Son of man will give you; for on this one the Father, God himself, has put his seal of approval.”+
28 So they said to him: “What must we do to carry out the works of God?” 29 In answer Jesus said to them: “This is the work of God, that you exercise faith in the one whom he sent.”+ 30 Then they said to him: “What are you performing as a sign,+ so that we may see it and believe you? What work are you doing? 31 Our forefathers ate the manna in the wilderness,+ just as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”+ 32 Jesus then said to them: “Most truly I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”+ 34 So they said to him: “Lord, always give us this bread.”
35 Jesus said to them: “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not get hungry at all, and whoever exercises faith in me will never get thirsty at all.+ 36 But as I said to you, you have even seen me and yet do not believe.+ 37 All those whom the Father gives me will come to me, and I will never drive away the one who comes to me;+ 38 for I have come down from heaven+ to do, not my own will, but the will of him who sent me.+ 39 This is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose none out of all those whom he has given me,+ but that I should resurrect+ them on the last day. 40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who recognizes the Son and exercises faith in him should have everlasting life,+ and I will resurrect+ him on the last day.”
41 Then the Jews began to murmur about him because he had said: “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”+ 42 And they began saying: “Is this not Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?+ How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” 43 In response Jesus said to them: “Stop murmuring among yourselves. 44 No man can come to me unless the Father, who sent me, draws him,+ and I will resurrect him on the last day.+ 45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught* by Jehovah.’+ Everyone who has listened to the Father and has learned comes to me. 46 Not that any man has seen the Father,+ except the one who is from God; this one has seen the Father.+ 47 Most truly I say to you, whoever believes has everlasting life.+
48 “I am the bread of life.+ 49 Your forefathers ate the manna in the wilderness and yet they died.+ 50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever; and for a fact, the bread that I will give is my flesh in behalf of the life of the world.”+
52 Then the Jews began to argue with one another, saying: “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53 So Jesus said to them: “Most truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.+ 54 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has everlasting life, and I will resurrect+ him on the last day; 55 for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. 56 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains in union with me, and I in union with him.+ 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will live because of me.+ 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. It is not as when your forefathers ate and yet died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”+ 59 He said these things as he was teaching in a synagogue in Ca·perʹna·um.
60 When they heard this, many of his disciples said: “This speech is shocking; who can listen to it?” 61 But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were murmuring about this, said to them: “Does this stumble you?* 62 What, therefore, if you should see the Son of man ascending to where he was before?+ 63 It is the spirit that is life-giving;+ the flesh is of no use at all. The sayings that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.+ 64 But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning those who did not believe and the one who would betray him.+ 65 He went on to say: “This is why I have said to you, no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”+
66 Because of this, many of his disciples went off to the things behind+ and would no longer walk with him. 67 So Jesus said to the Twelve: “You do not want to go also, do you?” 68 Simon Peter answered him: “Lord, whom shall we go away to?+ You have sayings of everlasting life.+ 69 We have believed and have come to know that you are the Holy One of God.”+ 70 Jesus answered them: “I chose you twelve, did I not?+ Yet one of you is a slanderer.”+ 71 He was, in fact, speaking of Judas the son of Simon Is·carʹi·ot, for this one was going to betray him, although he was one of the Twelve.+
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A. INTRODUCTION (1:1-9)
Paul’s introductory greeting (1:1-5)
Warning against a distorted form of good news (1:6-9)
B. PAUL DEFENDS HIS APOSTLESHIP (1:10–2:14)
God chooses Paul to be an apostle; Paul’s early activity (1:10-24)
Paul meets with the apostles in Jerusalem (2:1-10)
Paul relates how he corrected Cephas (Peter) in Syrian Antioch (2:11-14)
To the Galatians: Titles like this were apparently not part of the original text. Ancient manuscripts, such as the papyrus codex known as P46, show that they were added later, doubtless to make it easier to identify the letters. (See Media Gallery, “Paul’s Letter to the Galatians.”) Other early manuscripts, such as Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus of the fourth century C.E., contain the same title as the P46 codex.
Video Introduction to the Book of Galatians
Paul’s Letter to the Galatians
Galatians 1:1, 2
+Ac 9:15; 26:15, 16
to the congregations of Galatia: When traveling through Galatia (see study note on Galatia in this verse) during Paul’s first missionary tour about 47-48 C.E., Paul and Barnabas visited such cities as Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe—all located in the southern part of the region. (Ac 13:14, 51; 14:1, 5, 6) The men found many who were eager to learn the good news, so they established Christian congregations in those cities. (Ac 14:19-23) It seems that the seeds of Christianity sown among the Galatians bore good fruit. Timothy, for instance, came from Galatia. (Ac 16:1) “The congregations of Galatia” to whom Paul wrote were composed of a mixture of Jews and non-Jews, the latter including both circumcised proselytes and uncircumcised Gentiles. (Ac 13:14, 43; 16:1; Ga 5:2) No doubt some were of Celtic descent. The congregations in this region were also mentioned in other letters in the Christian Greek Scriptures. For example, about 55 C.E. when writing to the Corinthians, Paul mentioned the instructions he had given “to the congregations of Galatia” regarding the laying aside of contributions for the poor. (1Co 16:1, 2; Ga 2:10) Some years later (c. 62-64 C.E.), Peter addressed his first letter to, among others, “the temporary residents scattered about in . . . Galatia.”—1Pe 1:1; see study note on Ga 3:1.
Galatia: In the first century C.E., Galatia was the region as well as the Roman province that occupied the central portion of what is now known as Asia Minor.—See Glossary.
it-1 880; si 217
ad 615; w63 250
May you have undeserved kindness and peace: See study note on Ro 1:7.
g65 3/8 7
system of things: The Greek word ai·onʹ, having the basic meaning “age,” can refer to a state of affairs or to features that distinguish a certain period of time, epoch, or age. (2Ti 4:10; see Glossary, “System(s) of things.”) What Paul here calls “the present wicked system of things” apparently began sometime after the Flood. Humans started to develop an unrighteous way of life, one characterized by sin and rebellion against God and his will. While Christians in the first century C.E. lived at the same time as the prevailing “wicked system of things,” they were no part of it. They had been rescued from it by the ransom sacrifice of Jesus Christ.—See study note on 2Co 4:4.
+1Jo 2:1, 2
+1Ti 2:3, 4
it-2 1054-1055
ad 1567; w64 43, 45; g64 11/22 27; mg63 8; w61 240
Amen: See study note on Ro 1:25.
you are so quickly turning away: Paul here pinpoints an important reason for writing this letter. Though it had not been long since Paul visited the region, some in the Galatian congregations were already turning away from Christian truths. The “evil influence” that Paul talks about in this letter (Ga 3:1) includes those whom he calls “false brothers,” who had “slipped in” to the congregations. (See study notes on Ga 2:4; 3:1.) Some of these false brothers were Judaizers, who insisted that Christians abide by the Mosaic Law. (See study note on Ga 1:13.) The Judaizers persisted even though the apostles and elders in Jerusalem had already directed that Gentiles were not obligated to obey the Mosaic Law. (Ac 15:1, 2, 23-29; Ga 5:2-4) Paul indicates that the Judaizers feared persecution and wanted to appease Jewish opposers. (Ga 6:12, 13) These false brothers may also have claimed that Paul was no real apostle, and they sought to alienate the congregations from him. (Ga 1:11, 12; 4:17) Some of the Galatians may have been inclined toward immorality, strife, and egotism. These fleshly tendencies that Paul addresses in the latter part of his letter would cause them to turn away from God.—Ga 5:13–6:10.
another sort of good news: “False brothers” were preaching (Ga 2:4) a different teaching that was “something beyond” what the Galatian Christians had learned. The good news that Paul had declared to them included “the good news about the Christ.” (Ga 1:7, 8) It had to do with the freedom that Christ brings—freedom from bondage to inherited sin and freedom from bondage to the Mosaic Law. (Ga 3:13; 5:1, 13 and study note) That good news was “not of human origin.”—Ga 1:8, 9, 11, 12; 2Co 11:4; see study note on Ga 1:8.
+2Co 11:3, 4; Ga 5:7
it-1 881, 1007
w82 11/15 28
are causing you trouble: According to one lexicon, the Greek verb that Paul here uses conveys the sense of “stir up; disturb; unsettle; throw into confusion.” In this and other contexts, the expression refers to mental or spiritual disturbance. (Ac 15:24; Ga 5:10) The same verb is also used at Ac 17:13 about the Jews who came to “agitate the crowds” in Beroea.
+Ga 5:10, 12; 6:17
let him be accursed: Paul warns the Galatian Christians of “certain ones” who were “wanting to distort the good news about the Christ.” (Ga 1:7) These were apparently men who endorsed Jewish traditions rather than the message of the good news. Paul says that Christians should consider to be “accursed” anyone, even angels, who declared to them as good news something beyond that which they had received. He repeats this warning in verse 9. The Greek word for “accursed” (a·naʹthe·ma) literally means that which is “laid up.” The word originally applied to votive offerings laid up, or set apart, as sacred in a temple. In this context it applies to that which is set apart to be declared bad or evil. (1Co 12:3; 16:22; see study note on Ro 9:3.) In the Septuagint, the translators generally used the same Greek word to render the Hebrew word cheʹrem, which means a thing or a person “devoted to destruction” or “set apart for destruction.”—De 7:26; 13:17.
+2Jo 9-11
cj 116; w64 195; w52 172
Is it, in fact, men I am now trying to persuade or God?: Paul defends himself because “false brothers” in Galatia apparently claimed that he had adapted his message so as to persuade the Galatian Christians to side with him. (Ga 2:4) For example, those opponents seem to have claimed that Paul would preach circumcision when it suited him. (Ga 5:11) The Greek word peiʹtho, here rendered “persuade,” also conveys the meaning “appeal to; win over; gain the approval of.” Paul is, in effect, asking: “Am I trying to win the approval of people or of God?” Paul is, of course, concerned about gaining the approval of God, not of humans. While Paul was adaptable in how he presented the good news (see study note on 1Co 9:22), he never changed the basic message just to win over different groups of people. (See study note on Or am I trying to please men in this verse.) In the preceding verses, he made it very clear that there was just one message of truth, “the good news about the Christ.”—Ga 1:6-9.
Or am I trying to please men?: Some claimed that Paul was flattering men in an attempt to win their approval. The implied answer to Paul’s question is: “Of course not!” If he were trying to please humans, he would be disclaiming that he was a slave of Christ.—1Th 2:4.
+1Th 2:13
a revelation: Paul uses the Greek word a·po·kaʹly·psis, which literally means “an uncovering” or “a disclosure.” As used in the Christian Greek Scriptures, the word often refers to the revealing of spiritual matters to humans by God and Jesus. In this verse, Paul shows that the good news he preached was revealed to him, not by a human, but by Jesus Christ himself. This fact further established that Paul was a true apostle. Like the other apostles, Paul learned the good news and received his commission directly from Jesus. (1Co 9:1; Eph 3:3) Later in this letter, Paul refers to a specific revelation from Christ directing him to take the circumcision issue to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem.—See study note on Ga 2:2.
Judaism: The religious system that was prevalent among the Jewish people in Paul’s day. In the Christian Greek Scriptures, this word occurs only at Ga 1:13, 14. While adherents claimed to follow the Hebrew Scriptures closely, first-century Judaism focused great attention on “the traditions of [the] fathers.” (See study note on Ga 1:14.) Jesus denounced the traditions and the men who made God’s Word invalid.—Mr 7:8, 13.
intensely: Paul here uses the Greek word hy·per·bo·leʹ to describe how “intensely” (lit., “to the point of excess,” that is, to an extraordinary or extreme degree) he used to persecute the Christian congregation. (Ac 8:1, 3; 9:1, 2; 26:10, 11; Php 3:6) This Greek word occurs eight times in the Christian Greek Scriptures.—See study notes on 2Co 4:7; 12:7 and Glossary, “Hyperbole.”
+Ac 4:36; 23:6
+Ac 8:3; 9:1, 2; 22:4; 26:9-11; 1Ti 1:13
it-2 128; w99 6/15 29-31
g64 2/22 28; lg 16; w51 345
the traditions of my fathers: The Greek word for “tradition” (pa·raʹdo·sis) refers to information, instructions, or practices that have been handed down to others to follow. Paul here refers to the system of religious traditions practiced by the Jewish religious leaders, especially those of the Pharisees and scribes. Their religion was based on the Hebrew Scriptures, but those religious teachers had added many unscriptural traditions. (Mt 15:2, 3; Mr 7:3, 5, 13; see study note on Ga 1:13.) As “a son of Pharisees,” Paul was educated by Jewish religious teachers, such as Gamaliel, who was a highly esteemed teacher in the Pharisaic tradition. (Ac 22:3; 23:6; Php 3:5; see study note on Ac 5:34.) Paul explains, however, that his zeal for the traditional beliefs of his ancestors led to his “persecuting the congregation of God and devastating it.”—Ga 1:13; Joh 16:2, 3.
+Ac 22:3; Php 3:4-6
g73 11/8 27; lg 16; w43 199
+1Co 15:10
any human: Lit., “flesh and blood,” a common Jewish idiom. In this context, it is used to refer to a human being.—1Co 15:50; Eph 6:12; see study note on Mt 16:17.
+Ac 9:15; Ro 11:13
w76 333-334; w73 570
I went to Arabia, and then I returned to Damascus: Paul’s journey to Arabia is not mentioned in Luke’s brief account of the events that followed Paul’s conversion in Damascus. (Ac 9:18-20, 23-25) So Paul’s statement here complements Luke’s record. Paul may have preached about his newfound faith in Damascus before he departed for Arabia, possibly to the Syrian deserts. (See Glossary, “Arabia.”) After that, he may have returned to Damascus, continuing to preach there until “many days had passed,” and the Jews there plotted to kill him. (Ac 9:23) The purpose of going to Arabia is not revealed, but the newly converted Saul may have sought time for quiet meditation on the Scriptures.—Compare Mr 1:12.
Saul and Damascus
it-1 141; it-2 586; w08 5/15 22; w05 1/15 28-29
ad 101, 1276; w53 607
Then three years later: Paul may mean that after his conversion, parts of three years elapsed; he may have arrived in Jerusalem in 36 C.E. That visit was likely the first time that Paul was in Jerusalem as a Christian.
to visit: Some scholars suggest that the Greek verb rendered “to visit” may include the idea of visiting with the purpose of obtaining information. When Saul visited Peter and James, he would have many things to ask them, and they would have many questions for him regarding his vision and his commission.
Cephas: One of the names of the apostle Peter.—See study note on 1Co 1:12.
+Joh 1:42; 1Co 15:5
Bearing Witness, p. 12
it-2 586; bt 12; w07 6/15 15-17
ad 1276; w53 607; ep 307
apostles: Likely referring to Peter (“Cephas,” Ga 1:18; 2:9) and James the brother of the Lord, that is, Jesus’ half brother. (See study notes on Mt 13:55; Ac 1:14; 12:17.) The term “apostle” basically means “someone sent out,” and it is most frequently used of the 12 apostles of Jesus. (Lu 8:1; see study note on Joh 13:16 and Glossary, “Apostle.”) However, it also has a broader usage, as in this case regarding James. He was apparently viewed as an apostle, that is, one selected and sent forth as a representative of the Jerusalem congregation. Such a use of this word would explain why the account at Ac 9:26, 27 uses the title in the plural, saying that Paul was led “to the apostles.”
+Mt 13:55; Ac 12:17
Bearing Witness, p. 112
it-1 129-130, 369-370, 1252; bt 112; w07 6/15 16-17
ad 93; w53 607
Syria and Cilicia: Paul seems to use the word regions in a general sense. “Syria” may simply refer to the area around Antioch, and “Cilicia,” to the area around Tarsus, where Paul grew up. (See App. B13.) After his visit to Jerusalem about 36 C.E., Paul was sent back to Tarsus, and then Barnabas brought him to Antioch about 45 C.E., where the two men preached for a whole year. (Ac 9:28-30; 11:22-26) While little is known of how Paul spent the eight or so years prior to that, he was apparently so busy in his preaching work that news of his activity reached all the way to Judea. (Ga 1:21-24) Paul’s summary of his trials and challenges, recorded at 2Co 11:23-27, mentions a number of events that are not recorded in the book of Acts. Some of those events might have taken place during this time. (See study note on 2Co 11:25.) Sometime during that period, it seems that he was granted a supernatural vision that had a profound impact on his teaching.—2Co 12:1-4; see study notes on 2Co 12:2, 4.
+Ac 9:29, 30
+Ac 8:3
Gal. 1:1Ac 9:15; 26:15, 16
Gal. 1:1Ac 22:14, 15
Gal. 1:41Jo 2:1, 2
Gal. 1:4Joh 15:19
Gal. 1:41Ti 2:3, 4
Gal. 1:62Co 11:3, 4; Ga 5:7
Gal. 1:7Ga 5:10, 12; 6:17
Gal. 1:82Jo 9-11
Gal. 1:111Th 2:13
Gal. 1:13Ac 4:36; 23:6
Gal. 1:13Ac 8:3; 9:1, 2; 22:4; 26:9-11; 1Ti 1:13
Gal. 1:14Ac 22:3; Php 3:4-6
Gal. 1:151Co 15:10
Gal. 1:16Ac 9:15; Ro 11:13
Gal. 1:17Ac 9:19
Gal. 1:18Joh 1:42; 1Co 15:5
Gal. 1:19Mt 13:55; Ac 12:17
Gal. 1:21Ac 9:29, 30
Gal. 1:23Ga 1:13
Gal. 1:23Ac 8:3
1 Paul, an apostle, neither from men nor through a man, but through Jesus Christ+ and God the Father,+ who raised him up from the dead, 2 and all the brothers with me, to the congregations of Ga·laʹti·a:+
3 May you have undeserved kindness and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 4 He gave himself for our sins+ so that he might rescue us from the present wicked system of things+ according to the will of our God and Father,+ 5 to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
6 I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from the One who called you with Christ’s undeserved kindness to another sort of good news.+ 7 Not that there is another good news; but there are certain ones who are causing you trouble+ and wanting to distort the good news about the Christ. 8 However, even if we or an angel out of heaven were to declare to you as good news something beyond the good news we declared to you, let him be accursed.+ 9 As we have said before, I now say again, Whoever is declaring to you as good news something beyond what you accepted, let him be accursed.
10 Is it, in fact, men I am now trying to persuade or God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I would not be Christ’s slave. 11 For I want you to know, brothers, that the good news I declared to you is not of human origin;+ 12 for neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it was through a revelation by Jesus Christ.
13 Of course, you heard about my conduct formerly in Juʹda·ism,+ that I kept intensely persecuting the congregation of God and devastating it;+ 14 and I was making greater progress in Juʹda·ism than many of my own age in my nation, as I was far more zealous for the traditions of my fathers.+ 15 But when God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his undeserved kindness,+ thought good 16 to reveal his Son through me so that I might declare the good news about him to the nations,+ I did not immediately consult with any human; 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before I was, but I went to Arabia, and then I returned to Damascus.+
18 Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem+ to visit Ceʹphas,+ and I stayed with him for 15 days. 19 But I did not see any of the other apostles, only James+ the brother of the Lord. 20 Now regarding the things I am writing you, I assure you before God that I am not lying.
21 After that I went into the regions of Syria and Ci·liʹcia.+ 22 But I was personally unknown to the congregations of Ju·deʹa that were in union with Christ. 23 They only used to hear: “The man who formerly persecuted us+ is now declaring the good news about the faith that he formerly devastated.”+ 24 So they began glorifying God because of me.
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Working the Beads
Fumbling towards holiness, one rosary at a time
Tag: Roman Catholicism
The Dignity of Workers
On September 7, 2020 By Fr. Jonathan MitchicanIn Morality and Ethics, This Catholic Life
Dorothy Day protesting with farm workers in 1973. It only took four police officers to arrest a seated, unarmed, seventy-five year old woman.
Today is Labor Day in the United States, and up down my street there are American flags flying high and proud. This happens every time there is a national holiday of some patriotic significance, so I am glad to see it today, because if the last six months has taught us anything it is that our good fortune as a nation is borne on the backs of workers. Yet right next to those flags are overturned trash cans because our local garbage collectors do not get the day off today, just as they do not get off on Christmas, Easter, or any other federal holidays. It is a stark reminder that we have a long way to go in this country to get our reality to match our rhetoric.
Labor Day may be a holiday specific to the United States, but it is built on principles that are deeply ingrained in Catholic social teaching. In 1891, Pope Leo XIII issued the encyclical Rerum Novarum which addressed the growing inequality in industrialized societies. “Workers are not to be treated as slaves; justice demands that the dignity of human personality be respected in them” (31). The pope insisted that meaningful work is part of what drives each person towards meeting their potential as a child of God. Therefore, governments ought to protect the rights of workers, and employers ought not only to treat their employees fairly, with a mind towards their quality of life, but also to make sure that they have an equitable share in the benefits of their work. “When men know they are working on what belongs to them, they work with far greater eagerness and diligence. Nay, in a word, they learn to love the land cultivated by their own hands, whence they look not only for food but for some measure of abundance for themselves and their dependents” (66).
These sentiments did not come out of nowhere. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as more and more laborers transitioned to work in factories under the control of a shrinking number of wealthy individuals and burgeoning corporations, they faced increasingly harsh conditions. Workers often found themselves working around the clock, seven days a week, in poor ventilation and unsanitary work spaces, facing extreme cold and heat. In many places, children were employed under similar circumstances. Wages were meager and stagnant. Getting sick meant losing your job. Many people fell ill and died in the factories, never even leaving the assembly lines. Rerum Novarum insisted that laborers must be treated as human beings, not simply as cogs in a system.
The pope’s call did not go unheeded. As the labor movement in America and around the world began to grow, many Catholics participated. A group of American bishops issued a “Program for Social Reconstruction” in 1919 that made an early call for the establishment of a minimum wage, unemployment protections, and the participation of workers in management decisions that affected them.
In 1933, Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin established the Catholic Worker Movement. The movement not only fought for the rights of workers but established communities in which people could live out a commitment both to Catholic social teaching and Catholic devotion. “The Gospel takes away our right forever to discriminate between the deserving and undeserving poor,” said Day.
Over the course of the one hundred and twenty-nine years since Rerum Novarum, the Church’s magisterial teaching on these issues has repeatedly been strengthened. “Whatever insults human dignity,” said the Second Vatican Council, “such as subhuman living conditions… as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed. They poison human society, but they do more harm to those who practice them than those who suffer from the injury” (Gaudium et Spes, 27). While the abuse of workers may harm them in this life, the spiritual self-harm suffered by employers who inflict such abuse has eternal consequences.
The means for combatting such inequities, such as those provided by labor unions, are praised by the Church. “The experience of history teaches that organizations of this type are an indispensable element of social life,” wrote Pope St. John Paul II in Laborem Exercens. While the pope insists that unions avoid politicization or anything that will take them away from their fundamental task of ensuring the rights of workers, he is adamant that the tools they have for carrying out their primary task must be protected. “Workers should be assured the right to strike, without being subjected to personal penal sanctions for taking part in a strike” (20).
Celebrating and protecting the rights of workers is not only a patriotic duty but a Christian moral responsibility. Labor Day was established in the United States in 1894, just a few years after Rerum Novarum, long before most of the goals of the labor movement would be accomplished. It was meant to be a sign of hope for a future in which protecting the dignity of work and workers would be seen as a bedrock principle of a free society. There have been great strides since then, but our own era shows us that there is a long way still to go. Workers for major corporations around the world today face some of the same harsh conditions that the labor movement fought to eradicate more than a century ago, while workers here in our own country face a situation in which long-held benefits, like sick leave and the forty hour work week, have begun to erode.
Over the past six months of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have discovered time and time again just how essential many of our “essential workers” are, including medical professionals, but also the people who risk their lives to cut our lawns, sanitize our buildings, deliver our groceries, and teach our children. At a moment of extreme economic stress around the world, it is more important than ever that we celebrate and protect the dignity of workers.
The papacy and the call to Christian unity
On August 23, 2020 By Fr. Jonathan MitchicanIn Homilies, The Church1 Comment
Jesus says in Matthew 16:13-20, “You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church… I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” Peter is being given the authority to govern the Church. Catholics understand this to be about the papacy, but my Protestant friends often point out that the reason Peter is given this authority is because of his faith, because he confesses that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, not because of anything particularly wonderful about Peter himself. Faith, they say, is what should govern the Church, not some man sitting in a building in Rome, claiming to be Peter’s successor. Faith in Jesus Christ, built only upon the Word of God in Scripture, should be sufficient. Yet there is another way of looking at the papacy that avoids this unhelpful division. What the papacy gives to us is not merely a means of governing the faithful, but a focal point for expressing our love and gratitude.
The pope does, of course, carry out a very important governing function. He’s the pastor of pastors, the bishop of bishops, and we need that kind of accountability. The buck has to stop somewhere. Otherwise, if every person is his or her own authority, we end up with chaos. Even if we say that the individual must be directed by the clear teaching of Scripture – how do we adjudicate disputes when my idea of “clear teaching” conflicts with yours?
Contrary to popular belief, the pope does not have unlimited power. He cannot just say something and then it becomes so. He exercises his authority through established means that make clear the difference between when he’s speaking with the full teaching authority of his office, backed up by centuries of precedent, and when he’s only offering an opinion or sharing an idea. And yet, guided by the Holy Spirit, he’s able to speak a word that settles an argument. He’s a living authority, capable of making sure that the Church never strays from her true teaching.
All of that is often where discussion of the papacy gets stuck, but the role of the pope is much more than that. He’s the embodiment of the Church.
Over the course of two thousand years, most Catholics haven’t been reading papal encyclicals. In fact, for most of history, in most of the world, about the only thing that the average Catholic knew about the pope was his name. But knowing the Holy Father’s name was a big deal, because it meant that you could pray for him. Popes are just human beings. Like Peter himself, they have all had their foibles. Some have been good, some have been bad, some have been downright scoundrels who kept mistresses, had their enemies murdered, etc. But the pope is always a living, breathing man, which is what allows him to stand as the embodiment of the Church in any given age. Just as every priest is an icon of Christ, the pope is an icon of the Church.
I was living in Philadelphia in 2015 when Pope Francis made his famous visit to America, celebrating Mass in front of the steps of the Philly Art Museum. I was with the throngs of people who made their way through the security checkpoints. They say there were over a million people. I’ve never been in a crowd that large before. Yet there was so much joy, even though we were packed in like sardines. Some of the Dominican sisters from Nashville were leading people in singing “Ave Maria,” “God bless America,” and whatever else happened to pop into their heads. When I finally saw the Holy Father, from a great distance but still unmistakable in his white cassock, I felt a great swell of love in my heart. It was love for him, but it wasn’t really about him. It was love for Jesus, love for the Church, love for the grace and blessing that God pours out for us in the Sacraments, and most of all just immense gratitude. Here before me was all of that, in a living man who I could see and hear, who prays for me even as I pray for him. And I knew in my bones that this is what it means to be Catholic.
I love the Bible, but I cannot be grateful to it, nor can I expect it to love me back. I love the sacred tradition of the Church as well, but the great genius of the Catholic Church is that she is alive, organic, real. The pope is not a concept. He stands in Peter’s place as an actual living out of the apostolic calling that Our Lord gave to Peter when he was first handed those keys.
It isn’t about choosing between being governed by faith or by a man. It’s about recognizing that as human beings, we need more than just abstractions. We need flesh and blood. We need solid symbols that point us towards the unity and healing that we can only know in Jesus Christ.
Note on the text: This was originally written to be a homily for Sunday, August 23, 2020, however I have been in quarantine since Wednesday because of a possible Covid exposure. Nevertheless, I wanted to share this brief reflection.
Poverty and the Anglican Patrimony
On May 23, 2020 By Fr. Jonathan MitchicanIn English Catholic Spirituality
The Rev. Charles Fugue Lowder, SSC
The Anglo-Catholic tradition within Anglicanism is the handmaiden that nurtured many of us who have since taken the journey into full communion with Rome. Much of the liturgical flourishing associated with Anglo-Catholicism developed in the second wave of the movement, in the latter part of the nineteenth century, that became known as Ritualism. Two things became emblematic of the Anglo-Catholic movement from that time forward. The first was an extraordinary embrace of long lost High Church aspects of worship, including candles, incense, vestments, bells, and many related things. The second was a great devotion to serving the poor.
At first glance, these two ideas may seem contradictory. It is hard to justify golden chalices and silk chasubles when the people in your neighborhood are out of work and starving. Moreover, the Anglo-Catholic tradition prior to the 1860s was not exactly egalitarian. The movement had been started in the 1830s by men like St. John Henry Newman and John Keble, academics with strong Tory backgrounds. It drew its inspiration at least in part from the High Churchmanship of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that was often as invested in preserving monarchy and the social order as it was in orthodoxy and tradition.
Nevertheless, the Ritualists were deeply committed to serving the poor. Many Ritualist priests were sent to serve poor slum parishes by strongly Protestant bishops who wished to banish them to obscurity. Yet the Ritualists embraced the opportunity and often thrived ministering to the poor, the needy, outcasts, foreigners, and others who had been forgotten by the establishment of the established Church.
The Rev. Charles Fugue Lowder, for instance, was sent to the East End of London. The neighborhood in which his parish was found was deeply impoverished and overrun with crime. Children were left uneducated and malnourished. The parish did not accept Fr. Lowder easily. When he first arrived in 1856, he was shouted down during his sermons and faced regular attacks by the sailors and prostitutes who made up much of the community. On one occasion, while preaching, Lowder had to dodge a dead cat that was thrown at his head. But he persevered, staying for decades, ministering to the needs of each person without prejudice, so that when he died he was called “the poor man’s friend” and his body was carried in procession through the streets.
Lowder’s interest in the poor was not in spite of his Ritualism but because of it. He believed that the mysteries of the Sacraments were the path to salvation and that the Church of England was woefully derelict of duty in neglecting to provide them to the East Enders for so long. He described the point of Christian mission thusly:
In spite of the far greater attraction and popularity of general schemes of benevolence, of attempts to brighten the surface of society by plans of amusement or social recreation, of physical exercise or domestic economy, by friendly meetings of the poor, by lectures, concerts, or tea-meetings; however praiseworthy and useful such schemes are in their proper place, and not lost sight of in our own Mission work; yet we have ever felt that our great object must be to save souls. [Emphasis his.]
For this reason, Lowder founded the Society of the Holy Cross (Societas Sanctae Crucis or SSC), to develop a fraternity of priests who understood both the power of the Sacraments and the need to minister to those in need. The SSC was hardly the only Anglo-Catholic organization to adopt this mission though. Numerous religious orders, devotional societies, and volunteer organizations arose to meet the challenge. At Fr. Lowder’s urging, Elizabeth Neale founded an order of sisters that ministered to the poor and the sick of London, particularly during the Cholera epidemic of 1866. St. Saviour’s in Leeds, a parish established by the great early Anglo-Catholic leader E.B. Pusey, also ministered to Cholera victims and founded an orphanage. “We dare not deck our walls with pictures,” preached Pusey, “while man, the image of God and representative of Christ, [we] clothe not.”
Others were more pointed in their observations. F. D. Maurice wrote that Jesus did not offer His sacrifice on the cross “to give a few proud Philosophers or ascetical Pharisees some high notions about the powers of the soul and the meanness of the body,” but rather He “entered into the state of the lowest beggar, of the poorest, stupidest, wickedest wretch whom that Philosopher or that Pharisee can trample upon,” so that He could “redeem the humanity which Philosophers, Pharisees, beggars, and harlots share together.” For Maurice, the doctrine of the Incarnation forms the basis for both a high view of the Sacraments and the Christian responsibility not only to care for the poor but also to ask why they are poor in the first place.
There is an obvious resonance between this Anglo-Catholic approach to mission and Catholic Social Teaching. “Love for others, and in the first place love for the poor, in whom the Church sees Christ himself, is made concrete in the promotion of justice,” said St. John Paul II in Centesimus Annus. That encyclical marked a hundred years since Pope Leo XIII’s ground breaking 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum in which the pope wrote, “It is shameful and inhuman to use men as things for gain and to put no more value on them than what they are worth in muscle and energy.” An incarnational understanding of the dignity of the poor and the Church’s duty towards them is reflected in the lives of many great figures in the life of the Catholic Church over the last century and a half, including St. Teresa of Calcutta, St. Katharine Drexel, St. Oscar Romero, Dorothy Day, and many others.
Catholic Social Teaching offers a context into which the Roman Catholic Church can receive that part of the Anglican Patrimony that pertains to mission. A decade ago, when Pope Benedict XVI issued the apostolic constitution that created the Ordinariates, he made clear that their purpose was “transmitting Anglican patrimony” in ways that are “in full harmony with Catholic tradition.” There has been a lively conversation ever since over just what fits into that patrimony. Elements of Anglican liturgical practice have already been embraced and subsequently found a home in Divine Worship the Missal. But liturgy never exists in a vacuum. For the Ritualists, embracing Catholic teachings naturally led to both a recovery of the beauty of liturgy and a great sense of duty to the poor. For Roman Catholics today, especially in the Ordinariates, it should be no less so.
As with liturgy, the Catholic Church need not accept every nuance and detail of the Anglo-Catholic approach to mission. Catholic Social Teaching can organically sort the wheat from the chaff, allowing that which is consonant with the Church’s teaching to grow while that which needs correction will either change or wither away.
At the same time, though, a fuller engagement with the Anglo-Catholic tradition’s pairing of high liturgy with mission to the poor could be quite beneficial for the Catholic Church in our time. It is assumed by many Catholics in the west today that we can either embrace social justice or the Church’s liturgical heritage but not both. On its face, this is a false choice. Goodness and beauty, reflected in the Church’s worship and mission, are not two items on a menu of possibilities but two complementary aspects of the mystery of God. If the Anglican Patrimony can help us to recover that understanding and put it into practice, it will have more than served its purpose.
Justification and the Non-Competitive God
On February 2, 2020 By Fr. Jonathan MitchicanIn God, Jesus Christ6 Comments
I had the privilege this past week of appearing as a guest on the radio program Theology on Air. It is hosted by a Lutheran pastor and aimed mostly at young Protestants, so while the purpose of my visit was theoretically to talk about comic books, many of the questions posed to me were about differences between Catholic and Protestant theology. This inevitably included discussion of the doctrine of justification and whether or not Catholics believe that what we receive through Christ is sufficient for our salvation or needs a little help from us.
I find these kinds of conversations tricky, not because I lack for things to say but because I want to avoid the danger of re-litigating the sixteenth century. I do not believe it does us much good to get stuck there, either defending or excoriating bits of history that are never going to change no matter who wins the debate. Nevertheless, there is spiritual fruit that can be harvested from an honest conversation on this topic, if we can stay in the mode of theology rather than apologetics, that is to say if we can stay in a mode of prayer, since theology is impossible where prayer is absent.
So, cards on the table: I receive, believe, and teach, to the best of my ability, what the Catholic Church teaches, which means that I do not believe in justification by faith alone. Truth be told, I was only ever a Johnny-Come-Lately to that particular doctrine anyway. By the time I graduated seminary, I was a full-throated Anglo-Catholic, albeit with an Eastward orientation to my spirituality. My understanding of salvation then as now was largely through the lens of theosis, beautifully summarized by the words of St. Athanasius: “God became man so that men might become gods.” We are saved by being united with God and thereby participating in the divine life of the Trinity.
It is not impossible to draw together some version of justification by faith alone with theosis. The Finnish theologian Tuomo Mannermaa, for instance, did some interesting work creating a bridge between Luther’s work and that of the Eastern Fathers. But most renderings of justification by faith alone require letting go of something that is crucial to Catholic doctrine, the idea that we participate in our own salvation.
There is no part of what Jesus does for us on the cross that we can take credit for. Even the choice we make to cooperate with the grace of God is a choice that, as St. Thomas Aquinas tells us, is entirely contingent upon God’s graceful action. Yet, that choice is a real choice, and the change that takes place within us is a real change. God does not just decide to treat us as if we were holy but leave us internally rotten. He actually transforms us through union with Christ, rendered possible through the cross and made manifest in the Sacraments. My Lutheran friends like to say, “Sanctification is just getting used to your justification.” Perhaps in a way they are right, but the means by which that unfolds is real transformation, not merely a surface-level realization that we have been passively accepted.
All of that said, I think that what is spelled out in the Joint Declaration on Justification made by Lutherans and Catholics in 1999 is helpful in dispelling common myths about where Catholics and Protestants differ on this topic. We tend towards different emphases, which leads us to different pastoral practices. There is a good deal that Catholics can learn from Protestant theology on this topic, particularly from Lutheran theology. There is an absolute emphasis on the cross there that is refreshing in an age when so many churches want to hide the harsh reality of the cross from view. Another of the things my Lutheran friends like to say: “If Jesus didn’t die in your sermon, you didn’t preach the Gospel.” That one requires nuance as well, but it is nevertheless a helpful tool that I still use to evaluate my preaching.
Perhaps most helpful is the Protestant insistence on the gift of justification. Catholic doctrine is clear that our salvation is something we can only receive freely from God and could never earn, that “while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). Yet we do not always stress this enough. We can give off the impression that salvation is a joint venture in which we are equal partners with God. In the formation of Catholics, we do not always emphasize as we should that the Gospel is not something we are required to do for God (or for others) but something that God has done for us in Christ.
Having said that, one of the most beautiful parts of Catholic teaching is the fact that God is presented not as a competitor with humanity but as the one who makes humanity authentically human. It has often felt to me, when listening to the way some Protestants describe justification, that they see it as an either/or situation in which either God acts or we do. We must never work for our own salvation because if we do, that must mean we are taking up the space that rightfully belongs to God. For Catholics, especially if we accept a thomistic view of the nature of God as being itself, the concept that our work could be in competition with God’s work does not make sense. Fr. Nicanor Austriaco explains why:
Consider an author writing a note with a pen. Who wrote the note? Yes, the author wrote the note, but in a very real sense, the pen “wrote” it too. Both the author and the pen were needed to write the note. In the language of philosophy, the author is the principal cause of the note, while the pen is the instrumental cause. Both are real causes that explain the existence of the note.
Fr. Nicanor is using this analogy in order to explain the way God acts in creation, but it works just as well for the way God acts in our salvation. We are justified by the work of Christ on the cross which is applied to us in the Sacraments. We may or may not have chosen to be baptized, but when we go to Confession, we are certainly choosing to receive this grace from Jesus. In that sense, we are active participants, as is the priest who absolves us. When we go to Mass, we become active players in our own salvation too, though we add nothing to the work of Jesus made manifest in the Sacrament. When we pray for others, we participate in their salvation, as do the saints when they pray for us. When we do good works, we grow in holiness as our love increases. None of this makes us competitors with God any more than the pen is in competition with the author.
We are not pens, of course. We have the capacity to say no to the gift of God’s grace. Yet when we say yes, it is not so that we may put on a show for God but so that He may truly be at work in us, changing us from the inside out into what we were always meant to be, prisms that reflect His light. In His generosity and love, God seeks to bring about real transformation in us by allowing us to take part in the mystery of salvation. That is part of the Good News too, not just that we are sinners who have been rescued, but that we are sons and daughters who are being prepared by a life of holiness for that day when the light will shine through us unimpeded.
You cannot build a better life
On December 1, 2019 December 1, 2019 By Fr. Jonathan MitchicanIn English Catholic Spirituality, The Last Things
At no time of year is there a greater divergence between what is happening inside and outside of the Church than at Advent. Outside, it’s red and green with jingle bells and Christmas lights. Inside, we are draped in penitent purple. Outside, every radio station has gone full tilt into the Fa la las. Inside, we are singing O Come, O Come Emmanuel if you are lucky (and a bunch of dreary hymns you have never heard of before if you are not). Everything happening outside is about getting ready for twenty minutes of fun opening over-priced packages on Christmas morning, while inside we are preparing for the end of the world.
Love or hate the sixteenth century reformer Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, it is hard to deny that the man could turn a phrase. Whether weaving together bits of ancient liturgies or composing his own prayers, Cranmer’s skill at crafting liturgical English remains unparalleled. His Advent collects are a prime example, especially the first one which the Book of Common Prayer required to be prayed not only on the first Sunday in Advent but also on all the subsequent Sundays as a second collect. Today this prayer is offered not only in Anglican churches but in all the parishes and communities of the Catholic Ordinariates as well:
ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious Majesty, to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
It is a stark, direct prayer that draws a line between whatever is happening out there and what most needs to happen inside of us. The real preparation that needs to take place this time of year has nothing to do with trimming the tree, organizing dinner and travel plans, or ordering a whole bunch of knick knacks online. Christmas, as great as it is, is almost an afterthought. The real action comes not in remembering the Lord’s first coming but in being ready for His second coming. At any moment, Jesus will return, and the world will be flipped upside down when He does. All that’s wrong will be set right. Good will be blessed and evil will be expelled. It sounds like a fairy tale, but it’s true. He is coming. It is immanent. We need to be ready.
This attitude sharply contrasts with the dominant motif of our age: the soundbyte, the snap, the tik tok, the life lived in bite size bits, the only purpose of which is to make us happy for as long as we can distract ourselves from the silence of death. Despite the best efforts of materialist atheism, we do still believe in the transcendent, but we no longer believe that it comes to us from the outside, through the actions of a Divine Other who enters the world by choice to pull us out of the mire. Now we think that all transcendence bubbles up from within ourselves, producing an awe at the majesty of our own capacity to make meaning. “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life,” wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy in the majority opinion from the landmark 1992 Supreme Court case Casey vs. Planned Parenthood. He could not have realized how prescient he was being, considering the smorgasbord of options now available for us to express our personal, inner truth. We mesh our preferences together into a pastiche of ourselves that we then present to the world for validation through social media. Somewhere in the midst of the memes and the re-tweets, we assume a deeper sense of meaning will emerge.
Meanwhile, modern Christianity has bought into a different kind of navel-gazing transcendence, pointing us outward but only as a means of escape. This tends to take one of two forms. The kind that gets labeled “Fundamentalist”–regardless of whether it meets the historical definition of fundamentalism or not– which awaits a fictitious event called “the Rapture” in which true believers will get taken up out of this mean, old world before any of the real effects of the damage we have done to it can touch us. There are lesser forms of this ideology, but it all pivots upon the same false premise, that we can avoid facing ourselves.
The second form this takes in modern Christianity is that of the social transformation warrior. Not social justice, which is a venerable concept and one that has roots in the Bible and Catholic teaching, but social transformation, in which we pin our hopes on our ability to remake the world in our own righteous image. It is neither a liberal nor conservative thing, but rather takes on whatever cause seems closest to the aims of our particular political tribe. Social transformation theology also allows us to avoid looking squarely at our own sin, brokenness, and weakness, keeping out attention always on the Utopian dream of the perfect Christian society which the other kind of Christians do not want us to achieve.
Cranmer’s collect lets the air out of all of these falsehoods. As we pray it, we are forced to accept at face value that Jesus will return and that we must be ready. There is a judgment coming. There is a great renewal that will take place. Good will defeat evil. It is not theoretical. It is a known fact. Jesus will be returning to reclaim the world. The only question is whether or not we will be aligned with good or saturated with evil when He arrives.
Advent is good news, but it is good news that befuddles the secularist and the modern Christian alike. It means letting go of the notion that we can build better lives for ourselves. Transcendence will not come from some unexplored corner of our inner selves, nor will it be built out of the raw material of the world. The transcendence we seek comes only from union with Jesus, offered by Him in mercy and forgiveness when we repent of our sins and seek the good that flows from His Sacred Heart. It is good news that we will be judged because the judgement of Jesus is like a fire that lights up our hearts even as it burns away the idols to which we attach ourselves. Advent is the sure hope that the current state of this world and the current state of our lives is not final. We are preparing for something greater.
This post is part of a series on English Catholic Spirituality. To read the introduction to the series, click here. To see all the posts in this series, click here.
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Janis Alcorn
Biodiversity Support Program
Botany/Ethno-Botany
Biodiversity and Development: Social and Economic Dimensions of Conservation and Management
August 11, 1991 to August 24, 1991
Biodiversity and Indigenous People
Dr. Janis Bristol Alcorn has over thirty years experience in international development and research in tropical ecology, indigenous natural resource management systems and conservation of biodiversity in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. She received her Ph.D. in Botany, with a minor in Anthropology, from the University of Texas at Austin in 1982. Her scholarly work has focused on the ecological impacts of indigenous conceptualization, use and management of plant resources. Her applied work has focused on supporting indigenous resource management, strengthening local governance institutions and their engagement with national government, and supporting coalitions of NGOs concerned with indigenous and conservation issues. She taught at Tulane University from 1985-1988, and served as a AAAS Fellow in the Asia Bureau of USAID from 1989-1990. From 1991 to 2001, she was Director for Asia & Pacific and the global Peoples, Forests and Reefs Program at the Biodiversity Support Program (BSP) at World Wildlife Fund. In 2002, she became an independent consultant and a Fellow at World Resources Institute's Institutions and Governance Program. Since 2002 she has served as Advisor to the Garfield Foundation, managing the program in the Gran Chaco of Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina. Her other clients have included Ford Foundation, World Bank, UNDP, USAID, CIFOR, UNEP, Forest Trends, Rights and Resources, CIEL, WRI, IRG, WWF, RRG, and Chemonics.
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Women’s Suffrage, Wisconsin, and the 19th Amendment
History, Education
Celebrating 100 years of women’s right to vote
American Girl encourages girls to explore history and use their voices to make a difference—and celebrating women’s right to vote is an excellent way to further that goal. August 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. Here are some quick facts you can share with your girl to celebrate the anniversary together:
By 1913, women had been working for suffrage for over 50 years. To bring national attention to the cause, suffragist leader Alice Paul organized the first suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. on March 3, 1913. More than 8,000 protestors marched down Pennsylvania Avenue to demand voting rights for women—marking a significant turning point for the cause.
Wisconsin—home state of American Girl, founded by Pleasant Rowland in 1986—was the first state to ratify the 19th Amendment on June 10, 1919. Special messenger David G. James, father of Wisconsin suffragist leader Ada James, hand-delivered the ratification papers to Washington, D.C., beating Illinois to be the first by mere minutes.
Pleasant Rowland and American Girl author Valerie Tripp purposefully set original historical character Samantha Parkington’s story in 1904—a time of enormous change for women. In Samantha’s stories, her Aunt Cornelia gives a stirring speech at a suffrage rally that sways Samantha’s old-fashioned Grandmary to support women’s right to vote.
Thirty-six states needed to ratify the 19th Amendment in order for it to be approved. Tennessee was the 36th state to ratify on August 18, 1920, and women officially won the right to vote on August 26, 1920. It would take another 64 years for all states to ratify.
The women’s suffrage movement wasn’t a completely unified one, and women of color often faced discrimination. From meetings to marches, African American activists, like Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Church Terrell, fought for voting rights while also fighting racism. Despite the racial divisions, black suffragists were collective in their courage in the fight for equality.
The first election U.S. women could vote in was the 1920 presidential election between Warren G. Harding and James Cox. Samantha would have been 25.
Even after the ratification of the 19th amendment, many women of color continued to face voting barriers like poll taxes, literacy tests, and citizenship discrimination. It took several decades of continued activism to achieve milestones like the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibited racial discrimination in voting.
Events, exhibits, and celebrations marking the Women’s Suffrage Centennial are taking place across the country. To find out about activities celebrating the passage of the 19th Amendment happening in your state, visit www.WomensVote100.org.
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Behind the Scenes: A CEO and SVP, Human Resources share their hiring experience December 8, 2020
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Chief Executive Officer Compass Education
Gary Snyder is the Chief Executive Officer of Compass Education, which includes Chartwells Higher Education, Chartwells K12, Gourmet Dining, and SSC Services for Education. With revenues over $3B and 50,000+ associates, the Compass Education portfolio is the premier group of specialist companies offering dining and support services solutions to clients throughout the education market.
Gary joined Compass Group in 2011 as Executive Vice President, Human Resources and was appointed Chief People Officer in 2014. Responsible for human resources, communications, and labor relations for over 250,000 associates in the United States and Canada, he successfully reengineered and led the human resources function to meet the needs of one of America’s largest employers. He was appointed CEO of Compass Education in 2017.
Previously with Bank of America, Gary was the Human Resources Executive for the Consumer and Wealth Management Businesses. He led a global team of human resources professionals supporting 140,000 associates in the U.S., Europe, and Canada. He has broad experience in architecting and delivering change, including serving in transition leadership roles for the MBNA, LaSalle, and Countrywide mergers. Gary has also held Human Resource leadership positions at USAA, Gateway Computers, and Diageo North America.
Gary received a bachelor’s degree in Business from East Carolina University and a master’s degree in Organizational Leadership from The George Washington University.
Gary resides in Charlotte, NC with his wife and three children.
Ms. Smith has served as an Intern at accelHRate since 2019. She focuses on secondary research as well as website coding and analysis. She worked as an Assistant for Virginia Tech’s Pamplin School of Business from 2017 to 2019. Ms. Smith is pursuing her B.S. degree in Business Information Technology (BIT) with a Minor in Spanish from Virginia Tech University and is expected to graduate a full year early in May 2020. Ms. Smith’s team recently won third place in a BIT coding competition sponsored by CarMax. Ms. Smith studied in Spain with the VT Camino Study Abroad Program in 2019 and is involved with numerous community causes to include serving as a volunteer with the Girl Scouts of the USA and Friends of Homeless Animals (FOHA). She is also a member of Kappa Delta Sorority and the VT Soulstice A Capella Group where she is the Assistant Music Director.
Britney Nguyen
Ms. Nguyen is a Database Intern at accelHRate where she works with cutting edge data management tools for advanced analytics. She is pursuing her B.S. degree in Business Management at George Mason University and is projected to graduate in May 2021. Ms. Nguyen is involved with several clubs and activities at George Mason and is currently serving as President of her sorority, Alpha Kappa Delta Phi.
Kim Shanahan
Ms. Shanahan brings over 25 years of business and executive search experience to accelHRate. She Co-Leads accelHRate’s Board of Directors Practice and leads our CHRO Practice. She has partnered with hundreds of clients across multiple industries and geographies to place Board of Directors and CHRO talent. Prior to Co-Founding accelHRate in 2014, she spent eight years with Korn Ferry where she led the HR Center of Expertise as a Senior Client Partner in the CEO and Board Practice. Ms. Shanahan simultaneously served as Office Managing Partner of the firm’s highly profitable Northern Virginia Region.
Prior to joining Korn Ferry in 2006, Ms. Shanahan led Wireless Corporate Strategy and Business Development for MCI, where she helped develop MCI’s next generation broadband and convergence strategy, formed and managed strategic partnerships and launched new markets across the US. Ms. Shanahan was first recruited to MCI in Human Resources to develop and lead its global executive recruiting and talent strategy. Prior to MCI, Ms. Shanahan spent four years with Heidrick & Struggles, where she focused on CEO and Board searches globally and served as lead Senior Associate for the Global Telecommunications Practice. Earlier, Ms. Shanahan spent several years in management consulting with DFI International.
Ms. Shanahan serves on the Board of National Alopecia Areata Foundation (NAAF). She also serves on multiple Advisory Boards for Virginia Tech, including the Pamplin College of Business (PAC), APEX Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, President Sands’ National Capital Region Leadership Council, The Department of Management, and The Department of Finance. She is a 2007 graduate of Leadership Fairfax’s Signature Program. She has been published and/or featured in Fortune Magazine, Human Resource Executive Magazine, HROToday, Chief Executive Magazine, SHRM, The Washington Post and has been co-host on The CEO Show on Executive Leaders Radio. She has previously been named one of Washington’s 100 Tech Titans. Ms. Shanahan holds a B.S. degree with a double major in finance and communications from Virginia Tech. She is certified in the Hogan Assessment.
Melissa Schmidt
Ms. Schmidt brings over 12 years of diverse executive search experience with both US and international firms to accelHRate. In her role as Principal, she focuses on HR and Finance searches for companies in education, ed-tech, consumer, non-profit, technology and industrial industries.
Prior to joining accelHRate, Ms. Schmidt was a Principal in Heidrick & Struggles’ Washington, D.C. office and a member of the Education, Nonprofit and Social Enterprise (ENSE) Practice. Since 2013, she has conducted national and global senior leadership recruitment for private equity-backed education entities, K-12, education technology, traditional and online universities, nonprofit organizations, and prominent international education companies.
Previously, Ms. Schmidt spent ten years living and working in Spain. She joined Heidrick & Struggles in its Madrid, Spain office, executing global, European and national searches in the consumer goods, distribution, pharmaceutical, industrial and automotive sectors. Prior to this, she worked for an international search firm headquartered in Madrid and focused on marketing and executive search in technology, banking and private equity sectors. She began her career in sales, marketing and public relations for the Reebok Sports Club, Madrid.
Ms. Schmidt has an MBA from Schiller International University (Madrid campus) with a concentration in international business and marketing. She graduated cum laude from Mary Washington College (now University of Mary Washington) with a B.A. degree with a double major in international business and Italian studies, both majors she created for the university. She is a member of the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC).
Ms. Schmidt speaks Spanish fluently.
Amanda Catanoso
Ms. Catanoso is a Project Coordinator at accelHRate ensuring the success of each executive search assignment. Ms. Catanoso uses her exceptional organization skills functioning as the key contact with clients and candidates and oversees the accuracy of all deliverables. In each assignment, she is strategically involved with the full executive search cycle from business development due diligence through placement. As the Founders have expanded the firm, Ms. Catanoso has served as a key business partner responsible for all administrative aspects including benefits design, implementation administration, facilities management, inventory and purchasing, accounts receivable and payable, training, development, performance management, recruiting, workflow management and event planning.
Prior to joining accelHRate, Ms. Catanoso was an HR Associate primarily focused on operations, HRIS and benefits. She supported the Chief Financial Officer, General Counsel and Chief Medical Officer at Vanda Pharmaceuticals. Her earlier career experience includes managing policy events and assisting the Chief Executive Officer, Former Congressman Chip Pickering, of INCOMPAS.
Ms. Catanoso holds a B.A. degree in French Literature from The Catholic University of America.
Rachel Zakhour
Ms. Zakhour is an Associate at accelHRate with over 10 years of professional experience in the executive search and technology industries. At accelHRate, she serves in a multifunctional capacity as an Associate Recruiter, Research Lead and Industry Knowledge Manager. Her specialties are identifying top talent, generating go-to market strategies and developing innovative research methods.
Before joining accelHRate, she launched her executive search career at Korn Ferry in their Reston, VA office, where she started as a Project Coordinator supporting two top Partners in the technology practice. She then transitioned into a Research Associate role where she specialized in identifying C-suite executives in a variety of industries including technology, human resources, professional services and non-profit. After one year, she was promoted to become one of three Technology Research Associates where she supported the Technology practice across North America and specialized in the software and cybersecurity markets.
Ms. Zakhour holds a B.A. degree in Communication and Public Relations from George Mason University.
Mark Mulvanerty
Mr. Mulvanerty brings over two decades of executive search and coaching experience to accelHRate. He has served as a strategic business partner to corporate boards and the C-Suite leading high-profile, mission-critical search engagements across a wide aperture of industries. He is a trusted advisor to a multitude of ownership structures from the Fortune 500 to nonprofit organizations, family-owned businesses and private equity backed entities.
Mr. Mulvanerty brings experience from three top-10 executive search firms. He was inducted to the industry at Heidrick & Struggles honing his skills on C-level assignments across practices and serving as Lead Senior Associate for the Global Financial Officer Practice. He then spent over a dozen years at Korn Ferry, rising from Client Partner to Senior Client Partner as a key member of the Financial Officers Practice. Prior to joining accelHRate, he served as Managing Director at Diversified Search as leader of the Private Equity Practice and core member of their Board of Directors and Chief Financial Officer Practices.
Before joining executive search, Mr. Mulvanerty served as a professional recruiter with Systems Computer Technology Corporation and ExecuTrain Corporation. His career journey includes serving as a secondary school administrator, teacher, and coach in his native New York City. He began his career with M&M/Mars, where he managed retail sales territories and served as an on-campus recruiter.
Mr. Mulvanerty is active in the Fordham University Club of Philadelphia as well as his home parish of St. Katharine of Siena in Wayne, PA, where he currently coaches CYO basketball and serves on the board of the grammar school. The Philadelphia Business Journal selected him as one of their “40 Under 40” awardees, commending his commitment to professional excellence and community involvement. He is also a past vice chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Capital (MAC) Conference. Mr. Mulvanerty holds a M.S. degree in counseling and personnel services as well as a B.S. degree in marketing and management, both from Fordham University.
Kelly McPherson
Managing Partner & Founder
Ms. McPherson brings close to 20 years of talent acquisition, talent management and leadership experience to accelHRate. In her role, she focuses on Chief Human Resources Officers, Heads of Total Rewards and Heads of Talent roles as well as executive coaching for talent acquisition leaders. Her clients range from Fortune 500 organizations to private equity portfolio companies across a range of industries including technology, healthcare, B2B services, financial services, defense, industrial, retail and consumer products and services.
Prior to joining accelHRate, she led Talent Acquisition at National Security Partners where she built and led the enterprise-wide Talent function. She successfully steered the Talent team through five acquisitions over seven years, including the initial private equity investment. Previously, she held a variety of senior management roles, where she oversaw a portfolio of programs in the defense and commercial sectors.
Earlier in her career she served as an associate with Heidrick & Struggles supporting the International Technology Practice. Kelly began her career in pharmaceutical sales with Eli Lilly.
Ms. McPherson holds a B.S. degree in psychology from Virginia Tech. She is certified in the Hogan Assessment.
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From Elmina (GHANA) to Liverpool
“The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it”.
The College was delighted to welcome back Catherine Nelson from the “Mother of Mary Foundation.”
Catherine was able give a wonderful update on the success of a special project that the college has been involved in.
When the college relocated to its present campus all of our surplus equipment was donated to the Ghanaian schools project.
An outstanding amount of work has been done in getting surplus equipment to help, support and develop schools in Ghana, so successful has been the college involvement that numerous other Liverpool schools have become involved.
Headteacher of the college Paul Dickinson said, “We are extremely proud, happy and committed to being involved in this special work of the Foundation and have seen the miracle of education changing lives for the young people of Ghana”.
Catherine is sister of Mr Tom Nelson who teachers Mathematics at the college. Mr Nelson has also played a key role in organising the collection and distribution of equipment.
Catherine reminded us that the main street in the town of Elmina is called Liverpool Street!
See the "Mother of Mary Foundation (MOM)" presentation
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Move of the George W. Bush Presidential Records and Gifts
Press Release · Thursday, January 15, 2009
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WHAT: The National Archives will host a one-time only media opportunity to brief the press on the move of the George W. Bush Presidential Records and to film and photograph a selection of Presidential gifts. The selection of Head of State and domestic gifts being moved will be on display for this media event only.
WHEN: Friday, January 16, 2009, at 10 a.m.
WHERE: National Archives Building, Room 105
Note: The media should use the 700 Pennsylvania Avenue entrance, between 7th and 9th Streets.
WHO: Sharon Fawcett, Director of Presidential Libraries, National Archives
When George W. Bush leaves the Presidency on Tuesday, January 20, his official records and gifts received on behalf of the U.S. Government become the property of the National Archives and Records Administration. This collection is being transferred to a temporary Library facility in Lewisville Texas approximately 20 miles from the permanent Library site on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
For background on what has happened since the National Archives has taken possession of Presidential records since 1945, see the article in the latest issue of Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration, "Escorting a Presidency into History."
For Press information:
Contact the National Archives Public Affairs Staff at 202-357-5300.
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Despite its fierce commitment to creating a safe live racing model and advancing the sport of professional women’s cycling, the Colorado Classic ® presented by VF Corporation today announced that their four-day race will not take place this year, citing COVID safety concerns.
Instead, the race organizers are doubling down on championing support of women’s racing under their #WeRide umbrella, and are proud to announce the #WeRide for Women fundraiser and virtual ride. This campaign is intended to financially support the teams who would have attended the Colorado Classic, many of whom rely on competition and prize money to support their livelihoods. For the next two weeks, fans, industry, and sponsors will have the opportunity to donate to the #WeRide Team Development fund — which will be directly distributed to women’s race teams — and join the teams on a Zwift ride on July 29th.
For months, the organizers behind America’s premier women’s event worked tirelessly with State, County and City organizations, health authorities, and the sports governing bodies to create protocols and processes that ensure the health and safety for everyone.
The resulting COVID mitigation plan and new race format — one that eliminated crowd gathering, amplified their innovative live streaming model and prioritized health and safety — would have made live professional racing possible, in a context similar to other professional sports that have re-started competition. But as new COVID-19 cases are on the rise in Colorado, and throughout the nation, the decision was taken in consultation with teams, riders and all race partners that canceling the race and eliminating all risk of contributing to the COVID spread was the correct path forward.
“We had great confidence in the COVID-19 mitigation plan we had developed for the race, and we were well on our way to becoming the first professional women’s bike race to be held in the U.S. since the onset of the COVID pandemic,” said Lucy Diaz, CEO of RPM Events Group LLC.
“However, as the pandemic appears to be spiking again across the U.S., and after discussion with our various stakeholders, we feel it is the most prudent decision to cancel the race for 2020. We would only hold the race if we thought it was a safe, healthy environment for the athletes and that all stakeholders felt fully comfortable to move forward. At this time we do not have full confidence from all stakeholders, so we will pivot our energy and efforts to continue to support the women’s peloton through our other initiatives.”
Since reimagining its entire business model in 2018 by foregoing its men’s race and focusing 100 percent on women, the Colorado Classic recognized that a four-day event alone wouldn’t be enough to bring about social change and have a lasting impact on the sport of cycling.
Instead, they developed a platform that celebrates the sport and athletes while creating meaningful connections in the community and business worlds. Built on the fundamental pillars of creating opportunity, fostering empowerment and demonstrating equity, the Colorado Classic launched a host of initiatives to amplify women’s voices, foster corporate dialogue among partners and the community, and bring world-wide exposure to women athletes through storytelling.
These initiatives included an ongoing Business in Sport Webinar Series to educate and inform female athletes of all disciplines about matters like branding, marketing, sponsorship and media training, and a collection of conversations with leaders in both sports and business through the Breakaway Dialogue Series. VF Corporation, together with the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce, hosted the first one on Wednesday, July 15th and this series will continue with partners FirstBank and Gates Corporation throughout the summer.
Even without the four days of racing, Colorado Classic’s sponsors remain committed to the event and its mission. FirstBank committed the initial funds of $10,000 to make the Team Development Fund a possibility and will continue their commitment despite the cancellation.
The #WeRide for Women fundraiser will run between now and August 1, and the campaign culminates in a virtual community ride on Zwift on July 29th. Led by retired Olympic Silver Medalist and World Champion, Mari Holden, this virtual ride is open to the public and will include riders from each of the 2020 Colorado Classic invited teams. Donations are optional but encouraged. All funds will be divvied out to the teams in August.
“This was an incredibly hard decision, but it was the right one to make. We are so grateful for all of our partners who have supported us this year and continued to believe in our mission. It has been an extraordinary year, with extraordinary challenges, and it has taken a complete effort from everyone to find a way forward,” said Ken Gart, Chairman of RPM Events Group.
Learn more about the #WeRide for Women campaign at https://www.coloradoclassic.com/zwift And stay up to speed on all things related to the Colorado Classic at www.coloradoclassic.com and via social media: @coloradoclassicpro on Instagram and Facebook.
Contact: Anne-Marije Rook, anne@thorpemarketing.com
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Queen’s Honour – MBE, OBE, CBE…
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With 2015 drawing to a close we thought we would take one final opportunity to highlight some inspirational people who received a Queen’s honour over the last year.
Although there is the inevitable media circus surrounding the well-known actors, pop stars and sporting heroes who are awarded gongs, here at AI, we like to highlight the people working under the radar who’s outstanding work is having a positive impact on others.
Helen Dolphin MBE – Helen’s story is quite remarkable. In 1997 Helen lost both her legs and hands after contracting Meningococcal Septicemia. Since then she has devoted her life to helping others in a similar position. Her voluntary work with the charity Meningitis Now has been inspirational as well as her work with Disabled Motoring UK. On top of all this Helen is also one of the best swimmers in the country within her S5 category. I think it’s fair to say that Helen fully deserved the MBE for services to disabled people that she received in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in June.
Charlie Spencer OBE – Founder and Executive Chairman of the Spencer Group, Charlie Spencer was awarded an OBE for his services to business. Charlie set-up the Spencer Group from scratch 25 years ago to become the award-winning engineering company it is today. With projects in the UK and abroad the company turnover has risen to £140 million and employs over 400 people. Following his business success Charlie fully supports a number of community projects which encourage entrepreneurship in young people.
Virginia Beardshaw CBE – Virginia Beardshaw (pictured above) received a CBE in the 2015 New Years Honours List for services to children with special needs and disabilities. She was CEO for I Can, a charity dedicated to improving children’s speech and language. Virginia lead the charity for just over a decade and rightfully received a CBE for her tireless work.
Sir Naim Dangoor KBE – Sir Naim Dangoor was awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for ‘his extraordinarily generous philanthropy to a range of health, educational and religious charities.’ Sir Naim was 101 when he received his KBE, making him the second oldest knight. Sir Naim’s level of philanthropy was quite outstanding giving away millions. After fleeing to the UK as a refugee from Iraq, Sir Naim, built a property empire which enabled him to support many charity and community projects. Interestingly, Sir Naim received an OBE in 2006 and a CBE in 2012 before being made a knight in June 2015. Sadly, Sir Naim passed away only a few months after receiving his KBE.
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Voat as a Reddit Alternative
Reddit is a tremendously popular site that features a combination of link aggregation, discussion, active online communities (i.e., subreddits), and more. I have used it for the past 8 years to do some occasional blog promotion (and not just for my own blog), get ideas for blog posts, and interact with others around topics such as atheism, freethought, skepticism, and science. A big part of what makes it so effective is the massive numbers of users. As an example, Reddit's largest atheism subreddit has 2,089,181 subscribers at the time I'm writing this post.
Reddit has been in the news recently after their interim CEO, Ellen Pao made some decisions that are being interpreted by some as censorship (see here for a very different take in which the author reveals surprisingly little understanding of the meaning of "social justice warrior"). Specifically, Reddit banned at least five subreddits which they claim were engaged in "harassment" in violation of the site's rules. This appeared to be a significant change for Reddit in that they had long been regarded as committed to the free expression of ideas, including those some found objectionable. Given that this change coincided with Pao's arrival, many are blaming her for it. It does not seem to matter whether Pao herself is a social justice warrior or whether this was a business decision made with the goal of attracting advertisers; many see it as a move away from what Reddit had been.
Pao and Reddit are now facing a bit of a backlash in the form of lots of angry users calling for Pao's ouster. There is a Twitter hashtag attached to the protests (i.e., #RedditRevolt) and a petition calling for Pao to resign. A number of Reddit users have reported closing their account and migrating to a much smaller alternative called Voat that has a reputation for having similar functionality but a much stronger commitment to free expression. Not only is Voat much smaller, but they were hit with a combination of way too many users for their servers to handle and some DDoS attacks, making those coming over from Reddit wonder whether the site was broken. It is anybody's guess whether the migration from Reddit to Voat will continue to grow or whether it will last.
I mention all of this because I've been using Voat since this happened. Despite the hiccups, I've been fairly impressed so far. I have not closed my Reddit account and have no plans to do so just yet. I decided to check out Voat because I was curious, never having heard of the site before. Now I find myself spending more time on Voat than Reddit and feeling better about contributing to it. While I had no interest in any of the banned subreddits, I do wonder how long it will be until others I do enjoy experience a similar fate at Reddit. If they are going to start banning things because people claim offense or "harassment," it does not seem too farfetched to think that practically any subreddit could be as risk. And some of Pao's public statements have raised legitimate questions about her commitment to free expression at Reddit. All things being equal, I'd prefer to spend my time on a site that is committed to the free expression of ideas.
From what I have seen so far, Voat has a rather strong undercurrent of dislike for the behavior of social justice warriors, a pro-GamerGate bent, and a somewhat more conservative/libertarian political orientation. This all makes sense given that those most likely to feel this way were probably the first to dump Reddit and move to Voat. I'm not sure how long this particular flavor will last, but it has been an interesting contrast so far. It has been nice to see more criticism of political correctness than support for it so far.
The biggest downside, not surprisingly, is that Voat feels empty compared to Reddit. Remember how I said that the largest atheism subreddit has 2,089,181 subscribers at the time I'm writing this post? Voat's largest community (they are called subverses at Voat) has 2,670. That's quite a difference. Even if Voat can get their servers on track (there were still frequent errors as of yesterday), it remains to be seen whether those coming over from Reddit will stick around to build Voat into a viable alternative for those who value a commitment to free expression over user numbers. I hope they do.
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Transcript: A global view of Joe Biden’s inauguration
Many in the global community sat and watched the US presidential inauguration. Here's what these experts think of the important moment and what it means for the rest of the world.
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The past days’ events have greatly improved Biden’s chance of being the sort of transformative president who comes along only every generation or so.
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Fred Kempe is the president and chief executive officer of the Atlantic Council. Under his leadership since 2007, the Council has achieved historic, industry-leading growth in size and influence, expanding its work through regional centers spanning the globe and through centers focused on topics ranging from international security and energy to global trade and next generation mentorship.
Before joining the Council, Kempe was a prize-winning editor and reporter at the Wall Street Journal for more than twenty-five years. In New York, he served as assistant managing editor, International, and columnist. Prior to that, he was the longest-serving editor and associate publisher ever of the Wall Street Journal Europe, running the global Wall Street Journal’s editorial operations in Europe and the Middle East.
In 2002, The European Voice, a leading publication following EU affairs, selected Kempe as one of the fifty most influential Europeans, and as one of the four leading journalists in Europe. At the Wall Street Journal, he served as a roving correspondent based out of London; as a Vienna Bureau chief covering Eastern Europe and East-West Affairs; as chief diplomatic correspondent in Washington, DC; and as the paper’s first Berlin Bureau chief following the unification of Germany and collapse of the Soviet Union.
As a reporter, he covered events including the rise of Solidarity in Poland and the growing Eastern European resistance to Soviet rule; the coming to power of Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia and his summit meetings with President Ronald Reagan; the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon in the 1980s; and the American invasion of Panama. He also covered the unification of Germany and the collapse of Soviet Communism.
He is the author of four books. The most recent, Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth, was a New York Times Best Seller and a National Best Seller. Published in 2011, it has subsequently been translated into thirteen different languages.
Kempe is a graduate of the University of Utah and has a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he was a member of the International Fellows program in the School of International Affairs. He won the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism’s top alumni achievement award and the University of Utah’s Distinguished Alumnus Award. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Gender Champions in Nuclear Policy.
For his commitment to strengthening the transatlantic alliance, Kempe has been decorated by the Presidents of Poland and Germany and by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
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Mr. Ordonez founded Baja Insurance Services, Inc. after leaving a full-time agent position working for a large local insurance company. Possessed with a strong business background in real estate, financial services, sales and insurance, together with a boundless entrepreneurial spirit, he opened his first office in Sacramento in 1998. From there he grew the company into what is today a significant presence in the Sacramento area insurance industry. Mr. Ordonez owns four locations in the Greater Sacramento region, one location in Arlington, Texas and is preparing to open offices in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. Mr. Ordonez currently holds his property & casualty and life & health brokers license in 5 states, is real estate licensed in the State of California and is pursuing his California Bureau of Real Estate broker's license. Mr. Ordonez has appreciable professional sales training which is reflected in the numerous honors he received as top producer when he was working as an agent. Mr. Ordonez enjoys playing the guitar and piano, travel and dining and spending time with his wife, children and grandchildren.
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Simple guide to mutual funds
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By Leslie McFadden Leslie McFadden's Twitter profile
Jun. 22, 2009 /
Personal finance author Gail MarksJarvis says investing isn’t complicated — if you understand some important definitions and basic principles. The key to investing is to diversify among funds that invest in different types of stocks and bonds, she says, and not to pick several funds that invest in similar stocks, for example. To learn how to diversify properly, you first have to understand how different mutual funds work.
MarksJarvis offers a simple guide to making sense of mutual funds by explaining how to evaluate their performance and the true cost of a fund as it compares to others. No math skills necessary.
Name: Gail MarksJarvis
Hometown: El Paso, Texas
Education: University of Minnesota, B.A. in journalism
Career highlights:
Personal finance columnist, Chicago Tribune
Author of “Saving for Retirement (Without Living Like a Pauper or Winning the Lottery)”
Serves on the board of directors of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, or SABEW.
Commentator on PBS’s “Nightly Business Report”
Served on the University of Minnesota Journalism School Advisory Board
Recipient of 18 journalism awards, including “Best Financial Columnist” by Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism
What kind of fund do you have?
What are some of the vocabulary terms that people need to know?
I’ve been writing about this for about 10 years and people have no idea what the words mean or what the importance of the words are. So they’ll typically call me and say, “I have a mutual fund and it’s losing money” or “I have a mutual fund and my friends are doing much better. Should I sell my fund?” Well, the fact that it’s losing money is absolutely irrelevant if it’s a certain type of fund in a certain type of stock market.
For example, in the year 2000, almost every mutual fund that invested in stocks was losing money. The fact that your mutual fund was losing money didn’t mean anything because if you were invested in the stock market, you were going to be losing money. What would’ve been important is if you were losing more money than other funds like yours.
If you’re investing in large stocks, you would compare your fund to the index that includes large stocks, and that’s the Standard & Poor’s 500 index. When Wall Street refers to the stock market, they are referring to that index. It’s a rough measure of the stock market, even though it only includes 500 large stocks. But if you have a fund and you are paying a fund manager to select stocks for you and your fund manager is choosing only large stocks and the stock market has been climbing about 8 percent a year and your fund is climbing about 5 percent a year, then you might have a problem if that continues for two or three years.
The funds in a 401(k), or anywhere actually, are divided into three different categories.
Three basic asset classes:
Stocks. There are stock funds, and sometimes you will see the word “equity” on those. Rather than worrying about the word “equity” when you see it, just think stocks.
Bonds. Then there are bond funds, but sometimes those are called fixed income because bonds are supposed to guarantee you a certain interest payment regularly and that means fixed income. So they’ll call it fixed income, but when you see the words, just think bonds.
Cash. When experts talk about cash, it could mean money in a savings account or money market fund — money that is going to be very, very safe and is not going to grow much at all. People think they want that because it’s safe — they can’t lose money in it — but if they’re saving for many, many years, that’s actually dangerous because the money grows at such a small pace. People might think that’s safe — and it is; you’re not going to lose any money — but you’re not going to make enough money.
So those are the three categories that you need to know.
The key decision is how much to put in stock funds and how much to put in bond funds, and that’s based on two different things. That’s based on how many years you have left to save, either for retirement or a house or to go to college. And it’s based on how nervous you get when the stock market goes down. Historically, if you’ve left your money invested for many, many years, you have averaged about a 10.4 percent return (in stocks) versus in bonds, where you’ve averaged about a 5 percent return. That (knowledge) makes you feel secure even when the stock market goes down.
I show people that if they have no idea what to do with their money and they’re saving for retirement and they have 10 years or more to go until retirement or even if they’re on the verge of retirement and they won’t get nervous if the stock market goes down, they could just divide their money up, putting 60 percent in a total stock market index fund and 40 percent into a total bond market index fund. If they did that alone they’d be ahead of most Americans.
Not every 401(k) lets them do that. They might not have a total bond market index fund or a total stock market index fund. The key word for stock funds relates to size. There are three words that relate to size: large, small and mid. Large is just a simple way of telling you that that fund is only going to pick stocks in very large companies like Microsoft, General Electric Co., Exxon Mobile Corp., Wal-Mart. Small means they’re going to pick stocks in very small companies. Mid means they pick the stocks of medium-sized companies, those that aren’t really large or really small.
You want some of each of those because each of those stocks will act differently when the stock market goes either up or down. When you have some of each, that’s what’s called being diversified.
You should also note international (stocks). You would invest some of your money in the United States and some in other countries, because the U.S. stock market and the stock markets in other countries act a little differently from one another. So when the United States stock market is climbing, maybe it’s not climbing as much as the international markets. But maybe when it falls, the other ones would be the buffers.
International stocks can be more volatile, meaning they could maybe climb more, but also fall more, and so people get nervous. Because of that, most managers don’t say go 50-50, they say (invest) maybe 25 (percent) or 30 percent of all your stock money into an international fund that would invest very broadly in many international stocks.
The average international fund is up about 29 percent in the period from the end of June last year to the end of June 2007. It’s up about 29 percent versus the average U.S. stock fund, which is up about 19 percent.
“The trouble is you don’t know when winter is going to come when it relates to the market.”
What happens way too often is that people see the international fund and they say, “Well, that’s the winner. It’s up 29 percent. How can I lose?” What they don’t realize is that the market is always operating in cycles, just like the seasons change from summer to fall to winter.
The same thing happens with parts of the investing world. The fact that international funds have been the winner the last year doesn’t mean they’re going to stay that way. They take turns, not necessarily predictable turns. International funds won’t always be up 29 percent (per) year. The trouble is, you don’t know when winter is going to come when it relates to the market.
Your protection, since you don’t know when it’s going to come, is to divide your money into those different types of mutual funds. You have some money in bonds, and the classic would be a 60-40 split — 60 percent in stocks and 40 percent in bonds. Then you’d divide the 60 percent up with 25 percent of that into international funds and then taking the U.S. stock money and dividing that up 75 percent into large-stock funds and 25 percent divided into small-stock and midcap funds. That would be it; that’s what you could do.
Now, if you’re younger, usually a 60-40 (split) is too conservative. That’s a good mix for people in their 50s that are starting to approach retirement. Or someone who gets really nervous if the stock market goes down; that’s a good mix for them.
But if you’re very young, you need to make your money grow. (Because) the stock market, at least based on history, goes up about 10 percent (per) year, and the bond market goes up about 5 percent (per) year, you need to get that better growth from stocks. If you’re in your 20s, some advisers would suggest that you put everything into stock funds.
The way you cut your risks is you don’t just choose one stock. Chances are if you choose one stock that you won’t win with it. You have many types of stocks and that way, your chances of winning are much better and you always have winners and you always have losers, and the winners buffer the losers. That’s why you do diversification. If you pick one stock, you don’t have that opportunity.
I hear this a lot from people in their 20s. They turn on their TV and they hear Jim Cramer on “Mad Money” on CNBC saying, “This is a great stock. Buy it.” And they think because he said so, they should. But their chance of winning, even though Jim Cramer may be very right about what that stock looks like today, their chance of winning down the line may be very different.
Things happen with stocks that people can’t predict. For example, people look at Kmart, and years ago, people would have said, “Those Kmart stores are everywhere. You can’t lose on Kmart stock.” But Kmart ended up having trouble after a certain period of time and the company went bankrupt.
When a company goes bankrupt, as a stockholder, you usually lose all the value of your stock. Mutual funds usually have about a hundred or more stocks in them. If one stock goes bankrupt, there are many other winners in the fund that will help you get through that.
Compare your fund’s performance
So, if you compare your fund to the correct index and you see yours is doing worse, does that mean you have a bad fund and that you should sell it?
Say you just notice the problem in your 401(k) at the end of this quarter. Then you say, “Oh, I wonder if this fund has always been a laggard” or if it’s been better in the past. Then, you look up the fund on Morningstar.com, you type in the symbol — five letters that identify the fund — and you will see by clicking on “performance” how your fund compares to other funds like it. And if, for the last five years, your fund has been a laggard — even for two years, but especially for five years — you have to ask yourself, am I in the best fund?
“Things happen with stocks that people can’t predict.”
Usually, if your fund is trailing it’s because of two things: First of all it’s very difficult to pick stocks, it’s very difficult to be a winner, and most mutual funds do not win compared to the simple stock market. If you could just throw your money in a stock index fund, you would beat about 70 percent of all the brilliant mutual funds out there.
This is pretty simple stuff. There are all these people with MBAs (Master of Business Administration) who are trying to outsmart the stock market and they’re not able to do it and you have a very simple vehicle in front of you, which would be a simple stock market index fund, and you could probably do it with that. Not every year, not every quarter, but over the many years of saving for retirement. One year, one quarter, probably means very little.
Look at expense ratios and loads
But if it’s two years and especially if it’s five years, at that point I would probably look at one number called the expense ratio. That sounds like a math number, which makes people nervous because it has the word “ratio” in it. But you don’t have to do any math. You can just look at the number. The expense ratio is a number you can find in three ways: You can look it up in the materials that you received with your mutual fund, under fees and expenses. Or you can just ask your mutual fund company, “What is the expense ratio for my fund?” Or you can ask your financial adviser, if you have one. The average for a mutual fund would be about 1.4 percent. But even better, the average for larger mutual funds would be a little less than 1 percent.
Even better would be if you got one of these simple index funds that I’m talking about and paid less than a quarter of 1 percent, which of course, would look like 0.25 percent. Find one even lower than that, if possible.
The reason you would do that is, it’s very, very difficult for a stock picker to outsmart the stock market and to pick all the right funds. I’ve had fund managers tell me that they’re usually disappointed with about 40 percent of the stocks they’ve picked. And they know what they’re doing. So it’s hard to beat the stock market.
There’s one thing you can control, and that’s what you pay to be a part of the stock market, and that’s where the expenses come in. When you buy a mutual fund, you always pay something for the right to have money in it. It may be a quarter of 1 percent, it may be 1 percent. If you are very unlucky and foolish, it’s close to 2 percent. It’s almost impossible for a fund manager to be such a great stock picker that he can make up for the money they’re taking out of your fund to cover their expenses.
People have to watch out for loads, too. Loads are the sales charge that you pay a broker to help you pick a fund. If, for example, you were paying your broker 5.75 percent for a load fund, you would say to yourself, “Well, that’s the cost to play, I might as well pay it; 5.75 percent doesn’t sound like a big number.” But if you were putting $10,000 into the fund, that would mean you were giving your broker $575 to pick that fund for you and that would mean you were putting $9,425 to work.
What about no-load funds?
Those would be like those index funds I’ve talked about. But even with index funds, if you buy them through a broker, you have to be careful because they might still charge you a load, even though the whole idea behind the index fund is to have a simple form of investment where you don’t need advice, you can do it yourself and you shouldn’t have to pay extra fees. The beauty of an index fund is simply that it’s a low-cost fund. It mimics the whole stock market, so it’s cheap because you’re not paying anyone to try to outsmart the stock market. You’re just taking what the market does for you, and that’s usually better than if you pay a fund manager to try to be better than the stock market.
Do you recommend low-cost index funds if they are an option in a 401(k) or IRA?
Yes. Let’s say a person put $10,000 into a low-cost fund that charges, let’s say, 0.31 percent as an expense ratio, or one that just charges the average, the 1.4 percent. After 20 years, the low-cost fund would give you about $63,600 if you had a 10 percent average annual return. The more expensive fund that just charges 1.4 percent would give you about $52,000. You’d shortchange yourself about $12,000. That’s why people tend to do better with index funds than with other funds, simply because that’s a high hurdle for a manager to have to jump to make up for the extra fees that you’re paying.
Incidentally, those fees that you’re paying may be something people might not understand either. You pay the mutual fund company for everything from paying the fund manager’s salary to advertising the fund so that they can get other customers. You pay for that.
“The beauty of an index fund is simply that it’s a low-cost fund.”
Most people have never heard of the word “expense ratio,” and it’s such a simple thing to just look at one number and see, is it 1.4 percent, which is average but not good, or is it 1 percent, which is better, or is it 0.25 percent, which is a lot better? People don’t have to do math to do that, they just have to look at it and say, “Is the number higher or lower? I want the lower number.”
If it’s in the 401(k) plan, that’s a different matter than if they’re picking funds for an IRA. If you’re picking your own funds for an IRA, doing the kind of analysis that I’m talking about is absolutely critical. If you have a 401(k) plan, it’s a little more difficult. You can do the same analysis, but sometimes the numbers aren’t as readily available, depending on how your employer chooses the funds for the plan. You can still go to the administrator for the plan. Usually you’re given an 800 number and you could still call that 800 number and you could say, “I want to know what my expense ratio is on each mutual fund,” and then you could compare them.
How buying hot stocks could burn you
Why is it a bad idea to pick stocks, watch their performance and then sell them if they drop below a certain price, as opposed to choosing a mutual fund?
The trouble is people make those promises to themselves and they don’t keep them. There’s actually behavioral research on this done by people who have studied both psychology and finance. Most people don’t like the idea of a loss, and so once their stock falls, even though they promised themselves that they would watch it, they say to themselves, “Well, I think it’ll come back,” and they wait. What they don’t realize is that stocks have no memory. Just because you bought the stock at $50 a share, doesn’t mean that it’s ever going to return to that. So a lot of times what will happen is, people will buy it and hold it after things have changed a lot since the day they bought it, and it’ll just keep going down.
“There’s a hot stock today, too, that won’t be a hot stock later.”
There was a a group of stocks in the 1970s called the Nifty 50 and at the time Wall Street was saying, “You can buy these stocks and hold them forever and never think twice about them, because they are such great companies they will be there forever.” Well, you want to hear some of the names of those? Polaroid, which dealt with cameras, fell 91 percent and the stock never ever came back to the price people had paid for it. Another one was Avon, the makeup company. We don’t think of that as a hot stock today, but in the ’70s that was a hot stock.
The point is, there’s a hot stock today, too, that won’t be a hot stock later. You just don’t know it. Because you don’t know it, it’s dangerous to buy just one or two stocks.
Instead you buy numerous stocks through a mutual fund. Mutual fund managers make mistakes. Often, they’ve said to me (that) about 40 percent of their stock picks they consider mistakes. And they’re brilliant. They are running all kinds of tests on these companies and if they can’t do it 100 percent of the time, then why do you, an individual, who has no idea how to look at the numbers, think you can do a better job? Just because you watched a TV show and someone said it looks like a good stock?
Invest differently for short-term goals
What are some do’s and don’ts for people with short-term investing goals, such as saving for a down payment on a house? What types of investments make sense and which don’t?
If you’re within five years of needing your money, history shows that the stock market can go down significantly during that time period and you could end up with less money than you originally put in. So the rule of thumb is that that money shouldn’t go into the stock market. You need something safer. Safer could be CDs that you would get at a bank; it could be a money market fund. I draw a distinction here — the words “money market” are on two different types of accounts that are not the same. There’s a money market fund and a money market account. Typically the interest rate on a money market account is not as good as a money market fund and yet they’re both fairly safe — not 100 percent safe, but very, very safe.
You can get a money market fund through a mutual fund company. You can shop for CD rates on Bankrate.com. Sometimes there are high-interest savings accounts that are as good as money market funds, and you can also find those at Bankrate.com. You can perhaps put money real simply into just a high-yielding savings account. You should be able to get right now close to 5 percent interest on a money market account, or one of these high-yielding savings accounts. You don’t lock your money up — it’s there if you need it for the down payment and you’re not taking a risk with it.
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Baal Worship at Peor
1 While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab. (Nu 31:16; Nu 33:49; Jos 2:1; Jos 3:1; Mic 6:5)
(Nu 31:16; Nu 33:49; Jos 2:1; Jos 3:1; Mic 6:5)
2 These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. (Ex 34:15; Jos 22:17; Ps 106:28; Ho 9:10; 1Co 10:20)
(Ex 34:15; Jos 22:17; Ps 106:28; Ho 9:10; 1Co 10:20)
3 So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. 4 And the Lord said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people and hang[1] them in the sun before the Lord, that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.” (Nu 25:11; De 4:3; De 13:17; De 21:23; 2Sa 21:6; Ga 3:13)
(Nu 25:11; De 4:3; De 13:17; De 21:23; 2Sa 21:6; Ga 3:13)
5 And Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor.” (Ex 18:21; Ex 18:25; Ex 32:27; Nu 11:16)
(Ex 18:21; Ex 18:25; Ex 32:27; Nu 11:16)
6 And behold, one of the people of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel, while they were weeping in the entrance of the tent of meeting. (Joe 2:17)
(Joe 2:17)
7 When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand (Ex 6:25; Ps 106:30)
(Ex 6:25; Ps 106:30)
8 and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped. 9 Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand. (De 4:3; 1Co 10:8)
(De 4:3; 1Co 10:8)
The Zeal of Phinehas
10 And the Lord said to Moses, 11 “Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy. (Ex 20:5; De 32:16; De 32:21; 1Ki 14:22; Ps 78:58; Zep 1:18; Zep 3:8; 1Co 10:22; 2Co 11:2)
(Ex 20:5; De 32:16; De 32:21; 1Ki 14:22; Ps 78:58; Zep 1:18; Zep 3:8; 1Co 10:22; 2Co 11:2)
12 Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace, (Mal 2:4)
(Mal 2:4)
13 and it shall be to him and to his descendants after him the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the people of Israel.’” (Ex 40:15; 1Ch 6:4)
(Ex 40:15; 1Ch 6:4)
14 The name of the slain man of Israel, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, chief of a father’s house belonging to the Simeonites. 15 And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was the tribal head of a father’s house in Midian. (Nu 31:8; Jos 13:21)
(Nu 31:8; Jos 13:21)
16 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 17 “Harass the Midianites and strike them down, (Nu 31:2; Nu 31:7)
(Nu 31:2; Nu 31:7)
18 for they have harassed you with their wiles, with which they beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the chief of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague on account of Peor.” (Nu 23:28; Nu 31:16; Re 2:14)
(Nu 23:28; Nu 31:16; Re 2:14)
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Unum Group reverses 42 percent of reviewed claims
May 1, 2008 | Staff | Consumer Protection, Insurance
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – In a forced self-review, the Unum Group agreed to fully or partly reverse 42 percent of previously denied disability claims and paid out $676 million in additional benefits.
The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance in a statement Wednesday said the agreement with the Chattanooga-based insurer involved a review of claims from January 1997 through 2004.
An investigation of complaints about Unum’s claims handling led to a $1 million fine in March 2003 after Georgia’s insurance commissioner said regulators found a mind-set of looking “for every technical legal way to avoid paying a claim.”
In 2004, insurance officials in Tennessee, Maine, Massachusetts and New York directed the company to review its claims handling as part of an agreement that was ultimately accepted by most states.
Tennessee insurance officials said Wednesday that the four-year review, now finished, shows the success of working with an insurer to “successfully change corporate culture.”
“Millions of disabled people across the nation have benefited,” the statement said.
Company spokesman Jim Sabourin said the reviews have been based on new standards and do not necessarily mean mistakes were made the first time.
“Essentially we are pleased that the exam process has been concluded and particularly pleased with the results,” he said. “We have taken a lot of steps over the last couple of years to improve our claims practices and processes.”
Sabourin said the company handles about 400,000 claims a year and pays out about $6 billion in benefits, including $4.3 billion for disability.
He said the review started with the company sending about 300,000 letters to customers. About 70,000 of those “opted in,” and about 20,000 of those responded and had their claims reviewed.
Sabourin said 41.7 percent of those 20,000 were reversed.
“Many of the claims that were overturned in whole or in part, there was additional information provided,” Sabourin said.
Shares of Unum fell 47 cents, or 2 percent, to close at $23.21 Wednesday.
Unum earned $679.3 million in 2007 compared with $411 million in 2006. The company’s stock climbed 14 percent last year.
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Kutztown Airport, what's next?
Rosemary Kokolus
The future of the Kutztown Airport was the topic of interest for the majority of the more than 35 people attending the Sept. 3 Maxatawny Township Board of Supervisors meeting.Kutztown Airport auctioned off everything - airplanes, equipment and its fuel pump-on Sept. 6.
Local pilot Art Carola, representing "a group of concerned citizens worried about the future of the Kutztown Airport," told the board that local pilots have questions and concerns about the future of the airport. He asked about rumors circulating, including that the property has been sold to Kutztown University and that the airport is closing.
"Officially and unofficially, we have not been notified" [of the sale], said Board Chairperson Allen Leiby.
Matt Santos of Kutztown University Relations verified that The Kutztown University Foundation did purchase a 15-acre zone of the Kutztown Airport ground from its owners in late 2007. The 15 acres is adjacent to the university and Kutztown Foundation lands. More specifically, the land can be accessed from the western most parking lot on South Campus. It is at the end of the emergency runway closer to the back of the airport.
Santos said the land was purchased as a part of the university's housing master plan to alleviate parking on campus and in surrounding areas. There are no current plans to purchase the additional zones.
Carola asked the supervisors to "recognize that there is a group of people that are interested in getting a group together to take over operations of the airport."
They are seeking any support the supervisors can give. They have a petition with signatures of people who are also interested in supporting what Carola calls "this 60-year-old asset to our community."
Last week, the board authorized solicitor Jill Nagy to send letters to government entities regarding the airport. She was advised that she corresponded to "local representatives in the area, state and federal governments, as well the chairperson of the transportation committee in state House and Senate, and the aviation subcommittee of the Department of Transportion." Rep. Dante Santoni Jr. (D-126) was also sent a letter.
The letter indicated that the airport sale is imminent and that they had already conducted a lot of the leg-work for formulating a plan, and asked them to "use their power to stop any deterioration or selling of the airport."
Supervisor Gayle Sanders added that the letter invited recipients to "meet with Maxatawny staff or attend a public meeting to discuss this project, so they could see the community support to save the airport."
Supervisor David Hoffman said the township doesn't have the money to purchase the airport. At the Sept. 3 meeting, the board moved to send letters to Kutztown University's president and to the KU Foundation regarding the airport's future.
Pilot Dick Gonzalez from the Schuylkill County Airport said, "Without much expense, the township can be involved in zoning the facility as an airport."
Nagy said she and Falencki are working on a zoning recommendation for the next meeting. Gonzalez added that one option is to "form an airport authority, but the owner would have to cooperate."
Gonzalez pointed out that the property owner is an absentee owner.
Roger Camm said he is the oldest continuing tenant at the Kutztown Airport. He's been there 40 years.
"He'd like to convince the state of Pennsylvania or Kutztown University to maintain the property as an airport. It would be the only state college that students could walk to and also learn aviation. It's a great resource," Camm said.
Eugene Salvatore, president of Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 855 in Kutztown, said, "We're currently losing one airport per day in the United States, and they're not making any more airports."
The EAA provides assistance to save airports like this one.
Pat Holleran learned to fly at Kutztown in 2002 and flies his plane for both business and pleasure.
In a discussion after the meeting, he said, "The status of the MedEvac helicopter could also be in question. They rent to Earl Binder, who sold all his planes. The question is how long is the owner of the diner going to allow Earl Binder to continue there" without planes and a fuel pump. He said the owner did not want to give Binder a long-term lease, without which Binder could not make needed improvements.
Call Scott McLellan of the Kutztown Airport Support Network at 610-349-6960.
Residents gathered outside the Maxatawny Township building to discuss how to save the Kutztown Airport.
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Pa. Turnpike reminds motorists of new toll rates
From Patriot Sources
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission officials remind travelers that most Turnpike tolls increased 25 percent last weekend. The new rates became effective at 12:01 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 4.With the new tolls, the most-common cash rate for passenger vehicles will increase from 75 cents to 95 cents, while the most-common cash rate for commercial vehicles will increase from $6.25 to $7.85. A complete toll schedule is available at www.paturnpike.com.
The increase is required to enable the Turnpike to meet financial obligations under Act 44, passed by the General Assembly and signed by Gov. Ed Rendell in July 2007. With Act 44, the Turnpike is providing $2.5 billion in supplemental transportation funding from August 2007 to May 2010. New toll revenue from the increase will mostly be used by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for off-Turnpike investment.
"Our customers need to know that tollbooth income is being reinvested in the commonwealth's transportation systems and economy. For the first time, tolls aren't only going back into state toll roads, but helping fund infrastructure improvements in every Pennsylvania county," Turnpike CEO Joe Brimmeier said. "In fact, more than 90 percent of the toll-increase proceeds will benefit non-Turnpike road and bridge projects and transit operations."
As a result of the toll increase - only the sixth rate change in more than 68 years - projected annual gross toll revenue will increase from $619.2 million (2008 fiscal year end) to approximately $738.4 million (projected 2010 fiscal year end). The previous Pennsylvania Turnpike toll increase occurred in August 2004.
Tolls will increase across the entire system with two exceptions: Tolls on the newest sections (Findlay Connector/PA-576 and Mon-Fayette Expressway/Turnpike 43 Uniontown to Brownsville section) will remain at their current rates that were set in anticipation of the increase.
The Turnpike is taking a new approach to future toll increases. Starting in January 2010, tolls will go up incrementally about three percent each year.
"Compared to levying a large increase every dozen years or so, regularly scheduled increases allow travelers to better anticipate rate changes," Brimmeier said. "Since half of our revenues are collected with E-ZPass, it's simpler to implement annual rate changes today."
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission operates and maintains 545 miles of toll roads in the state. It oversees 60 fare-collection facilities, 19 service plazas and 26 maintenance facilities. With 2,250 employees, it generated $619.2 million in annual gross toll revenue from 189.5 million vehicles a year for fiscal year 2008. Known as "America's First Superhighway," it opened Oct. 1, 1940.
Provided by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.
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